Journey to the head

There was a loud noise in the ruins, and a huge golden bird with a wingspan of ten feet rose into the sky and approached Lu Qian, holding a box that glowed with precious light in its hooked beak.

After carefully handing the box to Lu Qian, the big bird circled, its body quickly shrank, and finally landed on Li Sheng's shoulder.

This bird has five toes on its claws, a high crest on its head, its whole body is golden, and its wings are like flowing gold.

It turned out to be a young golden-winged eagle with the blood of the Roc!
This is the second wild alien species that Lu Qian has found in this world, besides Huo Jin.

Just like due to the depletion of spiritual energy, the probability of spiritual seedlings appearing in this world is only one percent of that in the Yuanchen world. The probability of there being alien bloodlines among beasts is also very small.

Although Yu Jiao and Huo Jin were ordered to search the whole world, after eliminating those "big monsters" that had committed numerous blood debts and were difficult to tame, in the end they only found this young golden-winged eagle.

This young bird had just started practicing Qi, following its bloodline instincts, without any rules, and was just being trained from scratch. Lu Qian had too much to practice himself, and had no time to raise a spirit beast.

Li Sheng had just started practicing Buddhism, so Lu Qian gave the young bird to Li Sheng as a companion to help him gain enlightenment.

However, Li Sheng had just started breathing and was unable to communicate with or control the young bird. It was Lu Qian who used a restriction to force the golden-winged eagle to stay with Li Sheng to protect his safety.

Later, Lu Qian did not hope that Li Sheng could become a beast-taming cultivator. After all, he did not have a unique inheritance like the Spirit Beast Sect, and spirit beasts were just another means.

Lu Qian plans to slowly explore Li Sheng's direction of cultivation.

The Yunshan Sect is different from the Lingshou Sect in that it focuses on spiritual beasts, the Qinglian Sect excels in water, earth and healing secrets, and the Sikong family is famous for its martial arts. The Yunshan Sect is a comprehensive sect similar to the Xuanwei Sect. It now has a variety of profound inheritances, and disciples can choose the most suitable direction of cultivation according to their own talents.

Now that Li Sheng has been accepted as his disciple, it is natural for his master Lu Qian to choose the future path for him. After careful consideration, Lu Qian decided to lay a solid foundation for him first, and the so-called cultivation direction will be decided based on his personal talents and intentions in the later stage of Qi training.

Perhaps in order to make up for Tan Yunxing's mistake, Lu Qian placed high hopes on Li Sheng and took great care of him.

Li Sheng, thirteen years old, possesses the same gold and water spiritual roots as Lu Qian, and the size of the spiritual roots is five inches and seven tenths, which is even better than Lu Qian!
Now Lu Qian has already passed on the moderate and peaceful "Qianyun Sutra" to him for introduction. After his bones and spiritual veins are strengthened, he will switch to practicing higher-level skills.

As the spiritual energy in this world was declining, Lu Qian directly stimulated the spiritual crystals to obtain the spiritual energy Li Sheng needed for cultivation, and bound them in an area for him to use.

Now, the young golden-winged eagle landed on Li Sheng's shoulder, and intentionally or unintentionally used force with its claws, easily piercing Li Sheng's flesh, and blood oozed out.

Li Sheng said nothing and stood straight, as if the red-stained shoulders did not belong to him.

Seeing this, Lu Qian frowned slightly, and the golden-winged bird was so frightened that it flew up and kowtowed. But Li Sheng said, "Master, don't be angry, I will slowly subdue it."

Lu Qian said: "Li Sheng, you must remember that you are no longer a lonely emperor. You have me and the teachers and fellow disciples of the Yunshan Sect behind you. You can ask for help from everyone if anything happens."

"I serve everyone, and everyone serves me. This is the foundation of the sect's survival, and it is also what makes it different from the imperial dynasty."

Li Sheng bowed in response. Lu Qian turned his gaze back to the treasure chest in the building. When he opened it, he saw that it was full of treasures from Amaterasu Palace.

However, at the end of the world, there were not many good things in Amaterasu Palace. Lu Qian took a few glances and found that most of the resources could be used as rewards in exchange for spiritual seedlings to make up for the fact that he did not bring anything with him. The rest could also be used for Li Sheng's enlightenment.

Among this pile of treasures, the only thing Lu Qian cared about was the Amaterasu Palace's spell book "Onmyojitsu Zhixuan".

Lu Qian quickly glanced through it and was delighted.

The inheritance of Amaterasu Palace is very profound, and can even be traced back to the most prosperous era of this world after Myoho Tenjun passed on his skills. It has been continuously improved by generations of monks. This "Zhi Xuan" is profound and records dozens of spells from the shallow to the deep, especially half of them, which are extremely dark curse techniques.

Some of the most profound or widely used ones can still be used even when one reaches an extremely high level.

If such a secret book existed in the Yuanchen Realm, it would surely be treasured by the wealthy and powerful sects. How could Lu Qian have the chance to obtain it? Now that he had it in his hands, it was a blessing that the once powerful Amaterasu Palace had fallen to this point due to the decline of this realm.

The foundation of practicing spells lies in the power of thought and the soul. Lu Qian has the knowledge of storage, so he can practice it naturally like a fish in water. If he can concentrate on studying it, he will be able to master more powerful methods.

But his energy is limited, so he cannot be greedy. What he most wants to learn and practice is the art of Shikigami.

The complex thoughts from the outside world must not be randomly introduced into the body. The art of Shikigami is to avoid risks. It uses the complex thoughts from all people gathered from the worship of evil gods, indigenous beliefs, and the fallacies of demons and ghosts as a basis, and directly shapes a Shikigami outside the body that can be summoned and has powerful strength.

The stronger the base telekinesis is, the stronger the Shikigami will be. But this also means that the more complex the telekinesis that makes up the Shikigami is, the more insane and difficult to control the Shikigami will be, and it may backfire on its master if he is not careful.

This is a double-edged sword, requiring the practitioner to be careful at all times and strike a balance between the strength and controllability of the Shikigami.

But! What if the telekinesis used to construct the shikigami was replaced with pure and refined telekinesis? !
The monks of Amaterasu Palace have no way to obtain large amounts of pure mental power from outside of themselves, but I have a way!

When Lu Qian thought of this, he was immediately excited.

If it works, he will gain an extremely powerful killer weapon!

……

The three-month period has expired, and a high platform has been built on the Yuema Plain.

Around the platform, there were a large number of soldiers sent by the new emperor of Daxia to maintain order, dividing the bustling and densely packed crowd into neat squares.

At a glance, it was a dark mass, and there were many cultivators flying in the air, either controlling weapons or beasts, attracting envious glances.

There are tens of thousands of people here.

They came from all over the world, some came to send spiritual seedlings, hoping for rewards, eager to speak to Lu Qian, or simply to admire the style of the top of the world. There were even many common people who came to pay homage to see the immortal.

If it weren't for Daxia maintaining order, this place would have been in chaos long ago.

Originally, the monks would not pay attention to these soldiers, but now the situation is different. The news has spread that Emperor Kaiyuan of Daxia has become Lu Qian's disciple!
Even though Emperor Kaiyuan had abdicated, everyone still believed that Lu Qian was standing behind the Great Xia court.

Just as everyone was crowded together, looking forward to it, a dragon roar resounded through the sky, and five-colored light flashed all over the sky, then rolled inward, and the figures of Lu Qian, Jiang Qingfeng, Yu Jiao, Huo Jin and Li Sheng appeared on the high platform.

At this moment, everyone was worshipping, the sound was so loud and noisy that one could not hear what everyone was shouting.

The Jade Dragon danced in mid-air, summoning its spiritual power and yelling, "Silence!"

Then all the people fell silent, and the Ascension Conference was officially held.

"The Jiangnan Daozang Xuan Sect offers five spiritual seedlings of the right age."

The white-haired old leader of the Zang Xuan Sect kowtowed respectfully, and five spiritual seedlings under the age of three were brought up by several disciples of the Zang Xuan Sect.

Just as Lu Qian was about to speak, a young child suddenly burst into tears, and his crying caused his companions to cry as well. The old sect leader panicked and kowtowed repeatedly, claiming that he was guilty of a capital crime. The disciples around him also fell to their knees with pale faces.

Lu Qian shook his head: "Don't be alarmed. It's natural for children to cry. What does it have to do with you? Get up."

Immediately, a soldier from Da Xia took the five young children over. A house had already been built on one side of the platform, and silent musical instruments were set up. In addition, there were hundreds of wet nurses who were responsible for taking care of the young spiritual children.

The old master heaved a sigh of relief, his beard was covered with mud, but he still didn't dare to stand up. Li Sheng followed Lu Qian's instructions and read out the reward.

"The Cangxuan Sect has donated five spiritual seedlings, and we will reward them with a scroll of secret techniques, 250 spiritual stones, and 25 bottles of spiritual pills..."

The monks around heard it clearly and quickly spread the news to the distance, so that on the Yuema Plain, there was a burst of exclamations. Wow, one spiritual seedling can be exchanged for a full fifty spiritual stones and five bottles of spiritual pills!
Not to mention the magical skills bestowed by the peak masters of this world!

Tian Yuanzi is indeed the best in the world, he is really rich enough to rival a country! Why couldn't my sect recruit a few more spiritual seedlings?
Jiang Qingfeng was sitting at the top, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard the exclamations one after another.

There is no spiritual energy in this world, and spiritual stones are even less and less. They are rare materials that can only be used at the most critical moments of breaking through obstacles, refining pills and refining equipment. The purchasing power of a spiritual stone is astonishingly large.

Therefore, when he heard that one spiritual seedling could be exchanged for fifty spirit stones, he was extremely surprised and amazed.

But in the Yuanchen Realm, what can fifty spirit stones do?
From this perspective, making money and being a celebrity in the Yuanchen Realm is truly a very happy thing.

Lu Qian carried with him spirit crystals and spirit marrows. Over the past three months, he had conquered various sects in Japan, the Western Regions, and the Northern Rong countries, and wiped out all the rebellious bandits. Only then had he collected tens of thousands of spirit stones, which he was now using to reward various sects.

The old master's face turned red with excitement and he kowtowed again.

"Tianyuanzi's kindness, I am grateful for it. As long as you give the order, the Zangxuan Sect will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

The monks nearby rolled their eyes. This old man was very cunning, and he was very cunning. Are you qualified to work for Tian Yuanzi?
Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? How dare you daydream?

Lu Qian smiled and nodded, which made the old master extremely surprised and happy. He felt as if he was in the clouds. Several disciples also walked slowly as if they were walking on a pile of cotton.

"The Daming Sect of Jiangbei Road offers three spirit seedlings."

"Dongshan Dao Happy Gang, eight spirit seedlings donated."

"Fei Hongzi, a free cultivator from Xichuan Dao, has come here to recommend himself. He is willing to hold the stirrup for Tian Yuanzi's horse."

……

Batch after batch of spiritual seedlings were offered up in exchange for huge rewards, and everyone left happily.

One after another, the independent cultivators, or those who called themselves independent cultivators, tried their best to show themselves, just to get Lu Qian to look at them more.

However, up to now, there has been no one that Lu Qian feels is worth taking the risk to train.

until--

"I will teach Xiangkong to meet Tianyuanzi and I am willing to serve him."

The thin, short-haired, scarred Jindan Zhenren suddenly appeared on the scene, causing an explosive sensation.

In the late Jindan period, Xiang Kong voluntarily joined Lu Qian's army!

Even Lu Qian was a little surprised and helped him up.

Lu Qian, who had had a brief contact with this Jindan during the battle in Luoyang, only knew that he belonged to a very small sect called "Zhi Jiao" and was also good at spells.

His spells are very unique, and seem to be a combination of spells and martial arts.

The Zhijiao sect worships the "holy master" who founded the sect and passed down its teachings. The sect now has few members and is very loose, so Lu Qian did not ask more about it.

"Isn't Brother Xiang Kong a member of the Zhi Sect? How could you leave the sect and serve me?"

Xiang Kong smiled and said, "Tian Yuanzi, you don't know that our Zhijiao is not a fixed sect. As long as you believe in the teachings of the Zhijiao, you are a member of our sect. There is not even a pope in the sect. Every believer has an equal status in the sect and has the responsibility to spread the doctrine."

"Therefore, although I am a member of the Zhijiao, I do not belong to any force. I can move freely and serve wherever I want."

Lu Qian nodded and asked, "What is the teaching of your religion?"

He had always been indifferent to this kind of sect, but after listening to Xiang Kong's introduction, it seemed completely different from the sects he had come into contact with before.

Xiang Kong was very happy to see Lu Qian was interested in Zhijiao.

He showed the rosary in his hand to Lu Qian. It was a string of magical green beads that shone brightly. There were seven beads in total, four large and three small.

"Master Wuliang, the teachings of my religion are very simple."

"These four large beads represent honest speech, a calm mind, good deeds, and self-discipline."

"Straightforward speech means speaking directly and never speaking nonsense."

"To be calm is to be like a mirror, without any false thoughts. I speak to others directly, and I also welcome others to speak to me directly. I always accept all comments calmly, correct them if there are any mistakes, and encourage them if there are none."

“Good deeds are not about being too nice, but about looking at the world with a warm heart and doing more good deeds within your ability.”

"These three beads are a supplement to the fourth doctrine of self-discipline, representing not indulging in lust, not taking out one's anger on others, and not repeating one's mistakes."

"I believe that most of the suffering in the world is caused by lies, concealment, suspicion, misunderstanding, and selfishness. If people can speak honestly, be calm, and do good deeds, then disasters can be eliminated, the world can be peaceful, all beings can be happy, and they can be free from suffering forever."

"As for self-control, that is a self-cultivation for my followers to achieve perfection, and it is not imposed on others."

Lu Qian nodded slightly. Judging from the doctrine alone, the Zhijiao was an upright sect.

"Then why do you want to work for me, Brother Xiang Kong?"

Just as Xiang Kong was about to answer, chimes suddenly rang, echoing in the sky.

Everyone couldn't help but look up into the sky, then opened their mouths in shock.

A ray of colorful light fell from the sky, and within that light, a square city that was completely white and brilliant quietly emerged.

The city walls are high and the gate towers are majestic. It is so magnificent and breathtaking. Faintly, countless shining talismans are flashing on the city walls.

From afar, there are five magnificent towers in the east, west, south, north and center of the city. On each tower, there is a ray of spiritual light.

On the gate of the Hanging City hangs a jade plaque with three majestic golden characters carved on it.

"Bai Yujing."

The world's number one immortal sect, Baiyujing, is now in the world!

Two Jindan Zhenren floated out from Baiyujing and landed in front of Lu Qian.

"Liuhe, Hanxu, meet the Yuanying Spirit Lord Tianyuanzi."

"The people of Baiyujing sincerely invite Lingjun to be our guest." (End of this chapter)