Chapter 722: Chapter 673: Reclaiming_2
Liu Xu introduced Fang Xi while leading him up to Blood Peak Mountain.
At the mountain summit of Blood Peak Mountain, a pond had been hollowed out and filled with fine liquor.
Numerous strips of meat hung beside the pond, where an unusual blend of meat and wine aromas wafted through the air.
A bit further away, there was an arrangement of tables and stools where a group of cultivators sat in a circle, intermittently using their bronze wine goblets to drink merrily and indulge in debauchery.
’What a splendid scene of wine ponds and meat forests...’
Fang Xi couldn’t help but admire inwardly as he looked around.
His gaze then shifted to the center of the circle, where he saw a mountain of meat.
That was an extremely obese male cultivator, his belly wide open, continuously stuffing various meats into his mouth.
’Master Kuantao truly lives up to his name.’
After a glance, Fang Xi noticed that Fairy Yunxi was also present.
Liu Xu led him over, and the three of them took their seats.
"Mr. Fang Xi of Yaksha Camp greets all sirs," Fang Xi said as he greeted everyone present before gracefully taking his seat and picking up a bronze wine goblet. With one sip, he felt a fiery sensation travel down his throat, making him a bit light-headed, prompting him to exclaim, "Good wine!"
Wine that could give a Transcendent God a hint of inebriation was certainly not ordinary.
"Haha... Seeing how boldly you drink, Mr Fang, I knew you were an interesting fellow," Master Kuantao laughed heartily: "I’m also a Captain in the Yaksha Camp; this Mr. Yi comes from the Asura Camp, Mr. Pu from the Dragon Crowd Camp, and there’s also Mr. Xie and Mr. Xu Qingzi from the Garuda Camp..."
Fang Xi greeted each one of them in turn.
Yi, the scholar-looking cultivator, appeared to be in his thirties, very elegant with his three long whiskers.
Mr. Pu, donning a blood-red Taoist robe which revealed much of her fragrant shoulder, was a seductive female cultivator.
Mr. Xie had an ordinary appearance, whereas Xu Qingzi was a scruffy old man, seated on the ground, tearing at the hind leg of a spirit bird.
All these individuals were Transcendent God Phase cultivators, with Master Kuantao and Xu Qingzi possessing the highest cultivation levels - the former in the late phase of Transcendent God, and the latter having reached the Perfect Transcendent God realm.
"I have always admired Mr. Xu Qingzi’s cultivation. During this gathering, he should actually be our leader..." Master Kuantao said with a hearty laugh.
"Although I am slightly elder and managed to reach the perfect phase of Transcendent God through years of hardship, I have not completed the Five Elements and achieved Unity of All Things... In terms of cultivation, your ’Gluttonous Mantra’ can assimilate a myriad of cultivation methods into one cauldron, possessing attributes of all kinds. Once cultivated to the perfect phase of Transcendent God, one automatically attains the power of Unity of All Things without needing to complete the Five Elements again. Among us here, you truly have the best chance of making the difficult breakthrough to Returning to Emptiness," Xu Qingzi said after finishing the spirit bird leg, wiping the grease from his mouth and sighing.
When many Transcendent God cultivators were gathered, the topic inevitably turned to the difficulties of advancing to Returning to Emptiness.
Upon hearing this, everyone fell into silence.
How difficult is it for a cultivator to break through to a major realm?
Even in the Earth Immortal Realm, although Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Transcendent God were somewhat easier than in the Lower Realm, Returning to Emptiness remained a chasm!
Although these ascending Transcendent God cultivators were once the best of the Lower Realm, due to their limited perspectives, understanding, or compelling circumstances, many chose top-tier cultivation methods of a single element, advancing all the way to the realm of Transcendent God. It was too difficult for them to give up their current path, forcing them to seek other means to complete their cultivation.
In comparison, if they had cultivated a method like Mixed Origin Skills that encompassed all Five Elements from the start, their achievements could have been even more boundless.
Unfortunately, single-element cultivation methods made for faster progress. If they hadn’t cultivated these methods, they might never have smoothly ascended to Earth Immortal!
The difficulty of Returning to Emptiness didn’t lie solely in the bottleneck that was hard to break through but also in the prerequisite of ’Unity of All Things’, which had eliminated countless Transcendent God cultivators!
"Hehe, you flatter me too much, Xu Qingzi. I was just lucky to have obtained the ancient legacy of the ’Gluttonous Mantra’... Even in the Earth Immortal Realm, cultivating a single-element method isn’t necessarily the wrong path; it’s just more troublesome after reaching Transcendent God," Master Kuantao said, glancing at Fang Xi: "For instance, Mr. Fang, with your profound and pure Demon Skills, if you were to cultivate a top-tier righteous method of the human race as well, combining both righteous and demon, you would also have a great hope of breaking through to Returning to Emptiness."
Fang Xi smiled wryly, toasted Master Kuantao with his drink, and then said, "It was already extremely difficult for me to ascend to the Earth Immortal Realm. I only wished to focus on cultivation, even if it meant struggling for a thousand years within the Sky Brahman Army, I would have accepted it. Yet, I never expected Prime Taoist Gu to give us such a hard time!"
"Hmph!"
The female cultivator Pu snorted coldly, clearly having suffered at Prime Taoist Gu’s hands as well.
"Behind him, there’s a commander from Heaven Crowd Camp, indeed a preeminent figure among those who have Returned to Emptiness," Master Kuantao said indifferently: "And furthermore... I have already found out about the next tasks assigned to a few non-compliant ascending cultivators in our Yaksha Camp."
"Oh? What might they be?"
Fang Xi asked, curious.
He knew that the ascending cultivators gathered here were all thorns in someone’s side.
They might have committed some grave crime in the Lower Realm, such as a Blood Sacrifice of an entire continent... Naturally, they were unwilling to be forthcoming with their origins and histories.
Yet, these people, gathered here, had managed to uncover even the upcoming tasks of Yaksha Camp, which was somewhat unexpected.
’Indeed, every ascending cultivator is not to be underestimated...’
Fang Xi swept his gaze over those present, thinking to himself.
"Pioneering!"
Master Kuantao’s voice carried a hint of helplessness.
"What? It’s pioneering?"
Yi, the scholar-like cultivator, exclaimed in shock, his eyes full of terror.
"What is pioneering?!"
Seeing that Fairy Yunxi and Liu Xu were silent with a wry smile, Fang Xi naturally knew that these two women were already privy to the situation and asked.