Born with immortal seed

Chapter 671

"So it was it. I didn't expect it to have been left in the human world as well..."

Ziwei Xuanlei Sword exclaimed in surprise, unable to hide his astonishment.

"What is the name of this sword?"

Bai Zichen picked up the pure gold flying sword. Its design was ancient and it was seven feet long. It felt a little awkward to hold it in his hand.

Each side of the sword is engraved with a row of inscriptions, all in the Golden Tadpole Spirit Script.

The front side reads "Heavenly Pool Brings Prosperity, Holy Mother of Infinity".

The reverse side reads, "The Dragon Flower Gathering is held at the Jade Pool, where all spirits are united and the teachings are proclaimed."

Judging from the aura and pressure, it was undoubtedly a fifth-tier flying sword, but it was lifeless and showed no signs of its sword spirit.

"This sword is called the Queen Mother of the West Sword. It competed with me for the position of a sixth-tier flying sword. In the end, I entered the Purple Mansion, accumulating merit and achieving transcendence."

When Ziwei Xuanleijian mentioned this matter, a hint of pride could be heard in his voice.

After all, their statuses were no longer on the same level after that, and the gap between them widened rapidly.

The competition between flying swords is, in some ways, even greater than that between cultivators; it is a cruel and fierce single-plank bridge.

You can't pass by pushing yourself to the limit.

There are only one or two spots for the Outstanding One in each generation, and you have to beat all the competitors after you meet the requirements.

A difference of just one rank is like heaven and earth, far surpassing countless flying swords of the same rank.

"Among all the fifth-tier flying swords owned by the Heartless Master, it is undoubtedly the best. Its foundation is already sufficient, and it only needs one more opportunity to advance to the sixth tier. I didn't expect it to be left in this world as well."

"Whether it was corrupted by the evil spirits or because it had stayed in this place for too long and sealed itself off to protect itself, the sword spirit fell into a deep sleep."

Bai Zichen discovered another great use for the Ziwei Thunder Sword: even the Daode Sect didn't know as much about the common knowledge of the Earthly Immortal Realm as it did.

After all, he has spent so many years in the Immortal Realm. Even if he can only come out occasionally to get some fresh air and broaden his horizons.

The connection between the Daode Sect and the venerable elders of the upper realm could only be a matter of great importance concerning the survival of the human realm.

It's impossible to waste precious communication opportunities seeking verification from the upper realm about trivial matters, such as the customs and traditions of the immortal realm or anecdotes about powerful figures.

However, having been away from the Immortal Realm for nearly 100,000 years, I cannot use this as a complete reference for my future ascension, as it would be biased.

Such a long period of time is enough for everything to change, even if the Earthly Immortal Realm were to undergo drastic changes.

The little white nascent soul flew out and spat out a mouthful of its natal essence towards the seven-foot-long sword, quickly covering the sword's body.

Without a sword spirit, a fifth-tier flying sword that simply retains its grade is easy to refine without much resistance.

Following the operational route of the Cantongqi technique, the basic refining was completed in an instant.

The Queen Mother of the West's Golden Sword was forged countless times using three metallic minerals: the essence of the sun, the essence of Taibai gold, and the essence of Taiyi gold.

After being refined and formed, it was soaked in the Jade Pool for a thousand years, fully absorbing the power of the metal element until it overflowed.

Upon final forging, the wielder of this sword gains a greatly enhanced control over the element of metal, and its sword light becomes extremely masculine and sharp.

Under the surge of sword intent, all metal flying sword magic weapons of lower rank than the Western King's Golden Mother Sword will be restrained, and can only exert up to 70% of their strength.

If the difference is too great, the flying sword may even land and bow down, making it impossible to even control the sword normally.

Even cultivators who practice pure metal element techniques will be affected by the Western King Golden Mother Sword.

In terms of the true meaning of the Great Dao, even a Nascent Soul cultivator cannot match the purity and power of this flying sword born in the Jade Pool.

If one can advance to the sixth rank, one can dominate the Golden Path, and all other flying swords and magical treasures will have to bow down before it.

"A fine sword, but it's a pity it's lost its sword spirit... Such a flawed fifth-tier flying sword mixed into the Star River Sword Formation might actually create a flaw in the formation. Holding it in your hand and controlling it would eliminate this problem."

The complexity of the Star River Sword Formation cannot be summarized by simply controlling twelve flying swords simultaneously.

It requires the evolution of the starry sky and the reproduction of celestial motion, which demands mental calculation abilities that even Nascent Soul cultivators cannot sustain.

Therefore, the clever method of the Star River Sword Formation is to borrow the power of flying swords and rely on the sword spirits of high-level flying swords to take charge and perform with a high degree of freedom within the planned celestial trajectory.

Without the sword spirit, a mere fifth-tier flying sword is not as useful as a normal fourth-tier flying sword, and it will cause the perfect sword formation to become slightly flawed.

Bai Zichen gently waved the Western Queen Mother Sword, causing the stone pillars to hum, clearly indicating that some metal ore had been mixed in during the forging process.

"I must communicate with the Moral Sect again later. Regardless of other things, a piece of Northern Heaven Divine Mud is indispensable. It should be able to help with the sword's condition. If it is really just one step away from advancing to the sixth rank, then among all my flying swords, it will be second only to Little Purple."

The other Taiqing Crystal Sword, which he obtained from Master Jiujing, has not yet been thoroughly refined.

Its sixth-order hope, relayed by the Nine Crystal Elder, is an evaluation from the Sword Master of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion.

The previous owner of the Western King's Golden Mother Sword was the junior brother of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion Master, and was recognized in the cultivation world as the most promising junior cultivator to challenge the Five Sons.

He genuinely considered the Queen Mother of the West Sword as a sixth-tier alternative, and had wavered and hesitated for a long time.

If it weren't for the fact that its competitor was the Ziwei Thunder Sword, which was born with the essence of heaven and earth's thunder and should naturally be at the sixth rank, it would be easy to obtain the sixth rank simply by returning to the Purple Mansion and going through the motions.

That's how he was replaced, and from then on, he had nothing to do with the sixth rank anymore.

In the Immortal Realm, there is a possibility that sixth-order magic treasures can break through to the next level on their own and be obtained.

But a sixth-tier flying sword is out of the question.

Without extraordinary talent, how could one possibly cross an entire major level?

With a fifth-tier Western King Golden Mother Sword, a Twelve Yuan Chen Star Array Flag, not to mention the Five Great Void Laws recorded on the jade tablet, this immortal mansion can already be described as having yielded abundant harvests even before the work is finished.

If it weren't for escaping a malevolent clone, the journey to the Immortal Abode would have been perfect so far.

Bai Zichen retreated along the same route and took another fork in the road.

They walked along this road for miles, filled with the scent of soil and grass, until they came to a patch of dark soil where the very same Azure Dragon Spirit Rice that he had once planted was growing.

The rice ears are green and not yet ripe, but the rotten rice stalks exposed in the soil indicate that they have been replaced many times.

"The fifth-tier Breath Soil is not the legendary Nine Heavens Breath Soil; I was overthinking it..."

Bai Zichen squatted down, touched the soil that seemed to be constantly splitting apart with a life force, and laughed self-deprecatingly.

The Nine Heavens Breath Soil is a divine creation of the creation of heaven and earth, growing infinitely and never diminishing in entropy.

Crops planted on it can be revived, and their growth cycle is shortened to one-tenth.

All the Breath Soil in the world was split off from that piece of Breath Soil from the Nine Heavens.

The celestial vine that produced the gourd boy and the twilight gourd is said to have grown on the Nine Heavens Breath Soil.

Even if he were to harvest the Azure Dragon Spirit Rice immediately, let alone before it matured, its importance to him would have already decreased significantly.

Once you reach the late Nascent Soul stage, the effect of Azure Dragon Spirit Rice becomes negligible.

Or rather, the power of all the elixirs began to wane.

This cannot be entirely blamed on the alchemist; the medicinal herbs determine the upper limit of the pill formula.

Since no sixth-order spiritual herbs can appear in this world, the upper limit of alchemy can only reach the fifth order, and it is impossible to open the door to the sixth order.

The formulas for pills related to assimilating divine cultivators are extremely rare and have remained unchanged for thousands of years.

"No wonder the Nascent Soul cultivator from the Fish-Dragon Sect only took the Azure Dragon Spirit Rice and not the Breath Soil... It's different from the one I got before; it's already merged with this place and can't be moved at all."

Bai Zichen grabbed a clod of soil, which leaked through his fingers, making it impossible for him to sense the core of this mound of life-giving soil.

Normally, regardless of the level of the Breath Soil, there is always a core, and the rest of the soil is derived and developed from it.

Without finding the core, it's impossible to lift up the entire piece of land and take it elsewhere.

In addition to the Azure Dragon Spirit Rice, four spirit trees are planted at the four corners of the Divine Soil of Breath, which perfectly regulate the circulation of spiritual energy.

It wasn't a particularly rare spirit tree, but it could grow for over 100,000 years without decaying, which naturally elevated its grade.

But there's a feeling that as soon as these four spirit trees leave the Breath Soil, they will rot and die, and it won't even be possible to take away the spirit materials.

It's not entirely conjecture, but rather a conclusion drawn from the close connection between the spirit tree and the entire expanse of life-giving soil, almost as one.

At the end, there was a vine that wound around several times, burrowing in and out of the ground, and finally bearing a row of ginseng fruits that looked like infants, with distinct facial features and lifelike mouths and noses.

When you take a bite, you have to worry whether it's fruit pulp or bloody flesh inside.

"There are actually ginseng fruits in the mortal realm. I thought it was just a rumor... I wonder if this spiritual object has always existed, or if the Heartless Sword Immortal brought the vine seedlings from the upper realm."

These fruits squeaked and squeaked, and when the wind blew, they made a crisp, bell-like sound or seemed to be crying, laughing, or playing around.

In ancient legends, some people took it and used it to directly reach the Nascent Soul realm.

However, it was only found on a yellowed, moth-eaten animal hide, on which there was a passage recording the legend of the ginseng fruit, but there was no repeated corroborating evidence.

Even the Daode Sect has never directly addressed the existence of the ginseng fruit.

Before the ancient alchemy had developed, even the formula for the Nascent Soul Pill had not yet appeared. At that time, mankind had just been freed from the enslavement of natural gods and wild beasts.

There are only a handful of sects on the mainland, and most of them still exist in the form of clans.

Without the aid of elixirs or the aid of transforming spirit objects, he relied entirely on his own brute force to break through the barrier.

However, the animal skin scroll records that a Taoist lineage harvested a celestial fruit called ginseng fruit, which resembles an infant and can make crying and playing sounds.

Taking one pill will increase your chances of successfully transforming into a Nascent Soul by 20%.

It is only effective when you take the first one; any more than that, and it's just like trying a fruit for the first time.

However, since it was just an isolated case and no further occurrences have happened, it has always been treated as a topic of conversation in the cultivation world, rather than a real occurrence.

The fruit on the vines now proved to him that ginseng fruit really exists.

There are a total of seven fruits, enough to allow seven cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage to attempt the Nascent Soul stage.

If there's still a chance to use the Nascent Soul Pill to increase the probability, at least half of the seven people will be able to reach the Nascent Soul realm.

Bai Zichen quickly took out a row of jade boxes, flicked his finger, and the sword light caused all the ginseng fruits connected to the vines to fall.

A jade box perfectly matched a ginseng fruit; it was an ideal pairing.

Ginseng fruits mature slowly and can be naturally preserved for a long time. None of them showed signs of drying out or dehydration; they remained plump and full.

"Indeed, it's useless to me, but the younger disciples of the sect are fortunate. I was originally thinking about which sect to exchange for the Nascent Soul Pill, and now this spiritual fruit that can replace it has arrived."

Bai Zichen thought for a moment and realized that the only person who would have an urgent need to transform into a Nascent Soul in the short term was Chen Ze of the Fish-Dragon Sect.

The disciples of the Qingfeng Sect are all far from the Nascent Soul stage, and none of them have even reached the Perfected Core Formation stage.

Even if resources are allocated, results must be achieved, otherwise it's all for naught.

On the contrary, Chen Ze had already reached the peak of Core Formation and was actively preparing for the Nascent Soul Transformation path, which would come in handy.

Looking up through the layers of stone walls at Chen Ze, who was still unconscious, he thought, "No one can truly explain the workings of fate and destiny."

If one has not reached the perfected Core Formation stage and misses this opportunity, it will be almost impossible to obtain a Nascent Soul Pill or a Ginseng Fruit in the future.

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The last fork in the road leads to a stone wall covered with crisscrossing sword marks.

"Little Purple, in terms of swordsmanship, which aspect does the Heartless Sword Immortal excel at?"

Bai Zichen stood in front of the stone wall. A long time ago, he visited the Tianhe Sword Sect. In one of the secret realms of their family, there were several jade walls.

Similarly, each jade disc is covered with countless sword marks, some even containing powerful true meaning. Those who can see these marks in front of the jade disc will suddenly gain enlightenment and their swordsmanship will soar to new heights.

That time, by chance, he obtained the Creation of Heaven and Earth and the Celestial Phenomenon Sword Intent, and gained a lot.

Later on, he even integrated the intercepted sword intent into his own path, no longer using it alone.

Traces of sword intent were present throughout the cave.

There is no essential difference; the two places are exactly the same, only the people who left their sword intent are different.

Even the two sword marks are most likely inflicted by the same person.

The overseas immortal abode was left behind by the Heartless Sword Immortal, and the secret realm of the Heavenly River Sword Sect is also related to him.

"Master Wuxin's sword style is varied, but its essence cannot be changed... All the sword techniques he is good at are for killing, ending with a single sword strike."

After discovering that the secret of the Immortal Abode was related to the Heartless Sword Immortal, Ziwei Xuanlei Sword became very depressed.

Bai Zichen touched the stone wall and instantly entered the world inside. He was bombarded by sword intent after sword intent, and his whole body was like being thrown into the waves, helplessly drifting with the current.

When I opened my eyes, I found that a large section of the sky was missing directly in front of me, as if the sky there had collapsed and someone needed to mend it.

"The missing part is the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword!"

This wasn't Bai Zichen's first time encountering this kind of inheritance method, so he quickly understood its content.

Beneath you, the wind howls like waves; behind you, the rain pours like a flood; in front of you, the currents surge; and hidden reefs lurk in the water.

These all represent the sword intent left behind by the Heartless Sword Immortal in the Immortal Mansion, but the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, which occupies the largest position, is a blank space.

The other sword intents were not bad, but for him they were only icing on the cake.

Only the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, if it could be seen in the original performance of the Heartless Sword Immortal, might give him new insights into this great supernatural power of time.

With a thought, Bai Zichen appeared before the empty space representing the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword.

In the real world, his fingertips touched the largest and deepest sword mark.

Thunder from the heavens ignites fire from the earth, and several thunderclaps explode on flat ground. Even though the essence of the sword mark had already been learned by others, a large number of images still appeared like a slideshow.

A green-robed cultivator with indistinct features but extremely bright eyes walked out of the void, holding his flying sword upside down.

(End of this chapter)