Chapter 3: Gathering

The appearance of a Thought Manifestation Realm cultivator within the Boundless Sect was a big deal. Not long afterwards, another piece of good news began to circulate: Shi Kaihuang had reached the Spirit Burning Realm.

Shi Kaihuang had been stuck at the Light Shaking Realm for a few decades now. Given his mixed bloodline, his cultivation’s maximum potential should have been the Light Shaking Realm. But after Su Chen completed the fifth level of his Soaring Immortal Cultivation Techniques, Shi Kaihuang had also become able to ascend. However, the wounds he had sustained during his campaign in Ravager territory made it temporarily impossible for him to do so.

Once Su Chen discovered Pill Inscriptions, however, he was able to use that in conjunction with the Origin Bone Scepter to devise a solution for Shi Kaihuang’s ascension.

Thus, while Shi Kaihuang was the last of the Heavenly Might Battalion’s original seven heroes to reach the Spirit Burning Realm, his breakthrough also attracted the most attention.

The day that he ascended, Su Chen organized a large celebratory banquet. All of the sect’s disciples came to celebrate and have a merry time, and even Shi Kaihuang himself drank to the point of weeping, clutching Su Chen’s hand as he blubbered incessantly. He had completely lost the prestige and composure that a master...