Chapter 373: Stepping into the Eighth Realm!

Over these past decades, Shen Xing had never stopped drawing Yuan Qi from this Eighth Realm world. The other Great Sages had tried to find ways to stop him, but to no avail.

Even if the Taiyuan Sect wanted to use this to rally some Great Sages to participate in the siege, it wouldn’t work.

No Great Sage was willing to take the risk.

Many Great Sages could see the same things that Burning Heaven Great Sage could see.

They might not know about the so-called “Supreme Treasure,” but they could also see the terrifying potential that Shen Xing possessed.

At most, they could only repel Shen Xing now, but once he stepped into the Eighth Realm, ordinary Eighth Realm experts would probably not be a match for him at all.

Unless it was those powerhouses from the Martial Alliance, and not just ordinary powerhouses, it might be possible.

Under these circumstances, they seemed to have no other choice.

During this time, it was less about considering and more about trying to win over more people, to add enough confidence to their group!

Decades were enough.

Just as Shen Xing continued his daily cultivation, Fairy Kong Ling finally came to find him.

She brought along four other Great Sages.

“We are here representing thirty-four Great Sages,” Fairy Kong Ling said as her first sentence.

“You won’t regret your decision,” Shen Xing revealed a slight smile.

“Hopefully,” Fairy Kong Ling sized up Shen Xing.

Over these past decades, the thing they had done the most was to try to find out about the character of the person before them through various means from the Tai Xu World.

After all, the person before them was the core of everything, and also the guarantee of their future years.

Even if they were to submit, no one wanted to submit to someone who was sufficiently tyrannical and cruel.

If that were the case, they might as well go find another small world.

In fact, many Great Sages had chosen this path. This was different from being completely lost in the endless void. They had not left the Tai Xu World too far. They had simply given up on cultivation and hid in some small world with some disciples or others to pass the time.

Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before the situation would change again.

Anyway, for Great Sages, time was the least valuable thing.

However, these thirty-four Great Sages were prepared to take a gamble.

They were betting on Shen Xing.

“However, some people still have some concerns. We need to see your world to ensure that you really have that kind of potential,” Fairy Kong Ling had already changed her form of address.

This veteran Great Sage probably hadn’t used an honorific for a martial artist in a very long time.

To the point where she herself had forgotten.

However, using it now was quite fitting.

Martial artists who could transcend long periods of time without getting bored were mostly not emotionally sensitive people. They had a sufficiently strong will to allow themselves to pass through what seemed like an almost endless amount of time.

At this moment, the other Great Sages were also staring at Shen Xing, as if wanting to see something from his expression.

However, Shen Xing naturally wouldn’t have any guilt.

“Alright,” he directly raised his hand, and Yuan Power enveloped them. None of them resisted, and in the next instant, they found themselves in a brand new small world.

One by one, they were somewhat amazed by Shen Xing’s spatial abilities.

After all, knowing something was one thing, but experiencing it personally was another.

However, now was not the time to ask questions.

They began to pay attention to everything around them.

In just an instant, they could confirm that this world had indeed just been born, and that it hadn’t been born for long, because there was nothing here, not even matter. There was only a vast expanse of white dust. This dust was the most basic substance born from spatial collisions.

However, compared to this obvious sense of newness, the world itself was indeed powerful to an unbelievable degree.

Although it was weaker than their Eighth Realm world, it was only slightly weaker.

At least, its strength could completely withstand the long-term stay of Eighth Realm experts. It was likely that only when they went all out would it be possible to tear it apart.

For daily life, or even cultivation, they didn’t need to suppress their strength, nor did they need to have too many concerns.

Fairy Kong Ling remembered very clearly that it was only when the Eighth Realm world had been born for about three thousand years that it could barely reach this level.

But that was with the maintenance of dozens of Eighth Realm martial artists for three thousand years!

And how long had it been since this person broke through to the Seventh Realm?

It had only been a little over two hundred years!

It seemed that there was no need for too much suspicion anymore. The strength of this world, as well as the Yuan Power aura unique to the person before them that permeated the world’s barrier, was enough to prove everything.

He was indeed walking a path that had never been walked before!

Fairy Kong Ling and the other three Great Sages exchanged a look, and finally, they said in unison, “We are willing to join your Federation Faction and obey your arrangements.”

With just this one sentence, the number of Great Sages in the Federation instantly increased fivefold!

However, Shen Xing was very clear that the joining of these Great Sages now could not be considered a true joining.

It was merely maintaining a shallow level of cooperation.

A true joining could only happen when Shen Xing stepped into the Eighth Realm and truly demonstrated the power to crush them. Only then would there be a foundation for deeper trust.

The Great Sages like Kong Ling were also well aware of this.

However, this did not prevent Shen Xing from borrowing their strength over these past few thousand years.

“Those Great Sages from the Taiyuan Sect should have all escaped by now,” Shen Xing said with a smile.

“Indeed,” Kong Ling nodded, “They felt that they could not be accepted by you, and they were also unwilling to be subjected to the huge restrictions like Burning Heaven Great Sage, so they all fled.”

This was actually a problem caused by Burning Heaven Great Sage’s treatment.

Although he had surrendered, Burning Heaven Great Sage was still in a state of being sealed.

Naturally, no Great Sage was willing to receive such treatment.

“If you have a way to contact them, then you can tell them that since they have not caused us any substantial damage, they only need to compensate with a certain amount of resources, or become laborers and gather Yuan Qi for us for a period of time, and we will not hold them accountable,” Shen Xing paused for a moment, and even added, “I can also bring back those Great Sages who were expelled by me. Only I know the locations where they were expelled to.”

This was not benevolence, but every Great Sage was considered a rare source of power.

More importantly, he was currently lacking Yuan Qi, a large amount of Yuan Qi.

Lin Zhaoyang and the others had designed a method based on his situation, or rather, a set of Martial Path Intents combined with Eighth Realm Inscriptions, that could accelerate the refining of the endless space within the Void Turbulence, but the prerequisite was that Eighth Realm martial artists had to make a move.

Under these circumstances, these Great Sages were all laborers in his eyes!

As long as they could speed up his cultivation, nothing else mattered.

After understanding what Shen Xing meant by “gathering Yuan Qi,” Great Sage Kong Ling directly agreed.

In fact, she even proactively said, “If needed, the rest of our Great Sages can also help. The faster Young Master Shen’s strength can be improved, the safer our future will be.”

They might not know about the existence of the Supreme Treasure, but they did know about the existence of the Martial Alliance.

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Compared to such a powerful alliance, although Shen Xing’s side looked weak, its potential was greater, which was obviously a better choice.

“Good,” Shen Xing had this intention.

If he really had the help of seventy or eighty Great Sages, then his growth in the entire Seventh Realm could be further compressed!

Come to think of it, it seemed that it had always been like this since he came to this world.

He would constantly display his martial power, then suppress the martial artists of this world to be used by him, further accelerating his own cultivation.

He had not expected that even after reaching the Seventh Realm, he would still have to rely on this method.

However, being able to always suppress martial artists who were stronger than him could also be considered Shen Xing’s ability.

After agreeing on the initial “joining,” the efficiency of these Great Sages also increased. In just a few years, more than a dozen Great Sages had come to Shen Xing’s world to lend him a hand.

After another hundred years, some Great Sages who were paying attention also participated.

It seemed that the time they had spent together had indeed allowed them to see Shen Xing’s character. Slowly, some Great Sages from the Taiyuan Sacred Ground also came over.

And Shen Xing’s realm was indeed increasing rapidly!

In just a few hundred years, his strength was already close to reaching the mid-Seventh Realm.

Compared to the initial estimate, this time had been reduced to only about a third of what was expected.

He was confident that he would reach the Eighth Realm within a thousand years!

This speed had also frightened many Great Sages. Unknowingly, Shen Xing had begun to establish a certain level of prestige among these Great Sages.

The Tai Xu World was indeed a world where the strong were respected. A mere thousand years was nothing to a Great Sage.

If Shen Xing could completely surpass them after a thousand years, then the current Shen Xing already possessed a status that surpassed theirs!

Shen Xing also knew that this thousand years would become a crucial thousand years!

He did not waste any time. Except for when a few friends broke through to the Seventh Realm, when he went to briefly congratulate them, he spent all of his remaining time in cultivation.

He wanted to quickly complete his breakthrough.

Only by reaching the Eighth Realm would he possess true power to resist the so-called Martial Alliance.

Fortunately, for the current Shen Xing, the Eighth Realm only required accumulation, and there were no problems on the path.

After all, even the threshold of “creating a Heavenly Grade Martial Path Intent” had already been met within Shen Xing’s Heavenly Grade, Top-Grade Ten Thousand Dragons Technique.

However, this period of time was not just simple cultivation.

“The Taiyuan Sect really does have some die-hards,” Shen Xing received a communication from the Tai Xu World while he was cultivating, and his expression was somewhat unpleasant.

There were Sages who had defected who were trying to enter the core secret realm of the Taiyuan Sect.

What they wanted to do was obvious.

Only the Great Sages of the Taiyuan Sect knew what was inside that core secret realm.

With the level of danger in that secret realm, if a Seventh Realm Sage entered, it would be a true death sentence, but it was very clear that there was still a possibility of triggering the secret realm and sending a signal to the Martial Alliance.

“We can only keep a close watch,” Shen Xing could only order this in the end.

In fact, to be even more sure, he had specifically gone to the Federation World and brought over dozens of veteran councilors.

They were only responsible for guarding!

It had been almost five hundred years since he stepped into the Sage Realm. In these five hundred years, the strength of the martial artists in the Human Federation had also increased rapidly. It was not just the martial artists at the bottom. The number of councilors had also entered a period of expansion, increasing by more than two hundred people. These new councilors had also begun to occupy more and more positions.

Sending over a few dozen people was not a problem at all.

“However, they will come back sooner or later,” Burning Heaven Great Sage also learned about this matter, and his expression was somewhat serious, “I am a little worried that they might have also set up secret realms responsible for monitoring in some of the surrounding worlds. If the martial artists of the Taiyuan Sect find them, it will be just as dangerous.”

“Anyway, it’s just less than a thousand years!” Shen Xing’s gaze was deep, “Once I reach the Eighth Realm, they will all be like dogs collapsing!”

That’s right, he had that kind of confidence!

However, Shen Xing also felt a sense of urgency.

He really didn’t know when those people would come back, but at the very least, they would definitely come back before the original time of the Tai Xu World’s collapse.

The reason that secret realm was left in the Tai Xu World was because of this reason.

“Let’s cultivate,” Shen Xing once again threw himself into cultivation.

Time passed quickly in a state of complete seclusion. Shen Xing’s strength quickly reached a level close to the late-Seventh Realm, and it had only taken him less than a thousand years.

This speed could already be considered truly shocking to the world.

The final five hundred years had also reached a point where everyone was somewhat nervous.

Subsequently, Shen Xing used another hundred years to break through to the late-Seventh Realm.

Then, after another two hundred years, he reached the peak of the Seventh Realm!

Only the final step was left.

This time, once he entered seclusion, it was a full three hundred years!

When Shen Xing appeared before the others again, even the Great Sages could sense his changes.

That’s right, because even the Great Sages were unable to perceive his existence with their Divine Sense!

At this time, after experiencing a full one thousand three hundred years of cultivation, Shen Xing had finally stepped into the Eighth Realm!

The entire process was so smooth that even he himself couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, this was actually normal.

The Martial Alliance had not returned for thousands of years, and it was impossible for them to return just within his last thousand years.

If that were really the case, then one would have to lament the ridiculousness of fate.

Fortunately, that kind of thing did not happen.

“I can’t understand your current strength at all,” Lin Zhaoyang was undoubtedly the one who was the most emotional. When he looked at the current Shen Xing, he couldn’t help but want to spar with Shen Xing.

But Shen Xing refused.

“I’m afraid it will be a blow to you.”

Yes, that was what he said.

He did not use an arrogant tone, nor was he particularly smug. He just smiled, as if he was saying something very normal.

Lin Zhaoyang was stunned for a moment, and then he felt somewhat helpless.

“That sentence is already enough of a blow to me.”

However, he then laughed.

“The title of the strongest person in the Human Federation has indeed become boring to me. Now, it’s time to hand it over to you!”