At this moment, in Sydney City, Australia.
Lu Jun was unaware that his actions had caused subtle changes to ripple across many events.
Yu Shishi had failed to make contact in time with Mo Fan, who had come in search of Totem clues. Instead, she was pursued by Su Lu's faction and plunged into an extremely perilous situation.
At present, she could be said to have walked into a dead end, unable to find anyone who could save her.
However, Lu Jun had long anticipated this. Before the National Government Trial began back then, when he passed through Hangzhou, he had once searched for traces of the Moth Woman Yu Shishi, but unfortunately, her vigilance was too strong and she had hidden herself. (Chapter 257)
At the time, he had no choice but to give up, planning to search for the Moth Woman again after the National Government Trial concluded.
After all, the truly important one was the Moon Moth Phoenix behind the Moth Woman. With its Mid Monarch level strength, it would not be so easy for it to fall. If real trouble arose, the disturbance alone would be enough to attract the Totem Black Snake, which was very close by.
Sooner or later made no real difference.
He had long decided to gather all existing major Totems in preparation for the arrival of the Sea Demon Empire, and might even draw parallels to uncover clues related to the White Tiger Totem.
Lu Jun had already reached the Super Tier, yet the White Tiger Pendant remained stuck at the Star River Magic Tool level, unable to keep pace with his progress. It was indeed time for it to be upgraded.
According to the intelligence he possessed, several thousand years ago, the Jiuzhou Totem Empire, led by the Azure Dragon, had reached the level of a Dominant Emperor (Mid Emperor), rivaling the Pacific Overlord, Cold Moon-Eyed Demon God.
As for the other three great Totems—Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise, they were all at the Peak of Ordinary Emperor level (Lower Emperor / Minor Emperor).
Although Emperors were rare, the Totem system had a unique specialty: when the Four Sacred Beasts gathered together, the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise would be equivalent to Mid-
Emperors, while the next-tier Supreme Totems would undergo metamorphosis into Sub-Emperors.
It was precisely because of this that the Totem Empire, while being betrayed by the human and demon races under its command, was still able to severely damage the Pacific Empire.
Lu Jun's goal in gathering the Totems was to utilize this resonance between Totems, allowing the origin of the White Tiger's corpse to temporarily ascend into a Pseudo-Dominant Emperor, refine it into a Metal Forbidden Spell, and forcibly break through the Dominant threshold.
Of course, at present, firstly, his Metal Element was still nowhere near Forbidden Spell—barely even mentioned. Secondly, the Sacred Totem White Tiger was nowhere to be found, so he was thinking too far ahead.
However, among the eight elements Lu Jun had planned in his cultivation path, he had already glimpsed the ultimate form of each.
Life Element (Divine Soul, Dominant Level),
Death Element (Nether King Authority, Dominant Level?!),
Space-Time Element (Eye of Space-Time, Dominant Level),
Metal Element (White Tiger Totem, Dominant Level?) ...
After organizing his cultivation state, Lu Jun was filled with confidence and applied to enter the Void Altar.
Inside the villa, his elder sister Lu Mei and Jun Yaojin stayed behind to wait.
Buzz—buzz—buzz!
Almost the moment he took out the Void Token, it erupted with dazzling brilliance that shot straight into the heavens.
In the firmament, the vast sea of multicolored light began to churn, surging endlessly and stirring up earth-shaking waves, disturbing the hidden auras concealed within the buildings below.
A Super-Tier Mage peeked curiously.
"Hmm? Someone's heading to the Void Altar again?"
Above the boundless seven-colored clouds, a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth suddenly descended, enveloping Lu Jun. Dense elemental auras spread everywhere. He felt a powerful pulling force, his body becoming unsteady as his vision blurred and twisted.
When he regained his senses, he realized he was standing upon the clouds, the sky forming an ocean above him. Vast, resplendent five-colored radiance overflowed all around, countless elements surging and rising, clouds and mist drifting gently, as if he were standing within a celestial realm.
Rumble—rumble—rumble!
Lu Jun lifted his gaze as countless brilliant ribbons of light drifted in from all directions of the void. Tens of millions of auspicious radiance streams poured down turbulently, merging together and transforming into the most fundamental magic energy, easily refined by every magic element.
At this moment, he was within clouds condensed from immense elemental auras, as if wrapped by endless pure energy, violently poured in and permeating him, cleansing essence, qi, and spirit—ascending and shedding mortality.
Splash—
Lu Jun's spiritual world was nourished. All eight magic elements advanced simultaneously. His Super Tier Curse Element and Water Element, which had already reached bottlenecks, nearly broke through to Second Level.
Realizing this, Lu Jun immediately restrained the vast pure energy and concentrated it entirely into the Metal Element Star River.
In an instant, the platinum-white vast river burst into radiant brilliance, dazzling beyond compare. It rapidly evolved and mutated, expanding every moment as brand-new stars were born one after another. The Super Tier barrier cracked and resounded.
The effects of the Void Altar were immediate
the Metal Element advanced toward Super Tier transformation.
"As expected of a globally renowned ascension holy land. The probability of Super Tier rebirth exceeds eighty percent."
He praised softly, sitting cross-legged amid the multicolored clouds, fully immersed in his rapidly soaring cultivation.
As time flowed on, the fourth day arrived.
The moment for Lu Jun's Metal Element to break through to Super Tier had finally come.
Rumble—rumble—rumble!
Suddenly, a deafening roar erupted from within his body as the pitch-black universe was replaced by platinum-white brilliance.
The Star River transformed into a sea.
A vast platinum Star Sea thundered as it forced its way into the central core region. 2,401 stars were born one after another—
the Metal Element ascended to Super Tier!!
Amid the void filled with multicolored radiance, an unrivaled sharpness surged upward, cleaving apart the sea of clouds like a sword reaching the heavens.
Lu Jun's flesh and blood reflected a platinum glow. A cold, rigid texture spread across his body, as if he were transforming into a radiant metallic statue, majestic and sacred.
He could feel that with the Metal Element's Super Tier advancement, his physical strength had risen yet again. Metallic particles condensed within his bones and meridians, and his blood thickened like liquid mercury.
Fortunately, the Water Element Star Sea and the Transcendent Force · Northern Abyss Qi Sea automatically fed back, adding a layer of gentle black-jade-like moisture that harmonized his organs. Platinum light intertwined with black-jade radiance, gradually returning his skin closer to a normal yellow hue.
Even so, Lu Jun's appearance had grown increasingly inhuman.
"What a pity. I still didn't break through to the Seventh Qi-Blood Realm, the Monarch-level physique."
After all disturbances in his spiritual world subsided, Lu Jun examined his body and sighed with regret. He was stuck between the Sixth and Seventh Realms—just like his spiritual cultivation. The Heavenly Realm was not so easily breached.
He pondered for a moment.
"Perhaps cultivating the Metal Element's Transcendent Force, allowing Metal and Water to convert into each other, Metal giving rise to Water, will be the key to breaking through?"
All in all, Lu Jun's Metal Element had successfully entered Super Tier, but mastery of its Transcendent Force would not come so quickly.
Buzz—buzz—buzz!
Suddenly, the vast platinum Star Sea within Lu Jun's spiritual world trembled as if mysteriously stirred. A profoundly enigmatic aura gathered from all directions between heaven and earth.
"What's going on?!"
Lu Jun frowned deeply and inspected it carefully. His expression turned shocked. He discovered that this mysterious aura seemed to touch the origin of the world itself, containing the fundamental truths of magic, much like how the Water Element inherited Wu Ku's Calamity Talent.
Only that the former was sharp and exposed, while the latter was gentle and nourishing.
"Metal Element Calamity Talent?! Why is it automatically condensing within me?"
Lu Jun found it unbelievable. As he silently reflected, realization dawned.
There was only one Metal Element mage in the world—him. Coupled with the nourishment from the White Tiger Pendant and his Life-Bound Magic Tool, the Tai'a Sword, if the Metal Element truly had a Calamity Bearer, it could only be him.
There were precedents. For example, Mu Ningxue after the previous Ice Element Calamity Bearer Qin Yuer died, she gradually mutated and inherited the Ice Calamity Talent.
After all, Mu Ningxue possessed the Forbidden Spell–level Ice Bow, and under its subtle transformation of her body, she had long been considered a pseudo Calamity Bearer. Among living Ice Element mages, she was the most qualified.
Before Qin Yuer's death, Mu Ningxue had already been trapped by the Ice Element—two of her magic elements had failed to awaken and perished. This was precisely the manifestation of a Calamity Talent.
At this thought, Lu Jun's lips twitched. Just how many strange and terrifying things were packed inside his body? He was practically a walking bomb—if he were to fall one day, a vast region would surely be twisted into a forbidden land.
The Water Element Calamity was stabilized by the Water-Avoidance Pearl and the River Suppressing Pearl, barely preventing it from affecting his other magic elements.
Likewise, the Death Element and Life Element Calamity Talents were each suppressed by Emperor-level authorities, allowing him to avoid the normal fate of Calamity Bearers who could only specialize in a single element.
Even so, he felt an ominous premonition—
if his soul and physical body were not strong enough, he would sooner or later be torn apart by the Calamities of all four elements.
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