Chapter 585: Chapter 583: Ascension? (Lords Congratulate by Drinking Wine at Dusk by the East Fence!)_1
"The past cannot be pursued..."
Months later.
Under the Ancestral Demon Tree, there sat a short-legged desk.
Fang Xi was seated cross-legged, holding a jade pot in his hand as he poured wine for the Heterodox Nascent soul opposite him.
This Spirit Wine had the color of jadeite and was the newly developed fourth-order "Green Bamboo Wine"!
When one has idle time, they should always find some amusement for themselves.
With Fang Xi’s current reputation, a simple hint was enough for the Immortal Cultivation Sects of the Western Desert to offer up their best wine-making talents, painstakingly modifying the original wine formulas...
"Let me encourage you to finish another cup..."
Fang Xi played with his wine cup, drank it all in one gulp, and then overturned it on the table.
At that moment, it appeared that there were already three wine cups on the desk, positioned to the east, west, and south: "South Wilderness, Eastern Sea, Western Desert... Each has sealed a Transcendent God Demonic Beast. Quite interesting."
The Heterodox Nascent soul finished drinking and placed a wine bowl upside down in the center: "Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm... the entrance is in the middle!"
"Why don’t I believe what the old ancestor of the Bai family said? Everywhere else has one, why not the North Plains?!"
Fang Xi stroked his chin: "The waters of the Mortal Realm are indeed deep. It’s good to drag things out like this for now, no rush to break through..."
"So, the next destination is Minghuan World or a new world?"
The Heterodox Nascent soul seemed ready to risk it all.
"How could the Primitive Devil Door be worthy of the labor of a Transcendent God Demon Lord..."
Fang Xi smiled slightly: "It’s also time to visit the fifth world."
...
Fang Xi counted the worlds he had traveled through using the Treasure Mirror of All Heavens after arriving in the South Wilderness.
The first world, Great Liang, appeared to be the weakest, but in reality, it was unfathomable, with the power of Taoist Fruit hidden within, definitely a deliberate design by the Treasure Mirror of All Heavens.
The second world was just a secret realm of Minghuan World, but using it as a stepping stone, going to Minghuan World was now as easy as taking candy from a baby for Fang Xi.
In the third, the Red Sun World, Fang Xi had already become the Prime Taoist, and his two unfortunate disciples still hadn’t broken through to Nascent Soul. Even with the life-extending Spiritual Pills, the effects of the pills had their limits. It seemed like he would eventually be sending off those with black hair...
The fourth, the Kyushu World, doesn’t need much mention; he’s already the Fang Immortal Taoist Master there, with the entire Kyushu World at his beck and call.
When the Heterodox Nascent Soul achieved Transcendent God, Fang Xi knew it was time to open the fifth world.
Now that he had obtained the Door of Ten Thousand Worlds, would the worlds differ from what he knew?
However, exploring new worlds was bound to be riskier than known ones.
Even with a place like Minghuan World, Fang Xi could be certain of his footing. As a Transcendent God, he was a top figure, and the danger was minimal...
So, let the new world be explored by the Heterodox Nascent Soul.
It was just the right time, as its cultivation progress was exceedingly fast and needed some solid grounding.
After the farewell drink, Fang Xi’s palm revealed the Treasure Mirror of All Heavens.
With a flicker of silver light, Fang Xi could clearly see that the silver glimmer was actually composed of countless flowing and intricate Phoenix Seal Script, which enveloped the Heterodox Nascent Soul before vanishing without a trace...
...
The Void distorted, compressed...
Even Fang Xi’s Transcendent God demon body felt somewhat uncomfortable.
A wasteland.
Countless dense Phoenix Seal Scripts converged, forming a door-like shape, and a figure stepped out from it.
Fang Xi held his temples, feeling a bit unwell.
It was similar to the discomfort he felt the first time he used a teleportation array.
"This place... is a bit eerie..."
He spread his Divine Consciousness, but it seemed suppressed; while it could easily exceed five hundred li in the South Wilderness, here, he could only probe a mere two to three hundred li.
The place where he was appeared to be a wasteland, but the Void was filled with a faint Heavenly Earth Primordial Energy.
"A Spiritual Vein? It’s only around first-order, but that’s still amazing. If it were in the South Wilderness, it would surely cause small Qi Refining families and Individual Cultivators to fight to the death over it..."
"Hm?"
Fang Xi suddenly looked up, sensing something amiss.
High above in the sky, there were seven grand suns hanging!
"The sky adorned with seven suns... I seem to have read about this in an ancient book..."
He seemed to recall something, his expression faintly excited, then he began to meditate, breathing in and out.
Inhale... Exhale...
Between these breaths, Fang Xi actually felt his lifespan slowly but steadily growing!
"Seven suns hanging in the sky, nights with nine moons... lifespan increasing..."
"Could this place actually be... the ’Earth Immortal Realm’?!"
"Have I ascended?!"
Fang Xi seemed to realize something, and with a wave of his hand.
Spiritual Energy surged wildly, turning into a pitch-black bloody demon hand, wildly exhibiting Divine Skills in mid-air.
"There can be no mistake... The Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy is extremely rich, the Transcendent God freely casts spells without suffering any backlash of Spiritual Power... this place, is indeed Earth Immortal Realm!"
Fang Xi’s eyes shone brightly, and then he burst into hearty laughter.
Transcendent God Cultivators in the Lower Realm, for the sake of ascending to the Earth Immortal Realm, would go to extreme lengths. Some were dedicated to their cultivation, hoping to grasp that fleeting chance to ascend to Perfect Transcendent God.
Others were scavenging a world for Void Treasures, hoping to ascend through the Ascension Platform.
Even more tragic were those in minor realms that didn’t even have an ’Ascension Platform’ and could only try their luck through the Spatial Rifts... with almost a certainty of death!
But those top cultivators from the Lower Realm, in order to ascend to the Earth Immortal Realm, remain unwavering and without regrets!
Even Fang Xi himself had to give face to the ancestor of the Bai family before, although he guessed that the other party was lying, he didn’t expose it, precisely because the only "Ascension Platform" discovered in the Mortal Realm was in the Cultivation World of North Plains.
If no other methods could be found and one couldn’t cultivate to the Perfect Transcendent God realm, one would inevitably need the help of the "Ascension Platform" to ascend!
But now...
"Everything has changed..."
Fang Xi muttered to himself as he summoned the "Divine Infant Sword"!
This sword could easily slice open the Void in his hands, but now, when he swung it with all his might, only a few ripples appeared in the Void, showing no signs of breaking.
"The Void is formidable, and the Primordial Energy is abundant... It means that the Interface Power of this world is incredibly strong to an unimaginable degree."
Fang Xi put away the Divine Infant Sword and sat down in silence.
After a day passed, he looked up at the sky.
He saw rounds of bright moons hanging in the night sky, some were waxing, others full, and some waning...
"Seven suns in the sky, nine moons at night... There’s no mistake, this place is the ’Earth Immortal Realm’!"
The heterodox Nascent Soul’s lips curled up into an increasingly broad smile: "I’ve really ascended!"
...
The Mortal Realm.
Beneath the Ancestral Demon Tree.
Fang Xi was holding a talisman brush, drawing talismans on a piece of talisman paper with vigorous and fluid strokes.
His brush moved as if it were a dragon or snake, the richly abundant spiritual force automatically turned the cinnabar into powder, converging into the tip of the brush.
Soon, a peculiar talisman was completed.
A purple rune flickered with light on the talisman paper made from the skin of a fourth-order monster beast...
The next moment, the talisman ignited without wind, burning the fine fourth-order beast skin paper into a pile of ashes.
"As expected... A secret talisman involving the Dragon Chapter Script... Even a fourth-order beast skin is unable to withstand it?"
Fang Xi appeared to be prepared for this and didn’t mind.
This secret talisman was something he had bartered for in the market of Yingzhou Island in the East Sea.
After Fairy Yunxi learned that he was interested in the Taoist of Talisman, she ordered Shui Lingxin to send him the talisman inheritance from Penglai Fairy Island, which included several Dragon Chapter secret talismans, more complete than the ones from the old shop of Three Talisman Hall.
Fang Xi reckoned he had already taken his Array and Alchemy Skill to the current limit and thus shifted attention to focus on the Taoist of Talisman and Puppets.
He was now diligently practicing day and night...
"This beast-skin talisman paper is made from the tanned eyelids of the ’Ten Thousand Eyes Demon’... The demon’s eyelids are the most suitable for making talisman paper, and fourth-order talisman paper is extremely tough. It has one more wonderful use... Even if the drawing of the talisman fails, the strength of the paper will often preserve most of it, reducing a lot of loss..."
"But these few times, even though I’ve completed the talisman, it still ignites itself. It is clearly not an issue of technique, but rather that the talisman paper cannot bear it."
Fang Xi had been aware of this problem for some time and also had a solution.
Using the fourth-order beast-skin talisman paper was just for practice.
Once the success rate improved, he planned to make talisman paper from the three exuviae shed by Jin Chanzi, which should be able to carry the power of the Dragon Chapter Script Talisman due to their uniqueness.
’The fact that Fairy Yunxi sent over a fifth-order talisman inheritance... Apart from currying favor, she probably also intended to distract me with the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, so as to delay my cultivation... But this is an open conspiracy, I’ll take the sugar coating, but I still have to return the cannonball...’
Thinking of Fairy Yunxi, Fang Xi then thought of Shui Lingxin.
After traveling for a while, this woman eventually returned to the Cultivation World of the Eastern Sea, and focused on cultivation, preparing to breakthrough to the Transcendent God realm in the future.
Fang Xi merely saw her as an ordinary cultivator, at best, a young friend with whom he had a decent relationship.
After drawing talismans for the day, Fang Xi sat cross-legged, bringing his hands together as the "Treasures of All Heavens" emerged.
Now that he had reached Transcendent God, his refinement of the ancient bronze mirror had deepened.
When he poured his Divine Consciousness into the "Treasures of All Heavens", he could see the surroundings of the heterodox Nascent Soul...
It was precisely because of such a reliance, without fearing the heterodox Nascent Soul’s defection, that he could confidently let it break through the Transcendent God bottleneck and then explore other worlds.
"The Earth Immortal Realm..."
At this moment, Fang Xi still could not restrain the excitement in his heart.
Suddenly, his Divine Consciousness surged, activating the "Treasures of All Heavens".
A flash of silver light appeared, and the figure of the heterodox Nascent Soul materialized, looking around: "What a narrow and confined world... But I’m back!"
Fang Xi began to assimilate without a word...
"Good, good... The heterodox Nascent Soul followed the plan, only observing without making any moves..."
"There are countless masters in the Earth Immortal Realm, and one must act with caution!"
"Now, it’s time for other experiments."
Fang Xi looked at the heterodox Nascent Soul and started up the "Treasures of All Heavens" again...
What happened next, if known by other Transcendent Gods in this world, would probably make their eyeballs pop out...
To put it simply, it was a cycle of I ascended, I returned, I ascended again, I returned again...
"Very good, the Earth Immortal Realm is like other worlds, where one can travel back and forth without limit, especially returning!"
Ascending is simple, but returning is very difficult!
Especially for the big shots of the Earth Immortal Realm, it is incredibly difficult to break through the barriers to stuff people into the smaller worlds.
Compared to that, sending messages to the Lower Realm is the simplest, transferring objects is very difficult, let alone sending people down to the Lower Realm? There has only ever been one example of this in the Mortal World since ancient times, and that is the exiled sage master of Green Emperor Mountain!
Not to mention that the Mortal World has been disconnected from the Upper World for a long time...
"There are countless small worlds in the three thousand realms, the traitor of Green Emperor Mountain is a big figure in the Lower Realm, but not necessarily a big figure in the Upper World... Those forces that send messages to the Mortal Realm might not be the top Sects of the Earth Immortal Realm."
"However, to be cautious, one must never reveal the identity of the ’descendant of Green Emperor Mountain’ in the Earth Immortal Realm... Now that the heterodox Nascent Soul is making its mark, that’s just perfect."