After an intense battle, five corpses were lying in the hall.
Tang Jie was still the one standing, though his body bore more wounds and there was fatigue on his face.
But after this tough battle, Tang Jie had gained the pellet of the Goldmane Lion and the Extraviolet Fla of the Violet Fire Salamander.
Tang Jie used the Contrafla Mantra to draw that violet fla into his body.
The Contrafla Mantra was ant for subduing exotic flas, and since it was a spell art, the original body could use it without a problem. It was just that he had lacked an appropriate target, though now he had finally found one in the Violet Fla Salamander.
This sight threw the spectators above into an uproar.
"What… what art is this? It lets him absorb the Extraviolet Fla so that he can use it?" a Great Sun Sect elder shakily said.
The Great Sun Sect was famous for its mastery of Fire spell arts, but despite all their spell arts, they didn't have one like the Contrafla Mantra.
This wasn't strange. The Contrafla Mantra had been Zuo Quanming's most valuable art, and Tang Jie had seen traces of the Dao in it. It had to be the heritage of so Titan of High Antiquity and thus not sothing that ordinary people could possess.
If the Great Sun Sect could get its hands on this kind of secret art, they would be able to feast, for the Fla Yang Domain was brimming with exotic flas.
Even Yuan Tianzhong felt tempted. He wondered if this art worked against all exotic flas or only on low-level exotic flas like the Extraviolet Fla, or if it had any other restrictions.
He instinctively refused to believe that the Contrafla Mantra could subdue most exotic flas, for this was far too unreasonable, as unreasonable as the Weapon Mantra being able to shatter all weapons and forge the Sovereign Blade.
But even being able to absorb low-level exotic flas made it valuable.
After absorbing all the fiend pellets and resting, Tang Jie entered the fire basin.
At the fifth floor was a Primal Astral Burst Pill.
This was also a dicine that could increase one's cultivation, but it was very special, because it was actually a failed dicine.
A pill refiner could fail to create a pill for various reasons, but one type of failure was particularly rare. When the pill refiner was refining the pill, the pill would explode in the furnace, and the dicinal power would scatter and seep into other pills, which would cause them to explode too.
In this process, so of the pills would miraculously survive. These pills were known for containing an entire furnace's worth of dicinal power within a single pill, which made them extrely powerful and violent dicines. If a person who took it failed to digest all the dicinal power in a short period, they would explode. Thus, this pill was called the Primal Astral Burst Pill.
This pill was both a supplent and a poison.
This pill wasn't originally a reward, but an elder of the Great Sun Sect had the idea of offering it to see just how strong Tang Jie's digestive powers were. Thus, he made the decision on his own to switch it in.
Tang Jie was startled when he saw the pill, but then he laughed.
This was exactly what he needed. This Tang Jie was no longer so weak that he couldn't eat too much. He now had a huge appetite, and he would devour anything that was thrown at him.
As he swallowed the Primal Astral Burst Pill, he felt an imnse dicinal power filling his dantian and then surging through his ridians like a hurricane, filling his body in a flash.
More dicinal power was still erupting out of the pill, so if he didn't digest the dicinal power quickly, he would explode and die.
Tang Jie calmly stimulated all of his cells, which began to cry out in hunger, sucking up every bit of dicinal power like parched soil finally receiving rain.
That vast sea of dicinal power seed to be flowing into a limitless void. No matter how much it raged, it would instantly disappear into Tang Jie's body.
At the sa ti, Tang Jie's law cultivation began to rapidly rise.
His starved body cried out in joy, every cell cheering and dancing in celebration, and his cultivation was soaring.
On the thirteenth floor of the Spiral Fla, the Violet Palace Titans could see Tang Jie growing stronger and stronger.
"Middle-phase… He's gotten to middle-phase Spirit Ring. How?" a Great Sun Sect elder said in shock.
Without the help of dicine, it would take several decades to go from early-phase Spirit Ring to middle-phase Spirit Ring. But Tang Jie had needed just one day to reach this threshold, so how could they not be shocked?
But once they considered how much dicine Tang Jie had digested, such progress wasn't strange. It was just that his digestion speed was rather freakish.
This was particularly true with regards to the Primal Astral Burst Pill. Even Violet Palace True Lords were unwilling to use its berserk dicinal power, but this kid had just swallowed it, digested it, and grown stronger.
What sort of freak was this?
Everyone was silent, even Yuan Tianzhong.
Tang Jie seed to realize sothing, and after so thought, he basically guessed at what was going on. Bowing, he looked up at the ceiling and said, "If possible, I would like so more Primal Astral Burst Pills in the later rewards. Tang Jie is willing to guarantee with his life that he will do all he can to strengthen the Fla Yang Formation, working to ensure the survival of humanity."
"If Sir wants them, Sir can have them. It is just that Primal Astral Burst Pills are failed products that are only produced by chance, so we have only three. You have already used one, leaving only two. Let these serve as the rewards for passing the middle four floors and final four floors."
Tang Jie smiled. "You have my utmost gratitude."
He continued forward.
The fiends on the fifth floor consisted of a single middle-grade Transformation fiend and five lower-grade Transformation fiends.
The combined might of these six fiends outmatched the previous groups in both strength and numbers, but Tang Jie recklessly charged in and began to fight them.
It was a most refreshing battle.
Having advanced to the middle phase of Spirit Ring ant that he could use many more of his abilities.
One of these was the Nine Heavens Calamity Blade.
This was one of his self-created spell arts, but his Earth Immortal avatar had little use for it. But for the Celestial Heart original body, it was still an imnsely powerful spell art, though he needed to be at middle-phase Spirit Ring to truly unleash its power.
Tang Jie could finally use it now, and those crescent blades descended from the ceiling. There was nowhere to run in the limited confines of the hall, and as the blades slamd into the Transformation fiends, despite their best efforts and nurous abilities, they were still left covered with wounds, so of the fiends even ending up chopped into pieces.
One snake fiend was particularly unfortunate, its body so long that it was struck by several dozen blades. This large snake that could spit out clouds of poison was sliced into countless pieces before it could even do anything.
There were also fiends that could transform into the wind, rain, or clouds to evade this storm.
But a mont later, Tang Jie spat out a mouthful of Extraviolet Fla, which was the bane of such ethereal beings, and they were soon roasted to death. In a flash, Tang Jie had taken the dominant position.
Alas, he had yet to integrate the Nine Heavens Calamity Blade as he had with the Devil Crushing Fist and the Evil Punishing Seal, so it was purely a spell art. Once he modified it to maximize the abilities of his perfect body, it would be even more powerful such that even when he reached Earth Immortal or True Immortal, it still wouldn't fall behind.
This fight against the fiends was even easier than the last, and as before, he collected the fiend pellets and rested before going to the sixth floor.
There was no Primal Astral Burst Pill on the sixth floor, so Tang Jie asked for so more herbs that could improve cultivation. As for the fiends on this floor, they were still no match for him.
Tang Jie soon reached the seventh, and then the eighth. This was the final trial for the Heart Demon floors. The average Heart Demon cultivator could be proud to get this far and dare to claim that they were unrivaled among their peers. But now, Tang Jie had reached this floor while at Spirit Ring, which left all the bigshots on the thirteenth floor speechless.
However, the eighth floor had five middle-grade Transformation fiends, with two of them being elites, so getting past them wasn't easy.
"Do you think he will pass?" Yuan Tianzhong softly asked.
"If he's not hiding any more of his strength, this trial should be where he finally stops," Chang Xiran said.
It was apparent from the last few battles that Tang Jie had been having a rough ti, and unlike the other challengers, he didn't have any treasures, only fighting with his bare hands.
To get this far like this was a miracle, and Chang Xiran didn't think he had any hidden trump cards.
The white-bearded ng Qihong said, "Since he heard you say that you would give out the last two Primal Astral Burst Pulls at the end of the eighth and twelfth trials and gave no objection, he must be very confident, so the eighth floor shouldn't pose any problem to him."
The two elders had given two completely different opinions, which drew other objections and agreents. The majority favored Chang Xiran's view, believing that Tang Jie couldn't overco this trial, since he had already been showing difficulty. As for the confidence to pass the last four trials, that could only be understood as the brashness of youth. Wu Xiuqian was even ready to go to his rescue.
Fairy Hong Luan supported ng Qihong, not because she believed in him or in Tang Jie, but simply because she liked to be on the opposite side to Chang Xiran.
The fact that almost everyone thought that Tang Jie would lose irked her, and she suddenly took out a crimson lotus and said, "Since you say that Tang Jie will lose, why not have a wager?"
Chang Xiran's eyes widened at the sight of the crimson lotus. "A Flowfire Lotus! Old granny, you're actually willing to gamble with that? Haha, fine, fine, I'll take that wager."
He took out a black tal pellet.
The other cultivators whispered, "The Windchase Sword Pellet! That's a treasure he's refined over many years! I can't believe he's willing to gamble with it!"
"Nonsense! Nothing else can match the Flowfire Lotus."
Chang Xiran loudly said, "I will gamble with you using this. I don't believe that this kid has anything else to show."
As Chang Xiran spoke, Tang Jie, who had been gradually losing ground against the fiends, suddenly bellowed and unleashed a punch.
The heaven-shaking might of this punch made Chang Xiran shriek:
"A body cultivator! He's a goddamn body cultivator!!!"
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