Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 168 - 135 Righteous Qi Island Qingling Mountain Fenguang Cave Both Righteous and Evil Qizhenzi!

Chapter 168: Chapter 135 Righteous Qi Island Qingling Mountain Fenguang Cave Both Righteous and Evil Qizhenzi!

Liyun Immortal Mansion.

Chen Jichuan returned here once again.

Two hundred years passed, and the ’Wind Thunder Immortal Almond Tree’ in the Immortal Mansion bloomed and bore fruit twice more, yielding four Immortal Almonds, all of which Chen Jichuan used to refine Wind Thunder Pills.

He failed one batch and succeeded one batch, resulting in eighteen pills of ’Wind Thunder Pill’.

Among them, twelve pills were given to Cen Guanghong, two pills were bestowed upon disciples in the sect, and someone like Lu Qing received one. The remaining four pills were secretly gifted to several intimate friends.

Chen Jichuan himself did not enjoy even one pill, a true epitome of selflessness.

He sat cross-legged under the Wind Thunder Immortal Almond Tree.

Chen Jichuan contemplated his next steps.

At Jade Spring Mountain and Echo Valley, he employed the ’Mystical Gate Skill’ to sleep under Jade Spring Mountain. In the Ancestor Master Cave, he left a ’Thousand-mile Communication Technique’, so whenever someone calls from outside, he could sense it even from afar and return in time.

The distance posed a problem over time.

But fortunately.

He was already ’asleep’, so disciples like Lu Qing from Echo Valley would not bother him without a reason.

Only when something monumental occurred, and there was no other choice, would they awaken him.

Given Echo Valley’s status in the Mysterious Nether Sea, if such a situation occurred, Chen Jichuan would know immediately and could return early.

There would not be a situation of exposure.

Even if, by an unfortunate turn and lack of filial piety, someone were to wake him without reason leading to a slip, he could simply say that he was feeling stuffy from sleeping too long and went out to wander.

Those in the sect had never slept in such a way themselves, so it wouldn’t be hard to fool them.

Moreover.

Should someone call him without reason, and Chen Jichuan grew angry and killed these unfilial disciples with a palm, no one would dare to object.

Thus, so with the matters of Jade Spring Mountain.

Chen Jichuan did not want to think much about it.

What concerned him now was the next step in his cultivation.

"Next."

"While focusing all efforts on cultivation, I must also study the ’Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill’, ’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’, and the ’Corpse Control Technique’."

Chen Jichuan had long planned for his cultivation journey.

During his time at Jade Spring Mountain, he fully dedicated himself to alchemy, the ’Sword Map’, and magic skills.

Now having left Jade Spring Mountain, no longer burdened by reputations of ’ancient benevolence’ and ’eager public spirit’, with the help of the ’Transformation Technique’, he could act freely as he wished.

The ’Corpse Control Technique’, deemed an ’evil technique’ and eagerly awaited by Chen Jichuan, could now be practiced.

[Cultivation Technique: Corpse Control Technique]

[Level: Elementary]

[Description: Created by the evil cultivator ’Iron Corpse Old Ancestor’ ten thousand years ago, it can refine the living into the dead, turning them into refined corpses that only know slaughter. Iron Corpse Old Ancestor only devised the Qi Refinement level of the skill, which later generations continually supplemented and revised, developing a skill reaching up to the sixth layer of Qi Refinement. Past the sixth layer, the technique remains theoretical and unachieved.]

This ’Corpse Control Technique’ was obtained by Chen Jichuan from Zhang Zhihe, the State Preceptor of Fann Kingdom. Zhang Zhihe, utilizing this skill, could control refined corpses and was unrivaled among mortals.

In direct confrontation.

Back then, neither Chen Jichuan nor the whole Echo Valley could match him. It was through exhausting ten years of lifespan, with Daoist skills, that Chen Jichuan managed to curse him to death before he could fully wield his corpse-control abilities.

Otherwise.

He would indeed be difficult to deal with.

After acquiring the technique years ago, Chen Jichuan occasionally took it out to study, but he hadn’t yet practiced it. Now, having left Jade Spring Mountain, the world was vast. With certain achievements in his cultivation, he had the energy to delve into the ’Corpse Control Technique’.

Not only the ’Corpse Control Technique’—

"’Corpse Control Technique’ manipulates refined corpses."

"’Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill’ manipulates five ghosts and yin soldiers."

"’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’ manipulates paperman puppets."

Among these three magic skills, Chen Jichuan had only practiced the ’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’ over the years. After three hundred years of unending cultivation, forty-nine papermen now all possessed battle strength comparable to the fourth layer of Transforming Strength.

When they charged collectively.

Even Qi Refinement cultivators must be cautious.

Yet, for Chen Jichuan at this time, they remained rather superficial. Their battle strength couldn’t surpass the Core Formation or Transforming Strength levels, making their utility quite limited.

The ’Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill’ was practiced for a while at the Three Realms Pass and then moved to a deserted island in the Mysterious Nether Sea, later continuing at Liyun Immortal Mansion.

Three hundred years passed, with each of the five ghosts and yin soldiers reaching the fourth layer of Soul Emergence strength.

Alone, they could not break through to the level equivalent to the Daoist Night Walk realm.

They needed to be attended to now as well.

"Before putting in serious efforts, elevate the ’Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill’ and ’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’ to mid-level, and the ’Corpse Control Technique’ to refined level."

Chen Jichuan’s thoughts surged, and he did not hesitate.

His Core Formation First Layer cultivation swiftly dropped to Transforming Strength Second Layer, first raising the ’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’ to mid-level.

[Magic: Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill]

[Level: Mid-level]

[Description: Can simultaneously cultivate forty-nine papermen, each capable of reaching the second-order. Control distance: five hundred to three thousand miles.]

Generally speaking.

Low-level techniques correspond to Qi Refinement.

Mid-level techniques correspond to Enlightenment.

’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’ was a low-level magic, and theoretically, the paperman’s strength could reach the first-order, equivalent to the Qi Refining Realm.

In practical cultivation, however, achieving that was challenging.

Similarly.

Enhancing it to mid-level theoretically allows reaching the second-order, equivalent to the Enlightenment Realm, but achieving it in practice is difficult.

Yet reaching the first order is much easier.

Furthermore, the control distance significantly increased.

"In the realm of Qi Refinement, first-order papermen are sufficient."

Chen Jichuan looked at the mid-level ’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’ and nodded satisfactorily.

"Continue!"

He then glanced at his cultivation level, and promptly depleted his external cultivation and borrowed some from his Daoist cultivation, pushing the ’Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill’ to mid-level.

[Magic: Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill]

[Level: Mid-level]

[Description: Can cultivate or summon the Five Directions Ten Directions Five Ghosts. The five ghosts’ strength can reach a maximum of the second order, and the yin soldiers a maximum of the first order. Control range: eight hundred to five thousand miles. Note: If the five ghosts’ strength surpasses the caster too much, or excessive yin soldiers exceed control, there’s a risk of backlash.]

Compared to the ’Paper Cutting into Soldiers Skill’, the ’Five Ghosts Yin Soldiers Skill’ is more potent when reaching the mid-level.

But being an evil technique inherently carries the risk of backlash.

"Keeping up is challenging enough; surpassing is even more difficult."

Chen Jichuan wasn’t worried.

With both major skills pushed to mid-level, Chen Jichuan’s external skills hit rock bottom, and his Daoist cultivation nearly fell out of the Night Travel Realm.

To elevate the ’Corpse Control Technique’ from elementary to refined level would require much more cultivation than for magic skills.

"I’ll start practicing the elementary version first to get familiar. Once I’ve accumulated enough cultivation, I’ll reinforce and enhance it."

Chen Jichuan’s heart was calm, not rushing.

...

In the time that followed.

Chen Jichuan used Liyun Immortal Mansion as his base, traversing the Mysterious Nether Sea under the identity of Immortal Master ’Qizhenzi’ from ’Fenguong Cave’ at Qingling Mountain on Righteous Qi Island, a hundred miles away from the Immortal Mansion.

He had spread the practices of Qi Refinement, Body Refinement, and Alchemy in Echo Valley, but never imparted Daoist skills. Over the years, he never showcased it before his disciples or numerous friends.

Even when he cursed Zhang Zhihe in Fann Kingdom back then, he secretly performed it away from his disciples.

Two or three hundred years later, the disciples of Echo Valley who experienced that incident had all passed away, leaving no one aware.

Since displaying Daoist skills, there’s no worry of exposure.

Chen Jichuan molded his appearance, aura, and shape into the image of Qizhenzi from the Da Liang World.

He captured Righteous Qi Island as a portal to the outside world.

Skills like Wind Thunder Wings, Four-character Poem Sword, and Protective Sword Shield were also studied and practiced, yet were never used in battles to avoid exposing his identity.

Fortuitously, he rarely engaged in direct confrontations, often preemptively acting against others secretly.

Chen Jichuan, after a period of cultivation, would venture out to debate and discuss with three or five friends.

Or he would show off publicly, intentionally leaking one or two treasures, attracting malicious Qi Refinement cultivators and preparing for counter-killing and treasure capturing.

These acts were second nature to Chen Jichuan.

With ’Concealing Technique’, ’Transformation Technique’, ’Crystal Shadow Refraction Technique’, and other mid-level techniques, he always schemed others without being schemed upon.

In repeated counter-kills.

Chen Jichuan became more adept at employing various Daoist techniques, also acquiring much cultivation resources, sustaining his cultivation and alchemy needs.

His reputation gradually spread.

Some call Qizhenzi ruthless and sinister, the epitome of the evil faction’s elder.

Others call Qizhenzi gentle in nature and amiable, much like the style of Echo Valley’s ancestor Immortal Chen.

He became a renowned representative of the ’neither purely righteous nor evil’ faction in the Mysterious Nether Sea.

Chen Jichuan cared not for fame or reputation, focused solely on cultivation.

Qi Refinement.

Daoist techniques.

Both progressed steadily.

Yet, he repeatedly emptied his external skills, rebuilding again, to push the boundaries of all methods.

To deduce and enhance non-classified pill recipes like the Innate Pill, Sunrise Pill, and Nourishing Yuan Pill, improving their drug efficacy, reducing the required medicinal materials, simplifying, optimizing procedures, reducing the time needed for alchemy, and increasing the success rate....and so forth.

These were among the foundations of Chen Jichuan’s renown in the Alchemy Dao.

Ordinary alchemists might not improve a single mature pill recipe throughout their lives.

Chen Jichuan could improve them in batches.

Less medicinal material, higher success rates equate to lower costs.

The same pill, better efficacy is undeniably what many cultivators long for.

This made Chen Jichuan’s pills highly competitive in the market, able to earn more. The spirit stones, materials, and such earned supported Chen Jichuan in researching new pill recipes, and his alchemy skills improved annually.

Apart from alchemy.

He did not forget his roots.

’Ten Thousand Sword Map’ requires mastery of a Hundred Swordsmanships.

Chen Jichuan had already mastered the ’Four-character Poem Sword’, ’Splashed Ink and Striped Cloth Sword Technique’, ’Seven-stringed Immortal Surprising Sword Technique’, and ’Ailao Mountain Thirty-Six Swords’.

’Four-character Poem Sword’ resonated most with Chen Jichuan and was the swordsmanship he studied the deepest. Yet being a mid-level sword skill, it was extremely intricate, and mastering it was by no means easy.

As his mastery of the ’Splashed Ink and Striped Cloth Sword Technique’, ’Seven-stringed Immortal Surprising Sword Technique’, and ’Ailao Mountain Thirty-Six Swords’ advanced, and as his comprehension of the ’Four-character Poem Sword’ hit a bottleneck,

Chen Jichuan chose another skill from the ’Sword Map’—’Qin Mountain Eighteen Disks’, and from the Dao Fruit of Da Liang’s Great Grandmaster Ann Jishi, ’Soft Cloud Swordsmanship’, to practice concurrently.

Panlong Nine Thousand Nine.

Among which lies a peak called ’Qin Mountain’.

Once, a cultivator from the Ten Thousand Sword Sect practiced at Qin Mountain, observing the perilous topography of eighteen disks down three paths at five steps per turn, ten steps per return, and incorporated this landscape into swordsmanship, creating the ’Qin Mountain Eighteen Disks’.

The higher the disk, the more dangerous the path.

Thus, the sword moves became increasingly fierce.

Moreover, because Qin Mountain’s ’Eighteen Disks’ were divided into ’slow eighteen, tight eighteen’, with eighteen spirals being relatively slow and the other eighteen being very tight, one step higher than the last, it is said ’latecomers see their predecessors’ feet, and predecessors see their successors’ top’.

Therefore, this swordsmanship is both slow and tight, winding and turning yet without neglecting majesty and gravitas.

The power is noteworthy.

The ’Soft Cloud Swordsmanship’ was one of the higher-level sword skills studied by Great Grandmaster Ann Jishi.

It flows like the gathering and dispersing of clouds, remarkable for its continuous flow.

Chen Jichuan aimed to understand different approaches and artistic concepts of swordsmanship, thus selecting these two distinct sword skills to study earnestly, hoping they would complement each other, enhancing the ’Four-character Poem Sword’ and his swordsmanship prowess.

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