Traveling through time to cultivate immortality: a life and death test

Chapter 372 Fatty's Breakthrough

Arriving at the hall at the top of the stairs and exiting the gravity barrier, the pressure instantly vanished, instantly returning to a comfortable state. Liu Xing felt a pang of distress as he watched Pang Pang collapse in his palm. However, Pang Pang's body had clearly been greatly tempered. His meridians and blood vessels were wider and stronger than before, his flesh and bones more translucent, as if imbued with immense explosive power. His skin had become harder, a crust forming on it, as if he were wearing a layer of armor. Meanwhile, his magic power had become more condensed than before, digesting all the residual power from the massive ingestion of poisonous toad pills, while simultaneously tempering it thousands of times to eliminate any remaining problems. After undergoing a complete transformation under a hundredfold pressure, Pang Pang had finally reached the pinnacle of a Level 5 demon beast, having already touched the bottleneck of Level 6 and seemingly poised for a breakthrough at any moment.

"Thank you, Master, for giving me a new life." Pangpang, who had been humming before, felt the changes in himself and was now satisfied and grateful to Liu Xing.

Seeing Pangpang grow several times stronger, Liu Xing was extremely satisfied, convinced that his painstaking efforts and meticulous training had paid off. On the second half of the stone steps, Pangpang appeared to be exercising, but in reality, Liu Xing had to constantly mobilize his mana to help Pangpang repair his damaged body, while simultaneously fighting against gravity and applying appropriate pressure to Pangpang. This process was extremely exhausting. Pangpang was being tempered, but wasn't he also being tempered?

After this period of hard work, Liu Xing's peak late Jindan stage was completely solidified. He had already touched the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage, now a true False Nascent Soul stage. After he left, he only needed to find a quiet place with abundant spiritual energy to retreat for ten years to complete the Nascent Soul stage. Moreover, he felt very good now, and his chances of successfully completing the Nascent Soul stage were at least 70%!

"Based on what Chubby and I have gained, this Chaos Tower expedition is already worthwhile! Qian'er, you should have gained a lot too, right?" Liu Xing thought of his wife again, his heart filled with anticipation. His regret for not teleporting with his wife was completely gone. He had figured out that even if they had teleported hand in hand, they would have been forcibly separated by the force of space, as the Chaos Tower rules restricted it to individual trials.

"Brother Xing must have climbed to the top stone hall. I have to work harder!" Nie Xiaoqian had just walked half of the stairs at this time. She also gained a lot at this time. Although the Yin-Yang Harmony Technique was a top-level skill in the upper realm, it borrowed the power of replenishing after all. Therefore, the tempering under heavy pressure helped her to condense a lot of magic power.

The other Jindan cultivators were in even worse shape. Some of the restrictions only had a dozen times the gravity, yet they were already struggling to move forward. They had to move upwards bit by bit. Liu Xing had slowed down his pace to train Pangpang, but he was still far ahead of them and reached the summit first.

Seeing that Pang Pang had become much stronger, Liu Xing wanted to test Pang Pang's current strength. So he held Pang Pang with his left hand and gathered a lightning force with his right hand. The power was several times stronger than the thunder tribulation when Pang Pang broke through the bottleneck of level 5. He bombarded Pang Pang with lightning without Pang Pang being mentally prepared.

"Ah!" A pig-killing-like howl sounded, and Pangpang was suddenly electrocuted to a crispy outside and tender inside.

His originally cheerful mood was shaken by this surprise attack, which frightened him to the point of being completely utterly shocked, like going through another thunder tribulation. With such a shock, the bottleneck diaphragm of Pangpang's body actually shattered with a loud "clang".

"Not good!" Liu Xing was carefully observing Pang Pang's condition, and suddenly felt that it had broken through and advanced, and was immediately shocked.

Breaking through the bottleneck here was a matter of uncertainty, not knowing whether it would be restricted by the Chaos Tower, but also because he was currently in the process of breaking through the barrier and could not afford to waste time. However, once the bottleneck was broken, forcibly stopping midway would cause great damage to Pangpang, and the opportunity to break through the barrier was extremely rare.

Liu Xing was stunned for a moment, then immediately decided to devote all his energy to helping Pang Pang ascend! He quickly set up a simple spirit gathering array and installed high-grade spirit stones. Fortunately, these array plates were always prepared and ready for use, otherwise it would have been too late to refine them on the spur of the moment.

After receiving his master's reassurance, Pangpang's shock turned to delight. Curled up in the spirit gathering formation, he concentrated his full energy on breaking through. He possessed a legacy of cultivation techniques, and now he naturally followed them. The bottleneck had been broken, and the spiritual energy throughout the stone hall became tenfold richer. A vast amount of spiritual energy poured into Pangpang's body, driven by the cultivation techniques, rapidly circulating throughout the body, transforming into his own mana and storing it in his demon core. The slowly rotating demon core was visibly growing larger.

There are thousands of these Trial Stone Halls in the Chaos Tower, and every time a disciple breaks through a bottleneck during a trial, the original owner of the Chaos Tower has clearly considered this situation, and therefore installed monitoring restrictions in each stone hall. If a disciple breaks through, they will be monitored, and then the spiritual power in the Chaos Tower will be mobilized to help the disciple break through.

Therefore, the situation that Liu Xing had worried about before, that insufficient spiritual power would affect Pang Pang's advancement, did not exist. He clearly felt that the spiritual power of the stone hall was gathering together with all its strength. It was obviously the Chaos Tower's intention. His own spirit gathering array was just the icing on the cake. Liu Xing was naturally more satisfied with this situation.

"This Chaos Tower is indeed the supreme magic weapon for establishing a sect. Could it be that all sects in the upper realm have such a trial ground?" Liu Xing thought secretly.

Seeing that Pang Pang was fine, he felt relieved and began to figure out the situation of the Chaos Tower.

There was no day or night in the stone hall, and no one knew how much time had passed. Pangpang had finally broken through his bottleneck, and the mana of the sixth-level monster was fully accumulated. He would need some time to cultivate and consolidate his current cultivation to avoid falling back.

Pang Pang's body underwent a noticeable transformation. He shed his previous shell and immediately swallowed it whole. The new shell was much harder, and it was estimated that even a Level 6 monster would have difficulty breaking through its defenses. Furthermore, the skull tattoo on the shell was even brighter and more eye-catching, turning from black to a dark red, appearing terrifyingly ferocious.

Liu Xing felt that Pang Pang's magical power was more than doubled compared to before the breakthrough, his meridians had doubled in width, and his demon core had doubled in size. He was extremely happy. He resisted the urge to test Pang Pang's current strength and carefully placed it into his sea of ​​consciousness. Pang Pang returned to Liu Xing's sea of ​​consciousness, feeling as comfortable as if he had returned home. He stretched and fell asleep quietly.

Pang Pang's breakthrough took up a lot of time. Nearly half of the other Jindan cultivators had already arrived at the stone hall, and Nie Xiaoqian had already been fighting fiercely with the puppet in the next level.

Many of the Jindan cultivators who came in this time had been stuck in the bottleneck period for many years. Under the heavy pressure at this time, they all had opportunities. Some of them broke through on the spot in the stone hall, while some chose to suppress the urge to break through the realm and race against time to get to the next level.

Everyone was quite disappointed to find no tangible rewards for successfully clearing the level. However, wasn't it the greatest reward to have one's body and power tempered and one's realm more solidified?