The First Immortal of Destiny

This is a majestic and marvelous world of grandiosity!

The vast heavens are distant and elusive, stretching up into countless miles; the earth is heavy and time-worn, deep beyond billions of feet.

In this world, it is nearly impossible, as it was in the Primordial Realm, to invoke a Spiritless Land, let alone carve out a forbidden land or swallow up a corner of the world as the Soaring Serpent and Bizarre Dragon did! Even a powerhouse at the Class VI Peak, possessed of immeasurable Mana and a world-shattering divine Skill, would find it difficult to shatter or tear apart this vast and solid world. The forbidden lands that have descended here are even more incapable of breaking free from this realm’s constraints to travel to other worlds! Even if cultivators wanted to use Flying Escape to reach the void beyond the Ninth Heaven, it would be arduously difficult, akin to ordinary mortals ascending to the heavens. The saying ”heaven is high and earth is vast” is no exaggeration here!

Furthermore, the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth is extraordinarily rich, perhaps more than ten times as concentrated as in the Red Flame Zone.

Mountains are grander than the ordinary mind can imagine. Midway up, these mountains already towered into the clouds, their bases covering a landmass larger than the entire Red Flame Country. A single mountain rivaled the size of the Red Flame Zone. Looking out, there were countless peaks amidst a myriad of hills and ravines, arrayed in countless layers!

Giant trees that grew for tens of thousands or millions of years are everywhere, with luxuriant pines and cypresses blotting out the sky and the sun. Even an inconspicuous weed is rich in Spiritual Qi and, with careful processing, can be used as herbal medicine to refine into Elixirs!

Mountain streams can no longer be called small rivers or streams. Formed by the gathering of snow and rain from the mountaintops and slopes, their water volume is incredibly vast, nothing short of magnificent; in other worlds, few great rivers could compare! In the deep sea of the Immortal Burial Sea in the Primordial Realm, Sea Beasts of titanic size would seem like mere shrimp in these streams, barely causing any ripples. And in these mountain streams, creatures even larger than those Sea Beasts were numerous!

Of course, the sizes of most flowers, grasses, fish, insects, and sentient creatures remain normal, not extraordinarily large. However, in such an environment, they are as inconspicuous as moss and mosquitoes in a deep old forest, or like green algae and tiny shrimp in the vast ocean!

The Green Cloud Cave that descended into the Immortal Realm is located halfway up a large mountain. This area resembles a primeval forest, untouched by any sign of human presence.

Inside the Green Cloud Cave, GuanYun Mansion.

Shen Mo’s vast sense swept out like a tide.

However, even though he had cultivated to the Divine Bridge Realm and his sense could cover an area several times, even tens of times, larger than that of a peak Golden Core Realm cultivator, he still could not fully comprehend the entirety of the vast mountain. The mountain is just too large; its southern slope alone is comparable to the entire Red Flame Zone.

Within the perception of his five senses and divine sense, he saw countless strange flowers, exotic herbs, and towering spirit woods. Numerous ”mountain streams,” as wide as great rivers, were nearby. Thousands of miles away, there was even a ”mountain gorge” resembling the Milky Way, winding down from the mountaintop!

All kinds of flying birds and running beasts, most possessing some degree of demonic power, ran and soared amidst the towering mountains and colossal forests. The songs of birds and roars of beasts echoed from afar, creating an extraordinarily ethereal and expansive atmosphere. The fish, shrimp, snakes, and turtles in the streams were capable of conjuring clouds and spouting water, splashing and frolicking within the currents.

However, the mountaintop, the foot of the mountain, and other areas on the mountainside remained beyond the reach of even Shen Mo’s divine sense. Even in places within reach of his five senses and divine sense, large areas were shrouded in heavy mist, and it was unclear whether they were the lairs of some great demon or naturally formed strange and perilous lands!

Shen Mo intently perceived all of this, his gaze incredibly profound.

A moment later, a hint of delight in his voice, he couldn’t help but exclaim repeatedly, ”This is the Immortal Realm!”

”So it truly is...”

”How divine! How majestic!”

Then, with a thought, he opened the barrier between the Green Cloud Cave and the Immortal Realm, allowing nature’s spiritual energy to flow freely.

Although the Green Cloud Cave had already been refined into a forbidden land, it was essentially still his cultivation Dao field, still a cave paradise, capable of drawing in nature’s spiritual energy from the unseen world. In the Outer Zone, there was not a trace of Spiritual Qi in the void. If the cave’s barrier had been opened directly at that time, no matter how dense or abundant the Spiritual Qi within the cave, it would have poured out and dissipated completely into the void in a very short time.

But now, the Green Cloud Cave had descended into the Immortal Realm, where the external nature’s spiritual energy was even more concentrated. Thus, there was no longer any need to cut off the flow of Spiritual Qi between the inside and outside.

Instantly, an unending torrent of nature’s spiritual energy surged into the Green Cloud Cave, causing the Spiritual Qi within to become increasingly concentrated and substantial.

HUM!

Shen Mo began to operate the *Chaotic Yuan and One Qi Technique*, continuously absorbing nature’s spiritual energy and converting it into his own Mana.

Then, he keenly sensed that among the Spiritual Qi that was constantly equilibrating with the Outer Realm, there was an exceptional abundance of Spiritual Qi with different attributes. The complexity of various ”Turbid Qi” far exceeded that in the Primordial Realm and the Cancering Realm. After creatures from the Outer Zone descended upon the Primordial Realm, the Turbid Qi within its nature’s spiritual energy had become severalfold more complex. However, when compared with the Spiritual Qi of the Immortal Realm, it still seemed somewhat lacking.

The Spiritual Qi of the Immortal Realm contained every type of Turbid Qi found in the Primordial Realm, and lacked none. Furthermore, the Spiritual Qi of the Immortal Realm contained countless other types of Turbid Qi that simply did not exist in the Primordial Realm.

What delighted Shen Mo even more was that the concentration of Clear Spirit Qi was hundreds of millions of times higher than in the Primordial Realm. In the Primordial Realm, the proportion of Clear Spirit Qi was less than one part in a trillion, but here, it reached a terrifying one part in ten thousand!

The ”Clear Spirit Qi” formed in special environments was not pure and did not meet the standards of Shen Mo’s refining techniques, as it was mixed with a large amount of pure Primal Spirit. Nevertheless, it was still a spiritual item on the level of ”Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.”

It could be said that if one were to concentrate the Spiritual Qi of the Immortal Realm by about a thousand times, it would become a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure that countless cultivators would fight desperately to obtain.

In the future, when Shen Mo refined ”Clear Spirit Qi,” he would no longer need to expend as much energy or time as before.

Furthermore, the Divine Power contained within it could also significantly increase his cultivation speed!

With the massive influx of the Immortal Realm’s Spiritual Qi into the Green Cloud Cave, the entire Red Flame Sect and its million disciples sensed the anomaly, and soon, an uproar ensued.

”The Spiritual Qi has become several times more concentrated! Have we arrived at the Immortal Realm?”

”According to Peak Master Jin of Rising Sun Peak, after leaving the Cancering Realm, the Green Cloud Cave would need about two or three months to descend to the Immortal Realm. Judging by the time, we should have arrived.”

”Excellent! With such concentrated Spiritual Qi, it won’t take long for me to open my Dantian and step into the Qi Gathering Realm.”

”The Spiritual Qi here seems even more wondrous than in the Red Flame Zone! This old man formed his Golden Core many years ago, and my cultivation has been stagnant for just as long. A moment ago, I refined only a little of this Qi, and I already feel signs of a breakthrough! Could this be the legendary Immortal Qi?”

Upon confirming the joyous news that they had ”arrived in the Immortal Realm,” the million disciples of the Red Flame Sect, from the Body Tempering Realm to the Golden Core Realm, all cheered and rejoiced. Many disciples whose cultivation had stagnated or who were nearing the end of their Lifespan even wept with joy, unable to hold back their loud sobs!

For a time, the atmosphere within the sect was as fervent as a blazing fire, its clamor like a boiling cauldron.