Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 817 - 800: Nascent Soul Ninth Layer! [Monthly Ticket Requested]

Knowing that Zhouyang, who is currently as renowned as the sun at noon, wants to use the "Dome Heaven Immortal Realm" for a retreat, both the Yuqing Daoist Sect and the Liuyun Commerce Alliance readily agreed to the request from the Profound Sun Immortal Sect.

As of today, Zhouyang alone carries the weight equal to that of a top major sect.

Saying that a mere stomp of his foot could cause tremors throughout the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm might be an exaggeration.

However, should he be displeased and want to attack someone, there truly isn't any force that could withstand his torment.

So long as it doesn't involve any principled issues or fundamental interests, no force would want to conflict with him or provoke his displeasure.

"The density of Spiritual Qi here is indeed much richer than when I came here over a thousand years ago. It seems the Heaven-Sundering True Demon indeed had a great impact on this Pocket World Immortal Realm back then, consuming too much of the Spiritual Qi here!"

Within the "Dome Heaven Immortal Realm," Zhouyang, after revisiting here a thousand years later, gazed at the Pocket World Immortal Realm now replanted with various spirit elixirs, feeling deeply moved.

Back then, when he left here painstakingly, he never expected to have another chance to come here in his lifetime.

And of the cultivators who came here back then, apart from him and Zhu Zizhen, all have perished and passed away.

No one from those times could have expected that the weakest, considered least likely to survive little Golden Core Stage cultivator, would become today's renowned Master Qianyang throughout the Linghuan Realm.

The mysteries of the world, who can truly say!

With the Heaven-Sundering True Demon no longer a threat, the "Dome Heaven Immortal Realm" jointly managed by three forces, has cultivators from these forces practicing here year-round and taking care of those spirit elixirs.

After Zhouyang entered here, he was quickly led by a Golden Core cultivator from the Profound Sun Immortal Sect to a specially designated grotto.

This was a later-built palace complex with a main hall and several side halls, and a garden planted with various exotic flowers and herbs.

After Zhouyang became the temporary owner here, he released the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle and two Flood Dragons, allowing them to practice in the side halls as guardians while he entered the main hall for retreat focused cultivation.

He didn't rush to consume the Heaven-Reaching Qiankun Pill to make a breakthrough, but first calmed his mind to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Traveling alongside Du Chongyang earlier, he consulted this human True Immortal elder on many cultivation doubts, including the comprehension and utilization of Heaven and Earth Laws.

As a Pocket World Immortal Realm, the "Dome Heaven Immortal Realm," not only had richer Spiritual Qi than those spirit mountains outside, the Heaven and Earth Laws here were also more active compared to the Linghuan Realm, making comprehension easier.

In fact, the lower the world, the simpler and more active the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Conversely, in higher worlds like the True Immortal Realm, the Heaven and Earth Laws are dense and complex, Nascent Soul Stage cultivators can hardly touch them, only Tribulation Crossing True Immortals can truly access and utilize them.

Using the method taught by Du Chongyang to comprehend the Heaven and Earth Laws, Zhouyang indeed found it much more efficient than his previous solitary exploration, making him increasingly obsessed with the process of touching the world's origin power.

Thus, approximately fifteen years passed, only when Zhouyang encountered some insurmountable obstacles in comprehending the Heaven and Earth Laws did he snap out of his obsession and remember the main reason for this retreat.

"A small retreat to comprehend the laws, and it's been fifteen years already. No wonder Nascent Soul Stage cultivators with a lifespan of three thousand years often lament about not having enough lifespan!"

With a sigh of contemplation, Zhouyang murmured to himself, then immediately began to adjust his state in preparation for consuming the Heaven-Reaching Qiankun Pill to break through the bottleneck. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Taking several days to adjust his state, he took out the pill bottle obtained that day, poured out a large chicken-egg-sized green Spirit Pill, and swallowed it with a wide-open mouth.

Nine years later, a strong momentum suddenly arose within the palace where Zhouyang was in retreat, and the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi seemed to be attracted, rushing toward it.

Three years later, Zhouyang emerged from the palace, his aura reaching the "Half-Step True Immortal" realm of Nascent Soul Ninth Layer.

From this point, he is truly only half a step away from attaining immortality!

"Subordinate congratulates Master on successfully breaking through the realm, wishes Master a long and prosperous Immortal Dao, and an early ascension to the Immortal Realm!"

The Golden Roc diligently guarding Zhouyang immediately rushed over to congratulate Zhouyang's successful breakthrough.

However, Zhouyang still remembered the trouble this guy caused at the Profound Sun Immortal Sect twenty-seven years ago, so he did not show a good face, just glared at him, and then stored him and the two Flood Dragons who came to offer congratulations in the Dongxuan Pearl before directly leaving the "Dome Heaven Immortal Realm."

"Fellow Daoist Zhou has truly succeeded in breaking through!"

When Master Cyan Yang saw Zhouyang appearing before him with the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer cultivation, he was nothing but shocked.

Zhouyang had been in retreat for over twenty years without any news; he thought he might have failed this time and was even prepared to console him.

Unexpectedly, Zhouyang has indeed succeeded in breaking through again!

Too shocked, Master Cyan Yang even forgot to congratulate Zhouyang on his successful breakthrough.

It wasn't until Zhouyang, as usual, modestly said a few words did he come back to his senses with a bitter smile, waving his hand to say, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, please don't say that again, I've heard those words enough to prick my ears to calluses. If you say your cultivation to Nascent Soul Ninth Layer in merely fifteen hundred years is a fluke, then doesn't that make the rest of us mere foolish beings?"

Having said that, he looked at Zhouyang with a complicated expression and said, "If someone told me now that Fellow Daoist Zhou is the reincarnation of a Banished Immortal from the Upper Realm, I would absolutely believe it!"

"If not the reincarnation of a Banished Immortal, the revival of an Immortal Soul, what else could explain Fellow Daoist Zhou's rapid cultivation progression?"

He indeed guessed half correctly.

Though Zhouyang wasn't a reincarnated Banished Immortal, he was indeed a reborn soul living anew.

However, as this involves Zhouyang's most fundamental secret, not even his Dao Companion or son knows a bit of it, he certainly wouldn't reveal it to Master Cyan Yang.

Perhaps with his current cultivation, he doesn't fear that even this secret exposed would lead anyone to do anything about him.

But he had already resolved to guard this secret forever, letting it rot away in his stomach.

Therefore, at this moment, facing Master Cyan Yang's astonishment and sigh, he merely smiled without speaking, requiring no explanation.

With his current cultivation strength, unless facing a query from a Tier Seven existence, he doesn't need to answer anything he doesn't wish to discuss.

Yet, Master Cyan Yang was after all a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator with over two thousand years of cultivation. His shock and emotional turmoil lasted only a moment before he quickly calmed himself and returned to normal.

A glint flashed in his eyes as he looked at Zhouyang and said, "Since Fellow Daoist Zhou has successfully broken through, it's time for an old man like me to say a few words."

"Oh, what does Elder Qingyang wish to say to this junior?"

Zhouyang's expression shifted slightly, his gaze turning towards Master Cyan Yang with a fleeting glimmer of curiosity.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, you have witnessed the rise and fall of my Profound Sun Immortal Sect and should know how difficult and constrained the sect has been compared to over a thousand years ago, when Senior Brother Lu was still alive!"

"I won't speak of anything else, but the welfare offerings for the sect's disciples have been reduced by about thirty percent compared to the days of our peak over a thousand years ago!"

"If this situation continues, my Profound Sun Immortal Sect will only decline further, possibly even falling out of the ranks of the top major sects!"

"The entire sect has entrusted me with managing the sect's various affairs. Every time I think of this, I am unable to rest or eat in peace, deeply worried!"

"Fortunately, the heavens have not forsaken us. My Profound Sun Immortal Sect's fortune endures, allowing me to meet a peerless talent like Fellow Daoist Zhou in such trivial circumstances, and also gain an outstanding disciple like Guangcheng."

"Now that Fellow Daoist Zhou's cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer realm, and Guangcheng has successfully formed his Nascent Soul to inherit the sect's legacy, I believe it's time to reclaim what my Profound Sun Immortal Sect lost a thousand years ago!"

At this point, Master Cyan Yang suddenly assumed a solemn posture, bowing deeply to Zhouyang, and said in a formal tone, "Today, I must shamelessly appeal to Fellow Daoist Zhou for a favor, requesting that you, out of our many years of friendship, help the sect once, help me fulfill the greatest wish of my life!"

"Elder Qingyang, please rise quickly, such a grand gesture overwhelms this junior. How can this junior accept such an honor from you?"

Zhouyang hurriedly stepped forward to help Master Cyan Yang up, not daring to accept such a grand gesture.

Then, looking Master Cyan Yang in the eye, he nodded slightly and said, "Elder Qingyang, please say how this junior can be of help?"

Upon hearing this, Master Cyan Yang's spirits were immediately lifted, and he promptly said, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you personally participated in that great battle back then. The one who gained the most from my Profound Sun Immortal Sect's loss is undoubtedly our nemesis, the Six Paths Alliance, followed by the Nine Yang Sect."

"Now that the Six Paths Alliance's Master Purple Mist, Xiao Yuanli, has passed away, they are no longer a concern. What worries me is only the Grand Elder of the Nine Yang Sect!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou merely needs to openly defeat that Nine Yang Sect Grand Elder and showcase overwhelming strength. I am seventy percent confident that we can regain lost ground without shedding blood, and deter all threats for a millennium from taking a bite at our sect again!"

The failure of the Profound Purity Dao Alliance back then was due to them being defeated on the Nascent Soul Stage level and simultaneously facing attacks from all sides, falling into the trap of fighting on multiple fronts.

If Zhouyang agrees to help now, the situation will be perfectly reversed.

If, as Master Cyan Yang suggested, Zhouyang uses absolutely overwhelming power to defeat that Nine Yang Sect Grand Elder, then whether it's the Nine Yang Sect or the Six Paths Alliance, devoid of a Nascent Soul Ninth Layer cultivator, they would be wise to retreat and return the occupied lands of old.

"Just need to defeat the Nine Yang Sect Grand Elder, Master Fengyang?"

Zhouyang muttered to himself, before his eyes focused, and he nodded, saying, "This junior understands. Then please, Elder Qingyang, send a challenge to that Fengyang Old Monster on my behalf, saying this junior will visit the Nine Yang Sect's mountain gate in person a year from now to ask for guidance on divine techniques!"

Back when his cultivation was at the Nascent Soul Sixth Layer, Master Cyan Yang had once requested him to substitute for the Profound Purity Dao Alliance to challenge that Fengyang Old Monster, to deter the Nine Yang Sect's pressure.

But at that time, he was busy finding a replacement spiritual object for the Five Elements Barrier-Breaking Technique to breakthrough to late-stage Nascent Soul, so he refused.

Now that his cultivation has reached great success, Master Cyan Yang brought it up again, and he naturally couldn't refuse.

Upon hearing this, Master Cyan Yang was overjoyed and immediately clapped his hands and praised, "Good, I will immediately have the challenge sent to the Nine Yang Sect!"

Saying it and doing it, Master Cyan Yang directly wrote a challenge letter in Zhouyang's presence, then had Zhouyang inscribe his magical power signature, and dispatched a Golden Core Stage cultivator to deliver it overnight to the Nine Yang Sect's mountain gate.

Zhouyang didn't stay long in the Profound Sun Immortal Sect and, after promising Master Cyan Yang multiple times that he would visit the Nine Yang Sect on time, went to visit his friend Liu Yunxiang at the Suyun Sect.

He now had very few friends alive, and Liu Yunxiang was one of them.

This visit to the Suyun Sect to see Liu Yunxiang was not only to meet an old friend but also because his Dao Companion Xiao Ying had entrusted him with inviting Liu Yunxiang to visit the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm.

"Now that the Desert Sea is coming back to life, new spiritual objects and opportunities are constantly emerging. Fellow Daoist Liu could also send some disciples to travel there to enhance the friendship between our two families."

In the Suyun Sect, Zhouyang spoke of the Desert Sea's revival, conveying his Dao Companion Xiao Ying's invitation, and suggesting that she send disciples to travel to the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm.

Currently, the Broken Cloud Mountain Range has practically become the Zhou Family's back garden, and with the lead of Zhou Family cultivators, it's not hard for a small group of cultivators from the Liuyun Continent Cultivation Realm to cross the Broken Cloud Mountain Range and reach the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm.

Zhouyang also intended to facilitate these exchanges to strengthen connections between the two cultivation realms and energize the Boundless Sea of Sand Cultivation Realm.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou's good intentions, I thank you on behalf of our sect's disciples."

Liu Yunxiang expressed gratitude towards Zhouyang and then, with a gleam in her eyes, asked him, "Fellow Daoist Zhou sent a challenge to that Fengyang Old Monster. You must be confident in your victory, correct?"

"The strength of Fengyang Old Monster is only slightly greater than that of Master Purple Mist Xiao Yuanli. For Zhouyang to defeat him is indeed not difficult."

Zhouyang nodded lightly, not denying this because there was no need to.

Since his cultivation advanced to the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer, this "Spirit Realm" no longer had any Nascent Soul Stage cultivators who could match him in battle.

Even against the Heaven-Reaching Demon King, Zhouyang was confident he could defeat and send it fleeing if they were to fight again now.

Looking across this "Spirit Realm," individually, only those Tier Seven entities could make him feel apprehensive.

"I thought so too. Now in this realm, aside from those hidden Tribulation Crossing True Immortals, I'm afraid there's no one else who can rival Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

Liu Yunxiang nodded as if expected, then smiled enchantingly, "But with Fellow Daoist Zhou's divine talent, I believe in a few hundred years, you will take that remaining half-step to achieve immortality."

"Thank you for your kind words, Fellow Daoist Liu. If I truly ascend to the Immortal Realm, this lifetime won't be in vain!"

Zhouyang smiled serenely, no longer needing to hide his yearning and dreams of achieving immortal ascension, openly sharing his ambitions with others.