Born with immortal seed

Chapter 393 The Inheritance of the Xuanming Lineage

Two Foundation Establishment cultivators in Cold Crow Gorge, fortunate yet unfortunate.

In a seemingly ordinary sect mission, all the Qi Refining disciples in the team perished, whether due to undeserved misfortune or misjudgment by the commander.

As the team leader, one must shoulder responsibilities.

However, the sudden appearance of a Core Formation Realm expert far exceeded the two people's ability to handle the situation. At most, they would be punished by deducting several times their mission contribution points, which would not be too severe.

Fortunately, Old Master Bai happened to pass by and saved their lives; otherwise, they would have been corpses long ago.

They were caught in the aftershocks of the battle between the two Core Formation cultivators, and both of them were submerged in the swamp, nearly drowning in the torrent.

Later, when the Enforcement Hall came to clean up the battlefield, they discovered that one of the dozens of Qi Refining disciples was still alive.

His heart was born in a different position than others, shifted an inch to the right.

With his fellow disciples blocking the way for him, the water arrow veered slightly off course, grazing his heart and leaving a large hole inside his body.

When the cultivators from the Law Enforcement Hall moved the body, they discovered that the person was still breathing, but was almost completely drained of blood.

He was rushed to the Pill Palace for emergency treatment for three months before he finally emerged, limping and leaning on crutches.

"Senior Brother Zhou, I was waiting to attend your wedding with Senior Sister Liu, how could you leave like this..."

While Qiu Jingrong was recovering from his injuries, he heard people talk about the reason why he was able to survive.

As I exited the mountain gate, I saw a funeral procession passing by. There were only three or four relatives and friends, singing mournful songs and scattering paper money.

Thinking of Senior Brother Zhou, who is now separated from me by death, I felt a deep sorrow in my heart.

The villain who had just reached the Core Formation stage had already been killed by Elder Bai, and Senior Brother Zhou's revenge had been avenged on the spot. There was no need for him to work hard to cultivate and seek revenge in the future.

Seeing the meager funeral procession of his deceased fellow disciple, Qiu Jingrong took a stack of yellow paper and subconsciously stood at the end of the procession.

They followed the funeral procession, scattering paper money along the way and chanting the Rebirth Mantra.

"Thank you for giving Senior Brother Lu a ride. If you don't mind, let's have a drink together."

After the funeral was completed, a kind-looking monk came up and extended an invitation.

"I dare not refuse my senior brother's summons."

After the trip, Qiu Jingrong found that most of the knot in his chest had been untied, and his mood was no longer so gloomy.

Judging from their attire, these people were all Fire-Worker Daoists, belonging to the lowest level of the sect.

Even the menial disciples now have the potential to advance and advance in rank.
Every year, quite a few students who achieve good results and meet the age requirements are transferred to become outer disciples.

Huogong Daoren, on the other hand, truly had no room for advancement and was assigned by the General Affairs Hall to a long-term post outside the mountain gate, constantly traveling around.

For example, the most arduous and tiring task of mining veins, as well as the care of the spiritual fields in various branch academies, are done by the Fireworker Taoists. More than 80% of the most basic and tedious tasks are completed by the Fireworker Taoists.

Even among the outer disciples and in recent years, some inner disciples have to start as fire-working Taoists.

Even newly promoted Foundation Establishment disciples could only serve as stewards, while the rest of the disciples could only compete downwards.

Originally, inner disciples could be guaranteed a managerial position, but now one must be at the top level and recommended by an elder to get one.

The main reason is that the number of disciples in the sect has increased dramatically, but the number of newly added positions is limited and far from reaching an equal proportion.

Besides those who transferred from sect disciples, the Fire-Worker Daoists also include older independent cultivators and cultivators from other sects or immortal cultivation families.

These people rarely followed the orthodox path of advancement; they all directly became Fire-Worker Daoists.

According to the statistics of the idle people in the General Affairs Hall, there are more than 8,000 fire-working Taoists in the Qingfeng Sect, but the proportion of them who are promoted to managers is very small.

The inner gate was directly parachuted in and became the mainstream.

After some casual conversation, Qiu Jingrong learned that these people were all miners, and that the deceased Senior Brother Lu had been killed by a falling piece of refined iron ore weighing several thousand kilograms.

"Previously, sects used prisoners of war from enemy sects and disciples from punished sects to replace cultivator miners. I don't know why they've reverted to this practice in recent years..."

Qiu Jingrong was still young and had never witnessed the decline of his sect.

"The Ghost Spirit Sect's batch of laborers either died at the bottom of the mine or were about to finish their labor service. Since they didn't start a sect war, where would they get so many enemy sect prisoners?"

The leader, a kind and generous cultivator, introduced himself as Zhong Xuan, originally a rogue cultivator from Hejian County, who had been a disciple of a sect for twelve years.

“If there are a lot of forced laborers, we will all be unemployed, and we don’t have any other skills.”

Qiu Jingrong said nothing more, raised his glass and drank it all, his mouth filled with the sour taste of alcohol.

After bidding farewell to the group, he returned to his residence, took out a spirit leaf, and after several changes of expression, tucked it into his bosom before heading towards the Ancestral Hall.

'Only when life and death are at stake, or when the two sects have determined a victor, should the spirit leaf be handed over. Do not reveal your trump card too early…'

His father's dying words still echoed in his mind, but Qiu Jingrong's strides grew longer and longer until they became jogs.

He didn't want to continue living in such a muddled state, becoming a helpless soul who could not fight back against a high-level cultivator's casual spell.

……

Several treasures and a rhinoceros horn storage belt floated in the air, being refined with alchemical fire.

"A top-grade water-based magic treasure, especially this large cauldron which is both offensive and defensive, and has already shown signs of spirituality... If it is refined with the Cantong Pact, it has the opportunity to be sublimated into a spiritual treasure within a hundred years."

Bai Zichen roughly refined the several magical treasures he had obtained, and after confirming that there was nothing particularly special about them, he removed them and prepared to put them back in the secret hall.

Only Zhou Suqing in the sect could possibly use a magic weapon of this caliber.

Although the cauldron is excellent, he would never spend a hundred years on a top-grade magic weapon; he would only seek the possibility of upgrading to a higher-level spiritual treasure.

He then spent another hundred days refining the rhinoceros horn storage belt, finally erasing the previous owner's mark and breaking through the restriction with his true essence.

"The Spirit Rhinoceros Belt has such a large space that it could probably fit most of the General Affairs Hall's warehouse inside."

Bai Zichen first took out jade slips and books, along with an identity token that fell out at the same time.

"So that's what Li Hansi, the core disciple of the Fish-Dragon Sect, is called..."

This waist tag was clearly something I brought with me when I left Chilong Island years ago; it wasn't newly made.

Compared to the version Bai Zichen had, this scroll of the Dragon Transformation Scripture contained many notes and guidance from the Xuanming lineage's predecessors.

The five books contain supernatural powers, including the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword and the escape technique that Li Hansi just used.

"The Blood Transformation Flying Technique of Gods and Demons of the Heavens... One mouthful of blood essence can fly a thousand miles, and then continuously draws on the body's vital energy to increase flight speed."

Bai Zichen took a look and decided that it could be placed in the Transmission Hall for people to refer to and practice.

There's not much improvement for him, so there's no need for him to cultivate.

There are also records of hundreds of water-based spells, mainly second and third-tier spells, as well as several fourth-tier spells with extraordinary power.

In general, he already possessed the most valuable Azure Emperor Longevity Sword and the Dragon Transformation Scripture, so the entire Xuanming lineage inheritance was of little use to him.

It actually benefited the disciples of the Qingfeng Sect who practiced water-based techniques. These methods of cultivating water-based spells and the summaries of their experiences are the culmination of thousands of years of Xuanming lineage.

In terms of magical treasures, the Spirit Rhinoceros Belt also contains two top-grade magical treasures and four high-grade magical treasures.

The first thing that catches the eye is a flying sword with a pale white light, almost colorless.

"An invisible sword, not bad, another third-tier flying sword has been added..."

The Fish-Dragon Sect has two secret sword-forging techniques for the third tier: one is the Thunder Sound Sword, and the other is the Invisible Sword.

Because the main materials for forging the Thunder Sound Sword were easy to obtain, all the Core Formation cultivators on Chilong Island at that time used Thunder Sound Swords.

"Speaking of the Invisible Sword, I still have a sword embryo, which I obtained from a cultivator from Youlongmen. However, it is missing the most important Illusion Crystal Stone, so I have not been able to refine it."

A transparent sword light circled around him, without a sound or ripples, truly achieving the name of being invisible.

However, if you concentrate, you can still find a trace of something abrupt; it hasn't reached the point of formlessness yet.

This sword is not suitable as a primary flying sword. It should be unleashed at a crucial moment to catch people off guard, and cultivators who see it for the first time will generally not know how to defend against it.

"We have gained a Thunder Sound Sword and an Invisible Sword. It seems there are also quite a few sword-forging materials in the Spirit Rhinoceros Belt. It won't be long before we can gather all twelve third-tier flying swords!"

Ever since he obtained the true essence of swordsmanship, Bai Zichen has been dreaming of being able to set up the Starry Sky Sword Formation.

However, forging swords is extremely expensive, requiring spirit stones. A single third-tier flying sword can take a Core Formation cultivator decades to forge.

For the vast majority of sword cultivators, twelve flying swords are a pipe dream; they have neither the ability nor the need to achieve it.

Even Bai Zichen, with such exceptionally favorable conditions for sword forging, and as a Core Formation True Person assassin, had acquired many flying swords from others.

It took them over a hundred years to finally see hope of collecting all twelve flying swords.

The sheer difficulty of this project is self-evident.

Even with the strength of the Star River Sword Lord and the backing of the Taibai Sword Sect, the number one sect in the world, he only managed to accomplish this feat after reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, there were more than thirty high-grade spirit stones and countless other spiritual items.

It took him several days just to sort, classify, and register everything.

Besides the aforementioned treasures, there were two other things that particularly caught his attention and piqued his interest.

The Heavenly Serpent Devouring the Moon Formation is a high-grade, third-tier formation suitable for any spiritual vein environment.

With the array diagram and array plate complete, and the array flags reforged according to the prescribed method, the array can be set up.

"What a pity, why isn't it a fourth-order formation from the Fish-Dragon Sect... Otherwise, once it's set up on Flame Mountain, the sect's safety can be assured."

Bai Zichen put it away, intending to hand it over to Zhou Suqing later.

Given her expertise in array formations, she should be able to recreate the array flags with detailed instructions.

The fourth-order formation was just something he made up on the spur of the moment. Within the Fish-Dragon Sect, only the formation on Chilong Island had reached the fourth order, and at that time it was resisting the attack of a million sea beasts. How could it be allowed to be taken away by Li Hansi?

A third-tier grand formation is quite good. He has killed several demon kings in succession, and the sect has gained several third-tier spiritual veins.

Apart from Jade Moon Lake and Thunder Cliff, the other three tiers of spiritual veins are only protected by tier two formations.

With one more Tier 3 array, one can choose a Tier 3 spiritual vein and develop it rapidly without any scruples.

The other item was a bag of spirit seeds, sealed with dozens of restrictions and layers of talismans.

It is evident that the Fish-Dragon Sect attaches great importance to this object, fearing that its spiritual essence may be damaged.

"Azure Dragon Spirit Rice, suspected to be fourth-grade spirit rice!"

After reading the description on the jade slip next to him, Bai Zichen understood why he was being so solemn.

This bag of spirit seeds was not cultivated by the Fish-Dragon Sect itself, but was obtained by that senior True Monarch at the same place where he obtained the sacred beast's essence blood crystal.

(End of this chapter)