Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Coming to a decision, Xuan Hao decided to return to the Tower of Secrets to get his hands on the information on the Profound Immortal Realm before proceeding to the final celestial trial.

Finding himself entering the tower under the guidance of the preservation golem only a short time later after asking about how many celestial coins he had and whether it would be enough for him to get the information on the Profound Immortal Realm or not.

In the end, the cost of the information wasn’t nearly as expensive as he had expected. Reaching a grand total of 350 celestial coins for everything… And after completing the ninth celestial trial, his celestial coins had increased by a grand total of 200. Putting his total celestial coins at over five hundred. Making it more than doable for him to get his hands on the information immediately.

And so, without wasting any time lingering around the Tower of Secrets, he immediately bought the information on the Profound Immortal Realm that he was currently lacking. Not only covering the standard procedures for advancing through the Profound Immortal Realm but also covering different unique methods that deviated from the norm but were ultimately proven to be doable paths that had been created by past seniors who had surpassed the Profound Immortal Realm.

All things considered; Xuan Hao was incredibly satisfied with what he got after a quick look through the large bundle of books he had managed to get his hands on.

However, there was one thing that left him somewhat confused- And that was the fact that there was no mention of the Celestial Immortal Realm as an alternate path improvement, something rather odd considering that the Celestial Immortal Realm was a proven path as far as he was aware.

Not only had he personally encountered Celestial Immortal Realm cultivators, both human and demon beasts, but it was clear that this path was far more popular compared to the Profound Immortal Realm.

More importantly, it was clear that there should be a path for a Celestial Immortal Realm to go further from hints- no, direct statements he had managed to gather about the realm from ancient texts and records.

With that in mind, it was odd that there wasn’t a single mention of the Celestial Immortal Realm in the books on the Profound Immortal Realm, as this cultivation realm clearly existed in the ancient past when these books should have originally been written.

”Perhaps the Celestial Immortal Realm is far more unique than I originally thought and it isn’t just a slightly alternate path to cultivation…” Muttering this to himself as he glanced through the book that had a detailed description of the Star Creation Realm, Xuan Hao soon turned around to face the preservation golem standing a few meters behind him.

”Do you know anything about information regarding the Celestial Immortal?”

”Affirmative, Information on the Celestial Immortal Realm and the advancement requirements can be found a few meters to the left of texts on the Profound Immortal Realm. A reminder set to all those intent on following the Celestial Immortal Realm, proceed with care, this path might seem easier to tread at the start, but latter progress is fraught with danger.”

”Danger…?” Narrowing both his eyes as he looked back at the preservation golem behind him, Xuan Hao could not help growing even more curious about the Celestial Immortal Realm and soon enough, he found himself in front of the books that had been mentioned by the preservation golem.

[Following the Celestial Path]

[Note: General information on the Celestial Immortal Realm, Celestial Venerable Realm and the Celestial Emperor Realm]

[300 Celestial Coins]

”…”

Just looking at the price of the book, he instantly gave up as he simply didn’t have enough celestial coins on him to afford it.

On the flip side, the small note attached to the price note of the book did contain some new information that he hadn’t seen anywhere else.

Celestial Venerable and Celestial Emperor.

Both realms were unknown, but from the note alone, it was easy to guess that these two realms should be two major realms that came after the Celestial Immortal Realm.

The question was, what realm did they correspond to in the Profound Immortal Realm? Did they perhaps not even correspond to the Profound Immortal Realm, but the major realm that came after?

Lost in his own thoughts as he stared intently at the small note, Xuan Hao could not help feeling that it was unfortunate that he didn’t have any more celestial coins to buy information with.

But… At the same time, it also reminded him that he didn’t exactly have to buy the information to gain something from it, a clear example being that he had just managed to learn about the two major realms that came after the Celestial Immortal Realm from a simple note attached to the price note of the information.

Although this kind of information might have been considered common at the time that the Tower of Secrets was still operating normally, to him, this information was brand new and something he had not encountered before.

So, with that in mind, Xuan Hao decided to search through the Tower of Secrets looking for any useful information that might be hidden on the small reminder notes attached to some of the price notes before he began exploring the information he had just bought on the Profound Immortal Realm.

In the end, he ended up spending a little over three hours looking through the information section of the Tower of Secrets. Looking through all the small extra notes he could find.

Although most of the information turned out to be useless, he did find some pieces of useful information hidden among the different notes.

One being that he confirmed that there was indeed a major realm beyond the Profound Immortal Realm where those reaching the realm were referred to as a great power or having reached the realm of great power. More specifically, he found the name of the realm. The Venerable Realm.

Not much different from the Celestial Venerable Realm outside one having the word celestial at the front. Making him guess that the two corresponded to the same realm in terms of power.

Although, it did make him question how someone at the Peak of the Celestial Immortal Realm would make such a massive jump in power, as even he, someone who had just reached the Sea Formation Realm, could hold his own against someone at the Peak of the Celestial Immortal Realm, something he found completely unimaginable in the face of someone in the Land Creation Realm.

After all, from what little information he had about the Land Creation Realm, it was clear that the strength of that realm far exceeded what he could deal with at his current strength…

Thinking that it was far more likely for some unknown major realm between the Celestial Immortal Realm and the Celestial Venerable Realm that he just didn’t know about yet, Xuan Hao decided not to think too much about this massive gap in strength between those two realms for now.

Instead, he was far more interested in the second thing he managed to uncover, as it related not only to the major realm that came after the Venerable Realm, but also pertained to a hidden ancient sect.

More specifically, the piece of information stated…

[… On the topic of ancient hidden sects, the only acknowledged ancient hidden sects in the divine realm are those with the backing of at least one existence at the level of a holy lord. Without anyone that powerful to back them up and only a few venerables around, an ancient hidden sect can only be considered a normal hidden sect.]

Not only did it give him confirmation that the major realm above the Venerable Realm existed and people in that realm were referred to as holy lords, but it also showed that whoever wrote that note was highly likely someone who had reached the holy lord level themselves.

After all, only someone who had surpassed the Venerable Realm would dare to talk about the Venerable Realm with that level of disregard.

If not for the fact that the note was attached to a book on different ancient sects and holy lands, priced at a grand total of 5000 celestial coins, he would have really wanted to get his hands on that book to read it for himself. After all, it was something that had been created by someone who had surpassed the Venerable Realm. Even if the topic seemed mundane, the price was more than enough to show that it was more special than it seemed on the surface.

Although… With that kind of price, Xuan Hao highly doubted that he would ever be able to save up enough celestial coins to buy it himself.

It was far more likely that he would become strong enough to forcibly take it before he got that many celestial coins.

That and the fact that he would be running out of ways to get celestial coins after completing the tenth celestial trial…