Chapter 025: Miracle (Bonus Chapter)
“Sister Jiang Qiu is truly amazing, reaching the seventh floor so quickly! I remember last time Sister Jiang Qiu also successfully reached the seventh floor, but it took much longer than this.”
“I wonder if Sister Jiang Qiu can break her personal best this time and successfully challenge the eighth floor of the Rebirth Tower.”
“Wait… look, Sister Jiang Qiu’s light spot has reached the eighth floor!”
The crowd erupted in an uproar. Gu Caihe stood with her hands behind her back, her face beaming with a smile, her eyes growing hotter. “Very good, it was worth all the effort I put into cultivating this wench.”
At this moment, Yi Chengying felt greatly humiliated but still harbored doubts about the identity of the owner of the eighth-floor light spot. She leaned close to Gu Caihe and whispered, “Sister Caihe, Qin Yue hasn’t been expelled from the Rebirth Tower yet, has she? How many floors do you think he’s reached by now?”
“Qin Yue?”
Gu Caihe scoffed and pointed to a light spot on the second floor of the Rebirth Tower. “He’s probably still struggling desperately here. It’s not bad, considering it’s his first time entering the Rebirth Tower and he’s already reached the second floor. However, he doesn’t seem to know that even if he stays on one floor and wastes time like this, it will be futile and will only waste the precious time he’s managed to obtain to enter the tower.”
An hour later.
The light spot representing ‘Jiang Qiu’ significantly slowed down its progress. However, it had now reached the sixteenth floor of the Rebirth Tower.
This news instantly spread throughout the entire Mystic Maiden Raksha Palace. It was known that since the Rebirth Tower existed in the Mystic Maiden Raksha Palace, despite the constant challenges from disciples of all generations, the best record achieved was merely the eighteenth floor.
And now, Jiang Qiu had reached the sixteenth floor of the Rebirth Tower in just over an hour, with a high probability of breaking through the eighteenth floor, refreshing this long-standing record and becoming yet another insurmountable mountain within the Rebirth Tower!
Gu Caihe’s eyes revealed unconcealed astonishment. She looked at Yi Chengying beside her and asked, “Chengying, what was your best record on the Rebirth Tower back then?”
“Thirteenth floor.”
“I reached fifteen.” Gu Caihe’s gaze was fixed on the somewhat dazzling light spot, her pretty face flushed with excitement. She clenched her fist and said, “I never expected that Jiang Qiu, that wench, would actually surpass my past record. She said she would give me a surprise, but this surprise is a bit too big.”
The light spot moved up again, reaching the seventeenth floor.
“Seventeen floors! Sister Jiang Qiu has reached the seventeenth floor!”
“Just a bit more to reach the eighteenth floor, come on Sister Jiang Qiu, we’re all cheering for you.”
More and more people gathered around the Rebirth Tower. Many weren’t there to challenge the tower themselves but had rushed over after hearing that Jiang Qiu was about to break the Rebirth Tower’s record. As the news spread and was distorted, almost no one doubted the true identity of the light spot’s owner anymore.
After the duration of one incense stick burning, eighteen floors!
The light spot finally reached the peak that no one had been able to pass for many years.
With light, graceful steps, Ye Qishuang appeared under the Rebirth Tower at some unknown time, standing beside Gu Caihe and Yi Chengying.
“Palace Lord!”
As the two were about to salute, they were lifted by a gentle spiritual power. Ye Qishuang shook her head. “No need for formalities, and don’t make a fuss. I’m just here to see if this person can truly break the record.”
Saying this, Ye Qishuang gently glanced at Gu Caihe. “Disciple Jiang Qiu, she’s under you, Little Box, isn’t she? You’ve done very well, cultivating another rare talent for the Mystic Maiden Palace.”
“Thank you for your praise, Palace Lord.” Gu Caihe’s little face immediately turned red with excitement.
Yi Chengying, on the other hand, secretly pouted, appearing very jealous. She glared viciously at Fu Yan, who was still clinging to her leg and sobbing, lamenting her misfortune and wondering why she hadn’t taken Jiang Qiu under her wing back then, but instead, had accepted the silly Fu Yan.
Inside the tower, Qin Gou calmly observed the trial on this floor.
What is the Mortal Transformation stage?
Qin Gou had never entered the Mortal Transformation stage himself, but his research on this state was second to none. He did this precisely so that he could one day break free from the confines of Arc-Moon Mountain and achieve a breakthrough beyond the Dharma Aspect Realm.
Qin Gou immediately wrote down: The Mortal Transformation stage is a mystical state that every Dharma Aspect True Person must experience just before breaking through. They will lose all their cultivation and blend into ordinary life. Without any external assistance, they must, with their true selves and a series of actions, move ordinary people with sincerity over a long period. By achieving the status of a figure in legends passed down by countless mortals, mortals will spontaneously build temples and cast golden statues for them. Once sufficient Power of faith is collected, the final shackle of the Dharma Aspect Realm can be completely broken.
After writing the last word, Qin Gou stepped into the nineteenth floor of the Rebirth Tower without looking back.
“Nineteen floors! Sister Jiang Qiu has actually succeeded in breaking the record!”
“Good, Jiang Qiu, well done.” Gu Caihe’s eyes sparkled.
Yi Chengying’s gaze was somewhat dazed. She murmured, “I never expected to witness someone successfully break the Rebirth Tower’s record with my own eyes today.”
Everyone present cheered and rejoiced. The entire plaza was exceptionally noisy, with shouts of exclamation and admiration echoing endlessly, as if a grand celebration had begun.
A gentle and warm smile bloomed on Ye Qishuang’s lips. She suddenly said to the two beside her, “This disciple named Jiang Qiu has truly impressed me. Since that is the case… it is likely that in no time, our Mystic Maiden Raksha Palace will have a new Saintess, and that is Jiang Qiu!”
“What?”
For a moment, Yi Chengying and Gu Caihe were both utterly astonished. Ye Qishuang smiled knowingly and said, “I have always been fair in my rewards and punishments. For such a talent, I naturally cannot let her down. Although the number of Saintesses in our Mystic Maiden Raksha Palace has always been maintained at ‘nine,’ it is not impossible to make an exception for such an extraordinary genius. After all, it seems that nineteen floors are far from her limit.”
Gu Caihe never dreamed that in just one day, Jiang Qiu would go from being her disciple to an existence on equal footing with herself, the Xi Hua Saintess. She was so happy that she became incoherent. After all, Jiang Qiu was cultivated by her. Even if she became a Saintess, she would still be part of her faction, and Gu Caihe’s power within the Mystic Maiden Raksha Palace would inevitably grow stronger in the future.
Suddenly, the exit of the Rebirth Tower flashed with light, and the much-anticipated Jiang Qiu was unwillingly expelled.
Ye Qishuang couldn’t help but cover her mouth and chuckle. “It seems I was a jinx.” As she spoke, she glanced back at the Rebirth Tower. However, the light spot on the nineteenth floor still shone brilliantly!
“This, how can this be? Sister Jiang Qiu has already been expelled from the Rebirth Tower, so who is the cultivator still on the nineteenth floor?!”
For a moment, the boisterous plaza fell silent, so quiet that not even a needle could be heard. Everyone seemed to be choked by an invisible hand, their faces flushed red, as if a lump was stuck in their throats.
A hearty roar, like thunder that pierced the sky, struck deeply into everyone’s hearts.
“The person who successfully broke through to the nineteenth floor is, of course, my Brother Qin! The top seed with only mid-grade four-element aptitude!”
“You say the Rebirth Tower doesn’t believe in miracles? Bastards! But if it’s not a miracle, how could Brother Qin have reached this point with such aptitude?!”
“He is the miracle itself!”
Chen Keshua roared with all his might, tears streaming down his face, unleashing the humiliation he had endured through countless mockery for the past hour.
