Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

At dawn, the fog had not yet dispersed.

At Heavenly Pillar Mountain, cultivators had already begun to arrive at the Cloud Boat Pier beneath the Cave Heaven Cave.

The Cloud Boat Pier was a massive square spanning a thousand acres, with the ground entirely cast from fine steel, capable of withstanding a tremendous weight.

Today, the cultivators who came to this place were all passengers. They were to board the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat of the Vast Sect and head to various territories within the Cultivation World.

Zhao Sheng and Zhao Jijian were also among the passengers.

The two had arrived here early and waited silently.

As he looked at the young Zhao Sheng beside him, Zhao Jijian felt a mixture of emotion and astonishment.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

He had not expected the youngest Family Head in the history of the Zhao family to be so formidable.

Formidable beyond his imagination!

Even now, he could not help but frequently recall the stunned expression on his face when he was informed last night about attending the Elixir Cauldron Sect's auction for the Hundred-Year Token.

"I really lost face!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Jijian couldn't help but feel somewhat embarrassed.

However, he quickly rallied. The future was promising with the family under the leadership of such a talented Family Head!

But Zhao Sheng was not concerned with what Zhao Jijian was thinking.

At this moment, he was repeatedly reasoning and predicting various situations and contingencies they might encounter after arriving at the Elixir Cauldron Sect.

The auction of the Hundred-year Token was critical for the Zhao family's Qi Fortune for the next several hundred years, and there was no room for the slightest complacency.

Time passed by gradually, and more and more cultivators gathered at the Cloud Boat Pier.

Until, at about three poles past sunrise.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "It's here, it's here!"

There was instantly a stir on the pier, as people craned their necks towards the sky.

Zhao Sheng also placed his right hand over his eyebrows and looked up at the Cloud Sea Sky Gang above.

Just then, high above the ten thousand zhang, a black dot emerged behind the white clouds.

Soon, the black dot grew larger and larger, the surrounding clouds roiled and parted under its pressure.

Against the backdrop of the white clouds, a giant pitch-black hull slowly emerged from the Cloud Sea, looking like the belly of a massive beast.

After seven or eight breaths, the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat had quietly descended to the Cloud Boat Pier from the sky far above.

Now, the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat finally revealed its full appearance before everyone. Explore more at empire

Huge!

It was simply too huge!

The Cloud Boat Pier extended over a thousand acres, but just one Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat occupied a tenth of the pier's area.

The length of the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat was around two hundred zhang, and its height from the bottom deck to the keel also exceeded twenty zhang.

In addition, there were up to nine floors of buildings on the deck, with the highest level nearly fifty zhang from the ground.

It was less a mode of transportation, and more like a flying city that could move freely through the sky.

Zhao Sheng had heard that the Vast Sect had a whopping ten such colossal Flying Boats of the same class as the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat.

And above the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat, there were two even higher classes of fearsome existence: the Ocean Covering and the Heavenly types.

It was said that the gate of the Vast Sect was not on the surface of the Cultivation World but aboard a Heavenly-class giant Flying Boat.

This Heavenly Giant Ship, bearing the sect's gate, floated in the Heavenly Gang Atmosphere year-round, and could appear in various territories of the Cultivation World at any time.

If one were to ask which power in the Cultivation World had the most impregnable gate?

Opinions may differ among the public!

But if asked whose gate was the hardest to find?

The Vast Sect claimed to be the second, with only the Ksitigarbha Sect daring to claim the first.

Throughout the ages, the Tianzhu Realm faced multiple tribulations, with nearly half of the Cultivation World's top ten powers being replaced.

However, the Vast Sect always stood unshaken, remaining at the pinnacle of the Cultivation World.

The credit for this was largely due to the Heavenly Giant Ship.

As Zhao Sheng reminisced about the various legends regarding the Vast Sect, they quickly boarded the Mountain Shifting Giant Ship amidst the crowd.

The ship tickets for the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat are charged based on distance, one Spirit Stone per thousand miles.

As for the food and lodging, that is calculated separately.

If you're reluctant to part with Spirit Stones, you're welcome to stay on deck, which does not require any Spirit Stones.

If you want a better accommodation, there are many charging grades to choose from, ranging from pigeon rooms at two Spirit Stones a day to the Nine Heavens Cloud Palace at ten thousand a day.

Pocket World City is more than twenty thousand miles away from the gate of the Elixir Cauldron Sect.

The journey seems far, but under the premise of the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat not stopping, this distance can be covered in just one day and one night.

However, the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat is ultimately a means of transportation, and it stops at many places along the way, such as various workshops or the mountain gate residences of certain forces, and so on.

With that in mind, the trip from Pocket World City to the Elixir Cauldron Sect will take five days.

Zhao Sheng did a quick calculation, with the auction being seven days away, there was plenty of time.

An hour later, a white light film suddenly appeared on the surface of the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat.

Then, it silently floated up from the ground and shot straight into the sky.

After just a minute, the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat had already entered the Cloud Sea Sky Gang and ascended to an altitude of ten thousand zhang.

Immediately after, the brightness on the surface of the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat surged, and countless mysterious runes emerged on the light film covering the entire boat.

In the blink of an eye, the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat broke through the Heavenly Gang Atmosphere, speeding towards the horizon like a bolt of lightning, leaving behind a long cloud trail.

Talk long if there's much to say, talk short if there's little!

The five days passed in a flash.

At noon, under the bright sun, the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat slowly descended from the high sky and finally docked at the Elixir Cauldron Sect's private pier.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Sheng and Zhao Jijian alighted from the Mountain Shifting Cloud Boat.

According to the plan, the next step was to find accommodation in Nine Tripods Square.

The Cloud Boat Pier is right next to Nine Tripods Square.

And Nine Tripods Square is located two hundred miles west of the Elixir Cauldron Sect.

Such a distance is trivial for a Golden Core Master, easily covered back and forth ten times in a day with energy to spare.

Therefore, Nine Tripods Square is practically built under the Elixir Cauldron Sect's nose, which speaks volumes of its security.

Just like Nine Tripods Square to the Elixir Cauldron Sect, major powers in the Cultivation World have similar workshops.

In legends of the Mortal World, the gates of Cultivation Sects are often built on lofty mountains and in remote, inaccessible places.

In reality, it's the exact opposite, the gates of most sects in the Cultivation World are often located in the most bustling areas within their respective boundaries.

This greatly overturns the common perception that mortals have of the Cultivation World.

When Zhao Sheng first learned of this, he too was astonished for a long time.

It was not until he had truly interacted with cultivators that he had an epiphany: cultivators are humans too!

Half an hour later, Zhao Sheng followed the crowd into Nine Tripods Square along with his companion.

The two quickly found an inn and checked into two separate rooms.

After securing the door to his room, Zhao Sheng took out a long, rectangular wooden box from his Storage Bag and placed it on the table, signaling Zhao Jijian to open it.

Curiosity piqued, Zhao Jijian opened the box to find a four-foot-long, silver-white claw with a metallic sheen inside.

"Eh? What is this...?"

Zhao Jijian exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly picked up the claw to take a closer look.

Before he could fully confirm, Zhao Sheng revealed the origin of the claw.

"Fourth Grandpa, no need to look any further. This claw was chopped from a Golden Core Level Cloud Dragon."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jijian gasped and said in disbelief, "Impossible! Where did you get this?"

One has to know that a Cloud Dragon is a terrifying existence that can easily defeat an average Golden Core Master, not something that can be trifled with.

How could its claw come so easily into their hands?

Zhao Sheng explained, "I found this claw in Heavenly Pillar Mountain. Not just this, but also some Cloud Dragon flesh and Scale Armor."

As he spoke, he tipped out a pile of various parts of the Cloud Dragon from his Storage Bag.

Gazing at the brilliantly vibrant flesh exuding a subtle pressure and the silver-white Scale Armor as large as a washbasin on the table, Zhao Jijian couldn't help but swallow and his heart began to pound wildly.

All of this was real!