Five months ago Author: Xun Chun Xu Zhou
Chapter 96: Record of Meritorious Deeds on the Path to Ascension (Seeking Subscriptions!)
Lips touching lips, teeth grazing teeth.
At the Dan Sect's encampment, in a secluded courtyard, within the main hall.
The Mountain River Cauldron hung in the air, spinning round and round, yet inside it, the spiritual light of the water and fire mingling to refine the medicinal concoction was nowhere to be seen.
In the center, on a large wooden chair, Chu Weiyang held onto the Qinghe girl, sharing the precious medicine they had just refined.
After a while, Chu Weiyang tilted his head back, lazily leaning against the chair's backrest, while the Qinghe girl’s cheeks flushed red. She lowered her head, seemingly feeling a bit weary, and leaned against Chu Weiyang's chest.
The vigorous beating of her heart echoed in her ears like thunder.
The same "Five Organs Feeding Qi Essence Technique" circulated within her five organs and chakras, ultimately leading to the fire in the furnace being extinguished. By chance, at this moment, the Qinghe girl was consuming the precious medicine refined by Chu Weiyang using the Xuanming Pill's principles, while listening to the unique resonance of Chu Weiyang's heart chamber.
That unique essence intertwined and resonated within Qinghe, as if the inner and outer realms were in communion.
In an instant, the weariness in the Qinghe girl's heart and mind vanished without a trace.
Cold and heat alternated within her life; initially, the precious medicine fell into her stomach's cauldron, transforming into a flow of magma heat; immediately after, the sound of Chu Weiyang's heart chamber reflected in her mind, turning into a cool stream that sprinkled sweet rain upon her spiritual platform.
A certain tremor originating from the roots of the Dao and the laws made her curl up in Chu Weiyang's embrace, trembling inexplicably. Finally, that tremor flowed into Qinghe's limbs and bones, making her feel a tingling sensation throughout her meridians.
Sweat beads dampened her thin clothing, and within moments, a rich floral fragrance filled the entire room.
If earlier consuming the precious medicine merely allowed the Qinghe girl to glimpse the possibility of stepping onto a unique path, at that time, she could still calmly realize that from this moment to the Golden Core realm, there remained a long road ahead.
Now, although there was no fundamental change in her Dao and laws, her nature and life, the fleeting moments of cold and heat intertwining within her existence allowed her to firmly and truly take the first step on this long path.
In an instant, when Chu Weiyang awakened from the process of refining the precious medicine and looked down, he found the Qinghe girl lazily curled up in his arms, having fallen into a deep sleep without him noticing.
She might be dreaming, unaware of what she was dreaming about, yet even in her slumber, a pure smile graced her lips.
Chu Weiyang gazed at the beautiful scenery in his arms; perhaps it was only at such moments that he could truly see the innocence and charm that belonged to her age amidst her graceful demeanor.
Thus, Chu Weiyang gently tousled Qinghe's silky hair, which flowed like a waterfall, showing no intention of getting up. Instead, he carefully took out a jade talisman to examine.
As his consciousness delved into the jade talisman, endless characters transformed into a torrent, reflecting into Chu Weiyang's mind.
At the same time, Chu Weiyang's divine sense thoroughly illuminated the texts, and he soon saw the records of meritorious deeds inscribed within the jade talisman.
Meritorious deeds of Ren and three categories, Gui and four hundred sixty-eight categories.
The records of meritorious deeds in the Dao City were divided into ten ranks by the Heavenly Stems: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui, with Jia being the highest and Gui the lowest.
There were also a thousand Gui records of meritorious deeds, which could be exchanged for one Ren record of meritorious deeds.
Among Chu Weiyang's records, aside from the two hundred Gui records obtained from completing garrison tasks, the remaining three thousand two hundred sixty-eight Gui records were all earned from slaying demon serpents.
Of course, this was the usual double meritorious deeds.
As the words flowed within the jade talisman, Chu Weiyang gradually began to correlate such gains with the precious materials that could be exchanged.
Taking the Longhu Huiyuan Dan as an example, it required twenty taels of refined gold to purchase, twenty spirit stones to buy, but only two Gui records of meritorious deeds for exchange.
Only amidst the demon beast tide could such profits be realized.
Upon this thought, Chu Weiyang continued to browse the exchange list, carefully searching for suitable precious materials for himself.
As he scanned through the various names, he realized that due to his limited experience, he needed to pause and communicate carefully with Chunya Zhi, who was on the other end of the sword prohibition.
However, it was likely that Chu Weiyang had walked a difficult path in seeking cultivation methods, with the primary principle being to strive for self-sufficiency. Now, reflecting on his journey, he felt that there were not many external resources to rely on.
Most of those precious materials were extremely valuable, but to use them for cultivation, either they were somewhat skewed or did not align with his qi and principles. Moreover, the truly top-tier precious materials, such as Nanshan Chitie and Beihai Xuantu, were not something Chu Weiyang could afford.
As he aimlessly observed, suddenly, Chu Weiyang's expression froze.
When the lengthy list turned to the back, it was filled with details of certain precious materials from other Dao Cities. At this moment, Chu Weiyang clearly saw a line of characters revealed in that vast sea of records—
With Chu Weiyang's thoughts lingering on this line of text, the spiritual light within the jade talisman swirled, and then a line of small characters appeared behind it—
Not to mention a day, even waiting for two or three days is worth it!
Upon this thought, Chu Weiyang no longer hesitated. He pinched the hand seal, and a stream of spiritual light fell onto the jade talisman. When he examined it with his divine sense, only one Ren record of meritorious deeds remained within the jade talisman.
But Chu Weiyang felt that all of this was worth it, especially after he had truly experienced the profound power of the blood and flesh of foundation-building stage demon beasts. He became increasingly eager for the changes that the souls and true spirits of foundation-building stage demon beasts would bring to the Tongyou method!
Upon this thought, Chu Weiyang pressed down on the jade talisman in his hand. With a flip of his hand, the still swirling Mountain River Cauldron, accompanied by the flutter of Chu Weiyang's sleeves, opened the Qiankun Bag. First, the essence of demon beast blood and flesh selected by the Dan Sect leaped into the treasure vessel.
Next came bundles of spiritual herbs, and then, as Chu Weiyang flipped his hand again, the sword qi sliced through, and the tentacles of the foundation-building stage demon beast were cut off in thin layers.
As if still feeling insufficient, Chu Weiyang took out a jade box, cautiously opened it, revealing a block of bright red Zhu fruit tuber.
The moment the jade box opened, the floral fragrance in the room dissipated, and a rich medicinal aroma rushed forward.
Deeply intoxicated, Chu Weiyang took a deep breath before using sword qi to slice off a corner of the tuber.
A minuscule piece, merely the size of a grain of rice, fell into the Mountain River Cauldron. In that first moment, Chu Weiyang struck down the hand seal, not waiting for the colorful spiritual light to burst forth; within the Mountain River Cauldron, a grand scene of water and fire swirling and rotating emerged.
Gathering everything within his sleeves, he allowed the Mountain River Cauldron to refine the materials. With one hand around Qinghe's soft waist and the other flipping open the "Fingersnap Pill Chapter," it seemed that even the battles outside the Dao City felt as distant as an entire universe to Chu Weiyang.
Finding tranquility amidst the chaos, it was likely nothing more than this.
In the Tiantai Dao City, in a quiet courtyard within the city’s workshop district.
The hall was wide open, and seated in the center was Xie Chengqiong, while standing in the hall were the Sword Sect disciple Xie Jiang and Jin Guan, who was peeking into the room, looking somewhat awkward.
After saying that sentence, Xie Chengqiong raised the jade cup, took a sip of tea, and then looked at Xie Jiang with a neutral expression.
"From the very beginning, I knew what you were here for. Your aunt regrets that she impulsively urged you to join the Sword Sect back then. Over the years, you haven’t learned much of the lofty sword path, but you’ve mastered the art of pretending to be mad and foolish from the Jietian lineage to perfection.
However, to put it bluntly, pretending to be mad and foolish is still acceptable, but if you reach the point where you can’t distinguish between true and false, and become truly foolish, that’s a real disaster! Not to mention, with the beast tide calamity upon us, do you think the joint Golden Core decree from the seventy-two Dao Cities is just for show? What right do you have to leave, just because your surname is Xie?
Fine, Jiang'er, even if we risk being cut off from our roots, I truly send you out of Tiantai City, where will you go? Do you know where Chu Weiyang is among the seventy-two Dao Cities? Last time you searched for him on Lingqiu Mountain, you ran into the sect elder and nearly ruined your master’s Dao fruit.
This time, who do you plan to run into again? Do you have any elder’s treasures to shield you from disaster? No? Didn’t that old bull-nose from Qinghai prepare anything for you? What are you planning? To drag the Xie family down with you? My Xie family may have descended from the Panwang Sect, but now we are part of the Dao City lineage!
Jiang'er, don’t show off your pretense of madness and foolishness in front of me. We haven’t seen each other for many years; don’t let outsiders ruin our family ties. If you bring up such matters again, I can only treat it as if another person from the Xie family has died. Now go, make a name for yourself amidst the beast tide first!"
As her voice fell, before Xie Jiang could say anything further, Xie Chengqiong suddenly raised her hand, and in an instant, a dark light surged up, wrapping around Xie Jiang and pulling her outside. When they landed in the courtyard, it spun around and suddenly wrapped up the shouting Jin Guan, tossing them both out of the courtyard.
The two tumbled onto the bluestone-paved ground, looking quite disheveled. When Xie Jiang stubbornly stood up again, the courtyard door had already closed tightly. When she reached out to push it, a prohibition chain shone, forcefully pushing Xie Jiang back again.
Stumbling backward, it was only when Jin Guan reached out to support her that Xie Jiang managed to stand firm again.
She stood there in silence, her gaze dim, not knowing what to think.
In the meantime, Jin Guan pursed his lips and finally spoke softly.
Hearing this, Xie Jiang slowly began to speak.
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