Cultivating with Top Enlightenment

The Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor looked at Ning Qi, their pupils slightly constricting.

Ning Qi had grown rapidly, and would soon be able to learn their inheritances; from this alone, his talent undoubtedly far surpassed the two of them.

But learning was one thing; creating and modifying Cultivation Techniques was another.

At this moment, Ning Qi actually said he wanted to decipher the Divine Techniques within the Immortal Scripture and modify them so that everyone could use them—this was simply treating the Immortal Scripture with far too little regard.

If it were Cultivation Techniques or Divine Techniques of Unity Realm and below cultivators, the two of them would not doubt Ning Qi if he wanted to modify them.

But to modify the Immortal Scripture’s Divine Techniques, and moreover a Divine Technique from an Immortal Scripture that led directly to the Celestial Immortal Realm, this...

The two truly did not know what they should say.

Seeing their gazes, Ning Qi naturally understood what they were thinking.

Ning Qi pointed at the branches of the Enlightenment Realm Tree on the plaza; the branches trembled slightly, and a swath of green shade drooped down.

”It seems you’ve underestimated the efficacy of my Enlightenment Realm Tree?”

After Ning Qi spoke, he gently closed his eyes.

Just now, the Sea Ancestor had released nine strands of immortal power, then, using immortal power as the foundation, formed an incomparably complex Immortal Dao Array.

Although Ning Qi had never seen that Array before and even felt he could not understand it, he nonetheless memorized it completely.

At this moment, Ning Qi’s body and mind both sank into a clear and empty state of Enlightenment.

He recalled in his heart the method of constructing the Array; the parts he did not understand gradually became clear under the analysis of the light of wisdom.

Suddenly, he pointed at the Mountain Ancestor Immortal Body within the Spirit Jade Coffin.

Nine strands of immortal power were immediately drawn out from within the Immortal Body and then began to condense into an Array following the Sea Ancestor’s previous method.

The Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, off to the side, had their eyes twitching incessantly.

The Saint Ancestor thought to himself, ”Such a complex Immortal Dao Array, and he can actually memorize and reproduce it with just a single glance?”

The Sea Ancestor, however, was more sensitive to the power of the Enlightenment Realm Tree mentioned in Ning Qi’s words.

”This tree is far too wondrous. Shrouded by its power, it’s very easy to enter a profound state of Enlightenment. That Array earlier—given my temperament, it would have been impossible to succeed in casting it on the first try. But precisely because of this tree’s power, my state of mind became unprecedentedly calm, and only then was I able to succeed in one attempt.”

Ning Qi, unlike the Sea Ancestor, did not use the Immortal Dao Power generated within his own body, but directly used the power within the Mountain Ancestor Immortal Body.

First, using his own would be too exhausting; second, since he wanted to create a Divine Technique that anyone could use, whether he used his own immortal power was irrelevant.

The nine strands of silver-white immortal power continuously interwove in the void, gradually taking shape.

The Sea Ancestor had personally practiced it once, so she was very clear whether there were any mistakes in the Array Ning Qi was forming.

Several times, she felt Ning Qi was about to err, yet he corrected it himself.

Time slipped by quietly; using the Mountain Ancestor’s immortal power was indeed much less taxing for Ning Qi.

Seeing that there was only the final step left and that Ning Qi was about to perfectly replicate the Sea Ancestor’s Array, something strange happened: the nine strands of immortal power suddenly destabilized and exploded like a spray of fireworks.

Ning Qi failed in forming an Array with immortal power for the first time.

”So it really does require a specific Cultivation Technique to use it?”

The Saint Ancestor frowned.

Ning Qi’s expression did not change; it was merely a single failure—nothing worth making a fuss over.

He silently closed his eyes, all the previous steps flashing through his mind, and muttered in a low voice:

”Immortal Dao Arrays are an art jointly drawing on talismans and Arrays. Aside from using immortal power as the foundation, in theory they shouldn’t be any different from the Arrays of Lower Realm cultivators, so where lies the problem...”

Radiance of wisdom flashed in his mind as he ceaselessly compared the differences between his own spellcasting and the Sea Ancestor’s.

”No Cultivation Technique or Divine Technique is a rootless duckweed; all leave traces to follow...”

Ning Qi couldn’t help but think of the Divine Text Divine Techniques the Saint Ancestor had displayed to the masses earlier.

In fact, Arrays were similar to the Saint Ancestor’s Divine Text Divine Techniques; both could be superimposed and decomposed, and the two had common ground.

Thinking of this, Ning Qi did not immediately begin his second attempt.

Instead, he once more delved into the contents within the Taiyin Flying Immortal Scripture the Sea Ancestor had acquired.

He used the void as a wall, continuously inscribing Arrays upon it.

Off to the side, the Saint Ancestor kept feeling that the Arrays Ning Qi inscribed faintly absorbed the underlying essence of his unique Divine Text Divine Techniques.

”This kid... truly makes one feel fear from the depths of the heart! With his comprehension, so long as he crosses hands with anyone, he’ll be able to begin deciphering the other’s spells and Divine Techniques. If he obtains their inheritance, he can immediately learn it, and can even benefit from watching them cast spells, thereby swiftly surpassing them...”

One Array after another continuously extended and spread through the void; Ning Qi was like a Dao master inscribing the Great Dao of heaven and earth itself.

These Arrays contained everything he had mastered up to now; they were both a summation and an advance from the old to push forth the new.

Ning Qi used the Saint Ancestor’s method of Divine Texts to once more deconstruct and recombine these symbols.

Previously, his Dao of Arrays had also been refined to a meticulous degree, capable of casual combination, but he had not achieved the level of free contraction and expansion, utterly at will, as with the Saint Ancestor’s Divine Texts.

Now, while taking this opportunity to decode Immortal Dao Arrays, he also reconstructed his own Array system.

With the void as a wall, countless Arrays and Great Dao Divine Texts condensed into being.

At the side, the Saint Ancestor and Sea Ancestor had long since emptied their minds; their gazes followed Ning Qi’s deductions and inscriptions without pause.

They seemed to have been drawn in by what Ning Qi was inscribing, involuntarily falling into a state of observing the Dao.

Before long, Arrays filled the void, shining brilliantly.

Ning Qi stood behind, his eyes flashing with a sharp radiance.

He had reconstructed his own Array system anew. It was said that whether one was an Array master or a talisman master, upon reaching the extreme, all could form Arrays in a single thought (transform talismans in a single thought)!

This standard was by no means as light and easy as those four words sounded. Ning Qi had also been able to do it in the past, but he could only form a single Array or talisman with one thought.