Chapter 34: Sect-Suppressing Art, Grand Void Spirit Refining Formula
You learned from Qingyunzi what you were to do next.
First, you had to firmly secure your position as First Elder.
Second, you had to stand unwaveringly on Qingyunzi's side and not defect to the Vice Sect Master.
Third, you had to prepare for the Five Great Sects Outer Sect Disciple Grand Tournament four years from now.
You agreed without the slightest hesitation, and gained no small amount of benefits from Qingyunzi.
Third-rank pills required for Golden Core cultivation, free for you to use at will.
The first four floors of the sect's Treasure Pavilion, cultivation arts free for you to practice.
At the same time, there were some other privileges as well.
Returning to the cave residence, Shangguan Lan, lying on the bed, saw you come back and struggled to rise.
You hastily stopped her, pondered for a moment, and praised her. "Well done, winning a battle across two stages."
"It is all thanks to Master's teaching." Shangguan Lan's originally cold and indifferent face instantly bloomed into a smile.
"Four years from now, at the Five Great Sects Outer Sect Disciple Grand Tournament, I want you to take first place. Do you have confidence?"
"I will not fail Master's expectations!"
"Mm, rest well. Early tomorrow morning, I'll take you to the Treasure Pavilion to select a cultivation art." You gave Shangguan Lan a few instructions, then turned and left.
Early the next morning, at the Soul-Refining Sect's Treasure Pavilion, you arrived on time with Shangguan Lan.
"First Elder!" The Elder in charge of guarding the Treasure Pavilion hurriedly rose and saluted upon seeing you.
You waved your hand and explained your purpose.
"First Elder, please. Aside from the fifth floor, First Elder may go anywhere."
You nodded to show you understood. What was stored on the fifth floor was the Soul-Refining Sect's Sect-Guarding Art. Apart from the successive generations of Sect Masters, no one was permitted to set foot there.
"You just look around the first three floors. Cultivation arts of too high a rank are still beyond your use for now." You looked toward Shangguan Lan and instructed her.
"Mm mm, your disciple understands." Shangguan Lan stood to the side, exceedingly well-behaved.
You arrived at the fourth floor. The cultivation arts placed here were not many, only five in total, but every one of them was an Earth-Rank technique!
You, who possessed two Immortal-rank cultivation arts, were not particularly interested in these five cultivation arts before you.
Just as you were about to leave, Qingyunzi suddenly appeared and said to you with a smile, "Fellow Daoist has no interest in these cultivation arts?"
"The cultivation arts are decent, but not suitable for me." You thought for a moment and said, giving Qingyunzi some face.
Qingyunzi nodded to show he understood.
"I wonder if Fellow Daoist would be willing to go to the fifth floor and take a look at my Soul-Refining Sect's Sect-Guarding Art?" Qingyunzi said to you with a smile.
"Oh? If the Sect Master invites me, this one is willing to go." You agreed gladly. As for the rules? The Sect Master himself was leading the way. Who would still care about those crappy rules?
The two of you arrived at the entrance to the fifth floor. Qingyunzi took out the Sect Master's token and lifted the restriction on the fifth floor, successfully bringing you inside.
On the fifth floor of the Treasure Pavilion, there was nothing in all four directions. Only in the very center was a single golden slip of paper.
The Soul-Refining Sect, one of the Five Great Sects, and their Sect-Guarding object was actually a golden slip of paper? You found it somewhat hard to believe. You stepped forward and took a look, and you found it somewhat familiar!
"This is my Soul-Refining Sect's Sect-Guarding Art, the Soul-Refining Immortal Art!" Qingyunzi was quite proud, and he continued, "Do not be fooled by it being merely a piece of paper. The cultivation art recorded within can temper a cultivator's divine sense!"
"Temper divine sense?" Your heart stirred. This kind of cultivation art was an extremely rare existence!
"If an ordinary cultivator wishes to strengthen their divine sense, they can only do so by continuously raising their cultivation, slowly growing their divine sense." Qingyunzi said proudly, "But with this Soul-Refining Immortal Art, with your Golden Core stage cultivation, you can possess divine sense comparable to a Nascent Soul stage cultivator!"
"At that time, Fellow Daoist Wuji, with body, technique, and spirit all cultivated, you would be unrivalled within your same stage!"
You were moved. The matter of the Azure Cloud Sect's Sect Master launching a divine sense attack on you earlier, nearly causing your death and Dao dissolution, was something you still remembered to this day.
That kind of scenario, you had no desire to experience a second time!
"What do you need me to do this time?" You took the initiative to speak. In this world, there was no such thing as a benefit for no reason.
"Haha! Fellow Daoist Wuji is straightforward!" Qingyunzi smiled faintly, then waved his hand dismissively. "What I need you to do, I have not yet decided. When I eventually work it out, we can discuss it then."
"Now, Fellow Daoist Wuji may go up and comprehend it."
"Aren't you afraid I'll take the benefit and not do the work?" Your face was full of suspicion. "This cultivation art doesn't happen to have some trap, does it?"
"Ahem, the cultivation art naturally has no problem. It's just whether you can comprehend its contents that will depend on Fellow Daoist's own efforts." Qingyunzi was somewhat embarrassed. After all, even he had been unable to comprehend the Sect-Guarding Art.
"What the successive generations of Sect Masters of my Soul-Refining Sect could not comprehend, I refuse to believe you, an outsider, can comprehend it!" Qingyunzi thought to himself. "Trade a cultivation art that cannot be comprehended, and I still earn a favor from you for free. This business is a huge win!"
Looking at Qingyunzi's expression, you had already guessed what Qingyunzi was scheming, but you did not refuse.
"I need to go into secluded cultivation here for a while. As for my disciple, I'll trouble Fellow Daoist to look after her for a bit." You came before the golden slip of paper and began to comprehend it.
Qingyunzi stayed in place watching you for a while, then turned and left. As the Sect Master, he still had many important matters to handle. It was impossible for him to keep watching you here the whole time.
You extended your divine sense into it and began to comprehend.
Three days later, your face was pale. This was a sign of excessive divine sense consumption. Over these three days, you had gained nothing.
Just when you were at your wit's end, you suddenly thought of the unremarkable slip of paper in the Azure Cloud Sect's Sect Master's storage bag.
You hurriedly took it out and placed it in your hand, examining it carefully.
"It looks the same size. Even the material is about the same. Could it be…!" You hastily covered the slip in your hand over it. The two slips of paper instantly merged into one, emitting a dazzling light!
After the light faded, characters immediately surfaced on the golden paper.
You could not read them, but there was also no need for you to read them, because the moment your divine sense probed into it, you instantly understood the mysteries of the cultivation art!
Use the power of divine sense to roam the Taixu. The longer the divine sense roams within the Taixu, the faster the divine sense grows.
Likewise, while divine sense roams the Taixu, it may also encounter all manner of unimaginable dangers. Once the divine sense is severely wounded, or else unable to return to the main body.
Then the main body would very likely become an idiot!
It was truly a case of risk and opportunity coexisting!
Furthermore, this cultivation art was not called the Soul-Refining Immortal Art, but rather the Taixu Spirit-Refining Art. This was a cultivation art with no rank. How high one could cultivate it all depended on the person cultivating it!