Cultivating To Immortality

Chapter 768: Grand Void Transformation Tome

The liangyi pearl was now completely integrated with the sword box, or rather, it was originally an inseparable ’fastener bead’ of the sword box.

"It seems that the fastener bead mentioned by that Senior must have meant that the stone bead was originally part of this item."

Song Yan’s mind stirred, and he subconsciously sensed the liangyi pearl.

After returning to the sword box, his connection to it still existed, though it was very faint.

However, this connection had become extremely weak; he could only perceive its existence and a vague direction, as if through a thick fog.

He now came back to his senses, suddenly feeling a bit absurd.

Once upon a time, he thought such a treasure was like something from the Immortals, yet now he found that it was merely a bead on some other treasure.

Just a single bead, acting as a "fastener bead," already possessed a strange space, and even the mysterious power to let him see ancient events.

So now that the stone bead had returned to its place, what kind of treasure would this sword box itself be?

The courtyard here was serene and simple, with purple bamboo, a dark pool, a stone stele, and a sword box, standing alone, isolated from the world.

Song Yan’s gaze swept across the ethereal courtyard, finally settling back on the ancient sword box before him.

"Which Sword Sect Senior once Cultivated here...?"

This place seemed ordinary, without even a nameplate.

"The Sect Master?"

With countless guesses in his mind, no one could give him an answer.

He no longer hesitated and immediately sat cross-legged between the stone stele and the dark pool.

He held his hands in front of him, and surging, pure Sword Qi poured out, flowing towards the sword box, beginning the process of refining this treasure.

With the connection to the liangyi pearl itself, he thought refining this box would not take long.

However, the situation completely exceeded Song Yan’s imagination.

The refining process was far more difficult and lengthy than he had anticipated.

On the first day, Song Yan, as he had always refined Spiritual Artifacts, tried to imprint it with his Divine Sense and infiltrate it with Sword Qi.

But upon contact, he felt that the black and white light flowing on the surface of the sword box was incredibly resilient; his Divine Sense and Sword Qi were like mud oxen entering the sea, only stirring up a faint ripple before being swallowed.

Song Yan frowned slightly but did not give up.

He then channeled the refining method from the Sword Sect Jade Chapter, directly using the Sword Qi from his Qi Sea, carefully refining it, and only then did he make slight progress.

The flowing black and white light brightened for an instant, but then immediately returned to its original state, still a long way from establishing an initial connection.

Sun rose and moon set.

Song Yan felt that something was not quite right.

This refining speed... why was it so slow?

Seven days passed in a flash.

Song Yan’s aura was misty, and his clothes had been soaked with sweat multiple times and then dried by his Spiritual Qi.

The Little Mystical Qi Scripture circulated within his body, continuously converting Spiritual Qi to replenish his consumption.

However, refining this item felt like pushing an invisible mountain, with a resistance so great it was despair-inducing.

Ten days flowed by.

Song Yan’s complexion was slightly pale, and his mental energy was severely depleted.

This refining not only required immense Spiritual Qi and Sword Qi support but also meticulous mental guidance.

His stubbornness flared up; he had to refine this item.

The Sword Qi vortex in his Zhen Dao Sword Mansion surged frantically, absorbing the dense Spiritual Qi from around him, and then transforming it into a continuous stream of Sword Qi and Sword Qi that poured into the box.

However, the longer the refining took, the more alarmed he became.

What level of treasure was this, exactly?

One must know that he was now in the Foundation Establishment Realm; ordinary Spiritual Artifacts could be refined almost instantly, and even Spiritual Artifacts or Spiritual Treasures generally wouldn’t take more than ten days.

If it were an even more precious treasure, it would be unlikely, otherwise, with his Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivation, he wouldn’t be able to refine it at all.

Fifteen days... eighteen days... under such relentless refining, the faint connection finally thickened from a strand of hair to a slightly thicker rope, still weak, but much more stable than before.

He could already vaguely sense the ancient and vast aura within the sword box.

On the twenty-third day!

Just as Song Yan was about to believe this process was endless, and even began to doubt if his Realm was truly sufficient.

The change finally occurred.

Buzz—

The sword box, which had been silently absorbing Sword Qi, suddenly burst forth with black and white light.

The light was not dazzling, but it carried an all-encompassing, profound, and boundless aura.

The pure Sword Qi and Divine Sense imprint that had been infused for twenty-three days now erupted simultaneously, completely accepted and fused by the sword box in a peculiar way.

Song Yan slowly withdrew his Sword Qi, opened his eyes, which held deep fatigue.

However, there was also an undisguised shock.

A full twenty-three days!

During this period, he had given his all, not daring to relax in the slightest, and had consumed many Medicinal Pills for recovery.

At this moment, the sword box became an inseparable part of his body, their intentions connected.

The moment he successfully refined this item, an ancient and long rhythm resounded directly in the depths of Song Yan’s Divine Soul!

With a slight thought, four streaks of Sword Qi were automatically summoned.

Unmoored Boat, Lord Lin, Crying Moon, and Lianli, along with the two Flying Swords he had kept by his side, all entered the sword box one by one.

The black and white light, which had been slowly flowing on the surface of the sword box, brightened slightly, revealing a restrained sharpness within its warm and cool essence.

At the same time, Song Yan’s Divine Sense felt a strange gravitational pull.

This feeling was truly familiar.

It was the same feeling as being drawn into the liangyi pearl.

Without any resistance, guided by the sword box, his Divine Sense sank into the world within the box!

The scene before him drastically changed.

What greeted his eyes was no longer the grand yet monotonous black and white world within the liangyi pearl; this world was self-contained, with myriad phenomena.

Song Yan found himself suspended in mid-air, taking in the entire landscape of this world.

Above the firmament, fierce winds howled. Clouds surged, and wind and thunder brought a sense of desolation.

Golden sands of the vast desert stretched endlessly. Towering ancient trees spanned the Heaven and Earth.

Weak waters of rivers flowed ceaselessly. Burning volcanoes were as red as blood.

And the division of this world’s terrain was a giant, bottomless rift valley.

Above the rift valley was a cascading ink-colored celestial waterfall, and its depths were endless darkness.

In this world, celestial phenomena and earth veins each occupied a side yet were interconnected, with the Five Elements circulating and Yin and Yang harmonizing.

It was no longer like the illusory two-colored world of before; it was more like... a Small World.

Song Yan’s Divine Thought Incarnation marveled at the magnificent vastness of this world and was about to wander around when he suddenly felt another anomaly.

The black and white Qi permeating the Heaven and Earth seemed to be drawn, suddenly surging and converging from all directions.

Instantly, it poured into Song Yan’s Sea of Consciousness between his brows!

Buzz—

Song Yan felt his Divine Soul reel, his head splitting with pain.

The black and white Qi in the Heaven and Earth vanished without a trace.

At the same time, the drastic change in his mind forced him to be expelled from the sword box world, returning to his main body.

"Hiss..."

He suddenly opened his eyes; the small purple bamboo courtyard was still quiet, the dark pool’s water undisturbed, but in his mind, there was now much information he had never seen before.

His Divine Thought calmed for a moment, carefully sorting through it.

Then, his expression froze, his pupils dilated, and his mouth unconsciously gaped slightly in shock.

An indescribable ecstasy instantly surged into his heart.

The characters, symbols, patterns, and lines in his mind formed a Daoist Scripture, precisely the true Legacy Daoist Canon Cultivated by Sword Sect Disciples... the Grand Void Transformation Tome!

Immersed in it, every word and phrase of this Daoist Scripture seemed to contain the principles of all phenomena in Heaven and Earth.

Vast celestial sounds, ancient rhymes from the desolate borders.

Resounded deep within Song Yan’s Divine Soul.

He suddenly realized that much of the profound essence of the Sword Planting Technique, Essentials of Swordsmanship, and other techniques he had previously Cultivated from the Spirit Transformation Chapter originated from this Daoist Scripture.

Although the part in his mind was incomplete, it was enough for him to Cultivate to the Golden Core Realm.

Song Yan felt no regret over the incomplete Daoist Canon; he had originally been troubled by the lack of Cultivation Technique, and now he possessed the orthodox Cultivation method of the Sword Sect.

Why would he need to search painstakingly far and wide anymore?

Moreover, if this was prepared by the Sect Master to leave behind a Legacy, then perhaps when the time was right in the future, he would still be able to obtain the subsequent Cultivation Technique from this box.

Recalling it carefully, it seemed that it was the infusion of black and white Qi from the world within the box that added these things to his mind.

He didn’t know the origin of that black and white Qi.

If the subsequent Cultivation Technique was indeed contained within this box world, how could it be obtained?

By raising his Realm?

Simply thinking or guessing would yield no answers; taking one step at a time, steadily, was the right path.

The Grand Void Transformation Tome was divided into two parts.

One was named the Purple Firmament Dao Scripture, which was a method for Cultivating pure Primordial Spiritual Qi and refining it into Sword Qi.

The other was named the Grand Void Sword Canon, which recorded content related to the Sword Sect’s Sword Dao Legacy, serving as the backbone of the Sword Sect’s Dao.

The Sword Planting Technique, Essentials of Swordsmanship from the Spirit Transformation Chapter, and the Sword Nurturing Art from the Sword Sect Jade Chapter that he had previously Cultivated, all originated from the Grand Void Sword Canon.

Song Yan first eagerly tried the Mind-Cultivation Technique of the Purple Firmament Dao Scripture. Based on a superficial understanding of the general principles of the method, he circulated the Qi within his body as described.

Almost instantly, in the Zhen Dao Sword Mansion within his body, above the Sea of Sword Qi, that lotus flower suddenly bloomed with brilliant light.

Around the small courtyard, dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was drawn in by an ethereal force.

The speed of its Spiritual Qi absorption and the purity of the Sword Qi it refined were many times faster than the Little Mystical Qi Scripture he had previously practiced.

"Such divine efficacy..."

Song Yan was astonished.

It was simply a world of difference.

The Spiritual Qi surging through his Meridians was visibly transforming into condensed and sharp Sword Qi, nourishing the lotus flower on the Sea of Sword Qi.

Just by mentally simulating a small circulation route, he felt that the originally somewhat sluggish Sea of Sword Qi subtly began to flow faster, showing a trend of becoming even sharper.

Around the lotus, the speed of Sword Qi generation and dissipation also became much faster.

With this method, Song Yan was naturally overjoyed.

This exceptional Cultivation speed completely solved the urgent problem of Cultivation Technique.

Song Yan didn’t know how precious this Cultivation Technique was, but compared to the original Qi Condensation Scroll, which was slow as a crawling turtle, it was immeasurably better.

He was not a person who pursued extreme Cultivation speed; being able to improve even a little was already satisfying, let alone such a significant improvement.

After a brief thought, Song Yan decided to simply re-Cultivate his Cultivation Technique right here.

Re-Cultivating a Cultivation Technique was completely different from the previous dispersion of Cultivation and re-Cultivation; it wasn’t as troublesome, and his Realm wouldn’t drop.

It was merely equivalent to re-purifying the Sword Qi within his body and changing the circulation route.

Otherwise, with the Dragon Pool Gathering imminent, he wouldn’t be so reckless.

He summoned his Flying Sword from the endless treasury, and almost in an instant, a Spirit Gathering Sword Array formed in this small courtyard.

Around the small courtyard, countless dense Spiritual Qi surged towards him like a tide.

"Now that I have established my Dao Foundation, when I go out, I can prepare a few more Flying Swords and directly deploy the Spirit Gathering Sword Array."

He sat cross-legged under the bamboo, slowly circulating the Purple Firmament Dao Scripture.

Although the Little Mystical Qi Scripture he originally Cultivated was inefficient, its Spiritual Qi was balanced and peaceful, making the transition to the new Cultivation Technique smooth and unhindered.

The process of Sword Qi purification was unexpectedly fluid, completely as simple as dispersing Sword Qi and re-Cultivating.

"Time waits for no one."

Song Yan took a deep breath, the crisp air of the purple bamboo courtyard filling his lungs, completely immersing himself in Cultivation and profound insights.

After establishing their Dao Foundation, Cultivators completely transcend the Realm of Mortals and can achieve complete abstention from grains.

Spiritual Qi flowed through the Meridians of his entire body, continuously nourishing his internal organs, Meridians, and flesh and blood.

And Sword Qi surged within the Zhen Dao Sword Mansion, ebbing and flowing, constantly purifying... A month later, Wu Mountain Valley.

Song Yan’s figure appeared here, looking somewhat hurried.

He really hadn’t expected it.

In the past, Cultivating the Qi Condensation Chapter, including the later full Qi Scripture, was extremely slow, and arduous Cultivation was quite grueling.

However, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury; once he started Cultivating this Purple Firmament Dao Scripture, his Cultivation speed was rapid, and it was even more solid than before.

Initially, he would occasionally stop to research the contents of the Grand Void Sword Canon.

Later, he became completely engrossed in it, forgetting the passage of time.

In the past, the Sword Qi in his Zhen Dao Sword Mansion was hazy and ethereal, without attachment, like rootless duckweed.

Later, after establishing his Dao Foundation, his original Dantian Qi Sea merged with the Zhen Dao Sword Mansion, the Dao Seed transformed into a lotus, and he gained a Sea of Sword Qi, which stabilized it considerably.

However, at this moment, Song Yan’s Zhen Dao Sword Mansion was filled with flowing Sword Qi, operating naturally.

Occasionally, when he activated his Insightful Void Sword Eye or nurtured the Unmoored Boat, any consumption would automatically recover.

Moreover, the Sword Qi and Sword Qi contained in his Sea of Sword Qi were several times more abundant than before.

His Dao Foundation was immeasurably more stable than before.

Even more astonishing was that even when he stopped circulating his Cultivation Technique, with every breath, Spiritual Qi surged into his body, instantly refined.

He mused, if he had possessed such a Cultivation Technique during the Qi Refinement Stage, supplemented by Spirit Pills and elixirs, perhaps in a year or even half a year, he could have reached Qi Refinement Perfection and attempted to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

"By my calculations, the Dragon Pool Gathering should have started a few days ago."

The Dragon Pool Gathering was not like the Sword Wiping Gathering, which ended in two days.

As the largest event in the Chu Kingdom’s Cultivation World, it would last for a month.

During this period, there were various exchange activities such as exchange meetings, sermon meetings, and trade fairs held by the major Sects. The high-ranking officials of the Six Major Sects also had discussion and discussion meetings, etc., with the Nine Pulses Grand Competition taking place in the last few days.

The Dragon Pool Mountain Gathering was not only a stage for Nine Pulses Cultivators to spar and display their strength but also an important occasion to observe the development of various forces.

However, even so, for him, as one of the Disciples of the Six Major Sects, to be absent and late without a word was still somewhat impolite.

"It’s better to arrive early."

After briefly discerning the direction, his figure remained still, instantly blurring like a reflection in water.

Then, it transformed into a condensed black and white streak of Sword Qi, flying towards Qiyuan Prefecture.