It seed like a test, as Elder Jin asked, "What do you think we should do?"
Lu Xuanji smiled and said, "Retreating is impossible. If we take a step back now, countless hyenas might pounce on us from behind, making us even more dangerous... Qingxue must have a way to break this move, right? I don’t believe the Gold-devouring Insect is truly invincible!"
"I can’t deal with the Gold-devouring Insect, but I can deal with the person behind it!"
Elder Jin laughed, "That insect cultivator, controlling the insects to attack us, can’t be more than a hundred miles away... That’s the flaw!"
With a flick of a finger, the lifebound flying sword turned into a flash of golden light and shot toward a hundred miles away.
After just a few breaths, the attacking insect swarm began to scatter and disperse.
The flying ship swiftly advanced a hundred miles, and they saw a golden flying sword piercing through the body of a cultivator.
This cultivator was dressed in gray clothes, unassuming in appearance, like an ordinary passerby, and his cultivation was only at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishnt. Who could have thought he was the mastermind?
Swipe!
Elder Jin activated his magical power, transforming it into a large hand, carefully collecting his corpse.
Retrieving the flying sword, he continued to steer the flying ship forward.
The surrounding cultivators, who had been watching for a chance to attack, hesitated.
Killing a fat sheep is traditional, but if the cost is too great, it’s not worthwhile.
...
Looking at the corpse, Lu Xuanji was about to step forward to inspect.
But in the next mont, Elder Jin stopped him, "There’s a kind of poison on the body, called ’Immortal Powder.’ It’s an error to call it a poison; it’s actually a divine dicine. Once absorbed, even a Nascent Soul cultivator will fall asleep, naturally waking after three days!"
"After waking, the soul power elevates by one level, feeling refreshed, and much of the body’s fatigue dissipates."
"This divine dicine has no detrints to a cultivator, but rather countless benefits!"
"However, in certain circumstances, it is used to harm people!"
"Now, you will fall asleep!"
After just three breaths, Lu Xuanji felt his mind becoming groggy, as if he were about to fall asleep.
Activating the ’Pure Yang True Fla’ to try and dispel the toxin, it was of no use at all. His eyelids fought in a battle, and after a few breaths, he fell into a slumber.
...
Uncertain of how much ti had passed, Lu Xuanji opened his eyes, looking around warily, his muscles tense, noticing the window, bed, curtains, and scenery outside.
At the mont, no longer on the flying ship, but in an inn.
"You’re awake!"
At this mont, a woman approached, dressed in a red dress like fresh blood, with a ghostly mask on her face, holding a treasure sword, standing there full of murderous intent.
Clearly a devil-like woman.
"Elder Jin, is it you?"
Lu Xuanji asked.
"It is I!"
Elder Jin smiled, the ghostly mask vanished, the red dress on his body vanished, turning white, the evil qi dissipated, revealing an ordinary appearance.
"Where is this place?"
"This is Chaos City! You’ve been asleep for three days!" Elder Jin explained, "After being hit by Immortal Sleep, you fell into slumber, then so cultivators ambushed us, but I slew them. I then brought you to Chaos City. According to the city’s rules, fighting is allowed outside, but it is prohibited inside the city. It’s the safest here!"
In just a few words, many things were omitted, but behind the scenes, much killing and death occurred.
Thinking about being caught by Immortal Sleep was utterly humiliating.
"How did you find out?" Lu Xuanji asked curiously, "Why were you not affected?"
"I’ve experienced enough to be wary!" Elder Jin laughed, "On my first journey to Chaos City, I was also caught, but Qingxue saved . As for evading Immortal Sleep, it’s simple, just protect your nose and mouth with magical power and avoid inhaling the scent!"
"Thank you!"
Lu Xuanji said.
"Prepare yourself, in about three days, there’s going to be an auction!" Elder Jin said, "There might be a Nascent Soul Pill there!"
Lu Xuanji asked, "What was that insect cultivator called?"
"That insect cultivator is nad Jiang Han, a loose cultivator who stumbled upon the relic of a predecessor and embarked on the path of cultivation. Relying on the Insect Control Jar, he could control a sea of insects to attack and had killed three Golden Core and five Purple Mansion cultivators, with countless others. For a re Foundation Establishnt cultivator to accomplish this is remarkable!"
"But unfortunately, he followed a side path, with no hope for the Great Dao, ultimately perishing by my hand!"
Elder Jin spoke calmly, like stepping on an ant on the road.
Lu Xuanji curiously asked, "Elder, may I take a look at the Insect Control Jar?"
"Sure!"
Elder Jin nodded, tossing over a storage bag.
Lu Xuanji opened the storage bag, seeing inside a gray stone jar, along with several volus of books seeming to describe recognizing, nurturing, and commanding demonic insects, a whole new field. He felt a stirring excitent in his heart.
Omniscience cos from omnipotence.
The more knowledge one understands, the stronger the wisdom, and the more cultivation can be advanced towards an invincible realm.
Often, limitations in mobile deductions result from either insufficient mobile computing power or from lacking stored knowledge.
The lack and insufficient knowledge restricted mobile deductions, oftentis halting the deduction processes. These books perfectly complented his deficiency in knowledge systems. Just as he was about to open a volu, he was stopped by Ye Wanyi.
"What does this an?"
Lu Xuanji asked.
"Do you know your weakness?" Elder Jin asked.
"I don’t know!"
Lu Xuanji answered.
"Your comprehension is top-notch, talent is top-notch, you even have a Pure Yang Dao Body, and your destiny is top-notch as well. But you have a fatal flaw, which is that your mind is too scattered, thinking of too much." Elder Jin said, "Before reaching Nascent Soul, one must focus and specialize to have a future and a path; after reaching Nascent Soul, you are qualified to be broad, to draw from the strengths of many."
"You can look, but don’t let your mind be scattered!"
"I understand, before Nascent Soul, I won’t refine other magical treasures, cultivate other divine techniques, or dabble in other cultivation techniques!" Lu Xuanji promised.
"As long as you understand!"
After Elder Jin cautioned, he sat nearby waiting.
Lu Xuanji then opened the volus, starting with reading the "Insect Race Encyclopedia", "Spiritual Insect Breeding", "Gu Demon Scripture", and "Insect Control Treasure Manual", recording these with a mobile device and processing data deductions.
He himself began opening and reading the volus.
The "Insect Race Encyclopedia" records information on roughly a thousand species of spiritual insects, including their lifespan, characteristics, and divine techniques; the "Spiritual Insect Breeding" explains nurturing insects, upgrading, etc.;
The "Gu Demon Scripture" discusses refining insects into lifebound gu insects, nourishing oneself, thereby advancing.
The "Insect Control Treasure Manual" elaborates on controlling insects for attack.
"Among the seven veins of the Demon Sect, it’s hard to say which is the strongest; so say it’s the Yellow Springs Demon Vein, so say the White Bone Demon Vein, others say the Joyful Union Demon Vein. But the weakest is clear, it’s the Gu Demon Vein."
"This vein excels in refining spiritual insects into lifebound insect gu, using gu insects for advancent, feeding back to oneself, pushing self-advancent. The advantage is a lower threshold for the entry-level, capable of nurturing a large number of low-level cultivators, with the most cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage and Foundation Establishnt Stage, having techniques that are unpredictably strange. But advancing to Purple Mansion or Golden Core is very difficult!"
"The strongest born in the Gu Demon vein reached only Divinity Transformation, a very low ceiling! Created and ended by gu insects."
Elder Jin said, speaking of the Gu Demon vein with disdain, "That Jiang Han, with a Foundation Establishnt cultivation, could control Gold-devouring Insects to kill Golden Core cultivators, certainly impressive. But unable to seek longevity, it’s ultimately a side path."
...
PS: After reading "Demon Taming Venerable" by Gu True Master, which follows the beast taming flow, I was deeply moved.
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