Chapter 2840 - 574_2

"No need." The Celestial Wheel Immortal Monarch waved his hand and said, "What I mean is, you don’t need to go challenge the Sky-reaching Gate. After all, within our entire Indistinct Sect, it’s inevitable there will be spies from other Great Teachings, or even from the Beastman Clan.

If you go challenge the Sky-reaching Gate again and clear the tenth level, word will spread across the world immediately. At that point, who knows how those Beastmen will target you.

Since that’s the case, you might as well not go challenge the Sky-reaching Gate. As for that qualification, I’ll naturally get one for you.

Then you change your appearance and enter the ruins together with us.

By then, with so many cultivators there, those Golden Immortal Realm Beastmen won’t be able to scrutinize every single cultivator to see if they’re disguised.

Besides, once we arrive, you’ll quickly enter that small world.

By the time you leave the small world and enter the arena battles, even if they want to target you, they’ll have no way to.

That way, you’ll avoid quite a bit of trouble."

Although in their Indistinct Sect the qualifications were all obtained through clearing the trials, the problem was that the relationship between the Celestial Wheel Immortal Monarch and the Artifact Spirit of the Sky-reaching Gate was clearly different from that of other cultivators.

Back when he challenged the Sky-reaching Gate, no other cultivators were allowed to watch; only the Celestial Wheel Immortal Monarch could watch. He even suspected that the Artifact Spirit had already recognized the Celestial Wheel Immortal Monarch as its master.

In that case, if the Tongtian Immortal Army did a bit of manipulation, it probably wouldn’t cause any problems.

This time they were holding the Immortality Regainment Realm ruins inheritance tournament. The number of Immortality Regainment Realm cultivators was much smaller than that of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Although everyone went to challenge the Sky-reaching Gate at the last moment, the Sky-reaching Gate for the Immortality Regainment Realm was still not particularly busy.

At the same time, many people were paying attention to Cao Zhen.

"Previously, whether it was the Golden Core Stage Sky-reaching Gate, the Core Formation Stage Sky-reaching Gate, or the Earth Immortal Realm Sky-reaching Gate, Cao Zhen always went to challenge at the last moment. Why hasn’t he come this time?"

"It’s normal that he hasn’t come. Five hundred years for him to break through from the Earth Immortal Realm into the Immortality Regainment Realm, and on top of that still possess the strength to clear the ninth level—that’s asking too much of anyone."

"Yeah, and I feel that even if he clears the ninth level, he still won’t be able to represent our Indistinct Sect in battle.

After all, he previously obtained three inheritances from the Void Tribe. If he goes, those Beastmen will insist on killing him.

If he wants to earn the chance to participate in the Immortality Regainment Realm inheritance tournament, he’ll probably have to clear the tenth level of the Sky-reaching Gate."

"How is that possible? Five hundred years ago he was still in the Earth Immortal Realm."

"Exactly, that really is impossible."

Everyone discussed it for a while. Seeing that Cao Zhen still hadn’t appeared to challenge the Sky-reaching Gate, they stopped talking about him.

Clearly, Cao Zhen was not going to take part in the upcoming Void Tribe ruins inheritance.

Cao Zhen remained in the Celestial Wheel Immortal Monarch’s cave mansion, and only when everyone was about to leave did he change his appearance and follow the Celestial Wheel Immortal Monarch flying toward the ruins.

Although they were now cultivators of the Immortality Regainment Realm, their flying speed was still not fast enough, so they still used a Flying Boat to reach the area outside the ruins.

Outside the ruins, the Beastman Clan cultivators and cultivators from other Great Teachings had all learned that Cao Zhen was not participating in this round of the inheritance tournament. In their eyes, this was only natural; if Cao Zhen still qualified to participate in the tournament, that would be far too exaggerated!

Cao Zhen blended into the crowd and disembarked from the Flying Boat. In less than half a stick of incense, he had already entered the special small world along with everyone else.

Sometimes he really doubted what kind of small world they were entering.

The Void Tribe’s inheritance had been held for countless tens of thousands of years, and who knows how many cultivators had entered the small world to slaughter those tentacle monsters.

After so many years, that small world still had such a great number of tentacle monsters.

He didn’t have to exert much effort before he had already slaughtered a hundred tentacle monsters.

After killing those tentacle monsters, Cao Zhen simply waited.

He waited all the way until the third day, when he was about to leave this small world, and suddenly reverted to his true appearance.

The arena battles were about to begin. Even if those Beastman Clan cultivators discovered him, so what?

As he flew out from the small world, the arenas were already set up.

As the light screens around the arenas rose, cultivators immediately flew toward them, and Cao Zhen was among the first group to fly out, directly occupying one arena.

The Beastman Clan and Skyeye Clan cultivators also turned their gazes toward the cultivators who had occupied the arenas.

At a glance, quite a few Indistinct Sect cultivators were stunned.

"That cultivator... isn’t that Cao Zhen?"

"It’s Cao Zhen, it really looks like Cao Zhen!"

"Wasn’t it said that Cao Zhen wasn’t participating in this round of the inheritance tournament? How did he suddenly appear on the arena? Where was he hiding before?"

"What’s going on? For him to be able to pass through the light screen and appear on the arena, it means he already entered the small world earlier and slaughtered a hundred tentacle monsters!"

"He... he blended in among us and entered the small world!"

"Cao Zhen seems to know the Art of Transformation—he must have used it before!"

"No, that’s not the crucial point. The crucial point is that he’s actually participating in the inheritance tournament again."