Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 624 - 622: Mid-Stage of Transcendent God (Additional content, monthly ticket requested) _1

Chapter 624: Chapter 622: Mid-Stage of Transcendent God (Additional content, monthly ticket requested) _1

Thousands of miles away from the Wang family’s valley.

In the void, white light condensed, forming the phantom of a white phoenix.

Astride the back of the white phoenix stood a female cultivator, her hair coiffed high, her face veiled. Her bearing was as if she were a goddess from the Luo river, gazing afar towards the direction of the Wang family.

"Lord Hei Miao is untrustworthy... But having him come to us is troublesome; it’s still best to ask many companions to share the burden..."

With a clear cry, the white phoenix reached the skies above the Wang family’s valley.

The woman did not at all disguise herself, immediately alerting the Wang family. A streak of light flew out and landed within the Array—it was ’Wang Lingdao’.

"Indeed, the Wang family’s young one has also reached Perfect Nascent Soul!"

Fairy Luan Bing praised.

"It turns out to be Senior Luan Bing!"

Wang Lingdao gave a bow: "The ancestor had instructions; should senior come, you may directly proceed to ’Pi Yun Cave’."

The Array opened, the glows on either side automatically receded, revealing a pathway just wide enough for one person to pass through.

Fairy Luan Bing let out a light laugh, turned into a streak of white light, and descended into it.

Pi Yun Cave.

The Little Mysterious Turtle withdrew its aura, almost indistinguishable from an ordinary monster beast. No one could discern the extraordinariness of its bloodline anymore.

At that moment, it was happily hopping around in the pond.

Fang Xi was holding a jade pot, watering a potted plant-like Monster Tree.

The liquid in this pot was by no means ordinary Spirit Spring water; it was the ’Nine Turns Vitality Liquid’, an extremely precious spirit material. The Wang family had to expend tremendous manpower and resources to trade for a little bit through the channels of the Profound Mystery Trade Association.

However, for Fang Xi, as long as the Monster Tree liked it, everything else was a trivial matter.

After all, it was the Wang family’s money he was spending!

Suddenly, he stopped his watering action and saw a white-robed fairy come prancing over, landing above the surface of the pond. Indeed, she maneuvered as if walking on ripples, with her Luo socks kicking up dust.

The woman’s eyes were bright as she sized up the Little Mysterious Turtle in the pond, but she could only discern that it was a fourth-tier monster beast.

But how could a common fourth-tier monster beast warrant a Transcendent God ancestor to specially open up a pond of several acres in front of the Dongfu to raise?

There must be something extraordinary about it. However, no matter how the woman observed, the Little Mysterious Turtle seemed to her nothing more than a commonplace fourth-tier monster turtle.

"Fairy Luan Bing..."

Fang Xi called out, drawing the attention of Fairy Luan Bing.

The woman looked at Fang Xi, then appeared disbelieving as she took several more glances, her voice trembling, "Sir, your cultivation seems to have progressed again. Could it be that you’ve reached the early peak stage?"

"It was just good fortune... After recovering from injuries last time, I gained a bit of insight,"

Fang Xi replied with a slight smile.

In reality, after he perfected the cultivation of the Demonic Beasts skill ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’ at the initial stage of Transcendent God, he did not hesitate much before attempting to break through the bottleneck to the middle stage of Transcendent God.

After all, there were no Heavenly Tribulations for minor realm breakthroughs in Transcendent God, and given his astonishing physical resilience and strong regeneration abilities, even if he suffered a backlash from a failed breakthrough, he could swiftly recover.

What surprised Fang Xi was that he encountered hardly any obstacles and smoothly advanced to the middle stage of Transcendent God—just like fitting a channel naturally into place!

This might be due to the Earth Immortal Realm environment being naturally suitable for high-level cultivators’ breakthroughs, or it could be related to the ’Eternal Green Body’ being more than halfway progressed. Although this Spirit Body was of the Wooden Element, it might have the miraculous effect of weakening the shackles of Transcendent God!

It is also possible that the frequent usage of ’True Blood Pills’ had a certain body tempering effect which made Fang Xi’s physique even more robust. Moreover, he was already endowed with a strong Power of Divine Consciousness... As is well known, a powerful physique and strong Divine Consciousness greatly aid in breaking through bottlenecks.

Altogether, Fang Xi managed to break through smoothly to the middle stage of Transcendent God without having prepared many resources for the breakthrough!

After the breakthrough of the Demon Skills, he circulated the ’Triphasic Destroying Origin Skill’ and indeed found that both the ’Kuyong Skills’ and the ’Self-Transforming Heavenly Sovereign Commanding Ten Thousand Spirits True Demon Skill’ had advanced a level, reaching the Transcendent God middle stage!

The only thing was that within the ’Self-transforming Demon True Skills,’ there were many secret techniques suitable for the middle stage of Transcendent God to choose from for cultivation.

As for ’Kuyong Skills,’ there really were no secret techniques or Divine Skills at all—only a bit more robust Magic Power.

According to Fang Xi’s estimate, the discrepancy would only widen as time passed, causing this top-tier skill to become lost among others.

Unless, in the future, he could obtain the Transcendent God Chapter of the ’Kuyong Skills’ and re-cultivate the various Cultivation Secret Skills from the start, only then could the original subtleties be fully brought forward.

However, for now, knowing that his Cultivation could continue to advance was already quite pleasing.

At least the ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’ he had acquired back then could be cultivated to the ’Returning to Emptiness initial stage’!

Upon reaching Returning to Emptiness, his strength would be so formidable that he could handle the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm’s situations in the Mortal Realm or traverse the Earth Immortal Realm to gather better skills!

——Outside of the territory controlled by the Dragon Controlling Sect, at the border shared with other Returning to Emptiness sects, the separation isn’t just marked by boundary steles but could also be tens of thousands of miles of dangerous regions. Various Earth Immortal Realm natural disasters and even some uneradicated Transcendent God level Wild Beasts wander there—it is extremely perilous.

Similarly, as Core Formation cultivators can only travel within countries and may not be able to step beyond the Setting Sun Plain.

Transcendent God cultivators can smoothly relocate people within the Star Domain.

And if one desires to engage in inter-domain activities, besides following trade caravans or using super-sects’ teleportation arrays and other methods, if one wishes to traverse domains alone without fearing danger, at the very least, a Returning to Emptiness cultivation level is required!

Actually, the Star Domain had already become so vast that it far surpassed the total of all the lower realms, including the Mortal Realm, that Fang Xi had known.

Even Nascent Soul Cultivators, most of them could not step out of the Setting Sun Plain in their entire lives... It wasn’t that their power was insufficient, but rather, with the vastness of the Setting Sun Plain and its resources, Nascent Soul Cultivators were content to practice their cultivation there. Why would they seek out danger elsewhere?

There were no extraordinary phenomena between heaven and earth when Fang Xi broke through to the mid-stage of Transcendent God in the Earth Immortal Realm; more so, he immediately used the "Turtle Breath Secret Skills" to conceal his cultivation, revealing only the pinnacle of the early stage of Transcendent God to the outside world.

With his current mastery of the Turtle Breath Skills, not even Cultivators at the peak of Transcendent God could see through him, and even for those at the Returning to Emptiness stage, it would be a fifty-fifty chance at best.

"Congratulations, sir, for turning misfortune into fortune."

Fairy Luan Bing could hardly hide her envy, "Now you have surpassed us, and in the future you will surely break through the bottleneck and advance further along the Dao."

"Alas... after becoming a Transcendent God, every minor stage is incredibly difficult. Without the aid of Spiritual Pills and miraculous medicines, it would be tough to make a breakthrough," Fang Xi said with a face full of worry. "And now, my Wang family is becoming increasingly embarrassed... Once this old man advances to the mid-stage, this vengeance must be avenged!"

Fairy Luan Bing fell silent.

Of course, she had heard about how Qing Hezi had forcefully seized the Kong Sang Market from the Wang family.

Even rumors said that Qing Hezi’s Magic Power and Divine Skills were both exceptional, not inferior to a mid-stage Transcendent God Cultivator.

No wonder the Wang Family Ancestor only dared speak of seeking revenge after breaking through to the mid-stage of Transcendent God.

And getting involved in the feud between these two great Transcendent God powers was by no means a wise decision!

Fairy Luan Bing subtly changed the subject, bringing up Lord Hei Miao of the Black Water Sect: "... that person had been in contact with us again, has there been any word for you?"

Fang Xi replied expressionlessly, "My Wang family was the hidden hand behind the annihilation of the Black Water Sect... How could that person possibly conspire with this old man?"

Because of this, he could sit back and fish calmly!

Lord Hei Miao was ill-intentioned, and Fang Xi could see some of it.

But Qing Hezi aside, no matter who the Dragon Controlling Sect scrutinized, they would never suspect the Wang family!

’If things turn sour in the future, I can completely let ’Qing Hezi’ step down... and then the Wang family will continue to occupy the Kong Sang Market...’

Fang Xi thought to himself, not feeling the slightest bit ashamed about playing both sides.

’However, the identity of the Wang Family Ancestor is still not very safe... In the future, it could be considered to let a heterodox incarnation take over, and I would completely vanish behind the scenes...’

’If there really is an incident that affects the entire Setting Sun Plain and the Mysterious Dark Abyss, then it would be nothing to leave the Dragon Controlling Sect and run towards the territory under the Star Sect’s jurisdiction... It’s relatively safe for a Transcendent God Cultivator to operate within a single domain.’

Fairy Luan Bing lifted the hair that had fallen by her ears, "Friend Wang does not have this trouble, but my sect below might... I have already heard of fellow Taoists being chastised by the Dragon Controlling Sect, and they might even send someone down for an inspection... The Dragon Controlling Sect is currently very powerful, and perhaps Lord Nine Dragon will soon undergo the Major Heavenly Tribulation and become a Returning to Emptiness Cultivator..."

Her words were just the tip of the iceberg, without too many implications.

But Fang Xi still caught a hint of a deeper meaning: "Alas... the Major Heavenly Tribulation of Returning to Emptiness is truly terrifying to think about. Alas, I do not possess that ’Mixed Origin Heavenly Umbrella’..."

After some conversation, Fang Xi personally saw Fairy Luan Bing off, and looking up at the sky, he suddenly felt an atmosphere of an impending storm brewing.

...

Several months later.

Fang Xi took the letter handed to him from Zuo Xiaoxuan and promptly opened it.

He glanced at it and saw that Zuo Xiaoxuan had reached the late stage of Core Formation, which made him nod slightly in approval.

The girl’s Spiritual Root was mediocre, but her cultivation progress was not slow.

In the Earth Immortal Realm, it was naturally much easier for low-level cultivators to break through stages compared to the Lower Realm. Coupled with being in charge of the Kong Sang Market and the substantial income from there, purchasing Spiritual Pills that enhance Magic Power was also very convenient.

’Indeed, the Earth Immortal Realm is more suited for seeking the Dao...’

’Many Nascent Soul Cultivators in the Lower Realm, if they could have begun their cultivation in the Earth Immortal Realm from the start, probably all would have hope of becoming a Transcendent God, unfortunately...’

He sighed inwardly and commented on a few things about cultivation and practice before dismissing Zuo Xiaoxuan.

At the same time, he began to browse the contents of the letter.

In the Earth Immortal Realm, cultivators mostly used jade slips to store information. Now, using this specially crafted paper signified something important!

"What’s this...?"

After reading a few lines, Fang Xi’s expression became somewhat strange: "What is the Profound Mystery Trade Association doing joining the fray?"

The letter was indeed sent by ’Diyi’ of the Profound Mystery Trade Association, expressing a proposal to establish a ’secret shop’ in the Kong Sang Market.

The Profound Mystery Trade Association often held various underground auctions, which Fang Xi had also attended before; the ’Thousand Defeats Poison’ came from there.

But he had not expected that the other party would actually want to set up a ’secret shop’ on his turf.

A ’secret shop’ was so called because it was hidden within ordinary stores and would periodically hold underground auction events.

"After all, it’s a Returning to Emptiness power... It’s a pity the Wang family has already made contact, so let’s cut off this connection right away," Fang Xi decided.

The Profound Mystery Trade Association had been deepening connections with various families recently, and since the Wang family had already hooked up with them, it would be better for him to go in the opposite direction and then wait for the results to unfold...