Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture

Fang Xiao pondered how to make the Five Elements Sect compensate him, while the Wind Riding Boat beneath his feet did not slow in the slightest. Though it was far inferior to the rainbow-like speed he could achieve through Body Integration with Sword, there was no helping it—carrying so many people, he could only use the Wind Riding Boat as transportation.

Four days later, once they had entered within a range of two hundred and fifty thousand li, Fang Xiao finally relaxed somewhat. This region was relatively safe for him now, so he decided to see what he had gained this time.

He first used talismans to block the others' Spiritual Sense, then laid everything out before him: several Storage Bags and a Spirit Beast Bag.

Fang Xiao inspected the Spirit Beast Bag first. Sure enough, there were several insect eggs inside, but only one remained alive. He guessed it was an egg laid by the Water Cloud Spider, which might also have been why the Water Cloud Spider had never strayed far away.

He then opened the Storage Bags one by one. The contents had been sorted into categories and arranged with meticulous neatness. For a male cultivator to have such a habit, if he was not obsessive-compulsive, then he was absolutely gay.

Shaking his head, he tossed aside those strange thoughts and carefully examined the Storage Bags. They respectively contained Spirit Stones, materials, pills and talismans, cultivation manuals and scriptures, daily necessities, and magic tools and Magic Treasures.

Most of the Spirit Stones were middle- and low-grade, but there were even more than a dozen high-grade Spirit Stones. Altogether, they amounted to nearly three hundred thousand Spirit Stones. The materials collected were also primarily Gold attribute spirit gold and spirit ore. Wang Zhongping had likely been preparing to refine some kind of Gold attribute Magic Treasure, but Fang Xiao had benefited instead.

The pills and talismans came in every variety imaginable. There were even some medicinal pills and spiritual liquids he could not identify, saving him the trouble of purchasing them himself.

However, when he examined Wang Zhongping's magic tools and Magic Treasures, he could not help feeling regretful. Several top-grade magic tools were unsuitable for him. Of the two Magic Treasures, one was a sword and the other a shield, both Low-grade Magic Treasures. Unfortunately, the flying sword had already shattered into more than a dozen pieces, while the shield was covered in cracks. He did not know whether they could still be repaired; once he reached the inner sect, he could find someone to take a look.

Fang Xiao could only sigh at this. Ordinary newly advanced Golden Core Stage cultivators might not even possess a regular Magic Treasure, let alone a natal Magic Treasure, yet Wang Zhongping had owned these two. It seemed he had been an extremely important figure in the Gold Vein. He had likely encountered calamity during a battle and fallen to such a state.

He did not even want to touch the daily necessities. After burning them all with a single Fireball Technique, he began looking through the cultivation manuals and scriptures.

As expected of a Golden Core Stage cultivator, there were no fewer than a dozen Jade Slips that looked to be of exceptional quality. He first read through the more ordinary Jade Slips and texts one by one. Most contained cultivation insights, detailed explanations of spiritual herbs and ores, and strange tales from the Cultivation World. They were no miraculous techniques or Secret Arts, but he still planned to read them when he had time, to broaden his horizons.

That left only those dozen or so Jade Slips. He picked up two green Jade Slips and read their contents. They contained knowledge on insect control and beast taming respectively. Wang Zhongping had apparently obtained them after killing a True Disciple of the Beast Taming Sect. As Fang Xiao knew, the Beast Taming Sect was one of the Central Holy Lands. That disciple had likely come to the Eastern Domain to travel, only to perish here. In the end, though, they had fallen into Fang Xiao's hands, making it easier for him to raise the Vajra Ape.

The remaining golden Jade Slips recorded his main cultivation technique, the divine abilities and Secret Arts that complemented it, and the method for refining his natal Magic Treasure.

Although that cultivation technique was, like the Taibai Soaring Sword Canon, a top-tier Gold attribute technique, Fang Xiao had no intention of cultivating it. Naturally, the Secret Arts paired with it were of no use to him either.

The divine abilities and natal Magic Treasure, however, made Fang Xiao linger over them a few times. The spirit gold and spirit ore in the Storage Bags were very likely materials Wang Zhongping had prepared for refining his natal Magic Treasure.

This Magic Treasure was named the Primordial Gold Flame Mirror, a pure Gold attribute Magic Treasure. According to the Jade Slip, refining it required a great quantity of high-grade spiritual materials, and the process was extraordinarily complicated. Yet on the day the mirror was completed, it could draw down a thread of Great Sun Qi to temper it.

The golden mirror possessed immense power. Wherever its gold light reached, gold flames would arise. So long as the target's spiritual energy did not run dry, the flames would be extremely difficult to extinguish. If paired with the Primordial Gold Light divine ability recorded in its cultivation technique, its might would multiply severalfold, making it commonplace to fight cultivators above one's level.

Moreover, the Jade Slip contained the Thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Formations and Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Formations in their entirety. It could be continuously refined all the way into a top-grade Magic Treasure, and if it gained even a trace of spirituality, it might even have a chance to become a Spirit Treasure. Fang Xiao decided that, given the opportunity, he would refine it.

As for Primordial Gold Light, Fang Xiao had divine abilities of his own. Still, since both belonged to the Gold element, he could try using it to activate the Primordial Gold Flame Mirror. What he truly cared about, however, was the Sha Qi and Gang Qi required to cultivate divine abilities.

Why did Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators enjoy traveling? Because Sha Qi was difficult to find, and Gang Qi difficult to obtain.

The Gang Qi and Sha Qi required by different divine abilities all differed. Sha Qi was scarce to begin with, and finding the kind one needed was harder than scaling the heavens. Even after cultivating Sha Qi, one had to ascend into the azure firmament to gather Nine Heavens Gang Qi. Above the Nine Heavens, all sorts of Gang Qi swirled together. One had to use Sha Qi to protect the body against the erosion of gang winds while also separating silk from cocoons to collect the Gang Qi one required. This process was even more prolonged and arduous.

He was now a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, and finding the Sha Qi needed for his divine abilities was urgent. Unfortunately, the Sha Qi used by Primordial Gold Light differed from what he needed. Otherwise, he could have investigated where Wang Zhongping had obtained his Sha Qi.

After considering all this, Fang Xiao picked up the final five-colored Jade Slip and read it carefully. First, he was astonished. Then he was overjoyed. Finally, a trace of hesitation appeared on his face.

This was precisely the method for improving Spiritual Roots that he had dreamed of day and night: the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture. This scripture was not a qi cultivation technique, but a Body Tempering technique. It had been created by the Five Elements Sect's patriarch after he entered the Deity Transformation Stage, in order to resolve the issue of the sect's inheritance. His Spiritual Roots and talent had been so unusual that he simply could not find a successor capable of inheriting his mantle. Unable to find a breakthrough among qi cultivation techniques, he had ultimately blazed another trail and found a solution through Body Tempering methods.

As a Five Spiritual Roots Deity Transformation Stage cultivator, the Five Elements Sect's patriarch naturally understood the principles of mutual generation and mutual restraint among the Five Elements. On that foundation, he developed a theory of Five Elements conversion. In truth, once a cultivator's spiritual power had taken shape, forcibly converting it without the aid of formations or artifacts would only cause the cultivator's physical body to collapse.

After countless experiments, the Five Elements Sect's patriarch conceived of using the body itself as a formation. Spiritual Root attributes varied by a thousand differences and ten thousand distinctions, but the human body possessed all Five Elements. By borrowing the mysteries of Body Tempering and using the Five Viscera in place of the Five Elements to form a formation, one could perform Five Elements conversion.

Yet he ultimately discovered that this method was only suited for cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots. Though theoretically any Spiritual Root could cultivate it, during spiritual power conversion, mixed Spiritual Roots would cause the Five Viscera to collapse under the complex cycle of generation and restraint. The innate fragility of the human race's Five Viscera was an obstacle that could not be bypassed. Only single-attribute Spiritual Roots were relatively simple enough to remain within the limits of endurance.

Yet Heavenly Spiritual Roots were also exceptionally rare. It was not until the Five Elements Sect's patriarch was about to ascend that he came up with a method that was not overly demanding. He created a Secret Art that, when using the Five Viscera to convert the Five Elements, could carry along part of a Spiritual Root and transform it into the Spiritual Root that generated it. This lowered the original requirement of a Heavenly Spiritual Root to mutually generating Dual Spirit Roots, but it could be improved no further.

After his ascension, Five Elements Sect disciples cultivated according to it and discovered that even if they could transform their Spiritual Roots, the transformation was extremely limited—unless, among mutually generating Dual Spirit Roots, the Spiritual Root being transformed accounted for a relatively small proportion.

The reason Fang Xiao was so overjoyed was that he precisely met this requirement. According to the cultivation insights Wang Zhongping recorded in the scripture, he too possessed mutually generating Gold and Earth Dual Spirit Roots. However, his Spiritual Roots had been too evenly balanced, making success impossible. Yet he had encountered a great opportunity: he had accidentally acquired a heavenly treasure capable of transforming Spiritual Roots—Gold Transformation Liquid. With it and the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture, he had successfully cultivated a Gold attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.

Fang Xiao immediately took out the Storage Bag containing pills and spiritual liquids, rummaged through it, and withdrew a crystal bottle. The golden spiritual liquid inside radiated a soft gleam. This was Gold Transformation Liquid.

Looking at the half bottle of Gold Transformation Liquid that remained, Fang Xiao thought that with his own Spiritual Root aptitude, he could steadily achieve a Heavenly Spiritual Root even if he chose only one between the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture and the Gold Transformation Liquid.

Now, it seemed that cultivating the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture would, on one hand, allow him to attain a Heavenly Spiritual Root. On the other hand, its Body Tempering effects were quite remarkable, allowing him to resolve the issue of strengthening his meridians as well. Most importantly, this scripture could cultivate another divine ability outside the Dantian.

Normally, when cultivators formed their cores, they could only cultivate one divine ability within their lower Dantian. Yet some peerlessly gifted individuals blazed their own paths and could cultivate additional divine abilities outside the lower Dantian. The Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture nurtured another divine ability within the Middle Dantian, but the Five Elements True Malevolence it required was even rarer than other types of Sha Qi.

It could be said to kill three birds with one stone. Fang Xiao had already made up his mind: he had to cultivate this Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture of the Five Elements Sect. As for the two kinds of Sha Qi he needed, he could only take things one step at a time.

With that thought, Fang Xiao's desire to return grew ever more urgent, and the Wind Riding Boat beneath his feet unconsciously sped up a little.