Chapter 164: This Realm Is Sealed!
Fifty years later.
Just as Lu Qingyang had expected.
The Sea Clan of this realm was completely exterminated by Han Li.
That was also the day he felt his merit was complete and wished to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
As the ascension clouds spread across the sky, seven-colored radiance spilled in all directions.
A guiding immortal light slowly descended from the heavens.
Han Li stepped onto the immortal light, his spirit soaring.
“So this is ascension?”
“Haha, I, Han Li, have finally ascended! I can finally roam the Immortal Realm!”
“Master, what of the Sea Clan of the Upper Realm you spoke of back then? Once I ascend, I will wipe them out sooner or later!”
Han Li threw his head back and roared with excitement.
And just then, a sudden change occurred!
Heaven and earth churned, thunder rumbled and lightning flashed.
A massive dark shadow abruptly descended from the Nine Heavens.
It looked like an incomparably thick pillar.
Like a heaven-supporting pillar, it crushed down toward Han Li.
“What!”
“What in the world is this!”
Han Li was terrified. He hurriedly tried to mobilize his spiritual power to resist.
But the pressure of that massive dark shadow was so overwhelming he could not even breathe, could not even muster his power.
“Bang!”
In the end, he could not even launch a proper counterattack.
Like an ant crushed into the mud.
After a tremendous crash, everything returned to calm.
Countless human cultivators nearby cried out in shock and fear.
Full of anguished laments.
No one knew what it was. They only assumed it was some heavenly punishment.
Or perhaps a pillar from some Immortal’s cave residence that had fallen.
Only a certain inconspicuous ring in the distance recognized that it was not a pillar at all.
It was a somewhat thick finger.
And it seemed to be the middle one…
“Well, that settles it. Ascending up there is also a dead end.”
Watching the massive dark shadow gradually dissipate in the sky, Lu Qingyang’s voice carried an inexplicable undertone.
“Whatever. After this, ascension will likely be even harder. And the Sea Clan of the Upper Realm will surely intervene to hinder the development of the Human Race in this realm.”
“But…”
His tone shifted.
He began to recall the Simulation process.
In the Simulation, I was hunted to death because the Upper Realm Sea Clan learned I was a human from this realm.
And right now, though I only have a Primordial Spirit Body, I have never undergone possession. A cultivator only has one chance at possession in their entire life.
So… it’s about time I used it.
It’s just that not being human feels a bit awkward.
Lu Qingyang murmured softly. A trace of spiritual light flashed across the ring’s surface.
Immediately after, the body of a male Sea Clan member, sealed in Thousand-Year Soul Ice, appeared before him.
“But right now, this is the only way.”
I never imagined that the contingency I left back then would actually come in handy.
Lu Qingyang’s voice carried a note of relief.
This body belonged to a Sea Clan prodigy he had encountered by chance several hundred years ago while guiding Han Li.
At the time, this Sea Clan prodigy had been knocked unconscious by Han Li’s techniques, and then had his primordial spirit and soul extracted with a Dharma Artifact, leaving only an empty shell discarded by the roadside.
Seeing this, Lu Qingyang had originally had no particular thoughts.
But watching Han Li’s methods against the Sea Clan being so ruthless, he could not help but scheme in his heart.
And since this Sea Clan prodigy’s aptitude was truly excellent, he secretly kept it, saving it as a contingency.
Who would have thought that now it would actually be put to use.
“After possession, my cultivation will be completely gone. But with my years of accumulation and this Sea Clan prodigy’s aptitude, ascension is only a matter of time.”
“And ascending with the body of a Sea Clan member from this realm will surely eliminate the interference of the Upper Realm Sea Clan!”
Lu Qingyang muttered to himself, then manipulated the Sea Clan prodigy’s body to a secluded cultivation site he had prepared in advance.
Then he sent out a spiritual light, melting the Thousand-Year Soul Ice and releasing the Sea Clan prodigy’s physical body.
Subsequently, a primordial spirit with a face extremely similar to his flew out from that strangely styled ring, shooting straight for the Sea Clan prodigy’s brow.
“Buzz!”
The instant Lu Qingyang’s primordial spirit rushed into the Sea Clan prodigy’s brow, this body that had been sealed for several hundred years suddenly trembled violently.
“Boom!”
Immediately after, Lu Qingyang felt a vast and unfamiliar torrent of memories surge into his mind.
Among them were the life memories of this Sea Clan prodigy from before his death, as well as the Sea Clan’s cultivation methods, divine abilities, secret arts, and so on.
A moment later, these memories merged with his own.
Becoming a portion of the memories he possessed.
This left Lu Qingyang feeling dizzy and disoriented.
But he quickly recovered his clarity…
“Hoo!”
A moment later, Lu Qingyang let out a long breath.
Slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes gradually regained focus, becoming deep and profound.
“Not bad. This Sea Clan prodigy seems to have been royalty, a noble of the Sea Clan. His bloodline is extraordinary — it actually cultivates on its own.”
“With this aptitude, plus my accumulation, ascension within five hundred years is guaranteed!”
Lu Qingyang rotated his wrist, clearly not yet fully accustomed to this body.
So he sat down cross-legged and began to rest and consolidate.
That peculiar ring was right beside him.
After refining it, he took out various heavenly treasures and miraculous elixirs, consuming them one after another…
Over the following centuries, Lu Qingyang did nothing but cultivate.
He continuously consumed all manner of heavenly treasures.
In the end, it took him less than four hundred years to reach the perfection of Great Vehicle.
This left Lu Qingyang unable to help but lament how unjustly this Sea Clan prodigy had died.
And during this period, the Human Race of this realm truly produced no more ascenders.
Even if a few seeds appeared who seemed capable of shouldering the Human Race’s banner, they would ultimately die inexplicably, their Dao vanishing.
And this day finally arrived — the day of Lu Qingyang’s ascension!
“One thousand five hundred years old. A full one thousand five hundred years before I ascend. Compared to the Simulation, I’ve actually lived nearly a hundred years longer.”
Atop a mountain cliff, Lu Qingyang looked at his arm and chest, clearly distinct from a human’s, and could not help but feel a sense of melancholy.
In the sky, auspicious clouds were already thickening.
Great Vehicle cultivators did not undergo an immortal tribulation upon ascension.
As long as one’s cultivation was perfect and without flaw, one could draw down the guiding immortal light and ascend.
After ascending, one would absorb immortal spiritual power into the body, wash the physical form, and thereby transform into a True Immortal!
From then on, with a lifespan of twenty thousand years, one could roam heaven and earth.
“It’s here!”
Lu Qingyang suddenly stood up, gazing toward a certain direction.
He saw a rainbow shooting into the sky in the distance, spreading toward him.
Clearly, his guiding immortal light had arrived!
“The time has come!”
Lu Qingyang’s eyes blazed with brilliant light.
Then he took a single step forward.
In an instant, his figure vanished from where he stood.
When he appeared again, he was already amidst the auspicious clouds.
His entire body was wrapped in dense immortal spiritual power.
Exceedingly comfortable.
And just as Lu Qingyang attempted to transform his physical body—
A light sound of surprise suddenly rang out by his ear.
“Hm? The ascender is actually a cultivator of my Sea Clan?”
“Did they not say that our clansmen in this realm were exterminated long ago?”
“There’s actually someone who could ascend?”
That voice carried some surprise, tinged with confusion and bewilderment.
Lu Qingyang was startled upon hearing this.
He naturally understood the meaning in the other’s words.
The Upper Realm Sea Clan?
As expected! This realm was long since sealed off by the Upper Realm Sea Clan. The moment I ascended, I was discovered!