Chapter 281

Before Shi Xuan could ask Xiao Wu why he was hesitating, Yun Yue explained, "A month ago, a storm surged on Rubble Island and a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky. Some people thought it was the birth of a treasure and rushed over to fight for it. When they returned, they heard the shocking news that Lu Lingxiao had reached Core Formation!" His face was full of admiration, yearning, and worship.

Xiao Wu sighed. "Grandmaster Lu is currently cultivating in Yellow Maple Valley. He said that when he comes out of seclusion, he plans to recruit a few disciples. I don't know which cultivator will have the luck to become Jindan Grandmaster's disciple." He was eager to try, but he also didn't dare to.

"Who occupied Zixia Sect's mountain gate?" Shi Xuan absolutely did not believe that the mountain gate was empty.

"Senior, it was divided into five by two small sects, a senior rogue cultivator, Senior Gu of the Dong Clan, and Senior Fang who just broke through to the Qi Drawing Stage." Xiao Wu was immensely proud of himself. It seemed that if his Dong Clan occupied a territory, he would receive a higher reward.

Shi Xuan thought for a moment. He didn't have anything else to ask, so he asked one last time, "What about that secret realm?"

"That secret realm won't open for another ten years or so. Right now, no one is paying attention to it. I reckon that when the time comes, it will be occupied by the strongest power." Yun Yue implied that it was Lu Lingxiao.

Shi Xuan didn't know Lu Lingxiao very well. However, based on what he saw this time, he felt that Lu Lingxiao wouldn't refuse to share the secret realm with other cultivators as long as his disciple could obtain it.

"Senior, did you gain anything from refining tools in seclusion this time?" Xiao Wu asked carefully, his eyes full of expectation.

Shi Xuan laughed and scolded, "I'm refining a life bound magic tool. Do you think I'd sell it to you? You made a lot of money from those magic tools earlier, didn't you?" He didn't know why, but ever since he played the role of a perverted thief, Shi Shuan felt much more relaxed. It didn't mean that he had become a lustful person, but he had let go of a lot of unnecessary baggage. He wasn't as tense as he was in the sect, being serious, careful, and trembling with fear. Every day, he felt mentally tired.

As his mind relaxed, Shi Shuan felt that even his True Qi had become more active. Perhaps this was the reason why the sect required the disciples to travel outside to sharpen their Taoist Heart.

Xiao Wu embarrassedly said, "Senior's magic tools are all very good. If I sell them cheaply, wouldn't I be insulting Senior's craftsmanship?" It turned out that he had been in seclusion for so long to forge his Life Immortal Artifact. Judging from the time, he had probably failed eight or nine times before he succeeded.

"Alright, I, I need to rest. I still have a valuable magic tool to refine. After Shi Xuan refined the Taiji diagram, he was indeed a little tired. He planned to rest for a few days before starting to refine the Yin Yang Twin Qi Bottle.

"Yes, I will take my leave." Xiao Wu and Yun Yue left in disappointment.

In the blink of an eye, eight days quickly passed. Besides cultivating every day, Shi Xuan also pondered over the swordsmanship experiences that Lu Lingxiao had given him. Now, he had a much deeper understanding of the way of the sword. However, Shi Xuan still hadn't touched upon the threshold of the Thunderous Sword Energy swordsmanship milestone. According to Lu Lingxiao's explanation in the jade slip, he should have reached the Divine Soul realm. Once his divine sense and soul became one, his control over his swordsmanship, flying swords, and heaven and earth spiritual energy would become even more subtle. Only then would he be able to practice Thunderous Sword Energy. At the very least, Lu Lingxiao had only successfully practiced it when he reached the perfection of the Divine Soul realm. Therefore, Shi Xuan wasn't in a hurry.

This was under the premise that he was unable to find a way to condense baleful qi into astral energy. If that was the case, the last three transformations of the Nine Transformations of True Qi would take him at least twenty years. As for the True Qi whirlpool and the Dantian opening of the Qi Channeling Realm, because Shi Xuan's foundation was solid and his control over his body and soul was strong enough, he should be able to break through in a few years.

Every cultivator who had a high-grade Gold Core had a solid foundation. Before reaching the Gold Core stage, only the Qi Drawing stage to the Divine Soul stage was more difficult to break through. The small stages in the big stage were smooth and painstaking.

* * *

Two months later.

Xiao Wu was in a good mood. Ever since his boss, Gu Yuntao, had occupied several mountains with abundant spiritual energy in the Zixia Sect, he had the intention of handing over the business of the Earth Fire Refining Room to Xiao Wu. Haha, it was all because Xiao Wu knew a Qi Drawing Stage senior, although he didn't even know the senior's name.

Of course, Xiao Wu could guess who it was because there were only a few Qi Drawing Stage cultivators alive. That senior didn't seem to have just broken through. However, since the senior didn't want to say, Xiao Wu could only pretend not to know, lest he was sent to the Earth Fire Furnace.

"Hey, Brother Xiao, that senior hasn't come out yet?" Yun Yue had recently harvested a lot of spirit herbs in the Black Dragon Swamp. He exchanged them for some materials and was preparing to refine a good magic tool.

Xiao Wu looked at Yun Yue with a fake smile. "What? You're here to refine a magic tool? Speaking of which, the few of you have recently refined two Lower Grade Magic Tools? Is there an urgent need? "

"Not at all. Apart from me, who obtained some materials by chance and refined a magic tool a few months ago, no one else has a magic tool. Without a magic tool, we can't go deep into the Black Dragon Swamp, and the spirit herbs we find are much worse," Yun Yue hurriedly explained. Xiao Wu had recently shown signs of making a fortune.

"Oh, I thought you were refining magic tools to participate in the disciple selection of the Guanhai Sect?" Xiao Wu had originally wanted to go, but after being put in an important position by Gu Yuntao and hinting that he would have the Supreme Sensing Pill in the future, he gave up on the idea.

Yun Yue's face turned slightly red. His thoughts had been completely seen through. Just as he was about to answer, it suddenly began to drizzle. "Oh, Brother Xiao, every time we talk, it rains?"

"It's not that heavy this time. It's just a light drizzle. It's normal." Xiao Wu looked at him as if he was surprised.

"It's raining and there are rainbows, and there are two of them! Is it normal? "Yun Yue pointed to the sky.

Xiao Wu turned his head and saw two colorful rainbows hanging in the sky. They were faintly discernible, and the clouds were steaming. They looked hazy and beautiful in the drizzle.

* * *

In Room A2, Shi Xuan held a delicate and small white jade bottle in his hand. The bottle was exquisite and translucent, and the air at the mouth of the bottle was faintly distorted.

As Shi Xuan kept the Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle in his dantian, his True Qi nourished this newly refined natal magic tool, and it was reciprocated by this natal magic tool. Thus, his True Qi successfully completed the Fifth Transformation and became much more condensed.

The Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle was now at the peak of the Fourth Heaven. Its power was two Heavens higher than the natal magic tool's, and its restriction power was one Heavens higher. It could release Yin and Yang Qi to capture magic tools, cultivators, and other things. There was a very large space inside the bottle, and it was set up with formations and restrictions. It was as if it could contain the water of a large lake. Once a cultivator was sucked in and the formation was activated, they would turn into dirty blood in a short time. At the same time, there was a relatively small space inside that could be used as storage.

Right now, the expression on Shi Xuan's face was very strange. There was a faint smile on his face, but there was also a hint of surprise. This was because one of the Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle's functions was familiar to him. Previously, the Treasure Record didn't describe it very clearly. It was only after he successfully refined it that Shi Xuan figured it out.

The Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle actually had the function of karma. It was similar to the purple gourd in Journey to the West in his previous life. Once a cultivator's real name was called out, and that cultivator agreed, they would be directly sucked into the bottle, regardless of the cultivator's realm. Of course, if the power exceeded the power of the magic tool itself, it naturally wouldn't be able to trap the cultivator, and it might even be directly destroyed from the inside.

Moreover, as the Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle became a spirit tool, a magic tool, or a spirit treasure, this function would continue to strengthen. For example, when using a magic tool, it didn't matter if the cultivator's real name was called out, as long as the cultivator agreed, the karma would be established, and the cultivator would be directly sucked into the bottle.

Well, it was really the best choice to trick people. Shi Xuan wiped his sweat. Should he use a Taoist name when he traveled around the world in the future, so as not to be tricked by this kind of karma tool? Thinking of this, the reason why the senior respected Taoist names was not without reason. However, Shi Xuan just thought about it. The golden bridge transformed by the Tai Chi diagram had the function of suppressing karma. As long as the opponent's strength was not too much higher than his, such as the Peak of Spirit Realm, it could suppress them. It didn't matter whether he used his real name or not.

Another point was that the Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle transformed the cultivator's dirty blood into sweet dew, which had a moisturizing and healing effect beyond his imagination. Because the dirty blood was transformed from the origin, it could actually nourish the origin and shorten the period of weakness after using Suiyu Tactics a lot. For example, after using Suiyu Tactics, if he took a drop of sweet dew every day, the time when he could only use 10% of his strength would be reduced to about 10 days, and the time when he could only use 50% of his strength would be reduced to about two months.

All in all, the Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle was really a powerful auxiliary celestial device!

After transferring all the precious things into the small space in the Yin Yang Double Energy Bottle (it was actually not small. It was much bigger than Song Hezi's Storage Bag, and it was not a problem to put several people in it), Shi Xuan walked out of room A2.

* * *

"Hey, why did the rainbow and Xiaoyu suddenly disappear?" Xiao Wu and Yun Yue looked at each other, and then saw Shi Xuan come out. Thinking of the last time, they suddenly saw the word "strange" in his eyes, so Xiao Wu rushed to him, "Senior, you have finished your practice. What can I do for you?"

"Well, settle the bill. I have to leave." Shi Xuan's desire for cultivation progress and longevity was still very strong, so he was eager to return to the outside world. In the past two years, with the help of the Natal Celestial Device, he had reached the Fifth Revolution of Genuine Qi, but the next few revolutions took a lot of time. There was no evil spirit that he needed in this Immortal Cultivation World, so he could only go out and look for it later. It was said that there was a lot of evil spirit in the Southern Barbarian Continent.

Xiao Wu had to go to find the spirit stones for Shi Xuan, "Senior, you used a total of 11 months. I took 33 middle-grade spirit stones from you. Here are the 67 middle-grade spirit stones for you." Alas, even if there was something strange, it was not something that a cultivator like him could spy on.

* * *

Standing in front of the white misty space fog, it was said that this was the direction that Song Hezi went when he left. Shi Xuan took out the astrolabe and injected his Genuine Qi to activate it. The astrolabe's star map lit up one by one, and then starlight fell from the sky and fell on it. Then the astrolabe emitted a white shadow and shone into the misty space.

The white mist of the misty space was illuminated, and those small black space cracks also appeared in front of Shi Xuan. Shi Xuan took a deep breath, chose the place with the most sparse space cracks, and walked into the misty space.

Five days later.

Shi Xuan was trapped in the misty space. There were small space cracks around him, so he could not find a gap to rush out.

Although the astrolabe could illuminate the space cracks so that he could bypass them in advance, many space cracks themselves also had to move. Gradually, he was still trapped in it, and several space cracks were moving in his direction.

Now it seemed that Song Hezi could walk out safely at that time because of luck. But now Shi Xuan was prepared. A scroll flew out of his dantian and shook in the direction where there were only a few space cracks selected by Shi Xuan. It turned into a sacred and solemn golden bridge, extending from Shi Xuan to a place not far away where there were no space cracks. There was a smell of suppressing the heavens and the earth, fire, wind, and water in it.

Although it was a little difficult, the small space cracks under the bridge were all fixed on the spot. The bridge was calm. Shi Xuan stepped on the golden bridge and left leisurely.