Meeting Gai Jiuyou for the First Time

How many ages had passed in a dream? What year was it tonight?

Jiang Ming had spent a year sitting in one place, locked in a contest of techniques with someone. He had gone out only once, and happened to save Ye Fan.

Now, his efforts had borne fruit.

It felt as though a year and a half had passed since he arrived at the Qin Sect.

His cultivation had broken through naturally.

The Qin Sect was no ordinary place, especially its back mountain. Jiang Ming suspected that the Southern Mountains Great Emperor had once lived and cultivated here in seclusion.

Otherwise, how could this small sect have more than ten Supreme Great Abilities and such profound foundations?

Boom!

Jiang Ming crossed mountains and rivers, soared into the sky, and stood above the clouds to receive the lightning's baptism.

The first breakthrough was in his Shrouding Method cultivation, bringing him to the seventh heaven of Immortal Stage One.

Above the sea of clouds loomed the shadowy palaces, pavilions, and towers of the Ancient Heavenly Court. Figures of Humanoid Lightning appeared one after another.

These were the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals of the Ancient Heavenly Court. Jiang Ming even saw three ancient Heavenly Venerables step out to fight him.

Were they the creators of the Nine Secrets?

Jiang Ming stood quietly, manifesting his own Dao. What had a minor cultivator at Immortal Stage One done to deserve this?

In the end, Jiang Ming transformed into the Hengyu Furnace. He refined the heavens, treating the entire sea of lightning as medicinal ingredients. At last, it became a Great Dao Thunder Pill, which he absorbed.

In an instant!

Jiang Ming's aura surged. That single thunder pill was worth a month of hard cultivation.

And even a month of hard cultivation brought him rapid