The Mysterious Heaven Divine Technique created by Wang Xuan is a cultivation of both divine and immortal martial arts. Once one reaches the realm of entering the Dao through martial arts, one can condense a martial arts primordial spirit.
Once the martial arts primordial spirit is formed, one can use it to fly on a sword and traverse the void!
Whether it's Lin Daiyu or Xue Baochai, they both have a dream of becoming "fairies". Now that they can finally fly on swords, how can they resist?
As a result, two beams of sword light shot into the sky from the Lin and Xue families, shocking the world. Everyone knew that a fairy had appeared in each of the Lin and Xue families.
Chapter 177 Seeking a Master in Beiman Mountain
It's not that there are no cultivators in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber; it's just that the spiritual energy in this world is thin, and there are very few cultivators who can fly on swords, and they all come from those few secret realms.
Those native cultivators rarely use spells when they are training in the mortal world. After all, using spells consumes mana, and if too much mana is consumed, it takes a long time to recover it in the outside world.
However, Wang Xuan left after teaching the two girls the Mysterious Heaven Divine Technique, without explaining much about cultivation common sense to them, which made them feel unrestrained.
Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are now like Sun Wukong who has just emerged from Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. Looking around, they find that there is no one who can fight them, and they suddenly become a little arrogant.
They first used their own abilities to defy fate and change the situation of their respective families.
Both the Lin and Xue families have begun to decline, which is why they have no choice but to cling to the Rongguo Mansion.
But now that both families have produced "fairies," even the emperor has to treat them with respect, so there's no need to send their daughters to the Rongguo Mansion anymore.
It was at this moment that Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai finally discovered each other's existence.
The two women were about the same age and had reached the level of martial arts cultivation. With those two identical flying swords, it was easy to guess that they had encountered fellow disciples.
So the question arises: between Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, who is the senior sister and who is the junior sister?
Wang Xuan accepted both of them as his disciples in the same year, only a month apart. If Wang Xuan were to testify, Lin Daiyu would naturally be the senior disciple.
But now Xue Baochai has played a clever trick, deliberately making the time of her becoming a disciple vague, so that Lin Daiyu cannot tell who became a disciple first.
Left with no other option, Lin Daiyu suggested that they determine the senior sister's position through a sword fight. Whoever was more skilled would become the senior sister, and the loser would have to obediently become the junior sister.
After a friendly yet intense exchange (and a bit of bickering), Xue Baochai ultimately won by half a move and secured the position of senior sister.
Logically speaking, Lin Daiyu's talent was slightly better than Xue Baochai's, and she also started cultivating a month earlier, so her cultivation level was naturally higher than Xue Baochai's.
However, one point that cannot be ignored is that Lin Daiyu's personality is rather weak. Although she directly cultivated to the level of entering the Dao through martial arts, she has never fought with anyone and has no practical combat experience whatsoever.
Over the years, Xue Baochai has styled herself as a female knight-errant, having eliminated several wicked people in the martial arts world, and gradually developed a chivalrous spirit.
When they started fighting, Xue Baochai, who had practical combat experience, naturally won against the stronger opponent.
After losing, Lin Daiyu didn't cheat and obediently became the junior sister, while Xue Baochai became the senior sister.
In the days that followed, the two fairies embarked on a journey through the martial world together, and also took the opportunity to find their unreliable master.
"Senior Sister Xue, where should we go to find Master next?" Lin Daiyu was rather gentle, and this was her first time venturing out into the world, so she was inevitably a little apprehensive.
At this moment, Xue Baochai adopted the demeanor of the eldest sister and said confidently, "Don't worry, although Master didn't tell us where to look for him when he left, there are still clues to follow."
"Over the years, I have traveled to most parts of the world and found that the spiritual energy of the entire world is extremely thin, and it cannot nurture many rare and precious materials. My master left us a large number of spiritual herbs, which could not be found in the mortal world. They mostly come from those legendary blessed lands!"
Lin Daiyu thought about it and felt that her senior sister's words made a lot of sense, so the two of them went together to find those blessed lands.
They first arrived at Mount Beiman. Mount Beiman is a sacred Taoist site in this world, and it is said that immortals often appear there, leaving behind a beautiful myth and legend.
Moreover, unlike other blessed lands, Beiman Mountain covers an area of hundreds of miles, making it the easiest to find, unlike other blessed lands that are elusive and difficult to locate.
After Xue Jinchai and Lin Daiyu stepped into the Mangshan Mountain in the north, they couldn't help but exchange a glance, both vaguely noticing something unusual.
Under their divine senses, the concentration of spiritual energy in Beiman Mountain was not much different from that in the outside world; both were nearly depleted and unsuitable for cultivation.
However, there seems to be another space overlapping in the Beiman Mountain. As long as one's cultivation reaches the third level of martial arts cultivation, one can faintly sense the existence of this other space!
"Is this the legendary Northern Mang Mountain Grotto-Heaven?" Xue Baochai asked curiously, and with all her might, she thrust her flying sword forward.
"Thump!"
After a muffled thud, the space in front of them trembled slightly, but ultimately did not shatter.
How could the defense of a grotto-heaven be so simple? Without the key to enter and exit the grotto-heaven, even a master at the Transcendent Realm cannot force their way in!
The cave in Beiman Mountain was not unclaimed. After Xue Baochai made a few tentative attacks, a hole suddenly opened in the space in front of her, and several Taoist priests walked out and looked at them coldly.
"Who are you? Why are you attacking our Beiman Mountain Grotto? Do you two want to be enemies of our Taoist sect?" a Taoist priest shouted angrily, pointing at Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu.
Xue Baochai shrank back and said sullenly, "We didn't know that the Northern Mang Mountain Grotto was owned by someone, so we apologize for disturbing you."
"Fellow Daoists, do you have any news of our master?"
The Taoist priests paused for a moment, then asked, "Who is your master?"
Whether it was Xue Baochai or Lin Daiyu, they both possessed formidable cultivation at a young age. Before clarifying their lineage and origins, the Taoist priests would never act rashly.
“My master’s name is Xuan Tian Dao Zu. Since your Bei Mang Mountain Grotto is a Taoist holy land, you must have news of our master, right?” The two girls looked at the Taoist priests with great anticipation.
Unexpectedly, the Taoist priests were furious upon hearing this: "What? Someone actually dares to call himself the Taoist Ancestor! He's courting death!"
Originally, "Dao Ancestor" wasn't an exclusive title of the Daoist school; every path of cultivation had its own Dao Ancestor. However, as the Daoist school became dominant, other powerful cultivators also changed their titles accordingly.
The founder of Buddhism and Taoism became the Buddha, and the founder of martial arts became the Martial Ancestor. Only the very first person to preach the Tao is qualified to be called the founder of Taoism!
Wang Xuan calls himself the Ancestor of Xuantian Dao, which undoubtedly violates a taboo of Taoism!
"We've never even heard of this Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor. He's probably just some unknown country bumpkin, a complete madman! We must make sure our Daoist masters don't run into him, or we'll definitely teach him a lesson!"
The Taoist priests glared at Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, looking ready to fight at the slightest provocation.
Xue Baochai was also furious. Although her own master was not very reliable, disappearing after teaching her for a month and a half, she had complained about it quite a bit. But how could she tolerate an outsider disrespecting her master?
It should be noted that both Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu came from respectable families and had been instilled with the idea of respecting teachers and elders since childhood. Naturally, they could not stand by and watch others insult their own teachers!
Chapter 178 Venturing into Beiman
"How dare you insult my master! You're asking for it!" Xue Baochai shouted, and immediately summoned a black flying sword, which she used to strike the Taoist priests.
"Oh no! This country girl can actually control a flying sword!" The Taoist priests' expressions changed drastically. The leader quickly summoned a whisk, and with the help of his magic power, the whisk instantly grew to about ten feet long, wrapping around Xue Baochai's flying sword.
Xue Baochai's flying sword unleashed a dazzling sword light, and the entangled whisk was only blocked for a moment before being completely severed, and the spiritual light contained within it quickly dissipated.
That whisk was merely a high-grade magic weapon; how could it possibly withstand a flying sword of low-grade magic treasure level?
The difference between a magical artifact and a magical treasure may seem like only one word, but the difference in their power is immense. With just one sword strike, that whisk was completely destroyed!
The Taoist priests' faces grew even uglier. Without saying a word, they opened the North Mang Mountain Cave and fled inside.
"As expected, these few stinking Taoist priests are nothing special!" Xue Baochai sneered. Although she did not want to see her master humiliated, she was not a reckless person who only knew how to act blindly.
Ever since those Taoist priests appeared, Xue Baochai had been secretly observing them with her divine sense. Although they outnumbered her, only one of the Taoist priests had a cultivation level similar to hers; the others were all significantly weaker, roughly equivalent to the Innate Realm of Martial Arts.
If Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu joined forces, they could absolutely win!
However, she did not expect that her opponent was weaker than she had anticipated. She only had to unleash one sword strike before the opponent fled.
"Junior Sister Lin, let's hurry and go in!" Xue Baochai didn't stop at all, and directly called to Lin Daiyu to follow the entrance to the cave opened by the Taoist priests.
Beiman Mountain Grotto is a Taoist holy site in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber. Now the entire world of Dream of the Red Chamber has entered the Dharma-ending Age, and only a few places are still full of spiritual energy. Beiman Mountain Grotto is one of them.
Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai had already entered the grotto, and immediately felt the spiritual energy rushing towards them, which was hundreds of times more concentrated than the outside world!
"Is this the legendary blessed land? It is truly extraordinary!" The two women exclaimed repeatedly. They had always lived in the outside world where spiritual energy was scarce, so how could they have ever seen such a treasure land?
In their view, only such blessed lands were the proper places for cultivators. A day of cultivation within a blessed land was equivalent to a year of cultivation outside!
The two women possessed cultivation resources left behind by Wang Xuan, so even in the spiritually scarce outside world, they were able to advance their cultivation by leaps and bounds.
However, Wang Xuan has been missing for a full ten years. The resources he left behind will eventually be exhausted. What will become of Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu then?
"Junior sister, if all the Taoists in this Beiman Mountain Grotto are as capable as those few stinky Taoists from before, perhaps we can seize this grotto and use it as our means of survival!" Xue Baochai said excitedly to her junior sister.
Upon hearing this, Lin Daiyu hesitated, sensing that things weren't so simple. They had only cultivated for ten years; could they really defeat those old Taoist priests who had cultivated for countless years?
It must be said that Lin Daiyu's guess made a lot of sense, which also calmed Xue Baochai down.
It's unrealistic for them to forcibly seize the Beiman Mountain Cave, but they can still make a quick buck and leave.
Before they could think any further, the Taoists from the cave in Beiman Mountain had already called their friends and rushed over. There were dozens of them, including about a dozen powerful martial artists who were comparable to those who had entered the Dao realm!
"Fellow Daoists, those two crazy girls are just ahead. They wield an extremely powerful flying sword. Let's join forces and take them down first!" The Daoist whose whisk had just been severed by Xue Baochai's sword shouted, pointing at them.
Upon hearing this, the group of Taoist priests' eyes lit up. Although they lived in a grotto-heaven in the Northern Mang Mountains, most of the resources in that grotto-heaven were used to support a true Taoist immortal.
The remaining resources were simply not enough for them!
Now that we've heard that an outsider has broken into the cave in Beiman Mountain, and that the person even possesses a powerful flying sword, this is practically a windfall! We'll definitely take it!
"Junior sister, the other side has a lot of people and is powerful. If a fight breaks out later, you must not hold back!" Xue Baochai was worried and decided to run away if things went wrong.
The two of them were riding flying swords of magical treasure level, and their speed of flying on swords was naturally incomparable to these other weapons. If they couldn't win, they could still escape.
Both sides were eager to rob the place, and soon a fierce battle broke out between them.
Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu each wielded a flying sword, their swords flashing and crisscrossing, making them virtually unstoppable. Even dozens of Taoist cultivators working together couldn't capture them.
Both women were intelligent and knew how to make full use of their advantages. Their speed in flying on their swords left most of the Taoists behind, and only a few were able to fight them, thus avoiding being surrounded and attacked.
Besides using swords to kill enemies, Wang Xuan had also taught them the Divine Firmament Five Thunder Orthodox Method. At this moment, purple lightning flashed out as they raised their hands, causing a group of Taoists to suffer greatly.
As the fight progressed, the two women gradually breathed a sigh of relief. Only now did they realize the power of their flying swords; among the dozens of Taoists present, none of their weapons could withstand even a few of their strikes!
One by one, the magical artifacts with different functions were shattered into pieces by their flying swords, leaving the Taoist priests in a panic.
The battle lasted for nearly an hour, during which Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai joined forces and defeated all the Taoist priests.
However, they did not kill them because they were unsure of the true nature of the Beimang Mountain Grotto and did not want to offend these Taoists to the point of death.
Fortunately, Wang Xuan had quite a few spells on his ship, including methods to seal the cultivation of enemies. After the two women beat the Taoists half to death, they sealed them one by one.
The Taoist priests breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Xue Baochai and her companions had no intention of killing them. Those two wild girls were far too fierce; they were no match for them. And to make matters worse, the true master of the Beiman Mountain Grotto-Heaven was away traveling.
“Young ladies, I advise you to stop while you’re ahead,” an old Taoist priest with white hair and a youthful face advised. “The Northern Mang Mountain Grotto is the Taoist temple of the Immortal Miaomiao. We are just Taoist disciples listening to the teachings of the Immortal.”
"Once the real person finds out what you've done, he will definitely not let you off!"