Daily Divination From Market Rogue Cultivator To Immortal Venerable - Chapter 461

Chapter 461: Forbidden in the Void, Cang Hong is shocked (please subscribe)

“The Immortal Realm?”

The other party remained silent for a moment, seemingly pondering.

“In this world, perhaps only one person knows whether the Immortal Realm exists.”

“Please tell me, senior.”

“It cannot be said.”

The other party didn’t explicitly state it, only indicating that Li Chang’an’s cultivation was insufficient.

Once his strength was sufficient, he would naturally know that person’s name.

Before that,

knowing that name wouldn’t bring him any benefit; on the contrary, it might bring him trouble.

Hearing this, Li Chang’an didn’t press the matter and changed the subject.

“Senior, the Ancient Evergreen Technique I obtained is incomplete, only six volumes in total, lacking subsequent inheritance. Do you have the complete inheritance?”

“No, I don’t cultivate this technique, but I see you have profound fortune; you should be able to obtain the remaining techniques in the future.”

Hearing this, Li Chang’an was secretly surprised.

The other party possessed a treasure like the Ancient Wood Origin, yet lacked the complete technique of the Ancient Evergreen Technique; it was truly illogical.

Just as he was thinking…

The other party asked again, “Is there anything else you want to know?”

“Senior, is this Heaven-Mending Stone useful to me?”

“Not for now.”

“Is it truly a treasure from the Mythical Era?”

“The Mythical Era?”

The other party paused, a hint of melancholy creeping into his voice.

“In your eyes, that era can indeed be called mythical.”

Hearing this,

Li Chang’an began to speculate.

Could this senior be a being from that era?

But that era is too far removed from the present; how could the other party be alive now? Could it be because they have found a path to immortality?

At this moment, the other party suddenly answered his previous question.

“This Heaven-Mending Stone is indeed a treasure from that era. I have concealed its aura for you; if you encounter a being of the same realm as me in the future, you will no longer be detected.”

“Thank you, Senior!”

Li Chang’an bowed in thanks, a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although the possibility of encountering such a powerful being was slim, he was still afraid of the possibility.

If he encountered someone unreasonable, he would be in trouble.

“Senior, I’ve heard that some people have traversed the path to immortality. May I ask…”

Li Chang’an was about to ask about immortality when he suddenly felt a gentle breeze.

The next instant,

he was back before the Vermilion Bird Sea of Fire.

Only one sentence remained in his ears:

“Your cultivation is still low. Knowing too much is not beneficial. Focus on your cultivation.”

“Yes.”

Li Chang’an bowed to the sea of fire and then left.

He transformed into a streak of light, heading straight for the Evergreen Cave where he had obtained the second part of the cultivation technique, attempting to take the teleportation array outside the cave.

However, this time, he felt nothing.

The cave seemed to not exist at all.

He explored the passage repeatedly without any success.

He had no choice but to give up.

“Never mind, I already have two complete teleportation arrays. I shouldn’t be too greedy.”

With this thought, Li Chang’an took out a communication artifact and transmitted his voice to Gu Yuhe.

“Fellow Daoist Gu, I’m fine. I just accidentally stepped into a trap.”

A moment later,

Gu Yuhe’s voice rang out.

“Excellent, Fellow Daoist Li! I thought you had perished. I wanted to check your soul lamp, but I didn’t know where your Daoist temple was, nor did I recognize your disciples.”

“Don’t worry, Fellow Daoist Gu, I’ve always had good luck.”

After a brief exchange, Li Chang’an put away the jade pendant and headed straight for the Vermilion Bird Nest.

Soon,

he met Gu Yuhe, who was waiting outside.

Gu Yuhe gently raised her jade hand and returned the token engraved with the character “Mu” to him.

“Fellow Daoist Li, although there are opportunities in this Vermilion Bird Nest, there are many dangers. I don’t wish to explore further. What do you think?”

“I also intend to leave.”

Although he hadn’t achieved his goal, the gains were sufficient, and Li Chang’an didn’t plan to stay any longer.

He felt that his cultivation and skills had reached a breakthrough point and wanted to return to seclusion as soon as possible.

The two agreed and left together.

After leaving the Vermilion Bird Secret Realm,

they greeted the Vermilion Bird True Monarch and then parted ways, agreeing to discuss alchemy techniques when they had time in the future.

Gu Yuhe was very interested in Li Chang’an’s fire control skills, while Li Chang’an was eyeing her alchemy inheritance.

Several hours later,

Li Chang’an returned to his secluded cultivation spot deep within the Black Dragon Mountains.

With a wave of his hand, he set up more formations, completely sealing off the entire cultivation area.

Then, he took out a massive amount of high-grade spirit stones, piling them up to the brim.

“Little Black, Fire Cloud, Stone Great, you guard outside. Don’t let anyone disturb me.”

“Yes!”

The two men and the tortoise responded in unison, faithfully guarding outside the formations.

Li Chang’an sat cross-legged atop the numerous spirit stones, circulating his cultivation technique and frantically absorbing the spiritual energy from them.

In the blink of an eye, countless spirit stones were drained of their spiritual energy, their light dimming, turning into ordinary gemstones in the mortal world.

Li Chang’an closed his eyes slightly, his aura steadily increasing.

Unbeknownst to him,

three hours had passed.

He opened his eyes, slowly rose, and the aura of a peak Golden Core cultivator emanated from him.

At this point, he had reached the end of the Golden Core path.

One more step forward.

That’s a true Nascent Soul!

If he wanted, he could shatter his core and form a Nascent Soul right now, attempting to take that step.

But Li Chang’an suppressed that thought.

“Still a bit lacking, no rush.”

He sat down again and continued his seclusion.

Seven

days later.

Li Chang’an slowly exhaled.

“My array skills have finally broken through.”

Thanks to his experience in the demonstration room, he avoided many detours and successfully crossed the threshold of a mid-grade fourth-tier array master.

Array masters of this grade already stand at the pinnacle of the current cultivation world.

He waved his hand.

The array protecting his secluded cultivation area instantly dissipated.

Subsequently, countless array-setting treasures rearranged, and new spiritual patterns appeared all around.

Before long,

a mid-grade fourth-tier array was formed!

This array incorporated the power of the void, theoretically capable of isolating the perception between the inside and outside of the array, completely separating the inside and outside into two worlds.

Li Chang’an named it the “Void Forbidden Array.”

“Perfect for using this array to deal with that old bastard Cang Hong.”

He dispelled the array, did some quick calculations, and simply assessed the fortune of dealing with Cang Hong.

The divination result was auspicious, within his expectations.

Cang Hong’s strength was even inferior to Lian Gu.

With Li Chang’an’s current abilities, as long as he could trap him within the array, killing him would not be difficult.

…

The next day.

Li Chang’an quietly entered the Vermilion Bird Sect.

He secretly knocked out a disciple of Cang Hong, disguised himself as him, and went to Cang Hong’s secluded cultivation place, intending to lure Cang Hong out of the Vermilion Bird Sect with the White Hong Feather Stone.

However, to his surprise

, although Cang Hong showed interest, he was unwilling to leave his secluded cultivation place, only instructing him to retrieve the White Hong Feather Stone at all costs.

“This old bastard is so cautious?”

Li Chang’an frowned slightly and left the secluded cultivation place.

He did not immediately remove the traps he had set up, but waited for several days to confirm that Cang Hong had not made any move before removing all the traps.

“Fine, since this old bastard is unwilling to move, then I will make my move inside the Vermilion Bird Sect!”

Li Chang’an made up his mind.

He acted secretly, quietly setting up an array outside Cang Hong’s secluded cultivation place, the Void Forbidden Array.

Then, he activated the array, the power of the void flowed, immediately isolating all senses inside and outside the array.

No matter what happened inside the array, it would not be perceived by the outside.

After confirming that everything was in order,

Li Chang’an no longer hid, raising his hand to gather a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Sword Array.

After the forced fusion last time, he had gained a deeper understanding of both the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Sword and the Yin-Yang Sword Formation.

At this moment,

the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Sword Formation in his hand was still forcibly fused.

However, the backlash he suffered was far less severe than last time, still within his acceptable range.

“Go!”

Li Chang’an’s thoughts stirred, and he unleashed the sword formation.

A loud “boom” resounded, and thunder exploded within the formation.

The place where Cang Hong had been in seclusion instantly shattered.

“Who?”

He flew out of his seclusion, covered in blood, staring intently at Li Chang’an, his eyes filled with apprehension.

He already knew about the great battle that had taken place in the small world of the Desolate Sand Clan.

He knew very well that

if the two fought fairly, he would surely be killed by Li Chang’an!

“Lin Fan, when have I ever provoked you?”

Cang Hong roared, simultaneously sensing the Vermilion Bird Sect’s protective formation, attempting to use its power to deal with Li Chang’an.

But he quickly discovered that he couldn’t sense the existence of the protective formation!

No matter how he activated the array’s central core, he couldn’t get any help from the array’s power.

“What’s going on?”

“Old man, don’t waste your energy.”

Li Chang’an’s expression was cold and stern. He raised his hand and unleashed another sword formation.

Lightning flashed, sword light shone brightly, and the force was terrifying. It instantly tore through the sky and struck Cang Hong heavily.

Cang Hong’s face showed horror. All the treasures around him shattered, and his entire body was instantly engulfed by lightning.

“Boom!”

His body exploded instantly, annihilated in the lightning, leaving only a terrified nascent soul flying out.

Before it could even reach the edge of the formation, a Nascent Soul Suppressing Nail struck down from the top of his head.

After that,

Li Chang’an skillfully collected the nascent soul.

He erased all traces and aura, and with a wave of his hand, he dispelled the formation.

During this time, no one in the entire Vermilion Bird Sect noticed anything.

Afterward, he did not leave directly, but disguised himself as Cang Hong and entered the core treasury of the Vermilion Bird Sect, intending to take a portion of fourth-order dragon blood.

To his disappointment, there was no fourth-order dragon blood in the Vermilion Bird Sect’s treasury.

“Could it all have been used up in that previous battle?”

Li Chang’an frowned secretly. The remaining fourth-tier essence blood in the treasure vault was almost entirely from fire-elemental demonic beasts of the bird type.

He quietly retreated and left the Vermilion Bird Sect.

In the following days,

he secretly infiltrated various Nascent Soul forces, using void sealing arrays to shield his senses. He searched the core treasure vaults of Nascent Soul forces such as the White Tiger Sect, Purple Cloud Sect, and Yellow Sand Sect, but still found no fourth-tier dragon blood.

Only two righteous forces remained untouched by him.

One was the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty, and the other was the Azure Dragon Sect.

“Qi Jiuyang once admitted that the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty still had fourth-tier dragon blood, but the Great Qi Imperial Palace was not easy to break into.”

Li Chang’an calculated with his fingers, and the divination he received was not good.

Clearly, there were means within the Great Qi Imperial Palace that could counter his void sealing array.

As the Nascent Soul force with the strongest foundation in the righteous path, the Great Qi Imperial Palace was a dragon’s den and a tiger’s lair, likely full of traps.

Li Chang’an could only turn his attention to the Azure Dragon Sect.

“The Azure Dragon Sect raises fourth-tier dragon demons, so they must possess fourth-tier dragon blood,”

he pondered to himself.

The fourth-tier dragon blood used by Chi Qingxuan and Chi Qingwu was obtained within the sect.

If it were before True Monarch Fusheng awakened, Li Chang’an was confident he could use the grand formation to deceive everyone, but True Monarch Fusheng had already awakened.

Li Chang’an didn’t want to search for treasures under the nose of a Nascent Soul peak expert.

“Forget it, I’ll put this matter aside for now. It seems my destiny with fourth-tier dragon blood hasn’t arrived yet,”

he sighed inwardly, returning to his secluded cultivation spot in the Black Dragon Mountain Range.

After rearranging the formation,

Li Chang’an sat cross-legged deep underground, opened the Canghong storage bag, and examined the treasures inside.

After taking stock, he frowned slightly.

“Strange, why is the handle of the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella missing?”

“The Hundred-Bearded Bright-Year Ginseng is also gone.”   ”

The other treasures are all unremarkable, not befitting the wealth of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator; they’re even considered inferior among early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators…”

Although Cang Hong hasn’t been in the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm for long, he shouldn’t only possess these few treasures. Putting everything else aside   , the Hundred-Bearded Bright-Year Ginseng should have fallen into his hands.   ”Could it be that all the valuable treasures have been hidden in his private vault?”   Thinking of this,   Li Chang’an immediately took out Cang Hong’s Nascent Soul and removed all the Nascent Soul Suppressing Nails.   As the chill dissipated, Cang Hong’s Nascent Soul gradually awoke.   ”Li Chang’an, how did I end up in your hands? Where is Lin Fan?”   He looked around, seemingly trying to find Lin Fan’s figure.   ”It seems Lin Fan attacked me because of you! Li Chang’an, what treasure did you give him?”   ”Cang Hong, you old fool, still haven’t figured it out?”   ”Figure out what?”   Cang Hong stared intently at him.   Suddenly, he trembled, and a look of understanding appeared on his face.   ”So that’s it! Li Chang’an, you’re Lin Fan’s descendant! No wonder Lin Fan stood up for you at your birthday banquet, no wonder you, with only a low-grade spiritual root, could cultivate to the Golden Core stage…”   He seemed to understand everything, muttering incessantly.   Li Chang’an was too lazy to explain, casually unleashing a bolt of lightning.   ”Boom!”   Cang Hong screamed in agony, his entire Nascent Soul dimming considerably.   At this moment,   he truly understood everything.   If Li Chang’an were merely a Golden Core cultivator, this lightning bolt couldn’t have caused him such severe damage.   The lightning contained pure Nascent Soul power!   ”Li Chang’an, you are Lin Fan!”   Cang Hong was utterly shaken, his voice hoarse, his face filled with disbelief.   Back then, the reason he targeted Li Chang’an instead of Lin Fan was because Lin Fan was quite powerful,   while Li Chang’an was merely a lowly Golden Core cultivator.   He never imagined that Li Chang’an and Lin Fan were the same person!   If he had known this earlier, he would have abandoned the matter instead of repeatedly attacking Li Chang’an.   ”Cang Hong, it’s good that you understand.”   Li Chang’an nodded slightly, lightning flashing at his fingertips, a faint yet powerful lightning force hovering above Cang Hong’s nascent soul.   ”I want to know, where is your private treasure vault?”   ”I…”   Cang Hong was reluctant to speak, but in the blink of an eye, a bolt of lightning struck, nearly obliterating him.   At this moment, Li Chang’an seemed like a god of thunder from mythology.   Finally,   Cang Hong had no choice but to reveal the location of his private treasure vault.   The location wasn’t far from the Vermilion Bird Sect, just beneath the palace of a mortal kingdom.   Li Chang’an immediately went there, confirming that Cang Hong wasn’t lying, and successfully discovered his private treasure vault.   ”The Hundred-Bearded Bright-Year Ginseng, it’s indeed here!”   His eyes brightened slightly as he picked up a pale yellow spiritual ginseng from the vault.   This ginseng lived up to its name, with hundreds of whiskers, emitting a faint fragrance.   For ordinary cultivators, this could extend their lifespan by a hundred years.

But for Li Chang’an,

this item represented a full two hundred years of lifespan!

Furthermore,

he discovered several fourth-tier life-extending spiritual herbs.

These herbs were almost all ones he had exchanged with the Vermilion Bird Sect; they still had life-extending effects, though not as strong as the first time he took them.

Li Chang’an calculated that the Hundred-Bearded Bright Age, combined with all the spiritual herbs, should extend his life by about three hundred and fifty years.

He put away the numerous herbs and continued to inventory them.

Soon,

he found his target.

“Immortal Tear Thunder Gold!”

This item was entirely dark blue, its surface covered with mottled marks resembling tear stains, something that hadn’t appeared in the cultivation world for tens of thousands of years.

It was originally the handle of the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella, later traded by the old Vermilion Bird to Cang Hong, and now in Li Chang’an’s hands.

With this item,

the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella could be complete.

“A complete Heavenly Thunder Umbrella can withstand all the power of the final Great Heavenly Tribulation.”

“Including the tribulation-crossing treasures I obtained before, the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation poses no threat to me whatsoever.”

Li Chang’an put away the Immortal Tear Thunder Gold and examined the remaining treasures.

Not long after…

He found two top-tier Heart Demon Tribulation treasures.

Including those he had acquired before, he now possessed a total of seven top-tier Heart Demon Tribulation treasures, one more than Qi Qisheng had prepared for his disciple.

“Logically, that should be enough, but unfortunately, I still haven’t obtained the One Heart Pill,”

Li Chang’an said with some regret.

He always pursued perfection, pushing his success rate to 100% when he formed his core. However,

the Heart Demon Tribulation was too strange; apart from the long-lost One Heart Pill, none of the other treasures could guarantee his successful passage.

“My mindset isn’t stable enough; I seem to be too afraid of this Heart Demon Tribulation,”

Li Chang’an took a deep breath to calm himself.

He temporarily suppressed his thoughts related to the Heart Demon Tribulation and checked the remaining treasures in the treasury, taking half an hour to complete the inventory.

After that,

he entered the Purple Cloud Sect’s secret realm, found the Beast Taming Wheel’s spirit, and borrowed the Beast Taming Sect’s earth fire to repair the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella.

“Boom…”

The earth fire roared, its flames intensely hot.

Inside the crimson forging furnace, the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella’s handle was reshaped.

Li Chang’an concentrated intently, manipulating the umbrella handle to merge with the umbrella surface.

In a short while,

the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella was complete again!

Li Chang’an smiled, raised his hand, and retrieved the Heavenly Thunder Umbrella. After carefully examining it, he confirmed there were no problems.

He thanked the artifact spirit and then left the Purple Cloud Secret Realm, preparing to return to his secluded cultivation place in the Black Dragon Mountains.

Just then

, the thunderous sound of war drums suddenly resounded throughout the Purple Cloud

Sect. Immediately afterward, the illusory figure of True Monarch Mingxia appeared above the sect, tens of thousands of feet tall, and addressed the entire sect:

“The demonic path has invaded! Purple Cloud Sect disciples, follow me to meet the enemy!”

“The demonic path?”

Hearing this, countless sect disciples were astonished.

The war between the righteous and demonic paths had just ended, with both sides suffering heavy losses. Logically, they should be recuperating.

Why had the demonic path attacked again?

However,

there was no time to think further.

Mingxia, Zixia, and Zixi had already transformed into rainbow light and disappeared, heading straight for the Northern Battlefield.

Within the sect, one flying boat after another ascended into the sky, carrying countless solemn-faced disciples of the Purple Cloud Sect, heading towards the Northern Region with the three Nascent Soul cultivators.

The same scene was playing out in the other seven major Nascent Soul factions.

Various Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and even Qi Refining factions were also notified.

Many cultivators, still attending funerals of loved ones and not yet recovered from their grief, were forced to board flying boats and once again travel to the Northern Region.

(End of Chapter)