Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 204 Bald Donkey Seizes Fortune
"A second-level mid-grade magic sword and a second-level mid-grade magic robe in exchange for a high-quality Qi-combining pill, or a cultivation elixir of the same level."

"I have a Yellow Dragon Pill made from the inner core of a sand worm. I wonder if it can satisfy my friend's requirements?"

The monk on the stage looked delighted:
"But, I wonder how many friends you have?"

Wei Zhongmian, who was sitting in the audience, was mixed among a group of foundation-building cultivators, his expression normal.

'The Yellow Dragon Pill is made from the demon pills of demon beasts. It is similar to the Heqi Pill, but because it is rich in earth spiritual power, its scope of application is limited.

'Correspondingly, for cultivators with earth spirit roots and practicing earth methods, the effect is better than the Qi-combining pill.'

A deal at the trade fair was successfully concluded, and finally it was Wei Zhong's turn.

Wei Zhong, who had changed his appearance and aura, stepped onto the stage, and a jade slip appeared in his hand:

“I once escaped death in a secret place, and from that I obtained a very special secret method.

"It's called 'Spiritual Planting Method' and it has the effect of changing one's spiritual roots."

As soon as these words were spoken, the meeting hall suddenly became boiling with excitement, and even the Jindan cultivator hiding in the dark raised his head in an instant.

"It's a joke. There are methods in this world to change one's spiritual roots after birth. I have never heard of it before."

"Heh, every few years there are always some idiots who cheat people under the pretext of changing their qualifications, not knowing whether to live or die..."

……

There were mostly sarcastic people in the audience, and obviously no one believed what Wei Zhong said.

At this, Wei Zhong smiled slightly:
"Whether it is true or not, you may wish to read this letter before you decide."

With a wave of his sleeves, dozens of jade slips fell on all the cultivators present, including the Jindan Zhenren.

After everyone used their spiritual sense to check out the limited information, their faces were filled with shock and doubt.

Although the description in the jade slip was extremely brief, it gave everyone hope of possibly recreating their spiritual roots.

“It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not, after all, you haven’t tried this method, so it’s hard to tell whether it’s true or false.

"Well, this method is priced at one mid-grade spirit stone, and it will be considered as a meritorious deed for me.

"You can't buy it and suffer a loss, you can't buy it and you can't be fooled."

Hearing this, there was another uproar. A mid-grade spirit stone was not much different from cabbage price for a foundation-building cultivator.

Even if it was converted into lower-grade spirit stones and created a premium, it would still only be one hundred and twenty lower-grade spirit stones.

Who can't afford this little amount of spiritual stones?

"Could it be that you are from Fuyun Temple?"

The Jindan Zhenren who concealed his cultivation finally stood up and asked Wei Zhong with confusion in his eyes.

Wei Zhong smiled lightly:
"No, I am just an idle spiritual practitioner, and I have no connection with the Yuanying Sect."

The foundation builders in the field all nodded:

“Although this person’s words contain words of merit, he does not seem to care about this title.

"How can Fuyun Temple do good deeds without leaving a name? They want to spread the word to the whole Western Desert to know that it was them who did it..."

"A mid-grade spirit stone. Are there any Taoist friends interested in the secret technique I hold?"

As he spoke, several more jade slips appeared in his hand.

"I'll buy!"

"I'll buy it too!"

……

Spirit stones were thrown from the sidelines, and the jade slip in Wei Zhong's hand also flew out.

In a short while, everyone had a copy of the "Spirit Planting Method".

Wei Zhong smiled, bowed, stepped down, and left the place quickly.

The other monks who obtained the secret technique were no exception and left quickly with a vigilant look.

Before Wei Zhong walked a few blocks, the Jindan cultivator followed him.

"Fellow Taoist, stay!"

Wei Zhong turned around and glanced at him:
"Your low-grade spiritual roots have cultivated to the early stage of Danjie, and you are considered a rare person."

Seeing that he could see through his cultivation and spiritual roots at a glance, Fu Jing was instantly horrified.

"Fellow Daoist, who is..."

“Your acquired spiritual body seems to still be of the earth element, but unfortunately the level is too low and is not enough to support your continued cultivation.

"My "Spirit Planting Method" is just the right thing to solve your current predicament. Why are you bothering me here instead of practicing?"

Wei Zhong flicked his sleeves lightly and blew it a hundred feet away in an instant.

Then he turned around and took a step, and a layer of mist wrapped himself.

Fu Jing suddenly felt that the spiritual power around him was imprisoned and he could not resist. He was extremely shocked:

"Nascent Soul?"

After landing, he immediately flew back to the alley, but unfortunately there was no trace of the master there.

He beat his chest and stamped his feet, realizing that he had missed a great opportunity.

'A senior master who is so generous in teaching his Dharma must be kind-hearted. There might be a chance to become his disciple. What a pity.'

He looked down at the jade slip in his hand.

'If this is true, when my lower-grade spiritual roots enter the middle-grade, it will be the time for me to break through to the middle stage of Jindan.'

With determination in his eyes, he turned and fled towards the distant market.

Wei Zhong walked away leisurely, and with every step of his toes he traveled a hundred feet away.

Several people were chasing him closely from behind, using all kinds of escape methods, but they could only barely see Wei Zhong's back.

"Brother, this person is evil, let's not chase him."

But the leader of the team sneered:
"How can we not chase him? Since this person has obtained this secret method from a secret place, how can he not have profound inheritance and secret treasures?
"If we can get everything from this person, all of us brothers can enter the Jindan stage and Yuanying stage."

"But this person's escape speed is too strange. I'm afraid he is a cultivator who is hiding his abilities!"

"What are you afraid of? I, your boss, am a Jindan, and with the addition of you who are at the foundation building stage, can we still defeat him?"

The leader spoke eloquently, but in his heart he was thinking:

'The Spiritual Planting Method this person brought out only has the earth element part, which is not suitable for my fire spiritual root. He must have other parts of the five elements in his hand, and I must get them.'

Seeing the opportunity to change his own spiritual roots, this person threw away all the caution he had in his previous practice, and his mind was filled with thoughts about the "Spirit Planting Method".

"Brother, I lost him!"

When the few people stopped escaping, the figure of the mysterious monk was nowhere to be seen.

"Are you looking for the poor monk?"

As the words rang in their ears, their faces suddenly tensed and even their breathing stopped for a moment.

"Fellow……"

Before he could finish his words, a line of blood appeared on the necks of the four people.

They formed the first elixir and established the third foundation, but they had no power to resist Wei Zhong at all. They were all killed before they could even finish a sentence.

"You have evil intentions, damn it!"

Black flames appeared in his hand, burning the bodies of several people. He took the storage bag in his hand, and after checking it out, he couldn't help but complain:
"Poor guy!"

Then he dispersed and used his escape technique to return to his rented cave. He met an acquaintance on the street, who came forward enthusiastically:

"Fellow Daoist Luo, you are so happy, but did you find something good?"

The speaker's name is Yuan Jiu, a local foundation builder. His daily hobby is collecting various rare items that are said to have been mined from various secret places in the Western Desert.

Because of this hobby, he is very familiar with many unofficial histories of the Western Desert.

Wei Zhong had just arrived in Western Desert and was not familiar with the place, so he started dealing with them.

"No, I just saw Fairy Yun from Zuixian Tower. She is so beautiful and graceful that I was feasting my eyes."

"Fellow Daoist, you are so lucky. Fairy Yun rarely shows up in the building..."

After chatting with him for a while, Wei Zhong said goodbye and returned to his cave.

The cave was not of high grade, only the second grade. Wei Zhong stepped into the cave and felt the thin spiritual energy, and couldn't help but sigh.

"After cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage, this third-order spiritual land's cave heaven is of little use to my cultivation."

The Nascent Soul realm is comparable to the fourth-tier spiritual land. The three levels below it are unlikely to have much effect on promoting the improvement of Nascent Soul cultivation.

It's OK to use it to restore the spiritual energy in the body, but it's far from enough for cultivation.

During the time Wei Zhong was in the Western Desert, he had been practicing by taking Peiying Pills and Tianye Pills.

There is no other way. The nearby fourth-level spiritual lands are all under the control of Fuyun Temple, and even if they are rented out, the procedures are strict.

How could Wei Zhong, who was trying to hide here, do something like renting a fourth-level cave and expose himself?

Fortunately, I have a lot of spiritual medicines in my hands, so there is an adequate supply of elixirs for cultivation, and my cultivation will not fall too far behind.

He took out a jade slip, which contained the "Spirit Planting Method" that Wei Zhong practiced. After Wei Zhong's further improvement, the Soul Planting Method now added earth and fire attributes on top of the water attribute.

The element released in this transaction is the earth attribute.

"After all, it is a technique to change one's fate. It is thrown out bit by bit to show its rarity so that the monks can trust it.

“As long as there are cultivators who use this method to improve their qualifications and break through their realms, the ‘Spirit Planting Method’ will surely become famous. In the future, there will be no need to resort to such troublesome methods as trade fairs to promote the method. We can directly scatter the engraved jade slips of the method in the market.”

After all, the world of cultivation is as vulgar as the human world, and the idea that cheap goods are not good is always firmly entrenched in the minds of cultivators.

This is also the reason why Wei Zhong priced the jade slip at a mid-grade spirit stone.

No one cares about cheap goods, but no one cares about expensive goods either.

According to Lei Long, the more difficult it is for a cultivator to obtain this item, the less luck power will come to Wei Zhong.

That's why Wei Zhong decided the price of a mid-grade spirit stone.

Carefully pondering the "Spirit Planting Method", Wei Zhong murmured:

"The Soul Planting Method, which requires the help of one's own magical treasure, is still too limited after all. If its scope can be expanded, it will truly be a method of changing one's destiny that can be used by everyone. Even mortals will have the opportunity to embark on the path of cultivation."

After Wei Zhong was promoted to Nascent Soul stage, the speed of his deducing methods was greatly improved. In just one year, the "Spirit Planting Method" expanded from simple water to water, fire, and earth.

Even wood and metal have shown some signs of improvement.

"Take your time. Sooner or later, this "Spirit Planting Method" will be perfected in my hands."

……

While Wei Zhong was relaxing in the cave, Xianyue Mansion was in an uproar.

“I don’t know if it was because that cultivator was careless and didn’t impose an unreplicable restriction on the jade slip, nor did he make a promise with the cultivator he traded with that he would not teach the technique privately.

"Now this technique has spread throughout the Xianyue Prefecture. I only spent fifty low-grade spirit stones to get a copy from my good friend."

"What? You actually spent fifty spirit stones. You can buy one with ten spirit stones from Meiyuan Pavilion."

"I only spent five spirit stones..."

"..."

Various discussions about the spirit cultivation method instantly spread throughout Xianyue Prefecture.

As the local snake, Fuyun Temple naturally got the news. Kong Jue looked at the rubbings of "Spirit Planting Method" presented by the temple disciples and praised them repeatedly:

"Miao miao miao!"

The disciples asked in surprise:

"Uncle Master, is this method true?"

Kong Jue shook his head:
"I have never practiced it, how can I know whether it is true or not?"

"Then why?"

"This method attempts to return to the innate state and use the life magic weapon to bless the spiritual roots of the cultivator. It can be said to be a fantastic idea. It is the most likely method to change the spiritual roots that I have seen. It is most likely to be true.

"But even if this method is fake, it is enough to fetch thousands of mid-grade spirit stones at a large auction. Why has it spread so widely?"

The disciple answered:

“According to the cultivator who spread this method, it was to earn some merit, and the initial selling price was even only one mid-grade spirit stone.

"Even the jade slips used to transmit the Dharma have no restrictions at all, which is why the secret Dharma is worthless."

Kong Jue smiled on his wrinkled face:
"Merit? Are you from the same sect as my Fuyun Temple? That's wishful thinking."

After saying this, he stood up:
“Pass it on. This ‘Spirit Planting Method’ was spread by me, a disciple of Fuyun Temple, hiding my identity.

“Gather the disciples in the temples and hold incense-burning ceremonies in each temple. We must do our best to publicize this matter and make it a reality.

"Since that fellow Taoist has concealed his identity, then I, Fuyun Temple, will accept this merit and good fortune without hesitation."

After saying this, he was about to leave the hall and fly away. His disciples hurriedly chased after him:

"Uncle Master, this Ten Thousand Incense Burner?"

But I only heard a voice:
"Just take care of this thing. If someone comes to take it, you can give it up. The most important thing is the incense meeting."

When he looked up, he could no longer see his uncle-master.

He shook his head and immediately summoned the disciples in the temple to prepare for the incense ceremony.

The departing Kong Jue was secretly delighted:
"What a great opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Someone actually spread this heaven-defying method. It's simply to collect luck for my Fuyun Temple.

"The precious lotus in the temple has another chance to grow. The fortune that can be brought about by a secret method of forging spiritual roots after birth is not comparable to the complicated wishes of the Ten Thousand Incense Burner."

Thinking of this, Kong Jue trembled all over.

“Bao Lian is blessed by this power of destiny. Doesn’t this mean that our Fuyun Temple will have a chance to take off?
“Even if it’s me, I may be able to break through to the middle stage of Nascent Soul with the blessing.

"We must quickly discuss with the brothers in the temple to confirm the matter of the "Spirit Planting Method" and use the precious lotus to completely seize this luck."

Fuyun Temple is already familiar with this kind of despicable tactics.

Three months later, Wei Zhong came out again to spread the fire part of "Spirit Planting Method".

However, I heard that this method has become the signature spiritual method of Fuyun Temple to benefit all living beings.

Fuyun Temple held many incense-burning ceremonies to promote the "Spirit Planting Method", and there were even many times when Nascent Soul cultivators came forward to personally explain this method.

Wei Zhong had a strange look on his face, and his spiritual consciousness was connected to the "Record of Time".

"You said that as long as I spread the Dharma, I don't need a name, and the power of luck will find me?

"Then does this Fuyun Temple, which uses the mouths of sentient beings to claim to be the source of the Dharma, have any influence on me?"

Lei Long fiddled with the chains on his body:
“It’s okay. The power of destiny is extremely mysterious. If you want to snatch it from the mouth of the true spirit of the law, you must have the power of an immortal.

"This temple will be blamed for its rashness in seizing the fortune."

(End of this chapter)