Demonic Lightning

Several years later.

Qi Refining Path, Copper Immortal Island.

Inside a mid-grade fourth-rank cave abode, not a trace of spiritual qi remained, as though it had been drawn away by some invisible black hole...

Upon the Clear-Heart Meditation Cushion, Fang Qing opened his eyes. "Handing the Sea-Devouring Technique to my second Nascent Soul is equivalent to cultivating it automatically... The results are quite good. Unfortunately, cultivation in the Nascent Soul Realm is difficult in the end. If I rely entirely on painstaking cultivation, advancement will not happen overnight."

Over the past few years, he had relied on his second Nascent Soul to cultivate on its own, naturally so that he could focus on more important matters.

For example... expanding "Primal Spring Ripples" to the Purple Palace level!

With Fang Qing's current attainments in [Ji Water], this was somewhat difficult, but by no means impossible.

After all, he had "Long Sweet Rain" as a reference.

"Compared to 'Long Sweet Rain,' this 'Primal Spring Ripples' is like the difference between an orthodox lineage and a side branch..."

"But if I were a [Ji Water] True Lord, immortal and indestructible myself, why would I spread my own lineage? Would having more True Lords competing for [Ji Water] make me happy? It is already generous enough to pass down a side-branch lineage... Once they cultivate to Purple Palace perfection in the future, I can promote them into immortal retainers. They would count as capable subordinates..."

"This is like the Buddhist scriptures passed down by the Lord of the Charnel Ground—they may not necessarily be the orthodox lineage of [Maiden Earth]... Now that Sangji has received my personally transmitted secret scripture of the 'Death Terror Form,' his hopes of cultivating this divine ability have greatly increased... But they are only hopes, after all. True Person