Chapter 206 : Yuqing Immortal Sect
Chapter 206: Yuqing Immortal Sect
Zhouhua Road.
Kaiyuan Prefecture, Yuqing City.
“Truly many strong cultivators!”
As soon as Chen Beiwu got off the carriage, he saw several Golden Core True Persons among the passing cultivators, each with golden fate lingering above their heads. He even spotted a Nascent Soul True Monarch within the VIP passageway, whose fate resembled a crimson dragon.
And these were only a very small number of cultivators who had not concealed their cultivation realm.
‘The rumors on the Immortal Alliance Official Website were not false. In Yuqing City, even throwing a brick at random might hit a Golden Core True Person!’
Chen Beiwu sighed in admiration. Without wasting time, he went straight toward Yuqing Mountain outside Yuqing City.
Unlike the Five Great Grotto-Heavens, the Thirteen Immortal Sects were all located deep within blessed lands.
Yuqing Mountain, also known as Yuanshi Mountain, was majestic and towering, filled with an incredibly dense dragon vein aura. It seemed like a real dragon lying prostrate, hailed as the foremost among the mountains of Kaiyuan Prefecture. Cultivators of the Immortal Alliance praised it as “Sole Sovereign of Ten Thousand Peaks” and “Number One Blessed Land of the Immortal Alliance.”
The Yuqing Immortal Sect was located deep within Yuanshi Mountain. Ordinary cultivators could hardly glimpse its true form and could only learn scattered fragments of information from the Immortal Alliance Official Website.
“This mountain is forbidden. Trespassers shall die!”
Seeing the jade stele erected at the mountain foot, Chen Beiwu felt chills all over.
Because his divine sense was outstanding, comparable to a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could clearly perceive the terrifying will contained within the jade stele.
“Strange, could it be that you’re a freshman this year?”
A deep voice suddenly rang out.
Chen Beiwu looked in the direction of the sound but found no figure ahead.
“Hey, hey, hey! Kid, could you show some respect to your elder? Lower your head and take a look.”
Lowering his gaze, Chen Beiwu discovered that, at his feet, there was a tiny old tortoise the size of a chick, hopping about.
‘When did it appear?’ Chen Beiwu was startled.
Though this old tortoise’s actions seemed comical, its aura was flawless, and its cultivation far exceeded his own.
Even his divine ability of Fate-Peering failed against it for the first time.
“Boy, why are you standing there dumbfounded? Speak!” The old tortoise raised its head, tone displeased: “Answer me. Are you this year’s freshman of the Yuqing Immortal Sect?”
“Greetings, Elder Tortoise.” Chen Beiwu bowed slightly. “I am Chen Beiwu, a freshman of the Water and Wood division this year.”
“If so, then follow me.” The old tortoise walked ahead. “The enrollment time has passed. If you enter the mountain alone, you may end up as food for the sect’s treasure beasts.”
“May I ask, Senior, who might you be?” Chen Beiwu asked as he followed.
“I am the mountain spirit of Yuqing Mountain.”
The old tortoise paused, raised its head to look up at Chen Beiwu, and warned: “Any cultivator who trespasses into Yuqing Mountain without permission and violates the rules shall become my blood food.”
Then, its tone shifted as it turned to lead the way again: “But I sometimes take side work, guiding new students with exceptional talent. Tell me, why are you so late in arriving?”
“After the Immortal Exam, I had some enlightenment and was delayed,” Chen Beiwu explained.
‘Interesting, an epiphany? This year’s sect recruiters indeed had sharper eyes than before.’ The old tortoise’s gaze brightened slightly, a trace of emotion in its heart: ‘No wonder this boy wasn’t on my priority list.’
With that thought, it decided to form goodwill and offered a reminder: “Hey, boy, do you have the thought of contracting a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast?”
Chen Beiwu’s heart skipped, his eyes widening in surprise as he looked at the tortoise. “Senior, you mean—?”
“The Yuqing Immortal Sect recruits disciples not by their background, but by their talent and aptitude.”
The old tortoise said casually: “If you are willing to abandon Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven and choose the Yuqing Immortal Sect, you will most likely obtain the qualification to contract a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast as your Companion Beast.”
Chen Beiwu’s pupils contracted as he swallowed hard.
“Don’t misunderstand, boy. I didn’t use divine sense to probe you. You are simply too easy to read. Even though you have cultivated Tai Xuan Guarding the One to minor achievement, before true experts you cannot conceal your thoughts.”
The old tortoise continued indifferently: “To tell you the truth, the minor achievement level of Tai Xuan Guarding the One is indeed enough to get special admission into Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven, but at best you’d only be treated as a special recruit and could never gain the qualification to contract a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast.”
“Unless, within ten years, you can cultivate the immortal-grade cultivation method 【Crimson Bright Great Pure Yang Realm-Breaking Profound Chapter】 to entry level.
At that time, not to mention a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast, even contracting a Fifth-Tier Origin Beast would pose no problem.”
“But the Crimson Bright Great Pure Yang Realm-Breaking Profound Chapter is a fire-attribute Pure Yang cultivation method, while you possess water and wood dual spiritual roots. The probability of you mastering this method is almost negligible. Most likely, ten years later, you’ll be sent off to Tianyan Immortal Sect.”
Hearing this, Chen Beiwu cautiously asked: “Senior, do you mean that I cannot possibly master the immortal-grade cultivation method?”
“Of course not. That is an immortal-grade method which even innate Fire-Attribute Dao Bodies struggle to comprehend.”
The old tortoise shook its head slightly: “If you had a Fire-Attribute Heavenly Root with a purity above ninety-eight, then perhaps you might comprehend it and even become the Dao Child of Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven.”
‘Innate Dao Body!’
Chen Beiwu memorized this unfamiliar term. He lifted his eyes to the grand mountain gate ahead, with jade steps and glowing gates of rosy clouds, flanked on both sides by coiling dragon pillars carved from black jade.
Above the gate, boundless clouds condensed into a silk-like plaque bearing the four large characters: “Yuqing Immortal Sect.”
“We’re here. Just go straight inside. Someone will come to register you into the sect.”
“Many thanks for guiding me, Senior.”
After expressing his thanks, Chen Beiwu stepped forward onto the first jade step.
“Hum!”
In the next instant, the twin coiling dragon pillars on either side of the mountain gate began to glow faintly.
The dragon claw of the left pillar held a sundial.
The dragon tail of the right pillar curled around a River Map.
Under Chen Beiwu’s astonished gaze, purple qi surged forth from the gate, forming a cloud phenomenon that covered the skies.
‘What is happening?’
He turned to look behind, only to see that Elder Tortoise had not left but was still lying there, meeting his gaze.
In Elder Tortoise’s eyes, Chen Beiwu saw only mild interest, but no surprise at all—almost as if it could not see the purple cloud phenomenon at the gate.
“Boy, keep climbing. The Yuqing Mountain Gate was forged by the first-generation Patriarch, Dao Venerable Yuanshi.
This gate is imbued with the essence of nature, absorbing the essence of heaven, earth, sun, and moon, nurturing a strand of Yuanshi Ancestral Qi.”
“If your talent and fate are sufficient, you may gain the appreciation of the Dao Venerable’s will and have the chance to receive the baptism of Yuanshi Ancestral Qi. After such baptism, what was acquired would be transformed into innate, allowing flawless Foundation Establishment, and in the future even forging a Yuanshi Golden Core.”
Hearing Elder Tortoise’s explanation, Chen Beiwu paid no more heed to the cloud phenomenon and quickly ascended toward the gate.
With each step, he could feel the mountain gate’s gathered, majestic heaven-and-earth essence flooding into his dantian, condensing into drops of liquid mana.
By the time he had climbed all nine thousand jade steps, the liquid mana within his dantian had surged from thirty-six drops to thirty-eight drops.
Yet he had never encountered the Dao Venerable’s will, much less received the baptism of Yuanshi Ancestral Qi.
‘A fine seedling, but still lacking a little.’
Seeing the result, the old tortoise shook its head and disappeared.
Every time it guided a gifted freshman, it would speak of the Dao Venerable’s will hidden within the mountain gate and the Yuanshi Ancestral Qi. Yet no one had ever drawn the attention of that will.
This time was no different. Truly disappointing for the tortoise.