Chapter 341 – Heaven-Sent Fortune Talent Shows Its Might, Mystic Immortal Ancestor Dies Suddenly!
by spirapiraChapter 341 – Heaven-Sent Fortune Talent Shows Its Might, Mystic Immortal Ancestor Dies Suddenly!
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and nodded slightly, murmuring:
“The reason those top-tier powers are so formidable isn’t solely because they possess peak-level mighty cultivators who dominate the universe with unrivaled strength…”
“The vastness of their sphere of influence and the breadth of their reach is also an extremely important factor!”
As far as Su Xing knew, the Azure Cloud Sect’s influence wasn’t limited to just the Azure Cloud Realm and the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm. Throughout the Azure Origin Domain, they had established branches in countless lesser worlds.
These covertly established branches didn’t just continuously bring in fresh blood and recruit new cultivators.
More importantly, they provided sufficient intelligence and resources.
And the Luotian Sect of old had been even more terrifying—the Luotian Realm and the countless lesser worlds surrounding it, hundreds of lesser chiliocosms, all fell under its direct jurisdiction.
This territory was nearly comparable to an entire domain!
But such a colossal power… had still been annihilated in the Long River of time.
“However, in the southern part of the Azure Origin Domain, the Azure Cloud Sect’s influence is relatively weak—that’s actually good news for me…”
“If I can cross the Endless Sea, then perhaps Qingyunzi won’t be able to find me?”
Su Xing thought to himself silently.
Until he found a way to completely resolve the hidden threat for Qingyunzi, Su Xing intended to flee as far away as possible.
“Next up… I’ll aim to reach the edge of the Endless Sea within a hundred years!”
With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze toward the simulation panel.
【In year two hundred and sixty, you arrived at a new lesser chiliocosm and by chance obtained a rare natural treasure that could enhance your constitution.】
【After consuming this spirit medicine, you felt your physical body grow even more powerful, bringing you one step closer to the Great Shaman Body Forging Scripture, Third Layer (Major Accomplishment)…】
【Over the next forty years, you flew continuously toward the south of the Azure Origin Domain, crossing countless lesser worlds and void nodes.】
【But the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel was, after all, only a half-step supreme post-celestial treasure, and it could not withstand such a long-distance voyage.】
【Therefore, during the latter half of the journey, Su Xing had to stop every few years to repair the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel, wasting considerable time.】
【Fortunately, Su Xing’s cultivation was now sufficient that he could traverse the void with his physical body alone. Although he couldn’t pass through void nodes this way, it could still be used to cover distance.】
【In the blink of an eye, year three hundred arrived.】
【This year, Su Xing arrived at the illustrious Black Heart Realm of the Azure Origin Domain!】
【This place was already extremely close to the edge of the Endless Sea, far from both the Azure Cloud Realm and the Tianyuan Realm.】
【Precisely because of this—with the heavens high and the emperor far away—few righteous powers could extend their influence here, making it one of the Azure Origin Domain’s most notorious lawless zones!】
【The Black Heart Realm and the dozens of lesser chiliocosms surrounding it were all extremely chaotic. Numerous heretical cultivators were scattered throughout, and highway robbery and slaughter were commonplace.】
【But precisely because of this chaos, the black market here was extremely developed, allowing one to purchase many treasures and resources at rock-bottom prices.】
【As a result, righteous cultivators frequently disguised themselves as heretical cultivators to come shop at the black markets here…】
In the Real World, Su Xing nodded slightly at this.
“Already at the Black Heart Realm, huh? It seems… the edge of the Endless Sea isn’t far now! Thirty years at most… and I should be able to reach the Endless Sea!”
Su Xing had heard of this Black Heart Realm before.
South of the Black Heart Realm, the closer one got to the Endless Sea, the more desolate and chaotic things became.
By comparison, the Black Heart Realm was like a waypoint—chaotic, yes, but rarely home to the kind of completely unscrupulous heretical cultivators like those of the Advent Cult.
But further south, all bets were off…
It was precisely for this reason that the Black Heart Realm’s black market was so developed—you could buy all sorts of good things here.
“Tsk tsk, this Black Heart Realm… if I get the chance later, I should definitely do some shopping here!”
“If I need any resources, I might be able to buy them at low prices… maybe even lower than the Gold Coin Trading Company’s prices…”
After a pause, Su Xing continued:
“But more importantly, I’m not far from the Great Shaman Body Forging Art Third Layer Major Mastery. I should make my breakthrough to the Grand Accomplishment realm right here in this realm!”
“After breaking through to Major Mastery, it won’t be too late to head for the edge of the Endless Sea…”
With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze toward the simulation panel.
【After some deliberation, you decided to temporarily remain in the Black Heart Realm and continue your journey only after cultivating the Great Shaman Body Forging Art to the Third Layer Perfection.】
【You displayed your True Immortal realm cultivation. Even in the Black Heart Realm, this made you a first-rate powerhouse, so naturally no cliché highway robbery incidents occurred.】
【You peacefully settled in the Black Heart Realm, cultivating daily with the aid of Star Stones.】
【Your body tempering cultivation grew ever higher, drawing increasingly close to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art Third Layer Major Mastery…】
【Just like that, thirty years passed.】
【In year three hundred and thirty, one day you felt a stirring in your heart as your physical power surged further. The strength bestowed upon you by the countless stars of the universe seemed to grow even more formidable…】
【Congratulations, you have successfully broken through to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art Third Layer Major Mastery!】
【At this point, your body tempering cultivation is comparable to late-stage Celestial Immortal realm, drawing ever closer to the True Immortal realm…】
【After successfully breaking through to the Great Shaman Body Forging Art Third Layer Major Mastery, you piloted the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel and continued toward the Endless Sea.】
Su Xing watched the text before him and let out a long breath of relief.
“Finally, the Great Shaman Body Forging Art Third Layer Major Mastery! The primary objective of this simulation has been essentially achieved!”
“So next… let me go take a look at the edge of the Endless Sea. If I can cross the Endless Sea and reach the Celestial Secrets Realm, that would naturally be ideal…”
Su Xing turned his gaze toward the simulation panel.
【Over the next thirty full years, you traveled from the Black Heart Realm all the way to the southernmost world of the Azure Origin Domain—the South Sea Realm!】
【The South Sea Realm was shaped like a long serpent, stretching along the edge of the Endless Sea. Though its north-south diameter wasn’t large, its total area was comparable to an ordinary Greater World!】
【Compared to the Black Heart Realm, the South Sea Realm was even more chaotic… here, virtually every cultivator had the blood of other cultivators on their hands.】
【As a result, compared to ordinary Medium Chiliocosms, the cultivators here were noticeably more powerful.】
【Along the way, Mahayana and Body Integration stage cultivators could be seen everywhere, and Human Immortal realm cultivators were as common as ordinary cultivators, needing to earn their livelihood just like everyone else.】
【But cultivators above the Celestial Immortal realm were still considered top-tier in the South Sea Realm.】
【With your True Immortal realm cultivation, ordinary cultivators naturally wouldn’t dare to offend you.】
【And you were happy to keep it that way. You used disguise techniques to transform yourself into a fierce-looking cultivator, then began gathering information about the Endless Sea.】
【In year three hundred and seventy, after spending ten years collecting intelligence, you had amassed a considerable amount of information about the South Sea Realm and the Endless Sea, which you organized and compiled.】
In the Real World, Su Xing saw this and murmured:
“Activate immersive simulation, duration: one day…”
【Ding…】
The simulation notification chimed, and Su Xing’s consciousness entered the simulated world.
At that moment, within a cave dwelling somewhere in the South Sea Realm, Su Xing looked at the several jade slips in his hand and began reading them one by one.
…
Soon, the immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing returned to reality.
Inside the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel, Su Xing slowly opened his eyes, his expression somewhat grave.
“The danger level of this Endless Sea… is far higher than I imagined!”
In his ten years spent in the South Sea Realm, the intelligence Su Xing had gathered could be described as extremely comprehensive.
From the power rankings of heretical cultivators who had made it onto the South Sea Realm’s evil cultivator list, to the mighty cultivators backing the South Sea Realm.
And most crucially, the methods for crossing the Endless Sea—Su Xing had learned quite a few.
“The South Sea Realm’s overall strength is probably no less than that of some Greater Worlds!”
“The number of True Immortal realm cultivators in the South Sea Realm probably reaches into the thousands! And there are likely quite a few above the Mystic Immortal level too!”
“There are even rumors that behind the South Sea Realm, two Supreme Unity Golden Immortals stand guard!”
“One of them hails from the Azure Cloud Realm—a second-generation disciple dispatched by the Azure Cloud Sect, of extremely high seniority, stationed here. As long as no major upheaval occurs in the South Sea Realm, he won’t intervene…”
“And correspondingly, on the heretical cultivator side, there is also a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal named Yinmingzi, who even has the battle record of having slain a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal! His strength is not to be underestimated…”
Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly.
He realized that the Azure Cloud Sect and the Tianyuan Sect—the two behemoths of the Azure Origin Domain—had indeed adopted a hands-off approach toward the South Sea Realm.
Even when heretical cultivators fought and killed each other, they wouldn’t interfere.
The reason they had stationed a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal here was the fear that heretical cultivators in the Endless Sea might ally with the Advent Cult and join the foreign races to backstab human cultivators!
This alone was the one thing the two great sects could not stand idly by and watch!
“Moreover, according to the intelligence… the Advent Cult seems to have already shown traces of activity in the Endless Sea!”
Su Xing shook his head slightly. The Advent Cult’s high-end fighting force was formidable, and their influence spread throughout the Three Thousand Worlds.
“But with a Supreme Unity Golden Immortal standing guard… the Advent Cult shouldn’t be able to stir up trouble for the time being!”
“The only tricky part is still crossing the Endless Sea!”
Su Xing shook his head.
The Endless Sea was known as one of the forbidden zones of the Three Thousand Worlds!
Just as its name suggested, its internal space was so vast it could be called truly endless.
A Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivator had once said that crossing the Endless Sea was no less difficult than traversing more than half of the Azure Origin Domain!
But its sheer size wasn’t the most critical issue!
What was truly dangerous was that within such a vast expanse, not a single world existed!
This meant that any cultivator who wished to cross the Endless Sea had to do so in one continuous push, with no opportunity to stop and rest along the way.
Consider this: Su Xing’s journey from the Azure Cloud Realm to the South Sea Realm had taken over two hundred years!
Over those two hundred-plus years, without the opportunity to rest in various worlds along the way, Su Xing absolutely could not have endured it.
Setting everything else aside, just the erosion that the void inflicted upon a cultivator’s cultivation and spiritual energy was devastating enough.
Over two hundred years, if one remained continuously in the void, even a True Immortal realm cultivator’s cultivation would deteriorate to the point where they couldn’t even maintain their immortal status…
Furthermore, the chaotic void currents within the Endless Sea were so powerful that not just True Immortals—even Mystic Immortal realm cultivators wouldn’t dare resist them head-on.
“Sigh, with my current strength, trying to brute-force my way across the Endless Sea would be difficult! Truly too difficult!”
Su Xing felt somewhat helpless.
First of all, his cultivation wasn’t high enough. If he could reach the Mystic Immortal realm, perhaps he’d have the courage to attempt it.
Furthermore, the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel’s quality was insufficient. Only by finding an immortal vessel of supreme post-celestial treasure quality could he begin to cross the Endless Sea!
“So… crossing the Endless Sea is fraught with difficulties!”
“However, the intelligence indicates that within the South Sea Realm, there seem to be one or two factions that possess several hidden routes capable of traversing the Endless Sea… but even those require at least a hundred years.”
“And those hidden routes are their lifelines… they certainly wouldn’t hand them over easily…”
Su Xing shook his head. Taking them by force was clearly unrealistic. Offending a faction guarded by Golden Immortal realm experts just for a single route — unless Su Xing had completely lost his patience…
“Besides, even if I obtained a route, my immortal vessel’s quality is currently insufficient, and my cultivation is too low! I can only shelve this for now!”
Su Xing already understood that he had come to the Endless Sea far too early.
“Since I can’t cross the Endless Sea, the goal of this simulation needs to change!”
Su Xing pondered for a moment. He had now completely inherited the Luotian Sect’s legacy.
The hidden treasuries scattered across the Three Thousand Worlds — even a Grand Luo Golden Immortal would covet them.
And Su Xing not only knew the exact locations of these legacies, he even knew what was contained within each one!
“Take for example… the Verdant Wood World that Ghost Granny’s Dao companion traveled to back then…”
“The immortal vessel he piloted was a supreme post-celestial treasure quality vessel!”
“If I could find that vessel, at the very least I’d have a craft capable of crossing the Endless Sea…”
Su Xing mulled it over. Although his current strength was insufficient, nothing stopped him from finding the craft first.
With this thought, Su Xing turned his gaze toward the simulation panel.
【After consolidating all intelligence, you realize you currently cannot cross the Endless Sea.】
【So you decide to first seek out the hidden treasuries left behind by the Luotian Sect, and your target is the Verdant Wood World!】
【The Verdant Wood World is located to the northwest of the South Sea Realm, over a hundred lesser chiliocosms away.】
【You decide to explore the Verdant Wood World, cultivating while exploring this realm…】
【With your decision made, you purchase sufficient supplies and set off on the road to the Verdant Wood World.】
【Just like that, thirty years pass in the blink of an eye.】
【In year four hundred, your cultivation successfully breaks through to the third level of the True Immortal realm!】
【The increase in cultivation makes your travel speed even faster.】
【In year four hundred and ten, you successfully arrive at the Verdant Wood World.】
【You then begin searching for the location of the Luotian legacy within the Verdant Wood World.】
【But with tens of thousands of years having passed, the intelligence regarding the location has inevitably shifted somewhat, and you can only determine its approximate position.】
【So you can only search through the dozens of Secret Realms you’ve narrowed down, one by one.】
【But your luck is remarkably good — in just three months, the very first Secret Realm you search yields the legacy left behind by the Luotian Sect!】
【After presenting your Luotian Sect credentials, you successfully enter this Secret Realm.】
【You obtain over fifty million drops of high-grade spirit liquid from this Secret Realm, countless magical treasures and supernatural arts… as well as that immortal vessel of supreme post-celestial treasure quality you’ve been dreaming of!】
【This vessel is called the Star-Moon Shuttle!】
【Even among supreme post-celestial treasures, its quality is considered exceptionally remarkable!】
【Its exterior resembles a shuttle, slender and no more than an inch long… but when powered by spiritual energy, the Star-Moon Shuttle can carry tens of thousands of people — a true treasure for voyaging through the void!】
【But to your disappointment, after tens of thousands of years, the internal formations of the Star-Moon Shuttle have suffered some damage, and its external structure has deteriorated.】
【Fortunately, its core remains intact… so you decide to attempt repairing the shuttle.】
【Your current level of artifact refinement, while insufficient for crafting supreme post-celestial treasures, does give you some confidence in repairs.】
【However, the internal spatial formations, defensive formations, and offensive formations leave you somewhat at a loss, requiring further advancement in Formation Dao cultivation to repair.】
【And so, for the next twenty years, you remain in the Verdant Wood World, attempting to repair the Star-Moon Shuttle.】
【Time flies by, arriving at year four hundred and thirty.】
【One day, while repairing the Star-Moon Shuttle, you suddenly sense an aura of danger.】
【Your heart jolts — could Qingyunzi have set his sights on you?】
【But you quickly dismiss this, because this premonition of danger feels different from before.】
【If Qingyunzi had targeted you, you would only feel an endless threat of death, but this tribulation seems to originate from something else…】
【Even so, cautious by nature, you decide to leave this realm and head to a more distant lesser chiliocosm to lay low.】
【But the moment you leave the Verdant Wood World, you sense a powerful aura in the void, rapidly closing in on you.】
【This speed is even faster than the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel’s sailing speed!】
【You probe with your divine sense and are shocked to discover that this appears to be a peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivator you’ve never met!】
【Your heart fills with alarm and uncertainty, unsure of this cultivator’s origins — perhaps from the Advent Cult? Or some robbery cultivator who has marked you as prey?】
【The visitor clearly bears ill intent. Without hesitation, you push the Flowing Cloud Golden Light Vessel to full speed, fleeing into the distance.】
【But the peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivator behind you possesses such immense spiritual power that even crossing the void with his physical body alone would pose no challenge.】
【With your strength, while you can hold your own against Mystic Immortal realm cultivators, a peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivator… clearly falls outside that range.】
【And so, you flee and he pursues, a chase that continues for several years.】
【Strangely enough, given his speed, the cultivator behind you could easily have caught up, and should have killed you long ago.】
【Yet every time he draws close to overtaking you, terrifying void turbulence erupts in the surrounding space.】
【Multiple instances of void turbulence disrupt his pursuit rhythm, allowing you to escape each time…】
【This chase continues for over a dozen years.】
【In year four hundred and fifty, you suddenly notice one day that the pursuing cultivator’s aura has vanished…】
【This disappearance is not a retreat — he has completely perished in the void!】
【Your heart trembles. What could have caused a peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivator to suddenly drop dead?】
【After all, a peak Mystic Immortal is practically a regional overlord — as long as no Golden Immortal intervenes, death should be impossible!】
【So you cautiously lurk near the spot where his aura vanished, probing with your divine sense.】
【What you witness next is a shocking sight!】
【A terrifyingly ferocious Amalgamated Beast is devouring a living creature whole…】
【This is a Strange Voidbeast comparable to a Golden Immortal realm being!】
【And the peak Mystic Immortal realm robbery cultivator who had been chasing you… has died in its maw!】
【Shocked to your core, you can only flee the area as quickly as possible.】
【Otherwise, should that Strange Voidbeast set its sights on you, you too would be doomed.】
【The Golden Immortal realm Strange Voidbeast notices you, but having just consumed the Mystic Immortal realm cultivator’s flesh and blood, along with the heavenly materials and earthly treasures in his storage space, it pays you no mind — merely tearing open a spatial rift and departing.】
【Three years later, after the Strange Voidbeast has completely disappeared and you’ve confirmed there is no danger, you return to the location, wanting to learn the identity of this cultivator.】
【After extensive searching, you do find some traces at the site.】
【A damaged storage ring, most of its treasures consumed by the Strange Voidbeast, but still containing a few jade slips and an identity token.】
【Through this identifying information, you learn the identity of the peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivator!】
【He hailed from a major clan at the edge of the Endless Sea, in the South Sea Realm — a second-generation patriarch!】
【With peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivation, he stood second only to a single first-generation patriarch at the Golden Immortal realm…】
【And he had set his sights on you decades ago, back when you were still in the South Sea Realm.】
【Through a special ancestral technique, he had sensed that you carried a valuable treasure on your person.】
【Thus, he schemed for decades, hunting you — a mere True Immortal realm cultivator…】
【He had assumed that with decades of patient stalking and his overwhelming cultivation advantage, killing you would be the simplest thing in the world.】
【Yet he never could have imagined that he would encounter void turbulence… and ultimately die in the maw of a Strange Voidbeast…】
【Against a peak Mystic Immortal realm cultivator’s pursuit, you have luckily escaped this tribulation.】
【Afterward, you continue searching through his damaged storage artifact, and finally, you find something you’ve been desperately seeking!】
【It is his clan’s map of secret shipping routes through the Endless Sea!】
【In his entire clan, only this second-generation patriarch and the Golden Immortal realm patriarch carried such a map.】
【In fact, across the entire South Sea Realm and Azure Origin Domain, no more than ten people possess this hidden route!】
【And yet you have obtained it in such an effortless manner…】
【You quickly take the map and head for the nearest lesser chiliocosm.】
In the Real World, Su Xing’s eyes went wide at this.
“Holy crap, this is way too absurd, isn’t it?”
“The moment I entered the South Sea Realm, this sneaky bastard marked me? And it’s been nearly a hundred years since then?”
“Scheming for a century… all for some treasure on my person?”
Su Xing had no idea which treasure the Mystic Immortal realm patriarch had targeted, because he simply carried too many treasures…
“I don’t know whether to say that Mystic Immortal’s luck was abysmal… or that my luck was extraordinary…”
“Probably a bit of both, I’d wager?”
Su Xing rubbed his chin, thinking this over.
The talent he’d drawn for this simulation — Heaven-Sent Fortune!
It was undoubtedly an extraordinarily powerful talent…
But to say luck alone could kill a peak Mystic Immortal was a stretch.
So Su Xing figured that Heaven-Sent Fortune deserved at most half the credit…
The other half was likely due to this Mystic Immortal having killed too many, accruing a curse of ill fortune.
“Tsk tsk… even so, the Heaven-Sent Fortune talent is terrifying!”
Su Xing sighed in amazement.
“Even a Golden Immortal realm Strange Voidbeast showed up?”
“The odds of encountering one of those… are probably on par with an immortal choking to death while drinking water, right?”
Su Xing couldn’t help but exclaim at his incredible luck!
“And the most critical part — this Mystic Immortal patriarch actually delivered the Endless Sea route map I wanted, right to my doorstep?”