Daily Divination From Market Rogue Cultivator To Immortal Venerable - Chapter 305

Chapter 305 A Life Born of Water and Fire, A Nascent Soul Disciple (Seeking Subscriptions)

Soul Sect, deep within the spiritual land.

The near-fourth-tier divination master Yuan Tianxuan sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed, symbols, some bright, some dim, floating in the void around him.

Before him lay a gray-white tortoise shell.

On the shell ,

spiritual patterns shimmered, golden light gleaming, constantly changing, vaguely resembling a human figure.

But at that moment, his face paled, and he groaned.

“Crack—”

The tortoise shell suddenly cracked, all the spiritual patterns dissipating, fading completely into darkness.

Yuan Tianxuan slowly opened his eyes, a trace of weariness flashing within them, and sighed.

“Still no use.”

He took out several recovery pills and a longevity-extending treasure, swallowing them all.

As a Golden Core cultivator, his lifespan was five hundred years. He

was only a little over two hundred years old.

However,

his temples were already gray.

Clearly, in recent years, he had paid a heavy price to deduce the location of Li Chang’an’s true form.

“Using personal connections as threads to weave a vast net, it should have been able to trap Li Fan, but it still failed.”

Around him were more than ten items.

Among them were hair from Wu Ming, the master of the Drywood Cliff, a broken puppet from Mo Feng, and a corner of Luo Qiantong’s clothing…

According to the Yin Soul Sect’s investigation,

these people had all been in contact with Li Chang’an.

Therefore, Yuan Tianxuan had his subordinates secretly obtain these items, using divination techniques to transform them into a net of connections, attempting to find Li Chang’an within it.

If it were an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, he would have found him long ago.

But his opponent was none other than Li Chang’an.

The Holy Son Wu Gu approached and asked, “Master Yuan, is it still not working?”

“Holy Son, the treasures on Li Fan’s body are probably of a much higher grade than we previously estimated. Even a true fourth-tier divination master might not be able to deduce his true location.”

Yuan Tianxuan shook his head, explaining the difficulty of the matter.

“I have exhausted all my strength in this divination, even sacrificing thirty years of my lifespan, yet I still cannot succeed.”

“So, divination is a dead end. We can only think of another way to deal with Li Fan.”

Wu Gu frowned, his mood sour.

Back then, when he first arrived at the Yin Soul Sect, he vowed to kill Li Fan, to make everyone understand the price of offending the Demonic Sect.

But so many years have passed, and Li Fan is still alive and well.

He is like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows; though unseen, Wu Gu can often smell his chilling aura.

“Li Fan, where are you?”

Wu Gu’s face was grim.

If this matter is not handled well, most of the Nascent Soul elders in the Demonic Sect will likely look down on him.

Yuan Tianxuan reminded him, “Holy Son, Li Fan has the Soul-Bearing Banner.”

“I understand.”

The Soul-Bearing Banner is a breakthrough.

Both of them knew this.

Over the years, Li Chang’an had mostly been buying up souls.

However, with the development of the Yin Soul Sect, there were countless demonic cultivators in the Southern Region, and soul trading had long become commonplace.

Every day, numerous demonic cultivators bought souls, making it difficult to locate Li Chang’an, who was hiding among them.

“Holy Son, this matter cannot be rushed. Take it slow. Li Fan is not without flaws; he will eventually reveal his weaknesses.”

“Alright, thank you for your concern, Master.”

For the next period,

the two focused their attention on the soul trade throughout the Southern Region, closely monitoring every trading location and noting the demonic cultivators involved in each transaction.

Before long ,

they discovered a rather unusual cultivator.

This cultivator only possessed Qi Refining cultivation, yet he had repeatedly purchased souls; his wealth did not match his strength.

“No rush. Let’s note this person down first, without alerting him.”

Wu Gu patiently remained hidden, not in a hurry to act.

About half a year later,

they had discovered over fifty unusual cultivators.

“Li Fan should be one of these cultivators.”

“Observe him for a while longer.”

They had already spent years dealing with Li Chang’an; a few more days wouldn’t matter.

They just needed to find a suitable opportunity to strike.

Little did they know,

these unusual cultivators were almost all puppets used by Li Chang’an as bait.

His unusual behavior was an attempt to lure out Yuan Tianxuan or Wu Gu, but these two were more composed than he expected.

After half a year of

this, he had caught nothing. “No wonder Wu Gu became a true Holy Son. Even disregarding cultivation and methods, his temperament is far superior to the so-called Four Holy Sons,”

Li Chang’an mused to himself.

He noticed that along the way, the number of cautious enemies had increased. This made

sense .

Without caution, it would be difficult to reach the Golden Core realm.

Li Chang’an wasn’t in a hurry and continued using his puppet body to fish; he didn’t believe those two could endure it indefinitely.

Sure enough

, not long after, one of his puppet bodies encountered trouble. One

day,

in a small market,

Li Chang’an controlled a puppet body to enter the market and buy souls from a demonic cultivator.

During the transaction, several people suddenly intervened, trying to forcibly buy the souls he had already purchased.

A conflict erupted.

Such conflicts were common in markets teeming with demonic cultivators.

But Li Chang’an knew very well that this seemingly normal conflict was most likely a test by the Yin Soul Sect.

“Finally couldn’t hold back anymore?”

He manipulated his puppet body, intending to leave with his soul, but the people who had forcibly bought him wouldn’t allow him to go.

The verbal conflict escalated into a magical duel.

This puppet body, with only Qi Refining cultivation, was no match for the group and was quickly killed, turning into a pile of broken puppet parts.

“Just a puppet?”

The onlookers were somewhat surprised.

Not long after, this broken puppet was sent deep into the Yin Soul Sect.

Yuan Tianxuan looked at the puppet, his face beaming with joy, as if he had found a priceless treasure, carefully sensing its aura.

“Within this puppet, there is a cold, yin-yang aura of a Golden Core cultivator, different from all the Golden Core cultivators in the Southern Region, and not even a Golden Core True Person from my Yin Soul Sect. It must be Li Fan! With this as a guide, even if I can’t calculate his true form, I can calculate his other puppet bodies.”

“Master, should we tell the Holy Son of Wugu about this?”

his disciple asked.

Hearing this, Yuan Tianxuan slowly shook his head.

His deep voice rang out: “No, Li Fan possesses a great opportunity. If I can obtain it, I might have a chance to reach the Nascent Soul realm.”

He really wanted to know.

What exactly was that treasure on Li Chang’an’s body?

…

Meanwhile.

On Changqing Mountain, inside a cave.

Li Chang’an casually repaired a few ordinary puppets, deliberately leaving behind a few chilling auras.

“The fish should be about to take the bait.”

“I just wonder how many will take it?”

He had already prepared a net of heaven and earth; even if the Holy Son Wu Gu took the bait, he was confident he could capture him.

In the following days,

Li Chang’an deliberately exposed a location.

Some of his puppets, after purchasing souls, would cautiously return to that location.

Soon,

that location was spotted by Yuan Tianxuan.

Li Chang’an’s clone, stationed there, sensed a subtle spying.

He had a premonition that the time to act was approaching

. However

, at midnight that night,

the divination revealed the word “failure.

” [Divination updated]

[Today’s Divination: Neutral]

[You attempted to attack Yuan Tianxuan, but your concealment methods were seen through, and he escaped beforehand. Your plan ended in failure.]

“Concealment methods were seen through?”

Li Chang’an was somewhat surprised.

This meant

that both his own concealment skills and the array he had hidden beforehand could be seen through by Yuan Tianxuan.

“As expected of a near-fourth-tier divination master, I underestimated him before.”

Looking at the divination results, Li Chang’an pondered for a long time.

He needed better concealment methods.

Otherwise,

before even getting close to Yuan Tianxuan, he would be detected.

As a divination master, his survival skills and keen perception far surpassed those of ordinary Golden Core cultivators.

Li Chang’an had investigated.

This Yuan Tianxuan trusted no one but his divination skills.

Even towards his disciples and family, he was wary.

Therefore,

Li Chang’an hadn’t turned them into puppets.

“Alright, no rush, let’s wait a bit longer.”

He dispelled the elaborate trap he had set up and temporarily concealed his tracks.

In the days that followed,

Li Chang’an collected various concealment treasures and spells, but with limited success.

His best concealment treasure remained the Concealment Bead. His

best spell was the Shadow Refining Technique.

But even with both combined, Yuan Tianxuan would still detect him.

Late that night…

Li Chang’an looked at the “failure” hexagram that had reappeared before him and fell into deep thought.

“Since I can’t kill him, I’ll kill a few ordinary Golden Core cultivators from the Demonic Sect. That should be enough to gather their souls.”

“As for the treasures needed to upgrade the Soul Banner to the third-tier high-grade, I’ll just have to find a way to slowly trade them through various channels.”

Just then

, a jade pendant in his storage bag suddenly showed signs of activity.

“Huh?”

Li Chang’an’s mind stirred, and he took out the jade pendant.

This was a communication jade pendant, left by Mu Xiaoqing in the Mu family.

If nothing had happened to her, he could contact her through the pendant.

But after her disappearance,

the pendant had remained silent.

Today,

it suddenly became slightly warm.

Li Chang’an sent a wisp of his divine sense into it and immediately heard Mu Xiaoqing’s voice.

“Grandpa Chengsong, it’s me, Xiaoqing. I’m trapped in a dangerous place in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm. This place is extremely dangerous for Foundation Establishment cultivators. Please ask the Ancestor to save me.”

Mu Xiaoqing clearly still thought the jade pendant was in Mu Chengsong’s hands.

The Ancestor she spoke of was naturally the False Core Immortal Mu Song.

Mu Song had already passed away.

But she was trapped inside the secret realm and unaware of this.

Li Chang’an held the jade pendant and transmitted his voice into it: “Fellow Daoist Mu, where exactly are you trapped?”

“Fellow Daoist Li?”

Mu Xiaoqing’s surprised voice quickly echoed from within the jade pendant.

She couldn’t understand how this jade pendant had ended up in Li Chang’an’s hands .

“Fellow Daoist Li, has something happened to my Mu family?”

Mu Xiaoqing’s tone was more anxious, suspecting that the Mu family’s territory had been breached and the family treasures divided among various parties; otherwise, this jade pendant wouldn’t have ended up outside.

Li Chang’an replied: “Fellow Daoist Mu, rest assured, the Mu family is still safe and sound. The reason this jade pendant is in my hands is for other reasons. This is a long story; I’ll tell you slowly after I rescue you.”

“Then… alright then.”

Mu Xiaoqing didn’t press further.

Li Chang’an had saved her life before.

At that time, she vaguely sensed that Li Chang’an’s aura was of the same origin as her own Azure Wood Spirit Body.

Because of this, she trusted Li Chang’an completely.

“Fellow Daoist Li, I’m trapped deep within the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm…”

Mu Xiaoqing slowly recounted her situation, carefully describing her exact location.

She then emphasized that the place was too dangerous and suggested she seek help from her Mu family’s ancestor, Mu Song.

Li Chang’an informed her, “Fellow Daoist Mu, the Mu family’s ancestor, Mu Song, has passed away.”

“What? The ancestor…”

Mu Xiaoqing paused for a moment. A

moment later, her voice filled with sorrow and self-reproach rang out.

“It’s all my fault for being too willful and acting without considering the consequences. I’m trapped in this perilous place, and I didn’t even get to see the ancestor one last time.”

“Fellow Daoist Mu, now is not the time for self-reproach. Tell me the specifics of that perilous place.”

“Alright.”

Mu Xiaoqing knew the importance of the situation and immediately began to explain to Li Chang’an.

She was trapped beneath a large lake, in a very peculiar space.

This space suppressed divine sense.

Divine sense couldn’t extend very far, making it difficult for her to use it to detect danger.

Her reason for entering was the same as Li Chang’an’s guess: to obtain the legacy of the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord from 30,000 years ago.

Li Chang’an asked her, “Fellow Daoist Mu, did you find the legacy of that Nascent Soul senior?”

“No, I found nothing,”

Mu Xiaoqing replied without reservation, explaining the whole story. Due to

her special constitution, while exploring the secret realm, she suddenly sensed something and followed it to find a token engraved with the characters “Azure Wood.”

Within the token was a marked special space.

At the time, she was overjoyed, believing it contained the legacy of the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord.

However, the reality was completely different.

This space contained no legacy; instead, it was riddled with dangerous traps, trapping her for many years.

Some traps even blocked the communication jade pendant, preventing her from contacting the outside world.

Today,

she finally managed to escape from one of the traps, restoring the communication jade pendant to normal.

“Fellow Daoist Li, this space is intricate and complex, filled with poisonous fog, monsters, various traps, and broken formations. It’s also difficult to use divine sense. You mustn’t force your way in. Please summon a Golden Core cultivator for me.”

“It’s alright, I’m already a Golden Core cultivator.”

“What?”

Mu Xiaoqing was astonished.

Before she was trapped, Li Chang’an’s strength seemed to be only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Why had he formed his Golden Core so quickly?

“Fellow Daoist Li, how many years have passed outside?”

Mu Xiaoqing was anxious, thinking that the time flow in the two spaces was different.

Such things occasionally happened in the history of the cultivation world.

Legend has it that once, a cultivator, while hunting demons in the mountains, saw two immortals playing chess.

He watched intently, and when he came to his senses, the two immortals had vanished, and the outside world had undergone countless changes, with endless years passing.

Li Chang’an reassured her, “Fellow Daoist Mu, don’t worry, I’ve only concealed some of my cultivation. There haven’t been many changes outside.”

“I see.”

Mu Xiaoqing was slightly relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

“Then I’ll trouble Fellow Daoist Li to save my life.”

“Alright, I’ll try.”

Li Chang’an agreed.

Since the token Mu Xiaoqing obtained pointed to that space,

perhaps there really were treasures related to the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord within, but Mu Xiaoqing’s cultivation was too low to find them.

Of course,

Li Chang’an wouldn’t take the risk.

“If the divination indicates danger, I’ll abandon this matter.”

He quietly left Changqing Mountain and entered the Black Dragon Mountain Range.

The entrance to the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm was located deep within this mountain range.

Several days later,

Li Chang’an entered the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

In an instant, a dense aquatic spiritual energy rushed towards him, making him feel damp and sticky.

This was his first time entering the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Looking around,

the entire secret realm was a vast

expanse of azure. The sky was deep and clear, a pristine blue, like an inverted lake.

Scattered across the land were numerous lakes of varying sizes.

“No wonder it’s called the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm; this place is perfect for cultivators with water-elemental roots.”

Li Chang’an transformed into a streak of light, flying over lake after lake, avoiding various dangers along the way, heading straight for the depths of the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

The Thousand Lakes Secret Realm hadn’t been discovered for long, and many dangerous areas remained unexplored.

Every day, many cultivators entered to explore and search for treasures.

Three days later,

Li Chang’an discovered a peculiar place.

There were two large lakes here, one a deep blue, the other filled with burning lava.

He felt a sense of familiarity, and after a moment’s thought, he quickly understood the origin of this familiarity.

Years ago…

Before he reached Foundation Establishment, he killed Cao Hao, a disciple of the Cao family, and obtained a top-tier Foundation Establishment spiritual item from his storage bag—the Water and Fire Twin Flower.

Later, during interrogation, he learned that Cao Hao had obtained the Water and Fire Twin Flower in a strange place.

“So this is it.”

Li Chang’an slowly descended, spreading his divine sense to see if any other treasures existed.

Such peculiar locations often yielded many treasures.

However,

he didn’t find much.

However, when he probed the depths of the two large lakes with his divine sense, he felt a stinging pain.

“Treasures!”

Deep within the magma lake, there was a blazing object resembling a blazing sun, its entire body shimmering with golden light.

Li Chang’an’s divine sense, upon approaching it slightly, felt the pain of being melted.

Deep within the other azure lake, there existed an extremely cold aura.

His divine sense also couldn’t touch it.

Even just getting close felt like being frozen.

“They are indeed treasures, but with my current abilities, I can’t take them away.”

Li Chang’an frowned and withdrew his divine sense.

He had a vague feeling…

Both treasures were beneficial to his spiritual sense, but his current strength was insufficient to bear them.

By the time he was strong enough, these treasures might have already been taken by someone else.

“A Golden Core cultivator probably can’t take away the opportunities here, I’m afraid a Nascent Soul True Monarch would find out.”

“But this Thousand Lakes Secret Realm has been discovered for many years, and many cultivators should have explored it, yet no one has taken away the opportunities…”

Li Chang’an pondered for a moment.

He originally wanted to set up an array to conceal the place.

But doing so would seem like an attempt to cover up the truth, and would only arouse the curiosity of outsiders.

“Forget it, if I get it, I’m lucky; if I lose it, it’s fate. I can’t force it.”

Li Chang’an memorized this place, no longer hesitating, and transformed into a stream of light, departing.

A few more days passed.

He finally arrived at the place where Mu Xiaoqing was trapped.

This place was still a large lake, and beneath the lake’s surface was a special space.

Li Chang’an did not enter it, but waited quietly outside.

Soon, midnight arrived.

A golden light appeared before his eyes.

[The divination has been updated]

[Today’s divination: Auspicious]

[You entered the strange space of the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm, successfully rescued Mu Xiaoqing, and received the inheritance of the disciple of Qingmu Tianjun. Within the inheritance, you discovered the Heavenly Grade Concealment Technique “Illusory Body of Shadow Transformation”]

(End of this chapter)