The Bone Spurs Were Growing Faster
Is this the Immortal Realm?
After falling from the outside of the world, Bai Qiuran and Li Jinyao immediately felt a very special Spirit Qi rushing towards them.
Immediately afterwards, the two fell into a sea of clouds. The clouds here had a light and ethereal feel to them. Upon Bai Qiuran and the Book of Questions discovered that the Cloudmist here were actually condensed into tangible Spirit Qi.
The moment their bodies touched this Spirit Qi, the highly concentrated Spirit Qi immediately began to flow into their bodies on its own, transforming their physiques. Li Jinyao's aura rapidly increased, rising from the Mahayana Stage up, and soon reached the realm of Immortals.
With just one breath, Bai Qiuran caused a section of the surrounding sea of clouds to disappear instantly, and the True Qi in his Purple Mansion suddenly surged, lowering the proportion of True Essence he had cultivated to two-tenths.
Bai Qiuran's face darkened. Considering that Li Jinyao still needed a lot of Spirit Qi to nourish her, and that this Spirit Qi was of no use to him except for being converted into True Qi, he simply covered his mouth and pinched his nose to completely prevent the Spirit Qi from entering.
He was probably the first and last person to pass through here without absorbing Spirit Qi, and instead, to reject Spirit Qi.
After entering this cloud of Spirit Qi, Li Jinyao had unknowingly entered a state of Unity of Heaven and Man nature. She closed her eyes, her Consciousness immersed in her body, while her body was being rapidly transformed by the Spirit Qi, and she gradually relaxed her arms.
Bai Qiuran reached out and grabbed her shoulder to prevent her from falling to another place. After thinking for a moment, he collected another cloud and put it into the space of his Universe in the Palm for Tang Ruowei to absorb.
Among the surrounding clouds, some rays of light could be seen falling from the Heavenly Apex. Bai Qiuran looked into the distance and discovered that those rays of light belonged to Cultivators who had only reached the Nascent Soul or even the Nascent Soul stage. They Dissolution Ascension to this place. After falling to a certain point, they would stop falling.
They need to remain suspended in mid-air to absorb the Spirit Qi in the clouds to reshape their forms before they can continue their journey, which will take at least a hundred years.
However, Immortals Bai Qiuran, who still possess physical bodies, will continue to fall, descending into the deeper layers of clouds, where they will absorb higher concentrations and stronger Spirit Qi to replenish themselves.
Bai Qiuran sealed his seven orifices to prevent Spirit Qi from invading his body's Purple Mansion. At the same time, he continued to fall with Li Jinyao and Tang Ruowei. They didn't know how long they had been falling, but they finally fell out of the thick cloud layer formed by Spirit Qi and arrived at a space between the clouds.
Everywhere here, auspicious clouds float in the sky, and countless mountain peaks emerge from the clouds, appearing to float on a sea of clouds, creating a scene reminiscent of a celestial realm.
Li Jinyao woke up at this moment. She grabbed Bai Qiuran's hand, and the two of them landed together on a mountaintop in the sea of clouds.
The Spirit Qi here is dozens of times richer than that of the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou. Even the Spirit Mountain lands occupied by major sects are inferior to this place. On the mountain where Bai Qiuran and Li Jinyao landed, there are many Spirit Plant that are very rare in the Mortal Realm.
Bai Qiuran released Tang Ruowei and picked up some useful materials from the ground, intending to use them for alchemy.
"The Spirit Qi here is truly abundant."
Li Jinyao took a deep breath.
"I feel my cultivation level increasing with every breath."
Tang Ruowei took a couple of deep breaths, then clutched her chest, looking troubled, and muttered softly, "Why do I feel like my bones are growing faster?"
"It's not an illusion. The Spirit Qi here will transform and strengthen your body, and incidentally, it will also awaken your powerful bloodline abilities."
Bai Qiuran walked to Tang Ruowei's side and whispered to her, "But now is not the time. When I have some free time, I'll give you a little pointers."
Tang Ruowei, with her back to Li Jinyao, touched her chest and nodded hesitantly.
"There's a road here."
Li Jinyao suddenly spoke.
Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei looked in the direction she was pointing and found that, indeed, there were floating stone slabs pieced together in the sea of clouds, forming a boardwalk that floated in the sea of clouds and stretched into the distance.
"This should be the path to the true Immortal Realm."
Bai Qiuran said, "Let's go, let's walk along this road and take a look."
The three of them embarked on this path and walked forward. As they walked, occasionally two other Immortals who had also Ascension to the mountainside would appear and join them on this path.
Some of them were very wary of everyone else, while others seemed very warm.
Bai Qiuran and her group ignored these guys. They quickened their pace, shook off the people, and after walking for a while, they finally saw a different place on the sea of clouds ahead.
It was a pass suspended in the sea of clouds, which stretched across this pier and was connected to it.
The city gates of the pass were wide open, and in front of the gates sat an Immortals with a red cloth table in front of him, on which were some paper and pens.
Whenever an Immortals passed by, he would stop them, ask them some questions, and then write and draw on paper to record them before letting Immortals pass.
As Bai Qiuran and the other two approached, he lazily called out, "Wait, you three, come over and register."
Bai Qiuran and the other two stopped and walked to the table.
The Immortals lazily raised his head and first glanced at Li Jinyao.
"Oh, Immortals have achieved physical Ascension are becoming quite rare around here these days."
Then he looked at Tang Ruowei.
"Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators, is that a disciple or junior you brought Ascension with you? You're quite capable."
Finally, he glanced at Bai Qiuran one last time.
"Huh? I can't see through this guy. Hey, brother, what's your cultivation level?"
Bai Qiuran cupped his hands in greeting and shamelessly replied, "Brother, you jest. Since you've Ascension to this place, what kind of cultivation level could you possibly have?"
"Even my Divine Eyes can't see through you?"
"This... this Cultivation Technique special, it's special."
"You young people these days, all you know is how to keep things to yourself, you've completely forgotten what it was like back then... Forget it, I can't be bothered arguing with you about this."
Upon hearing Bai Qiuran's words, the Immortals waved his hand impatiently. "Come over and register. Report your name, the world Ascension, your sect, and your relationships with others."
The three people reported all these items, which the Immortals registered one by one. Then, he asked, "Hmm... Azure Nether Sword Sect? Has anyone from your sect Ascension here before? We now offer services to help you trace your ancestry."
Is it still possible to do this?
Bai Qiuran surprise.
"Certainly."
The Immortals clasped his hands in a fist salute to the heavens and said, "This is the will of that lord... Of course, if you're not in this Immortal Realm, there's nothing we can do; you'll have to apply yourself, and the procedures are quite troublesome."
"This is the Eastern Immortal Realm, right?"
Bai Qiuran asked.
The Immortals nodded.
"That's right, brother."
Bai Qiuran and said, "Could you please help me check if there was anyone who Ascension to heaven more than three thousand years ago, named [Qingmingzi]?"