480: Chapter 360 480: Chapter 360 Jiang Tang didn’t want to become the second person to suffer such a fate; he had to suppress his cultivation.
With just two more major levels, he could ascend, and with his rapid pace of increasing cultivation, it was possible that within one or two years, he could ascend.
But then came another problem.
If he still hadn’t found a channel for ascension, then he could only woefully invite a thunderstrike.
He could no longer venture out under the open skies and certainly couldn’t stay in the space forever.
The Saint Sect he was working so hard to establish couldn’t just rise and then immediately be consumed by others.
Not even the people close to him were an exception.
His dreams, his actions, he wanted to lead the entire team in ascension.
Mending the collapses in the Heavenly Realm was such a grand project that it could not be done by a single person.
Or perhaps, he could do it alone, but he didn’t want to bear that immense pressure by himself.
It wasn’t that he was lacking in mental strength.
To live in the Mortal Realm, one must first seek happiness and safeguard oneself before being able to help others.
Jiang Tang was also thinking about his parents in the space who hadn’t yet acquired physical bodies and couldn’t go outside, and the many souls that were under his protection in the space, he must also help them return to the Mortal Realm.
If possible, when he ascended, he would take these relatives and friends with him and establish a powerful family or Sect in the Cultivation World.
After entering the Heavenly Realm, they could also become a powerful family or Sect within the Celestial Courts.
As Jiang Tang thought this, he wouldn’t just absorb this rainbow light for himself; he also channeled the rainbow light into the space.
In his body’s space and the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, this rainbow light could also flow.
Jiang Tang wasn’t just absorbing the rainbow light with his hands into his body, which was already in the late stages of Mahayana and only one step away from Divinity Transformation.
His cultivation was progressing rapidly.
Previously, he thought about controlling it, not to advance too quickly.
If others in the Cultivation World, or even those around him, knew of this, they would feel exasperated by the comparison.
While others were thinking of rapidly advancing to a certain stage and seeking to upgrade quickly, Jiang Tang, on the other hand, needed to suppress his cultivation and not let it grow too swiftly.
This is precisely what others longed for but couldn’t achieve, regardless of how smart or capable they were, or how their Single Spirit Roots made them seem exceptionally talented and prodigious in the eyes of others, they lacked the resources.
The resources for cultivation could completely change a person’s life and entirely transform their poor Spiritual Roots.
Jiang Tang was one such person.
Before joining the Immortal Sect, he had Pseudo Spirit Roots and spent three years as a menial worker within the sect, experiencing hardships that only those who have endured could understand.
Luckily, the soul that transmigrated with him brought the Golden Finger, the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space.
While laboring within, he reaped the rewards of his hard work.
He harvested superior Spirit Herb Medicine, Magical Treasures, and Secret Manuals from inside, which improved his Spiritual Roots.
He also used Secret Manuals produced by the space and learned Alchemy with Spirit Herbs from the space.
These steps along the way were not easy.
In his youth, he boasted in front of others, showing off his Alchemy skills and flaunting the Magical Treasures he had obtained, making him the target of envy and greed.
Despite this, he didn’t hold back or change his ways, remaining headstrong.
When others saw his lowly Spiritual Roots and cultivation, who else but him would they target for murder and robbery?
People who obtained good things typically kept them secret, while he, in his youthful arrogance, wrongly believed there was no danger outside.
He thought the Cultivation World’s society would be like the one from his previous life, governed by the rule of law.
But, as it happened, he encountered many villains and grew stronger with each chase.
He also realized that the items from his space couldn’t always remain there; they had to be converted into wealth.
He wanted to establish his commerce in the Cultivation World, no longer just farming.
Little did he know, while being pursued, he met a friend who had just opened a shop.
Not long after, he felt that it wasn’t enough to just do menial tasks in the Immortal Sect; he had to elevate his status.
He intended to gradually raise his position within the Immortal Sect, but unexpectedly, even before he could improve his standing, he was beaten and thrown into the Hell Palace.
If not for the ox he had produced in the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space and the Divine Beast pet gifted by his senior sister, he would’ve been utterly doomed.
Thus, by obtaining blessings, he continuously grew stronger within, mastering secret manuals unknown to others and even more formidable than those of the mortal realm.
After he produced that magical treasure, his alchemy skills had already improved, and his abilities had increased.
This had all happened in just over a month.
No one could believe that a man who had clearly died as a mere Qi Cultivation Stage cultivator a month before was now standing alive and well before others.
His friends believed it, but no one else did.
This gave him the ability to help his friends and those who had been poisoned, to fight against terrorists, and to assist the officials in detoxifying and saving people.
With the appearance of supreme elixirs, Jiang Tang found that he was making more money than he had from selling Spirit Grass, something he had never imagined possible—that one day he could amass wealth through alchemy.
Thus, he became acquainted with the women from nine of the Ten Great Clans.
And with nine women, along with one male disciple, following him, he kept encountering miraculous adventures in the process.
It was as if divine assistance empowered him; whenever he wanted to undertake a venture, everything he needed would fall into his lap, offering him two locations to establish the Saint Sect—with even greater benefits on offer.
Yet, these two places were even better than the lands of the Ten Great Clans.
To keep others from finding out, he sealed them off.
From a sealed monkey, he had obtained Immortal Qi time and again.
This Immortal Qi was even better than the alcohol he and the space enjoyed alone.
In fact, with his current abilities, these instances of rainbow light could have been completely absorbed by him if he willed it.
But he generously did not do so, instead leaving a small portion of the resources for those around him to absorb, which made them even more loyal and forever willing to follow him.
With his support through pills, many people wished for such resources, but lacking the ability to purchase them with their own resources, they were content to serve as subordinates, exerting themselves only to obtain them.
Unintentionally, Jiang Tang found more and more people wishing to follow him, including several from the Noble Clans and friends from those families.
Yet even knowing this, he felt it was not enough.
He envisioned the two Saint Sects he was establishing, which would possess many peaks, and would eventually have many peak masters and disciples.
Jiang Tang had already planned to use his wealth to actively recruit disciples and talents from everywhere.
Jiang Tang absorbed not only into his own body the rainbow-colored glow, but also into the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space; now even the fish in the river could absorb the rainbow light, not to mention the plants therein.
There were also the Ghost Cultivators enclosed by his light rings, with his supply of pills, were his parents the strongest among the many Ghost Cultivators?
Using his Divine Sense, he had managed to funnel some of the rainbow glow into his parents’ rings of light, while a smaller portion entered those of the other Ghost Cultivators.
The Ghost Cultivators in the midst of cultivation utilized attack spells to absorb the rainbow light.
Thanks to Jiang Tang’s assistance, his parents and those Ghost Cultivators, who had previously not known how to cultivate or possessed Cultivation Techniques or spells, now did.
Having eaten the pills supplied by Jiang Tang and starting from Spirit Movement and Spirit Awakening, they had progressed over several months to the Soul Pill stage.
Jiang Tang’s parents received his special help and had already reached Heart Refinement, but to gain a tangible body they still needed to advance two more levels; meanwhile, they continued to cultivate in hiding within the sealed space.
On one hand, Jiang Tang protected them, providing better resources for cultivation in the space and preparing superior arrangements.
On the other hand, afraid of being bullied outside, even though they had learned Cultivation Techniques and spells, their fear from being bullied in the Hell Palace prevailed.
Knowing they were safe here, they realized that only by cultivating harder and obtaining physical bodies could they reacquire freedom in the outside world.
Only with physical bodies could they live like humans day and night and become cultivators with higher aspirations.
Ever since receiving Jiang Tang’s help, they felt that being so powerful, even if they could one day go outside, it was far better to stay by his side than to be Loose Cultivators on their own.
They, once mere mortals, had never been instructed in the laws of Immortals.