Ning Cheng had never planted any spiritual plants in his world after he had condensed his rule world.
This time, it was the first time that the Nirvana Tree of the Year Round had been sent into his realm to be grafted. His realm was already a combined realm, and since it was just a combined realm, Ning Cheng believed that as his combined realm rose, his strength would increase by leaps and bounds.
If he hadn’t fought against the Qu Bodh Holy Buddha before, Ning Cheng would definitely not have been in such a hurry to raise his strength. In the Five Elements Universe, he did not dare to say that his strength was number one, yet no one dared to come and move his head.
After seeing the strength of the Qu Bodh Holy Buddha, Ning Cheng knew that there were heavens beyond the heavens. Perhaps if he and Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha did not fight in the Western Universe, he would not be weaker than Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha. But this also reflected from the side that he was inferior to Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha, who was the Buddha Lord of the Western Universe and was stronger than him in the Western Universe, and if he was even with him in another universe, that meant that the other party was stronger than him.
Not to mention that the Gate of Creation was about to open, even he himself and also the Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha had a gap. If he did not improve his strength, he would probably die without a place to be buried if he faced the Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha in the future. Even if the Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha did not kill him and threw him into the Extreme Bliss Heaven to turn into a Buddha Dao sculpture, that would even be worse than being killed.
Ye Mo should have also learned that Jian Mu had fused the realm and could go to the next level, which was why he went to the Witch Clan to ask for rootless water.
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Ning Cheng’s realm was currently grey and dull, despite the fact that Ning Cheng had merged his realm, this realm still only had rules that he himself had coalesced. These rules were extremely powerful and gave Ning Cheng the feeling that it always seemed as if something was missing.
The Nirvana Tree of the Wheel of the Year was not transparent, and some of its outline shadows could be vaguely seen. The branches and leaves on the several feet of the tree’s canopy were not lush either, and the ageing aura also seemed extremely faint.
Ning Cheng took out the Jian Mu nail and his divine sense penetrated into it, trying to find the same aura of the Jian Mu nail and the yearly cycle. However, no matter how much he felt, there was no resemblance between the Yearly Wheel and the Wood-Building Nail.
To be precise, the Wheel of the Year was a living ancient tree, while the Wood-Building Nail was more like a refined magic treasure.
The nail in his hand is only about seven inches in size and has a five-pronged cut. There is a feeling of being out of place when the nail is placed next to the Wheel of the Year.
Ning Cheng sighed, could this nail really be grafted on the annual wheel? If the grafting did not survive, then his annual wheel would be ruined. The so-called grafting of the Jian Mu, that involved cutting the annual wheel at an angle, leaving only the first cut of vitality, chipping away the refining marks of the Jian Mu nail and grafting it to the first cut of vitality on the annual wheel.
If this fails, the wheel will lose its vitality and the wood will not survive the grafting. Even a Jianmu nail magic treasure is lost.
The Du Xuan Ancient Clan’s Year Wheel tree had long since been fused into the restoration of the Tai Su Realm, and if this one Year Wheel in his hands was grafted to death, the first person he would be sorry for would be the Chief of the Li Feng Clan. This was because once the grafting failed, the Year Wheel would become completely extinct.
When he thought of the Phoenix Clan Chief, Ning Cheng suddenly recalled the Witch Clan’s Ancestor Di Hong. Compared to the Witch Race and the Du Xuan Ancient Race, one wondered which race was a little more ancient.
Ning Cheng hesitated for several days before finally deciding to do it.
Since he had already decided, Ning Cheng would not hesitate half a second, and his palm raised into a hand blade, directly cutting off the Yearly Wheel diagonally from the first entrance of life.
At the same time as cutting off the yearly wheel, Ning Cheng actually felt the whimpering of the yearly wheel. Ning Cheng sighed, the superiority of the superiority of the inferiority of the inferior, perhaps that was how it was.
After chipping off the Year Wheel, Ning Cheng gathered Dao rhythms on his palm and chipped off a layer of refinement marks from that Jian Mu Nail as well. Then, as fast as he could, he posted the chipped side of the Jian Mu nail and the chipped side of the Year Wheel together, followed by all sorts of his own Dao Rhyme rules coalescing on it.
According to Hong’s advice, this step was particularly crucial. It is to warm the grafted wood with one’s own dao-rhyme rules. According to Hong’s speculation, the reason why the Five Elements Sovereign had not been able to fuse the Jian Mu into his world in the shortest possible time was because the Five Elements Sovereign’s Jian Mu was not grafted, and the Dao rhythm rules in it simply could not fuse with his realm.
A more suitable Jian Mu for fusion with the realm would be the Jian Mu that had been grafted with the Nirvana Tree. The prerequisite is that this Jian Mu must be warmed by its own Dao Rhythm Rules.
A dao rhyme aura was infiltrated into the cut by Ning Cheng, and the vitality that had been cut off from the midway, slowly coalesced and fused under Ning Cheng’s dao rhyme rules.
As time passed day by day, Ning Cheng could clearly feel a faint trace of life coming out of the place where the Jian Mu nail and the annual wheel came into contact.
Ning Cheng was delighted as he carefully poured the Wushan Rootless Water under the roots of the grafted Jian Mu.
As the Wushan Rootless Water was poured down, the vitality of the grafted Jianmu became even more dense. A faint sprout of life emerged from the grafted interface, and when this sprout appeared, Ning Cheng’s entire body shook.
At this moment, the grey and dull realm space had a hint of life rule aura, and then Ning Cheng felt that his realm was even clearer.
As his realm became clearer, his Dao rhythm also became clearer, and all sorts of boundary rule prototypes coalesced in his realm. An unexplained feeling surged to his heart, his Dao and divine rules seemed to be growing along with that tender shoot.
The thought of a newborn realm rose up in Ning Cheng’s mind, and Ning Cheng came to the realisation that the fusion of the realm and Jian Mu was the same thing.
Ning Cheng slowly closed his eyes as he began to feel all the changes in his realm.
Previously, the rules in his realm had increased according to his cultivation level and perception. Now the rules in his realm were finally no longer dependent on his own perceptions, and the rules in his realm spontaneously grew as the young shoots of the building wood grew.
When a certain heaven and earth rule was needed in his world, he would get a message, and with a single movement of his thoughts, this new heaven and earth rule was born in the middle of his world.
Whether it was the birth of a new rule or the original rule growing as Jian Mu grew, his strength and realm continued to climb.
Ning Cheng’s surrounding Dao rhythms also naturally fused with his realm, encircling this growing world endlessly.
At this moment, Ning Cheng was immersed in it, as he cultivated his senses as the Jian Mu grew, and his strength continued to grow as the Jian Mu grew.
Time passed, and in a flash, several decades passed.
When Ning Cheng opened his eyes again, the Jian Mu around him had long grown into a giant tree of ten feet in height, with its canopy extending out to tens of feet in circumference. The grafted Jian Mu had travelled in his world in just a dozen years the distance that the annual cycle had travelled in tens of thousands of years.
His previously grey world was now a vibrant, verdant place.
A brand new feeling came over him, and Ning Cheng became calm instead. The sharpness around him had long since disappeared, and his entire body had become round and simple, no longer having that sense of overpowering aura.
With a slight lift of his hand, a divine Dao rhyme manifested itself, without any Dharma dictates or any Dao rhymes running. It was just as natural as the breath of heaven and earth, as if the divine Rhythm had existed for ages, and he merely raised his hand to pull away the veil of the already existing Dao Rhyme.
“So this is the third realm!” Ning Cheng murmured to himself, no longer having any elation, as if the water had come into being, naturally.
There was a time when he had always thought that his Dao had reached the third realm, and it was only today that he realized that his previous third realm was only that subconscious third realm, not that he had truly reached the third realm. Laughable, and he had always thought that he had given Qu Bodhisattva Saint Buddha a guideline.
Qu Bodh Holy Buddha had indeed received an unintentional instruction from him, only that what the person had sensed was not that subconscious third realm, but a real third realm, just like his present one.
Seeing the mountain is still a mountain, seeing the water is still water. At this moment, he was just like the Ning Cheng who had just left from Earth. Countless years had passed in between, but all these countless years had turned into clouds of smoke and dissipated into thin air at this moment.
Ning Cheng smiled faintly, if he were to stand in the Heaven of Ultimate Bliss at this moment, he would face the two fingers of Qu Bodhisattva’s Holy Buddha, and he would have the same two fingers.
As his mind moved, Ning Cheng lifted his hand and grabbed out the Extreme Green Thunder City, sending several rules of life into the Green Thunder City. The artefact spirit, which had been sleeping after being severely injured by the Creation Indestructible Axe’s axe intent back then, easily awoke at this moment.
The Thunder City Artifact Spirit understood what was going on the first time and was even more surprised as he thanked Ning Cheng.
“You have been sleeping for too long, so fuse the Green Thunder City first.” Ning Cheng smiled, with his current strength, creating the Green Thunder City was no longer of much help to him.
What made him sigh was the change in strength after grafting the Jianmu, before even he couldn’t get the Thunder City Artifact Spirit to recover after merging the boundaries, at this moment it was just a few easy vitality rules.
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“Big brother you’re out of the gate? Has that tree come to life?” Seeing Ning Cheng come out, Yu Qing immediately stood up and asked in surprise.
She was the only one who was clear about Ning Cheng’s grafting of the Jian Mu in seclusion.
Ning Cheng took Yu Qing’s hand and nodded, “It’s successful, we no longer have to fear that monk. Hehe, you’ve already arrived at the Drafted Mountain?”
“I just arrived too, you didn’t come out from your retreat, so I waited here.” Yu Qing was extremely happy in her heart, Ning Cheng had successfully grafted the Jian Mu and was not afraid of the Qu Bodhisattva Holy Buddha, so she was naturally happy.
“Let’s go, let’s go and take a look at the Drafted Mountain.” As Ning Cheng spoke, his divine sense had long since penetrated into the huge mountain range that stretched for billions of miles in front of him. He had told Yu Qing before his retreat that he would go to Mount Zhaoge to look for the artifact spirit of the Starry Sky Wheel.
As the Starry Sky Wheel cut through space and entered the midst of the Nether Mountain, Yu Qing stood beside Ning Cheng and said, “Big Brother Ning, so many people have been heading to the Calvary Mountain recently, I wonder what is going on.”
As Mount Zhangshan was actually not far away from Calvary Mountain, Yu Qing was waiting for Ning Cheng to leave the gate at Mount Zhangshan, so he could naturally detect the people who had entered Calvary Mountain.
After a brief pause, Ning Cheng said, “The first time the Gate of Creation opened was near Jia Quantum Mountain, and as the time is getting shorter and shorter before the second Gate of Creation opens, it should be that there is a change in Jia Quantum Mountain. After we collect the Starry Sky Wheel Artifact Spirit, let’s go over there and take a look as well.”