Cultivating with Top Enlightenment

Chapter 790: Chapter 332: Everyone Wants Me as Their Disciple? (Part 2)

The illusory figure ahead stroked his chin and said, ”With your talent, following me could one day make you the next Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.”

Ning Qi stared at him, inwardly exclaiming what a guy.

The tone of this Mountain and Sea Realm Will sounded to him like the Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor were not so harmonious.

He became increasingly curious about the relationship between the Mountain and Sea Realm Will and the Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.

The Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor were often at odds for many years, each having their own gaps; now the Mountain and Sea Realm Will wanted to cultivate him, saying he could become the next Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.

Could it be that he wants to train him to counterbalance the Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor?

However, both wanted to take him as a disciple, which Ning Qi hadn’t anticipated.

Ning Qi slightly bowed and asked with cupped hands: ”Realm Venerable, are you saying that the Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor were trained by you, senior?”

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will replied: ”Certainly, I am the entire Mountain and Sea Realm; all beings within were born because of me. My existence and demise relate to the lives of all beings in the Mountain and Sea Realm. Their ability to cultivate is because I granted them all resources; all cultivators are considered trained by me.”

Strictly speaking, this wasn’t false, but it was akin to the chicken or the egg problem, who could truly say?

Ning Qi’s thoughts wandered for a moment, contemplating how the Spirit Realm came about, and then thinking about the situation in the True Martial Realm.

He had wiped out the original will of the True Martial Realm, becoming the True Martial Realm himself—so how could that be explained?

Ultimately, it’s the big fist that decides; strength is respected!

Ning Qi quietly buried his thoughts, cupping his hands to the Mountain and Sea Realm Will: ”Honored by the Realm Venerable’s regard, yet I always understand one principle: whether to become the disciple of a Realm Venerable, or of the Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, surely there must be conditions?”

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will responded: ”You are rather mature for your age, quite realistic. Indeed, you must survive in the war domains and conquer enough of them for us!”

”And how many is enough?”

”Nine Great War Realms, you must thoroughly conquer at least one, then you are qualified to become our disciple!”

Ning Qi pondered for a moment, then said: ”Then I shall strive harder going forward.”

Suddenly, the entire land shook.

Ning Qi hovered in the air, gazing around; dazzling brilliance rose within the war domain, spiritual qi like mist pervaded throughout, stretching beyond what the eye could see.

He sensed something and immediately took out the Soul-Searching Plate, glancing down at it.

As expected, all the nodes within this war domain had been seized by his three armies.

”Realm Venerable, is this change perhaps the result of the nodes being completely taken over?”

Still, Ning Qi inquired of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will seemed to show a hint of joy, saying: ”Indeed.”

He gazed at Ning Qi, and Ning Qi could clearly feel him pay special attention to the Soul-Searching Plate in his hand.

Ning Qi offered, ”Realm Venerable, while conquering each node, I invented this item, please take a look.”

He handed the compass to the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.

At that moment, perhaps due to the change in this place, the illusory will of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will became more solid.

He grasped the compass Ning Qi handed over with an intangible form and instantly comprehended its purpose.

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will, delighted:

”You are impressive, inventing such an item! No wonder among the Nine Great War Realms and Twenty-seven Domains, only the army you lead has conquered one domain this swiftly.”

Ning Qi then took out a jade scroll, handing it to the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.

”Since Realm Venerable recognizes this item, I shall also offer the method for making it to you.”

The Mountain and Sea Realm Will immediately accepted.

”Excellent, now that this item is widespread, the Spirit Realm war can end faster!”

”Now this domain is thoroughly conquered by me, with the presentation of this item, great merits you have achieved. I shall reward you heavily!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding void seemed to open like a treasure bag, from which flew a plethora of items.

”Take them, with this item, I cannot linger; we must quickly spread this item to all war domains!”

Ning Qi cupped his hands: ”I, junior, see off the Realm Venerable!”

The illusory figure ahead vanished instantly, Ning Qi carefully sensed but could no longer perceive the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

He gazed at the pile of rewards stacked ahead on the ground, his eyes gleaming softly.

The rewards from the Mountain and Sea Realm Will this time were extremely generous.

Pieces of rule fragments, each the size of a bucket, numbering a hundred in total!

These rule fragments couldn’t be compared with the previous rewards given by the Mountain and Sea Realm Will.

Previously, the rewards were tiny, small, medium, and large rule fragments.

Large rule fragments were merely the size of a human head; now, these rule fragments were as large as a farmer’s bucket, considered extra-large.

Ning Qi reached out, picking up one to examine.

He saw within it seemed to contain a galaxy, glittering with countless starlights, each starlight representing a rule.

This extra-large rule fragment was much larger than any previous rule fragments, and its internal rules were more numerous!

It seemed that just one of these could enhance the cultivation of the entire army of the Profound Truth Realm by a fraction.

Ning Qi looked to another side.

On the other side of the void, a hundred strands of Mountain and Sea Realm Power twisted like beams of light, each one meter long.

These were items granted by the Mountain and Sea Realm Will to him, as the domain master; when he became domain master, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will mentioned they could obtain ten threads of realm power from him each year.

This hundred strands of realm power amounted to a ten-year share for a domain master!

Ning Qi swiftly collected all the spoils into his space, a slight smile forming at the corner of his mouth.

The Soul-Searching Plate he provided the Mountain and Sea Realm Will wasn’t the complete version; it merely had a map and the basic version to detect a nearby node.

To truly probe an entire domain’s map nodes, only after all nodes were explored could that be achieved.

The reason Ning Qi gave the compass-making method to the Mountain and Sea Realm Will was naturally to increase the frequency of battles between the two realms, hastening the onset of the great war, and speeding the Harmonization to enter.

It was uncertain whether once the Mountain and Sea Realm Will got the compass, he could decode and produce a higher-grade compass.

Ning Qi kept an ace up his sleeve, thinking that as long as the Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor don’t enter the war domain, no one should be able to achieve that.

The greatest advantage must be held by him and the army of the Profound Truth Realm under his command.

Additionally, Ning Qi planned to ”accidentally” allow the Vast Realm cultivators to obtain the compass as well.

If only the Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators got it, wouldn’t the two realms’ great war let the Mountain and Sea Realm Will profit?

The quicker the two realms harmonize, and the more intense the war becomes, the more development opportunities for Ning Qi’s True Martial Realm.

The next second, Ning Qi again took out the original compass, glanced at the position of the three armies above, and directly tore open space, stepping into it.

In an instant, Ning Qi appeared beside Sword Ancestor of the Profound Truth Realm army.

Seeing Ning Qi’s appearance, everyone had already grown accustomed to his sudden appearances.

”Sect Leader! ”

”Domain Master!”

The cultivators quickly greeted him, their voices exuberant like thunder.

Sword Ancestor laughed and said, ”Kid, we completely conquered this war domain, and for every node we seized, the Mountain and Sea Realm kindly awarded us numerous fragments; why don’t you take them.”

Ning Qi waved his hand, looking at everyone and smiled:

”You’re all kin, since following me, I will not collect your gains anymore; let it be a benefit from me to you.”

Upon hearing this, joy was almost overflowing from everyone’s faces.

However, Sword Ancestor still said, ”You are the sect leader of our Infinite Sword Sect, also the Alliance Hierarch of the Profound Truth Realm; we now resemble a major sect; there’s nothing wrong with accepting the sect leader’s and hierarch’s bestowal, except...”

He paused before saying, ”Right now we all understand, the achievements we have attained rely on your strength; I think you should accept them to enhance your power promptly. Don’t forget that within the war domain, the Unity Realm experts will appear sooner or later!”

Sword Ancestor was always considering Ning Qi’s interests, which Ning Qi found deeply moving.

Ning Qi secretly transmitted his thoughts: ”Sword Ancestor, no need, having conquered the entire war domain, the Mountain and Sea Realm Will has given me special rewards as the domain master, and I’ve received everything due!”

”Why didn’t you say so earlier!” Sword Ancestor replied resignedly through transmission, ”Am I not opposing everyone’s interests then?”

”Don’t worry, I’ll make it up for you!”