Cultivation World, Activate!

"Look at the sun!" Yao Yao didn't even want to respond to Xuan Chen's words. She felt that if it weren't for her soul element having merged with this chatterbox, greasy old man, she would have slapped him and found a normal human to work with.

"Look at what?" Xuan Chen was taken aback. Suddenly, he had a feeling that this serious-looking girl in front of him was deliberately playing a prank on him. Look at the sun? Was this a joke?

On the bustling street, Blind Ah Chen sat on the side of the road wearing sunglasses, playing the erhu and singing "Shuang Quan Ying Yue." Passersby kept throwing coins into the silver bowl in front of him, making a "ding dong, ding dong" sound. No, this is not the life I want. Xuan Chen shook his head and glanced at Yao Yao, who had been standing opposite him, staring at the sun. He intended to see if he could slip away.

Suddenly, another strange feeling came over him. Yao Yao had been staring in the direction of the sunlight since earlier. Could it be...

Xuan Chen slowly turned his head, following Yao Yao's gaze, and saw the sun hanging high in the sky behind him. Contrary to his expectation, he didn't feel any blinding pain when he looked at it directly. This was the first time today that he had looked directly at the sun while facing it, and instead, an extremely comfortable feeling spread throughout his body.

Yao Yao didn't want to waste any more time and had already blocked her perception of Xuan Chen's thoughts. "Space-piercing is a skill that requires the power of one's own mind to operate. I will guide you in how to use it to open the cultivation world together," she said.

With that, Yao Yao disappeared in front of him.

"Keep your eyes on the sun," Yao Yao said in Xuan Chen's mind. With Yao Yao's guidance, a power emanating from Xuan Chen's heart continued to converge on his eyes. The sun in the distance became visible to the naked eye at an alarming rate. Xuan Chen was surprised. "Is this the legendary way to fly up to the sun and stand shoulder to shoulder with it?"

"This is the space-piercing skill. It establishes a channel between you and the target. The actual distance has not changed," Yao Yao explained quickly, fearing that Xuan Chen would lose focus and disrupt the process.

Upon hearing this, Xuan Chen's mind steadied, and he continued to use the space-piercing skill. Soon, the scenery in front of him changed. A palm-sized, round, fully translucent sphere appeared in front of Xuan Chen, emitting infinite energy as it rotated continuously. The sun's traces had disappeared around the sphere, leaving only a black space channel connecting the two ends.

"Space channel established. This is the Scarlet Flame Pearl, one of the Seven Sacred Treasures and the lowest-ranked one. The Sun, which gave birth to human beings, beings similar to our own people, was born from the energy body with the Scarlet Flame Pearl as its core. The Scarlet Flame Pearl is now an ownerless object, and by touching it, inputting your spiritual power, sensing it, and resonating with it, you can establish a contract with it." Yao Yao explained the cause and effect and the opening method seriously.

Xuan Chen was bombarded by Yao Yao's string of concepts beyond his comprehension, but he still slowly reached out to touch the Scarlet Flame Pearl…

In the instant of touching it, "Peak Qi-Refining Stage," Xuan Chen immediately sensed the rank of the Scarlet Flame Pearl, followed by the seven stages of Qi-Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Refining, Great Perfection, and Crossing Tribulation. The four stages of the lower-ranked cultivators: Yellow Rank, Profound Rank, Earth Rank, and Heaven Rank. They all appeared clearly in his mind.

"The Scarlet Flame Pearl is the sacred object that guards the cultivation world. As long as you obtain its recognition and establish a contract with it, the contract holder can open a channel to the sacred object protection area of the cultivation world in any region." Yao Yao continued to explain.

"How can you be sure that it will sign a contract with me?" Xuan Chen asked.

"It will. Input your spiritual power." Yao Yao urged him.

Xuan Chen stopped thinking too much and focused on operating the spiritual power in his Dantian. With a slight tremor of his arms, he poured his power into the sphere. The Scarlet Flame Pearl seemed to be able to sense the true owner of that power source. In the instant the energy entered Xuan Chen's body, a dull resonant sound rang out, and a red mark appeared on Xuan Chen's chest. But Xuan Chen, who was focused on the task, didn't notice it.

The next moment, the dark space channel suddenly disappeared, and the bright and warm sun was still there.

"Success?" Xuan Chen looked at Yao Yao, who had transformed back into a white-clad fairy, and asked anxiously.

"En." Yao Yao's voice was barely noticeable. "The contract is successful, and there is the next step." Her voice still had no emotional color.

Just as Xuan Chen was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he almost spit out blood again. But having become accustomed to this goddess's way of speaking, Xuan Chen replied calmly, "Then let's continue…" He was mentally prepared for the nine-nine-eighty-one hardships to come.

"Use your spiritual power to sense the red mark on your chest and directly open the cultivation world channel." Yao Yao said unhurriedly.

Xuan Chen blinked, looked at the goddess next to him, and then looked down at the mark on his chest. "I just need to sense it and open it?" "Damn it, that's it? What about the nine-nine-eighty-one hardships? What about the trials and tribulations?" Xuan Chen felt that he would be played to death by this goddess.

But despite his curses, Xuan Chen immediately operated his spiritual power and poured it into the red mark on his chest. In an instant, a red light shot out from inside him. In the blink of an eye, this red light seemed to penetrate through heaven and earth, like...