Chapter 340

Being valued by Daoist Qingming was naturally because Bai Qiuran possessed extraordinary qualities!

He had a wood spiritual root of Heaven Spiritual Root level that was nearly defying the heavens!

Bai Qiuran just like that became Daoist Qingming's disciple, ranking third!

Bai Qiuran's heavenly talent was very high, and his intelligence and wisdom were among the top tier among his fellow disciples, both male and female.

He began cultivation at the age of ten, broke through his mortal flesh and forged his body successfully by twelve, gathered the Three Flowers atop his head, converged the Five Qi within his chest, and formally stepped into the Qi Refining Stage!

The entire Qingmingjian Sect placed high hopes on him, believing he would become the next Daoist Qingming!

Indeed, Bai Qiuran did not disappoint everyone's expectations; he settled his mind and cultivated diligently, and by the age of seventeen, he became the fastest cultivator among his peers, and indeed the fastest in the entire Cultivation World, to reach the Tenth Layer of the Qi Refining Stage!

Daoist Qingming was overjoyed beyond measure, abandoned his secluded meditation, and personally refined a furnace of superior-grade Foundation Establishment Elixir for Bai Qiuran!

Carrying the expectations of his fellow disciples, carrying his Master's elixir, and carrying the hopes of countless people, Bai Qiuran entered secluded meditation...

Three days later...

He broke through to the Eleventh Layer of the Qi Refining Stage!

Bai Qiuran was completely dumbfounded!

However, such things were not unheard of.

It was rumored that there had once existed a cultivator at the Fifteenth Layer of Qi Refining.

The more layers of Qi Refining one achieved, the more one would defy the heavens in the future, with limitless achievements!

And then...

He reached the Twelfth Layer, Thirteenth Layer, Fourteenth Layer of Qi Refining...

One year later, he reached one hundred layers of Qi Refining!

Ten years later, he reached one thousand layers of Qi Refining!

One hundred years later, he reached ten thousand layers of Qi Refining!

Now, three thousand years have passed.

Bai Qiuran's Master, Daoist Qingming, had long since Ascended to the Immortal Realm; his Eldest Senior Brother failed his Tribulation Crossing and perished, his Dao extinguished; even the sixth-generation descendant of his youngest Junior Sister had already succeeded in Foundation Establishment and learned to fly on a sword!

Yet he, who was back then the genius with the highest heavenly talent in the Qingmingjian Sect, and even in the entire Cultivation World, to this day, his cultivation base had reached the sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-fourth Layer of the Qi Refining Stage!

This was Bai Qiuran!

A figure defying the heavens whose cultivation base had reached the sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-fourth layer!

Every time he felt he was about to break through, about to succeed in Foundation Establishment!

And then...

He would break through yet another layer of the Qi Cultivation Realm!

The disciple he took in seven hundred years ago had already become a Supreme Elder, entered death-seclusion, and was preparing to charge at the Heavenly Tribulation!

The old hen he brought back two hundred years ago to lay eggs had already succeeded in Core Formation!

Yet he was still in the Qi Refining Stage!

Seeing this, countless people wore strange smiles...

"Pfft, hahaha, others refine Qi to establish their Foundation, but he refined Qi and damn well built an underground city!"

"What kind of cheat-code Child of Destiny is this? No skills, no divine abilities, just a basic status panel that's off the charts?!"

"Now this is what you call a Qi Refiner! Those cultivators from ancient times who practiced cultivation, what Foundation Establishment or Jin Dan did they have? They were all damn well just refining Qi! Hahaha!"

"Tsk, this is like having one hundred million layers in the Bitter Sea and directly smashing an Emperor!"

"Laughing to death, one hundred million layers in the Bitter Sea? Even Ye Fan would be damn well astonished if he came!"

"I want to know, after he refines Qi to one hundred thousand layers, will he directly Ascend to the Immortal Realm?"

"Mm, when he reaches one hundred thousand layers of Qi Refining, he will suddenly discover there is still a one hundred thousand and first layer!"

"Hahaha, laughing to death, in these Myriad Heavens and Worlds, there is actually such a miraculous constitution? Simply defying the heavens!"

"By the way, how did this Bai Qiuran survive for three thousand years? The Qi Refining Stage, at most, only grants a lifespan of one or two hundred years, right? How did he make it through these three thousand years?"

"Right now I just want to know, what is his current situation? He's at sixty thousand layers of Qi Refining, damn it, yet he has no divine abilities and no methods..."

At this moment, countless people were discussing, yet also harboring some doubts...

However, just at this moment, the scene shifted...

In the scene, a demonic beast was attacking the Shanmen of the Qingmingjian Sect.

The Thunder Beast was furious, and demonic beasts ran rampant.

The Sect Master could not defeat it, the Supreme Elders were in death-seclusion, so there was no choice but to go invite this Grandmaster Uncle Bai Qiuran!

And then...

"Boom!"

At this moment, from the firmament, a figure descended from the heavens, and in an instant, directly stepped the furious demonic beast, which was like a Mahayana Stage cultivator, underfoot!

Clean and decisive!

Qi Refining Stage, so terrifying!

"Good heavens, this is the sixty-thousand-layer Qi Refining Stage? Terrifying! Not even a demonic beast equivalent to the Mahayana Stage could resist?"

"Sixty thousand layers of Qi Refining? So terrifying!"

"Qi Refining Stage fighting the Mahayana Stage? Terrifying, simply too terrifying! Is this the Body Envied by Heaven? Simply defying the heavens!"

Countless people exclaimed in awe.

What the hell kind of Qi Refining Stage is this?

This is clearly a monster, isn't it?

Does the Qi Refining Stage have this kind of combat power?

Oh...

Sixty thousand layers of Qi Condensation Stage, huh?

Then forget it!

This one is even more of a big shot; I can't afford to provoke him!

An existence at sixty thousand layers of Qi Condensation Stage—this is the first time countless people have ever seen such a thing!

However, what followed immediately was a flood of countless questions.

How exactly did this Bai Qiuran endure these three thousand years?

Under normal circumstances, he should have died long ago!

Then, the scene shifted...

Above Seven Stars Peak...

"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."

A chill aura spread out from outside the door.

Bai Qiuran frowned and whipped his head around.

What appeared was a phantom figure clad in white robes, with an illusory form and ghostly qi drifting all around it!

In his hand, he held a pitch-black chain, and tucked at his waist was a ghost officer token!

This was unmistakably a ghost officer!

Looking at this uninvited guest, Bai Qiuran felt somewhat helpless; waving his hand, he said, "As expected, it's you, Xue Ling? What do you want with me?"

"Bai Qiuran!"

However, that ghost officer merely stared blankly at Bai Qiuran and said indifferently, "Your lifespan is about to end!"

"Oh?"

The corners of Bai Qiuran's mouth twitched; speaking somewhat helplessly, he said, "Why has this day come again? Fine, fine, alright, I know, you can go back now!"

As he spoke, he was about to usher the person out... oh, usher the ghost out!

However, that ghost talent remained standing in place, motionless, and continued speaking, "Three thousand years have passed; you should give up by now, shouldn't you?"

"Give up what?"

Bai Qiuran snorted coldly and opened his mouth to say, "A cultivator ought to persevere relentlessly and advance bravely! Although you are a soul-seizing Impermanence from the Ghost Realm, why do you always think about making people give up their lives?"

Xue Ling!

He was one of the Impermanence Envoys responsible for seizing souls, serving under King Yama of the Underworld in the Ghost Realm.

As a Soul-Seizing Envoy, Xue Ling and Bai Qiuran could be considered old acquaintances!

Although Bai Qiuran was at sixty thousand layers of Qi Refining, possessing terrifying and formidable strength, he was still merely a Qi Refining cultivator.

No matter how skilled you are at clinging to life, at most you can only live for three or four hundred years.