Golden Light Dangerous Land, at night.

Deep inside.

Boom... Boom... Boom...

Continuous, violent explosions, extremely terrifying.

A lone figure is battling incessantly with a colossal creature.

Sword shadows, the shock wave under giant force, filling the surroundings.

The two sides of the battle are naturally Xiao Yi and the Vajra White Ape.

Indeed, Xiao Yi has sought out this Vajra White Ape once again.

This Vajra White Ape, which devours golden light, undoubtedly possesses power reaching the peak of Saint Emperor Realm.

Such a demon beast poses a considerable challenge to Xiao Yi.

Clang... Sword Qi soared, starlight river streaked forth.

Boom... The giant fist strikes indiscriminately and densely, the surging shock wave turning the surroundings into ruins in mere moments.

The battle between Xiao Yi and the Vajra White Ape is difficult to describe as anything but intense.

However, after over ten minutes.

The violent explosions and surging shock wave still occur incessantly.

Yet the Sword Qi and starlight river have already dissipated.

Xiao Yi’s sword no longer clashes directly with the Vajra White Ape but instead dodges its terrifying fists amidst flickering movements.

Another ten minutes later, Xiao Yi’s movements change once more.

His actions of dodging became once again the soaring Sword Qi, crushing starlight river descending.

Another ten minutes later...

Time gently passes by. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

In such a manner, the battle between Xiao Yi and the Vajra White Ape continuously shifts.

When Sword Qi soars and starlight river crushes down, it signifies his Primordial Power is plentiful.

Dodging means he’s honing his footwork and reaction abilities.

This continual change tests and tempers Xiao Yi’s responsiveness, adaptability, and control over Primordial Power to a high degree.

After almost the entire night, Xiao Yi, covered in sweat, finally pauses.

Whoosh...

A figure flickers away instantly.

During the remaining half of the night, Xiao Yi continues to roam inside the Golden Light Dangerous Land, hunting rather than refining.

One demon beast after another swiftly succumbed to his sword.

He collected Demon Beast Essence Blood and inner cores, using inner cores to craft the Golden Light Pill.

Until dawn, as the night faded away, Xiao Yi ceased the hunt and began his daily meditation.

...

The next day, night falls.

Deep within the Golden Light Dangerous Land.

Clang... swift Sword Qi struck heavily upon a giant beast covered in white fur.

Roar... The Vajra White Ape roared in pain and fury.

Xiao Yi appeared from thin air, chuckling lightly, "I’ve come again, let’s battle."

Roar... Following the angry roar of the Vajra White Ape.

The battle between the two sides ignited once more.

After another half-night passes, Xiao Yi flickers away.

For the remaining half-night, he delves into demon hunting again.

...

Day after day, a month swiftly goes by.

Xiao Yi’s time is spent in an almost rhythmic cycle.

Daytime for meditation, cultivation, and insight.

At night, half the time in battle with the Vajra White Ape; the other half sweeping the Demon Beast Forest, hunting demons, collecting Demon Beast Essence Blood and inner cores.

Today.

Xiao Yi sitting cross-legged on a towering tree.

Within moments, an explosive force surged from him.

And again, the force erupted.

At this time, Xiao Yi slowly opened his eyes, filled with delight.

"Saint King Realm Eighth Layer."

In a month of practice in the Golden Light Dangerous Land, Xiao Yi specifically chose today to break through two layers and step into the Saint King Realm Eighth Layer.

Of course, his Spirit Veins remain untouched.

Those are reserved for him to charge into the Saint Emperor Realm.

The cultivation item for this two-layer breakthrough came from a month’s training.

Though most of the time was spent hunting demons, roaming within the Golden Light Dangerous Land, sweeping through, occasionally encountering rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Adding up his own cultivation items, finally chose today to break through, jumping two layers at once.

However, this two-layer boost in cultivation hardly enhanced his strength.

After all, his strongest battle power comes from the means of Starlight Descent.

Since he has battle power above Saint Emperor Realm Eighth Layer because of the descent of 80,000 Starlight Power.

He’s capable of confronting the strength of the peak of Saint Emperor Realm because of the technique found on the Dawn Bell, one strike becomes 20 swords.

80,000 starlights, 20 bursts out consecutively, reaching astonishing power.

In other words, the main source of this power is Starlight Power rather than his own cultivation.

The only relevance of cultivation is its height, helping him to comprehend and manipulate the ease of Starlight Descent.

To enhance the power of Star Illusion Swordsmanship, the only way is mastering more starlight descent.

His Martial Arts Realm level continues to rise.

Therefore, the advancement of these two layers of cultivation does not increase the strongest battle power under 80,000 starlights one bit.

Nonetheless, the month’s hardening wasn’t without results.

In battling the Vajra White Ape, he constantly tempers his control over starlight.

The month’s fierce battles have taught him much, and his control over starlight improved by 5000 strands.

In other words, now he can control and descend starlight reaching 85,000 strands.

Once he can control the descent of 90,000 starlights, simply relying on being covered in starlight enables a Ninth Layer battle power of Saint Emperor Realm; additionally, with the method on the Dawn Bell, it becomes easy to handle the peak of Saint Emperor Realm.

Another month of hardening, similarly, he gained from the method on the Dawn Bell.

Originally, he could only strike once, with 20 swords in succession.

Now, capable of striking once, with 30 swords in succession.

This significantly enhanced Xiao Yi’s current strongest battle power.

The only aid from these two layers’ advancement in cultivation is offering Xiao Yi more powerful effects when using other Martial Techniques.

Such as the techniques on Silent Sky Sword Dao, Blood Realm Slash, among others.

For a true qualitative leap, substantial advancement in cultivation is needed since cultivation is the foundation for Martial Artists.

In Xiao Yi’s current plan, first utilize Star Illusion Swordsmanship as power.

Then in hardening, continuously advance cultivation.

His cultivation will not be halted at Saint King Realm Eighth Layer.

Once the cultivation breakthrough to Saint Emperor Realm, even reaching Late Stage Saint Emperor Realm, many cards will wield absolute power.

And this requires time.

Xiao Yi also accelerates his practice to the extreme.

"Tonight will be the last night then." Xiao Yi murmured.

This month practice in Golden Light Dangerous Land should come to an end.

During this month, he gained a large number of Demon Beast Essence Blood and crafted many Golden Light Pills.

Continuing to stay here, even though the practice effect persists, compared to before it’s slowed.

...

At night, Xiao Yi as usual sought the Vajra White Ape.

Roar... The Vajra White Ape roared with anger, its eyes showing fierce hostility and a hint of helplessness.

In its eyes, this young human Martial Artist in front of it appears promptly every night for the past month.

Each fierce battle always exhausts and irritates it.

But tonight, these days are about to end.

The Vajra White Ape’s eyes glared with astonishing ferocity.

The energy on its body is rapidly soaring.

"Swallowing golden light, huh?" Xiao Yi faintly smiled.

But this smile quickly stopped.

"Reached the peak of Saint Emperor Realm, huh? Still not stopping, the energy continues to soar."

Xiao Yi’s eyes narrowed.

The Vajra White Ape, however, revealed an extremely human-like sneer.

...

The fourth update. (Supplement)