Chapter 454: A Conflict of Martial Dao [V5C161 – A Distance Within Reach]

The worldly phenomena only dispersed at twilight. Meanwhile, a pillar of water half the height of a man suddenly shot out from the Marrow Cleansing Pond—Zhao Jundu was actually about to leave isolation! The three dukes and supreme elders of the Zhao clan were moved yet again. Was he about to complete his advancement in just half a day?

Duke You Zhao Xuanji’s brows twitched. He was planning to perform a voice transmission—telling Zhao Jundu to stay calm and that consolidating his realm was important—when his eyes froze and his voice vanished.

An ancient-style robe hanging on the nearby sago palm tree flew up and went into the pillar of surging water. Soon afterward, Zhao Jundu slowly walked up along the jade stairs, the three origin vortices in his body shining alternately. He had actually crossed over rank-ten and rank-eleven in half a day to stand as a rank-twelve champion!

This legendary advancement wasn’t forced in the least. The power of Zhao Jundu’s three origin vortices was pure to the extreme, and his qi had condensed into liquid. But that wasn’t all; true experts like Zhao Xuanji could see that the circulating origin distillate was extremely viscous—much like an emulsion—and suffused with a faint trace of azure.

This time, the Zhao clan elders were shaken once more. Such a quality of daybreak origin power would hardly appear in several hundred years, even for a millennia-old clan like the Zhao. Before reaching the champion rank, Zhao Jundu could only be treated as a young genius...