novelapdf Chapter 472 Identity
Chapter 472 Identity
Above the sky, dark clouds had gathered and thunder roared.
A beam of divine lightning descended and landed in Fang Qing's hand, transforming into a cyan-purple flying sword that traversed the void.
His swordsmanship, honed through the practice of internal energy cultivation, had long since reached a level that could astound even ghosts and gods. At this moment, with a single strike, the world opened up, and all the earth-elemental divine light that filled the sky vanished without a trace.
Rektu!
Under the continuous flow of lightning spiritual power, the earth spiritual power filling the sky was also rapidly dissipating...
The Nascent Soul demon beast stared in disbelief at the three heaven-reaching spiritual treasures—a cauldron, a fan, and a drum—before Fang Qing.
Only cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage can refine the Heavenly Treasure, and it requires a great deal of vital energy and effort. Often, a cultivator can only refine one such treasure in their lifetime.
But at this moment, it saw a total of three items!
This made it wonder, are all human cultivators so wealthy? Interesting…
A being comparable to a true spirit is sealed here.
Fang Qing looked at the chains binding the jade pig, but instead of taking action, he asked, "Jade pig, how long have you been sealed?"
"How dare you! I am the True Spirit Feng Xi!" The jade-bodied, bright yellow True Spirit roared, "Human cultivators have never been benevolent. If you approach this sea again, I will surely kill you!"
"Heh... It's rare to find someone who has been sealed away for so many years and still has such spirit."
Fang Qing looked down at the broken island and saw many skeletons, including those of fish, monsters, and cultivators.
To have ventured this far, one must likely be at the Nascent Soul stage... but encountering this rare True Spirit, it will inevitably end up as food...
He also realized that this creature was a true spirit, though it appeared fierce on the outside but was actually weak on the inside.
After all, it was a Nascent Soul cultivator, but it was sealed, which greatly reduced its strength. Moreover, it was an Earth-type True Spirit, which was restrained by its own lightning-attribute spiritual power.
With the addition of three Heavenly Treasures, it was a case of having no chance of winning.
Having been sealed away for so many years, its cultivation level seems only average; it's indeed not very useful... Oh, perhaps it can be used to refine a 'Primordial Spirit Pill'!
Just as he was pondering, Fang Qing's figure flashed.
Behind him, a jade spear with fang-like edges suddenly pierced through, its tip wreathed in countless earthen-yellow runes, radiating an intense aura of danger.
Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would not fare well if pierced by this spear.
"What a ferocious beast! Even after being suppressed, it still dares to be so arrogant?" Fang Qing gently fanned the landscape fan in his hand, and countless landscape scrolls unfurled, taking in those fangs.
A flash of fluorescent light appeared on the surface of the landscape fan, and suddenly, wild boar tusks appeared among the thick ink landscape, flying around wildly, looking completely out of place.
He stood atop the Myriad Waters Cauldron, a water ape with its arms wrapped around a dragon, protecting him. He reached out and took the Mysterious Thunder Drum, gently tapping it.
Boom!
Streaks of cyan-purple lightning flashed, transforming into ferocious lightning dragons under the enhancement of the Thunder Divine Light, striking the True Spirit Feng Xi. "Ah!"
"Wait a minute..." I, Old Pig, give up.
...
After being struck by lightning, Zhenling Fengxi hurriedly begged for mercy, his body covered in black soot, a far cry from his previous arrogant demeanor.
But after taking a few more glances, Fang Qing's heart stirred.
Countless drops of essence and blood flowed back from the wound, and it quickly recovered to its original state, showing that it even possessed some talent for an 'indestructible body'.
Its true spiritual and transformative abilities were sealed by those chains; otherwise, it would have recovered much faster.
So it seems, it's not weak at all.
Perhaps if he breaks free from the seal, he could possess the strength of a mid-level fifth rank? That would already surpass that of the Divine Ray Palace Master.
Fang Qing's heart skipped a beat. He stopped striking with lightning and asked, "Who sealed you here? How long have you been sealed?"
"How long? I've forgotten..." I am not a true spirit of flesh and blood, but a jade demon with a naturally long lifespan, having already lived for countless tens of thousands of years.
Feng Xi murmured, "I only remember... it was the Xuan Tian God who sealed me here."
"The Mysterious Heavenly God? The founder of the Zhou Tian Star Palace?"
Fang Qing raised an eyebrow: "He sealed you away, and your lifespan is truly long. How many tens of thousands of years has it been?"
If that's true, this Fengxi has lived for at least 100,000 years, which can be traced back to the ancient times of the Qi Cultivation Dao.
He was not at all surprised that the Xuan Tian Divine Lord had sealed a true spirit with an extremely long lifespan here.
Whether it's the Primordial Spirit Pill or other pills, even taming a true spirit as a spirit beast is a rare resource in this world. Leaving a living true spirit as a foundation is perfectly normal.
"No...it's quite rare that you've actually met the Xuan Tian Divine Lord."
Fang Qing was quite interested. Even with the lifespan of cultivators, the history books of the Zhou Tian Star Palace were still rare, and the deeds of the founding ancestor were even more scarce.
Perhaps this rare and precious one knows more about the Xuan Tian God?
"What famous deeds did that Xuan Tian Divine Venerable have? What happened to him afterward? Did he ascend to heaven or pass away peacefully?"
Fang Qing wanted to ask more about the "Tai Su Jin Shu" (太素金书), but he wanted to proceed step by step.
"No... This person seems to have appeared out of nowhere. His cultivation talent is unparalleled. He easily formed the Core Formation and Nascent Soul... and after receiving a gift from the Wandering Kunpeng, he even achieved the Divine Transformation..."
Feng Xi said, "The Xuan Tian Divine Venerable's Dao techniques are astonishing. After transforming into a deity, he easily suppressed me... There is a rumor that he was born with innate wisdom..."
"Innate wisdom?" Fang Qing's eyes narrowed, then he thought of a certain ability: "Reincarnation?"
Not only can highly accomplished monks in secret regions easily reincarnate through the snowy mountains.
Like Su Qing, if a True Person of the Purple Mansion could obtain a Reincarnation Elixir, they could also be reincarnated, start anew, and have their previous cultivation methods and True Immortal Mark washed away, allowing them to choose a new path and have hope of obtaining gold.
"Could it be that the Mysterious Heavenly God is a reincarnation of a true immortal?"
A flicker of doubt crossed his mind: "That's quite possible... Could it be that some True Lord from the outside world is testing the Primordial Heaven? Forcibly entering the Primordial Heaven is impossible, but they've managed to send someone in through the method of reincarnation?"
"It might not even be a real person..."
Fang Qing felt a chill run down his spine. Thinking of the second half of the "Tai Su Jin Shu," it seemed that it might have been written by the Xuan Tian Divine Venerable himself.
Whether he compiled it or merely reiterated foreign doctrines is unclear.
said.
He then looked at Feng Xi: "Have you ever heard of names like 'Kitchen God' or 'Eastern Primordial Deity of Fate and Spiritual Response'?"
When he was cultivating, he dared not reveal the name of such a True Lord, for fear of being affected by it.
However, after obtaining the [Lady] Gold attribute, and through further research, she also discovered many secrets.
"Although reciting the True Lord's name will be sensed by him, if a True Person of the Purple Mansion has cultivated a certain kind of concealment technique and possesses the right to keep secrets, speaking it aloud will not have any effect..."
In addition, if one's own position is high enough, it can also shield the sensor...
"The Kitchen God? The Spirit-Responding God of the Eastern Realm?" A look of bewilderment appeared in Feng Xi's large eyes: "Who is this?"
"Never mind..."
Fang Qing shook his head, asked a few more questions, and seeing that he could not get any more information, he immediately withdrew the lightning that filled the sky and prepared to leave.
To him, this fifth-tier true spirit was of little use, and being suppressed here, it had no way to escape, so he couldn't be bothered to kill it.
Moreover, keeping a living spirit alive will be of great use in the future, whether it is to continue interrogating or to kill demons and obtain their core!
"Wait... Fellow Daoist... You haven't broken my seal yet..."
"Even if you don't break the seal, just loosening it a bit would be nice, so I can have some fun..."
Behind them, the fifth-tier Fengxi was still shouting and yelling, looking very aggrieved.
Splash!
The sea was turbulent, and Fang Qing's heart was also filled with surging emotions.
"The patriarch of Zhou Tian Xing Palace is suspected to be a reincarnation? What kind of power does this possess? To be able to be reborn into a grotto-heaven?"
Obviously, the reincarnation of a true immortal will inevitably be in the realm of Qi cultivation.
To be reborn into a specific grotto-heaven is virtually impossible unless the grotto-heaven's master grants the necessary authority.
Xuan Tian Shen Zun was clearly not the master of the cave heaven, but a stowaway!
This piqued Fang Qing's interest.
Furthermore, the other party was also carrying the "Tai Su Jin Shu," which clearly indicates that only a direct disciple of the Golden Core stage would know about the [Yearly Duty].
More likely, he himself is a Golden Core True Monarch!
It is even highly likely that it is the Earth Deity, possibly the "Kitchen God," since the first half of the "Tai Su Jin Shu" was found in the other party's cave.
"And... the whereabouts of that Xuan Tian Divine Venerable afterward remain a mystery. Did he ascend to the Dao and cultivate Qi, or did something else?"
"What is his purpose in coming to this grotto-heaven? And what will he ultimately achieve?"
These are all ancient mysteries, and even Zhan Hongxiu and the tortoise spirit know nothing about them.
Fang Qing could only bury her doubts in her heart.
"However... it should be confirmed that Xuan Tian Shen Zun was not the great figure who built Yuan Shi Tian. When he was reincarnated, Yuan Shi Tian had already been developing silently for countless tens of thousands of years, and the Qi Refining Dao system had already taken shape."
"How could such a Nascent Soul cultivator of the Qi Cultivation Path have disappeared without a trace? Or... is he one of the many Golden Core cultivators of the Qi Cultivation Path today?"
"This person entered the cave, yet he didn't take the [Mystic Thunder] with him?"
He gritted his teeth: "Either they look down on the [Mysterious Thunder] position, or the pitfalls in this golden position are just as big..."
However, the arrow was already on the bowstring and had no choice but to be released.
Fang Qing, confident in the protection of the Dao-Generating Pearl, wasn't particularly afraid. "Regarding the Qi Refining Path, we'll proceed as planned: sensing the 'Mysterious Thunder' divine power... and searching for that Thunder Palace."
"As for the Dao of Qi Cultivation, a great battle has already begun. I'm afraid the Secret Realm and the Demonic Path are bleeding each other out, and there's no time for leisurely cultivation..."
He secretly calculated the Purple Mansions of both sides and concluded that at the Purple Mansion True Person level, the Demon Path definitely had a numerical advantage.
However, if we include the many disciples and goddesses, and even those who have attained the level of refinement, then the Secret Realm actually has a significant advantage.
The two sides went back and forth, and perhaps in the end the demonic path would be worn down and killed in the secret realm.
Of course, the person on Luofeng Mountain may have already achieved their goal before this...