Seeking Immortality in a Bizarre World-Chapter 666 - 660 Integrating Body Late Stage, Qingxu Secret Realm_1

A one percent cultivation progress in Mid-Stage Integration might not seem like much, but in reality, the time required was not insignificant. This could be achieved through two years of accumulation in the Demon-Sealing Spirit Tower or over ten years of dedicated meditation. Of course, there were simpler and more convenient methods, such as devouring a Sky-reaching Spirit Treasure using the Spirit Devouring Treasure Art. The enhancement from a single Sky-reaching Spirit Treasure was far greater than just that. Currently, Jia Ren felt no pressure, so there was no need to rush.

Jia Ren seemed to recall something. He tossed six pieces of bloody flesh to the Xuan Beast Avatar, to be used in conjunction with the Corpse-Eating Fiend Pill. All six had been Mahayana Stage Cultivators, and their Divine Skills were potent. This was an excellent opportunity to learn external Divine Skills that should not be missed. The Xuan Beast Avatar was not new to consuming the Corpse-Eating Fiend Pill and handled it with practiced ease.

The Insect External Incarnation transformed into the Golden-Winged Peng Bird. Its life having become precious, the bitter task of consuming the Corpse-Eating Fiend Pill now fell upon it. As a non-combatant support avatar, its value in nurturing medicines and feeding beasts hadn’t been fully realized, so it had to endure this additional hardship.

Upon digesting the flesh and absorbing the medicinal power of the Corpse-Eating Fiend Pill, it instantly mastered the spells and Divine Skills of the six Mahayana Stage Cultivators. What particularly caught Jia Ren’s attention was the Heaven and Earth One Slash he had witnessed earlier. This was a formidable offensive Great Divine Power with astonishing destructive capabilities. Legend had it that an Immortal comprehended it after observing a strike that sundered heaven and earth; its power was tyrannical and unparalleled. The unfortunate cultivator who died at Jia Ren’s hands had mastered this Great Divine Power. Coupled with his Mysterious Heavenly Spiritual Treasure, the Xuantian Bloodshed Divine Sword, his combat power had been among the very top of Mahayana Stage Cultivators. Unfortunately, he had encountered Jia Ren. No matter how powerful the Heaven and Earth One Slash was, it first had to hit its target.

This technique doesn’t necessarily require a blade. If I use the wings of the Golden-Winged Peng Bird as golden blades, wouldn’t that further enhance its combat power?

The Golden-Winged Peng Bird Form and the Dual Law Manifests Heaven and Earth state were his current strongest combat forms. As the Heart Derivation Technique continued to improve, allowing him to use additional Divine Skills. Augmented by the Heaven and Earth One Slash, my own combat capability will surely reach new heights.

Besides the Heaven and Earth One Slash, there were three other Great Divine Powers: the Ziyuan Divine Demon Pupil, the Burying Heaven Demon Palm, and the Nine Celestial Gates Seal. Among the six, four had possessed Great Divine Powers; the inheritances of the other two contained no such skills. This result was not surprising. Not all top-tier sects in the Mysterious Realm possessed inheritances of Great Divine Powers; typically, only sects specializing in Divine Skills and magical arts did. Although the Lingbao Sect had a long heritage, it was, after all, an Artifact Refining sect and sadly lacked its own sect-specific Great Divine Powers.

The Ziyuan Divine Demon Pupil was a Special Pupillary Technique capable of pulling a target into the Ziyuan Space. It also possessed two forms: the Divine Pupil and the Demon Pupil. The Divine Pupil could discern the finest details, revealing a target’s flaws. Attacking the location pinpointed by the Divine Pupil would invariably yield miraculous effects. The Demon Pupil was wreathed in Ziyuan Demon Fire, turning all it gazed upon to ashen skies. This Divine Skill far surpassed any Pupil Class Divine Abilities Jia Ren had previously mastered, like Heavenly Vision or the Soul Source Devil Eye.

The Burying Heaven Demon Palm was the complete opposite of Palm Containing Universe. While the latter appeared to enlarge the palm, it actually shrank the target. The Burying Heaven Demon Palm, in contrast, massively enlarged the user’s palm, as if intending to bury heaven and earth with a single strike. At its pinnacle, this Great Divine Power could overturn heaven and earth with one blow.

The Nine Celestial Gates Seal was a rare defensive Great Divine Power that could summon up to nine celestial gates to protect oneself. These included the Jade Capital Celestial Gate Seal, the Fusu Tree Celestial Gate Seal, and the Spiritual Platform Celestial Gate Seal, among others. The Mahayana Stage Cultivator who had mastered the Nine Celestial Gates Seal had only reached the Spiritual Platform Celestial Gate Seal level. Even so, he had been the one who endured the longest against the Golden-Winged Peng Bird Form. Unfortunately, he ultimately failed to withstand the thousand wing-slashes from its golden feathers.

All four Great Divine Powers were quite good and within the scope of what he could cultivate. However, the priority lay with the Heaven and Earth One Slash, Ziyuan Divine Demon Pupil, and Nine Celestial Gates Seal, with the Burying Heaven Demon Palm last. It wasn’t that the Burying Heaven Demon Palm was inferior, but in terms of single-target destructive power, it couldn’t compare to the Heaven and Earth One Slash. The Ziyuan Divine Demon Pupil would enhance his own pupillary techniques, while the Nine Celestial Gates Seal would further boost his survival and self-preservation abilities, placing them both at a higher priority than the Burying Heaven Demon Palm.

Besides these four Great Divine Powers, the deceased cultivators also possessed many other Divine Skills of decent quality. However, only Great Divine Powers could truly catch Jia Ren’s eye; Divine Skills that weren’t exceptionally striking weren’t worth wasting time to learn.

Jia Ren first focused on learning the Heaven and Earth One Slash. This Great Divine Power emphasized burning one’s own power, converging all of it into the blade to unleash the single strongest strike of one’s life. The more power burned, the stronger the Heaven and Earth One Slash became. The Golden-Winged Peng Bird Form, combined with the Dual Law Manifests Heaven and Earth state, burning all its power, could unleash a Heaven and Earth One Slash truly capable of defying mortals and slaying Immortals.

Jia Ren then focused his attention primarily on the Heaven and Earth One Slash, followed by the Ziyuan Divine Demon Pupil and the Nine Celestial Gates Seal. Beyond these, there was another Great Divine Power that ranked even higher in priority than the Burying Heaven Demon Palm: the Yin-Yang Great Grinding Disc, obtained from slaying The Lord of Taoist Evil Demons from Beyond the Heavens. This Great Divine Power possessed formidable killing potential, difficult even for the Black Tortoise Form to withstand, and was another incredibly destructive Great Divine Power. However, this Divine Skill had significant restrictions: the more yin and yang energies available, the more powerful the Yin-Yang Great Grinding Disc became. Ordinary cultivators, even if they obtained this Great Divine Power, would be unable to use it due to a lack of yin and yang energies. When Jia Ren had advanced to the Body Integration Realm, he had used both Yin Five Elements Spirit Pills and Yang Five Elements Spirit Pills, resulting in naturally formed yin and yang energies within him. Thus, his compatibility with the Yin-Yang Great Grinding Disc far surpassed even that of the Heaven and Earth One Slash.

During the following period, as Jia Ren invested time and effort into learning Great Divine Powers, his Cultivation Level gradually approached the Integrating Body Late Stage. A year or two was nothing to a cultivator, passing in the blink of an eye.

Jia Ren sat cross-legged, the Demon-Sealing Spirit Tower acting as a conduit, the accumulated Heavenly Treasure Spirit Power continuously pouring into his body. His Cultivation Level and aura climbed rapidly, progressing by leaps and bounds daily. On the Proficiency Panel, his cultivation progress for Mid-Stage Integration had reached one hundred percent. Thereafter, with no further impediments, he smoothly advanced to the Integrating Body Late Stage, as effortlessly as water carving a channel.

Finally, I’ve broken through!

Jia Ren’s face showed neither sorrow nor joy; everything was within his expectations. Having reached the Integrating Body Late Stage, the Mahayana Realm was now within reach, and Ascension to immortality was not far off. Next, he needed to gather the resources to advance to the Mahayana Realm and pave his Sky-reaching Great Dao. He didn’t hurry to leave his Cave, instead continuing his closed-door cultivation to polish and stabilize his new realm.

While Jia Ren was in closed-door cultivation, completely detached from worldly affairs, his Second Nascent Soul, responsible for relaying messages, sent him a warning. "The Sect Master just sent word! The Mimic Bizarre and Thought Bizarre have been found!"

Mimic Bizarre and Thought Bizarre?

The threat of the Bizarre Demons had not yet been completely eradicated. After their failed assault on the Lingbao Sect, the Mimic Bizarre and Thought Bizarre had fled, and their whereabouts had since become unknown. Jia Ren had scoured the Mysterious Realm but failed to locate the two Bizarre Demons. As long as these Complete Form Bizarre Persons remained at large, they were a persistent hidden danger, leaving him unable to find true peace of mind. The Thought Bizarre had launched several sneak attacks against him, causing significant trouble; this was a problem that had to be resolved.

After much consideration, he concluded that the two Complete Form Bizarre Persons must have hidden in some uncharted Secret Realm World. Searching for Secret Realms was time-consuming and laborious, and he didn’t want to waste too much time and energy hunting Bizarre Demons. This matter had been delegated to the Suppressing Evil Peak lineage of the Lingbao Sect.

The cultivators of Suppressing Evil Peak had been focusing their efforts on dealing with the Bizarre Demons within the Mysterious Realm. Only after the threat of Bizarre Demons was lifted from the Mysterious Realm did they turn their attention to the Secret Realms. The Lingbao Sect first reclaimed over a dozen of its own Secret Realms. The Lingbao Giant Beast Mocking Wind, formed from the Zhengxie Eight Directions Seal, steadily recovered these lost territories. Only then did they begin searching for Secret Realm Worlds that didn’t belong to the Lingbao Sect. The Lingbao Sect possessed methods for exploring Secret Realms and, free from the restrictions of other sect forces, relentlessly discovered one Secret Realm after another, clearing out the internal contamination of bizarre power. More and more Secret Realms fell under the Lingbao Sect’s control. The situation mirrored what the Lingbao Sect had once faced, only now the roles were reversed.

The number of Secret Realm Worlds where the Mimic Bizarre and Thought Bizarre could hide dwindled, until finally, with nowhere left to run, they were exposed before the Lingbao Sect. These two Bizarre Demons were not easy to deal with; the cultivators of the Lingbao Sect’s Suppressing Evil Peak lineage lacked the strength to confront them. If he were even a step late, the Suppressing Evil Peak cultivators would be annihilated.

Upon receiving the message, Jia Ren didn’t hesitate for a moment, using Instantaneous Movement to arrive at the Hall of Lingbao. Only by eliminating the Mimic Bizarre and the Thought Bizarre could he truly be free of critical hidden dangers. Then he wouldn’t have to worry about them attacking his home base after he left the Mysterious Realm. Otherwise, should the seals on the Bizarre Demons within the Lingbao Sect be destroyed, the sect would thoroughly become a Bizarre Demon nest.

"They are in the Xuanjie Eastern Region, in the Secret Realm World of the Taiqing Sect," came the timely message from Tian Lingzi.

The Xuanjie Eastern Region? The Taiqing Sect was one of the first top-tier sects to be annihilated by Bizarre Demons. Their most powerful experts could divide themselves in two, effectively becoming two Mahayana Stage Cultivators. However, they were ultimately no match for the Complete Form Bizarre Persons.

"The Sect Master plans to use the Tongming Treasury Mirror to sweep the sect for intruders, to prevent them from feigning an attack in one direction while striking another, with the Thought Bizarre taking advantage of any vulnerabilities."

With a flash, Jia Ren transformed into his Golden-Winged Peng Bird Form. With a few beats of his wings, he vanished as if by Instantaneous Movement. For Jia Ren, covering tens of thousands of miles was a matter of a few flaps of his wings; using a Teleportation Array wouldn’t even be as fast as his own flight.

Before long, Jia Ren arrived at the Lingbao Sect’s Eastern Branch. Indeed, this branch had been established upon the ruins of the Taiqing Sect. This place could be considered disaster-prone; not long ago, it had just repelled cultivators from the Tai Xu Alliance and the Huang Shan Alliance, and now, so soon, it faced a resurgence of the Bizarre Demon threat.

Jia Ren confirmed the location, then, with his wings tearing through the Void, he flew into the Taiqing Sect’s Qingxu Secret Realm. The Qingxu Secret Realm had existed for an extremely long time and had also served as a refuge for the Taiqing Sect, harboring a portion of the Supreme Clarity Fire Seed within. The Lingbao Sect wasn’t the only one to prepare contingencies; the Taiqing Sect, directly facing the Sealed Eastern Land and surrounded by Bizarre Demons, naturally had to consider its own retreat routes. The Qingxu Secret Realm was their fallback.

Although a Formation had been established in the Secret Realm to isolate Bizarre Demons, it ultimately failed to prevent their infiltration. The cultivators left to guard this place perished at the hands of Bizarre Persons before any hope could arrive.

Jia Ren glanced around. Black fog swirled everywhere, and the corrupting Demon Origin Bizarre Qi was eroding the realm’s nature’s spiritual energy. This land was clearly no longer viable for human existence. Amidst a pervasive yellow mist, atop the head of a Lingbao Giant Beast Mocking Wind, stood a hundred cultivators in Suppressing Evil Peak Taoist robes. They held the Heavenly Earth Spirit Treasure, the Evil-Suppressing Eight Directions Seal, poised for a fierce battle.

Opposite them stood a Bizarre Demon burning with crimson flames—it was the Fire Bizarre, the transformed state of the Mimic Bizarre. Crimson flames and yellow smoke clashed violently, constantly interweaving. Behind the Fire Bizarre stood cultivators emanating an aura of decay. Their presence was deathly; they did not seem like living beings at all.