Chapter 383: Poison of the Cultivation Method, Mark of Resources

Chapter 383: The Poison of Cultivation Methods, the Mark of Provision

“Naturally, it’s a super awesome, explosively invincible grand plan!”

Suddenly, Qi Yuan had a flash of inspiration.

“In the past, my plans had names too crude, lacking depth, making me seem like an uncultured man.

This time, the plan’s name can’t be so shabby anymore!”

“What name?” Jiang Lingsu’s eyes held a pool of water.

“Qi Yuan Eliminates the Great Calamity!” Qi Yuan said earnestly.

“…” Jiang Lingsu rolled her eyes.

She shouldn’t have gotten her hopes up!

“What great calamity?” Jiang Lingsu tilted her head, looking at Qi Yuan, her lotus-white palm propping up her pretty face.

“Naturally, the great calamity that turns us all into provisions!” Qi Yuan’s expression grew serious, righteous and awe-inspiring.

Hearing this, Jiang Lingsu’s eyes flickered with surprise.

How was this not like the poison in the cultivation methods?

If the methods were truly poisonous, didn’t that mean their paths were all wrong?

Suddenly, she thought of that painter.

Back then, the painter had drawn many strange pictures.

Jiang Lingsu had asked about the meaning of one of them.

In the painting, a terrifying, bizarre immortal ravaged the world, and a powerful immortal suppressed it… behind them, an endless sea of blood.

The painter said that heaven and earth had long merged with the bizarre immortal; if the bizarre immortal fell, heaven and earth would perish.

Jiang Lingsu’s face turned pale: “Senior Brother, do you have confidence in that great calamity?”

She didn’t know what the great calamity Qi Yuan spoke of was, merely treating it as an ordinary great enemy.

“I have confidence—I am now the first Zifu of the Divine Radiance Sect!” Qi Yuan was delighted.

He had broken through to Zifu; he had to announce it to the world.

He thought for a moment, then immediately took out the jade slip of the Divine Flower Society and sent a server-wide announcement.

“Warm congratulations to fellow Daoist Qi Yuan for becoming the first Zifu of the Divine Radiance Sect!”

After sending the announcement, Qi Yuan was very happy.

The feeling of using privileges was just great.

No wonder everyone loved being a privileged dog.

At that moment, Jiang Lingsu hadn’t opened the jade slip of the Divine Flower Society, so naturally she didn’t know this.

She breathed a sigh of relief and said softly, “As long as Senior Brother is confident, smash that guy to pieces!”

“Don’t worry, I’m always violent with enemies,” Qi Yuan said.

And then, Jiang Lingsu suddenly recalled the scene she had seen in the family heirloom, and she remembered what the painter had said.

“Senior Brother, say, if you go to fight that great calamity, and I die, and the people of the Divine Radiance Sect die, would you still go?” Jiang Lingsu asked.

Qi Yuan was silent, as if pondering something.

Jiang Lingsu thought of one of the painter’s pictures, and she recalled the painter’s words, suddenly thinking: “If I had such a great enemy, I would definitely hide far away with Senior Brother.

Being a turtle, basking in the sun on the beach, is better than becoming a butterfly dying for love.”

Jiang Lingsu’s thinking was simple: she could defeat the great enemy, but if the people she cared about would die, it was better to hide far away.

“Being a turtle isn’t good—it’s easy to be made into turtle soup!” Qi Yuan said seriously. “Your question is very interesting, and it’s reminded me.”

Qi Yuan hadn’t cultivated the poisonous methods of this world.

But everyone else had.

They cultivated these methods, reached profound realms, and left their names on the Mythic Stele.

Every so often, the great calamity would appear, reaping these provisions.

What would happen to those provisions who cultivated other methods?

Would they be marked, their lives hanging by a thread?

“Junior Sister, extend your hand, and let Senior Brother examine your body,” Qi Yuan said hastily.

He also wanted to understand the influence of the methods on others in the Canglan Realm.

“Ah? I’m not sick!” Jiang Lingsu refused verbally, but still offered her delicate jade hand to Qi Yuan.

She trusted her senior brother completely, holding nothing back.

After all, back then, it was Senior Brother who had cured her ailment.

Qi Yuan placed his palm on the back of Jiang Lingsu’s hand, and in that moment, his divine spiritual power poured into her body.

Qi Yuan probed carefully.

Jiang Lingsu didn’t move, nor did she resist.

In truth, this was a very dangerous thing—if the other party wished, she could be severely injured, or even fall.

Qi Yuan’s surging divine spiritual power was greater than that of an ordinary Yang God.

The existence of the innate seed allowed almost all his power to return.

He controlled it with precision, with no fear of harming Jiang Lingsu.

Suddenly, Qi Yuan’s brow furrowed, because he discovered a faint mark upon Jiang Lingsu’s true spirit.

That mark was like a sun.

Similar to the sun in the sky.

Qi Yuan’s desire to shoot down the sun in the sky grew even stronger.

[Mark of the Lord of the Taihuang Palace. All who cultivate the techniques of this realm will condense this mark, becoming provisions, their life and death controlled by the Lord of the Taihuang Palace.]

“What’s wrong?” Jiang Lingsu’s face turned deathly pale, because it was the first time she had seen such an expression on her senior brother.

Could it be… her body?

“Nothing.” Qi Yuan smiled faintly.

That mark, even he could not remove.

And such a mark—it could be serious, or it could be not serious.

This mark was like a curse.

As long as the master of the curse wished, he could at any moment cause all beings bearing this mark to fall.

But ordinarily, it was fine.

“You’re fine, but I have a problem. It seems the plan ‘Qi Yuan Eliminates the Great Calamity’ needs to be more detailed,” Qi Yuan said.

Therefore, in the plan to avert the great calamity, he must add one more item: erase the mark, or isolate it.

“Indeed, it must be more detailed. The enemy may be left alive, but our lives must be preserved,” Jiang Lingsu said softly, with rare tenderness.

“Junior sister, shall we prepare and head to Helan Continent to meet that painter?”

Qi Yuan had already decided that during this time, he would use his own eyes more, observe the marks within many people’s bodies, and uncover key information.

If he could find a solution, all would be well.

“Ah? Alright, wait for me—I’ll go pack.”

“Good, I’ll also go tell the Sect Master the good news of my entry into the Purple Mansion.

Alas, for the Divine Light Sect to produce such an outstanding disciple as me, it’s truly a blessing from the sect’s ancestral graves!”

...

Meanwhile, on the Divine Flower Society forum.

A notice suddenly appeared.

Qi Yuan had become the first Purple Mansion cultivator of the Divine Light Sect. All Divine Flower Society members rushed to spread the news, utterly astonished, thinking to themselves, who is this guy?

“Who is this guy? The first Purple Mansion of the Divine Light Sect? That sect is too weak—it didn’t even have a Purple Mansion before!”

“Probably some remote sect!”

“If it’s a remote sect, why would it post such information here where everyone can see it?”

“Probably the illegitimate son of some big shot, only able to show off and boast in this sneaky way!”

“Maybe he’s the son of a son-in-law who married into the family, too ashamed to place him in the main clan, so he’s hidden away in some remote place!”

These people were gossipy, curious about Qi Yuan’s identity, and made wild guesses.

At that moment, a prompt suddenly appeared under the post.

“Warning: baseless slander without evidence. Yellow card issued. Divine Flower Society Disciplinary Committee.” “Please revise the content and add the word ‘slander.’”

When they saw this message, the cultivators who had been wildly speculating on the Divine Flower Society forum had their faces fall.

The Divine Flower Society Disciplinary Committee was formed under the guidance of a little fox spirit.

At first, the committee members only patrolled the forum to see if anyone was insulting Senior Blood-Robed Sword God.

Later, the committee grew larger and began to organize, truly patrolling the forum, as if carrying out Senior Blood-Robed Sword God’s words about purifying the atmosphere of the cultivation world.

Receiving a yellow card was equivalent to a warning.

If one got three yellow cards, sorry, they’d have to write a self-criticism.

The cultivators had mixed feelings about the Divine Flower Society Disciplinary Committee.

They loved it because if another cultivator insulted them, they could directly report it.

They hated it because they no longer dared to curse freely.

At that moment, in the chat group of the Four Divine Flower Emperors.

The Rogue Immortal Venerable was frantically @ing the Origin Heavenly Venerable.

“You’ve reached the Purple Mansion?”

The Great Sun Flame Emperor also appeared: “Alas, you’ve been in seclusion for two and a half years, leaving the Primordial God Sharing Society as a hands-off boss?”

The Ice Mountain Overlord Queen did not appear in the group.

In previous years, Qi Yuan had sent three great venerables to help the Ice Mountain Overlord Queen break through to the Yin Spirit realm, and now she was stabilizing her cultivation.

Qi Yuan finally turned his attention to the chat group of the Four Divine Flower Emperors.

“Alas, my talent is too weak—I have to work hard to cultivate and break through realms, don’t I?

Alas, after all this effort, I barely managed to break through to the Purple Mansion.

Even after breaking through to the Purple Mansion, it turns out I only have the Purple, not the Mansion!” Qi Yuan was quite frustrated.

“What do you mean?” The Rogue Immortal Venerable didn’t understand.

Because of the Blood-Robed Sword God, the Rogue Immortal Venerable’s prestige had soared.

He now mingled with Purple Mansion cultivators and associated with Yin Spirit experts.

He had a deeper understanding of the Purple Mansion realm.

Thus, Qi Yuan’s words left him speechless.

“To break through to the Purple Mansion realm, you need not only the Purple but also the Mansion.

I’ve mostly got the Purple done—I’ve gathered a lot of purple qi.

As for the Mansion, I already have a concept, but I still need to find a painter to draw it out for me.”

“Ah... Purple Qi?!” The Rogue Immortal Venerable was utterly shocked. “Are you talking about the foremost qi of the immortal path, the Chaos Qi, the Mother of All Things, the Primordial Purple Qi?”

“Yes,” Qi Yuan replied.

The Rogue Immortal Venerable was completely stunned: “I’ve heard that even Yang Spirit cultivators find it hard to obtain a wisp of Purple Qi, and you have it... and you’re using it for the Purple Mansion?”

The preciousness of Purple Qi existed only in legends.

This preciousness was far more terrifying than the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment—they weren’t on the same level.

It was like someone earning three thousand a month suddenly finding out their roommate had an income of ten to the power of ten trillion.

Unimaginable.

“Gao Xiaoyu, you’re making too big a deal out of this. Even if the Origin Heavenly Venerable said he used the bones of a Dao Ancestor to pick his teeth, I’d believe it!” The Great Sun Flame Emperor was unfazed. “Those ten extra suns in the sky are the Origin Heavenly Venerable’s golden core—have you ever seen a stellar golden core?”

Gao Xiaoyu was the Rogue Immortal Venerable’s given name.

Being addressed directly by name, he felt somewhat embarrassed.

“Alas, it’s my limited insight,” the Rogue Immortal Venerable sighed.

After all, according to the knowledge he had received, to break through to the Purple Mansion, one first had to comprehend the origin of the immortal path, then forge one’s own path, and awaken one’s innate divine ability.

What Purple Qi, what building a Mansion... did that have anything to do with the Purple Mansion?

Well, it seemed they were only related in terms of the characters.

“How has the Primordial God Sharing Society been doing lately? How is the collection of techniques going?” Qi Yuan asked.

He was very concerned about these matters.

They pertained to his future path.

Now that he had entered the Purple Mansion realm, he needed more and more techniques.

To some extent, the myriad paths of the world were hidden within all techniques, and what he was doing now was collecting fragments of those myriad paths.

“The method you taught before, along with the way everyone in the Divine Flower Society uploads techniques in exchange for techniques, has been very useful.

I’ll send you the collected techniques right away.

However...” The Great Sun Flame Emperor hesitated.

“However what?” Qi Yuan asked.

"However, your divine technique has leaked out, and some mysterious experts have come to our Primordial God Sharing Society, wanting to meet you." Great Sun Flame Emperor said hesitantly.

Back then, Qi Yuan, imitating a certain Pinduoduo, had everyone upload cultivation methods, slash for a discount, help out, and so on, sharing the divine technique.

Qi Yuan was quite generous, and in the end, he truly made the divine technique public.

"Oh?" Qi Yuan was very calm. "What do they want with me? Could it be they want to kill me and seize the treasure?

Where is their home? I want to go take a look and see if they have a cat that can cook."

Qi Yuan thought of Xie Xinsu, whose home had a cat that could cook.

"They seem to be from some reclusive family, wanting to discuss the matter of the Great Calamity with you.

They once said that the divine technique must not be leaked as much as possible, otherwise... once it reaches a certain number, this world... all cultivators will die!"

Great Sun Flame Emperor's eyes were heavy, with a hint of bitter resignation.

Although Origin Heavenly Lord always created miracles, the Great Calamity and the depths behind it were too profound.

After all, in this Canglan Realm, how many cultivators could truly help Qi Yuan?

And the Great Calamity had the backing of other worlds.

If the Great Calamity could not be defeated, it could summon reinforcements from the upper realm.

Those summoned down were all gods!

Even, perhaps, the legendary Yang Gods!

And in the Canglan Realm, who could help Qi Yuan?

Thus, facing the Great Calamity, it was almost Qi Yuan's lone struggle.

What they did was insignificant.

He sometimes even thought, since Qi Yuan had not cultivated a poisonous technique, he could even leave this realm and escape this vortex.

Even darker, he could communicate with the existence behind the Great Calamity and become its disciple.

"Is that so?" Qi Yuan mused, then sent a message. "Don't be afraid. Qi Yuan's plan to eliminate the Great Calamity will be formulated immediately. Within at most half a year, my plan will be perfectly implemented. The Great Calamity will have nowhere to hide. What divine technique, what cannot be passed on—mere jokes!"

Hearing this, Great Sun Flame Emperor was filled with emotion: "Origin Heavenly Lord, don't force yourself."

"Hey, talking like that, be careful I take a golden core to your doorstep and heat eggs for you!"

"Don't!" Great Sun Flame Emperor laughed, then said, "That reclusive family left a contact method. They said that when you appear, you should go to their family's secret realm at the first opportunity to discuss the matter of the divine technique."

"Go to hell. If they want to see me, they come to me.

Tell them that in five days, I will go to Helan Continent in the Eastern Lands and stay for a while. If they want to see me, they can come to Helan Continent and beg for an audience.

Otherwise, no way.

I generally don't like visiting others. When I take the initiative to go, it's to wipe out the entire clan!"

Qi Yuan said casually.

Indeed, when he went to the Black Mountain Sect, well, he wiped them out; when he went to the Bright Palace, he also wiped them out.

Of course, when he went to Helan Continent to see that painter, it wasn't to wipe them out.

"Alright, I'll pass your words to them.

Hehe, since they chose to go into seclusion, let them stay in seclusion. Where is there a truly great power that hides in seclusion every day?" Great Sun Flame Emperor said.

He was not afraid of reclusive families.

The current Primordial God Sharing Society was powerful.

If that reclusive family were truly strong, they would have long since broken through the Primordial God Sharing Society and dug Qi Yuan out.

Wasn't it because they lacked strength that they chose seclusion?

And then put on an air of being transcendent?

Who are they trying to impress!

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