Cultivating with Top Enlightenment

Chapter 929: Chapter 397: Time Rule (Part 2)

This scene naturally amazed the Mountain Ancestor.

What he had always comprehended from the Ancient Road Sacred Map was that its use left enemies either dead or severely injured, but clearly, the Mountain Ancestor was not among them.

The Mountain Ancestor gazed at the Saint Ancestor, slightly furrowing his brows.

He didn’t care about his recent injury, but rather why his defense, despite anticipating and preparing for it, failed to block the attack from the Saint Ancestor.

Because at that moment, the flow of time around the two seemed to change!

The Saint Ancestor’s fists accelerated, while he slowed down. With one speeding up and the other slowing down, his preset defense was naturally ineffective.

Realizing this, the Mountain Ancestor’s eyes lit up.

He had not forgotten why he engaged in the war in the realm domain; it was entirely for the Ancient Road Sacred Map possessed by the Mountain Ancestor.

That object told him the Ancient Road Sacred Map contained the power to achieve the Immortal Golden Immortal, something the Mountain Ancestor was determined to obtain.

Unexpectedly, upon engaging the Saint Ancestor, the Saint Ancestor employed its power.

Aside from the Ancient Road Sacred Map possessing such power, the Mountain Ancestor couldn’t fathom what could enable a cultivator of their level to wield the Time Rule.

He needed to confirm more information.

So, as soon as the Mountain Ancestor healed his chest wound, he took the initiative to attack the Saint Ancestor again.

"Thousands of Mountains and Ten Thousand Cliffs!"

The Mountain Ancestor roared, shooting out like an arrow.

The entire ground trembled, and endless power gathered behind him.

Vaguely, the crowd saw a majestic illusion of Thousands of Mountains and Ten Thousand Cliffs emerging behind him, as if the Mountain Ancestor had brought the entire mountain god shadow of the Mountain and Sea Realm with him!

As soon as the mountain shadow appeared, it immediately fused into the Mountain Ancestor’s body.

The Mountain Ancestor’s physique expanded once more, turning into a giant over ten feet tall, every part of his body as if sculpted by a master craftsman, perfect and brimming with explosive power.

The Mountain Ancestor stepped towards the Saint Ancestor.

Facing the once more strengthened Mountain Ancestor, the Saint Ancestor remained unhurried, simply uttering:

"The wise enjoy water, the benevolent enjoy mountains."

In a trance, a giant human-shaped Dharma Aspect emerged from him.

As soon as it appeared, various rules gathered automatically, then various rules evolved into the Holy Dao, resembling an indestructible eternal Magic Body.

The Magic Body was much taller than the Mountain Ancestor’s ten feet tall stature.

The Magic Body rapidly drew a foot, clashing with the Mountain Ancestor’s stepped foot instantly in mid-air.

This clash caused an impact more terrifying than the previous storm of rules!

The space seemed to annihilate at their collision point, producing a shattered abyss-like black spatial rupture between them.

This was a war realm nurtured by the wills of both Spirit Realms, yet it was so broken by their attacks.

The will of the Vast Realm and the Mountain and Sea Realm had long manifested, immediately expending their realm power to continuously repair the war realms.

However, the space they just repaired became broken again with the duo’s renewed actions.

The crowd saw the Saint Ancestor’s Dharma Aspect and the Mountain Ancestor’s ten-foot-tall body constantly kicking at each other.

Despite their difference in size, strangely, the force used gradually converged.

Ning Qi remained focused, watching their movements.

The battle seemed simple, but between motion and stillness, it contained various divine techniques, though what was presented to the public was a simplification and return to simplicity.

Ning Qi could perceive the True Intent from simplicity.

Every strike from the Saint Ancestor and the Mountain Ancestor inevitably triggered all the spiritual qi within the war realms, even invoking the powers of both spirit realms to overlap further.

Seemingly simple, yet it concentrated the maximum power they could currently muster.

Ning Qi, observing the space both wills struggled to repair, felt that if the two continued fighting like this, the war realm might eventually shatter.

As he contemplated this, suddenly, the Dharma Aspect of the Saint Ancestor shone with a hue of gold.

Instantly, their next kick clash didn’t end in equilibrium, but rather, the Mountain Ancestor flew away directly!

Rumbling!

The Mountain Ancestor, like a stubborn rock skimming through the void, harnessed the magical power around him to stop himself, suspending high above.

This time, a trickle of blood appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Even more importantly, the illusion of Thousands of Mountains and Ten Thousand Cliffs he previously absorbed into himself flew out entirely and dissipated behind him.

The Mountain Ancestor glanced back, wiping the blood at his mouth’s corner with the back of his hand.

"Heh heh... haha..."

Despite being repelled once more, he began to laugh.

"I haven’t been injured for so long, so long that I almost forgot this feeling, thank you for reminding me."

He gazed downward at the Saint Ancestor’s Dharma Aspect, his eyes sharp like that of a hawk, exuding the ambitious gleam of a predator eyeing its prey.

The Saint Ancestor, seeing his gaze, felt a peculiar sensation.

Since the spirit realm opened, he had been calculating everything through divination.

Initially, he calculated the situation among the Ancestors within the Mountain and Sea Realm.

He discerned the strained, even hostile, relationship between the Mountain Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor.

He calculated the situation within the Mountain and Sea Realm, formulating a strategy for the Spirit Domain to counter the Mountain and Sea Realm’s realm invasion using the strategy of Tian Ji’s horse racing.

Logically, based on his calculations, the Vast Realm should have won.

However, then Ning Qi, the anomaly, appeared, disrupting everything he had planned. A single misstep led to another.

Later, he recalculated and found Ning Qi was his opportunity to progress further, as well as the greatest variable in this battle.

Thus, the Saint Ancestor didn’t hesitate to send his incarnations twice into the war realms.

Up to now, he even brought out his most treasured possession— the Ancient Road Sacred Map, to deal with the Sea Ancestor and the Mountain Ancestor.

Speaking of the Ancient Road Sacred Map, he had yet to fully unravel its secrets.

The Saint Ancestor merely understood a portion of its power, which resembled an Ancient Saint’s abilities, though it wasn’t comprehensive.

The powers of "morning knowledge and death in the evening" and "the benevolent enjoy mountains" were derived from that Ancient Saint’s sayings.

And now, seeing the expression of the Mountain Ancestor, inexplicably, he sensed something was miscalculated.

He had practiced divination for years, sensitive in intuition and spiritual sense.

This Mountain Ancestor hadn’t shown up earlier or later, only appearing after he took out the Ancient Road Sacred Map. Considering his expressions, could it be...

The Saint Ancestor, pondering over this, felt a foreboding premonition.

Although it seemed he used the Ancient Road Sacred Map to suppress the Mountain Ancestor, as an involved party, he knew very well the power possessed by the Mountain Ancestor.

He could say this was the only great enemy encountered in his life.

"Zhou Mountain Divine Descent!"

The Mountain Ancestor suddenly shouted, pulling the Saint Ancestor back to reality.

He watched the Mountain Ancestor, discovering the illusion of Thousands of Mountains and Ten Thousand Cliffs, expelled moments ago, reemerging, arranged in an arcane trajectory in the void.

Finally, forming into a terrifying Divine Mountain Illusion.

The Divine Mountain Illusion stretched from the ground upward, unseen in height, capable of piercing through the war realms, reaching into the Sea of Realms.

Just appearing, it occupied a third of the entire war realm’s space!

Moreover, it continued to expand outward, seemingly squeezing away everyone’s space.

Under this Divine Mountain Illusion, one must either submit or be suppressed.

The Sea Ancestor, witnessing this scene, had a slightly grim expression.

Each time, she was defeated by the Mountain Ancestor’s move, knowing full well its origins.

Back when they were fellow disciples, during a chance incursion into a small world.

The Mountain Ancestor acquired an ancient legacy known as the Buzhou Mountain Heritage.

Legend held that Buzhou Mountain was an ancient Divine Mountain, standing at the edge of the great wilderness, the only path to the Celestial Realm.

Anyone seeking to become immortal had to climb Buzhou Mountain!

No matter who you were or what cultivation you had, without becoming immortal, passing this mountain was the only chance to gain immortal opportunity.

But later, it was unknown what happened, Buzhou Mountain leaned, leaving no bridge between the Human Realm and the Immortal Realm.

After obtaining the inheritance, the Mountain Ancestor founded the Zhou Mountain Immortal Sect, dropping the "Bu" from Buzhou, to embrace the full "Zhou" Dao.