Gu Huaixin is a True Person of this age, with countless disciples. Why is he so optimistic about Ji Shaoqing, even considering him his successor?

The Angling Tower is a vast enterprise. While there aren’t many cultivators who can master two divine abilities, they aren’t impossible to find. Why then, is Ji Shaoqing hailed as a Heaven’s Chosen?

Why did Ji Shaoqing dare to relentlessly pursue revenge against Jiang Wang, a Qi Kingdom Heaven’s Chosen who had slain Granny Bizhu and over a hundred commander-level sea creatures?

Because of the Sky Gate divine ability!

The so-called Sky Gate is the gateway to the heavens.

This terrifying divine ability has two ways of opening.

When it opens from top to bottom, it creates an anti-air effect, prohibiting opponents from flying. It’s as if it seals the opponent’s path to the heavens.

One must understand that after breaking through to the Dragon Ascension realm, transcendent cultivators gain the ability to fly with their physical bodies. All subsequent battles unfold through ascending to the heavens and descending into the earth. Being forbidden to fly is almost akin to a normal person losing both legs.

When it opens from bottom to top, it can temporarily break through a minor realm! Of course, it has its limits and cannot break through major realms. For example, during the Five Palaces realm, one cannot leap to the Outer Tower realm.

But it is still considered terrifying.

This ability becomes stronger the further one progresses. Opening the Sky Gate during the Inner Mansion realm can grant one an additional mansion’s worth of combat power compared to the opponent. During the Outer Tower realm, it can grant an additional tower’s worth of combat power. And after the Divine Presence realm, or even the True Person realm?

The Sky Gate itself is already considered a top-tier divine ability, but it has an even more terrifying future.

In ancient records, there exists another divine ability called the “Earth Gate.”

The Earth Gate is the gateway to the earth. When it opens from bottom to top, it prohibits the casting of spirit-based Taoist arts. When it opens from top to top, it drains the opponent’s Tao essence!

The power of these two effects need not be elaborated upon.

The most terrifying aspect is this:

When the Sky Gate divine ability and the Earth Gate divine ability combine, they can form the “Heaven and Earth Gate,” one of the ultimate divine abilities!

It can even be completely understood as the Heaven and Earth Gate that cultivators in the Sky Through realm must push open when ascending to the Inner Mansion realm. This is because the Heaven and Earth Gate divine ability can, to a certain extent…prohibit transcendence!

It’s equivalent to closing the Heaven and Earth Gate that you worked so hard to open when ascending to the Dragon Ascension realm!

However, the Sky Gate divine ability is already extremely rare in the world, and the Earth Gate divine ability is only sporadically recorded in history.

Ji Shaoqing has been exploring the fifth mansion for a long time, pursuing the legendary Earth Gate divine ability. If he truly finds it, he will instantly become the foremost Heaven’s Chosen of the Angling Tower. Even Chen Zhitao, unless he can always maintain an absolute lead in cultivation realm, would have to bow his head.

Unfortunately, Ji Shaoqing has already touched the threshold of the Outer Tower realm and can interact with the starry sky, yet the legendary Earth Gate divine ability is still nowhere in sight, almost cutting off the possibility of achieving the Heaven and Earth Gate divine ability.

But merely the Sky Gate divine ability is enough for him to be called a Heaven’s Chosen!

Does the power of this divine ability need to be further elaborated upon?

What kind of person is Jiang Wang, and how terrifying is the combat talent he displayed in the fight? After finally escaping danger and gaining the upper hand, at the moment he was displaying his ferocity, he fell abruptly before Ji Shaoqing, like a bird with broken wings.

This scene was too shocking.

Many people knew that Ji Shaoqing had obtained two divine ability seeds, but very few had actually seen these two divine abilities.

One, the Crescent Moon, was already considered powerful. With the emergence of the Sky Gate divine ability, it was almost despair-inducing!

Being forbidden to fly might not seem too terrifying at first glance, but those truly skilled in combat can understand what a huge disadvantage it is. Being forbidden to fly means that the space for maneuvering is greatly restricted, confined to the ground. In the clashes of experts, this is almost equivalent to…having lost the space to evade.

Because there are only so many possibilities, every movement you make will be predicted.

Cultivators in the Sky Through realm often challenge cultivators in the Dragon Ascension realm by relying on surprise attacks, getting close before the opponent can fly, or luring the opponent to descend. This is because there is simply too much difference in combat between being able to fly and not being able to fly.

While the cultivators of the Angling Tower outside the arena were emotionally stirred, Jiang Wang’s friends were anxious.

Among the crowd, someone sent a voice transmission, asking, “That gate is…”

The person who spoke was wearing a hood and a black robe, appearing very mysterious.

Beside him, a person similarly dressed said, “The Sky Gate.”

This was a female voice, cold and chilling.

“So…” The person in front nodded and suddenly said, “Let’s go.”

“Not watching anymore?” the cold female voice asked, “You specifically came here just to watch for a few moments?”

“There’s no point in watching further. Regardless of the outcome, this battle is not something we can interfere with. So, we’ll just have to listen for the result when we have a chance.” The man’s voice transmitted as he discreetly withdrew from the crowd.

This cold and chilling voice shouldn’t have curiosity, but she was indeed very curious, so she asked, “Does that mean if you could interfere, you would actually help him? You don’t seem like someone who cares so much about friendship.”

“Helping him is very worthwhile,” the man’s voice only replied with this sentence.

The two then silently left the area.

They arrived quietly and left quietly.

Let’s return to the Sky’s Edge Platform. Ji Shaoqing unleashed the Sky Gate divine ability, instantly suppressing Jiang Wang, who had approached him, causing him to fall.

Why would he not pursue the victory? He immediately raised a finger and pointed it at the sky.

The Crescent Moon was activated again.

Just as the endless moon arrows were about to be unleashed, Jiang Wang suddenly moved!

The Azure Cloud imprint under his feet flashed and disappeared. His falling figure suddenly stopped and rushed back upwards at extreme speed, closer than before!

Everyone, including Ji Shaoqing himself, was stunned.

Jiang Wang was actually unaffected by the anti-air effect of the Sky Gate divine ability!

The anti-air effect of the Sky Gate divine ability is equivalent to pulling back the step a cultivator takes to break through the barrier of the Heaven and Earth Gate. What is taken back is the ability of the physical body to fly, and what is prohibited is the possibility of flying through Taoist arts.

But Stepping on Azure Clouds does not rely on the physical body to float, nor is it a Taoist art in the ordinary sense. It is an innovative immortal technique system from the era when the Nine Great Immortal Palaces stood tall, relying on technique interfaces!

Perhaps the Sky Gate divine ability, when developed to a profound level, can lock down all possibilities of flight. But at least at Ji Shaoqing’s current level, it cannot even suppress the technique interface.

To use a simple analogy, breaking someone’s legs is a way to prevent them from running. But the act of breaking legs cannot prevent the other party from galloping on horseback.

The technique interface is like this horse, carrying the “legless” Jiang Wang in flight, and thus unaffected by the Sky Gate divine ability at this time.

Jiang Wang felt the effect of the Sky Gate divine ability at the first moment, but did not resist. Instead, he fell with the momentum.

Because, a divine ability similar to “Sky Gate” must be the practitioner’s trump card, intended to settle the matter with one blow. Ji Shaoqing must have extreme confidence in it.

And his fall was precisely to allow Ji Shaoqing to confirm the effect of his divine ability and feel that he had the overall situation under control, thus choosing to attack rather than defend.

Deviation could achieve this goal more simply, but at this moment, under the gaze of all, he was unwilling to display Deviation. Because a divine ability like Deviation, once exposed, loses its most terrifying nature.

Even if the activation of Deviation leaves no trace, it’s possible that someone could see it clearly.

However, he used his “performance” in combat to make Ji Shaoqing misjudge.

Without using Deviation, he still achieved the effect of Deviation!