Chapter 2520: Chapter 520: Enlightenment
"Do you even need to ask? It must be from the Extreme Formation Sect, Immortal Lord Jue Zhen." In the Hundred Peaks Sect, a Disciple of the Five Elements Peak said proudly, "Who doesn’t know that Immortal Lord Jue Zhen only achieved the Peak True Immortal Realm because of the Sect Hierarch!"
"Even Immortal Lord Jue Zhen acknowledges the Sect Hierarch as his Pathfinder. It must be that, after the Sect Hierarch returned to our Hundred Peaks Sect, he knew Immortal Lord Jue Zhen had always been teaching his son, so the Sect Hierarch felt a bit embarrassed and casually gave Immortal Lord Jue Zhen a few pointers, and then Immortal Lord Jue Zhen attained Enlightenment!"
"That makes sense. I even saw the Sect Hierarch fly out of our Hundred Peaks Sect’s mountain gate earlier."
"Speaking of which, who knows how many Heavenly Prides have attained Enlightenment because of the Sect Hierarch. I wonder when we’ll get the Sect Hierarch’s guidance too."
"Don’t think about it. I don’t mean the Sect Hierarch won’t guide us. I mean our own comprehension isn’t enough, our Cultivation Realm is too low. Even if the Sect Hierarch were to guide us, we still wouldn’t be able to attain Enlightenment.
Previously the Sect Hierarch gave a public Dao lecture, and at that time some of our Great Teaching’s Disciples, as well as experts of other Great Teachings, attained Enlightenment.
But without exception, those who attained Enlightenment were either people with deep Cultivation Base, or those top-tier geniuses from the various peaks with outstanding comprehension."
"What we need to do now is hurry and focus on Cultivation, raise our own Cultivation Realm. When the Sect Hierarch gives his next Dao lecture, we’ll be able to understand a bit more. If we’re lucky, we might really attain Enlightenment!"
Within the Extreme Formation Sect, everyone also saw the radiance of Xiang Ziyu’s Enlightenment, but within the Great Teaching, the gazes of the crowd were focused even more on those Formation Xu Yings in the Void!
"Formations?"
"The one attaining Enlightenment must be from our Extreme Formation Sect!"
"It has to be one of ours. Look at that Xu Ying in the Void—that’s our Extreme Formation Sect’s Meridian Return Grand Formation."
"And next to it, that’s our Great Teaching’s Heavenly Capital Earthly Fiend No Return Formation!"
"Almost all of these are Formations from our Great Teaching!"
"And that aura, such a terrifying aura—that’s the aura of a Peak True Immortal Realm attaining Enlightenment. It must be Ancestral Elder Jue Zhen who has attained Enlightenment!"
"Right, Ancestral Elder Jue Zhen hurriedly left the mountain gate just before this."
Xia Qi sat outside his Cave Mansion, looking at the Formation Xu Yings in the Void, his brows furrowed. This aura didn’t seem like Ancestral Elder Jue Zhen’s; instead it was more like the aura of that person he had met on the road earlier.
Has that person attained Enlightenment?
Why does that person also possess our Extreme Formation Sect’s Formations, and what is that person’s relationship with Ancestral Elder Jue Zhen?
Extreme Formation Sect, outside the Sect Hierarch’s main hall.
The Supreme Elders of the Extreme Formation Sect, the Extreme Formation Sect Hierarch, as well as Mistaken-Formation and a group of other experts, looked up at the Formation Xu Yings in the Void, each of their faces unsightly to the extreme.
"This Formation... and this aura—this absolutely isn’t Jue Zhen!"
"Zong Zhen. This is Zong Zhen’s aura. Zong Zhen has attained Enlightenment!"
"Zong Zhen—why would he come to the outskirts of our Extreme Formation Sect? And also, Jue Zhen left our Extreme Formation Sect earlier, and right after that Zong Zhen attained Enlightenment. Is there some connection between these events?"
"It seems... the Hundred Peaks Sect Leader also left his mountain gate. Could this have something to do with the Hundred Peaks Sect Leader?"
At the border of the Eastern Province, the Five of Sword Lord Three Talents gazed into the distance at the sudden surge of golden light of Enlightenment, and at the Formation Xu Yings constantly spreading outward, each of them sighing in amazement.
"Immortal Lord Zong Zhen has attained Enlightenment!"
"Immortal Lord Zong Zhen is already infinitely close to the Golden Immortal Realm. The higher one’s Cultivation Base, the harder it is to attain Enlightenment. For him to attain Enlightenment at such a Cultivation Realm—his talent is truly terrifying! So, Dao Companion Three Talents, what you said before was indeed correct. Immortal Lord Zong Zhen is truly the one in our Eastern Province with the greatest likelihood of becoming a Golden Immortal. After this Enlightenment, I imagine it won’t be long before he becomes a Golden Immortal. At that time, our Human Clan will have one more peak combat strength when facing the Sky Clan!"
"Speaking of which, it seems he went to the Hundred Peaks Sect to discuss the Dao with Sect Leader Cao. I wonder if this Enlightenment has anything to do with Sect Leader Cao. If he attained Enlightenment because of Sect Leader Cao’s guidance, then to what height has the Hundred Peaks Sect Leader’s attainment in Formations reached?"
"I remember that many experts of our Human Clan have attained Enlightenment because of the Hundred Peaks Sect Leader, and even back when the Hundred Peaks Sect was merely a Sect, there were even more people who attained Enlightenment because of the Hundred Peaks Sect Leader."
"Speaking of which, we still haven’t seen this reincarnated Daluo Golden Immortal."
Outside the Hundred Peaks Sect’s mountain gate.
Immortal Lord Jue Zhen looked at Immortal Lord Zong Zhen, who was immersed in Enlightenment, and sighed inwardly. Although many people said his talent was good, and even before Immortal Lord Zong Zhen defected from the Extreme Formation Sect many people said he was a Genius Disciple whose talent was second only to Immortal Lord Zong Zhen’s.
Yet the gap between his "second" and Immortal Lord Zong Zhen’s "first" was infinitely vast.
Sect Leader Cao merely gave Immortal Lord Zong Zhen one line of guidance, and Immortal Lord Zong Zhen immediately attained Enlightenment, whereas he was now walking the same Way of the Human Formation, had heard the same words, but had not attained Enlightenment.
He was far from possessing Immortal Lord Zong Zhen’s kind of intense self-confidence, far from having that kind of "I-centered" dominance...
I-centered?
Sect Leader Cao had just said that the Way of the Human Formation could be divided into two paths: one was I-centered, and the other was Formation-centered.
Sect Leader Cao said that Zong Zhen had taken the wrong path, that the two paths conflicted with each other.
His own Human Formation was precisely Formation-centered, and he did not possess that kind of domineering "I-centered" bearing.
All along, he had always taken the Formation-centered approach, which also suited his temperament more.
But it seemed that in the course of his Cultivation, he had unconsciously been influenced by Zong Zhen. He wanted to defeat Zong Zhen, so he had unconsciously leaned toward the I-centered path!
He had stepped onto a side path!
Sect Leader Cao had clearly said that these are two different paths, and he had never said there was any superiority or inferiority between them.
So why should he go and take that I-centered side path?
In fact, Immortal Lord Zong Zhen’s Human Formation was at odds with his own path, whereas his own path was in harmony with his Human Formation. In truth, he had already taken one step ahead of Zong Zhen!
As long as he steadfastly walked the Formation-centered path, he could surpass Immortal Lord Zong Zhen!
Immortal Lord Jue Zhen suddenly saw everything clearly. Ever since he had reached the Peak True Immortal Realm, this was the first time he’d felt such clarity.
All of a sudden, streams of golden light surged skyward from within his body, and countless Formation Xu Yings appeared in the sky.
Enlightenment!
