Cultivating Immortality in Two Realms

Chapter 377 Red Sleeve Nascent Soul

Heavenly Frost Sect.

Zhong Lingxiu sat cross-legged, her magical power having reached the peak of the mid-stage of Core Formation.

He meditated for a while, then prepared to get up and draw talismans to cultivate the various arts of immortality.

Before he formed his core, he was the pride of the Zhong family, and his spiritual root aptitude and cultivation speed were both outstanding in the Lesser Universe.

However, after joining the Heavenly Frost Sect, he discovered that although his talent was not mediocre, it was not particularly outstanding either.

After reaching the Core Formation stage, he discovered that his fellow cultivators were either exceptionally talented, had astonishing backgrounds, or possessed extraordinary comprehension... or even had all of these qualities, truly making him just another ordinary person.

"The late stage of Core Formation is probably the limit of my life..."

"I really should focus more on mastering the various arts of cultivation..."

Zhong Lingxiu ground the cinnabar and began to draw a mid-level talisman.

He focused his mind, calmed himself, and picked up his pen...

Just as the last stroke was about to fall, ding ding!

A thunderous bell rang out!

Zhong Lingxiu paused in her writing, and an unfinished mid-level talisman instantly burst into flames...

Chi Chi!

He frowned slightly and flicked his sleeve.

A layer of extremely cold air swept by, and the talisman and flames instantly turned into countless shards of ice, not even a wisp of smoke rose.

Zhong Lingxiu ignored all of this and went straight out of the cave to the sect's main hall.

Sitting in the main hall was an old man in white robes, with a fierce appearance, a flowing beard, and terrifying magical power fluctuations. He was none other than the Heavenly Frost Old Monster, a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!

"Greetings, Master!"

Zhong Lingxiu felt a chill run down her spine and quickly bowed.

"Okay, you wait over there."

Old Monster Tian Shuang's eyes were half-closed, like a sleeping lion, as he calmly gave his orders.

Zhong Lingxiu stood to the side, eyes downcast, seemingly lost in thought... Seeing all the Core Formation cultivators from her sect gathered, a chill ran through her: 'It must be about the war between good and evil. Isn't our Four Seas Sect supposed to be neutral?'

A moment later, the Frost Demon King looked at the Core Formation cultivators below and uttered a shocking statement: "Master Xuan Yan of the Xuanzhong Sect has been besieged and killed by the Heavenly Fiend Demon King, Ancestor Shang, and Madam Lan... Our Four Seas Sect and Shang Family Island have decided to join the Heavenly Fiend Island Alliance, first attacking several Nascent Soul forces nearby that are affiliated with the Xuanzhong Sect, and then heading to Seven Star Island to join forces with the main army and encircle Shuiyue!"

These words immediately caused a sensation.

"Master, why is this?"

A late-stage Core Formation cultivator asked in surprise.

"The sudden fall of the Beast Taming Sect means that there are still powerful cultivators hidden in the cultivation world of the East Sea... Neither the righteous nor the demonic factions will stand idly by while we remain neutral... If we are to join, we must naturally join the winning side."

Zhong Lingxiu fell silent, then heard her master above laugh:

"Xuanzhong Sect was originally a hidden pawn of Shuiyue Palace, so Xuan Yan's death was not unjust... I think Tian Sha Old Monster is quite inclined to take advantage of the situation and shift the blame for the destruction of the Beast Taming Sect's rear onto Xuan Yan... Now, the situation in the East Sea is clear, and even if there are still one or two hidden late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, it will be difficult to change the general trend."

"Master, there is something I don't understand. After all, Shuiyue Palace and Leiyin Temple still possess the foundation of Nascent Soul cultivators. Furthermore, what if that Grand Palace Master and the Holy Monk Longshu are not in seclusion, but are hiding and waiting for an opportunity to strike?"

The sect leader of the Heavenly Frost Sect spoke.

"For us cultivators, reaching the Nascent Soul stage is our greatest aspiration..."

After pondering for a moment, the Old Monster Tian Shuang shook his head, rejecting the possibility: "That Grand Palace Master and the Holy Monk Long Shu are both old monsters who have been famous for six or seven hundred years. Calculating their lifespans, they are both less than a hundred years old. This is their last chance to break through... How could they possibly give up fighting those great cultivators? Once their physical bodies are damaged, their hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage will truly be extinguished!"

Zhong Lingxiu nodded repeatedly as she listened. Cultivators are inherently defying the heavens and are even more selfish and self-centered!

If it were him, given the choice between breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage and protecting the sect, he would most likely still choose the former.

Unless ordered by the young master!

"Alright, everyone go and prepare. We'll first go to Feixuan Island to rendezvous with the Sanqu Sect, and then prepare to attack the Luoxia Sea!"

Old Monster Tian Shuang dismissed the Nascent Soul cultivator, a glint of fervor flashing in his eyes: "Late Nascent Soul stage... In this great battle, I don't expect to obtain any Divine Transformation opportunities. If I could obtain a great opportunity for a late Nascent Soul stage cultivator, that would be enough..."

……

The vast ocean.

Inside the Frozen Cave.

"Huh? The Heavenly Fiend Old Monster killed the Profound Flame Venerable? He directly pinned the blame for the attack on the Beast Taming Sect on the Xuanzhong Sect?"

Fang Qing, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes and learned about Zhong Lingxiu's news.

He quickly calculated and deduced the cause and effect, then laughed: "So the Xuanzhong Sect is indeed a double agent... but they haven't actually betrayed us. The Heavenly Fiend Old Monster simply found an excuse to eliminate them, striking first to eliminate any future worries?"

Although intelligence reports say that they were besieging the enemy together with the Shang family patriarch and Madam Lan.

But Fang Qing knew that the Heavenly Fiend Old Monster was definitely the main force!

This person not only had reached the Nascent Soul stage, but also possessed a powerful spiritual treasure, which allowed him to easily defeat two great cultivators working together.

Now, it has even demonstrated magical powers capable of annihilating great cultivators, making it a veritable pillar of stability in the demonic path!

"They still haven't come looking for us..."

"Could it be that Ah Da and Ah Er really have no remnants of their soul lamp techniques left?"

Fang Qing wasn't afraid, but he was worried about being disturbed during the alchemy process.

Upon receiving the news, a thousand plum blossoms fell from his heart, and he began to divine the future regarding the refining of the "Nurture Pill".

"lucky?!"

He gazed at the divination results; the next chapter was even more exciting: Chapter 377, Red Sleeve Nascent Soul, awaiting your visit. He nodded slightly: "The Qi Refining Dao has yielded an auspicious result; indeed, we can begin..."

The method of alchemy using the sea eye is completely different from that using the spiritual spring.

If refining pills at the Spirit Spring is due to the advantages of location and human resources, then refining pills at the Sea Eye is due to the convergence of the three elements of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity!

It wasn't until today that Fang Qing inexplicably had a sudden urge to realize that it was time to refine the elixir.

The eye of the vast ocean.

The endless seawater surges in and out, transforming into a massive whirlpool.

He had already transformed his supernatural powers. At this moment, within his Purple Mansion, the three supernatural powers, "Position Approaching the Abyss," "Fish in the Abyss," and "Transforming into Clouds," complemented each other and formed a stable triangle.

The boundless radiance of the Zhen River converged, with dark water vapor and azure light mixing and churning... like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, all converging on Fang Qing's body.

His eyes were thus tinged with a deep blue, like a vast and boundless sea, with a glimmer of light from the [Zhenshui] symbol between his brows, faintly reflecting the sea's depths.

"【Ji Water】is fountain water, 【Zhen Water】is ocean water… Using the sea eye rather than the spiritual spring for alchemy, 【Zhen Water】is indeed the best for sensing…"

Fang Qing took a step forward, his figure moving freely like a fish in the eye of the sea...

Based on some unseen intuition, he arrived at a place where a storm was brewing, and the gale seemed capable of tearing everything apart.

As if sensing something, he opened his storage bag and threw out a piece of emerald green meat, which was none other than the 'Fourth-Order Tai Sui Meat'!

Swish!

A howling wind instantly engulfed the fourth-tier Tai Sui flesh, and the violent power of heaven and earth within it pulverized the Tai Sui flesh in a flash…

Fang Qing made hand seals, and streams of seawater rose up, dividing and absorbing the medicinal liquid...

His method was not refined; in fact, it could be described as crude. He simply moved around the sea eye as if it were up to him, occasionally tossing out extremely rare fourth-tier medicinal herbs...

Among them was a lingzhi mushroom with a jet-black glow and the faint image of galloping horses.

There are also old ginseng roots that are gnarled and twisted like dragons and have a body as smooth as jade.

Of course, there's also a jujube-shaped piece of 'Bodhi Blood' that emits a red glow and carries the aura of blood...

Whoosh!

The wind and rain arose without warning, and a silver crow cried out under the moon.

As the winds of Ji and Bi blew, the osmanthus trees grew taller, spewing forth cinnabar, mica, and other substances...

"The divine elixir is naturally formed, obtained by chance by a skillful hand..."

Fang Qing casually sat cross-legged in mid-air, and countless streams of water naturally gathered to lift him up.

"The birth of this 'Nurture Pill' will surely attract a thunderbolt!"

With such confidence, he gazed at the rising water vapor, within which he could vaguely see monkeys playing, leopards galloping, and water dragons churning. Then, a strange beast appeared, shaped like an ox, naked, with a human face and horse hooves...

Gradually, Fang Qing himself was also enveloped by the strange phenomenon, falling into a state of complete absorption in the external world:

"The Zhen water spirit pivot, the Kan position hides the essence, the Ji wind stirs and the Bi rain nourishes. The heavenly stems are Geng and Xin, the earthly branches are Shen and You, metal and water generate each other, transforming into qi and condensing form. The five elements circulate, the eight trigrams establish balance, Kan and Li unite, the dragon and tiger move stealthily."

"The so-called alchemy through the sea eye is nothing more than harnessing the power of heaven and earth and grasping the balance of yin and yang..."

While refining the "Nurture Pill", Fang Qing was also cultivating.

The time required to refine such a high-grade fourth-tier pill is at least a year and a half...

……

Xiao Huanhai.

Tianxin Island.

This island was originally under the firm control of the Azure Sea Sect due to the existence of the secret realm.

However, the secret realm later disappeared, and naturally, much of the attention it received faded away. It turned into a market town, attracting many rogue cultivators with its own third-tier high-grade spiritual vein, contributing a large amount of spirit stone income from renting out cave dwellings to Ancestor Cui Zhe of the Azure Sea Sect...

This day.

Rumble!

Within a radius of hundreds of miles, the winds and clouds shifted dramatically, and countless spiritual energies coalesced into a five-colored ball of light, converging above Tianxin Island.

A surge of magical power far exceeding that of a Core Formation cultivator emerged, sweeping across the entire island!

Those Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators all felt their internal magical power fail them, and they fell to the ground in a sorry state.

As for Core Formation cultivators?

There are no Core Formation cultivators on Tianxin Island!

After all, it was the Lesser Universe, where Core Formation cultivators had not yet retired. The Azure Sea Sect's Ancestor Cui Zhe suppressed all directions, and apart from Qin Ruxue and Xiang Dahu of Taibai Island, and Yu Xiang'er of Yuquan Island... he almost unified the Lesser Universe.

"This...this is the celestial phenomenon of Core Formation?"

"No... even the Core Formation stage isn't this terrifying..."

An elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator with white hair nearly ripped his beard off: "A hundred miles of chaotic spiritual energy, and this powerful fluctuation of magical power... I've only ever seen this in ancient texts. This is a Nascent Soul formation phenomenon!"

"Nascent Soul Formation? In this remote and impoverished place, a cultivator has actually formed a Nascent Soul?"

The surrounding cultivators were all horrified, then another thought occurred to them: "The Azure Sea Sect now only has that Core Formation Ancestor Cui Zhe... Could it be that the fate of this Lesser Universe Sea is about to change?"

……

Just as the Bihaimen cultivators on Tianxin Island were frantically sending letters to Biyu Island.

Inside a cave on Tianxin Island, protected by a fourth-order formation.

With her red sleeves spread wide, she sat cross-legged. A flash of light appeared above her head, and a delicate-featured nascent soul emerged.

"That was close!"

She let out a long breath, realizing how dangerous the inner demon tribulation she had just experienced was. If it weren't for the fourth-tier pill to expel the inner demon beforehand, and the fourth-tier treasure to strengthen her soul, she would have probably perished.

And the thought of that certain person who repeatedly appeared during her inner demon tribulations made her blush even more...