The battlefield of the Jingchen Region had been slowly moving, and now, most of the battles were happening in the East Coast.
It wasn’t just that, but the main battle between the geniuses of the righteous path and the strange creatures had also been shifted from land to sea, which was a very dangerous move because of the underwater formations of the Pristine Waters, however, no one knew why it had happened.
Lu Qingfeng had a hunch that something bad was about to happen. He was out here searching for any survivor of the demonic path or Demon Race so that they don’t escape and cause further trouble for the righteous path.
That was when he encountered the dark robed man, who called himself one of the greatest geniuses of the demonic path in the last thousand years.
Lu Qingfeng was surprised that the demonic path could even neglect such a genius, but he wasn’t too shocked, as he knew how most demonic cultivators were like. It was a blessing for the dark robed man that no powerful demonic cultivator had stolen his body for his talents and instead he died in a battle.
Lu Qingfeng didn’t linger around here any longer and prepared to leave.
However, just as he was about to fly away, he heard a loud sound, like the road of a beast, echoing from the direction of the East Coast.
*ROAR!*
Despite the East Coast being thousands of miles from here, he could still hear the faint roar, indicating that whatever made this sound was an extremely powerful entity of at least the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
But Lu Qingfeng wasn’t worried about that, he was worried about what new situation had occurred in the main battlefield for this to happen.
He turned his gaze towards the direction of the East Coast before speeding off, quickly disappearing into the distance.
...
A year later.
Eternal Peak.
Tian Yongheng stood at the entrance of his cave abode, and in front of him were Yan Jingfei, Jian Qi, and his own clone.
He had upgraded the clone’s cultivation level to the same as his own, at the Eighth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm. No one weaker than or at the same level as him in terms of true strength would be able to figure out his actual cultivation, meaning not even Late Stage Half Immortal could discern his cultivation level.
He wasn’t sure about the Grand Perfection Stage Half Immortals, though. He just hoped his clone won’t encounter any and even if it did, it won’t cause much of an issue.
There won’t be many Perfected Half Immortals in the world even if he exaggerated the scenario, and each of them was an old monster who had accumulated knowledge and experience for tens of thousands of years at the very least.
He knew that they would naturally try not to underestimate him even after knowing his true cultivation level. They cared about karmic connections and the laws of causality very much, after all.
And even if something unexpected were to happen, it was just a clone, wasn’t it? It could just sacrifice itself to send both of his disciples back to the Eternal Peak while his original body stayed there, then he would just create another clone to get all of his people roaming in the outside world back to the Eternal Peak and cultivate till he became invincible.
It wasn’t that hard, specially not now when he was so close to becoming one of the most powerful beings in the world based on pure, true strength.
Just a few more years, and he would be able to reach the Immortal Ascension Realm, possibly capable of defeating every being below the Immortals.
Just till then, he had to endure a bit more. After that, he would no longer have to live in fear, at least in the Mortal World.
Of course, I won’t stop cultivating. Cultivation is the base of all things, after all.
As he thought of this, he looked at Yan Jingfei and Jian Qi.
This was the first time Jian Qi was going into the outside world, so he was both excited and nervous at the same time. On the other hand, Yan Jingfei was quiet calm, which was something Tian Yongheng indeed expect from a former great cultivator in her past life.
It seemed to him that she was regaining her past life personality along with her memories every time she broke through a major realm, but she still acted the same way before him as she usually did before, indicating that their relationship as master and disciple indeed had not changed.
As he was thinking of this, another sudden thought hit him out of nowhere.
Yan Jingfei was at the Immortal Ascension Realm in her past life...and I’m about to reach that level soon.
It was more of a realization rather than a thought.
Time really flies.
How high and mighty did I think of Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators back then?
Yet, I’m already stronger than them and didn’t realize it until now.
At this realization, Tian Yongheng couldn’t help but look up at the sky slowly, his mind drifting away in a sea of thoughts and emotions.
Perhaps this moment will become a distant memory some day as well. I just hope I don’t lose this memory, nor myself.
I still have a long way to go. Hundreds of years of life mean nothing. There will be thousands of years going by in an instant soon enough. I need to prepare myself mentally for that.
Coming to the final conclusion, he exited the sea of thoughts from his mind and looked at both of his disciples again, his eyes seeming to have slightly softened compared to before, which was a shocker to both Yan Jingfei and Jian Qi, as they had never seen a real emotion on their master’s face.
However, before they could point it out, Tian Yongheng’s eyes returned to normal, with the usual expressionless face.
He himself didn’t realize what had just happened, and the other two decided not to dwell on that matter anymore.
"Remember the core values of the Eternal Peak and do not offend anyone, after all, it’s just my clone which is going with you, and it will still take me quite a lot of time to cross continents to come there even at my full power if something unexpected were to happen to you guys."
He slowly explained to them about what to do at Kunlun and what not to do, it was mainly a lecture for Jian Qi to understand the complexities of the outside world since Yan Jingfei already knew about it.
After some time, Tian Yongheng stopped speaking and glanced at his clone. It was equivalent to a Late Stage Half Immortal, so there was no way it could be easily overpowered unless Perfected Half Immortals intervened.
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Tian Yongheng actually won’t be able to do much about it if the other party could easily overpower his clone.
The Second Great Mortal World was countless times bigger than the earth in his previous life, just a region alone could spread out to tens of millions of miles while a state could be hundreds of millions of miles, not to mention that each Continent was tens of billions of miles vast, combining all of the landmass with the Pristine Waters made the entire Second Great Mortal World over a hundred billion miles big at the very least.
Even if he traveled at the speed of light which he couldn’t as of now or because of the restrictions of the Lower Realm’s heavenly rules, it would take him days to circle around the entire Second Great Mortal World.
The distance between the Qingyun Region of the Eastern Continent to the Heavenly Region of the Central Continent could take weeks or days for the current him at full speed even while using the Light Chasing Technique.
In such a situation, he could just pray that his disciples don’t get into any trouble and pull him in along with them, at least not until he was powerful enough to handle it.
Had Yan Jingfei and Jian Qi both not been Chosen Ones with great Providence, he wouldn’t have even bothered to send them out.
After giving a few more instructions, they finally bid farewell and the clone took both of them away on a small flying ship which had been gifted by the Qingyun Sword Sect to the Eternal Peak quite some time ago.
It was pretty fast, having been forged by a friend of Mo Wenxiong, who was also a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and would take a few months to a year at most to reach the Central Continent.
After they left, Tian Yongheng went back inside of his cave abode and sat down, gathering his thoughts together.
Alright, everything is temporarily settled now. All that’s left is to cultivate and quickly breakthrough to the Ninth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
He closed his eyes and began to comprehend the Heavenly Questions once again while cultivating.