Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 751 - 318: Reaching Integration Perfection

In the empty void, Ning Qi faced off against Chi Xiazi, both hovering steadily.

Clad in white was one, while red adorned the other, each shining with brilliant light.

These two glowing auras collided fiercely, unwilling to share the space.

Ever since Chi Xiazi showed up, Ning Qi had quietly detected the shifts in his energy waves.

The level of Chi Xiazi's cultivation matched that of the Extreme Venerables in the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect.

Yet as the Spirit Bird Domain Master, bolstered by the Vast Realm Power, he easily outshone those from the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect.

Earlier captives had revealed details about the Spirit Bird Domain Master to Ning Qi.

Domain Masters in the Vast Realm differed from those in the Mountain and Sea Realm; appointments came directly from the Vast Immortal Sect for each domain.

Positions could pass through family lines, not just relying on cultivation strength.

Within the Spirit Bird Domain, the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect stood as the mightiest, boasting many at the Unity Realm.

Purely by cultivation, Chi Xiazi clearly wouldn't have claimed the domain mastery role.

Still, the Vast Realm's way of assigning such roles brought real benefits.

Now that the realms had merged, the war realm supported cultivators up to the Integration Realm.

Figures like Chi Xiazi thus played a vital part!

He could step into this war realm, and as Domain Master amid Integration Realm limits, he'd reign supreme without question!

That perfect plan crumbled with Ning Qi's arrival.

No matter his preparations, Chi Xiazi never imagined running into an anomaly like Ning Qi here in the war realm.

Once Ning Qi blocked him, Chi Xiazi turned his attention to scrutinizing the man.

Upon hearing Ning Qi declare himself Domain Master of the Profound Truth Realm, Chi Xiazi checked his cultivation and saw it fell short of Integration Realm Perfection!

A thought crossed his mind: had he met someone with even deeper backing than his own?

Such suspicion made perfect sense for Chi Xiazi; he'd only gained his Domain Master title after hitting Integration Realm Perfection.

The two spirit world domains spanned immense territories, and typically, Domain Masters emerged as the top power in their domain or through inherited safeguards like his.

With Ning Qi nowhere near Integration Realm Perfection, Chi Xiazi assumed he too benefited from ancestral favor.

He remained unaware that Ning Qi had forged his Domain Master status through personal effort, then governed the whole Profound Truth Realm to secure it.

What baffled Chi Xiazi most was how faint Ning Qi's Domain Master power felt, nothing like his own that could blaze across a thousand miles.

Witnessing his four avatars shattered by Ning Qi, Chi Xiazi looked beyond him toward the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect, where two enemy forces kept up their assault.

In his role as Domain Master, he ought to channel the Vast Realm Power to dominate the battlefield.

He'd already weakened the Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators' strength by a third while enhancing the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect's by the same amount, lifting their spirits too.

Even so, the overwhelming numbers of foes might still crush the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect's survivors.

What's more, he'd been called back by his allies to swiftly reverse the battle and rescue them from doom, only for Ning Qi to halt him.

This twist quickly eroded the fresh hope surging through the Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect.

It seemed inevitable that destruction at the hands of Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators loomed near.

Urgency gripped Chi Xiazi; if everyone from the Spirit Bird Domain perished on his watch, how could he ever show his face again?

True, as Domain Master he commanded realm power, but this place was the war realm, not the pure Vast Realm.

Here, three energies intertwined, limiting him to just a third of the Vast Realm's might.

The war realm itself restrained him too; drawing on its forces meant clashing against the other two energies' suppression!

That's why, in this war realm, Chi Xiazi couldn't wipe out all Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators from afar as he might in the Vast Realm.

His eyes locked onto Ning Qi; now, his only option was to defeat Ning Qi without delay!

Chi Xiazi's ethereal form grew solid, launching a palm forward at Ning Qi.

The moment his hand thrust out, ferocious flames burst forth, swelling into a massive Vermilion Bird claw that lunged at Ning Qi.

This claw from Chi Xiazi outdid in terror the ones conjured by the full might of Vermilion Bird Immortal Sect disciples together.

It tapped into vast realm energy, shaking the whole space as if a third of the realm's force gathered in that single strike.

Blazing divine energy poured out, and even distant fighters sensed a sudden sun blazing into existence, ready to incinerate all nearby.

Its striking force warped the void at the fringes alone.

Worse still, it carried an unavoidable sense of being trapped with no escape.

Against this claw, Ning Qi responded with steady composure, unleashing his own counter blow.

A colossal five-colored hand of matching scale arose, its hues swirling like a divine grasp from the heavens.

Upon manifesting, it soothed the void, smoothing out the twisted areas around the Vermilion Bird claw with Ning Qi's five-colored hand.

This sight made Chi Xiazi's eyes flicker involuntarily.

While Ning Qi's move lacked his own raw ferocity, it brimmed with profound, bottomless might.

Boom!

In the void, claw smashed into palm, igniting boundless flames that burst outward like dazzling fireworks.

Flames raged across the Vermilion Bird claw, its talons digging deep into the five-colored giant hand.

The intense blaze it emitted aimed to dissolve Ning Qi's five-colored giant hand entirely, with clear signs of melting already underway.