Chapter 656: Uninvited Guest
Seeing the suddenly appearing spatial passage, the Brahma Tower was so shocked it even stopped the work at hand.
Without any forewarning, the spatial passage had appeared, indicating that the other party’s comprehension of the spatial Dao surpassed its own.
This was the first time the Brahma Tower had encountered someone more proficient in the spatial Dao than itself.
Jiang Li, the Immortal Elder, and the Lord of Saha arrived in the Nine Provinces via the spatial passage. Jiang Li introduced, “This is the Lord of Saha. He has some insights into the spatial Dao. I plan to have him handle some matters related to connecting the myriad heavens and worlds to ease your burden. You two can exchange ideas about the spatial Dao.”
The Brahma Tower, with great interest, asked the Lord of Saha a few questions, only to discover the other party understood nothing about the spatial Dao.
“You don’t even know that space is the extensiveness of material existence?”
“You don’t understand the principle of splitting space?”
“You haven’t even studied the principle of establishing spatial passages?”
“Then how did you create this spatial passage?”
“You say you rely entirely on intuition to manipulate the spatial Dao?!”
The entire tower felt unwell. It had never seen such an outrageous person, completely clueless about the theory of the spatial Dao, yet more adept at using it than itself.
The person introduced by Human Sovereign Jiang was indeed extraordinary.
“Someone’s calling me. Who?” Jiang Li looked up, feeling someone was calling his name, but not through spiritual sense or a Communication Talisman, and the voice was quite unfamiliar.
A voice sounded from the other end, tinged with helplessness, “It’s me, the Desolate Heaven Halberd. Master, have you forgotten my voice?”
In the Desolate Heaven Halberd’s memory, it had been guarding the formation eye for over a decade, and Jiang Li had never once visited it.
Even Commander Liu thinks I’ve worked hard and made great contributions, sending me gifts during the holidays!
Jiang Li was momentarily stunned, remembering that he actually still had a weapon. He explained awkwardly, “How could that be? I just miss you so much that I thought I was hearing things and hesitated.”
He rushed to the Desolate Heaven Halberd’s location, the highest point above the Nine Provinces Continent, the position of the Realm Protection Grand Formation’s eye.
“What’s the matter?”
“There are three people I cannot see through. They have passed through the Realm Protection Grand Formation and entered the Nine Provinces Continent.”
“Oh?”
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“Wuhan, how does it feel to return to the country you founded?” The snake-eyed man smiled and asked his companion. He gave off a sinister, cold feeling, like being stared at by a venomous snake.
“Pathetic, no progress at all. Not even a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator. Truly shameful.”
Wuhan was very dissatisfied with the Great Witch Kingdom. His physique was robust. Even in the Great Witch Kingdom, a country that admired muscles and pursued strength, his body was extremely exaggerated. He did not resemble a human but rather seemed like some kind of naturally powerful demon beast that had taken human form, retaining its racial characteristics.
“Du Ye is truly incompetent. Nine thousand years have passed, yet the Nine Provinces still exist, and the Great Witch Kingdom remains.”
“Incompetent descendants. I really want to destroy this place.”
“No.”
The third person in their group spoke up, stopping Wuhan’s actions.
The third person was a man with tiger stripes, serious and unsmiling, holding the highest status among the three.
“This is the territory of the Netherfire Immortal Lord. If we act here and the Netherfire Immortal Lord uses it as a pretext to cause trouble, we will become pawns sacrificed in the conflict between the Netherfire Immortal Lord and Lord Luwu.”
“Do not forget the task Lord Luwu entrusted to us: to investigate the Nine Provinces. This is of utmost importance.”
“Alright, alright, I was just joking. Don’t be so serious.” Wuhan laughed heartily, as if his previous words were merely a jest.
Wuhan didn’t want to dwell on this topic and complained, “This Nine Provinces is also troublesome. Lord Luwu said there might be Celestial Immortal-level combat power here and forbade us from releasing our spiritual sense to avoid alerting them. If not for that, why would we need to be so cautious?”
The snake-eyed man nodded, “Indeed troublesome. However, this Nine Provinces truly has unusual aspects. Have you noticed? The mortals here are all at the mid-stage of Qi Refining. This is even better than what those so-called righteous path fellows in the Immortal Realm pursue.”
In the past, the Immortal Realm was divided into righteous and demonic paths. Righteous path immortals once proposed making all mortals reach the Qi Refining Stage, cultivating universally.
This idea was considered extreme even in the Immortal Realm. Many within the righteous path disagreed, believing it wasted spiritual energy, wouldn’t bring any merit, so why bother?
As for establishing imperial dynasties to obtain national fortune, that was even more absurd.
That was simply not putting the Heavenly Court and the Immortal Emperor in their eyes, a pure death wish.
Do you think you’re the Dao Ancestor?
In the Immortal Realm, only a very small number of mortals received the righteous path’s favor, cultivating the “Spiritual Energy Diagram” to draw qi into their bodies and become Qi Refining Stage cultivators.
However, because such mortals were so few, once they reached the Qi Refining Stage, they considered themselves cultivators, no longer associating with ordinary mortals, and pursued the immortal path.
“I ask you, why can you lowly commoners reach the mid-stage of Qi Refining?” Wuhan grabbed a passerby, looking down on him from a superior position.
Influenced by the Witch Clan bloodline, the passerby’s eyes were vacant as he explained everything about the Human Sovereign Hall issuing cultivation techniques.
“It seems this so-called ‘Five Elements Qi Refinement Art’ does have some merit.” The snake-eyed man produced a book in his hand, precisely the “Five Elements Qi Refinement Art (Upper Volume).”
“So that’s it. The Human Sovereign Hall sells cultivation techniques, trying to exploit mortals through this method, forcing them to labor, using a lifetime’s worth of money to purchase the techniques.”
“No, this technique only sells for thirty copper coins.” The snake-eyed man flipped to the back of the book, where the suggested retail price of thirty wen was written.
“Thirty wen? What’s the difference between that and giving it away for free?”
Wuhan felt the technique must have problems. He snatched it from the snake-eyed man’s hand, determined to find the flaw.
The more he flipped through it, the wider his eyes became, unable to believe what he was seeing.
“What is it?” the tiger-striped man asked.
“Severing the Three Corpses! This is the method for severing the three corpses!”
“What?” The tiger-striped man and the snake-eyed man thought they had misheard. What was the method for severing the three corpses? That was the unparalleled method that allowed the Dao Ancestor to stand at the pinnacle of the immortal path, the cultivation method pursued by all immortals.
Although the Dao Ancestor occasionally held lectures, explaining the method of severing the three corpses in detail, and even the Buddha and the Immortal Emperor attended to listen, to this day, no one had heard of a second person capable of performing the method of severing the three corpses.
After listening to the Dao Ancestor’s lectures, they would enter seclusion to comprehend, not sharing their insights with others, hiding and concealing them, afraid that others might obtain their understanding and master the method of severing the three corpses.
But look at this Nine Provinces. Not only did they comprehend it themselves, they also mass-printed it and gave it to mortals to cultivate.
They could not understand the Human Sovereign Hall’s thinking.
“Look, this is the latest map of the Nine Provinces. The Eight Desolations World has been refined into a ring-shaped continent and has become the periphery of the Nine Provinces Continent.”
“Refining stars into continents, and stars as numerous as those in the Eight Desolations at that… Even if we were to take action, it would require considerable effort, needing immortal pills for replenishment. Otherwise, we would lack stamina and be dragged down instead.” The tiger-striped man frowned. This Nine Provinces was truly not simple.
“Seeing the Great Witch Kingdom is irritating. Why not change locations? Within the Nine Provinces Continent, the Great Zhou Dynasty established by Emperor Shun is the most powerful. How about going there?” Wuhan suggested.
“Good. The people here often mention ‘Human Sovereign Jiang.’ We can go to Great Zhou to inquire about the origins of this so-called ‘Human Sovereign Jiang.'”