I Can See Through Everything-Chapter 485

When Li Bao saw the Sacred Mountain, despair surfaced in his eyes.

On his way back to Zhongzhou, he had still harbored some hope—perhaps his sect would come to rescue him.

After all, he was the son of a Cangshan Sect Supreme Elder.

However, the eerie silence along the way made him realize that the sect had completely abandoned him.

Now, all that awaited him was the judgment of the Sacred Mountain.

The members of the Law Enforcement Squad cared little for Li Bao’s thoughts.

They spurred their horses, rushing back to the Sacred Mountain, and handed Li Bao over to the Criminal Hall. After that, their job was done.

Their mission was merely to capture Li Bao; as for his trial, that was the responsibility of the Criminal Hall. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

One thing was certain—once the Criminal Hall completed their interrogation and confirmed that the massacre of the Miao Clan Village’s hundreds of inhabitants was indeed Li Bao’s doing…

There would be no chance of survival for him.

The Sacred Mountain Prohibition was no joke.

Over the past decade, many powerful figures had tested its limits, but so long as their crimes were exposed, none had escaped the Sacred Mountain’s judgment.

Even Foundation Establishment cultivators could not evade the pursuit of the Law Enforcement Squad!

“Senior Brother, now that our mission is complete, where are you headed? We plan to visit the Merit Hall to see if there’s anything worth redeeming. Do you want to come along?”

After handing Li Bao over, the other members of the squad turned to a young man and asked.

“I’ll pass. You guys go ahead.”

At the thought of his losses, the young man felt a twinge of pain.

On this mission, he had expended a Lightness Talisman and used a precious Lightning Talisman—a heavy price to pay.

The merits earned from capturing Li Bao barely compensated for his expenses.

After some thought, he concluded that his own strength was lacking.

If his cultivation had reached Mid Precelestial Realm, with the aid of the Lightness Talisman, he could have subdued Li Bao without even using the Lightning Talisman.

Thus, he decided against taking on new missions for now. It was better to focus on cultivation and see if he could advance further before considering anything else.

The other squad members exchanged glances.

They knew their senior brother had suffered a loss this time and was likely in a bad mood.

So, they didn’t press the matter, fearing they might upset him further.

After parting ways with his juniors, the young man returned to his residence.

As a member of the Law Enforcement Squad, he was qualified to live on Sacred Mountain.

However, his residence was near the mountain’s base.

Of course, with their Initial Precelestial Realm cultivation, even if they were allowed to live higher up, they wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

The Sacred Mountain’s invisible pressure intensified the higher one went.

Over the years, as Heaven and Earth’s Spiritual Energy continued to revive, the pressure on the Sacred Mountain had only grown stronger.

Occasionally ascending the mountain was fine, but residing there long-term—even for Precelestial Realm cultivators—was unbearable.

Upon arriving at his residence, the young man was about to hang up a “Seclusion, Do Not Disturb” sign when he suddenly felt an overwhelming pressure emanating from the mountain’s summit.

His entire body trembled involuntarily.

“What’s going on?!”

Startled, he rushed out of his dwelling and looked up toward the mountain.

Yet before he could discern anything, the terrifying pressure vanished as suddenly as it had appeared, as if it had been nothing more than an illusion.

But the young man knew—it was no illusion.

That aura had been unimaginably powerful, far surpassing anything he had ever felt, even when he had glimpsed a distant Golden Core True Being in the past.

“Whose aura was that? One of the Three Holy Lords? Or… has that legendary figure finally emerged from seclusion?”

The thought of that legendary figure sent a surge of excitement through him.

Rumors had long circulated that this person was cultivating in the depths of Sacred Mountain.

But no one on the Sacred Mountain had ever seen him in person.

Aside from the Three Holy Lords, no one could confirm whether the rumors were true.

Ever since the Holy Assembly ten years ago, that individual had vanished from the world, as if he had ceased to exist.

No one knew his whereabouts.

Now, with the sudden eruption of such an overwhelming pressure, the young man couldn’t help but recall those rumors.

He was not the only one on the Sacred Mountain who had such thoughts.

However, while speculation ran rampant, no one could confirm the truth.

The pressure had originated from the mountain’s peak.

At that altitude, the Sacred Mountain’s natural pressure had already reached an extreme.

Even Golden Core True Beings found it difficult to remain there for long.

Cultivators below the Golden Core Realm weren’t even qualified to set foot in that domain.

Thus, after a period of uncertainty, most of the cultivators on the Sacred Mountain could only suppress their curiosity and go about their own affairs.

…

At the uppermost region of the Sacred Mountain, within a spiritual energy-infused cave dwelling—

Lu Qing, who had just experienced a breakthrough and unintentionally released a wisp of his aura, sighed in contemplation.

“This seclusion lasted nearly a year, and yet it was only a minor breakthrough?

If even a small advancement takes this long…

I can’t imagine how much time I’ll need to fully step into Golden Core Fourth Transformation.”

He then took a deep breath and scanned his surroundings, his expression turning slightly helpless.

“Ever since I broke through to Golden Core Third Transformation, the spiritual energy in this cave dwelling has become less effective.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have taken me six or seven years just to reach Peak Golden Core Third Transformation.”

Indeed, his recent breakthrough wasn’t anything major.

He had merely refined his cultivation at Golden Core Third Transformation to its peak.

Seven years ago, he had already stepped into the Third Transformation.

Yet, it had taken him a full seven years to reach Peak Third Transformation.

The reason behind his slowed progress?

It was his exceptionally deep foundation.

His Perfect Golden Core was already incomparably solid.

Furthermore, the presence of the Five Elements Gourd and the Five Elements Pearls—two extraordinary treasures—constantly nourished his divine soul and physical body.

As a result, his talent and potential had further improved to an unprecedented level.

But such a solid foundation also came with a drawback.

Every advancement in cultivation required an immense amount of resources.

Moreover, because his Golden Core was perfect, his spiritual power was already unfathomably pure.

Even at the early stage of Golden Core Realm, his spiritual power was on par with a Superior Golden Core cultivator at Second Transformation or even Third Transformation.

Now, after reaching the Third Transformation, the purity of his spiritual power had reached an unimaginable degree.

With such purity, even condensing the slightest amount of spiritual power required an astronomical amount of spiritual energy.

Reaching Peak Third Transformation had required a truly vast quantity of spiritual energy.

Only because he cultivated in the Sacred Mountain’s cave dwelling, aided by the Five Elements Gourd in refining and condensing spiritual power, had he managed to reach this point in just seven years.

But this was as far as he could go.

Now that he had reached Peak Third Transformation, he could feel that the spiritual energy in his cave dwelling was barely helping.

To step into Golden Core Fourth Transformation, his path would only grow more arduous.