Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

"Cough cough, the saint was talking nonsense just now! Did you hear anything?" Yuan Hong coughed and asked Zhao Sheng with a meaningful look.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng immediately responded decisively, "No, I did not hear anything just now."

"Ha-ha, it wouldn't matter much if you did hear something. The saint wishes nothing more than to punch that Supreme Old Thief into the Nine Netherworld and let him taste the eternal torment and solitude." Yuan Hong, gritting his teeth, suddenly fixed his gaze on Zhao Sheng's face and asked indifferently, "The saint has three Supreme Immortal Techniques, are you interested in learning them?"

Zhao Sheng laughed and said, "Of course, I wish to learn! May I ask the Great Saint, what must I do for you to impart the Immortal Techniques?"

Yuan Hong extended his right palm, raised three fluffy fingers, and spoke coldly, "It's simple! You just need to do three things for the saint! Complete one and I will teach you one Immortal Technique."

After hearing this, Zhao Sheng immediately agreed, "It's a deal! Please tell me, Great Saint, what are these three tasks?"

"Excellent! Listen well, young one. The first task is for you to go to the Taiching Spirit Realm, find the Golden Wind Cave deep within the Prisoner Dragon Mountain Range of the Innate Divine Continent, and retrieve the shattered soul of the saint. Then, somehow bring it to the Thought Realm."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng immediately showed a bitter smile, about to open his mouth to counter, but was silenced by a look from Yuan Hong.

"If you complete this task, the saint will teach you the 'Infinite Heaven Traveling Skill.' With this technique mastered, you can traverse all universes unobstructed, with no divine ability in the world capable of trapping you."

"The second task requires you to find the bloodline descendants of the Ten Great Divine Apes, preferably from the Pure-blooded Ape Clan, or at the very least, Second Generation Mixed Blood. If you find any of the Ten Great Divine Apes, quickly figure out a way to have its spirit come to this realm."

Hearing this, Zhao Sheng opened his mouth but ultimately held back from saying anything.

Yuan Hong saw his expression but pretended not to notice and continued, "If you manage this task. The saint will teach you the 'Heaven-Supporting Unity Technique.' This technique, unique to Qingtian Great Saint, aligns with the principles of the Power Dao and is a treasure book of Immortal Skill. Once mastered, it bestows Heavenly Support Divine Power, allowing you to support an entire world with a single breath."

"The third task is the easiest. You need only to construct a clay idol for the saint, build a temple for worship, and continually propagate my name to all beings in the universe, ensuring the incense offerings are never-ending. The saint will then impart to you the 'Big and Small Ruyi Immortal Skill.'"

After listening to Yuan Hong's explanation, Zhao Sheng suspected that only the last task was the saint's true aim.

Because the first two tasks were exceedingly difficult, they were clearly unrealistic for a Nascent Soul minor cultivator.

"Great Saint, I think—" Zhao Sheng had just started speaking when Yuan Hong rudely interrupted him, the old hairy one eagerly asked, "Don't speak yet, the saint has a question for you. Have you ever heard of the Taiching Realm?"

"I have not! I have only heard of the Taiyi and the Taiching two Spirit Realms. Could the Taiching Realm also be a kind of Spirit Realm?" Zhao Sheng ended with a counter-question.

"Taiyi, Taiching? Hehe, the saint remembers that in all universes, any Spirit Realm with 'Tai' in its name belongs to the territory of the Supreme Sect. The Taiching Realm is indeed one of the most important Spirit Realms under the control of the Supreme Sect.

You are in luck, young one! It seems that the first task is hopeful to be completed!"

As he spoke, Yuan Hong pointed a finger, and suddenly a speck of white light condensed out of thin air, disappearing into Zhao Sheng's forehead with a flash.

In an instant, a torrent of information related to the Nine Nether Void Realm and the mysteries of space-time flooded Zhao Sheng's mind.

At the same time, a series of complex, enigmatic three-dimensional symbols appeared in his mind.

In a flash, Zhao Sheng "understood" the meaning of this string of three-dimensional symbols; they represented the spatiotemporal coordinates of the Taiching Realm within the Nine Nether Void Realm.

With this spatiotemporal coordinate, one could travel through the Nine Nether Void Realm, traversing endless space and time, to eventually reach the Taiching Realm.

A moment later, Zhao Sheng rubbed his forehead as if in great pain, but in reality, he was overjoyed.

Even in its reduced form to nothing but a single thought, Yuan Hong, who was indeed of True Immortal stature from the Demon Clan during its life, casually imparted some inconsequential knowledge of space and time which enlightened Zhao Sheng and greatly increased his Daoist spiritual cultivation.

When he awoke, Zhao Sheng immediately treated Yuan Hong with great respect and reverence, "Thank you, Great Saint, for imparting wisdom! I am deeply grateful."

"Tsk tsk, you humans are too hypocritical, what's the use of all these fancy courtesies!" Yuan Hong said with a contemptuous smile, waving his hand and motioning for him to stand up straight, for he had more to say.

At that moment, Yuan Hong puffed up his cheeks and forcefully exhaled a gust of white breath.

The white breath soared into the sky and suddenly divided into ten streams, then expanded and twisted, transforming into ten monkey figures, each with a distinct demeanor and appearance.

Zhao Sheng glanced at them and saw that the ten monkeys were all lifelike, each displaying its uniqueness.

"Take a good look! These ten Divine Apes are scattered across all heavens and myriad worlds. The foremost is known as the Spiritual Monkey, followed by the Six-Eared Macaque, then comes the Extended-Arm Spiritual Ape, the Red Demon Horse Monkey, the Snow Mountain Saint Monkey..."

With Yuan Hong's introduction, Zhao Sheng committed the images of the Ten Great Divine Apes to memory one by one.

Furthermore, he noticed that Yuan Hong's appearance was very similar to that of the Red Demon Horse Monkey, which allowed him to surmise the origins of the Golden Sun Saint.

It took the time of two cups of tea for Yuan Hong to meticulously share the habits, the Innate Divine Abilities they excel in, and the environments they prefer to dwell in... and so on, concerning the Ten Great Divine Apes. In the end, he even taught a secret technique for identifying pure bloodlines.