Listening to the Wen brothers' account, Qin Fengming's brows drew tightly together. For the moment, he found it difficult to determine whether what they had said was true or false.
But Qin Fengming had also heard of that Integration stage cultivator: Venerable Shadow Ghost.
Venerable Shadow Ghost had been a figure of great renown more than a hundred thousand years ago. Although he had been alone, without the protection of any sect, he had nevertheless been the most highly cultivated person of his time. It was said that his cultivation had already reached the peak of the Integration stage.
Under circumstances where cultivation resources were scarce and spiritual energy was far thinner than in the Upper Realm, being able to cultivate to the peak of the Integration stage undoubtedly showed that Venerable Shadow Ghost's talents had defied the heavens to the extreme.
In the end, Venerable Shadow Ghost had relied on his astonishing divine abilities to shatter the void and directly ascend to the Upper Realm.
Human Realm cultivators who had successfully ascended to the Upper Realm had been few and far between over the past hundred thousand years. Venerable Shadow Ghost's advancement to the peak of the Integration stage had depended not only on his astonishing cultivation talent, but also on his cultivation techniques, ancient texts, divine abilities, and secret arts.
His collection accumulated over more than two thousand years was even more alluring.
Although Human Realm cultivators had never personally experienced ascending to the Upper Realm, various ancient texts had described it in considerable detail. When a cultivator shattered the void and ascended to the Upper Realm, he could not carry anything except objects bearing his own aura. Otherwise, upon entering the spatial rift, the chances of being struck by spatial storms would increase dramatically.
The storms within