Cultivation of Immortality: Start by Improving Spiritual Root Qualifications

Chapter 873 The secrets of the mermaids and the legacy of Lord Ziyu!

"I am Cangming Lanyue/Chao Yinhong, juniors. Nice to meet you, seniors!" The middle-aged couple looked respectful, bowed to the ground and performed a great salute.

"Father, Mother, why are you here?" Minglan Zhen'er looked at them in surprise.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged couple smiled awkwardly but did not answer. With the senior master Zhou Xun here, they did not dare to answer casually.

The higher their cultivation, the more they could feel the vast magical energy in Zhou Xun's body. Even when facing the great elder of their Cangming clan, they were not as good as him.

You know, that is a fourth-level mermaid, equivalent to the Nascent Soul among human cultivators.

How could the middle-aged man not understand that the handsome young man in front of him was most likely the legendary late Nascent Soul stage powerhouse. If he was angered, it would be a disaster for their entire Cangming clan.

Zhou Xun naturally understood their concerns and said calmly:

"Don't worry, Zhou doesn't kill innocent people indiscriminately!"

The middle-aged man heaved a sigh of relief and bowed again:
"Senior, please be magnanimous. If I have offended you in any way, please forgive me!"

"It's okay. Your daughter is innocent and simple-minded. She is much better than you!"

"As the saying goes, lovers will eventually marry. Even if you disagree, why would you cast such a vicious spell when you are still a mortal with no cultivation?" Zhou Xun scolded.

If this couple were not the girl's parents, Zhou Xun would have slapped them to death.

But he wanted to help the young man Ah Hai at this time, so he naturally couldn't act so rashly.

"What you said is correct, senior!" The middle-aged man nodded hurriedly, not daring to refute at all.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun snorted coldly. He naturally knew that the middle-aged man was not convinced in his heart, and he didn't know how to frame him deep down in his heart.

However, he already had a solution in mind. Zhou Xun turned to the girl and spoke slowly:
"Azhen!"

"senior!"

"What your parents are worried about is nothing more than Ah Hai's cultivation aptitude. I have a set of skills that can help you share your aptitude with Ah Hai!"

"But there are some flaws. After practicing, your life and soul will be controlled by A Hai. Are you willing?"

Zhou Xun spoke slowly.

What he wanted to take out was the supreme inheritance of the Yuling Sect - "The True Art of Yuling".

Song Yiqing relied on this method to contract the Red Flame Luan as her natal spirit beast, thereby sharing its talents and achieving the Nascent Soul stage.

Although the word "merman" has the word "人" in their name, they are not human beings but an alien race.

If he treated it as a demon beast, and asked Ah Hai to contract Zhen'er as his natal spirit beast, then Zhen'er's cultivation talent could be shared with him.

But this requires the girl's consent.

Although it is a bit unkind, Zhou Xun is a human being, so naturally he has to side with his own people.

"No!" A woman's voice rang out. It was the girl's mother, Chao Yinhong.

"A Hong!"

The middle-aged man's face changed drastically. He looked at his wife worriedly and bowed hurriedly:
"Please forgive me for my inappropriate words, Senior!"

Zhou Xun waved his hand and said:

"I'd like to hear what she has to say."

The woman's face was filled with grief and indignation. She bowed and said:

"Senior, this method is tantamount to treating Ah Zhen as a slave. If this kid has evil intentions in the future, what will happen to my Ah Zhen?"

From Zhou Xun's words just now, she could naturally understand that this technique would be of no benefit to her daughter, and would instead put her life in the hands of others.

At this time, they were in love, and naturally they were good to each other. But as time went by, the passion faded. Once the human boy had any changes,
Her daughter is crying out to heaven and earth for help but no one can help her!

"What do you think?" Zhou Xun did not answer, but looked directly at the girl.

"I believe in Ah Hai!" the girl said firmly and held Ah Hai's hand.

At this time, the young man also understood what was going on and immediately refused:
"I appreciate your kindness, sir, but Ah Zhen is my love. Loving her and respecting her is not enough. How can I control her life and soul?"

Then he shook his head heavily.

"If you agree, you can share your talent with Ah Zhen. When you succeed in cultivation in the future, it won't be a problem to build a foundation or even form a pill. You can live for five or six hundred years!"

Zhou Xun continued.

The young man paused when he heard this, and then shook his head again.

The girl hugged Ah Hai's arm tightly, tears in her eyes.

"If that's the case, I have another idea. You two can make a contract with each other. From now on, your spirits will be connected. But if one of you dies in the future, the other will probably die too!"

After hearing this, the two looked at each other and bowed to Zhou Xun:
"Please teach me this method, sir!"

Zhou Xun nodded slightly when he heard that. As a light flashed across his fingertips, a green jade slip appeared out of thin air.

"This method is called 'The True Art of Controlling Spirits', and it was created by a great ancient being." Zhou Xun gently stroked the jade slip, and two runes suddenly flew out of it, one green and one blue, interweaving in the air to form a heart-shaped knot.

Seeing this, Ah Zhen's ear scales trembled slightly: "Senior, this rune."

"Don't panic." Zhou Xun flicked his sleeves lightly, and two runes slowly fell on the two people's eyebrows.

"This is a bond of mutual attraction. We need your essence and blood as the medium, and your soul as the bridge."

Then he glanced at the middle-aged couple and said, "If you want to watch, then keep silent."

Cangming Lanyue hurriedly pulled his wife back ten feet. Although Chao Yinhong's face was full of worry, she didn't dare to say another word.

"Close your eyes and concentrate!"

Zhou Xun shouted softly, and Ah Hai and Ah Zhen sat cross-legged at the same time. He made hand gestures as fast as lightning, and rays of light flew out, forming a star formation above their heads.

"Blood refinement as a guide, soul and spirit merge together!"

As the magic spell was cast, three scales behind Ah Zhen's ears suddenly fell off and turned into azure mist in the air.

Under Zhou Xun's guidance, Ah Hai bit his tongue and spurted out a mouthful of blood. When the blood mist and water mist blended, a clear phoenix cry was heard.

"what?"

The shadow of the Blood Demon Ancestor quietly emerged, "This little merman girl's blood actually contains a trace of the ancient merman emperor's aura, no wonder it can cause the resonance of heaven and earth."

Zhou Xun's eyes narrowed slightly, and the lightning on his fingertips became stronger. The blood mist gradually condensed into two crystal beads, one red with blue, and the other blue with red, which was the core of the contract.

"go with!"

The crystal beads sank into the eyebrows of the two people respectively. Ah Hai's whole body shook violently, and fine scales appeared on the surface of his skin. Ah Zhen's hair moved without wind, and her originally deep blue eyes actually shone with amber gold light.

"It's done." Zhou Xun closed his hand and put his hands behind his back.

"Now that you two have formed a soul contract and your demon cores are resonating, your cultivation will probably be greatly improved in the future!"

Before she finished speaking, Ah Zhen suddenly let out a soft cry, and a wisp of pure water spirit condensed from her fingertips, which transformed into the shape of a swimming fish in the air - this was clearly the water control technique of the human cultivators!

Ah Hai looked at his palm in amazement, where a shadow of a scale appeared and disappeared. With a slight movement of his mind, the scale turned into a thin armor covering his arm, with a defense comparable to that of a second-level magic weapon.

Cangming Lanyue could no longer hold back, and after checking his daughter's meridians, he exclaimed: "The purity of the demonic power has increased by 20%! This... This is simply... amazing!"

"The mysteries of the True Art of Controlling Spirits are more than that." Zhou Xun said calmly, "When Ah Hai builds his foundation in the future, Ah Zhen can share his insights into breaking through the realm. When Ah Zhen's demon core reaches the fourth level, Ah Hai can also gain some spiritual power in return!" "This is a method of mutual assistance!"

"The only flaw is that the difficulty of reaching the Divine Transformation level in the future will increase several times!"

But after tens of thousands of years of accumulation in the entire human world, there are only a few Divine Transformation cultivators.

Take the mermaid tribe for example. There has not yet been a god-transforming being. The peak of level 4 is already their limit.

Then Zhou Xun looked at the middle-aged couple meaningfully: "Do you still feel that your daughter has been wronged?"

Chao Yinhong's face was filled with shame, and she suddenly pulled her husband to bow solemnly: "Senior, your magical powers are inexplicable, it is us who are ignorant."

The Blood Demon Patriarch suddenly transmitted a message: "Boy, you are quite generous. This technique sounds like the inheritance of the 'Yuling Sect' in the Beiming Immortal Realm. This is a sect that is not inferior to my Blood God Sect!"

"It seems you have a lot of good stuff!"

"Beiming Fairyland?" Zhou Xun asked curiously.

"Yes, the Immortal Realm is so vast, with a total of 3,000 Daozhou, and under the Daozhou there are Immortal Realms. To the north of my Nanming Immortal Realm is the Beiming Immortal Realm!"

"And this Yuling Sect is said to have produced a true immortal in ancient times, and it is still one of the five dominant forces in the Beiming Immortal Realm!"

Zhou Xun nodded upon hearing this, and seemed even more in awe of the vastness of the fairy world.

At this moment, Zhou Xun frowned.
His eyes swept across the sea in the distance, and he sensed that there was a mermaid lurking behind the reef.

At this time, the man also came out from behind.

It was an old man wearing a blue robe, with a ruddy complexion, and white hair and beard.

"Cangming Yuanchen pays homage to Master Wangchuan!"

The old man walked up to Zhou Xun and bowed.

At this time, the middle-aged couple also showed surprise:

"Great Elder, why are you here?"

Zhou Xun's eyes narrowed slightly. This old man could actually reveal his identity in one breath. It was obvious that he was not an ordinary mermaid.

He scanned with his spiritual sense and found that the demonic power in the other party's body was strong and had reached the peak of the fourth level, which was equivalent to the peak of the human Yuanying cultivator.

"Grand Elder of the Cangming Clan?" Zhou Xun asked calmly, "Do you know me?"

The old man said respectfully, "Lord Wangchuan is famous all over the world. I have admired him for a long time. When I was in the Western Desert, I admired him from afar. I just sensed the unusual movement of heaven and earth, so I came to check it out. I didn't expect that it was the Lord who came."

Then he turned to Ah Zhen's family and said solemnly: "Lan Yue, why don't you thank the True Lord for his guidance? Ah Zhen is able to get this opportunity, which is a blessing for our Cangming family!"

Cangming Lanyue and his wife finally woke up from their dream and quickly pulled their daughter to pay their respects. Although Ah Hai didn't understand what was going on, he also knelt down.

Zhou Xun raised his hand, and a soft force lifted everyone up: "I just did it casually. But why are you mermaids here?"

"I remember it was recorded in the classics that your mermaid clan has lived to the west of Baicang Continent for generations and founded the 'Biyuan Sea Kingdom'. This place is located on the side of Fengyuan Continent, so it's not close!"

Cangming Yuanchen's expression changed slightly when he heard this, and he smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty has a sharp eye. My clan is indeed the descendant of the ancient 'Biyuan Sea Kingdom', and we moved here to avoid disaster. The spiritual energy in this sea area is thin, and it has become a natural barrier."

"Avoid disaster?" Zhou Xun became interested. "If we can make the entire fourth-level peak mermaids migrate, what disaster could there be?"

"Of course it's the True Lord's nemesis - Lord Luoyang?" the old man said with a puzzled look.

"What, you also have conflicts with Fang Jiuzun?" Zhou Xun was greatly surprised.

"You may not know, but the founding of the 'Biyuan Sea Country' was made possible by the kindness of the Purple Jade Heavenly Monarch of the 'Thunder Clan'."

"Later, the Heavenly Lord unfortunately died for my human world."

"And Fang Jiuzun, who is hostile to the Heavenly Monarch, will naturally not let us, the friendly forces of the Lei Xiao Sect, go!"

"The ancestors of our tribe took refuge here for the sake of the merman heritage."

"Speaking of which, this is the ancestral land of my mermaid clan. That's why we have a place to survive in the vast sea of ​​death!"

Hearing this, Zhou Xun was even more shocked.

He didn't expect that the mermaid clan and the Lei Xiao Sect had such a connection. As the contemporary successor of the Lei Xiao Sect, wouldn't he be a natural ally of the mermaid clan?

"Elder, do you know the relationship between Zhou and Fang Jiuzun?" Zhou Xun asked tentatively.

"Haha, of course I know!"

"I have heard that Lord Fang Jiu is looking for you throughout the human world. Besides, I cannot hide the aura of the Purple Sky Thunder Art from you!"

Cangming Yuanchen suddenly trembled with excitement: "This aura cannot be wrong! It is the inheritance left by the True Lord!"

"God has mercy on me! When my life is about to end, I can actually meet the heir of the Heavenly Sovereign!"

I didn't expect there was such a connection!
"The elder is in a serious state!"

"In that case, why don't you go to my clan's land and have a chat? I can also show my hospitality as a host!"

"That's annoying!"

"Please move aside, I will tell you everything I know!"

Zhou Xun nodded slightly, and just as he was about to take a step, he suddenly felt his sleeve being pulled. He turned around and saw Ah Hai standing there awkwardly, while Ah Zhen was looking at her parents eagerly.

"Let's go together." Zhou Xun chuckled, and three water-repellent talismans flew out from his sleeves.
Cangming Lanyue and his wife were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly pulled their daughter to follow. Chao Yinhong even took out a colorful shell and stuffed it into Ah Hai's hand, saying softly:
"Good boy, this thing will help you breathe underwater."

Zhou Xun smiled slightly and lightly tapped his fingertips. Three water-repellent talismans turned into streams of light and fell into the hands of Ah Hai, Ah Zhen and Chao Yinhong.

"Let's go."

The crowd turned into several rays of light and rushed into the distance.

Half a day later, they came to a calm sea area. The old man clasped his hands together and chanted an ancient spell. Suddenly, a deep passage appeared on the sea surface, leading directly to the bottom of the sea.

"True Lord, please."

Zhou Xun stepped into the passage with his hands behind his back. The sea water on both sides seemed to be separated by an invisible barrier. Corals paved the road under his feet and spirit fish swam around. It was like walking in a crystal palace.

Ah Hai had never seen such a wonder before, and couldn't help but reach out to touch the water wall, but was bounced back by a gentle force. Ah Zhen smiled and held his hand, saying softly: "This is a water-avoiding barrier, and only the elders of the tribe can open it."

Cangming Lanyue felt mixed emotions upon seeing this, but seeing his daughter's happy expression, he ended up not saying anything more.

We walked down for about a thousand feet, and suddenly the road ahead opened up.
A magnificent crystal palace stands on the underwater plain. It is azure blue with flowing runes. The roof of the palace is inlaid with countless luminous pearls, making the entire sea area look like a dream.

Around the palace, the merman guards held tridents and saluted when they saw the great elder returning.

Cangming Yuanchen said with emotion: "Since our entire clan migrated six thousand years ago, we have been in seclusion. It is heaven's will that you have come today."

Entering the hall, Zhou Xun was invited to the seat of honor, while Ah Hai and others were arranged to sit aside. The maid served spiritual tea, which was crystal clear and exuded a faint fragrance.

"This is 'Blue Sea Dew', collected from the deep sea spiritual veins, and has the effect of nourishing the soul." Cangming Yuanchen introduced.

Zhou Xun took a sip and suddenly felt clear-headed. He nodded and praised, "Good tea."

Seeing this, the old man finally got to the point: "Since the True Lord is the descendant of the Heavenly Lord, he must also know the origins of the 'Biyuan Sea Kingdom' and the Leixiao Sect."

Zhou Xun put down the teacup and said calmly, "I have heard a little bit about it, but I still need the elder to explain the details."

(End of this chapter)