Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 850 - 360: Ning Qi’s Value

With the boundary wall dividing South and North now opened, nearly every true powerhouse from both realms—those meant to participate—has charged into the battlefield.

Ning Qi observed the cultivators storming the front lines; clearly, they were the most steadfast defenders of their Spirit Realm and the most desperate to claim merits.

Yet, in an instant.

Countless cultivators tumbled from the skies above the frontlines.

The unluckiest were shredded in the brutal meat grinder of the clashing forces, leaving no traces behind.

Those with moderate fortune suffered gruesome, mangled corpses.

The marginally luckier trampled over ally and enemy bodies alike amid pools of blood, slaying rivals and racking up hefty merits.

Unseen, rivers of blood, vanishing Spiritual Qi, and broken rule powers surged through the war domain.

These forces seemed silently pulled by some entity, fully fusing into the boundary wall.

Even the wills of both realms overlooked this transformation, as it drew from their own energies.

Ning Qi eyed the Sword Ancestor and fellow True Martial Realm cultivators; right then, they followed his directives closely, exercising caution and aiding one another.

Their survival odds and flexibility surpassed the rest of the army by far.

This sight put Ning Qi's mind at rest.

He had no plans to fight yet; his goal was to head north and embed array eyes at the secret nodes!

After installing those, Ning Qi meant to advance into the Inner Ring Middle Domain, etching array patterns and planting array eyes there too.

Once everything was set, his duties in the war domain would be mostly fulfilled.

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Even though Ning Qi stayed concealed, observers from both sides tracked his position.

The most obsessed were undoubtedly Fan City's three Domain Masters from the Mountain and Sea Realm.

From the moment they entered the war domain, Ning Qi had evaded their sight. How could they seek vengeance for their son?

From the Vast Realm, the realm's will and Vast Immortal Sect's formidable Harmonization cultivators monitored Ning Qi closely too.

They hadn't ignored the Saint Ancestor's command; Ning Qi carried the key chance for the Saint Ancestor's breakthrough!

That truth alone demanded their vigilance.

A Saint Ancestor breakthrough would elevate the entire Vast Realm, uplifting even the pets and kin.

In this frenzied war where sides chased varied aims, Ning Qi's whereabouts baffled everyone.

Not a soul knew the battle's duration before Ning Qi slipped into the Middle Domain.

He scanned the domain, discovering utter turmoil within.

Blood-red hues drenched the full Middle Domain, wrapped in a hazy blood mist.

That mist harbored powers from both realms as well.

Bolstered by those powers, every cultivator's senses dulled sharply.

Luckily, Ning Qi—versed in both realms' powers—escaped the mist's hindrance to his spiritual sense and eyesight.

A quick glance revealed the Middle Domain plunged into a strange hush.

An uncrossable red line bisected the Middle Domain; Ning Qi felt both realms' power auras hovering over it.

The two realms' wills had paused Middle Domain combat, pooling realm power to raise the central invisible red line.

Ning Qi's eyes narrowed; crossing it outright now would alert both realms' wills for sure.

To reach the southern Mountain and Sea Realm, he'd have to leave the Middle Domain, loop south via the outer ring, then reenter the Inner Ring Middle Domain.

Acting as a barrier, the red line split the armies apart.

South and north lines drawn, armies hold their breath in pause.

Both realms' premier forces had started filtering into the Middle Domain steadily.

Ning Qi held position north, squarely on the Vast Realm flank.

Toward the battlefield core, Ning Qi looked; Vast Realm troops were forming a massive cultivator array.

A tall, elegant man led them.

His erudite presence loomed powerfully, far from frail—he emanated dread authority over worldly truths.

Drawing on prior intel from Vast Realm Harmonization sources, Ning Qi knew him instantly.

He was Jiang Yingchu, Sect Leader of the Vast Immortal Sect, Vast Realm's supreme sect and the Saint Ancestor's own.

The Vast Realm Saint Ancestor's Dharma name: Cangliang Daoist.

Lifelong solitary, he shunned romance, siring no offspring.

Yet he mentored nine chief disciples, Jiang Yingchu standing out as the finest for grand tasks.

Thus, with the Saint Ancestor stepping back from affairs, Jiang Yingchu claimed Vast Immortal Sect leadership.

Unrivaled in the Vast Realm, the Vast Immortal Sect rivaled the True Martial Realm's True Martial Immortal Sect in stature.

Hence, Jiang Yingchu's sway stretched beyond his sect, shaping the whole Vast Realm.

Every Domain Master succession across the Vast Realm's hundreds of Spirit Domains reported to him.

Ning Qi's eyes drifted behind Jiang Yingchu.

There lined cultivators of matching abyssal depths in cultivation.

Possibly other Saint Ancestor disciples and their top protégés among them.

Jiang Yingchu turned then, apparently strategizing with the group.

Plainly, his immense power didn't breed tyranny.

Ning Qi couldn't help but respect him for it.

Ning Qi's gaze crossed them to the red line's other side.

That side's setup struck as far odder than the Vast Realm's.

Two arrays faced them; self-evident, akin to Jiang Yingchu's lineup.

Sect leaders of Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor sects commanded those arrays.

Mountain Ancestor's home Immortal Sect, Zhou Mountain Immortal Sect, lorded over Mountain and Sea Realm's continents.

The Sea Ancestor's Immortal Sect, Moon Sea Immortal Sect, gripped the Mountain and Sea Realm's oceans.