Pathway

He gave Ju Feng the heavenly root spirit pill and quickly transferred the crystal into his spatial sac. He had to be cautious since he didn't know who the boy's family were, he could even have an hegemon as an ancestor. He would try his best to sell the crystals, who knows what other items the boy may want to sell?

Leaving the marketplace, Ju Feng went directly to his room and locked the door from the inside. Sitting down in the lotus position, he took out one blue crystalline and chewed it before swallowing it. Closing his eyes, he started to cycle the Chi energy by moving it from his dantian through the meridians and back to.

Soon after that, he removed the heavenly root spirit pill from his robe pocket and swallowed it. The pill melted upon entering his body and the energy from the pill flowed into his dantian. The moment it mixed with the Chi energy in his dantian, the explosive interaction made him collapsed and fainted.

When he finally regained consciousness, he noticed that his body was still radiating faint rainbow lights and that his body had undergone a massive transformation.

His body was still radiating a faint rainbow light strength and power of his body had increased and all his senses are sharper and keener than before.

The lower dantian which was the root of the spiritual tree had transformed into a large square palacium with four massive rainbow corner pillars that extended to the middle dantian.

The most wonderful change was the transformation of the giant sphere of Chi energy into a massive orb of liquid rainbow light. Liquid energy was the true form of condensed Chi energy not the solid energy and liquid light energy was the true beginning of primordials.

His body felt weirdly strange, it was as if he was looking at himself through a stranger's eyes. The sensation, the feeling.

So this was the Zhuji stage. The stage where heavens defying cultivation truly started from. Powerful. It seemed he would be the first of the new disciples to undergo heavenly tribulation.

The next time he tried to gather spiritual energy would bring down heavenly tribulation.

His family had told him to prepare for heavenly tribulation once he reached the Zhuji stage. There would be three stages where a cultivator would experience heavenly tribulation.

The Zhuji stage, the embryonic defiance phase. The cultivator having ideas about defying the heavens.

The Jindan stage, low defiance phase. The cultivator would be defying the heavens by forcefully gathering spiritual energy from the heavens.

The Yuanying stage, half defiance phase. The forming of the nascent soul by the cultivator in an attempt to be a true immortal showing heavens defiance.

And the Shenxian, total defiance phase. Where the cultivator would be attempting to finally escape tribulation by becoming a god.

But that wouldn't be the end of tribulations, there would be the cosmic tribulation for any cultivator on the way of becoming a divine.

Ju Feng stood up, flexed his muscles and executed the shifting heavens hand technique. Without using Chi, the force of the hand technique was so powerful he had to stop the execution mid way.

Wondering how his Chi energy would be like, he released a bit of energy from his body, it was so powerful that the energy vibration was felt throughout the section.

Moments later, he felt a vibration on his body, he was trying to locate the source of the vibration when he felt the vibration once again. It looked as if it was coming from the spatial sac. Still trying to be sure, he felt the vibration the third time and he was sure it was coming from the spatial sac.

He cautiously opened his spatial sac and discovered that it was the pagoda causing the vibration. Then, he removed the pagoda from the sac and placed it on the floor in the middle of room. Immediately it touched the floor, the pagoda grew to the size of a small door.

The pagoda? Could it be the same door that senior was talking about? Maybe a door to the belly of a beast. He was having mixed thoughts but after much deliberation, he finally made up his mind to enter through the door.

"I'm impressed childling. How long has it been? And here you are."

"Senior Hypathos, you flatters me."

"That means you have advanced to the Zhuji level, you are now a premier cultivator."

"I just advanced, senior, not even up to ten minutes."

"You should have enjoyed your moment longer, anyways, do you want to take a look at any world in particular? The worlds are at your fingertips."

"Senior, now? I'm not sure senior, I've never been outside our continent before. I don't know what another world will be like."

"No harm in trying. You can even check a smaller world, what do you say?"

"Okay senior, I guess I can try. But how will I leave the place?"

"There will be a door like this one on the other side, when you want to come back you only need to enter the door and you will be back here. The door will be a portal for you."

"Senior, what if I can't find the door back?"

"Then make sure you know where the door is. Now, let's try the Charat Planet."

"Senior, maybe we should check the worlds carefully before- nooooo."

Before he could finish his words, he was sent out through the door to Charat planet.