Cultivation: Immunity to Negative Effects

Zhang Chi paused for a moment, then immediately cast a spell to clean the baby. He then took out a piece of clothing, wrapped the infant in it, and carefully picked her up.

At the same time, he discovered she was a baby girl, less than a year old, who surprisingly possessed an Upper Grade Spirit Root.

Of course, it was only because of his high Cultivation that he could see the baby’s aptitude directly, without needing tools like an Array.

Furthermore, in the Endless Desert Sea, a person’s Spirit Root manifested from a young age, which was very different from the Great Abyss.

’Oh well. Since I’ve found you, I can’t just leave you here.’

At that moment, Zhang Chi thought it over and ultimately decided to take the baby with him.

Although he couldn’t be bothered to raise a child, he could entrust her to the Sect.

Leaving her here was clearly unsafe, and it would be a complete waste of her Spirit Root.

Afterward, Zhang Chi searched the area again but found nothing else. He then burned the numerous corpses.

Next, he went to the nearby Spiritual Vein and shattered it with a single punch. He then deliberately waited for a while before recalling his Spirit Beast and controlling the Corpse Puppet to fly into the Teleportation Gate.

The world immediately began to spin around him. During the process, the Power of Space tried to tear him apart.

But the Sect Leader’s Golden Seal suddenly erupted with a golden light, blocking the Power of Space.

This Golden Seal was one of the so-called tokens.

Zhang Chi had already found this out long ago. He had even interrogated the Demon Bear King’s Demon Soul to confirm it.

He had even forced the specifics of the Teleportation Gate out of it, which was why he had waited for the Tier Four Demon Leopards to leave before coming.

Of course, he could have also chosen to use the Divine Possession Technique to infiltrate the Demon Leopards, but he would have likely been seen through by the Beast God.

Moreover, possessing a Tier Four Demon Leopard was difficult, and he only had one portion of his Divine Thought Power left, which wasn’t enough.

It was better to leave it on the Corpse Puppet, which had a much higher chance of survival.

More importantly, he suspected that the moment these Demon Leopards emerged, they would be besieged by Cultivators from the Desert Divine Palace.

Therefore, leaving with them would be very dangerous. It was better to let them lead the charge.

The next moment, Zhang Chi finally regained his balance and found that, as expected, a fierce battle was raging outside.

He was still in the Desert Sea, but the area was surrounded by a large number of Desert Divine Palace Cultivators. They had already set up a golden Grand Array, enclosing a vast region.

The two sides fighting were the Demon Leopards and these Cultivators.

The Demon Leopards used their Demon Pills, Wind Blades, claws and fangs, and Demon Fire, while the Cultivators brandished all sorts of powerful Magical Treasures and Magic.

The golden Grand Array not only blocked the Demon Beasts but also shot out golden rays of light that coalesced into blades, spears, swords, and halberds, attacking like a torrential storm.

BOOM!

However, because Zhang Chi had come out late, the battle had already reached a fever pitch.

At this point, Demon Leopards were constantly choosing to self-detonate their Demon Pills. Dazzling flashes of light appeared one after another, throwing the scene into chaos and creating numerous gaps in the Array.

Seeing his chance, Zhang Chi immediately shot forward, transforming into a streak of black light and charging toward the nearest gap.

Along the way, he was struck several times by golden light and Magical Treasures, but because of his powerful Armor, he was completely unharmed.

He then successfully broke out of the Grand Array.

"Don’t attack, I’m one of you! The Divine Palace Cultivators are right behind me, they’ll be out soon. I was scouting ahead!"

Just as some Cultivators were about to surround him, Zhang Chi suddenly shouted.

The Cultivators were stunned for a moment. They only stopped when they realized the target wasn’t a Demon Leopard.

But the Corpse Puppet didn’t pause for a second. It immediately flew into the distance, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

"Wait, he’s not human!"

"That’s right, there’s something wrong with him. Quick, catch him!"

The Desert Divine Palace Cultivators instantly came to their senses and sent people to give chase.

Unfortunately for them, they pursued for a long time but couldn’t catch up and had to give up.

What they didn’t know was that shortly after the Corpse Puppet left, it met up with Zhang Chi and was recalled by him.

Then, Zhang Chi used the Blood Shadow Divine Escape to flee at full speed. His speed far surpassed that of the Corpse Puppet and the Spirit Beast, so they were naturally left in the dust.

The reason Zhang Chi was here was that he had calculated the location to rendezvous with his Corpse Puppet and Spirit Beast. He was even prepared to intervene if necessary.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and he never had to face the Desert Divine Palace Cultivators directly.

This exit was relatively close to the southern part of the Endless Desert Sea, so it didn’t take Zhang Chi long to return quietly to Canglan Oasis.

He then went to the Canglan Sect at once and secretly placed the baby at the entrance of the Sect Hall.

Soon, the baby was discovered by the sect’s Cultivators and a report was made. She was ultimately taken in and raised by a Golden Core Female Cultivator from the Sect.

Zhang Chi observed in secret for a few days. Seeing that the Golden Core Female Cultivator was a good person and seemed quite kind-hearted, he was able to set his mind at ease. He then quietly returned to his Volcano Cave Mansion.

In this year, Zhang Chi turned two hundred and ninety-five, and the Oasis Ruins closed in the same year.

In the same year, Zhang Chi’s two disciples came to visit him. Besides receiving some guidance, they also brought him news about the Oasis Ruins.

They knew about it because it was no longer a secret in the Endless Desert Sea. It was a hot topic among Cultivators, and the Desert Divine Palace had even released some details.

Reportedly, almost all the Exploring Cultivators were brought out by the Desert Divine Palace Cultivators before the Oasis Ruins closed.

However, they didn’t come out through the Teleportation Gate in Beast King Valley. Instead, the Third Palace Master of the Desert Divine Palace had personally intervened, using his Supreme Magical Power to open a spatial passage between the ruins and the Endless Desert Sea.

The reason for this was that by the time they reached Beast King Valley, the Teleportation Gate there had already been destroyed by Demon Beasts.

Furthermore, the main Demon Beast factions in the Oasis Ruins had been annihilated, and the Desert Divine Palace and the Explorers had reaped huge rewards.

They had also rescued some ordinary humans.

The only fly in the ointment was that some treasures from the Pill and Artifact Sect ruins seemed to have been taken by the Demon Bear King, or perhaps snatched up by some other opportunist.

Then there was the Demon Leopard clan. Although they were wiped out, the Demon Leopard King, hailed as the Beast God, had used a Secret Technique to escape.

The Desert Divine Palace had even issued a sky-high bounty for him.

Unfortunately, even though the Demon Leopard King was severely injured and couldn’t recover anytime soon, he was still a Tier Four Peak existence. Ordinary Cultivators were no match for him.

Besides, the Endless Desert Sea was so vast that as long as he was careful, he would never be found.

’Thankfully, I waited a while before coming out and ran fast enough. Otherwise, I would have had to find a way to blend in with the Cultivators. But I likely would have been discovered that way, even if I’d used the Divine Splitting Possession Technique.’

After his two disciples left, Zhang Chi thought back on the situation and felt a sense of relief.

Although the Desert Divine Palace Cultivators had brought out all the Explorers, his situation was clearly special.

After all, he wasn’t in his cultivator body at the time, and he had gained far too much.

If his many gains were discovered, even the experts of the Desert Divine Palace wouldn’t be able to restrain themselves.

After that, Zhang Chi immediately began to digest his recent gains.

He started daily practice on the legacies of Puppets and Spirit Plants he had acquired.

He also planted some of the Spirit Medicine in his cave mansion.

He even began refining the Star Divine Iron, piece by piece, into new Flying Swords.

「Five years later.」

He was now three hundred years old, and the number of his Star Swords had finally reached seventy-two.

At the same time, his Body Refining Cultivation had long since broken through to Tier Four Early Stage. Afterward, his progress advanced by leaps and bounds, and it showed signs of surpassing his Cultivation, on track to reach Tier Four Middle Stage first.

This was partly because his foundation was already sufficient, and partly because he had the help of the Demon Bear King’s Essence Blood.

The Demon Bear Paw was also highly nourishing and a great aid to his Body Refining.

「Another five years passed.」

His skills in both Puppets and Spirit Plants reached Tier Four Low Grade.

Furthermore, he began cultivating more legacies and successfully refined six Tier Four Low Grade Puppets.

The six Puppets were all humanoid. Each was equipped with a blade, a shield, and a bow and arrows, making them suitable for both close-quarters combat and long-range attacks.

Of course, being able to refine so many was thanks to the massive amount of resources he had harvested in the ruins.

Otherwise, even if his skills were up to par, it would have been difficult to find enough materials.

’It’s time to make a trip. Cultivating like this is just too slow!’

On this day, Zhang Chi finally left the Canglan Sect again, heading alone to Beichen Oasis.

He was planning to make the Heaven-Reaching Tree Species sprout faster.

Moreover, he also intended to sell some of the supplies he no longer needed.

To ensure success in one go, he planned to take a Teleportation Array directly to a top-tier Oasis.

But using the Teleportation Array required permission from the Beichen Sect’s upper echelons, which would inevitably involve a personal meeting. Therefore, he had to go himself and couldn’t send a Puppet in his place.

Fortunately, after so many years, the Hundred Flowers Palace had withdrawn its bounty, clearly having relaxed its pursuit of him.