Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme - Chapter 503

Chapter 503: Chapter 307: Harvest (First Update)

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After the harsh voice, there was silence. No one spoke, and no words were necessary.

For these Great Return to Void Cultivators, many things were clear at a glance.

For example, the battle that had just settled like dust.

Master Lingbao Chen Yanqi, a Great Return to Void Cultivator in the late stages, also a double talent as an Artifact Refiner and Array Master, was sitting in the center of the formation, holding an Immortal Artifact, truly having the advantage of time and location, not even fearing common Integration Great Powers.

Such a Cultivator, such a figure, was now easily defeated; the Great Array was broken in an instant, and he himself fell to a single sword strike, his Primordial Spirit unable to escape, truly dead, his Dao gone and turned to ashes.

What does this mean?

Unless this person was hiding their cultivation, actually an Integration Great Power, or else they must be proficient in Array Formations, being a Fifth Rank Grandmaster, even possibly a Sixth Rank Grandmaster.

Only then could they discern the formation’s weak point and strike directly at the heart.

But this was merely skill, and to break the formation swiftly, skill alone was not enough—strength was also necessary.

This person also had such strength, his sword could break all methods, using both skill and power, directly killing Chen Yanqi in an instant, causing Master Lingbao’s last-ditch efforts to crumble before they could begin, thus preserving the Fire Essence Ley Lines and the foundation of Lingbao Island.

If it were not for such a critical moment, allowing Chen Yanqi to fight to the death, sacrificing the Fire Essence Ley Lines to elevate the formation to the Sixth Rank, then even if this person could win, it would cost them dearly and fail to preserve the foundation of Lingbao Island.

A Grandmaster of Array Formations, a sword that breaks all methods—such a person must indubitably be a Great Cultivator of the Righteous Path.

Because only the great factions of the Righteous Path, the Immortal Sect Holy Lands, possess such potentiality to cultivate such Cultivators.

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Were a cultivator from a lesser path, even if proficient in Array Formations and Swordsmanship, they couldn’t execute such a clean cut, slaying a peer; they would have to engage in a great battle, a fierce contest of dragons and tigers, before a victor could emerge.

This is the shortcoming of the lesser paths—the potential is too thin, the foundation too weak. The Cultivators they raise, no matter their body, foundation, Cultivation Skills Divine Magic, or the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, Spiritual Treasures Immortal Artifacts, none could compare to those of the great factions of the Righteous Path.

If not for this, why would the borders and wastelands be so chaotic?

We would have seen a Taoist Master rise from the lesser paths, establishing a great teaching in all directions, ready to compete against the Immortal Sect Holy Lands of the Central Plains.

Here comes a Great Return to Void Cultivator from the Immortal Sect Holy Lands to the Southern Sea, seeking to take over the foundation of Lingbao Island…

What are their intentions?

What schemes lay behind their actions?

The crowd pondered in silence, each with their own thoughts.

Eventually, it was “Fairy Lu” who broke the silence, “Fellow Daoists, this matter has settled, and Mingyu has other matters to attend to; I will take my leave now.”

After speaking, she turned and left, regardless of others’ reactions.

“Hmph!”

Another, seeing this, snorted coldly and also transformed into a rainbow and left.

“Bright Moon Commerce Guild…”

The remaining few had varied expressions and also didn’t speak much, quickly dispersing one after another.

…

Meanwhile, on the spirit island, the resistance had been slaughtered, and the captives were all taken.

Xu Yang alone came to the Fire Essence Ley Lines, fished Chen Yanqi’s corpse out of the magma, took off a few storage treasures, as well as the Nine Dragons Robe that was unharmed by the fire essence lava, and finally tossed the corpse into the Corpse Refining Bag.

Although this person was not a body cultivator and his physical strength was average, after all, he was a Great Return to Void Cultivator with the full achievement of Three Flowers and Five Qi. Even without refining into a corpse puppet or other means, just burying the body as fertilizer in the ground, using it as feed for a spiritual pet, or even selling it directly, all had considerable benefits.

It was a pity that the Primordial Spirit wasn’t preserved, for the gains would have been even greater.

But that couldn’t be helped. If he didn’t execute an instant kill, pinning him down, then the Fire Essence Ley Lines and the foundation of Lingbao Island would not have been preserved.

After taking Chen Yanqi’s body, he erased the Primordial Spirit Brand on the storage treasures and began to tally the main spoils of the battle.

As the old ancestor of Return to Void, most of Lingbao Island’s wealth was in Chen Yanqi’s hands, the rest being just loose ends that Xu Yang didn’t bother with.

There isn’t much to say about Xu Yang’s efficiency; he soon completed the identification, sorting, tallying, and collection, organizing the assets of Chen Yanqi and Lingbao Island.

First were the Spirit Stones, numbering in the billions. Although most were low-grade, there were also a good number of medium and high-grade, and even tens of thousands of superior-grade Spirit Stones.

This greatly alleviated Xu Yang’s pressing needs. As a Middle-Grade Fairy Spirit Mech Armor, the power of the White Jade Capital was astonishing, but so too was its consumption, requiring a vast amount of Spirit Stones for each major battle to act as the energy source for ten million artifacts.

Since breaking into this realm, he had been in continuous combat, consuming all the wealth accumulated in the Void Spirit Cave Heaven from Green Jade Mountain and Fish and Dragon Island. If it hadn’t been for later taking down a Great Return to Void Cultivator from Tianshu Sect, on top of small fries like the Three Demons of Red Flame, which supplied a significant quantity of Spirit Stones, Xu Yang wouldn’t even have sustained today’s battle.

As a Grand Return to Void Cultivator in the late stage, Chen Yanqi’s wealth surprisingly surpassed that of the person from Tianshu Sect, breaking the law that subsidiary sects are inferior to the orthodox ones.

However, this was also to be expected, as Lingbao Island was a great Refinement Sect, occupying nearly twenty percent of the entire Southern Sea’s artifact refining market. It could be said that their daily profits were tremendous, and although the wealth they accumulated may not match Tianshu Sect’s, crushing one of the Return to Void elders from Tianshu Sect wouldn’t be a problem.

Such was the result, even after various visits and subsidies to multiple factions.

With these billions of Spirit Stones, as long as there were no consecutive great battles, they would be sufficient for White Jade Capital’s consumption for a hundred years.

In addition, among these billions of Spirit Stones, there were nearly ten thousand Superior Grade Spirit Stones.

Superior Grade Spirit Stones, ranked at the fourth tier, could automatically replenish Yuan Spirit, acting as a legacy treasure that could be passed down through generations without end. Their value was far higher than the other three grades of Spirit Stones. They were also an important material for artifact refining and could even be used to forge Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts.

This was very important. Spirit-Treasure Mech Armor was the core of Heavenly Craftsmen’s creations. Although Xu Yang already had White Jade Capital, he wouldn’t mind adding a few more Immortal Spirit Mech Armors, thus strengthening the potentiality of Wandao School’s combat power.

Besides Spirit Stones, there were materials, as well as Magic Artifacts that had already been refined into shape.

Regarding materials, there was no need to elaborate: Lingbao Island was a Refinement Grandmaster, and for production and sales, they used Magic Treasures for protection. Therefore, they had always been dedicated to collecting various materials, especially high-grade Spirit Materials for refining Immortal Artifacts.

These materials, along with the refined Magic Artifacts and the Spirit Treasures collected by Chen Yanqi, were enough for Xu Yang to complete the Artifact Levels of White Jade Capital, with plenty to spare. With the surplus, he could construct several more Ten Million Artifacts Level Spirit-Treasure Mech Armors outside of the Five Hundred Million Artifacts Level White Jade Capital and move over the four Divine Guard Generals to guard and perform tasks.

These were just the low-tier Spirit Materials. Aside from these, there were also some high-tier materials that Chen Yanqi had collected but could not assure he could refine. With Xu Yang’s Sixth Rank Artificer abilities, forging one or two Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts should be no problem.

Moreover, with Chen Yanqi’s Nine-Nine Fire Dragon Beads and the Seven Stars Crown of the Return to Void elder from Tianshu Sect, Xu Yang unwittingly found himself in possession of four Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts.

Indeed, killing people and starting fires would see a golden belt in hand; robbing other cultivators was indeed a quick way to wealth!

Spirit Stones, Spirit Materials, and Immortal Artifacts had all been counted. What remained were the cultivating skills.

In terms of cultivating skills, Chen Yanqi also crushed the Return to Void elder from Tianshu Sect, in both quality and quantity.

There was no helping it. Tianshu Sect was a direct lineage of the Big Dipper, holding the Righteous Path and valuing quality over quantity. They only cultivated the skills of the Big Dipper Immortal Sect, seldom delving into other disciplines, and did not actively collect them.

Chen Yanqi was different. Being a cultivator from a subsidiary path and a practitioner of the Left Dao, he did not have a complete and powerful system like the Immortal Sect Holy Lands to rely on. He had to seek far and wide, collecting various skills to make up for his deficiencies. His collection was extensive and varied, containing a large number of cultivating skills as well as various Supernatural Secret Techniques, and skills in Elixir Skills, Talisman, Artifact Skills, and Array Formation.

In terms of quantity, he completely surpassed the person from Tianshu Sect.

As for quality, the Return to Void elder from Tianshu Sect had his skills ingrained in his mind, with the Divine Soul restrictions of the Big Dipper Immortal Sect making it inaccessible to Xu Yang for the time being, and the elder couldn’t divulge them either, so it was as good as nothing.

Chen Yanqi was different; he stored all kinds of cultivating skills on Jade Slips, and even had a dedicated Storage Spiritual Treasure to hold them, including ancient texts that he collected with great effort. Some were even beyond his own comprehension.

This was a vast wealth of knowledge.

Even though Xu Yang now commanded the Dao Law Divine Martial Dual Realms and possessed the War God’s Atlas, a Divine Martial cultivating skill that led directly to the Mahayana, it didn’t mean other paths held no value for him.

The stone of other mountains could be used to carve jade; reciprocal illumination from related paths, and the addition of another method, could potentially bring new insights. In this way, drawing on strengths of various paths to complement each other could possibly set him on a broad and grand road.

This was also the thought process of subsidiary path cultivators: those coming from subsidiary lineages often encountered incomplete inheritances. To achieve their path, they had to draw on strengths to complement weaknesses and foster a broad and grand road.

Therefore, Righteous Daoist cultivators emphasize quality over quantity, while subsidiary path practitioners indulge in a medley of studies.

That’s why subsidiary paths were considered inferior to orthodox ones. Consolidating various paths and drawing on strengths to supplement weaknesses — it sounded good, but was hard to achieve in practice. Human energy, talent, and lifespan were all limited, and the enormous task of integrating various paths was not something ordinary people could achieve, let alone the possibility of making mistakes along the way.

A single slip could lead to deviation and madness, or even death and the annihilation of one’s path.

Thus, the subsidiary paths are arduous, the Left Dao difficult, and it’s possible for none to reach the path of Mahayana through the integration of various paths over thousands of years. Even those subsidiary big sects and Left Dao Grandmasters who have achieved Mahayana status had inheritances of cultivating skills that do not compare to those of the orthodox sects and Holy Immortal Sects.

After all, the latter have early predecessors, and their systems have already been perfected, with their skills undergoing millions or even tens of millions of years of refinement. Not to mention crossing the great tribulation to become Heavenly Immortal or Earth Immortal, there’s already a broad and grand road laid out before them.

In light of this, how could your patchwork, hard-fought subsidiary path’s Mahayana compare to those devoted to a single path, refined over endless ages by the orthodox True Immortals?

Even if you reach the same Mahayana, being a tier lower might not confer an advantage. History has seen countless geniuses from Holy Immortal Sects using their Integration Realm to fight up a tier against subsidiary path Mahayana cultivators, ending in a draw or even victory.

In summary, the subsidiary path’s cultivation is a history of blood and tears, full of heartfelt sorrow.

But Xu Yang was not part of this category.

Energy and talent?

Time and lifespan?

These were not issues for him because he had the support of billions of beings from numerous heavens behind him. With the Earth Deity Law, he could extend his lifespan, even achieving immortality. He could constantly hypothesize and test, step by step, to carve out a broad and grand path for himself.

By then, he would be the orthodox, the True Immortal!

Therefore, cultivating skills were very important. No matter which world, Xu Yang’s primary task was to collect all kinds of methods to integrate them and transform himself.