Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1772: Chapter 954: Origin Immortal Qi, the Mystery of the True Immortal (2)

An unimaginable, formless power pinned him to the ground so he couldn’t move, and he could only stare in utter terror as the light of that fist came smashing down.

Rumble…

The fist-light sank into this man’s forehead, easily piercing through his skull.

The white-haired old man’s vision went black, his body immediately tilting backward as he toppled straight down.

Zhao Sheng stepped forward in a single stride, reached out and seized this headless corpse, then casually flung it dozens of miles away.

After the headless corpse slammed heavily into the ground, it suddenly turned into a ball of clear light and vanished from sight in an instant.

A Tribulation Crossing Venerable possessed the ability of Blood Rebirth; even without a head, he could regrow one.

Zhao Sheng certainly knew the other party wasn’t dead, but he also had no intention of killing him.

The other had no enmity nor grievance with him; driving him away was enough, why create more slaughter?

That sort of mindset—once you form a grudge, you must eradicate the enemy down to the roots—only applies to those below the Unification Realm.

If, after advancing to the Unification Realm, you still don’t change that way of thinking, it precisely shows there is a flaw in your Dao Heart, and your future path of the Dao is destined not to go far.

Back to the main topic.

After driving that man away, Zhao Sheng sat down directly beneath the giant pillar, his position exactly overlapping the spot where that man had been sitting cross-legged.

As soon as he sat, he immediately sensed a wisp of Mysterious Aura surge up from underground and, in an instant, slip into his body.

Once the Mysterious Aura entered his limbs and bones, his Mana swarmed over it like moths drawn to a flame.

If the Mysterious Aura was like ice and snow, then his Mana was like fog.

The two shared the same Origin, yet there was a qualitative difference between them.

After a few breaths, the Mysterious Aura broke apart and gradually became assimilated by the surrounding Mana.

Zhao Sheng was secretly astonished, faintly feeling that his Mana had undergone some subtle, inexplicable change.

Besides this, the Primordial Cells within his body suddenly became unprecedentedly active, yet very quickly sank back into stillness.

Zhao Sheng was both startled and delighted. “Immortal Qi?! I didn’t expect there to be such a benefit to being a Guardian. Since that’s the case…”

With that thought, he suddenly rose into the air and came to stand before the silver-white giant pillar.

The next moment, he extended his fair, slender index finger and began writing from the first character, his handwriting perfectly overlapping the original.

Moments later, the fourteen large characters looked brand new, yet the strokes were twice as deep as before, reaching more than three inches.

Zhao Sheng landed back in his original spot, closed his eyes in satisfaction, and began meditation.

Seeing the dust settle, the Jade Qilin scampered over to lie obediently behind its master, then soon started to snore.

Not long after, a Tribulation Crossing Venerable wandered nearby. When this person saw the words on the giant pillar, his face instantly changed dramatically and he hurriedly fled far away.

In just a few hours, the Wanderers in the vicinity quickly received the news: the Guardian had been replaced.

Some Wanderers grew restless and rushed one after another to the area around the Heaven-Reaching Pillar, but after reading the inscription, each of them fled faster than a rabbit!

The new Guardian was countless times more terrifying in strength than the previous one; heaven truly left them no way to live!

After this episode, no one dared approach this place again, which, in turn, spared Zhao Sheng a great deal of trouble.

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Boundless and obscure, his consciousness rose without limit; in that vast darkness, the densely packed “Light Points,” like the stars, suddenly grew much sparser, as though thirty percent of them had vanished at once.

Some bright and resplendent “Light Points” now seemed veiled by a layer of Shadow, becoming somewhat hazy and blurred.

Those dimmer “Light Points” also flickered unsteadily, as if they might go out at any moment.

No one knew how much time passed before his consciousness sank back into reality.

Beneath the Heaven-Reaching Pillar, Zhao Sheng slowly opened his eyes, a gleam of sharp light flashing and vanishing within them.

“So it can be done… on the Honghuang Continent as well.” he muttered to himself, as his Divine Thought quietly sank dozens of zhang into the ground.

Just then, a wisp of Immortal Qi surged up from deeper underground, and his Divine Thought happened to catch it squarely.

Zhao Sheng opened his right hand, and above his palm there suddenly appeared a thread of formless breath.

Once this breath merged into his skin, it was refined in an instant into strands of Flawless Magical Power, subtly enhancing the very essence of his flesh.

In the more than ten years since entering the Hongmeng Continent, he had discovered many special aspects of Immortal Qi.

First, Immortal Qi possessed no Law Attribute; it seemed to be a kind of Origin power that could be freely transformed into any Power of Daoist Law.

Second, the “quality” of Immortal Qi was astonishingly high; if defined in terms of “weight,” a single wisp of Immortal Qi weighed a million jun.

Besides this, the “inertia” of Immortal Qi was extremely high, practically not increasing or decreasing, not being born and not perishing!

For Cultivators below the Tribulation Crossing Realm, even if they chanced upon a wisp of Immortal Qi, in eight or nine cases out of ten they would be unable to refine it.

Unless this person had cultivated some Immortal Law, or possessed an Immortal Artifact.

When refining the tenth wisp of Immortal Qi, Zhao Sheng tried refining it using the cultivation Magic Skill of the ‘Mixed Element One Qi Immortal Scripture’, and to his surprise, the effect was immediate.

Not only did his speed of refining Immortal Qi increase tenfold, the newly refined Mana was also far higher in “quality” than before.

Only then did he suddenly understand: it wasn’t that Immortal Laws lacked power, but that he hadn’t found the most suitable “energy source.”

In the Taiyi Spirit Realm, there had once been a rumor that any Lower Realm Cultivator who attained the Dao and achieved Ascension must soak in an Ascension Pool for seven days and nights before entering the Immortal Heaven Continent.

Now it seemed that rumor was not necessarily baseless.

Zhao Sheng counted on his fingers; over these years he had refined a total of twenty-seven wisps of Immortal Qi.

But only five wisps of Immortal Qi came from underground, thirteen came from Immortal Qi Stones, and the remaining nine wisps were earned by his own strength.

After refining all the Immortal Qi, both his flesh and his Mana had faintly undergone a trace of “essential” evolution.

This so-called “essential” evolution was akin to True Yuan leaping to become Mana, and a Mortal Body being tempered into Golden Skin and Jade Bone.