Inside the villa, Xu Zhou swallowed one six-grade pill after another.
Under the refinement of the cultivation technique, these pills transformed into pure energy, quickly becoming nourishment for the Divine Pill.
His strength was increasing at a rapid pace.
Suddenly, the Divine Pill trembled slightly, and a wisp of golden energy dispersed out.
Xu Zhou’s eyes snapped open, and the momentum within his body began to soar.
Soon, his aura far exceeded that of the usual sixth-grade, reaching the peak realm of the sixth grade!
Xu Zhou introspected himself and saw that the surface of the Divine Pill had already been converted one-tenth into dazzling gold.
This was the manifestation of the first-transformation Golden Core, and it also meant he had broken through the peak of the sixth grade.
But this was not the end; at this moment, within Xu Zhou’s Divine Pill, a newly formed energy was being nurtured. This energy was connected to his origin, and Xu Zhou even gained an additional perspective, as if he himself was inside the Divine Pill!
"Sixth-grade consummation, the Divine Soul emerges."
Xu Zhou knew what it was: it was the Divine Soul birthed by the Divine Pill!
It was also something crucial for stepping into the seventh grade!
After the Divine Pill completes one transformation, it uses its life source as a foundation to condense the Divine Soul.
With each additional transformation of the Golden Core, this Divine Soul becomes stronger.
But in principle, as long as one achieves the first-transformation Golden Core, they can surpass the high-grade threshold and break through to the seventh grade!
"The path to high grade is right beneath my feet!"
Xu Zhou took a deep breath; previously, he never knew what the path to high grade looked like.
But at this moment, he clearly sensed that it was a road!
A road paved starting from the Divine Pill, leading to the sky!
As long as Xu Zhou wished, this Divine Soul would break open the Divine Pill, walk the path to the sky, and enter the seventh grade!
Just then, at the end of this road to the sky, a tremor suddenly came, as if some terrible creature was stepping heavily at its end.
The next moment, cracks appeared on this road to the sky, rapidly collapsing amid the intense rumbling.
All of a sudden, Xu Zhou was stunned.
Because right before his eyes, the road leading to the higher grade had collapsed!
"Who’s at the end of the road?"
Xu Zhou suspected someone was sabotaging the end of the road, but when he looked hard forward, he couldn’t see any figure at all.
It was as if the road collapsed on its own.
At this moment, that road had completely crumbled, the road to the sky emanating from the Divine Pill entirely severed.
The Divine Pill remains steadfast, the road to the sky eternally sealed!
"A Divine Pill remains steadfast indeed."
Xu Zhou suddenly laughed, recalling what the dean and principal had said, which he didn’t understand at the time, but now he finally got it.
"Someone tampered with the road to the sky in the True Martial Department! Who is it? The Absolute Peak of Earth Star? Or the strong of the Dark Realm?"
"Or as Principal Wu Qingshan said, is it a curse?"
Even if it’s a curse, it must be man-made.
As long as the source is found, this curse will naturally break on its own!
"No matter who it is, once I find you, I will repay a hundredfold!"
Xu Zhou was gnashing his teeth in hatred; this was cutting off his path to higher grades, severing his road to advancement, an enmity that cannot coexist under the same sky!
But soon, Xu Zhou fell silent again.
He is only at the sixth grade now; with the road to higher grades severed, what can he do even if he finds the source?
The other party is either on Earth Star or in the Dark Realm, even the Absolute Peak powerhouses on Blue Star can’t do anything to them.
"No matter, I don’t plan to break through immediately anyway."
"Once I cultivate nine transformations, ten transformations, an Immortal Golden Core! I don’t believe I won’t be able to break through to the seventh grade!"
Xu Zhou gritted his teeth, thinking: "What of the steadfast Divine Pill, today, I will break through the blockade!"
Saying this, he opened the bracelet interface and began purchasing quasi-seventh-grade pills.
The price of quasi-seventh-grade pills is extremely expensive, each costing twenty thousand points.
Fortunately, Xu Zhou’s battle achievements are ample, allowing him to splurge without hesitation.
Soon, Xu Zhou exchanged for fifty quasi-seventh-grade pills, spending one million points.
"It will take some time for delivery, so I’ll take this opportunity to temper myself in the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool."
Because he took too many pills upon breaking through the peak of the sixth grade, Xu Zhou could clearly feel that the operation of the Divine Pill was not very smooth.
Even if the road to the sky hadn’t collapsed, directly breaking through to the seventh grade would likely halt at the early phase due to the massive impurities.
Fortunately, Xu Zhou had long adapted to the tempering of the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool; just another session, and those impurities could naturally be refined away.
Nine Heavens Thunder Pool.
Such extreme environments exist everywhere, so whether in the Blue Star Realm or Earth Star Realm, you only need to ascend a million meters to enter the Thunder Pool.
At this moment, Xu Zhou stepped into the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool again by the method he used last time.
A bolt of Heavenly Tribulation struck Xu Zhou, thunder liquid sufficient to make a sixth-grade powerhouse fall on the spot, yet Xu Zhou did not even frown.
"After breaking through the peak of the sixth grade, the outermost thunder no longer has any tempering effect on me."
Xu Zhou thought: "Even without any defense, facing the thunder directly, it couldn’t hurt me in the slightest."
He continued to advance, soon reaching a depth of five thousand meters.
Thunderclouds stacked, bolts of purple-black thunderstormed like the claws of a thunder dragon, striking towards Xu Zhou.
Boom! Thunder showered down, leaving tens of thousands of meters long spacetime cracks in the void, terrifyingly powerful.
Such might would make an ordinary seventh-grade powerhouse change color with fear.
"Just what I wanted!"
Xu Zhou’s face lit up with joy, this was the level of thunder he desired, immediately sitting cross-legged.