At the very top floor of the Trial Tower, Ta Ling quietly watched Yun Jin, a subtle smile playing on her lips.
The master truly is the master.
It hasn't been long, yet she's once again set foot on the path to the ultimate Primordial Force. After all, the Primordial Force of Time and Space has never been fully mastered.
This idea is deeply ingrained—most cultivators wouldn't even dare to think about controlling time and space. But Yun Jin was different. Once again, she treated the Primordial Force of Time and Space as a goal she must achieve step by step.
Inside the Trial Tower, Yun Jin had discarded all other distractions. Her mind contained only one thing: battle.
By the time she reached the thirtieth floor, using only the Laws of Metal started to become a struggle.
Each floor left her with fresh wounds.
Although they healed automatically when she moved to the next level, the sensation of being hurt was anything but pleasant. Yet Yun Jin seemed almost perverse. No matter how deep the injuries, a faint smile lingered on her lips.
Several times, she was driven to the brink of death.
She could've easily turned the tables by abandoning her insistence on using only the Laws of Metal, but she refused. She'd rather endure severe injuries and, at the critical moment between life and death, seize that fleeting opportunity to strike back!
This dance on the knife's edge, this constant flirtation with death, was addictive. She was utterly enjoying every single battle.
Using only the super Laws of Metal, Yun Jin finally reached the fiftieth floor. Here, the monsters began to wield an entire Primordial Force. And there were fifty of them in total.
Ta Ling watched quietly. If Yun Jin persisted in using only the Laws of Metal, she might fail this floor.
Yet she stuck to her plan.
Surrounded by fifty monsters each mastering a full Primordial Force, she weaved through the gaps between them, though wounds kept appearing across her body.
Ta Ling's heart trembled slightly.
She knew there was no real death inside the Trial Tower.
She knew that if Yun Jin wished, she could instantly obliterate all the monsters and heal herself.
Still, seeing Yun Jin's injuries multiply, her heart could not remain calm.
After unleashing multiple rounds of Thousandfold Radiant Light, Yun Jin temporarily left the battle circle, gasping heavily. She had barely killed ten monsters.
Yet it seemed... she was reaching her limit. The monsters charged again.
This time, could she still win?
It looked like a true dead end.
Yun Jin's gaze was incredibly calm.
In that moment, the monsters' movements seemed to slow in her sight.
She saw it.
She saw the only way to victory.
The instant the monsters surrounded her, Yun Jin darted through a narrow gap between two of them at a razor-sharp angle.
Then, with a single strike, she cleaved one monster in half. Before the others could reach her, she spotted the next gap. Her speed and strength hadn't increased significantly, yet she always found the one escape path.
Time and time again, she escaped death.
Time and time again, she turned near-fatal situations into counterattacks.
She was like the most patient hunter, discovering her prey's weakness step by step and sweeping them all in a single trap.
Ta Ling's eyes gleamed.
These monsters did follow a logic in their actions. But the logic was extremely complex, impossible for ordinary people to decipher. Fully mastering it would require billions of calculations. And yet Yun Jin seemed to have grasped it completely.
This wasn't calculation. It was... instinct.
Countless battles had honed her into a perfect fighter.
This instinct allowed her body to react optimally in any fight. Those with this instinct were born battle fanatics.
"It's over," Ta Ling said with a smile.
Yun Jin had cleared this floor. When she beheaded the last monster, the fiftieth floor was conquered.
Soon, the next floor appeared. A new wave of monsters surged forward.
Yun Jin closed her eyes, unmoving. A faint smile curved her lips.
So that's it…
She understood!
As the monsters opened their gaping maws toward her, Yun Jin's eyes snapped open. At that instant, thousands of sword energies erupted from her body!
Fifty-one monsters vanished in a flash!
Yun Jin's body shimmered with golden light, and the edge of the Tai'a Sword sparkled with icy brilliance.
The Primordial Metal.
The final elemental Primordial Force of the Five Elements was now under Yun Jin's control.
With this, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth were all gathered. Only the final fusion remained to complete the ultimate Five Elements Primordial Force.
Yun Jin's hand clenched slightly, a faint smile on her lips. Her Primordial Metal had been forged through countless battles, countless near-death experiences, countless moments on the edge of life and death.
Its True Meaning could be summed up in one word: Combat.
The calm and wisdom to seize opportunities in desperate situations.
The courage to swing a sword against stronger foes without hesitation.
The Primordial Metal was the crystallization of her fighting will. In her hands, this Primordial Force existed to fight.
The Five Elemental Primordial Forces now stood distinct in Yun Jin's sea of Laws.
They seemed deeply connected, yet still lacked something to truly unite them. No wonder Ta Ling had said that understanding the Five Elements on her own would take countless years. But on the top floor of this tower lay the ultimate method to condense the Five Elements.
Which meant...
No more time to waste.
Having mastered the Primordial Metal, Yun Jin no longer needed to hold back. She began ascending the tower at a crushing pace.
The previous fifty floors had taken her three months. The next forty-nine floors took only three days.
Finally, Yun Jin stood on the very top of the Trial Tower. Once again, she had cleared the Trial Tower.
In the void, Ta Ling's voice sounded.
"Congratulations on clearing the Trial Tower on Hard Mode. Please select your reward."
The Tower listed multiple Primordial Forces and Laws as rewards.
Yun Jin didn't hesitate. "My choice is the Five Elements Primordial Force!"
Condensing the Five Elements herself might take decades or even centuries.
But what she lacked most now was time.
"As you wish," Ta Ling's voice echoed.
A flood of intricate information surged into Yun Jin. A strange force descended, and the five elemental Primordial Forces inside her slowly began to merge and condense.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth—all five elements intertwined, balancing and opposing each other, forming a perfectly harmonious whole.
The rivers of the five Laws slowly converged, gradually becoming one.
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See??? Ta Ling said so...
I'm really curious about her past self.