Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 287: No Ascension Realm

"Is our mission related to this totem?" Wei Zhong asked worriedly.

Cen Lianping shook his head and chuckled:
"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Jie. At our level, we have never had the opportunity to come into contact with such an existence. This time, we just found a special dragon beast."

Wei Zhong heaved a sigh of relief. If the people of Jiuzhou insisted on offending those who might be earthly immortals, Wei Zhong would have to take his leave disrespectfully.

Fortunately, the people of Kyushu also know their limits.

Recalling Min Laiqing's research on the path of body refining, Wei Zhong sent a voice message to Huang Shuya and asked:
"Could it be that Fellow Daoist Min's research on the path of body refinement is related to this totem pole?"

Huang Shuya nodded, without transmitting her voice, but said in front of everyone:

"Senior Min has been studying this totem pole method recently, trying to get rid of the restrictions of the real dragon in the demon world and make our own totem pole for the human race in Jiuzhou."

The Thunder Dragon in the "Time Treasure Record" sneered when he heard this:

“If this human race, who is only a god, can forge a totem representing the power of law, that would be a real joke.”

However, when Wei Zhong recalled the anomaly in the "Record of Time" when he first entered Jiuzhou and the special spiritual contract signed with Jiuzhou, he suddenly felt that hope was not so slim.

“Are there any preliminary results now?”

Hearing this, Huang Shuya shook her head and sighed:

"The dragon blood has been condensed successfully, but the totem is still under exploration."

A few people talked in the teahouse for a while and then left in a flying car.

Wei Zhong was entertained by several people in a room full of spiritual energy. The place was not big, only about the size of a house of about 40 square meters in his previous life, and was simply divided into two spaces.

One for daily life, the other for cultivation.

Although the space is small, the concentration of spiritual energy has reached the fifth level, which is rare good news.

Wei Zhong was really surprised to hear that Huang Shuya and others also lived in this kind of house.

“This Jiuzhou is so crowded that even the Divine Transformation cultivators have to live in such a small environment.

"No wonder they are willing to explore the demon world and find a living space even at the risk of their lives."

This kind of risky behavior was mostly done out of helplessness, but after seeing the strength of the demon world, I wonder if the top leaders of Jiuzhou regretted it.

After all, Jiuzhou is just a small world. Before it bordered the demon world, the highest cultivator was only at the level of a god.

However, the demon world is a real middle thousand world, which has three realms: Lianxu, Hedao and Mahayana.

There are also special traces left in the demon world by those who have transcended tribulations and ascended to become earthly immortals.

It seems like these are not at a level that Jiuzhou can contend with.

"It's okay if you develop slowly, but if you rush forward and get more success, you'll inevitably suffer."

As I was thinking about this, there was a ring outside the door. I opened it and saw a man in special attire.

He was holding a black square box in his hand. When he saw Wei Zhong open the door, he asked:
"But Mr. Xie Yuanping?"

Wei Zhong nodded slowly:

"it's me."

The other party looked at it for a few seconds, confirmed that the appearance was consistent with the notes on the information, and then handed the black square box to Wei Zhong.

"Please check the package Mr. Min sent you."

Wei Zhong accepted it.

"The package has been delivered. I wish you good luck in your practice..."

"Thank you!"

Holding the black box and closing the door, Wei Zhong muttered to himself:
"In Jiuzhou, the people who send out their skills are all at the Jindan stage. This is really luxurious."

He rummaged around in the box, took out his ID card, and placed it close to the sensor. The sealed box was immediately unlocked.

This allowed Wei Zhong to see a dark green jade slip placed in the box.

There is a large inscription on the jade slip: "Spring and Autumn Wood Refining Technique."

"Finally I have obtained a part of it. I don't know how long it will take to collect the complete five methods and break through the refining void."

However, Wei Zhong has the ability to exchange krypton-level skills for longevity, so he can afford to wait.

When his spiritual consciousness probed into the jade slip, Wei Zhong seemed to have fallen into some mysterious state. A spell flashed through his mind, and the spiritual energy in the room gathered towards Wei Zhong without wind.

The jade slip in his hand shattered the moment his spiritual consciousness penetrated it.

After half an hour of practicing "Spring and Autumn Wood Refining Art", Wei Zhong entered the Qi Refining stage. The next day, he broke through from the first level to the second level.

For the next seven days, he advanced to a new level each day, and on the ninth day he had reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.

On the tenth day, Wei Zhong paused for a moment, as if he was pondering the essence of the spell.

On the eleventh day, he took out a top-grade foundation-building pill and swallowed it. With the gathering of spiritual energy, Wei Zhong was able to break through the foundation-building stage naturally.

When he opened his eyes, Wei Zhong couldn't hide his excitement.

"As expected, the Water Refining Technique and the Wood Refining Technique have the same origin. There is no obstacle in practicing them together. Not only is breaking through the realm as easy as eating and drinking, but most importantly, there seems to be no calamity."

Wei Zhong didn't sense anything about the foundation-building inner demon tribulation just now. All he felt was the pleasure of breaking through the barrier quickly.

Wei Zhong even felt that he could practice quickly all the way to the state of spiritual transformation without swallowing any precious pills.

Looking at the panel:

[Kung Fu: "Spring and Autumn Wood and Water Refining Technique" Grandmaster (99%)]

The name of the technique has changed, but this final level of proficiency has not changed much after decades.

“Perhaps changes will occur only when the five methods are gathered together and all enter the stage of spiritual transformation.

"To understand the five elements and enter the realm of refining emptiness?"

Suppressing his excitement, Wei Zhong continued to practice. This time, it took a little longer to build the foundation. It took Wei Zhong a full month to break through to the middle stage of foundation building.

At this time, Huang Shuya and others received a letter saying that the mission was about to begin, so Wei Zhong did not have enough time to continue practicing.

They left the city, took a flying car, and gathered again at Min Laiqing's research institute.

Finally, he explained everything to everyone, and then took out four talismans of different colors and handed them to the four people.

Huang Shuya seemed shocked for a moment when she saw the talisman. Huang Li and Chu Haoming had similar expressions. Only Cen Lianping seemed to have expected it and looked normal.

When Wei Zhong was wondering what it was, Min Laiqing suddenly turned around:

"This talisman is closely connected to my Nine Provinces Secret Method, and is of no use to Daoist Fellow Jie. If Daoist Fellow can practice the Spring and Autumn Wood Refining Art to the level of transformation, you can exchange it for one to use for self-defense."

Wei Zhong kept these words in mind, and planned to ask a few people to take a good look at what could have moved the God of Transformation so much.

"Could it be the power of the Refining Void Realm?"

"The four of you have been given heavy armor, so you can protect yourselves among the monsters without any worries, but you must also be careful of the sixth-level monster and must not engage in a head-on confrontation with it.

"If you have no choice but to encounter them, you must escape immediately and carry out the mission at another time...

"As for Fellow Daoist Jie, your body-refining skills are unparalleled, so you probably don't need this kind of encumbrance."

In fact, Wei Zhong was very envious of the heavy armor magic weapon, but he thought that Jiuzhou would not easily reveal it to him. Even if he exchanged it for merit, it would be very valuable, far less cost-effective than exchanging it for the Spring and Autumn Five Methods. 'Even if the external magic weapon is powerful, it is difficult to break through the limit of the realm. Instead of exchanging it for the method of refining heavy armor, it is better to collect the Spring and Autumn Five Methods to break through the realm and refine the void.'

After the four of them were ready, Wei Zhong set off with them.

On the way, Wei Zhong asked to take a look at the talisman. Huang Shuya and others had hesitation in their eyes, but Huang Li was the only one who heartlessly handed the talisman to Wei Zhong.

Seeing this, Chu Haoming quickly stopped him and said:
"Oriole!"

The latter responded:
"What's the problem? It won't cost you any meat."

Wei Zhong on the other side was already looking at the talisman carefully. The "Record of Time" in his sea of ​​consciousness moved automatically without wind and turned to the page of "Wood". The runes on it flickered, faintly forming the shape of the talisman in his hand.

"Sure enough, this talisman is related to the laws of the Nine Provinces."

The Thunder Dragon was awakened, and was also shocked when he saw this scene:
"How is it possible in just a small world?"

Such a world with obvious rules obviously shocked Lei Long, not to mention that the people of Jiuzhou could even take advantage of it.

“Most of the underlying rules of the small world rely on the existence of the upper world, and the rules themselves are extremely secretive. There is absolutely no possibility of them being revealed and used by the cultivators of this world.

"This Nine Provinces Realm is truly mysterious. I wonder which Middle Thousand World it belongs to?"

"Isn't this the demon world?"

Lei Long shook his head:

"impossible."

Wei Zhong then asked several people:
"I wonder where all the ascenders from your world went before Jiuzhou connected with the demon world?"

Several people didn't know why Wei Zhong asked such questions when he was looking at the talisman peacefully. They were all puzzled:
"Ascension? How can there be ascension in my Jiuzhou?"

Wei Zhong was greatly frightened by this answer.

'Could it be that the ascension channels of the Nine Provinces have been cut off by some unknown accident?'

"Fellow Daoist Jie, you don't know that in our Nine Provinces, there has been no such thing as ascension since the beginning of cultivation. When a cultivator enters the realm of transformation, he reaches the pinnacle of the Nine Provinces.

"There is no way to ascend, only to waste your life and wait for death."

Wei Zhong unexpectedly said:
“This is strange. In my world, there has always been a saying that if one’s cultivation reaches the stage of transformation into a god, one can ascend to the spirit world. I have also personally seen several of my fellow practitioners being taken away by the guiding light of heaven.

"The mystery of your world really surprises me."

Huang Shuya smiled upon hearing this:
"Maybe. My Kyushu land is indeed a little different."

Wei Zhong returned the talisman to Huang Li and expressed his gratitude.

After checking just now, Wei Zhong discovered that this talisman was not as Min Laiqing said, and he could not use it.

On the contrary, with the help of the Record of Time, Wei Zhong could use it without any hindrance.

"There must be a big secret in this Jiuzhou. It may be related to your "Time Treasure Record". We must not give up."

Wei Zhong naturally understood this principle.

Contacting Jiuzhou, looking for suitable skills, and advancing to the realm of refining emptiness was one of the reasons, but the moment he set foot in Jiuzhou, there was a further change, which was to find the connection between "The Treasure Record of Time" and the Heavenly Dao of Jiuzhou.

The car flew for a long time, passed through a dense steel forest, and arrived at a space passage.

Opposite Wei Zhongwang's platform hung two large characters:
"Luohu".

"This is where we are going this time."

Cen Lianping explained:
The space channel here was developed not long ago, and the defense city opposite has not been built yet due to the invasion of dragon beasts.

"Dragon beast invasion? Are there a lot of dragon beasts on the other side?"

The latter nodded slowly:
“Indeed, there are many of them, and their strength is quite high, almost on par with that of Yufeng.

“However, these dragon beasts do not have a strong desire to attack. They only want to destroy the defense city and drive us away. They have no intention of actively invading.

"In order to avoid another Jade Peak battlefield, the top leaders stopped occupying this area. They only sent out relatively experienced monks like me to explore individually or in small teams.

“That secret place and the strange dragon beast in it were discovered during an exploration.

"After that, we conducted several explorations and finally obtained enough intelligence to carry out this operation."

Huang Shuya's eyes were filled with doubt:
"Then why do you need to send us? Wouldn't Brother Cen and the other seniors be more suitable?"

There was a trace of sadness on the latter's face:
"Because he's dead."

The others were shocked and listened to him continue to explain:
“During the last exploration, we wanted to take the dragon beast directly, but we were blocked by a strange milky white barrier.

"Our magic power and physical bodies are all frozen, only our spiritual will can still move.

“If I hadn’t possessed the secret magic of the Yuanshen Sect and shaken my magic power to escape from the influence in time, I would have been buried in the dragon’s claws like those fellows.”

"Why didn't you remind us before?" Chu Haoming became nervous when he heard this.

Cen Lianping glanced at the worried crowd:
"Don't worry, the barrier has been broken by Jiuzhou. After the last upgrade of your spiritual heavy armor, you have already developed corresponding countermeasures.

"The strange magic that was once enough to control us is no longer effective."

Hearing this, several people sighed in unison.

"What about me?"

Wei Zhong's eyes gradually became dangerous, and he couldn't help feeling a little scared when he looked at Cen Lianping.

"This person is indeed quite well hidden. I'm afraid he is not as good as Huang Shuya said, comparable to the late stage of the Spiritualization Realm, but is actually in the late stage of the Spiritualization Realm, and is definitely not just an ordinary person."

Impressed by the man's hidden talent, Cen Lianping quickly explained:

"Fellow Daoist Jie, you don't have to get involved in capturing the dragon beast. Just stand guard for us on the periphery. There's no need to take any risks."

"hope so."

Wei Zhong withdrew his gaze, and Cen Lianping breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that he was already sweating profusely on his back.

"Are there any other dangers behind the white barrier that is powerful enough to control the cultivators' bodies and spiritual power?"

Cen Lianping shook his head and explained:
“No, at that time, we were only an arm’s length away from the dragon beast. If there was any danger, it would only exist within the dragon beast itself.

"But his realm is not that high, only around the fourth level. He doesn't put too much pressure on us, and it's unlikely that he would conceal his realm..."

Finally, after the eyewitness Cen Lianping explained what he had experienced, everyone headed towards the air passage together.

Wei Zhong's consciousness trembled, and when he opened his eyes again, it was already pitch black.

"Underground, or in a cave?"

He turned around and looked at the people around him, and they all woke up.

"This space passage is located inside Lingshan Mountain. If you walk along the cliff, you can pass through a narrow mountain crack to reach the outside world."

With Cen Lianping leading the way, several people followed one by one. After walking for a long time, they finally saw the light.

After coming out of the mountain crevice, Wei Zhong and others found themselves on the rocky peak on the mountainside.

The sound of monsters roaring rang in my ears. I looked up and saw a group of dragons flapping their wings and flying high in the sky not far away, circling around the ground...

Cen Lianping pointed to the distance:
"That's where we are going."

(End of this chapter)