Chapter Sixty: Passing on the Sword

  The place where Bái Qǐ lived was called Yǐn Zé. Outside the lake, there were dense waterways, puddles, and even swamps. Such places were originally not conducive to cultivating the Tao, with broken and discontinuous earth veins.

  However, the immortal of Yunmeng Sect pulled out a high peak from the lake, condensed the primordial energy of heaven and earth, and forcibly created an environment that connected the veins of the land to control this place. Under the entire Yunmeng Sect, a vast array was formed by the veins of the land, hiding Yunmeng Sect in a vast ocean.

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren left and never came back, leaving behind Bai Qi and his beautiful shifu.

  Zi Hong didn't say much, she took Bai Qi to the Smoke Water Palace, where she used a jade slip to copy many classics for Bai Qi. After bringing Bai Qi back to Hidden Marsh, she went to cultivate on her own and didn't give any pointers to Bai Qi.

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren didn't want to learn the art of alchemy, but he still had him take care of the medicine garden and familiarize himself with the properties of the herbs. As a Qi Refining cultivator who took medicinal pellets, one must learn to distinguish between them.

  Apart from serving the Lingyao, Bai Qi spent the rest of his time reading through the classics collected by Yunmeng Zong. The classics he chose were almost all basic knowledge for cultivating Daoism. Although Yunmeng Zong was not a top-notch sect, the richness of these classics was also astonishing to Bai Qi. Zi Hong had copied nearly three thousand volumes of Daoist scriptures for him, which were the cultivation experiences of some powerful immortal beings, and they were all things that came before achieving the Golden Elixir.

  In other places, Bai Qi absolutely did not have such a convenient path to cultivation. After reading through these classics and comparing them with his own Qing Lei True Solution, the fourth piece suddenly became clear.

  Three Dantians, a mysterious and extraordinary space, all twenty-four kinds of Fu Lu seeds have been thoroughly refined and condensed to completion.

  In the upper dantian, there was an additional Zi Mei True Person giving him a talisman seed. There were no Dao methods, it simply floated in the dantian, emitting a faint purple glow.

  Inside the Hidden Marsh, the primordial energy of heaven and earth converges. White Suddenly appears every day to absorb this primordial energy with his Reverse Scale Spear, gaining benefits several dozen times greater than meditation and breath control.

  This Inverse Scale Spear has no spiritual awareness, but it hasn't done anything excessive either. Zi Hong just felt that Bai Qi's absorption of the Heaven and Earth's primal energy was extremely fast, but still hadn't approached the limits of this Hidden Marsh. Such geniuses are not uncommon in the Cloud Dream Sect, so she didn't take it to heart.

  Bai Qi found that his meditation and breathing exercises were also useless, so he continued to practice swordsmanship. His room was not suitable for practicing swords, but Bai Qi didn't care about losing face, so he went to a mountain top to practice his Overcast Sword.

  Zi Hong saw Bai Qi practicing swordsmanship from afar and couldn't help but laugh. She rode the Void Light to arrive in front of Bai Qi, saying: "Younger brother, this sword technique is not worth cultivating, it's incomplete."

  Bai Qi scattered the Moon Wheel Sword pellets and sighed, "Alas, what I've learned is limited. Without a teacher's guidance, even if I went to the Smoke Water Palace, I wouldn't be able to learn suitable sword techniques."

  Zi Hong smiled lightly and said: "You have a senior sister, don't you? The teacher is often not around. In those years, I also learned a lot of Taoist techniques from the eldest senior brother."

  Bai Qi stood up straight and bowed, Zi Hongdao said: "Take this courtesy to the outside, okay? The teacher has only three apprentices, and it's natural to support each other. Ah..." She sighed suddenly as she spoke to this point.

  Bai Qi curiously said: "Could it be that having fewer disciples is also a trouble?"

  "Junior brother, you don't know that in Yunmeng Sect, there are two great blessed lands, Five Lakes and Seventy-two Peaks. Our master alone occupies one lake, originally with only two students. If our master achieves immortality, he will move into the blessed land to continue cultivation. This Hidden Pool is meant to be returned to the sect. Unless one of us three achieves Golden Elixir. If not for this reason, our master wouldn't have delayed entering the realm of Unity with the Dao."

  Bai Qi thought to himself, this is more like it, if there's no infighting within a sect then that would be strange.

  "Master Big Brother is going out to gain experience, in fact, he's eager to break through the boundary and achieve Golden Elixir. I won't be able to condense elixir in a short period of time, so it's better for me to help you improve your swordsmanship. As true disciples of our sect, we don't need to do tasks that are not required, nor is there any need for comparison. However, we must participate in major events within the sect. Now that the world is in turmoil and the situation of sects merging is intensifying, it won't ease up in thirty or fifty years. If Yun Meng Sect wants to survive and not be annexed by Luo Fu, it also needs to expand its power. You and I will eventually have some troublesome things to deal with."

  Jian Bai saw him deep in thought, and Zi Hong chuckled, saying: "The matter of achieving the Golden Elixir doesn't require your worry, Eldest Brother will take care of it. You just need to quickly advance to the Huan Shen stage and improve your swordsmanship. In our sect, swordsmanship is exceptional, if you can make some small achievements, within the sect you won't be at a disadvantage."

  Zi Hong calmly explained, she wore a bright red Taoist robe, standing at the edge of the cliff, her clothes fluttering in the wind, calm and composed.

  "Master is most skilled in four sword techniques. Eldest senior brother learned the Xuantian Revolutionary Sword, and has already mastered it. Master's Hundred Days Black Gold Sword Pill was given to senior brother. I learned the Departing Fire Mind Sword, and Master gave me the Green Silk Sword Pill. Master still has the Longyuan Mother-Child Sword Pill in his hand, which is not suitable for you, so what should be passed down to you is the Six Yang Rush Thunder Sword Technique. As a demon, shouldn't you have demonic fire?"

  Bai Qi's face turned red and he nodded slightly.

  His Flame Lotus Technique has already condensed into six kinds of demonic flames.

  This lineage of masters follows the ancient path of cultivation. Unlike modern sword cultivators, who are solely focused on being ruthless and fierce, with their sword techniques becoming mere tools for fighting and killing.

  "Master will go find the sword embryo for you, this sword embryo is found, it must be cultivated with demonic fire, when the sword embryo is fully grown, merge into the sword pill, and you don't need to separate your yin spirit to control the sword pill. In this way, during battle, even if the sword pill is destroyed, you can simply re-condense the sword embryo, and won't be injured by the yin spirit. Now I will teach you the technique of nurturing the sword, listen carefully..."

  Zi Hong finished speaking and began to teach Bai Qi the incantation.

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren's disciple, the art of sword cultivation is the same, but in the future, they will take different paths. Ancient Qi Refiners, the continuation of the Taoist lineage is continuous development, not repeating what others have done before.

  Bai Qi followed Zi Hong's guidance, separating his divine consciousness and cutting it off, placing it in the demonic fire to refine. If this divine consciousness is damaged, it will cause great harm to the cultivator. However, Bai Qi's own separated divine consciousness can be immediately repaired when injured. His divine consciousness was strong, making it difficult for the separated part to be refined into a sword embryo's symbolic seed.

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren has been gone for several months, and Bai Qi was barely able to refine this talisman seed after much difficulty. He had no experience and almost lost a third of his divine consciousness before he could finally settle the talisman seed.

  The result was that this talisman seed was extremely large, and the six demon fires were also extracted, leaving only a single thread.

  The green lotus in the fire was somewhat wilted, and Bai Qi had no choice but to forcibly stimulate the reverse scale spear, only then did this demon fire return to its original state. After the demon fire became powerful, the seed of the sword embryo's talisman was thrown in for repeated tempering, waiting for Zimei True Person to find the sword embryo, Bai Qi could cultivate Zimei True Person's unique sword technique.

  Bai Qi didn't listen to Zi Hong's words, and Yue Lun Jian Wan continued to cultivate tirelessly. Fu Yu Jian also made a breakthrough and can now control twelve sword pellets, condensing into two bright moons.

  Zi Hong's persistence towards Bai Qi was met with just a smile, and he didn't stop him. Half a year passed like this before Zimei Zhēn returned to Yǐnzé.

  Bai Qi saw that his master's face was filled with worry, and he knew that there must be something big going on. Otherwise, a cultivator of Zi Mei Zhen Ren's level would not be shaken so easily and reveal such an expression.

  "Zi Hong, Qing Yu, you two should go into seclusion."

  "Master, what's going on outside?" Bai Qi couldn't help but ask.

  "Jin Huang Xian is gone, and this Wu Zhe has ascended to the heavens, a feat that hasn't been seen in thousands of years. The city of Jinling is now occupied by a mysterious sect, whose master calls himself Ye Di. All the sects within a radius of several thousand li have been subdued by him, and his power continues to expand. This isn't good news; I'm afraid that Zhongzhou will soon face great calamity."

  Bai Qi's heart rose with a thread of hatred, and that Jin Emperor actually achieved immortality!

  It seems that to avenge oneself, one must pursue it all the way to the Ninth Heaven and the Heavenly Court. Fortunately, the Inverse Scale Spear has completely disintegrated the Purple Xiao Golden Order, so even if we reach the Heavenly Court, no one will be able to detect anything.

  The Great Jin completely collapsed, and the annexation of the sect entered a white-hot stage. These were things that Bai Qi knew, but he didn't know what the great calamity was.

  "Qingyuan, come with me." Zimei True Person tossed a storage ring to Zi Hong and didn't bother to instruct her, instead leading Bai up to his own refined abode.

  After traversing thousands of spaces, they arrived at an open area surrounded by stone walls on all sides. Zǐ Méi Zhēn Rén then said: "Qīng Yí, has Zǐ Hóng ever taught you the method for condensing and refining the Sword Embryo Talisman?"

  Bai Qi directly spat out the talisman, which floated in front of him.

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren stared blankly for a moment, then said: "This sword embryo talisman of yours is quite unusual. Originally, I was going to help you find the six kinds of demon fire again, but it seems that you have already successfully cultivated demonic arts on your own, so be it, this saves me a lot of time."

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren said, taking the sword embryo talisman seed, then grabbed a cluster of purple lightning from the void, with a crisp sound, and merged the purple lightning into the white Qi's sword embryo talisman seed. Then Zi Mei Zhen Ren directly sent this sword embryo talisman seed into White Qi's body, White Qi felt that all over his body, for an instant, lost all sense of awareness.

  Then the six demon fires suddenly burned fiercely, their power expanding dozens of times, each containing a hint of sword intent, raging like thunder.

  "I'll teach you the Six Yang Thunder Sword, this thunder sword embryo is what I asked the Immortal Elder of the Mystic Gate to go to the void outside the domain and search for half a year, it's only available during the destruction of stars and the Void Tribulation. The sword pellets under the Taoist instrument can't withstand this sword embryo. When your sword skills are accomplished, I'll find you a suitable weapon again."

  Bai Qi's heart stirred, and he spat out the Eternal Night Sword Pill. "Master, this is a sword pill given to me by my mother. I don't know if it can withstand the power of the Sword Embryo."

  Zi Mei Zhen Ren grasped the Yong Ye Jian Wan, then immediately released it, saying: "This is a top-grade Dao soldier, of course it can withstand it. However, this sword embryo itself should be a Xian Qi, being knocked down to the mortal realm, the instrument spirit died afterwards, only then did it become a top-grade Dao instrument. If you want to merge it into the sword embryo, you will also need to reach the late stage of the Hua Shen realm to display its power; otherwise, it is still just the Six Paths Sword Intention injuring enemies."

  "Disciple understands, disciple still has Moon Wheel Sword Pill, usually practicing sword skills is enough."

  "That's good, this sword pellet, you can send it into the demon fire and slowly merge with the sword fetus. With time, if you can cultivate a spiritual energy, perhaps this sword pellet can recover to the realm of a divine soldier. However, to thoroughly become a divine soldier, at least after you achieve immortality, you must personally re-refine it."