Chapter 20: Mortal Flow, Longevity Flow, Cheat Flow (Please Follow and Read)

Turning around, Chen Daoxuan lowered his head slightly.

Looking at this Core Formation mid-stage female cultivator Qian Qianyun kneeling on the ground, the delight that surfaced on her beautiful face, and the deep wariness deep within her eyes.

Regarding Qian Qianyun's state, Chen Daoxuan merely smiled faintly and said leisurely:

"When this one first embarked on the Immortal Path, by a fortuitous chance I obtained this Inheritance Numinous Treasure, along with its inheritance, which gave this one great assistance."

"I have come this time to repay the Cause and Effect of this place."

"This one will take charge of Green Thunder Sect for a thousand years, and will offer a Nascent Soul opportunity to your Green Thunder Sect, to cultivate at least one Nascent Soul."

"Since you are this generation's Qinglei Sect Leader, then take this Green Thunder Ring, summon the Core Formation cultivators within the sect, and gather at Qing Lei Dian three days from now."

"This one will select a Nascent Soul Seed from among them."

Along with Chen Daoxuan's words, and that ring-shaped Inheritance Numinous Treasure, the Green Thunder Ring, following Chen Daoxuan's will, flashed with azure thunder-light and fell into Qian Qianyun's hand.

Instantly, Chen Daoxuan saw Qian Qianyun's delicate frame tremble, astonishment and longing appearing on her beautiful face, along with a trace of instinctive acceptance in her heart.

And in that very instant her state of mind shifted, Chen Daoxuan clearly perceived that the world's vague rejection of him had, out of thin air, weakened by a trace.

At this, Chen Daoxuan nodded slightly, a faint smile appearing on his handsome face, and said to Qian Qianyun:

"Little girl, please set your mind at ease. Your Green Thunder Sect currently has no Nascent Soul cultivator at all — there is nothing here for this one to scheme after."

Having spoken, a flash of azure thunder-light appeared around Chen Daoxuan's body, and he vanished without a trace.

He went directly to the core of this Green Thunder Sect, to Qing Lei Dian atop Qinglei Peak.

He sat upon that treasured seat and sealed Qing Lei Dian shut.

With but a wisp of divine sense manifested, it spread for a thousand li, enveloping the entire Green Thunder Sect.

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Several breaths after Chen Daoxuan departed, Qian Qianyun slowly rose to her feet.

Looking at the Green Thunder Ring in her hand and recalling Chen Daoxuan's words, her beautiful face was filled with inner turmoil.

But upon seeing the Array Restriction that had, at some unknown moment, fully restored itself, Qian Qianyun showed a trace of tender, bewildered expression, and softly sighed.

"Let us hope this truly is the chance for the sect to rise!"

Gathering her thoughts, she headed toward the Fourteen Core Formation Elders still at the Mountain Gate.

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Within that Qing Lei Dian.

Chen Daoxuan held the inheritance jade slip that came together with the Green Thunder Ring.

He comprehended and cultivated the inheritance contained within this jade slip, which could allow one to cultivate up to the Divine Transformation (Soul Egress) Stage.

From soul-searching Qian Qianyun, Chen Daoxuan knew that in this Tianling Great Realm, from the Immortal Sects above that give birth to Immortals, down to the cultivation methods of Qi Refining Scattered Cultivators, they all shared a common origin.

Legend had it that in ages past, the Qianling Great Realm was invaded by Chaos and nearly perished.

At the critical moment, twenty supreme True Immortals descended from the Immortal Realm.

After clearing the Chaos erosion and saving the world, these twenty supreme True Immortals passed down supreme Immortal Scriptures for cultivating the Merit Path and the Fortune Path.

Ten Merit Sutras, Ten Fortune Sutras.

And the Twenty Eternal Sacred Lands were also born.

From then on, the Tianling Great Realm, and the countless Mortal Realms beneath it — all cultivation methods gradually began to be connected with these twenty Immortal Scriptures.

To this day, even in this very domain, the simplest introductory Qi Refining methods of the Mortal Realm contain the concepts of either the Merit Path or the Fortune Path.

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Regarding this situation, Chen Daoxuan understood in his heart that if he did not wish to be treated as an anomaly and discovered to be not a being of the Tianling Great Realm, nor even of this domain, then he needed to blend in and cultivate the methods of this world.

Moreover, Chen Daoxuan was extremely interested in the Merit Path and the Fortune Path.

The realm names of this Tianling Great Realm differed somewhat from those of the Great Universe.

But they were completely identical to those of the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation, Return to Void, Unity, Great Vehicle, Tribulation Crossing.

As for the reason, Chen Daoxuan did not know why it was so.

He guessed it might be related to the Immortal Realm.

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But aside from this, the cultivation of this Qianling Great Realm, perhaps because of the Merit Path and Fortune Path, differed greatly from that of the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Compared with the Great Universe, it was even more diametrically opposed.

The cultivation of the Primordial Spirit Realm, in Chen Daoxuan's view, was relatively ordinary, with nothing remarkable about it.

He did not know whether it was because the Primordial Spirit Realm had only one Mortal Realm, or whether that entire domain was simply like that.

Chen Daoxuan termed this kind of cultivation the Mortal Flow.

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In the Great Universe, before Nascent Soul there were two additional great realms to lay the foundation, and from the Nascent Soul Stage onward, with the Chang Sheng Tian Gui upon one's body, one possessed an even more prolonged lifespan.

This prolonged lifespan also allowed the cultivators of the Great Universe, apart from their Great Dao comprehension being affected by the Chang Sheng Tian Gui, to be able to cultivate and polish every other aspect bit by bit to the utmost extreme.

It made each cultivator's foundation immensely deep, and over the long passage of time, they could also ensure that in divine abilities, treasures, pills, talismans, artifacts, arrays, and all other aspects, there were no weaknesses.

Chen Daoxuan termed this kind of cultivation the Longevity Flow.

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As for this Tianling Great Realm.

From the information gleaned from Qian Qianyun's mind, it was extremely polarized.

Among cultivators, those with shallow foundations and who were weak might not even compare to those of the Primordial Spirit Realm.

But those with deep foundations and who were strong might be even fiercer than those of the Great Universe.

As for whether one was weak or strong, it depended on the cultivation of the Merit Path and Fortune Path.

If one lacks sufficient merit and fortune, and cannot acquire merit and fortune, then one may well fall behind cultivators over in the Primordial Spirit Realm.

But if one possesses, or can acquire, enough merit and fortune, one can advance by leaps and bounds in every respect.

Form a Core in one day, Nascent Soul in three, Divine Transformation in five, Returning to Void in seven, Integration in nine, Great Vehicle in a month…

Even surviving nine Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations in succession and ascending to the Immortal Realm is no illusion.

Chen Daoxuan calls this style of cultivation the Plug-in Flow.

Whether cultivation is fast or fierce depends entirely on merit and fortune.

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Mortal Flow, Longevity Flow, Plug-in Flow.

Chen Daoxuan is now extremely interested in this Plug-in Flow.

After all, only in the Great Universe does he possess a lifespan so vast it must be counted in yuan-meetings.

In the Primordial Spirit Realm, or this Tianling Great Realm, his cultivation at the Soul Egress (Divine Transformation) stage gives him a lifespan cap of at most five thousand years.

The Merit Path and the Fortune Path—these plug-ins that comprehensively enhance every aspect—are naturally better had than not.

As for the Green Thunder Sect, although it is merely a cultivation sect that has never produced a Divine Transformation cultivator, and has been without a Nascent Soul cultivator for over three hundred years.

Tracing its roots, however, it can be linked to a certain Immortal Sect.

It also still maintains ties with an Upper Sect that has a Returning to Void (Soul Separation) cultivator presiding over it.

The Green Thunder Scripture it inherits—emphasizing merit first, fortune second—in Chen Daoxuan's view, is only a notch or two beneath the Black Tortoise True Scripture, and can be called Upper Vehicle.

It involves the two Great Daos of Wood and Thunder.

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