Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1455 - 436: Heavenly Dao’s Favorite Son

"The experience bar for the Second Realm has grown longer... Advancing to the next realm won’t be as quick," Chu Keqing muttered to herself softly.

However, it’s not a big deal. In three months, the results of that batch of bounty orders should come in, and then she can reap a considerable gift from the Heavenly Dao.

Acts like funding education, when directed to each individual with a destined fate, receive feedback and cultivation rewards from the Heavenly Dao that are much lower than taking the life of someone whose fate dictates they should die.

After all, life is a serious matter, and when it involves something like life, the rewards from the Heavenly Dao are the greatest.

For such educational aid activities, the returns are somewhat lower.

But you can’t argue with the sheer volume!

With a thousand specially funded Celestial Destiny People, spending over two billion in money, in a month and a half, Chu Keqing’s cultivation was lifted to the Second Realm!!

To think, when she first started cultivation, she entered at thirteen and took more than ten years to reach the Second Realm!

Chu Keqing closed her eyes to feel the speed at which her body absorbed Primordial Qi and the growth of her cultivation...

After roughly estimating this, she came to a conclusion.

In the time ahead, she still needed to continue her charitable endeavors while practicing every evening before bed.

In three months, when all the bounty orders have been carried out, there’s a high probability she can break into the Third Realm in one go!

The Third Realm!

However, according to Chen Yan, this sort of act of "Acting on Heaven’s Will" becomes much weaker in improving cultivation after the Third Realm.

This is because the experience bar for the Third Realm stretches out way too long.

Relying on Heaven-Licking Dao to improve cultivation becomes negligible.

Beyond the Third Realm, continuing these actions yields far too low of a return.

However, Chu Keqing was already quite satisfied.

After Chen Yan scattered and rebuilt his cultivation, it took nearly a year to return to the Third Realm, during which he committed acts of killing and arson, hid in mountain forests, served on battlefields, slept in caves, traversed minefields and bullet rains.

He even had to sneak across borders, go to the United States, sleep in slums, and chase drug traffickers around the world...

He turned himself into a beggar-like state, suffering hardships for an entire year.

And Chu Keqing, by spending over a billion, reached the Third Realm in just three months!

Moreover, she barely suffered any hardship.

Even when she went to economically disadvantaged western regions for ground-style charitable donations, she still stayed in the best hotels or hostels in the county of the area, or at the county’s official guesthouse, and the conditions weren’t bad at all.

During the daytime travels, a luxury business car followed her throughout.

Hardship was nowhere to be seen.

After the ground-style charity actions in the northwest were completed, Chu Keqing returned to Jinling Prefecture.

She specifically arranged for a few staff members transferred from the academy to her side, tasked with following up and ensuring the implementation of subsequent charitable donations.

She herself returned to the Jinling Academy.

Aunt Yun from the Liu Family had already returned to Port City. Her small courtyard was vacant.

However, Chu Keqing naturally wouldn’t live in the courtyard again, she just took a stroll around the academy, symbolic for the duty of a dean.

Then she arranged for another batch of supplies to be purchased, for food and drinks and various provisions, and once procured, she loaded a full truck and sent it to the warehouse. Choosing a time when no one was around, she stored it inside her Storage Jade Pendant.

Afterwards, Chu Keqing departed to head to Southeast Asia once more!

With the money-spending part done, what came next was to head back to the mountains and meet up with Chen Yan, accompanying him in mountain cultivation.

Two days later, a helicopter delivered Chu Keqing back to that mountain...

Chu Keqing entered the Hidden Mountain Formation restored by Chen Yan and arrived at the cave, only to find surprisingly that Chen Yan was not there!

Several words were left on the wall of the mountain belly.

"I have a feeling, going out to roam and gain insight, don’t worry about me."

Looking at the words left on the wall, Chu Keqing couldn’t decide whether to be angry or amused.

She stared for a while, shook her head.

She picked up the satellite phone to call Chen Yan, only to find that the call couldn’t go through.

This guy!

Chu Keqing sighed, then walked alone beneath the jade-like stalagmite inside the mountain belly, sat cross-legged, and began to practice.

With Chen Yan absent, she would cultivate by herself here.

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Chen Yan stood at the summit of the snowy mountain!

Just a few minutes ago, he had effortlessly ascended the famous Hillary Step, renowned among extreme mountaineers worldwide.

At this moment, Chen Yan stood at the peak of Mount Everest!

The furious wind, mixed with ice shards, beat against him as Chen Yan stood there, looking down at the world around him.

The first feeling was...

Hmm, doesn’t seem as high as imagined.

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Reaching the top of Mount Everest, Chen Yan had specifically chosen a time: It wasn’t the climbing season in this period, combined with weather forecasts of frequent blizzards over the past month.

Anyone with a bit of common sense in extreme mountaineering would avoid climbing during this time.

This allowed Chen Yan to avoid people.

Otherwise...

He wore just a thin jacket, no mountaineering gear, cold-proof clothing, or even snow boots!

No oxygen tanks, no ice axe, no safety rope...

His attire made him seem less like someone aiming to conquer the roof of the world but more like someone on a casual weekend hike.

Chen Yan stood at the mountain peak, standing there for nearly ten minutes.

The swirling wind and snow almost buried him.

Finally, he slowly opened his eyes.

In those ten minutes, he listened to the "sound" and "will" of this world, but most importantly, he felt the rules of this place.