Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 479: Chapter 479: Patron, Please Stop

The Chaotic Concealment Star Ring.

Its core function was to manifest obscurity, veil the Celestial Secret, and confound Cause and Effect!

Ordinary concealment methods mostly affected one’s aura and Divine Thought. However, when it came to the higher levels of Cause and Effect Lines and Celestial Secret Calculation, they were often rendered useless.

With a single thought that pierced the veil of the unseen, a Golden Core True Monarch could follow the subtle pull of Cause and Effect to perceive their target. This was the fundamental principle behind the "blast the fish and block the gate" tactic.

But the Chaotic Concealment Star Ring could disrupt the flow of the Celestial Secret from its very source.

The "Obscure Instrument Profound Drill" acted like a miniature black hole for the Celestial Secret. It could silently draw in, entangle, and warp any Cause and Effect Lines connected to the wearer, ultimately annihilating them within the "Chaotic Star Orbit" it generated. This made the wearer appear to a diviner as if they were shrouded in a constantly shifting, chaotic star-mist, their tracks untraceable, their Destiny hazy, and the trajectories of their past and future completely veiled.

In the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm, Magical Artifacts and Magical Treasures capable of veiling the Celestial Secret and confounding Cause and Effect were exceptionally rare. They could only be crafted with immense effort by great powers who were both Golden Core True Monarchs and masters of Artifact Refining. Moreover, most were considered critical Sect assets, held in the hands of True Monarchs or even Daoist Lords.

As for a Celestial Secret Treasure that a Foundation Establishment Cultivator could personally forge and wield as easily as their own limb—such a thing was utterly unheard of!

Only Xu Yunfan, relying on his Attribute Panel’s unerringly precise control over the Artifact Refining process and his profound understanding of the evolutionary dao of the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, could have pulled this off. Through countless, near-impossible attempts at smelting materials and nesting Runes, he had managed to seize the single path to success from among thousands of potential failures, channeling this power "to twist the Celestial Secret and form one’s own chaos" into this small bracelet.

As long as he didn’t do something suicidal like reveal himself before a Golden Core True Monarch, he could rely on the power of this ring. By combining it with the Turtle Breath Concealing God Technique to completely conceal his aura, and the Green Dragon Thunder Pearl Locking Tribulation and Calming Fortune Technique to suppress any stray qi fluctuations, the three effects combined would be enough. Under the Celestial Secret’s reflection and any causal tracing by a True Monarch, he would become a patch of "primordial chaos"—difficult to lock onto, and impossible to see through.

This was one of the sources of his confidence, daring him to take this risk as a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator and even scheme to trigger a gambit on a much higher level!

After a long while, he immersed his Heart and Spirit in the core of his Dao Foundation. His progress in cultivating the Grotto Heaven Grafting Technique had also stabilized at the introductory stage.

The Attribute Panel clearly marked the locations of several fatal traps within the version taught by Bai Yue, which he had already corrected during his Cultivation.

His Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment Realm had long since been pushed to its peak. The Arctic Purple Micro Zhen Sha Xuan Qi was exceptionally stable, and his four Divine Techniques cycled endlessly.

All that was left was to travel to the Divine Martial Realm and harvest Root Origin Qi. Once that was done, he could immediately break through to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.

Through the window, he gazed into the vast depths of the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm.

It was time.

The deadly Luo Net laid by True Monarch Qing Yuan was waiting for him to step into it.

He couldn’t go in the direction of the Primordial Sect; the relationship between True Monarch Dong Ming and Qingyuan was impossible to gauge.

The only variable that could disrupt this game lay to the south.

That austere, deadly land where Wansheng Sword Qi had sliced through mountain ranges and Pure Yang Sharpness had pierced the sea of clouds.

The Wansheng Sword Sect!

’With Han Shi as my final gambit and the aura of the Wansheng Sword Transformation Technique... I’ll use their own strength against them on this trip, luring Pure Yang into the game. It all comes down to whether this risky move—using myself as bait—can win me a sliver of a chance to turn the tables before the throne of that True Monarch of Sword Dao who watches from the clouds.’

Xu Yunfan’s eyes glinted. Without further hesitation, he concealed his form and headed straight out of Cold Crow Pass.

In the most remote corner of the Cold Crow Pass Market, the middle-aged man who had been sitting as still as a withered tree suddenly frowned.

His calloused fingers unconsciously caressed a Taiping Tongbao Coin as a strange glint flashed in the depths of his murky eyes.

"Hm?"

He let out a rare sound of surprise, his wrinkled face showing astonishment for the first time.

The divining motions of his fingertips suddenly accelerated. A faint golden light shimmered between his knuckles, then vanished in an instant.

But the tracks of the Celestial Secret, which were normally clear as day, were now shrouded in a thick fog, making it impossible to discern Xu Yunfan’s whereabouts.

"Interesting..."

Before his hoarse voice finished speaking, his figure had already dissipated like a phantom in the bustling Marketplace.

The hawking Loose Cultivators nearby continued to haggle, and not a single one of them noticed the bizarre scene.

It was as if the fortune-teller, who had kept a stall here for years, had never existed.

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The world’s Four Continents were all separated by a vast, celestial river.

This was no ordinary river of water, but a congregation of countless floating meteorites. Starlight permeated the space between them, dazzling to behold, yet hiding lethal dangers.

The celestial river appeared to be only a few hundred miles wide, but in truth, it contained endless torrents of chaotic void energy and was ravaged by stellar Gang Evil.

If a Qi Refining Cultivator were to rush in recklessly, they would be instantly ground to dust, with no hope for even their Divine Soul to escape.

Only the channels carved out by generations of Foundation Establishment Daoist Masters using their supreme Magical Power offered safe passage.

These channels crisscrossed like a spiderweb, but they were hidden deep within the celestial river, difficult to find for anyone not intimately familiar with the routes.

The inner walls of the channels were covered in profound Runes that emitted a faint Spiritual Light, keeping the violent Power of Stars at bay.

If a Cultivator wished to cross this celestial river, they had to follow these paths forged by their predecessors to safely reach the other shore.

The Southern Continent, territory of the Wansheng Sword Sect.

Xu Yunfan glanced at the celestial river behind him and couldn’t help but be amazed.

Despite having guarded Cold Crow Pass on the Primordial Sect’s border for many years, this was his first time crossing the celestial river that separated the Four Continents.

Needless to say, the dangers within were immense. If a Qi Refining Cultivator tried to barge through recklessly as he just had, even with a Magical Treasure for protection, they would be bombarded by countless meteorites and shaken to death.

He naturally wouldn’t use a Cross-border Transmission Array to come and go. A Daoist Master from the Primordial Sect would be spotted the instant they used one.

Xu Yunfan found a random Loose Cultivator nearby and used the True Martial Demon Devouring Technique to search their memories. Afterward, he casually tossed some Spiritual Materials onto the man as compensation.

Given the man’s meager Early-Stage Qi Cultivation, these Spiritual Materials were more than enough to help him reach the Mid-Stage of Qi Cultivation.

’I guess I really am a good person!’

Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but reflect that he was, after all, a lotus rising unstained from the mud. If it had been any other Foundation Establishment Daoist Master from the Primordial Sect, they wouldn’t have just performed a Soul Search; they would have dismembered the body and put every last part to use.

The Wansheng Sword Sect dominated the central lands of the Southern Continent.

Its gate was located on a majestic Sword Peak that seemed to connect heaven and earth. The peak itself was straight as a blade, glinting with a cold light as it rose from the ground and pierced tens of thousands of feet into the sky.

The summit was perennially shrouded in a Gang Wind formed from Sharp Sword Qi. From a distance, the entire mountain resembled an unsheathed, peerless Divine Sword, its brilliant edge exposed, inspiring awe in all directions.

It was both the gate of the Wansheng Sword Sect and one of the most striking landmarks in the Southern Continent.

The Southern Continent was the domain of the Righteous Dao. A Demon Dao Daoist Master from the Primordial Sect like him would naturally be hunted on sight.

Xu Yunfan had no intention of revealing his identity. He cultivated the True Martial Demon Suppression Scripture and practiced the True Martial Vast Technique, embodying the principle of "All Evil Beaten Away." As long as he didn’t admit he was from the Primordial Sect, who could possibly identify him as a Demon Dao Daoist Master?

Just as he was about to head toward the Wansheng Sword Sect, a mellow, serene voice suddenly spoke from behind him.

"Patron, please wait."

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