Chapter 2269

After a long time, he finally reached the Immortal Ascension.

His True Energy had also been refined and improved exponentially, now becoming True Essence.

There was a world of difference between True Energy and True Essence.

This great leap in difference was akin to comparing an ember to an inferno.

After entering the Immortal Ascension’s First Stair, James did not relax for a moment and continued

cultivating since he still had a lot of time to spare.

He sat in a lotus position on the ground and activated the Novenary Golden Body Siddhi once. more.

Powerful energy entered through his pores and was refined into True Essence. James’ True Essence

continued to grow day by day.

After he reached the Immortal Ascension, he would require tremendous amounts of energy to have

another breakthrough.

This time, he cultivated for three whole months before finally getting close enough to step. into the next

stair. However, he chose not to and condensed his True Essence for another month until it attained its

maximum density.

At that moment, he sat in a lotus position on the ground, and was surrounded by immense amounts of

true energy.

From a distance, he looked like he was engulfed by flames.

The True Essence within his body flowed like crashing waves as he tried to break into the Immortal

Ascension’s Second Stair.

After he entered the Immortal Ascension rank, his True Energy and physical body would be enhanced

signifiacntly each time he made a new breakthrough. This was why some cultivators. had relatively

strong physical bodies despite not being body – refinement cultivators.

James’ physical body went through another transformation.

The process lasted for half a month.

Half a month later, James had finally reached the Immortal Ascension’s Second Stair.

His True Energy had also become purer, and his physical body was much more sturdy.

However, his physical strength did not improve as much because the difference in his cultivation rank

was relatively huge.

Without focusing on cultivating his physical strength, James climbed three cultivation ranks and one rank

in physical strength.

His physical strength was at the Immortal Ascension’s Seventh Stair.

“Six months should almost be up,” James murmured.

Although he did not remember how much time had passed, he could subconsciously estimate the

approximate time.

Even after cultivating at the seventh level, his body was unaffected by the violent energy. However, the

Ancient Clan alloted them a time limit of half a year.

Since he was within the Ancient Clan’s territory, he did not want to break their rules.

He had already gained a lot from cultivating the Pagoda of Flames. His cultivation rank reached the

Immortal Ascension’s Second Stair, and his physical strength was at the middle. stage of the Immortal

Ascension’s Seventh Stair. With his current strength, although it was not certain he could win first place

in the Grand Tournament, he could at least enter the top ten without any issues.

James stopped cultivating and headed up the stairs.

When he reached the sixth level, he found Quintina still cultivating seriously.

She sat in a lotus position on the ground, and her long black hair fluttered in the air. A dazzling blue light

surrounded her body.

James did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he stopped and watched Quintina cultivate.

He noticed that mysterious energy emanated from Quintina’s body and formed some ancient scripts

which circled her.

The scripts were very mysterious and contained great power.

“What’re those, Ms. Sophie?”

James stood in place and communicated telepathically with Sophie inside the Celestial Abode.

Sophie was instructing the 400,000 soldiers to practice their formation when she heard James. calling for

her. She looked at the outside world and sensed the Pagoda of Flames’

surroundings. Then, she saw Quintina, who was cultivating.

After observing Quintina for a while, Sophie replied, “It’s Inscription of the Way.” “Inscription of the Way?”