Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 891 - 759: Innate One Qi (Seeking Monthly Votes at Month’s End)

Chapter 891: Chapter 759: Innate One Qi (Seeking Monthly Votes at Month’s End)

"I am willing to make an oath upon my Dao heart!"

As Bai Yusheng hastily fled for his life, he looked at Fang Xi, who was leisurely following him while riding the Little Mysterious Turtle, and gritted his teeth.

"To us cultivators, the oath of the Dao heart means nothing as long as you don’t care about the Taoist path, sir, don’t make jokes."

Fang Xi let out a cold laugh.

Bai Yusheng hurriedly explained, "We, scholars of the cultivation path, are different from other cultivators. If I swear on my life’s scholarly treasure, should I violate the oath, the scholarly treasure will surely shatter and I will suffer severe injuries."

"So there is such a secret? Unfortunately... I still don’t believe you."

Fang Xi glanced at the approaching seventh order Stone Clan elder and smiled, "Why don’t you sign this Netherworld Contract and incidentally entrust the treasure map to me for safekeeping, how about it?"

Given his relationship with Fairy Yunxi, he could naturally have her make several more copies of the contract documents with ease.

Such Netherworld Contracts still hold considerable binding power for cultivators who have returned to emptiness.

"So be it..."

Bai Yusheng made a swift decision, immediately biting the tip of his tongue and spraying a mouthful of essence blood onto the document that Fang Xi had produced.

At the same time, he handed over a strange scroll woven from vine leaves to Fang Xi, "This item was passed down by my ancestors... it is said to have been personally made by Lord Qi Bao, and it’s extremely difficult to fake..."

"Indeed, there is the aura of a seventh order Spirit Plant."

Fang Xi nodded and tossed a Great Void Transposition Talisman to him.

Bai Yusheng gave Fang Xi a deep look, activated the Great Void Transposition Talisman, and in an instant, his figure vanished within a milky way.

As for how he would rendezvous with the two of them later, Fang Xi had no doubts.

After all, he had already left information inside the talisman.

At that moment, looking back at the Stone Clan elder who was drawing ever closer, his eyes narrowed slightly.

A flash of emerald disappeared as quickly as it had appeared in his pupils.

"Eh... It turns out that the Stone Clan has such a plentiful lifespan, my apologies for the disturbance."

Fang Xi’s face twitched as he prepared to walk away.

The Stone Clan has always been known for their thick skin and flesh and high resistance to various Five Elements spells and Divine Consciousness attacks.

Plus, with such a long lifespan and as a seventh order entity.

Fang Xi felt he had no chance of defeating his opponent and thus saw no point in wasting more effort.

"Do not leave!"

Seeing that Fang Xi too was preparing to leave in a grand manner, the Stone Clan elder bellowed, suddenly opening his mouth to spit out a stone bead-like treasure.

A layer of mysterious radiance emerged, making his Escape Light’s speed suddenly surge.

But given the crack that appeared on the stone bead and the pained expression on the Stone Clan elder’s face, it was clear that doing so came at no small cost.

However, at this point, the Stone Clan elder had closed in to within a hundred miles, suddenly clenching his five fingers together, his body flickering with purple lines as he hurled a punch.

Bang!

The sky darkened, and a phantom stone arm formed in mid-air, striking across in an instant!

Fang Xi’s right hand came together, supporting the air with an open palm.

The True Body of Sky Demon exerted tremendous force, and an overwhelming giant strength emerged, landing on the stone arm in the void.

Suddenly, the heavens and the earth roared.

Glistening purple powder sprinkled down.

Seeing this, the Stone Clan elder hesitated, slowing his Escape Light.

"Why must the elder go to such extremes?"

Fang Xi let out a long howl, his body clad in Thousands Demon Armor, with the Phantoms of Four Great Spirits roaring, suddenly converging into his right arm.

He swung a fist and, accompanied by dragon chanting and phoenix cries, four-colored radiance transformed into the shadow of a fist, immediately blasting the Stone Clan elder into the ground!

"The elder!?"

The surrounding sixth order Stone Clan people were all shocked and dismayed.

However, Fang Xi looked down at the scene with pride, making the many sixth order Stone Clan people unable to meet his gaze.

He chuckled lightly, likewise crushing a Great Void Transposition Talisman, vanishing from the Stone Clan people’s sight.

Bang!

Almost the moment he disappeared, the ground exploded, revealing a massive crater.

At the bottom of the crater lay the Stone Clan elder adorned with purple crystals: "Where is the outsider... ?"

It howled angrily towards the heavens, evidently very furious.

"Elder... the human cultivator has already left."

A sixth order Stone Clan person approached tentatively to report.

"Damn it... He might just be a bit stronger in body refining, but he still can’t injure me..."

The Stone Clan elder roared, "If he had stayed for a fight to the death, the victor would have definitely been me."

The Stone Clan crowd all nodded in agreement.

As a group with rather dim wits or, perhaps better said, strong stubbornness, they are very rigid in their thinking.

And once they believe in something, they refuse to change their mind!

"The Sacred Stone has been stolen... This year’s Saint Arrival Ceremony..."

A Stone Clan member inquired, "What should we do?"

"Luckily, there is a spare Sacred Stone... This time, I, myself, will guard the sacred place,"

declared the Stone Clan elder. "The one responsible for guarding it before is to be punished to stand as a stepping stone... for ten thousand years!"

...

A few days later.

In the black market, inside a Dongfu.

"Thank you, Friend Wang, for your life-saving grace..."

Fairy Shi bowed gracefully, her eyes full of allure, "Truly, I do not know how I could possibly repay you..."

"If Fairy Shi wishes to repay me, then simply give me half of the treasures you obtained from the Stone Clan’s holy land," said Fang Xi, sipping his Spiritual Tea calmly.

"..."

Fairy Shi suddenly felt a suffocating pressure in her chest, unable to speak for a long while.

If the Wang Family Ancestor had demanded some other form of repayment, she might have been more willing.

But now, she forced a smile, "I had this intention all along!"

She took out a jade box and opened it to reveal a green stone inside.

The stone was only the size of a goose egg but emanated robust vitality, making it obvious at a glance that it was no ordinary item.

"Indeed, it is the Stone Clan’s Sacred Stone!"

Fang Xi nodded. Since he was going to save someone, how could he possibly not have investigated the situation thoroughly?

Seeing the item, he was instantly overjoyed and picked up the ’Resurrection Stone,’ scratching it with his fingernail.

Scratch!

The stone was evenly split in half from the middle.

Witnessing this scene, Fairy Shi was suddenly bereft of any thoughts, "I had not imagined that Sir’s body refining prowess could have reached such a realm... truly making one such as myself ashamed..."

Fang Xi took half of the Resurrection Stone without saying anything.

After all, it would be many years before the cultivators of Falling Sky Island saw daylight again.

By that time, he would long have become an Integration cultivator and wouldn’t care about such a minor oversight.

’This Resurrection Stone, combined with various spiritual objects of alien races, could be used with ’Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower’... to concoct the ’Soup of All Life’!’

’This soup is a Monster Clan’s body tempering secret medicine, with its main ingredients long since lost to anyone else...’

’I never expected to have such an opportunity!’

’It seems that a physique comparable to that of a seventh-tier monster beast is indeed within reach!’

Fang Xi was in a good mood, and after discussing the mysteries of cultivation with Fairy Shi for several days, he finally let her go and sent out a Voice Transmission Talisman.

Before long, a middle-aged scholar came to visit—it was indeed Bai Yusheng!

"Friend Bai really is a man of his word!"

Fang Xi laughed heartily and invited Bai Yusheng into his Dongfu.

"Alas... The Treasure Map drawn by my ancestor has a special use after entering the Secret Realm... I have not withheld a single detail from you, Sir," sighed Bai Yusheng.

"In that case, let’s discuss the matters of the Secret Realm. Where is this realm, and when does it open?" Fang Xi asked, his eyes flashing with inquiry.

"This Secret Realm is known as the ’Seven Treasures Secret Realm.’ My ancestor took away the ’Seven Treasure Gourd Vine’ from it... Among those Seven Treasure Gourds, there is one called the ’Innate One Qi Purple Gourd.’ Once matured, the innate qi produced is very beneficial for cultivators breaking through major barriers, and it even has some effects on the bottleneck of Integration. Thanks to this gourd, my ancestor managed to break through to the Integration realm smoothly," Bai Yusheng explained with a wry smile.

"It seems... your goal this time is that Purple Gourd," Fang Xi said pointedly.

"No, my aim is the ’Muscle Changing Bone Washing Marrow Yellow Gourd’ among the Seven Treasure Gourds... The innate essence gestated within this yellow gourd can transform the body and soul of the cultivator, possessing an almost miraculous effect akin to ’Stealing the Sky and Replacing the Day.’ It can cure all diseases, neutralize all poisons, and even grant those without a Spiritual Root at least an earth-grade one... Furthermore, it has a miraculous effect of revival for many conditions considered incurable by the Cultivation World, such as the Absolute Meridian Syndrome, Nine Yin Frost Physique, and so on," answered Bai Yusheng.

It seemed he urgently needed the innate essence within the yellow gourd to save someone very important to him.

Fang Xi remained noncommittal and asked, "What about the intelligence concerning the Secret Realm?"

"This Secret Realm opens once every few hundred years; there should be a little over sixty years left until it opens again... Only cultivators below the Integration realm can enter," continued Bai Yusheng, disclosing more information about the Seven Treasures Secret Realm.

Fang Xi listened and couldn’t help but be stunned, "This Seven Treasures Secret Realm seems to have already been seized by Black Sky Pavilion... How does Friend Wang plan to enter?"

This Seven Treasures Secret Realm, the more he heard about it, the more it sounded precisely like the Secret Realm that the Eight Hand Clan’s chief steward wanted him to explore!

Fang Xi immediately knew that Bai Yusheng’s target was likely the same.

"Rest assured, Sir," this time, it was Bai Yusheng speaking confidently, "There is more than one entrance to the Seven Treasures Secret Realm... The one my ancestor used was extremely secretive. Afterward, it was sealed by him and should still be intact. When the time comes, I will lead the way myself!"

"That is reassuring," Fang Xi smiled and nodded.

In reality, he was indifferent, since, at worst, he could just join the exploration team of Black Sky Pavilion and then set up a spatial coordinate.

Later on, when he had nothing better to do, he could send his heterodox incarnation to mine the area...

Now, however, with Bai Yusheng’s ancestral hidden passage, that was no longer necessary.

After all, Black Sky Pavilion wasn’t a charitable organization; if they allowed these cultivators to enter the Secret Realm, they would certainly impose some restrictions.

It would either be signing strict contracts or employing the services of seventh-tier beings to place prohibitions on them.

Though he could conceal his intentions and pass undetected, it would be much more troublesome, a battle of wits and strategy—why bother?

’Of course... Just to be safe, I should still check to see if the Bai family’s ancestral entrance is still useable before anything else... there’s no need to decline Black Sky Pavilion’s invitation immediately.’

Just then, there appeared to be some commotion outside.

Fang Xi and Bai Yusheng exchanged a look before flying out of the Dongfu.

They saw nearly a hubbub in the black market.

The various alien races exclaimed, seemingly discussing something fervently.

"What’s happened?"

Fang Xi grabbed a monster beast with the head of a pig and the body of a man, asking casually.

The monster beast, upon seeing a powerful human cultivator, was immediately terrified and stammered, "Esteemed predecessor... A human sword cultivator has challenged the master of Blood Hand Peak, and even though the peak master showed seventh-tier power, he was still slain... That human sword cultivator, he’s an Integration Master!"