Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 355: Chapter 263: Seven Fires Gather Easily, Two Poles Hard to Find

Five days later, beneath the ancient Flat Peach tree,

Zhao Sheng’s face appeared slightly pale as he stood under the tree, looking up at the cautious figure amid the leaves.

Sixty years had passed, and the Longevity Peach had finally ripened!

Zhao Daochuan held a three-feet long jade pestle in both hands, extending it to gently tap the large Flat Peach with its red top jade skin.

Ding!

A halo of light diffused, and the Longevity Peach fell in response. Zhao Sheng stretched out his hand beneath the tree, and the peach, large as a human head, accurately dropped into the open thousand-year-old peach wood carving box on the ground.

He covered it with spirit cloth, closed the lid, and affixed a Sealing Talisman.

Zhao Sheng’s actions were as fluid as flowing clouds and water, swiftly securing the carving box and beginning to wait for the next peach to fall.

An hour later, thirty-six Longevity Peaches were all picked.

Zhao Daochuan gently descended from the Spiritual Peach Tree to Zhao Sheng’s side, wiping the sweat from his forehead, and couldn’t help but ask again, “Qingyang, it’s been five days. Why hasn’t the Ancestor sent any messages? He must not meet any misfortune, else the skies would fall!”

“Rest assured! You know the Ancestor’s strength well. Below the Nascent Soul, who could be his match?” Zhao Sheng comforted him.

“That is true, but there must be quite a few Nascent Soul Ancestors over there by now.”

“With the East Sun Ancestor Master around, would he allow his own disciple to suffer? You’re worrying over nothing. Just relax.”

Though he said this, Zhao Sheng couldn’t help feeling uneasy inside, several times with thoughts of venturing out for a reconnaissance.

However, he forcefully suppressed them all.

The situation outside was unclear; if he rashly went out and his traces were discovered by a Nascent Soul Divine Thought, leading to the discovery of the secret mansion, that would be truly laughable.@@novelbin@@

Therefore, Zhao Sheng not only repeatedly persuaded Zhao Daochuan to patiently wait, but he also forced himself to refine two batches of Foundation Establishment Pills to avoid idle speculation.

The results were surprisingly good, yielding one top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, three mid-grade ones, and as many as seven low-grade ones.

Clearly, a powerful Divine Sense aids in alchemy.

Moreover, during the latter half of the month, while his Divine Soul returned to normal, the Star God Thousand Heart Technique he cultivated naturally broke through the Ten Thoughts Barrier, miraculously reaching the twenty-thoughts Realm.

One mind, twenty applications!

This incident, if known to other cultivators, would certainly cause a huge uproar.

One day, a month later, Zhao Sheng suddenly had a revelation: the timing to advance to Golden Core was perfect, now he only lacked a Golden Core Formation Pill.

However, his ambitions did not stop there.

The three necessary conditions for advancing to Golden Core: a transformation in spiritual power quality, Foundation Establishment Perfection, and a Golden Core Formation Pill.

The last two conditions need no elaboration.

With the power of the Xinglong Zhao family, acquiring one or two Golden Core Formation Pills would not be difficult.

His main cultivation technique was the Golden Crow Burning Sky Technique, and his spiritual power had already merged with the Purple Sun Fire and the Golden Sun Fire.

If he formed his core now, he had at least a ninety percent confidence in success.

But this was far from satisfying his ambition.

He was very keen on refining a Golden Crow True Fire, hoping to use the second transformation of the Golden Crow Spiritual Power to form the highest quality Golden Core.

However, Golden Crow True Fire was rarely found in the world.

Despite years of searching through various channels, he had only heard of a Golden Crow True Fire in the black market of Pocket World City.

But, the owner of that Golden Crow True Fire was a late-stage Nascent Soul Cultivator, serving as the “sun” of the black market, naturally impossible for him to acquire.

Zhao Sheng had no choice but to aim for something less, hoping to gather the Seven-colored Spiritual Fire and the Two-pole Primordial Magnetic Divine Light. By refining the Seven-colored Spiritual Fire, he could reverse the innate and recondense a Golden Crow True Fire.

Before breaking through the twenty-thoughts Realm, although he had this idea, he had never put it into practice.

Because the concept seemed simple, but in practice, it was very difficult.

Now, however, the situation was different; he was quite confident about accomplishing this “miracle.”

Having made up his mind, Zhao Sheng suppressed his restless heart, looked up into the sky, his gaze profound as if piercing through layers of soil, seeing the Ghost Chi Relics dozens of miles away.

…

Four days later, beneath the Flat Peach Immortal Tree in the secret mansion, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, meditating.

Just then, the soil layer above the mansion suddenly cracked open, creating a gap over two meters long.

Zhao Sheng abruptly opened his eyes, his expression stern as he looked towards the crack, divine light shooting forth from his eyes, extending over three inches.

But the next second, his expression suddenly relaxed, and he showed a joyful smile.

At that moment, Zhao Xuanjing walked out of the crack with a calm expression. His towering figure provided an incomparable sense of security.

Zhao Sheng immediately jumped up from the ground, lightly floating over to Zhao Xuanjing, landing without a speck of dust rising.

He asked impatiently, “Ancestor, what’s the situation outside now?”

Zhao Xuanjing gently smiled and patted Zhao Sheng’s shoulder, “You lad have done a great deed. It’s very lively outside; the Central Continent Ten Sects are almost fighting over the relics.”

“Er, is it really that exaggerated? But it’s just the Ghost Chi Relics, even if there are a few heavy treasures, it shouldn’t lead to that!” Zhao Sheng looked somewhat surprised,

“You’re right, if it were just the Chi Demon Banner and True Dragon Skeleton and other treasures, with our sect’s strength, monopolizing them wouldn’t be hard,”

Saying this, Zhao Xuanjing’s tone changed, speaking gravely, “But what’s crucial is, do you know?”

“What is it?” Zhao Sheng instinctively asked.

“The crucial point is that the relics turned out to be in a weak spatial area, and they only found one face of the Chi Demon Banner. You should know the Chi Demon Banner has as many as nine faces; where have the other eight gone?”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng’s expression changed, and he immediately realized he had overlooked a critical issue.