Eternal Life by Daily Divination

Meanwhile, the war between the Three Great Immortal Sects had not ceased.

During this time, the Cyan Cloud Sect caught its breath and launched separate attacks against the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and the Red Flame Sect, causing both sects to suffer heavy losses.

By this point in the war, the strength of the Three Great Sects was far less than it had been before the conflict began.

All three sects had lost Golden Core Masters, and many Golden Core Seeds had died as well.

But Li Chang’an remained securely on Changqing Mountain.

No matter how chaotic the outside world became, he maintained his own corner of peace.

Over the past five years, his Cultivation had grown steadily, and he was gradually approaching the threshold of the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment.

An understanding bloomed in his heart.

With another year or two of cultivation, he would be able to cross it.

“Not bad. My cultivation speed is faster than I expected!”

Li Chang’an smiled and walked out of his cave abode.

He was not yet a hundred years old.

His rapid progress was inextricably linked to the improvement of his Spiritual Root.

Over the years, through introductions from Mu Caiwei and others, several more disciples of the Mu Family had sought his help, and they had all offered Cyan Profound Spirit Liquid as payment.

Today.

This was the critical day for his Spiritual Root’s improvement.

Li Chang’an walked up to his Spirit Field, which was wreathed in Spiritual Mist, and checked the status of the Evergreen Vine.

The Evergreen Vine had already sprouted seventy Spirit Vines. Sixty-nine of them were a hundred feet long, while the seventieth had grown to over ninety feet.

It was just a little short of being fully mature.

’I’ll have to give it a little push.’

With a thought, Li Chang’an retrieved a small, translucent jade bottle from his Storage Pouch.

Inside the bottle.

Was his last remaining drop of Cyan Profound Spirit Liquid.

The Evergreen Vine immediately extended two tendrils, like the hands of a child, begging him for it.

“Go on, eat. I saved this just for you!”

Li Chang’an smiled and poured the Cyan Profound Spirit Liquid onto the Cyan Rattan.

The next moment.

The seventieth Cyan Rattan began to grow.

In just a few breaths, it reached a length of one hundred feet.

At the same time.

A wisp of Spirit Charm was fed back to Li Chang’an from the Evergreen Vine.

Li Chang’an shuddered. He felt his mind clear and his vision sharpen. His entire being seemed to have become much lighter, and his Immortal Dao Talent had ascended to another level.

A thrill of excitement rose in his heart, and he immediately used the Spirit Testing Technique to check his own Spirit Charm.

As expected.

His own eleven wisps, plus the seventy wisps fed back to him by the Evergreen Vine.

A full eighty-one wisps of Spirit Charm!

The range for an Earth Spirit Root was precisely eighty-one to one hundred sixty wisps of Spirit Charm.

From this day forward.

He was a peerless genius with an Earth Spirit Root!

In a Major Sect like the Cyan Cloud Sect, even a Cultivator with a Top Grade Spirit Root would be cultivated as a Golden Core Seed as long as they performed exceptionally well.

And an Earth Spirit Root was even more sought-after.

Golden Core Masters would fight to take them as a disciple.

Barring any accidents, a Cultivator with such aptitude had a chance to aim for the Nascent Soul realm in the future!

’This day has finally come.’

Feeling the change in his own aptitude, Li Chang’an’s heart filled with joy, but also a touch of emotion.

Over these past years.

He had invested far too many resources into cultivating the Evergreen Vine.

Whether it was resources gained from killing enemies or cultivation resources he’d scavenged, over ninety percent of it had been poured into the Evergreen Vine.

Furthermore.

More than half of the resources he earned from his own Alchemy, Talisman Painting, and secretly selling Puppets and Arrays were also used to nurture the Evergreen Vine.

Not to mention the Cyan Profound Spirit Liquid he earned from the Mu Family disciples.

But it was all worth it.

’An Earth Spirit Root inherently provides a twenty percent success rate for Core Formation, and my Ancient Wood Evergreen Technique provides another thirty percent.’

All told.

Even without any Core Formation Treasures, Li Chang’an now had a fifty percent chance of success!

This success rate was for forming a True Pill or an Immortal Golden Core, which was already considered incredibly high.

Even if he failed to break through.

There was still a high probability that he would form a Fake Pill.

’The Five Elements Golden Condensation Pill can also increase the success rate by twenty percent—and a high-quality one by twenty-five percent.’

Li Chang’an mused.

He already had four of the main ingredients.

In the coming days, he would have to find a way to collect the final main ingredient, as well as the remaining auxiliary medicines.

Additionally, he needed a treasure containing immense power that could absorb and fuse the medicinal energies of all the main and auxiliary ingredients.

For a Foundation Establishment Pill, that treasure would be a Tier Two Demon Core.

For the Five Elements Golden Condensation Pill, a Tier Three Demon Core would also work, but it was a suboptimal choice.

’The best fusion treasures would be the Thousand-Year-old White Jade Ganoderma or the Thousand-Year Glazed Stone Core. Both are incredibly rare, though. If I really can’t find them, I’ll have to find a way to hunt a Tier Three Demon King.’

Li Chang’an already had a plan for the path ahead.

Tier Three Demon Kings could be found deep within the Black Dragon Mountain Range; as long as he searched carefully, he could always find one.

But obtaining those two top-tier treasures would come down to luck.

As for his own luck.

Li Chang’an had always been very confident.

’From now on, I need to increase the frequency of my visits to the Black Market and the trading districts of the Immortal City.’

’Besides that, I should also visit various other marketplaces, like the Qinghe Marketplace. I might just run into what I’m looking for.’

…

「One year later.」

Li Chang’an frequently changed his identity, appearing in various places throughout the Southern Domain Cultivation Immortality Realm.

He spent vast amounts of Spirit Stones to continuously purchase the auxiliary medicines for the Five Elements Golden Condensation Pill, collecting more than half of them in just one year.

During that time.

He was ambushed several times.

But in the end, they all became souls in his Venerable Soul Banner.

’The auxiliary medicines were collected quickly enough, but there’s still no sign of the final main ingredient.’

Li Chang’an wasn’t in a hurry, though. He was still a long way from his breakthrough, anyway.

He wasn’t collecting them all by himself; he had also mobilized the power of people like Xie Jiang and Ye Mengxian, though he did so with extreme caution.

After all.

Ye Mengxian had no need to collect materials for a Five Elements Golden Condensation Pill; the Ten Thousand Swords Sect had already prepared one for her long ago.

But that Elixir Pill was locked away in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect’s Treasure Vault.

Ye Mengxian couldn’t take it yet. She could only retrieve it on the day of her Core Formation, and she had to consume it within the Sect.

…

Time flew, and another half a month passed.

On this day.

Dahuang arrived, carrying two young women, one older and one younger, to see Li Chang’an.

The older one was naturally Jiang Muyu, and the younger was Wang Lingjing.

Jiang Muyu, dressed in a long, water-blue skirt, said with a gentle smile, “Young Master, Lingjing has already broken through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer. Could you see how her cultivation is progressing?”

“Alright.”

Li Chang’an sent out a thread of Evergreen Magical Power to examine her.

“Not bad. Her foundation is very solid. She is walking the path of cultivation very steadily!”

After speaking, he casually rewarded her with a few bottles of Elixir Pills.

Wang Lingjing’s face lit up with joy as she thanked him repeatedly.

「Several days later.」

Wang Lingya suddenly returned from the Cyan Cloud Sect.

Her guess from all those years ago had been correct.

Due to the continuous years of war, the Cyan Cloud Sect had lost many of its Golden Core Seeds.

Therefore, although her performance wasn’t as good as the other geniuses with Top Grade Spirit Roots, she was still being cultivated as a Golden Core Seed. Over the years, she had received many resources and was even rewarded with an Earth Grade Technique.

Now, she too had broken through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.

’I wonder how my little sister is doing. She should have listened to me back then and gone to the Cyan Cloud Sect with me.’

Wang Lingya sighed softly and came to the foot of Changqing Mountain to request an audience.