Cultivation: I Can Reincarnate Into Various Worlds-Chapter 556 - 286. Encountering Chi Yuan again, pursuing and killing, great battles erupt one after another! _2
Seeing the red-clothed woman hesitating, still rooted to the spot and unwilling to flee, Xu Xing chuckled softly and began to explain.
To become an immortal, one must accumulate virtues. This was the teaching of the Flying Feather Immortal Palace to its true disciples. Although he was unsure of its authenticity, he would still try his best to do what he could.
Killing Hong Wenren of the Lishan Hong Family required a fatal blow. Because if you don’t kill a snake thoroughly, you will inevitably suffer its retaliation. As the Sect Master of the Butian Sect, he had personally gone to the Lishan Hong Family to mediate, but Hong Wenren had disrespected him, damaging his prestige, so Hong Wenren had to be put to death.
However, the red-clothed woman was different. He had no prior grievances with her, and she had also sworn a Dao Oath not to harbor resentment towards him or divulge the secrets of this place. Therefore, it was not out of the question to show her some leniency.
Of course, he let the red-clothed woman go partly because he guessed she wouldn’t leave him easily. This Stone Chamber had no restrictive magical formations. From ancient times until now, the red-clothed woman hadn’t left; she had remained here. Either she had unspeakable difficulties, or her divine soul was so weak that she would struggle to survive after leaving this Stone Chamber of the Ascending Dragon Gate. Furthermore, he had just expended considerable effort burning the red-clothed woman’s remnant soul with Sun True Fire, weakening it just enough so it wouldn’t immediately collapse.
"Daoist friend, you came to me for the ancient map; it can be seen that your sect’s inheritance is incomplete... I am barely surviving here. Even if I leave, it would be difficult to go to the Boundless Sea to revive..."
"In that case, I am willing to follow you, Daoist friend, and assist you in your cultivation..."
"I only hope that one day when you achieve immortality, Daoist friend, you can find my physical body and help me climb the Immortal Path again."
The red-clothed woman’s thoughts churned, and she quickly made up her mind, bowing respectfully to Xu Xing.
"If that’s the case..."
Xu Xing’s brows furrowed slightly as if hesitating. After a moment, he finally nodded and agreed.
"Daoist friend can call me Yuniang; there’s no need to call me Immortal..."
"My family name is Ao," the red-clothed woman said.
After speaking, her remnant soul re-entered the Painting Scroll she had just unfurled. "This Painting Scroll is made of Soul-Nurturing Wood and Seven Soul Silkworm Silk, which has the effect of nourishing the soul. The Ascending Dragon Gate imprisoned my soul here to observe my true dragon form and thus comprehend the Way of the Dragon."
"Soul-Nurturing Wood?"
So it’s such a precious spirit material. No wonder the Ascending Dragon Gate placed this Painting Scroll on the altar.
Xu Xing’s face showed understanding. Soul-Nurturing Wood was a rare treasure in the Cultivation World, capable of nurturing souls, and could also be considered a kind of life-extending marvel. Ao Yuniang’s ability to survive for hundreds of thousands of years with her soul intact was inseparable from this rare treasure, the Soul-Nurturing Wood.
After placing a few restrictions on the Painting Scroll in which Ao Yuniang hid, Xu Xing pondered for a moment before putting it in his sleeve, not in his Storage Bag. Although Storage Bags could not hold living beings, Ao Yuniang’s existence was already akin to the artifact spirit of an artifact, not truly a living person. Since Storage Bags could hold artifacts, they could naturally also hold the Painting Scroll where Ao Yuniang hid.
"As for the other items, there are few magical prohibitions on them, and they are just some ceremonial objects for sacrifices, so there is no need to take them anymore..."
Xu Xing glanced over the other items in the Stone Chamber. Seeing nothing else of great value, he decided it was time to leave.
In fact, the altar, the three ancestral portraits hanging in the chamber, and the incense burner were all made of top-quality spirit materials and had considerable value. If sold, they would fetch at least several million Spirit Shells. However, this amount of money was insignificant to him. Moreover, this was the Hall of Law Transmission of the Ascending Dragon Gate. Since he had already obtained their inheritance, tampering with the ancestral portraits would be excessively greedy, like plucking feathers from every passing goose.
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After leaving the Stone Chamber, Xu Xing followed the route he had taken earlier, quickly exiting the underground passage and returning to the subterranean cavern where the Floating Dao Palace was located.
At this moment, Wu Ziting had been waiting for him there for a long time.
"Master Xu..."
"These are the treasures from the Floating Dao Palace. I have divided them into two portions, a fifty-fifty split. This portion, please take it, Master Xu..."
Wu Ziting took a Storage Bag from her waist and, guiding it with her magic power, sent it before Xu Xing.
"Thank you for your hard work, Immortal Wu."
Xu Xing was slightly surprised but didn’t refuse Wu Ziting’s kind gesture, accepting the Storage Bag with a wave of his sleeve.
Immediately, his divine sense probed the Storage Bag. He scanned its contents and saw that the treasures inside were largely consistent with the valuable items he remembered from the Floating Dao Palace, which made him admire Wu Ziting a little more.
Wu Ziting said it was a fifty-fifty split, but in reality, almost all the true treasures of the Floating Dao Palace were in the Storage Bag she had given him.
"The treasures from the Cave Mansion below will also be split fifty-fifty. This... bottle of Blood Pills, and these few Taoist Treasures, are for you, Immortal Wu..."
Xu Xing pondered for a short while, then took out the remaining bottle of Blood Pills from his Storage Bag, along with a few artifacts he had taken from Hong Wenren after killing him. He placed them in another Storage Bag and handed it back to Wu Ziting.
Blood Pills were condensed from his essence blood using the Blood Shadow Magic Skill. They had a miraculous effect on breaking through to the Dao Pill Realm and were most suitable for Wu Ziting to refine and consume at this time.
"I also thank you for your hard work, Master Xu..."
Wu Ziting took the Storage Bag, glanced inside, and immediately understood Xu Xing’s intentions, expressing her thanks.
Since the Floating Dao Palace had been thoroughly explored, neither of them wished to linger. After meditating for a while to recover some energy, they began to discern the qi pathways, searching for an exit from the subterranean cavern. The Five-colored Radiance that had guided them into the cavern had vanished, requiring them to once again rely on array techniques to find the exit.
