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Chapter 2106: Chapter 1099: Five Hundred (Part 2)

After exchanging a few words with Li Yuanba, Great Power Jian Feiyu went into seclusion once again.

Five hundred years passed, and the number of human Great Powers in the Land of Fallen Immortals increased again, with Li Yuanba becoming part of the legend.

In these five hundred years, the Immortal Alliance never disturbed Li Yuanba’s cultivation even once, and none of the resources due to Li Yuanba were reduced in the slightest.

In fact, no Cultivator knew that Li Shiming was the one whose strength had grown the most over these five hundred years.

Sitting in his own Grotto Heaven, Li Shiming’s aura had already reached Late Stage Great Ability Peak, and with five hundred years of accumulation, the energy within his Grotto Heaven filled every corner of his five Grotto Heavens.

His physical body had even surpassed the level of toughness that a Late Stage Great Ability Peak should have; this was the benefit brought by taking Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills.

He had not expected the benefits of Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills to be so great. After taking the first Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pill, he immediately discovered its particularity.

After that, he stored away the remaining Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills, and only when he had taken High-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills to push his body to the extreme of Late Stage Great Power Peak did he begin using the Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills to cultivate.

When he had swallowed fifteen Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills, his physical body, on the foundation of Late Stage Great Ability Peak, was raised another tier, and then could no longer improve in the slightest.

He had seen Great Power Jian Feiyu at Late Stage Peak with his own eyes from Li Yuanba’s side and thus understood the level of a Late Stage Peak physical body.

Yet his own body, thanks to the Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills, far surpassed Great Power Jian Feiyu’s physical body.

He felt that he was only slightly weaker than Golden Saint’s body; although he could not achieve the level of being unharmed by any spirit treasure, the damage caused when same-realm Late Stage Great Powers attacked him was extremely limited.

Now, in terms of physical body, Spirit, and Cave Heaven Energy, in all three aspects he had already reached, and even exceeded, the requirements for advancing to Great Immortal Envoy.

And his comprehension of the Five Elements Rules, Thunder Rules, Sword Intent Rule, and space rules also met the requirements for advancing to Great Immortal Envoy.

Blocking his way, there was a bottleneck—a barrier that kept him outside the Great Immortal Envoy Realm.

In the past hundred years, he had been grinding away at this bottleneck again and again.

Now he was only a hair’s breadth away from breaking through it; he could even sense the existence of the Great Immortal Envoy Realm.

Originally, he had planned to remain in seclusion until he broke through to the Great Immortal Envoy Realm before emerging.

But a piece of news shattered his five hundred years of seclusion and forced him to come out.

Five hundred years ago, Great Power Jian Feiyu went into seclusion to break through; the other day, news finally came that a strand of aura had leaked from Great Power Jian Feiyu’s Grotto Heaven—the aura of one who was about to achieve Great Immortal Envoy.

Great Power Jian Feiyu’s advancement to Great Immortal Envoy had little direct connection to Li Shiming, but the next piece of news made it impossible for Li Shiming to remain in seclusion.

Great Immortal Envoy Feng Jin of the southern faction had decided that once Great Power Jian Feiyu advanced to Great Immortal Envoy, he would have Jian Feiyu assume the position of Southern Great Immortal Envoy, while he himself would attempt ascension.

Ascension—the ultimate dream of all life in this world; even angels from the other world shared the same dream.

It was just that the angels’ dream was to support the Divine Fire, break through the void, and become divine spirits. The process differed in form from a Cultivator’s ascension, but the end result was the same.

More importantly, the process of ascension was an extremely rare opportunity for the Cultivators who observed it.

Legend said that an observing Cultivator once obtained a strand of accidental Immortal’s Qi, allowing that Cultivator to smoothly raise his cultivation all the way to Great Immortal Envoy, and after many years of cultivation, successfully ascend.

Thus, in the Cultivation World there was a saying: as long as a Cultivator who obtains Immortal’s Qi does not die midway, he will inevitably ascend and become an Immortal.

Li Shiming did not particularly care about obtaining Immortal’s Qi; Immortal’s Qi was only a legend. In the history of cultivation, such legends were of uncertain authenticity, many deliberately muddled to mislead.

What he wanted to observe was not only the process of ascension, but also to find out whether Immortals actually existed.

He was not a native of this Cultivation World, and for this universally accepted concept of ascending to become an Immortal, he harbored doubts.

What is an Immortal?

On this question, he had not found any answer in any classics; all responses were conjectures.

Of course, the Cultivation World’s recognition of Immortals came from the fact that certain factions could, through special methods, contact ascended Immortals, and Immortals could also, by certain means, send some treasures into this world.

Some supreme treasures were said to be bestowed by Immortals.

Li Shiming had IBMz15; as long as he obtained the chance to observe ascension, he could use IBMz15 to obtain critical data on the process and thereby analyze certain aspects of the Immortals’ situation.

He was not particularly worried about getting a chance to observe.

Li Yuanba had not acted much in the past five hundred years, but his status in the Immortal Alliance was extremely high.

At present, in the Immortal Alliance, he was the number one person below the Great Immortal Envoys.

Li Yuanba’s realm had reached the same level Great Power Jian Feiyu had five hundred years ago—Late Stage Peak—only Li Shiming had not given him any Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills to take.

It was not that Li Shiming was stingy, but that Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pills were too few, and he would still need them when he advanced to Great Immortal Envoy.

All resources had to be prioritized for the main body; avatars would forever serve the main body.

One must know that only one Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pill could be produced from a hundred furnaces of Fifth-grade Spiritual Pill, making each Top-level Fifth-grade Spirit Pill extremely precious.

Li Yuanba stood behind Great Immortal Envoy Feng Jin, with several Late Stage Great Powers behind him. This arrangement was a spontaneous one, lined up according to each person’s strength.

The direction they were facing was precisely the place where Great Power Jian Feiyu was in seclusion.

Li Yuanba sensed the terrifying aura of a Great Immortal Envoy; even inside the Grotto Heaven, wisps of that aura still leaked out.

Great Immortal Envoy Feng Jin, however, kept glancing at Li Yuanba from time to time. Li Yuanba’s growth over the five hundred years also astonished him.

Li Yuanba’s entire aura was incomparably sharp, like a peerless divine sword.

Great Immortal Envoy Feng Jin could be certain that the sharp aura on Li Yuanba came from the Sword Intent within his body.

Li Yuanba’s ”Chaos Sword Intent” was extremely famous. After five hundred years of growth, his ”Chaos Sword Intent” had long surpassed the level of the Sword Intent Stele.

His ”Chaos Sword Intent” was the result of Li Shiming’s five hundred years of continuous research into Golden Saint Divine Status’s simulated Sword Intent.

Now, even without using ten thousand Energy-converted Flying Swords, relying on just a single Purple Cloud Sword, he could slaughter the six Late Stage Fifth Grade Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers of back then.

The power of ”Chaos Sword Intent” exceeded the might expected of Late Stage Great Power, already brushing against part of the Great Immortal Envoy domain.

”If we give Li Yuanba a few more years, I fear he might advance to Great Immortal Envoy before Jian Feiyu. After that, the Immortal Alliance will have two Sword Cultivating Immortal Envoys from Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion—who knows whether that will be a blessing or a curse!” Great Immortal Envoy Feng Jin thought to himself.

How could he not see that Li Yuanba was only one step away from advancing to Great Immortal Envoy? Although this step was like a chasm, Li Yuanba’s age was there; he still had thousands of years to slowly break through.

He even had a feeling that Li Yuanba did not need much more time, because from Li Yuanba he could sense a faint aura of breakthrough opportunity.

Great Immortal Envoy Feng Jin did not know that the breakthrough opportunity aura he sensed on Li Yuanba was shared from Li Shiming.

Since the main body, Li Shiming, mastered the most core rules, while Li Yuanba and Li Taibai only grasped a portion of Li Shiming’s core rules, once Li Shiming found a strand of breakthrough opportunity, Li Yuanba and Li Taibai naturally shared that strand of breakthrough opportunity as well.

But Li Shiming was not satisfied with such a breakthrough opportunity, because if he were to rely on this single strand to break through, he would likely need to, like Great Power Jian Feiyu, seclude himself for five hundred years to grind down the bottleneck.

Of course, with his talent plus the assistance of IBMz15, he might not need the full five hundred years, but it definitely would not be a short time.

Still, with this strand of breakthrough opportunity, it was almost certain that he would eventually break through to the Great Immortal Envoy Realm; it was only a matter of time.

Li Yuanba and Li Taibai were the same—at some point in the future, they would both successfully break through to Great Immortal Envoy.