Free Web NovelChapter 765: Chapter 654: True Flame Gourd
As for who it is, and what contribution they have made to the Sect, that is not important.
The Dao lineage and the Sect’s strength are what True Monarch Qing Yun needs to focus on.
"When are you leaving?"
True Master Cold Jade asked.
In the end, she still agreed to Shen Xuan’s request.
"Within about a month. This disciple still has a vital matter to attend to, one that concerns my future cultivation. I must set out immediately and cannot afford any delay."
"I will make some arrangements. In ten days, I will go to Starlight Island with you."
"Many thanks, Master Cold Jade."
Shen Xuan bowed solemnly.
With True Master Cold Jade sitting in town, Starlight Island would be completely safe.
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Shen Xuan specifically went to pay respects to True Monarch Qing Yun.
He reported that he would be going out to seek opportunities and attempt to break through to the Divine Power Realm as a Body Refining Master.
True Monarch Qing Yun gave him his encouragement.
Shen Xuan seized the chance to inquire about rumors concerning the breakthrough to the Divine Power Realm, and whether there would be a punishing thunder tribulation.
"As for Divine Power Realm Body Refining Masters, this poor Daoist has never heard of such a person, though I have heard a little second-hand."
True Monarch Qing Yun stated plainly that a Divine Power Realm Body Refining Master counts as a Tier Four Cultivator.
Although he had never seen one.
He had seen related records in Daoist classics.
There will definitely be a Celestial Tribulation.
As for what form it takes, it is nothing more than thunder, fire, or wind, either alone or in combination.
Among these, a Celestial Thunder Tribulation is the most likely.
In Jin Country, Qin Country, and Zhao Country, at the center of the Profound Origin Continent, cultivators are clearly a level stronger; there should be Divine Power Realm Body Refining Masters there.
In a barren place like Song Country, lacking inheritance and resources, Body Refining Masters can only cultivate up to the Dharma Realm, and no one has ever been heard of breaking through to the Divine Power Realm.
Sects in Song Country also do not place much importance on Body Refining Techniques.
They once studied this.
The greatest flaw of Body Refining Masters is that they cannot extend their lifespan.
Thus, such methods can only serve as low-tier body cultivation techniques, or as auxiliary techniques for Magic Cultivators.
It is very hard to achieve great breakthroughs in Realm.
The Bai Family Stronghold near the Wilderness is already the pinnacle of Body Refining Masters in Song Country.
Yet they are only at the Dharma Realm.
Over ten thousand years of inheritance, no one in the Bai Family has ever stepped into the Divine Power Realm.
This is actually normal.
After all, that is a Tier Four Cultivator.
If the Bai Family’s forebears had broken through to the Divine Power Realm.
How could they have remained hemmed in near the Wilderness?
Now, after Shen Xuan advanced to the Middle Stage of Golden Core, his Flesh Body strength had increased greatly.
He was just a hair’s breadth away from the Divine Power Realm.
Looking across the whole of Song Country, anyone below a Nascent Soul True Monarch posed no threat to him.
True Monarch Qing Yun supported Shen Xuan also because Shen Xuan was walking the path of a Body Refining Master.
He had no direct competition with Spirit Sword True Master and Mysterious Trace True Master.
He did not need to inherit the Cyan Cloud Sect’s Dao lineage.
If Shen Xuan could break through to the Divine Power Realm.
He would be an excellent number-two figure for the entire Cyan Cloud Sect.
Little did he know.
Shen Xuan had never regarded the Cyan Cloud Sect as his final destination.
The two of them chatted idly for a while.
True Monarch Qing Yun pointed out to Shen Xuan a method of harmonizing water and fire.
Of course, True Monarch Qing Yun was also basing this on his own insights, making conjectures and deductions.
Shen Xuan still memorized it very earnestly.
The insights of an old Nascent Soul True Monarch into the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
No matter what, they were highly valuable for reference.
In the end, Shen Xuan asked about ascending to the Spirit Realm.
This made True Monarch Qing Yun faintly surprised.
He had not expected Shen Xuan to be thinking so far ahead.
Before even forming a Nascent Soul, he was already pondering matters of ascension.
"Ten thousand years ago, a great upheaval occurred on the Profound Origin Continent. All of the dozen or so Divinity Transformation Realm venerables on the continent gathered in the Celestial Essence Sect of Jin Country, and all vanished under mysterious circumstances."
"Since then, the passage between the Profound Origin Continent and the Spirit Realm has been completely sealed."
"Even if one breaks through to Nascent Soul, and then to the Divinity Transformation Realm, one still cannot ascend to the Spirit Realm."
True Monarch Qing Yun took out a purple Jade Scroll.
"A thousand years ago, a Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator named Venerable Zhengyang managed to ascend. Yet he ascended to the Demon Realm instead."
"This is a record of the Demon Realm that he sent back through a Demon Realm passage. A dignified Divinity Transformation venerable, in the Demon Realm, became a mere Demon Servant, lost all Magical Power, and ended up quite miserable."
"Venerable Zhengyang’s disciples confirmed that the contents herein are very likely written by his own hand."
Shen Xuan received the purple Jade Scroll.
His Divine Sense swept over it briefly, and his expression turned odd.
The Demon Race among whom Venerable Zhengyang dwelt was precisely the Golden Spirit Race.
In front of True Monarch Qing Yun, Shen Xuan could not read it in detail.
He suspected that True Monarch Qing Yun knew the Golden Spirit Race was hunting him.
And had deliberately given him this purple Jade Scroll.
To warn him not to rashly attempt ascension.
From True Monarch Qing Yun’s perspective.
He certainly hoped Shen Xuan would remain in the Cyan Cloud Sect, assist the new True Monarch Qing Yun, and help the Sect grow stronger.
However, True Monarch Qing Yun did not say this outright.
Shen Xuan likewise pretended not to know.
The two of them each guessed the other’s thoughts.
Yet neither exposed them.
There was a certain air of each following heaven’s will.
Shen Xuan thanked True Monarch Qing Yun and left Cyan Cloud Peak.
Afterward, he went to visit True Master Gu Feng, Mysterious Trace True Master, Spirit Sword True Master, Hidden Image True Master, Celestial Wind True Master, and Celestial Thunder True Master.
He informed them that he would soon be going out to seek opportunities.
And asked them to look after Starlight Island.
The others were all very polite and agreed readily.
Mysterious Trace True Master, however, tried to keep Shen Xuan several times.
He said frankly that he was willing to use the full power of the Cyan Cloud Sect to help him search for Spiritual Objects needed for his breakthrough.
Shen Xuan tactfully refused.
He truly did not want to take sides and get drawn into the struggle between the two senior Golden Core brothers.
No matter which one formed a Nascent Soul, it would not affect his own path.
So why should he place a bet and stake his life on it?
The more sincere Mysterious Trace True Master was, the more it showed that he was at a disadvantage.
In truth, Shen Xuan already favored Spirit Sword True Master more.
One’s own strength is the foundation.
These past years, Mysterious Trace True Master had poured too much of his energy into Sect affairs of the Cyan Cloud Sect.
Though both were at Golden Core Perfection.
One had polished his Sword Pill to flawless perfection, touching upon the Realm where the sword gives birth to ten thousand arts.
The other had transformed ten incarnations, his Daoist Techniques profound, yet they always gave a sense of being broad but not refined.
