Chapter 666: Chapter 645 Changqingzi (Congratulations to the City Owner on his Return)_1
Fang Xi’s expression was blank.
In the Sea of Consciousness, a green Nascent Soul appeared out of thin air.
Around it, phantoms took shape, conjuring the figure of a young Earth Immortal holding a green broken sword in hand.
Fang Xi’s main Nascent Soul also appeared in the Sea of Consciousness, clad in four-colored armor and surrounded by treasures like the Nine Radiance Seal, Black Water Shield, Devil-locking Tower, and Green Barley Sword, while cradling an Ancient Bronze Mirror in his arms.
Upon seeing the much larger incoming green Nascent Soul, he immediately, without any hesitation, threw the Ancient Bronze Mirror from his embrace.
"So there is indeed a soul defense treasure..."
The young Earth Immortal seemed unconcerned as he swung the green broken sword in his hand!
With an Integration Level Divine Soul and this damaged Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure Flying Sword, he was certain that he could successfully perform Soul Possession on this person!
Unless...
Boom!
The Ancient Bronze Mirror instantly grew immensely large, its radiance pooling and emitting a terrifying Spiritual Pressure!
The young Earth Immortal’s Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure Flying Sword actually began to tremble slightly!
"Impossible!"
The young Earth Immortal’s eyes bulged as he suddenly gripped the sword with both hands, spraying a breath of Nascent Soul energy onto the green broken sword, trying to carve out a path of life.
But in the next instant, the Ancient Bronze Mirror almost blotted out the sky as it enveloped down.
Dong!
A sound of something shattering echoed through the Sea of Consciousness.
Fang Xi felt a slight dizziness in his head, and then a surge of terrifying memories came flooding in. Fortunately, after being suppressed by the "Treasures of All Heavens," these were just pure memories and not branded with a soul, otherwise Fang Xi might have been affected, his personality completely altered, turning into someone else altogether.
Rubbing his temples, he felt the fuzziness in his head while rapidly memorizing the information and content he wanted:
Of course, the first thing was the full cultivation of the "Kuyong Skills," and then there was the cultivation method for the "Supreme Northern Dipper Life-controlling Divine Light" Divine Skill...
Next is the background of this person and the reasons for descending to the Lower Realm...
...
Above the Mechanism City of Nine States.
"That is... "
Xiao Qing looked at the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm in shock, witnessing the "Chunqiu Tree" collapse thunderously, its branches and roots withering away in an instant, as the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm began to shatter...
At this moment, the heterodox incarnation spoke indifferently, "The Earth Immortal is dead, you can all go and search for opportunities..."
After all, cultivators are a bunch of all-capable mercenaries.
Called over to fight life and death, they must be given sufficient benefits, or they might rebel at any minute.
Hearing this, the Bai family ancestor instantly turned into a streak of Escape Light, plunging into the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm.
However, in front of him, Xiao Qing transformed into a Green Fire Luan, her Wind Fire Escape Technique combined with the Void Force was astonishingly quick.
Followed closely, Ghost Axe and Demon Exterminator, both Transcendent Gods, linked their Escape Lights and directly surpassed him...
The heterodox incarnation just stood there silently, allowing this group of cultivators to swarm into the collapsing Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm like locusts, to rampage and loot...
But he didn’t care.
Because he knew that the most important thing within the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm had already been taken by the true form.
Besides that, there was the dragon-like Immortal Origin Energy, which was impossible to collect at the moment. With the breaking of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, it scattered, returning to Heaven and Earth.
In the Mortal Realm, Central Region.
Splash!
The previously parched and cracked earth felt the fragrance of rainwater for the first time.
Like the source of life itself, strands of rainwater kept falling onto the land, causing this nearly lifeless earth to start showing hints of green...
The revival of the Central Region had begun...
...
Fang Xi felt as if he had been in a long dream.
In the dream, he experienced the life of a genius from the Earth Immortal Realm from the perspective of an observer.
Time passed unknowingly, and he yawned, stretching and waking up.
Where he was, naturally, was above the Mechanism City of Nine States, with the heterodox incarnation guarding nearby.
Watching this heterodox incarnation, his expression became complex.
’The technique of the Second Nascent Soul... the hidden dangers are indeed not small.’
Fang Xi sat cross-legged, silently running his Profound Art, clear and bright was his Sea of Consciousness, within which mysterious scriptures began to emerge, notably the full text of the ’Kuyong Skills’!
Not only that, from the Transcendent God Chapter, to the Returning to Emptiness Chapter, the Integration Chapter, and even the cultivation methods of the Mahayana Period, he had them all!
Upon brief contemplation, he couldn’t help but feel joy, "The Dao is hopeful!"
No matter what, his cornerstone remained the ’Kuyong Skills’; if he were to break through to Returning to Emptiness with the ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’, it wouldn’t quite fit.
Now that he had gained the true heritage of the ’Kuyong Skills’, naturally, there was hope of becoming an Immortal!
Even those extremely secretive and treacherous designs within his previous methods which only became apparent at Returning to Emptiness and Integration could now be undone one by one.
"After cultivating the ’Kuyong Skills’ to the perfection of Transcendent God, it turns out that you still need to refine the Four Great Elements other than wood to merge the Five Elements into one and assault Returning to Emptiness..."
"This method of refining the Five Elements Spiritual Objects indeed surpasses many of the Secret Skills used to break through to Returning to Emptiness, but it’s still not as good as my Merging of Three Energies..."
"Besides, if I can gather the materials and forge the ’Biyi Breaking Virtual Pill’, the probability of breaking through will increase significantly..."
After reviewing the entire ’Kuyong Skills’, Fang Xi’s understanding of cultivation realms could be described as watching from a high place, and he would never again walk the wrong path.
"When cultivators of the human race reach the stage of Returning to Emptiness, the Magic Power within their bodies upgrades to ’Immortal Origin Energy’... with this energy, they can easily leverage the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy... while those of the Monster Clan cultivate ’Sky Demon Qi’, and the Demon Clan at Returning to Emptiness cultivate ’True demon qi’!"
"At the Mahayana Period, Mahayana Individual Immortals can use this ’Immortal Origin Energy’ to nurture their life-bound magical artifact, and after countless years of nurturing and the consumption of Immortal Jade, advance it to a ’Semi-immortal artifact’!"
The reason it is called a ’Semi-immortal artifact’ is that Immortal Origin Energy is not true Immortal Qi, and though supported by Immortal Jade, Mahayana Monks are still not true Immortals.
"Inside Immortal Jade lies true ’Immortal Qi’, therefore, cultivators above Returning to Emptiness crave it greatly... whether used for cultivation or Talisman forging, it is a supreme treasure."
"The Mahayana Period lacks early, middle, and late stage divisions because, at this step, the Nascent Soul is already complete, just awaiting tribulation... Mahayana Monks are classified by the number of tribulations they’ve crossed, distinguishable as One-Tribulation Mahayana, Two-Tribulation Mahayana... until having surpassed the Nine Tribulations, they can fully transform the Nascent Soul into the Origin Soul, thus ascending to the True Immortal Realm, and become known as ’True Immortal of Origin Soul’! Such a realm is termed ’Sky Demon’ in the Demon Clan, and ’Sky Demon’ in the Monster Clan, essentially the same..."
"However, crossing more tribulations does not necessarily mean stronger Mahayana Power, for instance, a newly advanced Mahayana Monk, if capable of crossing the Nine Tribulations consecutively, would no doubt prevail over an ordinary Mahayana with ease... but, naturally, the more tribulations crossed, the better, and as one approaches ascension later on, they seldom show themselves in the Earth Immortal Realm, after all... once reaching the level of a True Immortal of Origin Soul, one truly attains endless lifespan and partakes in Long Life..."
Below True Immortal, one is still bound by lifespan limits!
This is precisely why so many high-ranking cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm are so keen on ascending to the True Immortal Realm!
"Long Life... finally within my reach."
Fang Xi muttered to himself, "Yet, what they call a ’True Immortal of Origin Soul’ is nothing more than a mere Human Immortal, a level Changqingzi would disdain..."
Changqingzi!
That is the name of the master of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm.
He was born in the Earth Immortal Realm, fortuitous encounters upon him in his youth, he entered the Dao and even reached an incredibly profound stage of cultivation.
Changqingzi’s greatest opportunity was when he stumbled upon an Immortal Mansion and obtained an ’Earth Immortal Heritage’!
This ’Earth Immortal Heritage’ detailed some situations in the True Immortal Realm.
For instance, Immortals are ranked in three orders—Celestial Immortal, Earth Immortal, Human Immortal...
Ordinary cultivators start with Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment and proceed upward... once at Mahayana, upon transcending Nine Tribulations and ascending, they only become the lowest order of ’Human Immortal’!
Of course, Human Immortals are not to be looked down upon, but in terms of potential for future breakthroughs, they are somewhat inferior to Earth and Celestial Immortals.
Changqingzi did not possess the Celestial Immortal Inheritance, but acquiring an ’Earth Immortal Inheritance’ was an enormous stroke of luck!
In this Earth Immortal Inheritance, the most important were the ’Kuyong Skills’, ’Longevity Skills’, and methods for cultivating Life-bound Spirit Plants along with the mantra of the Supreme Northern Dipper Life-controlling Divine Light.
After having switched to the Way of the Earth Immortal and strenuously seeking out a Chunqiu Tree, he managed to break through to the Integration realm!
Yet, during a critical seclusion, his second Nascent Soul unexpectedly rebelled!
At the time, Changqingzi was at a crucial point of cultivating the ’Kuyong Skills’, and the rebellion of the second Nascent Soul nearly led him into deviation. With no way up to heaven, no way down to earth, he had no choice but to risk descending to the Lower Realm, where he was severely injured, and his cultivation fell back to the stage of Returning to Emptiness.
In fact, this was a blessing, as the Mortal Realm could hardly bear the might of an Integration Master, barely even a Returning to Emptiness cultivator.
But the Way of the Earth Immortal indeed had its uniqueness; even the incomplete ’Spirit Realm’ could block the Interface Power, allowing Changqingzi to cling to life.
As a result, he took disciples in the Mortal Realm, passed down the teachings of Green Emperor Mountain, and was revered as the founding Master.
After such a long period of time, what Changqingzi hadn’t expected was that his second Nascent Soul, inheriting the name ’Changqingzi’ in the Earth Immortal Realm, advanced rapidly, even breaking through to the late stage of Integration, and even became one of the ’Five Sons of Human Race’, a true big shot!
The second Nascent Soul, sensing Changqingzi was not dead, repeatedly sent down edicts, even dispatching Returning to Emptiness cultivators to descend and engage Changqingzi in magical combat...
After several bouts, the Mortal World nearly sank into the sea, and Changqingzi was seriously injured, only managing to extinguish the foe’s minions after a great struggle, and after much thought, he had no choice but to use the power of the Earth Immortal to seal the Mortal Realm, cutting off all communication with higher Realms, and started to consolidate the spiritual energy of the Mortal Realm, hoping to slowly recover within the ’Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm’...
Meanwhile, he made some arrangements and backup plans, seeking a suitable target for Soul Possession.
This person had high standards, wanting at least a cultivator with the ’Eternal Green Body’ to even spare a glance.
It was precisely because of this that Fang Xi managed to endure to the end in the magical combat, turning the tide successfully!
Yet, this person could not have imagined that even with his Integration-level Divine Soul, paired with a Supreme Treasure-level broken sword, he would still be defeated, and so miserably at that!
Originally, Changqingzi estimated that with his strength, even Soul Possession of an Integration cultivator had a high chance of success!
"I always feel like even without the Fortune Worm, I would know his fortune... truly... done for!"
Fang Xi sighed.