The sixth level is terrifying.
But Li Shuang still had a certain degree of confidence in clearing it.
If she relied solely on herself, perhaps she would succeed decades later.
But to succeed this time, it seemed like a pipe dream.
A cultivator who clears the sixth level of the Divine Soul Golden Altar at 35 years old has probably never existed since the establishment of Myriad Law City.
Given a little more time, clearing it before she turned a hundred, Li Shuang would have some confidence.
But she... didn't want to wait that long.
For a cultivator, a mere century might not be too long.
But the urgency in Li Shuang's heart told her that she absolutely couldn't wait that long.
Opportunities that could be seized must be seized!
Resources that could be fought for must be fought for!
Otherwise.
If the great calamity truly descended, an ordinary cultivator like her would only be swept up by it!
Li Shuang took a deep breath.
These three days.
Her gains were actually far greater than anyone imagined.
The reason was simple.
She once again used the Heaven and Earth Smelting Furnace, at the cost of 50,000 value points, Li Shuang consumed a seventh-grade Enlightenment Fruit, a rare treasure of heaven and earth, forcefully pushing her comprehension to its limit.
Three days passed.
The effect of the Enlightenment Fruit had long worn off.
And her understanding of the Five Elements had already advanced to a higher level.
Then... she would give it her all.
The moment the calamity manifested.
Overwhelming vines emerged from every corner, violently striking towards Li Shuang.
A block of solid ice suddenly appeared around Li Shuang, encasing her.
In front of the massive vines, the ice Li Shuang transformed into appeared exceptionally tiny. At this moment, she was like the small boat Lin Qingling conjured, struggling to navigate through turbulent waves.
But these waves were too astonishing; her boat could sink at any moment.
Sink to the bottom.
What then?
If one comprehends all things.
The boat is also water; the boat entering water is like water entering water. What is there to fear?
Li Shuang silently sensed the vast wood-attributed spiritual energy filling the Golden Altar, just as the solid ice was about to completely shatter.
Suddenly.
A faint green light flowed on the ice, and the speed of the vine attacks unconsciously slowed down.
"What... what's going on?" In front of the water screen, everyone was surprised.
The Five Elements Calamity never held back against anyone; it was formed by natural elements.
The Dao of Heaven is ruthless, and natural elements are naturally ruthless.
But just now.
Those vines clearly showed signs of holding back.
Could it be that Li was so likable that even the vines liked her?
"This is unfair!"
"The City Lord wouldn't deliberately go easy on her, would she?"
"Myriad Law City and the Divine Soul Prison are both controlled by the City Lord; it's not impossible for her to give Li a backdoor."
Jealous voices rang out.
"A bunch of fools." Cang Yin suddenly scoffed, glancing at those people.
The other trial-takers looked unconvinced, but constrained by not being Cang Yin's match, they dared not speak their anger.
You Lan said expressionlessly, "Didn't you see the green light spots on the solid ice? Li used her comprehension of wood-attributed spiritual energy to envelop the ice element."
Some suddenly understood.
Others looked bewildered.
Using her comprehension of wood-attributed spiritual energy to envelop the ice element? They understood every word of that sentence, but put together, it seemed incomprehensible.
Feng Yu showed a faint smile, "It can only be said that although she is young, her comprehension of all things is already above ours."
As a cultivator with an ice-attributed spiritual root, Li naturally couldn't truly use other elements, but she extracted her comprehension of other elements and disguised her ice attribute as a wood attribute.
Originally.
The Wood Calamity had locked onto Li, but as her elemental aura changed, the green vines temporarily lost their target, not knowing whom to attack.
"This kind of attack method, those with slightly short-sighted vision probably wouldn't even be able to see it," Mo Li said with a sigh.
Those who were maliciously speculating just now: "..."
Should they just point at their noses and curse them?
Li Shuang's tactic only confused the green vines for a short time. When the green vines reacted and resumed their attack, the solid ice around her quickly shattered completely.
All of this was within Li Shuang's expectations. Li Shuang's expression was calm. She held the Black Abyss Sword, and its sharp aura fully erupted, rapidly cutting down vines.
The Black Abyss Sword was not of high grade.
Fortunately, Li Shuang and Li Li had an excellent natural compatibility, and the power of Black Abyss far exceeded what it should have been.
Li Shuang simultaneously applied her newly comprehended sharpness of metal to it.
The sharpness of metal perfectly countered the entanglement of wood.
The Five Elements generate and restrain each other; responding with the comprehension of metal was the best approach.
Of course.
Everyone knew that the Five Elements generate and restrain each other.
When encountering the Five Elements Calamity, cultivators always found it a bit easier when they faced a calamity that was restrained by their own attribute.
Next, were calamities of the same attribute as their own.
The most difficult.
Were calamities that restrained their spiritual root attribute.
But the Five Elements Calamity descended randomly.
All five types of calamities would eventually be encountered.
To be able to integrate elemental comprehension into one's divine soul, like Li Shuang, and apply it to one's spiritual root attribute at any time, was truly rare.
You Lan silently watched Li Shuang's various coping methods.
When she was Li's age, she was at her most arrogant. She always felt that her talent was unparalleled and that she was destined to walk an invincible path.
So.
When she cleared the sixth Great Dao Mountain, she also chose not to advance to the Integration Stage.
According to legend.
If one could fully comprehend the Five Elements, one could achieve a perfect advancement when breaking through to the Integration Stage.
An Integration Stage cultivator with perfect advancement could merge with all things, becoming an unparalleled powerhouse in the Integration Stage as soon as they advanced.
At first.
She truly believed she could do it.
However.
Days passed by.
Comprehension became increasingly difficult.
Even though she won every Divine Soul Golden Altar competition she participated in.
Her progress speed still became slower and slower.
Ultimately.
She still chose to advance to the Integration Stage.
She comforted herself.
Although it wasn't a perfect advancement now, the Calamity of All Things she faced was already very powerful. Even her master said it was a super powerful Calamity of All Things, rarely seen in a century.
The Calamity of All Things being so strong proved that the Integration Stage she advanced to was already rare in the world.
Her self-comfort was actually not wrong at all.
After all, if the Calamity of All Things had been even a fraction stronger, let alone advancing, she might have perished on the spot.
But now.
She saw Li.
Li was so much younger than her, and had only experienced one Divine Soul Golden Altar, yet her comprehension of the Five Elements was already subtly above her own.
Her speed in turning comprehension into practical application was even more astonishingly fast.
A bitter smile appeared at the corner of You Lan's lips.
One's pride truly could be completely shattered at a certain moment.
Then Li.
Please go higher and further.
Please go all the way and become a legend.
Being crushed and defeated by a legend probably wouldn't be considered shameful.