I tricked you into thinking you had the makings of an emperor, but you actually did it?

The lowest a cultivator from the lower realm can reach is the Void God Realm.

If someone cultivates to the True God Realm on the Heavenly Road without guidance, the sect will not accept them.

This is why the Tower of Babel is located at the entrance to the Heavenly Road.

Shen Mingzhen is at the late stage of the Divine Realm, which is contrary to common sense.

The message talisman that Wen Qingshu received also showed his junior brother's cultivation level.

So she didn't make any connection at first.

"How did you cultivate to the True God Realm in just one day?" Wen Qingshu asked.

Sword cultivators are straightforward and say what they mean.

"Ok?"

Shen Ming decided to answer with action, gripping the demon core tightly in his hand.

The dark gold color floated heavily, and the demonic power surged.

The power of devouring surged, swallowing everything like a black hole. The demon core instantly transformed into a torrent of essence, pouring into his limbs and bones.

Practice makes perfect, and Shen Ming was already quite adept at doing all of this.

In an instant, endless energy surged into it, and it became like divine iron forged through countless hammer blows, with unimaginable divine fluctuations emanating from every inch of its flesh and blood.

His cultivation level skyrocketed, transforming from the late stage of True God Realm all the way to approaching the Heavenly God Realm!

boom!

The world suddenly changed, and behind Shen Ming, a series of divine halos suddenly appeared, dazzling and encircling his body, like the stars in the heavens slowly rotating.

The first, the second, the third... the divine rings kept stacking and intertwining, evolving into the laws of the Great Dao, eventually reaching a total of three thousand. The three thousand divine rings hung in the air, each symbolizing a supreme Great Dao, radiating boundless brilliance and shaking heaven and earth.

"this?"

Wen Qingshu retreated, for in the True God Realm, the number of divine rings one possesses determines the upper limit of one's foundation.

There are three levels: one hundred, three hundred, one thousand, and three thousand.

The Three Thousand Divine Rings correspond to the Three Thousand Great Daos, representing a perfect manifestation.

Junior Brother not only broke through his cultivation level at a rapid pace, but also left no hidden dangers behind!

The three thousand divine rings began to converge and merge, as if at the beginning of chaos, and the world behind him transformed into a vast river of Daoist rhyme.

In the end, these three thousand rings condensed into a divine weapon!

"I must break through to the Celestial God Realm!"

Each Celestial God Realm cultivator possesses a unique divine weapon, a tangible manifestation of their own divine path.

Shen Ming's divine weapon is a sword that stretches across the void. The sword's body is entirely chaotic, as if it were forged from the most primordial rules of the world, flowing with endless Daoist charm. When the sword's edge moves, the heavens tremble, and all the Daos resonate in response.

Shen Ming slowly opened his eyes, his gaze as deep as an abyss, his divine power surging within him, and the Great Dao resounding around him.

Celestial Realm!

“Senior sister, it’s like this,” Shen Ming said.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a black gold demon core caused him to undergo a qualitative transformation.

Wen Qingshu felt that in another day, he would have to call him senior brother.

"You can directly refine the demon core? Are there no potential problems?" Wen Qingshu asked uncertainly.

If nothing was said, then there was nothing. Shen Ming didn't even know what the potential consequences would be, so naturally there was nothing.

“However, the Black Gold Demon Core has provided me with negligible improvement,” Shen Ming said.

If you take two demon cores of the same grade, the effect will be less than one-tenth of what it was.

Shen Ming couldn't help but look at the sea of ​​fire outside.

"The demon core of the quasi-demon god is still a black gold demon core." Wen Qingshu knew what he was thinking and couldn't help but say.

Quasi-demon gods are not true demon gods; their demon cores have not undergone transformation, and their power comes from their bloodline.

For example, the inextinguishable divine fire ignited by this golden crow originated from the fire of the sun god.

Shen Ming was initially disappointed, but then he thought that refining and devouring the entire Golden Crow might have a better effect.

"No."

Shen Ming shook his head. If he really did that, even the most extreme people would say he was being too radical.

This has nothing to do with cannibalism, but once the bottom line of one's Dao heart is loosened, it will trigger inner demons.

"My feelings about humanity just now were also a sign of my inner demons."

Shen Ming came to his senses and understood why some people had foreseen that they would face a calamity.

His breakthrough of two major realms should have given him a mental demon long ago, but Shen Ming believed in the path of balance.

Therefore, the tribulation of inner demons was postponed until the highest level enemy he had ever killed, namely the Dao Lord!

In this process, inner demons accumulate little by little until they erupt at the last moment, which is ten thousand times more dangerous than it is now.

"Is this your way of maintaining balance, Heaven?"

Shen Mingxin said.

"Junior brother, why don't you have your natal sword?"

Wen Qingshu came to his senses and realized this. "Since you have mastered the divine weapon of the sword, it should directly enhance your natal sword, allowing you to break through the original sword path and interpret a new sword path."

Shen Ming thought for a moment and decided to tell the truth.

Upon hearing that Shen Ming had sacrificed a half-immortal sword to allow the sword spirit to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation, Wen Qingshu took a deep breath.

"My junior brother actually has such courage," she exclaimed.

"Ok?"

Shen Ming was somewhat surprised by this reaction; he had expected the others to shake their heads and sigh like they would.

“Just by reforging your natal sword, Junior Brother, you will be able to reach a higher level,” Wen Qingshu said.

Shen Ming smiled knowingly and continued the conversation, asking his senior sister about her choice back then.

Unexpectedly, Wen Qingshu's eyes were deep and her expression was inscrutable.

"Junior brother, only this immortal sword can use its sword spirit to assist sword cultivators in the human realm."

Faced with Shen Ming's puzzled look, Wen Qingshu explained the reason.

Shen Ming was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized that he had made a preconceived mistake, assuming that everyone had a magic sword and everyone would face choices.

Most sword cultivators start by cultivating a normal natal sword, which they then continuously strengthen and absorb as their cultivation level increases.

Take Wen Qingshu for example, so when she heard Shen Ming's question just now, even she, as a sword cultivator, was somewhat dazed.

However, this also shows how incredible it is to ordinary people that Shen Ming would give up a half-immortal sword.

Then, the two of them got back to business.

"Junior brother, if we join forces, are we confident?" Wen Qingshu asked.

Shen Ming wasn't quite sure, because he had never fought against a quasi-demon god and didn't know their strength.

“Ten to twenty times stronger than the Little Demon God,” Wen Qingshu said.

Shen Ming thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "We can fight tonight."

Without the moon during the day, even reaching the True God realm is somewhat difficult.

However, his trump card is the Heaven-Sealing Formation.

Originally, I didn't plan to tell anyone, but my senior sister is no outsider. She said, "I will use the Heaven-Sealing Formation to trap and kill him. Senior sister and the others will stay in the mountains."

“No, the Golden Crow’s indestructible divine fire can break all restrictions and formations, and it will melt your formation diagram,” Wen Qingshu said.

Shen Ming really didn't know, and his first reaction was disbelief that the Undying Divine Fire could do this.

On second thought, if his Heavenly Emperor Fist could break through formations and restrictions, it was normal for others to have the same ability.

"Then we can only try to get it done tonight."

A solemn expression appeared on Shen Ming's face, knowing that a fierce battle was about to begin.

Meanwhile, the fire had already spread beyond the mountain peak.

Accompanied by a dazzling golden flame, Yan Yu descended from the sky.