Warrior’s Promise

Su Mo followed Fu Zhuo through paths in the pagoda and yard before he arrived at the back of Deep Thousand Manor.

They were in a quiet place with a total of nine palaces that were erected about a thousand feet apart.

“Junior Shangguan. This is Tianjiu Palace, a good cultivation area.”

Fu Zhuo led Su Mo and kindly informed Su Mo as they arrived before a palace.

“A good cultivation area?” Su Mo was surprised. Was there a treasured cultivation room in the palace?

Su Mo surveyed the average looking palace in front of him. There was nothing grand nor off putting about the place and the only words on the door was the word “Tianjiu”.

“Once you enter it, you will know. Your identity badge should be able to open the palace.” Fu Zhuo smiled.

Su Mo nodded after hearing Fu Zhuo’s instructions. Then he walked towards the doors of the palace only to find a strong bounding force that blocked him.

Su Mo took out his identity badge. Automatically, the bounding force disappeared without any warning.

As he opened the doors of the palace, a blank and ordinary sight greeted him. Aside from a few wooden chairs, there was nothing else in the palace.

“Senior Fu, can I talk with you for awhile?” Su Mo did not hurry to check out the palace. Instead, he turned towards Fu Zhuo and asked earnestly.

“Hehe, of course.” Fu Zhuo immediately agreed. He knew that Su Mo had just arrived at Deity Plane and had many questions on his mind.

Furthermore, Su Mo was looked highly upon by the Palace Master and he would have a bright path ahead of him. Fu Zhuo wanted to establish a close relationship with Su Mo.

With that, Su Mo and Fu Zhuo sat down in the palace and started to talk.

Su Mo asked the questions while Fu Zhuo explained them in detail.

Around an hour later, Su Mo sent Fu Zhuo off from Tianjiu Palace.

“Thank you, Senior Fu!” Outside the palace, Su Mo cupped his fists towards Fu Zhuo and thanked the man.

“Junior Shangguan. I will check on you often in the future. If you have anything you are unsure about, feel free to ask me!” Fu Zhuo waved as he said.

“Mm!”

Su Mo nodded his head. After Fu Zhuo left, he returned to Tianjiu Palace.

Tianjiu Palace wasn’t big but there were many specialized rooms that included a pill refining room, a cultivation room and a craftsman’s room.

Su Mo walked into the cultivation room and carefully observed it.

The cultivation room was about a hundred feet long and wide. Its walls and floor was pitch black, filling the place with a sinister vibe. This was a result of the complicated writings and seal marks.

There were more than a hundred thousand seal marks on the walls that appeared to be somewhat different from typical array markings.

“What is special about this cultivation room?” An amused look crossed Su Mo’s face as he sat down in the middle of the cultivation room.

After a long moment of silence, Su Mo tried to channel a thread of Dark Force into the seal marks he was seated on.

Since Su Mo had split the Chaotic Energy in him, his body had the five elemental Dark Force and hence he had channeled the Fire based Dark Force into the ground.

In an instant, the cultivation room jerked and a dense Fire Based Energy rushed out of the seal marks.

The temperature of the cultivation room soared in a split second.

“What thick energy!” Su Mo jumped in surprise. The energy was pure and dense.

Fire Based Energy flooded the cultivation room, causing it to crackle like fire.

“How amazing. No wonder Fu Zhuo said that this was a treasure for cultivation!”

Su Mo jumped for joy as he immediately directed Chaotic Energy into the seal mark.

However, unlike what he expected, Chaotic Energy did not appear but Five Elemental Dark Force rushed around the room instead.

Waves of the Five Elemental Dark Force, metal, wood, water, fire and ground filled the room.

“Not bad! This is still great!” Su Mo was not disappointed, he was excited.

It was enough to have the Five Elemental Energy, Su Mo only needed to merge them into Chaotic Energy.

“I believe that this cultivation room has more to it than the Five Elemntal Dark Force!” Su Mo muttered to himself. It would probably have other elements such as Thunder Energy, Yin Yang energy etc.

Su Mo took in a deep sigh. With this cultivation room, his cultivation speed would leap tremendously.

The energy there was thick and pure and was nothing like the Lower Plane.

With that, Su Mo started to ponder to himself. He had gotten a lot of information from Fu Zhuo just now.

For instance, in Deity Plane, there were nine ranks of the True Deity and it was known as the Nine Rank True Deity.

There were different grades in each rank as well, the Lower Grade, Middle Grade and Advanced Grade.

Fu Zhuo was only a Rank 1 Middle True Deity cultivation rank while the Palace Master was a Rank 9 True Deity.

Above the True Deity, there was the Supreme Being, who was a top martial artist.

It was supposed that the Great Xia Supreme Being Palace had four Supreme Beings who were all very strong.

Yet, there was also the Lower, Middle and Advanced Grades for the Supreme Being, with each of them differing from the preceding grade by a long mile.

Above the Supreme Being were the Creators, the Sovereigns from the Ancient Times.

There were eight Sovereigns, Chaos God Emperor, Ancient Demon Elder, Netherworld Sovereign, Heavenly Sovereign, Undying Divine Sovereign, Chaotic Archosaur and the Reincarnation Heavenly Sovereign.

Granted, there were other Sovereigns in Deity Plane who were of similar cultivation ranks to these Eight Sovereigns.

However, the strength of these Sovereigns were far from the Eight Sovereigns.

Most of these Sovereigns were gathered at Sky Pool Holy Court.

Sky Pool Holy Court was not only large, it also had many experts in it.

That was because the Sky Pool Holy Court was where the Human Tribe and many others tribes were.

However, the very characteristic that Sky Pool Holy Court had diverse tribes with different bloodlines meant that the superpowers there would fight internally and hence, they were divided.

Sky Pool Holy Court had eighty-one regions that were individually governed and non cooperative.

In other words, although Sky Pool Holy Court was a great region, it was made up of a variety of tribes and superpowers that happened to gather at the same region.

“I should cultivate first. My first goal is to become a Deity within ten years!”

Su Mo took in a long and deep sigh. Since the cultivation room he was in was effective, he was closer to his goal.

Originally, Su Mo had thought that he would need at least twenty years to become a Deity.

With the effective cultivation room, Su Mo had hoped of becoming a deity within ten years.

Su Mo faced the ground filled with seal marks and directed a line of Chaotic Energy into it before he began his cultivation.

The Rank 4 Empty God Realm was known as the Ascendance Rank. Ascending was the difference between an Empty God and a True Deity.

This rank required the Primordial Spirit to merge with one’s Divine Elixir. Once this was done, the Primordial Spirit would completely transform and being divine.

At that point, the martial artist would not only become incredibly strong, the Primordial Spirit would no longer be bound to a physical body.

Su Mo allowed the Five Elemental Dark Force to surround his body as he devoured them. He needed to refine his Divine Elixir further to attempt breaking through to the Rank 4 Empty God Realm.

Time ticked by slowly and Su Mo forget about time as he immersed himself in his cultivation.

Yet, Deep Thousand Hall started to turn chaotic as he cultivated.

“A person from the Lower Plane has joined Deep Thousand Hall and entered Nine Heavens Hall to become its master!”

Within two hours of Su Mo’s arrival, news of him had spread through Deep Thousand Hall and created much buzz among the disciples.

Nine Heavens Hall was a goal that many disciples were aiming for. After all, the typical palace and yards did not have such exceptional cultivation rooms.

Many genius disciples were unable to take over Nine Heavens Hall even after so much effort. Yet, Nine Heavens Hall had been taken over by some martial artist from the Lower Plane all of a sudden.

Numerous people fumed with anger and Su Mo became the devil in many disciples’ eyes.

In an instant, these disciples started to inquire more about Su Mo, and Fu Zhuo’s Acceptance Hall was stomped over by many people looking to get more information about Su Mo.