txolops Chapter 147 The Heaven-Slaying Sword Dao
Chapter 147 The Heaven-Slaying Sword Dao
Qingyun Secret Realm!
This is the name of the secret realm controlled by the academy.
The academy did not monopolize the secret realm, but instead took the initiative to open the Qingyun Secret Realm to the outside world, sharing it with all the Core Formation forces in the Western Wilderness.
There are two main reasons.
Firstly, it was to win over the various kingdoms of the Western Wilderness to fight against evil and uphold justice; secondly, it was because they dared not incur the wrath of the masses.
As a member of the Defenders Alliance, Fenglan Immortal City also has the qualification to send Qi Refining cultivators into it.
Moreover, to encourage these Qi Refining cultivators to diligently search for medicinal herbs, the Immortal City has set up a generous reward for each spiritual herb they bring out.
Generally speaking, cultivators who gather herbs can receive military merits equivalent to one-tenth of the value of the herbs they collect.
The value of military merits is self-evident, as evidenced by the list of items that can be exchanged for them.
Spirit stones, magical artifacts, pills, spiritual lands... it has everything, and even the Foundation Establishment Pill that Qi Refining cultivators dream of!
Furthermore, these military merits are unlike ordinary military merits; they can be traded within the same family.
In this way, even if a single Qi Refining cultivator fails to gather enough valuable spiritual herbs, the cultivation family can pool everyone's military merits to exchange for key resources such as Foundation Establishment Pills.
Therefore, every time the Qingyun Secret Realm opens, the cultivation families under the jurisdiction of the Immortal City will send their Qi Refining cultivators, led by Foundation Establishment cultivators, to Jixia to compete for the spiritual herbs in the secret realm.
As for independent cultivators, they are not qualified to enter the secret realm.
Although the Azure Cloud Secret Realm is dangerous, it is also an incredible opportunity. How could it possibly allow rogue cultivators to enter?
Even in Fenglan Immortal City, a place known as a holy land for rogue cultivators, it is much more difficult to gather enough spirit stones to bid for a Foundation Establishment Pill than to successfully return from gathering herbs in the Qingyun Secret Realm.
However, Bai Qing was an exception, because he had three sworn brothers at the Foundation Establishment stage to help him, and it was only a matter of time before he could gather enough spirit stones to build up the Foundation Establishment Pill.
If he had a choice, he would never want to go to the Azure Cloud Secret Realm.
But his background forced him to take this trip!
"The next secret realm will open in six years, I need to prepare in advance!" Bai Qing thought to himself.
If he's unwilling to remain at the Qi Refining stage for the rest of his life, then he absolutely must go to the secret realm.
Moreover, he possesses three spiritual roots, which doesn't give him a high priority in Foundation Establishment within the family. Other cultivators in the Bai family certainly wouldn't transfer their military merits to him.
Therefore, he must accumulate enough military merits on his own to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
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Before we knew it, the end of the year was fast approaching again.
Zhang Tie, Gu Musheng, and the other four arrived at Xiantao Mountain early.
Li Ping smiled and swept his gaze across the crowd.
He already knew about Cheng Yao's foundation-building and her becoming a disciple of Master Fenglan.
Like Zhang Tie and Gu Musheng, Cheng Yao also lost her motivation to strive after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage. Now she focuses on handling the daily tasks assigned to her by the Immortal City and enjoys it.
Besides the three, there was Bai Qing, who was also the only Qi Refining cultivator present, with a cultivation level of the eighth level of Qi Refining.
First, they each paid their respective Foundation Establishment funds. Since Cheng Yao had also broken through to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, her contribution amount was increased to one hundred spirit stones.
In this way, this year's foundation fund will be 630 spirit stones.
The total amount of the Foundation Building Fund has reached 1,750 spirit stones.
Li Ping put away the storage bag and chatted idly with the others about the events of the past year.
Last year, Cheng Yao's initiation ceremony was one of the most noteworthy events in the entire Immortal City, but compared to another event, her initiation ceremony was nothing.
After stabilizing his cultivation level, the Core Formation cultivator Dai Sangyu finally emerged from seclusion.
Therefore, True Immortal Fenglan dispatched a messenger to announce to all Core Formation level forces in the Western Wilderness cultivation world that a "Core Formation Ceremony" would be held for Dai Sangyu in ten years.
Thinking of the grandeur of the Immortal City ten years from now, the group couldn't help but yearn for it.
Core Formation cultivators are already the ceiling of combat power in the Western Wilderness cultivation world, and deserve such a grand celebration!
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After discussing the Core Formation Ceremony, Li Ping's gaze fell on Bai Qing.
He shook his head helplessly: "Bai Qing, if you want to get the Foundation Establishment Pill, you'll probably have to make a trip to the Azure Cloud Secret Realm."
Compared to Li Ping's helplessness, Bai Qing was quite composed. He nodded and said, "Brother, I understand. I will make preparations as soon as possible."
Li Ping nodded: "There are still five years before the Qingyun Secret Realm opens. The four of us will gather four thousand spirit stones for you within these five years. All four thousand spirit stones will be used to purchase magic weapons, spirit talismans and other supplies to ensure your safe return."
Four thousand spirit stones—some Foundation Establishment cultivators don't even have that much in their entire fortune.
The purchasing power of such a large sum of spirit stones is terrifying. Li Ping believes that as long as Bai Qing is careful, he can manage to enter the Qingyun Secret Realm with a large number of high-level spirit talismans.
You might not be able to accumulate enough military merits, but you'll definitely be able to save your life.
"Brother, four thousand spirit stones is too wasteful. I don't need that many." Bai Qing was extremely surprised to hear Li Ping's words.
What kind of Qi Refining cultivator would bring so many talismans and magical artifacts into the Azure Cloud Secret Realm?
With so many magical talismans and artifacts, why bother venturing into the Azure Cloud Secret Realm?
Li Ping shook his head: "Don't worry, these spirit stones are nothing. As long as you return safely, that's enough."
Of the four thousand spirit stones, nearly half were contributed by Li Ping, based on the amount of contribution.
With his current wealth, anything that can be solved with spirit stones is no big deal for him.
In fact, Li Ping's greatest hope was that Bai Qing could bring out a golden marrow jade fungus that was over 700 years old from the secret realm.
With the main ingredients available, he could easily refine more than three Foundation Establishment Pills using his third-level alchemist skills.
Unfortunately, even if Bai Qing did manage to collect such a spiritual herb and leave the secret realm alive, the first thing he would do upon exiting would be to be searched, including his storage bag. It would be impossible for him to leave with the spiritual herb.
Now, Li Ping was a little curious.
Where did the Wang family patriarch buy his elixir?
If there were a relevant channel, he wouldn't mind buying one as well.
In this way, Bai Qing would not need to venture into the Qingyun Secret Realm.
Thinking of this, Li Ping turned his gaze to Cheng Yao and asked with a smile, "Cheng Yao, I remember that when Wang Li was alive, he spent a huge sum of money to buy a main ingredient for refining Foundation Establishment Pills. If it's convenient for you, you might as well go back and inquire about which channel he purchased it from."
Cheng Yao readily agreed, "No problem, big brother!"
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Inside the palace atop Qinglong Mountain.
Feng Lan Zhenren, wearing a blue veil, sat opposite Dai Sangyu, who wore a simple gray robe.
Dai Sangyu would ask questions from time to time, and Master Fenglan would patiently answer them.
As a veteran Core Formation cultivator, although True Person Fenglan's cultivation level was only at the mid-Core Formation stage, she had remained at the Core Formation realm for hundreds of years and had rich cultivation experience. Guiding Dai Sangyu, who had just entered the Core Formation stage, was naturally a piece of cake.
As the master and apprentice exchanged questions and answers, it was already midnight before they knew it.
After carefully considering and digesting Master Fenglan's guidance, Dai Sangyu suddenly spoke up: "Master, I plan to go to the Western Wilderness tomorrow to search for the reincarnation of Master Xu, and at the same time, travel around to collect materials for refining my natal magic weapon, and ask the weapon-refining masters of Jixia to refine the magic weapon for me."
The natal magic weapon has a huge impact on Core Formation cultivators. Among Core Formation cultivators, the one with a magic weapon can suppress the one without one.
Therefore, the first thing all Core Formation cultivators do after successfully forming their Core is to refine magical treasures!
However, the materials used to refine magic weapons are all extremely precious, and the difficulty of refining magic weapons far exceeds that of second-tier magic artifacts. Generally, only third-tier weapon refiners are confident in refining them.
This is why many newly formed Core Formation cultivators are short of money and unable to refine magic weapons, and can only use second-tier magic tools.
Upon hearing Dai Sangyu's words, Master Fenglan nodded: "Refining magical treasures is indeed the most important thing."
After saying that, she took out a jade box containing three crimson tail feathers from her storage bag at her waist, and used her magic to make it float in front of Dai Sangyu: "These three tail feathers of the Fiery Arrow Eagle have reached the quality required to refine magic weapons. You can use them to refine your own magic weapons, or you can use them to exchange for suitable materials with other fellow Daoists."
Dai Sangyu looked at the crimson tail feathers in the jade box in front of her, but her gaze suddenly faltered.
Back then, when the beast tide broke out, her master was overwhelmed and Huang Yunzi stood by and watched. Left with no other choice, she revealed that she possessed the "Heaven-Mending Body".
He also promised to become a Daoist partner with one of Huang Yunzi's descendants after he reached the Core Formation stage.
Only then did Huang Yunzi agree to take action, joining forces with his master to kill a third-tier Fiery Arrow Eagle and quell the beast tide.
Afterwards, Huang Yunzi politely shared the materials from the Fiery Arrow Eagle with his master.
That's how the three tail feathers came about.
Now that she has successfully formed her core, it seems it's time to fulfill her promise.
"laugh."
Dai Sangyu sneered inwardly, put the jade box containing the three tail feathers into her storage bag, and her expression returned to normal: "Thank you for the treasure, Master."
Master Fenglan nodded, but his eyes behind the veil seemed somewhat dazed: "After you find Senior Brother Xu's reincarnation, bestow this 'Slaying Heaven Sword Dao' upon him and teach him how to cultivate."
"Yes." Dai Sangyu nodded.
She knew that the "Heavenly Sword Technique" was the very sword technique that her senior uncle Xu had been practicing.
When Master Xu was alive, there was no one else who could cultivate except him.
More than two hundred years after Master Xu's death, there is still no one left who can cultivate.
This sword technique was specially prepared for Master Xu.
Even she, with her body capable of mending the heavens and her unique spiritual root, still couldn't master the basics.
Cultivators choose cultivation methods, and cultivation methods also choose cultivators!
The fact that this sword technique can penetrate the cycle of reincarnation and guide Master Xu back demonstrates its extraordinary nature.
Suddenly remembering something, Master Fenglan added, "By the way, if you go to Jixia, remember to visit Alliance Leader Xiao."
Dai Sangyu nodded: "Yes."
Master Fenglan, his eyes glazed over, spoke again, "And Mr. Yan."
Even if Dai Sangyu was slow-witted, she could tell that Master Fenglan was distracted. In a flash, she guessed what her master was really worried about and immediately said, "Master, please rest assured, I will definitely bring back Master Xu's reincarnation safely."
"Hmm." Master Fenglan nodded softly.
Her gaze grew increasingly unfocused: "Senior brother, do you still remember Rong'er?"