Must All Be Drunk!
Before this sword, it suddenly transford into a Hidden Sword Peak!
At this mont, it was triggered by stimulus, and several Purple Palace cultivators imdiately manifested in the void, their great hands reaching out to seize it.
Not only that, at the original location of Hidden Sword Peak, the Great Void was faintly torn open, revealing the plaza where the Golden Origin Hall was located!
A wisp of golden light spilled outward.
Through the void, one could see Murong Jiu standing before that lump of mud, his expression utterly entranced.
Suddenly...
Murong Jiu’s entire body turned into a clay statue, covered in spiderweb cracks, and with a thunderous crash shattered into a pile of rubble...
Tear!
That flying sword, and even the Heavenly Wind Spiritual Spring, all fell to the ground.
Whoosh!
A figure directly abandoned that Must All Be Drunk flying sword and rushed into where the Golden Origin Hall was located—it was Sanji True Person!
“That is...divinity?”
“How could there possibly be a wisp of 【Earth of the Nü Mansion】 divinity here?”
“Sanji, you dare?!”
Lord of Pushan and the other Purple Palace cultivators were all enraged. They even directly abandoned the Must All Be Drunk flying sword, letting it carry Tian Jinchen away. One by one, as though staking their lives, they charged toward the Golden Origin Hall.
Divinity, also called Pill Nature, Origin Nature, tal Nature, Buddha Nature...was the essence of the Golden Core!
tal Nature was indestructible!
This wisp of divinity was the foundation of an indestructible Golden Core!
Thus the Purple Palace cultivators present were almost all driven mad.
A Purple Palace great battle was about to erupt!
Azure Sea Sect, Profound Azure Cave.
“Ah!”
A miserable scream rang out.
At the mont Murong Jiu stared at the lump of mud—
Fang Qing rolled directly off the ditation cushion, letting out a scream.
Blood flowed from his eyes, then swiftly transford into spring water.
Much mud and gri stread from his pores, continuously clumping together, as though to seal him alive within a clay figurine.
“This is...Dao Transformation? Am I about to undergo Dao Transformation?”
“Dao-Birth Pearl!”
Fang Qing called out inwardly. The Dao-Birth Pearl spun, clear and turbid qi circulating, clouds steaming and rosy clouds glowing.
“Huff...”
Only after a long while did he gasp and climb to his feet, tearing away the mud on his body, his heart filled with lingering fear. “Great fortune? I nearly died and that’s still great fortune?”
Thinking of this loss, his heart ached unbearably.
Not to ntion anything else—Murong Jiu had perished on the spot, and that flying sword together with the Heavenly Wind Spiritual Spring were completely lost.
“Moreover...if I hadn’t left myself a way out beforehand and deliberately hidden here at Azure Sea Sect, separated by an entire world...without that separation, under the backlash of Dao Transformation, would I even have had ti to use the Dao-Birth Pearl?”
Fang Qing wiped away the bloody spring water, sat cross-legged, and silently reviewed the situation.
Although the Dao Transformation just now had been miserable, at the sa ti he had been pursued by the Great Dao and infused with a trace of Dao practice: “Golden Cores cannot be calculated!”
“【Earth of the Nü Mansion】, also known as 【Mud-Stove Earth】, is the rightful position of Earth...and upon its tal position, soone has already attained the Dao...nad ‘Eastern Origin司命 Divine Lord of Miraculous Response’! Also known as ‘Stove Lord’!”
“‘Stove Lord’? This title sounds sowhat familiar...”
Fang Qing imdiately recalled that the location chosen for that Ragged Old Daoist’s exchange gathering back then had been a Stove Lord Temple!
“I knew that Ragged Daoist was a Purple Palace cultivator. How could he randomly choose so shabby place as a venue? There was indeed deeper aning...as for that old fox An Zhuzi, was he truly unaware as a lower cultivator? Or did he deliberately not say?”
“Golden Cores cannot be calculated...does that an cultivators above Golden Core in the Qi Ingestion Path, and even related items, are difficult to divine?”
He shuddered, thinking of the sword cultivator’s cave dwelling before, and this blessed land expedition.
His previous divinations had seed to go wrong?
“This Heavenly Secrets hexagram divination path truly is useless...if anything above Golden Core cannot be calculated, then what use is it?”
Fang Qing gave a bitter smile.
Previously, relying on divination, he had been unstoppable, repeatedly turning misfortune into fortune. Although he had warned himself that divination was not omnipotent, in reality he had still relied on it too much.
The result was that this ti he had nearly been killed by his own divination!
“If I had blindly trusted the hexagram and personally entered the blessed land...that would have been certain death!”
“If at the end I had not suddenly had the idea to return here to Azure Sea Sect...it would have been nine deaths and one life!”
Fang Qing let out a long breath. “Truly perilous...”
He steadied himself and once more communicated with the Dao-Birth Pearl. Naturally, Murong Jiu’s perspective was gone, but Xu Hei’s remained!
“Run!”
Xu Hei’s scalp tingled. Not daring to wait for any trades, he scrambled and fled the bounds of Smoke-Wave Lake.
But before he could leave, he saw the heavens above Smoke-Wave Lake suddenly change.
A powerful cultivation image descended, causing his blood and True Power to fluctuate.
“This is...Purple Palace combat? Their qi chanisms are drawing in?”
Xu Hei felt alard, then let out a long breath: fortunately there was no Purple Palace of 【Earth of the Nü Mansion】, otherwise at such close range, this old man’s mind would likely have been hooked, eyes reddened, rushing to stake his life...
Looking back, he saw two Qi Ingestion cultivators from Black Moth Sect shout angrily in the sky, surrounding a loose cultivator.
That loose Qi Ingestion cultivator was clearly cultivating 【Earth of the Nü Mansion】. A mountain-like artifact in his hand shot skyward, his eyes sowhat red as well. The two sides fought as though mortal enemies.
Hm? It seed the Black Moth Sect’s Purple Palace had fought a Purple Palace of 【Earth of the Nü Mansion】 in the blessed land?
Pitiful fellow cultivators...if they had run farther away, they would have been fine.
Or if they had cast their Dao Foundation, they could at least barely control their own lives and not be so easily stirred...
Xu Hei said nothing more and fled headlong, wishing he could run beyond the borders of an entire Commandery.
Before he had gone far, Smoke-Wave Blessed Land changed once more.
With a cry of pain and rage, heaven and earth transford, and fierce baleful qi was born.
From the earth crawled countless snakes, insects, rats, and ants, fighting and devouring one another...
In the sky, various miasmas and pestilential qi appeared, multicolored, spreading outward...
“This is...a celestial phenonon?”
“Could it be a Purple Palace has fallen into Dao Transformation?!”
Xu Hei felt even more alard.
Whether born or fallen, a Purple Palace cultivator’s phenona could at least affect an entire Commandery.
“This one who died should be a Purple Palace of 【Earth of the Di Mansion】...could it be that Black Moth Sect Ancestor?”
“When Demonic Path Purple Palace cultivators undergo Dao Transformation, they basically turn into natural disasters, blanketing a region...whereas Righteous Path Purple Palace cultivators transform into spiritual lands, benefiting later generations...”
“Pity, why wasn’t it soone of the Righteous Path who died...”
“In that case, our Ancient Shu might have gained another treasured land, rich in Earth-Virtue spiritual items...perhaps even the Dao Foundation spiritual item this old man needs...”
Xu Hei, an old geography ghost, ran for two days straight before reaching a city.
This Heshui City had been established by the Dao Foundation Zhang Family. For generations the Zhang Family cultivated 【Bishui】, skilled in healing and treating wounds, benevolent toward others, and producing Dao Foundation cultivators generation after generation, enjoying considerable fa near Yulin Commandery.
More crucially, the Zhang Family’s main branch resided in Heshui City, protected by a Dao Foundation grand array capable of withstanding many dangers.
Xu Hei hurried into the city. He had just sat down in a teahouse that catered specifically to cultivators when mournful music rose outside.
Curious, he went to the window to look and saw white mourning banners already hanging over the Zhang Family estate.
“This...which important figure of the Zhang Family has died?”
Xu Hei was dumbstruck, nearly thinking himself an ill-oned star.
“I heard it was the Zhang Family’s Qilin son. A few months ago he went into seclusion to cast his Dao Foundation...in recent days it was said the phenona had ford. The Zhang Family had even prepared a celebratory banquet...today suddenly he failed, his Dao Foundation collapsed, body perished and Dao extinguished. The celebratory banquet turned into mourning music...”
Several loose cultivators beside him sighed repeatedly. “Truly Heaven envies talent!”
Xu Hei, however, knew the reason and thought inwardly: so that’s how it is...cultivating a Water-Virtue Dao Foundation and colliding with Earth-Virtue baleful qi...what unfortunate timing. This man’s fate was truly poor...had he been farther away, it would have been fine. Yet this was still within a single Commandery!
“So a Purple Palace has died, and from Black Moth Sect at that? Good riddance!”
Within Profound Azure Cave, Fang Qing clapped in delight.
After all, the Fang Family bore a blood-sea enmity with Black Moth Sect!
“However...this was rely an ordinary exploration for treasure. Even if the matter of 【Earth of the Nü Mansion】 Pill Nature occurred...how did a Purple Palace die? Could it have been the demon race?”
“Or perhaps...that Ragged Daoist? Since the Li Rulong affair, he has clearly not been on the sa side as Black Moth Sect.”
——
“In any case, this matter has grown big...”
A Purple Palace cultivator lived five hundred years, suppressing a region, a true hegemon!
The death of one was enough to drastically alter the situation in Ancient Shu.
“Forget it...though this Smoke-Wave Blessed Land trip did not fulfill my wishes, perhaps afterward a great quantity of spiritual items, cultivation thods, and spiritual artifacts will circulate...”
“Let Xu Hei act according to circumstances. If he can purchase them, then purchase.”
Fang Qing issued the order but no longer held much hope.
“Fortunately, although this blessed land yielded no tangible treasures...the Alchemy Classics I read, and those two cultivation thods, will not be forgotten...among them even a Purple Palace sword art!”
“As long as I slowly gather qi and then find a proper flying sword...in the future I too will be a sword cultivator!”
“However, the urgent matter of casting Dao Foundation—must it fall upon Whale Devouring the Vast Sea Art?”
Thinking thus, his expression gradually grew solemn. “And furthermore...that broken place Ancient Shu carries rather great risk for breakthrough. Even if I prepare thoroughly, should a Purple Palace fall and celestial phenona drastically change...would that not be an unwarranted calamity?”
Like the Zhang Family of Heshui—there would not even be tears left to cry.
Of course, properly used it could also be assistance, but Fang Qing clearly would not entrust his own safety to luck.
“Perhaps...”
A thought stirred in his heart. “The Dao arena for my Dao Foundation breakthrough can be placed here at Azure Sea Sect?”
Though there would be no special assistance here, there would likewise be no negative effects.
Even when that Zhong Family Ancestor fell last ti, Fang Qing had not sensed too great a change in heaven and earth, nor had ill ons blanketed a region for years without dispersing.
To Fang Qing, this was crucial!
He would rather have no benefit at all than fail inexplicably.
“Next...I shall ponder Shen Yuan Essays and improve the Foundation Establishnt Pill...”
“Yes, and by the way, gather the main ingredients to refine Minor Barrier-Breaking Pill, striving to have my Qi Refining Path cultivation break through to Mid-Stage Foundation Establishnt...”
Fang Qing leisurely exited seclusion and received a Sound-Transmitting Talisman from Qin Ruxue.
She had already accepted a garrison mission on Tai Bai Sea Region and was no longer within Azure Sea Sect.
“Young Master...”
Within the Sound-Transmitting Talisman, Qin Ruxue as usual reported several matters, such as progress in collecting pill formulas and dicinal materials...as well as major events within the sect.
“Oh? Cui Zhe has already passed the vote and beco Punishnt of Evil Hall Master, thus entering the sect’s upper ranks?”
“The Sect Master’s Faction’s power, after Linghu Jin’s ‘Core Formation,’ has truly multiplied severalfold...”
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