Upper Realm.
On the "Meteorite Wilderness" at the border of Cloud Continent, a violent spatial ripple suddenly stirred the originally empty and silent world.
Buzz—!
A silver-white Space Gate roughly ten meters in diameter appeared out of thin air.
Countless tiny Spatial Rifts interwove within the gate, and the hazy phantom image of the Lower Realm could faintly be seen.
Bai Ye slowly stepped out of the gate. His dark robes fluttered gently in the wilderness breeze, and a faint trace of energy from the Space Channel still lingered around him.
The instant he landed, the Space Gate behind him shrank like a receding tide, transformed into specks of silver light, and completely vanished between heaven and earth, as though it had never appeared.
"So this is the Upper Realm..."
Bai Ye drew a deep breath, a trace of astonishment flashing through his eyes.
The Divine Essence Concentration permeating the air was actually more than a hundred times that of the Saint-grade Spirit Veins in the Lower Realm. Once inhaled, it transformed into pure energy that nourished his divine body.
The earth beneath his feet was dark brown, with tiny fragments mixed into the soil. In the distance, several colossal mountain ranges, each ten thousand zhang tall, stood on the horizon.
The mountain peaks vanished into the clouds, radiating surging fluctuations of spiritual energy.
Occasionally, strange beasts with wingspans of a hundred zhang swept across the sky, letting out low roars that revealed the vastness and danger of the Upper Realm.
He did not dare to be careless. He immediately released his Primordial Spirit and began investigating his surroundings.
But just as his Primordial Spirit spread across a thousand-mile radius, a boundless aura of the Heavenly Path suddenly surged from the void!
The aura was warm and magnificent, carrying the Upper Realm's unique pressure of the Great Dao. It contained no malice; instead, it seemed filled with tolerance and benevolence.
Immediately afterward, the divine-origin essence filling the sky gathered like a tide, transforming into a golden torrent that swept toward Bai Ye!
"What is this..."
Bai Ye's heart jolted, and understanding instantly dawned in his mind.
This was the Upper Realm Heavenly Path's special favor toward ascenders from the Lower Realm!
He did not dare delay. He quickly sat down cross-legged, circulated the Chaos Sword Canon, opened all the meridians in his body, and guided the golden torrent into himself.
The golden torrent was like a breached riverbank, surging endlessly through his meridians.
Everywhere it passed, his Divine Origin Apertures were rapidly filled, and his Heavenly God Power soared madly!
The first Divine Origin Aperture reached saturation first. In the blink of an eye, it began charging toward the second Divine Origin Aperture!
The True God Dharma Form trembled within his Sea of Consciousness, continuously absorbing the energy of the Heavenly Dao Boon and becoming increasingly solid!
The Earth-grade Merit Golden Body on his skin also glowed with a faint golden light, accelerating the conversion and absorption of energy!
In less than half an incense stick's time, the golden torrent gradually dissipated.
Bai Ye slowly opened his eyes, and a dazzling divine radiance erupted from his pupils.
The pressure of a Heavenly God lingering around him was several times stronger than before.
His cultivation had actually surged from the Heavenly God Third Layer to the Heavenly God Sixth Layer in one go!
"It actually raised me three minor realms directly. This favor from the Heavenly Path is truly astonishing!"
Feeling the surging Divine Power within his body, Bai Ye could not help sighing.
For a Heavenly God Realm cultivator in the Upper Realm to advance three minor realms required at least three thousand years of painstaking cultivation, yet he had accomplished it instantly through the Heavenly Dao Boon.
This opportunity was truly heaven-defying!
Just then.
A system notification also rang in his Sea of Consciousness: "The host has reached the Upper Realm for the first time. A special sign-in is available."
"Sign in." Bai Ye silently recited the words in his heart.
"Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing your first sign-in in the Upper Realm. A super reward has been triggered!"
"Congratulations, host. You have obtained the Divine King Grade Nine Artifact—the Sky-Shading Divine Mask!"
A completely pitch-black mask appeared in his hand out of thin air.
The mask seemed to be jade, yet not jade, and its surface was carved with intricate, Chaos-like runes.
Faint black mist curled between the runes, while seven tiny Divine Crystals were set along its edge, radiating the pressure of a Divine King!
Delight appeared on Bai Ye's face, and he immediately investigated it with his Spiritual Sense.
He instantly learned its effects.
This was an artifact that could freely alter the wearer's appearance, features, and aura, perfectly conceal their cultivation, and even block the causal probing of Divine King Realm experts. It was the perfect disguise artifact for traveling through the Upper Realm!
"Perfect timing!"
Bai Ye's eyes were filled with delight.
Having just arrived in the Upper Realm, his foundation was unstable, and he also carried a Divine King Inheritance. It would be extremely easy for him to attract a fatal disaster.
The Sky-Shading Divine Mask happened to resolve his worries.
He immediately put on the Sky-Shading Divine Mask and willed it to activate.
The next moment.
The mask instantly molded itself to his face, transforming into a thin layer of faint black film before beginning to change.
His originally handsome and youthful features rippled like water and soon became square and rugged.
His gaze also changed from sharp to gentle.
At the same time.
The pressure of the Heavenly God Sixth Layer around him rapidly contracted, finally stabilizing at the True God Third Layer.
His aura was restrained, making him indistinguishable from an ordinary True God cultivator.
"Perfect."
Bai Ye satisfactorily sensed the mask's changes.
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He once again expanded his Primordial Spirit and investigated the surroundings of the Meteorite Wilderness.
His top priority now was to determine his exact location in the Upper Realm.
This investigation lasted two full days.
The vastness of the Meteorite Wilderness far exceeded Bai Ye's imagination.
According to his estimates, the area of this wilderness was definitely no smaller than the combined territories of all the prefectures in the Lower Realm's Wild Domain!
Along the way, he saw countless strange sights.
There were Divine Essence Fruit Trees a thousand zhang tall, their branches laden with fruit containing pure Divine Essence!
There was a Spirit Vein River flowing with golden liquid, its water actually liquefied Divine Essence!
There were also Golden Winged Great Peng Beasts inhabiting the valleys. With wingspans of a hundred zhang and speed as fast as lightning, they radiated terrifying pressure from the Divine Venerable Realm!
Bai Ye did not casually provoke these strange beasts of the Upper Realm.
Relying on the extreme speed granted by the Movement Character Secret, he avoided dangerous areas all the way.
Finally, on the morning of the third day, he saw the outline of a city at the edge of the wilderness.
It was a city of human cultivators called Black Stone City.
The city walls were built from Black Stone Divine Iron weighing a thousand jin per piece. They stood fifty zhang high, their surfaces carved with defensive runes that radiated faint spiritual light.
At the city gate, armored cultivators stood guard. Their cultivation was at least the True God Realm, and their sharp gazes swept over the pedestrians entering and leaving.
Bai Ye followed the flow of people into the city. Shops stood in rows on both sides of the streets, and cries of vendors rose one after another.
The items sold within the shops were all treasures unimaginable in the Lower Realm.
True God-grade spirit artifacts, pills containing Divine Essence, spirit herbs more than ten thousand years old...
Most of the cultivators coming and going were in the True God Realm. Occasionally, even Heavenly God Realm experts could be seen brushing past, their bodies faintly radiating immense pressure.
Bai Ye found a teahouse called the Gathering Immortals Tower, ordered a pot of spirit tea, and quietly listened to the surrounding cultivators' conversations.
Half an hour later, he had clarified his location.
This place was in Cloud Continent, one of the Three Thousand Continents of the Upper Realm.
And his destination—the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect—was coincidentally located within Cloud Continent!
"After searching high and low, I found it without any effort at all."
Bai Ye was delighted and immediately decided to head to the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect to investigate the sect's current situation.
He left Black Stone City and sped toward the heart of Cloud Continent.
Several days later, he arrived at the Holy City near the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect.
This city had been named so because it bordered the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect. Most of the cultivators within it had countless connections to the Sacred Sect.
After making inquiries, Bai Ye quickly grasped the current state of the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect.
The current Heavenly Star Sacred Sect had ignited a Seventh-Tier Destiny Stairway. It was the only Seventh-Tier Power in Cloud Continent and possessed considerable influence throughout the Upper Realm.
The sect had a Divine King Realm ancestor presiding over it, more than ten Divine Venerable Realm experts, and over a hundred Heavenly God Realm cultivators. Its foundations could be called incomparably deep.
However, compared with ten million years ago, it was far inferior.
After Dust Star Daoist fell, the Sacred Sect had never produced a second Divine King. The Destiny Stairway had also fallen from the eighth tier at its peak to the seventh tier, and it no longer possessed its former glory.
"A Seventh-Tier Power with one Divine King presiding over it..."
Bai Ye pondered for a moment before reaching a decision.
He decided to first join the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect, familiarize himself with the rules and environment of the Upper Realm, and then wait for a suitable opportunity to see whether he could reveal the Sect Master Token and seize control of the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect's destiny power.
As it happened, he had learned that a hundred years later would be the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect's once-in-a-century Disciple Recruitment Ceremony.
At that time, it would widely recruit talented cultivators from all over Cloud Continent.
Bai Ye no longer hesitated. He immediately entered the Dust Star Valley Lesser World and began closed-door cultivation.
He quietly waited for the Disciple Recruitment Ceremony to begin.
The Divine Essence Concentration within Dust Star Valley was even purer and denser than the core divine veins of Fifth-Tier and Sixth-Tier Powers in the Upper Realm.
It could even condense into divine-origin mist visible to the naked eye.
Bai Ye sat cross-legged before the Immortal Ancient Dao Stele. While absorbing Divine Essence to improve his cultivation, he circulated Ten Thousand Times Comprehension and comprehended the stele's second seal.
The runes of the second seal were more than several times more complicated than those of the first.
The Immortal Ancient laws contained within were also far more obscure and difficult to understand.
Countless runes flew through Bai Ye's Sea of Consciousness. He analyzed and deduced them one by one, and whenever he encountered a bottleneck, he relied on the enhancement of the Earth-grade Merit Golden Body to force his way through.
Time quietly passed during his devoted cultivation.
The Divine Essence within Dust Star Valley continuously surged toward him, nourishing his divine body and Primordial Spirit.
A hundred years later, Bai Ye slowly opened his eyes.
The pressure of a Heavenly God around him surged once again.
His cultivation had successfully broken through to the Heavenly God Seventh Layer!
The only regrettable thing was that the second seal of the Immortal Ancient Dao Stele still lacked the final trace of comprehension and remained unbroken.
"It seems I still need more time."
Bai Ye sighed softly, but he was not in a hurry.
With a thought, he instantly vanished from Dust Star Valley and sped toward the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect.
The Heavenly Star Sacred Sect's Disciple Recruitment Ceremony was about to begin.
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