Published: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER 117: Reunion
The "Shattered Spirit Soul Searching Technique" can forcibly extract a cultivator's memories. The greater the difference in spiritual consciousness between the target and the user, the more memories can be retrieved. However, the user's Primordial Spirit will directly perish in the process, leaving no chance for reincarnation.
From this technique, one can see that the predecessor who created this cultivation method was definitely not a righteous cultivator, even if they were not a demon cultivator.
Yuan Yang Sect provides spiritual stones and elixirs every month, along with cultivation techniques and a stable environment for practice. Therefore, when it comes to using people, refusal is not an option, even if it means risking one’s life. After all, a sect is not a charitable organization.
Even if it were a charitable organization, there would still be an underlying purpose behind the assistance—they would seek to gain the joy of helping others.
After leaving a "divine soul aura," Liu Yu pointed to the green light representing Color Lotus Mountain and said, "I choose this spiritual mountain; please assist me, Shishu."
Zhuang Ziling stored the Sect's Jade Record into his storage bag, sat back down, and said upon hearing this, "Junior Brother Liu, are you certain? Once a spiritual mountain is chosen, it cannot be changed unless under special circumstances."
After receiving Liu Yu's affirmative response, Zhuang Ziling sent out two beams of red light, changing the color of the light representing Color Lotus Mountain from green to red.
Next, he took back the jade token representing Liu Yu's inner sect disciple status, transferred the sect contributions onto a dark token, duplicated the basic information, and then handed it to Liu Yu.
The token bore a pattern of burning deep red flames, which not only represented the Yuan Yang Sect but also symbolized the sect’s core teachings, directly linked to the nascent soul stage technique "Three Yang Heaven Burning Technique."
"Junior Brother Liu can use this token to freely select one foundation establishment stage cultivation technique from the Scripture Vault."
Liu Yu accepted the token, checked it in front of him, found no issues, and stored it away. After exchanging some polite compliments, he cupped his fists to bid farewell and walked toward the hall exit.
Although Zhuang Ziling appeared polite on the surface, he vaguely sensed a certain coldness in Liu Yu's demeanor, likely due to their differing factions.
Zhuang Ziling picked up his pen and was about to handle sect affairs but felt a surge of anxiety. Over the past fifty years, the number of successful foundation establishment cultivators from the Branch faction and the Master-Disciple faction has been increasing one after another, while the family faction's numbers lagged far behind. The pressure on him as sect leader was growing.
If it weren't for the fact that the only nascent soul ancestor was from the family faction and the number of Golden Core Elders was also considerable, he might have been kicked down long ago. However, as the influence of the Branch faction and the Master-Disciple faction continues to grow, he had no choice but to concede some benefits.
After exiting the main hall, Liu Yu walked down the mountain, his mind swirling with thoughts.
He currently needed to resolve three matters: first, a cultivation technique; second, foundation establishment stage formulas and elixirs; and third, a formation for protecting his cave dwelling.
There was no need to overthink; the techniques provided for free by the sect were definitely not rare. They were most likely very ordinary, which would be a treasure for loose cultivators but not for Liu Yu, who aimed to condense his golden core and even reach the nascent soul stage.
Next were the foundation establishment stage formulas. The spiritual herbs needed for refining foundation establishment stage elixirs had a much longer growth cycle than those for the qi refinement stage. The number of spiritual herbs was limited, and should any formulas be leaked, it would undoubtedly cause the prices of the corresponding herbs to skyrocket, even rendering them unavailable.