Huo Rong begins, her voice rather weak, “He should be fine ins-”
Before she finished speaking, the sixth floor lit up, marking Shen Yuan’s successful ascension to a higher floor.
Huo Rong’s eyes lit up in surprise and happiness as she jumped up, screaming, “See!! I told you he will pass it soon!”
Xun Shuren’s eyes also sparkled in surprise as she muttered, “Finally.”
Han Qingyu also smiled happily observing Shen Yuan’s successful ascension. “Which floor can the disciples of Radiant Lotus Sacred Sect climb?” She asked what was on her mind as she also wanted to climb it.”
Huo Rong, who was in a good mood replied, “The average disciple of our Radiant Lotus Sacred Sect can’t pass the first floor, the inner disciple can go to the second floor and the core disciples can go up to the third floor.” She paused as her voice turned serious, “Only exceptional disciples among those can reach the fourth floor.”
Han Qingyu’s eyes widened in surprise as she didn’t know the significance behind Shen Yuan’s fear before, but now that she had something to compare it with, she thought Shen Yuan’s feats were no ordinary thing.
“Has no one reached the higher floors?” Han Qingyu asked as she didn’t think that anyone had reached the higher floors before.
Huo Rong nodded her head and continued, “Of course, quite a few disciples throughout history have reached the fifth floor, but the number of those who reached the sixth floor can be counted on one hand.”
She paused as she let Han Qingyu digest her voice before continuing, “But no one since the foundation of our sect has reached the final floor, we don’t even have any idea what the trial for that floor is.”
Han Qingyu absorbed the knowledge like a sponge absorbing water, she nodded her head, “It’s truly remarkable that Shen Yuan was able to reach the fifth floor already, I wonder what the trial will be?”
They continued chatting as there was nothing to do outside of the Pagoda besides chatting.
…
Shen Yuan, who had just finished killing off another wave of beasts, slashed his sword down to clean off the blood from it. His eyes glowed red from the frenzy.
There were beast carcasses lying all over the place, making it a horrifying sight to behold.
Beasts as small as insects to as large as small mountains were lying down all around as their blood flowed like rivers.
Even Shen Yuan’s basic swords changed color to red after absorbing so much blood. He raised his sword and glanced at it for a bit, “You are quite bloodthirsty huh. Alright, I shall name you ‘Crimson Devourer’ Hmm a fitting name for a bloodthirsty sword like you.”
Shen Yuan smiled happily as if he achieved something even greater than killing so many beasts all around him, after all his emotions didn’t even fluctuate after killing so many of them, yet he smiled happily after giving his sword a name.
Shen Yuan got this sword as his 16th birthday gift from Shen Yuxin, it wasn’t a world-destroying or heaven-defying treasure, it was brought by Shen Yuxin for Shen Yuan’s training.
But Shen Yuan particularly liked this sword so he used it the most, and after the recent battles and finally this massacre, the sword changed color as it seemed like it was going for an evolution. It was a Low-grade Tier 2 weapon.
But it lacked materials and a good craftsman to make it into a fine Tier 3 sword.
“I will take care of you after leaving this Pagoda, for now, we shall continue this slaughter.” He said as he swung the sword and decapitated another giant serpent that lunged at him.
Shen Yuan calmed down from his frenzy and finally swept his gaze around, “Fuck! How many are there going to be!? The beasts are already at the 3rd level of Extreme Origin Core Realm! I don’t even remember how many hundreds I have slain so far.”
Just then another wake of the beast came out of the gates, and hundreds of beasts, all at the 5th level of Extreme Origin Core Realm came out.
Shen Yuan’s eyes turned red in anger after having to waste so much time on this floor, “Fuck! Just come at me! All of you! It’s already been fucking weeks since I have been fighting!”
He completely lost it and used his ultimate attack, “Heaven and Earth Severance: Second Form- Tempest Slicing”
He swung his sword horizontally as the muscles on both of his hands exploded into a cloud of blood, but the energy released from the slash also obliterated all the beasts that came out of the doors this time, together with a lot of carcasses from around the area.
Shen Yuan huffed as he saw all the gates disappearing, “Haah…haah…” he took deep breaths and sat down on the ground in a meditative stance to recover some energy, ‘Fuck! I forgot my body is too weak to unleash the second form currently.’ he thought as he felt stupid for losing control.
After recovering a bit of his stamina, he took a healing pill from his storage ring and started recuperating.
…
Shen Yuan opened his eyes after a while, all his injuries had already healed as if he had never been injured before.
He looked ahead where the stairs were flashing, almost as if about to vanish.
Shen Yuan’s eyes widened as he hurriedly ran toward the stairs, ascending to a higher floor.
“Haah… I made it.” Shen Yuan said as he glanced back at the disappearing stairs, wondering if he would be teleported outside of the Pagoda.
“I didn’t know a timer existed for this floor, I think the Pagoda owner knew people would rest after finishing the floor so he made it that way,” he said while thinking about why such a mechanism exists.
He soon shook his head as thinking that it wouldn’t be useful, he gazed forward to see how the sixth floor looked.
And what came in front of him was a majestic monolith standing in the center of the room. Shen Yuan felt as if he could see the 3000 laws in this monolith.
He swept his gaze above to see the trial,
‘Enlighten oneself.’
Shen Yuan muttered the name to himself as he took a deep breath, stabilizing his mood as he stepped forward to reach the monolith.
He took out a mat and placed it on the ground, sitting down on top of the mat, he pondered what to comprehend.
“Should I comprehend sword intent? But I’m already at the first level of that, and it would be hard to achieve the second level of Sword Intent in a short time.” He began thinking to himself as to what he should choose.
“Hmm…let’s go with Saber Dao, I’m closer to comprehending the Saber Intent after all.” He finished deciding what to comprehend and threw out all the distracting thoughts from inside his mind.
He took a deep breath and brought out a saber from inside his storage ring, placing it in his lap as he looked at the monolith for a moment before he began deriving his saber techniques, also learning the new ones that he had accumulated during his journey.
