Chapter 237: Chapter 236 Jin Xi Assails Nascent Soul! (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)
"Why choose me?" asked the Golden Ancestor. "It requires a woman’s blood to open the treasure chest. Why choose me when you can choose Ye Wanyi... After all, Ye Wanyi is your Dao Companion!"
"Because, Ancestor, you are the most suitable!"
Lu Xuanji said, "Ye Wanyi lacks time, not resources. Even if she gains fortuitous encounters, she may not be able to convert them into power. But Ancestor, if you obtain the treasure from the Void Treasure Chest, your cultivation could advance further. For a Golden Core to impact Nascent Soul, one must go through the Celestial Tribulation, Human Tribulation, Life Tribulation. How to endure, I do not know!"
"But if you get the treasures from the treasure chest, the chances of surviving the tribulations will increase!"
"People must have backers. With backers, a mortal can live a life without worries; with backers, a cultivator can soar to the heavens. Without a backer, they might die midway through tribulations! In the past, the Lu Family was my backer, the Grand Elder was my backer. Later, the Ye Family became my backer, you, Ancestor, are also my backer. I don’t want you, Ancestor, to die in the Nascent Soul Tribulation, for then my backer would be gone, and my future Dao path would be full of obstacles! If Ancestor becomes a Nascent Soul, my backer will be more stable and stronger."
"Is a backer only just a backer?"
The Golden Ancestor said, "In the future, don’t call me Ancestor anymore, call me Jin Xi!"
"This..."
Lu Xuanji didn’t dwell on the matter and asked, "Why, Ancestor, choose the second option?"
"Someone once said to me, given two choices: one is to give me a bun now to fill my stomach; the other is to give me a hundred thousand taels of silver in ten years. I naturally choose the former!" Jin Xi said, "The future is too far, the present is too near; what is near succeeds over distant beauty!"
"The Divine Maiden Order can make me the Young Palace Master of the Divine Maiden Palace. But who knows the real worth of this, becoming a pawn in a political marriage is not bad; fearing being plotted against by some, dying miserably. Human hearts change easily; relying on one token to restrain hearts is too difficult."
"Whereas a Sword Embryo has infinite possibilities!"
Lu Xuanji nodded and said, "Wise Ancestor."
"Come, enter the Chaos Palace, and let me show you our palace!" The Golden Ancestor said hospitably, the Chaos Palace appearing in the palm of his hand, beckoning Lu Xuanji, and stepping into the palace first.
Lu Xuanji also stepped into the palace.
The interior of the palace was not lavish, instead much simpler, resembling an ordinary cultivator’s cave mansion, with a seclusion chamber, alchemy chamber, storage chamber, bathroom, hot spring chamber, spirit medicine chamber, etc., merely eighteen rooms, simple like a mortal’s dwelling.
Taking a gentle breath and feeling the rich Spiritual Qi.
"Is there a Spirit Vein here?"
Lu Xuanji said.
"Yes, inside the palace, is laid a Ninth Grade Spirit Vein, though most places are sealed, only part of the seal is opened, equivalent to a Fourth Level Spirit Vein. If I step into the Nascent Soul, the seals will gradually unlock, turning into a Fifth Level Spirit Vein!" Jin Xi said, "Come, I’ll serve you some Enlightenment Tea!"
Arriving at the Spiritual Spring Chamber, fetching the Spiritual Spring.
The True Flame was lit, soon steaming hot, the fragrance wafting.
Drinking the Enlightenment Tea, Lu Xuanji felt immensely refreshed, his thought perception elevating, making significant progress in understanding the Elemental Magnetic Celestial Saber.
"Good tea, where does it come from!"
Lu Xuanji asked.
"A pot of tea was placed inside the palace!" Jin Xi said, "Once there was an Enlightenment Tea tree here, of Ninth Grade, the ultimate in the human realm. It also suppresses this place’s Spirit Vein, regulating the changes in Spiritual Qi here. But before Feiyu Daoist’s ascension, using a secret technique, it was reverted to its origin, becoming a seed."
"It needs to be planted so the tea tree seed will become a tree."
"Take a look over here!"
Jin Xi led, to the Spirit Medicine Chamber.
Upon entering, there was about one hundred acres of spiritual fields.
The area wasn’t vast, but looking at the soil on the ground, Lu Xuanji felt his body stirring, eager to devour the gray soil on the ground.
He had the fire, wood, and earth spirit roots and was very sensitive to earth element divine objects.
"What is this soil?"
Lu Xuanji asked.
"Nine Heavens Vital Earth." Jin Xi said.
"Hiss!"
Lu Xuanji was astonished, speechless.
About one hundred acres of spiritual fields, soil more than a meter thick, how much of the Nine Heavens Vital Earth is required.
The Nine Heavens Vital Earth is the holy object of earth-element cultivators.
Nine Heavens Vital Earth is also top-grade material for refining earth element treasures.
But more so, Nine Heavens Vital Earth is the supreme soil for cultivating spirit medicine, most suitable for the growth of spirit medicine, a ten-thousand-year Medicine King, a hundred-thousand-year Medicine Emperor, a million-year Immortal Elixir, with extremely slow growth cycles. But if grown in Nine Heavens Vital Earth, the cultivation time can be shortened.
Just three thousand years for Immortal Elixir to mature once.
"Fortune!"
Lu Xuanji said, "With Nine Heavens Vital Earth, we can plant Dragon Tooth Rice!"
"Nine Heavens Vital Earth is good, but it just consumes too many Spirit Stones!" Jin Xi said, "It requires frequent use of Spirit Stones to replenish nutrients for the Nine Heavens Vital Earth, otherwise, if Spiritual Qi is insufficient for a long time, the grade of Nine Heavens Vital Earth will decrease."
Then, Jin Xi led him on a leisurely tour inside the palace.
The area of the palace wasn’t large, nor were the furnishings lavish, but the items contained within, one after the other, were all top-grade.
Nine Heavens Vital Earth, Ninth Grade Spirit Vein, Enlightenment Tea Seed, Supreme Grade Spiritual Spring, etc., were all top-grade items in the Cultivation Immortality Realm, while general goods were not worthy of entering here.
By coincidence, Feiyu Daoist was also a top-tier Array Master, having drawn numerous array maps inside the Chaos Hall.
Some array maps were activated, slowly operating, but more array maps were not initiated, in a state of dormancy, requiring cultivators to use Primordial Spirit, Magical Power, or even Essence Blood to activate one or two.
Carefully counting, there were three hundred array maps, of which only ten were operational.
"At this moment, I can only activate ten array maps in the Chaos Hall, yet it’s enough to steer the Chaos Hall, escaping from the pursuit of Divinity Transformation cultivators!" Jin Xi said delightedly, "There are too many array maps here; to fully exert their power, unless I advance to Harmonization! There are two arrays here, greatly beneficial for my advancement to Nascent Soul!"
"I need to enter seclusion!"
"As short as ten years, as long as twenty years!"
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After explaining briefly, Jin Xi went into seclusion, intending to break into the Nascent Soul Realm.
In Chaos City, with Divinity Transformation guardians present, it’s the safest and most peaceful.
Here, breaking into Nascent Soul doesn’t worry about enemy interception, relatively peaceful.
Meanwhile, Lu Xuanji also began his seclusion, starting to enhance his cultivation.
No matter how much cultivation, no matter how many fortuitous encounters, no matter how good luck is, if it cannot be converted into strength, it’s all in vain.
Meanwhile, using his Heart Blood to feed the Gold-devouring Insect.
Time was slowly slipping away.
In the ninth year, Lu Xuanji’s aura was surging, stepping into the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion.
In the twentieth year, Lu Xuanji’s cultivation advanced once more, stepping into the sixth layer of the Purple Mansion.
Emerging from seclusion, Lu Xuanji was anxious, "Twenty years have passed, why has there been no emergence yet... could something have gone wrong?"
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PS: Fourth release, fashionably late.