Swallow Heron Sect
Xu Ning’s villa.
Just now, Shi Chenghao asked someone to bring the other half of the payment for the medicinal pills to Xu Ning.
‘And that’s 4.7 million units of energy!’
After Xu Ning absorbed the resources in the spatial storage ring, his energy reserves exceeded the 4.5 million units he needed to advance to the core materialization realm.
‘I can break through to the dao realm fourth stage, core materialization realm!’
Once he broke through to the core materialization realm, he would be in the mid-level of the dao realm.
Xu Ning couldn’t suppress the urge to break through.
After adjusting his condition, Xu Ning clicked the “+” sign next to the realm.
Consume 4.5 million units of energy to advance your realm?
Yes / No
After confirming, the elementary form of the inner core in Xu Ning’s body suddenly began to rotate frantically.
Xu Ning seemed to have become the center of a low pressure environment, as the surrounding spiritual energy surged into his body.
The spiritual energy in Xu Ning’s villa was quickly consumed and the surrounding spiritual energy continued to surge. He could feel the elementary form of the inner core’s desire for spiritual energy. ‘What’s happening?’ Cheng Zengtao, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes.
Just now, he felt that the spiritual energy around him suddenly became extremely unstable.
All because a large amount of spiritual energy was surging towards a certain direction. “This is…!
Cheng Zengtao sensed and discovered that the direction of the energy surge was towards Xu Ning’s residence.
‘Could it be…’
Cheng Zengtao suddenly got up, seemingly not confident in his own thoughts.
‘Could it be that Sect Master is trying to advance to the core materialization realm!?’
Cheng Zengtao quickly walked outside and rushed towards Xu Ning’s villa.
The closer he got to Xu Ning’s villa, the more he could feel a huge amount of spiritual energy gathering here.
‘Sure enough, he is advancing to the core materialization realm!’
Cheng Zengtao was so excited that he couldn’t control himself. ‘Sect Master has only advanced to the origin returnance realm for less than two months, but in the blink of an eye, he is advancing to the core materialization realm! This speed of advancement, this martial arts aptitude is unheard of!’
Cheng Zengtao had heard many stories about top martial arts masters in State Wansheng, but no one had ever been as relaxed as Xu Ning when advancing.
‘Elder Wan Ye truly has sharp eyes!’
At this moment, Cheng Zengtao began to respect Wan Ye who was in the Abyss North.
Elder Wan Ye could actually find such a talent in a place like the Abyss North.
“Senior Brother Cheng, what’s happening?”
At this moment, Shao Xun, Tong Li, and Ou Wei also rushed over. They also noticed this change.
“Sect Master is advancing to the next stage of the dao realm!”
Cheng Zengtao said.
“I knew it…”
The three of them looked at each other and were overjoyed.
The guest elders and disciples gradually began to gather around.
Just now when they were cultivating, they suddenly felt that the spiritual energy around them had become extremely thin, which surprised them.
After talking to one another, only then did they learn that the Sect Master was breaking through. “Back off!”
Gray suddenly appeared and scolded everyone. “Don’t make a sound, don’t disturb my brother’s advancement!”
Everyone in the Swallow Heron Sect knew that Gray was the closest demon beast companion of the Sect Master.
Not only was it in the dao realm, but its demon beast bloodline was extremely top-notch, second only to the legendary six apex demon beasts.
“Yes, everyone retreat, don’t disturb the Sect Master’s advancement!”
Cheng Zengtao also reacted and quickly drove away the surrounding disciples, leaving only the elders and guest elders outside Xu Ning’s villa.
Xu Ning, who was immersed in his advancement, did not notice what was happening outside. ‘The elementary form of my inner core is molting!
Xu Ning had already sensed that the speed in which his inner core was absorbing the spiritual energy had begun to decrease.
Soon, Xu Ning felt a sense of fullness from the elementary form of his inner core. The blue and red colors of his inner core gradually turned white.
Whoosh!
Finally, the elementary form of his inner core stopped absorbing any aura.
It suddenly trembled and turned completely white.
Afterwards, it slowly rotated in Xu Ning’s body, and the invisible force it emitted strengthened Xu Ning’s body and his dao realm power.
‘The advancement this time is a qualitative change!’
What he felt the most was the changes in his physical body.
‘With my current body, even without using the power of the dao realm, I can easily defeat an origin returnance realm master!
Xu Ning felt the vigorous vitality in his body. He knew that his body had become extremely tough and his healing ability was now extremely strong. Even if his arms and legs were broken, he did not need to take any healing pills as his wounds would automatically heal. Moreover, his internal organs had been greatly improved. He could stay under water or the swamp for a long period of time.
He could even live underwater and come up every month to breathe once. ‘Moreover, my body can now store a lot of spiritual energy!’
Xu Ning felt that his current body was like a sponge with an enormous reserve, temporarily absorbing and storing the spiritual energy inside.
In State Wansheng or in the archipelago, there were places that isolated spiritual energy.
In those kinds of extreme places, only with enough spiritual energy in one’s body could one deal with the difficult environment.
“This is just the physical change.’
Xu Ning felt the power of the dao realm surging in his body.
‘When I activate my astral qi in the future, the quality of my astral qi will also change!’ ‘Not only can I transform my astral qi into various forms, but I can also construct astral qi barriers and even set up an astral qi isolation
space!’
Xu Ning moved his consciousness and went outside the room.
He stepped on the ground lightly, feeling his entire body had become extremely light. He flew up like a feather blown by the wind.
‘An ability almost like flight…’
Xu Ning enjoyed the strange feeling of being in the air.
Prior to this, Xu Ning relied on flying demon beasts to be in the air, but this time, he relied on himself.
Looking down, Xu Ning saw the entire villa.
He noticed that everyone outside the villa was looking up at him. ‘As long as I continue to borrow strength in the air, I can move in the air.’
Xu Ning knew that this was not a real flight.
One had to advance to the seventh stage of the dao realm to truly fly in the air.
Being able to move in midair like he was doing now was more similar to running in the air.
At this moment, a bird flew past Xu Ning.
Xu Ning raised his hand and activated his dao realm strength. He condensed a palm-shaped astral qi and grabbed the bird.
‘My current astral qi can be hard and soft.’
After experiencing it, Xu Ning let go of the panicked bird in his hand.
After truly feeling the change, Xu Ning no longer borrowed the force and slowly landed on the ground.
“Congratulations Sect Master for advancing to the core materialization realm!”
Cheng Zengtao stepped forward and congratulated Xu Ning.
The elders and guest elders behind him quickly reacted.
“Congratulations Sect Master for advancing to the core materialization realm!”
Everyone looked at Xu Ning with reverence.
Even if the current Xu Ning rarely appeared in the future and did not deal with sect affairs, he would still enjoy great prestige.
He was not only the strongest warrior in the Swallow Heron Sect, but was also the spiritual pillar of the entire sect.
Facing everyone’s congratulations, Xu Ning smiled and nodded.
“Thank you, everyone.”
Xu Ning responded to everyone. “Let’s disperse.”
Cheng Zengtao looked back at the crowd and said.
After hearing Cheng Zengtao’s words, the crowd didn’t stay any longer. When they left, everyone walked with light steps and were in a good mood.
For them, the stronger Xu Ning was, the stronger the Swallow Heron Sect was.
The stronger the strength of the Swallow Heron Sect, the more resources they could obtain.
Especially these high level void realm guest elders of the Swallow Heron Sect. They were all independent martial artists with no background. Now that they had joined the Swallow Heron Sect, they wanted to obtain more resources to break through to the dao realm.
“The gap between me and Brother is getting bigger and bigger…”
Gray leaned over and sighed.
“Gray, you don’t have to compare yourself to the Sect Master. The Sect Master’s talent is rare, and he is an elite among the elites of the human race. Plus, you have the bloodline of a Void Beast. The stronger your realm is, the thicker your bloodline will be. At that time, the unique demon beast power that you will be able to display would be all the more terrifying.”
Cheng Zengtao comforted.
Cheng Zengtao was now familiar with Gray.
“Brother, I’m going to cultivate.”
What Gray meant by cultivation was absorbing large amounts of spiritual energy to stimulate its bloodline.
“Go ahead.”
Xu Ning also smiled.
After Gray left, only Xu Ning and Cheng Zengtao were left.
Only until now did the spiritual energy around Xu Ning’s villa return back to being plentiful.
“Sect Master, after advancing, you…” Cheng Zengtao looked at Xu Ning and hesitated.
“After I make some more preparations, I will go and take back the old site of Swallow Heron Sect from the hands of the Wind Parasol Pavilion!” Xu Ning’s words made Cheng Zengtao feel relieved.
Xu Ning had mentioned this to Cheng Zengtao before, and Cheng Zengtao had always remembered it.
“Thank you, Sect Master!”
Cheng Zengtao said gratefully.
“What gratitude? I am the Sect Master of Swallow Heron Sect. I will take back our former grounds.”
Xu Ning said firmly. “Sect Master, although taking back the old grounds of the sect is an important matter, there are risks attached to it. Do you want to find some assistants? I can persuade my uncle and others to help you.”
Although he wanted to take back the old location of the Swallow Heron Sect, Cheng Zengtao was worried about Xu Ning’s safety.
Cheng Zengtao knew that Xu Ning was the core of the Swallow Heron Sect.
“It’s okay, I know my own strength.”
Xu Ning said, “Moreover, I have the guest token of the Harmony King Mansion. Even if I can’t defeat them, who dares to hurt me? Does the Wind Parasol Pavilion dare to oppose the Harmony King Mansion?”.
This was the advantage of having a powerful backer.
“Um…”
Cheng Zengtao nodded. “By the way, I consumed a lot of sect resources for this breakthrough.”
Xu Ning said.
“It’s fine.”
Cheng Zengtao said, “The influence of the Swallow Heron Sect has expanded, and we can start trading martial arts resources at any time. With the Cheng family, the Shi family and the guarantee of the Harmony King Mansion, we have many ways to expand our influence.”
“Okay…”
Xu Ning knew that for an official sect with a sect token, martial arts resource transactions were an extremely important source of income.
Sometimes, it was even better than robbing others.
Swallow Heron Sect
Xu Ning’s villa.
Just now, Shi Chenghao asked someone to bring the other half of the payment for the medicinal pills to Xu Ning.
‘And that’s 4.7 million units of energy!’
After Xu Ning absorbed the resources in the spatial storage ring, his energy reserves exceeded the 4.5 million units he needed to advance to the core materialization realm.
‘I can break through to the dao realm fourth stage, core materialization realm!’
Once he broke through to the core materialization realm, he would be in the mid-level of the dao realm.
Xu Ning couldn’t suppress the urge to break through.
After adjusting his condition, Xu Ning clicked the “+” sign next to the realm.
Consume 4.5 million units of energy to advance your realm?
Yes / No
After confirming, the elementary form of the inner core in Xu Ning’s body suddenly began to rotate frantically.
Xu Ning seemed to have become the center of a low pressure environment, as the surrounding spiritual energy surged into his body.
The spiritual energy in Xu Ning’s villa was quickly consumed and the surrounding spiritual energy continued to surge. He could feel the elementary form of the inner core’s desire for spiritual energy. ‘What’s happening?’ Cheng Zengtao, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes.
Just now, he felt that the spiritual energy around him suddenly became extremely unstable.
All because a large amount of spiritual energy was surging towards a certain direction. “This is…!
Cheng Zengtao sensed and discovered that the direction of the energy surge was towards Xu Ning’s residence.
‘Could it be…’
Cheng Zengtao suddenly got up, seemingly not confident in his own thoughts.
‘Could it be that Sect Master is trying to advance to the core materialization realm!?’
Cheng Zengtao quickly walked outside and rushed towards Xu Ning’s villa.
The closer he got to Xu Ning’s villa, the more he could feel a huge amount of spiritual energy gathering here.
‘Sure enough, he is advancing to the core materialization realm!’
Cheng Zengtao was so excited that he couldn’t control himself. ‘Sect Master has only advanced to the origin returnance realm for less than two months, but in the blink of an eye, he is advancing to the core materialization realm! This speed of advancement, this martial arts aptitude is unheard of!’
Cheng Zengtao had heard many stories about top martial arts masters in State Wansheng, but no one had ever been as relaxed as Xu Ning when advancing.
‘Elder Wan Ye truly has sharp eyes!’
At this moment, Cheng Zengtao began to respect Wan Ye who was in the Abyss North.
Elder Wan Ye could actually find such a talent in a place like the Abyss North.
“Senior Brother Cheng, what’s happening?”
At this moment, Shao Xun, Tong Li, and Ou Wei also rushed over. They also noticed this change.
“Sect Master is advancing to the next stage of the dao realm!”
Cheng Zengtao said.
“I knew it…”
The three of them looked at each other and were overjoyed.
The guest elders and disciples gradually began to gather around.
Just now when they were cultivating, they suddenly felt that the spiritual energy around them had become extremely thin, which surprised them.
After talking to one another, only then did they learn that the Sect Master was breaking through. “Back off!”
Gray suddenly appeared and scolded everyone. “Don’t make a sound, don’t disturb my brother’s advancement!”
Everyone in the Swallow Heron Sect knew that Gray was the closest demon beast companion of the Sect Master.
Not only was it in the dao realm, but its demon beast bloodline was extremely top-notch, second only to the legendary six apex demon beasts.
“Yes, everyone retreat, don’t disturb the Sect Master’s advancement!”
Cheng Zengtao also reacted and quickly drove away the surrounding disciples, leaving only the elders and guest elders outside Xu Ning’s villa.
Xu Ning, who was immersed in his advancement, did not notice what was happening outside. ‘The elementary form of my inner core is molting!
Xu Ning had already sensed that the speed in which his inner core was absorbing the spiritual energy had begun to decrease.
Soon, Xu Ning felt a sense of fullness from the elementary form of his inner core. The blue and red colors of his inner core gradually turned white.
Whoosh!
Finally, the elementary form of his inner core stopped absorbing any aura.
It suddenly trembled and turned completely white.
Afterwards, it slowly rotated in Xu Ning’s body, and the invisible force it emitted strengthened Xu Ning’s body and his dao realm power.
‘The advancement this time is a qualitative change!’
What he felt the most was the changes in his physical body.
‘With my current body, even without using the power of the dao realm, I can easily defeat an origin returnance realm master!
Xu Ning felt the vigorous vitality in his body. He knew that his body had become extremely tough and his healing ability was now extremely strong. Even if his arms and legs were broken, he did not need to take any healing pills as his wounds would automatically heal. Moreover, his internal organs had been greatly improved. He could stay under water or the swamp for a long period of time.
He could even live underwater and come up every month to breathe once. ‘Moreover, my body can now store a lot of spiritual energy!’
Xu Ning felt that his current body was like a sponge with an enormous reserve, temporarily absorbing and storing the spiritual energy inside.
In State Wansheng or in the archipelago, there were places that isolated spiritual energy.
In those kinds of extreme places, only with enough spiritual energy in one’s body could one deal with the difficult environment.
“This is just the physical change.’
Xu Ning felt the power of the dao realm surging in his body.
‘When I activate my astral qi in the future, the quality of my astral qi will also change!’ ‘Not only can I transform my astral qi into various forms, but I can also construct astral qi barriers and even set up an astral qi isolation
space!’
Xu Ning moved his consciousness and went outside the room.
He stepped on the ground lightly, feeling his entire body had become extremely light. He flew up like a feather blown by the wind.
‘An ability almost like flight…’
Xu Ning enjoyed the strange feeling of being in the air.
Prior to this, Xu Ning relied on flying demon beasts to be in the air, but this time, he relied on himself.
Looking down, Xu Ning saw the entire villa.
He noticed that everyone outside the villa was looking up at him. ‘As long as I continue to borrow strength in the air, I can move in the air.’
Xu Ning knew that this was not a real flight.
One had to advance to the seventh stage of the dao realm to truly fly in the air.
Being able to move in midair like he was doing now was more similar to running in the air.
At this moment, a bird flew past Xu Ning.
Xu Ning raised his hand and activated his dao realm strength. He condensed a palm-shaped astral qi and grabbed the bird.
‘My current astral qi can be hard and soft.’
After experiencing it, Xu Ning let go of the panicked bird in his hand.
After truly feeling the change, Xu Ning no longer borrowed the force and slowly landed on the ground.
“Congratulations Sect Master for advancing to the core materialization realm!”
Cheng Zengtao stepped forward and congratulated Xu Ning.
The elders and guest elders behind him quickly reacted.
“Congratulations Sect Master for advancing to the core materialization realm!”
Everyone looked at Xu Ning with reverence.
Even if the current Xu Ning rarely appeared in the future and did not deal with sect affairs, he would still enjoy great prestige.
He was not only the strongest warrior in the Swallow Heron Sect, but was also the spiritual pillar of the entire sect.
Facing everyone’s congratulations, Xu Ning smiled and nodded.
“Thank you, everyone.”
Xu Ning responded to everyone. “Let’s disperse.”
Cheng Zengtao looked back at the crowd and said.
After hearing Cheng Zengtao’s words, the crowd didn’t stay any longer. When they left, everyone walked with light steps and were in a good mood.
For them, the stronger Xu Ning was, the stronger the Swallow Heron Sect was.
The stronger the strength of the Swallow Heron Sect, the more resources they could obtain.
Especially these high level void realm guest elders of the Swallow Heron Sect. They were all independent martial artists with no background. Now that they had joined the Swallow Heron Sect, they wanted to obtain more resources to break through to the dao realm.
“The gap between me and Brother is getting bigger and bigger…”
Gray leaned over and sighed.
“Gray, you don’t have to compare yourself to the Sect Master. The Sect Master’s talent is rare, and he is an elite among the elites of the human race. Plus, you have the bloodline of a Void Beast. The stronger your realm is, the thicker your bloodline will be. At that time, the unique demon beast power that you will be able to display would be all the more terrifying.”
Cheng Zengtao comforted.
Cheng Zengtao was now familiar with Gray.
“Brother, I’m going to cultivate.”
What Gray meant by cultivation was absorbing large amounts of spiritual energy to stimulate its bloodline.
“Go ahead.”
Xu Ning also smiled.
After Gray left, only Xu Ning and Cheng Zengtao were left.
Only until now did the spiritual energy around Xu Ning’s villa return back to being plentiful.
“Sect Master, after advancing, you…” Cheng Zengtao looked at Xu Ning and hesitated.
“After I make some more preparations, I will go and take back the old site of Swallow Heron Sect from the hands of the Wind Parasol Pavilion!” Xu Ning’s words made Cheng Zengtao feel relieved.
Xu Ning had mentioned this to Cheng Zengtao before, and Cheng Zengtao had always remembered it.
“Thank you, Sect Master!”
Cheng Zengtao said gratefully.
“What gratitude? I am the Sect Master of Swallow Heron Sect. I will take back our former grounds.”
Xu Ning said firmly. “Sect Master, although taking back the old grounds of the sect is an important matter, there are risks attached to it. Do you want to find some assistants? I can persuade my uncle and others to help you.”
Although he wanted to take back the old location of the Swallow Heron Sect, Cheng Zengtao was worried about Xu Ning’s safety.
Cheng Zengtao knew that Xu Ning was the core of the Swallow Heron Sect.
“It’s okay, I know my own strength.”
Xu Ning said, “Moreover, I have the guest token of the Harmony King Mansion. Even if I can’t defeat them, who dares to hurt me? Does the Wind Parasol Pavilion dare to oppose the Harmony King Mansion?”.
This was the advantage of having a powerful backer.
“Um…”
Cheng Zengtao nodded. “By the way, I consumed a lot of sect resources for this breakthrough.”
Xu Ning said.
“It’s fine.”
Cheng Zengtao said, “The influence of the Swallow Heron Sect has expanded, and we can start trading martial arts resources at any time. With the Cheng family, the Shi family and the guarantee of the Harmony King Mansion, we have many ways to expand our influence.”
“Okay…”
Xu Ning knew that for an official sect with a sect token, martial arts resource transactions were an extremely important source of income.
Sometimes, it was even better than robbing others.
