Chapter 410: Joining The Realm Tournament
As Khal stood before everyone with a calm and rather indifferent face, Senior Lin took several steps forward until he was just about two meters away from Khal.
"You... How did you do it?"
It needed no genius to know that Senior Lin at the moment was referring to the way Khal achieved the impossible and wished to know how he was able to break the barrier between the Fourth and Fifth Cultivation Stage with such ease.
One had to note that a Limit Breaker only could become an Ascender if they turned their essence in their bodies into a completely new substance while also forming a so-called Essence Core which will greatly determine if one will be able to ascend to the Third Realm or not!
Furthermore, one’s Essence Core was one’s life which if destroyed can cause the demise of the cultivator right away! That is why, it was very important that once a cultivator reached the point where they were able to form their Essence Core, they must make sure to create the core in a way where it was not only extremely durable, able to endure powerful attacks, but also quite small too as that way the chances of it getting hit directly by an assault would decrease dramatically too!
Naturally, making an Essence Core was incredibly hard while forming it both solid in substance and small in size was even harder, but if one was patient enough and put in the hard work, in the very end, it was 100% that their chances of getting killed through their Essence Core would plummet almost all the way to 1%!
However, to do that and even succeed in just under a single month... Senior Lin felt that everything she knew and understood so far was crumbling into pieces right before her very eyes!
Khal looked at Senior Lin with calm eyes, and after pondering for a while he said, "I just simply cultivated."
"Simply my fucking ass!" Senior Lin immidieatly rebutted Khal’s words which surprised the Elders behind her back greatly as this was their first time hearing her curse out this loud, especially in front of all of them.
However, Senior Lin didn’t care even in the tiniest bit about the looks she got, and pointing her delicate index finger at Khal, she said with narrowed eyes, "You can’t fool me. I can feel just how refined your Essence Core is which makes completely no sense at all as even me, who formed her core for half a decade, couldn’t achieve such a result! You definitely used some kind of trick!"
Khal upon seeing how Senior Lin narrowed her eyes at him, shook his head, and sighed.
Does she really think he will tell her his secret in front of everyone? Although he wants to make other humans strong to allow them to stand on equal grounds as the rest of the beings around the Second Realm, it didn’t mean he was a saint and give them everything he had much less for free!
Thus, Khal just showed a smile and asked, "How can I join the Realm Tournament?"
"You!" Senior Lin’s face flushed with a slight hint of anger, but once she saw how indifferently did Khal look at him, she quickly realized something which, in the end, resulted in a deep sigh filled with nothing but helplessness.
"Just wait and you will see it." Senior Lin replied, now her beautiful complexion no longer holding any hint of anger.
"Then I will do just that." Khal nodded and after giving a glance at the Elders and Darla behind Senior Lin he turned back around and went back inside his residence.
"This brat..." Senior Lin watching just how carefree was Khal behaving in front of her made her sigh deeply once more.
"It’s not like I can punish him just because he won’t answer my question. But still..." Senior Lin mumbled quietly, and after giving one final glance at the door through which Khal walked away she soon her head gently and walked away.
Meanwhile, inside his room, Khal sat on the bed in a lotus position and silently stared at the white wall before him. However, in contrast to his usual nonchalant look, this time he showed a rather troubled expression, one that showed he was quite confused and puzzled at the moment.
"This makes no sense at all..." Khal mumbled as he lowered his gaze at his arms and continued, "Although I have become an Ascender, why is that my cultivation base is already at the peak and I can even feel that my body can ascend to the Third Realm whenever I wish for it?"
The question was straight, but despite asking it out loud, unfortunately, no answer arrived but only silence.
[If I have to make a guess, I would say because of your Soul World.]
Suddenly, Nova’s voice appeared in Khal’s head, but even her voice was filled with doubt and confusion.
"Because of my Soul World? How does that have anything to do with my current cultivation?" Khal asked with a raised brow.
[As you have may have discerned it already from both your book and the scroll you have read, once a being reaches the Fifth Cultivation Stage and becomes an Ascender, they can only ascend to the next Realm if they successfully opened their Soul Sea or on their other name their Sea of Consciousness!]
"Which will provide as a base once they entered the Third Realm. Yeah, I know." Khal nodded, but just as he was ready to open his mouth and ask something, a golden halo appeared in front of his face out of nowhere before an unfamiliar voice sounded around him.
"Do you wish to join the Realm Tournament?"
Khal at first was surprised and even alerted once he saw the halo as it was rather unexpected how it appeared, but when he heard the words spoken he relaxed and nodded, "Yes, I wish."
"Understood."
Whoosh!
A gentle breeze appeared in the room as the golden halo flashed with golden light and even before Khal could have realized it, he was teleported away!
