Realm-Hopping Martial Master-Chapter 489 - 291: Jiang Shu... you want to die, I’ll oblige you.
When Jiang Shu’s sixty-eight Divine Skills all floated in the air, the entire Thunder Prison Peak was shaken.
The Magic Drums thundered and the Magic Conchs blared. Among them, some Earth Rank Divine Powers emanated various vast and majestic auras.
The breath he inhaled was like a Kunpeng manifest in the world, and vast Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi converged towards Jiang Shu, deeply locked in by three Great Arrays.
Within a hundred-mile radius of the Cave Mansion, Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi condensed to an extreme point, completely comparable to the Yuan Qi amplification brought by some Heavenly Rank Formations.
Countless Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicines flew out from the Storage Bags, landing on the edge of the Cave Mansion. Strands of medicinal aura diffused, visibly transforming ordinary soil into plots of medicinal fields at a rate discernible to the naked eye.
For a moment, vitality thrived. Points of treasured light burst forth one after another within the Cave Mansion.
If a Disciple from Chores Peak were lucky enough to cultivate here, perhaps in a year or two, they could condense True Fire and step into the Furnace Fire Realm, leaping like a dragon through the gate.
After looking around and confirming he had overlooked nothing, Jiang Shu then gazed into the Void.
At this moment, surging, majestic auras were gathering in the Void.
The Inner Sect Disciples, who had been constantly chattering, were now all silent, looking at Jiang Shu with indescribable shock and envy.
Sixty-eight Divine Skills.
All the Nirvana Realm elders of one peak had gathered!
Jiang Shu’s future, at the very least, was to be a Late-stage Nihility Realm cultivator, one of the elders holding substantial power within the True Martial Sect.
If he could seize a few more opportunities, perhaps he could even charge directly into the Vientiane Realm!
Although Jiang Shu and they were all still just Inner Sect Disciples, his status was already vastly different.
"Jiang Shu, if you come under my tutelage, I can directly pass on to you a Heavenly Rank Treasure for combat, grant you three Heavenly Rank Talismans for protection, and fully support your advancement to the Nirvana Realm," one of the Mid-stage Nirvana Realm elders spoke first. The conditions he offered made all the Primordial Pill Realm Disciples gasp.
"I didn’t expect that after cultivating for so long, I’d still be somewhat shortsighted. Had I known of your Divine Skills then, Jiang Shu, I would have considered how to take you as my disciple myself."
"But now... it’s too late."
This was Gu Hai True Monarch speaking. Although he did not compete, he effortlessly raised Jiang Shu’s worth once again, as one True Monarch after another announced their own terms.
Ordinary geniuses, regardless of how they cultivated or how much prestige they held in the Primordial Pill Realm, could not catch their eye.
The Primordial Pill Realm and the Nirvana Realm might seem separated by only one stage, but in reality, the difference was as vast as that between heaven and earth.
This difference was unlike that between the Furnace Fire Realm and the Primordial Pill Realm.
Cultivators in the Furnace Fire Realm, as long as they diligently cultivated Divine Skills—bringing each to small success or higher—and continually liquefied the Primordial Power within their bodies, would eventually have a chance to condense a Primordial Pill.
Even those with insufficient talent or foundation could step into the Primordial Pill Realm with the aid of various external items.
It was merely a matter of their relative strength.
Their lifespan could similarly extend from five hundred to a thousand years.
However, advancing from the Primordial Pill Realm to the Nirvana Realm was, in the truest sense, impossible to achieve by relying on external items.
The great tribulations of Wind, Fire, and Lightning all had to be overcome with one’s own strength.
Any Treasure, Elixir, or talisman was useless; only one’s own strength was real and true.
Therefore, some True Men who had temporarily displayed their might in the Primordial Pill Realm actually lacked the courage to attempt a breakthrough.
They feared that a single misstep could turn centuries of cultivation to dust.
Only those with exceptional innate talent and heaven-defying fortune could ascend to the Nirvana Realm and overcome the tribulations time and again.
Jiang Shu was, without a doubt, one of them!
In the eyes of all the elders at Thunder Prison Peak, Jiang Shu was an uncut gem that required no further carving to become a fine instrument.
At the very least, he would reach the Late-stage Nihility Realm.
If he seized more opportunities, it was even possible that in the future, he could comprehend the Great Dao and become a Lord of the Vientiane Realm!
To these Nirvana Realm elders, accepting Jiang Shu as a disciple was an early investment, binding their interests through the master-disciple relationship.
In the cultivation of the Great Dao, the master-disciple relationship was not necessarily eternal. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
A disciple could potentially surpass their master.
With Jiang Shu’s talent, even in the worst-case scenario for his future, they could still support each other. Thus, no matter how large the investment, it would at least break even.
"Thank you, Elders, for your kind intentions, but there are some matters I, this disciple, need to clarify first," Jiang Shu said, clasping his fist and bowing respectfully to each Nirvana Realm elder. He greeted them one by one, his voice booming like thunder across the entire mountain.
From within his Storage Bag, Zhou Ming’s body emerged.
"I, this disciple, came to Thunder Prison Peak because, in the Da Jing Dynasty, I received the inheritance of Master Ming Lei, who was Zhou Ming, an Inner Sect Disciple of our True Martial Sect’s Thunder Prison Peak."
"My ostentatious establishment of this Cave Mansion was also to create an opportunity to announce two matters."
"First: The death of Disciple Zhou Ming may be suspicious. I request that the Elders of the Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall reinvestigate."
Ascending step by step as if walking on air, Jiang Shu quickly rose and stood above his Cave Mansion. His gaze stretched to the distant Sky Flame Peak, and his voice, like thunder, boomed through layers of dragon-like clouds:
"Second: Zhou Yan, come forth and fight!"
No one had expected that in such an excellent environment, where he could freely choose a master, Jiang Shu would opt to challenge Zhou Yan first!
It was widely known that although Zhou Yan was not yet on the True Inheritor Seed List, many well-informed Inner Sect Disciples considered him a prime candidate for becoming a True Disciple.
Once he successfully advanced to the Nirvana Realm, he would have a strong chance of competing for one of the Ten Great True Inheritor positions.
