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The time of the Astral Leap was mere minutes away, and it was unknown how it would be once it commenced, so if the girl's wished to relax a little beforehand, then it was all fine in Azmodeus's opinion.
And just as he was about to resume his cultivation as a form of relaxation, a woman who looked like the reincarnation of an Ice Goddess made her way through a door corridor.
Her curvaceous body leaned up against the simple wooden door frames of the Heaven Exploding Cave Abode lounge area.
Following this sudden entrance, she lifted her lower dress and flashed a seductive look in the Crimson Devil Lord's direction.
"..." Azmodeus opened up one of his closed eyes as he asked, "You're intoxicated, aren't you…?"
"*Hick* N-No… Why would you think such a thing about little ol me~?? *Hick*"
She hiccuped a little before wobbling her way over to his meditating figure with a wine bottle in her hand.
It didn't take very long for her to see the feisty territorial cats in human form, as she could feel the killing intent from miles away.
But, in the end, she was an Empress, and with such a renowned status, she put her button nose to the sky before her expression became relatively haughty as she made her way around the mean cats and found herself on the backside of the devilishly handsome man.
"I-I am the Queen *Hick!* An-And with this title, I order you to give me a big kiss~!" She slurred her words while leaning over the Crimson Devil Lord's left shoulder, pressing those giant, soft mellons of hers all over his backside.
After which, she pointed to her bright red lips and said, "R-Right here. You must kiss me right here…~"
"..."
Azmodeus was momentarily stunned by that glossy look in her star-filled eyes, and just as he was about to be taken off guard by the Ice Empress's approaching lips against his own, she hiccuped a bit as her luscious lips barely grazed his before she fell unconscious.
The Crimson Devil Lord watched this whole thing go down with a straight face as he let out what felt like the millionth sigh today. And that was when he noticed the scantily-clad way that she looked with her dress slipping halfway down her milky white breasts.
This girl is always trying to talk to me in the nude… I'm beginning to think that she's a natural-born streaker…
Following this complicated thought, he had her float onto a nearby cotton bed using his Qi.
And after tucking her in so as to not catch a cold that she wouldn't be able to obtain anyway, he got back to his original objective.
The art of cultivation truly has no limits…
It was through this thought that he continued his cultivation for the last few hours he had before the Fallen Immortal Mountain would need to be taken into his storage ring.
Normally, it wouldn't be possible for a mountain to go into a storage ring and stay undetected by experts of unknown strength brackets, but with the refinement of this mountain into a treasured life weapon using his Spirit Blacksmithing Profession, that fact changed.
And it was through this refinement that Azmodeus had fully completed a few years ago that the Fallen Immortal Mountain became an Absolute Peak-Comet Rank Life Treasure.
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Life Treasure.
A special type of treasure that, if refined to a high enough level, will allow the treasure to obtain the ability to hold human life or any other form of organism, assuming that the space limit is not surpassed in the treasure.
Treasures of this type are few and far between, as they are extremely hard to make. Thus, anyone who had one was someone of important notice.
However, in the world of cultivation, being noticed without the necessary strength typically meant an early death, so most Life Treasures were left ownerless and scattered throughout all of existence.
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Azmodeus had managed to create an Absolute Peak-Comet Rank Life Treasure at the age of 200, making him a monstrous freak even among the heavenly geniuses of the Starry Expanse!
Nevertheless, he was utterly unaware of this fact, and even if he did know of it, it was highly likely that he would shrug it off and continue the infinite grind.
And it was during this infinite grind that the rift's strewn across countless parts of Prometheus started to have something change within their slight energy fluctuations!
BZZZT! BZZZT!
The rift that lay directly above the Northern Spirit Continent began to have its energy signature increase by a hundredfold, reaching levels of exponentially increasing volatility!
And it was only after this rift achieved its zenith, ultimately reaching a size billions of times larger than it was before, that it calmed its active Qi fluctuations and settled down to a state of tranquility.
However, this peacefulness was all a facade, for if one without sufficient strength got too close to this rift, then they would without a doubt die…
Nevertheless, there were a number of fearless figures standing in front of this purple blackhole-like phenomenon as they watched it with varying expressions, some of greed, some of hope; there were even some with more malavelonet expressions.
But regardless of what was going through the minds of the countless experts that had gathered at the Northern Spirit Continent, all of them had one end goal in common. And that was to see what lay on the other side of that rift...
"You guys best not get in my way as I successfully pass the Astral Leap Test with flying colors!"
A man with a large frame and a long red beard stepped forward from his position among a group of Lunar Ascendancy Realm experts. He stood in front of everyone with a conceited look on his face.
"Ha! You actually think you can pass the test this time around, Go Bo?? What about the other 3 times that you attempted and failed spectacularly!?" A different robust Lunar Ascendancy Realm Master remarked with a disdainful gleam in his gray gaze.
"Shut up, Chen Chao! Go suck on a few bananas and stuff your face like usual! And while you're busy being a glizzy gobbler, let me show you how to pass the Astral Leap!" Go Bo spat back before walking up to the Astral Leap portal and putting his hand against the ethereal energy that made up its surface.
BZZZT!!
Intense black and purple energy was shot out of the rift as it consumed the red-haired man whole!
However, he was not dead. It was just that the Astral Leap took him to where he would be attempting to shatter the world barrier.
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