Chapter 1233: Climb The Mountain
Absorbing a million Qi was definitely not an easy task even for Ling Yun, so he let some of his clones come out of the dream space to finish the quest faster. Meanwhile, he and the others had already started climbing the snowy mountain, but the mountain was simply too high, and it would take them a long time to reach the peak.
Along the journey there, Ling Yun and the others encountered so many ice-type beasts with varying strengths. The strength of the beasts at the foot of the mountain was too weak for them, especially since their strength was only at the ten mortal realms, and they rarely encountered beasts at the Five God Realms in that area.
Nevertheless, the beasts they encountered got stronger every time they moved up, but they were not an obstacle for them, especially since many of them had already reached the Supreme God Realm.
Huang Hao was also among them, and her presence provided a deterrent to those beasts. Even if she wasn't with them, Ling Yun's primordial chaos dragon aura was enough to keep them away.
Whenever he saw beasts with strength in the Five God Realms, Ling Yun immediately chased and killed them, mainly because he had to kill a thousand of them to complete one of the daily quests. He hadn't focused on the other quests yet because some required reaching the mountain's peak, while others were located in different areas.
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[Ding]
[Daily Quest: Obtain 1,000,000 Qi through normal cultivation.]
[Status: Done.]
[Reward: 1000 Upper Profound Stones.]
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Time passed quickly, and the sun was starting to set, making their visibility even shorter due to the dense mist in that area. Even though they had climbed for so long, Ling Yun and the others were still far from reaching the middle area of the snowy mountain because of its extreme height.
Ling Yun asked them to rest and build a campfire to warm their bodies, but the temperature there was too cold, so he was forced to create void walls around them to block the cold. However, he himself did not rest, and he went looking for beasts with strength in the Five God Realms.
Huang Hao followed behind Ling Yun, but she only watched him from afar to check his abilities in actual combat. Back then, she didn't believe in his combat abilities, even though Long Hun had told her that Ling Yun had been training for too long in the dream space.
"My master was right that I underestimated him too much, and I would probably lose if I fought him without using my cultivation." Huang Hao muttered to herself as she watched Ling Yun move around the area to hunt the beasts, and she was satisfied with him because he fought several beasts that were much stronger than him without using his bloodline power. "His movements were fluid, and he never made any meaningless moves. All of his attacks were accurate, and he killed the beasts by directly attacking their most vital parts."
Every time he killed those beasts, Ling Yun did not forget to look for their beast cores, and all the beasts he killed already had them due to their high cultivation.
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[Daily Quest: Defeat 1,000 Heavenly God Realm Beasts.]
[Status: Done.]
[Reward: 1000 upper-grade beast cores.]
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After the notification appeared, it was already getting late, and Ling Yun immediately returned to where the others were waiting for him. Upon his arrival, he found several individuals actively engaged in cultivation, including Fu Yu, Shen Tianxi, Shen Yangzhu, and several others.
"What are you really looking for? Why are you training so late?" Wang Tianshi curiously asked.
Jian Xian then added. "Furthermore, the beasts in this area are no longer your opponents, and you can kill them without breaking a sweat."
"Haha." Ling Yun laughed before sitting between Ling Ling and Ling Xi. "You guys have challenged the mysterious tower in the past, so you should understand what I mean. I couldn't relax after I fought so many beasts in the mysterious tower for months, so I deliberately looked for those beasts and fought them, whether they were my opponents or not."
"That's true." Yun Liang replied with a nod. "After I challenged the tower the first time and returned to the Holy Land of Swords, I also felt an emptiness inside me, and I felt like something was missing. At that time, I decided to fight with the beasts in our realm, even though they were clearly not my opponents. However, the situation changed after I challenged the tower two or three more times, and I felt that such activities were just commonplace."
"The tower is no longer useful to us, especially since we are in the supreme realm now." Ling Yun then pointed north. "Instead, I want to try going there, especially since there is a tower there. Even though it has been destroyed in several areas, it still stands tall there, and I think we can find a lot of things there."
All of them looked north, but Huang Hao immediately spoke. "The Heaven Tower was once used to test those who would break through to the Three Immortal Realms, but it was destroyed about a million years ago, and no one knows the reason behind its destruction."
"A million years ago?"
"Yeah." Huang Hao nodded. "The Heaven Tower is much older than you think, and it was built by cultivators from the ancient era."
"Ancient era?"
Huang Hao shook her head. "I won't explain to you all in too much detail, but the ancient era was the fourth era of our universe. There were countless powerful cultivators in that era, and the first Seer was born in that era. Every single one of them could kill you all before your minds knew it, but there were only two clans that stood out the most among them, which were the Xie and Zhizun Clans. Both clans still exist to this day, but the Zhizun Clan is no longer the same, and their strength has fallen greatly. If it weren't for Zhizun Buxiu, the clan would have long been destroyed at the hands of the ancient devil Xie Clan."
"Ancient Devil Xie Clan?" Most of them were shocked to hear that.
Nu Shen immediately spoke. "The ancient devil Xie Clan is extremely powerful, and they are the ones who influence the devils in the upper realms. If Senior Huang hadn't helped us back then, our natural races would have been wiped out when Xie Zuzhou's avatar descended into the upper realms to help Vraxus. At that time, not even the Golden Dragon King could face him, so you should already be aware of his strength."
"They even sent many of their members to the mysterious tower to hunt down the beast cultivators of the Thousand Beast Realm, but we were lucky because the Time Lord prevented them from reaching our location." They could hear the disappointment in Wang Tianshi's tone when she said that, but those who knew her weren't surprised by that, especially since she was a fighting maniac. "In the end, we didn't have a chance to fight with them, and they died in Ling Yun's hands."
Jian Xian shook her head after hearing that. "If you are disappointed about not having the chance to fight with them, you can fight against Ling Yun now, especially since you two are both fighting maniacs."
"Speak for yourself!" Wang Tianshi retorted. "Have you forgotten that I became like this because of you?"
"Hehe! Unlike you, I retired a long time ago, and I have also asked you to retire, but you insist on wandering to many realms looking for opponents to fight." Jian Xian then asked Huang Hao. "Does that mean the Xie Clan is our main opponent in this realm?"
"There are too many sub-realms in the supreme realm, and many evil cultivators live in them, including this sub-realm." Huang Hao then pointed toward the floating island in the eastern area. "That is the Dark Moon Plateau, and many heretics live in it. Although the righteous cultivators here have tried many times to eliminate them, they continue to exist, especially since there is one cultivator who has reached the supreme immortal level."
"Doesn't that mean that person is as strong as you, Senior?" Zhiyu Shaoyun, the patriarch of the Zhiyu Clan, asked her.
"Do you really think like that?" Zhiyu Shaoyun shuddered at Huang Hao's counterquestion. "The disparity in power among the Three Immortal Realms is too great. Even though that person has reached my level, he will never be my equal, and I can still crush him like an ant. Don't even talk about fighting me; he won't even be able to defeat Zhizun Buxiu or Xie Zuzhou, especially since they are the strongest among humans and devils."
"So, how many cultivators in this sub-realm have reached the Three Immortal Realms, Senior?" This time Tian Ya asked her, especially since they did not have any information about the Boundless Heaven Domain and the people living in it.
"There are only three people who have reached that stage, but they have never left this sub-realm, so not many people know about them." Huang Hao then pointed at the top of the mountain. "One of them lives there, and the other one lives on the middle floating island."
Ling Yun frowned after Huang Hao mentioned that. "Does that mean we have to face that person before we can reach the peak?"
"Are you afraid to face that person?"
- To Be Continued -