CHAPTER 924: CHAPTER 924: CULTIVATION ADVANCEMENT

After leaving the auction house, Zhu Fei immediately concealed his presence, taking several Heavenly Swapping Pills along the way to cover his original aura.

However, the shadow looming over Zhu Fei’s heart still lingered, following him like a shadow.

Damn it! What on earth is happening?

Zhu Fei sat in a room at a Rest Inn, continuously checking himself over and over.

Suddenly, his gaze unintentionally fell upon the storage ring containing fifty thousand High Grade Immortal Crystals, his pupils sharply contracting.

Damn it! That Hu guy, he’s ruthless!

Unable to hold back, Zhu Fei cursed inwardly, and then his vast Divine Sense surged out, directly penetrating into the storage ring before him, delving into its interior.

In no time, nearly a thousand Divine Sense marks were extracted by Zhu Fei from among the thousands of High Grade Immortal Crystals.

Earlier, Zhu Fei had suspected that Elder Hu might play some trick in this matter.

At the time, he had carefully inspected the storage ring but found no abnormalities.

Yet what Zhu Fei hadn’t anticipated was that the old guy would actually imprint his Divine Sense marks directly onto those Immortal Crystals.

Moreover, the method was so covert that even with Zhu Fei’s unique Divine Sense, he hadn’t detected it immediately.

Looking at the nearly thousand extracted Divine Sense marks, Zhu Fei couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.

He didn’t destroy these Divine Sense marks right away but rather placed them into a jade box and applied dozens of Sealing Restrictions onto its surface.

After completing these actions, Zhu Fei took the jade box and went out, tossing it into the beak of a demon bird flying overhead.

Humph! Trying to scheme against me? Better obediently chase after that demon bird.

A trace of coldness appeared at the corner of Zhu Fei’s mouth, and then he quickly vanished from sight, seeking another route back into the market.

...

Several hours later, in a nest of demon birds in Chaotic City, dozens of demon birds were slaughtered, their entrails and blood scattered across the ground.

In the midst of it, a man and a woman looked with extremely grim expressions at the belly of one demon bird.

There, a jade box branded with dozens of restrictions was prominently visible.

"Damn it! That kid dared to toy with us like this, he’s practically courting death!"

A man with a sullen face and eyes as sharp as a fierce beast suddenly looked at the woman beside him, speaking in a vicious tone:

"No way! We can’t let this go. We must find that guy and make him understand the terrible price of daring to toy with those of West City Auction House!"

The woman nodded, "Alright, Senluo, I’ll leave this matter to you. I need to report back to Elder Hu right away. That man must have some valuable treasures we don’t know about, we can’t let him get away."

With that, the figures of the two flickered slightly and then disappeared.

...

It took Zhu Fei several more hours before he finally managed to evade the hidden surveillance of certain individuals in the market, returning to Yue Dan’s Pill Shop in his original appearance.

Upon arriving at the Pill Shop, Zhu Fei immediately informed Chen Tianxing not to disturb him, as he needed to retreat for a while.

Once in his room, Zhu Fei set up several layers of restrictions around him and then began enhancing his cultivation with several High Grade Immortal Crystals.

Such pure and dense Immortal Spirit Qi.

After only a short time cultivating with High Grade Immortal Crystals, Zhu Fei instantly felt his cultivation bottleneck loosening.

No wonder they’re High Grade Immortal Crystals; neither the purity of Immortal Spirit Qi nor the conversion to Immortal Essence can compare to the Low-grade Immortal Crystals I used before.

Before long, Zhu Fei was thoroughly immersed in the pleasure of cultivation.

Zhu Fei could clearly sense his strength enhancing in an exceedingly noticeable manner.

Half a month later, Zhu Fei’s cultivation broke through to the True Immortal Peak.

Another ten days passed, and Zhu Fei completely touched the barrier of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, believing he only needed to take one more step to fully face the Heavenly Immortal Heavenly Tribulation.

At this point, he had only consumed a mere few hundred High Grade Immortal Crystals.

Zhu Fei slowly ceased his cultivation and opened his eyes, roughly calculating.

Hmm, there are still a few days till the auction and the opening of the cross-region train. I need to break through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm within this period.

Otherwise, if I wait until I’m on the train, I estimate there would be neither the conditions nor time to break through cultivation.

Thinking of this, Zhu Fei did not hesitate, taking a Heavenly Swapping Pill to modify his appearance to that of a middle-aged scholar before swiftly leaving the room, flying towards the outskirts of Peace Square.

Finding an uninhabited mountaintop, Zhu Fei used ten thousand High Grade Immortal Crystals to set up a large Spirit Gathering Array.

Zhu Fei knew that to break through to such a high realm as Heavenly Immortal, he would need Immortal Spirit Qi far beyond that required for minor realm breakthroughs.

Though ten thousand High Grade Immortal Crystals seemed excessive, for safety assurance, Zhu Fei couldn’t afford to skimp.

After completing almost all preparations, Zhu Fei then took out some Heavenly Pills from himself.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand, swallowing all those Heavenly Pills in one gulp.

As Zhu Fei operated his cultivation technique, abundant Immortal Essence surged up from within him.

A force that felt like it could break through all shackles continuously surged within Zhu Fei’s body.

As the force surged, the sky above Zhu Fei gradually darkened.

A blinding light suddenly tore through the sky, followed by thunderous and deafening thunderbolts.

Nearly ten thousand massive white lightning bolts, like the wrath of an angry thunder god, descended with unparalleled terrifying might, roaring as they crashed down!

"Clang——"

At that moment, a massive dark green sword shadow suddenly flew out from Zhu Fei’s left eye.

The sword shadow then burst forth with endless brilliance, as a new sky seemingly emerged, countless stars swirling around.

In just the blink of an eye, the lightning collided with the sword light and stars!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The tremendous explosions echoed.

Zhu Fei’s figure retreated several steps, his face flushing red, with a hint of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

However, the tribulation thunder in the sky showed no sign of stopping.

After crushing Zhu Fei’s sword light and stars, it once more gathered even stronger white lightning.

In just a moment, seven lightning bolts in a seven-star formation emerged, charging fiercely towards Zhu Fei once more!