3 Chapter 1 Looking Up_3

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Just like the boy before them, who stood unwavering and silent, the three had never seen anyone else manage that.

"Elder Sun, we're really going to strike it rich this time!"

Overwhelmed with joy, the portly Yin Hai couldn't wait for the series of Seeking Spirit Ghost Electrics' inspection to end, and offered his premature congratulations, "The trip was worth it, truly worth it!"

"We almost missed out on another fine jade!" The tall and thin Yin Shan glared at his brother, blaming him for urging too hastily before.

Sun Bin grinned and laughed heartily, feeling refreshed as he waved his hand, "I knew that if the sister is like this, the brother surely won't be far behind. My wait was not in vain."

"Return to the sea!"

Accompanied by Sun Bin's sharp command, the numerous Seeking Spirit Ghost Electrics that drifted unpredictably all sudden rushed into the boy's Dantian Spiritual Sea.

However, Sun Bin, who was filled with anticipation, suddenly furrowed his brows deeply as the strands of lightning dispersed within the boy's Dantian.

"That's not right, this shouldn't be happening!"

Sun Bin started by scratching his head in frustration, then stared intently at the location of the boy's Dantian, carefully sensing the movements and trajectory of the Seeking Spirit Ghost Electric.

After a long while, having sensed repeatedly, Sun Bin couldn't help but let out a long sigh, stomped his feet and lamented, "To be siblings and yet have such disparate cultivation potential, it's quite regrettable. Such a pity, to waste such a good temperament!"

He had originally thought that even if the brother's talent was not as good as the sister's, as long as the difference wasn't too outrageous, he would be willing to take them both to the Upper Realm.

But inside the boy's Dantian Spiritual Sea, not only was there no natural Thunder Vortex, but it was also extremely murky.

Even if he began the path of cultivation, his progress would be incredibly slow, and he was destined to achieve very little.

"Impossible, right?"

Yin Hai and Yin Shan, the brothers, were unable to comprehend and wanted Sun Bin to check again.

The confident Pang Lin, upon hearing this, was as if struck deeply and exclaimed, "How could that be? Elder, could you please check again closely?"

In her eyes, her brother was the strongest and most extraordinary person in the world. Since she possessed exceptional cultivation talent, her brother could only be better.

She couldn't accept the evaluation Sun Bin had made of her brother.

"The matter is settled, there's no need to look further."

Sun Bin shook his head helplessly as streams of Ghost Electric flew out of the boy's body and disappeared back into the shadows of his eyes.

"I regret to inform you that we can't take you with us. Your cultivation potential is too poor, and I wouldn't know how to explain it to the higher-ups," Sun Bin said calmly, having seen too many storms, "The place we're going to has no room for someone like you, and you wouldn't benefit from it anyway."

"If my brother can't go, I won't go either!" Pang Lin shouted loudly.

"I've told you, you both don't get a say in this," Sun Bin snorted.

"Xiao Lin, follow them. Go to a better and vast world, and your brother will come to find you in the future,"

interestingly, it was the boy who had been openly rejected by Sun Bin who took a deep breath, withstood the unceasing pain inside him, and actively tried to persuade her, "Don't worry, I will definitely find you in the upper realms."

As he uttered these words, his expression was resolute, and in the depths of his clear eyes and bright face, there seemed to shine an arresting brilliance.

Sun Bin watched the boy, his eyes reflecting deep thought.

And Yin Shan and Yin Hai, the two brothers, were also captivated by the determination in the boy's eyes, which reminded them of their own difficult beginnings, and the words of mockery that had reached their throats were forcefully stifled.

"No, I don't want to go!"

Pang Lin, knowing that after today's parting it might be difficult to see each other again, wept as she shook her head persistently.

The two had depended on each other since childhood, their bond deep, and naturally she did not want to leave alone.

"Girl, your brother coming to find you in the Upper Realm might be a bit unrealistic,"

Sun Bin coughed lightly, suggesting a new perspective, "However, once you've proven yourself in the sect and broken through to the Hollow Profound Realm, you could return to find him and secure a place for him in the Upper Realm."

He glanced worriedly at the Solitude Mountain Range and said once more, "Otherwise, you'd be stuck in a place like the Fourth Realm, where the Spiritual Energy is scarce and inevitably at some moment in the future, it will face an extinction-level calamity."

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"Hollow Profound Realm?" Pang Lin called out as if she had caught a lifeline.

"Yes, in this realm, cultivators in the realms of Qi Cultivation, Meridians Channeling, and Marrow Cleaning are more common. In the higher realm, there are more cultivators in the Innate, Hollow Profound, and Spirit Condensation Realms," Sun Bin patiently advised, saying, "Girl, you possess exceptional talent. As long as you diligently cultivate, it's not difficult to step into the Hollow Profound Realm within a hundred years."

After a moment of hesitation, he took out an old, oil-paper-wrapped yellowed ancient book and tossed it into the arms of the youth.

"This is the 'Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell', which I accidentally obtained in a forbidden land. I hope it will help you, young man, embark on the path of cultivation, allowing you to live until the day when Pang Lin calls upon you."

"Whoosh!"

Without waiting for the siblings to say goodbye, the azure light screen surrounding them slowly closed in from the outside, and in the end, cocooned only Pang Lin in a tube of light that spilled like a rainbow, dragging her first toward the Divine Bird.

Before the light screen ascended, Sun Bin and his companions had already let their spiritual power overflow, isolating them from the violent rain.

"Kid, we'll meet again someday."

With those words, the three of them shot into the sky, eventually landing along the long neck of the Qing Jue.

The Divine Bird cried softly, flying toward the grey, murky Sky Curtain amid the storm.

Pang Jian looked up and saw, to his surprise, faint remnants of blue ghostly electricity leaping about in his eyes, multiplying his vision countless times.

Between him and Sun Bin, there seemed to be a secret thread that allowed his gaze to follow Sun Bin's movements.

He felt that the strange lightning that had checked his cultivation potential was still partially inside him, deliberately allowing him to see Sun Bin and the others as they grew more distant.

Thus, his gaze followed the ascending Divine Bird, looking up to the sky.

The youth was not discouraged by the fact that he wasn't taken along; things his sister had achieved that he could not became a source of even greater consolation and pride to him since she could achieve them with her own talent.

Under the grey Sky Curtain, the Divine Bird spread its wings and soared heavenward amid the tempest, climbing higher and higher.

At a certain altitude, Pang Jian, through the glow of the Divine Bird, could vaguely make out the horizon filled with leaden clouds—scores of shattered worlds like Northern Qi, islands scattered across the realms of the Upper Realm.

And there were two colossal continents, shrouded deep within the dense clouds, like the godly estates that a Sky God had established in the void, naturally drawing in the surrounding nature's spiritual energy.

Those two legendary parts of the world were the sacred lands that all the beings of his realm longed for in their dreams.

He knew that was another world.

There, representing the lofty Sect powers, were the promise of a rich and superior life, and the strong cultivators with their lengthy lifespans.

Pang Jian couldn't help but clutch the ancient book tightly in his hand as a flame called desire ignited within his eyes, burning ever more fiercely.

For his sister Pang Lin as well as for himself, he vowed to climb those higher realms.

As the Divine Bird continued to fly higher, Pang Jian's gaze flickered on and off, still struggling to follow the Qing Jue, trying to determine the Divine Bird's final resting place, thereby tracking his sister's whereabouts.

Before long, he saw the Divine Bird overtake the two continents of the Third Realm and continue soaring into the high sky, and there, imposingly and magically, were three other continents aloft.

It turned out that above his head in the Upper Realm, there were yet higher Upper Realms, and even more majestic and exalted worlds.

"The Second Realm!"

Pang Jian's figure suddenly shook as he realized that the ultimate destination of his sister might be even more unattainable than he had thought.

It was at this moment he saw a bright moon hanging high in the sky, surrounded by countless shining fragments of stars shining down upon the land below.

And beneath the bright starry moon, aside from the Third Realm he had heard of, there indeed existed two higher layers of the world.

The so-called Upper Realm turned out to consist of three worlds, one layer higher than the next.

This scene was something he had never seen in his life, not even in his dreams—the magnificent and resplendent vision.

The young boy, deeply moved, looked up at the sky from the Lower Realm, where the eternal day and night stars disappear, and his heart was filled with endless fantasies.

Climbing to the peak and standing in the highest realms of the Upper Realm also became his undying dream.

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