Chapter 985: Cultivating the Dao, Departing!

He Pingsheng’s thoughts were simple!

He couldn’t understand these immortal realm characters!

But it didn’t matter!

Just find someone who could read them, and ask for some immortal script.

Who could read them?

He Pingsheng thought Cui Jue from the Underworld probably could.

But he couldn’t be certain!

First, take them out.

Whether he could open a passage to the small spiritual world where Su Zhen and Dalun Mingwang were would depend on these immortal texts.

After a flurry of activity, He Pingsheng finally placed all the jade slips into the Treasure Basin.

After selecting, the Red Silk Maiden took a vial of immortal elixir.

For a cultivator at the pinnacle of the spiritual realm, cultivation base and combat power meant nothing anymore.

She cared only about her dwindling lifespan.

As for what kind of immortal elixir she took, she didn’t say, and He Pingsheng didn’t ask.

“I’m ready!” the Red Silk Maiden looked at He Pingsheng and said simply.

He Pingsheng nodded: “I’m ready too… Elder, we can leave now!”

There were still many buildings atop this mountain peak.

He Pingsheng’s spiritual sense spread out, penetrating these buildings, where countless rooms and halls indeed held abundant resources.

But He Pingsheng had no interest in those resources—he simply re-entered each room one by one, gathering every jade slip.

Combined with those he’d collected earlier in the grand hall, he now had over a thousand.

You could say he’d emptied nearly all the jade slips from this mountain peak.

The Treasure Basin was nearly full.

Boom…

The crimson spear shot out of He Pingsheng’s body again, striking violently against the outer array.

After two consecutive strikes, it finally tore open another gap in the array.

He Pingsheng and the Red Silk Maiden quickly exited through the gap.

After they left, the gap did not immediately close, and this time no storm raged within the array’s fracture.

Many Mahayana Emperor cultivators once again turned into streaks of light, trying to rush in.

Though no storm blew, an invisible force blocked them, preventing entry entirely.

After a few breaths, the array’s crack sealed itself once more.

“Master… waaah…” Luo Bingyao looked utterly dejected.

He Pingsheng pulled out a fairy peach plucked from the peach tree and handed it to Luo Bingyao: “Here… since you didn’t go in, I brought you a fairy fruit!”

“Try it!”

“Thank you, Master!” Luo Bingyao happily accepted the fairy peach and glanced around.

He Pingsheng asked: “What are you looking at? Eat it!”

Luo Bingyao said: “Wait a bit, no rush… I’ll wash it before eating when we get back…”

He Pingsheng: …………

“The most magnificent is the mountain behind!” the Red Silk Maiden gestured toward the peak behind them: “Beyond the array, there’s also an immortal realm Dao law—even cultivators who can’t enter the array can here attain six decades of Dao insight. It’s worth the trip!”

“Let’s go take a look!”

The three turned into streaks of light, flying from the front peak toward the one behind.

After roughly two incense sticks’ time, they reached the outer edge of the peak.

The entire mountain, a hundred li in circumference, was wrapped in a massive array.

The array’s light membrane shimmered with golden radiance, dazzling under the sun above.

Outside the array’s glow floated ethereal clusters of immortal Dao principles.

Many had already entered the colorful immortal Dao principles and begun their cultivation.

“I’ll check out the array!”

He Pingsheng flew a full circle around the mountain.

Most areas showed no signs of life.

He casually approached the array and began analyzing it with his own array knowledge.

After several incense sticks’ time, He Pingsheng reluctantly concluded: the array covering this peak was a second-rank immortal array.

And it was a protective mountain array!

“Can you break it?” He Pingsheng asked Jin Ku.

Jin Ku said: “Brother, you’re overestimating me—I’m only at the Earth Immortal realm in cultivation, not a true Earth Immortal!”

“Even if a genuine Earth Immortal came, he couldn’t break this second-rank protective mountain array by brute force!”

“To break it, I’d need to study this array for ten thousand years and dismantle it with array techniques!”

He Pingsheng fell silent.

Couldn’t break it!

But he still couldn’t accept it—he insisted Jin Ku try anyway.

Jin Ku unleashed all his strength, striking the array’s light membrane—no effect.

Earlier, he’d shattered a first-rank protective mountain array with two hits.

This second-rank array? Not even a single strike dimmed its glow.

It showed almost no change.

He Pingsheng looked crestfallen.

Through the light membrane, he saw countless immortal herbs and fairy fruits inside.

Their grades seemed even higher.

And the buildings atop the peak!

Clearly, no one had entered here in ages—if they could, they’d surely obtain incredible treasures.

But… could everything go as one wished?

Half satisfaction was enough.

The Red Silk Maiden floated over, looking at He Pingsheng: “Don’t waste your effort—this array, even if all the spiritual realm’s power combined, couldn’t break it.”

He Pingsheng nodded.

He hadn’t truly expected to break it—just wanted to test.

“Forget it,” He Pingsheng said. “Leave it for future generations.”

Luo Bingyao said: “Master, you’re unprecedented and unmatched—what future generations?”

He Pingsheng smiled: “Don’t be so certain.”

“Heroes abound like fish crossing a river—who knows if none will come after?”

“Not quite,” said the Red Silk Maiden beside them. “This Piaomiao Mountain is rootless—its array isn’t sustained by immortal veins, but by treasures similar to immortal crystals. Such energy will eventually deplete.”

“Then, future generations might open this immortal array.”

He Pingsheng and Luo Bingyao nodded.

“Forget it…” He Pingsheng said. “Let’s go. Don’t bother opening the array—let’s rest and cultivate these immortal laws.”

Saying this, he was the first to dive into a nearby crimson cluster of Dao principles.

Luo Bingyao followed right after.

The Red Silk Maiden went elsewhere.

Cultivating the Dao!

Though immortal realm principles differed from spiritual realm principles and were higher in rank, they weren’t necessarily incomprehensible.

The proof?

He couldn’t comprehend them at all.

He Pingsheng sat cross-legged and cultivated for sixty years—yet gained nothing.

Hummm…

When the sixty years ended, a vast force hurled He Pingsheng and all others far beyond the Piaomiao Mountain’s boundaries.

Then, in the void, Dao principles manifested.

The Sixty-Year Heavenly Blindness has ended.

The Piaomiao Mountain vanished within a few breaths.