Vol 7 Chapter 8: Ascension to Immortality

Demon Emperor and Mo Pine's choices made Lin Jing feel both helpless and amused.

The Ancient Immortal Realm might not be as wonderful as they imagined, and the future would likely become the center of a vortex.

However, the current Immortal Realm wasn't particularly wonderful either. Although the Immortal Palace was once an Immortal Emperor's legacy, it had now fallen to the level of an Immortal King's legacy.

Although the former Emperor-level foundation might make other forces wary and ensure the Immortal Palace always stood firm in the Immortal Realm without being harmed, as an Immortal King legacy, the Immortal Palace also found it difficult to guarantee every disciple's safety in the Immortal Realm.

Especially ascendants from the Tianyuan Realm.

The demonic races of the Immortal Realm would definitely harbor hatred toward ascendants from the Tianyuan Realm because of him, so that place wasn't particularly safe either, unless one stayed within the Immortal Palace to cultivate without venturing throughout the Immortal Realm.

Lin Jing's true self also began cultivating.

Compared to his incarnation, what his true self needed to do was receive this gift from the Immortal Realm together with his pet beasts.

The Limitless Immortal Physique and the Reincarnation Immortal Physique.

The Demonic Race Immortal Emperor True Blood.

One could greatly enhance his true self's foundation, while the other significantly expanded the upper limit of each pet beast's potential.

Except for the Mechanized Turtle.

This fellow was a combination of mechanical beast and spirit entity, unable to enhance its bloodline by absorbing the Immortal Emperor True Blood...

Therefore, while the other pet beasts cultivated their bloodlines, Lin Jing also had to find alternative methods... so the Mechanized Turtle wouldn't fall too far behind.

This point might again rely on the Immortal Realm. Now that the Cultivation World and Immortal Realm were connected again, and immortals could suppress their realms to descend to the lower realm and deliver Immortal Realm resources, then the mechanical arts of the Immortal Realm and higher-level mechanical materials would become Lin Jing's focus for learning and acquisition.

"You should go."

Lin Jing looked at the Mechanized Turtle. Since it couldn't receive the Demonic Race Immortal Emperor True Blood, then... it should go wander first and quietly await future opportunities.

"A single Tianyuan Realm is probably too small for you now."

"The vastness of the Cultivation World even surpasses that of the Immortal Realm. Not counting some secret realms opened by Immortal Realm great powers, it would take four Immortal Realms combined to equal the Cultivation World in terms of space."

"With such a vast lower realm, we have plenty of time to explore in the future. I look forward to you bringing back some good news."

"Don't worry!" The Mechanized Turtle was quite carefree. Compared to obediently staying in the Tianyuan Realm to cultivate like the other pet beasts, it couldn't stand that - wandering was its path!

"Safe journey." Before the Mechanized Turtle departed, Lin Jing updated its mission, no longer having it search for lifespan-extending items. After obtaining the Immortal Deathless Tree, lifespan-extending items from the lower realm had become dispensable to Lin Jing.

Even for extending others' lifespans, his Longevity Immortal Physique and the Star Longevity Crane's power were far superior to ordinary lifespan-extending items.

So now the Mechanized Turtle's mission was to search for those ancient artifacts.

The older, the better.

Since places like the Pangu Continent containing Holy Clan Power existed in the lower realm, perhaps in some unknown corner, there were even more astonishing things.

After all, no matter how epochs changed, the four great Immortal Realms and the Cultivation World remained these same four places. The Cultivation World had experienced numerous epochs, so if the Mechanized Turtle was lucky enough to dig up treasures from the previous epoch or inheritances left by powerful figures from some epoch, it wasn't completely impossible.

Since it would stay in the upper realm for so long, it definitely needed to thoroughly explore that Wenwei Realm. In the upper realm, only it had the time, energy, and strength for this.

Time flowed at a certain rate in both realms.

The Heavenly Demon Sect had completely abandoned the lower realm. At least during Lin Jing's time in the Tianyuan Realm, he never received intelligence from the Cultivation Alliance about any places being ravaged by demonic races.

Although his mission was supposedly to guard the lower realm, in reality, it was quite leisurely, leaving Lin Jing ample cultivation time.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand years passed.

The entire lower realm remained peaceful, seemingly returning to its former pattern. Throughout this millennium, he had been receiving the power of the Limitless Immortal Physique without doing anything else.

As for the pet beasts, they had all successfully cultivated their bloodlines to Immortal King-level potential. However, although bloodline wasn't the same as cultivation realm, excessively strong potential would still be suppressed by the lower realm's rules. Although they had all cultivated to Immortal Lord-level bloodlines, the power they could actually exert was still somewhat lacking compared to true Immortal Lord bloodlines.

They probably needed to ascend to the Immortal Realm to activate their bloodlines' full potential.

Over the millennium, more and more Dao Inquiry cultivators from the Tianyuan Realm chose to ascend. Even prodigies from the same era as Lin Jing had already begun ascending.

Although it hadn't reached the point of seas turning into mulberry fields and people changing completely, those who shared experiences and connections with Lin Jing were undoubtedly becoming fewer and fewer as the ascension channel opened.

"In a few more thousand years, probably everyone in the lower realm who has spoken with me could be counted on two hands." Lin Jing smiled faintly, shaking his head with deep emotion.

"My incarnation's side is better. While a millennium passes here, less than three years pass there."

Ancient Immortal Realm, Earth.

Although less than three years had passed in the Ancient Immortal Realm, the changes throughout the world were much more rapid than the peaceful, uneventful lower realm.

While the incarnation secluded itself in the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb ignoring worldly affairs, with the intensification of spiritual energy recovery, the outside world had entered a comprehensive cultivation era. Even those ordinary people completely lacking cultivation aptitude had all become excellent candidates for cultivation after being bathed in heaven and earth's spiritual energy.

Some previously incurable diseases and health problems had completely disappeared in this current era.

Countries no longer concealed the spiritual energy recovery, and they couldn't possibly hide it completely. Those naturally evolved spirits, monsters, ghosts, and strange creatures were becoming increasingly uncontrollable.

Every country established educational institutions to teach cultivation practices. Various sects and schools also began widely accepting disciples and appearing before the public.

These were the changes, but what remained unchanged was that to get children into good cultivation schools, people still needed to buy "school district housing" and bear mortgage debts.

"Congratulations, young man."

In the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb, immortal mists drifted about as Immortal Energy circulated through Lin Jing's body, nourishing him completely. Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit, Immortal Physique, immortal soul... After nearly three years of arduous cultivation - counting the time formation, who knew how many years - Lin Jing's incarnation had finally advanced to the True Immortal rank as Earth's rules gradually recovered.

First Heaven of the True Immortal realm.

True Immortal, Immortal Lord, Immortal King - each realm had nine heavens. The incarnation opened its eyes and exhaled a breath of purple energy: "Thank you for protecting me during cultivation, senior. But my successful breakthrough also indicates that Earth can now accommodate True Immortals, right..."

"Enemies will probably arrive soon."

"No, it seems they're coming now, although... this enemy isn't the enemy we expected." Lin Jing sensed the Ice Soul Offspring Gu's call for help, as if the offspring gu had encountered trouble it couldn't resolve.

It wasn't the demonic races, but ancient cultivators from the Ancient Immortal Realm had also revived, and the official Dao Alliance couldn't suppress them.