Chapter 716: Radiant Sun, 36 pillars

"Guild master, where are we going next?"

After coming out of the inner world, Ajax waited for an hour before all the young cultivators were asked to move to the next step of their special training.

Within no time, everyone mounted the livid griffin and started travelling. 

As Ajax was more curious in nature than others, he asked the guild master about their next step in special training.

"We are going to the revered protector's secret realm,"

The guild master replied to Ajax while guiding his contracted spirit beast.

"Since your cultivation and battle prowess has increased a little, we will be focusing on another important thing for a cultivator and it is increasing your body strength,"

Elder Ramon, who likes to talk a lot continued when the guild master and explained to the young cultivators about the next step in their training.

'Waoh'

When they heard Elder Ramon's words, all the young cultivators except for Ajax became excited.

'My body is already tempered with fire and lightning. How strong can it become with the tempering in that secret realm,'

In the five elemental world, his body was tempered with the lightning from the lightning tribulation and fire from the rank 6 spirit beast along with fire from the lava pool. So, he felt this specific step will not bring him any benefits.

Nevertheless, he could not leave because there are still three more secret realms to visit after this one.

"I named my secret realm as 'Radiant Sun' because there was a sun in the realm which shines brightly. However, the most important thing about that sun is, it releases a pure form of fire energy along with some other energy that helps the cultivators to temper their body,"

Since the guild master and Elder Ramon had said something about the training in his secret realm, he started explaining about his secret realm.

'Excellent,'

Elder Seward is known for his strong body which could even stop an attack from normal elite general cultivators without doing anything.

So, when they heard his words, they became a little excited because they were finally given a chance to make their bodies as strong as Elder Seward.

"Everyone, sit tight. We are about to enter the 'Radiant Sun' secret realm,"

All of a sudden, the guild master asked everyone to properly sit and continued, "As soon as you enter the secret realm, you will feel a heatwave. Just endure it for a couple of seconds and it will disappear."

Just as he finished his words, the livid griffin jumped into a portal that appeared out of nowhere.

'Aargh'

Just like the guild master said, as soon as they entered the secret realm, everyone felt a heatwave and the young cultivators could not help but groan.

Nevertheless, the heatwave disappeared after a couple of seconds which made them heave a sigh of relief.

Only after that, they were able to focus on their surroundings.

The secret realm was not very hot and not very cool. It was moderate.

It was completely filled with trees of all sizes; however, one common fact of all the trees is their leaf. Every tree's leaves were shining with orange light.

As for the sky, there were no clouds except for a huge sun which was blinding them whenever they tried to look at it.

"So, let me explain more about your training in my secret realm,"

After the young cultivators adjusted to the new secret realm, Elder Seward started explaining, "The current training depends on your willpower and endurance. The more you endure, the greater the benefits will be."

No one talked while Elder Seward was explaining and carefully listened to his word.

As for the livid griffin, he flew towards that brightly shining sun. With each passing minute, all the young cultivators were feeling that they were getting closer to the huge sun.

Nevertheless, their full attention was on Elder Seward's words.

"Do you see the pillars over there,"

Soon, Elder Seward pointed his fingers in the direction the livid griffin was flying and asked the young cultivators.

"Yes, master,"

"Yes, Elder Seward,"

They nodded their heads as they noticed black coloured pillars in the distance.

"There are 36 pillars with a gap of exactly 100 meters between each pillar. We will drop you at the first pillar and you need to walk forward. As you walk forward, the heat emitted by the radiant sun will be increased. So, give your best and tempered your bodies as much as possible,"

By the time, Elder Seward finished his words, the livid griffin reached the first black pillar and landed in front of the first pillar.

"The training starts now,"

As soon as the young cultivators climbed down from the spirit beast, the guild master and other vagrant cultivators left in a hurry.

"Everyone, let's start,"

Paulin was very much excited to temper his body with fire because he is a water elemental summoner. So, if his body is tempered with fire, he could even fight with the powerful fire elemental opponents.

Soon, without wasting any more time, everyone started walking towards the second black pillar.

Just like them, Ajax casually walked as he didn't feel the slightest discomfort.

Within no time, everyone reached the fifth pillar where they started feeling the burning sensation.

'Even though I can still feel nothing, I should accompany them,'

Ajax looked at the young cultivators and maintained the same pace as them.

'Tenth pillar,'

Finally, one of the cultivators could not bear the heat and sat down to temper his body.

'Looks like this is Neil's limit,'

Among all the young cultivators, only Ajax and Neil were below the general realm. However, everyone knew about Ajax's battle prowess.

So, it leaves only Neil. So, he stopped at the tenth pillar and started using the heat energy radiated from the radiant sun to temper his body.

Actually, this training's essence was to find the suitable heat energy which should be not too strong or too weak to temper their body.

While Neil started tempering his body, others started feeling scorching heat; however, that was not their limit.

'I can do it,'

'I should at least reach half of the pillars,'

Almost all the young cultivators' target was to reach the 18th pillar. So, enduring the pain, they started moving forward.

"Senior brothers and sisters, when you are tempering your body, use the cultivation technique given to us by our master,"

Just as they started moving, Neil opened his eyes and gave a suggestion to the other young cultivators.

Hearing those words, all the young cultivators nodded their heads and continued to walk forward.

'With each pillar, we cross, our bodies are becoming a little tempered on their own,'

Even though there was no effect on his body, he could notice some minute changes in others; however, Ajax didn't say anything as he continued to move forward.

From the 12th pillar onwards, one after another started sitting down and started their body tempering because they knew that if they walked any further, their bodies would be charred.

'Senior brother Levi, Dark flame, Fearless gorilla and Silver goliath,'

Other than Ajax, these four reached the 18th pillar and without any hesitation, they sat down tempering their bodies.