Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams

Although Li Honghu was unwilling, he could only nod sullenly.

"Senior Sister, once you condense the Samadhi True Fire, will you be able to go into seclusion and begin attempting a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm?"

Ning Zhen looked at him and gave a helpless smile. "You... breaking through to Nascent Soul is nowhere near as easy as you think."

"Don’t forget, from Purple Mansion to Nascent Soul, there are still the most terrifying Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations..."

"Alright, for now you should just focus on cultivating properly."

"Once your Senior Sister goes into seclusion, the lineage of Xuanyu Peak will have to rely on you to hold up our prestige. At the next Sea Cliff Grand Competition, you must distinguish yourself among the Nine Peaks and represent our Cyan Moon Dao Sect in battle."

Hearing this, Li Honghu’s expression instantly collapsed.

"Senior Sister is forcing me into something impossible."

"Among the Nine Peaks of Cyan Moon, with tens of thousands of fellow disciples, even you had to cultivate a Fifth Grade Immortal Technique to barely suppress the other eight peaks’ disciples. I only cultivate a Fourth Grade Immortal Technique—against senior and junior brothers from the other peaks, I have no advantage at all."

Listening to his complaints, Ning Zhen said with a half-smile, "The grade of an Immortal Technique is certainly important, but it’s not as if, just because your technique is inferior on paper, you have no way to suppress them."

Her voice paused for a moment, then she added, "Xuanyu Peak has been in the limelight for several decades. Master is quite pleased with himself right now. If you make him lose face, I don’t need to spell out the consequences, do I?"

As Ning Zhen’s words fell, she directly took out the flying boat crafted from deadwood.

"Come on, let’s go wander somewhere else."

Li Honghu drooped his head as he stepped onto the flying boat. The deadwood flying boat turned into a streak of flowing light and vanished into the skies of the Western Wilderness.

...

Yunshui City.

After traveling away from home for two years, Shen Li finally returned to the city.

After personally visiting Shen Chongming to put his mind at ease, Shen Li came to the Black Water Pavilion.

On the second floor, the grandfather and granddaughter sat facing each other.

Shen Li skillfully rinsed and brewed the tea. After busying herself for a bit, she poured two cups of fragrant tea and said softly, "Grandfather, when do you plan to break through to the Golden Core?"

Shen Yuan took the cup she handed over and smiled faintly.

For an ordinary Immortal Dao Cultivator, breaking through from Half-Step Golden Core to Golden Core is not considered too difficult.

However, his Half-Step Golden Core was vastly different from that of a normal Immortal Dao Cultivator.

Counting the Great Derivation Inner Core, he currently had six Inner Cores in his body. To break through, he must cultivate all six Inner Cores to a state of Mixed Element Unity.

After that, he might still have to consider whether his breakthrough would draw a single strand of Golden Nature heavenly tribulation or six strands of Golden Nature.

Everything had to be examined one by one to ensure that no mistakes could occur.

"Grandfather is in no hurry."

Sipping the tea in his hand, Shen Yuan chuckled as he spoke.

He still had plenty of remaining lifespan, and the current situation of the Shen Family was quite comfortable; they were not lacking this one Golden Core Cultivator.

More importantly, the last time he brought in Shen Chongxuan and learned from him of Shen Xiubai’s current schemes, a vague guess had emerged in his heart.

Yet this guess involved too much, and he did not dare lightly use the Power of Great Derivation to deduce it, so he could only verify his conjecture by carefully stripping away the layers.

If his guess proved correct, then not breaking through to Golden Core in the Yangnao Land might actually be a good thing.

After hearing this, Shen Li did not continue to press him. She put down the teacup in her hand, then waved and took a golden jade seal out of her Storage Bag.

"Grandfather, take a look at this."

Noticing the seal before him, a strange glint flashed in Shen Yuan’s eyes.

"This is the National Seal Treasure Seal you seized from that Lord of Fushan, the Wushi Puppet?"

Shen Li nodded and said in a low voice, "Li’Er can feel that this is a good item used by some Immortal Dynasty of Ancient Times to suppress their qi destiny."

"Grandfather can refine this item and use it to suppress the qi destiny of our Shen Family."

"Within Witchcraft and Gu Dao there is a technique of praying to the heavens for blessing and shifting fate. Only by condensing the fortune of our Shen Family into one can Li’Er in the future have a chance to borrow it to perform certain methods."

"Our Shen Family will also thereby gain many wondrous benefits."

After listening, Shen Yuan fell into thought.

Across his previous and current lives, he had also gained a certain understanding of Witchcraft and Gu Dao.

In his previous life, a ’Witch’ was a special existence within a power, able to communicate with the gods; they presided over sacrifices, prayed to the gods, and honored the ancestors.

Cultivators placed great importance on qi destiny. If the Shen Family had possessed something to suppress their luck in the past, that old fellow from the Huangsheng Sect likely would not have so easily used a Secret Skill to "borrow away" half of the Shen Family’s fortune.

"In that case, very well. Grandfather will find time to refine this seal and have it serve as the embodiment of authority for the main branch of our Shen Family."

A seal, since it was to be used as an item suppressing qi destiny, had to be endowed with authority.

Just like the National Seal of a country, in the future if the main house issued any decrees, they would also need this seal as the proof of their validity.

Just as Shen Yuan waved his hand and put the seal away, Shen Li again waved her hand and took out several Jade Bottles in front of him.

The instant those Jade Bottles were produced, a terrifying cold aura instantly spread throughout the entire second floor of the Black Water Pavilion.

The mud stove by their side, used to boil tea, showed signs of its flame going out under the shroud of this cold aura.

"What is this?"

Shen Yuan looked at those Jade Bottles in some surprise.

"This thing is called Cold Jade Marrow; it is a rare and precious treasure."

"Li’Er brought it back from Beidi County."

Shen Li explained the origin of the Cold Jade Marrow and then spoke of the ruin she had discovered in the Extreme North Snowfield of Beidi County.

Seeing how the cold qi emitted by this Cold Jade Marrow had already frozen and cracked the Jade Cup and teapot he had used for many years, Shen Yuan immediately waved his hand and collected the Jade Bottles in front of him into his Storage Bag.

"As for that ruin, discuss it with Chongming. How you specifically explore it, you two can decide together."

After Shen Li nodded, the grandfather and granddaughter chatted idly for a while longer. Then she left the Black Water Pavilion, intending to find Shen Chongming to discuss the exploration of the ruin beneath the ice in the Extreme North Snowfield.

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