Ziwei Immortal Path

Chapter 37 Ten Morals
Three months later.

【Purple Star Fate Palace】

Wang Lingguan and Zhao Lingguan each stood at the palace gate, and several small, glittering objects floated in the air seven feet in front of Zhao Lingguan's chest.

Two jade slips emitting green light, a snowflake wrapped in black wind, a breeze carrying water vapor, and a mass of dark, wriggling mud.

"It's only been a short time, and he's already received three strands of heaven and earth spiritual energy. This Condensation Stage sword technique is needless to say, but where did he get this Huangting Stage sword technique? Brother, are you sure this is a Huangting Stage sword technique?"

Zhao Lingguan stared at the spiritual objects in the air. Although he looked at them for a long time, he was still surprised and it was unbelievable. He couldn't help but ask again.

Wang Lingguan glanced at him with disdain, blew his beard and did not respond to him.

The two spiritual officials had been discussing the issue of Huangting swordsmanship for a long time, a full three months, as they had nothing to do anyway.

"Brother, aren't you curious? First, he has no family, second, no master, and third, he hasn't joined an immortal sect. Where did he get the Huangting Sword Technique?"

"luck!"

After a long time, Wang Ling finally uttered two words.

"Are you that lucky?"

Zhao Lingguan dismissed this excuse, which he had heard many times.
"I'm afraid someone has evil intentions!"

"There's no need for us to discuss this issue any further. It's just a Huangting sword technique, not a Zifu magical power. Is there any need to make a fuss?"

Wang Lingguan's expression was indifferent, and he could not tell whether he was happy or angry. He stared at the three spiritual energies floating in the air and said,
"I just can't understand why he would go out and collect spiritual energy without even opening the [Migration Palace]. This is truly unbelievable."

"Well..."

Zhao Lingguan waved his sleeves and imitated the words:
"luck!"

Wang Lingguan glanced at him again with a look of contempt. His eyes were sharp, like a knife or a sword. He blew his beard as if he wanted to fight with him.

"If you don't believe me, just wait and see. This kid is probably having some adventure."

Zhao Lingguan laughed, stroked his mustache, and lifted his belt, looking gloating.

"It's only been a few years, and he already has the Huangting Sword Technique. I wonder how long you can fool him with your Huangting Dao-breaking Technique!"

"Humph!"

Wang Lingguan sneered and said coldly:

"It's been a long time since he came in, don't you have any idea? He's a small cultivator without any sect or school. This scripture is at least the Huangting Dao method, which is enough for him to practice for a hundred years! Now he's practicing this [Shanyin Night Snow], and we don't even know if he can establish his foundation? Why is he still worrying about the Huangting!"

"He's still quite obedient right now. If he ends up disobeying, can't stand the loneliness, and jealously enters the sect, and is discovered by the Purple Mansion, I'm afraid he'll die even faster. That would be another catastrophe, and you and I might both be doomed!"

"Brother, you are really smart!" Zhao Lingguan gave a thumbs up and praised.

"Don't you think about it, is the current Dao Sect still a Dao Sect? If he really didn't rely on the sect and cultivated to the Huangting, he would have unlocked at least half of the palaces above."

Wang Lingguan frowned, glanced upwards, and said coldly,
"Who among those in the palace isn't an important figure? Do you and I need to worry about the opening of the palaces?"

"When the time comes, he can rely on this [Purple Star Fate Palace] to establish a sect, join the game, prosper, and reorganize the Taoist world. Wouldn't that be a piece of cake?"

"Hey…"

Zhao Lingguan sighed softly, looked up at the vast starry sky with his hands behind his back, and said softly,

"Over the years, many people have picked up this [Purple Star Fate Palace], but who has the last laugh? Now that the heavenly order has collapsed and everything needs to be rebuilt, I'm afraid our efforts will have been in vain."

"Humph!"

Wang Lingguan snorted, "It's fate. Since we've picked up this palace, it's his fate, not ours!"

At this moment, the clouds in the starry sky suddenly changed, and both of them were shocked when they saw it.

"Oh no! I can't even say anything! Here comes this brat!"

Zhao Lingguan's face changed, and he said hurriedly, "Brother, he shouldn't be reaching the sixth level of Condensation Realm that soon. I'm afraid he has saved up enough spirit stones to buy some Taoist magic. Let's quickly agree on how much you want to sell this time."

"Ten points of morality!"

Wang Lingguan waved his sleeves and walked straight into the palace, saying coldly, "Everyone, take your positions!"

"One hundred spirit stones?"

Zhao Lingguan lowered his head and muttered to himself, while walking into the palace,
"Is it a little less? But last time it seemed like there was only a little bit of morality, and it increased tenfold, so it's about right."

He had just stood there for a moment when he saw Xu Boyang running up excitedly. He smiled and pinched his beard and said:
"Xu family boy, long time no see!"

Xu Boyang bowed and said, "Hello, Officer Zhao!"

Zhao Lingguan's eyes rolled, and he immediately found that the boy's bag was bulging and almost full. After counting carefully, he found that there were 478 spirit stones in it, and three Yuqing spirit stones!
"You... haven't even reached the sixth level of Condensation yet, what are you doing here?"

Zhao Lingguan could hardly take his eyes off the sight of so many spirit stones.

"Replying to the Spirit Officer, I encountered some opportunities and earned some spirit stones. I can't use the storage bag now, so I might as well exchange them for some virtues, and then exchange them for a more advanced Taoist method." Xu Boyang said respectfully with a smile on his face.

"Well, not bad, you have some skills!"

Zhao Lingguan nodded with satisfaction and said, "The next Taoist method will require two hundred spirit stones."

"Two hundred spirit stones?"

Xu Boyang was a little surprised and said, "I just asked Lord Wang Lingguan, and he said it was ten points of morality, which should be one hundred spirit stones. Did Lord Zhao Lingguan remember it wrong?"

"Uh...right...I remembered it wrongly."

Zhao Lingguan smiled and nodded, cursing inwardly, "This brat seems to have gotten smarter. He even knew to go find my senior brother first. This senior brother is really talking nonsense. Isn't it him who decides the selling price? He'll die if he charges more!"

Seeing him carefully count the spirit stones, holding them in both hands, he sighed and took them, then transformed them into ten morality fruits and gave them to him.

Xu Boyang went there happily.

Seeing that he had no chance of getting such a large pile of spirit stones, Zhao Lingguan unconsciously smacked his lips, looking as if he had lost all hope in life.

Xu Boyang opened his eyes. At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged on the couch in the backyard of Fengqing Chamber of Commerce in Dongke Town.

Looking at the crystal clear emerald jade slip in his hand, he was secretly excited:

"It turns out it's only a hundred spirit stones, but I couldn't bear to part with it before going to Xinyue Lake." On the day of Grain Rain, around noon, Fei Wenyu landed on the south bank of Xinyue Lake in a flying shuttle. He timed it very accurately and missed a big battle.

After Chen Baochong left, Xu Boyang went to Chen's house and went straight to find Old Man Chen. He asked for the address of Chen's eldest son and went to Wuyin Town.

When his eldest son heard this, he was furious and quickly notified the second son. He then took his family, servants and Xu Boyang and rushed back on fast horses. Along the way, Xu Boyang told them the whole story and returned the letter.

When everyone returned to their hometown and saw Huang's body, they sighed again and the whole family cried bitterly.

Xu Boyang felt uncomfortable. Looking at the sky, he said goodbye and went to the lake to meet Fei Wenyu.

Not long after he arrived, Fei Wenyu's shuttle also arrived.

Seeing that Xu Boyang looked unwell and seemed injured, Fei Wenyu was curious and asked him about it.

Xu Boyang sighed and gave a brief account of the situation. A water monster attacked from the south bank, and Huang Ting Yu Shi killed the monster with one sword. Fei Wenyu was stunned by what he heard.

Of course, Xu Boyang would not talk about such important things as Qi Fuling teaching Huangting swordsmanship, nor would he mention Chen Baochong's family affairs.

This is someone else's family affair and private matter, so naturally it cannot be mentioned.

After hearing this, Fei Wenyu realized that the [Qingyuan] was actually the sword of Yu Shi, and that the other party had also given Xu Boyang a brand new foundation-building magic weapon. He was truly envious and jealous.

When he looked at [Biyouxian], his eyes lit up and he said:

"Boyang, this is no ordinary sword, it's [Biyouxian]!"

"This sword is quite famous. It seems to have been made by a famous master in Nanhuai, but I can't quite remember which one. There aren't many of these swords made, and they're rare. It's a sister sword to the other one, called Floating South Flame. It's ridiculously expensive, costing over a thousand spirit stones. It's considered a top-tier foundation-building weapon!"

"[Floating Southern Flame]?"

Xu Boyang listened to it secretly. The name sounded like a magical weapon from the [Lihuo] lineage.

The more Fei Wenyu looked at it, the more distressed he felt. The sword was originally collected by him and he sold it to Xu Boyang for ninety spirit stones. However, Xu Boyang got lucky and exchanged it for a top-grade magic weapon worth more than a thousand spirit stones. For a moment, he felt regretful and envious, and he wished he could slap himself twice.

The two of them got on the shuttle while chatting. They had a safe journey and returned to Dongke Town in more than two hours. After Xu Boyang and Fei Wenyu said goodbye, they returned to the Fengqing branch in Fengwei Village.

Xu Boyang was not in a hurry to go back. He had obtained a lot of things this time and needed to go to the ghost market to deal with them. In addition, three months had passed and the time for his appointment with Zi Yi had come again. Moreover, although he had gained a lot of benefits during this trip to Xinyue Lake, he was injured after all and needed to recuperate for a while.

So he stayed in Fengwei Village and asked the escort team to take a letter to Xu Shaoliang to inform him that he had returned safely. After waiting all night, Ziyi still did not show up, and Xu Boyang sighed inwardly.

In a blink of an eye, three months passed. The injury had long been healed, and the [Blood Red Sword] was also successfully dealt with. It was sold for two hundred spirit stones, which was very expensive among the magical instruments in the Nascent Soul stage.

As for the jade pendant, Xu Boyang heard that there was a formation inside it. He recalled that it was probably the formation he saw those wandering cultivators use to trap people that night. It was very useful, so he didn't plan to sell it. It would be nice to take it back for his family to use.

Xu Boyang picked out some useless pills from the confiscated pills according to the "Shao Yuan Dan Ding Notes" and sold them. In the end, he got nearly 300 spirit stones by combining them with the sword. Together with the more than 150 spirit stones he had on him and the three Yuqing spirit stones given to him by Chen Baochong, he had enough spirit stones in an instant.

However, if I continue to extract gas in the next step, the consumption will still be very high and I cannot waste too much.

And he suddenly discovered the record of Yunlingdan in the unfinished "Shao Yuan Dan Ding Notes":

"It is mainly used to guide the Qi and soul in the Condensation Stage of our family. It can also be used by the ancient Liang scholars in the northern border to break through the soul."

He naturally didn't care about the "ancient scholar from the northern border". What he cared about was what "attracting qi and condensing spirit in the Condensation Period" was. Unfortunately, the book did not describe it.

After reading it, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He couldn't join the immortal sect, couldn't worship a master, and what he learned was too difficult. Thinking about the fact that he had so many spirit stones at the moment, he might as well go to the [Purple Star Fate Palace] first.

I asked the spiritual official to buy me a new advanced Taoist book. The previous one, "Tianhao Daoqi Changshuo Jingzhu", was an introduction, but it did not introduce issues such as "Three Gates of Divine Yuan", "Leading the Spirit into Yuan", and "Gathering the Spirit to Cultivate Yuan". I guess it was because the book was incomplete.

His subsequent practice still requires the support of Taoism, and he can't ask Fei Wenyu about everything. Besides, Xu Boyang heard Fei Wenyu say that the matters of Qi gathering and even subsequent practice are different for each family, and they are all very secretive. He can't ask about it casually, nor can he tell others about it casually, so as to avoid being targeted by people with ulterior motives.

Since he couldn't ask, he could only rely on the spiritual officer in the [Purple Star Fate Palace]. Fortunately, the price was not expensive. This higher-level Taoist method cost only a hundred spirit stones, which was within Xu Boyang's psychological tolerance.

If there are more than two hundred, I'm afraid I'll have to wait until I reach the sixth level of Condensation before considering it.

There is no other way. Cultivation is a form of consumption. Now his two major financial backers have disappeared. Although he made a lot of money on this trip to Xinyue Lake, stagnant water cannot withstand scooping. Xu Boyang understands this principle clearly.

Xu Boyang held the new Taoist method he had exchanged in his hands, and couldn't wait to clench his hands, concentrating and holding his breath, wondering what advanced Taoist method he had exchanged this time.

A green light flashed, the jade slip disappeared, and then there was a loud bang in the head!
Eight big golden characters appeared in my mind one by one!

"Tianhao Daoqi's Commentary on the Sutra"!
Then, a series of small characters and some pictures of human acupuncture points appeared, swaying and rippling like the bright moon in the water.

"what's the situation?"

"Does Tianhao Daoqi often expound on the sutras and commentaries?"

Xu Boyang almost thought he had made a mistake. He couldn't help but open his eyes and looked down at the palm of his hand. The jade slip had disappeared. After confirming that it was correct, he quickly closed his eyes again.

"Why is there another copy of Tianhao Daoqi's Commentary on the Scriptures? Are there no other scriptures?"

But despite his thoughts, Xu Boyang still did not dare to be careless and read silently. After a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and thought:

"Fortunately, it's different from the Tianhao Daoqi Changshuo Jingzhu. I was so scared that I thought Wang Lingguan gave it to the wrong person. If I go back to him without the jade slip, I'm afraid he'll turn his back on me. It seems that this scripture is a step-by-step process and can't be mastered overnight. It has to be approached step by step."

After thinking about it, I began to read it carefully, and unexpectedly it took me a whole day and night to read it.

As Xu Boyang read, his expression became increasingly serious. When he finished, he was horrified and his face changed drastically. He thought to himself:

"It turns out that after completing the fifth level of Condensation Yuan, one still needs to draw Qi and gather spirit to generate spiritual consciousness. After reaching the sixth level of Condensation Yuan and cultivating spiritual consciousness, one can then break through the three levels of Divine Yuan one by one. Each time a level is broken, one can break through a level, and finally reach the ninth level. After the ninth level, one needs to draw the spirit into the Yuan to successfully build the foundation!"

I was stunned for a moment. What Ding Tianshi said that night was too general and broad, and he didn't get to the point at all. I didn't expect there would be so many twists and turns afterwards.

The most important thing in this process of attracting qi and nourishing the spirit is the Soul-Nourishing Pill, which can greatly increase the speed of nourishing the spirit.

For the next three levels of Shenyuan, you need to take a Peiyuan Pill every time you break through a level to strengthen your foundation and prevent yourself from falling back.

After finally attracting the divine essence and laying the foundation for immortality, the most important thing is the matching "Shenyuan Pill". Whatever spiritual energy you cultivate must be blessed with the corresponding "Shenyuan Pill", otherwise it will be difficult to lay the foundation.

"Shenyuan Pill? What is that? Why does it sound so familiar?"

Xu Boyang seemed to have heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

He took the "Shao Yuan Dan Ding Notes" and searched over and over again, but after searching for nearly an hour, he couldn't find any records about "Shen Yuan Dan"!

Thanks to EricWSC for the tip!

It seems that not many people like Qi Fuling’s portrait, so I will make a new one.

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