I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Making a breakthrough together?

What does that mean?

Han Zhan’s words left Li Wu puzzled.

However, Han Zhan didn’t plan to provide any further explanation.

"Let’s go. Or do you want to stay here and be continuously polluted?"

The five Great Ruins within him continuously exhaled and inhaled spiritual energy, and the previously consumed Spiritual Power was replenished at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After speaking, the light bricks under Han Zhan’s feet protruded forward, quickly laying out a path across the Blood Sea beneath their feet.

"Alright."

Li Wu nodded and quickly followed behind Han Zhan.

Li Lingzhen and Li Heng also had no objections.

The group sped up their pace, quickly arriving at the area where the trait material was nurtured.

This area was now completely enveloped in golden light.

A giant golden sun hung high in the sky, radiating brilliance. In Han Zhan’s "vision," the number of golden particles here far exceeded those in the previous five regions; they were everywhere, densely filling the sky.

Han Zhan had a strong premonition.

If he could absorb all these golden particles, the Bodhi Treasure Tree would surely bring him an unexpected surprise.

Thinking of this, his heart surged with excitement.

Li Wu felt just as excited as Han Zhan.

He looked up at the giant golden sun and swallowed hard, trying to suppress his emotions.

"Go ahead."

Han Zhan stopped in front and said.

Even though Li Wu had mentally prepared himself, hearing Han Zhan speak these words left him with mixed feelings.

"You really don’t..."

"There’s no need." Han Zhan interrupted Li Wu, "You know who I am, and trait material means nothing to me."

"Besides, without you, I wouldn’t have been able to enter the Blood Pool. Being able to enter the Blood Pool is already the best reward for me."

Han Zhan’s words left Li Wu feeling bewildered.

How could entering the Blood Pool be the best reward?

Unable to figure it out, Li Wu decided not to think about it. He nodded towards Han Zhan before stepping forward.

Li Heng, feeling tempted, ultimately abandoned the thought of attacking and seizing the trait material, with both Han Zhan and Li Lingzhen flanking him.

Li Wu slowly approached the trait material resembling a golden sun.

This was his first encounter with a trait material.

According to the High Priest’s description, the trait material could help him break through and reach Tier Eight!

The trait material, symbolizing the golden sun, wasn’t as scorching as the sun itself; instead, the golden light carried a faint chill.

As Li Wu touched its outline, a black line appeared on the white Blood Embryo at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It spread out instantly, like a drop of ink in a clear pool of water.

Unaware, Li Wu raised his head, and when he clearly saw the scene within the golden light, his pupils dilated abruptly.

"That’s—"

An eyeball!

Encased in the golden light was a bald, black-and-white eyeball!

As Li Wu identified the eyeball, countless writhing black lines began to grow crazily on him, enveloping him into a shadowy figure like writhing worms.

Strange whispers sounded in his ears, constantly polluting Li Wu.

This process didn’t last long.

In just the blink of an eye, it seemed as if Li Wu had endured a barrage of time.

When his surroundings fell silent and he opened his eyes again, those eerie and mad symbols had all vanished.

Only various paths remained, leading in different directions, representing different futures.

Li Wu’s thoughts were unprecedentedly clear; he needed only to glance at the various paths to see the outcome at their ends.

Was this the breakthrough opportunity the High Priest mentioned?

In Li Wu’s vision,

he saw at the end of one path, a gray-white tornado spinning furiously, destroying everything.

Switching paths, he saw a blue-purple ball of lightning.

Additionally, a terrifying three-headed, eight-armed Demon God exuded a mist of dark energy...

The enormous influx of information filled Li Wu’s mind, almost threatening to burst his entire consciousness!

...

"It’s already been five minutes."

"When Kuafu fused the trait material, it took him less than three seconds, yet here Li Wu has been merging with the trait material for five minutes and still hasn’t awakened."

Watching the closed-eyed Li Wu, Han Zhan commented.

"It might relate to the Realm, and also to the size of the trait material being fused."

Kuafu’s Realm was undoubtedly higher than Li Wu’s, and the size of the trait material being fused now was at least ten times larger than what Kuafu had merged.

But what truly worried Han Zhan was not these facts.

Observing the Blood Embryo that had turned completely gray, this was Han Zhan’s main concern.

Pollution, and a substantial amount of it indeed.

The size of the trait material also indicated the level of pollution; Li Wu’s Blood Embryo color change was clear proof.

While they continued discussing this, a change suddenly occurred in Li Wu, who was seated on the ground.

His aura began to ascend rapidly.

The aura at his previous Tier Seven Peak seemed to break through a bottleneck, crossing a chasm and leapfrogging into Tier Eight!

But that wasn’t all.

Li Wu transformed into a three-zhang Giant, visibly expanding, and in no time, he became ten times larger than before, reaching a full thirty zhang in height!

Han Zhan had felt a similar aura from Kuafu as well.

Kuafu...Kuafu?

A sudden flash of insight crossed Han Zhan’s mind, as if grasping something, at this moment, Li Wu opened his eyes too.

"I succeeded."

Li Wu exhaled turbid air, joy and excitement evident in his voice.

"You chose the path Kuafu walked before?" Han Zhan asked directly.

Li Wu was momentarily startled.

"You actually know?"

Li Wu, after speaking, shook his head, "I don’t even know if the path I chose was the one Kuafu walked; I just felt it was the right path for me."

Li Wu then recounted to Han Zhan what he saw during the fusion with the trait material.

A hurricane—is it symbolic of Feng Bo?

The ball lightning—could it symbolize the Thunder God and Lightning Goddess?

The three-headed, eight-armed Demon God, and other symbols all have historical mythological references.

Could choosing different paths represent the type of Great Power one could become in the future?

These were merely Han Zhan’s conjectures, but at the moment, these speculations didn’t matter.

What mattered was that Li Wu had successfully made a breakthrough to become a Tier Eight Great Power!

And more importantly, after the trait material’s fusion, the lingering golden particles scattered across the sky further increased!