Born with immortal seed

Chapter 524 Fifth-Order Breath Soil
"Just like I said, most of the Sword Sect's enemies have died in the past ten thousand years. The Hidden Pulse has infiltrated various sects over the years, and it's not like they've come up empty-handed..."

Po Jun Xingjun raised his head, his expression behind the mask shifting between light and dark. No one could imagine that the highly respected Nascent Soul Elder of the Tianxing Sect also had the identity of a hidden lineage successor of the Taibai Sword Sect.

"Furthermore, I can tell you all the truth: the core of the Star Palace Secret Realm is the legendary Sword Washing Cave. The supreme sword path lies ahead. Are you all willing to leave?"

The star lords exchanged glances, all sensing the implied threat in the Broken Army Star Lord's words.

Those who join the Star Palace are all driven by a passion for the way of the sword, drawn by the reputation of the Taibai Sword Sect.

All other gains were incidental.

The fruits are right in front of us, within easy reach, and we are about to fulfill the greatest and first ambition in the history of Star Palace.

Quitting is impossible.

His furious outburst could be partly due to the anger of being deceived, or partly due to the fear of being used and then discarded.

Without needing to communicate, the group simultaneously launched an attack on the Star Lord Po Jun, also in order to prevent the balance of power in the Star Palace from continuing to deteriorate.

Because of the oath of Dao Heart, the Star Lords would not break off relations and cause a huge commotion unless absolutely necessary.

Personal strength can give you more say, but it can't make the final decision like it does in the outside world.

More often than not, it's a matter of mutual tug-of-war, mutual advances and retreats, and compromises of interests.

The fact that Po Jun Xingjun is a hidden successor of the Tai Bai Sword Sect undoubtedly gives him a significant advantage in the upcoming exploration of the Sword Washing Cave.

Moreover, he possesses all the fifth-tier flying swords; if he is not restricted, the other star lords will likely not even get the scraps.

With the Taibai Sword Sect's inheritance hopeless, the Star Palace lost its foundation for existence.

Bai Zichen was the most composed, listening to the conversation between the two sides while reviewing the problems exposed in the battle against the Thousand-Foot Golden Centipede.

We haven't yet mastered the art of improving the Star River Sword Formation, but that doesn't mean there's no room for adjustment in the details.

"The twelve flying swords are arranged in a formation, starting with the Moon Spinning Sword, ending with the Fragrance Sword, and with the Purple Star Thunderclap Sword in the center. It's safe enough, and the flying swords can be repositioned at any time to withstand attacks in case of an accident. But in terms of explosive power, it is far inferior to the approach of placing all the fourth-tier flying swords at the front."

There are gains and losses. When faced with a top-tier demon like the Thousand-Legged Golden Centipede, the Star River Sword Formation will still be somewhat ineffective.

Fortunately, although the Thousand-Foot Golden Centipede possesses two rare True Meanings among demonic beasts, it does not have any powerful treasures. Unlike human cultivators, demonic beasts rarely comprehend True Meanings through cultivation; instead, they awaken them as their strength increases.

The strength of the source of bloodlines determines their degree of control over the true meaning.

In this respect, great demons with the bloodline of wild beasts have an advantage, as they are born with true meaning and embrace the Great Dao.

However, the probability of breaking free from the shackles of bloodline and gaining extra favor from the Great Dao through acquired cultivation is actually lower than that of ordinary demon beasts.

Bai Zichen would not bask in the glory of slaying the Thousand-Legged Golden Centipede. His enemies were the Dragon Lord and the Nascent Soul Old Dragon, both of whom possessed legendary, heaven-defying treasures.

The key to the order of the flying sword formations cannot be found in any guide to swordsmanship; it all depends on one's own exploration.

While Xinghe Sword Lord may have a deeper understanding of swordsmanship and a more complete grasp of the Starry Sky Sword Intent, he is not as good as Bai Zichen in terms of flying sword fortune.

The sword formation consisted entirely of third-tier flying swords. Xinghe Sword Lord also possessed a fifth-tier flying sword, but that belonged to the Taibai Sword Sect and was not for his personal use.

The flying sword inherited by a sect is only for temporary use and should not be refined into one's own natal sword.

Without his own destiny and without a treasure like the Supreme Pure Sword Box, he couldn't afford the loss of true essence from mixing fifth-tier flying swords into twelve flying swords.

'Perhaps next time I can adjust the order of the flying swords depending on the opponent... but to truly solve the problem, I still need to improve the quality of the flying swords. Once the Avici Hell Demon Sword recognizes me as its master and the Purple Star Thunder Sword is restored to level five, this problem will be easily resolved!'

'Or perhaps one's swordsmanship reaches a higher level, allowing a single sword strike to generate countless techniques, thus creating an array with a single strike. At that point, with arrays within arrays, layered upon each other, one would be unafraid of powerful magical treasures or supernatural abilities directly breaking through the sword array.'

However, the realm of breaking through all laws with a single sword is even more difficult than entering a formation with a fifth-order flying sword.

The latter has a clear hope, while the former is still just a mirage, something that even he doesn't know how many centuries it would take to achieve.

Bai Zichen was envisioning the future scene of the Star River Sword Formation with a fifth-tier flying sword in charge when he was pulled back to reality by the voice in front of him.

“We are all members of the Star Palace, heading towards the same goal, but Po Jun, you must be honest with everyone… Brother Ziwei, what do you say?”

No one wanted to leave before reaping the rewards, so the Moon Goddess pulled in this member who had been silent all along.

"I want to know everything about the Sword Washing Cave."

Bai Zichen has the confidence to not be excluded.

The two conditions for entering the core secret realm, namely the Sword Cleansing Cave, are: a fifth-order flying sword as the key and sword light splitting to do the work.

Without him, Po Jun Xing Jun would have no chance of finding another suitable candidate in the short term.

The few sword cultivators in the cultivation world who openly possess the Sword Light Differentiation Realm are all true high-ranking members of the major sword sects. Introducing such figures would be too risky; it would be like asking a tiger for its skin.

Although Bai Zichen's strength also exceeded Po Jun Xingjun's expectations, the fact that he did not come from a super sect meant that he could not possibly be related to the mastermind behind the destruction of Tai Bai Sword Sect back then.

This is a very important point. Who knows if those forces still harbor the idea of ​​wiping out the Taibai Sword Sect?

To completely eradicate the world's number one sect, it would certainly involve more than just one or two forces; it would require the tacit approval of at least all the Nascent Soul level forces.

According to Xinggong's subsequent in-depth investigation, there are even traces of powerful beings who survived from the ancient and medieval times.

"You don't need to bring it up; I will explain it to you myself."

It seems that Po Jun Xing Jun has no intention of breaking the current structure of the star palace.

"The Star God lineage was not popular within the Taibai Sword Sect at the time. Even though the fourteen Star Lords each had their own corresponding cultivation techniques and the lineage was well-established, too many were lost in that great war. However, the Star Palace Secret Realm's ability to enter and exit anywhere makes this lineage inherently valuable."

Judging from the cultivation techniques that can be gleaned from the statues, the complete Star God lineage possesses fourteen Nascent Soul cultivation techniques.

Even so, the Taibai Sword Sect couldn't get any attention from them, which shows how powerful their main sword-based lineage is.

According to Lord Po Jun, after discovering the Star Palace Secret Realm and establishing its affiliation, the Sword Sect cultivators traced its origins.

In the cultivation world, there have been instances of cultivators who died in the lower realms. Their grotto-heavens became secret realms, which were larger in scale and had more abundant spiritual energy.

There has never been a similar record of a feature like the Star Palace Secret Realm.

The cultivators of the Taibai Sword Sect suspected that the Star Palace Secret Realm could not have been evolved from the cave heavens of cultivators in the lower realms, and could only have originated from the Earthly Immortal Realm.

In ancient times, frequent exchanges with the upper realm allowed the cultivation world to learn a lot of common knowledge.

The resources required for a Nascent Soul cultivator to descend to the lower realm are not excessive; the main limitations are the access to the ascension passage and the inherent restrictions imposed by various forces within the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Because cultivators at the Void Refinement stage have exceeded the limits of the laws of the lower realm, even if they seal their cultivation, they will still face various restrictions when traversing the ascension passage.

To achieve this, the resources required for sacrifice are beyond anything the human realm can imagine.

Even in the Earthly Immortal Realm, cultivators at the Integration Stage are giants, enjoying a lifespan of one Yuan and controlling the fate of countless beings.

Even if a cultivator at the Integration Realm were willing, no ascension passage could withstand it; it would easily destroy the passage between the two worlds.

In comparison, the fact that a Nascent Soul level secret realm in the Earthly Immortal Realm accidentally drifted down to the lower realm is still illogical, but it's still more reasonable than a Nascent Soul cultivator passing away in the mortal world.

"According to our ancestors, the Sword Washing Cave Heaven existed independently and had not yet declined into a secret realm, possessing abundant vitality. However, when the founding ancestors of the Star Palace discovered it, the two had already merged together. They suspected that at the moment of the Sword Sect's destruction, the ancestors, in order to ensure the continuation of their lineage, used great supernatural powers to hide the Sword Washing Cave Heaven within the Star Palace secret realm. Fortunately, given the intensity of the search for the seven sword mountains by various parties later on, if the Sword Washing Cave Heaven had still existed independently, it would have certainly been obtained by other sects long ago."

Po Jun Xingjun seemed very sincere, and told many little-known secrets of the Tai Bai Sword Sect.

He did not shy away from the questions posed by the other star lords, but responded to them all in detail.

"When shall we enter the Sword Washing Cave?"

Ju Men Xing Jun seemed a little rushed, but this was understandable given the legacy of the Tai Bai Sword Sect.

“How about three days from now? We can adjust our condition and wait for Fellow Daoist Lian Zhen… His mask hasn’t been put back in place yet, he’s still alive, he might be injured or he might not have found a suitable opportunity to enter the Star Palace Secret Realm. But let’s wait three days. Three days from now, we’ll enter the Sword Washing Cave. To ensure the operation goes smoothly, I suggest that everyone stay in the Star God Hall for these three days.”

Po Jun Xingjun glanced at the others, his words leaving no room for negotiation.

……

Both Taiyin and Jumen wanted to leave the Star Palace Secret Realm, but they had no choice but to compromise under Po Jun's strong stance...

Bai Zichen chuckled inwardly. How could they possibly return to their previous relationship so easily? Once the rift was formed, it would only grow deeper and deeper.

Both Taiyin Xingjun and Jumen Xingjun clearly have top-tier forces behind them, and their departure at this time is undoubtedly to seek off-site support.

Joining the Star Palace is not a personal decision, but rather requires permission from the sect.

Those powerful sects with deep foundations may have ways to bypass the Dao Heart Oath or minimize the backlash.

However, Tianxiang Xingjun, like Bai Zichen, had no objection to the suggestion of staying in the Star Palace Secret Realm, which suggests that the sect behind him is not very powerful.

However, he was too lazy to get involved in these underhanded tactics, and took this opportunity to take stock of his spoils.

'The essence of the Thousand-Legged Golden Centipede is enough to sustain a fourth-tier puppet for hundreds of years; if used sparingly, it can last even longer…'

This is a valuable asset, and countless sects would fight tooth and nail for it. Whether or not a sect possesses Nascent Soul level combat power is a world of difference.

In many ways, a fourth-tier puppet is far superior to a fourth-tier sect-guarding spirit beast, and most importantly, it is absolutely obedient.

If handled properly, it might even be possible to exchange it for a fourth-tier flying sword, provided the other party already has one.

'The demon core is actually less valuable; perhaps it can be packaged with its broken demon body and sold to a master craftsman in exchange for a sum of top-grade spirit stones.'

The centipede has no magical treasures on its body. For a fourth-tier superior demon with the bloodline of a wild beast, even ordinary spiritual treasures are not as useful as its physical body, such as the golden arrow made from its own forelimbs.

Besides that, the biggest gain came from a space in its abdomen and chest, which the centipede used as a small storage space.

The hundreds of centipede armor pieces must have been shed when it was changing its armor; they are all excellent materials for refining magical artifacts.

A clump of soil the size of a fist, seemingly possessing its own life, continuously grows and expands.

However, there are restrictions placed upon it, and it will collapse and return to the purest earth elemental energy with every inch it grows.

so repeatedly.

This piece of soil, once it appeared in the realm, even caused this still imperfect world to sink several inches.

The previously chaotic spiritual energy was restored, and soil appeared on the white ground.

"Breath Soil! And it's even fifth-order Breath Soil!"

Bai Zichen exclaimed inwardly, "Besides the number one divine soil in the world, what other soil could have such a miraculous effect?"

He could sense that if he buried this clump of spiritual soil into his domain, his domain would advance significantly in less than ten years, which would be even more effective than migrating in seven or eight spiritual eyes.

It can even generate earth veins, grow mountains and rivers, and bring everything closer to the real world.

To achieve this, only the legendary divine soil, specifically fifth-order soil, can be used.

'I never expected that this seemingly poor insect would have such good stuff on it...'

Looking at the mass of life-giving soil, Bai Zichen hesitated again.

It would be great to use it on the boundary, but he also had something else in his hands that was also a fifth-grade Breath Soil, which was the bag of Azure Dragon Spirit Rice seeds that he obtained from Li Hansi of the Fish Dragon Sect.

This spiritual rice is different from all the spiritual rice currently cultivated in the cultivation world. It no longer simply enhances blood and qi, removes impurities, and strengthens the physical body, but can directly improve cultivation level after consumption.

It's still at the Nascent Soul True Monarch level!
Such miraculous effects are truly worthy of being a spiritual rice discovered at the same time as the essence of sacred beasts and the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword; it is indeed worthy of being produced by the Immortal Abode.

Pills that can be effective for Nascent Soul cultivators and improve their cultivation are already quite rare.

Firstly, the prescriptions were limited, and only a few were proven to be effective.

Secondly, many of the medicinal herbs needed for alchemy have become extinct, or the requirements for their age are too exaggerated.

It takes tens of thousands of years to produce even with the speed-up of the herb garden secret realm.

If Bai Zichen can reproduce the Azure Dragon Spirit Rice, he doesn't need too much; just a few acres will suffice for his own use.

Consider the time it took to cultivate to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage. This was with the help of Earth Spirit Milk and Rejuvenating Holy Water; otherwise, the process would have been even longer.

The next two realms seem to stretch endlessly into the distance.

Azure Dragon Spirit Rice must grow on fifth-grade Breath Soil; otherwise, the Fish Dragon Sect's cultivation back then would not have failed, and they would have only harvested spirit rice that had been downgraded to third grade.

"If only we could split this clump of life-giving soil in two, it would be perfect for both of us..."

(End of this chapter)