3 years later.
Eternal Peak.
Tian Yongheng slowly opened his eyes as he stabilized his cultivation base.
He summoned his status panel to check upon his upgraded attributes.
[Name: Tian Yongheng]
[Race: Mortal(Ascended Divinity Human)]
[Lifespan: 579/162,990]
[Cultivation: Sixth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm.]
[Constitution: Five-Elemental Divine Spiritual Physique.]
[Bloodline: Jade Pure Bloodline (Descendant of the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning).]
[Innate Talent(s): Sword Heart, Primordial Meridians and Primordial Bones.]
Finally, the Sixth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm!
He exclaimed inwardly as he looked at the impressive number in the lifespan column of his status panel.
At the Sixth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm, I can already be considered on par with those so called geniuses of the current generation just based on cultivation, while my true strength lies in the Half Immortal Realm.
How many Half Immortals, or even Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators are there in the world?
He couldn’t help but feel a bit smug, considering the fact that even Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators were not that numerous in the world.
By his speculation, there were less than a hundred thousand Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators out there in the world, not counting those who had been hidden.
This was also an extremely exaggerated number, since it was publicly known that each State had not more than a handful Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators. He was just being extra cautious.
It was just his way of being assured that he was at least among the top hundred thousand beings in the Second Great Mortal World, where trillions upon trillions of beings lived.
Not to mention his true strength was among the top 100.
At this point, another system notification popped up before him.
[Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the Sixth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm.]
[Obtained the Rank-8 Dharma Artifact, Wood Essence Umbrella.]
[Wood Essence Umbrella: Offense defense hybrid Dharma Artifact. Forged from the Wood Essence Qi and tempered by the greatest depths of the Pristine Waters, this Dharma Artifact can not only provide ab ironclad defense which is practically unbreakable unless the opponent far surpasses the user in some way, it also negates all water based attacks and absorbs it.
It can exude Wood Essence Qi to attack as well as immobilize the opponent.]
Reading the description of the Wood Essence Umbrella, Tian Yongheng nodded in approval as he put it inside of the system space.
Good. Another great defensive Dharma Artifact, and possibly the strongest one I possess right now.
He thought as he turned his attention to his clone sitting at a corner, the Sword of Charity floating in its hand along with a Dharma Fusion Stone.
It was in the midst of upgrading it to a Rank-9 Dharma Artifact right now.
When he broke through to the Fifth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm last time, he had obtained a Dharma Fusion Stone as a reward from the system.
Right now, he still had another Dharma Fusion Stone left, which he planned to use to upgrade the Sword of Diligence to a Rank-9 Dharma Artifact as well.
After a few moments, he retracted his gaze from the clone. It seemed that it would take some more time for the Sword of Charity to become a Rank-9 Dharma Artifact.
He looked down at his hand which held the small piece of the Low-Grade Immortal Spirit Stone. It was already more than 70% smaller than when he first got it.
I guess it can help me breakthrough to the Seventh Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm at most. Then I’ll have to cultivate on my own.
As he thought of this, Tian Yongheng checked the Heavenly Questions he had already comprehended and figured out the essence of.
He had comprehended a total of 38 Heavenly Questions as of now.
Another seclusion, and I’ll enter the later stages of Tribulation Transcendence Realm...
To think that I wasn’t even a cultivator just over 500 years ago is quite baffling.
There’s a high chance I’ll enter the Immortal Ascension Realm by the time I’m close to 700 years old, which means there are still over a hundred years left.
As he thought of this, he spread out his Divine Sense towards every corner of the Dao Field.
It had yet to upgrade even now, but he believed that an upgrade would surely take time and didn’t mind it as much.
As he watched how things were going on in the Eternal Peak, he had already caught dozens of wisps of auras belonging to cultivators of peak Innate Realm.
There were already thousands of Innate Realm cultivators in the Eternal Peak, and hundreds of them were in the later stages of Innate Realm, with dozens of them at the peak.
In at most a hundred more years, Tian Yongheng guessed that the Eternal Peak would gain quite a few Golden Core Realm experts.
This process could be fastened if he preached the Dao, which he was thinking of doing so after his clone finished upgrading his Dharma Artifacts.
As for his Personal Disciples, the Supremes, and Zhao Ye, more than half of them were already at the Golden Core Realm and above.
Su Yanlan and Zhao Ye both were close to breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm and the Nascent Soul Realm, respectively.
Tian Yunchen was also cultivating in seclusion, having recently reached the later stages of Void Refinement Realm.
Yan Jingfei was also extremely close to the peak of Golden Core Realm and would enter the Void Refinement Realm in a few decades at most.
Liu Ruoxue, at the peak of Innate Realm, was in seclusion preparing to breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, while Jian Qi had recently entered the Acquired Realm. His cultivation speed was still considered the fastest in the Eternal Peak if they didn’t count Tian Yongheng, the Eternal Lord.
Yang Wei was also cultivating in seclusion, on the verge of breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, while Ao Longchen was in the mid stages of Golden Core Realm.
The Eternal Peak’s revenue had increased drastically in the past few centuries, with more and more Innate Realm cultivators appearing.
The annual revenue was already over a hundred Superior-Grade Spirit Stones, as the Eternal Peak had also become one of the largest business hubs in the Qingyun Region.
It was mainly because of the countless resources of the Eternal Peak and the fact that cultivators of all side professions were present there. Cultivators of the Qingyun Region already considered the Eternal Peak one of the major factions of the world.
One of the main factors for this belief was that the Eternal Lord’s strength had always been based on speculations and never really revealed by him.
This made him a feared and respectable figure in the outside world, and even disciples of the major factions respected him.
After some time, Tian Yongheng retracted his Divine Sense and prepared to enter cultivation again. He first wanted to reach the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm before trying out his strength in the Simulation Battle Trial, upgrading his skills, or even making his recently acquired Dharma Artifacts to recognize him as their owner.
He firmly believed that he would be able to contend against Perfected Half Immortals at least if not insta-kill them after achieving the peak of Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
Just as he was about to close his eyes and began to cultivate again, a Communication Jade of his suddenly vibrated spiritually, alerting his Divine Sense.
His Divine Sense probed into it only to find out that it was Wei Yusheng who was trying to contact him.
Wei Yusheng was the demonic cultivator at the peak of Nascent Soul Realm whom he had previously subdued just after the Qingyun Dao Conference.
He served the supposedly strongest Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator in the world, who he stated to have surpassed even the greatest prodigy of the current generation, the Divinity Transcendence Venerable.
He was sent back to the demonic path by Tian Yongheng as a spy to collect information, but he hadn’t really contacted him at all since then. Had he not contacted him today, he would have really left Tian Yongheng’s mind.
This fellow has tried to contact me multiple times in the past few years...did something happen at his side? Or is the demonic path and the Demon Race plotting something?
He thought silently. He did not pay much attention to it since he was busy cultivating, but thinking back, he should have indeed listened to Wei Yusheng at least once to know what he wanted to talk about.
Answering the Communication Jade, Tian Yongheng spoke slowly without putting on any airs, "What is it?"
His words were straightforward and direct, getting to the point in an instant.
"Senior! I’ve been trying to contact you for some time but you never really answered me. I thought you might be busy. That aside, I have an important news for senior!"
Hearing his words, Tian Yongheng couldn’t help but ask, "What?"
What could be so important? Is the demonic path planning to go all out?
"My master, the Sword Lord of the Darkest Night, has decided to enter the Righteous-Demonic War himself!"
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