Realm-Hopping Martial Master-Chapter 492 - 292: Five Emperors Sky Extending Seal, Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist! Heaven Rank Great Array, Heaven Rank Treasure!
Within any Sect, challenges between geniuses are always the most captivating.
One was a genius from an old-established Sect. He was a late bloomer who went from obscurity upon entering the Inner Sect to a meteoric rise after his breakout. He cultivated seventy Divine Skills and possessed an exceptional understanding of the path of flames. Though he had not yet ascended to the True Inheritor Seed list, he was not far behind.
The other was a newly advanced Inner Sect Disciple of the Sect, blessed with staggering opportunities. In one year, he progressed from the late Furnace Fire Realm to the late Primordial Pill Realm, mastering sixty-eight Divine Skills. With the beating of Magic Drums and the sounding of great Magic Conchs, he made his move. He immediately exhibited a terrifying Cultivation, overwhelmingly suppressing many other late Primordial Pill Realm Inner Sect Disciples.
More and more Inner Sect Disciples gathered. Nirvana Realm elders from Thunder Prison Peak and Sky Flame Peak also took their respective sides. As their auras flared, they subtly demarcated a battleground hundreds of miles in radius for the two to clash.
The True Martial Sect had a rule: when Inner Sect Disciples fought for the status of a True Inheritor, no elder was to interfere.
Although neither Zhou Yan nor Jiang Shu had yet ascended to the True Inheritor Seed list.
But clearly, both possessed the qualifications to make the list; what they lacked was merely some accumulation of time. Even if they did not fight today, they would inevitably engage in various fierce battles in the future competition for True Inheritor Seed positions.
"The elders of the Law Enforcement Hall have come too! It seems this battle is really going to happen. That Zhou Ming sounds so familiar. I remember, wasn’t he from the same family as Zhou Yan? They both entered our Inner Sect at the same time."
Under the spiritual oppression of the Nirvana Realm elders, the Inner Sect Disciples stayed far apart, each about a thousand miles from the center of the battleground, chatting and exchanging words atop the clouds. Some of them, being older than Zhou Yan, naturally remembered this Zhou Ming.
"It must be some old family grudges. Brother Jiang probably made some Heavenly Dao vow when he accepted an inheritance. Too bad. With Zhou Ming’s level, being just the most ordinary Inner Sect Disciple, what good could he have possibly left behind?"
"Hahaha, different origins mean we naturally see things differently. You and I are both from one of the True Martial Thirty-Six Cities. Even before we began our Cultivation and became Inner Sect Disciples, we had seen plenty of Primordial Pill Realm powerhouses. So, we naturally know how vast the difference between Primordial Pill Realm Cultivators can be. But Jiang Shu wasn’t like that. It was said he was just from a small, mid-tier Dynasty. Probably before joining the True Martial Sect, forget Primordial Pill Realm Cultivators, he hadn’t even seen a single Furnace Fire Realm Cultivator." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
"It was also because Jiang Shu himself possessed an overwhelming fortune and exceptional talent. Otherwise, with only the Cultivation resources provided by Zhou Ming, it would have been difficult for him to even reach the Primordial Pill Realm, let alone fight Zhou Yan."
In just a few words, some Inner Sect Disciples had already pieced together the initial reason for the confrontation between Jiang Shu and Zhou Yan.
At this moment, the fighting space, hundreds of miles wide, was cleared out by the Nirvana Realm elders.
Zhou Yan manipulated various flame Divine Skills, incinerating the very sky. Every flame appeared to possess the terrifying power to burn a Primordial Pill Realm True Man to ashes.
"Jiang Shu, if I were you, I would honestly hide on Thunder Prison Peak to cultivate and find a Nirvana Realm elder to protect myself," Zhou Yan snorted coldly, immediately showing outsiders his confidence in surpassing Jiang Shu.
In his view, until a Cultivator reached the Nirvana Realm, their physical body always had flaws. No matter how potent their Primordial Power or how vast their Divine Skills, if the physical body were destroyed, all would be lost, turning to smoke and vanishing. However strong Jiang Shu might be, however much he might have accumulated, he certainly cannot compare to me. He had already begun comprehending the path of flames, and each flame Divine Skill in his hands was wielded with utmost lethal intent. Jiang Shu, what can he possibly use to stop me!
"No wonder you’ve cultivated seventy Divine Skills and still haven’t challenged any Inner Sect Disciple on the True Inheritor Seed list. I initially thought you wanted to accumulate more within the same Realm, but now I see: you don’t dare." Jiang Shu did not hurry to make a move. He looked at Zhou Yan in the distance for the first time, feeling the power of each flame Divine Skill as he spoke each piercing word.
The Inner Sect’s True Inheritor Seed list was different from the Outer Sect’s Divine Skills list. Anyone could ascend the latter once they mastered a certain number of Divine Skills, but the True Inheritor Seed list always had only ten slots. To ascend, an Inner Sect Disciple either had to break through to the Nirvana Realm or perish, thereby leaving the list. Alternatively, one had to rely on their own strength to challenge a genius already on the list and forcefully take their place.
"You don’t dare, because you believe that only with a vast difference in Realm and quantity of Divine Skills can you achieve true victory."
"You don’t dare, so you’ve hidden away on Sky Flame Peak, cultivating diligently and cowering behind a Nirvana Realm elder!"
"You don’t dare, and so you think others don’t dare either!"
"Utterly ludicrous!"
With each word Jiang Shu spoke, he took a step forward. This step, seemingly short, was in reality a leap of several hundred meters. Vast Primordial Power swirled within him, drawing in and expelling with each breath. Each time, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi around him seemed to be sucked into a vacuum. This was an exhibition of extremely robust strength. With every movement, he nearly affected the space around him; his thoughts alone were capable of influencing an enemy’s deployment of Divine Skills. Now, Jiang Shu completely revealed his terrifying power within the Primordial Pill Realm.
So what if he has comprehended the path of flames?
During my two hundred years in Wenxian Palace, I never lacked for comprehension of the Great Dao!
"Even to confront a newly advanced Inner Sect Disciple like me, you don’t dare leave your Cave Mansion on Sky Flame Peak, nor your Heavenly Rank Formation."
"Zhou Yan, with such a disposition, you still dare to covet the position of True Inheritor?"
