Chapter 2104: Chapter 2148: A Defiant Act Against Heaven

The expression of the Sage of the Ice Realm slightly changed, and he said, "Great Sage, what do you mean?"

The Great Sage said nothing.

The initial Two Calamities Realm white-haired elder who had welcomed Jiang Fan spoke with an indifferent expression:

"It’s literal, do you even need to ask?"

"If we don’t accept the Peace Monument offered to us, won’t the Hundred Realms of All Heavens mock us for being stubborn?"

Indeed!

The Great Sage and the Wushan Sage planned to keep Jiang Fan.

To be precise, they intended to keep the Peace Monument in his hand!

The Sage of the Ice Realm hurriedly said, "Great Sage, please retract your command."

"I invited Jiang Fan here to borrow his Peace Monument. If I occupy it, won’t I earn a reputation for being treacherous?"

Jiang Fan risked bringing the Peace Monument into the Ice Realm to expel the Dark Creatures.

In the end, they repaid kindness with betrayal and wanted to monopolize the Peace Monument.

How unjustifiable!

The Wushan Sage’s gaze turned slightly sharp, and he said, "Bai Yan, remember your stance!"

"You are a citizen of the Ice Realm, you should have the best interest of the Ice Realm in mind!"

The Sage of the Ice Realm, which should be called White Rock Sage,

Furrowed his brows, detailing the stakes: "Fine, I can disregard my personal reputation."

"But will the sages of Central Earth let it go? If we forcibly seize their Peace Monument, they will come to settle the score!"

The Wushan Sage and the other three sages’ expressions changed slightly.

Central Earth managed to restore the Dark World and become renowned across All Heavens, their strength is imaginable.

In contrast, the Ice Realm has been mired in a protracted battle with the Ancient Giants, with more than half of its sages fallen.

If a fight truly broke out, defeat for the Ice Realm would be inevitable.

The silent Great Sage finally spoke slowly:

"Jiang Fan voluntarily remained in the Ice Realm."

Voluntarily?

The Wushan Sage immediately understood, his solemn expression softened, and he said, "Right, who said we forcibly seized the Peace Monument?"

"Clearly, Jiang Fan willingly stayed, and Central Earth has no grounds to object."

"As for why Jiang Fan is willing... we in the Ice Realm bear no grudges and offer him the World Embryo for cultivation, and will even find him the most beautiful women in the Ice Realm, he won’t leave."

Everyone else gradually relaxed their brows as well.

As long as they silence the people of Central Earth, they would find local exits to the world’s boundaries, and Central Earth would be powerless.

Could they possibly keep their army stationed outside the realm forever?

White Rock Sage glanced around at everyone, seeing that the former sage companions had all agreed on this, he felt a pang of guilt and sighed to himself:

"Jiang Dao You, I am sorry."

Just at that moment.

A colorful glow that blocked out the sky suddenly surged like a tidal wave from the direction of the World Embryo.

White Rock Sage was slightly startled, and exclaimed, "Ah? Someone has entered Sagehood?"

Wushan Sage showed a look of surprise, "Could it be those with Merit rewards a few days ago successfully entered Sagehood?"

"It shouldn’t be, their Merit is insufficient to support their entry into Sagehood."

Due to prolonged battles and defeats, the Ice Realm heavily relied on Jiang Fan with the Peace Monument to repel enemies.

Thus, the rewards descended by the Ancient Sage of the Ice Realm were pitifully few.

Yet, mysteriously, just as the colorful glow was about to form a grand Heavenly Phenomenon of entering Sagehood before them, the glow vanished into thin air.

The anomaly came quickly and went quickly as well.

Wushan Sage was dumbfounded, "Did this mean the entry into Sagehood failed?"

The Great Sage on the Ice Throne raised his eyes to look towards the direction of the World Embryo, his fingers gently tapping on the armrest.

A gigantic ice mirror appeared before them, projecting the scene inside the Ten Thousand Ice Profound Pool.

In the ice pool.

Two old men sat on the No.1 Lotus Platform, one of them exuding a surge of cold air, maintaining a cross-legged posture.

His exposed skin showed a pale blue color, with strands of pale Ice Flame Patterns appearing and disappearing, like engravings, beautiful and resplendent.

Even through the ice mirror, one could feel the oppressive force being born from that body.

As if a cocoon was about to transform into a butterfly.

White Rock Sage was dumbstruck, "He... what is he doing?"

Even Wushan Sage appeared incredulous, tentatively asking the Great Sage, "Is he perhaps..."

The Great Sage on the Ice Throne slowly stood up, a trace of surprise infiltrating his voice:

"He is impacting the Dao Body to enter Sagehood!"

What?

Wushan Sage’s old eyes shot out in astounded light:

"Dao Body entering Sagehood? How could it possibly succeed?"

"The chasm between Divinity Transformation and the Dao Body is no less than the difference between mortals and Divinity Transformation."

"Without the baptism of great Merit between heaven and earth, a Dao Body simply cannot complete its transformation."

The rest of the sages were also filled with disbelief.

There were only sparse records of Dao Body entering Sagehood during the Daqian Divine Kingdom era.

But that was in the most prosperous time of All Heavens, the age of myths, with prodigies abounding.

In today’s fragmented dark age, how could such figures be nurtured again?

Setting aside the Merit of heaven and earth, to break the shackles between Divinity Transformation and Sage solely by oneself is to defy the heavens.

The possibility of success is negligible.

The Great Sage sat back down and said indifferently, "The Virtuous Realm is heaven’s destination, entering Sagehood without the power of heaven is all an act against the heavens."

"To make the Dao Body enter Sagehood, unless he has a Heaven-defying Technique."

White Rock Sage sighed faintly.

Even the Great Sage said as much, all of Jiang Fan’s Body Tempering cultivation would be in vain.

He said, "Should we remind him?"

The Great Sage said plainly, "Hit the wall, and naturally, one will turn back."

Inside the ice pool.

Bingxin had continuously protected Jiang Fan, forcibly interrupting his cultivation every time he couldn’t sustain it.

By now, after ten consecutive days of cultivation, Jiang Fan had tempered a small pool of ice flames.

Yet he still hadn’t broken through the bottleneck.

There seemed to be an invisible barrier obstructing Jiang Fan from taking that step forward.

Jiang Fan was also bewildered in his heart.

For ten whole days, he endured the pain of physical limits non-stop, yet he still couldn’t transcend.

He vaguely felt that the Body Refining Path to entering Sagehood was completely different from what he had previously cultivated.

Upon reaching the Virtuous Realm Level, the physique is constrained by some invisible great Dao rules.

It no longer follows the rule of becoming stronger with more tempering.

Instead, upon reaching a certain limit, it gets fixed, unable to move forward another step.

"Could it be I’m on a dead-end path?"

Jiang Fan fell into self-doubt; he even began to doubt this Quasi-Immortal Technique created by the Buddha.

Can this technique really succeed?

He thought intensely, harboring a strong urge to give up in his mind.

In his path of cultivation until now, he had never experienced such severe feelings of defeat with any Cultivation Technique.

Luckily, he was steadfast in character, readjusting his mindset and calmly reflecting.

"The Buddha is a Saint Realm, understanding the essence of all things; surely the Cultivation Technique he created cannot even reach the basic level of Sagehood."

"Such flawed Cultivation Technique can’t possibly be the Buddha’s doing."

"So, the problem lies with me."

Recalling each tempering process, a hypothesis started to form in his mind:

"The chasm between Divinity Transformation and Sage is insurmountable; every time I undergo Body Tempering, I stop at the extremes of Divinity Transformation."

"This might be why I’m unable to break through the bottleneck."

"In other words, I need a Body Refinement that surpasses my physical limit to have a chance at success!"

Jiang Fan’s eyes gradually brightened.

This was experience he distilled from so much hellish Body Tempering.

But soon, Jiang Fan frowned worriedly once more:

"But if I surpass my body’s limits, wouldn’t I perish under the ice flames?"

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