Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 591 - 589: Two Elements (Seeking Monthly Tickets)_1

Chapter 591: Chapter 589: Two Elements (Seeking Monthly Tickets)_1

"Cultivating both Wood Spiritual Power and Metal Spiritual Power at the same time?"

Fang Xi was slightly startled, carefully recalling Wei Qingfeng’s experiences, and couldn’t help but say, "These two types of spiritual powers restrain each other, wouldn’t that greatly hinder cultivation progress? Moreover... to break through to Returning to Emptiness, doesn’t one need to ’unite all practices’, at least mastering the power of the Five Elements or the power of Three Talents?"

"Hehe... That’s true, but that’s all old news now."

The goat-bearded Sir Hu laughed proudly, "This ’Wood Blade Skill’ is a new skill developed within the last ten thousand years, emphasizing mutual restraint of attributes. After cultivating to Perfect Transcendent God, by using the mutual restraint of water and fire, or metal and wood, it stimulates the breakthrough to Returning to Emptiness... There have already been great cultivators who have successfully taken this step. According to the skill’s description, although it is risky, and the success rate is somewhat lower than uniting all practices, once you break through to Returning to Emptiness, you’ll be second to none..."

’The Earth Immortal Realm is making progress too...’

Upon hearing this, Fang Xi couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

The secrets and breakthrough experiences that he and Fang Immortal Taoist Master had gathered in the Lower Realm might already be outdated.

It was only natural that he wasn’t aware of this, considering the Setting Sun Plain was a backwater area.

"If that’s the case, I’ll take this ’Wood Blade Spell’. How many Spirit Stones will it cost?"

Fang Xi sighed.

The goat-bearded Sir Hu showed a pleased smile and shook five fingers.

Fang Xi, feeling a pinch, took out five high-quality Spirit Stones and received the skill jade slip from the old man’s hand, silently deciding to ditch the ’Shi Dingfeng’ disguise once he got back.

While conversing with the elder, a sliver of Divine Consciousness entered the jade slip, skimming through it swiftly.

The ’Wood Blade Spell’ initially was just a decent Wooden Element skill, but upon reaching the Transcendent God realm, there was an additional adjunct ’Gold Blade Skills’ to accumulate Metal Spiritual Power in the body. In the end, it is to be balanced with the Wood Spiritual Power before abruptly inducing a conflict, stimulating a breakthrough in the bottleneck of Returning to Emptiness!

According to the secret techniques, cultivating mutually restraining spiritual powers, the combination of metal and wood is just average. If a cultivator with equal aptitude for both water and fire spiritual roots were to use this method to break through to Returning to Emptiness, the chances of success would be even greater.

Besides the method of breaking through with Five Elements Skills, there are also many other pathways such as ’integrating the righteous and demonic paths’, and ’human-demon integration’.

The so-called ’integrating the righteous and demonic paths’ naturally refers to cultivators of the utmost positive and yang Righteous Path magic powers, who after achieving the Transcendent God stage, cultivate a supremely negative and demonic Demon Path skill, then attempt to merge the two types of magic power into one.

’Human-demon integration’ is essentially the same, moreover requiring the assimilation of a certain Special Bloodline.

Although these methods are unorthodox and the success rate is lower than the traditional breakthroughs of the Five Elements, Three Talents, and body refining... the prerequisites are much simpler.

Furthermore, regardless of the means used, after the breakthrough to Returning to Emptiness, one would be able to manipulate Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy and have greatly extended lifespans as a Returning to Emptiness cultivator!

Returning to Emptiness cultivators can manipulate Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy, transforming it into even purer Immortal Origin, Sky Demon, True demon qi, to sustain their own Cultivation.

"Besides that... by taking pills such as the ’Biyi Breaking Virtual Pill’, there are also remarkable effects in aiding the breakthrough to Returning to Emptiness..."

After looking through several methods of breaking through to Returning to Emptiness introduced in the secret techniques, Fang Xi felt this skill was well worth the purchase.

Even if he might not cultivate the ’Wood Blade Spell’, the ideas introduced within for breaking through to Returning to Emptiness would be very instructive for Fang Xi’s future cultivation.

’Biyi Breakthrough... after achieving Transcendent God, to cultivate an auxiliary Metal Element skill is indeed much simpler than cultivating the Five Elements Skills and assembling all five elements...’

’However, the method with the highest success rate is still ’Merging of Three Energies’...’

Fang Xi made up his mind that it was best to follow the optimal configuration.

But if he really couldn’t gather everything needed, he should have other alternative methods as well.

"Does the Sky Ink Pavilion have maps and introductions to the major external forces?"

Fang Xi asked, "I’m about to leave the Setting Sun Plain and would like to explore properly."

"Oh?"

The goat-bearded Sir Hu had actually been observing Fang Xi all along.

He ascertained from his speech, demeanor, attire, and even certain small habits that the latter was indeed a local cultivator.

But his cultivation was definitely not as simple as just Core Formation!

A common Core Formation cultivator would be doing well to have high-grade Spirit Stones, but to have five top-grade Spirit Stones?!

However, those who came to Mechanism City for trade often concealed their identities, which he understood.

He had seen plenty and didn’t think much of it, "You want a map? How large of an area are you looking for?"

"Naturally, the bigger, the better. If you have one for the entire Earth Immortal Realm, that would be even better,"

Fang Xi laughed.

"The Earth Immortal Realm is vast and boundless; even as our human, demon, and monster clans have continued to expand, we’ve never seen the end of the Earth Immortal Realm’s boundaries... It’s possible the land we three clans occupy is just a remote corner of the Earth Immortal Realm, so how could there be a map of the entire realm?"

The goat-bearded Sir Hu shook his head repeatedly, "However, there is a map of the general territories of the human race. Our pavilion has it, but the price is even more expensive than the Returning to Emptiness skills..."

Fang Xi seemed to ponder deeply, then reluctantly pulled out a Storage Bag, "How about these?"

"Oh?"

Upon inspecting the contents with his Divine Consciousness, a satisfied expression appeared on Sir Hu’s face, "Such an abundance of Spiritual Objects, absolutely worth several top-grade Spirit Stones... Sir, please give me a moment."

He retreated into the back hall and soon presented a jade scroll.

This jade slip is similar to the bamboo slips used by mortals, consisting of a series of long, purple jade strips linked together.

Fang Xi took it and allowed his Divine Consciousness to enter it slightly, and was immediately shocked.

Vast, immense...

That was his first impression upon seeing the map.

The densely marked dangerous areas, secret realms, sects, and nations were so numerous and intricately placed that it seemed impossible to count them all.

"In fact, in the Earth Immortal Realm, the territories occupied by our human race, Monster Clan, and Demon Clan are not the largest. It is the barbaric regions occupied by various ancient beasts..."

The old man with a goat beard explained, "Among the ancient beasts, the strongest—the Primordial Chaos Beasts—can even compete with the ’Phoenix’, ’True Dragon’, ’Azure Luan’, and other True Spirit level beings worshipped by the Monster Clan. The territories of our three clans must largely avoid the areas where they roam... Presently, the territories of our human race were also established by clearing out many ancient and wild beasts. Although we have set up great arrays to monitor the entire region, it is still common for beasts on par with Transcendent Gods and those Returning to Emptiness to emerge and cause trouble... This even happens more frequently than the infiltration of spies from the Monster Clan and Demon Clan."

As Fang Xi listened to the explanation, his Divine Consciousness surveyed the entire map.

To his surprise, the territories of the human race, Monster Clan, and Demon Clan in the Earth Immortal Realm contested in rumors were not interlocked like the teeth of a comb, but were separated by numerous insurmountable natural hazards.

Some of these natural hazards were the territories of the Primordial Chaos Beasts, while others were plagued with certain disasters endemic to the Earth Immortal Realm that not even great cultivators at Returning to Emptiness or Integration could traverse.

The territories of the human race and the Monster and Demon Clans were not adjacent to each other, connected only by a few passages, all noted to be heavily guarded.

"Three Realms Mountain?!"

Fang Xi looked towards the northernmost part of the human domains, his thoughts racing.

"Three Realms Mountain is considered the borderland of the human, Monster, and Demon Clans, and it’s also the least dangerous passage. Therefore, it often becomes the battleground for the three clans, and many ascending great cultivators have ended up buried there..."

The old man with the goat beard sighed.

"Ascending Immortal? What does it have to do with Three Realms Mountain?" Fang Xi’s interest was piqued, and he casually asked.

"Our Earth Immortal Realm is connected to the Ascension Platforms of various Lower Realms, and in the Upper Realm, there are the corresponding ’Welcoming Immortal Platforms’..."

The old man with the goat beard replied, "Each Lower Realm has a specific ’Welcoming Immortal Platform’, whether one ascends on their own upon reaching perfect Transcendent God or through the pathways opened by Ascension Platforms. Upon successful ascension, one will appear directly above the corresponding Welcoming Immortal Platform... Many of these platforms are located near Three Realms Mountain. The ascending cultivators are often individuals of extraordinary talent and abilities... Many of them are directly recruited by the military forces guarding Three Realms Mountain, making a name for themselves."

’It seems that both self-ascension and Ascension Platforms are a bit of a trap... It might be better to find a crevice in the Void and slip through... Although the mortality rate is extremely high, it’s the most liberated approach.’ Fang Xi privately criticized in his heart, and after asking some more geographical questions, he left the ’Sky Ink Pavilion.’

At the same time, he visited several other bookstores, purchased a large amount of jade slips, and discreetly left Mechanism City.

No sooner had he flown out of Mechanism City than his Escape Light surged, and he disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps he was being overly cautious, but he constantly changed his appearance and aura along the way until he finally hid in an underground location.

Inside a temporary underground cave dwelling.

Fang Xi sat cross-legged with several jade slips laid out before him.

With these jade slips, he finally had a rough understanding of the Earth Immortal Realm.

"The Earth Immortal Realm is unfathomably vast; the territory occupied by the human race can be divided into 99 territories, each incredibly expansive. Core Formation and Nascent Soul cultivators could spend their entire lives only circling within their own domain, and only those above Transcendent God have the ability to move across domains..."

"Even within the human territory, it’s extremely dangerous... Even though each domain is monitored by super arrays that can sense the presence of ancient and wild beasts as well as Demonic Beasts at Returning to Emptiness and Integration, at most they can only detect their qi and determine their location. By the time the enforcement cultivators arrive, they’re likely only left with the option of cleaning up the aftermath..."

"As for the highest strength? The human race has Mahayana Individual Immortals, the Monster Clan worships several True Spirits, and the Demon Clan has Demon Ancestor level powerhouses. They all usually keep to themselves, elusive as dragons glimpsed in glimpses..."

"The truly renowned are the Seven Sages of the Monster Clan, the Six Kings of the Demon Clan, and the Five Sons of Human Race... They are the most powerful among the Integration cultivators, famous throughout the Earth Immortal Realm!"

Fang Xi held a fiery red jade slip in his hand, slowly reading through the miscellaneous records, deepening his understanding of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Time passed unknowingly.

With a single gesture, his figure instantly vanished.

...

In the Western Desert Cultivation World.

Fang Xi sat cross-legged, and his main Nascent Soul emerged, beginning to integrate with the heterodox incarnation...

A long time later.

He opened his eyes, feeling somewhat emotional: "I didn’t expect... that the Earth Immortal Realm would be so vast and boundless, and... Immortal Mansion rare treasures?"

From the memories of his heterodox incarnation, Fang Xi received a key piece of intelligence.

That was the ’Immortal Mansion rare treasures,’ a type of treasure with inconceivable might, rumored to have originated from the True Immortal Realm...

"It seems... that I cannot neglect the research into the ’Five Fires Seven Birds Fan’... Even if it is a replica, if I can refine it, it would add another trump card to my hand..."

He pondered for a while, then looked towards his heterodox incarnation: "Now that I have a general understanding of the Earth Immortal Realm and have blended into it, your next goal is to find a place where you can cultivate in peace and obtain Transcendent God level resources..."

"Besides, you should also collect some key secret techniques and skills, such as those for breaking through to Returning to Emptiness and the corresponding elixirs, and also... methods to resolve the Immortal Body and the Divine Skill of Incarnate Thousands."

These two Divine Skills might be unrivaled in the Lower Realm when paired with Transcendent God cultivation, but in the Earth Immortal Realm, what Black Taisui called ’indestructible and immortal’ would probably be a joke!