Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1061 - 144: Warming Up

Wang Qi actually had some impression of the face in front of him. This Core Formation Cultivator was indeed the first Ancient Method Practitioner he fought with Mi when they followed Lian Xinjie and Lian Xingling to Spirit Phoenix Island, and still a Core Formation... Remember, hmm, what's the name again? Jia something...

The memory of someone at the Golden Core Stage is very strong, even a fleeting glimpse can be remembered. However, Wang Qi has always treasured his brain capacity tightly, and apart from deliberately relaxing his spirit, he hardly concerns himself with insignificant matters. The cultivator in front of him was merely in the Core Formation Stage, not affecting his task in any way, hence Wang Qi had almost completely put this person out of his mind.

If it wasn't for the subtle spiritual power fluctuation on Jia Chenglie indicating the existence of an original Divine Plague Curse Technique within him, Wang Qi wouldn't even remember him.

After more than half a year, with Wang Qi and the top Shenzhou team's promotion, the Divine Plague Curse Technique had long been updated several generations. Feeling the original and crude methods on Jia Chenglie, Wang Qi couldn't help but sigh, "Time really flies fast."

When Jia Chenglie found Wang Qi, he spoke in an unfriendly tone, dropping a brief sentence: "Elder Xu wants a follow-up visit, follow me," then walked away without looking back. Wang Qi had to pretend to be weak-footed and not yet recovered from illness, barely keeping up. Shortly thereafter, they arrived at Xinglin Building. Jia Chenglie casually pointed to an entrance: "Go through that small door, walk straight, the Elder is waiting for you there." Then he directly walked into a bamboo grove in front of Xinglin Building, executing a set of "Spring and Autumn Wind Moon Temple" fist techniques in a manner both precise and measured.

He displayed some resentful poison on his face while practicing these fist techniques.

—Xia Li, you better not fall into my hands again!

"Xia Li" remained utterly unaware.

As Wang Qi just entered Xinglin Building, he heard Xu Xueqing's transmitted voice: "Walk straight, turn left at the end of the corridor, do not enter other rooms."

Wang Qi mused to himself, "This woman sure is cautious...".

Having already entered Xinglin Building, she still had the patience to continue the act.

Wang Qi constructed a Virtual Divine Country, concealing his figure. He followed Xu Xueqing's indicated path through the corridor, reaching Xu Xueqing.

Upon seeing Wang Qi, Xu Xueqing raised her eyebrow, emitting a soft "huh." Unification Stage Cultivators had trained the Divine Separation Sense Transformation to the highest realm, and mana and spiritual sense were virtually indistinguishable. With such acute perception, she could sense a layer of mysterious power upon Wang Qi.

Wang Qi proactively pointed around himself: "This is the method I use to conceal myself from Holy Emperor Venerable's investigation."

Xu Xueqing hesitated: "This... is very conspicuous."

In the eyes of a cultivator at her level of Unification Stage, Wang Qi's presence was extremely conspicuous, akin to being splashed with paint.

Wang Qi chuckled: "This method is specifically targeting Holy Emperor Venerable's technique. Every means of Holy Emperor Venerable is indeed formidable, but he invariably chooses not to use spiritual sense to monitor Spirit Phoenix Island."

As the saying goes, those who know are not broad, and those who are broad do not know. Wang Qi's technique is specifically aimed at Holy Emperor Venerable's Divine Country System monitoring, thus it cannot evade general spiritual sense investigations.

However, the method Holy Emperor Venerable employs to monitor the entire Spirit Phoenix Island through the Human Dao System is infinitely superior by many degrees compared to spiritual sense. As per Holy Emperor Venerable's original intention, for enemies his method cannot detect, spiritual sense would also be ineffective.

Xu Xueqing nodded. At this moment, Wang Qi pointed outside: "About that attendant student of yours..."

"He isn't responsible for sweeping but is an attendant student sorting books for Xinglin Building." Xu Xueqing corrected, then asked: "What's the matter?"

"Well. I suspect he once received a set of 'Spring and Autumn Wind Moon Temple' from Holy Emperor Venerable, and that cultivation might have been tampered with by Holy Emperor Venerable—just like what I did. He might unknowingly become a spy for Holy Emperor Venerable."

Xu Xueqing nodded, sneering coldly: "Everyone knows that. Without Holy Emperor Venerable's secret instructions, those who mysteriously receive adventures wouldn't dare to expose their secrets. And their sects wouldn't strip their cultivation techniques?"

Wang Qi understood in heart. It seems no one is foolish.

Xu Xueqing curiously asked: "How did Daoist Fellow Wang find out about this little attendant student under me?"

Wang Qi recounted his experiences under the alias "Xia Li." Xu Xueqing's eyes widened: "So, the very Xia Li that Holy Emperor Venerable wants to eliminate swiftly is you!"

Wang Qi was amazed: "My identity was exposed? How was it exposed? Why was I unaware?"

Xu Xueqing shook her head and explained the situation of Holy Emperor Venerable's pursuit of Xia Li.

It turned out Holy Emperor Venerable considered Xia Li a genius, capable of cross-level combat, and with the remarkable cultivation of Luofu Xuanqing Palace, he didn't issue a widespread warrant but targeted high-order cultivators, vowing to obtain the ring in Xia Li's possession.

"The ring..." Wang Qi subconsciously touched the ring on his index finger with his thumb, a trace of hatred flashed in his usually erratic gaze.

This object was the origin of everything. It was precisely due to exploring this thing's magic artifact specifically that he fell into the hands of Heaven Splitting Dao cultivators and thus all sorts of incidents followed.

If it weren't for it being independently severed by the power of Sage Zhi Long's refining, Wang Qi might not have been able to approach Spirit Phoenix Island.

However, what exactly does the Holy Emperor Venerable want to do with this thing?

Let's change the approach. If we fill this calculator with Advanced Divine Plague Curse techniques, and then offer it to the Holy Emperor Venerable for him to refine…

No, no, that's not advisable. Not to mention whether the Holy Emperor Venerable would fall for it, the risk is rather high. What if you get nothing and lose more? Also, doing so would mean sacrificing half of Jarvis's hardware, reducing its performance.

As Wang Qi's most handy tool, Jarvis's importance is self-evident.

"Daoist Fellow Wang?" Xu Xueqing noticed Wang Qi's unusual expression and tentatively called out.

"Let's get back to the main topic, Elder Xu." Wang Qi suppressed the thoughts in his mind and asked Xu Xueqing: "Are you willing to learn my Virtual Form Techniques?"

Xu Xueqing shook her head: "On this point, I can only apologize, Daoist Fellow Wang. Several hundred years ago, there were attempts to convert High-Level Ancient Method Practitioners into Modern Cultivators. However, these attempts often ended in failure. I am a person who cherishes life and will not risk my life or future longevity to try an immature method—let's be frank, especially from someone like you, whose various antics make people distrustful."

If a doctor has seven or eight scars on his face and looks fierce, probably not many would trust him with a surgery that concerns their life.

One's appearance can somewhat indicate certain issues.

Wang Qi's unabashed behaviors make him hard to trust.

Wang Qi was quite disappointed: "I thought you were the kind of person unafraid of risks—those afraid of death should not be doing undercover work, right?"

Undercover work constantly faces threats of death, and the mental pressure is immense. Only those with great courage can handle it. Being an undercover in enemy lines for hundreds of years is almost like mythology.

In this regard, Wang Qi quite respects this woman.

Xu Xueqing said, "Being an undercover may be dangerous, but at least life and death are in my own hands; experimenting with New Method means entrusting your life to others—in the past, some Modern Cultivators claimed this is a leftover habit from Ancient Methods, but I intend to stick to the principle of self-preservation that has lasted for thousands of years."

Wang Qi shook his head. There is not much more to say.

He himself thought Xu Xueqing's idea was somewhat unreasonable. Except for Innate Saints like Mine, who are born undying, any Life Beings seeking Dao Fruit of Longevity must either learn Established Methods or rely on instinct and probability. According to Xu Xueqing's thinking, the former is akin to entrusting longevity to the Cultivation Technique created by others, while the latter to the dice roll of fate. The path to longevity inevitably involves 'otherness.'

Among Modern Cultivators, this viewpoint is not uncommon. However, those who fully practice it are probably very few.

Seeing Xu Xueqing's resolute attitude, Wang Qi had no more words to press further. He said, "That's fine, since you don't want to cultivate, I won't force it. However, could you help me with another task?"

"Act secretly against Mr. Tang Di and Xi Yongquan?" Xu Xueqing nodded: "Feel free to let me know your method so I can cooperate with you."

Mr. Tang Di and Xi Yongquan are Body Integration Realm Cultivators from the Heavenly Book Tower.

Wang Qi shook his head: "No, actually, for the first step, I still need your cooperation."

Xu Xueqing sensed something wasn't right.

Wang Qi said, "I'm not yet sure how to completely dismantle the mechanisms within a Body Integration Realm Cultivator's mana, and need your cooperation to practice."

However good Xu Xueqing's upbringing might be, it's hard to avoid showing a hint of killing intent: "Daoist Fellow Wang, you know what you're saying, right?"

Wang Qi nodded: "Can you hear me out first?"

After a brief explanation, Xu Xueqing finally understood what was going on.

As it turns out, the Divine Plague Curse techniques are still a relatively immature technology, especially when dealing with High Order Cultivators.

Body Integration Realm Cultivators who have completed Divine Separation Sense Transformation have their thoughts and mana intricately intertwined. They are extremely sensitive to the intrusion of Divine Plague Curses. Wang Qi, in order to use Divine Plague Curses to plot against a Cultivator, needs to know how to bypass the various mystical aspects of his mana, to bypass his superficial consciousness.

This requires a Body Integration Realm Cultivator to cooperate with Wang Qi a few times.

The Divine Plague Curse is now also divided into many types. Some Divine Plague Curses are entirely harmless, while others can kill. What Wang Qi wants to do now is to find a way to bypass this layer of self-protection mechanism in Body Integration Realm Cultivators and then implant the Divine Plague Curse into the opponent's body. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

In a vivid metaphor, Wang Qi now plans to stab others with a poisoned dagger, while he is currently practicing with an unpoisoned one.