I Have Immortality In The Cultivation World
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Chapter 188: Chapter 184 Wanjuan Daozang
After bidding farewell to Huang Yuniang, Zhou Yi returned to Earth Fire Palace to go into seclusion.
Digging three hundred zhang deeper into the ground, his sense of security greatly increased and even a serious blow from a Nascent Soul Ancestor would hardly cause any damage.
Zhou Yi took out the Array Plate and arranged the fine dust, Gathering Spirit, and Concealment threefold Formation, within a hundred zhang controllable at his fingertips.
“This poor Daoist is not greedy for life and fearing of death, simply wishing to leave a legacy for the Cultivation World!”
He took out a volume of Jade Book from his storage bag, made with gold threads interwoven and sixteen jade slips, resembling the bamboo books in which ancient mortals recorded characters.
The surface of each jade slip was engraved with Yin Script, and the first one on the right was labeled “Cultivating Origin Pill.”
The jade slip contained detailed records of more than a dozen Cultivating Origin Pill formulas, coming from different sects and Loose Cultivators, while also recording the essentials of alchemy, techniques, and tricks, which Zhou Yi had excerpted from various inheritances and classics.
For instance, one excerpt recorded how to improve the Cultivating Origin Pill, with a full three hundred and seventy words.
At the end, the source was specifically mentioned: Sun Shizhen of Da Qian's Qingyun Residence.
This Jade Book recorded sixteen kinds of pill recipes, all suitable for the initial period of Qi Refinement, and it compiled the insights of hundreds of cultivators. Before the extinction of Spiritual Energy, pill recipes could be said to be priceless, now it could be bought for just three to five Spirit Stones.
Ever since the great sects began to sell their inheritances, the scriptures that once were the top secrets of smaller sects and families suddenly became common as dirt.
When cultivators gather to trade, if you are using your heritage in exchange for money, without exaggerating the origin and adding a few moving stories, you would not even be able to sell it for ten Spirit Stones.
Zhou Yi, who initially thought he was buying at rock bottom, saw the price of array classics plunge several times over in merely half a year.
All of a sudden, the inheritance of the Immortal Dao became worthless!
“A thousand years from now, perhaps only this poor Daoist's Scripture Pavilion will still remember that here was once a group of people who explored the Immortal Dao, longing for eternal life.”
Zhou Yi waved his hand, casting a spell to condense the earth into stone, forming a two zhang high, square-patterned bookshelf, and placed the Jade Book recording the pill recipes into it.
He then took out half a volume of jade slips, recording pills suitable for the middle stage of Qi Refinement, and began to excerpt and compile them one by one from the countless classics and inheritances he had collected. This was a complex and vast project, and even with Divine Sense assisting, it would still take a long time.
Tens of thousands of jade slips scattered on the ground, involving Cultivation techniques and secret arts, the four arts of cultivation, etc., needed to be inspected one by one and recorded according to their categorization.
Every few days thereafter, Yuan Qi would bring new inheritances, and even if he did not understand the Supreme Elder's meaning, he would not refute it.
It was only now that Yuan Qi realized how fortunate it was for his master to have invited Senior Tang to join the sect, which was a blessing for Earth Fire Palace!
Even now, renamed White Cloud Observatory and seeing the inheritance carrying on unchanged and ever more prosperous, possibly even becoming the Orthodox Dao after the end of the law, wasting some Spirit Stones seemed to be nothing.
The price of inheritance classics fell three times in a single day, no matter the price of acquisition today, it would only be lower tomorrow.
People's hearts were in chaos, the Cultivation World was nearing collapse.
Every time Yuan Qi came to deliver inheritance jade slips, he would report the situation outside to Zhou Yi, generally speaking, there were more and more cultivators who went insane.
Sects like the Dan Ding Sect and the other three major righteous sects still cared for some dignity, restraining their disciples, and if there were any that went insane, they could take harsh measures to eradicate them.
Only the disciples of the One Qi Sect were nowhere to be seen, as if they had disappeared from the world, and the Yu Continent where they were located had already descended into chaos, with the cultivating families and Loose Cultivators under their control running rampant over the mortals, their methods were not much different from those of the original four demonic sects.
As for the Ji Continent, Qiong Continent, and other places, which had been ruled by the demonic path for countless years, those cultivators who had originally surrendered to the righteous alliance turned around and became evil heretics once more.
The way of the demons does not originate from cultivation techniques but from the heart!
As long as the demons in the heart are not extinguished, the demonic path will not perish.
Of course, the changing winds and clouds outside were irrelevant to Zhou Yi, who was in seclusion underground.
After stopping his cultivation practice, he spent his days nurturing the building wood and restoring his mana in a cycle, all the while continuing to organize the Jade Books.
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Day and night unknown, the years unrecognizable, the seasons indistinguishable…
As water flows and flowers fall, spring departs—thirty years in a daze.
Jade books filled the shelves, row upon row, column upon column, the legacy of the Immortal Dao gathered within a hundred square feet.
While organizing the legacy, Zhou Yi often encountered cultivators with whom he had once crossed paths, like the Array Master of Little Dan Mountain, the Daoist Hu's brewing secrets, Zhu Yushu's beauty methods of Body Cultivation, among numerous others, which inevitably provoked a sense of melancholy.
“The longer the time, the more the memories.”
“It's only been eight hundred years. What about after eight thousand or eighty thousand years? Will there be traces of old acquaintances everywhere I go?”
“One cannot live in sorrow, so… one should celebrate!”
In front of Zhou Yi lay a dense array of jade slips, which, far from decreasing, seemed to multiply the more he organized them.
Thirty years had passed, and the last surge of spiritual energy emitted by the ancestral vein, after being absorbed by all the cultivators, had been exhausted, perhaps with a few strands lingering in some remote corner.
Now, the only source sustaining a cultivator's mana were Spiritual Objects, to the extent that cultivation classics began to be traded for Gold and Silver, allowing wealthy mortals to purchase a few cultivation techniques.
The reputation of Baiyun Guan in Cloud Continent had almost become synonymous with immortals, with disciples gathering a myriad of legacies from all over.
“The vastness of Cultivation Classics is like a sea of smoke; not to mention thirty years, even three hundred might not suffice to organize them all!”
Zhou Yi was not in a hurry, as organizing these texts was in itself a form of cultivation, subtly enhancing his understanding of the Immortal Dao.
Ancient texts recorded that a Nascent Soul Daoist who spent his twilight years in the Scripture Pavilion of a great sect, after hundreds of years organizing scriptures, had an epiphany and achieved his Primordial Spirit in one go!
“The most important task at hand is the Jianmu.”
Zhou Yi's gaze turned to the Innate Spirit Root Jianmu, which after thirty years of relentless nurturing, had sprouted a palm-sized seedling. Its roots buried in the earth, the sprout above ground; a light breeze passing by emitted wisps of pure Spiritual Energy.
“The energy emitted by the sprout is barely enough to sustain the threefold Formation. My own cultivation still relies on Spirit Stones.”
“With the resources accumulated over the years, including the top ten Demon Kings and Old Monster Li, it should last three to four hundred years, but it's uncertain how much the Jianmu will grow… ”
Zhou Yi's brow furrowed slightly. Foundation Establishment and the Golden Core Realm were two completely different stages, the latter no longer within human control, so even if a massive catastrophe were to strike, he could easily dodge it using his Escape Skill.
“Remaining secluded in the Foundation Establishment Stage is somewhat unsafe. I must be meticulous and maintain the Golden Core Realm!”
Just then.
Zhai Kang's voice came from outside, requesting an urgent audience.
Zhou Yi's fingers calculated, noting it was not yet the end-of-month set for meetings. His Divine Sense swept over and saw Zhai Kang alone.
He sealed the Jianmu and concealed it, then waved his hand to open the Formation.
“I pay respects to the elder.”
As Zhai Kang entered the micro-space, he sensed the rich Spiritual Energy, and couldn't help but take several deep breaths, rejuvenating his old and withered body.
With the complete exhaustion of Spiritual Energy in the outside world, even with Spirit Stones maintaining one's cultivation, it was impossible to avoid regressing. Zhai Kang, supported by Baiyun Guan and the Imperial Court, had still fallen from the late stages of Foundation Establishment to the early phase, and with his lifespan, he would die on the spot if he dropped to Qi Refinement.
“Reporting to the elder, not long ago the Dan Ding Sect's gates were unsealed, and most disciples entered the secular world. How should Baiyun Guan respond?”
“The world has collapsed to such an extent that even Xuan Xiao Daojun cannot suppress it!”
Zhou Yi pondered for a moment, then instructed.
“Go see Emperor Guangming. Baiyun Guan welcomes the disciples of Dan Ding Sect to join us, promising manor lords to the real ones and patriarchs to the true immortals!”
Chapter end
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