845 Assassination and the Welcoming Ceremony of the Immortal Realm (1/2)
The Immortal Realm was a very mysterious place for practitioners who had never had a chance to visit it. It was a hopeful and legendary world. But for Zhou Bao, it was not that mysterious. After flying through the Immortal Realm for a while, he suddenly came to a halt. His expression turned curious.
It was not hard to pass through the gate and penetrate the cloud of pneuma behind it. He had done it in just a second. The first thing he had seen was a mountain, a huge, towering mountain. There were actually several of them, each about 300 kilometers high. Zhou Bao looked like a tiny bug fluttering among the endless mountains.
The Immortal Realm was extremely vast and boundless, way beyond his imagination.
In the Heaven Realm World, Zhou Bao could reach anywhere he wanted in a split second. However, subject to a more powerful Law of Space here, the Great Way of Heavens and Realms did not work anymore, perhaps it was prohibited in this world. And when he performed the Three Realms Division Technique, the effect he could produce was similar to when he had just learned the special technique, or sometimes even worse, because in this world he often headed in the wrong direction by mistake.
It reminded him of the Law of Heaven and Earth in the Eastern Thunder World, the Easternmost Land.
Compared to the stringent law in the Eastern Thunder World, the law in the Immortal Realm was more precise, or maybe more well-conceived. Among all the well-conceived rules, there were many things that appealed to Zhou Bao, such as the Dharmas.
His whole life, Zhou Bao had only once caught a few glimpses of some exposed Dharmas in the Central Star Area. But in the Immortal Realm, such Dharmas were everywhere. Here, these wonders were as abundant and cheap as cabbages. They were randomly piled up in this world.
The clouds in the sky, the water on the ground, and most ordinary things were full of Dharmas. All the secrets about how the clouds, waters, and mountains were formed, why the Law of Space could not function here, and anything you could think of was simply lying before you. You did not need to exert effort to research or comprehend anything. You could grasp all the secrets in the world simply by sitting on the ground and watching.
”Impressive, this is very impressive! Taoist Jin is capable of anything! He has conjured such an amazing world! If I were to practice here, I wouldn't need anything else, even cultivation methods are of no use. All I need to do is sit here, inhale the essence of the world, and watch the Dharmas. In less than 10 years, I could reach the Realm of Human Immortal. If I manage to further understand the meanings of the Dharmas, I'll become a Divine Immortal, or an Earthly Immortal. I wonder what kind of tribulation I'll come across here!”
Tribulation was quite possibly the only effective restriction limiting the growth of practitioners in the Immortal Realm.
In this world, achieving the Earthly Immortal Rank was not difficult. But refining the Earthly Immortal's own macro world was the limit. If you wanted to go further and become a Celestial Immortal, well, that depended on pure luck.
”This world has put the Earthly Immortal into mass production!” After observing his surroundings for a while, Zhou Bao came to a conclusion about the Immortal Realm.
Yes, it put the Earthly Immortal into mass production. In Zhou Bao's eyes, this was the greatest function of the Immortal Realm. Perhaps it was Taoist Jin's ultimate goal. But what did he need so many Earthly Immortals for?
A small question sounded in his ears.
But soon this small voice faded. After all, Zhou Bao had just arrived in the Immortal Realm. It was merely wishful thinking for him to guess the Immortal Realm creator's true purpose.
”Ghost Child, this is the Immortal Realm. Judging from the environment, it shouldn't be a problem for me to practice here and become an Earthly Immortal, right?”
”Of course not. If you have enough time and the right opportunity, it's even possible for you to achieve—murderous intent!”
”What?” Zhou Bao was startled. His heart pounded faster for no reason. ”What's going on? I've just arrived in the Immortal Realm, but no sooner had I warmed my seat than a murderous intent emerged. Where did it come from?”
A puff of freezing air crept up and rounded on his neck. He subconsciously shifted aside, but it was a bit too late. He felt a chill in his neck, and golden red blood splashed out. A shot of surreptitious Sword Qi had cut open the skin on his neck and slid in, instantly cracking the tendons and meridians inside.
”Crap!”
Zhou Bao's eyes lit up, and the Mysterious Icy Divine Light started functioning at once. It crashed head-on into the invading Sword Qi.
”Clank, Clank, Clank!”
After one move from the Sword Qi, the Mysterious Icy Divine Light collapsed unexpectedly.
”This is impossible!” Sensing what had happened inside his body, Zhou Bao was appalled. The radiance around him flashed consecutively as he launched the Three Realms Division. He kept shifting from the left to the right in order to avoid the Sword Qi chasing after him. Inside his body, his Dantian was working frantically, issuing tons of Dharma power to fend off the sharp Sword Qi.