Chapter 6: Talisman Seed
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
Originally, he had merely taken a mission to make a trip around the Mortal Continent.
He never imagined he would obtain such a tremendous stroke of fortune.
Zhao Zijing was beside himself with joy, his heart set on returning home.
He was eager to immediately return to his cave residence, enter secluded cultivation to comprehend it, and mold his Creation.
The moment this thought arose, Zhao Zijing, without a shred of hesitation, turned down the petty matter of the State of Song’s royal family requesting him to open his furnace and refine pills.
He spent about a month traveling around the various nations of the continent, gathering the disciples he was to recruit this time, then hurriedly crossed the sea and returned to the Immortal Continent.
After arriving at the Immortal Continent, Zhao Zijing sent the recruited disciples to the Immortal Academy and was just about to return to his cave residence.
Yet he received an invitation from the Immortal Academy, asking him to serve as the Academy’s Transmission Elder.
Zhao Zijing hesitated briefly, but still decided to accept.
After all, serving as the Immortal Academy’s Transmission Elder had always been the thing he dreamed of.
For one, it would spare him many tedious clan missions. For another, the Transmission Elder’s duties were light, leaving plenty of free time.
As for the matter he had once valued most — freeloading off the Immortal Academy’s resources.
Now it no longer mattered as much.
Thus, Zhao Zijing soon took up the post of the Immortal Academy’s Transmission Elder.
Every three days, he had to lecture the Academy’s disciples on the path of cultivation.
That day, Zhao Zijing’s first lecture began.
Looking at the crowd of new disciples below, the ones he had personally brought back, who had not yet formally stepped through the gate of cultivation.
Zhao Zijing’s brow furrowed slightly, but he still taught by the book, beginning to guide the disciples in cultivation.
“There is no end to cultivation.”
“Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Return to Void…”
“How far you can go depends entirely on your future diligence and fortune.”
“And the path of cultivation begins with Qi Refining.”
“What This Venerable shall impart to you today is precisely the profound secrets of the Qi Refinement Realm’s techniques.”
Zhao Zijing’s gaze was indifferent, ignoring the excitement and joy of the disciples below, as he continued.
“The techniques of the Qi Refinement Realm are the same as the internal cultivation methods you practiced in the mortal world. The focus of cultivation lies in refining essence into qi and drawing qi into the body.”
“But the greatest difference lies in the Immortal Talisman.”
“The Immortal Talisman is the divide between immortal and mortal.”
Zhao Zijing pointed a finger, and at once, an abstract three-dimensional character appeared in the Void, radiating a silver-white light, as if it were breathing, profoundly mysterious beyond words.
As the character in the Void breathed, like a filter, the originally colorless and odorless air was separated.
Clear qi rose, turbid qi sank, and the airflow became distinctly black and white.
Such a bizarre scene left all the disciples unable to conceal their shock.
“The inner true qi you refined in the mortal world using internal cultivation methods has not been purified by an Immortal Talisman. It is mottled and chaotic, filled with all kinds of impurities.”
“It can only be called qi, and does not amount to much as true qi.”
“Yet the true qi to be cultivated in the Qi Refinement Realm is the truly refined portion of heaven and earth’s primal qi.”
“Therefore, the cultivation of the first layer of Qi Refining is to condense an Immortal Talisman within your body.”
“Plant the Immortal Talisman, and the immortal gate opens on its own.”
Zhao Zijing taught by the book. After demonstrating all the details of the Immortal Talisman in the Void, he gestured for the disciples to line up and come forward.
Then, one by one, he drove the Immortal Talismans he had personally condensed into the disciples’ dantians.
“This Venerable has already, for