Big Data Cultivation
Chapter 1169: Protagonist (First update to celebrate Leader Lao Niu)

Chapter 1169: Chapter 1169: Protagonist (First update to celebrate Leader Lao Niu)

Feng Jun saw that the two women were watching intently, so he didn’t rush to put away the Soul Stone.

He waited for about a minute before taking out another Spirit Beast Bag, aiming it at the Soul Stone, "Collect!~"

In the next moment, the Soul Stone was collected into the Spirit Beast Bag meant for the Qi Refinement Realm.

"Oh," the two women sighed lightly in unison, clearly feeling a bit disappointed, thinking this Yin Spirit was somewhat lackluster.

Feng Jun glanced at them angrily, "It’s really not helping to just watch the excitement. Isn’t it a good thing that the opponent is weak?"

The two women exchanged a glance, and Huang Fu Wuxia decisively spoke, "In that case, are you still selling the Soul Stone?"

"Of course not," Feng Jun laughed heartily, looking very pleased with himself, "After getting rid of this guy, I won’t have to worry about Soul Stones after reaching the Nascent Soul stage."

Huang Fu Wuxia rolled her eyes, "Good thing I didn’t contact my family, or I’d be scolded to death."

Kong Ziyi, however, smiled slightly, "If Mountain Master Feng changes his mind, be sure to let me know."

Feng Jun smiled, "Alright, let me check today’s loot again. Surely that guy didn’t have just one good thing, right?"

Actually, he didn’t have high expectations for the loot—how much wealth could a robber lying in ambush have?

However, to his surprise, the guy with the Soul Stone did carry quite a few treasures.

There wasn’t much in the storage bag, very poor indeed, but in that used Storage Talisman, there were actually two manuals: one body technique called "Flash Move" and an auxiliary cultivation technique called "Three Yin Gathering Yang Technique."

"Huh?" Kong Ziyi couldn’t help but let out a light exclamation when she saw the latter technique, "Is this the improved technique of the evil cultivator?"

"Evil cultivator?" Feng Jun was stunned when he heard it, his expression becoming serious, "It’s actually an evil cultivator?"

Since he came to this realm, he has done some excessive things for self-protection, but there’s one line he would never cross, and that is evil cultivation—whether it’s the evil cultivator group or evil cultivation techniques.

"It’s not what you think," Huang Fu Wuxia shook her head, then looked at Kong Ziyi, "Is it the improvement of ’Hundred Yin Gathering Yang’?"

Kong Ziyi, upon hearing this, glanced at her in surprise, then smiled and replied, "You’re young, yet you have quite the insight."

’Hundred Yin Gathering Yang’ is a bona fide evil cultivation technique, where one first raises a hundred virgin cultivators. When they’ve cultivated to a certain level, the evil cultivator uses a method to absorb these female cultivators’ cultivation level completely.

In cultivation methods, Yin and Yang harmonization is actually considered a major category. The saying goes, "Solitary Yang does not grow, alone Yin does not live," which is the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Moderately absorbing is also no harm.

But the techniques ’Hundred Yin Gathering Yang’ and ’Hundred Yang Gathering Yin’ are too excessive and cruel in their absorption.

Yin and Yang harmony is the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, but over-absorption...feasting everywhere isn’t so easy, absorbing too much foreign spiritual energy will taint one’s own aura.

To assimilate these foreign spiritual energies, one must absorb the other’s essence blood and even lifespan, to pretend "I am one of you."

The miserable state of those who are absorbed can be imagined, losing cultivation is the least of worries, the massive loss of essence blood and rapid decrease in lifespan are the frightening parts.

Later, the anti-evil cultivation sentiment grew significantly, and those who practiced this technique, which only knew how to take without giving, were mercilessly exterminated.

However...cultivators who practice the Great Dao of Yin and Yang harmonization are still quite numerous.

Later, a brilliant individual derived a new technique from ’Hundred Yin Gathering Yang’——isn’t it just a problem of only knowing how to take? Redo it, change it to give and take, and it’s fine.

In short, ’Three Yin Gathering Yang’ is a technique where a cultivator cultivates their own three Yin, while also having three opposite-gender partners. In normal times, they can transfer cultivation to their partners, and when it’s time to break through, they can take some back.

Actually, this is already a very amicable technique, but the reputation of ’Hundred Yin Gathering Yang’ is really foul, and this technique is only for the Qi Refinement Realm, with requirements for the cultivator, and is just an auxiliary technique, so it faded quickly into obscurity.

However, upon hearing this, Feng Jun’s heart was moved—this technique is indeed particularly suitable for Chen Shengwang.

And that ’Flash Move’ is a body technique for the Out of Dust stage, since reaching the Out of Dust stage, he had not gotten a good body technique.

Both of these techniques are very useful to him, Feng Jun secretly marveled: I finally have the protagonist treatment too.

Just a few days ago he was envious of Jing Qingyang, able to uncover a ’Pillar Towering in the Sky,’ now he also experienced the same treatment, likewise defeating a malevolent cultivator and unexpectedly obtaining techniques, and two to boot.

This doesn’t even count the Soul Stone.

Then, full of anticipation, he opened the Spirit Beast Bag that the person was carrying—what other amazing things could there be?

Upon opening, he was a bit disappointed, it was a red and black speckled small snake less than a foot long, but it was an intermediate-level spirit beast.

The small snake, after coming out of the Spirit Beast Bag, slapped its tail on the ground, sprang into the air, and was about to dart away.

But there were three people present in the Out of Dust stage, would they let it escape? Wouldn’t that be a colossal joke?

Feng Jun raised his hand, directly capturing it in mid-air, and his right hand already took out the Demon-Sealing Pagoda, "Come back here for me!"

"Don’t kill it!" Huang Fu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi shouted in unison.

It turns out that this snake is a rare creature, called the Red Refinement Snake, does it sound familiar? Wrong, this ’refinement’ is the refinement in artifact refining, it’s inherently Yin attribute but also has a fire attribute, capable of spitting a kind of emerald cold flame.

Generally, artifact crafting requires fire, but some materials can’t be exposed to fire, and some runes can’t use sunfire crimson flame during engraving, only cold flame can be used.

The cold flame spat by the Red Refinement Snake is suitable for use in artifact crafting. If an artisan can have a Red Refinement Snake, their choices will increase considerably.

This snake is born as a spirit beast and will grow into a wild beast when it matures. However, taming an adult Red Refinement Snake is very difficult, and immature snakes are rarely seen, making this creature very rare.

Huang Fu Wuxia expressed that she hoped to buy this snake, as there are many artifact craftsmen among Tiantong’s partners, and Tiantong itself even has an artifact crafting division. For the sake of the Commerce Alliance’s interests, she’d be willing to offer a suitable price for the snake.

Kong Ziyi, this time, did not let her, "Mountain Master Feng, I owe some favors to the artifact refining elder in my sect, I’m willing to buy this snake at a high price, please name your price."

Feng Jun was quite surprised after knowing this was a Red Refinement Snake, but after careful consideration, it really wasn’t suitable for him. At Luohua Manor, besides himself, no one could handle this snake, nor did anyone seem interested in artifact refining.

Feng Jun was impossible to engage in artifact refining, his main interest lies in formations, while also dabbling in some talismans, which was already his limit—cultivators catering to many skills would affect their pursuit of the Great Dao.

Not to mention he is the leader of Luohua, although daily affairs are handled by others, he still has a lot on his plate.

As for the most likely to enter the Out of Dust stage, Zhang Caixin, it’s even more impossible for her. She’s chosen to delve deeper into music theory, though she also mentioned wanting to raise Spirit Beasts, but how many girls enjoy keeping snakes?

Even Huang Fu Wuxia and Kong Ziyi only saw the Red Refinement Snake’s abilities for others, without saying they liked to keep snakes.

As for expecting Zhang Caixin to like artifact refining? Let’s not kid ourselves, the girl at most would make some musical instruments, and very simple ones at that, like flutes.

Besides them, in the short term, Luohua basically shouldn’t expect anyone else to enter the Out of Dust stage, making this Red Refinement Snake useless.

As for the disciples of Mount Zhige, Yun Buyao is highly likely to enter the Out of Dust stage quickly, but it would take at least seven or eight years, and Feng Jun couldn’t see an interest in artifact refining; the feeling is she prefers fighting.

Of course, if he asserted his stance, Yun Buyao would obediently go learn artifact refining, this child always puts him at ease.

But in such matters, why force it? For a single snake, to change a person’s life plan, isn’t it going after trifles and neglecting essentials?

Such considerations filled his mind in just a moment, then he waved his hand, speaking with a smile, "Since Zi Yi fellow Taoist likes it, I’ll just give it to you."

Huang Fu Wuxia couldn’t help but roll her eyes, while Kong Ziyi shook her head, "Thank you Taoist friend Feng, but this thing is extremely valuable, how could I accept it for nothing? Please name your price."

Feng Jun chuckled, "If you say so, then for the storage bag you promised me, I’ll also have to ask you to name a price."

Kong Ziyi promised him some time ago to give him a storage bag with tens of thousands of square units, which would be worth tens of thousands of Spirit Stones. At that time Feng Jun wanted to refuse, but then thought maybe what he considered expensive, she might not.

Just like in the Earth Realm, more than ninety-five percent of Huaxia citizens could spend their entire lives’ savings yet not afford a hundred-square-meter apartment inside the third ring road of the capital, but standing at the top of the pyramid, that handful could easily give away such an apartment.

The Red Refinement Snake Feng Jun seized could sell for more than Old Man Su’s Violet-Gold Eagle, but maybe not much more—sure, the Violet-Gold Eagle couldn’t craft artifacts, but it could fly, which makes it a Spirit Beast capable of carrying humans into battle.

So he gave it to Kong Ziyi directly, it’s simply a reciprocal gesture; he couldn’t always take advantage, right?

As for not being able to sell it to Huang Fu Wuxia, he could only apologize: If I can find another one, I’ll sell it to you at a good price!

Actually, upon hearing his words, Chairman Huang Fu did feel much better—it’s not that I lacked the qualifications to compete, it’s just that Sister Zi Yi’s move was too grand for me to match.

Currently, she is being thoroughly surpassed by Kong Ziyi, her cultivation level cannot match up, and even her influence pales in comparison—she’s just a president of a secondary branch in the Tiantong Commercial Alliance, while Kong Ziyi is already a core disciple of one of the Four Great Sects, the Taiqing Sect.

As for family background? She doesn’t compare either, there is a Golden Core Ancestor in the Huang Fu family who holds her in high regard, but Kong Ziyi’s grandparents on both sides are Golden Core cultivators, and they are among the Four Sects of Wutai.

The most critical point is that underneath Ancestor Huang Fu, there are a hundred thousand descendants of the Huang Fu clan, while those two Golden Core cultivators... only have this one granddaughter!

So Kong Ziyi can readily give away a large storage bag, while Huang Fu Wuxia could only watch helplessly.

Her performance in Tiantong is not bad, she is good at earning Spirit Stones, but it couldn’t compare to the deep foundation of the other side, whose grand gestures left her far behind.

(First update, celebrating Alliance Master Jianye Old Bull, only half a day left for double bonuses, loudly calling for monthly tickets.)