Born with immortal seed

Chapter 775 Fifth-Order Alchemist
"It seems that the longer the seclusion, the better the cultivation effect, with the accumulation of the true essence of time..."

Since Bai Zichen discovered the plan to break through the mountain, which caused his attempt to change his destiny to fail, he saw a fragment of the ancient secret armor at the last moment of his life. Bai Zichen has been in Shaohua Cave for more than forty years, never leaving it.

He entrusted his natal spirit beast to deliver the sect's instructions and fought against the Eight Desolate Sword Lord through the cave heaven with his sword.

Even for the most important fifth-order longevity elixir, he only sent the Jade Rabbit to the site to supervise the process, without personally setting off.

Living in a celestial paradise, one can cultivate rapidly, without worrying about the loss of lifespan, and without being schemed against by others.

It was never part of the plan. Within his own inner world, even a cultivator descending from the Void Realm couldn't harm the current Sword Lord of Time.

He began to understand why those cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage were hiding in the cave and refusing to leave.

If desired, it can certainly accommodate living beings; Shaohua Cave Heaven can easily hold tens of thousands of people.

Absolute security and absolute control; even if one's cultivation stagnates, watching one's own world slowly evolve and grow is a pleasure in itself.

Lan Tianming refined seven batches of pills in total. The first six batches were all fourth-grade pills, which were used to cultivate his skills and accumulate momentum.

When it came to the seventh batch, the annual ring flower was used in one go, along with nine kinds of fifth-order longevity fruits and spiritual herbs from the cultivation world. It took 1,088 days to finally open the furnace and produce the pills.

They successfully refined a fifth-order Jade Dew Pill from the Jade Pool, but the pill-forming tribulation shattered the precious alchemy furnace into pieces.

Fortunately, the elixir was successfully preserved. If it was placed in the wooden box for more than an hour, the box would regain its vitality and sprout new branches and buds.

After being placed in a gold box, it sprouted four legs and began to run around everywhere.

Then, the jade box was changed, and the liquid gradually turned into jade liquid, flowing everywhere.

Only by changing the container every hour can one feel at ease.

Lan Tianming, relying on the results of refining the Yaochi Jade Dew Pill, sublimated his hundreds of years of alchemy skills and successfully advanced to the fifth-level alchemist.

Bai Zichen invited him into the cave, spoke with him personally, and invited him to join the Qingfeng Sect as a guest elder.

After pondering for a long time, Lan Tianming put forward three requirements: he would only be responsible for alchemy and would not participate in any other affairs.

Every hundred years, he must gather enough main ingredients for a batch of fifth-grade spirit pills for his alchemy, and the harvest from the pills will be shared equally with the sect.

If you encounter obstacles during your cultivation, you will have one opportunity to consult with the Sword Master of Time every sixty years.

Especially in the process of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, one must be given complete experience.

Bai Zichen agreed without hesitation.

As one of the few fifth-tier alchemists in the cultivation world, Lan Tianming was qualified to make such a request to him.

The fourth-tier pills he had taken earlier had restored about 70-80% of the lifespan that Bai Zichen had lost.

Finally, this Jade Dew Pill from Yaochi, under the blessing of the Longevity-Preserving Method, exerted its perfect medicinal power.

He gained an extra 480 years of lifespan, exceeding the normal limit for a Nascent Soul cultivator and reaching over 2,300 years old.

"The Jade Dew Pill from Yaochi is of too high a grade, and it also contains the annual ring flower... Even if we find other pill formulas in the future, it will only take a hundred or two hundred years at most."

Bai Zichen's lifespan prediction wasn't that accurate to begin with, but Bai Taotao was there for him.

As the embodiment of the twilight peach, Bai Taotao is extremely sensitive to changes in lifespan.

In its eyes, the Rolling Panda, also a fourth-order creature, could live for more than a thousand years longer than the Jade Rabbit.

As one's cultivation level increases, this gap will widen further.

This incident left the Jade Rabbit feeling down for many days. Not only was its cultivation progress lagging behind other spirit beasts, but its lifespan was also surpassed.

It was Bai Taotao's words that enlightened him: as long as he ascended to the Earthly Immortal Realm with his master, reaching the fifth rank would be no problem at all, given the environment of the upper realm.

If the master has great fortune and latches onto a powerful figure, he might even aspire to a higher realm.

The Jade Rabbit regained its spirits and ran back and forth, tending to all the spiritual plants in the cave and returning to the cave to meet with the disciples outside.

Despite its appearance as a bear-like beast, Bai Taotao keeps strangers at bay. Anyone below the Nascent Soul stage who gets too close will have their lifespan uncontrollably drained.

This job is really only suitable for the Jade Rabbit.

With Bai Zichen's lifespan, as long as he doesn't leave the cave and cultivates some life-extending techniques, he can easily live to be over three thousand years old.

However, to ascend successfully, it is best to keep the age under two thousand years old.

Otherwise, they would be too old to cope with the various unexpected events during ascension.

"According to the classics passed down by the Daode Sect, everything was normal before the great change in the Middle Ages, without any warning. It is worth mentioning that a hundred years before the great change, the mysterious sword immortal reappeared and killed three demon lords and two ghost lords with a single sword in Fengdu of the Ten Lands."

The geographical concept of "Ten Places of Fengdu" only truly took shape in the last few thousand years.

However, this area is a broken and desolate place, connected to the underground, and is filled with eerie and ghostly atmosphere, just as it has been since ancient times.

Bai Zichen's status is different now, and when he asked the Daode Sect to borrow relevant materials, he was not directly refused.

Several days later, the Nascent Soul cultivators from Heavenly Punishment Peak and Yellow Court Peak jointly delivered over a thousand jade slips, all of which were newly copied.

Regardless of whether it was selected or not, it was a good way for him to understand the medieval style.

Apart from the Moral Sect, no other sect in the cultivation world has such detailed records.

The content is so vast that I read through two volumes whenever I have a spare moment.

Most of them are worthless; information can only be gleaned from fragments and then pieced together.

"If I'm not mistaken, the mysterious swordsman is indeed Nameless, and this sword strike is reminiscent of the scene where Little Purple unleashed its power that the Avici Hell Demon Sword once witnessed..."

Where in the mortal realm would there be so many peerless sword immortals? Under normal circumstances, cultivators who are on the verge of achieving the Nascent Soul stage would never descend to this realm, nor would the forces behind them allow it.

Once he perishes, even if he manages to retrieve a magical artifact from the beginning of time, it won't be worth it.

Bai Zichen summoned the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword and the Xiwang Golden Mother Sword, and once again inquired about what the Nameless Sword Immortal had done in the Ten Earthly Fengdu.

If the upheavals in the world were caused by people, then Wuming's power is the most likely reason to do so.

Unfortunately, the Queen Mother of the West Sword has lost all its past memories, and is like a newly born sword spirit.

The Purple Star Thunder Sword is much better, but its memory is a blank after entering the Ten Lands of Fengdu.

This indicates that Wuming had blocked the spirits of the treasures on his body, temporarily depriving them of their senses.

All I remember is that during that period, Wuming traveled to many places in the human world, many of which were outside of Zuzhou.

Later, he left the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword and the Supreme Pure Subtle Sword Box in the human world, and even created an evil clone.

As for when she will return to the Upper Realm, that is beyond Xiao Zi's knowledge.

"It seems we still have to make a trip to Fengdu in the Ten Lands. Wuming showed up there and made a move; perhaps he left behind ruins similar to the overseas immortal abode."

Bai Zichen thought of the overseas immortal abode discovered by the founder of the Fish-Dragon Sect, which contained a Green Emperor Longevity Sword and a drop of Green Dragon essence blood.

Later, on their way there, they witnessed the performance of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword in the hands of the Nameless One through the sword marks left behind.

A single sword strike can bring about the destruction of an entire world.

The profound meaning contained within it can still be savored to this day, enhancing one's own Azure Emperor Longevity Sword.

"I finally managed to increase my lifespan and get my cultivation back on track, so I won't interrupt the process... Anyway, the Ten Earthly Fengs are just sitting there and won't grow legs and run away. After so many tens of thousands of years, a few hundred more won't make a difference."

Bai Zichen decided to wait until he made a breakthrough in his cultivation before considering leaving the cave.

Otherwise, if one gets up and changes positions, leaving the cave will cause one to lose lifespan, and it will take several decades to return to the present state.

Since learning the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, his improvement has focused on either shortening the sword-forming cycle or increasing the number of sword strikes.

From a hundred years of nurturing a sword to only being able to nurture one sword at a time, it takes fifty years to complete. With the added bonus of the Nascent Soul phenomenon, a maximum of four swords can be unleashed simultaneously.

Significant progress has been made in both of these areas.

The ability to cut off a person's lifespan by a hundred years with a single sword strike is becoming increasingly insufficient.

In the past, opponents were not highly skilled and had limited lifespans; even a hundred years was a significant deterrent.

Now that the enemy is already at the Nascent Soul stage and will likely go even higher in the future, the threat posed by someone with a lifespan of a hundred years is greatly reduced.

This led to the unification of the three swords when fighting the ancient demon Asura.

"The other two aspects are close to their limits, and only a major breakthrough can bring about a qualitative change... However, the effect of the Azure Emperor Longevity Sword can still draw nourishment from the nameless sword mark and grow further."

Bai Zichen casually tossed the jade slip aside, sank into his sea of ​​consciousness, and replayed the process of Wuming demonstrating the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword.

Immerse yourself in it and learn its subtleties.

Unlike other supernatural powers, the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword can only advance when it touches upon the Great Dao of Time.

After observing the sword once, and remaining silent for many days, a faint sword light finally appeared and evolved once in the space of the sea of ​​consciousness.

If things don't go as planned, they settle down again, and the cycle repeats itself.

Fortunately, the perfected state of the Cantong Qi gave him unlimited opportunities to practice in his sea of ​​consciousness, which allowed him to quickly master such supernatural powers.

Several years passed in the blink of an eye, and the sword light became even clearer and more luminous, without any impurities.

Even within the sea of ​​consciousness, there was a sense of everything being frozen, of time standing still.

The Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword was slowly rising in the direction he had anticipated.

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Zhongyu, Dazhou.

"How could there be so many independent cultivators gathered here? We encountered this in all three cities along the way?"

Song Ding did not rush along the way, but rather enjoyed the scenery and local customs.

Every day, he would fly hundreds of miles on his sword, and if he heard of a famous mountain or scenic spot, he would descend with his sword light to visit it.

There are famous cultivators' former residences, and they would hide their identities and visit them, throwing two spirit stones at the door for a tour.

"It must be the aftermath of the Datong Army's return to the cultivation world. The impact is unimaginable... The Moral Sect has been launching large-scale infrastructure projects for more than ten years, from leveling mountains to building roads and changing the course of major rivers, to refining gold essence and opening mines. It has resettled at least hundreds of thousands of people."

Having worked with Song Ding for so long, Liu Qian feels nothing but admiration, watching helplessly as Song Ding's skills improve.

He didn't stop sparring with others along the way, unafraid of breaking his winning streak, enjoying himself immensely.

When I first arrived in the Southern Region, I encountered a late-stage Core Formation cultivator from the Joyful Sect. After fighting for three hundred moves, I managed to break his demonic whip and win a minor victory.

After traveling for several years, he arrived in the Central Region and, being at the early stage of Core Formation, challenged a late-stage Core Formation demonic cultivator of similar strength, who even possessed a superior magical artifact.

This time, he won easily in less than a hundred moves, and his progress was visible to the naked eye.

"So it was the Datong Army. It's a good thing that it's been completely disbanded, as it will reduce the source of chaos in the cultivation world."

Song Ding decided to take a detour to find another opponent to challenge instead of stopping in the city to rest.

(End of this chapter)