Cultivating with Top Enlightenment

Chapter 1015 - 438: Immortal Door Ranks (2)

The Sea Ancestor thought of her own inheritance but did not mention this matter, only saying that once the Immortal Door opened, stepping through it one could become an Immortal.

As for the Saint Ancestor, he had obtained the Ancient Saint’s inheritance, which did mention it, but not in much detail.

Ning Qi recalled the Master of the Starry Sky’s inheritance he had previously gained from the Ancient Road Sacred Map, and immediately flipped through it again.

The Master of the Starry Sky had also mentioned the Immortal Door, but when he became an Immortal back then, it was by opening a Starry Sky Gate.

The three inheritances did not match the Immortal Door the Mountain Ancestor was now opening before their eyes, which only made people even more confused about ascension.

However, thinking of how everything in the world had its hierarchies, and that everyone cultivated different paths, the door to ascension, logically speaking, wouldn’t escape this system either.

They could not help but continue watching.

Suddenly, the Mountain Ancestor looked at the physical body of Buzhou Mountain resting on his palm.

The next second, he began muttering under his breath, uttering a string of obscure, incomprehensible syllables, then ended with the word "Collect."

"Collect!"

The Mountain Ancestor’s Dharma Body opened his great mouth, and the physical Buzhou Mountain immediately began spinning rapidly, flying toward that huge mouth.

Gulp!

With a single gulping sound, the Mountain Ancestor had already swallowed that physical Buzhou Mountain into his belly.

In an instant, the Immortal Dao Aura around the Mountain Ancestor grew even denser.

Since he had summoned the phantom of Buzhou Mountain, sacrificed quite a few cultivators, and devoured much of the energy from the War Realm and the two realms...

Then to calling from the Sea of Realms the legendary remnant body of Buzhou Mountain and fusing with it.

The total energy contained in just these alone would likely be enough to push a mere mortal all the way from mortality to the peak of Harmonization.

And the Mountain Ancestor still possessed his own cultivation insights, as well as that unfathomable Buzhou Mountain inheritance; one could say that his path to ascension was already unstoppable.

Ning Qi and the other two all understood this.

The expressions of the Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor were complicated.

On one hand, they feared that if the Mountain Ancestor stepped into the Immortal Door and achieved True Immortality, they would certainly die, yet they were powerless to stop any of this.

On the other hand, they looked upon everything before them with a budding anticipation.

Even if they could not become Immortals themselves, to witness a scene of ascension that had not appeared in this Sea of Realms for countless years was also a fateful encounter.

Ning Qi harbored roughly the same thoughts in his heart.

Fortunately, he could sense that his connection to the True Martial Spirit Realm had not been severed; it was just that the mysterious Immortal Gate had appeared, cutting off the space between, making it impossible for him to shift back.

And the Mountain Ancestor was no longer paying them any attention at this moment, so they were still safe for now.

Even if the Mountain Ancestor truly became an Immortal later, Ning Qi felt he would still have a chance to escape.

While he controlled the True Martial Spirit Realm to keep moving farther away, he also pondered how to take the Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor away from here.

With his ability to be treated as one with the Sea of Realms, Ning Qi could completely take the Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor into deeper regions of the Sea of Realms, such as the Chaotic Flow Area.

Ning Qi was observant to the extreme; he had previously seen that before the Mountain Ancestor opened the Immortal Door, he seemed to glance toward the depths of the Sea of Realms, and the Mountain Ancestor had also been crossing the Sea of Realms with great caution all along, constantly calming the disturbances he caused in the Sea of Realms.

Ning Qi absolutely did not believe the Mountain Ancestor was doing all this for nothing.

The Mountain Ancestor likely knew some things they did not, things that came from his Buzhou Mountain inheritance.

And those things made the Mountain Ancestor himself feel fear, which was why he temporarily gave up suppressing the three of them and destroying the True Martial Spirit Realm, and instead rushed to ascend.

Putting all this information together, Ning Qi felt they should not be in immediate danger for the time being, so he decided to choose to watch the Mountain Ancestor’s ascension spectacle.

Of course, Ning Qi would not give up on continuing to search for a way to deal with the Mountain Ancestor.

He had previously used the Root of the Enlightenment Realm Tree to siphon some of the Mountain Ancestor’s power, and it was still in the process of being analyzed.

What’s more, he had also left some things inside the Buzhou Mountain phantom.

Ning Qi’s gaze reflected the gigantic Dharma Aspect of the Mountain Ancestor as he quietly altered the frequency of the power within his body, making it closer to that of the Mountain Ancestor.

Around the Mountain Ancestor, ever since he devoured the physical Buzhou Mountain, the seven-colored sheen on his skin rippled once, then, like flowers blooming in spring, flared open; the seven colors kept proliferating, turning into tens of thousands of colors in the world.

These colors were like ribbons of light fluttering in the air, encircling the Mountain Ancestor’s Dharma Body.

Each of them represented a method the Mountain Ancestor cultivated, containing many of the world’s Rules, encompassing past, present, and future, and also everything that was the Mountain Ancestor himself.

Ning Qi’s eyes shone with golden light. While paying attention to the Immortal Door, he also reached out to touch the colored ribbons on the Mountain Ancestor’s body surface.

Only, after the Mountain Ancestor devoured the physical Buzhou Mountain, his power kept changing, and even with Ning Qi’s level of Enlightenment, he gradually found it hard to fully analyze anymore.

That remnant of Buzhou Mountain had flown from the depths of the Sea of Realms, and who knew how much energy and how many secrets it held within; now it was merging into the Mountain Ancestor’s body and transforming everything about him.

Rumble!

Within the Sea of Realms, the Immortal Gate grew increasingly solid, its pillars originally resembling Han Baiyu, carved all over with intricate immortal patterns.

But as the power of Buzhou Mountain within the Mountain Ancestor flowed in, those two pillars began to change.

The ribbons of Immortal Dao Aura swirling around the Mountain Ancestor’s body started to wrap themselves around the pillars, merging into the immortal patterns on them.

The Han Baiyu pillars gradually revealed a cool, faint radiance, growing deeper and thicker.

Suddenly, the Immortal Gate before the Mountain Ancestor’s Dharma Body had completely changed its face, its Han Baiyu pillars turning into two bronze-colored pillars.

Between the pillars, two ancient, incomparably archaic bronze doors faintly emerged.

"A Bronze Gate?"

The few of them, including Ning Qi, were all shocked; they had never imagined that the Immortal Gate could undergo such a transformation.

They instantly realized that the level of this Bronze Gate was definitely above that of the Han Baiyu Gate; otherwise, why would the Mountain Ancestor make it change?

The Sea Ancestor felt a growing panic in her heart; she felt that if she could ever ascend, at most she might be able to condense that Han Baiyu Gate, and perhaps not even reach that.

Because when she compared herself to the Mountain Ancestor, she felt she simply did not measure up to him.

She also did not know if there existed anything lower than a Han Baiyu Immortal Door.

As for the Saint Ancestor, he narrowed his eyes, his thoughts unknown.

The three were silent, and the Mountain Ancestor was silent as well; all of them stood within the Sea of Realms, gazing at the Bronze Immortal Sect.

The Bronze Gate emitted a dim greenish glow, layer after layer of immortal halos blooming upon it, from which immortal mist arose, making it hazy and indistinct, hard to see clearly.

Creaaak!

Suddenly, the leaves of the Bronze Gate seemed to open a narrow slit, from which a beam of immortal light shone out, illuminating the Mountain Ancestor standing before the door.

It seemed that as long as the Mountain Ancestor took a single step forward, he could push open the Bronze Immortal Sect and enter within.

Yet, even though his Dharma Body was enveloped by that immortal light, the Mountain Ancestor did not move.

"You think a mere Bronze Immortal Sect can send me on my way? What a joke." the Mountain Ancestor said in resentment.

Ning Qi and the others only heard him continue:

"In days of old, my Buzhou Mountain was the only path to the Celestial Realm, the one that helped you establish the ascension system. Even the servants of Buzhou Mountain could step into the Immortal Door, with a minimum treatment of the Han Baiyu Gate!"

"And now you use a Bronze Immortal Sect to fob off me, a descendant who has obtained the Buzhou Mountain inheritance—have you forgotten the Immortal Mortal Crossing agreement signed back then?"

Hearing this, the three of them, Ning Qi included, exchanged glances, faces blank.

Servants of Buzhou Mountain, enjoying Han Baiyu Gate treatment?

Ascension system? Immortal Mortal Crossing?

The former words they could barely understand, but the latter they could not make any sense of at all.

One could only say that the Buzhou Mountain inheritance the Mountain Ancestor had obtained was an opportunity far stronger than they had imagined.

The aura around the Mountain Ancestor grew even more violent, countless streams of Immortal Dao Power surging out and crashing toward the Bronze Immortal Sect.

The Bronze Immortal Sect creaked and groaned, yet did not open.

Ning Qi and the others saw that as the Mountain Ancestor’s power continued to erupt, battering the Immortal Door, pieces of bronze actually began to flake off that Bronze Immortal Sect.

Gradually, a streak of silver light flashed amidst the bronze, and then the entire Immortal Door widened by three zhang and grew taller by five zhang, before finally stabilizing.

A Silver Immortal Sect appeared before the Mountain Ancestor’s Dharma Aspect, releasing silver radiance that shone upon his Dharma Body.

Ning Qi clearly felt that the light particles within that silver radiance were more condensed and denser than those of the bronze, each one roughly twice that of the bronze’s.

The Mountain Ancestor stood before the Silver Immortal Sect, frowning.

"A Silver Immortal Sect? Still not enough!"

With that, the power within him rose again, countless Immortal Dao Auras spreading out.

The physical Buzhou Mountain within his body almost instantly released a phantom that wrapped around the Mountain Ancestor’s Dharma Aspect.

A "mountain"-shaped brand appeared on the Mountain Ancestor’s forehead.

The "mountain" seal shed a strand of eerie light, which shone back against the doorway of the Silver Gate.