Chapter 621: Chapter 614: Making Another Attempt

“Some people, when faced with failure, become disheartened, and might even develop a psychological shadow.

While others draw lessons from their failures.

Chen Hai undoubtedly was the latter; if he could find the reason for the failure of this breakthrough, then the next time he tried to break through, he naturally would not make the same mistake again.

Unfortunately, furrowing his brow, he pondered for quite a while.

Before attempting the breakthrough, he had prepared meticulously in every aspect.

When he actually began the breakthrough, initially, everything went smoothly without the slightest obstacle; stepping further into the Earth Immortal Realm seemed just a matter of course.

But at the final moment, why did his breakthrough suddenly fail?

Even now, he still hadn’t figured out a reason.

“Could it be because the Black Water Immortal Mansion forms its own Small World?”

“I closed the door of the cave mansion and severed various connections with the outside world?”

“Trying to break through in seclusion within the cave mansion, without the support of the Power of Heaven and Earth from the outside, could that have led to the failure at the last moment?”

…

Lost in thought, time slowly slipped by.

After rejecting millions of possible reasons for his failed breakthrough, he finally considered the Power of Heaven and Earth.

At his level of strength, seeking further achievement in the Earth Immortal Realm required the support of Heaven and Earth; this logic should make sense.

He remembered that Blue Star, which he originally belonged to, was forcibly taken by a legendary Great Power, merged into this world, as if to complete the Heaven and Earth.

Such terrifyingly powerful beings would not be so idle as to catch stars and moons for mere diversion.

They captured worlds that were fragments of the Primordial to merge into this one, surely with their own purpose in mind.

Perhaps, it was because the incomplete Heaven and Earth limited their progress to higher realms, forcing them to capture worlds to supplement Heaven and Earth.

Once Heaven and Earth were complete, those Great Powers would naturally have the potential to ascend to higher realms!

Of course, that was merely Chen Hai’s speculation, and whether it was true or not, he wasn’t entirely sure.

But in his opinion, even those terrifyingly powerful beings needed the support of Heaven and Earth to break through.

Now, although he was merely attempting to break through to the minor realm of an Earth Immortal, being cooped up inside the cave mansion, not in touch with the larger Heaven and Earth outside, it made sense for the breakthrough to fail.

“Why not leave the cave mansion and try breaking through outside…”

After much deliberation, Chen Hai quietly said to himself.

His True Saint core possessed a hint of the Undying Characteristic, and its recovery abilities were extremely formidable.

The backlash from a failed Earth Immortal breakthrough inflicted on other cultivators might take decades to recover from.

But for such injuries, Chen Hai had fully recovered in less than a week.

Feeling his body’s condition and sensing he was almost at his peak, he silently stood up and walked outside.

Some time later, at the foot of the mountain, he stood before the huge stone stele engraved with the words ‘Black Water Immortal Mountain’.

Frowning, Chen Hai scanned the surroundings.

“With the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the Black Water cave mansion, if I truly succeed in breaking through and step into the Earth Immortal Realm, the disturbance will certainly not be small.”

“Inside the cave mansion, one can isolate all commotions, but outside, it certainly won’t work.”

“This Black Water Immortal Mountain is a bit conspicuous; its location is right outside the gates of the Bloodthirsty Sect, and the distance between them is too close.”

“I want to try breaking through, but here, it’s definitely not suitable, I need to go farther from here.”

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Tilting his head, Chen Hai pondered for a while, speaking to himself.

In the past, he had simply been in solitary cultivation and had not sealed off the entrance to the Black Water Cave Mansion. Whenever his wife, Ye Qingqing, had the time, she would come over here to spend some time with him.

From Ye Qingqing’s mouth, he knew that the Bloodthirsty Sect, under his wife’s diligent efforts, was flourishing day by day.

Should a catastrophe strike during his breakthrough to the Earth Immortal Realm, causing heaven and earth to crumble with fierce thunder and lightning, and the nearby Bloodthirsty Sect suffered collateral damage, Chen Hai would be guilty of a grave mistake.

If such a situation occurred, he had no idea how he would explain it to his wife.

“Should I slip into the Bloodthirsty Sect to see Qingqing?”

This thought had just flashed across Chen Hai’s mind when he negated it himself, “Forget it, I won’t go over for the time being.”

“The last time I saw her, she said she was about to face the Nine Realms Heavenly Tribulation.”

“By now, she must have successfully stepped into that realm. If I fail my breakthrough and go see her, how embarrassing would that be?”

“As a man of honor, should I have no shame?”

“I’ll wait until I’ve truly succeeded in breaking through and stepping into the Earth Immortal Realm before I give her a surprise!”

With this thought in mind, and after a moment’s hesitation, Chen Hai soared toward the distant mountains.

Time, for a cultivator like him, was the least valuable thing.

For ordinary people, ten or eight years might be a very long time, but for cultivators who have attained some level of achievement, it might just be a blink of an eye.

Over the years, the whole territory of West Barbarian Mountain had been peaceful and stable.

Attempting another breakthrough wouldn’t take much time, and Chen Hai didn’t think there would be any significant events concerning his wife, Ye Qingqing.

After flying out for over a hundred li, on the side of a high peak, he pierced through the cliff face and hastily carved out a stone room within the mountain to serve as his cultivation spot.

He placed a large rock at the entrance of the stone room, high on the cliffs, to thoroughly conceal it.

After completing all this, and ensuring that the Cultivation Room he made was unreachable by ordinary people and impervious to fierce beasts, Chen Hai sat cross-legged in the center of the room.

Of course, breaking through a Great Realm was a matter of utmost caution, and he didn’t immediately start trying to break through.

Although he was now seated cross-legged, his primary focus was on adjusting his body and mind. Only when he was in a peak state physically and mentally would he begin to attempt a true breakthrough.

Time passed, and before he knew it, another ten or twenty days had gone by.

A tunneling light crossed the mountains, flying in from afar.

At the summit of a peak, the tunneling light twisted and changed until Yang Dingtian, dressed in a yellow robe with white hair, hands clasped behind his back, materialized from the void, slowly coming into existence.

“Compared to the chaos overseas, this territory of the West Barbarian Mountain, though poor, is relatively stable.”

“Before I left this place to go to another territory, I gave the branch of the Bloodthirsty Sect here a month to consider carefully whether they wanted to move overseas.”

“Now that the deadline has come, it’s time for them to give me an answer.”

“I hope that Ouyang Ming and those others know what the wisest choice is, and don’t make me force them to move overseas.”

“After all, there are over a thousand cultivators here. Although their strength isn’t great, they still possess talent and the ability to cultivate.”

“If this new blood were to be integrated into the Main Lineage of our Bloodthirsty Holy Sect overseas, even using them as mere grunts would be enough to boost the Sect’s strength a notch.”

“By then, within the alliance, who would dare to look down upon our Bloodthirsty Holy Sect?”

With his robe fluttering and white hair dancing, Yang Dingtian gazed deeply into the distance.

Just as he made out the direction of the Bloodthirsty Sect and prepared to shoot into the sky and fly away,

He suddenly discovered that within at least a hundred-li radius, spiritual energy began to surge violently towards a mountain peak a few li away.

“Could it be that some Supreme Treasure is about to emerge?” Sensing a sudden brightness before his eyes, this thought abruptly appeared in Yang Dingtian’s mind.