The Modern Martial Immortal

Within the Heavenly Dao Sect, the terrifying pressure that had enveloped the summit of the Nine Cauldrons Peak three years ago had grown weaker and weaker, and now it had completely vanished.

It was as if an enormous celestial body had directly entered a parallel space, no longer able to exert any influence on the material world.

My grotto-heaven has evolved to its limit. Next, I'll need to make targeted adjustments according to the Dao Technique I choose. Yaoguang thought.

Yaoguang’s figure stood amid a distorted stretch of space.

At first glance, he seemed close enough to touch, but upon closer inspection, he seemed to be in another world entirely.

"The five divine abilities I cultivated before have also naturally evolved into Dao Techniques." As Yaoguang spoke, he lowered his head and looked at his body, where streams of starlight were washing over him.

It was the Starlight Glass Body that pointed straight toward the Great Dao of stars.

A moment later, he seemed to think of something. His figure flickered and appeared at the edge of the mountain peak.

This was the Dao Technique that had evolved from the Nine Heavenly Transformations, Void Flicker.

As for the remaining three Dao Techniques—the Void Sword that had evolved from the Space-Splitting Strike, the Supreme Selflessness that had evolved from the Supreme Emotional Detachment, and the Heaven-Devouring Kunpeng Technique, whose name had not changed—he was too lazy to display them one by one.

Especially as, if he were not careful, his mountain peak might be split open by the Void Sword.

"I’ve already reached the Void-Piercing Realm. The Wandering Dragon Sword does not help me much anymore. In that case... It's time to try it."

Yaoguang formed a sword seal with his fingers, and the Wandering Dragon Sword quickly appeared, circling around him.

Sensing the spirituality revealed by this flying sword, he said, "Little one, I will give you a fortune. But whether you can grasp this fortune will depend on you."

He held the sword. After so many years of meticulous nurturing, it was finally time to verify the results.

"Refinement... begin," he said.

He activated the Dao Entry ability. The next moment, the latent Dao resonance within this top-tier spirit treasure was triggered.

All of the Wandering Dragon Sword’s potential was fully revealed before him.

However, unlike before, when he could more or less only rely on the spirit treasure’s own efforts, this time, having already reached the Void-Piercing Realm, he perceived the power of the void within the Wandering Dragon Sword with incomparable precision.

More accurately, it was the part that belonged to void cutting.

He guided the power of void cutting to accommodate all the Dao resonance within the Wandering Dragon Sword, allowing it to grow and strengthen rapidly.

When the Dao resonance of the other materials within the sword had been fully consumed and devoured, a formless blade of the void suddenly burst from it.

"It worked." A trace of a smile appeared in Yaoguang’s eyes.

The Wandering Dragon Sword had directly completed its transformation from a top-tier spirit treasure into a Dao Artifact.

And it was a Dao Artifact that perfectly matched the Void Sword, which could further evolve into other Dao Techniques like the Great Void Cleave.

With the upgraded Wandering Dragon Sword, the power of the Dao Technique in his hands had doubled.

Void-Piercing Realm cultivators, and even Void-Refining Realm peak masters, lineage leaders, and deputy sect masters would not dare to take a slash of his sword head-on.

"This is a method capable of threatening Void-Refining Realm cultivators." As Yaoguang spoke, he turned his gaze toward the Longxiang Flying Vessel...

"Unfortunately, the Longxiang Flying Vessel is a long-distance travel-type flying Dao Artifact. It is not very compatible with Dao Techniques like Void Flicker, which require rapid activation to break through space. If I want to upgrade a Dao Artifact that matches Void Flicker, I can only start with the Two-Realm Ruler. If the Two-Realm Ruler can transform into a Dao Artifact according to my intentions, then against a Void-Refining Realm cultivator, even if I cannot defeat them, I should still have a very high chance of retreating safely."

Of course, that was assuming the other party did not possess a void-sealing Dao Artifact and had not mastered a similar Dao Technique.

Even so, his next priority was still to upgrade the Two-Realm Ruler.

As he thought about that, Yaoguang’s gaze fell upon the Wandering Dragon Sword.

He recalled the process of the Wandering Dragon Sword's transformation into a Dao Artifact and began to form some ideas.

If ordinary refiners want to forge a Dao Artifact, putting aside the time spent collecting materials, the process from starting the refinement to successfully producing the Dao Artifact alone takes a very long time. Depending on their refinement skills, it often takes decades or even centuries. In the end, there is even a possibility of failure. It is precisely because of this that Dao Artifacts are both rare and expensive. In the entire Heavenly Dao Sect, even among all the peak masters, lineage leaders, and deputy sect masters, fewer than half have Dao Artifacts... Yaoguang thought.

Of course, perhaps some people kept their Dao Artifacts hidden in order to conceal their strength, but even then, the proportion of Void-Refining Realm cultivators who possessed Dao Artifacts would reach sixty percent at most.

Even from this alone, one could see how precious and rare Dao Artifacts were.

Other refiners exhaust their minds and strength to forge Dao Artifacts, but I can enlighten the artifact spirit of a spirit treasure, even using the Spirit Nurturing Technique and Treasure Refinement Technique to let the spirit treasure cultivate on its own. Once the timing is right, I can use Dao Entry to take a gamble. Although there is a chance of failure, with my level 15 refinement skill, which is enough to refine top-tier Dao Artifacts, my success rate should absolutely be above fifty percent. Yaoguang weighed the matter.

A success rate of fifty percent was decent.

The key was that it was efficient and required little attention. He only needed to focus on the process every once in a while.

Through this method, he could raise a top-tier spirit treasure to the standard required for Dao Entry in less than five years.

Even after accounting for failures caused by bad luck, eight to ten years should be enough to produce one Dao Artifact.

I can minimize the cost of producing a Dao Artifact to within one million Pure Yang Grand Pills. Even if I squander money to improve the efficiency and raise the success rate, I'd spend no more than ten or twenty million Pure Yang Grand Pills. But once I refine a Dao Artifact, its selling price will exceed a billion. That is a hundredfold profit.

How much experience would the Merchant branch gain like that?

Thinking of this, Yaoguang could no longer sit still.

He took a look at the ancient tree in his mental world...

The Alchemist branch had finally been unlocked, but he had no use for it at the moment. The income from selling Dao Artifacts would be enough to sustain his daily expenses.

Besides, advancing from the Void-Piercing Realm to the Void-Refining Realm only required deepening his comprehension.

The cultivation stage of the Void-Refining Realm, on the other hand, had very high requirements in terms of material wealth.

As for the Void-Shattering Realm, it also seemed to be a realm that placed more emphasis on comprehension.

Observing the Three Thousand Great Dao and improving one’s understanding of the Great Dao until one's life-bound Dao Technique reached perfection. Then, with the Dao Seed refined through the life-bound Dao Technique, merge with the Dao and become a Dao Lord.

For this kind of realm, Yaoguang had always been able to walk it relatively easily by relying on high-dimensional cognition.

At this rate, the Void-Refining Realm will delay me for a while. But as long as I get through the Void-Refining Realm, the time it takes me to become a Dao Lord should not be too long. I think it might take roughly one hundred years... Yaoguang pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

He had not even reached the Void-Shattering Realm yet, and his understanding of the Void-Shattering Realm was based entirely on hearsay. He did not know the specifics at all. Under such circumstances, already thinking about becoming a Dao Lord within a hundred years was rather arrogant, as if he did not place those Void-Shattering Realm experts who were bitterly stuck before the threshold of the Dao Lord Realm, or those who had survived countless brushes with death before finally merging with the Dao, in his eyes.

After concealing the Dao resonance emitted by the Wandering Dragon Sword, which had advanced into a Dao Artifact, Yaoguang waved his hand, and the clouds and mist covering the main peak immediately dispersed.

As soon as the clouds and mist over the main peak scattered, Nine Cauldrons Peak’s chief supervisor, Lyu Suoyu, and the nine supervisors immediately realized that Yaoguang had ended his seclusion. Without needing any notice, the group quickly arrived below the main peak and waited to be summoned.

Beside the square, inside a rather elegant pavilion, Yaoguang said, "Come up."

The group immediately ascended the main peak.

"Greetings, Young Sect Master."

"Did anything happen during these three years?" Yaoguang looked at the endless sea of clouds ahead and asked.

"The Chi family’s ancestor, Chi Yu, sent a generous gift and said it was obtained from exterminating the Xuan family."

"Elder Tong Ming, a Void-Piercing Realm cultivator of the heavenly lineage, came to visit two years ago. He also left a gift behind, saying that he wished to apologize to you for the matters concerning the Chaotic Sea and the Deep-Blue Sea."

"Ling Ruogu, a Void-Piercing Realm cultivator of the Ling family, once came to visit you. After learning that you had not yet emerged from seclusion, he and Ling Xi offered a generous gift together before leaving..."

Everyone reported the matters one by one.

"Has any true disciple reached the Void-Piercing Realm?" Yaoguang asked, "Not only in the Heavenly Dao Sect, but also in the Taiyi Immortal Sect."

"No," Chief Steward Lyu Suoyu replied. "Among the Ten Great Immortal Dao Sects, no true disciple has advanced within the past three years! There have been no changes among the top ten of the Void-Piercing Realm Candidate Rankings either. However..."

"No one in the entire Ten Great Immortal Dao Sects has reached the Void-Piercing Realm?" Yaoguang asked.

Yaoguang had no interest in changes on the Void-Piercing Realm Candidate Rankings, but...

"Every true disciple who has formed an Azure Golden Core usually has a thirty to forty percent chance of advancing to the Void-Piercing Realm... Yet now, after three years, not a single true disciple from the entire Ten Great Immortal Dao Sects has advanced to the Void-Piercing Realm? Added together, there should be at least a thousand true disciples of the Ten Great Immortal Dao Sects, right?" He was truly somewhat surprised.

"There are one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight true disciples listed among the Ten Great Immortal Dao Sects," Lyu Suoyu answered truthfully. "And you asked about true disciples advancing to the Void-Piercing Realm. An Azure Golden Core cultivator advancing to the Void-Piercing Realm and a true disciple advancing to the Void-Piercing Realm are not the same thing. If a true disciple does not enter the Void-Piercing Realm before the age of three hundred, they will automatically become an officer. However, before three hundred years of age, those who really have a decent chance of attempting a breakthrough to the Void-Piercing Realm are a small minority. Most Azure Golden Core cultivators who attempt to reach the Void-Piercing Realm are usually five or six hundred years old by then, and they are no longer true disciples."

After hearing this, Yaoguang understood. It was about age.

If he remembered correctly, Yan Huang seemed to be over two hundred and sixty years old.

Ling Xi had also cultivated for more than two hundred and thirty years.

When considering a Golden Core cultivator’s thousand-year lifespan, this was equivalent to an ordinary person in their mid-twenties. Yet, they were already considered almost too old compared to true elites.

"Besides, competition on North Sea Star is extremely intense. Even among powerful Azure Golden Core cultivators, less than half survive long enough to attempt breaking through to the Void-Piercing Realm. Many perish along the way, or they are forced to switch to the path of battle immortals. In other words, out of the eighty-eight true disciples in one generation, fewer than ten will ultimately succeed in reaching the Void-Piercing Realm."

"Fewer than ten..."

And that was under the condition that the time span of one generation of true disciples was extended to five or six hundred years, or even seven or eight hundred years.

When Yaoguang heard this number, he finally realized why the birth of every Void-Piercing Realm cultivator was worthy of a top sect holding a grand banquet for all under heaven.

His own breakthrough to the Void-Piercing Realm had been relatively simple, so he felt that other people should break through to the Void-Piercing Realm just as easily.

But in reality, the path to the Void-Piercing Realm was far more difficult than he had imagined.

His standing as a Void-Piercing Realm cultivator who had risen directly from true disciple to young sect master was even greater than he had expected.

"Where are the gifts from those elders?" Yaoguang asked.

Lyu Suoyu quickly handed over several storage treasures.

Yaoguang scanned through them one by one. Most of them contained Void Dao Pills. In addition, there were also some void-type materials.

Since he had a special physique related to the void, these materials were perfectly suitable.

Yaoguang looked through them for a moment and soon noticed something. "A Void Realm Stone?"

They were even willing to give away a natural treasure worth ten million Pure Yang Grand Pills?!

"Whose storage treasure is this?" Yaoguang immediately asked.

"It is Elder Tong Ming’s," Lyu Suoyu answered at once.

Yaoguang looked at the Void Realm Stone inside and understood why this elder had given such a huge gift.

Recalling the process of this elder targeting him, although there had been conflict, he had not caused Yaoguang any substantial harm. Moreover, what he had done had not exceeded the bounds of his authority...

Of course, in a place like the North Sea Star, people did not consider questions of authority or no authority. If one made a mistake, one had to pay the price.

And one Void Realm Stone was worth more than ten million. If things went smoothly, it might even allow his Two-Realm Ruler to complete its transformation into a Dao Artifact. As compensation, it was just about enough.

He had just become a young sect master and still needed to build up power within the Heavenly Dao Sect, so it wouldn't be wise to make too many enemies.

With that, he nodded. "Prepare a banquet for me. I want to invite Elder Chi Yu, Elder Tong Ming, and Elder Ling Ruogu. I have matters to discuss with them."

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