Chapter 1030: Ascension!

Jiang Lan and Jiang Lier would leave this mortal realm soon, and for Qin Yu this was a kind of pain.

But he also knew that, given "Uncle Lan's" status, it truly was impossible for him to stay in this mortal realm forever; he resolved to cultivate well and strive to ascend to the Immortal, Demon, and Devil Realm.

"Fellow Daoist, you're leaving soon — why not discuss the Dao a little more?"

Fang Yu said to Jiang Lan.

"Naturally, no objection."

Jiang Lan nodded.

The two beings thus began discussing the Dao once more in this undersea world.

In this discussion of the Dao, the two once again revealed many profound wonders.

This time Jiang Lan did not immediately display the mysteries of time; instead, he first revealed many of his comprehensions of space.

"Time and space — time and space are inherently one. If we comprehend space to its utmost extreme, comprehending the mysteries of time will become much easier. Look at this space — it can be cut, it can collapse, it can be frozen, and there are many other spatial mysteries. Even though I have already begun to comprehend time, to thoroughly comprehend space will still take far, far too long."

Jiang Lan spoke, his fingers tapping rapidly in the void, and immediately the space around him underwent many changes — some spaces collapsed, some spaces began to be cut, and some spatial laws reached a frozen, static state; and within the countless flows of space, a change of time was revealed.

Especially when space was frozen, the passage of time there seemed to slow as well.

"Fellow Daoist speaks reasonably. These many mysteries of space are indeed worth comprehending well. I have one method — the Great World Art; another method — the Great Collapse Art; and another method — the Great Severing Art."

Fang Yu nodded in thought, and with a tap of his finger the surrounding void also changed. The three thousand Daos' Great World Art, Great Collapse Art, Great Severing Art, and so on all flowed and transformed, shaping one spatial rift after another around Fang Yu's body.

At this moment, spatial rifts were born that seemed capable of drawing everything in and devouring all; but around Fang Yu and Uncle Lan, everything remained as before, because here space was frozen, and even with so many spatial rifts, they still had no effect.

The many spatial laws flowed, and between great Dao divine abilities there were points of interconnection, reflected in Fang Yu's mind, giving rise to many mysterious transformations.

He felt that these great Dao divine abilities of the Eternal Life Realm indeed had points of connection, and might possibly evolve into new great immortal arts, and might also allow his comprehension of space to reach a new realm.

Space, time.

To ascend more easily to the fourth layer of Eternal Life — the Light-Chronos realm — thoroughly comprehending the laws of space was also an excellent method.

Fang Yu and Uncle Lan thus began comprehending the Dao here.

And his clone — the clone cultivating the Stellar Transformation — was also cultivating at tremendous speed.

Nebula, meteor, star core, planet, Tribulation Crossing, star.

From the early stage of star core to the star realm, for Fang Yu it was no difficult matter; with the three thousand Daos' Great Stellar Art assisting, Fang Yu's strength rose steadily.

Within his body, the star core transformed into the so-called "meteor," then transformed into a "star," and within his body was a "true solar core," but the might of this true solar core was not great — it could not compare at all with the sun-stars in the universe.

If the true solar core within his body were the sun of the Eternal Life Realm, his cultivation base would now be at least the ninth layer of Eternal Life — the Void Immortal realm — and might even have reached the tenth layer of Eternal Life. Unfortunately, it was a miniature version, so Fang Yu's current realm was still the third layer of Eternal Life — the Cave Heaven realm.

"The star realm has been reached as well, but the Stellar Transformation art has no continuation after this — it seems I'll have to create a method myself."

Fang Yu's particle clone pondered.

Lei Wei, who had created this Stellar Transformation art, had only deduced six realms; to continue cultivating, one had to create a method.

"The seventh realm of Stellar Transformation… the Dark Star realm."

At this moment, Fang Yu's clone had long since flown out of the sea, with his entire body above the cosmic void, observing the changes of the universe, and had created the seventh realm of Stellar Transformation — the Dark Star realm.

This realm was the collapse of the star within one's own body, its volume shrinking by ten million times, causing power to condense once more.

If the energy of the star period was like a piece of scrap iron, then the energy of the dark star period was that scrap iron with all its impurities refined away, compressed ten million times, forming a sharp fine needle.

This was still an elevation of energy grade.

At the next realm, the power of the dark star would collapse once more, transforming into a black hole; however, to condense into a black hole required powerful soul force to control, and also required drawing in vast amounts of energy.

And it was at this moment that a piece of information appeared very abruptly.

He would ascend to the Immortal, Demon, and Devil Realm one month later.

"Ascend to the Immortal, Demon, and Devil Realm?"

Fang Yu's heart stirred. His clone cultivating to such a realm had indeed reached the point of ascending to the Immortal, Demon, and Devil Realm, because at this moment, if his clone were converted into this world's orthodox cultivation system, it would likely already be an existence at the Heavenly Immortal level of this world — and not the weakest tier of Heavenly Immortal; its strength was at least equivalent to an eighth-tier Heavenly Immortal, and its attack power was likely equivalent to a Jin Xian of this world.

Such a realm, according to this realm's rules, indeed should ascend.

As for his true body, it had the Myriad Realms King Map; even if the cultivation base reached Jin Xian, or even reached Heavenly Venerate, it could still remain in this world's mortal realm.

The Myriad Realms King Map, it was obvious, could shield many heavenly secrets and laws — it was a heavy treasure.

However, to this day it could only assist his traversing; he did not know whether, once his cultivation base grew stronger, it could activate other functions.

"It's about time; I should head back."

On this day, Jiang Lan stopped the discussion of the Dao and sighed.

"Since Fellow Daoist must go, I won't keep you. We'll meet again next time."

Around Fang Yu's body, many Dao-rule divine abilities flowed; countless spatial laws seemed like his pets, displaying many transformations.

Some spatial laws condensed into a jagged great blade, throbbing violently; some spatial laws formed a spring of water, shimmering with ripples, but if anyone entered it they would immediately be decomposed into billions of fragments.

Of course, some spatial laws also condensed into a pure land; within this pure land, densely packed spatial laws composed every inch of void, so that no matter how proficient in spatial laws an existence might be, upon arriving here they seemed stripped of everything.

And within the flow of these many spatial laws, a wisp of a different law revealed a unique aura — wherever it went, the spatial laws there accelerated and became more compact.

This was a wisp of the law of time!

In these few days of comprehending the Dao, Fang Yu had finally comprehended a wisp of the law of time — this was a tremendous gain.

This was also the greatest gain from this discussion of the Dao between Fang Yu and Jiang Lan.

"Until we meet again — I imagine by then Fellow Daoist will give me a great surprise."

Jiang Lan clicked his tongue in admiration; toward this being's comprehension and mystery, he grew ever more awestruck. Back in the day, to comprehend that wisp of the law of time, he had comprehended for who knew how many tens of thousands of years; yet now this Fellow Daoist had comprehended it just like that.

Such an existence, upon reaching the God Realm, would likely need only cultivate for some years before possibly ascending to the supreme.

He greatly looked forward to such a thing.

"Lier, let's go."

Jiang Lan thought to himself, then looked toward Lier, who not far away could hardly bear to part with Qin Yu.

"Qin Yu, cultivate well, and come find me later. I will… wait for you."

Miss Lier took one last look at Qin Yu, reluctant to part, but she knew she had to leave.

"Lier…"

Qin Yu was deeply reluctant to part.

"Qin Yu, before I leave, I'll give you a treasure. This treasure is called the 'Jiang Lan Realm.' It's a special divine artifact I refined. Its wonders you can comprehend for yourself. When you are able to use the Jiang Lan Realm fully, that will be when you can see Lier. Remember—only able to see Lier."

Just as Jiang Lan was about to depart, he waved his hand, and a small green tower appeared in his palm, then drifted over to Qin Yu.

"Uncle Lan, I'll do everything I can!"

Qin Yu suppressed his excitement and reached out to take the small green tower, the 'Jiang Lan Realm,' though his fingers still trembled slightly.

And in the next moment, both Jiang Lan and Lier were gone.

Really gone.

"Just like that, they left…"

Qin Yu felt a little lost.

Uncle Lan and Lier had left just like that.

"And I'm still here."

The great ape Hou Fei was still here.

"I'm here too."

Little Black, the bird, also spoke up.

"Cultivate well. I ascend to the Immortal-Demon-Monster Realm in one month. I'll see you all in the Immortal-Demon-Monster Realm."

Fang Yu's doppelganger spoke up.

"Upper Immortal, even your doppelganger is about to ascend…"