Chapter 313: Unexpected Gains: Storytelling in a Restaurant

As soon as Fang Qi's storage bag was opened, Shi Xuan, with his cultivation level, took a deep breath. Inside was densely packed with various spiritual herbs and materials, which filled the space storage bag tightly. For a moment, Shi Xuan couldn't find the jade slip at all.

"Could this be the resources that Fang Qi prepared for the formation when he achieved the Dharma?" Shi Xuan could only understand it this way, otherwise who would carry so many precious materials and thousand-year-old spiritual herbs with them for no reason.

Shi Xuan didn't care about these things first, and concentrated on finding the jade slips. Not long after, Shi Xuan took out two jade slips from it.

"One is the True Explanation of Myriad Magical Techniques, haha, and the Jade Book of Xuanri's Control of the True Spirit. Fang Qi is indeed the inheritor of Xuanri's Taoist tradition. No wonder he has such good fortune, which can almost be compared with the fortune of a major sect." The four major sects are also inherited from the seven ancient true immortals, and are suppressed by Yuanshen Zhenren. Unlike the Yin-Yang Divine Sect, there has never been a Yuanshen Zhenren since the sect was founded. Generation after generation, the good fortune inherited from the inheritance has gradually dissipated.

Shi Xuan put down a heavy stone in his heart. If he didn't find the "Xuan Ri Tong Yu Zhen Ling Yu Ce", he would have to spend a lot of time looking for Fang Qi's whereabouts, which was really troublesome. So he looked at the other things in the storage bag leisurely: "Hey, Ji Dao Destroying Xuan Tu, hey, this is really a case of searching for it everywhere, but it's easy to get it."

For Shi Xuan, it was really an unexpected gain. The Four Symbols World-Destroying Sword just needed two great treasures, one earth and one water. This Ji Dao Destroying Xuan Tu happened to be a treasure of the earth element with a hidden destructive nature, which could suit Shi Xuan's use.

As for other top-grade materials, precious materials, and thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, Shi Xuan had no use for them for the time being, so he put them away and could exchange them for the sect later.

"But there are no spiritual tools, talismans, secret treasures, etc. in Fang Qi's storage bag. Could it be that they were all destroyed in my hands just now?" Shi Xuan was a little puzzled about this. Even if the talismans and secret treasures were used up, there should still be two or three spiritual tools. The only explanation is that Fang Qi relied on his magic weapons, so he only kept two or three spiritual tools for self-defense, and gave the others to his concubines. This guess is in line with his character of cherishing women.

Shi Xuan didn't care too much about this. He got a magic weapon, the Earthly Evil Yin Fire Banner, which was much better than a spiritual tool. Therefore, he took out the "Earthly Soul Refining Immortal Jade Book" he had obtained before, probed his consciousness into it, and began to read it.

In the previous stages, before reaching the realm of Dharma, there was no substantial difference between the inheritance of the Earthly True Man and the "Immortality of Immortality" of the Yin-Yang Divine Religion. Some of the differences were that because of the different visualization methods, the two or three magical powers that served as the foundation of the innate minor magical powers were different, and the formation when the golden elixir achieved the Dharma was also different.

The biggest difference is the last step. The Jade Book of Soul Refining in the Earthly Extremes is to enter the Earth's Lungs and slowly refine the soul with the Earthly Evil Yin Fire of billions of years, so that it can remove impurities and become a crystal clear glass soul body. Then, this soul body is put into the Dharma Image to achieve the Yuanshen. Among them, the step of tempering the soul is extremely dangerous, and it will be destroyed if you are not careful.

However, the True Man of the Earthly Extremes recorded in the last jade slip that after a period of time of achieving the Yuanshen, those impurities will slowly appear again, so it is necessary to retreat frequently and use the Earthly Evil Yin Fire to forge the Yuanshen to keep the Yuanshen pure.

He guessed that there are many realms after the Yuanshen, and how to permanently remove impurities is the key to the next step. Unfortunately, he was hit by a thunderbolt before he created this step of the technique. After barely sealing all his things and the inheritance jade slip in the cave beside him, he died.

"If you want to permanently remove impurities, you may have to rely on the help of the heavenly tribulation, but it is almost impossible for a cultivator who achieves the primordial spirit in this way to survive the heavenly tribulation, so it becomes two contradictory problems." Although Shi Xuan's cultivation is not high, he has the supreme practice of "Bao Lu" and has studied Wan'er's practice. In addition to the lower-level "Shenxiao Zhenfa", his vision is high and his knowledge is broad. Even in the Penglai Sect, he can rank among the top in judging the quality of the practice and the subsequent steps.

After reading "Diji Refining Soul to Become Immortal Jade Book", Shi Xuan started reading "Xuan Ri Controlling True Spirit Jade Book". Similarly, the main difference lies in the last step, based on the achieved Dharma, controlling one's own soul, gradually extracting that bit of true spirit from the soul and integrating them together.

Speaking of which, among the three external methods of Yuanshen that Shi Xuan had read, "Xuan Ri Tong Yu Zhen Ling Yu Ce" was the closest to the orthodox Taoism. According to "Bao Lu" and "Shen Xiao Zhen Fa", after the combination of spirit and qi to form Yin Shen, it is through various methods and the tempering of worldly affairs that one can sense the immortal true spirit in the soul, and finally eliminate obsessions, see the nature of the mind, strengthen the true spirit, let the true spirit control the Yin Shen, control or cut off the falsehood, impurities, etc., so as to achieve Yuanshen and transcend life and death.

In other words, the biggest difference between the orthodox Taoism and "Xuan Ri Tong Yu Zhen Ling Yu Ce" is that what is the basis, once the basis is reversed, it is inevitable to fall behind.

However, by watching these three external methods of Yuanshen, Shi Xuan has a preliminary understanding of falsehood, impurities, and true spirits. Compared with the previous rigid understanding based on "Bao Lu", he has made a lot of progress. Of course, there are still many puzzles that need to be slowly practiced and tempered.

After putting away these jade slips, Shi Xuan prepared to find a cave to sacrifice and master the Earth Demon Yin Fire Banner, because among the remaining four methods of Yuanshen, except for "Water Moon True Explanation" which has great hope due to Wen Nianxi, the other three are quite difficult.

They are all passed down by word of mouth, not written down. With Shi Xuan's current strength, he cannot secretly capture a Dharma Real Person to interrogate him. If he sneaks into the door to learn secretly, he will definitely be discovered by the Yuanshen Real Person, so it is better to improve his strength and supplement it with some other methods.

At this time, the sky was slightly bright. Compared with the collapsed houses and mountains everywhere in the city a few hours ago, it is much better now. With the existence of magic, Taoism, and formation restrictions, half of the city, especially the most prosperous places, have returned to their original state, and the previous mess can no longer be seen at all.

As soon as Shi Xuan walked onto the street, he felt that Qian De San was happily talking about what happened last night with someone in the restaurant in front, and his saliva was flying. Because he didn't know how the four major sects would react to what happened last night, Shi Xuan listened carefully as he walked.

"Yesterday, I, Qian De San, was at the Canglan side and witnessed the battle with my own eyes!" Qian De San excitedly said to the two male and two female young monks in front of him, and then drank a sip of tea, "Didn't you go?"

The faces of the four young monks opposite were slightly red. After a long time, a little girl with braided hair murmured: "After the seniors from the four major sects came to chase us away, we left. They are not as bold as you, senior. They really do what they say!"

Perhaps Qian De San was very happy to be called a senior, and pretended to be a senior and said: "That's your loss. I don't know how many years it will take to see a battle between Dharma Real People. It's really ups and downs, with twists and turns."

Gradually, the guests in the restaurant focused their attention on Qian De San. Although the fight between Dharma Real People can still be seen from a distance, it is not as exciting as witnessing it on the spot.

"It is said that after the seal of the underground cave disappeared, the treasures inside turned into thousands of rays of light and flew in all directions. At this time, the Dharma Real People took action. Tsk tsk, fire dragons, morning suns, white lotuses, purple clouds, giants, and stars all appeared in the air. A random blow could bring down a mountain." Afterwards, Qian Desan described those Dharma Real People vividly and powerfully.

The young monk who was listening in said with longing: "We have seen a little bit of this. The moves of the Dharma Immortals are indeed extraordinary. From the beginning to the end, their true bodies have never appeared a hundred miles away. They fought with Dharma Immortals at such a long distance. There was really no trace of fireworks, showing the style of immortals."

This sentence won the approval of everyone around, and then Qian Desan continued: "Just when these six Dharma Immortals were fighting, Duotian Gongzi rushed out halfway. When he was about to take the Earth Evil Yin Fire Banner and the inheritance jade slip into his pocket, a golden flower and purple light flew from the sky. It turned out to be a magic weapon!"

Most people didn't see this part, and asked in unison: "Then what?! What is that magic weapon?!"

Qian Desan was very proud: "Later I saw it was a purple jade ruler. This jade ruler magic weapon came with great momentum and wrapped up the most precious treasures. But, guess what happened later?"

"What happened? What happened?" Everyone had the experience of listening to storytelling, and they all answered.

"To everyone's surprise, Young Master Duotian also has a magic weapon. Wow, it's a black flying sword! When he entangled the purple jade ruler, the six Dharma-Appearance True Immortals attacked the purple jade ruler together." Qian Desan took a sip of tea, whetting the appetite of the people around him before continuing.

"But the jade ruler was not in a hurry, and shook out the Earth Demon Yin Fire Banner and other spiritual weapons, leaving only the inheritance jade slip of the Earth Demon True Immortal."

"You are willing to give it up?! That's a magic weapon!" A young and energetic cultivator was surprised.

"What do you know? This is called knowing how to choose. If you are reluctant to give up the magic weapon, you may end up with nothing." The mature and steady cultivator retorted.

Qian Desan nodded and smiled, "That's true. After the magic weapon flew out, the four Dharma Immortals and Young Master Duotian gave up the inheritance jade slip to grab the magic weapon. Only then could Yu Chi calmly beat Xingchen and Zixia and escape far away."

"Good tricks." Everyone praised unanimously, even the young and energetic cultivator just now was no exception, but everyone asked with doubts and a little jealousy: "I wonder who the owner of Yu Chi is? He can actually get the inheritance of Diji Immortal."

Qian Desan looked around and saw that there were no disciples from the four major sects. After he had seen the man, he lowered his voice and said, "I heard that it was a Dharma Immortal, one of the two Dharma Immortals who fought in the city a few days ago. In my opinion, it is true. He can control the magic weapon from such a long distance and repel the attacks of the two Dharma Immortals. He definitely cannot be in the Golden Core Realm."

"But, there are only twelve Dharma Immortals in this world. Can it be that one suddenly pops up? If he had achieved the Dharma Immortal, he would have established a sect and acted tyrannically. Why would he hide his identity?" Everyone was puzzled.

"So, the four major sects suspected that it was a Dharma Immortal who did not come from the other side. Half an hour ago, the disciples of the four major sects were still on the verge of a fight!" Qian Desan was gloating over the fact that the four major sects almost had a conflict.

This explanation was accepted by everyone at once, which was more reasonable than the sudden appearance of a Dharma Real Person. Shi Xuan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was not afraid of being attached, it would be more convenient for him to act in the future if the four major sects focused their attention on the other party.

"I wonder which real person got the Earth Demon Yin Fire Banner in the end?" Someone asked the most concerned question.