Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 772

A man was looking out into the distance on a high mountain peak. His gaze pierced through the veil as he contemplated his whole life that led to this point. Behind him were other similar people wishing him farewell on this last journey that he was attempting.

“Why don’t you turn back, grandfather? No one has been able to ascend higher. You’ll just shorten your lifespan if you attempt and fail like all the others before you.”

“Hah, I’m not afraid of death! I’d rather die pursuing this dream of cultivation!”

The people behind him attempted to dissuade him from his plans, but he was resolute. Soon, everyone else left, and he sat down in a lotus position. The air on top of this mountain was thin, and a constant storm raged above him. From time to time, bolts of lightning would come crashing down, even hitting the man. Yet, he didn’t falter; instead, he used the power of nature to his advantage as he attempted to transcend to the next level.

Days went by, and he kept accepting the gift of lightning from above, his features becoming more haggard the more he attempted to break through. His resolution started to slowly waver as the continuous pain became unbearable. Many times, he wondered if he should have listened to his grandchild, but somehow he mustered up the courage to press on. On the seventh day, he felt something crack in his soul as a massive storm exploded around him.

People called out from afar to look at the mountain peak the elder had occupied. A torrent of immense power was shooting out into the sky and pushing the storm away. Soon, as the clouds parted and the sky was exposed, they witnessed the man hovering up in the air. His body was restored and looking better than ever, as he had managed to reach a new realm of possibilities.

The man would later be known as the first demi-celestial, someone who paved the way for all others to reach this realm. Previously, cultivators could only reach a ripe age of a thousand years, but with his success, that time was increased by ten times. He went on to teach people his ways, and soon others found themselves ascending further. With the path already paved by another individual, the way was now open.

‘A demi-celestial huh? I guess the Immortal realm will be called the Celestial realm if they figure it out...’

Zhang Dong contemplated his own universe that had reached a stage above the nascent soul level. It took his people hundreds of thousands of years to get there, but now they were past the first hurdle of ascension. They reached a similar realm to the Dao Foundation realm, the first realm past the nascent soul realm. It was a bit stronger than the realm his family members achieved but was also harder to access.

His own power skyrocketed after this one man managed to unleash a new cultivation realm. The more of these types of cultivators appeared the more his strength grew. However, this didn’t keep him from growing restless. His mind was split between many places, his own internal world in which he had already reached a ripe age of a million and the outside world where tens of thousands of years had passed.

His children were able to reach the immortal stage with the help of the trial tower and the simplified system quite fast. However, they weren’t truly free of the influence of the world around them like he was. Their souls were entangled in some sort of way, and untying that knot wasn’t an easy task. Probably reaching a new level for them would be quite hard, and perhaps the only way would be inside his universe where the laws were more in their favor.

“Multiple system failure, now it’s starting to affect everything at a grander scale, it seems that a collapse of this system is close...”

The system holders that he kept from rescuing were awakening faster, as the puppets weren’t able to process them anymore. Just like he expected, once their souls stopped being recycled in bulk, a more rapid change was taking place. It became clear that after messing up the other stations and rescuing more good-hearted system holders, some type of bug was created, and now the time had come to act.

“I’ll have to take a trip to the central regions and perhaps visit prime earth to face whatever is there...”

Before taking the plunge he headed out of this administrative chamber that he had been stuck in for thousands of years. All the clones that he produced were ordered to retreat as he needed all of his power to face the final opponent. They started out as five and then transformed to twenty a testament to how much stronger he had gotten after reaching this place.

“So this is it, Prime Dong?”

“I guess even I would enjoy a little joke before the end...”

“I know, we are all the same person!”

The clones started laughing as they made one last joke involving his name. They all looked a little bit different with varied clothes and hairstyles as they tried to somewhat distinguish themselves from the original. However, now all of them were turning back into spiritual energy and going back into Zhang Dong’s universe. The moment all twenty had returned, he felt reinvigorated, his power had reached its zenith and it was now or never.

“How can we lose with such a leader!”

“There were a lot of Chiefs but now there is only one, he sure is sparkling!”

He turned around to witness a gathering of many people. There were his children, his lovely wife, his close friends, and family members. The person who had no friends or anything to fight for was a distant memory. He was now surrounded by people who believed in him and cherished what they all had experienced. Even if it all ended now, he could not say that he had lived a bad life. However, many other people were just starting their journey, and so that it could continue for them, he would fight.