Chapter 85: Pure Yang Realm, Initial Fourth-Tier Combat Strength
In the end, Wu Tong successfully fused all the energy within his body into a golden-red core. The violent energy completely stabilized, transforming into a solid crystalline core that sat steadily within his dantian.
Looking closely, one could see this was no ordinary core, but a polyhedral crystal with precisely one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred faces—corresponding to the number of unity—radiating an air of profound mystery.
As for why it was called a core, it was simply because the crystal's many faces were so numerous that, at a glance, it appeared to be a perfect sphere.
"It's done. Step two."
Seeing the crystalline core fully condensed and stabilized, the cautious Wu Tong finally relaxed, wiping the nervous sweat from his forehead.
Even though he knew that with the aid of the intelligent brain, his absolute control over energy made failure almost impossible, compressing such an immense amount of energy into a complete crystalline core still left him uneasy.
After all, one mistake could cause the violent energy to rupture his dantian.
With the condensation of the crystalline core complete, there was no longer any fear of energy rampaging. The energy was now fully compressed and stable.
Thus came the third and final step—transportation—which would be far easier.
After a brief rest, Wu Tong once again began circulating the Pure Yang Realm cultivation method. The core was instantly drawn along, traveling through his meridians until it reached an acupoint, where it settled and began to float and sink in place.
Step three—complete.
Pure Yang Realm—entry achieved.
With everything settled, Wu Tong relaxed. The next phase of cultivation would once again be an accumulation process, something the intelligent brain could manage on its own.
He felt the surging, violent power within his body and the vast, majestic life force after this leap in life's evolution.
Wu Tong was extremely satisfied. According to the intelligent brain's calculations, upon entering the Pure Yang Realm, one's lifespan was three thousand years, and at the peak of Pure Yang, up to fifty thousand years.
But Wu Tong did not care for lifespan. After all, he was only twelve.
And if he wished, with his current strength, he could immediately condense a divine position and become a god of the Douluo system, attaining limitless life.
However, Wu Tong was not so short-sighted as to bind himself permanently to the Douluo World merely for longevity, becoming subject to its will.
If he were to become a god, it should be like the legendary ancient deities—free to roam the heavens and earth, unrivaled and unrestrained.
What mattered to Wu Tong was that after breaking through to the Pure Yang Realm, he now possessed the destructive power to annihilate a nation single-handedly, to move mountains and fill seas, to shatter mountains and split the earth.
Upon entering the Pure Yang Realm, his combat strength—according to the chat group's scale—had reached the nation-destroying level, early Fourth Tier.
Compared to the peak of the Lesser Yang Realm in the Third Tier, where he could only destroy a nation with his full power, Wu Tong at early Fourth Tier could now annihilate a country with ease.
And this gap was not as exaggerated as it seemed.
According to the complete Akabane Heart Sutra set by the intelligent brain, the Lesser Yang Realm required filling seven hundred twenty acupoints with energy to advance to the Pure Yang Realm.
Through the intelligent brain's analysis and comparison, measuring the maximum amount of true qi a single acupoint could hold against the strongest experts Wu Tong had encountered,
he had successfully quantified the energy needed to fill one acupoint with Lesser Yang true qi.
At minimum, it would take a genius of Old Heavenly Master's caliber, cultivating without rest for a full year, to fill just one acupoint with true qi.
Even if each acupoint could hold only a year's worth of true qi, seven hundred and twenty acupoints would still amount to seven hundred and twenty years of cultivation—a quantity that would be considered formidable in many high-martial worlds.
And Wu Tong's acupoints did not hold ordinary human-level true qi, but rather the level a genius like the Old Heavenly Master could cultivate in a year.
The true qi gathered in one year by such a genius was at least equal to that of an ordinary person cultivating for ten years.
By that calculation, Wu Tong had accumulated the equivalent of seven thousand two hundred years of true qi within his body.
To put it in perspective—the legendary Xiao Sanxiao from the Fengyun world, who lived for four thousand years and was unmatched in the martial world, had about this much.
Wu Tong's true qi was roughly double his.
One could imagine how terrifying such power would be when concentrated in a single person.
And this was still the Lesser Yang true qi, before breaking through.
After breaking through, by compressing this seven thousand two hundred years' worth of true qi to the utmost, it became a bead-sized Pure Yang true qi.
This was not just compression; it was a qualitative transformation, like using a hydraulic press to turn loose earth into bricks as hard as stone.
Though the quantity diminished after compression, its actual power had increased by several thousandfold.
The difference was like that between inner strength and true qi—utterly incomparable.
Because of this, upon entering the Pure Yang Realm, Wu Tong's combat strength had leapt forward.
"Still, I'm glad I wasn't the one cultivating this from scratch. Even with the Infinite Return to Source as an auxiliary method, I doubt I could have persisted until success."
Wu Tong sighed at the terrifying amount of true qi needed to break through from the Solar Realm to the Pure Yang Realm.
Seven hundred and twenty acupoints, ten years of true qi per acupoint—seven thousand two hundred years' worth of true qi in total—yet all of that, once compressed, only filled a single acupoint.
This meant that within the Pure Yang Realm, just one acupoint required seven thousand two hundred years of true qi. To fill the remaining seven hundred and nineteen acupoints would take at least five million one hundred seventy-six thousand eight hundred years of true qi.
Thinking of nearly five million two hundred thousand years' worth of cultivation, even Wu Tong felt dazed.
"Fortunately, I have my cheat. I don't need to accumulate it all myself—just push hard when making a major breakthrough."
"Speaking of which, the Infinite Return to Source method I created back then to rapidly accumulate true qi really is useful. Without it, I'd have been stuck bitterly cultivating the hard way."
Wu Tong felt a flash of pride at his past ingenuity.
Calming himself from the elation of the breakthrough, he began considering his next move.
"Since I've already broken through, with my current strength I'm more than capable of making a trip to the Honkai World. Even if I can't defeat Kevin, with my hidden means I can still contend with him."
Although Wu Tong currently had only nation-destroying combat power, if he unleashed all his methods, he could achieve destruction on a planetary scale.
After all, according to the intelligent brain's projections, the large-scale weapon he designed—integrating stellar drive technology, nuclear weaponry, and soul tool science—had the potential to destroy an entire star system.
Due to material and industrial limitations, Wu Tong could not create the complete version yet.
He had only produced a few weakened, incomplete models, but even these were powerful enough to scour the entire planetary surface and restart its ecosystem.
Wu Tong named this weapon the Peacemaker.
With the Peacemaker in hand, Wu Tong no longer needed to fear the Old Ancestor Kevin—after all, their destructive capabilities could now be considered evenly matched.
Having sufficient power naturally gave Wu Tong sufficient confidence.
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(End of Chapter)
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