Born with immortal seed

Chapter 859

"Ha, Xi Yi of the Great Wisdom Sword Sect thinks he can deceive others with his transformation techniques, but he doesn't know the extent of the Ten Thousand Swords Alliance's control over the Sword Pass. If they want to investigate, they can find out every little thing that happened when he stepped into the pass."

Elder Tang's expression was strange as he replied, "This man was jealous of the direct descendant of the Taiyue Sword Sect's leader. He accidentally killed a dancer in his attempt to steal her, and the Taiyue Sword Sect is now searching for him all over the world. No wonder he's trying so hard to escape to the Six Blessings Immortal Realm."

"I never expected that he would possess such superb weapon-refining skills. If someone hadn't seen Xi Yi's face outside the city and matched it with his whereabouts, I would never have guessed that Bai Yuchan was him!"

"So it was all under Uncle's control. I wonder what level of cultivation this person possesses?"

Tang Wu suddenly realized and said.

"He's only at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm. The Great Wisdom Sword Sect claims to be the Sword of Wisdom, but apart from one commendable sword cultivator five thousand years ago, no one has ever made a name for themselves in the Immortal Realm. Once the formation is complete, even if he has ulterior motives, he won't be able to escape my grasp."

Elder Tang made thorough preparations for hunting the ancient beasts, not only dealing with the Yuan Yuan, but also conducting in-depth investigations into each participant.

"After making so many promises, does Uncle really intend to fulfill them? He's almost willing to give up 90% of the profits from killing the Yuan Yuan, essentially doing all the work for someone else... But if he doesn't, the reputation that the Tang family has built up over ten thousand years in Jianguan will be greatly affected."

Faced with Tang Wu's question, Elder Tang shook his head and said in a deep voice, "I have already said that Yuan Yuan is seriously injured, but his supernatural powers are still intact. I am in charge of the formation. How many people can survive depends on the situation on the spot. Leaving one or two people to fulfill the promise and let the lower-level cultivators know the benevolence of the Tang family is a win-win situation."

"As expected, I need my uncle's guidance."

Tang Wu suddenly realized that experience truly matters, and that his own thinking had been too simplistic and left no room for error.

"In these seven days, you and I should focus on comprehending the Heavenly Net of the Mortal Purgatory... This technique should only be used by those who have reached the peak of the Void Refinement stage, but by using the essence blood of our own kind to activate it, the cultivation requirement can be lowered, and it will still have about 70-80% of its power. A few early-stage Void Refinement cultivators are not known for their combat strength and are easy to deal with. The Yuan Yuan's Devouring Divine Ability can be used to make them take the blame, but dismembering the powerful body of an ancient beast is not something that can be done in a short time."

"If this drags on too long, it will attract other ancient beasts and all our efforts will be in vain. That Yuan Yuan inner core can help me extend my life by a thousand years, enough for me to transfer the affairs of the alliance to you, and to train a new Void Refinement cultivator for the family. We cannot afford to lose it."

The most distinctive feature of the ancient beast Yuan Yuan is its slow growth and longevity.

Few people know that its inner core, when combined with a secret technique, can allow cultivators at the Void Refinement stage to break through their lifespan limits.

It wasn't for alchemy or medicine making, but rather for refining it into an external elixir, making it resemble a treasure.

With the immense life force of the Yuan Yuan's inner core, it managed to keep the cultivator alive until his outer core was exhausted and shattered.

This method has many limitations. First, the inner elixir is hard to come by, and it only works on those at the Refining Emptiness realm; it won't work on those at higher or lower realms.

During the period of life extension, one's cultivation level cannot make any further progress.

Finally, frequent interventions can shorten this time, often reaching the end in a few hundred years.

"good."

While interpersonal relationships and managing clan affairs were not his forte, Tang Wu possessed the highest cultivation talent among the family members.

Even the most difficult mortal world to cultivate is still much easier than dealing with people and engaging in backstabbing and intrigue.

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"It takes tens of thousands of years for a Yuan Yuan to grow to its full size, and its thick shell makes it a formidable sixth-order beast. Ordinary methods cannot even break through its skin. It also possesses the Devouring Divine Ability. If activated successfully, it can swallow any creature of the same order whole without regard to its defenses. It is one of the most difficult sixth-order ancient beasts to deal with."

Bai Zichen specifically bought a complete book introducing the ancient beasts of the Seven Treasures Immortal Realm, which provided very detailed information.

In the Immortal Realm, Tianyuan is too far from ordinary cultivators; ancient beasts are the most direct threat.

In the earliest times, ancient beasts were rampant, and humans formed communities to protect themselves, becoming the earliest origin of sects.

When Taiyi attained enlightenment and was protected by a Mahayana immortal, the situation improved slightly, and there was no more wailing and bloodshed everywhere, and no more ancient beasts slaughtering entire populations in one place.

But for humanity to truly rise up and become the rulers of the Immortal Realm, we still have to wait for the Heavenly Emperor to be born.

Only by slaying all the innate gods, destroying the seven ancient beasts, pacifying the nine regions, and establishing the Dao Court could the status quo of ancient beasts being confined to the desolate regions be established.

However, the Immortal Realm is simply too vast. Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and ancient beasts have emerged from the desolate region, causing new conflicts with the human race.

"From this perspective, if we disregard my role as a variable, this hunting team would have no chance of capturing the Yuan Turtle. But given the seriousness and meticulous planning involved, Tang Sen couldn't have acted lightly; it must be due to poison, formations, or other external means. I just don't know why he chose a mid-stage Nascent Soul swordsmith who has never made a move before."

If the goal is to make kneading easier and have a better grasp of the overall situation, there are clearly more suitable candidates.

Even with a shortage of manpower, it wouldn't be the turn of a Nascent Soul cultivator who has been at Sword Pass for less than ten years, whose identity is hard to verify, and who has no record of making a move.

"Unless... Tang Sen knows the other identity beneath my disguise as Bai Yuchan."

Bai Zichen sat up straight, his lazy demeanor completely gone.

"I have only fought Qin Wulie in the Seven Treasures Immortal Realm. If my true identity were exposed, I would have been captured by the combined forces of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion using their supreme divine powers long ago. How could I allow a mere elder of the Myriad Swords Alliance to cause trouble?"

"That means Tang Sen discovered my identity as Xi Yi under the guise of Bai Yuchan, and thought he had the truth."

"No one would have guessed that there's another identity beneath one disguise... Judging by Xi Yi's strength would only backfire on him. It's fine if we cooperate and each gets what we need, but if he really intends to use us and then discard us, we'll have to give him a good surprise."

Tang Sen has served as an elder of the Ten Thousand Swords Alliance for thousands of years, and he often has opportunities to make moves, so his strength is very transparent.

He might be considered a good fighter among those of the same cultivation level, but compared to Bai Zichen, who is capable of fighting a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator, they are worlds apart.

The trump card prepared to deal with Xi Yi is not enough to be used against him.

Even though his strongest trump card, the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, was still more than ten years away from being fully nurtured, Bai Zichen was confident enough to deal with either Yuan Yuan or Tang Sen.

He returned to the cave first and blew out his innate youthful energy onto the gourd vine, causing the innate spiritual root to grow and change at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Yellow Springs Gourd, which would normally take thousands of years to ripen and bear fruit, completed its flowering and fruiting process in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, and a small yellow gourd grew out.

The once thriving vine withered and dried up by two-thirds in an instant, squeezing out nutrients that caused the yellow gourd to swell up a size as it swayed in the wind.

Before long, it grew to the size of a palm.

The light from the entire mountain peak was absorbed by this yellow gourd, as if it possessed a special magic that stirred the energy within the cave.

Innate spiritual roots are considered the most precious treasures even in the realm of earthly immortals.

These spiritual plants, which are related to the fundamental power of the world and are created by heaven and earth, will always be a minority among the minority.

The only difference is that innate spiritual roots require transformation at the fifth level in the human realm, while in the Earthly Immortal Realm, the upper limit can be raised to the sixth level.

In this way, the growth potential is even higher.

However, due to their extremely high utilization value, even powerful beings could use them, and almost every plant had an owner early on.

"It seems we don't need to wait for the fusion; just one more burst of innate youthful energy will be enough to witness the Yellow Springs Gourd mature and fall to the ground..."

The most perfect external avatar in the world, yet the avatar technique itself is nowhere to be found.

Seven days of rest passed in the blink of an eye.

A few moments after Bai Zichen left the shop, Fang Hui rushed over excitedly, trying to report to his teacher his joy at breaking into the top ten in the competition.

Because of the difference in cultivation level, their knowledge and insight into advanced sword techniques are definitely not as good as those who have reached the Core Formation stage. This cannot be solved simply by bringing their superficial cultivation levels to the same level.

Despite enduring a hundred moves with his swordsmanship variations against a senior who ultimately made it into the top three, he still lost the match by a single misstep.

However, he was already the one with the lowest cultivation level among the top ten in the competition, which brought honor to the Shocking Sword Pavilion. After he forms his core, he will be taught the Twelve Shocking Divine Swords technique.

In addition, the immortal crystals bestowed by the Ten Thousand Swords Alliance are enough for him to smoothly cultivate to the peak of Core Formation and add a portion of resources for Nascent Soul Transformation.

Given the spiritual energy of the Immortal Realm, completing the Nascent Soul stage isn't too difficult; however, the power of the Heavenly Tribulation will increase accordingly.

It's best to prepare several protective magical artifacts to ensure you can survive tribulations.

"My teacher must be an extraordinary swordsman. A few words of guidance from him would be a hundred times more useful than any instructor in the sword academy. He might even be a true disciple of one of the great sword sects?"

When Fang returned to the sword-making shop, he found the door closed and no one in sight.

He could only regretfully leave behind a memory talisman before heading to the Frightened Sword Hall to try and break through to the Core Formation stage, leveraging the momentum he had built up during this competition.

For those with Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude, the path to Core Formation is smooth and easy, requiring no assistance whatsoever.

However, influenced by Bai Zichen, Fang Hui held the idea of ​​perfect core formation and kept pondering his own theory of core formation.

In fact, cultivators in the Earthly Immortal Realm cultivate so quickly that they spend very little time in the Foundation Establishment stage, and few of them consider the path to the Great Dao.

The abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth is an aid, which in turn also gives cultivators more time to comprehend the Great Dao.

Even if one does not attain the true meaning of the Great Dao, one can still form a nascent soul and transform into an infant. There is still time to seek the path of the Great Dao later.

Through a series of pure swordsmanship contests, combined with his life experiences, he gradually grasped the essence of alchemy.

The realization that this seemingly redundant task, which no one else is doing, will greatly benefit one's future.

Those who save themselves will be saved by God.

God helps those who help themselves.

The thoughts in his mind became clearer and clearer, and his steps became faster and faster. A joyful sword cry rang out from his dantian, as if a golden elixir would be formed in the next moment.

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Three hundred thousand li west of Jianguan Pass lies a landscape of towering mountains, countless cliffs and ravines, a desolate and wild scene.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth was restless and scattered, as if it could explode at any moment.

This is the desolate region, which, apart from ancient beasts, is not suitable for human cultivation.

Unless we first exterminate the ancient beasts, then move mountains and fill rivers, regulate the spiritual veins, and gradually change things.

Over countless years, this desolate land should be transformed into a blessed and sacred place.

"Old Tang, now that we're here, you can tell us about the plan, right? ... If we have to risk our lives, no matter how generous the reward, it'll be too hot to handle."

Qin Gongwang was one of only two of the seven invited helpers to reach the Void Realm. His ancestors had founded a sword school with over ten thousand disciples.

Later, the family ancestor died on the sword-fighting stage, suffering a crushing defeat, and the family began to decline.

Over several generations, the family became a poor household with a small population.

It wasn't until the emergence of a descendant named Qin Gongwang that there was a renewed trend of restoring the family's glory.

Having experienced hundreds of battles, both large and small, with more wins than losses, his swordsmanship is moderate and unbiased, a true swordsman who has risen through the ranks through practical combat.

The reward Tang Sen secretly promised was a sixth-order Thousand-Light Glazed Crystal, which could not be used as the main material for refining weapons, but was a first-class auxiliary material.

Adding just one ingredient will make the refined magical artifacts infinitely more versatile, possessing the ability to transform the illusory into the real.

This was a perfect match for Qin Gongwang, who was seeking to upgrade his natal flying sword and was willing to use several rare ores passed down from his ancestors in order to achieve perfection.

This made up for his biggest weakness in his originally clumsy swordsmanship.

"Please don't worry, everyone... That Yuan Yuan was fighting with other ancient beasts and was seriously injured. It only has 70% of its strength left. I have also borrowed the Lieque Secret Demon Array Flag from the alliance. It can turn stone into gold and use the earth's power to grind that Yuan Yuan to death little by little."

Having arrived in the desolate region, Elder Tang finally revealed the truth.

This intelligence was highly confidential within the Ten Thousand Swords Alliance. As an elder, he saw it immediately but did not report it. Instead, he categorized it as worthless.

It would be several years before others discovered it.

During this period, if the Tang family seizes the opportunity to capture Yuan Yuan, they can reap the greatest benefits.

"The Secret Demon of Lieque? I've heard that this ancient treasure once achieved the feat of surrounding and killing a powerful cultivator at the Integration Stage. I never expected to have the opportunity to use it today!"

Qin Gongwang looked excited and eager to try.

With the injured Yuan Yuan and the Ancient Treasure Array Flag, it's no wonder Elder Tang dared to plan the hunt for a sixth-tier ancient beast with only this few helpers.

With weak allies, no one had the confidence to share the Yuan Yuan beast body with Elder Tang, allowing them to enjoy it all to themselves.

After changing his location several times, Elder Tang seemed to be using a positioning technique that outsiders couldn't understand to receive the latest information.

Several days later, they met up with a powerful and imposing middle-aged cultivator.

"So it was Brother Tang Wu. With the Tang family's precious tree involved, this matter is a success!"

Qin Gongwang was initially startled, but then immediately bowed and paid his respects.

The two were of similar age, but the other had always been one step ahead of him, from the Nascent Soul stage to the Deity Transformation stage and finally to the Void Refinement stage.

At first, they broke through one after the other, but now, there's a thousand-year difference in the time it took for them to break through.

“I have already sprinkled the Emperor’s Dew, which the Yuan Turtle loves most. Now that it is injured, it can heal its wounds by swallowing it. It will definitely not miss this opportunity… We will lie in ambush here and wait for it to appear before attacking with all our might, hoping to severely injure it with one blow.”

What Tang Wu was referring to were the myriad golden threads running through the mountain rocks, stretching out in all directions.

Every year on the Gengshen night of the Taiyin star in the Jiazi cycle, when the Emperor's Dew descends, plants and spirits receive its essence and their intelligence greatly improves.

When human cultivators collect these substances, they are transformed into liquid spiritual objects through the catalysis of their true essence.

Its most widespread use is in refining spirit beast pills to help cultivators quickly increase the strength of their raised spirit beasts.

Looking at the extent of Tang Wu's expansion, one can only imagine how much manpower and how many cycles of time it took to gather this much material.

Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse; no matter how down on its luck the Tang family is, mobilizing resources that can be compensated for by sheer numbers is no problem.

'It seems foolproof, with every aspect meticulously considered... Two mid-stage Void Refinement cultivators and two early-stage Void Refinement cultivators should be more than enough to deal with a wounded sixth-tier ancient beast, even without the aid of an array.'

Bai Zichen remained silent and followed the group discreetly, accepting a flag that had been assigned to him.

(End of this chapter)