Starting Cultivation During a Trip

Chapter 246: Chapter 148: The Ancestral Master’s Portrait! Three Corpses Daoist and Ten Thousand True Incense_2

Zhang Fan looked at his own hands, feeling the surging power within his body, and the Primordial Spirit that felt as profound as a divine presence, finding it unbelievable.

Since the day he failed in advancing to the High Skill rank, five days had passed.

His cultivation speed was even faster than before, with the Primordial Spirit growing every day. Now, even when performing the Fire Dragon Pill Sword, it wasn’t as exhausting as before.

After all, originally, such a grand technique like the Fire Dragon Pill Sword was comparable to the Five Thunders Righteous Method. To truly master it, one would need a cultivation level of High Skill. However, now, Zhang Fan found it increasingly effortless, and the power he could wield was on a completely different level.

”It seems the Agarwood wasn’t wasted in vain,” Zhang Fan mused.

The Primordial Spirit is the foundation of cultivation. If one cultivates with the Inner Core Technique, the physical body will also transform, with True Yang gradually growing strong, and the flesh and blood becoming extraordinary.

Currently, his Primordial Spirit seemed like it had been boosted with growth hormones, vigorous and spirited. Such changes were unattainable through months of arduous cultivation.

This transformation filled Zhang Fan with confidence. If ever his Divine Techniques were to reach Great Success, the first person he’d target would be Xuquan Han Land Disgust.

Why is it that among the Thirteen Zodiacs, he alone has twice tried to kill Zhang Fan!?

”Just wait for death,” Zhang Fan said, a cold light flashing in his eyes, having long placed Xuquan Han Land Disgust on his death list. Not killing him made it difficult to attain peace of mind.

But for now...

”I still have to think of a way to solve the issue of advancing to High Skill,” Zhang Fan pondered.

The Primordial Spirit of ordinary Daoists, with the help of Agarwood, can attract the descent of truths, reaching ultimate sublimation and crossing this critical boundary to reach the High Skill rank.

However, Zhang Fan was different. He had cultivated the Divine Demon Holy Embryo, and even though his Primordial Spirit was incomplete, with an Evil God outside, it probably wouldn’t be just one Agarwood that could help him cross this critical boundary.

Having nine lives hard to reclaim, those who cultivate the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods should have a mysterious technique to pass the Lowering True Fate boundary.

Zhang Fan’s thoughts were all on how to break through to the High Skill rank. After absent-mindedly finishing his morning routines, he headed straight out the door.

”Fan, have you had breakfast? Want some buns?”

On reaching the entrance of Hongfu Garden, Liu Fusheng called out from the security room window.

”Uncle Liu, I ate toothpaste...”

Zhang Fan replied mechanically without turning back, as if his mind was already far away, almost enchanted.

”This kid...”

Liu Fusheng watched Zhang Fan’s departing figure with some worry, shook his head, withdrew into the room and opened his lunch box, the fragrant buns paired with rich fresh soy milk.

A beautiful day began again.

...

At Taoyuan Square, the night is not bright.

Zhang Fan was the first to arrive at the company, after all, no one could compare with him.

Now, if Zhang Fan could sleep two to three hours a day, it would be considered high-quality sleep.

He sat down at his seat, turned on his computer, and navigated to the Little Yellow Book page, casually opening his following list.

”Hmm!?”

At that moment, Zhang Fan’s eyes lit up suddenly; the long-unseen avatar of the Thousand-Year-Old Demon had lit up.

”Online!?”

Zhang Fan quickly opened the dialogue box of the Thousand-Year-Old Demon and sent a message.

”You finally appeared.”

Whoosh...

The message was sent successfully, and Zhang Fan breathed a sigh of relief. This internet friend, who loved to block people and made him suspect if he was mentally unstable, finally did not block him this time.

Since their chat that day in Gusu City, where they agreed to meet, the Thousand-Year-Old Demon had never appeared since.

Zhang Fan even suspected whether he had deactivated his account.

”Say something.”

Seeing no response, Zhang Fan hastily sent another message.

”Sorry, you have been added to the blacklist by the other party...”

At that moment, a system notification popped up.

”What the hell!”

Zhang Fan slammed the keyboard angrily and cursed.

He prided himself on his deep cultivation and good Qi cultivation skills, but each time this Thousand-Year-Old Demon managed to disrupt his Dao Heart, causing his Consciousness to be agitated, becoming his Heart Demon, his calamity.

”Don’t let me meet you in reality,” Zhang Fan gritted his teeth, wishing to trace the internet line and find him.

Buzz...

At that moment, the avatar of the Thousand-Year-Old Demon suddenly turned gray.

”Offline!?”

Zhang Fan squinted his eyes into a line, his fingers creaking as he clenched them.

This Thousand-Year-Old Demon always managed to hit Zhang Fan’s fire line.

”Hmm!?”

Zhang Fan casually clicked on the main line of the Thousand-Year-Old Demon and found he had updated a post titled ”Three Corpses Daoist and Ten Thousand True Incense”...

”Hmm? Is this post about the Three Corpses Daoist?” Zhang Fan was taken aback.

The name Three Corpses Daoist would be extremely unfamiliar to ordinary people, and even among Daoist sect members, few would know due to the passage of time.

However, for those truly initiated into cultivation, the name would be like thunder in their ears.

Scanning the Daoist sect’s century-long history, if only two names were to be left, undoubtedly, one would be Chu Chaoran, and the other would be Three Corpses Daoist.

”Sixty years ago, during the Jiazi Demon-Vanquishing, Three Corpses Daoist transformed into the Dao at the East Peak of Mount Tai, this battle establishing Chu Chaoran’s godly name for sixty years...”

”Yet, turning back time, eighty years ago, the Three Corpses Daoist was already the ’first under the heavens.’ At that time, Chu Chaoran was just a dashing youth just out of school...”

”Thus, the Three Corpses Daoist should have been born a century ago, about twenty years older than Chu Chaoran...”

”This article only hypothesizes based on ancient records and rare books. As to whether it’s factual, readers must judge for themselves.”

Seeing this, Zhang Fan was slightly moved. This Thousand-Year-Old Demon was indeed well-read, having even records about the Three Corpses Daoist, which made Zhang Fan increasingly curious about this mysterious online friend.

”The Three Corpses Daoist’s secular birth name is untraceable, and in his youth, he seemed to have a considerable entanglement with Dragon Tiger Mountain...”

”Dragon Tiger Mountain’s remaining texts record, the Three Corpses Daoist once encountered a major obstacle at the Lowering True Fate, with ’Descent of Truth’ being untrue, unable to reclaim the nine lives...”

Writing here, the Thousand-Year-Old Demon annotated: The Three Corpses Daoist, having cultivated the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods ’Three Corpses Illuminating Fate,’ likely had a Primordial Spirit differing from ordinary people, and even with the Daoist sect’s foremost wondrous incense ’Agarwood,’ he was unable to cross this boundary, for the Primordial Spirit’s baptism to ascend to High Skill.

Seeing this, Zhang Fan’s brow twitched, and even his breathing grew heavy. He couldn’t help but read on.

”Dragon Tiger Mountain, as the Daoist Ancestral Court, was a dwelling for such figures as the Three Corpses Daoist. After knocking at the Dragon and Tiger Court and searching for three years, he finally found the technique to break through the obstacle.”

”Ten Thousand True Incense!?”

Zhang Fan saw this special name appearing on his screen.

The Three Corpses Daoist obtained a treasure at Dragon Tiger Mountain called the Ten Thousand True Incense.

There are three versions regarding this treasure.

The first version states that the Three Corpses Daoist befriended the sect master of the Dragon Tiger Zhang Family and formed a close bond with an up-and-coming talent among them, thus gaining insight into the Celestial Book Secret Scroll left by the Ancestral Celestial Master Zhang Daoling. He comprehended the mysteries of the Immortal Gods and refined this world-rare Ten Thousand True Incense in the mountains.

The second version posits that the ancestor of the Dragon Tiger Zhang Family, that is, the Ancestral Celestial Master Zhang Daoling, refined a Great Pill at Yun Jin Mountain, where both the dragon and tiger converged, exhibiting divine phenomena. Yun Jin Mountain was later renamed Dragon Tiger Mountain, and the remaining Ten Thousand True Incense was made from the pill’s remnants after the pill furnace was extinguished.

The third version claims that the Dragon Tiger Zhang Family, united with the Daoist sects worldwide, conducted nine ceremonies named ’Breaking Mountains and Attacking Temples’ to exterminate the Wuwei Demon. In the final ceremony, they held an ’Universal Sacrifice,’ invoking Immortal Gods everywhere, with this incense being the miraculous product of those gods’ divine validation and the aggregation of incense offerings. After the ninth ’Breaking Mountains and Attacking Temples,’ the Wuwei Sect vanished, leaving this treasure in Dragon Tiger Mountain for generations to worship.

”Ten Thousand True Incense!?” Zhang Fan pondered, chewing on the name.

Regardless of the origin of the Ten Thousand True Incense, it had a significant connection to Dragon Tiger Mountain. The Three Corpses Daoist once brought it from Dragon Tiger Mountain and used just half a stick of incense to pass the Lowering True Fate obstacle and step into the High Skill rank.

”The Three Corpses Daoist should have been quite young at that time, stepping into the High Skill rank with just half a stick of incense!?” Zhang Fan’s eyes slightly narrowed, revealing a peculiar light.

It could be said that his situation now mirrored that of the Three Corpses Daoist then.

”Since back then, the Three Corpses Daoist only used half a stick of incense, where’s the other half?”

Zhang Fan continued staring at the screen.

”The Three Corpses Daoist ascended to High Skill and kept advancing, joining the ranks of top experts ’under the heavens,’ with even the powerful Dragon Tiger Zhang Family unable to match him...”

”As for the other half of the Ten Thousand True Incense, it’s said to have been left in the Wuwei Sect, preserved for generations by...”

”Human Xiao!?” Zhang Fan’s eyes darkened, focusing on these last four words in the post.