Immortal Dao Fruits, Cards to Help Me

Chapter 103 The Battle of the Divine Fiends
In this world, a cultivator who reaches level 21 and enters the Qi Refining Realm is considered to have officially embarked on the path of cultivation.

This stage usually involves practicing some magical arts.

Unless you encounter some extraordinary events or join a major cultivation sect, there are no profound fundamental cultivation techniques for you to practice.

Everyone is figuring things out as they go.

After reaching level 30 and achieving perfect Qi Refining, one needs to condense Qi and Sha to advance further.

Gang refers to the Heavenly Gang, and Sha refers to the Earthly Sha.

There is actually no distinction between the two; either the innate Gang or the innate Di Sha is acceptable.

However, most cultivators first condense the Earthly Fiend, because the Earthly Fiend is easier to obtain.

However, there are roughly seventy-two types of Earthly Fiends, and it's not as simple as just randomly picking one and fusing it into your body.

For one's own magical power to undergo a transformation, the attributes must be mutually reinforcing and complementary, thus perfecting oneself.

Once you reach the Gangsha Realm, you'll be very close to the "immortals" of folk legends.

Even the ability to summon wind and rain exists—provided there are relevant methods.

The battles were all large-scale, with flying sand and stones, and people could take heads from hundreds of miles away. They flew around like that.

At this point, one has essentially transcended the mundane world!

Only those whose Qi and Sha condensation can be combined with the cultivation technique, whose attributes are flawless and all problems are resolved, are qualified to attempt to form a core.

Otherwise, it will be a 100% failure. You might have been able to live for several more decades, but you could just die!
If you fail to form your core, there's a 99% chance you'll die!

Even if one successfully forms the Golden Core, there is still the Golden Core Tribulation to overcome.

To advance further, one must gradually refine the core, and each refinement requires undergoing a tribulation!
The formation of Gang Sha is already a major hurdle for Qi Refining; less than one out of ten Qi Refining cultivators can condense Gang Sha.

And out of a hundred cultivators at the Gang Sha Realm, not even one might successfully form a Core!

In short, the path of cultivation is extremely difficult! Achieving longevity and immortality is not so easy!
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Li Longhua was a cultivator at the Gangsha realm, although he had only just entered the Gangsha realm and had condensed a kind of Wusheng Pure Land Sha.

This kind of earthly evil is very special. Its place of origin is unknown. It is only known that its effects are more Buddhist, but its functions are strange.

It has been controlled by the White Lotus Sect for four or five hundred years!

Although the White Lotus Sect is divided into several major branches, there is some exchange between them. Their cultivation methods are related, and they share resources.

They have a firm grasp of the three types of Earthly Fiends and the two types of Heavenly Fiends, which allows them to produce a relatively stable number of cultivators at the Fiend Realm.

This is also why they have not been completely wiped out despite being besieged for thousands of years.

Although the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends do exist outside their place of origin, the probability of them being born sporadically in the wild is very low.

Moreover, many special types of evil spirits absolutely do not exist in normal environments.

Those places are usually monopolized by many major factions and powerful forces.

Those ancient cultivation sects that have been passed down for thousands of years all have their own stable sources of spiritual energy.

Otherwise, you don't have the prestige to sit at the same table with others.

Li Longhua has good aptitude. If we describe him according to the player's template: he has three red attributes, two purple attributes, and his aptitude and comprehension are both above 18...

With a good father and plenty of resources, he was only 29 years old, but he had already begun to condense his evil aura, which is equivalent to level 32!

He didn't come alone; there was another cultivator at the Gang Sha Realm with him!
That person looks much more experienced than the tender and delicious Li Longhua; he must be at least level 35+!
Damn, those second-generation cultivators are really something else, they actually got a top expert in the Gang Sha Realm as their bodyguard!

Even during the great calamity of heaven and earth five or six years later, cultivators at the Gang Sha Realm would be the backbone of major sects. Those small and medium-sized sects would have very few of them!
Of course, there's also the unique nature of the White Lotus Sect's "White Lotus Manual," which has a significant "ripening" effect on cultivators below the Golden Core stage.

After all, the various techniques and spells for cultivating this thing are basically bound to that Eternal Mother. Every disadvantage has its advantage!
Besides a powerful expert in the Gang Sha realm, Li Longhua was accompanied by four cultivators at the Qi Refining stage. They were likely the elite of the White Lotus Sect.

Fortunately, there were three powerful martial arts masters here, who could even get the City God to intervene in a critical moment. Otherwise, there would have been a real risk of losing everything.

...The original plan set up by the General's Office was to lure Li Longhua and his group into the heart of Liaodong and encircle them, so they wouldn't escape.

However, the person who was disguised as a contact of the Dao of Fate had only said a few words when, for some reason, the great cultivator of Gangsha noticed something amiss after just a few glances at him.

The White Lotus Sect's powerful cultivator looked to be in his forties or fifties. He was not tall, his hair and beard were somewhat messy, and his face was weathered, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.

He immediately grabbed the contact's collar, his eyes emitting a long, white light that shone directly into the contact's face, and demanded, "You're not a person of the Destiny Path! Who are you? Speak!"

Then they heard the contact person scream in agony, as if molten iron had been poured over his face, and he almost died from the pain.

However, before he could speak, the fierce cultivator threw down the contact whose soul had already left his body and whispered, "Something's wrong! Something's happened at Youyuandao. Longhua, let's go!"

Li Longhua and his group had only traveled ten miles from Liaodong Bay, far from the heart of Liaodong and still a long way from Shenyang.

When the powerful cultivator grabbed the contact, they realized something was wrong and became alert.

As soon as the great cultivator spoke, the four Qi Refining cultivators immediately surrounded Li Longhua on either side, and the group released their magic weapons and turned to run towards Liaodong Bay!

Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to get to work.

Then a loud shout rang out: "Hey! Where do you think you're going, you thief!"

The sound was so loud it shook the mountains and rivers, and the entire area was shaken. With a loud shout, even the air itself rippled with a semi-transparent sound wave!
A burly and robust warrior, clad in golden armor, wielding a halberd, and riding a dark red dragon-scale steed, transformed into a streak of red light in the blink of an eye and arrived through the air!

At the same time, a voice as hard as iron and stone coldly pronounced from mid-air: "Traitorous ministers and villains are now trapped. They are imprisoned on the ground!"

A golden light shot up from a distance and into the sky, instantly transforming into thirty-six pillars of light that fell down, their light screens connecting to each other, encircling Li Longhua and his group within a radius of several miles.

This move is similar to the one used by Chen Xiuxian's previous teammate, Gadak, in the dungeon, but the range and effect are far inferior!
They are worlds apart!

This would be enough to encircle a force of about two thousand men.

As for Gadak's move, it only made the red-haired corpse beast stumble and fall.
These two are the Gangsha Realm experts from the General's Mansion.

The former was a military general, Ma Tianyi, a descendant of the Ma family, a military clan.

His battlefield skills were so exceptional that he could make a thousand troops retreat and take the head of ten thousand!
The latter, Li Qian, was a Legalist monk.

Of the Hundred Schools of Thought from the pre-Qin period, only Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, and Mohism have a relatively clear lineage today.

The Taoists, needless to say, have always pursued immortality without relying on rulers or the court. They are a major sect among the orthodox immortality cultivation schools!
Even the Taiqing Palace on the Nine Peaks Iron Mountain is a Taoist institution.

The Neidan School within the Dan Ding School, and the lineage of the Quanzhen Longmen School.

The Mohist school's puppetry techniques are the most typical example of their methods.

Although the Mohist philosophy has almost disappeared, its methods have been passed down.
As for Confucianism and Legalism, both relied on the imperial court and political power for their transmission.

Confucianism has grown stronger over the past thousand years, but Legalism is no less powerful.

The saying goes, "Confucianism in appearance, Legalism in essence; inner sage, outer king." What Confucianism alone cannot handle, ultimately requires Legalism as well.

As the saying goes: "If a country has no wise advisors or capable ministers within, and no external enemies without, it will inevitably perish." This shows that one is born in hardship and dies in comfort.

In the imperial court of the Great Shun Dynasty, Legalism was probably suppressed by Confucianism, but in the important border towns, there were quite a few Legalist practitioners.

Legalist cultivators are not very strong in individual combat, but they can be extremely annoying when they cooperate with others.

The various restrictions are infuriating, like they are now.

Even though Li Longhua and his group used their magical artifacts to smash the light barrier that was "drawing a circle on the ground as a prison," scattering the light, they still couldn't get rid of it in a short time.

Not only can they not leave this area, but they will also be subject to many restrictions.

Meanwhile, Ma Tianyi had already arrived on horseback. A blood-red aura above his head condensed into a ten-foot-long plume of smoke, within which various weapons underwent transformations, and the stench of blood permeated for miles!

This Ma Tian was born with an ominous star in his destiny, a fate of divine punishment. He fought countless battles, beheading countless enemies, and broke through the Gang Sha realm at the age of thirty-two. He was truly a born general!

He arrived alone on horseback, slashing horizontally with his halberd—a single move that depicted the heavens!
A crimson arc of light spanned more than ten meters, and suddenly flew towards Li Longhua and his group like a tidal wave!

(End of this chapter)