Under the panic-stricken and shocked gazes of countless disciples, Shen Ran fluttered away.

After returning to his residence, he entered seclusion immediately.

There were only five days left till the sect tournament.

Wang Qingxuan had sent someone to test him.

The other party must be wanting to beat him in the sect tournament!

He wondered if the Demon Cult had given Wang Qingxuan cultivation resources during this period of time.

To be safe, Shen Ran planned to break through to the third level of the Illumination Realm.

He entered the seclusion room.

He patted his storage bag and took out the Realm Breakthrough Pill.

The Realm Breakthrough Pill was a pill that Illumination Realm cultivators needed to break through to the Marquis Realm!

It contained an extremely huge amount of spiritual energy.

If ordinary cultivators below the fifth level of the Illumination Realm consumed it, their bodies would probably explode from this spiritual energy!

But Shen Ran was not worried that this would happen.

His body was extremely powerful!

He also had the Ancient Immortal Eyes, the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body, and the Supreme Bones to share the medicinal effect.

I wonder if I can break through to the third level of the Illumination Realm this time?

This was what Shen Ran was worried about.

This was because he had various top-notch aptitudes and physique.

His cultivation was consuming more and more resources.

Shaking his head, Shen Ran swallowed the Realm Breakthrough Pill.

When the pill entered his throat, it turned into surging medicinal power that spread to his limbs and bones.

Shen Ran immediately circulated his energy to refine this medicinal effect.

Meanwhile, boundless spiritual energy from heaven and earth surged over endlessly, surrounding him and surging into his body.

This caused clouds to rise in the calm Eighth Summit.

As the clouds rolled, a large amount of spiritual energy pounced over.

As the spiritual energy surged into Shen Ran’s body, the small lake of spiritual fluid in his dantian grew gradually in size.

At this moment, the spiritual fluid in his dantian had already doubled.

The lake was turbulent, with lapping waves that glittered.

Following a bang in his mind, a gentle spiritual power spread throughout Shen Ran’s body as if some shackles in his body had been broken.

In an instant, golden light erupted from Shen Ran’s body!!

The spiritual energy within a radius of a thousand miles seemed to have heard the order and surged over from all directions of the Empyrean Sword Sect.

Shen Ran’s body was already surrounded by a thick layer of spiritual energy fog.

He was like a traveler who was about to die of thirst and finally got to drink water.

He greedily absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy.

Soon the spiritual energy in the surrounding main peaks was sucked dry.

This immediately drove those seclusion disciples crazy.

“Damn! Not again!”

“Who is cultivating? He sucked all our spiritual energy the last time.”

“It’s that damn person! I went into seclusion for half a month and was just about to break through, but the spiritual energy was sucked away.”

…

First Summit.

Sensing the change in the Empyrean Sword Sect, the Empyrean Patriarch glanced in Shen Ran’s direction.

Looking at the spiritual energy that was almost liquefying around Shen Ran, the patriarch looked at the other mountains which were completely emptied of spiritual energy.

He winced.

“How monstrous is your aptitude? You can suck dry all the spiritual energy within a thousand-mile radius in one seclusion…”

As the Empyrean Patriarch muttered, he raised his hand and waved. A large amount of spiritual energy was summoned from thousands of miles away, turning into a spiritual rain that landed in the sect.

When he was done, he closed his eyes.

Shen Ran was not aware of the outside world.

At this moment, the golden light in his dantian increased and gradually turned into golden lotus flowers.

A green sea appeared in his dantian, and golden lotuses were planted in the void!

His aura became stronger and stronger!

Four days later,

Shen Ran’s aura stopped rising.

After a long time, the spiritual energy surrounding Shen Ran gradually dissipated.

The golden light around his body slowly converged, and his eyes were glittering and full of vigor.

“Phew…”

After exhaling heavily, Shen Ran ended his cultivation.

He had broken through to the third level of the Illumination Realm!

With his current power and physical strength, even a seventh-level Illumination Realm expert was not his match!

This was the confidence brought about by Shen Ran’s own cultivation!!

The spiritual fluid in his dantian was several times more than that of ordinary Illumination Realm cultivators!

Apart from the increase in his cultivation, Shen Ran also discovered that the phenomenon of the golden lotus in the void of his dantian seemed to be related to the Ancient Sacred Body!

It enhanced his physical strength.

Although his cultivation was over, Shen Ran did not get up. Instead, he stabilized his cultivation.

Tomorrow is the sect tournament!

Wang Qingxuan, prepare and wait for death!

…

Because the sect tournament was approaching, all the disciples of the Empyrean Sword Sect were in high spirits.

The sect tournament was held once every three years.

It was a major event for the Empyrean Sword Sect.

After all, not only could the top 10 obtain various medicinal pills and spirit artifacts, but they could also enter the First Summit to cultivate.

Even the competition for resources between the various peaks had to be decided by the tournament.

As the tournament was approaching, many disciples did not continue their seclusion.

Instead, they walked out of the house to relax and chatted about the people they felt might enter the top 10.

“I think Senior Brother Shen will definitely enter the top 10!”

Hearing someone mention Shen Ran, the disciples of the Eighth Summit could not help but think of the day Shen Ran killed Shangguan You.

Even a first-level Illumination Realm cultivator was not his match.

How strong is Shen Ran?

“Junior Sister Wan Qingqing from the Ninth Summit also has a chance. I heard that she recently broke through to the eighth level of the Divine Sea Realm.”

A disciple who was familiar with the Ninth Summit spoke slowly.

“And Lei Yaoyue from the Seventh Summit.”

“The chief disciple of the Fifth Summit, Zheng Chumo, is also at the eighth level of the Divine Sea Realm. There’s also a lot of hope.”

“According to rumors, even Wang Qingxuan is participating this time.”

“He and Senior Brother Shen Ran are mutually antagonistic now. I’m afraid we’ll see the true battle of the prodigies tomorrow!!”