Chapter 843: Dao Companion Ascension (1)
Editor: Henyee Translations
Time flowed like water, quietly pa.s.sing by. In the blink of an eye, nearly 100 years had pa.s.sed.
Sure enough, the valley on the fifth level of the Demon Mountain changed as the artifact spirit had said. A large number of plants and flowers withered, and finally, they decayed and fell to the ground. After a few days, the ground completely devoured these plants and flowers.
The entire valley became bare.
Shen Ping did not act rashly. The more such a thing happened, the stronger the poison in the valley. Only when the plants and flowers were completely absorbed would the poison weaken to the lowest.
Two months later, young sprouts began to grow on the ground.
He knew that the All-inclusive Heavenly Dao Formation was at its weakest, so he hurriedly took out his puppet again and stepped into the valley with a low-grade Great Dao treasure.
The remaining poison in the air immediately corroded the puppet, but its speed was far inferior to when the plants and flowers were everywhere. The puppet lasted for about 200 feet before it was finally corroded by the poison.
From the entrance to the wooden house, it was a total of more than a thousand feet. In other words, when the valley’s Dao Formation was at its weakest, a low-grade Great Dao treasure could last one-fifth of the way.
If he used teleportation, it was enough to pa.s.s through with the defense of the Heavenly Star Armor. However, Shen Ping did not take the risk rashly. He knew that this array formation was definitely not that simple. The puppet seemed to have only been corroded by the poison when it walked forward, but in fact, there were other Heaven and Earth Great Dao powers acting on the puppet.
He was very worried that he wouldn’t be able to teleport through at all. If he was stuck in midair, it would be terrible.
“Calm down. I have to calm down. Since there is a period of weakness that occurs once every hundred years, all I have to do is wait.”
Shen Ping continued to observe. It took a year for the plants and flowers to decay and grow back, which meant that the Dao Formation had a year of weakness. As long as he found the trace of life in the Dao Formation in this year, he could successfully pa.s.s through the valley and reach the wooden house.
Another 100 years pa.s.sed. The situation in the valley was the same as before. This made him secretly heave a sigh of relief. He no longer continued to observe and returned to Realm Sea Peak to cultivate.
After 200 years of continuous cultivation, he was only one last step away from breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm.
Abyss of Supreme Darkness.
Although the prodigy of the human race, Shen Ping, had ascended and left, Gray Stone City was still bustling and lively. In the past 200 years, although the foreign races had begun to s.n.a.t.c.h the previous territory, with the Shen family and the other sects of the human race blocking them, they had only restored a third of the foreign races’ cultivation and reproduction places.
In the pavilion by the lake of the City Lord Manor, Shen An, the eldest son of the Shen family, was sitting at the stone table drinking spiritual tea. Ever since his father, Shen Ping, ascended, he had returned from the eastern district of the Abyss of Supreme Darkness and taken over the management authority of the Shen family. As for his mother and the others, they had been cultivating in the World Pearl.
“Patriarch, the Itinerant Immortal senior from Quiet Fragrance Residence has invited you to a small gathering.”
“Got it.”
Shen An frowned. There were more Itinerant Immortals living in Gray Stone City, and there were more than a hundred Mahayana Realm cultivators. In the past, when his father, Shen Ping, was around, these Itinerant Immortals and Mahayana Realm cultivators were very stable. Apart from entering seclusion to cultivate, they basically did not appear. When Shen Ping ascended, these Itinerant Immortals could not sit still.
It was either a small gathering or a banquet. The goal was nothing more than the various treasures and immortal spirit stones left behind by his father. In fact, immortal spirit stones and immortal artifacts were the most important.
To Itinerant Immortals, ordinary spirit stones were useless. Only immortal spirit stones could improve their cultivation, but immortal spirit stones were only available in the immortal Dao territories. Even an ancient top sect like the Taihua Sect could only obtain a limited number of immortal spirit stones every hundred years.
That was why they had designs on the Shen family of the City Lord Manor.
However, Shen An was not Shen Ping after all. Although his cultivation was already at the late-stage of the Mahayana Realm and he could fight a Fifth Tribulation Itinerant Immortal with many methods and powerful immortal artifacts, he was completely inferior to a Tenth Tribulation Itinerant Immortal.
Therefore, even when facing other Itinerant Immortals at the first or second tribulation, he would attend banquets most of the time. Occasionally, he would use immortal spirit stones to trade with them for some items to maintain the Shen family’s connections.
“Fortunately, Aunt Yin is still in the residence. Otherwise, with my strength and the other aunts’, I won’t be able to intimidate these thieves. It’s just that Aunt and the others will ascend sooner or later and chase after Father. At that time, the Shen family can only rely on me, Tiantai, and the others.”
Thinking of this, Shen An revealed a helpless expression. His father was very dazzling, but not all the members of the Shen family were incomparably outstanding. For example, his apt.i.tude and talent were actually average. The reason he could cultivate to his current level was completely because of the family’s resources.
The only outstanding person in the clan was Shen Tiantai. He was already at the early-stage Mahayana Realm and had shocking combat strength. He could fight a Sixth or Seventh Tribulation Itinerant Immortal with an immortal artifact.
In the past 200 years, their Shen family had even given birth to a junior with the bloodline of a strange beast. Moreover, he was quite talented in the aspect of strange beasts and had become a target for the Shen family to nurture.
Suddenly, the immortal spiritual energy within the City Lord Residence began fluctuating violently.
Shen An could not help but look at a certain attic.
“It’s Aunt Ying. It seems that the magic power in her body can’t be suppressed anymore.”
Among his many aunts, other than Yin Ting, Ying Yue was the strongest. She had reached the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence a hundred years ago and had been relying on array formations to suppress her aura all these years, afraid that she would trigger the Tribulation Lightning and ascend in advance..