Immortality and Cultivation: I Have Too Many Talents

Chapter 101 Know Yourself and Your Enemy (10,000-word update, please subscribe)

Shen Xuan's heart was pounding wildly.

The shadow of death loomed over him, making him restless.

It simply revealed three seemingly masterful water techniques.

It has actually attracted the covetousness of a hypocrite like Master Qingyuan from a sect!

It's different from the White Star River of yesteryear.

Master Qingyuan is at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and his strength is even greater!

Moreover, he was a water-based foundation cultivator.

[Water-repelling Technique] Completed.

Their strength should not be underestimated.

Shen Xuan genuinely didn't want to deal with these Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Everyone wanted to take advantage of him.

Unless he is extremely powerful, no matter how much precautions he takes, there will always be someone lurking in the shadows coveting him.

Shen Xuan sighed softly and took the spirit stones out of his storage bag.

More than 57,000 spirit stones were displayed on the table, sparkling and quite a sight to behold.

Shen Xuan counted them: 57,321.

After counting, Shen Xuan put the spirit stones back into his storage bag, and then he felt a little relieved.

"Refine your spirit! [Purchase the Water Condensation Technique] and the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Water Spirit Condensation Technique to quickly improve your strength!"

Only strength can truly put Shen Xuan at ease!

Two months later.

In the practice room.

Shen Xuan made a hand seal and sat cross-legged.

Three feet in front of him floated the chilling Azure Water Sword.

At this time, the Azure Water Sword was different from before.

The sword light was chilling, and the sword energy was like a rainbow.

Its quality has been significantly improved to the point where it resembles a magical artifact.

"Three thousand spirit stones! Worth the money!"

Shen Xuan found the best weapon-refining workshop in Yunyuan Immortal City and invited the best second-tier weapon-refining master. It took a month to successfully temper the Azure Water Sword.

Not only that.

Shen Xuan also specially ordered a sword case, which cost two thousand spirit stones.

This is the best sword case in the weapon-refining workshop, with a built-in sword-nurturing formation that can enhance the grade of flying swords.

The effect is better than that of a cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment nurturing their energy in their dantian.

Shen Xuan has not yet established his foundation.

Unable to store the nascent Biyue Sword into his dantian.

I might as well use the sword-nurturing formation in the sword box to nurture it.

Replacing a mid-grade spirit stone with a new one every month is quite expensive.

Fortunately, he doesn't lack spirit stones now.

It's affordable enough.

Moreover, with his current spiritual power and consciousness, he can barely control the Azure Water Sword in its rudimentary form, making it much more powerful than when it was at its highest grade.

In places like the East China Sea or the Longze River, where water is abundant, it would be more than enough, allowing one to act with ease and control.

By tempering the spirit in advance to form the prototype of the magic weapon, it can be completed naturally when the foundation is established.

Use the spiritual fire from the foundation-building stage to nurture it into a natal magic weapon.

The longer it is nurtured, the greater its power.

……

a few days later.

The VIP reception room on the seventh floor of Tianxiang Pavilion in Yunyuan Immortal City.

"Fellow Daoist, what kind of information are you looking to purchase?"

The master of Tianxiang Pavilion, who was in the Foundation Establishment stage, greeted Shen Xuan with a smile.

"I want to know information about the talisman master Shen Xuan."

Shen Xuan, disguised as an old Taoist priest, spoke slowly.

Now, he has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and has mastered the [Invisibility Technique] and [Breath Concealment Technique].

It was enough to conceal one's aura and deceive even a cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

"Oh! Talisman Master Shen Xuan, quite a few people have been paying attention to him lately!"

The Pavilion Master of Tianxiang Pavilion remarked with emotion.

"Eight hundred spirit stones."

"So expensive?"

Shen Xuan feigned surprise: "Shen Xuan is just a Qi Refining Talisman Master!"

The Master of Tianxiang Pavilion smiled without saying a word.

"Eight hundred yuan it is!"

Shen Xuan said bitterly.

After paying the spirit stones, Shen Xuan received an information jade slip. He examined the information jade slip.

"Shen Xuan, eighty-two years old, is a secular disciple of Yan Ruixue, an outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect in the Song Kingdom. He studied with Qin Yuehan and Lü Zhengying, foundation-building elders of the Qingyun Sect, for three years."

"At the age of sixty, he married a commoner from the Ding family, awakened his special bloodline talent, and his cultivation level advanced by leaps and bounds. He reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, was a top-grade talisman master, and was skilled in making [Water Escape Talisman], [Rejuvenation Talisman], and [Water Control Talisman]. A talisman-making genius, he developed a unique second-tier poison talisman, the [Silver Hook Snake Venom Talisman].

"A genius in water magic, mastering multiple water techniques such as [Condensing Water to Form a Sharp Edge], [Gathering Water Spirit], [Water Repelling], and [Water Control]..."

"A resolute and ascetic individual. He is suspected of having a fondness for tall, beautiful young women and has an ambiguous relationship with Zhu Yingying, the daughter of Zhu Qingsheng of the Five Poisons Sect..."

Shen Xuan was terrified.

Unexpectedly, Tianxiang Pavilion had gathered such detailed information about him.

"Could you tell me, Pavilion Master, how many copies of this intelligence report on Shen Xuan have been sold before?"

"Three servings."

Shen Xuan thought for a moment.

There are very few people who would spend so many spirit stones to buy information about him.

Master Qingyuan, Head of the Zheng Family.

The last one might be Tang Renhao.

Besides, ordinary Qi Refining cultivators wouldn't be willing to spend so many spirit stones to buy his information.

There's no life-or-death feud between them; at most, they should stay away from Shen Xuan. There's no need to keep fighting like this.

This also angered Shen Xuan.

Tang Renhao is one thing, but not another.

It should just be a background check.

There may not be any action taken.

Master Qingyuan and Patriarch Zheng clearly have ill intentions!

"I want to buy information on two monks."

"Please say."

"Master Qingyuan of the Biyue Sect, and the head of the Zheng family of Mingyang Island."

"1,500 spirit stones, 1,200 spirit stones, a total of 2,700 spirit stones."

"So expensive?"

"Where is it expensive!"

The Pavilion Master of Tianxiang Pavilion said with a smile, "Shen Xuan, a mere Qi Refining cultivator, costs eight hundred spirit stones. I'm only offering you a discount because you're a regular customer."

"One is a mid-Foundation Establishment elder of the Azure Water Sect, and the other is the head of a powerful cultivation family. Fellow Daoist should know the status and position of these two."

"Is there anyone related to the ancestor of the Zheng clan?"

"Of course, 1,500 spirit stones!"

After some thought, Shen Xuan decided to buy three intelligence reports, since he had plenty of spirit stones now.

These three are likely to be mortal enemies; knowing about each other beforehand can increase the chances of victory.

"Four thousand two hundred spirit stones, confirmed. These are three information jade slips, please keep them safe, fellow Daoist."

The Pavilion Master of Tianxiang Pavilion smiled radiantly, already having some guesses in her heart.

However, she does run a business by opening the door.

As long as one is willing to pay spirit stones, the customer's identity is irrelevant.

She told Shen Xuan that the information in the jade slip was under a special restriction and would automatically disappear an hour after being read.

"Does your Tianxiang Pavilion have the Foundation Establishment versions of the [Water Condensation Technique] and [Water Spirit Gathering Technique]?"

Since he was already there, Shen Xuan simply asked about the water magic information.

He guessed that the Master of Tianxiang Pavilion had already guessed his identity.

"We apologize, but Tianxiang Pavilion and Biyue Sect have an agreement that we will not sell Foundation Establishment Pills, Foundation Establishment cultivation techniques and spells, Foundation Establishment spiritual items, or other restricted strategic spiritual items in Yunyuan Immortal City."

The Pavilion Master of Tianxiang Pavilion said with a smile.

Shen Xuan pressed on, "Is there a way to obtain it?"

"Eight hundred spirit stones."

Without saying a word, Shen Xuan paid another eight hundred spirit stones.

It's another information jade slip.

Shen Xuan spent five thousand spirit stones just to buy intelligence.

Four top-grade flying swords worth!
……

An hour later.

In the practice room.

Shen Xuan examined the information jade tube for the Water Law Foundation Building chapter.

There are three ways to obtain it.

The first way is to join the Azure Water Sect and become a Foundation Establishment Elder, exchanging sect contribution points for it.

The second option is to go to the black market, which is 2,000 miles away, and buy it there to ensure its authenticity. The price is about 10,000 spirit stones.

However, Tianxiang Pavilion has marked this option.

This was a trap set by the Azure Water Sect and the Black Market Robbers, intended to kill the rogue cultivators who plotted to establish the Azure Water Sect's Foundation Establishment Water Technique.

The third way, however, is to buy it from a cultivation shop called Wanfa Pavilion in a little-known market town thousands of miles away.

(End of this chapter)