Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Placing the books containing information on the Profound Immortal Realm inside his interspatial ring, Xuan Hao didn’t linger around the Tower of Secrets and began following the compass pointing in the direction of the tenth celestial gate.

Although there were other things he wanted in the Tower of Secrets, be it information or combat techniques, he had far too few celestial coins after buying the information about the Profound Immortal Realm.

Even if he found something interesting to buy, it wouldn’t be that useful to him and he felt his time would be much better spent on the tenth celestial gate. After all, he didn’t want to end up spending the next few days looking through the Tower of Secrets for techniques and information that he had enough celestial coins to buy when there was a clear location where he could get his hand on more celestial coins.

The only problem regarding this source of celestial coins was that he truly had no clue how he would be able to get his hand on more celestial coins after he went through the tenth celestial gate.

Getting his hands on the more expensive things inside the Tower of Secrets that cost thousands of celestial coins was clearly impossible. Making him unfortunately conclude that the only way for him to get his hands on these things would be for him to become strong enough to forcibly take them away or find a way to allow his disciples to go through the celestial trials like he had done and have them transfer their celestial coins to him.

Though the latter seemed easier to accomplish compared to the first, just throw his strongest disciple into a celestial gate and have them complete the celestial trial inside, that was only on the surface. In the end, he also had to account for the current unstable state of the celestial gates themselves and ensure that his disciple’s entering a celestial gate wouldn’t just end up resulting in them perishing to a rouge spatial storm.

All things considered; he felt that it might be impossible for him to find a way to get his hand on more celestial coins in the short term after he finished the tenth celestial trial.

Then again, he wasn’t too discouraged by this, as he had managed to get his hand on the most important things he wanted from the Tower of Secrets and had a clear path to reaching the Peak of the Profound Immortal Realm.

The main thing left to keep his interest in the Tower of Secrets, outside of the countless combat techniques present, was information on the Venerable Realm and ancient information related to the past, either of which were considered the most expensive things present inside the Tower of Secrets. Especially the information on the Venerable Realm, as it was clear, information on this cultivation realm was difficult to come by even in the past, reaching an astonishing price of 10.000 celestial coins inside the Tower of Secrets.

Although this might be far out of his reach, Xuan Hao was still happy that he could find information on the Venerable Realm inside the Tower of Secrets, as he would inevitably become strong enough to get his hands on everything inside the Tower of Secrets in the future.

The only pity was that he couldn’t find any information that was explicitly about the major realm above the Venerable Realm outside of the holy lord title associated with the realm…

Moving through the mystic realm in the direction of the tenth celestial gate, Xuan Hao wasn’t the slightest bit worried about running into any danger along the way as his mind remained occupied with the different things he had wanted to buy in the Tower of Secrets but had far too few celestial coins to get his hands on.

This level of carelessness was not just because the formation guarding the mystic realm wouldn’t tolerate any beings above the Soul Ascension Realm that weren’t part of the Mirage Sect or a trial participant, but also because he felt fully confident in his own strength now that he had broken through to the Profound Immortal Realm and reached the Sea Formation Realm.

For this reason, even as he moved through increasingly desolate landscapes with fewer and fewer demon beasts around, he proceeded forward with confidence. Not caring much about the decreasing number of demon beasts present-

Rumble-!

Something that turned out to be a mistake, as he suddenly found himself being caught off guard by what could only be described as a massive demon beast breaking through the ground beneath him before opening its massive mouth with a circumference of more than a thousand meters to swallow him in a single bite. Leaving him rather bewildered over the sudden change in scenery and curious about what the ferocious beast was planning to do with him.

After all, he could tell that it didn’t intend to kill and just swallowed him to move him somewhere.

A rather odd choice of transport in his opinion, but the odd behavior had made him curious as to what this demon beast wanted and had also stopped him from killing the demon beast.

As for the strength of the demon beast… It was still within the Soul Ascension Realm, as the guardian formation would have already killed it if it had surpassed the Soul Ascension Realm.

The reason why it could catch him off guard and manage to swallow him didn’t have much to do with his attention being focused elsewhere, as his divine sense would still permeate his surroundings no matter how little attention he was paying. Instead, it had to do with the fact that the demon beast somehow had the ability to avoid his divine sense. Meaning the only way for him to notice the demon beast had been when it emerged from the ground to swallow.

Of course, with his strength, he could have stopped it when it emerged… But why should he? The demon beast was only at the Soul Ascension Realm and wasn’t any threat to him. Instead of that, he was far more curious about what the demon beast intended to do with him and where the ability to avoid his divine sense had come from.

The end result… Him being swallowed by the demon beast before finding himself being carried somewhere deeper below ground inside the mouth of the enormous demon beast.

Hm? The celestial compass is reacting… Is this demon beast perhaps here to personally carry me to the tenth celestial gate? An ancient form of transport from the Mirage Sect?

Outside of that, Xuan Hao also noticed that the celestial compass was indicating that he was getting closer to the tenth celestial gate. Making him think that the demon beast might be there to help guide him to the tenth celestial gate. Part of him even thought that it might be a transport method created by the Mirage Sect in the past, as the location of the tenth celestial gate seemed to be located somewhere far below ground.

No matter what it was, he wouldn’t complain, as even with the help of the celestial compass, it might have been difficult to find the tenth celestial gate without the timely assistance from the demon beast that had allowed him to realize that the tenth celestial gate was located far below ground…

Rumble~ BANG!

As he was busy trying to deduce how the enormous Soul Ascension Realm demon beast had managed to avoid his divine sense, Xuan Hao was suddenly alerted by the sound of the demon beast in question breaking through another layer of rocks before slamming into what he could only guess to be the ground of massive underground cave.

But… Even if he wanted to try and investigate the situation outside, he found out that the demon beast not only had the ability to hide from his divine sense but also had the ability to completely block his divine sense from sensing the situation outside.

Narrowing both his eyes in annoyance at this realization, Xuan Hao decided that his little trip with the demon beast had come to an end-

PTSSH-!

And before the demon beast could put on any form of resistance, he directly used his domain to tear a large opening for him to leave the demon beast through, the body of a Soul Ascension Realm demon beast being reduced to dust the second it met his domain.

Worse yet, because of the domineering power of his domain, it directly spread through the rest of the demon beast. Tearing it apart from the inside before it even had the chance to make a sound. Killing it so fast that Xuan Hao barely had time to realize what had happened.

”…”

I really didn’t intend on killing it just now, I just wanted to tear a small opening to leave through. Guess I really underestimated the strength of my domain when used offensively after breaking through to the Sea Formation Realm…