Unrivaled Martial Emperor-Chapter 1549 - Breakthrough, Third-Level Immortal Platform Realm

“Hoo, hoo!” Chen Fan panted heavily for air like he was about to suffocate.

Watching Shan Qiu explode with a single stomp, mind and soul utterly destroyed, Chen Fan finally exhaled a sigh of relief. What a battle it had been; unusually challenging and fraught with danger!

Had Shan Qiu sneak-attacked Chen Fan, even in the best-case scenario, Chen Fan would have been left severely injured.

Fortunately, Shan Qiu was too arrogant and revealed himself, allowing Chen Fan to borrow the power of the Nine Immortals Bell and execute the Sacred Spirit Sword Art to heavily injure him before crushing him to death with a stomp.

Though simple sounding, it was an ordeal. This battle had basically depleted all of the law power inside Chen Fan.

Chen Fan seized Shan Qiu’s storage ring through space and checked its contents. He mumbled, “What a pauper. He only has fifty thousand immortal stones here. Haaa, whatever, I only spent ten thousand immortal stones this time, so I still ended up earning a small profit of forty thousand.”

Aside from the immortal stones, there were also two low-grade immortal artifacts. The other items were not useful for Chen Fan.

“I should collect the Purple Underworld Ghostfire Lotus. That earlier commotion will have drawn plenty of attention. Trouble might be coming, be it people or sea demon beasts!”

Chen Fan didn’t have time to recover his law power, so he immediately got moving.

The Chaotic Demon Sea was fraught with danger. He could unleash strength comparable to someone at the fourth or fifth level despite being a second-level Immortal Platform realm expert, but that still wasn’t enough within the Chaotic Demon Sea. He had to exercise caution.

Fortunately, he could advance to the third level after consuming the Purple Underworld Ghostfire Lotus. With such strength, he could defeat someone like Shan Qiu without even borrowing the power of the Nine Immortals Bell, barely enough to save his hide.

In the Chaotic Demon Sea, strength was everything.

Only when he was strong enough would his safety be guaranteed.

After collecting the Purple Underworld Ghostfire Lotus, Chen Fan didn’t leave the deep-sea trench immediately. Instead, he sped along the trench.

After traveling several tens of thousands of kilometers, Chen Fan arrived at another trench and set up layers of formations, cutting himself off from the outside world, and went into isolated cultivation.

He planned to use the lotus to advance to the third level now. That could keep him safe, even before young master-level figures like Shark Crown Prince, and help him avoid getting into troublesome situations.

He had thoroughly offended Shark Crown Prince at the Sunny Day Chamber of Commerce’s auction. By now, Shark Crown Prince must have sent out a large number of people to search for his whereabouts.

If Chen Fan were not strong enough and they found him, his trump cards would become useless.

After all, Shark Crown Prince was a pride of heaven of the deep-sea giant shark tribe, with distinguished status. While Shan Qiu didn’t even have a mid-grade immortal artifact, Shark Crown Prince was bound to have numerous life-saving treasures.

Chen Fan wasn’t naïve enough to think that he could contend against Shark Crown Prince by relying on a treasure like the Nine Immortals Bell.

He could still hold his ground against an ordinary sixth-level Immortal Platform realm expert without any background, but he wouldn’t be a match for the Shark Crown Prince.

Moreover, both Chen Fan and Shark Crown Prince had their eyes on the herbal garden island. So, they were bound to collide unless Chen Fan planned to quietly and quickly leave the Chaotic Demon Sea.

Settling cross-legged in a hidden underwater cavern, Chen Fan used his power to force out the seawater, forming a vacuum barrier; he looked every bit the lone god of his tiny universe. After investing a thousand immortal stones to restore his law power, he quickly returned to peak condition; now, breaking through would be just a bit easier.

Soon, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the Chaotic Demon Sea, news of the herbal garden island’s emergence drove countless people into action. People who had obtained a key, like Shark Crown Prince or Young Master Hai Long, all led large numbers of troops and rushed over to the island.

Others who had keys raced over as well; soon enough, the entire sea surged with determined cultivators, all flowing in the same direction. What a lively spectacle!

Meanwhile, Chen Fan sought peace in silence, tuning out the world, focused solely on achieving the breakthrough to the third-level Immortal Platform realm.

Over the past three days, not only did Chen Fan’s law power fully recover, but he had also sharpened his mind and spirit, preparing himself for what was to come.

Chen Fan stuffed the Purple Underworld Ghostfire Lotus into his mouth and immediately began refining its energy like the Heaven and Earth Furnace, purifying it and turning it into the purest energy.

The surge of energy flooded his being. It was so vast it rivaled the output of a hundred thousand burning immortal stones. Like a tidal wave, it threatened to burst free; Chen Fan concentrated, guiding the torrent through his body again and again, sending it coursing into his dantian and transforming it into pure law power. His aura expanded, swelling at an astonishing rate.

Chen Fan’s accumulation was profound. He could have pushed to the third-level Immortal Platform realm long ago, but he chose to delay things in order to conserve his immortal stones.

The Purple Underworld Ghostfire Lotus’s vast energy became the last straw that broke the camel’s back. In an instant, the barrier to the next cultivation level collapsed as if it never existed at all.

Boom, boom!

Chen Fan’s law power boiled over and rampaged, manifesting a wide range of phenomena. Brilliant light radiated in all directions; now, alongside the two halos already present behind his head, a third blazed into existence.

As the Purple Underworld Ghostfire Lotus was refined, Chen Fan’s cultivation level directly broke through the cultivation level barrier unstoppably, reaching the third-level Immortal Platform realm in a flash.

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And yet, as time spun forward, the Chaotic Demon Sea remained unchanged; chaos reigned, and the endless darkness still whispered despair. Half a month passed in a blink.

News of the herbal garden island had spread throughout the entire Chaotic Demon Sea. No one remained unaware of it. Whether they possessed a key or not, eager cultivators stormed toward its rumored location.

The most prominent figures among them were naturally people like Shark Crown Prince, Young Master Hai Long, or Qi Dong.

As the successors nurtured by the king-level forces in these seas, no matter if it was their strength or their status, far surpassed that of the common crowd.

This time, to seize even greater benefits from the herbal garden island, each of them brought many elites, forming a majestic scene. Their auras were all very powerful. The weakest among them were in the fourth-level Immortal Platform realm.

Shark Crown Prince, Young Master Hai Long, and the others arrived at the location of the herbal garden island and didn’t waste any time.

They possessed a key, so they directly activated the formation within it and brought their men to the herbal garden island.

Of course, Shark Crown Prince had left a fraction of his men outside the herbal garden island specifically to wait for Chen Fan to appear and take him down at lightning speed. He would absolutely not let Chen Fan off.