Born with immortal seed

Chapter 177 The Great Divine Power That Was Split

"A fourth-order transformed demon with true dragon blood... It can't be achieved by bloodline alone to have such a strong appeal among demons. Its strength should also be among the top of the fourth order."

Bai Zichen gasped, never expecting that taking on the identity of a remnant of the Fish Dragon Sect would mean facing such a terrifying enemy.

When Meng Shigui commented on the Haitianmen lineage, he mentioned that the Dragon Lord gathered a group of demons to attack Chilong Island, claiming that a disciple of the Fish-Dragon Sect had killed one of his outstanding descendants.

In reality, it's highly likely that it's for that drop of sacred beast's essence blood.

After the destruction of the Fish-Dragon Sect, the Dragon Lord repeatedly issued orders to the five sects, instructing them to inquire about the whereabouts of the sacred beast's blood essence and to report any news immediately.

The transformed great demon is comparable to a Nascent Soul True Monarch of the human race.

Before forming their core, demonic beasts are naturally thick-skinned and powerful, and many also possess innate magical abilities, often giving them the upper hand when facing cultivators of the same level.

After the Core Formation, the difference in strength between magic weapons becomes extremely large, and the appearance of a natal magic weapon can greatly enhance a cultivator's strength.

The strength of a third-tier demon beast versus a Core Formation cultivator depends on the specific circumstances.

Depending on the level of one's bloodline and the strength of one's magical artifacts, vastly different outcomes can occur.

At a higher level, the great supernatural powers that a Nascent Soul True Monarch can master can completely make up for the difference in physical strength.

Moreover, top-tier martial arts techniques often only truly unleash their power at this level.

Among the great demons, the majority still cultivate by instinct, knowing only how to absorb the essence of the sun and moon.

Only the most elite bloodlines can inherit the demon race's techniques on their own, enabling them to unleash terrifying innate divine abilities.

Therefore, except for a few powerful demons with strong bloodlines, a Nascent Soul True Monarch can easily suppress a fourth-tier demon of the same level under normal circumstances.

But the Dragon Lord was clearly no ordinary fourth-order demon beast. Having suddenly gained such an adversary, Bai Zichen could only smile wryly and had no other choice.

Could he possibly explain to others that he was not a remnant of the Fish-Dragon Sect, and that everything he had was passed down from the Bai family's ancestor?

But he didn't leave a single word about the Fish Dragon Sect.

The only way to succeed is to improve our strength as quickly as possible.

"Fortunately, humans and demons are different... Because the outer sea is boundless, there is no direct confrontation between the two races. However, once a transformed great demon dares to set foot on the inland, it will definitely attract the attention of the human race's Nascent Soul True Monarch, who will take action to drive it away."

In most inland countries, the situation is that there are many cultivators but few spiritual veins.

Similar pioneering wars launched by the Qingfeng Sect have long existed in the cultivation world, which is more centrally developed and earlier on those continents.

With limited cultivation resources, the only option is to continuously shrink the territory of the demon race in order to ensure the survival and development of human cultivators.

In the most powerful cultivation kingdoms like Dali and Dahuang, traces of demonic beasts are now rarely seen.

All the sacred mountains and blessed lands have been transformed into spiritual veins suitable for human cultivators to live in.

Putting aside his fear of the fourth-order transformed demon, Bai Zichen turned his gaze to the last bamboo scroll, which was covered with tiny seal script characters.

But what attracted him first was the bamboo slips themselves, which were already somewhat yellowed and blackened.

"This color, this texture, it's Thunder Sound Bamboo..."

Bai Zichen gently unleashed his magic power, striking the bamboo sword. A thunderous sound rang out, and the air in the quiet room became clear, as if it had been washed clean.

"These bamboo slips are actually made of Thunder Sound Bamboo! That's incredibly extravagant..."

Unfortunately, each bamboo strip in this scroll is only about two fingers wide, so even if you wanted to repurpose it, you couldn't use it to forge the Thunder Bamboo Sword.

The fact that third-tier Thunder Sound Bamboo was used to make the bamboo slips indicates that the contents recorded on them are extraordinary, and this item must have been passed down from the Fish-Dragon Sect.

Because of the journey to Longmen, there wasn't even a single piece of Thunder Sound Bamboo.

Bai Zichen read the contents of the bamboo slip, his expression gradually becoming serious, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

After reading it, I still didn't believe it, so I read it again from the beginning.

"The Azure God Technique of Wood, the Sword Nourishing Technique, plus a Sword Condensation Technique that I don't have... There are such miraculous things in this. By combining the three, one can cultivate the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword!"

Over the past ten thousand years, the Fish-Dragon Sect has collected hundreds or even thousands of cultivation techniques and supernatural abilities.

But this Azure Emperor Longevity Sword will forever hold the position of the Fish-Dragon Sect's number one killing move.

Thousands of years ago, a Nascent Soul True Monarch of the Fish-Dragon Sect found a deep-sea immortal abode and obtained a divine power of the Azure Emperor Longevity Sword left behind by an ancient banished immortal.

And that drop of sacred beast blood that brought disaster to the sect and caused its lineage to be severed.

The Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword was obscure and difficult to understand. That Nascent Soul True Monarch studied it for a hundred years and finally managed to get a basic understanding of its principles.

To lower the learning threshold for younger disciples, he divided this great supernatural power into three parts.

When separated, each possesses unique characteristics, making them extremely easy to learn.

Once one reaches the Core Formation stage, combining the three secret techniques will significantly lower the barrier to entry for cultivating the Azure Emperor Longevity Sword.

This reduced the great supernatural powers that could originally only be comprehended by Nascent Soul True Monarchs to the level of Core Formation True Persons.

The sword strike, imbued with the power of time, touched upon the true meaning of the Great Dao.

Unless one is a cultivator who has also begun to touch the Great Dao, there is no way to stop them. No matter how much the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword is placed on them, time flows on, and they experience birth, aging, sickness, and death.

On the day the Fish Dragon Sect was destroyed, that Nascent Soul True Monarch unleashed his final sword strike, causing the heavens and earth to change color and directly severing the lifespan of a fourth-tier Nine-Headed Xuan Turtle.

Even the demonic soul and primordial spirit were exhausted and aged, their life force completely cut off.

The Core Formation cultivators who had mastered the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword only achieved mediocre results with their sword strikes, merely inflicting severe damage on third-tier demonic beasts and reducing their lifespan by a fraction.

However, third-tier demonic beasts often have long lifespans, so this slight loss in lifespan will not fundamentally harm them.

The same great supernatural power, but because the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, which was cultivated by a Core Formation cultivator through a method of rapid dismantling, drew upon too little power of time, was a hundred times weaker.

However, it is very effective against human cultivators, and almost no one of the same level can stop it.

In the present day, within the Dragon Gate, because no one has mastered the mutated Yi Wood Azure God Technique, which has been eroded by the essence blood of sacred beasts, even though there is a complete cultivation method, no one can still master the Azure Emperor Longevity Sword.

"The three techniques combined, the sword can only be unleashed once every hundred years... The conditions for cultivating this great divine power are too harsh. Even a Nascent Soul True Monarch may only have a few opportunities to wield the sword in his entire life."

Bai Zichen glanced at the manual and realized he already possessed the mutated Yi Mu Qing Shen Technique and the Sword Nourishing Technique; he was only missing a Sword Condensation Technique.

Ironically, this bamboo scroll describes the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword in great detail, over and over again.

Meng Shigui also made a cheat sheet, describing several past achievements and expressing his admiration for such great supernatural powers. He wrote it on a piece of brocade and tucked it between bamboo slips.

Unfortunately, neither of them copied down the cultivation methods of the three secret techniques. It is assumed that whoever could see this bamboo scroll had already mastered the three techniques, so there was no need to record them again.

"What a pity, otherwise I could have seen whether the mysterious spirit could allow me to begin cultivating the Azure Emperor Longevity Sword during my Foundation Establishment stage..."

Bai Zichen felt a little regretful and carefully put away all the jade slips and this scroll of bamboo slips.

After figuring out the past and present of the Fish-Dragon Sect, as well as the enemies he might face in the future, it was time to take stock of his gains.

Aside from the two second-tier flying swords and a high-grade storage bag, the most direct and obvious item is naturally the spirit stones.

Meng Shigui's storage bag contained no low-grade spirit stones, only a pile of mid-grade spirit stones, about two hundred pieces.

Meanwhile, a high-grade spirit stone stood out from the crowd, all alone.

"Not bad, I finally have some high-grade spirit stones. I need to save them carefully in case I need them in some special circumstances."

Bai Zichen happily took out the high-grade spirit stone, played with it in his palm for a while, and then put it back.

High-grade spirit stones are considered strategic resources; one high-grade spirit stone is worth 20,000 low-grade spirit stones, yet people are often unwilling to sell them.

Once people reach the Core Formation Realm, when they trade with each other, the price is basically high-grade spirit stones, and no one will use ordinary spirit stones to make up the difference.

A third-tier talisman, named the Profound Disaster Relief and Life-Protecting Talisman, strengthens the sea of ​​consciousness and specifically resists attacks from the divine sense.

He acquired another third-tier talisman, specifically targeting his spiritual sense which he wanted to strengthen, and happily put it away, placing it together with the Taiyin Star Escape Talisman.

In addition, he sorted a bunch of miscellaneous items and low-value spiritual materials into several piles to see if he would have any use for them in the future.

"So poor. He's supposed to be a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the peak of his cultivation stage, yet he doesn't even have a Core Formation spiritual item..."

Perhaps due to the excessive consumption of spirit stones in forging the willow-leaf sword, apart from the two flying swords and a set of armor that had been destroyed, Meng Shigui had no other spiritual artifacts in his storage bag.

Fortunately, they eventually found a piece of blue-copper ore, which, after comparison, turned out to be Wanzai Kongqing (a type of azurite).

"I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Meng to already be preparing materials for refining the Invisible Sword. He is truly farsighted... It's a pity that I've gotten all of it."

The third-tier invisible sword uses a piece of Ten Thousand Year Azure among its main forging materials.

The remaining task is to gather the essence of the five metals, absorb the essence of the sun and moon, and use pure yang fire and pure yin energy to refine the sword embryo. Finally, a third-tier illusion crystal must be added to obtain an invisible sword.

"It seems I should learn from this Fellow Daoist Meng and put learning sword-making techniques on my agenda... The Invisible Sword and the Thunder Bamboo Sword are of great importance, and it's not appropriate to ask someone else to forge them. Moreover, flying swords that I forge myself are naturally connected to my mind and spirit, and their power is even greater when activated."

Anyway, Bai Zichen had always planned to cultivate both weapon crafting and other skills, he was just bringing the time forward a bit.

Moreover, he doesn't aspire to become a true master weapon refiner; he only needs to be proficient in sword forging to meet his own needs.

This kind of specialized weapon refiner will progress much faster than a normal weapon refiner; it can be considered a accelerated version of specializing in one area.

"Now that I've finished packing, it's time to return to the sect... It's been so long, the sect was worried something had happened to me."

If everything went smoothly, Jinlu should have returned to the mountain gate long ago.

However, there are still two thousand-year-old golden crown lingzhi mushrooms on Bai Zichen's body. If he doesn't return to the sect soon, Jin Lu will probably go crazy.

Having spent over 100,000 spirit stones, and only bringing back a single Golden Crown Ganoderma, wouldn't they be relentlessly attacked by the elders of the Alchemy Hall?

Bai Zichen did not go through the procedures for returning the cave dwelling before the rental period expired, and left Danxia Workshop while still maintaining his Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivation.

They boarded the colorful white cloud-patterned robe and headed towards Black Mountain, traveling day and night.

During this boring journey, he also had to operate the flying artifact, and at most he could only spare half of his energy to try to re-condense the Glazed Fire Jade in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Having experienced the power of the Glazed Fire God Body, he was eager to cultivate the second level of the Five-Crystal Glazed Body again.

Once the crystal body is formed, one's confidence will be much stronger.

(End of this chapter)