Yunmeng Immortal Clan

Gu Jingze thought to himself that he had been cultivating to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage for decades, but he did not expect that his spiritual energy accumulation was not as deep as that of the newly promoted early-Foundation Establishment cultivator in front of him.

Gu Jingze had no idea that the reason Song Daoxuan was slightly better than him in accumulating spiritual energy was because he had cultivated a technique that ordinary cultivators in the cultivation world dared not practice: the Five Elements Revolving Technique.

Song Daoxuan has already cultivated the Five Elements Revolving Technique to the ninth level. He has cultivated this technique to its peak. However, this technique will still operate on its own within Song Daoxuan's body, laying the foundation for his future cultivation path.

The Gu family head, Gu Jingze, is cultivating the Azure Wood Longevity Technique, a low-grade Xuan-level wood-attribute technique.

The Xuan-level cultivation techniques are considered the most precious treasures of major cultivation sects, so naturally they are not passed on to outsiders.

Profound-rank cultivation techniques are only suitable for cultivators above the Qi Refining stage. Furthermore, these techniques are unfathomable, and only those with the Core Formation stage can successfully copy them. Other cultivators can only learn them through ancient inheritances.

The Qinglian Song Clan also possessed a Xuan-rank cultivation technique hundreds of years ago, but only a few cultivators practiced it. Later, the clan underwent a change, and the cultivators who practiced this technique perished outside the clan, resulting in the complete loss of the Xuan-rank cultivation technique's lineage.

Cultivating a profound-level cultivation technique has its advantages. It allows the cultivator to expand the limits of the human body by following the meridian circulation methods and routes recorded in the technique, thus reaching the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment more quickly.

Gu Jingze was able to obtain this method because his predecessor, the head of the Gu family, had risked his life to obtain a jade inheritance bead.

After the previous head of the Gu family passed away, this jade inheritance bead quickly came into the hands of Gu Jingze. Unexpectedly, the small inheritance bead contained a great fortune.

It not only contains a manual on the Green Wood Longevity Technique, but also information about a place where it was passed down.

Within the Pearl of Inheritance, information indicates that the so-called inherited cultivation technique before us is derived from an ancient technique, the Eternal Green Technique.

As for the so-called Eternal Green Technique, it is a rare Earth-level cultivation method, a true cultivation method for those at the Core Formation stage or above.

The most prestigious inheritance recorded within the Jade Pearl is the Eternal Green Technique right before our eyes.

This jade bead is called the Azure Wood Bead. In the cultivation world, it does not belong to Gu Jingze, the head of the Gu family. Anyone who possesses the Azure Wood Bead and cultivates the Azure Wood Longevity Technique will be qualified to enter the inheritance when the time comes. However, any cultivator who possesses such an inheritance item as the Azure Wood Bead can sense each other's location within a certain range.

"Green Wood, Everlasting Life!" Seeing that he couldn't defeat Song Daoxuan for the time being, Gu Jingze immediately gathered all his top-tier magical artifacts into a defensive stance, retreated more than ten feet away from Song Daoxuan, and made unpredictable hand seals.

Instantly, a crystalline green light emanated from one of Gu Jingze's arms, and a long, cyan ribbon-like beam of light shot straight toward Song Daoxuan.

The Green Wood Longevity Qi is a secret technique attached to the Green Wood Longevity Skill. To cultivate the Green Wood Longevity Skill, one needs to refine a living tree of one's own destiny within the cultivator's body as the object for purifying the Green Wood Longevity Qi. Once the wood attribute spiritual energy of the living tree of one's own destiny is exhausted, not only will the Green Wood Longevity Skill be unable to be cultivated, but the Green Wood Longevity Qi will also be unusable.

The living tree that Gu Jingze refined within his body was a second-tier spiritual tree, the Azure Vine.

Although the Azure Wood Longevity Qi is a secret technique derived from the Azure Wood Longevity Technique, Gu Jingze never dared to use this technique lightly. After all, once this technique is used, it will consume 70% of the wood attribute spiritual energy accumulated by the Azure Wood Vine over the years.

If we want to use it again later, it's unknown how many years it will take to replenish the spiritual energy in the Azure Vine.

However, Gu Jingze was in a hurry to kill Song Daoxuan, so he didn't care about anything else and immediately used this move.

Upon catching a glimpse of the blue ribbon, Song Daoxuan's expression immediately turned icy. He wondered what kind of strange magic this was, that it could emit such a terrifying aura, and that he had no way of withstanding it.

Even a cultivator in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage would likely suffer serious injury if they received this attack, unless their cultivation reached the late-Foundation Establishment stage, in which case they might be able to withstand this powerful attack with their own physique and mana.

Although Song Daoxuan's accumulated magical power was comparable to that of a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, he was ultimately only a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a physical body at the early stage. In addition, he was not a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator. If he were to take this attack, there was probably a 90% chance that he would be seriously injured and die.

However, it was too late.

Aoki's life force collided with Song Daoxuan's physical body.

In an instant, Song Daoxuan's entire body was enveloped in a beam of azure light, and a wisp of azure wood life force that was about to rush towards him was swallowed up within it.

But the next moment, a loud noise was heard coming from Song Daoxuan's body.

A moment later, the blue light dissipated, and a figure still stood in the same spot, looking extremely disheveled. This person was none other than Song Daoxuan.

A series of fragments shattered and fell to the ground from Song Daoxuan's body, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. Clearly, Song Daoxuan had withstood the attack of the Azure Wood Life Force unleashed by Gu Jingze, which greatly surprised Gu Jingze, who stared wide-eyed.

"Fellow Daoist Gu's methods are truly remarkable! If it weren't for this jade armor I'm wearing, which at the cost of its shattering offset the fatal wound, I, Song, would surely be nothing but bones by now!"

Just when he was about to die, the Azure Jade Armor on Song Daoxuan's body finally unleashed its most powerful force, allowing him to escape death by sheer luck. This armor was not cheap; the three-piece Azure Jade Armor set cost Song Daoxuan several thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Of the three items, the jade armor alone was worth over a thousand low-grade spirit stones in Song Daoxuan's eyes.

In the eyes of other cultivators, it would be impossible to spend such a number of spirit stones to exchange for such a treasure armor, but in Song Daoxuan's eyes, the treasure armor was broken at this moment, and he felt no heartache at all.

So-called talismans, magical artifacts, and talismanic treasures are ultimately just external objects. Compared to one's own life, these external objects are not worth mentioning at all. These external objects are for saving one's life, so in order to save one's life, one should not be stingy with the consumption of these life-saving objects.

Gu Jingze's face was extremely grim. The Azure Wood Vine's powerful killing move, "Green Wood Longevity," had already exhausted seventy percent of its wood energy with just one use. If he wanted to use it again, he would need to mobilize a large amount of spiritual energy within his body to replenish it, and the Azure Wood Vine would wither and die.