Chapter 507: About to Cross the Tribulation

“The thing you had out earlier was so big. Is it the same as this one?” Su Miaoke asked curiously.

She was fascinated by Chu Feng’s Innate Eight Trigrams Compass, turning it over and over in her hands as she examined it.

In truth, she was even more curious about the large Innate Eight Trigrams Compass Chu Feng had summoned earlier, which was why she kept asking questions.

She had a feeling that the object Chu Feng was showing her wasn’t the same one she had seen before at all.

“I want to see that thing you just had,” Bai Xue said.

She also believed the two weren’t the same and thought Chu Feng might be deliberately hiding it from them.

“But this is it. Honey, open your hand,” Chu Feng said.

“Huh? Why open my hand?” Su Miaoke was completely baffled, but she did as Chu Feng said and opened her hand.

Chu Feng began to form a Hand Technique, muttering an incomprehensible Mantra under his breath.

In the blink of an eye, the tiny, miniature Compass in Su Miaoke’s hand shot into the air and began to expand rapidly.

In an instant, it grew to the size of a large bowl, hovering right in front of Su Miaoke.

‘This thing… it’s actually this magical?’

Everyone present was dumbfounded. This was the kind of scene you only ever saw on TV.

This display was like something out of a legend—an Immortal God descending to the mortal realm to activate a Magical Artifact. It was all too incredible.

It was like a power from the myths, something too fantastic to be believed.

“No way… Is this real?” Su Miaoke was so shocked her jaw dropped, her face a mask of utter astonishment.

She’d never imagined that the small, ornament-like Compass could freely expand and shrink. The idea was simply mind-boggling.

And this was just a damaged Magical Artifact. A complete, undamaged one would be even more astounding.

To say nothing of Spiritual Artifacts, Immortal Artifacts, or Divine Artifacts.

Artifacts of those calibers possessed even more outrageous power; any one of them could be a world-destroying existence.

“Are you… an Immortal?” Su Miaoke asked, looking at Chu Feng.

Chu Feng was completely floored. ‘Me? An Immortal? If I were an Immortal, would I still be here? I would’ve taken my entire family and left this place long ago.’

“No, how could I be an Immortal? I’m still a long, long way from that stage,” Chu Feng said, shaking his head.

‘If I were truly an Immortal, things wouldn’t be like this. I’d be able to achieve Ascension.’

He had acquired this Innate Eight Trigrams Compass from Jiang Tao’s master in exchange for two Martial Cultivation Spirit Stones. It was a trade that had paid off handsomely.

But then, if it hadn’t been him, no one else would have ever discovered the unique properties of this Magical Artifact.

In most people’s eyes, it was just an ordinary object—an antique at best, not worth much money.

Its value was completely incomparable to that of two Martial Cultivation Spirit Stones.

A Magical Artifact could only reveal its true power in the hands of a Spirit Cultivator. Otherwise, it was no different from an ordinary item.

Furthermore, this Magical Artifact could be bound to a master. Chu Feng had already bound it to himself, so even if it fell into another’s hands, he didn’t have to worry about them being able to use it.

The Magical Artifact would never change masters unless Chu Feng was killed.

The only other way was to forcibly erase the owner’s mark from the Magical Artifact, but doing so would first require immense power.

One would have to be significantly stronger than Chu Feng—stronger by a huge margin. Otherwise, they would suffer a backlash and be unable to erase the mark.

“Hmph, I was just saying. But you have to admit, you really do seem like one,” Su Miaoke said, pouting at Chu Feng.

“Haha, you’re just letting your imagination run wild,” Chu Feng said with a laugh. “The so-called deities, buddhas, and Immortal Gods aren’t bound to any single form. It’s possible that gods and buddhas are all around us, we simply lack the wisdom to perceive them.”

To Chu Feng, the so-called Immortal Gods and other deities weren’t beings with a physical form. They were more like special bodies of energy, unique auras, a type of rule, a benevolent thought, a form of compassion, and so on.

The culture of Great Xia had been passed down for millennia, producing countless talented and extraordinary individuals. But what was truly inherited was a form of wisdom, a principle—the very essence of the Great Dao.

As for what the Netherworld Ghost King had mentioned about the Divine Core, Chu Feng was inclined to believe that its essence was much like the essence of the Great Dao itself.

Though the Great Dao is impartial, it gives birth to all creation, governs the sun and moon, and maintains the natural order of the universe.

It was just that the people of the modern world lacked piety and positive thoughts. All manner of evil intentions were running rampant, affecting the entire world.

But regardless, on this planet, in this day and age, there were basically no high-level Spirit Cultivators left.

This meant Chu Feng had little competition, but by the same token, the pressure he faced was immense.

Not only did he have to find a Cultivation Technique, but more importantly, he had to figure out how to succeed in Crossing the Tribulation.

Only by taking that step himself could he bring everyone else along with him.