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

Chapter 239: The Mystery of the Treasure Record, Unraveling the Family Karma

Wei Zhong had also thought about this question before.

After all, it is really difficult to understand why a rare treasure from the time side would actively detain a true spirit of thunder and lightning.

Looking at the lightning patterns on the pages, Wei Zhong asked Lei Long curiously:

"You can see this rune."

The Thunder Dragon stretched his neck, his vision changed, and he saw the runes on the back.

There was thought and hesitation in his eyes:
"It looks a bit like the embryonic form of a Dao Seed, but it's different. It seems to be more severely incomplete, and it's hard to consider it as part of a Dao Seed. It's very similar to your magic patterns."

Wei Zhong was a little surprised when he heard this, and the rune technique of the Black Water Spirit Robe automatically condensed in his hands. Sure enough, the "Record of Time" underwent a change at this moment.

The book turned and a new page appeared. The rune floating in the void seemed to be attracted by something and moved closer to the page.

It splits and reconstructs above the page, forming discontinuous fracture lines that fall in every corner of the page.

"This……"

Wei Zhong tried other spells again, and finally found that no rune could have such a reaction.

"Could it be that it is too severely damaged to be noticed by this treasure record?"

The Black Water Spiritual Robe is a second-level magic technique, which is not comparable to the first-level magic that Wei Zhong had practiced before.

"The Golden Flame?"

A flame lit up in Wei Zhong's hand, but unfortunately the "Record of Time" still did not react.

"Aren't the fire seeds formed by magic included in this category? The same goes for the thunder seeds of the Sky-Splitting Divine Thunder. But today's Sky-Splitting Divine Thunder is not an ordinary thunder seed."

Lightning flashed in the palm of his hand, and the silver lightning carried the power of a heavenly calamity.

"Squeak, squeak, it turns out that the thunder seed with the power of thunder tribulation is strong. After absorbing the power of heavenly thunder, this thunder seed has already opened up its own upper limit. If there are other opportunities in the future, it may be possible to be promoted again.

"And it's also a powerful weapon for fighting against enemies."

Lei Long looked at the lightning in Wei Zhong's palm from afar, with admiration in his eyes.

"As a true spirit of the lightning law, do you still look down on such a small fourth-level lightning seed?"

Wei Zhong picked up the lightning bolt and played with it like a bead.

The latter coughed twice:
"That's not the case. This type of lightning is absolutely top-notch in the human world, and even in the spirit world it is one of the lightning types with the greatest growth potential.

“If it can be successfully cultivated, even Mahayana cultivators will be jealous when they see it.

"At this moment, it is a very good means for you, my Lord, to fight against the enemy."

Wei Zhong nodded, and the lightning in his hand disappeared.

Then he lowered his head and glanced at his Nascent Soul, muttering:
“I didn’t expect that after possessing the Nascent Soul, the fourth-level Lightning Tempering Spirit would be like this.”

It is recorded in the jade slips of the technique that if one does not practice spiritual techniques at the same time, this step of tempering the spirit will become a true tempering of the soul.

Refine your own spiritual will into the physical body and achieve true unity of spirit and flesh.

Every move of these cultivators will carry their own spiritual will, forming a triple blow of spirit, energy and soul.

But Wei Zhong was different at this time. He traced the soul tempering back to the Nascent Soul, which made the spiritual Nascent Soul undergo a transformation. Now the Nascent Soul itself is different from the traditional spiritual Nascent Soul.

"The Tempering Gang Method at most helped me put on a layer of clothes, but this Seven Apertures Thunder Technique has changed the essence of my Nascent Soul."

Wei Zhong shook his head. Such a change was beyond his expectations.

"In the spiritual world, are there any cultivators like me?"

Lei Long stroked his dragon whiskers and shook his head slowly:

"Yes, but not much!"

Wei Zhong was surprised:

"Why? Those who practice both magic and body should be much stronger."

Lei Long explained calmly:
"It is true that practicing both the Dharma and the physical body will make one slightly stronger in terms of combat power than practicing only the spiritual or physical body. But this is achieved at the cost of a large amount of resources and time spent practicing."

After coughing twice, he continued:
“After all, not everyone has the help of my true spirit, which is enough to improve physical cultivation to this extent within a hundred years.

"Physical cultivation requires just as much time as spiritual cultivation, and even more resources.

"It is far less cost-effective to cultivate one path at a time than to cultivate both paths at the same time. An ordinary person can reach the late fourth stage by cultivating both paths, but if he had spent the time on just one path, he might have already entered the fifth stage.

"Compared like this, those who practice both are exchanging resources and lifespan for combat power. If they are gifted, it's not a big deal, but if not, I'm afraid that this will cut off their path to immortality.

"And no matter whether it is physical cultivation or spiritual cultivation, the ultimate goal is the power of law. The two are different paths to the same destination. Ordinary people will naturally choose one path to reach the end."

Wei Zhong stroked his chin and asked:

"You have been talking about physical cultivation and spiritual cultivation for so long, why didn't you mention the path of soul cultivation?"

Lei Long raised his head, closed his eyes and shook his head:

"Of course it's because the path of soul cultivation is not suitable in Mingyu Realm. Mingyu is one of the spiritual realms under the Immortal Realm, which is suitable for both spiritual and physical cultivation. The two are evenly matched.

"But soul cultivation is different. It's hard to say whether it can account for even one ten-thousandth of the total. This is determined by the underlying rules of the world and cannot be changed. Perhaps there are still some realms that are suitable for soul cultivation, but I am not familiar with them."

Wei Zhong recalled the inner demon from the Demon Realm and the real demon world above it. Is there a part of the path of the soul that is unique to the underlying rules of both worlds?

"No matter what, I hope you can make plans early. It's fine to practice at a low level, but when you reach the realm of refining emptiness, you need to consider your own practice direction, whether it's physical practice or spiritual practice. Lightning or time or other laws that may be involved.

"Human energy and even life span are limited after all. It is too much of a stretch to advance on multiple paths simultaneously."

"Then let's wait until after refining the Void to discuss it!"

Wei Zhong closed the "Record of Time" calmly. It was still a bit early for him to think so much at this moment.

Now that chaos is imminent, try to improve your strength in many aspects.

It was too strange that the demons were hiding in the passage and not coming out. Even though Wei Zhong couldn't see the reason, he had to make preparations for any eventuality.

Returning to the perspective of the physical body, Wei Zhong walked out of the cave and returned to the Yunxiao Mountains.

The disciples of the Chamber of Commerce have been dealing with the damaged buildings and formations in various places in Lingshan. Unfortunately, their skills are limited. They can only repair some low-level formations and have no way to deal with the mountain protection formation.

Xie Linghua saw Wei Zhong appear and came forward:

"Master, I have already notified Sister Ling to return to Yunzhou City..."

As a magic circle set up by Ling Ziwei herself, it naturally has the means to repair itself.

"The Yunji Chamber of Commerce saw a strange phenomenon. Did anyone come to inquire about it?"

Such a big commotion, much more powerful than Wei Zhong's original sword strike, would naturally cause more unrest.

"During the meeting, Elder Du sent a disciple from the palace to inquire, but I sent him away on the pretext that the master had nothing to do. The same was true for other curious inquirers..."

"Yes, from now on, you and Ziwei will have to take care of all the affairs of Lingshan together. I will need some time to consolidate my physical cultivation. The spiritual stones I need..." As the housekeeper, Xie Linghua is already familiar with these matters:

"Yes, sir!"

After escaping back to the training room, Wei Zhong sat cross-legged, sometimes practicing the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art", and sometimes sensing the "Seven Aperture Thunder Art". Looking at the progress bar on the panel, he finally confirmed that the Nascent Soul after the mutation would not affect his spiritual path, and he felt relieved.

[The Taoism of Time] is Wei Zhong's most important means of protecting himself, but it is all thanks to the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Art".

If we lose this method because of a small method of body refining, we would be picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

The entry of "Seven Aperture Thunder Art" into the fourth stage was a small episode in Wei Zhong's journey of cultivation. When Shan Qin and others heard about it, they all came to congratulate and praised Wei Zhong's outstanding talent in thunder magic.

At this point, Wei Zhong could only smile and say frankly that he was made up of accumulated resources and was nothing.

But just a few months after Wei Zhong entered the fourth stage of body refining, Shan Gu finally returned to the Yunji Chamber of Commerce with a look of disappointment.

After hearing that Wei Zhong had practiced the "Seven Aperture Thunder Power" to the fourth level, he couldn't help being surprised and hurried to Yunxiao Lingshan where Wei Zhong was.

Wei Zhong was also somewhat surprised by the arrival of this single meeting leader.

The two of them sat in a pavilion in the mountains, and Shan Gu's eyes were filled with admiration:

"In more than a hundred years, I have practiced this body-refining method from scratch to the fourth level. How will those old guys who have been practicing body-refining for hundreds of years think?"

Wei Zhong didn't know who the yin and yang in his words were.

In Yunzhou City, only the grandparents and grandchildren of the Wang family meet these conditions.

Wei Zhong's progress is naturally much faster than those two.

He asked aloud:
"I wonder which one is stronger, the Seven Apertures Thunder Art or the Wang family's Body Forging Technique?"

Upon hearing this, Shan Gu blew a breath and raised his newly grown beard:

"How can the 'Body Forging Technique' that the old man from the Wang family cultivated compare with the 'Seven Apertures Thunder Art'? I won't hide it from you. This art is a legacy from the upper realms and is considered one of the top body-refining methods in this realm."

Wei Zhong was not surprised by Shan Gu's words. He just replied as if he had realized something: "No wonder!"

"Haha, the Seven Apertures Thunder Art is a rare treasure among the arts I collected at the Yunji Chamber of Commerce. It has been found. It seems that fellow Taoist is very lucky."

Wei Zhong laughed and attributed the credit to Miaoli Shan who had chosen the martial arts for him.

"No matter what, it is Brother Wei who has mastered this skill to the fourth level. So, there is one more thing that I need Brother Wei to help with."

Wei Zhong's eyes showed doubt, and then he heard Shan Gu continue to ask questions:
"Does Daoist friend know the origin of this technique?"

Wei Zhong recalled what Du Longfeng said:

"Most of the skills in our Chamber of Commerce seem to be acquired through the exchange of contribution points from various independent practitioners in the cultivation world, or obtained through the exploration of some secret realms."

Shan Gu nodded slowly:

"Most of the techniques are indeed like this, but this Seven Aperture Thunder Technique is different. It comes from one of the founders of our Yunji Chamber of Commerce, Jie Yuanrui."

"It's actually Senior Jie!"

He never expected that his alchemy skills would be helped by this person, and even the body-refining method he practiced was related to him.

"Brother Jie comes from a large cultivation family in the Polar Star Sea, and the family inheritance is based on this "Seven Aperture Thunder Art"."

After hearing this, Wei Zhong became even more confused:
"But I clearly heard that Senior Jie is a Nascent Soul spiritual practitioner. Could it be that he is practicing both the Dharma and the Body like me?"

Shan Gu shook his head slightly:

"Although Brother Jie is incredibly talented, he shouldn't be practicing two different paths at the same time."

At this point, he could not help but glance at Wei Zhong. The man in front of him was practicing both arts at the same time, and had made remarkable achievements in both alchemy and weapon refining, and his talent was even greater than that of Brother Jie.

"It is a spiritual method practiced within the clan. As for the Seven Apertures Thunder Art, it was brought out from the clan."

'The most important body-refining method in the clan was brought out like this, and was even sold and spread in a chamber of commerce. It seems that this senior Jie has a lot of say in the clan!

"But why would such a person stay in the family of Polar Star Sea instead of traveling across the ocean to Yunzhou City and establish the Yunji Chamber of Commerce with Shan Gu?"

As if seeing the doubt in Wei Zhong's eyes, Shan Gu slowly explained:

“Although the Xie family holds the Seven Apertures Thunder Art as the most respected, few people have cultivated it to the fourth level. Even Brother Xie is only in the late third level and has not been able to reach the fourth level, so he had to switch to spiritual cultivation.

"This situation has lasted for thousands of years within the Xie family. Today, the Xie family has almost abandoned this body-refining technique and has completely turned to spiritual techniques.

“However, as the inherited method of the Xie family, this skill still holds a great status in the Xie family.

“Fellow Daoist Wei was able to cultivate to the fourth level, and he and Brother Jie have some master-disciple relationship, so his relationship with the Jie family is naturally much closer.

"If Fellow Daoist Wei is going to take action, you can invite the Xie family to come and help us."

Wei Zhong was puzzled by the danger of such a demonic disaster. As the place where Xie Yuanrui was born, the Xie family must be a Yuanying family, right? Why were they so pedantic about such a matter concerning the survival of the world, and they even needed someone to be specially invited?

"I went to the Jie family this time, but I returned empty-handed..."

"How strong is the Xie family?" Wei Zhong asked curiously.

"Three Yuanyings and one Shenhua."

"There is actually a Divine Transformation cultivator!"

A look of surprise was evident on his face.

Shan Gu's expression was extremely reluctant:

"He is indeed a Divine Transformation cultivator, but he is also the kind that is about to reach the end of his lifespan. Moreover, the Xie family has a lack of successors, and the lower-level Divine Transformation cultivator may not be able to wait for a thousand years.

"The Xie family's ancestor was thinking about the survival of the family, but he didn't take the demonic disaster seriously. After all, those demons haven't completely rushed out of the Demonic Eye yet."

"So the red beard blocked the magic eye and it was broken?"

Wei Zhong shook his head secretly in his heart.

Thinking about what Shan Gu said, Wei Zhong felt hesitant.

Wei Zhong didn't care whether the Xie family could send out troops. After all, his own fighting power might be almost the same as that of the entire Xie family.

Once he breaks through to the late Nascent Soul stage, he can even be regarded as a cultivator in the late Spirit Transformation stage.

The most urgent task is to improve one's own cultivation instead of wasting time trying to persuade some old stubborn people.

Just as he was about to refuse, Shan Gu suddenly said:
"I'd like to ask you to consider this matter carefully, Brother Wei. I have something important to attend to, so I'll leave now."

After leaving these words, he left in a hurry, as if he had something urgent to do.

Wei Zhong looked at the direction it fled in, which was not the Yunji Mountains, but the west where the Demon Eye was.

"Once we return to Yunzhou City, we will go to the Demon Eye and be summoned by the God Transformation?"

Sigh:
"Maybe I really can't avoid this job."

(End of this chapter)