The entire heavens had turned crimson and all the cultivators could feel the powerful profound presence of something that was going to appear.
Thousands of cultivators were all wondering where the Dao Fruit would be descending.
"Is it the Dao Fruit?"
"It must be the Dao Fruit!"
"Actually, there is no record history of a Dao Fruit that has ever descend for the past 100 000 years… anything longer than 100 000 are no longer recorded…"
"I wonder which direction that the Dao Fruit would be descending and who would obtain it first?"
"I feel that things are not as simple as that…"
"It is said that the Dao Fruit is protected by multiple profound arrays and only the luckiest cultivator would be able to obtain it…"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi had suddenly gasped softly, "This is…"
Ye Fan curiously looked at her, "Xueqi, what is it?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi quietly said, "This is a superior grade Dao Fruit and it isn't exactly descending."
Ye Fan curiously looked at her, "A superior grade Dao Fruit? There is such a thing as a superior grade Dao Fruit?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled, "Of course there is. There are poor grade Dao Fruit, low grade Dao Fruit, medium grade Dao Fruit and the superior grade Dao Fruit. Usually, the poor grade and low grade Dao Fruit are the only ones that we can see descending from the heavens. But even then, it is quite difficult to obtain them as it is surrounded by powerful profound fields. You can see them but obtaining them is another matter…"
Then she pointed at the crimson heavens and she was smiling wryly, "This Dao Fruit isn't descending just like this but it is opening a secret mirage portal for the stronger cultivators to enter. The tens of thousands of cultivators in this place would be greatly disappointed."
Ye Fan blinked his eyes, "A secret mirage portal? Something like the Ancient Desolate Undermountain Trial portal?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi nodded with a smile, "That's right."
As soon as she had said that, a shimmering mirage was seen in the crimson heavens and a light seemed to have opened.
Many of the cultivators were shouting excitingly.
"It is a mirage portal!"
"The Dao Fruit must be in there…"
"How the heck can we reach that portal? We can't fly!"
"Only those with flying mounts and profound ships can reach the portal?"
"Only true saints and immortals can fly…"
A few cultivation elders immediately said to their protégés, "It is useless even if you have a profound ship or a flying mount. This mirage portal only allows cultivators with the potential to obtain the Dao Fruit to enter into its mystic lands."
All of a sudden Ye Fan could see several cultivators flying toward the mirage portal and among them were the Holy Saintess Chen Yuyan, Saintess Chen Sisi and some others.
He was startled to see Xi Wugui and Zheng Tianwu among the group that were with the Holy Saintess Chen Yuyan.
He clenched his fists tightly as these two men were the ones that had caused his Xueqi to be afflicted in her current condition.
They were also responsible for the deaths of many cultivators when he was inside the Undermountain Trial.
To think that they are now prominent cultivators of the Holy Alliance.
All of a sudden he spotted another familiar face and it was his Senior Protégé Fan De and he was staring coldly at Celestial Mei Xiaoruan.
Fan De also have golden eyes now and he is now a golden celestial.
Dozens of cultivators were now flying toward the shimmering mirage portal now.
Ye Fan gasped, "They can all fly?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi said, "The spiritual aura now has become very dense now and by displaying your profound aura to your peak, you can actually fly toward the mirage portal but it won't be easy."
As she said that, there were several cultivators that were struggling to move an inch higher up in the air but all of a sudden, they were falling onto the ground!
Many of the cultivators that were in the air were breaking into cold sweats at the immerse profound pressure that they could feel that was upon them.
They not only had to use their profound strength to maintain their profound aura to fly but they also had to use their profound strength to fly further up and to ward off the immerse profound pressure that was upon them.
The dozens of cultivators that were in the sky had soon become hundreds of cultivators and in a few short moment later, it had become thousands of cultivators!
Not all the cultivators were able to use their profound strength to fly.
All the 3rd realm cultivators and below were unable to.
Many of the 4th realm cultivators could only hover a little off the ground and only the strongest cultivators among them with exceptional profound internal profound arts could levitate toward the miracle portal.
The 5th realm golden celestials had a good start but many of them were breaking into cold sweats as they struggled to advance further.
Some of the cultivators were even cheating and they were being pulled toward the shimmering miracle portal by the stronger cultivators.
One such group was naturally Ye Fan and Fairy Xuan Xueqi.
Ye Fan had displayed his Omnipotent Immortal Force and he found out that he could easily move into the air.
And he had pulled along Fairy Xuan Xueqi with him, who could only display her profound aura to a minimum as she was maintaining most of her profound strength to suppress the toxins in her body.
At first Ye Fan had said to Fairy Xuan Xueqi, "Xueqi, since this is a mirage portal and it is much more difficult that I've thought, why don't you stay behind with Little Xuefeng?"
But Fairy Xuan Xueqi had told him, "Ye Fan, I'd like to go with you. But if it is too difficult then you can let me go. I don't mind. I may be able to help you when you are inside the mirage portal. Also, aren't we inseparable?"
It was only then that Ye Fan had reluctantly agreed.
Another reason why Ye Fan did not want to bring Fairy Xuan Xueqi into the miracle portal was because it may be dangerous inside and he did not want to risk her life in there.
Fairy Xuan Xueqi did not follow Ye Fan because she wanted the Dao Fruit for herself but because she was afraid that Ye Fan would risk unnecessary for her sake and she wanted to keep Ye Fan in check.
Also, she had also seen Xi Wugui and Zheng Tianwu among the thousands of cultivators; they were both golden saints now and extremely formidable.
Ye Fan and Fairy Xuan Xueqi had waited until the heavens were filled with tens of thousands of cultivators before they started to fly toward the shimmering miracle portal as they did not want to see some of the familiar faces yet.
Before Ye Fan had left, he told Little Xuefeng and said, "Be good and stay in the room."
When Little Xuefeng was alone in the room, she was happily singing. "Little Bunny is so cute, why eat them…"
All of a sudden, she had discovered that she could levitate just like her papa and mama.
"Woot! I can fly now. Maybe the reason why papa and mama don't take me with them is because they thought that I am still young and cannot fly?"
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Author Note:
1. The stage has been set for the various powerhouses to obtain the Dao Fruit as there are quite a few introductions to some of the cultivation powerhouses in the previous chapters pior to this event.