Xia Yu quietly looked at the spatial passage in front of him. This spatial passage was found by him through the notes of his family's elders. Today was his first test. He really wanted to go to the place that his family's elders mentioned and take a good look at it. He wanted to see if it was really that magical.
The Xia Yu Clan was the master of one of the seventy-two islands in the Sword Spirit Boundary's Southern Sea. The island they were on was called the Great Desolate Island. It was different from the islands of the other clans. There were many people on the other islands. These people were either cultivating or trading. On the Xia Clan's island, there was almost no one else. This was because the Xia Clan's island was a forbidden area for their clan. It was also the place where they cultivated.
The Xia Clan was a very famous clan in the entire Sword Spirit World. They were not famous because of how strong they were, but because of how good they were at controlling things.
This didn't mean that the Xia Family members were good at controlling artifacts. In fact, the Xia Family members didn't use many arrays and their ability to control artifacts was at the bottom of the Sword Spirit World. The objects that the Xia Family members controlled were living creatures.
That's right, the Xia Family's Object Controlling Technique was used to control living creatures. Whether it was spiritual beasts or spiritual plants, they were all weapons used by the Xia Family. It was because of this that the Xia Family became one of the seventy-two islands in the Sword Spirit World.
Xia Yu was the son of the current head of the Xia Family. However, the current head of the Xia Family had twenty-five wives and sixty-five sons. Xia Yu was only the fifteenth son of the head of the Xia Family. He was sixty-seven years old this year, but judging from his appearance, he looked like he was in his twenties. This was nothing strange. After all, he was a cultivator and he practiced cultivation techniques. Naturally, he wouldn't look very old. At sixty-seven years old, he could only be considered a youth among cultivators. His appearance matched well with his appearance.
Xia Yu was not valued in the Xia Family because Xia Yu's mother was only a servant in the Xia Family. Xia Yu's father, who was also the head of the Xia Family, gave birth to Xia Yu after a drunken stupor. Xia Yu's mother was only a concubine, and the least valued one at that. Apart from New Year's Eve, when his mother had the opportunity to enter the Xia Family's main residence to pay a visit to Xia Yu's father, she did not even have the chance to see Xia Yu's father during the rest of the time.
Xia Yu wasn't a particularly talented person. His talent was only average. Among his father's many children, his talent wasn't the worst, but it wasn't that good either. He was only at the Qi Refinement and Spirit Restoration Stage.
In the Sword Spirit World, cultivators were divided into four levels. Spirit Refining Stage, Spirit Refining Stage, Spirit Refining Stage, and Spirit Refining Stage. Each level was further divided into twelve small stages. Every four small stages were further divided into one level. The twelve small stages were divided into three levels: Upper, Middle, and Lower.
Generally, people in the Sword Spirit World would start cultivating from the age of three. By the age of twenty, they would be able to cultivate to the first level of Spirit Refining Stage. By the age of fifty, they would be able to cultivate to the second level of Spirit Refining Stage. By the age of sixty, they would be able to cultivate to the Spirit Refining Stage. Of course, at this time, the speed of cultivation would slow down. It wouldn't be strange to spend a few years or even a few decades to cultivate to the Spirit Refining Stage. However, if one couldn't cultivate to the Spirit Refining Stage before the age of sixty, it meant that one's potential wasn't great and it would be difficult to improve in the future.
Although there were only four levels of cultivation in the Sword Spirit World, there were also upper and lower levels. The lower two levels referred to the Refining Essence into Qi and the Refining Qi into Spirit. These two levels were known as the Earth Profound level. The upper two levels referred to the Refining Spirit into Void and the Refining Void into Dao. These two levels were generally known as the Heaven Yellow level.
The Spirit Refining Stage and the Spirit Refining Stage was known as the Dragon Gate Leap. After the leap, one would turn from a fish into a dragon. If one couldn't make the leap, then one would still be a fish.
Xia Yu was already sixty-seven years old, but he was still in the Spirit Refining Stage. Moreover, he had just reached the Middle Stage. This showed that his potential wasn't very good. It was also because of this that Xia Yu could no longer stay in the main house of the Xia Family. Instead, he had his own house outside. It might seem like a good thing that he could be the head of the family, but in reality, no one in the Xia Family was willing to leave the main house. This was because the main house of the Xia Family was built on top of a spiritual vein. The spiritual energy there was the densest. Living in the main house was very beneficial for cultivation.
However, because Xia Yu didn't have much potential, he could only live outside. Moreover, he had to help the family do things. The things he did were very simple, which was to take care of the family's Spirit Plant Mountain.
The Xia Family was famous for their Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts. Therefore, the family naturally had a place to produce Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts. Therefore, on the Xia Family's Great Desolate Island, there were several Spirit Plant Mountains and Spirit Beast Mountains. The Xia Family's disciples who didn't have much potential would go to the Spirit Plant Mountains or Spirit Beast Mountains to take care of the Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts. Xia Yu was one of them.
Fortunately, Xia Yu had already thought it through. Although his position in the Xia Family wasn't high, it was still better than those servant clans. Moreover, he could live outside and take care of his mother. Xia Yu was quite satisfied.
The Xia Family's Spirit Plant Mountain was very big. There were people taking care of it at every section. The people taking care of it were usually the Xia Family members. Then, there were a few servant clans. A large family like the Xia Family would have countless branches. The branch that was stronger would become the Xia Family's Patriarch. Among the Xia Family members who took care of the Spirit Plant Mountain, there were some whose ancestors were glorious. They were even a branch of the family. But now, this branch had declined. In the end, they gave up the main residence and came here to take care of the Spirit Plant Mountain.
There was such a family right next to Xia Yu's. Their family used to be the head of the Xia Family, but that was tens of thousands of years ago. Now, they were in decline. There was only one old man in the family. This old man was a pitiful person. He was the only son of his father's generation. His talent for cultivation was similar to Xia Yu's. He had lost all hope at a young age, so he married a woman from a servant's family. He was ready to start a family, hoping to strengthen his family.
The result was not bad. His wife gave birth to three sons for him, but when she gave birth to the third son, her body was injured and she passed away a few years later. He raised the three children alone and taught them cultivation methods. His three children's talents were a little better than his. Before the age of twenty, they had reached the stage of Refining Essence into Qi. When they were about forty years old, they had reached the eleventh stage of Refining Qi into Spirit and could almost break through to the Refining Spirit into Void Realm. At this time, most people would go out to train, and his three children were no exception. They also went out to train.
However, he didn't expect that this trial would cause his three sons to die outside. None of them came back. When this news reached the island, the old man almost went crazy. Although he didn't go crazy, he still vomited three liters of blood. He didn't even have half a life left. He could only rely on some servants to take care of him.
After Xia Yu moved here, he learned about the old man's situation. He sympathized with the old man and took care of him many times. When he was free, he would chat with the old man. Although Xia Yu wasn't young, he was about the same age as the old man's son. The old man slowly treated him as his own son.
However, the old man's body had completely collapsed because of grief. He passed away after a few years with Xia Yu. Before the old man died, he gave Xia Yu a notebook. He said that it was left by his ancestor. It wasn't a cultivation technique, but a notebook. But it was the only thing left by his ancestor. The old man had been treasuring it. At the last moment of his life, he gave the notebook to Xia Yu.
After the old man died, Xia Yu buried him with the etiquette of a son. After he went back, he also read the notebook left by the old man. The notebook was indeed written by the old man's ancestor. Moreover, he was a Patriarch of the Xia Family. The notebook recorded some things about him. When this Patriarch was young, his talent wasn't very good. It wasn't until he was more than 70 years old that he successfully reached the Void Refining Stage. But since he succeeded, his strength improved by leaps and bounds. Moreover, this process took five years as a cycle. In the end, he finally became a Void Refining Stage expert and became the Patriarch of the Xia Family.
But why did this Patriarch's cultivation suddenly improve after the age of 70 was not written in the notebook. This made people feel that this Patriarch was unfathomable.
Xia Yu also felt that this Patriarch's experience was very mysterious. However, he only read it as a story and didn't take it to heart. Until one day, he accidentally spilled a cup of water on the notebook. Only then did he discover that there were some faint handwriting on the cover of the notebook. This made Xia Yu very surprised.
One must know that the cover of this notebook was made of wood. Moreover, it was made of high quality incense wood which could prevent insects. However, very few people used it to make book covers. This was because everyone was using jade slips. Even books were rarely read, let alone meticulously making a book.
Moreover, this kind of book that was left behind by the ancestors would be carefully safeguarded by the younger generation. Normally, they would put it in their own spatial rings and wouldn't take it out easily. Even if they did take it out, they would be very careful. Naturally, they wouldn't let it get wet. If Xia Yu didn't like this book very much and was flipping through it, he wouldn't take it out and let it get wet.
After Xia Yu discovered that there were words on the cover, he wiped the book cover with water and then copied the words down. After he copied the words down, he carefully looked at the words and felt a burst of excitement.
The words on the book cover were left behind by the Patriarch. It recorded a huge secret territory. The Patriarch pointed out that in a spiritual plant mountain on the Great Barren Island, there was a cave. The cave was very deep and there was nothing inside, so generally, no one would pay attention to it. However, in the cave, there was a spatial passage that led to the lower realm. As long as the spatial passage was opened, then one could enter the lower realm and stay there for three months.
Of course, this wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was the Patriarch's introduction to the lower realm. The Patriarch said that the lower realm was full of animals and plants, but there wasn't a single person there. However, it was very suitable for the Xia Clan to cultivate. As long as three people cultivated there, it would be equivalent to cultivating in other places for dozens of years. Moreover, bringing a plant from the lower realm to the upper realm would allow one's cultivation to increase greatly in the following three years. For the Xia Clan, that place was absolutely a treasure.
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