The Scarlet Blaze Palace ordered all the experts in the Scarlet Blaze Land to search for the culprit with great fanfare. They sealed off the Scarlet Blaze Land, and anyone who entered or left the Scarlet Blaze Land had to undergo strict checks. Under such circumstances, even a small mosquito couldn't enter or leave freely.
Scarlet Dragon and the Scarlet Blaze Palace's experts were certain that the culprit hadn't left the Scarlet Blaze Land yet. They were certain that the culprit was still hiding somewhere in the Scarlet Blaze Land. That was why they couldn't find him.
They had never imagined that the culprit they were looking for was at the bottom of the Scarlet Blaze Mountain. Moreover, the culprit had found the Scarlet Blaze Palace's Old Ancestor Scarlet Flame and seized his spatial ring and fire origin.
At this time, Chu Mu was using Old Ancestor Scarlet Flame's fire origin to cultivate and improve his cultivation as much as possible.
Old Ancestor Scarlet Flame himself was a Sovereign Realm expert, and his fire origin was more complete than Chu Mu's sword origin. Therefore, using the fire origin to refine his sword origin to improve his cultivation was very effective. However, the fire origin didn't just refine Chu Mu's sword origin, it also supplemented and perfected the mysteries of fire contained in the sword origin. It also refined the All Heavens Sword to improve the All Heavens Fire Sword. Therefore, its power was divided into three.
Half a month passed, and a strong aura surged from Chu Mu's body. It was so sharp that it seemed like it could cut the Scarlet Blaze Mountain in half.
Peak First Step Emperor Realm!
Originally, Chu Mu's purpose of leaving the Ancient Sword City to return to the azure world was to settle the grudges of the past. During this period, he was also prepared that his cultivation wouldn't improve at all. After all, most of his time was spent on the road, and he didn't have enough time to cultivate. At most, he could maintain his cultivation without regressing.
But now, out of his expectations, his cultivation had increased.
Counting the days since he had left the Ancient Sword City, it had only been slightly more than a year. In this short period of time, his cultivation had risen from high-level Emperor Realm to peak Emperor Realm. Who knew how many people would be dumbfounded by this kind of speed of improvement?
If one were to calculate the total time, one would discover that from the time Chu Mu had broken through to the emperor realm, from the beginning stage of the first step emperor realm to the peak stage of the first step emperor realm, the total time had not even exceeded six years.
Even though he had made a breakthrough in his cultivation, he had only consumed a small portion of the power contained in the Fire Origin. There was still a large portion left.
"At the very least, I can break through to the limit of the First Step Martial Monarch Realm. I might even break through to the Second Step Martial Monarch Realm!" Chu Mu thought to himself. His eyes flickered with excitement.
Before reaching the Martial Monarch Realm, especially when he was a half-step Martial Monarch, he had spent a lot of time accumulating and building a solid and perfect foundation for himself. He almost didn't know how to make a breakthrough until he accidentally found the opportunity to make a breakthrough under the pressure of more than ten Martial Monarchs.
Now, in less than six years, his cultivation base had improved by leaps and bounds. His speed of improvement was much faster than when he was under the Great Emperor Realm. It could be said that he had been accumulating strength for a long time.
The Exceptional Realm was a period of accumulation and building one's foundation, while the Martial Monarch Realm was a period of growth.
The deeper one's accumulation in the Exceptional Realm, the more solid one's foundation would be. As long as one could find the opportunity to make a breakthrough and successfully break through to the Martial Monarch Realm, the speed of improvement in the Martial Monarch Realm would be even faster. It wasn't impossible for it to be faster than when he was in the Exceptional Realm.
It sounded strange. After all, the Martial Monarch Realm was much stronger than the Exceptional Realm. The two were on two completely different levels. It was a joke to say that the speed of improvement in the Martial Monarch Realm was faster than the Exceptional Realm, but sometimes, it was the truth. After all, an incomparably solid foundation would bring about an extremely high difficulty in making a breakthrough.
Hypothetically speaking, if Chu Mu hadn't wandered around for so many years, accumulating strength, and then being surrounded by more than ten Martial Monarchs, he wouldn't have been able to find the opportunity to make a breakthrough. Without that kind of opportunity, Chu Mu didn't know how long it would take for him to make a breakthrough.
It might be ten years, twenty years, thirty years, or even a hundred years. It was possible.
Since ancient times, there was no lack of outstanding talents who tried their best to build an incomparably solid foundation. Their path of breakthrough was more difficult and bumpy. There were even some who were stuck at the bottleneck of the limit of the Half Step Great Emperor Realm for hundreds of years before finding the opportunity to make a breakthrough.
And such people, once they made a breakthrough to the Martial Monarch Realm, their incomparably solid foundation would erupt with shocking power, causing their cultivation to improve by leaps and bounds in a short period of time.
It took hundreds of years to break through the bottleneck of the limit of the Half Step Great Emperor Realm and reach the Martial Monarch Realm. However, it only took a few decades to go from the initial stage of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm to the limit of the Third Stage Great Emperor Realm.
Chu Mu's speed of improvement was even faster. Not only did he have an incomparably solid foundation, but he also had fortuitous encounters that ordinary people didn't have.
Comprehension of the primal universe, coincidentally entering the state of matching the primal universe, the complete origin of the Dominator Realm, and coincidentally, he could refine the origin very well.
Under the combination of all these factors, Chu Mu's cultivation had increased so quickly.
In the blink of an eye, another half a month had passed. Chu Mu's body once again erupted with a tyrannical aura, even more tyrannical than before.
Limit of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm!
At this time, there was still more than half of the power contained in the fire origin. Chu Mu couldn't help but feel a fire burning in his heart. With more than half of the fire origin's power, there was a chance for him to make a breakthrough to the initial stage of the Second Stage Great Emperor Realm.
Initial stage of the Second Stage Great Emperor Realm!
This was Chu Mu's current goal.
His cultivation base was to break through the limit of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm.
Chu Mu continued to refine the fire origin, and a blazing aura spread out from his body. It was like an invisible wave, cleansing the air continuously.
The red viscous liquid below seemed to be affected as well. Bubbles appeared one after another, and then they burst open. An astonishingly high temperature spread out and rushed upwards, causing the temperature in the belly of the mountain to rise by a lot. Not to mention refined steel, even some metals with high melting points would be melted into molten iron in a few breaths of time under such high temperature.
The bubbles below grew bigger and bigger. There was even a one meter wide bubble that popped open with a pop. A terrifyingly high temperature swept out like boiling water, wanting to cook Chu Mu. However, Chu Mu, who had refined the fire origin, his body temperature was only high and not low. He was not affected at all.
The Great True Wheel rotated at an astonishing speed, releasing waves of tyrannical power. The power was like surging waves, but also like lightning. It appeared from the deepest part of Chu Mu's body, and it ran through every part of his body. This kind of power was the perfect combination of spiritual force, physical force, and origin force.
The sword origin at the center of his spiritual world was rotating faster than usual.
Chu Mu's sword origin wasn't completely under his control. When he was in the initial stage of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm, he could freely use one-thousandth of the sword origin's power. When he was in the middle stage of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm, he could freely use three-thousandth of the sword origin's power, and so on. When he reached the limit of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm, he could freely use nine-thousandth of the sword origin's power.
Once he could freely use one-hundredth of the sword origin's power, it meant that he had stepped into the initial stage of the Second Stage Great Emperor Realm. As for the initial stage of the Third Stage Great Emperor Realm, he could freely use one-tenth of the sword origin's power.
Ninety-tenth of the sword origin's power was the limit of the Great Emperor Realm. If he broke through again, he would be able to freely use the sword origin's power. At that time, he would step into the Sovereign Realm, and it would be a whole new world.
The Sovereign Realm was still too far away from Chu Mu. After all, even if he raised his cultivation to the limit of the Third Stage Great Emperor Realm, it wouldn't be easy for him to break through to the Sovereign Realm.
The most important thing right now was to raise his cultivation. Under the condition that it wouldn't affect his foundation, the higher the better.
Refining, refining, refining, Chu Mu wholeheartedly refined the remaining fire origin's power. Even though there would inevitably be some losses during the refining process, the benefits were greater.
His strength at the limit of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm also rose bit by bit, moving towards the limit.
The Great Emperor Realm belonged to the growth stage, but it didn't mean that one could advance without any worries. One also needed to accumulate enough strength. Otherwise, it might shake one's foundation.
Why would those who rushed to break through to the Great Emperor Realm be stuck in the Great Emperor Realm for many years? It was because their foundation wasn't solid enough. Therefore, after breaking through to the Great Emperor Realm, they would need to spend a long time to consolidate their foundation before they could advance further.
The difficulty of establishing a foundation in the Exceptional Realm was much lower. The difficulty of establishing a foundation in the Great Emperor Realm was naturally much higher.
Establishing a foundation in the Exceptional Realm might take a hundred years, but in the Great Emperor Realm, it would take a few hundred years or more. This was also the reason why many geniuses were willing to spend more time in the Exceptional Realm to establish their foundation. They would only look for an opportunity to break through when they couldn't do so anymore.
When Chu Mu was in the Exceptional Realm, his foundation was incomparably solid. It could be said that it was perfect. However, his cultivation was increasing rapidly now. Therefore, if he wanted to break through to the Second Stage Great Emperor Realm, he would need to further strengthen his foundation.
One's foundation wasn't fixed. Every realm had its limits. Of course, when Chu Mu was in the Exceptional Realm, his foundation was much more solid than many First Stage Great Emperors. There was no doubt about it.
Chu Mu spent a total of three months to completely stabilize his cultivation. His foundation of the First Stage Great Emperor Realm had also reached its limit. It couldn't be improved any further.
"Next, it's time to break through to the Second Stage Great Emperor Realm!" Chu Mu's eyes flickered as he thought to himself. Soon after, he sped up the circulation of the Truth Seeking Technique. The Great Truth Wheel spun at an even faster speed. A faint shadow loomed behind him.
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