Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 907 - 386: The Designated Ning Qi (Part 2)

Looks like I’ll have to keep a sharper eye on Mountain Ancestor going forward.

By this point, Ning Qi had crossed paths with the Two-World Will, the Saint Ancestor’s avatar, and the Sea Ancestor’s avatar. Each possessed distinct traits, and Ning Qi had built clear mental pictures of them. All in all, they appeared to harbor traces of emotion and faithfulness.

Yet Mountain Ancestor stirred a deeper caution in Ning Qi!

While Ning Qi mulled over these matters, far up in the heavens.

The Sea Ancestor’s avatar abruptly cast her gaze downward.

She scanned the battlefield’s chaos, spared a look at Zhao Yujun—Sect Leader of the Moon Sea Immortal Sect she herself established—and ultimately fixed her stare prominently on Ning Qi.

That one look alone plunged Ning Qi into a sensation of being ensnared at the ocean floor, frigid and abyssal!

A mere flicker of thought, and Ning Qi shrugged off the chill instantly.

He fearlessly locked eyes with the Sea Ancestor avatar.

Their gazes clashed across the void, and in those icy-blue eyes laced with frost, Ning Qi caught a trace of approval.

Then the Sea Ancestor pulled back her gaze and spoke to the Saint Ancestor avatar hovering opposite her in the sky:

"No need for more words. Since this is a battlefield, let’s determine the truth in wins and losses!"

Having fully assessed the scene below, she shifted her focus away, fulfilling her duty with sharp resolve and efficiency.

The Sea Ancestor’s avatar lightly tapped the void with her jade foot, vanishing and reappearing behind the Saint Ancestor avatar in an instant.

Her jade hand slashed horizontally toward the Saint Ancestor avatar’s neck!

A sheer veil of watery radiance cloaked her entire jade hand, turning it into what seemed an unbreakable blade forged from water!

Ning Qi quietly tracked the Sea Ancestor avatar’s motions.

Without question, the teleportation art she had just unleashed pulsed with spatial ripples.

Still, upon comparing it to his own spatial traversal, Ning Qi detected a mysterious force in the Sea Ancestor’s version that utterly escaped his grasp.

Ning Qi also perceived the Sea Ancestor’s hand blade—outwardly straightforward, yet profoundly intricate.

That delicate watery gleam on her hand blade brimmed with myriad Dao rules, fused with her unyielding belief and determination.

The very next instant, the Saint Ancestor avatar lifted a hand—seemingly lagging yet striking ahead—parrying the Sea Ancestor avatar’s hand blade with his palm.

Pop!

The weathered hand collided with the jade-like one, and right then, surrounding space warped into ripples, contorting and shuddering!

Cultivators of meager cultivation bases merely glimpsed it and felt vertigo surging into nausea, promptly looking away.

Yet more Cultivators kept their eyes glued.

High in the firmament.

The two ancestor avatars unleashed a flurry of palm exchanges.

Golden brilliance surged from the Saint Ancestor avatar’s palm, while a faint aqueous sheen gleamed from the Sea Ancestor’s jade hand. Every clash of golden radiance and watery glow—even the smallest spark—ripped through nearby space.

These rips didn’t cease; they endlessly churned ripples, sending space into ceaseless vibrations that spread outward.

Thankfully, both ancestor avatars held back their might.

Once their clash energies strayed beyond a mile’s radius, they fully dissipated, sparing those beneath from aftershock damage.

Through countless such strikes, Ning Qi plainly saw neither unleashed full power but rather warily tested each other’s depths.

Let alone Ning Qi’s earlier fight against the Saint Ancestor avatar; truthfully, this marked the debut clash between the Saint Ancestor avatar and the Sea Ancestor avatar.

Precisely because they knew each other’s prowess well, their duel demanded utmost care, prompting mutual restraint.

"Thirty!"

Ning Qi counted inwardly.

The "thirty" signified the exchanges between the two ancestor avatars.

At that moment, Ning Qi’s eyes widened faintly, sensing an imminent shift.

True enough, at the thirty-first clash, the Sea Ancestor’s water-shimmering jade hand met the Saint Ancestor’s palm once more.

This round, they didn’t disengage; the technique morphed.

The Sea Ancestor’s jade hand turned liquid in a flash, fully ensnaring the Saint Ancestor avatar’s palm while slicing onward to his neck.

But the Saint Ancestor avatar countered nimbly, dissolving into a golden streak and pulling back from the Sea Ancestor’s grasp.

The Sea Ancestor avatar held her position, a hint of irritation crossing her face.

The art she had just deployed was a Daoist skill called Sea Dragon Binding Buckle.

Although it appeared straightforward, the technique incorporated numerous Daoist concepts of trapping and binding, but the Saint Ancestor avatar still broke free from it.

She boldly asserted that across the whole Mountain and Sea Realm, only Mountain Ancestor could possibly escape this move.

This encompassed her own subordinate Zhao Yujun as well as Mountain Ancestor’s follower Gong Tiandao.

Even when performed by the Sea Ancestor’s avatar, amid the ongoing war realm that suppressed their strengths, Zhao Yujun and Gong Tiandao would fail to break out and get inevitably seized by her!

Clearly, the Saint Ancestor’s strength matched that of the Mountain and Sea Realm’s two ancestors.

In reality, while both are Spirit Realms, differences persist among Spirit Realms and even among ancestors inside a single Spirit Realm.

Prior to starting the Spirit Realm war, they had assessed the Vast Realm as weaker than their own.

Yet now, that assessment proved wrong.

The Sea Ancestor avatar realized it was the Saint Ancestor and the Vast Realm Will who had hidden their actual powers, causing the error in judgment.

To pull that off, the Saint Ancestor clearly excelled at concealing heavenly secrets with masterful proficiency!

Such ideas raced through the Sea Ancestor avatar’s thoughts.

A grin surfaced on her stunning face, cold as frost.

This turn worked well; she now had a worthy foe for testing her skills, letting her check the fruits of her long years of study and practice.

Unlike back in the Mountain and Sea Realm, where Mountain Ancestor stood as her only rival, and they hadn’t clashed properly in endless ages.

Their latest encounter occurred when she attempted to seize the entire Profound Truth Realm from Mountain Ancestor to claim Ning Qi for herself.

Yet that barely qualified as a proper fight, resembling more of a calculated sneak attack.

From the distant golden radiance, the Saint Ancestor avatar reconstituted itself.

The Saint Ancestor avatar looked far more grave.

This stemmed partly from the Sea Ancestor avatar’s arrival, and partly from the scene unfolding below.

Truth be told, the Vast Realm suffered from a severe shortage of fighters!

With the Mountain and Sea Realm boasting two ancestors, plus Ning Qi who could challenge his avatar, the tide of battle favored them heavily against the Vast Realm.

Still, the immediate focus stayed on confronting the Sea Ancestor’s avatar.

In his hand materialized a scroll, which he abruptly unrolled.

With a soft swish, the scroll spread open, displaying a Peach Blossom Spring Realm artwork that, once present in the Central Domain’s void, carved out a new spatial gateway inside the area.

Pinkish glow shimmered from the spatial gateway, mirroring the peach blossom hues depicted on the scroll.

"Since Madam is the Sea Ancestor, why not come with me into this realm for our final showdown? If we keep battling here, this domain won’t hold out much longer!"

The Sea Ancestor avatar’s brows knitted together.

This cunning old man aimed to lure her into some other dimension for combat. Did he think her so naive?

Shifting surroundings and spatial rules would mean handing the advantage right to the enemy’s turf.

Noticing the Sea Ancestor avatar’s look, the Saint Ancestor grasped her concerns at once.

The Saint Ancestor abruptly jabbed a finger toward Ning Qi and declared, "Just before you showed up, that young man dueled me inside the Peach Blossom Space. What’s this? Your underling dares step in and face me, but you, an ancestor, hesitate?"

Down below, Ning Qi found himself at a loss for words briefly.

He detected the auras emanating from the scroll gripped by the Saint Ancestor.

True enough, he had clashed with the Saint Ancestor avatar earlier in the Peach Blossom Space, yet the current scroll in the Saint Ancestor avatar’s grasp radiated far greater potency and mystery than the previous one.

Back then, it was merely some ordinary fragment, but now Ning Qi sensed this scroll held deeper secrets.

"Kid, did he speak the truth?" the Sea Ancestor shot a glance at Ning Qi and asked.

"Sea Ancestor, this scroll differs from the one I battled him with previously."

Ning Qi saluted the Sea Ancestor avatar with cupped hands, proactively pointing it out.

The Sea Ancestor clearly leaned toward declining.

However, the Saint Ancestor avatar’s lips twitched faintly, as if sending some covert sound transmission her way, its contents a mystery.

Surprisingly, the Sea Ancestor crooked a slender finger at Ning Qi and commanded, "Kid, come with me inside!"