Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence is formless and intangible; its outer appearance is "light," therefore it needs to be sealed within the Bright Pearl of a Spirit Stone.

The reason for sealing it is to slow down the rate of collapse as much as possible.

Within a certain world, due to the existence of the Heavenly Dao, the collapse of the Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence is irreversible, one can only try to slow it down.

Next to the Blood Sea, within a huge fireball of boiling fierce flames, Red Flame Ancestor looked at his "neighbor" Li Wufeng, who had scooped up a strand of Mysterious Essence, and quickly sent a divine thought message:

"Brother Li, your luck isn't bad! Did you actually catch a three-inch long strand? Are there any Magic Traces? What attribute is it? If it's Fire Element Mysterious Essence, remember to save it for this old man, don't trade it away!"

Normally, Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence is "short as tiny specks, not longer than an inch."

Apart from the influence of Law Residue, the longer the Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence, the higher its value and the greater the probability of containing Law Residue.

A three-inch-long Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence is one in a hundred, with the common length of Mysterious Essence usually under one inch.

Li Wufeng sighed softly, and sent a message back: "Alas, Li has such poor luck. Not to mention the lack of Magic Traces, it's also Earth Attribute. It's useless in this old man's hands; it might as well be traded away soon."

"Be content! Since the beginning, I've only managed to scoop up two strands, and not a single one exceeds eight millimeters. Have you heard me complain?"

Red Flame Ancestor hails from Earth Flame Palace of the Central Continent, at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage realm.

Three hundred years ago, the Blood Demon Sect's previous incarnation, Origin Return Sect, once made quite a name in Central Continent. After being labeled a Demon Sect, it also had some connections with Earth Flame Palace.

Back then, Li Wufeng was just a Little Golden Core and not taken seriously by Red Flame Ancestor.

Who would have thought in a short three hundred years, Li Wufeng's strength would skyrocket, rising to become a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Ancestor on par with him.

However, Red Flame Ancestor didn't envy him at all, because everyone knew the drawbacks of cultivating the "Blood Soul Scripture."

That "Blood God" prefers to invade the flesh most.

The higher Li Wufeng's cultivation, the more miserable his end.

No matter how prestigious he appears now, he will inevitably become a vessel for the Blood God.

On the other side, Spiritual Abyss Ancestor also showed a happy expression as he scooped up a two-inch-plus long strand of "light" from the sea.

Lingxu Ancestor swept it with his Divine Thought, and couldn't help but smile broadly, but quickly his face showed hesitation.

This strand of Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence turned out to be the rare Thunder Movement, though it lacked Magic Traces, Thunderwalking Mysterious Spirit inherently possessed the "Summoning Thunder" attribute.

If handled well, a strand of Thunderwalking Mysterious Spirit could divert a tribulation thunder, increasing the success rate of Crossing Tribulation.

And those over five inches could likely diverge a Divinity Transformation Tribulation Thunder.

Just for this, the value of Thunderwalking Mysterious Spirit was far higher than ordinary Mysterious Essence that contained Law Residue.

"Ling Xu, do you have any top-grade Spirit Stones of the Thunder Attribute in your hands?"

"No! What's up?... Could it be that it just now... was a Thunder Movement?" From the depths of the ocean, Ling Xu suddenly opened his eyes, excitedly sent a message.

Spiritual Abyss Ancestor nodded his head slightly and reluctantly took out a blank top-grade Spirit Stone to seal it inside.

A so-called blank top-grade Spirit Stone is one in which all the Spiritual Energy inside has been exhausted, causing the spiritual energy vortex to collapse, leaving only an empty shell of a top-grade Spirit Stone.

It is best to seal Outer Heaven Mysterious Essence inside a Spirit Stone of the same attribute, as Spirit Stones of other attributes will "contaminate" the Mysterious Essence.

"Hmm!"

Ling Xu Ancestor's face changed, as his surrounding Nascent Soul Domain suddenly caved in, creating a huge indent of dozens of feet in radius.

At the center of the indentation, a rainbow crystal flower rapidly shrank until it disappeared.

Seeing this, Spiritual Abyss Ancestor's eyes flashed with a hint of anger, and he turned his head towards a seven-colored net, ten miles away from him.

This seven-colored net spanned nearly a mile in radius and was stretched open on all four sides in the Void, emitting a rainbow-like glow.

Above the net, an elderly man wearing a Star robe and a dignified woman in a Moonlight Robe stood at the two ends of the net respectively.

Around the net, there were the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird—four legendary Holy Beasts' illusions, each enormous and occupying hundreds of feet in the Void.

The elderly man and the woman were Pan Xing and Ling Yue, master and mistress of Star God Palace, and they were also a pair of Late-stage Nascent Soul Daoist companions.

Around the couple were the four Ancient Cultivation Families—Situ, Gouchen, Fu Xiao, and Gu Yan.

The rainbow crystal flower that just appeared came from the hand of Ling Yue Palace Master.

This gesture was a provocation and also showed a flaunt of power.

After all, in this Sea Demon tide, the Star God Palace side suffered a minor loss, forced to give up nearly five hundred places.

You should know that the total number of places in the Core Circle also doesn't exceed five thousand. When allocated over the Five Continents and Four Seas, at least half won't receive five hundred.

As the host, Star God Palace has a quota limited to only a thousand each time, half of which was allocated this time.

Ling Yue is a woman, her temperament could not compare to Pan Xing's magnanimity.

Having suffered a loss this time, she naturally wanted to vent her frustrations.

Although the rules prohibited a significant battle here, the occasional "slip" one or two times was within the realm of tolerance.

"Hmph!"

Ling Yuan Ancestor snorted coldly, then regained his composure and retracted his gaze.

This was not the place for physical confrontations!

Moreover, without the Sea Crossing Crab by his side, even if he joined forces with Ling Xu, he was no match for those two "old friends."

"Great Elder, is it almost time?"

Upon hearing this, Lingxu Ancestor looked down at the world below.

Through the clear Heavenly Gang Atmosphere, one could see the meteor showers between heaven and earth thinning out, and the pitch-black ocean beginning to flicker with an unpredictable light.

From high above, one could see that half of the ocean below was starting to reveal clusters of light.

These clusters of light, like stars, were twinkling on and off.

The area of light and darkness spread out in the dark, and at first glance, it looked like a stretch of the Star River.

On the edge, the stars were sparse, but they became increasingly dense towards the center.

Especially in the very central circle, where the stars were densely packed, almost joined together.

From high above, it looked like a "bright eye" that was blinking.

But within the bright eye, there was a pupil-like dark spot that was strikingly noticeable.

Ling Yuan Ancestor knew that the dark spot was the location of Star God Island.

He fixed his gaze on that "bright eye," his eyes filled with extreme longing and a hint of deep-seated greed.

Anyone who made eye contact with the bright eye would feel as if the bright eye was "alive" from the depths of their heart, yet it would also seem so cold and unfeeling.

Ling Yuan Ancestor had lived for over two thousand years, but he still didn't understand the true nature of the Star God, having only known from the ancient books of his Clan that the Star God was called the Sea God, a Divine Spirit worshiped by his Clan during the prehistoric dream era.

Even now, the Sea God holds a very high status within the Spirit Clan.

The most important purpose of their splinter group of Spirit Clan people was to subdue the Star God, followed by establishing contact with the Ancestor Realm of the Spirit Clan.

In two thousand years, a total of five Divinity Transformation True Monarchs emerged from their Clan.

Four of the True Monarchs of the Spirit Clan went missing, their fate unknown, after stepping into the Outer Void in search of the Ancestor Realm.

Seven thousand years ago, the fifth elder Ancestor at the Divinity Transformation Realm attempted to use the Human Clan's Ascension passage to establish contact with the Ancestor Realm.

Unfortunately, the moment the Elder Ancestor sneaked into the top of Heavenly Pillar Mountain, he was discovered by two Human Clan's God Transformation figures and was severely injured in the ensuing conflict.

After returning to Spiritual Abyss and enduring for three hundred years, he was forced to sit down and fall before his time.

Just then, the random thoughts of Ling Yuan Ancestor were abruptly interrupted.

"Not good! Time's up! Ling Xu, run for it!"

No sooner had the words been spoken than all the meteors below suddenly extinguished en masse, as if devoured by something.

Seeing this, Ling Yuan Ancestor's face changed, and he immediately withdrew his extended Divine Thought. Following that, his body flashed and transformed into a streak of light, striving to escape in the opposite direction of the Tianzhu Realm.

It wasn't just him; all of the Nascent Soul Ancestors nearly simultaneously stopped their actions, quickly withdrew their Divine Thoughts and Nascent Soul Domains, utilized their extraordinary abilities, and fled frantically into the Void, as if being one step slower would lead to death and complete obliteration.

Death and obliteration might not be the result, but significant damage to both the Nascent Soul Domain and Divine Soul was a possibility.

Because at that moment, an unimaginable spirit storm was erupting from below, shooting straight into the Outer Void who knows how far away.

This spirit storm was incredibly powerful, so vast it filled the heavens and the earth, overspreading nearly half of the Shattered Star Sea with its boiling currents.

However, Zhao Sheng, located at the eye of the storm, was completely unaware of the intense spiritual tempest raging around him.
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Not quite!

In one ten-thousandth of a second, the Hundred Lifetimes book within the depths of his Soul Sea suddenly lit up, then became quiet again.

Because the moment was so fleeting, Zhao Sheng did not notice the anomaly with the Hundred Lifetimes book.