Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 966 - 415: Surpassing Mountain and Sea

The Seed of Jianmu pulsed with an emerald luminescence, gently swaying within Ning Qi’s grasp. Surroundings erupted with the sound of fragmentation, as energies of Yin and Yang, like a luminous cloak, formed a protective barrier, preserving its safety and utterly annihilating the Mountain Ancestor’s attacking needles.

Observing this display, the Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm recoiled in terror. Only after Ning Qi successfully defused the crisis did it finally exhale a sigh of relief. It was understandable why the Mountain and Sea Realm’s Will had narrowly escaped its predicament, harboring a profound fear that the Mountain Ancestor would reclaim the Seed of Jianmu and, by extension, consume it once more.

Its attention then shifted towards the direction of the ongoing conflict. Fortunately, the verdant tree shadows emanating from the Seed of Jianmu were actively mending the breach within the Mountain and Sea Realm, and the Mountain Ancestor had not intensified its assault on their current location. This spectral arboreal shield served to delineate the interior from the exterior, temporarily halting the rampant energy depletion of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Ning Qi remained in thoughtful silence for a spell. The Mountain Ancestor’s cessation of direct attacks on him suggested that the Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor were still effectively restraining the former. Concurrently, it implied that the Mountain Ancestor harbored an underestimation of his true capabilities, remaining oblivious to the precise nature of his actions.

Ning Qi was determined not to forfeit this opportune moment; he would seize and relocate everything! He cast his gaze across the entirety of the present Mountain and Sea Realm. To date, approximately one-tenth of the Mountain and Sea Realm’s total energy had been absorbed by the phantom likeness of Buzhou Mountain. One should not disregard a tenth, for despite its seemingly modest proportion, it represented a colossal spirit realm! Even this fraction was exponentially vaster than the lesser worlds that had once existed beneath the Mountain and Sea Realm.

As for Ning Qi himself, he had already successfully transferred the Spirit Domain encompassing the Endless Sea to the True Martial Realm. Furthermore, a significant portion, roughly one-third, of the Endless Sea had been integrated into the descending True Martial Realm. This seamless integration was, naturally, facilitated by the core Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm. The Mountain Ancestor, utilizing Buzhou Mountain, intended to subsume the Mountain and Sea Realm entirely, with the ultimate aim of sacrificing all its inhabitants. However, both the Mountain and Sea Realm’s Will and its denizens vehemently resisted this parasitic assimilation. If they could not effectively oppose it, how could they permit the Mountain Ancestor to achieve its malevolent objective?

Ning Qi, however, represented a different paradigm. He had not only rescued the Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm but was actively working to safeguard all life during this cataclysmic event. His actions stood in stark opposition to the Mountain Ancestor’s destructive intent, fostering immense cooperation from both the Will and the inhabitants of the Mountain and Sea Realm. This symbiotic collaboration enabled Ning Qi to integrate the Mountain and Sea Realm into the True Martial Realm with a significantly greater velocity than the Mountain Ancestor could achieve.

"Ning, make haste! I cannot bear the thought of Haoshan running amok once more!" The Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm implored Ning Qi with palpable urgency.

Ning Qi regarded the Will with a sense of amusement, observing its current state akin to a startled bird, even exhibiting more proactive initiative than himself. Remarkably, it began to actively employ its remaining Realm Power to segment the fragmented Spirit Domains below. Subsequently, with a forceful tug of its Realm Power, it elevated these domains and dispatched them through the spatial vortex behind. The Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm was acting as a benevolent steward, proactively packaging and delivering territory directly to Ning Qi.

It had no other recourse; the fear of being absorbed by the Mountain Ancestor was overwhelmingly potent. In essence, its current predicament mirrored that of Tao Qian from the Three Kingdoms era, who, when faced with Cao Cao's threat, naturally chose to cede Xuzhou to benevolent figures like Liu Bei. Indeed, the Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm found tangible benefit in Ning Qi's proven integrity. He had pledged to preserve its core Will, a promise he had already fulfilled. Furthermore, he intended to continue safeguarding its essence, as evidenced by Ning Qi's integration of the Spirit Domains within the Mountain and Sea Realm into the True Martial Realm, thereby fostering an environment of coexistence rather than the parasitic consumption and sacrifice championed by the Mountain Ancestor. Consequently, the Will of the Mountain and Sea Realm had completely relinquished any apprehension towards Ning Qi. Had another entity assumed his role, the outcome might have been vastly different.

Witnessing this, Ning Qi unleashed his own potent Realm Power, rapidly delineating the Mountain and Sea Realm and seamlessly integrating it into the True Martial Realm situated behind. Both entities, seizing the advantage of the Mountain Ancestor’s preoccupied state and its failure to meticulously scrutinize the Mountain and Sea Realm’s condition, worked with the frenetic efficiency of ten-armed laborers, swiftly transferring the entire realm.

With this monumental transfer underway, the entire True Martial Realm experienced a silent yet significant expansion and strengthening. Perhaps, at this very juncture, Ning Qi was indeed not actively seeking to devour the Mountain and Sea Realm but was instead facilitating a unique form of coexistence through this moving process.

However, the True Martial Realm had long ago deciphered the Mountain and Sea Realm’s Realm Power, all thanks to Ning Qi. Therefore, the amalgamation of the Mountain and Sea Realm’s Spirit Domains was, to all intents and purposes, akin to outright devouring.

The sole distinction lay in Ning Qi’s continued possession of the forces from the Profound Truth Realm, the Moon Sea Immortal Sect, and the Sea Ancestor’s Spirit Domains.

But the moment they stepped into the True Martial Realm, with Ning Qi presiding as its Master, they would inevitably be considered his subordinates, their very existence subject to his whims.

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The Sea of Realms stretched out endlessly.

Worlds, much like celestial bodies, were scattered across this vast expanse.

Within a particular sector, an exceptionally strange tableau unfolded.

A colossal phantom of a mountain materialized in the Sea of Realms, enshrouded by an ethereal gray mist.

Flanking this majestic mountain, two expansive spirit realms were conjoined.

No, to be precise, there were actually three.

Beyond the spirit realm on the right, another world lay nestled.

The spirit realm to the right was visibly shrinking, its essence deflating, while the smaller world situated behind it was expanding at an accelerated rate, akin to inflation. It was rapidly growing, gradually supplanting the diminishing spirit realm.

Indeed, this was the True Martial Realm in the process of ceaselessly absorbing the Mountain and Sea Realm!

Within the confines of the True Martial Realm, the Spiritual Qi and the Power of Rules surged forth in abundance.

The Spiritual Qi descended like a gentle rain, and the rules flowed like unseen currents of wind, becoming progressively denser and richer.

Ultimately, in certain locales where the energy concentrated intensely, Spiritual Crystals and Rule Jades began to manifest, lying hidden beneath the very earth.

Veins of precious ore took form throughout the True Martial Realm, perpetually expanding and weaving together.

These would serve as the cultivation resources for all inhabitants within the True Martial Realm, stored away safely below.

Conversely, situated above these ore veins, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures ceaselessly drew sustenance from the surrounding spirit realm’s energy. They sprouted new branches and buds, harboring within them Divine Texts, truly resembling wondrous and exotic flora, emitting resplendent luminescence.