Chapter 340.

Before talking about the Heaven Ascension Realm, one had to talk about the Absolute Enlightenment Realm before the Heaven Ascension Realm.

The so-called Absolute Enlightenment Realm was the complete fusion of the divine soul and air.

When all the divine souls and air were fused to the point where they were indistinguishable from each other, that was the peak of the Absolute Enlightenment Realm.

At the peak of the so-called Absolute Enlightenment Realm, at that point, not only does the strike carry the damage of the air, but also the damage of the divine soul, which is what makes the Absolute Enlightenment Realm even more powerful than the All Saints Realm.

The Ascension Realm above the Absolute Enlightenment Realm also worked on both, but it was even more profound than fusion.

The Absolute Enlightenment Realm was always internal, he would fit the divine soul fusion internally, while the Ascension Realm emphasized the external.

The so-called Ascension to Heaven was to connect the divine soul with the air and the outside world, building a bridge to the top.

And this bridge leading directly to the top was a process of ascending to the heavens.

At this point in time, it was actually quite dangerous, because by connecting the Divine Soul and Air to the outside world, a slight mishap could cause serious harm to oneself.

This was because the outside world was always less pure than the inside, and after causing damage, it would take an extremely long time to recuperate.

This was also the reason why there were very few Peak Ascension Realms.

Because sometimes, when damage was inflicted, not only did it take time, but there could even be irreversible dangers.

That was why the process of going from the Absolute Enlightenment Realm to the Ascension Realm was quite tedious and complicated, and could even endanger one’s life in a terrifying realm.

Of course, Zhou An only had a general understanding, in fact, for him, this so-called Ascension Realm did not have the slightest amount of pressure.

In the eyes of normal people, an extremely dangerous process, in front of Zhou An, it would just require liver proficiency.

So Zhou An didn’t take it seriously after understanding it roughly.

“Should I continue to liver the original skill now, or replace it with a new one?” Zhou An pondered slightly and fell into a choice.

There were two paths before him.

Either he would upgrade the Armor Breaking Zhenxian Blade or the Heaven and Earth in the Pot, after all, these two skills were skills that could be upgraded to the next tier of Prime Change as a priority for Zhou An.

After upgrading to Prime Transformation, he would also be able to obtain a more powerful attack ability as a result.

There was another option, which was to liver the other proficiencies, prioritize the other proficiencies, and then raise them evenly.

Two paths lay before Zhou An, but after careful thought, Zhou An chose the first path.

He was now in possession of the full version of Stored Proficiencies while each Stored Proficiency could raise a skill by one level.

He could wait until the stored proficiency was full while he was livering the Armor Breaking Zhen Evil Blade, and then let a level 12 skill be raised to level 13.

After the Armor Breaking Evil Blade was qualitatively transformed, he would immediately let the Heaven and Earth in the Pot undergo a qualitative transformation.

Only after the qualitative change would the skill be more powerful, and it would usher in a doubling of attributes, which was better than an average boost, and would also be able to bring about more powerful attributes.

And all it cost was just a little bit more proficiency.

For Zhou An, this was also more cost-effective, not to mention that after the skill was improved, it seemed that he could also rely on the Black Jade for the next upgrade.

Thinking about this, Zhou An decided to give it a try, swinging the long black blade in his hand and chopping at the black jade.

In an instant, it chopped the black jade into a cloud of smoke.

After the black jade turned into smoke and then changed back to its original form, his Armor Breaking Evil Suppressor Blade, had improved its proficiency some more.

“It’s right as I suspected, I’m really able to continue using the black jade to liver proficiency.”

Zhou An put away his long black blade, looked at the sky which was already gradually brightening, and decided to take a little rest.

During this recent period of time, he had really stayed away from the front door, livering his proficiency to the point of insanity.

Zhou An didn’t feel anything, but Black Jade was really bored enough.

Although during this period of time, Black Jade had also improved the fusion of some of the Eight Absolute Techniques, and his strength had already reached the peak of the Absolute Enlightenment Realm, and was only one step away from being able to reach the Ascension Realm.

But no matter what, it was time to take Black Jade out to have some fun at this time.

Thinking of this, Zhou An stood up.

He had only just stood up, and before he could take two steps, the bored Black Jade on the side immediately had her eyes light up, transformed into a residual shadow, and came to his side, pulling his arm.

Those eyes Brin Brin shone brightly, as if they were two stars full of anticipation.

“Go out and play.”

Black Jade just said these three words, but the sultriness in her tone could be felt even from dozens of meters away.

Zhou An of course knew that Black Jade had been locked up a bit severely autistic during this period of time, so he touched Black Jade’s head, and snapped his fingers amidst Black Jade’s gaze of enjoyment.

“Going out to play today.”

“Yeah!”

Black Jade cheered, grabbing Zhou An’s arm for a while and shaking it, under Zhou An’s leadership, the two of them soon went out the door.

Now, he was in the land of the former Barbarian Kingdom, which was now a place that had long since been pretty much improved.

Although it was still located in a barren area, due to the meddling of the Great Chu Kingdom and the Great Yue Kingdom, the various orders here were countless times better than when the Barbarian Kingdom ruled.

After the two of them wandered around for a while, they also ate quite a lot of things and took in some of the desolate beauty, and then prepared to go back.

After coming out for a day’s stroll today, Black Jade also seemed to be in a much better mood, walking with the wind in her hair.

Zhou An walked while flirting with Black Jade, causing Black Jade to laugh out loud after a bout of impotent rage.

The two were getting closer and closer to the place where they were staying.

But just as they were about to arrive, there was a middle-aged eunuch that was waiting at the door.

The middle-aged eunuch was Eunuch Wei’s beloved henchman, also in the eunuch’s line of work, and now that he had been waiting at the door for a long time, he did not dare to go in.

He knew that Zhou An was not inside, but he had important matters to attend to and did not dare to leave, so he just kept waiting.

After waiting for Zhou An to come over, the middle-aged eunuch’s eyes then lit up, walked up with small broken steps and whispered in a sharp tone.

“My subordinate has met Lord Zhou.”

Zhou An was filled with wonder, “I wonder what this eunuch came over for, is it that Eunuch Wei has something to say to me?”

During this period of time, he had also told Eunuch Wei and the others that he was going to be in seclusion for a period of time, and indeed, no one had come to disturb him.

It was just that from time to time, some of the latest developments in the Jianghu would be passed to him here.

The matter about his aunt was also known because of this.

Now, with a middle-aged eunuch suddenly coming, Zhou An felt that there must be something going on here.

The middle-aged eunuch tucked his hands in his sleeves, a look that resembled Eunuch Wei.

After all, within this group of eunuchs, the one they admired the most was Eunuch Wei.

Sometimes, when a person is too close to the object of his admiration, he will also follow suit and learn something.

Zhou An had long since seen this.

Let’s say Black Jade, now he had completely given up on the intention of making Black Jade turn back to normal.

Because every now and then, a classic line that he knew from Zhou An would pop up, and there were a lot of tiger and wolf words.

It was impossible to break it back, so just go with the flow.

Anyway, the black jade would only be slightly abnormal if it was in his own place.

The middle-aged eunuch nodded, then pulled out a secret letter from his sleeve and handed it to Zhou An: “This is a letter from the side of the Great Chu Kingdom, it was handed over by His Majesty himself to Eunuch Wei, who in turn forwarded it to Lord Zhou, and my subordinate doesn’t know exactly what important information is there.”

“This secret letter, it seems that only Lord Zhou can see it.”

Zhou An looked up and down and realized that it had the words ‘personally opened by Zhou An’ on it.

And these four words happened to be Emperor Xingwu’s handwriting, and at a glance, he was able to feel the strong royal hegemony on it.

He nodded, indicating that he knew, and did not open the letter in front of the eunuch.

As a matter of fact, at his current level of strength, there were things that once made, he still had to consider the feelings around him.

Let’s say he is now, dismantling this secret letter on the spot, the middle-aged eunuch is linked to this letter, once there is any problem, the middle-aged eunuch is the first to suffer, while Zhou An is fine instead.

This kind of unintentional action might get a person killed as a result, so being in Zhou An’s position today, he also paid attention in this regard.

The middle-aged eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, he was also genuinely worried that Zhou An would immediately open the letter in front of himself.

It was good that Zhou An did not do so.

“Then I won’t bother Lord Zhou, Lord Zhou, take your time to read the letter, I’ll take my leave.”

The middle-aged eunuch bent his waist and arched his hand, then as fast as he could, he left the alley.

He didn’t dare to stay ah, nowadays, the rivers and lakes are abuzz with rumors, even if Zhou An is a person from the Great Chu Kingdom, but nowadays, Zhou An’s status is unimaginable, after getting offended somewhere, even Eunuch Wei won’t be able to protect him.

Zhou An looked at the middle-aged eunuch’s figure leaving in a sorry state, and couldn’t help but shake his head, lamenting, “Sometimes, status really does create a sense of disconnection.”

Black Jade looked at Zhou An in a confused manner, then said with a tone that mimicked Zhou An’s tone, muttering, “Pretentious.”

When these two words were spoken, Zhou An was filled with helplessness and rubbed Black Jade’s head vigorously.

Under Black Jade’s grumbling gaze, he rubbed the black hair that shone like black jade into a messy bird’s nest.

Black Jade continuously shook, with a look of love and hate, and endured a strong reluctance, pulling Zhou An’s hand away before carefully organizing her hair.

Zhou An did not say anything, pulling Black Jade, and walked into the house.

After returning to the house, he opened the letter and carefully read the contents on it.

When Zhou An read all of the contents on it, his brows tightened.

“Finally woke up.”

What was written on this letter was very simple, and it was a total of two things.

One, it was that the fellow who had fallen from the otherworld into this world with his divine soul locked up had finally returned to normal after being treated by the Divine Lady.

The second was that Zhou An was told to hurry back to the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom, saying that he had something important to discuss.

Zhou An did not know exactly what it was, but it was clear that these two things should be connected.

“It seems that there is something to be busy with again.”

Zhou An placed the letter back on the table, then gently tapped the envelope and the letter turned into ashes, “Let’s go, let’s go back and take a look.”

Although Black Jade didn’t know what was going on, the moment she heard the word go back, her eyes immediately lit up.

This meant that they wouldn’t stay in this room for long, but could go out and walk around more.

Zhou An had always been a man of thunder and lightning, so he took Black Jade out the door and headed to the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce.

But just halfway there, Zhou An felt that there was no need for this.

With the strength he had now, casually flying around in the sky, no one would dare to stop him.

Moreover, if he arrived at the Da Chu Kingdom a little earlier, he would also be able to finish the matter over there a little earlier and continue to go to Liver Proficiency.

Thinking about this, Zhou An reversed his route, found Eunuch Wei, and after explaining the reason to Eunuch Wei, he left this desolate place and came to a deserted area.

Looking at the surrounding no one, Zhou An took Black Jade with him, and then performed the Demon Shadow Ten Thousand, transforming into a terrifying demonic shadow, ascending into the sky, and soon disappeared at the end of this sky.

In the Jianghu, there was gradually another legend.

There was no other reason, because that master who had been living in deep simplicity had suddenly reappeared at this time.

This was still because one day, a top power was suddenly swept by a terrifying demonic shadow.

At that time, the master of this power was still full of anger as he walked out.

This was because it was extremely impolite behavior when flying past the entrance of someone else’s power.

However, after the master of this power saw clearly who it was that flew past, his entire person was like a log struck by lightning, standing in place without moving.

After a long time, the master of this power, only fearfully returned to his own house.

After that, the entire jianghu began to mess up again, after all, this one against the odds on the master, that is the existence of a thunderclap.

Every power was worried if they had messed with Zhou An, and that Zhou An was trying to exterminate them by rushing around so aggressively.

And so in the midst of this fearfulness, Zhou An was getting closer and closer to the Great Chu Kingdom.

For experts like them who were able to fly, distance was no longer a problem nowadays, even if they were rushing with all their might, the rawness of the air and the divine soul after they had fused together was able to make up for the loss while rushing without any hindrance.

Therefore, from Eunuch Wei’s side, to the imperial palace of the Great Chu Kingdom, under the Zhou Safety Speed Rush, in fact, did not have much time.

The only bad thing is that Black Jade has become lazier and lazier, and is no longer satisfied with being pulled by Zhou An, even letting Zhou An carry her on his back.

Zhou An also spoiled Black Jade, so every day, he changed his method of carrying Black Jade.

Let’s say today, Black Jade hugged Zhou An from the front, placed her head on Zhou An’s shoulder, raised her hands high and danced like seaweed, and made a kind of oh-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

This time, Zhou An felt it was very noisy, but there was nothing he could do about it.

As he watched, he was already approaching the imperial palace of the Great Chu Kingdom, and Zhou An also passed by Huaixi Capital, but he didn’t go down there.

After all, during this time of flying, Zhou An was clear that he had caused the fear of many forces, and this trip down, might even cause some changes.

So returning to the capital of the Great Chu Kingdom earlier would also allow those forces that were frightened to put their hearts at ease.

Before long, Zhou An arrived at the capital of the Great Chu Kingdom.

Here, instead of continuing to fly, he found a hidden place, landed, and took a big step towards the Imperial Palace.

Along the way, without any obstacles, after smoothly entering the palace, Zhou An was familiar with the way, and arrived at Emperor Xingwu’s imperial study, raising his hand and knocking on the door.

Not long after, the door to the imperial study opened, and Emperor Xingwu was sitting inside making tea.

Zhou An walked in, looked up and down, and smiled, “Your Majesty, you’ve gotten stronger again.”

In the line of work of an emperor, the more control you have, the stronger you will become.

After the battle between the Great Qi Kingdom and the Barbarian Kingdom, both Emperor Xingwu and Emperor Yunqi had more forces under their control, and accordingly became stronger and stronger.

At this moment, in front of Zhou An’s eyes, Emperor Xingwu had an unfathomable aura about him.

It was even more powerful than Eunuch Wei.

Emperor Xingwu raised his head and glanced at Zhou An, then continued to make tea.

Zhou An did not nag, turned around and closed the door behind him, and was very self-conscious as he came to the table in the imperial study.

Emperor Xingwu handed the brewed tea cup to Zhou An: ”I called you over this time, did I disturb you? I heard Eunuch Wei say that you seem to be in seclusion.”

Zhou An took the teacup and took a sip, “Rather, I have not been disturbed, after all, I am more interested in that person who has come to his senses.”

With that, Zhou An found a seat and sat down.

He was actually quite interested in this sober person right now, in addition to his liver proficiency.

After all, coming from an alien world, and Zhou An knew that his ultimate enemy was the creepy one who had the same ability as himself.

Perhaps in some world’s contamination, that Creepy had also wreaked havoc.

So it would be beneficial for Zhou An to learn more information about it.

As Zhou An finished speaking these words, Emperor Xingwu however fell into deep thought.

Seeing this scene, Zhou An frowned slightly, “Your Majesty, is it hard to believe that something has happened?”

Emperor Xingwu sighed, “On your way over, that person died.”

“Died?”

Zhou An’s frown deepened.

He put the teacup in his hand down, “Why did he die?”

Emperor Xingwu said, “The Divine Woman’s ability is to take that person’s divine soul and ferry it to her own body, then borrow the Divine Woman’s body to free that person’s divine soul.”

“In the end, after Divine Grandmother freed his divine soul, we asked what we wanted to ask, and then in the process of putting the divine soul back, the fear that his body endured caused the divine soul to be completely annihilated, and then he died.”

“How much fear?”

Zhou An gently tapped on the desktop, “Even after being cleansed by the Divine Mother, he was still scared to death alive.”

Emperor Xingwu sat up slightly straighter, “A world full of sores, a world full of terror, he had witnessed the demise and destruction of the entire world with his own eyes, and had seen countless strangenesses sweeping through the sky.”

“Then, when he was most helpless, a group of people appeared.”

“He originally thought that kindred spirits would help each other, but he watched as this group of people, using him as a fish bait, went out to trap the bizarre for fun, and said that their world was beyond redemption and could only be reduced to a paradise for the bizarre.”

“Saying that even they, the predators, didn’t care to plunder.”

“Endlessly tortured, both physically and mentally, he suffered all kinds of blows.”

“Time and time again, he was thrown out, facing shenanigans like fish bait, and time and time again, he was rescued by this group of people, and under those circumstances, he went mad.”

Zhou An fell into a long silence when he heard this.

He had once thought that the group of Marauders was an existence that took pleasure in killing and took pride in taking over other worlds.

However, it had never occurred to him that they would also engage in such atrocious behavior.

Seeing Zhou An’s silence, Emperor Xingwu continued, “I was tingling after hearing it at first.”

“People under this sky, if they have no conscience, then they cannot be called human beings.”

“This group of so-called marauders can only be considered an animal at most, even if it’s a fierce beast, it still won’t do things like killing each other, but they did.”

“This person could have lived, at that time, I could have found a way to wash away all the wounds on his mind, but he didn’t want to live, he was the one who told me to let me place his divine soul in his original body, so that he could die.”

“And then bury him in a place with beautiful mountains and water.”

While speaking, Emperor Xingwu raised his hand and pointed it into midair.

Subsequently, a mirror like water appeared in mid-air.

In the mirror, it was a place of beautiful mountain scenery with birds and flowers, where a lonely grave was buried, and there was no tombstone.

“I helped him do it.”

Emperor Xingwu waved his sleeve, and the water mirror disappeared, “The land of beautiful mountains and water will become his burial place, and it will also allow him to be at peace and sleep here for the rest of his life, without being disturbed by anyone else.”

Zhou An nodded, “Your Majesty has a heart.”

“What about you, what are your thoughts?” Emperor Xingwu knocked on the table, “Do you think that I should listen to Yang Lao and cooperate with him to deal with that group of so-called marauders.”

Zhou An pondered for a moment, then nodded, “As the saying goes, lips die and teeth get cold, if we don’t do anything in response, when a large number of the world’s marauders descend here, who will be able to stop them, but all of this will have to depend on what Yang Lao’s side has to say.”

“He should have already gone to the building master, he will soon have a reply, I will head to the Tongling space every day, if there is any news, I will definitely be the first to know.”

Emperor Xingwu nodded his head, “That’s right, after discussing with Emperor Yunqi, I have decided to cooperate with Elder Yang and work together to maintain this world of ours, I can’t do anything to save the suffering, but what I can do is to protect the people of this world of ours.”

Saying that, Emperor Xingwu stood up and slowly walked over to Zhou An.

Zhou An raised an eyebrow and similarly stood up, locking eyes with Emperor Xingwu.

He did not understand what Emperor Xingwu was going to say, but the current scene seemed particularly grave.

Emperor Xingwu slowly said, “Since you have decided, then you should go ahead and do it, I want you to do me a favor, I don’t know if it’s possible.”

Zhou An stroked his chin, “Your Majesty, but there is no harm in saying so, as long as I can do it, I will do it.”

Emperor Xingwu nodded and looked at Zhou An with a serious face, handing a folded letter, to Zhou An.

Zhou An did not know exactly what Emperor Xingwu meant, but still opened the folded document.

As he opened the folded letter, his eyes widened violently as he read the content on it.

“Your Majesty, where is the weirdness written on the folded document?”