Chapter 118: Mastering the First Level of Great River Sword Qi
“Sect Master, I prefer a quiet life and can’t stand too many restrictions. This opportunity should be given to Senior Brother Chang. After all, he has been to the Imperial Martial Arts Academy. Joining the Dragon Guarding Temple is more suitable for him than me,” Li Qian said.
Li Qian said.
It was a sure thing that he would become a Celestial Being.
Within a year, he would definitely become a Celestial Being.
“Li Qian, don’t regret it,”
Sect Master Feng Shaoyu said.
“This disciple will never regret it,”
Li Qian shook his head.
He would be crazy to go to the Dragon Guarding Temple.
“Alright, then you can go back,”
Sect Master Feng Shaoyu waved his hand and said.
“Sect Master, then this disciple will take his leave.”
Li Qian bowed and turned to leave.
“This kid”
Sect Master Feng Shaoyu looked at Li Qian’s back and couldn’t help but shake his head.
He had never seen anyone refuse such a great opportunity.
“Lei Zhao, go to Dripping Water Peak and call Chang Xiaoyao over,”
he suddenly shouted.
“Yes, Master.”
Lei Zhao’s voice sounded from outside the hall.
Time Bell Pavilion.
Dong dong dong dong
The clear bell chime rang.
Li Qian had just finished ringing the bell and was about to cultivate when he saw Master Zhou Buping returning from the foot of the mountain.
“Li Qian, why did you give that opportunity to someone else?”
Zhou Buping hurriedly asked, “Do you know how rare this opportunity is?”
“Master, do you think this disciple needs this opportunity?”
Li Qian touched his nose and said.
“Uh… although you are a Perfect Innate, it can always speed things up a bit. Moreover, I feel that your cultivation speed doesn’t seem to be as fast as I imagined,”
Zhou Buping switched to Secret Sound Transmission.
After all, it was better not to say the words “Perfect Innate” out loud.
“Master, I have made another breakthrough recently. I accidentally reached the middle stage of the True Essence Realm,”
Li Qian said.
“Your cultivation has broken through?”
Zhou Buping’s face showed surprise. “Alright, your cultivation improvement is not bad. What about your Sword Intent?”
As he spoke, he suddenly released his Sword Intent, enveloping Li Qian.
Li Qian stood firm.
Seeing this, Zhou Buping immediately increased the intensity of his Sword Intent.
But until he pushed his Sword Intent to the limit, Li Qian’s expression remained unchanged, as if his Sword Intent didn’t exist at all.
“Good, good, good… It seems that your Illusory Image Level Sword Intent has already reached a certain level,”
Zhou Buping immediately smiled.
Because he knew the level of his own Sword Intent. Although it had not fully recovered, it was still at the Grandmaster level.
Since Li Qian could withstand the suppression of his Sword Intent, it meant that the level of Li Qian’s Heartless Sword Intent had probably reached the ranks of top-tier Grandmasters.
The only thing lacking was his cultivation.
But this also showed how terrifying Li Qian’s comprehension was.
He no longer mentioned the Dragon Guarding Temple.
Perhaps this disciple of his was suitable for cultivating in an environment like Time Bell Pavilion.
Going to the Dragon Guarding Temple might even affect his cultivation.
Taiping County.
Mangniu County City.
A group of people arrived here.
“It should be here.”
A white-haired old man held a map in his hand and pointed to the area under Ox Horn Cliff that was once again covered with vines.
Soon, people began to clear the vines and shrubs, revealing a natural cave inside.
The group walked in.
The white-haired old man led the way, going deeper and deeper. After a long time, they finally arrived in front of the entrance of a cave.
The words “Taiping Sacred Cave” were written above it.
“This, this is it”
The white-haired old man was so excited that he could hardly describe it. Tears of joy welled up in his eyes. The Holy Religion had spent hundreds of years searching for this place.
It was only today that he had finally found the legendary Taiping Sacred Cave after spending several years deciphering the four treasure maps he had found, as well as some other hidden clues.
This was once the birthplace of the Taiping Cult.
And as the continuation of the Taiping Cult, the Moon Worship Cult had always wanted to revive the glory of the Taiping Cult.
“Cult Leader, why is this door open?”
Someone next to him said.
“Even if the door is open, no one can enter without the secret method of our Moon Worship Cult,”
the white-haired old man said confidently.
After he finished speaking, he immediately sat down cross-legged at the entrance of the cave.
The others followed suit.
They began to chant, and a faint halo gradually emanated from their bodies. This halo gradually connected, forming a strange phantom of a Heavenly Wolf howling at the moon.
Thus, under the cover of the strange phantom, the group gradually walked towards the entrance of the cave.
When they stepped into the cave, the white-haired old man frowned slightly. Because in the holy scriptures of the Moon Worship Cult, there was a description of the Taiping Sacred Cave. It was said to be constantly shrouded in the divine might of the Heavenly Wolf Divine Beast. Only with piety towards the Great Moon Mother could one receive protection and walk within the divine domain of the Heavenly Wolf Divine Beast.
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But now he didn’t feel any invisible divine might.
It was as if he was walking in an ordinary cave.
This made him very puzzled.
As he gradually went deeper, a huge figure appeared coiled on a platform.
However, this figure was dry and shriveled, like a dried corpse. Although it still emitted a heart-palpitating aura, it was only due to its huge size.
It had nothing to do with the so-called divine might.
“What is this?”
The white-haired old man became even more puzzled.
Why was it different from the legends?
Shouldn’t he be seeing a Heavenly Wolf Divine Beast with boundless divine might?
With doubts, he walked to the huge and shriveled corpse. It was very similar to the image in the legends, except that it was completely dried up.
When he tried to withdraw the secret method of the Moon Worship Cult, the invisible aura still existed, but it was not enough to cause him any pressure.
“How could this be?”
The white-haired old man muttered to himself, feeling a little disillusioned.
He took a deep breath and walked onto the platform, arriving in front of the huge corpse.
His gaze fell on a hole in the corpse that had been broken open by some external force. After carefully examining it, he couldn’t help but frown.
It seemed as if something inside had been taken away.
“Cult Leader, what’s going on?”
One of the people couldn’t help but ask.
“Someone has been here and taken the Divine Core from the Heavenly Wolf Divine Beast. We’re too late,”
the white-haired old man said with endless disappointment in his voice.
This Heavenly Wolf Divine Beast was the key to the revival of the Moon Worship Cult.
Without the divine power of the Heavenly Wolf Divine Beast, how could the high-level members of the Moon Worship Cult achieve true deification?
Everyone present changed their expressions drastically.
Didn’t this mean that the hundreds of years of effort of the Moon Worship Cult had completely turned into a bubble and a phantom?
“Cult Leader, do you think the person who took the Divine Core could be the one who wiped out the Holy Maiden’s Holy Religion Legion?”
The person suddenly said, “According to the clues left in the Divine Treasury when the Holy Maiden died, that person not only wiped out the entire Holy Religion Legion single-handedly, but was also able to restrain the Divine Transformation state.”
“Yes, that’s very likely. And from all indications, this person is most likely within the Taixing Circuit. We must lure him out and get the Divine Core back,”
the white-haired old man nodded and said.
The Divine Core was the key to the revival of the Moon Worship Cult, so they had to get it back at all costs.
On a remote mountaintop within the Divine Sword Sect, Li Qian sat cross-legged on a rock, with a strange jade disk placed in front of him.
The jade disk was engraved with strange patterns, and a Yuan Stone was embedded in the center.
This was a Formation Disk.
He had made it during this period of time.
To truly set up a formation, simply using True Qi to form the formation was unstable.
At least his cultivation had not yet reached the level where his True Qi could last forever.
A Qi Formation formed with True Qi could only be maintained for a period of time.
A true formation was a combination of a Formation Disk and a Qi Formation.
With a flick of Li Qian’s finger, the Formation Disk flew out and hovered in the air. Streams of True Qi were released from his body, constructing two basic Qi Formations in the air, which echoed the Formation Disk.
After completing this step, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Buzz!
The Formation Disk vibrated slightly and emitted a light, seemingly merging with the Qi Formations.
In this way, the Qi Formation could exist for a long time.
The light emitted by the Formation Disk gradually became stronger. With a sudden tremor, an invisible wave of Qi spread out to the surroundings. Immediately after, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, accumulating within the area of the formation and gradually forming a more concentrated Yuan Qi field.
“This Spirit Gathering Formation is really not bad.”
Li Qian revealed a satisfied expression after sensing the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in the surrounding space.
Cultivating in a Spirit Gathering Formation would be much more efficient than outside.
The operation of this Spirit Gathering Formation required the consumption of Yuan Stones. After all, the operation of the Formation Disk was driven by the Yuan Stone embedded in it.
Therefore, whether it was worthwhile to consume the Yuan Qi in the Yuan Stones to gather Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi for cultivation would only be known after using it.
In this Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual, the Spirit Gathering Formation was only the most common application.
The seven basic formations could be combined with each other to form trapping formations, defensive formations, killing formations, and so on. Ultimately, the seven basic formations could be combined to set up the true Lion Camel Ridge Formation.
Li Qian’s current level was only able to set up the simplest Spirit Gathering Formation.
In the following days, Li Qian tried using the Spirit Gathering Formation.
Overall, using the Spirit Gathering Formation for cultivation was slightly more cost-effective than directly using Yuan Stones and absorbing Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.
It could save about 10% of Yuan Stone consumption, and the cultivation efficiency would not be reduced.
10% was not a small amount.
Over time, it could save a large amount of expenses.
After all, although he still had a lot of Yuan Stones on hand, without a source, he would use one less.
Thus, more than a month passed.
Li Qian rang the bell and cultivated every day in a very regular manner. He didn’t feel bored at all, but rather enjoyed it.
On this day, Li Qian had just finished cultivating the Great River Sword Qi when he suddenly sensed a slight tremor in the vast river of sword shadow he had constructed with his Heartless Sword Intent in his mind. It didn’t dissipate, but instead became more and more solid.
“This is?”
Li Qian was overjoyed.
He had finally mastered the first level of Great River Sword Qi.
Sensing the restless intent of the vast river of swords in his sea of consciousness, Li Qian forcibly suppressed it.
He knew that the first level of Great River Sword Qi was a Celestial Image Level martial art. Once it was unleashed, there would definitely be a phenomenon. He couldn’t test its power now.
PS: First chapter of 3,000 words. Asking for a wave of double monthly votes. The reason why there was no update in the early hours of the morning was mainly because I had been writing until very late these past few days, and I also caught a cold. I was mentally and physically tired and weak, and it was very hard to write, so I rested early. I’m really sorry.
Finally, thank you to Alliance Leader 【Dajiang Jiang Miku】 for the reward. I’m extremely grateful. I’ll try to update more today!!!