Chapter 1305: Chapter 1291: Monopoly
This Elder looked at Baiyu, as if trying to size him up and see some clues from him, but unfortunately, Baiyu was just an ordinary Inner Sect Disciple, and the Cultivation he revealed was only at the Bursting Realm.
A completely normal Level of Cultivation.
Could be considered the mildly gifted type.
After all, to enter the Bursting Realm this fast, even within Star Shining Sect, he could be ranked in the upper middle tier.
It was just that—
What drew Xu Ba’s attention to Baiyu even more was his elder sister, Bai Changqiu. Because he had such a heaven’s-pride elder sister, it was perfectly normal for Baiyu to advance a bit faster.
After all—
In secret, his sister would definitely look after him.
With the care of one of the top ten True Disciples, the resources Baiyu possessed were far from what other Inner Sect Disciples could compare to.
Xu Ba withdrew his thoughts and asked, "Baiyu, tell me once again what the situation was at Three Rivers River. The Sect is preparing to launch an investigation over there, but we still need to collect more intel. What you witnessed is also a key piece of information."
Baiyu nodded and, very calmly, recounted all of his previous experiences.
It was basically no different from what Li Yun, Xuan Mu, and the chubby Zhao Fugui had said. Of course, Baiyu was the only one who had actually fought that black‑robed man, so the information he knew should be a bit more than the others’.
As the Elder in charge of external affairs—
Xu Ba naturally had to ask more questions.
"Did that black‑robed man display any particular Cultivation Technique?"
At this moment—
Xu Ba asked.
He wanted to use the Cultivation Technique to determine the identity of the black‑robed man who had escaped.
Baiyu deliberately put on a thoughtful expression, then shook his head and said, "He seemed very proficient in the Water Control Technique. As for anything else, I didn’t notice. After exchanging a few blows with him, he quickly fled, so it was hard for me to get more information."
Xu Ba nodded, and asked again, "Why did he suddenly flee?"
Baiyu said blandly, "Probably because he felt he couldn’t take me down in a short time. Once Li Yun and Xuan Mu finished off that giant serpent, they would immediately come to support me. He wasn’t confident he could win against the three of us together.
So he chose to flee.
In that situation, if he wanted to escape, no one could stop him.
So—
When the giant serpent was about to die, choosing to run was a good choice."
At this moment—
Baiyu voiced his own thoughts.
Xu Ba nodded, feeling that there was nothing wrong with what Baiyu said. In that situation, it was indeed a good choice for the black‑robed man to flee.
After that—
Xu Ba asked a few more questions. After confirming that Baiyu truly didn’t know any more inside details, he let him go.
After leaving—
Baiyu did not immediately return to his mountain. Instead, he went to find Bai Changqiu. She was practicing her sword on the mountain; the commotion was quite large. Countless light‑shadow Flying Swords were continuously revolving around her, shooting out streak after streak of sword light.
It was as if a sword domain had formed around her.
The people nearby—
Didn’t dare to step within half a pace.
Baiyu waited quietly at the side.
After waiting for about an hour, Bai Changqiu finally stopped practicing, put away her Flying Sword, and looked at Baiyu beside her. "Is there something you need?"
Baiyu said, "I want to ask about the specific Levels in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. They’re not written in the Rules booklet the Sect handed out, and nobody else seems to know either. So I wanted to ask you and get an understanding of the later Levels. That way I’ll have more motivation when I charge forward."
Bai Changqiu frowned and said softly, "Aiming too high."
However—
Right after she said that, Bai Changqiu spoke in a deep voice, "After the Qi Xuan Realm is Spirit Transformation. After the Spirit Transformation Realm is the Giant Spirit Realm.
These—
Are the backbone Levels of the Major Sects.
Many Inner Sect Elders and True Inheritance Elders are at the Giant Spirit Realm.
After Giant Spirit, that’s where the real experts of the Immortal Cultivation Realm begin. That Realm is called the Nascent Soul Realm. A Nascent Soul will form in your body, possessing terrifying destructive power, and your lifespan will reach a thousand years. Even if your fleshly body is destroyed and your Divine Soul scattered, as long as the Nascent Soul survives, you can still seize a body with it and be reborn.
At that Realm—
You’re hard to kill, and hard to truly erase. One can be called an Immortal.
After Nascent Soul—
Is the Enlightenment Realm.
At this Realm, you can comprehend the great Dao of heaven and earth and merge it into yourself, wielding the power of Law and Rules. You stand at the peak of the Immortal Cultivation Realm; generally these are Sect Leaders and similar figures of the Major Sects, who rarely appear in the mundane world.
Because once they make a move, it’s easy to cause all sorts of problems.
Pull one hair, and the whole body moves.
When the power you hold becomes too great, it becomes a restriction in itself.
And after Enlightenment—
Is the Ascension Realm that everyone yearns for.
Feather Transformation and Ascension, soaring to the Upper Realm, becoming truly undying and indestructible."
Baiyu took a deep breath.
So in that case—
He wasn’t actually that far from the Ascension Realm.
However—
It still depended on the subsequent methods of advancement.
But if he estimated based on his current strength at the Spirit Transformation Realm, the Ascension Realm should roughly correspond to the Peak of Devouring Moon, or having one foot stepped into the Sun Realm, or someone just Entering the Sun Realm.
Because—
Back then, the Vice Sect Leader of Taiyi Sword Sect wasn’t that different in strength from him, but the other party wasn’t familiar with the Martial Dao’s combat style, and Baiyu had all sorts of freakish powers on him, so he was able to kill the Taiyi Sword Sect’s Vice Sect Leader on the spot.
That Vice Sect Leader—
Should have been at the Nascent Soul Peak, or the early stage of Enlightenment.
Since he hadn’t actually reached that tier himself yet, Baiyu couldn’t judge precisely, and could only make a rough guess.
However—
There were still no competitors for Ascension up to now.
Which meant—
The difficulty of advancing later on had to be more than just a little.
Time to go cultivate.
Baiyu took a deep breath, bid farewell to Bai Changqiu, then returned to his own mountain peak and began slowly cultivating the True Qi in his body.
Another half‑year passed.
By relying on slow grinding, Baiyu had already piled up his Giant Spirit Realm True Qi to the Giant Spirit Peak.
Next—
Was to form a Nascent Soul.
Baiyu had no idea how to form a Nascent Soul.
He went to look it up in the Sect.
With his Inner Sect Disciple authority, he simply couldn’t access the relevant information, and after learning that Star Shining Sect had an expert at the Enlightenment Realm, he didn’t dare seek a promotion to Inner Sect Disciple either.
If that got out—
It’d be way too outrageous.
Advancing that many times in a single year— even a super genius couldn’t possibly have such a cheat‑like speed.
So—
The option of advancing to True Disciple to seek more materials was thrown out by Baiyu as well.
In the end—
He actually found that, aside from killing a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, he had no other way to obtain the method for advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm.
This was a severe monopoly on cultivation materials.
No wonder—
Those Loose Cultivators basically couldn’t survive, unless they obtained the legacy of some senior expert.
With this level of monopoly, even someone like Baiyu, a disciple within the Sect, found it very hard to look up the relevant information.
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