Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Ten days later.

The massive vortex floating on the sea surface slowly closed, stirring up gigantic waves.

A fleet of disc-shaped treasure ships rose into the air, flying skyward to avoid being swallowed by the vortex.

At the same time, two streaks of streaming light quietly ascended to the cloud sea of the heavenly vault, landing on the clouds to reveal the figures of Zhao Sheng and Master Granny.

By now, the exploration of the Prisoner God Palace might be considered a great success. The entire process went so smoothly, without a single mishap occurring along the way, which surprised Zhao Sheng quite a bit.

Master Granny looked at him, her eyes bright and probing, "Taoist Zhao, now that this is over, if you have no other place to go. Why not come with this old woman to Daughter Peak and stay for a few days?"

"I appreciate the kindness, Master Granny, but I have a couple of old friends currently residing on the Nine Demon Continent. This time is just convenient for me to visit them." Zhao Sheng replied.

Master Granny's eyes flickered, and she said earnestly, "Very well then! We shall part ways here!"

"Take care, Master Granny. I will take my leave first!" Zhao Sheng cupped his hands in salute, then his whole body flared with blazing golden light, transforming instantly into a stream of light, speeding toward the eastern horizon.

Master Granny watched him leave until he disappeared behind the clouds, finally revealing a faint cold smile on her face.

...

The third month of the Daytime Season, on the seventh day of June.

On this day, the depths of the Candle Light Mountain Range saw more than a dozen volcanoes erupting simultaneously, with billowing black smoke soaring into the sky, causing the already overcast clouds covering the entire mountain range to become even thicker and more oppressive, chilling the heart with fear.

Rumble!

In a series of thunderous booms, massive amounts of fiery, molten lava flowed down from the volcanic craters, appearing like rivers of fire winding down the mountainsides. Bubbles of fire rose on the river's surface, bursting to release large clouds of toxic smoke, filling the air with a pungent scent of sulfur and acid.

At a certain moment, a streak of golden tunneling light suddenly broke through the dense black clouds, plummeting into the mouth of a live volcano below, vanishing in a flash.

Shortly after, a figure wreathed in flames flew out from the volcanic crater.

Zhao Sheng hovered above the volcano, looking around, quickly committing the surrounding terrain to memory.

This place was the third treasure land he selected, deliberately disguised as an Independent Cultivation's Mansion, with a Barrier Array Formation set up outside. Without a Pass Token, even a Nascent Soul Ancestor would find it extremely difficult to enter.

"The preparations are complete. Now it's time to visit the Yellow Heaven Sect." Zhao Sheng muttered to himself before suddenly transforming into Mystic Light and soaring up, disappearing into the black clouds in the blink of an eye.

In just over a hundred breaths of time, he flew from the Candle Light Mountain Range to the Skyfire Plain, with the Yellow Heaven Peak now visible in the distance.

Returning after nearly two hundred years, Zhao Sheng was surprised to find that Yellow Heaven Peak had undergone a radical transformation.

The entire mountain, from top to bottom, was covered with contiguous golden-topped yellow-walled temples. Under the sunlight, Yellow Heaven Peak shone with dazzling golden light, appearing from afar like a sacred mountain of gold, solemn and majestic!

Zhao Sheng concealed his figure, slowly flying from the front peak to the forbidden area of the rear mountain, sensing the aura fluctuations of many Golden Core Masters along the way, especially three particularly strong auras, standing out among the Golden Core Masters like fireflies in the night.

One of them was very familiar to him, being the aura of Dao Zhan. The other three were somewhat unfamiliar, but they were also Cultivators at the Nascent Soul level.

Due to his overly sensitive identity, Zhao Sheng chose not to show himself this time, merely observing silently in secret.

After spending half a month, he explored all the critical areas within the sect and fully grasped the current development situation of the Yellow Heaven Sect, the number of individuals above the Golden Core, and the missionary work which he cared about most.

Undoubtedly, Dao Zhan, as the Temporary Sect Leader of the Yellow Heaven Sect, was diligent and conscientious without parallel.

With his strategic planning, the sect's missionary work flourished and was now thriving, with the temples of Emperor Huangtian spread across the Nine Demon Continent, with an uncountable number of followers.

Furthermore, the Yellow Heaven Sect had developed into the largest human power on the Nine Demon Continent and had always maintained good relations with the Guan Shu and Thunder Roc races.

Over the past century, the humans on the continent united under the flag of the Yellow Heaven Sect, implementing a strategy of "distant alliances and nearby attacks" while cooperating with the Guan Shu and Thunder Roc races to initiate annexation wars against the Earth Python Giant Field and other Alien Races.

In a hundred years, the human clan launched countless wars of varying scales, achieving more victories than defeats, expanding the territory by nearly a third, and even gaining two more Nascent Soul Ancestors of the human race as a result.

Both of them later joined the Yellow Heaven Sect, becoming Supreme Elders second only to Dao Zhan.

After learning all this, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but nod secretly, finally letting go of his last concern, deciding not to interfere in the affairs of the Yellow Heaven Sect anymore and to let everything follow its natural course!

After leaving the Yellow Heaven Sect, he spent two years traveling to other three continents, leaving a treasure land in each, as a contingency.

In over two years, the Blood God surprisingly did not launch a single attack, seemingly ignoring him completely, which ended up with Zhao Sheng having run around for two years in vain.

However, this result also gave him some assurance, and next, he intended to secretly head for the Nether Divine Realm.

A month later, the Daytime Season ended, and the Nether Night Season arrived as expected.

The Nine Demon Continent was about to plunge into a prolonged dark season, with cold tides rising and snow sealing the world in ice.

On this day, a streak of golden light suddenly shot up from a certain spot on the Nine Demon Continent, piercing the pitch-black heavenly curtain and racing toward the boundless Void Sea beyond the realm.

Time gradually passed, and Zhao Sheng continued day by day to approach the Nether Divine Realm.