Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 520 - 503: Three Days

Upon entering the purple mist, the body tensed instinctively.

A pervasive aura of danger filled the surroundings.

Zhou Leng watched cautiously, moving forward silently.

One step, two steps...

A hundred steps, two hundred steps...

Zhou Leng stopped at five hundred steps, looking confused.

What’s happening?

Before, humans frequently discussed the purple mist and shared documents in groups.

Although everyone could surpass a thousand steps, everyone said that upon first entering the purple mist, it felt like a great hammer hitting the head, with darkness before their eyes.

Xu Ming was a bit better, only feeling slight dizziness, the body sensing immense pressure, but he walked through it in one go, without stopping.

But why did I feel nothing?

It’s not that I felt nothing, it’s just that I sensed danger, and then nothing more.

Zhou Leng opened the Demonized Watch and flipped through the information.

Indeed.

It clearly stated that upon first entering the purple mist, one must be prepared for the disturbance of Martial Arts Will; a slight carelessness could lead to dizziness.

He glanced around at the faint purple mist surrounding him.

Could it be that the purple mist here is fake?

After a moment’s hesitation, he continued walking forward.

Seven hundred steps, eight hundred steps...

A thousand steps, a thousand five hundred steps...

At nearly a thousand eight hundred steps, Zhou Leng finally clearly sensed, as if a three-year-old child, with soft knuckles, was tapping his body and Martial Arts Will.

A strange expression flashed across Zhou Leng’s face.

If there’s nothing wrong with the purple mist, then the most likely reason is that the force of the purple mist fell on me but didn’t break through?

However, it’s also possible that I got lucky, and the purple mist here is more sparse, the force weaker.

This possibility is too low; the mighty divine power shouldn’t be unable to even achieve basic force uniformity.

Zhou Leng set aside all miscellaneous thoughts and stepped forward.

Two thousand steps, two thousand one hundred steps...

The knuckles of a three-year-old changed to those of a seven-year-old.

Three thousand steps, three thousand one hundred steps...

An ordinary adult was punching him with full force, yet it didn’t feel significant.

Four thousand steps, four thousand one hundred steps...

Zhou Leng’s eyes widened slightly.

A kind of evil aura descended, very peculiar; if one’s willpower was even slightly lacking, it would incite panic, further influenced by the aura.

But having experienced the Evil God’s Gaze from the Trial Gate, this evil aura didn’t feel particularly strong.

Soon, he advanced into the five-thousand-step stage.

A mighty gravity appeared, like a huge stone pressing down on him.

This force was enough to bend an ordinary Martial Artist’s body.

Zhou Leng strode boldly forward, unaffected, stepping into six-thousand steps.

A grand aura assaulted him.

The aura was formless and intangible, yet omnipresent, as if a divine gate opened in the sky with an invisible divine spirit stepping out, forming a mighty pressure, watching over the world.

Zhou Leng’s eyes lit up, and his pace slowed.

This feeling was quite interesting.

This six-thousand-step force already slightly exceeded the pressure of the Ninth Palace East Monarch on the Ancient Spirit Road back then.

But after receiving the Ancient Spirit Trial rewards, his Martial Arts Will had greatly increased; moreover, after honing in the Battle of Shuizhou, his Martial Arts Will far surpassed back then.

This level of pressure was no longer stimulating.

Reaching halfway through six-thousand steps, a familiar feeling struck.

The Tenth Palace Star God pressure on the Ancient Spirit Road.

But as soon as he entered, he was blown out by the substantial pressure.

Moreover, the divine aura here not only had mental pressure but also physical pressure.

His whole body seemed submerged in the deep sea, tightly constrained by immense water pressure.

Zhou Leng’s lips curled up but soon restrained.

Not bad, this was indeed the Innate stage divine trial.

However, even so, this level of power couldn’t pressurize him.

He continued stepping forward, entering the eight-thousand-step region. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Initially, there wasn’t much difference until he saw denser purple mist ahead.

It was twice as thick, with a tinge of black within the purple.

Zhou Leng took a deep breath and stepped into the deeper-colored purple mist.

The sky suddenly rose a black sun, emitting a cylindrical black beam blasting down.

Zhou Leng’s body paused, sinking into the ground with both feet.

He glanced around; the strange black light obstructed vision, making even his hands invisible.

Before him was intense darkness.

A massive force pressed down on his skin.

Zhou Leng’s face contorted, twisted by the immense force.

In the depths of the Will World, the black beam pounded on the Mountain of Will.

Bits of black light splattered on the Mountain of Will’s surface.

The Mountain of Will lightly trembled.

He looked up toward the direction of the black sun.

Amidst the black light, initially, nothing could be seen, but a gold-edged black sun hung high before him.

Zhou Leng held his head high, like a stubborn warrior.

That black sun was like a divine spirit.

Zhou Leng continued forward, one step, two steps, three steps...

After a hundred steps, his whole body turned slightly red, accompanied by subtle pain.

A familiar feeling struck.

Destruction Star Power.

Rather than being alarmed, Zhou Leng was pleased. He had felt that training the Undying Star Body on the Great Battlefield was fast, yet something still seemed lacking.

This feeling was the right flavor.

Immediately activated the Undying Star Body.

The Taiqing Sea Robe within the body continued endlessly.

The Qi Blood within formed a mysterious dual circulation.

One followed the Undying Star Body, the other followed the Taiqing Sea Robe.

Both did not conflict, instead undergoing some kind of transformation.

The power of the Undying Star Body merged into the Taiqing Sea Robe, causing its structure to make slight adjustments according to the Undying Star Body’s power.

Once the Undying Star Body started operating, the slight pain disappeared.

That black sun star power, part of it was repelled by the Undying Star Body and the Taiqing Sea Robe, while another part entered the body, transforming into the power of the Undying Star Body.

In the Will World, the Undying Star Body continuously absorbed the power of the Ceres shadow.

8,200 steps, 8,300 steps...

When reaching 8,400 steps, the second black sun appeared.

Two black suns, two black beams shot diagonally from the sky, hitting Zhou Leng.

His shoes had already been crushed, standing barefoot on the ground.

Behind, leaving deep footprints one after another.

Black light fell on his body, continuously sparking fire, crackling loudly.

The surface of the Mountain of Will flickered.

The black divine light could already shake the will of martial arts.

"8,400 steps, that’s enough."

Zhou Leng immediately sat down cross-legged, operated the Undying Star Body, and quietly cultivated.

Time slowly passed, the Undying Star Body continuously absorbing external star power.

These powers, part of them strengthened the body, while part converted into a strange invisible force, spreading throughout the body.

Additionally, with the space containing true energy of the stars, the growth rate of the Undying Star Body increased another level.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Leng stood up and continued forward.

At 8,800 steps, the third black sun descended.

Three black suns unleashed three black beams, blasting simultaneously.

Zhou Leng advanced step by step, star currents flowing on him, sparks flew, surging and dazzling all the way.

Finally, Zhou Leng saw purple-black thick mist, as thick as the curtains of a deep palace.

He took one step forward.

An immense force surged, Zhou Leng’s head jerked back, his body slid back, leaving two shallow grooves, stopping at three feet.

The grooves in the ground emitted a faint smoke.

At the moment of entry, he saw it.

A deep blue canopy, meteors like rain, blue and red interwoven and flashing.

A gigantic fire meteor hurled towards him, falling into the Will World, crashing into the Mountain of Will.

Meteor collision with the Mountain of Will exploded, forming tremendous impact force, shaking the Mountain of Will and pushed the body out.

In the void beyond the meteors and falling rocks, stood a giant humanoid figure, arms crossed.

Behind the figure, countless shattered asteroids formed a large circular ring, standing upright.

In an instant, Zhou Leng even had an illusion, that the unknown divine spirit removed the massive asteroid belt surrounding the sun, placing it behind him.

At the moment of seeing that unknown figure, a complete Divine Text appeared in his mind.

Circled by stars, the sun like me.

Zhou Leng suddenly understood, this was the complete meaning of "Divine Spirit" in the Divine Text.

A cluster of meteors appeared in his mind, he smiled slightly.

Perhaps, this was just the beginning of ascending the stars.

Zhou Leng sat cross-legged before the purple-black divine mist, enduring the bombardment of the three black suns, fully operating the Undying Star Body.

Currents roamed, sparks flew.

Human camp.

Xu Ming and others returned to the Human Race camp to rest, he glanced outside Zhou Leng’s tent, nobody was there, he’s likely cultivating inside.

So he sent Zhou Leng a message, the demons might be up to something, be extra careful.

Later, Xu Ming methodically organized people to explore the purple mist, because they still had to guard against demons, keeping their nerves highly tense.

One day, two days, three days...

Each time Xu Ming returned, he glanced at Zhou Leng’s tent, but didn’t see anyone.

Initially, he didn’t think much, it was normal for a martial artist to cultivate for long periods, maybe he reached a critical moment.

Until returning on the third evening, Xu Ming glanced outside Zhou Leng’s tent again.

Same as before, no changes.

He stopped, looked at Martial Faith.

No response to date.

He looked exhausted, eyes bloodshot, just returned from the Divine Power Land trial, his vigor not yet restored.

He was about to go sleep when he hesitated for a few seconds, walked to Zhou Leng’s tent, looked at the twisted shattered steel on the camping table, picked it up, examined carefully, finally nodding lightly.

"This kid’s strength is quite something, during my Muscle Stage, manipulating True Qi, it took me a long time to shape it like this."

He walked to the tent entrance, listened closely.

There was no slightest sound inside, no heartbeat, no breathing.

Peered through the tent’s gap inside.

Inside was completely empty.

Xu Ming’s heart sank, immediately questioned in the group, then contacted the person recently responsible for the camp.

Everyone replied no one has seen Zhou Leng these days.

Upon further inquiry, Wang Yunbo said Zhou Leng went out to test his strength three days ago, and nobody had seen him since.

After repeated confirmations, Xu Ming stood still.

A long time later, he sat weakly on the camping chair, staring dazedly into the distance.

No news for three days, it meant...

At that moment, the people in the camp came rushing over, asking what happened, then began discussing zealously.

"Could something have happened?"

"Doesn’t seem like it, if he was indeed killed by demons, the demons would likely have news."

"We can’t just wait, let’s search around."

"We can’t search randomly, that’s dangerous. The pond to the west of the Black Iron Forest reportedly swallowed a Giant Dragon. Giants have also mysteriously disappeared in ruins. This is after all the Great Battlefield, we only feel it’s not dangerous because we haven’t encountered it. Those who did, are gone."

"Demons also don’t wander recklessly."

"Let’s ask other people."

"Let’s go."