CHAPTER 444: CHAPTER 290 SEVENTH RANK: SIN JUDGMENT CLERK_2

This means that the Path of the Yellow Springs can only be perfected up to this point for the time being.

The next level is Sequence 4, which reaches the domain of Human Saints, similar in strength to a Nascent Soul True Monarch in the Xianxia system.

To create this sequence out of thin air requires a far greater understanding of the essence of rules and the world than before.

More importantly, modifying and opening Sequence 4 and above means further unlocking the core permissions of the Underworld and Yellow Springs, allowing Transcendents on this path to truly touch part of the essence of the Underworld, and possibly even glimpse a corner of the Divine Court’s order.

For Lu Yan, he is not worried about the so-called authority being seized at all.

On the contrary, he is very willing to see more powerful beings advance through the Path of the Yellow Springs and eventually integrate into the Underworld system.

This is because the perfection and strength of the Divine Court and Underworld itself need to absorb a sufficient number of strong Heroic Spirits and even rule concepts to fill its structure.

Every powerful Transcendent on the Path of the Yellow Springs has the potential to become a deity or an important component of the Underworld in the future, jointly promoting the growth and perfection of the Divine Court and Underworld.

Currently, the main reason restricting him from further perfecting the sequences of the Path of the Yellow Springs is actually the Underworld Heaven and Earth itself.

This small world opened up by him, although it has expanded several times to a size of about 400 kilometers in radius, is already considered vast and boundless for ordinary mortals and low-level Transcendents.

However, for those truly standing at the pinnacle of power such as Sequence 4 Human Saints, and even higher-level existences, this range is still far from enough.

Their powerful perception can perhaps see through the realities and weaknesses of this small world at a glance, discerning its yet-to-be-fully-stabilized foundations.

Before this small Underworld can truly grow and perfect itself to the level of a small world with sufficiently deep foundations and solid rule barriers, Lu Yan must maintain enough caution.

He will try to avoid prematurely opening the Underworld to the outside world, to prevent other powerful beings or forces from probing its details, attracting unnecessary trouble or even coveting.

Thus, despite having the impulse to perfect the Path of the Yellow Springs to a higher sequence in one go, Lu Yan still forcibly restrained himself and decided to temporarily set the upper limit of the Path of the Yellow Springs at Sequence 5, Judge of the Underworld.

Though stopping at perfecting the Yellow Springs sequences, unable to accomplish it in one stroke, Lu Yan still gained extremely rich harvest from this closed practice session.

Firstly, there’s the huge breakthrough in cultivation.

He has achieved Golden Core Great Perfection, only a sliver away from the Nascent Soul Stage.

For breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, Lu Yan actually has no bottleneck at all.

The Nascent Soul Stage, unlike breaking through to the Golden Core which requires nurturing new Divine Techniques within, is more of a life-level leap and a deepening of understanding of the Dao.

With the deep foundation of his Dao Golden Core, and the accumulated insights from creating paths and modifying rules before, as long as the timing is right, breaking the core to form the Nascent Soul can be said to be a natural result.

The only thing limiting him from breaking through right now is the great Dao of this Mysterious World, shrouded by thick fog.

With the unclear Dao and rules, Lu Yan cannot accurately predict whether forcibly breaking through to the Nascent Soul in this world with his Dao Golden Core infused with the aura of the All Heavens Divine Court will trigger some unpredictable interference.

To be safe, he can only temporarily set aside the idea of breaking through, waiting for a more suitable time or gaining a deeper understanding of this world before making plans.

Secondly, through the valuable experience of personally creating and perfecting the Path of the Yellow Springs, Lu Yan gained a deeper and clearer understanding of how to construct and perfect Extraordinary Paths.

This is of great reference value for his continued perfection of the Underworld Path in the future.

He is confident that as long as Anna, as the pioneer of the Underworld Path, can keep up with the pace of cultivation, then perfecting the Underworld Path up to Sequence 5 is just a matter of time.

As for the added strength from the Yellow Springs itself after integrating with the Nether River, as well as the increase in authority and power from completely controlling a large, ancient Extraordinary Path like the Path of the Yellow Springs, these tangible benefits appear relatively secondary in Lu Yan’s eyes at this moment.

This world is too complicated, unless Lu Yan can ascend directly to become a True God, strength alone is not often the determining factor.

Slowly awakening from his closed practice state, Lu Yan’s Divine Thought first swept over the small Underworld Heaven and Earth.

Outside the Fengdu City Wall, on the once barren plains that only had zombies’ residual souls and out-of-control wandering souls, there are now some soul bodies with more broken forms and older, stranger auras mixed in.

These soul bodies are precisely from the Nether River that was devoured by the Yellow Springs.

In the intense fusion process of the two long rivers representing different death rules, countless ancient residual souls and obsession fragments sedimented at the bottom of the Nether River were washed up to this new Underworld River Shore by the power of the Yellow Springs.

They are revived in an intermediate state between reality and illusion in this desolate world belonging to the order of the Underworld, unexpectedly adding a touch of indescribable weird vitality to this world of deathly silence.

Within the tall Fengdu City Wall, those wandering souls who have started walking on the Underworld Path also show significant progress.

Thanks to the initial establishment of Underworld order and the establishment of the Path of the Yellow Springs, some of these wandering souls dispatched by Lu Yan to assist Anna in the real world have become much more condensed in aura, clearly reaching the peak of Sequence 9 of the Underworld Path.

They are just one opportunity away from truly stepping into the threshold of Sequence 8.

Seeing these changes, Lu Yan felt somewhat satisfied but also surprised.

He subconsciously sensed the time flow rate of the real world outside, only then realizing that his closed practice had unconsciously lasted a whole month.

With a slight shift in his mind, Lu Yan’s figure silently disappeared from the Divine Throne of Fengdu.

The next step he took already crossed the boundaries between the Underworld and reality, returning to the real world.

At the instant of his return to reality, an extremely subtle causal shift, like a stone thrown onto a calm lake, suddenly tugged at his perception.

This causal fluctuation wasn’t directed at himself but originated from a certain existence closely connected to him.

Lu Yan’s eyebrows slightly raised, his gaze seemed to penetrate through layers of walls and twisted timespace, instantly locking onto the source of the fluctuation.

It was in the outskirts of an industrial area, inside a simple small chapel spontaneously built by the workers.

The chapel was not large, even somewhat dilapidated, temporarily cobbled together using materials from an abandoned factory.

Inside the chapel’s innermost part, on a simple altar, there was an idol sculpted out of plaster.

The craftsmanship of the idol wasn’t exquisite, and the features were somewhat blurred, but it could faintly be recognized as resembling Anna.

At this moment, Anna’s clear Soul Body was quietly attached to this simple plaster idol.

Weak yet pure Power of Faith was converging from all directions, like trickling streams merging into her soul, causing her soul’s essence to undergo an indescribable sublimation, emitting a nearly divine aura.

Lu Yan immediately operated Creation and Transformation to begin deducing this sudden causal shift and Anna’s state.

Countless streams of information flowed through his eyes, instantly making the causes and effects clear to him.

Over the past month, Anna faithfully carried out her duties, punishing the sinful villains and guiding the kind workers.

Unbeknownst to her, what she accomplished coincidentally and perfectly matched a certain rite required for advancement on the Underworld Path.

Moreover, the spontaneous construction of the idol by the people gathered a large amount of pure Power of Faith to nourish and catalyze.

All these factors combined have accumulated enough foundation in Anna’s soul essence, reaching the critical point of imminent advancement.

Underworld Path Sequence Seven: Sin Judgment Clerk!