Chapter 1126 - Killing Heaven Profound Realm
Liu Wuxie retrieved several porcelain bottles from the altar, each one filled with Divine Nine Cauldron Pills. He consumed one himself and handed another to Qiao Bian without hesitation.
Qiao Bian didn’t hesitate. He swallowed the pill the moment it touched his palm. Almost instantly, agony contorted his face as violent energy exploded within him.
"ARGH!" Qiao Bian roared as a blast of power burst from his core. In an instant, his cultivation surged from the first to the second level of the Heaven Profound Realm.
Liu Wuxie had refused to give him the pill while Qiao Bian remained in the Earth Profound Realm. From experience, he knew a body at that level couldn’t endure the pill’s terrifying energy. Only someone who stepped into the Heaven Profound Realm could endure its effects.
The cultivators nearby stared in stunned silence. They knew that on the True Martial Continent, breaking through to the second-level Heaven Profound Realm required a miraculous encounter.
Less than a hundred cultivators ever reached the Heaven Profound Realm, and fewer than five broke into the second. Most cultivators remained at the first level, which marked the peak of the continent’s power. Only the academy heads, who could form a connection to the Astral Domain, managed to surpass those limits.
The Dragon Emperor Academy disciples who once tried to dissuade Qiao Bian now wore bitter smiles of regret. Regret flooded their faces. If they had chosen to stand beside Qiao Bian to defend the altar, they might also have earned a pill—and a chance at the Heaven Profound Realm.
Qiao Bian kept raising his cultivation. It began pushing toward the third level.
His rapid ascent left even Elder Madman visibly shocked. No one could fathom how the heaven-defying pill Liu Wuxie gave him enabled such a leap.
Elder Madman knew better than anyone that cultivators usually needed five thousand years of accumulation to enter the Heaven Profound Realm. Qiao Bian bypassed ten thousand years of hardship with a single pill.
"Master, take this one!" Liu Wuxie said, offering another pill to Elder Madman after confirming that Qiao Bian was stable.
All around, cultivators swallowed hard. They had seen the power of the pill firsthand, and Qiao Bian was living proof.