Chapter 507: Bi Luo Heavenly Water

Qian Chen parried Feng Yangzi's verbal thrusts with unhurried ease. This matter of the Innate Heavenly Heavenly Linggen, aside from being something Qian Chen truly sought, was also a weakness he had deliberately exposed.

Feng Yangzi, accustomed to the ways of a merchant, felt he could use this item to manipulate him.

Although Qian Chen had intentionally allowed this, he could not show any impatience on his face at this moment, lest he lose his composure before this man.

He smiled slightly, appearing as if the Golden Leaf Immortal Apricot was not something he was determined to obtain, and said, "Although this Innate Heavenly Heavenly Linggen concerns my Dao path, my true intention in pursuing it is to refine a Life-Bound Magic Treasure."

"While the Golden Leaf Immortal Apricot is good, most of its spiritual efficacy lies in the spiritual fruit it bears every six hundred years. If refined into a magic treasure, its divine effects would be skewed. To me, it is not the best choice!"

Qian Chen then shifted the conversation, bringing up the leaf that Fan Cunlu had shown him.

"On the contrary, the spiritual leaf that Young Master Fan showed me has a background worth discussing, and it suits my intentions better!"

Feng Yangzi's expression remained unchanged, but he was three parts more incensed inside. A mere Fan Cunlu—if his previous actions could be considered good intentions gone wrong, falling into the schemes of the Hundred Boat Sea Society's enemies, then leaking his vital secrets through this spiritual leaf was no longer an unintentional mistake!

Had the situation not been so urgent, preventing him from showing even the slightest flaw, he would have punished him severely long ago!

Feng Yangzi shook his head and laughed, "Fellow Daoist, you are mistaken! This spiritual leaf is merely an item our society obtained by chance; it is worth nothing. For Cunlu to rashly use it as bait to trick you into helping him is already a breach of the rules. When I return, I will certainly punish him severely to uphold our family discipline!"

"The ocean is vast, and our human race occupies barely one-hundredth of it. Trying to find a spiritual root based on a headless, tailless leaf is truly a slim chance, like finding a needle in the ocean. On the contrary, the spiritual root in our society is right before your eyes. In this case, Fellow Daoist, do you not know the principle that a thousand birds in the forest are not as good as one in the hand?"

"But this Golden Leaf Immortal Apricot is an item your sect cannot easily move. As an outsider, how would I dare to rashly ask for it?" Qian Chen feigned hesitation on the surface.

"Moreover, I fear that spiritual leaf also holds some mysteries; it seems as if someone has obscured its heavenly secrets and concealed its origin." Qian Chen's words were laden with meaning, causing Feng Yangzi's pupils to constrict as a dangerous aura emanated from his body.

"Of course... I have no intention of pursuing that much. If I could have one Innate Heavenly Heavenly Linggen in hand, it would already be a great fortune; how would I dare to covet anything else."

At this moment, their eyes met, and both knew the meat of the matter had arrived!

Feng Yangzi had come in a divided spirit, certainly seeking something, and Qian Chen had deliberately presented a handle as bait to hook him! Now was the time for each to reveal their bottom line and trade in the shadows.

Feng Yangzi picked up the teacup offered by the Gold and Silver Children and took a sip. Such spiritual tea naturally would not move a cultivator of his level, but the underlying implications made him think three parts more. Only then did he set down the teacup and speak: "Just now, I wanted to ask you, Fellow Daoist: although the formula for the Reincarnation Pill is widely circulated among the major immortal sects, even those who have seen the formula find it difficult to grasp many of its nuances."

"For example, the Other Shore Flower is not an item of this realm! Its usage and medicinal properties are obscure and hard to find; even masters of alchemy rarely know of it. Let alone knowing the method of harvesting it just by a mere mention!"

This was the reason Feng Yangzi had come here in person.

He certainly remembered how much painstaking effort he had spent just for the Other Shore Flower to refine the Black Heaven Reincarnation Pill. He had searched for alchemy masters across the seas, and those who knew of the Other Shore Flower were already few and far between, let alone its origin!

It was only after much inquiry that he found a Buddhist disciple who told him the Other Shore Flower only grows in the Xianyu Jiuxiao Demon Realm...

Then he had to beg a certain demonic force to trade for the method of sacrificing to the Xianyu Jiuxiao Demon Lords to obtain the Other Shore Flower.

"It's just a coincidence! I have achieved a little in the way of alchemy, and knowing this item is entirely by chance!"

Qian Chen smiled modestly, saying that he had merely studied a little of the "Supreme Elixir Scripture," and that he also possessed just a tiny bit of talent when it came to the demonic path.

Therefore, he was ignorant of many things in the current Earth Immortal Realm, yet he happened to know almost everything regarding heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and spirit elixirs.

As for the Xianyu Jiuxiao Demon Realm, it was just like returning home; if Qian Chen wanted that Other Shore Flower, he only needed to summon a demon lord from the Xianyu Jiuxiao at will, and he had a hundred ways to concoct it.

Never mind one Other Shore Flower; if he wanted to trick many demon lords out of their essence to refine elixirs, it was not as if Qian Chen had never succeeded before!

"Hahahaha..." Feng Yangzi laughed loudly: "If the Other Shore Flower was just a coincidence, then this item, the Earthly Fetal Garment, is even less something that ordinary people could know about!"

"Earth Milk is an extremely rare heavenly material and earthly treasure, the marrow of the earth's qi. Even if refined crudely, it has infinite benefits for cultivators. Throughout history, whenever Earth Milk appeared, it was quickly exhausted. Knowing that one can use Azure Sky Water to transform this substance, and that the thin film condensing on the surface, with a little refining, becomes the Earthly Fetal Garment..."

"Hehe... if I, this old man, didn't have some connections and hadn't asked a few ancient immortal sects, it would have been hard to know!"

"But as for Azure Sky Water, how many people overseas even know of it? The Earth Immortal Realm was once one of the cosmic realms; now that cultivators only know of the Heavenly Realm, who still remembers the ancient Xianyu Jiuxiao of the Earth Immortal Realm?" Feng Yangzi dragged the conversation further and further away.

Qian Chen smiled without a word; this secret was a true taboo!

In the current cultivation world, those who know of the Nine Provinces are already extremely few, and those who know that the origin of this realm is the Earth Immortal Realm must at least belong to a lineage passed down from ancient times.

To know that the status of the Earth Immortal Realm among the cosmic realms is extraordinary, being one of the cosmic realms on the same level as the Heavenly Realm, the Three Clarities Heaven, the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the Pure Land, one must be a direct descendant of the three teachings—the Daoist, Buddhist, and Demon sects—or know the lore passed down by word of mouth among those ancient forces that possess Daoist Lord ancestors.

But the ancient qi of the Xianyu Jiuxiao of the Earth Immortal Realm is a story that even direct descendants of the Daoist sects rarely mention!

Because those Xianyu Jiuxiao were the nine layers of the firmament that covered the Earth Immortal Realm in primordial times. They were also a kind of heavenly realm that once belonged exclusively to the Earth Immortal Realm!

In the days before the Earth Immortal Realm declined, apart from those who ascended to the Heavenly Realm, there was no lack of immortals who remained in the Earth Immortal Realm.

Attaining the Primordial Spirit makes one a True Immortal, but only by obtaining immortal status and ascending to the Heavenly Realm can one be called a 'Heavenly Immortal.' In the primordial era, the Earth Immortal Realm had a deep foundation and had not yet suffered heavy damage in the successive wars between gods and demons; many immortals of the Earth Immortal Realm opened up nine great heavenly realms in the firmament, collectively called the Xianyu Jiuxiao! The Primordial Spirit True Immortals among them could also be called Heavenly Immortals!

At that time, the strength of the Earth Immortal Realm was not necessarily inferior to other cosmic realms, ranking only below the ancient Heavenly Realm at the head of all realms!

But how the Xianyu Jiuxiao of the Earth Immortal Realm were destroyed, and even how this realm thoroughly became a lower realm of the Heavenly Realm, the taboos and secrets involved were so numerous that even Qian Chen only knew the general outline.

In short, from the founding of the Daoist sects in the Earth Immortal Realm, to the Supreme Daoist Ancestor leading many disciples to ascend to the Heavenly Realm, and then to the emergence of the two Daoist Ancestors, Primordial and Lingbao, the Three Clarities governing the world, and supporting the Jade Emperor...

Current cultivators only know that the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought at the end of the Heavenly Zhou Divine Dynasty was the final glory of the Earth Immortal Realm; following the ascension of nearly a hundred Daoist Lords of the Hundred Schools of Thought to the Heavenly Realm, the Earth Immortal Realm thoroughly became a lower realm of the Heavenly Realm!

And since the Heavenly Court still remotely governs the Earth Immortal Realm from the Heavenly Realm today, how much of a taboo the ancient Xianyu Jiuxiao of the Earth Immortal Realm are goes without saying.

"In ancient times, the lowest layer of the Xianyu Jiuxiao was filled with Azure Mist Primordial Qi, hence it was called the Azure Sky!"

Feng Yangzi said wistfully: "Today, apart from the Shenxiao Sect, whose Daoist methods still have traces of the Xianyu Jiuxiao? Even the Shenxiao Sect, didn't they have to ascend to the Thunder Mansion of the Heavenly Realm and seek shelter under the sect of the Xianyu Jiuxiao Thunder Sound Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable? The supreme Daoist methods of the Shenxiao Sect were also changed from the 'Shenxiao Imperial Thunder Baodu Zhenjing' to the 'Xianyu Jiuxiao Thunder Mansion General Outline Jade Book'..."

Qian Chen suddenly smiled: "No wonder the fellow Daoist was able to obtain Azure Sky Water? So it was by seeking help from a True Person of the Shenxiao Sect!"

Feng Yangzi feigned a bitter smile: "Azure Sky Water is condensed from the qi of the Azure Sky clouds and mist, extremely pure and spiritual. How vast is the firmament of the Earth Immortal Realm? Even for Soul Transformation cultivators like us, we cannot break through the layer of gale winds in the sky! One must at least be in the Primordial Spirit realm to touch those nine layers of the firmament. If I, this old man, did not beg a Yin Spirit True Person of the Shenxiao Sect to perform the Xianyu Jiuxiao Thunder Method, I would not be able to touch even a bit of this Azure Mist Primordial Qi..."

"The Xianyu Jiuxiao Divine Thunder is a great supernatural power; even the lowest layer, the Azure Sky Divine Thunder, is not something an ordinary Yin Spirit can perform. A single Azure Sky Divine Thunder striking down from the Azure Sky carries at least enough Primordial Qi to refine a hundred drops of Azure Sky Water. Truly a grand gesture!"

Qian Chen clapped his hands in praise.

This is the signature skill of the Shenxiao Sect; even though Qian Chen has also mastered the great supernatural power of Controlling the Five Thunders and can barely utilize the Heavenly Mansion Divine Thunder, without their "Shenxiao Imperial Thunder Baodu Zhenjing," he still cannot trigger the thunder of the Xianyu Jiuxiao!

Therefore, even Qian Chen himself has no way to get Azure Sky Water; he can't exactly go and ask Master Tao to take action, braving the terrifying gale winds of the Xianyu Jiuxiao to collect heavenly water for him!