The prehistoric infrastructure maniac

Chapter 211 Ji Ning's Prodigy

In the Great Xia World, above the capital of Great Xia, Shi Mo's avatar sat cross-legged on a cloud, smiling as he watched the Immortal Destiny Assembly about to end below. The Xia Emperor and the other celestial gods and true immortals in the Heavenly Mang Palace were completely unaware of this.

"Hmm?" As if sensing something, Shi Mo subconsciously turned his head to look into the distance, his gaze seemingly piercing through the Great Xia world and into the chaos beyond the Three Realms.

Meanwhile, some distance from the Three Realms, in the chaotic void surrounded by dangerous places, where surging chaotic energy converged, Shi Mo, dressed in a white robe, sat cross-legged, with a boundary-fixing bead floating in front of him that resembled a chaotic star.

The gray boundary bead, like a black hole, continuously devoured the surging chaotic energy around it.
Suddenly, the boundary-stabilizing bead, which had been absorbing chaotic energy, stopped with a slight tremor and emitted a surge of profound and mysterious power.

"The evolution of chaos. The ultimate chaotic path I've comprehended, the path at the fourth-step Dao Lord level, can transform the World-Stabilizing Pearl into a cosmic treasure, just like a primordial divine weapon. It seems my comprehended path is correct," Shi Mo murmured to himself, his eyes shining with surprise and anticipation.
"The ultimate Chaos Dao is perfect. Almost through normal evolution, one can eventually comprehend the complete ultimate Chaos Dao. I guessed correctly. However, this process is really slow! It has taken me so long, but at least there is hope of achieving Dao integration."

"Last time, when I reached the third step of the Dao Lord realm, I almost failed the third test at the Azure Flower Cave. Now it's time to go again. After reviewing the entire cultivation civilization left behind by Supreme Qi and the various methods of the Sith race, and once I'm fully prepared, I'll be ready for the ultimate Dao Integration."

As he spoke, Shi Mo put away the Boundary-Stabilizing Bead with a thought, and with one step, the surrounding space distorted to form a spatial passage.

The next moment, Shi Mo directly crossed time and space and arrived outside the Blue Flower Cave left by Qi Zhizun.

Stepping into the opened Blue Flower Cave, Shi Mo crossed an arched bridge and arrived at a blue rock plaza.

There were hundreds of people in the square, sitting casually in twos and threes, playing chess or chatting.

But upon seeing Shi Mo, these sinful emperors, who all exuded a mysterious and eternal aura but had actually been turned into puppets by the Supreme Qi, couldn't help but change their expressions.

After casually glancing at these pathetic but unworthy-of-pity Eternal Emperors, Shi Mo strode directly toward the palace at the edge of the plaza.

Inside the palace, two figures sat cross-legged. One was the Eternal Emperor, and the other possessed an even more powerful aura, whose invisible pressure caused people to tremble.

"Dao Lord? This aura." The powerful purple-robed ruler frowned and looked at Shi Mo with a puzzled expression. He felt that Shi Mo's aura was somewhat ethereal and special.

"A mere Dao Lord, are you courting death?" The black-robed, sinister Emperor sneered and immediately rose to attack Shi Mo.

Buzz. However, just as he approached, Shi Mo flipped his hand, causing the space to ripple and turn into chaos, slamming the horrified, pale-faced, cold-blooded emperor to the ground.

Upon seeing this scene, even the ruler stood up with a change in expression, looking at Shi Mo with some surprise and disbelief.

The white-haired, blue-robed elder, who appeared silently and looked at Shi Mo with a similarly moved expression, glanced at Shi Mo's palm, which was radiating immense power, and asked, "Did you borrow the power of a cosmic treasure?"

"I never expected that you would cultivate the Ultimate Chaos Dao to the fourth-step Dao Lord level so quickly," the white-haired elder's cave spirit exclaimed in amazement. "Dao Lord Shi Mo, you have passed the test. Please come with me!"

Soon, the white-haired old man led Shi Mo to an elegant and quiet hall in the side hall. There were huge bookshelves that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, which made Shi Mo's eyes light up.

The white-haired old man beside him introduced, "These are all the powerful techniques that my master collected by traversing almost the entire chaotic universe."

"Not only the methods of the cultivators' civilization, but also the methods of the Sith race, the master collected and modified them to suit our cultivation."

"This can be said to be a method formed by the convergence of countless wisdoms from the entire cultivator civilization and the Sith civilization," the white-haired old man said, looking at Shi Mo.

"What you need to do now is to read through all of these. It should be of some help to your ultimate path of merging with the Dao in the future."

Shi Mo nodded slightly; this was precisely the purpose of his visit.

Just as he was about to step forward to take a look, the white-haired old man said, "Before you look, make a life-bound oath that nothing you see here can be told to anyone."

"It can't be told to outsiders?" Shi Mo was taken aback, then made a vow with a hint of helplessness.

If he can successfully merge with the Dao and become the ultimate emperor, or even the ultimate supreme being in the future, refining and controlling this chaotic universe, these methods will not be of much significance to him.

At that level, the methods he could create at will were enough to make many emperors and even rulers envious.

Next, Shi Mo began his long years of reading.

Even with time acceleration, it would still take hundreds of millions of years to review all these vast amounts of teachings.

Meanwhile, in the Three Realms, after the Immortal Destiny Conference of the Great Xia World concluded, Ji Ning was quietly taken in as a disciple by Patriarch Bodhi.

At first, his talent wasn't particularly outstanding, but gradually, his strength improved at an increasingly rapid pace.

Especially now, with the Three Realms in turmoil and conflict, Ji Ning, having experienced some battles and struggles, is improving his strength even faster.

Even before he had transcended the tribulation to become a Celestial Immortal, he had already mastered the basics of mental power. Later, he comprehended the power of the sword. Before he had even passed the Heavenly God Tribulation, he had already comprehended the complete Great Dao Sword Dao. His second primordial spirit broke through and he became a Pure Yang True Immortal.

After experiencing the blow of his Daoist partner's death, Ji Ning reached the fourth level of mental strength and displayed astonishing combat power on the battlefield where the two great worlds were fighting.

Ji Ning's outstanding qualities attracted the attention of the God King, a disciple of the Lord of Heart Demons, who wanted to use Ji Ning's Daoist partner, Yu Wei, to lure Ji Ning to his side.

However, Ji Ning was unwilling to bow down and compromise with the God King's side, who acted unscrupulously and deliberately provoked conflict.

After all, the two sides in the conflict were irreconcilable enemies, and Ji Ning simply could not accept the way the God King's side acted.

As the conflict intensifies, in a great battle between immortals and demons that attracts the attention of many powerful beings, the God King, in order to force Ji Ning, even attempts to destroy Yu Wei's soul and true spirit.

Fortunately, at the crucial moment, the Wind Demon intervened in secret, and the God King spared Yu Wei's true spirit.

Even so, Ji Ning still harbored a deep hatred for the God King.

With the guidance and help of the reincarnation of the Northern Mountain Dao Ancestor, the god of the Northern Xiu World, and driven by grudges, Ji Ning cultivated to the level of a true god Dao Ancestor in just a few hundred years, and even possessed the combat power of an ancestral god.

Thus, Ji Ning became a general in Pangu's camp. In the final battle, which attracted the attention and participation of many powerful beings, Ji Ning broke through to become an Ancestral God and killed the God King, who was already an Ancestral God, as well as the Rock Daoist who had stirred up trouble behind the scenes.

After that battle, some powerful beings involved in the conflict perished silently, which also awakened the powerful beings and leaders of the Three Realms, making them realize that all of this was the work of the Chaos Alien race, who had possessed the Source Elder and was skilled in mind control.

Afterwards, once Shi Mo personally confirmed that the Chaos Alien was indeed dead, the powerful beings of the Three Realms finally breathed a sigh of relief. In the Nebula Great World, on the Eight Treasures Peak of the Nine Cauldrons Iron Fork Mountain, in the peach grove, Shi Mo sat at a stone table, with the Withered Grass Fairy sitting beside him, and the stunningly beautiful girl Yu Wei, dressed in black, pouring tea.

Suddenly, ripples appeared in the distance, and the Bodhi Patriarch arrived with a young man in animal skin clothing carrying a divine sword.

"Senior Bodhi!" When the withered grass fairy saw the Bodhi Patriarch descending from the sky, she quickly stood up and bowed.

The sword-wielding youth in animal skin clothing stared blankly at Yu Wei, then his eyes reddened with excitement: "Senior Sister?"

Seeing Ji Ning and Yu Wei embracing each other with excitement and joy, Shi Mo couldn't help but smile.

Bodhi Patriarch shook his head slightly: "Foolish child, Ji Ning, why don't you come and pay your respects to Senior Shi Mo!"

"Ji Ning greets Senior," Ji Ning said, releasing Yu Wei and then bowing respectfully to Shi Mo, "Thank you for saving my wife, Senior!"

"You're quite clever," Shi Mo laughed. "Yu Wei is my grand-disciple, so I wouldn't let her die so easily. That's why I specially retrieved her true spirit from the River of Fate in the Three Realms and reconstructed her soul and body. In a way, you're also a disciple of Beishan, and thus my grand-disciple!"

"Shi Mo, you asked me to take Ji Ning as my disciple before, how come you're still trying to take advantage of me now?" Patriarch Bodhi couldn't help but say.

Shi Mo chuckled slightly: "Although you are good at teaching disciples, you are not good at swordsmanship, so I asked Beishan to help teach you!"

“Isn’t Ji Ning quite outstanding now? His swordsmanship and mental strength are both excellent. With his current strength, which is close to the World Realm, he can go out and explore and hone his skills.”

"It's rare for such an outstanding junior to appear in our Three Realms. Your disciple may even achieve greater things than you in the future!"

"You flatter me, senior!" Ji Ning said modestly.

Patriarch Bodhi chuckled, "Hehe, I would naturally be happy if Ji Ning could surpass me in cultivation. It would be wonderful if all my disciples could achieve even greater things than me in the future!"

"You're dreaming," Shi Mo said with a laugh. "Bodhi, you need to become the Lord of Life and Death as soon as possible, otherwise Hou Yi might surpass you first."

"No rush. It's not too late to perfect the strongest way of fusion that I've come to understand," said Patriarch Bodhi, remaining calm.

But thinking of Hou Yi and Ji Ning's excellence, he couldn't help but smile.

Shi Moshou has quite a few disciples, but none of them have the potential of Hou Yi and Ji Ning. Currently, only Bei Shan has reached the World Realm.

Yu Wei didn't die, and Ji Ning, freed from the influence of her obsession, also successfully returned to his true nature and reached the fifth level of mental power.

Afterwards, Ji Ning left his second primordial spirit in the Three Realms to accompany his wife and daughter, while his main body went to the Great Mo Domain to explore. He quickly entered the World Realm and, guided by Bei Shan, headed towards the Heavenly Azure Palace.
Everything was arranged by Shi Mo. On his way to Tiancang Palace, Ji Ning was also kidnapped by the Lord of Mangya and taken to Mangya Kingdom. He joined the Sword Palace of the Twelve Palaces of Mangya Kingdom, ventured into another universe, and embarked on the ultimate path of swordsmanship.
As if by inertia, just tens of thousands of years later, Ji Ning broke through to the realm of the Dao Lord of Life and Death with the ultimate sword dao, which truly astonished all the great powers in the Three Realms.

However, after Ji Ning's breakthrough, Hou Yi, Bodhi, Feng Mo, Sui Ren, the Three Pure Ones, Tathagata, and Huan Mu also successively broke through to become Dao Lords of Life and Death.

Following closely behind, Demon Hand, Fuxi, Shennong, Zhurong, Houtu, and others also broke through to become Lords of Life and Death.

The number of Dao Lords of Life and Death in the Three Realms suddenly increased, and almost all of them had comprehended the strongest Dao or broken through by combining the strongest Dao.

In fact, if it weren't for the desire to comprehend or merge with the strongest Dao, they probably would have already broken through.

In the following few hundred thousand years, a great many Dao Lords of Life and Death and World Realm beings were born in the Three Realms.

However, the most outstanding and fastest-improving cultivator was Ji Ning. When he first broke through to become a Dao Lord of Life and Death, he already possessed the strength to fight against a Fourth-Step Dao Lord.

In just a few hundred thousand years, Ji Ning, who had experienced some trials and tribulations while venturing out into the world, revealed the combat power of a peak Dao Lord.

Ji Ning's cultivation speed was so fast that it even attracted the attention of Nuwa.

Therefore, when news spread that there was a treasure called Dongming Jade Talisman in the Yi Bo Realm of the Great Eternal Realm that could assist in the Dao Integration process, it attracted many Fourth-Step Dao Lords on the verge of Dao Integration to gather and compete for it. Nuwa, who also wanted to obtain Dongming Jade Talisman to increase her success rate in Dao Integration, also entered the Yi Bo Realm.

In the Yi Bo Realm, both Nuwa and Ji Ning displayed astonishing strength. Ji Ning even broke through to the third step of Dao Lord, and his strength subtly surpassed Nuwa's.

The conflict in the Yi Bo Realm caused a huge uproar, shaking the entire Endless Territory, and resulted in the deaths of several peak Dao Lords.

However, Nuwa still managed to obtain a Dongming Jade Talisman through her own strength.

Although Ji Ning did not obtain the Dongming Jade Talisman, he ultimately reaped the greatest rewards, acquiring many precious spiritual fruits needed by various forces.

However, even with such a sensational event, Shi Mo never got involved.

In the chaos beyond the Three Realms, Nuwa's Dharma body arrived outside the cave where Shi Mo's Dharma body usually resided.

Seeing Shi Mo's Dharma body sitting cross-legged, silently observing the Three Realms, Nuwa couldn't help but say, "Shi Mo, you really are very composed! With such a huge commotion in the Yi Bo Realm, aren't you concerned about the Dongming Jade Talisman? Aren't you worried at all about achieving Dao?"

"The Dongming Jade Talisman is useless to me, and it's actually of limited use to you as well," Shi Moqing said, shaking his head.

Nuwa listened in silence for a moment before saying with a hint of helplessness, "Yes! The more extraordinary a Dao Lord is, the more difficult it is for him to achieve Dao integration."

"Shi Mo, how are your preparations going? How confident are you of achieving Dao?" Nuwa then asked.

"Why rush? The Dao Lord's lifespan is 108,000 Chaos Eras. We still have plenty of time. We've only cultivated for a little over one Chaos Era. We have ample time to prepare."

Shi Mo calmly replied, "Once we have accumulated sufficient resources and made adequate preparations, perhaps everything will fall into place naturally."

"It will happen naturally? Perhaps!" Nuwa smiled helplessly.

For Dao Lords, the success rate of merging with the Dao is simply too despairing. In an entire era and across the boundless realm, only a handful of Dao Lords ultimately succeed in merging with the Dao and achieving eternity.

(End of this chapter)