Chapter 100: Chapter 89: Path to Immortality (Extra 4400, asking for subscriptions and monthly tickets)
Translator: 549690339
Outskirts of the Capital.
Zhou Village.
At this moment, the most mysterious backyard is filled with a mysterious force in motion – but there’s no one lingering there in Zhou Village.
This place is the forbidden area of the village. It’s not that no one is curious to sneak into the backyard, but the outcome is always complete disappearance, with no one daring to come here afterward.
Right now, Liang Sheng’s spiritual power is like a dragon nimbly running through the brush, with cinnabar drawn by the vermilion brush on the talisman paper. By the time the last stroke is completed, the talisman paper is filled with a flash of spirit light, indicating the completion of the technique.
Vajra Talisman!
Low-order talisman!
For ninety-seven years, aside from cultivation, Liang Sheng has put almost all his attention on the talisman curse techniques attached to the Upper Pure Immortal Scripture!
After the destruction of the Great Ming, Liang Sheng wholeheartedly devoted himself to studying talisman curse techniques. After all, these techniques are the aggressive and defensive means for cultivators – how could he not care about them?
Fortunately, the materials required for low-order talismans can be found in the secular world. A paintbrush made from wolf bristles over ten years old, cinnabar for more than ten years, and talisman paper made from peach wood for more than ten years might be difficult for others to obtain, but for Liang Sheng, it was effortless.
As for the curse imprinting technique, it’s even simpler – just combining specified curse seals to display certain attacking techniques using spiritual power. However, to master it, one naturally needs to put in a lot of hard work.
If a cultivator saw Liang Sheng complete the Vajra Talisman so easily, they would be impressed. Not just anyone can achieve this level of smoothness, with perfectly controlled spiritual power consumption.
However, Liang Sheng doesn’t feel smug about it, as among the cultivation world, how many people can practice talisman curse techniques for their entire lives without worrying about their lifespan, like him?
At this moment, Liang Sheng opens a box filled with numerous Vajra talismans. He doesn’t even look as he places the newly completed talisman inside before closing the box.
In addition to the Vajra talisman box, there are three more boxes containing Light Body talismans, Body Purification talismans, and Heart Clearing talismans, each with a similar amount.
The Vajra talisman can create a layer of armor that can withstand a single strike from the Qi Cultivation Third Level; the Light Body talisman can enable a martial artist to travel 800 miles a day, as long as they can endure; the Body Purification talisman can heal hidden injuries; and the Heart Clearing talisman, as the name suggests, can calm the mind and prevent demonic possession.
As for other low-order talismans, like Fireball and Water Ball ones, Liang Sheng has not made them because he is currently only at the Qi Cultivation Second Stage, and his power is insufficient to create attack-focused low-order spirit talismans.
Perhaps once he reaches the Qi Cultivation Third Level, he can consider these talismans.
However…
A fireball suddenly appears in front of Liang Sheng, with a hint of white flame. He has experimented before, and this small fireball can instantly melt an innate expert.
This is the cultivators’ Fireball Technique, which Liang Sheng can still cast instantaneously. Then immediately, a wisp of water vapour appears, extinguishing the fireball in a puff of blue smoke.
Do not underestimate this seemingly ordinary water, as it’s the Water Spirit Imprinting technique – bone-chillingly cold, capable of turning an innate expert into an ice sculpture upon contact.
Liang Sheng isn’t overly excited about his instant casting of curse imprint techniques, as it’s simply a matter of being skilled through practice.
Even in the cultivation world, there may not be many people extravagant enough to spend ninety-seven years practicing these techniques, making talismans and imprinting curses like him.
If only he had the alchemy technique, alas, the Upper Pure Immortal Scripture left by the Grand Ancestor of Dayan did not include it, even though he knew that refining pills could aid cultivation.
It doesn’t matter, the hundred years are almost up, and by that time, he can verify if the words of the Hua Tian Sect disciple a hundred years ago were entirely true – though the chances are slim that they were false.
Liang Sheng isn’t flustered by his eagerness, as time is on his side. Even if the Hua Tian Sect tricked Ye Chen, the fortune of the dynasty isn’t proportionate to how many things can be exchanged; he can still hide for a thousand years, cultivating until he reaches the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer before testing the market.
Of course, Liang Sheng knew the probability of the Hua Tian Sect disciple lying was almost zero. Their persistent temptation of the Ye family to exchange secular world imperial fortune, without imposing any coercive measures, shows the attitude of the cultivation world sects towards the mundane realm.
Otherwise, with the means of cultivators, they wouldn’t have been so covert; this could also show that they were indeed willing to pay a price to exchange for the luck of a secular world imperial dynasty.
Just a little longer, it’s only three more years…
In the blink of an eye, it’s been ten years since Emperor Wu ascended the throne!
At this moment, it’s winter, and the whole Great Zhou is immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year. Since Emperor Wu’s enthronement, the country has been thriving and prosperous, with the people living in peace and abundance, naturally making the New Year’s celebrations lively.
However, Liang Sheng doesn’t have the mood to celebrate the New Year right now, as he has finally reached the day to go to Mount Kunwu.
In these three years, he has finally broken through to the Qi Cultivation Third Stage. Taking a hundred years to achieve the third stage would make cultivators shake their heads and sigh, lamenting their insufficient fortune.
Name: Liang Sheng
Age: 221
Talent: Innocent Foolishness (Top grade)
Techniques: Upper Pure Immortal Scripture (Third Layer), Twenty Life-Nurturing Techniques (Sixteenth Layer)
Stage: Qi cultivation third stage (1%)
Lifespan: 9231
That night, Liang Sheng left Zhou village, but he also had Zhou Yun and Zhou Hua, the two brothers who wanted to probe the cultivation world and Hua Tian Sect, make preparations.
Over the past hundred years, the children of Zhou village have been indoctrinated from birth by Liang Sheng’s teachings to be loyal to the Zhou family and the ancestor. Their loyalty has seeped deep into their bones.
Even if Liang Sheng ordered them to die immediately, they would obey without hesitation. Zhou Yun and Zhou Hua are the most loyal and devoted disciples of the Zhou family over these hundred years. Zhou Yun’s Qi Sea has a defect, making it impossible for him to set foot in the cultivation world, which makes him the perfect pawn..
