A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 114

Chapter 113 The Correct Way to Open the Third Reincarnation Stage

In the southwest of the Chaotic Star Sea, in the inner sea, lies a remote and desolate nameless island.

On this day, the surrounding sky suddenly darkened.

This anomaly was fleeting, barely noticeable to anyone but cultivators with extremely keen senses.

The source, or rather, the endpoint of this anomaly, originated deep

within the island, beneath an ordinary mountain range.

Following the senses deeper into the island, into the mountain range, one arrives at a stone staircase corridor built into the mountainside. The stone steps ascend the mountain, covered in dust and moss, seemingly untouched for a long time, thus blending seamlessly with the mountainside; without careful observation, one would hardly notice this man-made path. At

the end of the stone steps is a cave dwelling. Entering through a wooden door sealed for countless years, one finds the interior damp, dark, and filled with the musty smell of decay.

Inside, a space seven or eight zhang in size has been carved out, containing a rotten wooden bed with a collapsed corner and a decaying wooden table.

On the wooden table lay a fruit plate rotten to dust and a dried-up teacup covered in dust.

In the corner of the room stood a thick stone wall.

The wall was thick, leading to another secret passage.

The passage wound downwards for what seemed like dozens or even hundreds of feet, eventually reaching an underground chamber.

Inside the chamber, a hexagonal array platform, several feet in diameter, stood.

At this moment, the platform was emitting colorful spiritual light.

On the platform, a figure gradually solidified from its ethereal form.

As the teleportation light on the platform completely receded, the figure finally solidified completely, enveloped in a soft blue glow. When the blue glow released by the Great Teleportation Token also dissipated, Han Li stumbled and fell out of some kind of spatial teleportation.

After a moment of mental confusion, he suddenly opened his eyes, which had been closed.

“Successfully teleported?”

As soon as he landed, he unleashed a Azure Yuan Sword Light at one corner of the hexagonal ancient teleportation array.

He would destroy the ancient teleportation array for now.

To prevent Gan Rushuang and the other Tiannan cultivators from using the teleportation array to catch up.

In short, better safe than sorry.

Only after damaging a corner of the teleportation array did he breathe a sigh of relief, his pounding heart finally calming down slightly.

He then began to examine his surroundings. Upon

inspection, he immediately noticed the desolation of the place:

“This cave has been untouched for at least a hundred years, hasn’t it?”

Due to the vast amount of time, the table and bed made of spirit wood were beginning to rot.

Perhaps, after Ji Xuan escaped to Tiannan via the teleportation array four or five hundred years ago, this place had been left untended. After all, the ancient teleportation array there was also partially destroyed and unusable; even if Ji Yin knew about this place, there was nothing he could do.

“This place is not suitable for lingering,”

Han Li thought to himself.

Again, better safe than sorry. What if

the Ji Yin Ancestor knew about this place and left behind some special sensing array?

Even if the probability was extremely low,

it couldn’t be ruled out.

Therefore…

He first used a mid-level earth-elemental spell of the Lesser Five Elements to completely seal off the stone staircase leading to the underground chamber, concealing any trace of the secret passage within the cave.

Then, he donned the Invisibility Veil, a rare top-tier magical artifact, and soared into the air.

He had obtained this Invisibility Veil with merit points on the Golden Drum Plains battlefield. It not only concealed the wearer’s form but also helped to hide their aura, making it one of the earliest escape tools.

“Whoosh…”

Having achieved invisibility, he soared into the sky.

The visibility here was excellent.

During this time, he didn’t forget to use the Breath Concealment Technique from the Nameless Daoist Scripture to further suppress his aura and avoid any possible gazes from his surroundings.

Once high in the sky, he then took out a pair of binoculars from his storage bag.

Using binoculars made of ordinary materials to track the flight path of cultivators was difficult. However, using a telescope on the vast, open sea, in good weather, and with excellent visibility, to search for islands and traces of fleets within a range of hundreds or even thousands of miles, is extremely convenient.

Sure enough,

in just a quarter of an hour,

he had summarized the general situation of the sea area spanning thousands of miles using the telescope’s aerial observation.

A map of the island distribution appeared in his mind.

For example, more than three thousand miles away, there was an island of considerable size.

“This island is probably forty or fifty miles in size, right?”

“Such a large island likely has traces of human activity…”

Due to the three major natural disasters, small islands less than ten miles in size in the Chaotic Star Sea are basically uninhabited unless they contain spiritual veins. Only small islands more than ten miles in size or medium-sized islands more than a hundred miles in size are suitable for human settlement.

“And if I want to integrate into this place, I need to learn the local language as soon as possible…”

Han Li put away the telescope, stroking his chin thoughtfully.

The language of Luanxinghai is very different from that of Tiannan. If he doesn’t learn the local language soon, he might run into a high-level cultivator here, which could lead to serious problems.

Therefore, the most urgent task was to quickly learn the local language and be able to communicate normally.

“Let’s go check it out first, grab someone with a tongue to ask for directions and learn the local language, lest we run into high-level cultivators and expose ourselves…”

With a direction and goal in mind, he only took half a day to travel by his cloud-piercing boat to the island three thousand miles away.

About a hundred miles from the island, he stopped and staked out the area for three days, eventually intercepting a merchant ship.

Through a Qi Refining stage guard on the ship, he learned the local language. He then spent several days comparing the written languages of Tiannan and this region, regaining his ability to communicate normally.

“The Chaotic Star Sea is still using some ancient dialects…”

It truly has a sense of isolation.

Han Li thought to himself.

He didn’t stay on this island but continued piloting his cloud-piercing boat to another small island thousands of miles away.

This island was only about ten miles in size, had no spiritual veins, and therefore, no cultivators resided there.

In other words, he could cultivate there undisturbed.

After choosing his location, he carved out a cave dwelling underground, constructing over a dozen rooms. These rooms included a breeding room for spirit beasts, a living room, and a secret chamber reinforced with the Reversed Five Elements Array. He

then immediately entered a state of secluded cultivation.

His method was simple: lying in a coffin.

Inside the golden treasure chest was another chest, about ten feet in size, containing the spiritual energy he had transformed from his dissipated cultivation essence.

This spiritual energy, in terms of purity alone, far surpassed the cultivation essence of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators. In terms of quantity, it also exceeded the cultivation essence stored by some late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Furthermore, this spiritual energy itself was expelled from his body during his dissipation of cultivation; it was something he had painstakingly cultivated, possessing a natural high affinity for him.

Reabsorbing and refining it, circulating it through the Great Heavenly Circuit, was incredibly fast. Reabsorbing, refining,

purifying, and compressing the “abandoned” cultivation essence was a detail that even Qing Yuanzi and the Xuanjian Sect cultivators throughout history had probably never considered.

No.

Not that they hadn’t considered it.

They simply couldn’t do it.

After all, the Xuanjian Sect didn’t have the golden treasure chest left by the Lord of the Forbidden Land, nor the other treasure chests to assist them.

“The correct way to unlock the Third Rebirth is like this…”

This undoubtedly saved a significant amount of time and resources spent on arduous cultivation.

…

Time flew by, and eight years passed.

Han Li’s cultivation returned to the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, which is the Pseudo-Core stage.

During this time, he not only exhausted the mana and true essence left behind when he dispersed his cultivation in the golden treasure chest, but also consumed and refined a large number of precious pills.

Furthermore, he also mastered the second level of the Great Evolution Technique.

It must be said that he possessed extremely outstanding talent in cultivating the Great Evolution Technique, always receiving divine assistance whenever he practiced this secret method that enhanced his divine sense and primordial spirit. Even the young master Lin, with his excellent spiritual root talent, didn’t progress as quickly.

Now, his cultivation was fully restored, and he had mastered the second level of the Great Evolution Technique; his strength was now far greater than before he dispersed his cultivation.

The most direct manifestation was the significantly reduced time required to activate various talisman treasures such as the Invisible Needle Talisman.

This was precisely the benefit of higher mana purity.

“So, what should I do next?”

Should I continue as a rogue cultivator, or temporarily join a faction?

Joining a faction has its advantages, while being a rogue cultivator offers its freedom.

However, if I want to seize the opportunities on Biling Island in the outer sea, I still need to join a faction.

And it would be best to join the Star Palace.

“Unfortunately, the Star Palace doesn’t recruit cultivators with unknown backgrounds. My origins are a mystery, so I’m definitely not within their recruitment scope.”

Even if they did recruit me, I wouldn’t be qualified to access some core secrets.

Moreover, the higher my cultivation level, the more wary they would be.

On the mountaintop of the small island, Han Li, who had come out for some fresh air, looked northeast and sighed softly.

After much thought, he decided to compromise.

After dispersing his cultivation again, he would try to go to Changli Island and join a sect called “White Water Sword Sect.”

Before that, he needed to cultivate some techniques to increase his methods for dealing with the Core Formation stage.

Back in his cave,

he took out a jade slip from his storage bag.

It was the Yue Emperor’s inheritance, which recorded secret techniques such as Blood Refining Divine Light, External Avatar, and Demonic Fiend Technique.

“I have mastered the second level of the Great Evolution Technique, and my cultivation has reached the Pseudo-Core stage. I can now cultivate multiple divine senses to create external avatars.”

(End of Chapter)