Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 647 - 289: Come Quickly_4

Though frustration was unavoidable, his perspective was steadily expanding. The Sword Ancestor understood perfectly that one could never achieve true progress if they remained shackled or governed by their own emotions.

Because of this realization, despite being frequently overwhelmed by Ning Qi, he continued to seek him out for constant sparring sessions.

Consequently, the Sword Ancestor—an already peerless Divine Sword—found his sharp edge becoming more restrained and refined through his training with Ning Qi.

However, beneath that newfound simplicity, an even more terrifying power was brewing!

Ning Qi, of course, had not been idle during these five years.

He successfully mastered five additional strands of the Power of Rules, bringing his grand total to fifty!

Fifty might sound like a simple number, but who else in the Northern and Southern Domains possessed such a vast array of rules?

Even looking beyond those regions, very few within the entire Mountain and Sea Realm could hope to surpass Ning Qi in this regard.

Beyond mastering the Sword Ancestor’s "One Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Techniques" and utilizing the Sword Dao to govern various other paths, Ning Qi pushed the boundaries of the Sword Ancestor’s Dao even further.

He refused to be restricted solely to the Sword Dao. Instead, he applied the concept of One Dao breaking Ten Thousand Daos and One Dao commanding All Daos.

Ning Qi had always found this specific path of the Sword Ancestor to be uniquely profound, possessing a level of potential that seemed capable of infinite growth.

Even after five years of using the Sword Dao to influence other paths, he still couldn't match the sheer quantity the Sword Ancestor could handle.

While the Sword Ancestor could control nearly every martial path through the Sword Dao, Ning Qi was currently limited to managing only three.

Advancement in this specific Dao required patient, steady effort; it wasn't a skill that could be perfected through instant comprehension alone.

Yet, for every path he successfully brought under control, any future adversary practicing those specific paths would undoubtedly be crushed by him!

As his mastery of this Dao deepened, Ning Qi tested his limits within the Sea of Realms. He was now capable of carving out ten cubic meters of rules from the Sea of Realms to integrate them into the True Martial Realm.

Previously, such a feat was beyond Ning Qi's wildest dreams.

Since this Dao possessed the power to sever the Sea of Realms, it was equally capable of slicing through other worlds to harvest their essence.

Had Ning Qi not been intent on keeping his presence hidden for now, he might have already begun severing pieces of space from the Mountain and Sea Realm to bolster the True Martial Realm.

Ultimately, Ning Qi isolated this specific path and refined it into a powerful Divine Technique, which he named: World Severing!

During this same period, Ning Qi revisited the various martial techniques he had acquired in the lower realms, re-cultivating them using his Integration Realm body of rules.

Taking Niu Dingtian’s Qiu Niu Divine Form as a foundation, Ning Qi systematically perfected the other divine forms within the True Martial Nine Stances. He merged them into a True Dragon form—capable of both separating and combining—with each aspect serving as a distinct divine technique.

Over these five years, the Infinite Sword Sect’s growth naturally proceeded at a phenomenal rate.

At this point, no sect within the Beixuan Domain could obstruct the Infinite Sword Sect's ascension, especially with various reincarnated individuals occupying high-ranking positions within the organization.

Thus, the Infinite Sword Sect became the absolute, undisputed sovereign of the Beixuan Domain, eclipsing the former Beixuan Upper Sect in terms of sheer reputation.

Powerful figures from various sects responded to them with great fervor.

Unlike the Beixuan Upper Sect, which struggled to find supporters despite its status, the various sects were now more than willing to follow whenever Ning Qi summoned them.

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Southern True Domain.

For five years, the Niu Mo Upper Sect had been stealthily executing the strategy designed by Niu Dingtian.

Naturally, Niu Dingtian hadn't crafted this plan in isolation; he had collaborated with three other Integration Realm experts from the Niu Mo Upper Sect while maintaining regular contact with Ning Qi.

Throughout those five years, whether by chance or design, the Niu Mo Upper Sect was constantly embroiled in friction with the Feather Transformation Upper Sect.

Each incident appeared accidental, creating a facade where the Niu Mo Upper Sect seemed to be acting only in self-defense against the aggressive pressure from the Feather Transformation Upper Sect’s Great Powers and True Inheritors.

The Niu Mo Upper Sect indirectly manipulated other organizations, including ordinary Upper Sects and even members of the Celestial Star Upper Sect, drawing them into the chaos.

During this era of conflict, the Niu Mo Upper Sect took very few losses, while many vital True Inheritors and high-ranking descendants of the Feather Transformation Upper Sect were systematically eliminated.

The animosity between the two sects reached a boiling point. Even the Feather Transformation Upper Sect, famous for its restraint, could no longer suppress its fury.

They redirected their entire focus toward the Niu Mo Upper Sect, completely neglecting the Infinite Sword Sect in the Beixuan Domain.

Then, the final straw broke.

Fang Chenjin, the peerless genius whom the Feather Transformation Upper Sect had exhausted its resources to nurture, was slain by a disciple of the Niu Mo Upper Sect.

Fang Chenjin was the youngest son of Fang Xiandao, the Sect Leader of the Feather Transformation Upper Sect, and was widely recognized as the sect's future pillar.

In the eyes of the Feather Transformation Upper Sect, his talent surpassed the previous five great prodigies of the Northern and Southern Domains, second only to Ning Qi himself.

Fang Chenjin’s sudden death once again shattered the aspirations of the Feather Transformation Upper Sect.

Driven to total madness by this loss, the Feather Transformation Upper Sect prepared to launch an all-out war against the Niu Mo Upper Sect!

At that exact moment, Ning Qi received a transmission from Niu Dingtian.

"The net is set. Move quickly!"