Chapter 28: Limitless Longevity Art, Profound Foundation
Another Immortal-rank cultivation art that can lead to ascension to the Immortal Realm! Your heart trembled violently. When had Immortal-rank cultivation arts become so easy to obtain?
“This is wonderful, Master! It’s actually the legendary Immortal-rank cultivation art! Let’s cultivate it together!”
Shangguan Lan was overjoyed, gripping the jade slip with both hands as she hopped about excitedly.
After memorizing the Boundless Longevity Art, you began cultivating on the spot with Shangguan Lan.
This cultivation art was precisely the complete version of the Longevity Art you had been cultivating. Thus, there was no need to start over from scratch.
As the complete version of the art began circulating, all the spiritual qi within the stone cave converged toward the two of you. The two of you madly absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven and earth.
The absorption speed of an Immortal-rank cultivation art was practically ten thousand times that of a Mystic-rank cultivation art!
Shangguan Lan, who had the lowest cultivation, started from the third layer of Qi Refinement and broke through three stages in a short time, quickly arriving at the sixth layer of Qi Refinement.
Moreover, her cultivation was still rising madly. To prevent Shangguan Lan’s foundation from becoming unstable, you quickly intervened to suppress it.
“Master?” Her cultivation no longer rising, Shangguan Lan opened her eyes in confusion and looked at you.
“No rush to break through. The foundation is what matters. Cultivate your other arts first.” You smiled faintly and took out the several cultivation arts you had practiced, letting Shangguan Lan cultivate them.
As for yourself, you fully circulated the Boundless Longevity Art. All the surrounding spiritual qi converged toward you, and your dantian — which had already reached the limit of the Foundation Establishment stage at ninety-nine zhang — actually expanded once again!
With a bo sound, your dantian finally expanded to one hundred zhang, breaking through the limit, and once it started, it could not be stopped.
Two hundred zhang, three hundred zhang, four hundred zhang…
Shangguan Lan, cultivating other arts at the side, watched you with a look of utter shock, because all the spiritual qi within the cave residence was converging toward you, forming a vortex of spiritual qi!
Your dantian was like a bottomless pit, madly absorbing, and it was still expanding.
No good. The spiritual qi here is almost completely absorbed by me, but my dantian still hasn’t expanded to its limit. You looked at your dantian, which had already reached eight hundred zhang, and thought to yourself.
Fuck it! You gritted your teeth and took out all the mid-grade spirit stones from your storage bag. A full ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones were laid out before you, and you began madly absorbing them.
Your dantian expanded once again, quickly reaching nine hundred zhang, nine hundred and ten zhang, nine hundred and twenty, nine hundred and thirty, nine hundred and forty…
Until the very last mid-grade spirit stone was absorbed by you, your dantian had expanded to nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang, unable to advance a single step further!
You looked at your dantian, which stretched beyond sight, and the excitement in your heart was difficult to suppress.
The depth of your foundation was unprecedented!
If you were to fight True Person Zidan again, you felt that with your current cultivation alone, you could crush him!
Even against a Nascent Soul Ancestor, it was not impossible to put up a fight!
The massive increase in strength also gave you a feeling of being invincible under heaven. You knew these were all illusions brought about by your cultivation rising too quickly.
Suppressing your swelling emotions, you slowly opened your eyes and looked at Shangguan Lan, who had long since been dumbfounded at your side.
“What are you thinking about?” You reached out and waved your hand in front of Shangguan Lan’s face.
“Master… you’re amazing!” Shangguan Lan’s eyes were filled with little stars as she looked at you. It was her first time witnessing such a shocking scene, and she had been greatly shaken.
“Let’s go. The spiritual qi here has been completely absorbed by me. There’s no need to stay any longer.” You rubbed Shangguan Lan’s head and rose to your feet first.
Not to mention, this hair really is quite comfortable to rub. Feels even more addictive than petting a cat. You thought to yourself.
Feeling the warmth atop her head, Shangguan Lan’s face reddened slightly as she rose and followed you out.
“Master, your disciple is hungry.” After a whole day of digging pits and burying people, then cultivating, Shangguan Lan rubbed her stomach. She had been starving for a long time.
Only then did you remember that Shangguan Lan was currently only a Qi Refinement cultivator and could not yet fully abstain from food.
“What do you want to eat? Master’s treat.”
Having spent so many years in the Great Qin Imperial City, Shangguan Lan was naturally familiar with the place. She quickly led you to a restaurant.
By the time you arrived at the restaurant, it was the Hour of Xu, the liveliest time of night life.
The first-floor hall of the restaurant was buzzing with voices. You asked the proprietor for a private room and were just about to head upstairs when you heard news about the Shangguan Estate.
“Did you hear? The Shangguan Estate is going to be razed by His Majesty!”
“Hisss, hasn’t no one gone to that place for half a year now?”
“An immortal wiped out the entire Shangguan Estate with a single strike. Who’d dare go? The corpses are still lying out in the open inside the estate!”
“Ah, truly pitiful. Actually, the people of the Shangguan Estate were all pretty decent…”
“Silence! If that person from back then hears this, be careful your little life doesn’t survive!”
Shangguan Lan’s body trembled. She whispered, “Master…”
“Let’s eat first. After we eat, Master will take you to the imperial palace.” You comforted her.
“Mm.”
After the meal, you brought Shangguan Lan flying on your sword. In the blink of an eye, you arrived at the imperial palace and met the current Emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty.
The Emperor of Great Qin was a middle-aged man in his thirties. Upon seeing the two of you, he immediately shouted at the top of his lungs. “Guards! Assassins! Help, quickly, help!”
No sooner had the words left his mouth than a cultivator at the seventh layer of Qi Refinement appeared, shielding the Emperor of Great Qin behind him, staring at the two of you with ill intent.
You took out the Mystic-rank low-grade Azure Luan Sword and handed it to Shangguan Lan. “Go up and try. Test the results of your cultivation.”
“Alright.” Shangguan Lan took the Azure Luan Sword, and as she looked at that seventh-layer Qi Refinement cultivator, her gaze gradually turned sharp.
At this moment, Shangguan Lan seemed to have become a different person in your eyes. Raising the Azure Luan Sword in her hand, she charged straight forward.
At first, Shangguan Lan had not yet adapted to her sixth-layer Qi Refinement cultivation. Under the opponent’s assault, she was in dire straits.
Gradually, as she grew accustomed to her cultivation, Shangguan Lan began to trade blows evenly with the opponent.
Having cultivated an Immortal-rank art, Shangguan Lan’s spiritual power at the sixth layer of Qi Refinement could already rival the seventh layer. And this was only the result of a single afternoon of cultivation.
In the end, Shangguan Lan — who had not yet cultivated any other arts — relied on the depth of her spiritual power to exhaust the opponent’s spiritual power and won!
Looking at the Emperor who had given up resistance at the side, you explained the matter of the Shangguan Estate.
In the end, the Emperor of Great Qin stated that he would designate the Shangguan Estate as a Forbidden Zone, forbidding anyone from entering.
With your objective achieved, you stayed one night at the Shangguan Estate and prepared to leave the next day.
Before departing, you set down a seal at the Shangguan Estate. Without Golden Core cultivation, any who entered would die!
Having settled your mortal affairs, you formally led Shangguan Lan into the world of cultivation!