Qingcheng Immortal Mansion

When Fang Yang became a Core Disciple of the Interception Sect, he knew he would inevitably become the focus of attention for all the Immortals, Gods, Demons, Ghosts, and Witches.

There were only a handful of direct disciples of the Three Pure Ones in the entire Primordial Wilderness. It would have been strange if no one paid attention to him.

Fang Yang didn't care. The saying that a tall tree caught the wind only applied when its backing wasn't strong enough. His backing was steadier than Mount Buzhou. Sect Master Tongtian would shield him from every storm until he had grown strong enough to stand on his own.

But the moment he became a Core Disciple, Fang Yang also took on greater responsibility.

If he had been an Outer Disciple, he could have kept his head down and stayed out of trouble. A monthly salary of three thousand wasn't enough to make him risk his life. But now that he was a Core Disciple, he and the Interception Sect were inseparable.

After Sect Master Tongtian left, Fang Yang began packing up, preparing to move. He intended to relocate to Qingcheng Mountain and establish his own base. Ningzhen Island was a fine place, but it couldn't compare to Qingcheng Mountain.

Of course, as a Core Disciple, Fang Yang could have established a dojo on Golden Ao Island.

However, Golden Ao Island was a complicated place, crowded with Immortals coming and going. It wasn't somewhere one could pursue quiet cultivation. Having suddenly risen from Outer Disciple to Core Disciple, Fang Yang was sure to attract all kinds of trouble.

Sect Master Tongtian had considered this when he told Fang Yang to move to Qingcheng Mountain.

For one thing, he could avoid the disputes on Golden Ao Island. For another, Qingcheng Mountain was not far from Mount Emei, where Fang Yang could befriend the few Immortals in the sect who preferred a quiet life.

Fang Yang roamed freely across the world. Along the way, he stopped at Mount Wuyi.

Now that he had come to the Primordial Wilderness, how could he pass up this opportunity? But when he arrived at the foot of Mount Wuyi and learned there was a powerful expert in the mountain, he promptly left.

How could an Innate Spiritual Treasure recognize two nobodies like Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao as its masters?

Fang Yang had suspected from the start that Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao had a master, and that they had inherited the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin from him.

He had only come to find out whether the powerful expert had perished. Since the man was still alive, Fang Yang had no intention of courting trouble. Still, he had already decided to learn more skills to deal with all the strange treasures and divine abilities in the Primordial Wilderness.

Cultivate the Resurrection Great Law to deal with the Yin-Yang Realm.

Cultivate the Upright Shadowless Great Law to deal with the Sky Flipping Seal.

Cultivate the Heavenly Reversal Great Law to deal with the Seven Arrows Book of the Nail Head.

Cultivate the Supreme Clarity Divine Talisman to deal with the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin.

That's right. The divine abilities and treasures Fang Yang intended to cultivate were all chosen specifically to counter the Chan Sect, Lu Ya, and the rest.

He would show those Chan Sect disciples, wicked by nature, who the real furred and horned, wet-born and egg-born beings were.

Fang Yang thought that "furred and horned, wet-born and egg-born" was basically an insult, much like the expression "not fit to be human."

After all, some of his junior brothers and sisters turned birds and beasts into all kinds of ingredients at the drop of a hat.

If they still thought of themselves as birds and beasts, how could they eat their own kind?

By the time Fang Yang finished his journey, eighteen years had passed. That was long enough for Wang Baochuan to dig all the wild vegetables off the mountain.

The Primordial World was simply too vast. If his cultivation hadn't recently advanced by leaps and bounds, and if he hadn't learned new Divine Skill Great Laws from Sect Master Tongtian, he could have flown for another eighteen years without reaching Qingcheng Mountain.

When he stopped his Evasion Light, Qingcheng Mountain was already close at hand.

Qingcheng Mountain was lush and green, its forests verdant in every season. Its many peaks encircled it like the walls of a city. From above, the scenery was beautiful and the spiritual energy abundant. More remarkable still, the mountain held a vast Blessed Grotto-Heaven.

A grotto-heaven had formed from one of Great God Pangu's apertures and was also a place where the fortune of Heaven and Earth gathered. Its owner could benefit from the grotto-heaven's fortune.

Fang Yang landed atop a peak shaped like a crane, its wings spread as though ready to fly and its head raised toward the heavens. As the crane seemed to cry out to the nine skies, Fang Yang's feet touched the mountain, and a mighty, weighty spiritual energy surged into his body through his soles.

"The Heart of the Earth Vein should lie beneath this peak. According to Master, Qingcheng Mountain Grotto-Heaven is hidden in the sky above it."

Fang Yang took out the dojo token Sect Master Tongtian had given him. It was made of deep purple Immortal Jade, covered in runes of law that formed the words "Qingcheng Immortal Mansion."

Qingcheng Immortal Mansion was another name for Qingcheng Grotto-Heaven.

According to Sect Master Tongtian, Qingcheng Grotto-Heaven had originally been an Immortal Mansion. Great God Pangu had left behind ten Immortal Mansions like it, each storing Chaos Rare Treasures he had collected during the Chaos era.

Back then, Sect Master Tongtian and his two elder brothers had joined forces to break through the Immortal Mansion's restrictions and enter it. The three brothers had obtained countless treasures inside Qingcheng Immortal Mansion.

The Three Pure Ones had relied on those treasures to establish their three Saint Great Sects.

Saint Taiqing's alchemy furnace had never gone cold, while Saint Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian had a whole crowd of disciples to support. Without that hidden treasury, the three brothers would have been penniless long ago.

Although the treasures inside Qingcheng Immortal Mansion had been carried away, the mansion itself remained an excellent place for cultivation. Besides its abundant spiritual energy, it also contained the power of time. One day in the outside world equaled one year within.

This wondrous property reminded Fang Yang of Lanke Mountain. Lanke Mountain Grotto-Heaven probably had a similar quality.

The story of Qingcheng Immortal Mansion gave Fang Yang a deep appreciation for how much thought Sect Master Tongtian had put into his arrangements.

Sect Master Tongtian knew Fang Yang had not been cultivating for long and was far behind his senior brothers and sisters. He had deliberately bestowed this Immortal Mansion, with its ability to accelerate time, to help Fang Yang cultivate faster.

Fang Yang finally understood what it meant to be a "Saint."

People said that teaching your disciples would leave you with nothing to eat, but the All Heavenly Saints were different. They truly raised their disciples as if they were their own children. Even for a traitor like Shen Gongbao, Primordial Heavenly Venerate had arranged a Divine position.

A wisp of Supreme Clarity magic power gathered at Fang Yang's fingertip and slowly flowed into the Immortal Jade token.

In an instant, the runes of law on the token lit up. A deep purple glow enveloped the whole peak as the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth surged toward it, forming a massive column of light that shot into the depths of the clouds.

Rumble!

Heaven and Earth trembled, and an Immortal Palace descended from the sky, bursting out of the void.

The Immortal Palace was enormous. Its outer grounds alone covered hundreds of mountain peaks. Two jade pillars, each ten thousand zhang tall, flanked the main gate. Innate Runes writhed across their surfaces, and a crane statue stood atop each pillar.

A massive plaque hung above the main gate, bearing the four Innate Divine Script characters for "Qingcheng Immortal Mansion." The Dao Charm of the script suggested Sect Master Tongtian had written it himself.

As the Immortal Palace fully manifested, a heavy pressure descended upon Qingcheng Mountain and spread to the surrounding area. The Rogue Cultivators in the mountain saw the Immortal Mansion appear in the sky and immediately understood that Qingcheng Mountain had a new master.

Fang Yang didn't waste time. Holding the token, he leaped straight into the Immortal Mansion.