"Thank you for your advice, Fellow Daoist Gongsun. I will not act rashly," Lin Yi replied.
Gongsun Chenghua nodded and didn't say anything more. It was a big taboo to talk too much with someone you didn't know well, and he had already said enough.
After seeing Gongsun Chenghua off and settling the bill, Lin Yi took a stroll around the academy before leaving.
There were so many cultivators coming and going that there was no room left in the academy.
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As night fell, in a secluded courtyard of Qingyun Garden in Dingyang City, Lin Yi held the "Book of All Things" in his hand and kept flipping through it.
The destruction of the Hundred Flowers Paradise occurred three hundred years ago, which was precisely the time when the Taiyi Sword Master established the Sword Sect on Yitian Peak and three thousand sword cultivators went to war in the Southern Wilderness.
After this battle, the Heavenly Demon Temple, one of the two holy lands of the demon race, surrendered to the Great Xia Dynasty, while the Ancestral Court of Ten Thousand Beasts was snatched from the jaws of the Demon Sect.
What happened after that?
Lin Yi searched with great interest.
A little while later, he found the record.
Enraged, the Taiyi Sword Master drew his sword and slaughtered his way from the Southern Wilderness to the Northern Frontier, staining the Northern Sea with blood.
The sword slayed five Free Heaven Demons of the Demon Sect, seven Asura Blood Demons, four Yin Yang Yuan Demons, two Netherworld God Demons, and three Yellow Spring Saint Demons, killing so many that the Great Free Heaven Demon King dared not show his face. Finally, the ultimate technique, "North Sea Return to Ruins," was used to force the Taiyi Sword Master to retreat.
Lin Yi put down the "Book of Myriad Phenomena" in his hand, reminiscing about the former glory of the Taiyi Sword Master, which truly filled him with longing.
However, the Great Free Heaven Demon King was tough enough; once he swallowed something, he would never spit it out. The Ancestral Court of Ten Thousand Beasts later became the current Ten Thousand Beasts Demon Sect, ranking among the Six Paths Demon Sects.
The cultivation method of the Myriad Beasts Demon Sect is based on the bloodline of divine beasts, and is quite similar to the Divine Sect and Demonic Sect in the Immortal Gourd World.
Lin Yi recalled the information he received in Ziyun Valley after his first time traveling back in time: a poisonous dragon had descended from the sky and changed the Blessed Land of a Hundred Flowers.
"That poisonous dragon must be one of the demon kings of the demon race," Lin Yi thought to himself.
Dragons have always been numerous and diverse, yet they adhere to the principle of bloodline. Those descendants with impure bloodlines, even if they seek refuge in the East Sea Dragon Palace, will not be valued.
Many dragon descendants, after achieving success in their cultivation, also dislike the Dragon Palace and usually do as they please.
"Should I get involved in this mess?" Lin Yi wondered to himself.
With the Tai Xu robe at the sixth-tier True Form level in hand, he was confident he could escape even if he encountered a true Earth Immortal. If all else failed, he still had the inter-world escape technique.
The Blessed Land of a Hundred Flowers can be used to expand the Small Universe Realm, and the corpse of the Poison Dragon can be used to cultivate the Yin-Yang Divine Demon Technique.
This technique requires the refining of eighteen Yuan Chen White Bone Rings. Each ring possesses supreme magical power and can transform into a Yin-Yang White Bone Demon.
In addition, the Yuan Chen White Bone Ring can also be transformed into the Yuan Chen White Bone Boat, and the Six Yang Sealing God Banner can also be transformed into the Six Yang Sealing God Boat. The former is the skeleton, and the latter is the skin. When the two are combined, it becomes the prototype of the Supreme Boat, a powerful magic weapon envisioned by the Hundred Bone Daoist.
When Daoist Baigu refined this treasure, he imitated a pure yang magic weapon that belonged to Lao Qiu, the head of the ten patriarchs of the Daoist sect in the Seven Phoenix Realm.
Old Qiu's magic weapon was called the Supreme Dragon Transformation Boat, so Daoist Baigu named his own magic weapon the Supreme Boat. Just the name sounded more original than Old Qiu's magic weapon, as if he wanted to compete with the number one Daoist.
Lin Yi initially sought the Six Yang God Sealing Technique and the Yin Yang God and Demon Technique in order to refine the "Supreme Ship".
If any foolish demons or monsters dare to provoke him in the future, he will simply crush them in his Supreme Ship. Just thinking about it is exhilarating.
The next day, Lin Yi left the city and headed towards Moyun Ridge in the west. There were quite a few cultivators traveling with him, but they were all wary of each other and quickly disappeared after entering the mountains.
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Chapter 100 Judging People by Their Tools
The misty Purple Cloud Valley remains as beautiful as ever, but with so many cultivators coming and going, it's hard to appreciate anything anymore.
Lin Yi strolled along, and surprisingly, there were people selling maps of Purple Cloud Valley at the valley entrance. He bought one on a whim; it clearly marked the areas that had not yet been explored, mainly the deep valley sections.
The deeper one ventures into Purple Cloud Valley, the thicker the fog becomes, concealing a strange power that interferes with the flow of a cultivator's powerful magic. Yet, the more this happens, the more cultivators venture in to try their luck.
Many people also explore other nearby mountains or underground, hoping to find something.
Lin Yi had seen it not long ago: several cultivators rode a magic artifact that could penetrate the ground and disappeared underground.
The world is bustling with activity, all driven by profit;
The world is in turmoil, all driven by profit.
Ordinary people struggle daily to make a living, while cultivators strive for immortality.
Actually, there is no difference.
Lin Yi put aside his chaotic thoughts and walked deeper into Purple Cloud Valley.
The closer one gets to the completion of the elixir, the more the true qi in the dantian and the divine soul in the ancestral aperture between the eyebrows attract each other, making the mind more easily swayed.
Among the various schools of thought, some advocate following nature and practicing tranquility and non-action; others believe that one should do whatever one pleases without any taboos; still others advocate seclusion and quiet contemplation, cutting off one's ego to attain enlightenment... All these methods are paths that our predecessors have already traversed.
What younger cultivators need to do is choose the path that suits them best and then walk it firmly.
At this time, a good teacher who can point the way becomes crucial.
Lin Yi's old grandfather, the Xuan Yao Daoist, was not a good teacher. He followed an unorthodox path, and one day he successfully refined a batch of immortal pills. Overjoyed, he embraced his spirit, and the Dragon-Tiger Pill was completed.
On the contrary, the cultivation notes obtained from Wen Liang gave Lin Yi a lot of inspiration.
Although the Wenliang lineage lacked the "final step" of cultivating the primordial spirit, preventing any of its patriarchs from achieving immortality, quite a few reached the fourth-tier True Monarch level. The notes contain detailed records of this crucial stage of elixir formation.
From Wen Liang's notes, Lin Yi found the saying "judging a person by their objects." The kind of objects a person likes most often represent their personality.
Character determines one's path.