My Five Bigshot Seniors: I am The Most Coddled Junior!-Chapter 324 - 4: Jun Wu’s Ascension [Second Update]

Sub-immortal Realm.

Yunlan Sacred Land.

Ten days after Gu Qingqing’s ascension, Jun Wu also sensed the opportunity for ascension. The Heavenly Ladder was already repaired, and his ascension could be described as a matter of course. After explaining briefly to Jun Yutian and the others, Jun Yutian waited at the highest point of Yunlan Sacred Land for his ascension.

By noon, Jun Yutian felt the power of summoning. He followed that force into mid-air, where a transparent Heavenly Ladder appeared before his eyes. He firmly stepped onto the first stair and then ascended the Heavenly Ladder step by step, walking towards that door.

When he pushed the door open, a flash of light passed before his eyes, instantly causing him to lose consciousness.

The door slowly closed as well, and seven-colored clouds occupied the upper room of Yunlan Sacred Land. Everyone in Yunlan Sacred Land knew that Jun Wu had successfully ascended and felt very excited in their hearts.

...

When Jun Wu opened his eyes, he found himself in a place resembling a pool. He was momentarily stunned and looked around, immediately seeing two people standing not far away, who also noticed him.

"Young master, we are the guides of Lanyue City. You are currently in the Ascension Pool, where you can convert the Spiritual Power within your body into immortal power," one of the men said to Jun Wu politely and respectfully.

Jun Wu nodded, "Thank you for informing me."

Saying that, he closed his eyes and began to operate his cultivation technique to convert the Spiritual Power within his body into immortal power.

"I heard that over in Purple Sunset City, a person stayed in the Ascension Pool for three days. Here in Lanyue City, there’s just this one ascender in the past two days. I wonder how long he can stay in the Ascension Pool," the guide who spoke to Jun Wu said to his companion.

"If someone can stay in there for three days, he’ll have considerable accomplishments in the future as long as he doesn’t die. But do you think every ascender will be so formidable? Even if they all are, it’s not certain they would appear in our Lanyue City," his companion said, not very convinced.

"That’s not necessarily true. What’s wrong with our Lanyue City? Lanyue City is good too. Why couldn’t such a person appear here?" The guide grumbled in dissatisfaction.

His companion glanced at him, knowing he was just dreaming without contesting further, simply shook his head, and returned to his post after casting a look at Jun Wu sitting calmly in the Ascension Pool.

The first speaking guide whispered a couple of curses and followed back to his post.

Neither of them thought that by the time their shift ended, Jun Wu was still sitting in the Ascension Pool, not hinting at waking up.

"How many hours has he been in there?" Guide Zhou Xin, who first spoke to Jun Wu, asked his companion, He Lang.

"About seven hours," He Lang replied, glancing at the sky.

"It’s been seven hours. Just a little longer, and it’ll be a whole day," Zhou Xin said, looking at Jun Wu with some excitement.

"Yes," He Lang said with a somewhat peculiar expression, "but even a day is quite good, and those major sects would definitely recruit him."

"True, a day doesn’t mean much. Let’s hurry up and go, maybe have a couple of drinks later," Zhou Xin said, losing interest suddenly, and pushed He Lang.

"Alright, let’s go," He Lang, originally not very concerned, nodded at Zhou Xin’s words and let himself be led away.

After the two left, Jun Wu was still in the Ascension Pool without signs of waking. The guides on the shift after Zhou Xin and He Lang had heard that Jun Wu had been in there for seven hours, and they were curious how long he could continue to stay.

To their surprise, by the time it was their shift change, Jun Wu was still inside. Adding up the previous time, Jun Wu had already stayed for nineteen hours, which was already quite an impressive achievement.

Ultimately, Jun Wu also stayed in the Ascension Pool for three days before opening his eyes. Being originally an Innate Daoist Body, his cultivation speed was very fast. During his time in the Ascension Pool, not only did he consolidate his cultivation, but also improved slightly. Like Gu Qingqing, he directly skipped over the Human Immortal stage, reaching the Peak of Earth Immortal.

After understanding the current situation in the Immortal Realm and his location from the guide nearby, Jun Wu went to the City Lord Mansion first to collect his fifty immortal coins, then found a place to stay, and inquired about Gu Qingqing’s whereabouts.

Seven days had passed since Gu Qingqing ascended to the Dao Immortal Realm. Her incident had only a little heat left, and Jun Wu, eating in a restaurant the next day, heard someone mention it. Based on their description, he immediately realized that the person was very similar to Gu Qingqing and became excited at once.

Not only did Gu Qingqing miss Jun Wu, but Jun Wu also missed Gu Qingqing very much, especially since it was finally possible for them to be openly together, yet they had to be forcibly separated. Jun Wu was very uncomfortable about it.

Finding out that Gu Qingqing was in Purple Sunset City and that Purple Sunset City was not far from Lanyue City, Jun Wu decided to forgo earning money first and immediately prepared to go to Purple Sunset City to find Gu Qingqing—he missed her too much!

...

Gu Qingqing was also missing Jun Wu. They had agreed that she would ascend first and then Jun Wu would follow. But after waiting for so long without news of Jun Wu, Gu Qingqing was a bit worried too. But she also knew that ascension required opportunity, and Jun Wu’s delay was probably because he hadn’t sensed the opportunity yet.

Understanding this, Gu Qingqing was not anxious and instead focused on earning money well in the Sunset Mountain Range.

After the past few days of observation, Gu Qingqing had already understood the spirit beasts at the outermost area of Sunset Mountain Range and captured them quite easily. However, these spirit beasts were not very valuable, and their price did not meet Gu Qingqing’s expectations. So her target had already moved towards deeper areas with Heavenly Immortal level spirit beasts, which, with some effort and caution, she could still manage to kill, and the rewards were greater.

For instance, now Gu Qingqing was targeting a Heavenly Immortal level Illusion Deer. Among Heavenly Immortal level spirit beasts, these deer were not particularly formidable, the only noteworthy trait being their Illusion Realm, which was difficult to escape from for those below True Immortal cultivation.

Gu Qingqing targeted it because its antlers were valuable, reportedly usable for artifact refining.

The Illusion Deer was also quite fast, but it had higher cultivation than Gu Qingqing, and using her Power of Word Spirit consumed much more than before. Therefore, Gu Qingqing did not use the Power of Word Spirit directly but tried to face the Illusion Deer head-on. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

There was still some gap between them, and shortly, she got injured. Just as she was about to use the Power of Word Spirit to fix the Illusion Deer in place, a Sword Qi directly killed it. Gu Qingqing immediately turned her head fiercely, looking towards where the Sword Qi came from, only to see a woman standing there, alarmed by her gaze, looking at her, at a loss of what to do!