Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 706 - 373: 4-star Earth Emperor Star_2

Step by step, he walked to the edge of the cliff. Here, the pressure on his body had reached nearly 200 times, while the pressure on others was at most only about 30 times.

Lu Yu looked at the ground below, rather reluctant to let go of this pressure. If he could retain this pressure, constantly acting on himself, wouldn't his power passively increase every moment?

As soon as he thought of this, the Earth Emperor Star in his Dantian began to accelerate its rotation.

Lu Yu sensed a peculiar force emanating from within the Earth Emperor Star. He felt as if he had fused into a single entity with the ground beneath his feet.

Then, he sensed a heavy, desolate, and incomplete aura surging into his body from the ground beneath.

The Earth Emperor Star spun rapidly, and the once smooth surface of the Golden Core began to become mottled, resembling the uneven ground seen from high above.

Buzz~ Lu Yu felt a tremor in his mind, and the level of the Earth Emperor Star increased.

[Earth Emperor Star (2 Stars), Base Attribute Boost 10 times]

After a while, Lu Yu felt a large amount of something squeeze into his body, and soon after entering his body, it was completely devoured by the Earth Emperor Star.

His mind trembled once more.

[Earth Emperor Star (3 Stars), Base Attribute Boost 20 times]

At this point, Lu Yu already felt the pressure on his body beginning to diminish. Others also felt something strange, as if it had become a bit easier.

Zhou Hong saw Lu Yu standing motionless at the edge of the cliff and felt a bit puzzled.

He turned to the others and said, "You guys go down first and wait for me below."

"Okay." The four of them jumped off the cliff one after another, landing safely.

Zhou Hong looked at Lu Yu, pondering how to get him down. Bearing such enormous pressure on his body, he couldn't just leap down lightly as before.

If Lu Yu dared to jump, with one step he could crush the protruding rocks on the cliff that were meant to support him.

The pressure on him would only dissipate once he left this level. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"How are you doing? Can you come down?" Zhou Hong asked.

Lu Yu closed his eyes, feeling the power of the earth, and said, "You go first, I'll come down later."

Zhou Hong looked at him strangely, frowned, and said, "If you feel anything is off, you need to say so in time. Don't end up dragging us down with you."

Lu Yu replied, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I just want to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Law of this pressure."

Zhou Hong was somewhat speechless and said, "Don't waste too much time, I'll wait for you below."

With that, Zhou Hong descended.

After a long time, Lu Yu opened his eyes and walked forward.

His steps felt as if they had taken root, as he descended the steep cliff below.

[Earth Emperor Star (4 Stars), Base Attribute Boost 40 times]

[Divine Soldier Ability 1 — Earth Emperor: Gain additional power when stepping on the ground and reduce damage by 80%]

[Divine Soldier Ability 2 — Myriad Phenomena Celestial Attraction: Control gravity]

Lu Yu hadn't expected that the source of this layer's stairway gravity was actually a piece of Earth and Heaven, a fragment that had been nourished by Spiritual Qi for countless years.

If it were whole Earth and Heaven, Lu Yu wouldn't be able to absorb it because it is the cornerstone of a world.

But in a shattered world, this is a broken path that can possibly be absorbed once more.

What's more, when Lu Yu refined the Earth Emperor Star, he used Nine Heavens and Earth, which is the original form.

Both are of the same origin, so it's normal for them to attract each other.

When Lu Yu reached the next level, there was no one else in sight. He saw a stone with writing on it, a message left by Zhou Hong for Lu Yu.

"Brother Lu, we saw you enter a state of enlightenment and went ahead. We'll leave marks along the way, join us as soon as you see this message."

Zhou Hong wrote these words with some reluctance.

They waited below for a long time but Lu Yu never came down. Zhou Hong called Qin Ming to go up and check on Lu Yu.

As a result, they found an anomaly born around Lu Yu, indicating he had entered a deep state of enlightenment and encountered a rare opportunity.

Interrupting Lu Yu's opportunity could very well result in them becoming enemies.

It is known that enlightenment is a rare chance and breaking it is akin to severing one's path of cultivation.

Moreover, with others watching, Zhou Hong couldn't make such a decision. Otherwise, the others might hold grudges and become uncooperative.

So Zhou Hong could only choose to let Lu Yu stay for his enlightenment while the rest of the group moved forward.

After reading the message on the stone, Lu Yu followed the direction of the arrows etched on the stone.

Every step left a deep footprint on the ground, and the pressure on Lu Yu didn't disappear even after leaving the previous level; instead, it became stronger.

He hadn't mastered Myriad Phenomena Celestial Attraction completely yet; otherwise, no footprints would have been left.

As he used it longer, Lu Yu's ability to control Myriad Phenomena Celestial Attraction grew stronger, his control over gravity became more precise.

The footprints he left grew shallower and shallower.

Reaching the cliff edge, Lu Yu jumped directly down.

The ground's gravity pulled Lu Yu's body downward at an accelerated pace, faster than freefall two or three times.

As he was about to land, the gravity above pulled at Lu Yu's body, slowing his descent.

With a stable landing, Lu Yu didn't leave a single footprint.

He glanced around; this level's ground was slightly damp, and further ahead lay a muddy swamp.

Previously, encountering this type of terrain, Lu Yu would have found it troublesome.

Without being able to release Ice Spiritual Power externally, he couldn't freeze the swamp ground and needed to maintain high speed to avoid sinking.

But now, Lu Yu easily tread upon the swamp, as light as a feather floating across it.

The pressure was merely a method of Myriad Phenomena Celestial Attraction, which could be reversed to lighten his weight or even allow flight.

Lu Yu hadn't yet reached such detailed control over gravity to achieve flight, so he was temporarily limited to decreasing and increasing his weight.

He swiftly swept across the swamp.

Halfway, he saw a hole that hadn't fully disappeared, indicating a fierce battle had occurred there.

The edges of the swamp vortex were still charred, the water evaporated, the mire solidified, preventing the hole from vanishing swiftly.

However, as Lu Yu arrived, swamp water began flowing into the hole, and soon the human traces would disappear without a trace.

Lu Yu looked around, even using the Earth Emperor ability of the Earth Emperor Star to sense the ground.

He found no bodies, indicating Zhou Hong's group had suffered no casualties.

It made sense: if a fierce battle occurred, it meant the opponents were resistible; otherwise, they would have fled, and no fight would have occurred.

Knowing there were no casualties, Lu Yu sped up, hoping that when he caught up to them, it wouldn't be to collect their bodies.

Arriving at the edge of the swamp tier, there stood a super waterfall stretching hundreds of miles long, with a drop of over two hundred meters.

The flowing water was like a thin layer of white gauze as it cascaded over the cliff, connecting the upper and lower tiers, appearing quite spectacular.

However, Lu Yu didn't find it beautiful; the next tier below was a vast water surface with no landing spot in sight.

Lu Yu jumped down, using Myriad Phenomena Celestial Attraction to manipulate attraction: increasing and decreasing speed, and landed stably on the water surface.

The water surface slightly caved under him, as his weight was distributed over a vast water area, keeping him afloat.

The earth power within him diminished rapidly, allowing him to no longer maintain the earth power boost while treading water.

Once the earth power had vanished entirely, Lu Yu felt his strength had been reduced to less than half.

With the Earth Emperor Star's upgrade, the boost provided by the earth power had also increased.

When he stepped on the ground, his strength increased significantly.

This place wasn't Lu Yu's territory; he quickly moved toward the edge of this tier, hoping the water wouldn't flow into the next tier, making it swampy once more.

The clear water surface mirrored like a reflection, with Lu Yu moving rapidly, his shadow trailing in the water...