Purple Peak.
A Yao's clone sat in the secret chamber, a small jade-colored cauldron floating before her—the Mingyu Cauldron. She pointed at the cauldron, and a figure flew out. It was a young man, none other than Qi Shaofeng.
Ayao deceived everyone that day; she did not kill Qi Shaofeng.
Qi Shaofeng's primordial spirit was weak, and he had even lost consciousness. Although he hadn't been killed, he was indeed on his last breath. A strange light flashed in A Yao's eyes, and she began to search Qi Shaofeng's soul.
The highest cultivation level for cultivators in the Canglan Realm is the Integration Stage. Why is that? Because this small world cannot withstand the torment of cultivators above the Integration Stage. The consciousness of the entire world will instinctively suppress those overly powerful beings. Therefore, it is almost impossible for Mahayana stage cultivators to appear in the Canglan Realm.
Especially when spiritual energy is declining.
So how do you get promoted?
Then we can only go to the upper realm.
The term "upper realm" has two meanings. First, it refers to the seven primordial realms; strictly speaking, no other world besides the seven primordial realms is considered an upper realm. Second, it refers to a plane of existence that is one level higher than one's own world.
For example, since A Yao is in the small world of Canglan Realm, then all worlds with a higher status than Canglan Realm can be called Upper Realms.
In the current Canglan Realm, it's already quite good to be able to cultivate to the early stage of the Integration Realm. If you want to advance, you have to leave the Canglan Realm to cultivate.
So how do we leave the Canglan Realm?
Normally, cultivators at the Integration stage in the Canglan Realm travel through the Endless Abyss, which leads to the Kongmeng Realm, which is adjacent to the Canglan Realm.
Going to the Void Realm is not easy, even for cultivators in the Integration Stage.
Why?
The Demon Race owns half of the Void Realm.
Half of the Void Realm belongs to the Demon Race, and the other half belongs to human cultivators. Unfortunately, the area that connects to the Azure Realm is Demon Race territory.
At the easternmost part of the Great Abyss of the Eastern Region, beneath the endless abyss lies a natural boundary gate connecting to the Void Realm. Every so often, whether every few hundred or a thousand years, the demons of the Void Realm would invade the Azure Realm once.
Fortunately, the gate to that realm had a magical artifact left behind by some ancient immortal out of kindness, preventing demons above the Refinement stage from passing through. Otherwise, the Canglan Realm would already belong to the demons. There have always been cultivators in the Integration stage seeking to break through to the Void Realm, but none have ever returned.
In fact, among the three ancestors of the Lu family, Dongxuan Zhenren was once at the early stage of the Integration Realm. More than a thousand years ago, in order to advance, he went to the Void Realm. Before he had even finished traversing the Endless Abyss, he encountered a powerful enemy from the Demon Clan, and his cultivation level dropped to the Refinement Void Realm.
After being blocked by enemies in the endless abyss for hundreds of years, he finally found a chance to escape back, but he is now stuck at the late stage of the Void Refinement Realm and cannot enter the Integration Realm again.
In her past life, A Yao was constantly on the run in the Demon Realm. She left because she was unwittingly caught in a vortex. When she woke up, she was already in Xuan Yin Mountain in the Netherworld, where she met her master. She only remembered that she was seriously injured at the time and was caught in the vortex before she lost consciousness. When she opened her eyes, she was in the Netherworld.
In this lifetime, she intends to go to the Void Realm on her own initiative. To be on the safe side, she needs a demon clone.
A Yao pointed her finger, and a flash of spiritual light appeared at her fingertip. She began searching for souls, and countless memories flooded in.
After the soul search, Ayao lowered her head and fell into deep thought.
The demon, named Moro, was being hunted by his own kind and fled to the Endless Abyss. After losing his physical body, he possessed Qi Shaofeng and then went to devour other demons in an attempt to quickly regain his strength. However, he encountered a powerful enemy and was severely injured. At this critical moment, Qi Yun arrived; he had come to save his son.
Namoro disguised himself as Qi Shaofeng and escaped from the Endless Abyss with Qi Yun. He tried to kill Qi Yun several times, but Qi Yun saw through his disguise.
Because Qi Shaofeng was still conscious, Qi Yun sealed him away and then borrowed the Lu family's Mingyu Cauldron. For a hundred years, they had been trying to separate Moro and Qi Shaofeng, but had not succeeded.
Moro's memories contained little useful information for Ayao, just some memory images that could help her complete the maps of the Endless Abyss and the Void Realm.
Oh, and she also learned from Qi Shaofeng's memories that Qi Shaofeng had saved Lu Yin. She seemed to understand why Lu Yin had intervened to save him back then; he probably felt that if Qi Shaofeng were conscious, he wouldn't want to kill his fellow disciple.
Lu Yin's statement that he wanted to kill Qi Shaofeng was genuine; he probably wanted to free Qi Shaofeng from this predicament.
After the soul search, this primordial spirit was useless to A Yao. She should have destroyed it, as it was already a demon's soul, but she didn't. The possession wasn't complete, and in the end, it was a soul fusion. Thinking of Qi Shaofeng, she sent this primordial spirit into reincarnation.
The primordial spirit flew out of the secret chamber and into the sky, where it was quickly captured by the cycle of reincarnation and became one of the vast and boundless souls in the cycle of reincarnation.
In the secret room, Ayao sat cross-legged on a futon, looking at the physical body in front of her.
From the moment Moro possessed Qi Shaofeng's body, it began to mutate, transforming into a demonic form. Regardless of race, anyone influenced by a demonic spirit or body will undergo a change. After a century of demonic soul erosion, this body is now purely a demonic form.
In order to prevent this demonic body from affecting her, A Yao has now placed tens of thousands of restrictions on this body before separating a wisp of her soul to enter it.
A semi-transparent A Yao appeared in the secret room, floated towards the black-clad youth standing in the room, and merged with him.
Then the black-clad youth, who had been keeping his eyes closed, opened them.
A Yao's demon clone was successful.
Originally, A Yao in this secret chamber of Ziji Peak was an avatar, so to be precise, this is an avatar of A Yao's avatar.
Inside the secret room, the young man in black made some tampering. He looked at the girl sitting on the futon and said:
"This demon is at the Integration stage, but if I control this body, I can only exert the strength of the late Refinement stage."
The girl chuckled softly, "That's enough. Go to the Void Realm and scout ahead!"
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Middle-earth.
Inside the secluded cave on Mount Chaisang, both A Yao's main body and her clone stared at the white jade coffin, their expressions filled with anger. This restriction was absolutely infuriating!
It can actually evolve on its own, and once you try to crack it, it will multiply. If you crack one, it will split and evolve into ten, a hundred, a thousand. Initially, there were only one hundred million restrictions, but now, after A Yao and her friends joined forces to crack them, it has become tens of billions.
"Hundreds of billions of restrictions? With my current cultivation level, it would take me 30,000 years to resolve that," said A Yao in her true form.
Wearing a moon-white gauze dress, Ayao looked at the coffin with a look of utter despair: "Thirty thousand years, that's the time it takes for the flower to stop evolving. If we continue to break through, even more restrictions will appear."
Ayao, dressed in a light blue dress, sighed, "I really shouldn't be too arrogant. I thought my skills in creating restrictions were already quite impressive!"
"If it really is Xu Fengzhi's body inside, I'll punch him," said A Yao, who was wearing a pale yellow dress, grinding her teeth.
Ayao in her true form: "One punch isn't enough, a hundred punches will do!"
After venting their frustrations, the four Ayaos began to study the restriction. They stopped trying to break it and started to study it thoroughly, figuring out the key to this peculiar restriction before attempting to break it.
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