Chapter 203: Stepping Into The Martial Sage Realm
Surges of spiritual energy poured down from the void. At this moment, the entire world seemed to have transformed into a ceaselessly oscillating vast ocean.
No one dared to act rashly.
From ancient saints above to mortals below, before the spiritual energy had calmed, none dared make any move, lest they be swept into oblivion by this terrifying spiritual energy tide.
Ning Qi observed this once-in-ten-thousand-years spectacle, with sparks of spiritual insight continuously rising in his mind.
There was astonishment in his eyes.
It was as if he had glimpsed part of the world origin.
Across the world, commoners knelt in worship, tears streaming down their faces. Spiritual energy continued to pour from the high heavens, abundantly filling heaven and earth, gradually manifesting benefits. Though the spiritual energy contained life poison, as long as it was not refined into the body, there was no problem.
Yet the powerful vitality of the spiritual energy had already shown signs.
Ordinary people immersed in the spiritual energy felt warm currents surging through their limbs and bones. Those on the verge of death from severe illnesses were shocked to discover they could gradually move again. Those who had overexerted themselves from years of labor found their bodies unprecedentedly comfortable…
All sorts of miracles unfolded across the lands.
Countless ordinary people were shocked and excited. In cities throughout Great Yan, subjects knelt on the ground, grateful to the heavens.
And this was only the beginning.
Boom!
One massive rumble after another shook heaven and earth.
This was not the previous dao sound, but purely vortices formed by the eruption of spiritual energy.
After the spiritual energy pouring into heaven and earth reached a certain density.
The transformation finally began!
The earth veins merged into the spiritual energy and awakened as well.
Rumble!!
Continuous massive rumbles shook the land. People were shocked to discover that the ground was constantly tearing apart, but the tears were not bottomless dark fissures; instead, even broader expanses of ground surged forth.
Cities were shrouded in inexplicable light, all avoiding direct tearing, but inevitably shifted in position by the violently expanding ground.
The congregation watched in shock.
Distant mountain ranges were also wildly surging upward. Small hills rose from the ground, becoming towering strange peaks piercing the clouds, while already extremely precipitous famous mountains became even more exaggerated, rushing into the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Strands of spiritual energy coiled around them, with inexplicable changes beginning to emerge.
True Martial Mountain was exactly like this at the moment.
Ning Qi could clearly feel the ground beneath his feet trembling. Strands of spiritual energy and earth vein energy gathered, and then True Martial Mountain began to surge madly, towering into the clouds. Not only that, True Martial Mountain became even more majestic, and the vegetation on the mountain also began to surge wildly.
This shocking scene made everyone hold their breath.
“This is spiritual energy revival, with earth veins surging?” Ning Qi murmured.
The sights he witnessed today shocked him, and his insights were plentiful. This was almost equivalent to the heaven and earth origin presenting itself before him. Perhaps he still could not understand some deeper things now, but given time, it would all become his solid foundation.
Such transformations were occurring everywhere between heaven and earth.
The rumbling sounds were incessant.
Everyone fell into unprecedented shock, even the ancient saints who had laid plans for ten thousand years. Back then, they had only deduced; only now did they witness such a spectacle.
The ground became ever broader.
Mountain ranges rose sharply.
Great rivers swelled into seas.
Ancient trees, strange flowers, and even wild grasses that no one had paid attention to before all surged wildly. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth had no preferences, equally favoring every living being.
And in the distant vast ocean, astonishing dramatic changes were also occurring.
Spiritual energy fell into the ocean, causing the seawater to surge. The ocean floor became even deeper, and the already bizarre and wondrous ocean became even more unfathomable.
This was the miracle of the world.
Undergoing all-around metamorphosis.
Not only restoring to the grandeur of ancient times, but surpassing the past.
However, there were also some tragic scenes.
Many living beings between heaven and earth died miserably and silently. For instance, among the human race, some had flames bursting from their entire bodies, others had sword chants resounding around them… It seemed they were awakening some special physique, but the vast majority suddenly aged and died. The scenes were horrifying. Those who did not understand thought it was envy from the heavens.
And deep in the great mountains, many exotic beasts were the same.
Their bodies surged in size, awakening all sorts of innate supernatural powers, but they too suddenly withered and perished.
Only the ancient saints knew that this was not heavenly envy, but because of life poison.
These human race members, exotic beasts, or other beings were originally chosen children of heaven, destined to awaken supreme physiques and advance triumphantly, but due to life poison, they perished before even starting. Only an extremely tiny fraction of the lucky ones survived.
True Martial Mountain.
Zhuang Chen and the White Ape were also like this.
Incredibly dense spiritual energy poured down.
It even began drilling into the body of the man and the ape without needing to be guided.
Roar!
The White Ape manifested its true form, already nine zhang tall. It could not control the boiling bloodline in its body and looked pained. Around Zhuang Chen, sword chant sounds rang out, with sword qi illusory images constantly floating and sinking. He sat cross-legged on the ground, brows tightly furrowed.
This anomaly immediately startled Dragon Mountain Daoist and the others.
But Ning Qi was already prepared.
“Quickly circulate the secret technique!” His voice was like a great bell, striking straight at the soul. At the same time, strands of spiritual energy began oscillating in a special way, coiling around the man and the ape.
The two who had originally looked pained immediately eased somewhat, and their auras grew visibly stronger. The spiritual energy perfected their physiques, indirectly strengthening their strength as well.
Seeing the man and the ape on the right track, everyone relaxed.
After leaving part of his attention on them, Ning Qi continued observing the changes in heaven and earth’s spiritual energy.
He saw.
The surging spiritual energy was gradually calming. After evenly filling heaven and earth, the original tide was gradually receding.
His eyes began to glow with fervor. This was the initial stage of spiritual energy revival. Once it fully stabilized, it would be time for him to break through.
He could already sense the incredibly dense vitality of the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
This was where the opportunity lay.
With such astonishing vitality, bottlenecks were weakened to the maximum extent. Once the spiritual energy fully stabilized and the vitality receded, there would be no more chance to ascend in one step.
But it was not over yet.
Brilliant golden light rose in Ning Qi’s eyes as he looked deep into the void. There, a massive clump of incredibly dense power was gathering.
He vaguely already had some guesses.
Before he could think further.
Boom!
Another massive rumble, different from the previous continuous rumbles—it carried a sharp buzzing sound. Ning Qi then ‘saw’ that massive clump of dense power suddenly scatter in all directions, flying toward various places.
Those streaks of conspicuous power trajectories were like a grand firework blooming, or like shooting stars falling. Those ‘shooting stars’ varied in size, brightness, and darkness.
Ning Qi rose into the air for the first time.
He could detect that those ‘shooting stars’ contained something he craved.
“Most of the shooting stars are scattering in directions that cannot avoid those ancient saints. It seems the ancient saints’ choice of private territories was deliberate.” Ning Qi realized. He understood that this should be the exotic treasures manifesting, as mentioned by White Mountain Old Daoist.
“It seems a larger shooting star is rushing toward True Profound Mountain.”
The thought had just arisen when joy appeared on Ning Qi’s face.
Only to see at the horizon, two clumps of dense power falling toward True Martial Mountain, at extreme speed. In merely a dozen breaths, they were already near. Everyone stared wide-eyed, watching the ‘shooting star’ fall.
Boom!
Blazing light erupted. Everyone instinctively closed their eyes.
Only Ning Qi observed the essence within.
“This is even purer power essence. Not only that, it even has some other origins mixed in.”
Originally, Ning Qi thought these were ready-made exotic treasures and rare treasures, but now it seemed not. This was power origin, needing a carrier.
Both clumps of power origin fell into True Martial Mountain.
The larger one directly merged into the mountain body, beginning to nurture some rare treasure, while the slightly smaller one actually landed on the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
In an instant.
On the Enlightenment Tea Tree, dense vitality power began to flow.
Brilliant green light erupted, shooting straight into the sky.
In the initial stage of spiritual energy revival, the Enlightenment Tea Tree had already surged greatly, reaching the extent of covering the entire Seeker’s Courtyard. And now, it was even more exaggerated.
Strands of roots burrowed into True Martial Mountain, absorbing earth vein power.
Under the boost of that power origin, the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s size began surging at a terrifying speed.
Ten zhang!
Twenty zhang!
…
Ultimately stopping at the mystical height of ninety-nine zhang.
The current Enlightenment Tea Tree towered high, not standing straight but twisting and winding, its main trunk gnarled like a contorted flood dragon. The entire True Martial Sect disciples could clearly see that behind those tea leaves, misty vitality flowed, with a strange aura rising, instinctively arousing craving.
Their eyes were full of astonishment and shock.
They already knew that was Ning Qi’s residence.
With the status of Heavenly Sword Ancient Saint as foundation, no matter how miraculous, it was not surprising.
Dragon Mountain Daoist and the others witnessed this change with their own eyes and sighed in amazement. They knew best how mystical this Enlightenment Tea Tree was. Now surging overnight, from now on True Martial Sect truly would not lack Enlightenment Tea. Though the effects of most tea leaves would be diluted, the effects of the core ones would instead be strengthened.
Ning Qi’s heart was full of joy.
He could fully sense that after condensing massive spiritual energy, the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s life essence had now reached a new realm.
Perhaps it could be called a heaven and earth rare treasure.
He had a premonition that from now on, even the most essence Enlightenment Tea Leaves would have some effect on him—not elevating his comprehension, but saving his time, allowing him more time in true enlightenment state.
But the point of his joy was not only this.
“Incredibly dense wood attribute! Perhaps… I can use the Enlightenment Tea Tree to condense wood qi!” Brilliant light flickered in Ning Qi’s eyes.
This was a true unexpected joy.
Originally, he already had King Yu Bead, Great Sun Compass, and Golden Metal Spirit Skeleton—three treasures. Now with the incredibly dense wood attribute Enlightenment Tea Tree, he had the four attributes of metal, wood, water, and fire.
In other words.
Ning Qi could attempt to impact Fourth Realm Martial Saint!
His heart surged with excitement.
Golden light circulated in his eyes as he looked inside True Martial Mountain. That larger energy origin had burrowed in and was brewing something—not something that could be brewed in a short time. Ning Qi felt some anticipation in his heart, then withdrew his gaze.
He sensed the changes in the void’s spiritual energy.
After those clumps of power origin scattered, the changes between heaven and earth also neared their end. The ground stabilized, the mountains stopped trembling, and the spiritual energy fluctuations also approached stability.
Ning Qi silently sensed the timing.
At a certain moment.
When the spiritual energy fluctuations reached a certain limit, Ning Qi shouted:
“The opportunity is now—why have you not quickly broken through!”
His voice spread across True Martial Mountain. The disciples all trembled in their hearts, then sat cross-legged on the ground, beginning to cultivate seriously.
The timing Ning Qi grasped was perfect—exactly when the spiritual energy had just calmed enough for everyone to bear, while its vitality was at its maximum.
The disciples with shallower cultivation were fine; they could only try to strengthen their foundation somewhat amid this spiritual energy wave.
For instance, Luo Wentian and the others at Gang Yuan Realm could sense spiritual energy fluctuations and vitality ahead of time, laying a solid foundation for resonating with spiritual energy upon stepping into Heavenly Human Realm in the future, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
But those benefiting the most were the Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artists. In this environment abundant with spiritual energy, their Three Flowers cultivation was godlike in speed.
But the most crucial were Ning Qi’s four Heavenly Human Perfection Realm Martial Artists.
This was their opportunity to break through.
Just as Ning Qi’s words fell.
Blade Demon, Dragon Mountain Daoist, and Qin Yun shot into the sky, landing in three different positions. Fervent intent was in all their eyes, then they condensed Three Flowers, circulating the long-familiar Martial Saint Method to prepare for breakthrough.
Surging spiritual energy immediately poured forth like three long dragons.
It was also fortunate the spiritual energy was dense now; otherwise, it might not support the consumption of three people advancing to Martial Saint.
It could be seen.
Dense spiritual energy was refined by the Three Flowers and drilled into their bodies. Pain appeared to varying degrees on the three men’s faces. Their secret techniques only temporarily suppressed and weakened the life poison; it would erupt only after stepping into Martial Saint Realm.
Ning Qi took a deep breath, also without hesitation.
He sat cross-legged atop the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
Three Flowers Gathering at the Apex, Myriad Dao Nirvana Origin Method circulated, and an invisible flame fell upon his head.
Ning Qi formed hand seals with his hands.
“Spiritual energy, gather!”
He had already deduced it countless times in his mind; now it was effortless. Strands of spiritual energy immediately poured in reverse. He did not compete with the other three for spiritual energy but drew from higher up, making the scene even more spectacular.
From afar.
It was like the heavenly river pouring in reverse.
Nirvana Origin Fire burned fiercely. Strands of spiritual energy were purified. Ning Qi had no more concerns and took them into his body. The long-deduced Myriad Manifestations Scripture circulated, instantly turning the strands of spiritual energy into incredibly pure spiritual power.
How astonishing was Ning Qi’s foundation.
His Three Flowers were his martial way foundation. The spiritual power he refined now gathered like rivers, surging endlessly. Compared to Blade Demon and the others, it was not even the same level.
“The first of the Five Elements Qi shall be metal qi!”
Ning Qi had long prepared.
He mastered Myriad Daos, but currently his strongest was still Sword Dao. Metal governed sharpness, complementing Sword Dao perfectly. Naturally, it was best to condense metal qi as the first of the Five Elements Qi.
In an instant.
Vast ocean-like spiritual power merged into the lungs, condensing within. Then, strands of incredibly sharp aura gradually emerged—that was the lungs’ metal qi being stimulated by spiritual power, mutually influencing, making the spiritual power even more filled with destructive might.
On True Martial Mountain.
A boom resounded between heaven and earth, as if celebrating for Ning Qi.
Ning Qi’s breakthrough proceeded naturally.
He had already stepped into Martial Saint Realm.
Feeling the unprecedented powerful sensation transmitted from his body, Ning Qi felt utterly satisfied. He had pursued Martial Saint Realm for so long and finally succeeded. Even though it was only First Realm Martial Saint, it felt far, far stronger than before!
At this moment.
He felt his life essence continuously sublimating, his fleshly body becoming even more terrifying under the influence of spiritual power.
And his comprehension also further increased.
Perhaps Ning Qi was now the only Martial Saint unaffected by life poison.
But Ning Qi was clearly not satisfied with this.
