Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 484 - 482 Liu Xu (Make up for the lack of updates 38) _1

Chapter 484: Chapter 482 Liu Xu (Make up for the lack of updates 38) _1

"The function of this ’Treasure of Void’ lies in suppressing spiritual energy and demon qi, preventing them from clashing with each other..."

"Therefore, the ’Biyi Universal Skills’ actually have a major flaw. In the future, when Cultivators reach higher realms, the original Treasure of Void might no longer be able to suppress both sides’ magic power. This would lead to a conflict and potentially cause the practitioner to explode and die... It becomes necessary to actively discard this secret skill."

Fang Xi’s eyes grew increasingly bright, "But I am different! I can use the ’Treasures of All Heavens’ as the ’foundation’, relying on it to suppress both sides’ Cultivation... Even if I advance to Transcendent God and Returning to Emptiness in the future... that bit of Cultivation will undoubtedly be like an ant shaking a tree when it comes to the Treasures of All Heavens..."

"However, this Cultivation technique seems to have some unfinished elements... There are still many omissions."

He did not decide to immediately start Cultivating but prepared to hand it over to the Heterodox Nascent Soul.

Not just the ’Biyi Universal Skills’, but also the ’Supreme Heavenly Sovereign’s True Demon Art of Controlling All Spirits’, ’Demon Fire Refined Infant School’, and others. He planned to first let the Heterodox Nascent Soul take them, make good use of the knowledge and accumulation from The Nine States, and analyze them thoroughly before proceeding.

"The Heterodox Nascent Soul has already taken out the ’Demonic Energy Particle Map’, which has greatly increased its importance and can now apply for access to some restricted-level resources..."

"Like the most powerful artificial intelligence and supercomputers... even biomechanical Cultivator Dantian Qi Ocean Furnaces... If these techniques’ data are entered into them and simulated a few times, any problems can be revealed and quickly resolved..."

With that thought, Fang Xi felt perfectly justified in being an absentee manager once again.

...

Inside the Cultivation Room.

Threads of spiritual energy converged, transforming into the most refined and pure Spiritual Liquid, then enveloped by blue and yellow Mysterious Light, and finally turning into strands of nebulous Purple Qi, falling into the Dantian Qi Ocean.

Fang Xi’s main Nascent Soul sat cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes, and took a small breath.

All the nebulous Purple Qi in the Dantian Qi Ocean was absorbed by him. A flicker of light flashed on the Nascent Soul’s little face, as if he had swallowed a powerful tonic pill.

After a moment, Fang Xi slowly finished his practice and opened his eyes, "The 18th layer of the ’Kuyong Skills’ has become even more difficult..."

He had twenty layers of Kuyong Skills, corresponding to the early stages of becoming a Transcendent God!

Before advancing to Transcendent God, there was no need to worry too much about the techniques.

"By that calculation, with my current talent and above a fourth-order Spiritual Vein, it will probably take me one to two hundred years to Cultivate to the mid-Nascent Soul peak..."

Although that seems about the same time it took to perfect the initial stage of Nascent Soul Cultivation, progress in the mid-Nascent Soul stage is more difficult!

The only reason it seems comparable is because of the improvement in spiritual root aptitude.

For someone like Nangong Li, they might not reach the peak of mid-Nascent Soul stage in their entire life!

"Indeed, I still need to refine the ’Splitting Spirit Pill’... or find other opportunities?"

If there were no external dangers, Fang Xi would naturally prefer to stay in Jade Island and grind away with time...

With his current lifespan of over three thousand years, he could definitely perfect the 18th layer of Kuyong Skills, and then try to break through the 19th layer of the techniques.

But alas...

With the Monster Clan’s descent into the Lower Realm intensifying, any day now the Void Passage might accommodate Transcendent Gods.

Given the Monster Clan’s hostility toward the inheritors of Green Emperor Mountain, the situation is not optimistic...

’Even if the Monster Clan’s Transcendent Gods come to South Wilderness, they would suffer from the suppression of this realm and their inability to use their full strength in the Lower Realm, with the risk of Primordial Energy backlash... their power is certainly not something I can withstand.’

’Hard Cultivation is not a solution; it might be better to hide for now.’

Fang Xi got up immediately, ready to hide in the Western Desert Cultivation World for a while, and also to search for Blood River Stones, Demon Fire, and more advanced alchemy inheritances...

Had it not been for these reasons, it would have been a better option to hide in the Red Sun World.

He had just left the closed-door cultivation room when his expression subtly shifted.

In the outside world, there unexpectedly lay a crimson Voice Transmission Talisman.

Fang Xi casually grabbed it, raising an eyebrow slightly, "Oh? This is interesting..."

After a moment of thought, he sent out a Talisman, spoke a few words to it.

The Voice Transmission Talisman turned into a blaze of fire and suddenly disappeared.

...

Not long after.

Evergreen Hall.

An Escape Light fell, revealing Zhong Hongyu, Zheng Shan, and others, followed by a young girl who entered the Evergreen Hall.

"Greetings, Young Master..."

Zhong Hongyu bowed and then pulled on the young girl’s arm, "Hurry and pay your respects to the Alliance Leader?"

The girl stepped forward, bowing gracefully, "Liu Xu... greets the Alliance Leader!"

She immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times.

"Oh?"

Amidst the flashing of purple light in Fang Xi’s eyes, he waved his sleeve.

A stream of blue Spiritual Light flew out and landed all around Liu Xu, exploding suddenly into points of light like fireflies.

Surrounded by this marvelous sight, Liu Xu’s expression remained unchanged as if unfazed even by mountains collapsing in front of her, even appearing a bit cooler...

Meanwhile, an extraordinary scene unfolded.

Those green light particles attached themselves to Liu Xu’s body, scrambling to burrow into her, and in an instant, they vanished...

Liu Xu seemed to feel something as well, her icy facade melting, revealing a slight smile for the first time.

"Not bad... indeed, a Heaven Grade Spiritual Root. Not only that, it’s a Heavenly Grade Wood Spiritual Root! And she even has an Earth Grade Water Spiritual Root as a complement. With water nurturing wood, if this girl Cultivates Wooden Element techniques, her speed should surpass that of ordinary Heavenly Spirits."

Fang Xi exhaled a long breath and made his judgment.

Zhong Hongyu had contacted me through a Voice Transmission Talisman before, and it was also for this matter.

Now, as the leader of the Three Kingdoms League and the only Nascent Soul Cultivator, Fang Xi had turned the tide at the brink... enjoying prestige at its zenith in the three countries.

Furthermore, with the beast tide ongoing, a large number of mortals and Cultivators migrated to Thousand Island Lake, greatly increasing the population base.

With a larger base, the probability of a child being born with a Spiritual Root also increased.

In the recent decades of the ’Spirit Testing Convention’, quite a few children with Spiritual Root potential had been discovered.

Some of their parents were Cultivators, while others were pure mortals, including natives of Thousand Island Lake as well as refugees from Yue Country, and even from Wood Kingdom and Martial Kingdom...

All this would have been trivial matters, even though a few Earth Grade Spiritual Roots had been found before, they just caught the attention of some Core Formation Cultivators who planned to test their temperament and then take them as disciples.

But at the most recent Spirit Testing Convention, a Heaven Grade Spiritual Root actually appeared!

With such aptitude, they could cultivate to Core Formation without any bottlenecks.

Within the three countries, that made them an unparalleled genius!

Even for Green Wood Sect, Mysterious Heaven Sect, or even Star Pointing Sect and Profound Ice Palace, these Core Formation Sects, getting one of them would mean opening the Ancestor Hall to comfort the ancestors...

Of course, given the current situation, it’s also possible that they couldn’t be kept and would have to be presented layer by layer to higher powers...

Fang Xi looked at the little girl called ’Liu Xu’ with an indescribable expression and suddenly asked, "What is the background of this girl?"

"Reporting to young master, this girl is from Wood Kingdom, the daughter of a mundane official. She fled with her parents to Yue Country, but then encountered a catastrophe. Only one old servant survived to flee with her to Thousand Island Lake. By chance, our immigrant ship rescued her and sent her to Dragon Fish Island... During the recent Spirit Testing Convention, all children of the appropriate age had to be tested, thus her astonishing Spiritual Root was discovered."

Zhong Hongyu explained Liu Xu’s background clearly and unhurriedly.

Zheng Shan, standing to the side, listened with a slightly grim look in her eyes.

If it were not for the beast tide, perhaps the girl would have been admitted into the Green Wood Sect...

Of course, if the young master wished, the Green Wood Sect would still have to obediently deliver this Heavenly Spirit Root to their doorstep.

"So it is..."

Fang Xi yawned, not particularly concerned.

In times of chaos, human lives are worth less than grass.

Probably, there are several Heaven Grade Spiritual Roots dying by the roadside, less regarded than stray dogs!

Moreover, the Heaven Grade Spiritual Root merely guarantees success in reaching Core Formation, whether they can condense a Nascent Soul after that still depends on the Cultivator’s fortune.

And even if a Nascent Soul is condensed, most Nascent Soul Cultivators only hover around the early and middle phases... not yet enough to resist a single strike from him!

’To date, I’ve slain more Nascent Soul old monsters than I can count on both hands...’

’However... a Wooden Element Heavenly Spiritual Root? In the eyes of Zhong Hongyu and the others, she would be a worthy successor to my legacy, right?’

Immortal Cultivators take things like the Taoist system and inheritance very seriously.

On one hand, it’s seen as a continuation of spirit; on the other hand, they hope that among their disciples, one will become a Great Power, even revival the already deceased ancestors and step back on the Cultivation path again!

Fang Xi was very disdainful of this, regarding it as a sign of weakness.

If one cannot transcend on their own and instead places hope in future generations, it represents avoidance and incapability!

If his own Cultivation failed, he would not engage in such actions.

Looking at the little girl now, and then at people like Zhong Hongyu beside him, he suddenly fell silent.

Zhong Hongyu was one matter, after all, she had been promoted to a Superior Grade Spiritual Root, with a glimmer of hope for advancing to Nascent Soul in the future.

Zheng Shan and others who had condensed Jia Dan were destined not to advance, with a lifespan of only five to six hundred years.

Centuries later, when the people he knew one by one sat down to transform, or fell on their Taoist Path, it indeed would be a blow - this was one of the reasons why older Nascent Soul Cultivators became increasingly eccentric.

’Any pet owner who develops an attachment to a cat or a dog would wish for them to live as long as possible, to keep them company a bit longer...’

’Perhaps...’

Fang Xi glanced again at Liu Xu and said to Zhong Hongyu, "This girl is good, let her stay on Jade Island..."

In his words, however, he did not mention any intent to take her as a disciple.

"Yes..."

Zhong Hongyu was somewhat puzzled but still bowed respectfully.

Fang Xi paused and then threw out a jade slip, "Liu Xu... from now on you will study the cultivation technique within this jade slip."

With those words, he had already decided the fate of the girl.

"Liu Xu thanks... young master."

Liu Xu hesitated for a moment, then following Zhong Hongyu’s title, she bowed and expressed her gratitude.

"Hmm, you may leave..."

Watching them depart, Fang Xi’s eyes were profound.

Of course, what was in that jade slip was not the ’Kuyong Skills’, but rather the ’Green Wood Longevity Skills’!

’Kuyong Skills’ had too much karmic involvement, and unless one had the ’Yi Wood Magic Body’, the cultivation would be extremely arduous; they might not even pass the hurdle of condensing the Kuyong Golden Core.

And even if they did, they would not be able to refine the Kuyong Mysterious Light.

Fang Xi, obviously, was not going to expose the secret of the Demon Tree and teach her the ’Longevity Skills’; thus, that cultivation practice was a trap.

In comparison, the ’Green Wood Longevity Skills’ are balanced and peaceful, and one can continue to cultivate all the way to Nascent Soul, which is sufficient...