Chapter 420 – Finally Slaying the Six-Winged Divine Sovereign, Heart of the Strong Triggers Again!

Chapter 420 – Finally Slaying the Six-Winged Divine Sovereign, Heart of the Strong Triggers Again!

In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and couldn’t help but show a look of delight.

“Protective Sword Aura — it’s finally no longer a one-time ultimate technique…”

“The continuous advancement of my Sword Dao has given me increasingly profound sword intent, enough to sustain releasing the Protective Sword Aura multiple times.”

“And the existence of the Primordial Energy Tree gives me an inexhaustible supply of primordial energy — the energy consumption of the Protective Sword Aura is more than covered!”

Even as he marveled, Su Xing also felt somewhat fortunate.

“This six-winged Divine Sovereign is absolutely the most powerful enemy I’ve ever encountered. That level of strength could definitely place in the top five of the Earth Ranking…”

“If I hadn’t planted the Primordial Energy Tree and gained a more powerful Protective Sword Aura, I might not have been a match for that six-winged Divine Sovereign…”

“Even so, the outcome of this battle is still uncertain…”

Su Xing kept mulling over countermeasures in his mind.

What he didn’t know, however, was that this six-winged Divine Sovereign was the strongest of the Six-Winged Demon Tribe’s new generation.

Even among the ten great Emperor Clans, few could rival it…

Its status was equivalent to a Holy Son or Saintess among the human race’s top powers — not only possessing immense potential, but having cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years.

…

Su Xing pondered for a long time but couldn’t find any obvious weaknesses in the six-winged Divine Sovereign.

For now, he could only continue watching.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【The battle against the six-winged Divine Sovereign was the most perilous fight you had faced since breaking through to Golden Immortal.】

【Even the Shadow Divine Sovereign from before hadn’t put this much pressure on you.】

【After all, your abilities countered that Shadow Divine Sovereign, whereas the six-winged Divine Sovereign before you was like a hexagonal warrior — virtually without weaknesses.】

【This battle lasted a full six months.】

【Six months later, your aura had fallen considerably from before.】

【Prolonged, high-intensity combat naturally took its toll.】

【You had sustained dozens of wounds across your body, most of them incurred in the past half month, as injuries from further back had long since healed.】

【The six-winged Divine Sovereign before you was in hardly better shape — of the six wings on its back, it had broken off two of them itself.】

【And you had also severed one of its right wings several months ago.】

【You had originally thought the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s berserk state could last only a few days at most.】

【Yet unexpectedly, it had been in this frenzied state for half a year already.】

【Although compared to before, the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s aura, strength, and speed were all diminished from their prime…】

【It was still terrifying…】

【Seeing the six-winged Divine Sovereign charge at you once more, the bone sword in its hand dancing wildly…】

【You also drew the supreme post-celestial treasure Blackice sword, and terrifying sword intent surged outward from your body.】

【After forcing it back with a Void Slash, you retreated several hundred li to open up distance.】

【This kind of exchange had repeated countless times over the past half year.】

【Looking at the Blackice sword in your hand, you vaguely sensed it was struggling under the strain.】

【After all, the Blackice sword was only a mid-grade supreme post-celestial treasure. Though its combat power was impressive, its grade clearly couldn’t compare to the bone sword in the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s hand.】

【That bone sword’s hardness was already approaching that of an innate treasure.】

【You knew in your heart that as your realm continued to rise, this old friend in your hand was beginning to fall behind.】

In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly at this.

“A supreme post-celestial treasure is already quite good for an ordinary Golden Immortal…”

“But my opponents now are all at Peak Golden Immortal, the kind that are unrivaled below Supreme Unity… I probably need an innate treasure, or at minimum a half-step innate treasure, just to hold my own.”

Su Xing felt somewhat helpless. This was where the advantages and disadvantages of having a master became apparent.

Those top-tier prodigies — like the top five on the Prodigy List’s Earth Ranking — practically all had innate treasures in hand.

They might not have had the strength to obtain those innate treasures themselves, but those ancient, great powers had legacies spanning dozens of cosmic cycles.

Wasn’t it perfectly normal for ancestors to pass down a few innate treasures?

As far as Su Xing knew, Fairy Ziling alone had at least three innate treasures on her!

The purple flowing immortal dress she wore was rumored to be a treasure of some Great Firmament powerhouse from ancient times — an innate treasure with exceptional defensive capabilities.

And the pair of jade rings in her hands, combining offense and defense, were also low-grade innate treasures.

“Hah, although I have quite a few treasures, most of them aren’t suited for combat, and I don’t have a single offensive innate treasure…”

Su Xing felt helpless.

If one were talking about treasures, the Luotian Mirror in his hand was second to none.

But the Luotian Mirror couldn’t help him fight enemies.

“It seems I’ll need to find a way to raise the Blackice sword’s grade later…”

Su Xing thought to himself.

But for now, surviving the current crisis came first.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【Another half year passed…】

【Your battle with the six-winged Divine Sovereign had now lasted a full year.】

【Over the course of this year, you had both become quite familiar with each other’s techniques and strength, and throughout this battle, you had continuously broken through your own limits.】

【The way the six-winged Divine Sovereign looked at you was no longer the way it had regarded you at the start — like an ant.】

【It knew that you were absolutely one of the top one or two prodigies among the human race, the kind who would inevitably ascend to the Great Firmament if you didn’t perish.】

【It knew even more clearly that such a human absolutely could not be allowed to continue growing.】

【And so, an even more ferocious offensive came crashing down.】

【Its bone sword struck relentlessly, and under the barrage of blows, your Blackice sword gradually weakened…】

【After an unknown amount of time, you seemed to hear a silent wail as the Blackice sword in your hand finally shattered, layer by layer.】

【This was the first time a sword in your hand had been broken by an enemy.】

【When strength was evenly matched, an inferior-grade magical treasure would inevitably lose — that was simply how it was.】

【Seeing that the weapon in your hand was gone, the six-winged Divine Sovereign broke into a savage grin and continued its assault.】

【And you completely abandoned swordsmanship, switching instead to pure physical body combined with primordial energy to fight it.】

【The six-winged Divine Sovereign finally learned what it meant to break all techniques with sheer force!】

【You grew stronger as the battle raged on, your primordial energy flowing endlessly. Having lost the sword that had always been at your side, you instead burned with fury and began to abandon defense entirely, trading blow for blow with the six-winged Divine Sovereign.】

【Though the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s constitution was formidable, how could it possibly match yours?】

【And so, another year and a half passed…】

【After a full two and a half years of battle, you finally severed the last wing on the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s back.】

【Your injuries were also quite severe.】

【The lesser chiliocosm that had been occupied by the alien races had already been reduced to dust in the void from the shockwaves of your battle.】

【The battlefield had shifted to the void a year ago.】

【The six-winged Divine Sovereign had originally thought that entering the void would be its home turf.】

【Yet it hadn’t expected that you, as a Body Tempering cultivator, were just as formidable in the void…】

【With a mighty roar, a towering Wu Clan phantom, ten thousand zhang (33.3 km) tall, suddenly appeared behind you.】

【Immediately after, a rumbling came from the distant reaches of the void…】

【By this point, you two had fought to an absolute deadlock.】

【The six-winged Divine Sovereign failed to notice the celestial body hurtling rapidly toward them from the far reaches of the void.】

【At that moment, the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s lips curled upward, as if it had spotted an opening in your defense. Its figure flickered, and the terrifying bone sword pierced through your Protective Sword Aura and plunged into your chest, half its length protruding from the other side.】

【You had been run clean through the chest by that sword.】

【With the bone sword embedded in your body, you felt your life force being continuously drained…】

【However, what the six-winged Divine Sovereign failed to notice was that you, too, had broken into a smile at that moment.】

【With a thunderous shout, you gripped the bone sword, invoked the power of space, and your entire body appeared ten thousand li (5,000 km) away.】

【And at the same time, a star the size of a small world came crashing down.】

【The six-winged Divine Sovereign had no time to react before being struck by that star.】

【Supernatural art — Myriad Stars Attraction!】

【After your breakthrough to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Sixth Layer, the power of this supernatural art could only be described as world-ending.】

【From ten thousand li (5,000 km) away, you could feel the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s aura rapidly diminishing.】

【Until, at last, it was annihilated…】

【And you, from ten thousand li (5,000 km) away, threw back your head and laughed. This battle — in the end, you had won.】

【However, the bone sword that had pierced through your chest still could not be removed. You felt your eyelids growing as heavy as centuries. 】

【Gritting your teeth, you pulled the bone sword from your chest. Immortal power clung to the wound, and with the last of your strength, you made your way to a lesser chiliocosm to take refuge.】

【After arriving at this unfamiliar lesser chiliocosm, you hastily entered the spirit field grotto-heaven and lost consciousness…】

In the Real World, Su Xing raised an eyebrow at this.

“This six-winged Divine Sovereign is absolutely the most powerful enemy I’ve ever defeated… With its strength, it could definitely rank in the top five of the Earth Ranking!”

“But in the end, I won!”

At the same time, Su Xing also noticed that he had fallen unconscious at the end.

“So this battle can also trigger Heart of the Strong!?”

Su Xing suddenly felt a pleasant surprise.

“I wonder which aspect of my strength Heart of the Strong will enhance this time?”

Su Xing was filled with anticipation as his gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【When you awoke from unconsciousness, a month had already passed.】

【This grueling battle had left you gravely wounded. Though under the blessing of your Wu Clan Bloodline and innate talents, your injuries had gradually recovered…】

【Your strength was still only fifty percent of your prime.】

【You decided to recuperate in this lesser chiliocosm for half a year, and rejoin the fighting once your strength had recovered.】

【At the same time, you carefully examined your own strength. The Heart of the Strong talent had indeed triggered!】

【Turning your divine sense inward, you clearly felt that the Primordial Energy Tree within your dantian had grown by approximately two chi (66.6 cm).】

【From its original three chi (99.9 cm), it had grown to five chi (1.67 m)!】

【Your total primordial energy had once again nearly doubled, the primordial energy within your body had become more refined, and even your physical body had grown stronger.】

【After a rough calculation, this triggering of Heart of the Strong was equivalent to the strength gains from consuming fifty Celestial Primordial Fruits over a hundred years!】

【After this battle, your overall strength had increased by several-fold. The next time you encountered a six-winged Divine Sovereign, you would certainly not have to win in such a harrowing fashion.】

【Half a year later…】

【Your injuries had mostly healed, and your condition was approaching its Peak.】

【And so, you left the lesser chiliocosm where you had been recuperating. Before departing, you slaughtered every alien race powerhouse in that lesser chiliocosm.】

【When you returned to the human race’s main base, many human race powerhouses — even including the White Emperor — were shocked.】

【Over these three years with no word from you, they had all assumed you had perished at the hands of the alien races.】

【But when you produced the six-winged Divine Sovereign’s bone sword, every Golden Immortal present changed expression.】

【The identity of this crimson bone sword’s owner was self-evident.】

【The six-winged Divine Sovereign — a peerless prodigy among the alien races, hailed as one of the candidates for the next chieftain of the Six-Winged Demon Tribe.】

【Also known as one whom no being below Supreme Unity could slay…】

【And you had so casually produced the bone sword — without any doubt, this meant the six-winged Divine Sovereign had been slain by your hand!】

【The great war that had lasted ten years soon came to an end…】

【And after this battle, you became the fastest-rising prodigy in the Heavenly Secrets Domain.】

【The feat of slaying the six-winged Divine Sovereign sent your ranking on the Prodigy List soaring once more — you were now ranked fourth on the Earth Ranking!】

【Only one step separated you from the top three on the Earth Ranking, but you knew in your heart that this single step would be incredibly difficult to take.】

【The top three on the Earth Ranking were the human race’s most exceptional prodigies — even ten thousand years might not produce one…】

【And for you to enter the top three, you would need your spatial Dao to reach the sixth realm at minimum, and your cultivation to advance further before you would have a chance.】

【After this battle, you returned to the Celestial Secrets Realm.】

【What you hadn’t expected was that slaying the six-winged Divine Sovereign, combined with your prior merit, was barely enough to exchange for one use of the Mirror of The Void.】

【And so, without hesitation, you entered the Mirror of The Void…】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s heart leapt with joy at this.

“In this simulation, I didn’t do many missions, yet the contribution points were still enough…”

“This means that in every future simulation, as long as I participate in the Celestial Vessel ambush event at three hundred years, slay the Redeyed Divine Sovereign around five hundred years, and slay the Shadow Divine Sovereign and six-winged Divine Sovereign in the battle at eight hundred years… these four missions alone might be enough for one use of the Mirror of The Void!”

No more tedious mission-grinding — for Su Xing, this was undoubtedly great news.

It meant Su Xing would have more time to cultivate, without missing out on the enhancements from the Mirror of The Void.

“Come to think of it, this is my second time using the Mirror of The Void…”

“According to the introduction in the previous simulation, the Mirror of The Void can only be used once in a person’s lifetime.”

“I wonder — will I be able to use it in this simulation?”

Su Xing felt somewhat nervous. After all, this concerned the pace of his future growth.

His gaze turned to the simulation panel.

【In the eight hundred and twentieth year, after entering the Mirror of The Void, you met the Artifact Spirit of the Mirror of The Void.】

【It informed you that it sensed the aura of an old friend on you…】

【Hearing this, your heart jolted — you knew it was the presence of the Luotian Mirror that the Mirror of The Void had detected.】

【As fellow members of the three great primordial chaos treasures, they perhaps shared a mystical connection.】

【Before, when the Luotian Mirror was severely damaged, it was perfectly normal that the Mirror of The Void couldn’t sense it.】

【But now, with the Luotian Mirror partially restored, the Mirror of The Void could detect it once more.】

【To your relief, the Mirror of The Void bore you no ill will. It then asked what aspect of your strength you wished to enhance.】

【Cultivation, Great Dao comprehension… or something else…】