Vampire Cultivation Notes

A temple dedicated to the Moon-Gazing Immortal?

After thinking it over, the elder realized that the person on the back mountain had indeed only said not to offer physical offerings, but not to offer incense. He couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh.

After everyone had discussed and agreed on the matter, someone brought up the tradition of worshipping the deity Heng Wang. With a clear plan in place, everyone became even happier.

Just do it!

Outside the hall where the people of Weize Township and Wubao were discussing matters, Li Jieqing also grinned upon hearing this.

You guys really know what you're doing!

Originally, Li Jieqing was thinking of giving a few more pointers, or even blending in himself and secretly using someone's voice to bring up the matter of establishing the golden statue, but in the end, the other party decided on it themselves.

The Great Xin Dynasty had a tradition of worshipping the King of Heng, and Li Jieqing underestimated the need of villagers for spiritual sustenance in chaotic times. Therefore, he did not need to get involved in the construction of the golden statue.

Children can be taught.

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"Gathering divine essence to sculpt a golden body, my heart yearns for the six realms of desire... My will takes distant wings, my faith journeys to the Supreme Heaven..."

Li Jieqing didn't know how many times he had reread the general chapter of "The Invisible Heavenly Sword," and after personally experiencing the event of the shattered sword guiding the heavenly light, he finally began to understand some of the secrets.

I messed up the practice before.

For seven years in the ruins of Taipingfang City, he used his own blood essence as the main component, gathered the blood essence of hundreds or thousands of cultivators, extracted their divine sense, and created a strange golden body.

This approach is completely wrong.

Even the person who wrote the main chapter of "The Invisible Heavenly Sword" probably never imagined that someone with a large and abundant amount of essence and blood would forcibly open up a crooked path and actually bring the Invisible Heavenly Sword to fight against enemies.

Unfortunately, he failed to find the right direction, and his seven years of cultivation were like a rootless duckweed. That's why the golden body of that sinister longsword finally shattered with a crash.

Even though the sword was incredibly powerful when it shattered, enough to make Li Jieqing, who was at the eighth level of Qi Refining, stumble, it was gone forever, and seven years of hard work were gone.

Fortunately, after experiencing the shattered sword incident, Li Jieqing also gained some new insights.

That is the Supreme Emperor Heaven mentioned in the general chapter of "The Invisible Heavenly Sword".

The golden body created by the invisible Heavenly Sword is clearly connected to the Supreme Emperor Heaven. In fact, a long section after the general chapter, upon closer examination, reveals how the Supreme Emperor Heaven was sensed and the golden body was sent there.

When Li Jieqing shattered his sword, he vaguely sensed the Heavenly Palace of the Supreme Emperor in the vast, dark sky. As if struck by a sudden enlightenment, he fully grasped the essence of the "Invisible Heavenly Sword" he had studied, gaining new insights.

As long as the golden body can be sent into the legendary abode of the immortals, the Supreme Emperor Heaven, and one's own mark is left behind, the golden body can continuously draw the Heavenly Sword into the world! Moreover, because it is located within the Supreme Emperor Heaven and a mark has already been left behind, the golden body is solidified and there is no longer any hidden danger of the divine thoughts gathered within being exhausted and broken.

At that point, almost any thought will trigger an invisible sword aura that will fall, leaving no room for evasion or defense!

As long as one's own magical power continues, so too will the sword energy.

Only then can one be said to have succeeded in spiritual practice.

Li Jieqing had never learned any other sword techniques, and even though he had stolen the treasures from the Wanbaoge Pavilion, there were no formal sword techniques among them.

However, judging from his sword techniques used to deal with Jiang Ping'er and the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Ruyi Sect, it seems... that they are far inferior to this Invisible Heavenly Sword Technique.

No wonder these people are envious of the Invisible Heavenly Sword.

"Is it Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, or even Nascent Soul Sword Technique...?"

Li Jieqing was puzzled, but that didn't stop him from starting to practice this special sword technique again. He had simply changed his path from practicing the Golden Body incorrectly to practicing the correct one.

According to the description in the general chapter of "The Invisible Heavenly Sword", it would probably take a lot of accumulation to reach the standard of sending the golden body into the Supreme Emperor Heaven.

Furthermore, this golden body should not be an ordinary ritual implement, but should refer to the golden statue of a deity worshipped by mortals.

Li Jieqing made this discovery because he remembered the statue of the King of the Heng.

The mind of a cultivator is no different from that of an ordinary person; the differences lie in greed, anger, ignorance, resentment, hatred, love, separation, and so on.

The longsword golden body he spent seven years crafting was watered with a large amount of his own blood essence, forcibly suppressing the minds of the other cultivators who joined him, and gathering them into a strange longsword golden body with himself as the main body.

However, if it is a golden statue of a deity in the mortal realm, with thousands of people worshipping and offering incense, there is no need to forcibly extract its essence and blood, as the minds and thoughts of all living beings gather there.

Furthermore, because it is a spontaneous worship by the people, the gathered thoughts and intentions do not need to be suppressed; they will automatically worship the main body and converge into a golden statue.

This is the correct way to understand "Gathering the Divine to Create a Golden Body".

All Li Jieqing had to do was guard the statue and collect the gathered thoughts and intentions, or rather... the power of incense offerings and prayers.

That's right, a significant portion of "The Invisible Heavenly Sword" is about how to utilize the power of collected incense offerings!

It was truly a case of rumors circulating among the rogue cultivators becoming reality.

In the past, you could hardly find such subtle things as incense and prayers in Taipingfang.

"The prospects for immortal cultivation are getting better and better..."

In the Wubao village of Weize Township.

Li Jieqing looked at the statue of himself that was already being carved and was very satisfied with the progress.

In the past two days, he went to several Hengwang Temples in the secular world and used the method he thought was to extract the so-called spirit from the general chapter of the "Invisible Heavenly Sword". He was actually able to extract some things from the Hengwang statues.

Temples with more worshippers will have more [something], and temples with fewer worshippers will have fewer [something].

The existence of incense offerings and vows has been confirmed.

The more one cultivates, the more one feels the wonder and ethereal nature of the world. Since there are things like incense and vows, does this world of cultivation also have deities?

Gods, immortals, demons, and monsters.

interesting.

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"—Legend has it that the Immortal Wangyue subdued the Nine Tribulations and Eighteen Calamities, riding a giant yellow-scaled eel, wielding a whisk, and wearing a long sword at his waist… but why is this long sword without a guard?"

Inside the fortified village of Weize Township, a craftsman carving a deity statue listened to the description and hesitated for a moment.

Li Longxiu, who was standing nearby, came over with the blueprints and drawings, comparing them one by one, and said with difficulty, "This immortal's sword must have a profound meaning... Let's just follow it for now."

"This is a flying sword."

Right there, Li Jieqing, who had been hiding, suddenly spoke and revealed himself, sweeping his whisk.

His black and white robe billowed, and his long sleeves trailed like clouds to his shoes. He looked like a celestial being. The craftsmen on either side recognized him and immediately knelt down, calling him a celestial being.

When Li Longxiu realized that his plan had been exposed, he hurriedly said, "It was all my idea. Although I did not report it beforehand, it was really to commemorate the immortal's merit in subduing the demon that I cast the golden statue to pass it down to future generations."

Li Jieqing laughed and said, "It's nothing to be surprised that you've put in such a good effort."

Seeing this, Li Longxiu breathed a sigh of relief, knowing he had done the right thing.

Seeing that the true form of the Moon Gazing Immortal circled the half-finished statue again, he raised his hand and made several hand seals.

After finishing his business, Li Longxiu asked curiously, "What was the matter of the flying sword that you mentioned earlier, Immortal Master?"

Li Jieqing laughed and said, "Flying swords have no guard, and magic swords have no edge; this is the norm for cultivators. However, my magic sword was lost due to the chaos caused by demonic beasts. If you wish to carve one, please carve another magic sword on it for me, how about that?"