Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 804 - 339: Why Doesn’t He Play by the Rules?

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Previously on Cultivating with Top Enlightenment...
In the Vast Realm, Blood Slaughter Enemy and his allies debate strategies against the Mountain and Sea Realm, ultimately deciding to use two captured Brahma Heaven cultivators to locate enemy forces and sow internal chaos, overriding concerns about integrity. Meanwhile, in the Mountain and Sea Realm, Domain Master Jin Guanghua learns of his son Jin Duanshan's death and alerts his brothers Fan City and Mu Qingtian. The trio summons an apparition of the Mountain and Sea Realm Will, which reveals that one son is dead and the other two captured by the Vast Realm's self-sacrificed Unity Realm cultivators, attributing the misfortune to their sons' arrogance following Ning Qi's actions in aiding the realm.

Inside the war realm.

From a patch of shadowy void, Ning Qi stepped forth.

The final concealed node area trailed behind him, reduced to utter emptiness, pitch black and ominous, framing his figure in pristine white robes as he reaped the benefits from the dual realms.

Once he departed the area, the void got swiftly squeezed by the adjacent regular node spaces, where shadows clashed with radiance, dissolving entirely in the process.

Right then, the True Martial Realm, after fusing with the six hidden node spaces in this Central Domain, underwent yet another surge of swift expansion.

In under two hours, a fresh batch of over a dozen primordial rules joined the True Martial Realm!

Every creature across the True Martial Realm sensed the world's shifts and instinctively paid homage once more to Realm Master Ning Qi.

Ning Qi's true form bounded toward the boundary barrier.

Although his power had now achieved the Great Success stage of the Rule Realm, this swiftly devoured space acted like potent sustenance, readily propelling his cultivation even higher.

Ning Qi's gaze sparkled like celestial bodies, fixed on the war realm's direction.

With his boosted might and the presence of the reincarnation body inside, the link in awareness between them sharpened considerably.

Without deliberately creating a space passage for the true body's intent to arrive, Ning Qi managed to precisely detect the reincarnation body's position and scan its surroundings.

The whole war realm remained beyond Ning Qi's full vision for now, unlike how the Mountain and Sea Realm and Vast Realm Wills could survey it from above like a sprawling scroll, revealing the control over its nodes.

Yet in Ning Qi's stellar gaze, the conditions around the reincarnation body's area appeared vividly clear.

During the Vast Realm's opening of a space passage, sending twenty Unity Realm experts into the Central Domain's reincarnation body zone, Realm Master Ning Qi grasped every detail of it.

"What a strategy—to target me, the Vast Realm is truly forfeiting twenty Unity Realm cultivators to isolate their own forces!"

Ning Qi found himself impressed by the swift judgment and the high regard from that Saint Ancestor toward him.

Regrettably, they never suspected that backed by Ning Qi's true form, nothing short of the full arrival of Mountain Ancestor, Sea Ancestor, Saint Ancestor, or the dual realms' wills could harm his reincarnation body.

Ning Qi reached out his hand, softly grasping in the war realm's direction.

Drawing on the faint connection with the reincarnation body, he effortlessly formed a tiny, undetectable space passage and sent a message to it.

Having relayed the message, Realm Master Ning Qi surveyed the broad war realm.

At present, the domains of rival realms stayed hidden from his sight.

Still, Ning Qi felt assured that should the reincarnation body keep merging additional dual realm areas into the True Martial Realm, he would soon gain the power to monitor the war realm's events just as the dual realms' wills did.

...

In the Central Domain.

Ning Qi received the message from his true form, feeling a surge of joy in his chest first.

This power to scout intelligence across the entire war realm was something his reincarnation body couldn't possibly handle alone.

He relied solely on the Soul-Searching Plate's readings to track the realm's status.

With the true body now holding this skill, planning ahead grew far simpler for him.

Currently, he and the true body shared an odd dynamic.

They served as watchers, strategists, and players all submerged in the chaos simultaneously.

In contrast, the Mountain and Sea Realm, Vast Realm, and their Ancestors merely played the role of strategists, completely oblivious to his existence.

Ning Qi accessed his private storage realm, pulling forth three Node Pearls glowing with soft white radiance.

These Node Pearls embodied the essence of lands close to the Vast Realm's armies across three domains.

In typical battle conditions, no one would even consider grabbing Node Pearls.

And should someone dare entertain the thought, success would prove impossible.

Normally, upon seizing a node, two-realm warriors would promptly erect altars and call upon the dual realms' wills.

However, Ning Qi had picked up certain true body techniques as Realm Master, enabling him to claim the land's core in advance.

In doing so, he prevented the Vast Realm's forces from invoking their realm's will, granting him extra options to maneuver!

By himself, he pioneered this fresh combat approach, letting him capture vacant Node Pearls ahead of time.

Following that, deciding whether to invoke the Mountain and Sea Realm's will rested entirely on his choice!

Ning Qi pulled the Soul-Searching Plate once more, studying its displayed chart.

The chart showed the Vast Realm's troops holding still, yet among their lines, twenty intensely potent presences had arisen.

On the chart, these showed as twenty shining spots within the fog marking the Vast Realm's troops.

Apart from those, the Central Domain's chart filled with his allies from the Profound Truth Realm, Fuyao Realm, and Langya Realm.

Clearly, the initial three Mountain and Sea Realm forces in the Central Domain had been totally wiped out!

As Ning Qi observed this scene, he juggled the Node Pearls lightly, thoughts racing in his head.

Against the foe's display of cutting off their own side, just two paths presented themselves.

One involved chasing straight after them, while the other could mean pressuring his troops to draw him out.

Thanks to Ning Qi's sharp perception, he foresaw countless tactics the enemies might try, and armed with such foresight, how could he allow their plans to prevail?

A smile on his face, Ning Qi simply ripped apart the space in front of him, vanishing from his spot.

...

Guided by Blood Slaughter Enemy, the twenty Unity Realm cultivators continued debating ways to track down Ning Qi.

Both Wu Xu and Sun Lei shared their suggestions, and in the end, Blood Slaughter Enemy chose Wu Xu's strategy.

They turned their eyes to the imprisoned Brahma Heaven and Mu Zhutian.