Chapter 374: 374. Chapter 370: True Immortal Realm

374. Chapter 370: True Immortal Realm

Cheng Cheng Keqi was so anxious that cold sweat seeped out of his forehead.

When a person is pushed to the wall, they can also come up with a bright idea on the spur of the moment. He laughed apologetically a few times and said, "Sect Master, please see clearly—I am not good with words, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it clearly. How about I carve a jade slip for the Sect Master later?"

Meng Zhongqi was stunned for a moment, then immediately came to his senses.

This Cheng Cheng Keqi still has some vigilance—good, good.

Although this place was full of Immortal Gate elders and peak masters of the various peaks, who could be sure there were no spies among them? If someone were to learn this method and spread it abroad, it would be an enormous loss to the Immortal Gate.

"Very well, in that case, carve the jade slip and hand it over to Fan Yi." Meng Zhongqi nodded and even praised Cheng Cheng Keqi.

"Yes." Cheng Cheng Keqi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

……

Ding Huan placed a thousand immortal crystals around himself to form a spirit-gathering array. With the Great Cosmos Art circulating through Zhou Tian, immortal spiritual energy instantly formed a faint vortex that wrapped Ding Huan within it.

When he was at Baihe Immortal Path, Ding Huan's Dao Star Sky was already very complete; now he was merely perfecting his Star Sky realm.

Ding Huan did not know whether he would encounter a bottleneck in the future, but cultivating the Great Cosmos Art from Star Dust to Star Sky had basically been without any bottleneck at all, and he had never needed pills.

For him, the most important thing was not pills, but comprehension.

Once he comprehended, any cultivation shackle was an illusion.

The same was true for Ding Huan now. After his Star Sky realm was perfected and he comprehended higher-level Dao Laws, he naturally touched upon the cultivation barrier of the next realm.

Ding Huan was certain—this was the True Immortal realm.

His Great Cosmos Art was an advancing cultivation method. In other words, as he continuously cultivated and merged the Dao Rhymes and Laws of all things in heaven and earth, his Great Cosmos Art would also keep growing, always matching his latest cultivation realm.

In simple terms, whether Ding Huan merged a new Dao Rhyme Law or comprehended a higher-level Dao Law—

His Great Cosmos Art's Zhou Tian would change accordingly.

Being able to achieve this still came from the concept Ding Huan had during Foundation Establishment.

He believed that the great Dao foundation he forged should not become fixed once Foundation Establishment was complete.

Otherwise, no matter what kind of Dao foundation he forged, his ultimate growth height would be limited.

It was precisely because of this idea that the Great Cosmos Art came into being.

The foundation of the Great Cosmos Art was not fixed; it rose continuously as his cultivation rose.

Therefore, after cultivating to the Star Sky realm, Ding Huan no longer needed to continue deducing his own great Dao cultivation method. The Great Cosmos Art and the great Dao cosmos within his consciousness sea kept making his cultivation method grow.

Having touched the cultivation barrier of the True Immortal realm, Ding Huan stopped cultivating.

He could not undergo Tribulation Crossing in front of Chang Chang Danyi.

Ding Huan was very clear that his Lei Jie was somewhat abnormal. If he underwent Tribulation Crossing in front of Chang Chang Danyi, it was very likely to make her lose confidence in her own Tribulation Crossing.

A cultivator's confidence was extremely important; at times it could measure the height of a cultivator's growth.

In the years Chang Chang Danyi had survived in Void Immortal City, her foundation had long been deep enough.

She had also cultivated for half a year at the spring eye of the Immortal Spirit Spring on Baihe Immortal Path. Not only had her true essence been entirely converted into immortal essence, her comprehension of the True Immortal great Dao had also reached her own peak.

On the seventeenth day of her assault on True Immortal, Chang Chang Danyi welcomed her True Immortal Lei Jie.

As the first Lei Jie arc descended, Ding Huan knew that Chang Chang Danyi's Lei Jie was a One-Nine Lei Jie.

He had never undergone a One-Nine Lei Jie himself. Chang Chang Danyi's foundation was deep, and she had prepared for so many years—a One-Nine Lei Jie should pose no problem.

The facts were indeed so. After the initial panic, Chang Chang Danyi withstood the Lei Jie arcs and successfully crossed nine Lei Jie arcs, advancing to True Immortal.

Seeing Chang Chang Danyi begin to stabilize her cultivation, Ding Huan once again circulated the Great Cosmos Art to assault True Immortal.

In just one Zhou Tian, his Lei Jie descended.

Chang Chang Danyi had just begun stabilizing her cultivation. Seeing Ding Huan also begin his Tribulation Crossing, she immediately paid close attention,

But when she saw that Ding Huan's first wave of Lei Jie arcs numbered nine, she was even somewhat dumbfounded.

What was going on?

Could Ding Huan's Lei Jie really be just one wave?

Yet the might of these Lei Jie arcs was many times more ferocious than the Lei Jie arcs when she had advanced to the True Immortal realm.

This made Chang Chang Danyi's heart pound with fright. Fortunately, when she had undergone her Tribulation Crossing, the Lei Jie arcs had not been so terrifying.

Otherwise, she would not have been able to cross even this first wave of Lei Jie arcs.

When the second wave of Lei Jie descended—again nine Lei Jie arcs falling—

Chang Chang Danyi knew she had thought too much. Ding Huan's Lei Jie was absolutely not just nine arcs.

At this point she vaguely understood: Ding Huan must have been worried that she would lose confidence in her own Tribulation Crossing after seeing his Lei Jie.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? She had just finished her Tribulation Crossing, and Ding Huan immediately underwent his?

Wave after wave of Lei Jie arcs descended, and Ding Huan's great Dao cosmos within his consciousness sea surged wildly amid this Lei Jie.

Ding Huan also increasingly felt that after advancing to the Star River realm, the threat the Lei Jie posed to him had lessened considerably.

He simply did not fear Lei Jie arcs that merely broke tendons and fractured bones—when they came, he just blocked them with his physical body.

If there were Lei Jie arcs that wanted his life, he would quickly channel them through the Great Cosmos Art into the great Dao cosmos within his consciousness sea.

After his consciousness sea's great Dao cosmos formed the Star Sky, it grew ever more vast. A few Lei Jie arcs swept in only caused the Star River's waves to surge.

Could they possibly tear apart his Star River?

When the third wave of eighteen thick Lei Jie arcs enveloped Ding Huan, Chang Chang Danyi could not bear to keep watching.

Not to mention the Immortal-Fanqiao for those who had not yet advanced to True Immortal—even a true True Immortal would have to collapse under such terrifying Lei Jie bombardment.

What kind of powerhouse had she actually come to know?

As long as Ding Huan did not fall, once he grew, the Fourth Immortal Domain would not be his final destination at all.

Rumor had it that above the Fifth Immortal Domain there were even higher-level Immortal Domains; perhaps that was where Ding Huan should go.

Ding Huan's third wave of Lei Jie had not yet finished crossing when, immediately following, another three waves of Lei Jie descended—a total of twenty-seven Lei Jie arcs.

Ding Huan's physical body was finally torn apart, each lightning arc of the Lei Jie striking him as if his bones were being split in half.

Boom!

With such intensity, the Lei Jie arcs striking Ding Huan, the Zhou Tian technique of the Great Cosmos finally shattered the realm's constraints, drawing in the waves of lightning energy mixed with Immortal Spirit Qi.

In that instant, the Immortal Spirit Qi on the Immortal Crystals surrounding Ding Huan was stripped away, forming a spring-like stream absorbed by Ding Huan.

Ding Huan's Immortal Qi surged wildly, and his consciousness sea's Great Cosmos expanded once more.

The star in his dantian spun furiously under the impact of Immortal Qi, its aura surging and mighty.

Ding Huan raised his hand and tossed out another five thousand Immortal Crystals; the dense Immortal Spirit Qi nearly wrapped his entire body.

True Immortal Layer One, True Immortal Layer Two…

The Lei Jie arcs ended; Ding Huan had reached the peak of True Immortal Layer Two.

More than ten days later, Ding Huan washed himself, changed into new clothes, and stored away the excess Immortal Crystals.

For this Tribulation Crossing, he had used nearly five thousand Immortal Crystals.

Excluding the Immortal Crystals given to Chang Chang Danyi, he still had three thousand Immortal Crystals.

He should return to Baihe Immortal Dao to continue gathering Immortal Crystals.

"Congratulations, Brother Ding," Chang Chang Danyi said, exhaling in relief as she saw Ding Huan successfully cross the True Immortal Lei Jie.

That Lei Jie was too heart-stopping.

"Same to you," Ding Huan said, his spirits high. "Let's go—we can return to the sect and resume cultivation."

"Brother Ding, the Fourth Immortal Realm has no trace of life—can we find Immortal Spirit Springs out here in the wild?" Chang Chang Danyi couldn't help asking.

Ding Huan understood her meaning: if they could find an Immortal Spirit Spring outside the Immortal Gate, wouldn't that mean they could cultivate freely without relying on the sect?

Ding Huan shook his head: "Impossible. I've already searched—there are no Immortal Spirit Springs at all."

As soon as he emerged, he had calculated it—outside the Immortal Gate, he truly could not locate any Immortal Spirit Spring.

It was strange, yet the truth was undeniable.

…

As Ding Huan and Chang Chang Danyi returned to the outskirts of Baihe Immortal Dao, they saw a massive sign standing at the Immortal Gate entrance.

Warmly congratulating Baihe Immortal Dao on rising to 836th place on the Ascension Arena Immortal Gate Rankings.

Ding Huan sighed in reflection: a single Immortal Spirit Spring had lifted Baihe Immortal Dao, an organization once unworthy of ranking, to 836th place.

It seemed the Immortal Spirit Spring he had found was quite exceptional.

If he stayed in Baihe Immortal Dao for another dozen years, it would surely enter the top ten.

Ding Huan and Chang Chang Danyi had no right to approach the Immortal Gate's main hall or the major Immortal Peaks—they had to detour even to reach Cheng Cheng Keqi's location.

Chang Chang Danyi sighed: "Whether in the Dao cultivation world or the Immortal Realms, nothing has changed. In the Dao cultivation world, benefits belonged to the few; here in the Immortal Realms, it's the same."

"You worked tirelessly to find the Immortal Spirit Spring, yet you have no right to use it—and now we must even detour around those who do."

Ding Huan remained silent. In any place, only strength could protect what was yours.

Otherwise, you toil yourself to death for others, creating immense value for them, while you receive only trivial gains—and they still think they're doing you a favor.

Before Ding Huan and Chang Chang Danyi reached Cheng Cheng Keqi's temporary cave dwelling, Cheng Cheng Keqi called them over.

Cheng Cheng Keqi had clearly received a lavish reward—his dwelling had been moved to an Immortal Peak within the Immortal Gate.

Even though this was a multi-cave peak, living here meant you were well-regarded, one of the sect's own.

"Ding Huan, you're back," Cheng Cheng Keqi said with great enthusiasm.

"Master Cheng," Ding Huan said, seeing Cheng Cheng Keqi now wore the robes of an official—he realized the man had become a formal sect disciple, even an official.

A cultivator at the Immortal Bridge realm becoming an official showed how lavish Baihe Immortal Dao's reward for discovering the Immortal Spirit Spring had been.

"Ding Huan, you're back just in time—there's an important task for you."

After speaking, Cheng Cheng Keqi pulled out twenty Immortal Crystals and handed five each to Ding Huan and Chang Chang Danyi: "This is your reward."

Ding Huan had no reason to refuse—even a small amount of meat was meat.

Seeing Ding Huan pocket the Immortal Crystals, Cheng Cheng Keqi's smile widened: "Ding Huan, you must write down the entire process and details of how you found the Immortal Spirit Spring. The Sect Master needs this to grant you greater rewards."