When Master Jiangxia was doing her divinations, there were many issues, and Master Ranyun also had quite a few complications.
Initially, her probability of forming a Nascent Soul was nineteen percent, not very high, yet she hadn’t given up on the idea of forming a Nascent Soul, so after matching with the treasure, the probability increased rapidly.
In fact, her biggest problem was, thirty-so years ago, when she was about to reach seven hundred and twenty years old, she had the urge to form a Nascent Soul—because after seven hundred and twenty years, the sect no longer provides resources.
This is a policy common to all seven main sects, where the sect provides so resources to support disciples when they are challenging a major realm. Although the support is given based on potential divided by age, more or less, having it is different from not having it.
The subsidy isn’t much, just like how Crimson Phoenix originally planned to give it to Xia Nichang.
Of course, the main sects tend to be a bit more generous, but generally speaking, it won’t exceed a quarter of the usual cost of forming a Nascent Soul.
Ultimately, cultivators rely on themselves. The sect will encourage you to improve yourself, but if you rely entirely on the sect, the cultivators nurtured won’t withstand trials.
Master Ranyun was anxious to make the seven hundred and twenty-year mark, resulting in so imbalance in her mindset. Fortunately, her self-discipline was decent, and when she noticed sothing was wrong, she imdiately stopped—historically, many Golden Core Peak masters had problems at this stage.
Stopping was not the end; she had to correct her path and refine those floating breaths, which is a painstaking process and absolutely shouldn’t be rushed. She spent over thirty years and still hasn’t fully stabilized.
—Ultimately, it’s so feelings of gain and loss affecting her state of mind.
Feng Jun suggested she use a mystical item called "Lingyuan Jingsha" to refine her breath. Master Ranyun responded, I have never heard that Lingyuan Jingsha can refine breath; isn’t it used to refine celestial weapons?
Lingyuan Jingsha is indeed famous, as it can be used to refine weapons or magical treasures for the Ergence Stage. The Jinwu Sect has a small reserve. Master Ranyun’s objections were partly because she hadn’t heard of Lingyuan Jingsha being used this way and partly because... it’s too expensive!
The refining material for the Ergence Stage costs about a thousand upper spirit stones per grain of Jingsha—this can’t be equated to a hundred thousand mid-level spirit stones.
She hoped Feng Jun could suggest a different material, or... her master, True Immortal Qing Ji, believed that slowly refining with her own power was the most stable way.
Of course, it’s the most stable! Feng Jun also acknowledged this point. Using one grain of Jingsha is rely to save about ten years, but those ten years can’t be underestimated—each day without forming a Nascent Soul, you’re slowly aging!
As for the risks of using Jingsha, he had considered them. As long as it’s stopped at the appropriate ti, which is identifying the right node, basically there’s no risk.
For finding this node, he thought any ordinary diviner could deduce it, but he could also cooperate with an artifact refiner to create a simple tester. When the node is reached, the tester would provide an alert.
The final probability of Master Ranyun forming a Nascent Soul turned out to be as high as sixty-nine percent. Besides Lingyuan Jingsha, she also had to prepare a twenty-five mid-grade spirit stone treasure, and the cost was indeed... quite touching.
Anyway, Master Ranyun clearly preferred to trust her master, raising various plans hoping to bypass Lingyuan Jingsha.
Indeed, matters concerning female cultivators can be intricate; Jiangxia has too many ideas, Ranyun is too stubborn.
Feng Jun felt that since he started divination in the cultivation world, these two were the most difficult people to deal with.
Just like Master Jiangxia, Master Ranyun also planned to consult her master and then conduct another divination—truly exasperating.
However, the next day, Feng Jun realized what "there’s no most exasperating, only more exasperating" really ant!
A True Immortal of the Nascent Soul Fourth Layer visited the courtyard he was staying in, accompanied by Master Jiangxia. It turned out this was Master Jiangxia’s partner, True Immortal Huang Shu.
True Immortal Huang Shu’s face was as dark as water, as if soone owed him a hundred thousand upper spirit stones and refused to pay back. He approached Feng Jun with a stern face and silently presented a head-sized rock.
Strictly speaking, it may not be a rock. Regardless, it was neither gold nor jade, appearing unimpressive, but if you took a look at it—or even without looking, just standing next to it—a vast and ancient aura would rush at you.
Even so, this rock was still sealed in a transparent box with talismans sealing it. Without the seals, one wouldn’t dare to imagine how grand the aura could be.
Feng Jun had a premonition that if the seal were opened, he could be reduced to ashes in an instant, not even having ti to silently recite the word "exit"—of course, whether this intuition was correct was debatable, but he believed it wouldn’t hurt to place great importance on this thing.
True Immortal Huang Shu didn’t even look at him or speak to him, turning his head towards Master Jiangxia instead, expressionless, and stated, "Now, are you satisfied?"
anwhile, a figure flickered beside Feng Jun; it was True Immortal Yi Jue sensing the unusual aura, unable to suppress her curiosity and coming over directly.
She believed that such behavior wasn’t offensive—if the Jinwu Sect didn’t want her to notice, they should cover the aura. Since they hadn’t and the aura persisted for a while... if she didn’t co, wouldn’t she be looked down upon?
However, now that she was here, she didn’t speak and instead carefully sensed the "rock"—let’s just regard it as a rock.
True Immortal Huang Shu sensed soone coming, turned his head to glance, his eyes brightened, but he continued to look back at his companion.
Master Jiangxia sneered, "That’s True Immortal Yi Jue, aren’t you going to go chat her up?"
"Ahem, ahem," True Immortal Huang Shu coughed heavily twice, speaking with a dark face, "I naturally recognize True Immortal Yi Jue, and dare not offend her. If you keep talking nonsense, do you believe I will take my things and leave?"
"Hmph," Master Jiangxia snorted coldly, no longer paying him any mind, but instead looking at Feng Jun, raising her hand in salutation, "Mountain Master Feng..."
"Hold it," True Immortal Yi Jue spoke with a cold face, "I don’t care what grievances you two have, but if you drag into this, do you believe I will just slay you here on the spot?"
The two exchanged glances, neither daring to say anything further. Though this was indeed the territory of Jinwu Sect, the influence of True Immortal Yi Jue exceeded that of Taixu Sect and the Spirit Plant Path—even Ouyang Beishan of the Wanhuan Sect, whose avatar she had slain, admired her.
Moreover, although True Immortal Yi Jue was not easy to approach, she never bullied others with her strength—she even rarely appeared in public, so among the seven sects, she had the image of a cold and respected figure, with no negative impressions.
As for the couple Huang Shu and Jiang Xia... that’s a different story. Huang Shu was lustful, and Jiang Xia was jealous, which was no secret in the Jinwu Sect. Dare they gossip about Yi Jue, it’s normal for True Immortal Yi Jue to turn hostile.
Though not necessarily to the extent of killing, if they couldn’t withstand her blow, they couldn’t bla her.
In any case, the two didn’t dare to confront her and chose to ignore her instead.
Master Jiangxia looked at Feng Jun, "Mountain Master Feng, not three ideas, I only have this one idea... Do you think, with this thing, there could be so breakthrough in my Nascent Soul process?"
Feng Jun wasn’t idle either. Feeling the pressure from this stone, he casually swiped his mobile phone.
So his expression was strange, hesitating for a mont before lightly coughing, "Ancient Path Stele Fragnt... are you two trying to make stay at the Jinwu Sect long-term?"
They had already brought it out, so he couldn’t pretend not to understand, or else where would the dignity of a master in deductions be?
However, pointing out its origins made him worry he might not be able to leave—though leaving was simple, could he move White Pebble Beach?
Fortunately, by his side was True Immortal Yi Jue; even if he, a master in deductions, couldn’t bluff people, the na of True Immortal Yi Jue was sothing people had to consider.
"I don’t have the strength to keep you," True Immortal Huang Shu still wore a grim face, half in resentnt, half having realized sothing, "even if I could keep you, I couldn’t keep True Immortal Yi Jue... In fact, I didn’t want to take out this Stele Fragnt either."
Then he turned his head, glaring venomously at Master Ranyun, "She’s the one forcing ... Mountain Master Feng, if Jiang Xia fails in her Nascent Soul condensation, I definitely won’t hold you accountable. Feel free to go ahead."
"Sorry, what’s going on here?" Feng Jun was a little perplexed, "If she fails in her Nascent Soul condensation..."
True Immortal Huang Shu nodded and spoke seriously, "Failure is just failure, I can accept it!"
Master Jiangxia was not of good temper either, and was about to flare up with a raised brow when she heard True Immortal Yi Jue huff lightly, "Hmm!"
So she promptly adjusted her mood, "Mountain Master Feng, this item... see what I can match it with?"
"There’s plenty you can get," True Immortal Huang Shu couldn’t help but snort coldly, "I prepared this for my Ergence Stage breakthrough. You condense your Nascent Soul, and if my Ergence Stage fails, then you’ll be pleased... Am I right?"
No wonder he had such a grim expression. This Stele Fragnt was obtained 50 years ago when he was looking for a chance to break through the Nascent Soul Fourth Layer, exploring a certain space alone, he discovered Nascent Soul Peak cultivators were fighting over it.
He certainly wasn’t qualified to join in, but he wanted what those Nascent Soul Peak cultivators were fighting over, so he hid and watched.
During the fight, an Ergence Stage big boss appeared, killed two Nascent Soul True Immortals, and took the fragnt away.
True Immortal Huang Shu truly didn’t dare to breathe until the other party left, then also quietly departed.
But very unfortunately, one Nascent Soul True Immortal hadn’t died completely and sensed Huang Shu’s presence.
The weakened Nascent Soul spat blood and spoke, "I sensed it, there’s a Nascent Soul from my Jinwu Sect present. I still have a bit of the Great Dao Fragnt hidden. You must swear to bring it to Jinwu Sect, or I’d rather perish with the Great Dao Fragnt."
True Immortal Huang Shu wasn’t really afraid of his threat. He knew all the True Immortals in the sect; he hadn’t t this one but could guess who it was, so he nodded, "I will definitely bring it back to Jinwu, True Immortal Shenghua... Shall I take your Nascent Soul back as well?"
"Knowing , Shenghua, I indeed entrusted it to the right person," True Immortal Shenghua laughed heartily, then his Nascent Soul dispersed into smoke.
He truly was at the end of his strength. With so effort, he could barely fight True Immortal Huang Shu to a draw, but now that his heart knot was untied, he simply let go and departed.
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