Cultivating with Top Enlightenment

Chapter 1060 - 460: Great Dao Array Fruit (Part 2)

And now, with a single thought he could freely generate and transform arrays, and upon them dismantle, combine, add or subtract—everything completed in but a single念.

This was the true ”one thought to form an array (transforming talismans into arrays)”!

Ning Qi gazed at the arrays that spread across the void before him; at the center of the arrays, a blank framework had taken shape.

Within that framework, Ning Qi was using his own power to construct the Immortal Path array that the Sea Ancestor had previously condensed; nine streams of immortal power intertwined within, yet it was always just a bit short of success.

Ning Qi couldn’t help but furrow his brows slightly.

”Still not right. Why do I keep feeling that something’s missing?”

Ning Qi’s words pulled the Saint Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor, who had been immersed in observing the Dao, back to themselves.

They both understood what Ning Qi was trying to do.

”Realm Venerable, could it be because of the immortal power?” the Sea Ancestor reminded him.

”Immortal power?” Ning Qi was slightly stunned. ”If it’s immortal power, I already used the immortal power within the Mountain Ancestor’s body to condense that Immortal Path array; it should have worked, shouldn’t it?”

The Sea Ancestor said, ”That’s not what I mean. I’m talking about the difference between the Power of Rules and immortal power.”

At these words, Ning Qi was instantly enlightened, as though a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind, scattering the darkness and fog before him.

”You mean...”

”Realm Venerable, what you’ve been using has always been the Power of Rules. Even when borrowing the immortal power within the Mountain Ancestor’s body, you’ve been using it in the manner of the Power of Rules, not in the manner of operating immortal power!”

The Sea Ancestor reminded him again.

The Saint Ancestor at his side also came to a realization at this moment.

”You mean to use the Power of the Great Dao?”

The Sea Ancestor lightly inclined her chin.

Ning Qi’s gaze once more focused on the array before his eyes.

”The Power of the Great Dao... I finally understand...”

He pointed with a finger, and the Yin Yang Dao Map within his divine soul flew out, shooting into the array ahead.

Yin and Yang revolved, the Great Dao resonated; all the Power of Rules gathered together, darting about like fire.

Amid the soaring flames, a new kind of power gradually condensed and was born...

At the center of that void array, the array that had previously been impossible to condense finally coalesced at this moment; a completely new array was born at the center.

A ring manifested, an Immortal Door condensed...

”It worked?” The Saint Ancestor’s mouth gaped wide, as if his jaw might crash onto the ground.

A small, hazy Immortal Door crossed time and space and condensed from the center of the array.

Earthen hue, bronze, silver...

Just like the Immortal Door the Sea Ancestor had condensed before, this Immortal Door seemed to, upon reaching the level of a Silver Immortal Sect, begin to examine the power of the one condensing it.

”Here it comes?”

A slight stir rose in Ning Qi’s heart.

He quietly grabbed an item from his Storage Space—it was precisely that Gold key he had obtained.

Back when the Mountain Ancestor became an Immortal and first condensed a Gold Immortal Sect, that Gold key had produced an abnormal reaction, leaving Ning Qi always feeling that this Gold key was related to the Immortal Door.

Ning Qi had never forgotten this matter, so now he unhesitatingly took out the Gold key.

In an instant, the Gold key seemed to emit a ray of golden radiance, piercing out of Ning Qi’s Storage Space and resonating with that small Immortal Door that had just condensed.

The Silver Immortal Sect, which had clearly been about to examine the purity of Ning Qi’s power, suddenly shuddered, actually abandoning its inspection and continuing to transform toward a golden hue.

In just a brief moment, a small Gold Immortal Sect appeared within the Immortal Path array.

It was so resplendent that just looking at it gave one a sense of eternal immortality.

”A Gold Immortal Sect? You actually condensed a Gold Immortal Sect, and it didn’t even examine your energy...”

The Saint Ancestor was so shocked he nearly yanked off his own gray-white goatee.

The Sea Ancestor’s heart also trembled.

One had to know that she had only just demonstrated it once; relying on that Taiyin Flying Immortal Scripture that could be cultivated to Heavenly Immortal, she had barely managed to condense a Silver Immortal Sect.

But because she had a great amount of Sea of Realms energy within her body, her constitution was impure, which caused the Silver Immortal Sect to vanish just now.

In any case, at least she had been able to ascertain that if she walked the traditional road to becoming an Immortal and transformed away the Sea of Realms energy in her body, she could at least condense a Silver Immortal Sect, receive the Immortal Door’s baptism like the Mountain Ancestor, and thus obtain a Full Moon Immortal Body.

Yet now, Ning Qi had directly cracked the Immortal Path array exclusive to the Taiyin Immortal Door and, by his own method, summoned a Gold Immortal Sect.

The Gold Immortal Sect was immortal and showed no sign of dispersing.

This was enough to show that if Ning Qi were to walk the traditional path to becoming an Immortal, he would definitely be stronger than the Mountain Ancestor.

Ning Qi stared at that shining Gold Immortal Sect, then suddenly severed the connection between the Gold key in his Storage Space and the Immortal Door.

At once, the small Gold Immortal Sect wavered and dissipated into smoke before the three of them.

Countless arrays were still shining in the void, the light they emitted reflecting off Ning Qi and lending him an additional trace of mystery.

”I seem to have cracked that Divine Technique...”

Ning Qi turned his head and looked at the Saint Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor.

Their eyes met his, their expressions stiff, as if they were getting to know Ning Qi all over again.

”Kid, could you stop being so frightening... This old man really can’t take such scares.”

The Saint Ancestor smiled wryly.

The Sea Ancestor said, ”You old man, shouldn’t you be delighted instead? With the Realm Venerable having cracked the Immortal Path array, you can also use this art next.”

The Saint Ancestor nodded.

”That’s true... but the two of you, one can condense a Silver Immortal Sect, the other a Gold Immortal Sect; this old man is almost reluctant to do it. If I condense a Bronze Immortal Sect, wouldn’t that be far too embarrassing?”

The two of them immediately laughed.

Ning Qi said firmly, ”Don’t overthink it. I said it already: I’ll have you condense a Gold Immortal Sect as well!”

The Saint Ancestor met his gaze. He had originally wanted to reflexively deny it, but recalling everything Ning Qi had just done, the old man simply couldn’t bring himself to voice doubt toward the young man.

”All right then, I’ll trust you, won’t that do?”

With that, he rubbed his hands together, his face full of excitement.

”I can condense a Gold Immortal Sect too? That would count as putting me a head above the Mountain Ancestor!”

Ning Qi and the Sea Ancestor were helpless. The more they interacted with this old fellow, the more they felt the scholarly grace on him was fading away.

”I should be thanking the Sea Venerable for reminding me. I’ve been cracking the Immortal Path array using the methods of the Unity Realm, and never considered that my approach itself was wrong.”

The Sea Ancestor chuckled softly. ”Isn’t this what they call ’even the wisest are bound to err’?”

The three of them all burst into laughter.

The arrays in the void had not faded and still shone on, as if recording all of Ning Qi’s insights.

”Your Dao of Arrays must have risen by yet another level, hasn’t it?” the Saint Ancestor asked curiously.

Ning Qi raised his brows slightly. ”More or less. I never imagined I could construct arrays with a power surpassing the Power of Rules. This really shows how we Lower Realm cultivators have been like frogs at the bottom of a well.”

After he spoke, he suddenly flicked his sleeve.

The revolving Yin Yang Dao Map abruptly expanded, covering the entire void.

Threads of the Power of the Great Dao diffused outward, and at once all the arrays inscribed across the void were transformed by the Power of the Great Dao.

They had originally been condensed from the Power of Rules, but at this moment they were altered by Ning Qi’s hazy Power of the Great Dao.

It was as if every array had gained the dual nature of Yin and Yang; Yin and Yang were, after all, born of the Dao.

The Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, Three gives birth to the myriad things...

The branches of the Enlightenment Realm Tree above swayed gently, and the arrays throughout the void shone with the two colors of Yin and Yang.

The next instant, they actually began to converge toward the center of their own accord.

The entire void was like a scroll painting, as though the ink Ning Qi had splashed about was now being drawn back in.

This change not only shocked the Saint Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor; even Ning Qi himself was taken aback.

The three of them looked over and suddenly saw that all the arrays had ultimately gathered into a single mass. Vaguely, the Great Dao seemed to arise of itself, as if it were forming an Array Fruit.

The Saint Ancestor couldn’t help his throat bobbing.

The icy pupils of the Sea Ancestor reflected that Array Fruit; her fair hand covered her vermilion lips. ”Could this be...”

Ning Qi also stared blankly at that array-shape like a fruit, feeling as if the moment he touched it, he would instantly obtain an extremely exalted existence.

Ning Qi couldn’t resist reaching out to touch it.

The instant he made contact, the entire Array Fruit suddenly transformed into a stream of water, which flowed along his arm and bored into his body.

Ning Qi’s body shuddered.

”Kid, what was that, exactly?” the Saint Ancestor hurriedly asked.

Ning Qi slowly sensed that there was now an Array Fruit within his body.

It had been altered by the Great Path of Yin and Yang and formed by the Great Path of Yin and Yang, as if it had completely broken free from the shackles of Rules...

”A Great Dao Array Fruit...”

Ning Qi murmured.