Chapter 322: Willow Spirit, I Need Your Help to Cultivate! (Requesting Monthly Votes!)

“Ah Xian, you’re back! Oh my, you’ve been gone for over a year—look at your little face, you’ve gotten so thin I can hardly recognize you!”

“It’s not thinness, it’s growth—you’ve gotten taller! With that handsome look, who knows how many little girls will be smitten with you!”

“Come on, come home with Auntie, I’ll kill a chicken today to nourish you—our Er Ya misses you so much…”

“By the way! Have you seen the little guy? I remember he also went to that Tian Ge place, saying he was looking for you.”

……

With Wu Xian’s return, the atmosphere in Stone Village quickly grew lively, especially among the aunts and older women, who treated him like a precious treasure, each trying to pull him into their homes as if welcoming a son-in-law home from marriage, overflowing with warmth.

This scene caused many of the village elders’ lips to twitch, their gazes toward Wu Xian growing increasingly hostile, as if watching a spotted pig about to dig up their own cabbage, teeth clenched in frustration.

Wu Xian felt utterly speechless and politely declined the enthusiastic aunts, saying he needed to speak with Lord Willow about something important, finally managing to escape—but when he returned to the altar, his hands were loaded with a pile of vegetables and fruits, leaving him both amused and exasperated.

“How truly simple and pure—especially against the brutal backdrop of the Wilds, it’s even more precious. Perhaps this is why Shi Hao considers this place his spiritual haven.”

Thinking this, Wu Xian shook his head, carried the fruits to the front of the altar, sat down heavily, and bit into a green fruit resembling an apple, then picked up another and offered it to Lord Willow: “Lord Willow, would you like some?”

【...Thank you.】

The emerald willow branches swayed slightly, as if amused by Wu Xian.

Asking a willow tree to eat fruit—only someone with such a bizarre mindset could think of it.

Yet despite this, Lord Willow extended a single branch to take the fruit, and in a flash of light, the fruit vanished, its fate unknown.

【Two months ago, I sensed a great battle raging in the Wilds. One of the energies felt just like yours—but it reached the Level of Severing the Self. Clearly, the secrets you hide run deeper than I imagined.】

“Hah! I knew nothing could escape Lord Willow’s notice.”

Wu Xian smiled without denying it and changed the subject to recount his year-long travels: aiding the Heaven-Patching Sect’s spirit ritual, rescuing Shi Ziling’s family from Never-Old Mountain, stirring chaos in the Stone Kingdom’s imperial capital, and his final battle with the Double-Pupiled Woman.

Lord Willow listened quietly and attentively, like a gentle, composed elder sister watching her younger brother boast of his achievements, occasionally offering brief commentary when he mentioned cultivation matters.

【The Five Elements Mountain?】

Upon hearing Wu Xian mention the Never-Old Mountain, Lord Willow sighed.

【That Five Elements Mountain is extraordinary—naturally born. If I recall correctly, it now suppresses a being of extraordinary origin. I don’t know if he’s still there, but if he is, when your strength is sufficient, you may try to help him break free.】

“Oh? Does Lord Willow know the being imprisoned there?”

Wu Xian raised an eyebrow—he knew perfectly well who it was: the offspring of one of the Ten Ancient Fiends, the Kunpeng King, known as the Immortal Being; his imprisonment beyond Never-Old Mountain was linked to several Daoist sects of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, including the Immortal Palace responsible for the Kunpeng King’s death.

【A friend’s child.】

Lord Willow said this, then fell silent again, listening as Wu Xian continued recounting his experiences.

Wu Xian did not press further, but when he mentioned visiting the Western Tomb Beast Mountains, he took from his inner cosmic dantian two objects: a six-faced bone die and a lustrous white bone map.

【This is…】

Upon seeing these two objects, Lord Willow first looked puzzled, then all hundred branches froze mid-air, as if time had halted.

After a long while, He recovered, lowering two branches to gently touch the objects, absorbing their information, and then emitted a sound of utter disbelief.

【The Six Paths Reincarnation Divine Art and the Ten Thousand Spirits Map—how did you find them?】

Wu Xian smiled faintly and briefly recounted how he obtained them, leaving Lord Willow in awe.

【Deeply blessed—such an astonishing boon, even in the Immortal Realm, would spark fierce competition among Immortal Kings. Yet you obtained it so easily. The word ‘fate’ truly is inexplicably wondrous…】

“There’s more, Lord Willow—don’t you think the material of this six-faced bone die resembles the Original True Scripture?”

Wu Xian smiled mysteriously and whispered to Him how fusing the bone die with the herb cauldron in Stone Village could restore the middle chapter of the Original True Scripture: “Transcendence,” leaving Lord Willow in prolonged silence and shock.

【How did you know about this?】

The vessel holding the Six Paths Reincarnation Divine Art and a common village herb cauldder—two things utterly unrelated—no one could imagine they could fuse into the Original True Scripture, the supreme scripture coveted by Immortal Kings.

“Well, if I told you a high master who imparted wisdom to me in a dream revealed this, would you believe me?”

Wu Xian blinked innocently, his face pure and guileless, making Lord Willow’s branches itch with the urge to swat a mischievous child.

Sensing the impending threat, Wu Xian shuddered and swiftly changed the subject: “Lord Willow, my Transformation Spirit realm is complete. I plan to break through to the Inscription realm, carving runes into my flesh and blood—but I have bold ideas, and I need your help.”

【What do you want me to do?】

As expected, upon hearing Wu Xian intended to break through to the Inscription realm, Lord Willow immediately grew interested—perhaps due to the precedent of his earlier breakthrough in the Dantian realm, He was eager to see what new idea Wu Xian had this time.

“I originally planned to carve the runes of the Original True Scripture into my body, but I realized many have seen the first chapter of the Original True Scripture—perhaps others have already done this. If so, I may not achieve something unprecedented in this realm.”

Lord Willow had no reply.

Indeed, although the Original True Scripture was precious, its first chapter was no secret among the elite circles of the Immortal Realm; some Immortal Kings likely had their heirs use its runes to break through the Inscription realm.

【So you intend to carve the Ten Thousand Spirits Map into your body as well?】

Lord Willow guessed a possibility.

“Not exactly.”

Wu Xian shook his head, then closed his eyes and sat cross-legged before the altar.

Immediately, under Lord Willow’s puzzled gaze, a series of mysterious runes floated out from the crown of his head.

These were runes Lord Willow had never seen—eight in total, seemingly simple, yet containing infinite transformations, brimming with profound mystery, as if forged from countless fused runes—even Lord Willow, at His lofty realm, could not fully discern them at first.

“These are my ‘self-created’ Eight Trigram runes.”

Wu Xian said this without a trace of shame, pointing to the eight glowing orbs circling him.

“So far, only the Water, Fire, and Thunder runes have taken shape—the others are still incomplete, insufficient as a foundation for my breakthrough to the Inscription realm.”

“So I hope Lord Willow will help me perfect these runes—to aid my cultivation!”

(End of Chapter)