Chapter 64: Breakthrough, Grandmaster Peak!

Chapter 64: Chapter 64: Breakthrough, Grandmaster Peak!

What was the True Realm? And what was the True Remnant World?

In the First Heaven behind the Southern Heavenly Gate, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and the boundless sky was clear without a single white cloud.

Chen Sha stood before the temple of Dugu Qiubai, pondering this question. Gradually, he seemed to realize something and muttered to himself, "Dugu Qiubai and Hong Qigong are both from a ’True Remnant World.’ This is their commonality. However, the ’True Remnant World’ they come from might not necessarily be the same world as the other people I just saw."

Chen Sha looked up at the firmament of the First Heaven, exhaled, and said, "This means that there are many ’True Remnant Worlds.’ Hong Qigong and that guy Shi Xingyu Ascended here from different True Remnant Worlds.

"Looking out from this hillside, with countless temples covering the land, just how many Ascenders from different True Remnant Worlds exist here?

"If the number of True Remnant Worlds equals the number of Ascenders, judging by the sheer quantity of these temples...

"Thinking about it from another angle, does ’True Remnant World’ imply the myriad heavens and realms?"

If that was the case, what world did the opposing "True Realm"—missing the word "Remnant"—refer to?

Chen Sha walked forward. There were only three temples left on the hillside ahead of him. The furthest one belonged to Hong Qigong, whom he had interacted with before.

"Granny Yalong, Cultivator of the True Remnant World, Ninth Tribulation Period..."

"Zhang Daoxuan, Cultivator of the True Realm, stepped into the Broken Great Vajra Realm during the Ninth Tribulation Period, Ascended here, attained Immortal Rank, obtained an Immortal Mud Body, preserving his life from decay."

As he passed this final temple on the hillside, the Southern Heavenly Gate continued to tirelessly prompt in his mind, suggesting he could enter their past scenes for a trial.

"Do you wish to enter the Zhang Daoxuan Chapter, ’Demon Suppression Jade Emperor Peak,’ for a trial?"

As usual, Chen Sha ignored it and continued walking toward Hong Qigong’s temple. Suddenly, his footsteps halted. Thinking of something, he looked back and said, "Jade Emperor Peak?"

Wasn’t that the location of the mountain gate for the Jade Emperor Sect, which was just as famous as his Dao Yi Sect in the outside world?

"His surname is Zhang?" Chen Sha looked at the clay statue of Zhang Daoxuan.

He had ignored this person’s attire just now, but looking closely at it, he noticed the style of the Daoist Robe worn by the clay statue was very unique. There were nine Treasure Pearls on it, which were the accessories of the first generation.

"Is this... a Celestial Master’s Robe?" Chen Sha found it hard to imagine and guessed, "Could this Zhang Daoxuan be the first-generation Celestial Master of the Jade Emperor Sect in the outside world?"

If his guess was true, wouldn’t this person’s world of origin—the True Realm—be the Divine Land World where he currently resided?

Chen Sha thought, "Perhaps it is just a coincidence?"

He did not know much about the past of the Jade Emperor Sect, so he could not deduce more just from the attire and name. He thought, "After I go out, I will retrieve some records about the Jade Emperor Sect’s Celestial Master lineage from the Scripture Pavilion to take a look."

The Celestial Master lineage of the Jade Emperor Sect had always been passed down in a single line, from father to son, continuing eternally through descendants. If one wanted to become the Celestial Master, their surname had to be Zhang. And this man was named Zhang Daoxuan.

Chen Sha kept this suspicion in mind for now and turned toward the temple of Hong Qigong, which he had entered an unknown number of times.

"Hong Qigong, Cultivator of the True Remnant World, Ninth Tribulation Period, entered the Innate Realm, Ascended here, attained Immortal Rank, obtained an Immortal Mud Body, preserving his life from decay."

Like the other temples, there were a few extra special words.

"Ascended here from the Innate Realm."

Chen Sha noticed the difference. Dugu Qiubai was the same; he had Ascended at the Innate stage. Meanwhile, some other Cultivators of the True Remnant World were at the Broken Great Vajra Realm. It seemed his previous analysis was very correct.

The Ascension requirements for different worlds were different. For example, in the power system of the Legend of the Condor Heroes Series, one could Ascend upon reaching the First-Grade Great Innate.

He gazed at Hong Qigong’s clay statue.

"I was able to step into such a realm within half a year, all thanks to you acting as my guide."

Hong Qigong’s instance was essentially like a target to conquer in a beginner’s village. After clearing it, the large map of the First Heaven had finally been unlocked.

Chen Sha said before Hong Qigong’s clay statue, "Although I don’t know why you and the other predecessors turned into clay statues after Ascension, I hope there will be a day when you come back to life again."

This old beggar was arguably his favorite character in the story of the Legend of the Condor Heroes. Even though he had brutally beaten the man’s memory projection thousands of times within the Cosmic Light Fragments, it did not affect his admiration for Hong Qigong’s personality. He had never wrongfully killed a single good person in his entire life. He dared to say it and had truly achieved it. He could be called the paragon of heroes.

However, Hong Qigong’s temple was here. So where were Wang Chongyang’s temple and clay body? He had stepped into the Grandmaster Realm many years earlier than Hong Qigong, so his Ascension was inevitable.

Chen Sha thought, "When I have time in the future, I will search for them one by one. I will eventually have a chance to find him."

Time behind this Southern Heavenly Gate was eternal and unchanging. He had plenty of time.

Setting his thoughts aside, Chen Sha looked back at the hillside and muttered to himself, "Inside these temples, every clay statue has an epic and moving past. Those who could become Ascenders and shatter the void of their own worlds were all legends of their generation.

"If I enter their stories and use their experiences to temper myself, why would I fear not becoming the number one person in the Divine Land World?"

However, there was no need to rush into an instance today. He would first go out to inventory and digest the rewards he had reaped from clearing the "Hua Mountain Sword Discussion."

Chen Sha opened his eyes in his room.

All the rewards he had obtained from the Hua Mountain Sword Discussion were spread out in his lap. He looked through them one by one: the "One Yang Finger Manual", the "Nine Yin Scripture", the "Innate Skill", the "Snake Control Technique"...

There were also the two most precious jade-colored clusters of mist, which flowed with pure and flawless True Qi Power.

Chen Sha first opened and read the manuals for the Nine Yin Scripture and the Innate Skill. Half a cup of tea later, he could not help but feel pleasantly surprised. "My Great Yellow Court can naturally and easily cultivate and control the Martial Arts of any Sect. If they are Daoist Martial Arts, it controls them even more effortlessly. Both the Nine Yin Scripture and the Innate Skill were created by members of my Daoist School. They have touched upon a trace of the ’Innate First Grade’ threshold, so their rank is quite extraordinary." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

He then looked at the two clusters of power in his hands. "Coupled with the foundation of these forty years of power, I will only need three days to successfully cultivate the True Qi of these two Daoist Divine Skills and the One Yang Finger to Great Success."

Chen Sha swallowed the two clusters of mist in one gulp, allowing them to fuse into a single mass.

BOOM!

He immediately felt as if he had swallowed a mouthful of magma. A terrifying and powerful energy surged within his body, making it extremely easy to lose control.

However, Chen Sha already had the experience of refining "dropped power" once before. He calmly manipulated this surge of power, dividing it into three portions. One portion followed the Cultivation Route of the Nine Yin Scripture, one followed the route of the Innate Skill, and the last followed the route of the One Yang Finger...

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

The forty years of pure Inner Strength were effortlessly converted by Chen Sha into three types of True Qi within his body. At this moment, there were four streams of True Qi in Chen Sha’s body.

The most massive one was his Great Yellow Court Cultivation that filled his entire body with Qi, dispersing into every bit of flesh, blood, and acupoint.

Lying in his Dantian were the three types of Exotic True Qi. One cluster was equivalent to fifteen years of his own cultivation of the Nine Yin True Qi. Another cluster was equivalent to fifteen years of his own cultivation of the Innate Skill’s True Qi. The final cluster was ten years’ worth of power of the One Yang Finger’s True Qi.

Forty years of pure power had transformed into three streams of Exotic True Qi. If it were an ordinary person, the True Qi would likely clash with each other, carrying the risk of Qi deviation.

But in the face of Chen Sha’s Great Yellow Court Cultivation, these three types of True Qi were like the Divine Spirits in the Divine Hall on Dao Yi Mountain. They seemed to know exactly where their places were, staying obediently motionless in the Dantian while faintly guarding the Great Yellow Court.

He knew it was time. Thus, he fiercely circulated his Great Yellow Court power. Like the Natural Heavenly Dao that nourishes gods and all things, it swallowed and assimilated the three different Martial Arts True Qi in one gulp...

BOOM!

A violent astral wind suddenly whipped up in Chen Sha’s room, blowing the window screens so fiercely that they fluttered loudly.

Subsequently, his eyes snapped open. "Peak of Grandmaster Realm!"

At this moment, if any Daoist from Dao Yi Mountain had been here, they would have clearly felt that their Sect Leader’s True Qi was as unfathomable as a deep abyss. It encompassed myriad phenomena, reaching a realm of unmatched vastness.

Its greatness lay in its boundless capacity.

The strength of the Great Yellow Court and the Dao Yi Seal lay in their ability to fuse with the True Qi of other Martial Arts and evolve themselves. This ultimately allowed the cultivator’s Martial Arts to become like that of true immortals and demons, utterly devoid of flaws.

The Great Yellow Court and the Dao Yi Seal cultivated by different cultivators were all different. And Chen Sha had the Martial Arts of the endless legendary experts behind the Southern Heavenly Gate as his "resources."

This destined his Great Yellow Court to surpass everyone who had previously cultivated this First-Grade Divine Skill! Including his father, Chen Canxuan!