Chapter 123 - Ki and Divine

The Achron level golem and the bronze throne's treasure spirit watched Chojusen's transformation with both approval and fear. They were afraid of that transformation Chojusen had gone through, directly breaking through to the sixth and final level of heartforce from the fourth to create a Heartforce World, yet happy to see someone pass the first test of the Doomview Castle; it had been far too many chaos cycles since the last time they had seen someone pass the first test.

When Chojusen withdrew his Heartforce world and had his demeanor change back to normal, the Achron level golem let of a whistling noise and said "Damn kid, I didn't think you'd be able to pass the first test! And you even passed it with the highest possible score; through the shattering the dimensional world via heartforce. Mhmm… since you chose to begin with the Heartforce test, you can have these..."

The golem gave Chojusen a couple godgems filled with Heartforce techniques. Coincidentally, the first three levels of the Daoheart technique, which he had already bought from the system, where also included in these godgems. There were also some heartforce attack, illusion, and creation techniques that were either on par or more profound that the techniques Chojusen found in Daolord Eightheart's godgem.

The golem then gestured towards Chojusen to follow him once more and stopped when they were about 75% through the hallway. After making another gesture, the golem summoned a silver throne. Chojusen confirmed almost immediately that his guess was correct as this silver throne also had three paths of "Ki, Divine, and Heartforce," which were more dangerous than the bronze throne, while not being as dangerous as the golden throne's.

Chojusen walked up to the silver throne and chose to test his Ki next; his Ki Refining and Body Refining paths were both on their own levels of ridiculousness, so it didn't matter which test he picked.

For the Ki Refining path's test, Chojusen was once again sent into another dimension by the silver throne's treasure spirit. Once again, he couldn't move around. He could only watch as a formation started sending pressure directly towards his dantian's inner world. Chojusen understood almost immediately that this was a test of his Ki Cultivation's foundation. If his Dantian could not support the pressure needed to pass this test, it meant his foundation was not solid enough to meet the mark.

A test of foundation? For Chojusen? This was something he was more than confident towards. As an Ancestral Immortal, Chojusen's foundation, was determined by two things: the quality of his Jindan and the space of his Dantian.

It must recalled that Chojusen still had a black hole growing both itself and the volume of space in his Dantian world. By now the black hole could rival the size of a Chaosworld, while the space in Chojusen's Dantian had grown to multiverse levels — the same as a Realmverse. As for Chojusen's Jindan? His foundation before establishing the Jindan was so absurd that when it did get created, the class of his Jindan surpassed first class; the best possible Jindan. Now after constantly being nurtured by the black hole in his Dantian, Chojusen's Jindan had compacted an refined down into a dark golden mass of pure, concentrated energy; it was well above what was theorized to be possible for Jindans.

Chojusen stood still in the world of the Ki path's test and waited for the pressure to stop. He knew he would definitely pass this test. The golem told him that these tests were cultivation dependant, but even if it weren't, Chojusen would still pass this test as long as he was given the same standard as a Daolord.

To no one's surprise, Chojusen passed this test; the final moments of pressure barely caused him an itch. Chojusen returned to the red carpeted hallway to see the silver throne's spirit treasure and the Achron level golem stare at him like he was some sort of monster. These two had acted the part of spectators and saw how easily he had ignored the pressure of the test.

It was so impactful a scene because these two had been in this Doomview Castle for countless aeons. They had seen multiple legendary cultivators go through these tests, but not a single one had passed the silver throne without at least looking deadbeat. Chojusen's initial performance at the Heartforce test was impressive, but he was at least tired when he came out; this performance for the Ki path was really too exaggerated.

The golem tried to shake off the feeling of dread this Ancestral Immortal was starting to inspire within him, and gave Chojusen the rewards for passing the silver throne's Ki path test. There were even more Godgems with much higher quality techniques recorded within; unfortunately these techniques would barely be of use to Chojusen; only a Dream Dao technique of a Hegemon level Emperor managed to be useful from this haul.

The walk through the red carpeted hallway continued and at last, Chojusen made it to the golden throne. By now, he was expected to know what he had to do, thus the golem didn't say anything. Chojusen knew what to do since he arrived in this hallway, so he made his way up to the last throne and was instantly transported to the Divine path's world of the golden throne. He had already chosen Ki, and Heartforce, and all the inhabitants of the Doomview Castle had watched him progress, thus the golden throne's treasure spirit knew what his last test would be.

To Chojusen's surprise, after he entered the dimension where his Divine path would be tested, he could actually move. Chojusen looked around and found a large circular construct with a set of instructions written neatly on the side. The instructions read "send a wisp of divine energy through the gate to face your test."

"A Formation Artifact?" Chojusen unintentionally said. These artifacts were rather hard to dissect, but Chojusen was a master in both Artifacting and Formation fields. He spent ten minutes looking through the circular construct before understanding what it was used for.

Chojusen sent a wisp of his divine energy into the construct and an elite World God hologram appeared in front of him. This World God had mastered one complete Dao of Nihility, since it was formed with Chojusen's divine energy as a guide. Chojusen used the Dao of Nihility to establish his Empyrean God, True God, and Elder God cultivation base; the basic Law of Nihility accounted for the completed Dao path Empyrean Gods needed to stabilize their cultivation, the Grand Dao of Nihility was used in the same way for the True God level, and the Heavenly Dao of Nihility was used for his current Elder God rank.

Now Chojusen had to defeat someone "well over his level," an Elite World God, while fighting against his own "chosen" Dao. This would be incredibly difficult for other Ancestral Immortals to accomplish, but Chojusen? He had already killed two Verge level Daolords of the fourth step! Granted, he had the help of Kaguya teleporting him around, but still! It was incomprehensible to most people.

Chojusen wouldn't even have to use his Chaosfiend Scale Mail or Sage Modes to beat this hologram. A single commanding swipe of his Final Staff would be enough to completely destroy this World God level hologram… But that would be too boring! So instead Chojusen used a bit of Void magic to lock that hologram away in an infinite void storm. Against his Omega Void Dao the poor hologram was completely helpless and couldn't make a single move against Chojusen.

And just like that the fight was over… or so Chojusen thought. This was the golden throne, its difficulty was borderline impossible to achieve, so in reality the test was only beginning. After the beating the first hologram, two more appeared; both still at the Elite World God level.

"Mhmm?" Chojusen saw two more opponents appear and charge at him with no hesitation, so he struck back against them with his staff. Towards one of his opponents, he used a chilling yin thrust of his staff, while the other opponents faced a blazing yang sweep. Both new opponents shattered into dust and faded away. But then four new holograms took their place…

"Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to test out the strength of my new Omega Daos." Chojusen muttered to himself before fading into a gale of wind. His figure appeared behind one of his new enemies and as his finger touched the back of his enemy, Chojusen watched as the World God became consumed in razor sharp wind blades; not even dust was left behind.

Chojusen flashed through the world with the sound of thunder signaling his appearance or disappearance. When another enemy tasted his Omega Lightning, they charred away into nothing. Chojusen disintegrated one of the remaining two World Gods with his Omega Flames, while the last hologram suffered being ground down in Omega Heavy Water.

Then eight World God appeared, but this time all eight were supreme level World Gods. It didn't make a difference how many appeared as they were all easily killed of by the overpowered Ancestral Immortal Chojusen. A Railgun attack from the Dao of Magnetism annihilated two World Gods in one hit. A freezing storm of Snow and Hail snuffed out the lifeforce driving three more of the World Gods. Omega Wood was summoned from the earth Chojusen created and the last three World Gods were subdued, just long enough for a stream of metal shards to descend from the heavens to shred them to pieces.

BOOM! sixteen more supreme level World Gods came into existence! *Sigh* Chojusen stopped playing these games and directly entered Chi Sage Mode, his Figure grew blurry and with sixteen swipes of his Nihility covered Final Staff, all the World Gods died before they could even take their first breaths after manifesting.

BOOOM!! Thirty two more supreme level World Gods descended from the Formation Artifact! "How many of these are they going to throw at me?" Chojusen couldn't help but asked himself this question, as his figured faded back into the nullvoid of nihility and his staff claimed thirty two more Supreme World God level lives.

BOOOOM!!! Sixty four more World Gods descended into the Divine Path's test world. However, now they weren't Supreme World Gods, rather they had transcended to the Daolord level of power even with their World God levels of cultivation; they had each fused several supreme Daos of Nihility! Each of these World Gods were comparable to regular Daolords of the first step.

Chojusen actually had to enter his Chaosfiend Scale Mail form on top of his Chi Sage Mode to reach their levels of raw strength. When this raw strength met his profound insights into the Dao, he once again became a Daolord Massacring fiend! Every swipe of Chojusen's staff transcended the speed of light by fifty times and in less than a second, all of the Transcendent level World Gods perished before his might.

BOOOOOM!!!! The world seemed to distort slightly as the might of 128 Transcendent level World Gods manifested and blazed their auras with a fighting spirit. Still, the firepower of this army of World Gods could do nothing to stop Chojusen from killing them all and in another two second, they all died.

BOOOOOOM!!!!! Now the world was actually being distorted as 256 Daolord level World God combatants were crammed together in such as a small space of several billion kilometers. So many of them were present shooting off countless nihility based techniques that the world seemed to burn down into nothing from all the reckless energy attacks.

Chojusen narrowed his eyes at this display of power wondering to himself if anyone in the past managed to beat this insane challenge. He knew he could pass it himself, but he had several Omega Daos under his belt; surely there weren't many people like him in this plane…

Now there were way too many people shooting off attacks; Chojusen was bound to get hit if he did nothing to change his circumstances. But then again, even if he was hit, it wasn't like he would be critically injured. At most his invulnerable Nihility form would consume a bit of divine energy and he would be back to normal. But there was no need to take damage if he could avoid it, so for the first time, Chojusen called for his Heatforce world to descend onto the battlefield!

"Descend!" Chojusen yelled, and a pristine Heartforce World covered everything inside this dimension's billion or so kilometers of range. Chojusen Heartforce World could expand up to the size of a Chaosworld, so upon being concentrated to just a billion or so kilometers large, it became ridiculously potent. Everything from the nihility attacks these World Gods threw to the World Gods themselves were restrained significantly. This allowed Chojusen to ruin this wave of World Gods with a laidback attitude; having a Heartforce World was a overpowered as he imagined alright.

With all these World Gods dead, Chojusen half expected the test to be over, reserving the other half of his expectations in preparation to face off against 512 more World Gods. Instead, he received a message, which stated "You have one hour of rest before the final wave!"