Chapter 565 - 564: Physique Cultivation Immortal Method, Plastic Sisters

Liu Sisi went back to continue studying the jade scroll, while Li Jing got up and wandered around.

The library in the City Lord’s Mansion is not large, but it is exquisite.

The first floor is primarily used for cultivation.

Apart from a spacious area by the main entrance for collective cultivation, there are also over a dozen meditation rooms, as well as two storage rooms for the elixirs and spiritual objects necessary for cultivation.

The meditation rooms come with a seal, which can be activated from inside to isolate the room from the outside world after entering.

The storage rooms, on the other hand, are freely accessible.

This is not because Feng Xie is generous.

Some of the auxiliary cultivation resources stored here are quite basic.

Having them would be a bonus.

Not having them wouldn’t make a big difference.

The first floor of the library is designed this way, which shows that Feng Xie is quite open-minded.

Usually, he opens the library to the city guards including those serving the City Lord’s Mansion, to facilitate their study of immortal methods.

Moving up to the second floor.

What catches the eye is row upon row of densely arranged bookshelves.

The bookshelves hold scrolls and bamboo slips that describe various classics.

Li Jing quickly lost interest after casually flipping through a few books and headed straight for the third floor.

No matter how open-minded Feng Xie is, he would never be so liberal as to completely share all the immortal methods unconditionally with others, this goes without saying.

Immortal methods are not uncommon in the Immortal Realm.

However, top-level immortal methods are not only highly valuable but also hard to come by.

Simply possessing them is a form of capital.

Sharing them openly would be akin to losing a piece of your capital.

The guideline of not disclosing knowledge indiscriminately in the Immortal Realm essentially illustrates this point.

I own it, and I know how to use it.

It is my capital.

You also own it, and you also know how to use it.

Then it is no longer my exclusive capital.

When he was downstairs, Li Jing noticed that Liu Sisi and the others all had three to five jade scrolls around them.

The classics on the second floor are all in the relatively "cheap" forms of scrolls and bamboo slips.

Without a doubt, these are all low-end items.

The truly high-end and even top-level immortal methods are all collected on the third floor, presented in jade scrolls for easy viewing.

And if nothing unexpected happened, not just anyone can come to the third floor to view them.

Sure enough.

As soon as Li Jing wen up to the third floor, he felt a faint power of forbidden restrictions lingering in the space of the tower.

The restriction was not activated at this moment. Perhaps, Feng Xie had temporarily disabled it for the convenience of Liu Sisi and others.

Looking around.

The third floor was filled not with bookshelves, but individual display cabinets.

One jade scroll after another was placed in spiritually wood inlaid boxes, neatly arranged in the display cabinets.

Upon seeing this situation, Li Jing had to exclaim.

Feng Xie is a person who values his face. One can see it from his normal conduct.

But this library is a bit extravagant and somewhat wasteful.

Those display cases look like they are made of ordinary jade, but in reality, they are made of top-grade Immortal Crystals!

A piece of top-grade Immortal Crystal is normally half a palm-sized.

How many pieces would it take to make a display case half a person high?

And then fill the entire third floor of the library.

The cost of this...

Apart from the display cases.

The inlaid boxes that contain the jade scrolls are made from high-grade spiritual woods, releasing strands of refreshing spiritual rhyme at times.

This kind of extravagance.

Even for someone like Li Jing, who isn’t exactly struggling for money at the moment, can only describe it as extravagant.

But considering that Feng Xie is the lord of this wealthy city, Li Jing thought it was not a big deal.

The man has money and willing to spend it.

No one else has the right to criticize, right?

Picking up a random jade scroll, Li Jing closed his eyes and injected his thoughts into it.

Heaven is the blanket, Earth is the bed.

Yin and Yang complement each other, cultivating the Grand Dao together.

Two paragraphs of "introduction" rather than mantra emerged in his mind, causing Li Jing’s mouth to twist, and he opened his eyes with a frown.

The first jade scroll he picked up turned out to be the Yin-Yang Grand Dao, also known as Dual Cultivation, which was too "lucky".

After a brief hesitation, Li Jing silently put the jade scroll back into the inlaid box.

Although this Dual Cultivation method, judging from the opening introduction, is not very serious and is quite bold, it was engraved on a jade scroll and collected here by Feng Xie, it undoubtedly is an immortal method.

This is not something you can learn just by looking at it.

What?

You say use skill points?

Li Jing is not confused enough to waste skill points on learning Dual Cultivation.

Also, heaven being the blanket and earth being the bed, his Taoist companion must also be able to accept it.

Picking up another jade scroll, Li Jing closed his eyes, injected his thoughts into it, and started perusing.

...

Feng Xie has collected many immortal methods.

The high-level Immortal Methods stored on the third floor of the library must number at least in the thousands, encompassing all sorts.

Li Jing began by browsing, not rushing to learn anything just yet.

After all, this was essentially a multiple-choice question before his eyes.

He needed to know all the "answers" available here before finalizing his decision on which ones to choose.

The Jade Scrolls were very convenient for recording information.

However, it still took Li Jing an entire night to examine the detailed records of various high-level Immortal Methods on the thousands of Jade Scrolls.

By dawn.

Li Jing set down the last Jade Scroll, found a display case from memory, and picked up a recording Jade Scroll, pouring his thoughts into it.

Having confirmed the content, he inwardly murmured the word for logging in.

"Login successful, acquired Limit Breakthrough skill, Blood Frenzy."

Blood Frenzy, an Immortal Method.

This was a specialized Immortal Method for physical cultivation, deviating from the Orthodox Immortality Path.

It functions to unleash all Blood Qi in one go, boosting its power by 50 percent.

Li Jing had achieved immortality.

The Blood Qi in his body was more refined than that of Jin Ritian, who had simply achieved physical immortality.

But he didn’t know how to control it.

All he knew how to do at the moment was to wield his Blood Qi in a fairly crude fashion.

Fortunately, Feng Xie here had some Immortal Methods related to manipulating Blood Qi for physical cultivation, which Li Jing could learn.

Having decided to learn, Li Jing naturally couldn’t settle for just one.

Not going for a Second Breakthrough would somewhat betray the surging Blood Qi within him that could even overpower a Divine Beast like Jin Ritian, wouldn’t it?

Setting down the Jade Scroll, Li Jing took up another and poured his thoughts into it.

"Login successful, learned Limit Breakthrough Skill, Bloodlust."

Bloodlust, an Immortal Method.

Again, specialized for physical cultivation.

Its effect is similar to Berserk, stimulating one’s primal fighting instinct with the surging Blood Qi within the body, drastically enhancing close combat ability.

Having logged in successfully, Li Jing took a moment to reflect.

Bloodlust was a pure brute-force skill, which, although it could significantly enhance his close combat abilities after triggering his innate fighting instincts, seemed to cause a certain drop in intelligence.

This was acceptable to Li Jing.

Didn’t his intelligence also take a hit when he entered a state of unity with the Flying Sword Blue Edge through the Heavenly Sword Technique, making him want to hack at anything?

It was a minor issue.

All he needed to do was be a little careful when using it.

Setting down the Jade Scroll, Li Jing picked up another one.

"Login successful, learned Skill Blood Weapon Method."

Still a specialized Immortal Method for physical cultivation.

The Blood Weapon Method was different from the previous two, mainly functioning to condense Blood Qi into Blood Weapons.

The denser the Blood Qi, the more potent the Blood Weapons.

At advanced stages of practice, even the Blood Weapons condensed from Blood Qi could compete with Taoist Items without falling behind.

Of course.

This seemed a bit inferior.

Taoist Items can manipulate rules after all, whereas weapons condensed from Blood Qi were merely hard.

Yet, what Li Jing truly valued was the fact that the Blood Weapon Method could enhance the fine control of his own Blood Qi.

Having learned three kinds of physical cultivation Immortal Methods, Li Jing spent 75 Skill Points all at once to fully develop these three skills, then made up his mind.

"Skill Points -25, confirm Boundary Breakthrough fusion skills, Blood Frenzy, Bloodlust, Blood Weapon Method."

"Fusion complete, obtained Second Breakthrough skill, Blood Rage."

???.

Li Jing.

This Second Breakthrough skill name was... somewhat familiar and rather casual.

After some feeling around, Li Jing found his expression gradually turning strange.

Blood Frenzy, Bloodlust, Blood Weapon, they were all active Boundary skills.

However, the Blood Rage that came from the Second Breakthrough was a passive skill, and moreover, it was a mutated passive.

Its function was not merely a fusion of the three skills, but also allowed continuous combat ability enhancement as long as he kept fighting using his physical body powered by Blood Qi.

The stronger he fought, the better he got, with no upper limit.

Let’s set aside the stronger he fought, the better he got.

No upper limit...

That was somewhat of a bug.

That meant, if in the future he encountered an enemy he could not defeat, as long as the enemy also couldn’t kill him, he could keep fighting until his Blood Rage level was high enough to kill his opponent.

You know what?

This skill seemed rather enticing.

Having gained some experience, Li Jing didn’t learn any more skills.

While Feng Xie’s collection of Immortal Methods was diverse and extensive, none besides the physical cultivation methods seemed to be of use to him.

Having spent 100 Skill Points here at Feng Xie’s, it would be more appropriate to save the remaining Skill Points for the Immortal Methods collected by the Star God Temple and Sikong Lu.

Compared to the ancient Star God Temple and the venerable Sikong Lu, Feng Xie was just a Twelfth Realm city lord. His "private collection" of Immortal Methods wouldn’t really compare to the former two in essence.

But, Li Jing felt that his trip here was worth it.

There probably wouldn’t be any physical cultivation-specific Immortal Methods in the Star God Temple.

after all, This sect was a strict adherent to the Orthodox Immortality Path.

That left Sikong Lu.

Being a female cultivator, she couldn’t go out to collect men to use with Immortal Methods.

Instead of lingering on the third floor of the library, Li Jing decided to go downstairs.

Liu Sisi had mentioned it to him yesterday.

After being awakened by his Emperor Level aura two days ago, the three girls had decided to return to Chen Tang City today to cultivate in seclusion at the Zhenyuan Tower. He might as well go with them.

Most importantly, if he missed them this time, it might be infinitely long before he’d be able to speak to them again.

Since arriving in the Immortal Realm.

Li Jing didn’t have such experiences himself.

But in the past, as long as he was around and willing, he could see Liu Sisi and the others venturing far and wide to celestial paradises for cultivation every day; now they were learning Immortal Methods and going into seclusion, truly embodying the concept of ’timelessness in cultivation’.

Thankfully, he was a little different.

Having a status bar, he didn’t need to "torture" himself to become stronger, unlike ordinary cultivators.

But having not experienced these things, he felt somewhat separated from his close friends like Liu Sisi - as though he was in a different world.

Take the girls’ upcoming "schedule" for instance.

They planned to cultivate deeply in the Zhenyuan Tower, learning the Immortal Methods taught by Feng Xie, and then learn the one from their own home in Chen Tang City - another deep study after that.

Even with the "accelerator" that is the Zhenyuan Tower, it would take them at least a year or two, even longer, to truly master it.

...

As he reached the first floor, the three girls were at the stage of entering concentration.

Li Jing wasn’t in a rush. He sat quietly to the side and waited.

Before he knew it.

The day silently passed.

At dusk.

Chen Yuran slowly opened her eyes.

Seeing him right before her playing on his phone, she hesitated slightly.

Li Jing noticed her gaze and turned his head.

They locked eyes.

Li Jing gave her a gentle smile.

Seeing this, Chen Yuran also revealed a soft smile, then stood up and softly asked,

"When did you arrive?"

"Yesterday."

Li Jing replied with a smile and pulled her to sit with him.

Chen Yuran unconsciously sat on his lap. Upon realizing that Liu Sisi and Jiang Yini were still in their meditation, she attempted to stand up.

Caught in his embrace, she couldn’t pull away.

She twisted around to find a more comfortable position, then looked at him, the man she hadn’t seen for quite some time, and said,

"I felt your aura two days ago. You’ve grown stronger, incredibly so."

"Just a good run of luck."

Li Jing laughed.

Chen Yuran rolled her eyes at his response.

She wouldn’t believe ’luck’ was involved, knowing him as she did.

Still, Chen Yuran didn’t pursue the topic. Her lips parted,

"Tell me about your recent experiences?"

"Alright."

Li Jing nodded and began to recount his encounters, starting with the Shadow Demon incident.

Chen Yuran listened attentively. She was relatively calm and quiet.

Unlike Liu Sisi, who appeared calm but was restless in essence, full of ideas and schemes.

Back on Blue Star.

If she didn’t have patrol duties, she generally stayed at home, not bothering to go out shopping. It was only after meeting and becoming neighbors with Liu Sisi that she would occasionally be dragged out.

Li Jing talked.

Chen Yuran listened.

Simple as that.

Beginning with the Shadow Demon incident and all the way to the Immortal Realm, Li Jing elaborated on his journey, avoiding the sensitive parts.

A few hours passed in a blink of an eye.

As midnight approached.

Li Jing was about to continue when a soft cough interrupted him.

"Well, that’s about enough, I can’t sit still anymore."

Both turned towards the sound, only to see Jiang Yini looking over at them uncomfortably.

Chen Yuran, who was a bit sensitive about such things, blushed instantly. She stood up from Li Jing’s embrace, but not without asking,

"Auntie, when did you wake up?"

Before Jiang Yini could reply, Li Jing spoke,

"She woke up at the same time you did, and has been pretending to be in meditation since then."

"..."

Chen Yuran.

All her attention had been on Li Jing, and she hadn’t noticed Jiang Yini’s awakening at all.

Li Jing had, but he didn’t say a word.

Most annoyingly,

Jiang Yini, after waking up, hadn’t said anything and had pretended to be in meditation for a few hours.

Was she watching a play, or was she listening to a story?

Seeing Chen Yuran’s speechless expression, Jiang Yini gave a cheeky grin.

"Isn’t it because I didn’t want to interrupt you two while you were deeply engaged with each other? There wasn’t only me who was observing and listening to your story, right Sisi?"

"Cough!"

Liu Sisi coughed, opening her eyes.

Chen Yuran, blushing harder upon seeing this, the corner of her mouth twitched madly.

Jiang Yini had been awake for a while now, pretending to meditate, and so was Liu Sisi?

This genuinely made it a bit difficult for her.

More importantly, she had truly devoted all her attention to Li Jing, oblivious to everything else...

Seeing Chen Yuran almost unable to hold it in, Jiang Yini and Liu Sisi couldn’t help but laugh, perfectly exemplifying what constitutes as plastic sisterhood.

Li Jing, seeing the situation, chuckled and got up.

"Alright, enough fooling around. I’ve already told you about my experiences during this period, you’ve heard enough, we should head back to Chen Tang City."

As he spoke, he activated his domain and brought the three of them into the Little Universe along.

...

Upon arriving at Chen Tang City through the Little Universe channel, Li Jing briefed the three of them on the current situation.

Learning that the entire Immortal Music Palace had relocated here, they weren’t in any rush to start their closed-door training in the Zhenyuan Tower, so they abandoned him and headed to the Immortal Music Palace stating they wanted to take a stroll.

Li Jing originally wanted to follow them.

However, Jiang Yini found him bothersome, and Chen Yuran was a bit cold towards him due to the events just now.

Even Liu Sisi felt it was redundant for him to come along.

What could he do in such a situation?

He too, was helpless!

If it were said that the three of them had grown closer due to their experiences together, it seemed that the "cohesion" had indeed increased, forming a close-knit trio.

Being cold-shouldered by the three of them, Li Jing had no choice but to return to the Little Universe again.

Sikong Lu was not there, so he couldn’t dare to go to the Star God Temple to search for the inheritance on his own. He could only use the Immortal Method, the "appetizer" that the former had given him, to start with.

Just as he was about to go to the supercomputer in Sky City, Li Jing suddenly felt something in his heart and came to the location of the Qingyuan Fairy Palace Heritage Stele.

Right at this moment, Ya’er who had absorbed the Supreme God Pattern for over half a month, opened her eyes.

Upon waking and immediately seeing her "old father", Ya’er stared blankly for a moment before jumping up with joy.

"Dad, I’m in the Ninth Realm now! Can I go outside now!?"

"Of course, I always keep my word."

Li Jing nodded and said,

"But before that, I will need you to bleed a little."

"Bleed?"

Ya’er blinked, puzzled.

Li Jing immediately explained to her about the need for divine blood to nourish the sprouting and growth of the Life Tree.

Ya’er’s intelligence was on the lower side.

She was rather foolish.

After listening to Li Jing’s explanation, she didn’t fully understand but nodded in agreement.

Li Jing didn’t expect this silly girl to understand much anyway.

After all, when it comes to Beast Cultivation, she is still very young and unlike Ji Qing who was a Monster of Blue Star that lived in human society, her intellectual growth wasn’t rapid.

Bringing Ya’er to Lake Heart Island, before Li Jing could speak, Ling Ling and Xiaocai flew down from the fully grown Life Tree.

"Ya’er, you’re finally awake! I’ve been waiting for you for a long time!" Ling Ling ran forward and giggled.

Xiaocai, on the other hand, was hiding behind Ling Ling, shyly observing Ya’er.

Ya’er and Ling Ling had been "fox friends and dog companions" for a long time.

The two of them together were like a funny duo.

They did ridiculous things all day long.

But compared to when she’s with Stinky Tofu, Ya’er was at least not up to any "questionable" antics when she’s with Ling Ling.

Upon hearing Ling Ling’s words, Ya’er subconsciously wanted to respond.

But noticing Xiaocai behind her, she paused, then turned around.

"Dad, did you and Ling Ling give birth to a little sister for me?"

"..." Li Jing.

This unexpected comment from Ya’er left him a bit heartbroken.

This silly girl, he felt he might have to reconsider keeping her.

He’s a grown man of six feet tall.

How could he possibly be with Ling Ling who’s less than four inches tall?

How did she even come to the conclusion that it was possible?

With a hand rubbing his eyebrows, Li Jing didn’t try to understand Ya’er’s thought process, and just said,

"This is Xiaocai, she’s of the same species as Ling Ling"

Hearing it’s not a little sister, but Ling Ling’s species, Ya’er showed a bored expression, then smiled and waved her hand.

"Hello Xiaocai."

Xiaocai blinked and waved her hand in response.

"Hello."

Before the words fell, Ling Ling hastily interrupted,

"Okay, you two can get to know each other better later. Firstly, Ya’er, please come over and bleed a little. The tallest tree doesn’t need it, this shorter one needs some and then there also these two seeds."

Seeing Ling Ling’s anxiety, Ya’er, who had sincere friendship with her, didn’t hesitate and agreed with a "Okay!", went over and rolled up her sleeve revealing her white little arm. She transformed her fingertip into a cat’s claw and poked it into her elbow with a "pop".

The amount of blood flow made Li Jing’s eyelid twitch repeatedly.

This silly girl, didn’t she know to be gentle?

However, thinking of Ya’er’s tough body as a Spiritual Beast, he felt that it wasn’t a big deal.

Let it be, she wouldn’t die anyway.