Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 704 - 305: Vast Realm Coordinates
Previously on Cultivating with Top Enlightenment...
Guided by Ning Qi, the Profound Truth Realm cultivators masked their auras completely and journeyed straight to the realm node, evading detection from any White Crane Immortal Sect individuals.
They suppressed their breathing and focused intently, floating thirty zhang over the White Crane Immortal Sect's heads, poised for the perfect instant.
As the Black Dragon of the Sea of Realms deployed its ultimate move, Ning Qi gave the signal with a swift gesture.
In a flash, the group unveiled themselves and launched a unified assault, wiping out most of the White Crane Immortal Sect's forces.
Nearly all the Primordial Spirit Realm and Void Path Realm cultivators perished, with just a handful managing to survive by sheer fortune.
Among the Integration Realm powerhouses, six collapsed to the earth, clinging to faint breaths.
Just the mightiest pair, Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran, stayed suspended in the sky.
Right then, their garments hung in shreds from the onslaught, yet they paid no heed to mending them.
Their gazes lifted to the skies, locking onto the abrupt arrival of Profound Truth Realm cultivators, faces twisted with burning rage.
An ambush by Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators had struck them!
Upon recognizing the enemy formation at last, a wave of astonishment hit them, spawning a massive doubt in their thoughts.
Didn't the Vast Immortal Sect insist they confronted a Sect from a minor Spirit Domain in the Mountain and Sea Realm?
Why would a Sect from such a minor domain boast so many formidable experts?
Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran's primordial spirits swept rapidly over the Profound Truth Realm assembly, revealing that across all levels, the foes outnumbered their own ranks!
Apart from several exceptions, the rest donned the shared robes of the Profound Truth Alliance, instantly prompting assumptions of a single Sect's involvement.
Their flawless teamwork only reinforced this false conclusion!
Should anyone claim at this point that Ning Qi's crew consisted of scattered Sect affiliates, disbelief would surely follow.
The lone comfort for the duo lay in the fact that the Integration Realm foes generally possessed inferior cultivation bases compared to theirs.
Yet the very next instant, the pair extended their primordial spirit senses around the area.
They realized that fully ninety-nine percent of White Crane Immortal Sect cultivators lay slain, prompting drastic shifts in their complexions.
"Hao Shidi, hurry and reach out to the remaining three White Crane Immortal Sect squads."
Hao Qiuran didn't pause, pulling out a jade scroll and shattering it without delay.
This served as a vital communication tool for the White Crane Immortal Sect; breaking the jade scroll signaled the gravest peril, teetering on complete destruction.
It sent their final position straight to fellow White Crane Immortal Sect members.
Shu Lingyu's eyes fixed on the pristine white silhouette at the sky's heart, clutching a shrunken black flood dragon resembling a mere worm.
That black flood dragon's last devastating strike had severely wounded three of their Integration Realm experts in an instant, yet now it dangled helplessly like a bug in that immaculate youth's grasp.
Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran probed Ning Qi's cultivation aura once more, confirming without doubt that the man's level sat firmly at late Integration stage!
Shock passed between the two in a shared glance; they weren't naive. If this foe held such prowess and led the horde effectively, it pointed to just one truth: either immense support or exceptional talent defined him.
In this battlefield realm, no support held sway; evidently, Ning Qi embodied the latter!
Cultivators from the enemy side struck at White Crane Immortal Sect members one by one, yet spared Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran from assault.
The pair refrained from rushing to help; their focus stayed glued to Ning Qi, wary of any bold moves.
No losses marred the enemy forces, and with the duo now encircled, flight posed a daunting challenge.
At present, merely two options remained open to them.
The initial choice involved stalling fiercely, enduring the fray until reinforcements from other White Crane Immortal Sect groups arrived, grasping at even the faintest hope of living.
The alternative meant seizing the commander outright, capturing Ning Qi to hold him captive and deter the enemy advance, carving an escape route.
However, flanking that youth stood yet another late Integration Realm expert.
From the posture, a tight bond with the youth was obvious, as the figure eyed them sharply like a blade, now and then checking on the youth nearby.
High in the heavens.
Ning Qi rattled the black flood dragon clutched in his fist; under his hold, it writhed feebly like a pest, drained of all fight and left reeling from the motion!
At last, it appeared to withstand Ning Qi's handling no longer, and amid the vertigo, the black flood dragon forced out an expulsion.
With swift spiritual power, Ning Qi seized the item the black flood dragon regurgitated, then summoned a water flow to rinse it spotless.
Afterward, Ning Qi held it near for a thorough inspection.
What the black flood dragon had disgorged proved to be a bead, roughly basketball-sized, brimming with chaotic energies inside.
Within swirled the Mountain and Sea Realm's power, the Sea of Realms' essence, plus the Vast Realm's force, rendering the energy overwhelmingly potent.
This very bead formed the realm node itself, meant to anchor steadfastly in position.
Yet the black flood dragon raged wildly, a genuine savage creature from the Sea of Realms, ripping it free and gulping it down.
Such savage beasts from the Sea of Realms struggled mightily to breach the steadier war realm from their chaotic home.
Faced with the realm node's surging power, they inevitably craved it, viewing it as a sacred treasure to boost their cultivation.
With the realm node firmly in his possession, Ning Qi at last directed his sight downward to the pair below.
Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran's stares clashed with his mid-air, jolting them both.
Ning Qi's look carried the serene poise of the Saint Ancestor they'd glimpsed in the Vast Immortal Sect, exuding an otherworldly grace untouched by worldly chaos.