Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 47: Chapter 47: Summer Insects cannot discuss ice

Back at Frost Moon Villa, Su Ping finally had the mindset to review his trip to the Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop.

He carefully recalled the memory fragments of the horde of rats in his mind.

He guessed what probably happened: the people from Punishment Alliance wanted something from the eagle-faced cultivator, or a secret, so they deliberately set up a chase to kill.

Only they didn’t expect that the eagle-faced cultivator had an escape secret technique, forcing the bigwig in the dark clouds to show himself and take action personally.

As for exterminating all the cultivators around Nine Leaf Mountain.

Either the enemy had an excessively heavy killing intent, or perhaps they were worried that in a moment of crisis, the eagle-faced cultivator would spill the secrets or leave something behind?

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After all, only the dead can keep a secret well.

The fact that Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop remained intact was probably thanks to Cultivator Yun Yuan for decisively initiating the barrier to cut off internal and external information, thereby distancing himself from the affair in advance.

Of course, the Yun Family, being among the Immortal Cultivation Families, must have also played a key role.

Otherwise, it would only take an unfounded suspicion for Nine Leaf Mountain to be cleansed as well…

Having sorted out the cause and effect, Su Ping deeply felt the crisis coming from the outside world.

“The Immortal Sect Territory is getting more and more chaotic, and in troubled times, relying on anyone is not as good as relying on oneself!”

“Now that I have the Pot Cave Heaven, this time I also acquired the Illusion Array and related magic artifacts from the auction!”

“The arrangements on Water Blue Star can also be appropriately accelerated.”

“At the very least, I can try to get more things to enhance my combat power.”

Previously, Su Ping had a natural fear of his homeland’s scientific and technological civilization.

He had always been cautious and focused on careful development.

Indeed, this was also the correct approach.

Based on the information Su Ping had collected so far.

Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators couldn’t withstand modern personal weapons.

Even body refining cultivators with steel bones, no matter how hard, couldn’t be harder than a two-inch-thick steel plate.

Yet such thickness of steel plate can be penetrated by personal weapons!

Of course, this isn’t to say that cultivators are no match for sharpshooters.

With the Five Senses of Qi cultivators, although they cannot dodge bullets, they can be faster than the eyesight and reaction speed of sharpshooters, thus only needing to dodge the gun muzzle.

So, in Su Ping’s view, modern personal weapons are actually more suitable for low-tier cultivators!

Only with the Five Senses and reaction speeds of cultivators can the real potential of these weapons be brought out.

Thus displaying the combat power of those seemingly unscientific sharpshooters in comics and movies, which is theoretically entirely feasible!

“Right, there’s also the Bloodline Stone Plate!”

Su Ping suddenly remembered the most expensive item he had purchased at the auction.

Just as he was about to test it with his blood, he suddenly thought of the origin of the Bloodline Stone Plate.

After some consideration, he decided to go to Pot Cave Heaven before conducting the experiment.

Otherwise, if the Bloodline Stone Plate had some kind of fallback, such as quietly transmitting a message to its creator when it detected certain special Spiritual Bodies,

Then he would truly be trapping himself.

In Pot Cave Heaven, Su Ping took out the Bloodline Stone Plate.

It appeared as a palm-sized, rhombus-shaped white-gray stone plate.

Thousands of mysterious inscriptions were engraved on both sides of the stone plate.

Su Ping placed a Spirit Stone into the groove in the middle of the Bloodline Stone Plate and then lightly cut his fingertip to drop a bead of fresh blood onto the stone plate.

Seconds later, the Bloodline Stone Plate activated, emitting a faint white light.

As the glow gradually faded,

The five golden characters of Ten Directions Annihilation Body floated in the half-space above the Bloodline Stone Plate.

“It really is the Ten Directions Annihilation Body!”

Su Ping looked at the name of the Spiritual Body displayed by the Bloodline Stone Plate, and despite his expectations, he was overjoyed:

“One-tenth of the Ten Directions Annihilation Body is still the Ten Directions Annihilation Body!”

“This is a Spiritual Body that could make one the Saint Heir of the Ten Directions Sect! If I consume nine more Red Blood Rainbow Carps, I could obtain it with a hundred percent certainty!”

“The future is promising, the hope for longevity is in sight!”

The worries that Su Ping had about Nine Leaf Mountain seemed to have been washed away by this joy, lightening his mood considerably.

After making some preparations, Su Ping activated the Town Return Talisman and returned to Water Blue Star.

East King Temple.

Little Taoist Zhouxuan pedaled back to the temple.

He had just finished a conference.

Seeing that he was a true cultivator, he disdained participating in these scriptural debates.

After all, no matter how much they argued, they could not develop divine skills nor become immortals.

However, this time his mentor was also going to attend the conference, so Zhouxuan could not absent himself.

Otherwise, he truly might be suspected by his mentor of having deviated in his cultivation or of giving up on alchemy…

“Alas, summer insects cannot speak of ice, why hadn’t I realized before how great the communication barrier between myself and them was?”

Little Taoist Zhouxuan criticized inwardly as he parked his bike and returned to the back yard.

His steps suddenly halted, and he straightened his back uncontrollably.

Then he deeply bowed to the figure in front of the divine statue in the rear hall and lowered his voice to say,

“Taoist, you have returned.”

“Mhm, how has your cultivation been recently?”

Su Ping responded with a sound and turned to face Zhouxuan, his eyes shining brightly, causing Zhouxuan to anxiously lower his head and quietly share his recent cultivation changes and doubts.

“Interesting.”

After listening, Su Ping expressed his evaluation internally.

Zhouxuan was able to cultivate the common Five Elements Art he was taught in this spiritless environment and glean so many insights.

His talent was yet to be determined, but at least his comprehension should be considered first-class amongst geniuses!

“Stretch out your hand.”

Su Ping took out the Bloodline Stone Plate and softly instructed Zhouxuan.

When Su Ping took out the stone plate, Zhouxuan’s gaze became fixed on it.

He obediently stretched out his hand.

Then, as Su Ping lightly scratched with his nail, Zhouxuan let his fresh blood drip onto the stone plate.

After a moment, the Bloodline Stone Plate showed no reaction.

Su Ping slightly shook his head, yet he knew this was unexpected but also reasonable.

Spiritual Bodies are not so easily encountered, right?

Even in the Immortal Sect where prodigies gather, only a few are rumored to possess Spiritual Bodies.

Even though his birthplace lacked Spiritual Energy, there seemed to be no less spiritually sentient animals and plants than in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Finding someone with a Spiritual Body requires time and external assistance.

“Taoist… does this mean I have no fate with immortality?” @@novelbin@@

Zhouxuan, looking at the unresponsive Bloodline Stone Plate, felt his entire being fill with sorrow and unwillingness.

Before tears could start forming in his eyes,

Su Ping pulled back the Bloodline Stone Plate and said,

“Not necessarily, you just lack a Taoist Body. But don’t be too anxious; there are plenty of cultivators with talent but without a Taoist Body.”

“Even I possess only one kind of Taoist Body.”

“If you want to know whether you can cultivate immortality, you’ll find out after entering the Cave Heaven Blessed Land and seeing if you can absorb the Spiritual Energy.”

Having said this, Su Ping lightly drew a stroke in the air with his right hand.

A half-transparent, somewhat illusory jade pendant filled with an unreal sensation was pressed into Zhouxuan’s hand.

This was an invitation to Pot Cave Heaven.

The design of the invitation card could be customized by Su Ping, its owner.

To enter Pot Cave Heaven, one must touch the invitation and, at the moment of receiving the invite, must choose to agree in their heart to enter.

Zhouxuan, excited, tried to clutch the jade pendant but found it was like a projection, completely devoid of substance.

However, he soon stopped worrying about this question.

As a mysterious inquiry reached his mind.

Even though he couldn’t understand the voice, he intuitively sensed it was asking if he was willing to enter a world beyond this world!

“I… I am willing!”

Zhouxuan shouted in his heart.

Then, in the next instant!

Zhouxuan’s entire view of the surroundings turned upside down in an instant and transformed into… Yunlai Immortal Realm!