The Creation Gate

As a practitioner, I have clearly felt the drawbacks of spiritual deficiency Gu Jinlai.

The path of innate divinity only reduces the suppression of the power of the Heavenly Dao on him; it does not mean that he can live in a world lacking in spirituality.

Even...

The less spiritual energy there is, the more difficult it is to supply the daily needs of those top cultivators.

Fortunately, the eternal furnace, which has existed Gu Jinlai, is known for its inexhaustible life force, and a single breath of cold air is enough to sustain its normal energy consumption.

If it were anyone else, even someone as powerful as a True Immortal, they would probably start considering the issue of consuming resources to downgrade.

Along the way, he saw those Primordial Spirit True Lord riding horses more than once.

Even those who have reached the Mahayana of Celestial Person or a saint do not fly freely; they often use various rare and exotic beasts for transportation.

What about the rest, like flying boats and giant ships?

It is estimated that those are high-end items that only those who have attained the Dao and become True Immortals can afford.

No wonder Jin Haoran said that the Celestial Person of the Longevity Realm could defeat Mahayana Saints with their Returning to Emptiness Celestial Person Realm cultivation if they were placed in the Profound Immortal Realm.

The cultivators in this world do indeed give off a miserable feeling.

Gu Jinlai, there has been no rush to travel. Instead, people experience local customs and traditions to appear more like natives while simultaneously managing their cultivation system.

After a full month, a magnificent city with walls that appeared to be forty or fifty meters high came into his view.

"Cliffside City, we've finally arrived."

Gu Jinlai.

As he looked at the city, he wondered if the Celestial Person could cross these walls, which were forty or fifty meters high.

If you have a flying sword, you can barely fly up there.

But...

Looking at the numerous defensive structures on the city wall, he felt that the few Void Returning Celestial Person would probably be shot dead before they even got close to the wall.

"I really don't know what the saints of this world look like, and where they get enough materials to forge a saint's body."

This Gu Jinlai.

But...

That's not necessarily true.

Along the way, he saw more than once that those who had returned to the Void Celestial Person, and even Mahayana Saints, used gold for transactions, as if gold was a hard currency for those below the level of Void Immortal.

Furthermore, considering that gold can be refined into immortal refined gold...

It's not fair to say that the world is so poor that people can't even afford to eat.

There is still a considerable amount of material that will not have a significant impact on spiritual decline.

Gu Jinlai arrived at Cliffside City, after quickly getting his bearings, he soon found himself in one of the eastern districts...

"Um!?"

Looking at the large courtyard complex Gu Jinlai him, whose Spiritual Qi seemed far richer than that of other places, Gu Jinlai carefully compared it with the information given to him by Zhao Xi.

"The Jiang family, a small cultivation Lineage located in the eastern district of Cliff City, is right here."

As he spoke, he glanced at the plaque above the main gate of the large courtyard—Jiang Residence!

You didn't get the wrong one, did you?

At this moment, some of the guards seemed to notice something unusual about Gu Jinlai. Considering that he displayed an aura no less powerful than that of a Void Returning Celestial Person, a middle-aged man who appeared to be the captain of the guards stepped forward and cupped his hands in greeting. "This is the Jiang residence in Cliff Corner City. May I ask if this fellow immortal is looking for someone or visiting a friend?"

"The Jiang family? The Jiang family whose patriarch is Jiang Bieshan?"

Gu Jinlai, they have been recalling information while speaking.

The Jiang family.

The Cliff Corner City is a small-scale cultivation Lineage. The clan leader and elders are at the Primordial Spirit Realm, and the family has some Core Formation and Foundation Establishment cultivators as well as hundreds of martial arts masters.

Yes, a martial arts master.

This world also has a cultivation system that purely refines the physical body, namely martial artists comparable to Foundation Establishment, innate martial artists comparable to Core Formation, and grandmasters comparable to Primordial Spirit.

Since most of the Demon Beast in this world have been killed off over the past ten thousand years, and there is no demon god warrior system, the Grandmaster is the ultimate achievement that martial arts can reach.

But that's not the point. The point is that those at the Primordial Spirit stage, who could have served as clan leaders or elders, are now being used as gatekeepers!?

"The head of the Bieshan family stepped down eighteen years ago."

The middle-aged man responded and, looking at the disguised face that seemed to resemble a certain important figure in the Jiang Gu Jinlai, politely asked, "May I ask how you are addressed, fellow immortal?"

"My name is Jiang Yufeng. Twenty years ago, I went out to train in search of a way to break through to the Primordial Spirit stage..."

This Gu Jinlai.

Before he could finish his introduction, the middle-aged man couldn't help but exclaim, "Third Young Master!?"

"Um!?"

Gu Jinlai at him.

The middle-aged man quickly gestured, "Third Young Master! Please come in first, I'll inform Steward Fang right away."

"Manager Fang?"

Gu Jinlai have pondered this.

It seems that Zhao Xi mentioned this in the materials he gave him.

Jiang Yufeng is a real person.

On his journey to seek immortality overseas, his soul was extracted by a demon and refined into a demonic Law Artifact.

Later, that demon was killed by a true immortal sent by Zhao Xi to the Xuanxian Realm. In order to prepare for the worst, this true immortal converted Jiang Yufeng and intercepted a part of his soul.

These have all become disguises for Jiang Yufeng Gu Jinlai.

Unless a celestial being personally intervenes, it is impossible to see through his disguise.

Moreover, as time went by, once he and Jiang Yufeng's soul completely merged, even the celestial beings could not detect anything abnormal about him.

The middle-aged man brought Gu Jinlai into the living room.

Before long, an elderly man who looked somewhat well-off arrived in a hurry.

When he saw Gu Jinlai, his expression was clearly very excited. "Third Young Master! It's the Third Young Master! The Third Young Master is back!? That's wonderful!"

"Steward Fang, you are still so energetic... Oh, you have actually broken through to the Primordial Spirit Realm? Congratulations!"

The characters, from Gu Jinlai present, are impersonating Jiang Yufeng and interacting with the old man Fang Anping.

"Comparable to you, Third Young Master... Third Young Master, you have already achieved the Returning to the Void Realm!? I remember you were only twenty-nine years old when you left home to train twenty years ago. Even if you traveled for twenty years, you would only be forty-nine years old. To achieve the Returning to the Void Realm at such an age is truly a cause for celebration! The Eldest Young Master and the Second Young Miss will be very happy to hear the news of the Third Young Master's return."

Fang Anping said excitedly.

"Oh, my brother is back too? Where are he, my second sister, and my fourth brother now?"

Gu Jinlai, the three people have never been too awkward in addressing each other.

He knew that Jiang Yufeng had an older brother, Jiang Yujian, an older sister, Jiang Yuxue, and a younger brother, Jiang Yukong.

However, since Jiang Yufeng's parents died early and he had no support, his branch of the family was not well received in the Jiang family.

This is also why Jiang Yufeng, despite being at the age of twenty-nine and possessing considerable talent, still chose to flee overseas to seek fortuitous opportunity.

He basically didn't receive any preferential treatment in the Jiang family.

"Young Master, things are really getting interesting now."

When Fang Anping mentioned Jiang Yujian, he couldn't help but beam with pride. "The young master has now attained immortality and is the most renowned figure in our entire Storm Plains..."

"Achieving enlightenment... an immortal!?"

This has surprised many Gu Jinlai.

Like Jiang Yufeng, Jiang Yufeng's elder brother went on a journey when he was thirty-six years old.

Jiang Yufeng's travels with Jiang Yujian were partly due to his learning from him.

Judging by the time, he has been traveling for about thirty years now, and his age should be sixty-six.

But...

At the age of sixty-six, he cultivated and attained the status of a nascent immortal!?

Is he cheating?!

"How is that possible!?"

"It's a grotto-heaven!"

Fang Anping said, "After the young master went out to travel, he was noticed by Ye Yan, the sect leader of the Creation Sect. After ten years of testing, he was accepted as a disciple by sect leader Ye. Over the years, he has received Ye Yan's unremitting training and finally reached the realm of enlightenment, becoming the sect leader of the Creation Sect! Ye Yan has personally said that he will let the young master inherit the Creation Cave Heaven once he has become a true immortal."

"The Gate of Creation?"

Thanks to spending three months researching information about the Xuanxian Realm, Gu Jinlai quickly came up with the idea of this sect.

The Creation Sect is not some unknown small sect.

While it may not be considered top-tier in the entire Xuanxian Realm, it is renowned throughout the Storm Plains.

The founder was a celestial immortal.

Its lineage can be traced back ten thousand years.

However, since the fall of the Celestial Immortal Lord of the Creation Sect ten thousand years ago, no second Celestial Immortal has been born in the Creation Sect for the next ten thousand years.

Sixty years ago, a fierce civil war broke out within the sect, resulting in countless deaths and injuries, with only Ye Yan remaining as a True Immortal.

Ultimately, the last remaining leader of the Creation Sect announced that he would close the mountain, stay away from the fighting, and recuperate.

Because the Creation Sect possesses the Heavenly Dao, which can amplify its combat power to the level of a Celestial Immortal, and given that there are no top-tier forces in the Storm Plains, no one dared to suggest creating the Creation Sect at this time.

I never expected it to be reborn now.

"A grotto-heaven that possesses the Dao of Heavenly Dao."

Those who heard this Gu Jinlai were all enlightened.

For ordinary cultivators, having a grotto-heaven with the Heavenly Dao as their backing is truly like having a cheat code.

If Ye Yanzhen were truly willing to spare no effort in nurturing Jiang Yujian, it wouldn't be impossible for him to be trained from the Primordial Spirit Realm to the Dao Proving Immortal Realm within thirty years.

"The eldest young lady has already married and become dao companion with the young sect master of the Yunxiao Sect. She currently resides in the Yunxiao Sect. The eldest young master and the fourth young master are both in the Creation Sect. We are guarding the ancestral property of the Jiang family."

After giving his introduction, Fang Anping took out a communication jade talisman. "I will now send a message to the eldest young master, so that the third young master can reunite with the eldest and fourth young masters."

Gu Jinlai nodded, but did not refuse.

At the same time, he also understood why the Jiang family, which originally only had a handful of Primordial Spirit cultivators, was so generous as to appoint Primordial Spirit expert as their chief guard.

When one person attains enlightenment, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

Although Jiang Yujian and others didn't care much for the Jiang family, they were still born into the Jiang family.

With his cultivation level of attaining the Void Immortal realm and his status as the sect leader of the Creation Sect, even the slightest bit of benefit he could share would be enough to rapidly expand the Jiang family, which was just a small cultivation Lineage.

"A grotto-heaven! It's a grotto-heaven left behind by a celestial being!"

Gu Jinlai, he pondered these thoughts, and other ideas began to emerge.

The Xuanxian Realm has reached the pinnacle of its application of spiritual energy and the power of the Heavenly Dao.

Having a grotto and not having a grotto are two different things.

Due to the amplification of spiritual energy, even a True Immortal with a cave heaven, who has just broken through, can exert combat power no less than that of a top True Immortal or even a peak True Immortal.

The term "peerless true immortal" is reserved exclusively for those true immortals who have cultivated to the peak of the true immortal realm, possess a grotto-heaven, and master spiritual energy.

If there is Heavenly Dao within this celestial realm...

That would be even more remarkable.

True Immortals will be amplified by the power of Heavenly Dao to the point of being comparable to Celestial Immortals.

He had Gu Jinlai wanted to eliminate the threat of the Myriad Stars Sword Sect in one fell swoop, but because he had no clue where to start, he had to suppress his thoughts for the time being.

But now Jiang Yufeng's identity has suddenly been linked from a small cultivation Lineage to a celestial immortal inheritance...

This gave him an opportunity to implement his plan.

For example, by leveraging the power of the Creation Sect, they could gradually annex the Myriad Star Sword Sect.