Two figures showed themselves, the two of them kneeling on the ground.

"Yue Song, I can believe that Meng Kou has been defeated, but how... how are you the one that suffered the most?" A solemn voice sounded, yet, the pressure of the one that spoke is tremendous even to a person such as Lu Yue Song himself.

Still, Lu Yue Song's heart is calm as he spoke: "My Lord, I wish to report something and it may as well ruin our plan in the long run."

At the far end of the dark hall, two red fiery eyes shone, even Lu Yue Song who's extremely strong within the human continent shook with fear.

Lu Yue Song didn't dare look further as he spoke: "Forgive me, my lord!"

The eyes moved its gaze from Lu Yue Song to the other one who's kneeling beside him: "Meng Kou, you were given a task, how did it go."

The heavy voice sounded as it pressured Meng Kou immediately.

Meng Kou s.h.i.+vered: "My Lord, I failed due to a person's intervention!"

"First Elder, your disciple will be punished severely, a month worth of time together with the Flesh Devouring Leeches." The voice sounded. It didn't even ask the reason for the failure and immediately carried out the punishment.

Hearing this, Meng Kou s.h.i.+vered extremely but didn't voice any sort of rejection, he immediately has tears flowing from his eyes just from imagining the torture.

A figure immediately appeared a few meters away from the eyes and bowed: "This subordinate understands!"

As the figure spoke, he immediately vanished together with Meng Kou.

The eyes then moved towards Lu Yue Song again and spoke: "You are the 5th elder, yet, you failed your task, report. Depending on the reason... You know what will happen."

Lu Yue Song nods his head: "Yes! This subordinate understands."

"There is someone in the PaG.o.da that even I couldn't last for a single breath fighting... I lost my arm just after I used my bloodstone..."

The figure frowns: "You've still lost an arm after you used your bloodstone?"

Lu Yue Song nods his head heavily: "Yes."

The two eyes frowned deeply, it only takes a single second to use the stone, if that person can cut Lu Yue Song's arm, it's already hard to believe that someone managed to do that to an Immortal Ascension ranked expert like Lu Yue Song, but Lu Yue Song has a great physique.

He has the Undead Immortal Physique that boasts a tremendous amount of defense, even Lu Yue Song wouldn't be able to cut it on his own.

Lu Yue Song noticed the eyes' silence and continued: "My Lord, he used Sword Energy. He also has a power that surpa.s.ses if not an Immortal Paragon."

With Lu Yue Song's words, the figure finally closed his eyes: "Then... Either we cancel our plans or increase our phase."

Lu Yue Song nods his head: "Yes. That is what I exactly thought."

The figure nods its head and spoke: "We proceed with our plan within a year's time, tell the 2nd and 1st elder to make do with it."

"Yes!" Lu Yue Song replied and immediately vanished from the dark halls, as soon as he did, the three torches die.

The red blazing eyes opened again: "The PaG.o.da has an Immortal Paragon living inside..."

"Who..."

Meanwhile, inside the PaG.o.da's 24th floor.

Mo Xie opened his eyes widely in shock, he couldn't believe what he had seen.

"Isn't this..." This is something Mo Xie is extremely familiar with.

He saw his soul sea completely divided into four parts, the flame arts he started to cultivate, instead of it completely taking over the whole part of his soul sea, it only took a quarter of it.

Mo Xie didn't know how to feel, whether it be helplessness or happiness.

"This is an Immortal Paragon's soul sea! How come I have it this early?!"

No matter one's soul sea is, everyone believed that if they reached the Immortal Paragon's rank, they will be able to cultivate four kinds of elements of their choice. No, there in truth, in order for a person to break through to the Immortal Paragon's rank, they would need to at least learn four types of elements.

"This..." Mo Xie felt speechless for a while: "I don't need to exceed the limit of my soul sea? Is it the reason why it's extremely hard to break my soul sea whenever I reach the peak?"

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The process of exceeding the limit of one's own soul sea is extremely arduous, they would need to endure the intense pain like someone is removing your skin by pulling it off of you while they burn your flesh with molten iron adding the feeling of someone removing your bones one by one. All of it will happen as you try to concentrate.

The only benefit one can feel from it is the divine heavenly tribulation, the first heavenly tribulation will happen as one ascends to Immortal Paragon.

The heavens will temper cultivation through the way of giving that person a tribulation of elements that they are really weak too. Although this tribulation is the lightest, at least 50% of those that had been baptized by it had died.

This so-called 'Benefit' can be either G.o.d's blessing or the Grim's reaper. If you successfully pa.s.s the tribulation, your soul sea will be tempered by an additional capacity while if you fail, there can only be one outcome... death.

Every cultivator's physical pain tolerance increases as they rank up, hence, although mortals would feel it extremely painful, sometimes, for cultivators, it might just be like a p.r.i.c.k of a needle.

Mo Xie felt excited immediately: "Which of the elements should I cultivate?!"

Mo Xie's mind grew frenzy, he couldn't believe a blessing like this actually exist: "To curse you G.o.ds as I was born, I am deeply ashamed of myself, this Mo Xie eternally thank you from the bottom of my heart!"

Then, a thunder rang out, Mo Xie became speechless again: "Are they... answering me?"

As Mo Xie asked this question, the rain outside the PaG.o.da started to pour madly.

Mo Xie sigh, he didn't speak further and started to pick his cultivation.

Unlike others that couldn't pick a path that complements one another, Mo Xie can, he's only at gold rank yet he could actually already cultivate four types of arts! This is truly a great blessing for him.

Mo Xie pondered for a while, he wants to choose something of extremely great.

The elemental powers have each of their own weaknesses and strength, Mo Xie needs to pick wisely.

The four basic elements are fire, wind, water, and earth, each has its own counterpart.

Fire is weak against water but is strong against the earth element.

In a line, it can be described as fire > water > wind > earth > fire.

The two profound elements are light and dark, some call it the selfish elements due to it only possessing each other as a weakness. Sadly, a person can only cultivate either of them. If a person tries to cultivate both light and dark element, they will die a gruesome death due to soul sea explosion.

There are also other special elements like lightning, metal, and many more.

These are a combination of elements.

An example is metal = Fire + water + high-grade earth = metal, but then, metal is extremely weak against the wind, hence, people rarely chose special elements as a core. But special elements are then used in the upper realm, they just need to choose the cultivation art most proficient with it.

Then, there is also the complication of elements, like light and darkness, they will need to think carefully about elements. If one person is to cultivate the art of fire and chose water next, they will decrease the fire cultivation's power depending on one's soul sea.

Mo Xie smiled: "I will pick lightning then." Mo Xie searched his memory for the strongest cultivational art of lightning that supplements his fire cultivation.

It took Mo Xie a few hours to take in two elements.

Mo Xie already knows the epitome of each skill, sadly, his soul sea isn't really his old one, hence, he needs to temper his soul sea more for it to get accustomed to the cultivation arts, the more it gets accustomed to the art, the more powerful the art becomes.

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Mo Xie smiled: "I everything will turn great."

But then, as Mo Xie spoke of this, he noticed something extremely rare.

His eyes widen in shock as he looked at his soul sea: "This..."

The lightning profound art he started to cultivate took another quarter of his soul sea, yet, both the fire and the lightning aren't even touching each other, which means, something is dividing it.

And Mo Xie already knows what it is.

His soul sea is extremely white, hence, he couldn't see it before, but now, he has both lightning and fire arts, he can clearly see something in between them.

Mo Xie couldn't help but smile as he spoke: "This... Isn't this an innate ability? I have an innate light attribute soul sea!"

Mo Xie searched his memory trying to find something from the records of his old self, but he couldn't remember everything that has a rare soul sea like this, Mo Xie smiled as he spoke: "Let's call it, Surpa.s.sing Tribulation Light Soul Sea!"