Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Leaving the Lesser Xuan Realm
"May the High Heaven bless the world's one and only Technique Ancestor! May the ancestor's ascension proceed without hindrance and break the shackles of mortality of our Lesser Xuan Realm!"
"This is the representatives of the Great Huang Continent. May the Technique Ancestor be blessed with the continent's fortune in his attempt to obtain immortality! The Great Huang Continent is willing to exchange our vitality for his honorable's smooth procession!"
"The Everlasting Pavilion is willing to sacrifice our establishment's fortune and luck to assist the Technique Ancestor in his attempt. We pray that the shackle will crumble before the ancestor, allowing him to step into godhood."
"Count in the Flying Sword Abode, Torrential Sea Clan, and Million Mountain Prefecture."
"We're the successor of Lesser Xuan Realm's Four Ancestral Beasts. All Spiritual Beasts pray for his highness's success in stepping out of the mortal's shackles."
Cries of blessing and wishes for a successful ascension came from all four corners of this Lesser Xuan Realm as they congregated into a ball of light hovering above the Technique Ancestor's palm.
The ball of light was merely about the size of a soybean. Still, within this grain, it contained all sorts of infinite possibilities. After all, it was the foundation of luck and fortune donated by the whole world.
"The fortuitous time is finally here! I shall begin the attempt of breaking through right now!" said Jiang Sheng, also known to this world as the Technique Ancestor.
He was the only individual who achieved the peak of 9th-stage cultivation and touched the border of the tenth, rumored to be the immortal stage. As for the rest of his juniors, they're all barely at the stage of Half-Ancestor, which is said to be the 8th stage.
Jiang Sheng's words echoed in the ears of all living beings. As the only individual who touched the ethereal wall of immortality, such was a feat that only he could accomplish.
A sea of lightning clouds soon came forward after Jiang Sheng's sentence, carrying a fearful amount of malicious intent. Simultaneously, a small dimensional crack followed above the cloud. This crack is likely the entrance for those who successfully break through their mortal's shackles, which can only be used when the ascension candidate travels past the lightning cloud.
The small continent below the Technique Ancestor encountered a total darkness catastrophe for the first time. The cumulonimbus lightning cloud reach was so great that the area within a hundred thousand miles was enveloped by its power as soon as it stopped traveling.
Without warning, continuous lightning strikes soon bombarded the Technique Ancestor. This ritualistic process started fiercely but is still bearable in the ancestor's opinion.
The situation gradually changed as soon as the thousandth lightning bolt came at the Technique Ancestor.
The thunderbolts gradually turn into azure-colored bolts from a yellowish streak, each carrying ten times the intensity of the yellow thunderbolts.
This time, not even the Technique Ancestor could underestimate the threat. But as the number one individual in this mortal realm, Jiang Sheng obviously had his method to face this kind of threat.
A treasured umbrella constructed from the combination of the ten greatest Spiritual Beast's leather with amazing lightning element affinity silently appeared from a shake of Jiang Sheng's palm. And with this treasure in his hand, the lightning strike's ferocity was reduced by half.
Even so, the remaining half of the azure-colored thunderbolts is still powerful enough to refine Jiang Sheng's mortal body.
As for the remaining half of the thunderbolt's power, they were dispersed into hundreds and thousands of tiny thunderbolts, bombarding the island below Jiang Sheng into a barren wasteland.
Regardless of the outcome, this island's only fate is to become a dead land contaminated by powerful lightning elements.
999th azure-colored thunderbolts later, the treasured umbrella finally succumbed to its fate and dispersed like blown ashes.
The departure of this treasure also signifies that the Technique Ancestor is left unsheltered. Furthermore, the second thousandth thunderbolt appeared slightly different from what Jiang Sheng had encountered.
This lightning strike that was about to come carries more brilliance and fierceness than before. In addition, it was almost pure white in color, like bleached gypsum. The intensity measurement should be at least a hundredfold greater than before.
"Looks like my ascension is just half a step away from me! Bring it on, heaven!" Jiang Sheng removed the facade of calmness he had shown throughout the first two thousand thunderbolts and revealed the true himself to the cumulonimbus cloud above him.
His cultivation was pushed to the peak after adjusting his stance to a more advantageous posture. This time, his Spiritual Physique, which had been honed over several millennia, finally had a capable challenger.
**BAM!**
A pure-white lightning strike came from the cumulonimbus cloud and struck Jiang Sheng along with his Spiritual Projection. This time, even with all his cultivation and Spiritual Energy pushed to the peak, Jiang Shen still coughed a mouthful of golden blood.
Inside this mouthful of blood contained Jiang Sheng's a thousand years of foundation in cultivation and Spiritual Impurities deemed filthy to the Upper Realm. Only by fully expelling this filth may Jiang Sheng be qualified to step past the lightning cloud.
Without notice, the second lightning strike came. This blow removed not only the filth but also Jiang Sheng's vitality and perseverance. In an instant, Jiang Sheng felt he was tackled by a combined attack of the four Ancestral Beasts.
The third and fourth lightning strikes followed soon after, almost pulverizing Jiang Sheng and his pitiful existence. Although he was the greatest cultivator of this land and the only Ancestor-level practitioner here, he was nothing but an ant in the eyes of the heaven above.
By now, the cumulonimbus cloud has shrunken into just a tenth of what it was before.
This also signifies that the following lightning strike should be the last. But Jiang Sheng also knows that the last blow always struck the hardest.
A ball of lightning gradually appeared midair as it swallowed the remaining cumulonimbus cloud. In the meantime, Jiang Sheng also readied himself by gluttonously swallowing medicinal pills, herbs, and treasures in his Dimensional Storage Ring.
**Bzzt... BAM!**
Just as Jiang Sheng prepared himself, a buzz of lightning spark could be heard before a thunderbolt followed. But this time, the thunderbolts that came weren't white, but black.
"GOLDEN SAINT SEVEN ELEMENTAL AVATAR!"
Jiang Sheng screamed and cast a spiritual projection using all the Spiritual Energy his body had. This time, a more realistic avatar appears around him and bravely resists the black thunderbolt.
The two came out evenly matched until Jiang Sheng realized that the black thunderbolt had the power to pulverize Spiritual Energy into nothingness. The black thunderbolt destroyed Jiang Sheng's secret technique in less than ten seconds, leaving the Technique Ancestor unprotected.
**BZZT... BZZT!**
The buzzing sound from the black thunderbolt sounded like it was declaring its victory over this mortal. However, it underestimated Jiang Sheng and what he could do to succeed.
The Technique Ancestor used his mortal flesh to receive the baptism of what was left of the black thunderbolt. His perseverance bore the fruit of success as a blinding white light enveloped his body after the black thunderbolt dispersed.
This time, Jiang Sheng felt he no longer needed a flying artifact to travel midair. And with the ascension now completed, the dimensional crack above the cloud before also appears more inviting to him.
"My fellow people of Lower Xuan Realm... This ancestor had successfully stepped into the stage of immortality. I will now travel to the land beyond our Lesser Xuan Realm and construct a foundation for the future generation."
"May we meet later on, and I will do my best to bless this land to produce more peak level cultivator than before!" Jiang Sheng said and made his way through the dimensional crack.
It was only after entering the dimensional crack Jiang Sheng regretted his choice.
Because... The world outside Lesser Xuan Realm was not as beautiful and kind as he had hoped.
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