Chapter 384 384: The Dull Xuan Immortal Realm

Six hundred years later, Biyou Palace—The Site of Dao Recitation.

At this moment, Tongtian Jiaozu's thousand-year recitation of the Dao had reached its conclusion. As the other disciples departed one by one, only Taoist Qingyi remained in the hall.

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Looking down at Taoist Qingyi, who had already reached the Xuan Immortal realm with a restrained aura and eyes sparkling with divine light, Tongtian Jiaozu couldn't help but nod in approval.

In just a thousand years, Qingyi had cultivated from the level of a newly transformed Heaven Immortal to the current Xuan Immortal realm.

This kind of cultivation talent... was indeed excellent. Among all the second-generation disciples of Jiejiao, he feared there was none faster than Qingyi, right?

Of course, while Qingyi's talent was top-tier, it wasn't enough to truly shock Tongtian Jiaozu.

After all, on this Great Desolation continent, how many people could actually keep up with the cultivation speed and origins of the three of them, the Sanqing?

"Qingyi, your time in cultivation is still short. If there is anything you do not understand, you must never be greedy for achievements or advance recklessly. You can tell your Master." Tongtian Jiaozu looked straight at Qingyi, a faint glimmer of expectation still lingering in his eyes.

Hearing his Master's words, Qingyi was slightly taken aback.

Something he didn't understand?

There didn't seem to be anything he didn't grasp. After all, he wasn't a "newbie" to cultivation in the truest sense.

While he had never touched the cultivation methods of the Great Desolation before, he had traversed many worlds and always reached the summit. At his peak, if judged solely by his understanding of laws and personal destructive power, he shouldn't be weaker than a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Great Desolation, right?

Naturally, because the cultivation systems were different, it wasn't easy for Qingyi to make a direct comparison at the moment.

But right now, he was merely in the minor Xuan Immortal realm. If there were issues on the path of cultivation, he could figure them out with just a bit of thought. What was there to ask?

However, seeing Tongtian Jiaozu's expectant gaze, Qingyi seemed to realize something.

"What Master says is absolutely true. Your disciple does indeed have some doubts, especially since my cultivation method is somewhat difficult to comprehend. I hope Master can provide some corrections..." As he spoke, Qingyi, with a smile on his face, revealed the Chaos Blue Underworld Sword Scripture in its entirety to Tongtian Jiaozu.

"I use the Sword Dao to interpret the ten thousand Daos; the ten thousand Daos can all shoulder the Sword Dao."

"What is the Sword Dao?"

"The sword is an object to maintain oneself and protect the Dao..."

Ten years later, inside Biyou Palace.

A young Taoist with handsome brows and eyes like stars was discussing fervently with a clean-faced teenage Taoist.

Suddenly, the young Taoist's face froze. In the next second, a stream of divine light erupted from his eyes...

"I see! I understand! Qingyi, I understand now!!"

"I use the Array Dao to interpret the Sword Dao... Sword Formation of Zhuxian... Rise!"

...

"My disciple Qingyi, your Master has some insights that must be verified Beyond the Heavens. You may go and build a grotto-dwelling on the island for yourself. Wait until your Master returns..."

Hearing the echo in his ears and seeing the now empty recitation hall of Biyou Palace, Qingyi simply smiled and stood up from his meditation mat.

Master's personality really is quite impulsive...

After leaving Biyou Palace, Qingyi chose a low mountain with dense spiritual energy about a hundred miles outside the palace and began to build his own grotto-dwelling.

Penglai Fairy Island was vast—larger than the surface area of the future Earth—but Qingyi was too lazy to go far. Mostly, it was because this spot was close to Biyou Palace and the concentration of spiritual energy was high.

Within this hundred-mile radius, there were no other grottoes belonging to Jiejiao disciples; the closest ones were several thousand miles away.

It seemed they didn't dare build their dwellings too close to Biyou Palace. After all, who knew if they might disturb the Saint? If they accidentally displeased Tongtian Jiaozu, it wouldn't be good.

...

Splitting the earth and taking stone, processing it slightly, blocks of stone like mutton-fat white jade were automatically arranged under the control of spiritual energy. They formed a modern one-story house with three bedrooms and one living room.

After a second thought, Qingyi added another floor on top. After all, there were many Jiejiao disciples; he couldn't rule out the possibility of fellow disciples visiting. If the place was too small, it wouldn't work.

It had to be said, however, that Penglai Fairy Island was truly extraordinary.

Even the mountain rocks that could be seen everywhere on the island were treasures rich in energy. Coupled with the spiritual wood and spiritual fruits scattered across the mountains, as well as the celestial birds and strange beasts...

One could only say that Penglai Fairy Island was undoubtedly a top-tier Grotto-heaven in the ancient legends of Huaxia.

Once the small two-story house was finished, Qingyi used mountain rocks to build a perimeter fence around the house, along with a stone gate.

After leaving a stone plaque out front that read: "In cultivation, do not disturb," Taoist Qingyi entered his newly built home to cultivate.

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In the mountains, there is no calendar; time passes without one knowing the year.

Five hundred and thirty years later, Qingyi finally succeeded in condensing the magical power in his body from the early Xuan Immortal stage to the middle Xuan Immortal stage.

Actually, the Heaven Immortal and Xuan Immortal realms were rather boring, as they primarily focused on absorbing spiritual energy to condense magical power. Once enough magical power was accumulated, a breakthrough would naturally occur.

Normally, a person with average talent breathing in spiritual energy would take ten Yuan Hui to condense enough magical power to move from a fresh Heaven Immortal to the Xuan Immortal realm.

And one Yuan Hui is 129,600 years.

Then, from the early Xuan Immortal stage to the Perfection of Xuan Immortal, one would need to accumulate another thousand Yuan Hui of magical power.

The time required for someone with average talent and no special providence was truly enough to make one feel despair.

Fortunately, after entering the Heaven Immortal level, a cultivator's lifespan enters a stage that is difficult to measure.

At least, in the current world of the Great Desolation, no one had ever heard of a Heaven Immortal or Xuan Immortal dying of old age.

Aside from talent and origin, the density of spiritual energy and one's cultivation method also affect the speed of condensing magical power.

Just like Taoist Qingyi—going from the Heaven Immortal realm to the Xuan Immortal realm only took him a few hundred years.

During these few hundred years, he hadn't even put much effort into condensing magical power. It happened mostly while he was listening to the Dao, running his method as a side effect of reflecting on his personal cultivation.

As for why Taoist Qingyi condensed magical power so quickly, besides the merits of the Chaos Blue Underworld Sword Scripture, the help from Penglai Fairy Island and Biyou Palace was not small.

After all, Penglai Fairy Island was a top-tier Grotto-heaven in the Great Desolation; the density of its spiritual energy was imaginable. And the Saint's training ground, Biyou Palace, was located at the most blessed position within that location.

Furthermore, Qingyi's own talent was extraordinary. He was the first Nine-Leaf Grass of the Great Desolation continent, born with his own Sword Intent; both his blessings and providence were top-tier.

If one had to categorize his origin, he could be considered a "Pre-natal Being."

Of course, in the current Great Desolation, Pre-natal Beings weren't exactly rare, but for Taoist Qingyi, combined with the cultivation of the Chaos Blue Underworld Sword Scripture, his cultivation speed was absolutely in the first tier, comparable to a Pre-natal Demon God.

However, even so, Taoist Qingyi still felt slightly dissatisfied with his current cultivation speed.

Or rather, he felt he could do better.

If he cultivated normally, at his current speed, going from the middle Xuan Immortal stage to the late stage would take at least a thousand years. Then, from late Xuan Immortal to Perfection would likely take a baseline of three thousand years.

Though this speed was already incredibly fast, Qingyi felt it wasn't fast enough...

In the worlds he had passed through before, with this much time, he would have risen to power long ago.

But in this world of the Great Desolation, at the Perfection stage of the Xuan Immortal realm... what was he!

He wouldn't even count as a weakling; at most, he'd just be an elite foot soldier...

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