Full level of enlightenment: I achieved Daozu by ascending to the lower realm

Chapter 378 The First Battle
The cultivators from the two major sects watched with envy as Ning Qi distributed numerous resources to his subordinates.

The smiles that had just appeared on their faces because of receiving supplies faded, and the smiles shifted to the faces of the cultivators under Ning Qi's command.

In that instant, they felt that Ning Qi was the greatest person in their hearts, and they even fantasized that they were cultivators under Ning Qi's command.

Who can compare to Ning Qi?

"Thank you, Domain Lord!"

The armies from both regions expressed their gratitude loudly.

Ning Qi didn't care that the cultivators from the two sects were watching. He made a gesture with his hand, and everyone immediately fell silent.

"I have nothing more to give you, but I have one last thing to say."

"Please enlighten me, Lord!"

Ning Qi said, "If you can survive to the end, I will lead you to a more glorious future."

Everyone's eyes shone brightly.

Although they were unclear about Ning Qi's vision for the future, everyone was filled with anticipation for it.

Zhao Yujun walked to Ning Qi's side.

"Fellow Daoist Ning, your army is so full of talented people, why not cooperate with the people of my Moon Sea Immortal Sect?"

Ning Qi smiled and said:
"Sect Master Zhao, I thank you for thinking of me and my cultivators several times. However, they have already been trained by me. It would not be a good thing to rashly disrupt their formation."

"Moreover, I don't think the cultivators under your command might be willing to accept them, so I think it's better for them to fight on their own, although they can help each other."

Zhao Yujun was surprised that Ning Qi rejected her kindness several times.

If it were anyone else, who could refuse her like that to her face?

Zhao Yujun was not discouraged. She said, "Alright then, I will follow Fellow Daoist Ning's lead, but we need to cooperate well."

“That’s natural,” Ning Qi nodded.

Immediately, everyone hurried to make final arrangements.

Because Ning Qi connected the formations inscribed by the two major sects, the cultivators from all three sides each had their own positions.

Soon after.

The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm descended upon them once more, and said directly, "Are you ready? I will soon work with the will of the Vast Realm to remove the Central Domain Boundary Wall."

Ning Qi, Zhao Yujun, and Gong Tiandao all nodded.

"Row!"

The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm said no more.

As soon as he stepped onto the ground, the entire earth seemed to tremble.

Immediately afterwards, endless power was transmitted to the central boundary, and a loud crash was heard, like glass shattering.

The blood mist throughout the central region suddenly paused, then began to flow at an even faster speed.

In an instant, everyone's vision was shrouded in an even richer crimson.

The boundary separating the North and South of the Central Region was finally broken by the will of the two realms, and the situation instantly changed from extreme stillness to extreme dynamism.

Countless cultivators seemed to smell a rich scent of blood, which immediately ignited their fighting spirit.

"kill!"

The shouts of killing were loud!
Before the cultivators could even see the figure, they had already launched a joint attack.

"Hoohoo!"

The wind howled, and the blood mist swirled in the air like dandelions as countless attacks hurtled towards the other side.

Rumble!
The entire Central Region was shaken, the sound like thunder, and the tremors continued.

Countless supernatural powers, countless rules of power, and countless spiritual energies collided together, illuminating the entire Central Region as if it were daytime, as if a super-sized flashbang had fallen!

After the first round of attacks, only a few figures stood facing each other high in the sky.

In the North, there is Jiang Yingchu, the avatar of the Holy Ancestor of the Haoran Immortal Sect and its sect leader.

In the south, Ning Qi, Zhao Yujun, and Gong Tiandao.

As for the wills of the two realms, they did not appear. They were busy maintaining the spatial stability of the central region, so they had no time to participate in the war.

Both sides sized each other up.

Ning Qi first quickly glanced at Jiang Yingchu.

He was tall and upright, with a refined and scholarly appearance. He was not weak, but rather had a terrifying aura of someone who had mastered the principles of the world.

Then Ning Qi's gaze fell on the Holy Ancestor's clone.

Compared to Jiang Yingchu, the appearance of the Holy Ancestor was significantly inferior.

Jiang Yingchu resembles a high-ranking Confucian scholar, while the Holy Ancestor gives the impression of a down-on-his-luck scholar.

His hair and beard were all white, and his white hair was casually tied with a hairband, with a simple wooden hairpin inserted in it.

As for clothing, it was like the most ordinary gray-white scholar's robe, washed until it was old and faded.

However, no one dared to underestimate this old man. He was revered by everyone in the entire Haoran Realm. He was the master of the will of the Haoran Realm, and his status was almost the same as Ning Qi's in the Zhenwu Realm.

When Ning Qi saw the Holy Ancestor, he recalled his three previous indirect encounters with him.

The first time he encountered the Lord of the Vast Realm God Wind Domain, the other party summoned a Wind God Diagram at a crucial moment, which was the work of the Holy Ancestor.

That time, Ning Qi's will was dragged into the Wind God Diagram. The remaining will of the Holy Ancestor within it transformed into the Wind God, stepping on Ning Qi's corpse to achieve the position of True Immortal.

However, Ning Qi broke through the Holy Ancestor's will with his own methods, thus making the Holy Ancestor notice his existence.

The second time, thanks to Ning Qi's active participation, several regions within the war zone were quickly captured.

This alerted the Holy Ancestor, who dispatched twenty men who had severed their own ties to the Dao and brought his "Suppress" calligraphy scroll to the War Zone.

The third time was when Ning Qi was undergoing his tribulation, which led away nearly a thousand Dao Integration Realms from the Vast Realm.

The Holy Ancestor sent the will of the Vast Realm with the "Solution" scroll to save them, but unfortunately, Ning Qi once again reversed the situation and solved the problem.

Ning Qi had three chances in total, and each time he overcame the Holy Ancestor's methods, making the Holy Ancestor pay close attention to him.

Now that the Holy Ancestor's avatar has descended, the two face to face. Ning Qi has grown up to this point, and in his eyes, there is only the Holy Ancestor.

As for Jiang Yingchu, the sect leader of Haoran Immortal Sect, he was no match for him, and Ning Qi did not want to waste time on him.

"You two, I'll leave the sect master of the Haoran Immortal Sect to you. I'll deal with the Holy Ancestor's avatar!"

Ning Qi directly confronted Zhao and Gong.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yujun, Gong Tiandao, and Jiang Yingchu on the other side were all taken aback.

Goodness, there are even people who actively seek out the most powerful enemy as their opponent?

Gong Tiandao said bluntly, "Fellow Daoist Ning, now is not the time to talk big. If you can't control him, wouldn't that ruin everything? Do you know how long the Mountain Ancestor spent preparing for this grand plan?"

However, he was overjoyed.

Undoubtedly, the last thing he wanted to encounter was the Holy Ancestor's clone, and Ning Qi's willingness to take the initiative was exactly what he wanted.

However, this guy got the benefit but then acted innocent, first putting a hat on someone else's head.

One reason was to demonstrate his own status, and the other was to strip Ning Qi of his credit.

Once these words are uttered, no matter how much merit Ning Qi has made, it is something he should do. On the contrary, if something goes wrong, it will be Ning Qi who ruins the grand plan laid out by the Mountain Ancestor.

Ning Qi had no time to deal with this idiot.

His eyes were now fixed solely on the Holy Ancestor, his blood boiling with the anticipation of soon clashing with the Holy Ancestor's avatar. Ning Qi teleported instantly, appearing directly behind the Holy Ancestor's avatar and unleashing a powerful punch!
The moment this punch was thrown, the world changed color, and the power of rules that had just been straightened out by the will of the two realms instantly became disordered again.

When Ning Qi made his move, the pupils of Jiang Yingchu, Zhao Yujun, and Gong Tiandao instantly contracted.

Even the three of them might not be able to react to that punch.

The three of them followed and looked in that direction.

The Holy Ancestor's clone blocked Ning Qi's punch!
He reacted extremely quickly. The instant Ning Qi made his move, he turned around as if by teleportation and simultaneously extended his palm to block Ning Qi's attack.

However, to his surprise, Ning Qi's punch was more powerful than he had anticipated.

Snapped!
Thus, Zhao Yujun and the other two witnessed Ning Qi charging like a bull, knocking the Holy Ancestor back more than a mile in mid-air with a single punch.

A white streak immediately appeared in the sky, indicating the traces left by the impact between the two.

This scene shocked everyone.

Jiang Yingchu's astonishment, Zhao Yujun's disbelief, and Gong Tiandao's bewilderment.

"Is the Holy Ancestor's clone really that weak? If I had known it was like this, I should have made a move. Now look what happened, Ning Qi got the benefit!" Gong Tiandao said sourly.

The three of them watched the two flying away, temporarily forgetting that they should also be fighting.

The Holy Ancestor's avatar hovered high in the sky, his somewhat hunched body now like a wall, no longer able to be pushed back by Ning Qi's attack.

He stared at Ning Qi, and a somewhat aged voice rang out.

"You haven't disappointed me. However, the war has just begun, and I have other more important things to do. I can't waste all my energy on you. Get out of here!"

After the Holy Ancestor finished speaking, his fist, which was gripping Ning Qi's, glowed.

From his palm flew out a character that was entirely formed from the power of rules: "retreat".

The character "退" (retreat) radiated a golden light; although it consisted of only simple strokes, it was as heavy as heaven and earth.

Ning Qi was caught off guard and fell into this guy's trap, completely enveloped by the word "retreat," and immediately flew backward.

At the same time, the character "退" (retreat) seemed to come alive, with each stroke becoming fierce and claw-like, enveloping Ning Qi's body like tentacles. It actually contained the true meaning of the character "镇" (suppress) that Ning Qi had encountered before!

It seemed that Ning Qi had temporarily lost the ability to move.

The Holy Ancestor's clone finished off Ning Qi with a single strike and immediately looked down at Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao not far away.

Zhao Yujun frowned slightly. The Holy Ancestor's avatar was indeed incredibly powerful!

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Gong Tiandao's forehead. Good heavens, he had just said that the Holy Ancestor was nothing special, and he had been proven wrong in the blink of an eye.

He was both relieved that Ning Qi had taken the lead and secretly cursing Ning Qi for being so useless. How were he and Zhao Yujun supposed to deal with this?
While they were focused on the Holy Ancestor, Jiang Yingchu suddenly flew over from the opposite side.

He smiled. He, a sect leader of the same level as Zhao and Gong, was being overlooked because of the appearance of the Holy Ancestor's avatar.

"You two, you'd better get out of my way too!"

After Jiang Yingchu finished speaking, he took out a magical artifact that looked like a calligraphy brush and tapped it twice.

Instantly, two "trapped" characters, similar to those used by the Holy Ancestor's clone, flew out.

The two words grew larger and larger in mid-air, and when they reached the two people, they seemed to transform into a tall mountain, crashing down on them!
Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao immediately realized what was happening.

Ning Qi was trapped, which meant that the two of them were now facing Jiang Yingchu and the Holy Ancestor's clone, and the pressure on them suddenly increased!

If they are also trapped, wouldn't their cultivators be at the mercy of others?
Zhao Yujun stretched out her right hand, and instantly, a white bone sword appeared in her hand.

That white bone sword was forged from the bones of the powerful demonic beast, the Devouring Whale, from the Endless Sea.

From its very first appearance, it evokes a contradictory feeling of being both weighty and sharp, yet also ancient and rustic.

She gripped the white bone magic sword and drew a line at the flying character "困" (trapped).

A white bone sword aura, sharp as an axe that split the heavens, cleaved the mountain of the character "困" (trapped) in two.

Gong Tiandao then spat out a small tower.

The small tower, made of some unknown material, looked unusually mysterious.

The next second, the small tower instantly enlarged and slammed back towards the mountain of the character "困" (trapped), directly piercing through it.

The three acted in the blink of an eye. Clearly, Jiang Yingchu's skill was inferior to that of the Holy Ancestor's clone, and he failed to trap Zhao Gong and the other two.

Zhao and Gong were constantly on edge, fearing a sneak attack from the Holy Ancestor's clone.

However, after dealing with Jiang Yingchu, they did not find any trace of the Holy Ancestor's clone.

They immediately looked in the direction where the Holy Ancestor had been, and what they saw almost cost them their lives.

The Holy Ancestor stood alone high in the sky.

He was writing furiously in the void, the entire sky seemingly transformed into his desk.

The Holy Ancestor used the void as paper and used his divine will to manipulate the power of the rules, continuously writing something in the void.

Zhao and Gong didn't know what he had written, but they could see the effect.

As the Holy Ancestor's avatar wrote, black phantoms emerged from the void.

Their bodies solidified rapidly, like celestial soldiers descending downwards.

The Holy Ancestor's move was exactly like the legendary story of scattering beans to create soldiers.

Almost every phantom he summoned was a being who had attained the Dao, and each one exuded a powerful aura.

In just a short while, the Holy Ancestor summoned more than ten illusory figures.

He had previously told Ning Qi that his most important task at this moment was not to target Ning Qi, but to do something else of great importance.

Clearly, summoning these Dao-merging phantoms was what he was trying to do.

This is to increase the number of Dao Integration Realms and military strength in their Vast Realm.

The reason is quite simple: Ning Qi's previous tribulation caused the Haoran Realm to lose nearly a thousand Dao Integration cultivators, so the Haoran Realm has fallen far behind the Shanhai Realm in terms of Dao Integration cultivators.

However, the only thing that Zhao Gong and Ning Qi couldn't understand was why the Holy Ancestor hadn't summoned these phantoms beforehand, and why he hadn't made preparations in advance.

Perhaps this is related to the central region's capacity to withstand pressure.

Previously, the will of the two realms divided the central region, and the Holy Ancestor's avatar did not have enough energy to summon the phantom.

"Stop him!" Zhao Yujun shouted.

Gong Tiandao immediately replied, "I'll hold Jiang Yingchu back; you go and stop him."

Zhao Yujun was helpless.

She was stronger than Gong Tiandao, so she should have been the one to take action. However, Gong Tiandao simply handed the task over to her, which made Zhao Yujun extremely unhappy.

Jiang Yingchu discerned what the two were thinking.

With a swift movement, another Jiang Yingchu appeared beside him, directly blocking Zhao Yujun's path.

At this critical moment, a sword aura swept across the sky, directly shattering the phantom that the Holy Ancestor had just summoned.

Ning Qi broke free and instantly teleported to the Holy Ancestor's side.

Did I give you permission to summon it?

A clear voice resounded through the void, instantly causing Zhao Yujun's forward-rushing figure to pause. The three of them looked towards the Holy Ancestor again and were stunned to see Ning Qi break free in the blink of an eye.

Even the Holy Ancestor was slightly startled, and he immediately put down his pen.

"It seems you've grown very quickly during this time, so quickly that even my clone can't suppress you."

He seemed to sigh.

(End of this chapter)