Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

After that, Lao Deren came twice more, each time trying his best to persuade him to join the Star Moon Sect's camp. Zhang Yuanjing simply refused. Lao Deren didn't force it, and spoke of other things, even exchanging the two main materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills, silver-patterned fruit and azure grass, for that living golden-striped eagle in the late Qi Activation realm.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, more than two months had passed, and the time to go to Xuan Yin Mountain was getting closer. Zhang Yuanjing had been stifling himself in the courtyard for a long time, and his stillness made him want to move, so he opened the courtyard door, stopped the attendant Qi Refining disciples, and walked to the garden on the side.

The Water Moon Pavilion occupies a large area, with half of the space reserved, ten acres of lake water dug out, pavilions and towers built, with flying eaves and painted corners, and many kinds of bamboo, tall pines, precious flowers and jade grass. The lake surface is filled with spiritual energy, mist and flowing clouds, making it a good blessed place. On the outer side, a circle of corridors connects the buildings, creating a secluded and interesting atmosphere.

Zhang Yuanjing walked along the corridor for dozens of steps, and saw a small pavilion in front of him, where two monks were talking. One of them saw Zhang Yuanjing and immediately asked loudly, "Is that Fellow Daoist Zhang? I am Wu Jixiong, do you still remember me? Please come over and have a chat!"

Wu Jixiong? The one who used the superb magic weapon Dragon Binding Vine to trade with me for the Millennium Nine-Leaf Yellow Dusk Grass at the trade fair organized by Lao Deren!

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but smile dumbly. It seemed that this person had also successfully broken through the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment and came here to try his luck.

So he strode forward and entered the pavilion.

The two people in the pavilion had already stood up. One was a handsome middle-aged monk with a feminine temperament, wearing a green shirt, who was Wu Jixiong. The other was an old Taoist with a red face and a long beard.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, are you well? Wu is being polite!" Wu Jixiong cupped his fists and saluted. Then he pointed to the old Taoist beside him and said, "This is Qing Weihong, the current patriarch of the Lanjiang Qing Clan!"

The old Taoist made a bow and said modestly, "There is no such thing as a patriarch. Poor Dao Qing Weihong has met Fellow Daoist Zhang."

Zhang Yuanjing didn't know where Lanjiang was at all, but since he was the head of a clan, he must have come from a small cultivating family, so he quickly returned the salute: "Poor Dao Zhang Jing, has met the two fellow Daoists! It has been twenty years since I parted ways with Fellow Daoist Wu, and I didn't expect to have the opportunity to meet again, which is a fortunate thing!"

"Yes, the world is so big, if it weren't for this Xuan Yin Cave, I'm afraid it would be difficult to see each other again. It just so happens that we borrowed this blessed place from the Star Moon Sect to reminisce and chat!"

Wu Jixiong smiled and said, "A few days ago, I heard from a few well-informed fellow Daoists that a Golden Core stage senior escorted a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator into the city, almost causing a conflict between the Star Moon Sect and the Five Sects. They described the appearance of the Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Wu Mou felt familiar as soon as he heard it. Later, I thought about it, isn't this Fellow Daoist Zhang! It's just that I don't know which room Fellow Daoist lives in, and I have never had the chance to meet you. It is a coincidence that we met here today, and it is destined that you and I, old friends, will have a meeting before going to that deadly place."

Zhang Yuanjing also nodded and sighed, and then asked with some surprise: "I see that Fellow Daoist Wu's spiritual energy is lively, and his lifespan should still be quite long. Why did you come here to take risks?"

Wu Jixiong looked helpless and said with a wry smile: "To be honest, Wu Mou still has sixty or seventy years of lifespan left. I originally planned to travel around to find opportunities for breakthroughs. It's just... alas, it's just because I joined the Spirit Control Sect back then, and I have such a connection, so they found me and threatened my family, so I had to come here to fight for my life."

Speaking, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Qing Weihong, "Fellow Daoist Qing is no different from Wu Mou!"

Qing Weihong shook his head and sighed, "Qing Mou is not as good as Fellow Daoist Wu, and I don't have many years to live. However, Qing Mou didn't plan to come here in the first place. It's not another opportunity, but I really don't have any hope for this Xuan Yin Cave. Alas, my Lanjiang Qing Clan is a cultivating family under the Heavy Sword Sect. How dare I disobey the orders of the upper sect."

Zhang Yuanjing's expression changed, and he asked, "So, you two are from the Five Sects camp?"

Wu Jixiong stretched out his hand and touched his storage bag, took out a cyan talisman, and gently pinched it. A layer of cyan light罩 slowly opened, enveloping the three of them.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, please forgive me. This place is under the surveillance of the Golden Core stage cultivators of the Star Moon Sect. To prevent accidents, Wu Mou has set up a simple divine sense isolation array."

Zhang Yuanjing said calmly: "It's okay."

At this time, Wu Jixiong sighed quietly, and pressed his two slender white palms heavily on the stone table in front of him, and said angrily: "The Great Perfection cultivators of the Five Sects are afraid of death and don't want to come, so they force us affiliated sects or casual cultivators with some connections to come and get chestnuts out of the fire for them. They say they are giving us a great opportunity, but in reality, they are just letting us come to die. Fellow Daoist Zhang, do you think we are from the Five Sects camp?"

Zhang Yuanjing listened to his words full of grief and indignation, which did not seem to be fake, but he did not completely believe his words, but nodded along with the meaning of his words.

Qing Weihong continued: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, do you know that the task assigned by the Star Moon Sect to the casual cultivators is to block the Five Sects cultivators, and two heads can be exchanged for a Enlightenment Pill. What is the task assigned to us by the Five Sects? Hehe, naturally it is to counter-kill the Star Moon Sect cultivators! As for the reward, there is none! According to some Golden Core elders of the Five Sects, the other party is going to kill you, so you have to kill them back? You have to kill them back whether there is a reward or not. Could it be that you are just standing there waiting to die? Hehe, it's really too reasonable!"

Zhang Yuanjing said in astonishment: "How can the Five Sects' actions convince people!"

Seeing that Zhang Yuanjing didn't believe it, Wu Jixiong quickly added: "It's not as unbearable as Fellow Daoist Qing said. The Five Sects don't have Enlightenment Pills, but they will give our family some rewards, such as inner sect disciple quotas, pills, spiritual weapons, and the like. Of course, if you dare to disobey the order, the punishment will also be imposed on the family."

Zhang Yuanjing nodded. The Five Sects' move really grasped the key points of these cultivators from cultivating families. Unless they regard their families as nothing, they can only obey orders.

He suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask: "Please forgive me for being presumptuous, do the two fellow Daoists know what the Star Moon Sect and the Five Sects are driving so many Foundation Establishment cultivators into the Xuan Yin Cave for, and putting on a posture of fighting each other?"

Wu Jixiong and Qing Weihong shook their heads in unison when they heard this.

Wu Jixiong said: "Wu Mou and Fellow Daoist Qing have also exchanged information with a few familiar fellow Daoists. What everyone knows is limited. We only know that the Star Moon Sect will carry out a conspiracy against the Five Sects in the Xuan Yin Cave, and the Five Sects will try to stop it. As for what the specific conspiracy is, there are different opinions, but they are all just guessing, and they are not worth mentioning. Unless you enter the Xuan Yin Cave and track down the direct line cultivators of the Six Sects, you won't be able to understand the truth of the matter."

Zhang Yuanjing remembered what Guan Yinglong said, that there would be strange objects in the Xuan Yin Cave that Golden Core stage cultivators would desperately seek, but neither Lao Deren nor Wu Jixiong seemed to know anything about it. Could it be that the Five Sects cultivators entered the Xuan Yin Cave for that strange object, while the Star Moon Sect cultivators tried to cut off the Xuan Yin King Grass? However, what is the relationship between that strange object and the Xuan Yin King Grass?

"Do the Five Sects cultivators let you act alone? Are they not afraid that you will slack off?" Zhang Yuanjing asked again.

Wu Jixiong smiled self-deprecatingly, pointed to his head, and said, "Fellow Daoist, haven't you seen that we all have a straw tag stuck on our heads: Five Sects cultivators, two heads for one pill! If we slack off, we will probably die in the hands of the casual cultivators on the Star Moon Sect's side."

Zhang Yuanjing was stunned, and a sense of absurdity suddenly surged in his heart: "Alas, I remember that Fellow Daoist Wu accepted Fellow Daoist Lao's invitation to go to Xianyun Lake in Boyue Mountain to participate in the trade fair. I think you and he are also old friends, but now you have divided into camps and are competing for life in front of each other. It's really God's will!"

Qing Weihong interjected: "Fellow Daoist, you are wrong. What does this have to do with God's will? It's purely because the Five Sects are too deceiving!"

Wu Jixiong looked at Zhang Yuanjing and asked directly, "Which camp did Fellow Daoist Zhang join? I think it must not be the Five Sects!"

Zhang Yuanjing said: "I didn't join either side. Poor Dao just wants to collect grass and exchange it for pills. I'm not interested in killing people!"

Before Wu Jixiong could speak, Qing Weihong had already said: "Fellow Daoist, don't blame Qing Mou for speaking too directly. Your two-sided approach is just courting death in the Xuan Yin Cave. In that kind of environment, you don't have a token, and people from both sides will kill you. Moreover, you are just one person, and they are in groups of three or five. When they see you alone, they don't care whether you are neutral or not, they will just raise their knives and chop you down."

Wu Jixiong also echoed: "Fellow Daoist Qing's words are extremely correct! There were also four or five people who were as impartial as Fellow Daoist, wanting to form their own faction, but they all died cleanly in the assassination wave three years ago. Now Fellow Daoist naturally doesn't need to worry about assassination, but after entering the Xuan Yin Cave, I'm afraid it will be a step-by-step crisis and every inch will be stained with blood!"

The more Zhang Yuanjing listened, the more he felt something was wrong, and he immediately asked back: "Are you two fellow Daoists trying to persuade me to join the Five Sects camp?"

Wu Jixiong smiled, matched with that feminine and handsome face, showing a bit of slyness: "Of course not! Wu Mou wants to form his own camp, which does not belong to the Five Sects, nor does it belong to the Star Moon Sect, just to seek a way out for ourselves. What does Fellow Daoist Zhang think?"

Zhang Yuanjing was shocked: "Form your own camp? How many people can Fellow Daoist find?"

Wu Jixiong looked at him with bright eyes: "How many people do you think is enough?"

Zhang Yuanjing quickly calculated in his heart, but found that he couldn't say an accurate number at all, so he shook his head and said: "Poor Dao doesn't know."

Wu Jixiong turned his head and smiled at Qing Weihong: "Brother Qing, what do you think?"

Qing Weihong laughed loudly: "Fellow Daoist Zhang is indeed an honest person!"

Zhang Yuanjing was a little confused: "What are you two doing?"

Wu Jixiong smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist, don't be offended. Before Fellow Daoist Zhang moved over, Wu Mou used sound transmission to introduce to Brother Qing that Fellow Daoist is a rare honest person. Brother Qing didn't think so. Just now, Wu Mou asked how many people would be enough, and Fellow Daoist directly said that he didn't know if he didn't have confidence in his heart, isn't that an honest person!"

Zhang Yuanjing gave a dry laugh: "Fellow Daoist, don't joke, I don't know how many people you can gather in this camp?"

Wu Jixiong put away his smile and said seriously: "Not many, not few, four people! I have already found three, and if Fellow Daoist is willing, Wu Mou's camp will be complete!"

Zhang Yuanjing said in surprise: "Only four people?"

Wu Jixiong asked back: "Otherwise? How many people do you think it should be?"

Zhang Yuanjing was stunned: "Where does Poor Dao know!"

Wu Jixiong smiled and said: "That's it. In the Xuan Yin Cave, it's not necessarily useful to have a lot of people. Why does Wu Mou only want four people? That's because I have a Four Elephants Absolute Mechanism Formation, which is operated by four fellow Daoists with different cultivation methods, which can exert great power, fight against strong enemies, and protect our lives. If Wu Mou is not mistaken, Fellow Daoist Zhang, you are cultivating earth-based cultivation methods, right?"

Zhang Yuanjing nodded and said: "That's right."

Wu Jixiong said: "Wu Mou is a wood-based cultivation method, Fellow Daoist Qing is a metal-based cultivation method, and there is also a Fellow Daoist Lin who is a water-based cultivation method. The four of us are just right. How about it, are you willing to join?"

Zhang Yuanjing knew that the cultivators who entered the cave were divided into two camps and the situation was like fire and water. He also felt that it was not wise to enter the cave alone. Wu Jixiong said that four people could form an array to protect themselves, which was indeed a feasible strategy. However, he was worried that he did not understand this person and was worried that he would trick him into joining the Five Sects camp, and instead throw himself into the trap and fall into a deadly place. He was hesitant and in a dilemma.

So he said: "I don't know what is the point of using this formation? Poor Dao is completely a layman in the way of formation, and I am worried that I will not be able to do it."

How could Wu Jixiong not know that this was a delaying tactic, intended to test him, so he smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist, don't worry too much. Wu Mou's formation is called the Four Elephants Absolute Mechanism Formation. Once activated, it can isolate the Qi mechanism within a range of dozens of feet. Its role is not to deal with cultivators, but to deal with Yin Fire Bats!"

Zhang Yuanjing was stunned: "Deal with Yin Fire Bats? Didn't Fellow Daoist say that the formation is for self-protection? How did it become dealing with Yin Fire Bats again?"

Wu Jixiong asked back: "How much does Fellow Daoist know about Yin Fire Bats?"

Zhang Yuanjing racked his brains, but found nothing, and said somewhat embarrassedly: "Poor Dao doesn't know much!"

Daoist Fire Crow gave him a gourd of Fire Crow Spirit, only saying that it could deal with Yin Fire Bats, but did not say what the characteristics of Yin Fire Bats were. Lao Deren said that Yin Fire Bats were powerful and attacked in groups, and even the Great Perfection cultivators of Foundation Establishment were no match, but he did not say it in detail.

Qing Weihong looked at him in surprise: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, I thought I was brave enough, but I didn't expect you to be ten times braver than me!"

Zhang Yuanjing's old face turned hot: "This, Poor Dao was in a hurry all the way, and I haven't had time to inquire. Please give me some advice, two fellow Daoists!"

Seeing that Zhang Yuanjing really didn't know, Wu Jixiong explained in detail: "As long as the Yin Fire Bats are adults, they will have the cultivation of the Qi Activation realm. However, even if it is the Yin Fire Bats in the early Qi Activation realm, if there are a few of them, it will be quite difficult for the Great Perfection cultivators of Foundation Establishment to deal with them.

"Why? First, this bat is born in the Xuan Yin Cave and is very good at hiding, making it difficult to find with divine sense. Second, this bat flies extremely fast and is not affected by the narrow and tortuous environment in the cave at all. Third, this bat contains a Yin Fire Poison in its body, which is extremely corrosive. As long as it touches a little bit, the cultivator will turn into a pool of black blood in a very short time.

"Moreover, this is just one end. When this kind of monster comes in and out, they all travel in groups, ranging from dozens to hundreds. Fellow Daoist, think about it, in that narrow cave, dozens or hundreds of Qi Activation realm Yin Fire Bats, with hundreds of Savage Blood realm bat demons, even Golden Core cultivators will be in a hurry! Moreover, once the Yin Fire Bats gather, they can also emit a kind of sound wave that can hurt the cultivator's divine soul. How can ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators easily deal with it."

Zhang Yuanjing was dumbfounded, and it took a long time to recover: "If this is the case, what is the use of Foundation Establishment cultivators going in?"

Qing Weihong interjected and said: "Yes, that's why it's called nine deaths and one life! In the past, when the Xuan Yin Cave was opened, the Five Sects recruited casual cultivators and gathered ten people each, and sat back and enjoyed the benefits. Their own Great Perfection cultivators of Foundation Establishment have never been there in person. This time, the matter is too important, so they had to send some direct line disciples, and the Five Sects together are only a dozen people. If Qing Mou hadn't been worried about my family, I would have run away a long time ago. Why would I come here!"

Wu Jixiong continued: "So, Wu Mou's Four Elephants Absolute Mechanism Formation is used to deal with Yin Fire Bats. Yin Fire Bats have always been associated with Xuan Yin Grass. If you don't destroy the Yin Fire Bats, you can't pick the Xuan Yin Grass. Fellow Daoist Zhang, what do you think?"

As soon as Zhang Yuanjing heard this, he didn't have any hesitation, and immediately agreed happily: "Poor Dao is willing to join, thank you Fellow Daoist for your success!"