Chapter 1348: How Strong am I?
“Master!”
“Big Brother An, woof!”
Da Bai, Xiao Hong, and his other beast pets all rushed over to congratulate him.
Xuanyuan Cheng, Su Qianyun, and his other friends also walked over to express their congratulations.
“An Lin, have you truly reached the Return to Void Stage already?” There was a bright glimmer in Xuanyuan Cheng’s eyes as he looked An Lin up and down.
“You seem… the same as before,” Su Qianyun c.o.c.ked her head and spoke in a mellow voice. An Lin’s figure was reflected in her beautiful, dreamy blue eyes.
“How is he the same? Just then, he treated the Golden Void Lightning like a toy! It was so handsome and majestic!” Xu Xiaolan smiled broadly as she held onto An Lin’s hand. She appeared extremely happy.
“That’s right. When I flex now, I frighten even myself!” An Lin chuckled cheerily and poked his finger toward the void. The nearby void fractured and cracked open, and thin arcs of white lightning seeped out from within it.
From afar, it looked like a gigantic snowflake that had been frozen in the void.
“Wow… So beautiful…” There was a bright glimmer in Su Qianyun’s dreamy blue eyes.
“He’s able to manipulate spatial power so skillfully right after ranking up to the Return to Void Stage. As expected of the most freakish talent in the Kingdom of the Nine States.” Vice-Princ.i.p.al Yu Hua stroked his beard as he admired An Lin’s abilities. There was a wide grin plastered to his face.
A little whale swam around An Lin’s body and excitedly blew bubbles—Congratulations! The Heavenly Court’s United University of Cultivation takes pride in having Student An Lin as a student!
Chang’e wore a faint smile as she trod over. “As expected, it was the right decision to come over this time. Your tribulation was a splendid spectacle!”
“It was all thanks to the divine pill that you refined for me. Ignoring its other qualities, that divine pill tasted delicious!” An Lin gave Chang’e a thumbs-up.
“Pill Refinement Ancestor, please give me your signature! Please take a photo with me!” Yi Xi opened his arms and leaped toward An Lin in excitement. His expression was as if he wanted to swallow An Lin whole.
An Lin remained silent and replied with a volleyball spike. He swatted Yi Xi aside just like how he usually swatted Xue Zhantian aside.
The teachers, students, and immortals of the Heavenly Court continuously approached An Lin to offer their congratulations.
Sword Immortal Ming Yuan couldn’t help but tremble in excitement as he put his photographic crystal away. “Amazing! The spectacle of An Lin transcending his tribulations is absolutely marvelous!
“When I get back, I’m going to rewatch the recording one hundred times!
“No… One hundred times is not enough. It’s such an amazing tribulation. I’m going to rewatch it ten thousand times!”
Sword Immortal Ming Yuan chortled like a child who had received a rare toy.
The five emperors of the Heavenly Court also went over to congratulate An Lin. They understood An Lin less and less, yet they knew that now was not the time to discuss this. Anyhow, An Lin safely overcoming the heavenly tribulation was something to be happy about.
The peak of Pan Long Mountain became crowded and boisterous.
w.a.n.g Xianyu even suggested holding a school-wide commendation ceremony to commend An Lin’s achievements. An Lin would be the only one to receive commendations, and he would be commended on setting a good example for the Heavenly Court and The United University of Cultivation…
An Lin felt that this was too inconvenient and was just about to turn it down.
However, w.a.n.g Xianyu’s suggestion was well-received by the teachers and students of the university, and it quickly received widespread support… Theoretically speaking, An Lin could still veto this decision. After all, he was the protagonist of the commendation ceremony.
However, Xu Xiaolan was in support of this ceremony, meaning that An Lin’s veto was destined to be ineffective.
“Ah… I clearly just want to be a normal cultivator,” An Lin lamented.
“Big Brother An, you saying this is just like… Sun Wukong saying that he wants to be an honest monkey. It doesn’t have a shred of credibility, woof!” Da Bai looked at the dishonest An Lin in disdain.
An Lin returned to his living quarters after receiving everyone’s congratulations.
He needed to relax a little and make heads or tails of his current state.
…
Within a small house.
A “frying pan hotpot” party was taking place. Xuanyuan Cheng, Tang Ximen, Xu Xiaolan, Luo Ziping, Yao Xiu, along with An Lin’s beast pets and the others all gathered together to celebrate An Lin’s successful breakthrough.
After enjoying a sumptuous meal, An Lin swallowed a Nine Flame True Yang Fruit.
This was a first-rank immortal fruit that Yi Li, the guardian of the Sun Tree, had given him when he was on the top level of the Sun Tree. Its medicinal effects were outstanding, and it contained an extremely pure sun element energy. It could raise the purity of its users’ flame powers significantly, and it could also help its users with the enlightenment of dao as well as help stabilize their cultivation bases.
His powers had grown at an explosive rate recently, and he desperately needed to stabilize his cultivation base. This first-rank immortal fruit was exactly what he needed.
An Lin started meditating after ingesting the Nine Flame True Yang Fruit. Bursts of flame power swam around his body like coiling dragons, and the brilliant light that they emitted lit up his entire room.
“Even the scenes of Big Brother An’s meditation has become this outrageous? Woof!” Da Bai was stunned by the sight before him.
“So impressive… I feel like it’ll be difficult to press him under me now.” Xu Xiaolan rested her cheeks in her hands, and her beautiful eyes swam over An Lin’s body.
“This comment… You’ve sat on top of Big Brother An before? What position was it?” The corners of Da Bai’s mouth curled up as he glanced at Xu Xiaolan. There was a suggestive smile plastered on his face.
Xu Xiaolan: “…
“Da Bai, don’t think that you can act wantonly just because your master is powerful. I might not be able to defeat An Lin, but slaughtering you will be effortless!”
Da Bai felt a deathly chill envelop him. He shuddered and immediately kneeled down and started begging for forgiveness.
Meanwhile, An Lin was completely oblivious to what was happening around him.
His eyes were shut tight, and he was observing the inside of his own body.
Thinking back to the past.
When he was in the Ancient Tai Chu Realm, he had received the body of the War G.o.d after absorbing ten Golden Realm Essence Crystals.
He had achieved initial success in the body of the War G.o.d after absorbing one hundred Golden Realm Essence Crystals.
Now, after a mere two years, his body had already been tempered hundreds upon thousands of times. Not only did he possess various high-rank body-tempering cultivation methods, but he had also ingested numerous high-rank immortal pills, divine pills, and immortal fruits. Moreover, he had experienced countless life-and-death battles during this time. His body of the War G.o.d’s initial success stage had already reached a pinnacle stage.
The only thing that An Lin wasn’t sure of was when he was going to receive a mission for obtaining phenomenal success for the body of the War G.o.d.
Glancing at the system cultivation methods—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, yin, and yang—two of them had already been leveled up to the highest stage. They were the wind element cultivation method and the lightning element cultivation method. Both of them were at stage nine, the stage of the Heavenly G.o.d Authority[1].
When he was at the Soul Formation Stage, he was unable to completely wield the powers of the heavenly G.o.ds.
Now that he had reached the Return to Void Stage, however, he was finally able to use a bigger portion of the heavenly G.o.ds’ powers. It was just that this power would be suppressed greatly if it was used in the Tai Chu Continent. This suppression meant that An Lin would be unable to reach the level of the Heavenly Wind G.o.d and the Heavenly Lightning G.o.d. However, showing off with them was no problem at all.
Indeed, it had appeared mightily impressive when he used the power of the Heavenly Lightning G.o.d to manipulate the Golden Void Lightning. However, it was only because the lightning tribulation was targeting him that the lightning was easy to control. If it had been someone else’s lightning tribulation, he wouldn’t have been able to exert the same level of control. Otherwise, his career as the Lord of Transcendence would definitely be able to expand significantly!
His cultivation methods had also undergone huge breakthroughs. Moreover, he had attained great enlightenment in the spatial dao. Not taking into account other matters, his understanding of the spatial dao was especially impressive. After all, one’s understanding of the spatial dao was directly correlated to the power of their divine sense.
As for the power of his divine sense, it was already on the level of Return to Void Final Stage cultivators when he was still at the Soul Formation Stage. Now that he had broken through to the Return to Void Stage, it was obvious that the power of his divine sense had reached a new height. At the very least, there was definitely no Return to Void Stage cultivator who had a stronger divine sense than him!
With these abilities in mind…
Even An Lin himself was unsure of how powerful he was!
If he launched into action, however, perhaps he would frighten even himself!
[1] Heavenly G.o.d Authority refers to the level whereby one can wield the powers of the heavenly G.o.ds.