Recruit black physique to start practice in wasteland

Chapter 2431 Knowing one’s own warmth and coldness
The Bloodthirsty Compass has an extremely strong ability to conceal celestial secrets, but the prerequisite is to sacrifice a large number of living beings, using their vital energy to activate the celestial secrets and achieve concealment.

This was a method used by evil cultivators in ancient times. Later, as evil cultivators were suppressed, this method was also abolished.

Strictly speaking, the Bloodthirsty Compass doesn't have that much evil energy; it's just an auxiliary magical artifact.

Anyone who wants to conceal the secrets of heaven must pay a price. The life force of cultivators or spirit beasts is easier to utilize.

Later, some people wanted to avoid the risks and switched to using only the essence blood of spirit beasts.

However, it was eventually banned because while the essence blood of spirit beasts could be used, human blood could still be used.

Sometimes, it's much easier for cultivators to plot against each other than to hunt spirit beasts.

In short, this is a treasure from the past, which is somewhat taboo, but it's not necessarily true that it's stained with human blood.

Qianhuan Zhenzun gave a thumbs up, "As expected of the Master of Arts, you are indeed very knowledgeable."

Jin Ge replied dismissively, "I still prefer your defiant attitude from earlier."

“Hehe,” Qianhuan Zhenzun chuckled dryly.

In the realm of virtue, he was always respectfully addressed as "Immortal Venerable," and even True Venerables treated him with utmost courtesy. He had never been mocked like this before.
However, as a professional at staging accidents, he was exceptionally aware of the subtle nuances of social interaction.

He coughed lightly, "This is a mother-child compass, which is a bit better than the Blood Compass. As long as the mother compass supplies the essence blood of spirit beasts, it will suffice."

"Something that can conceal out-of-body perception..." Venerable Qingkong scoffed. "This belongs to Fang Zhenghao's family?"

“The Fang family has had a Nascent Soul True Venerable,” True Venerable Thousand Illusions replied in a deep voice, “You don’t know this thing?”

Qingkong Zhenzun shook his head. "I don't know. How could he possibly tell me about such a forbidden item... It all happened when I was young."

Fang Zhenghao was a friend he met after he reached the Core Formation stage. At that time, Fang Zhenghao was already a veteran Core Formation cultivator, and Fang Zhenghao had reached the Nascent Soul stage before Fang Zhenghao.

Fang Zhenghao is a senior with a considerable family fortune. His ancestors included a Grandmaster who could leave the body, and he received a lot of help from him.

The two were birds of a feather, and whether they went on adventures or sought pleasure, they always went together.

If Fang Zhenghao had secretly kept his scent, he would really believe it—but his older brother was probably just joking with him.

Later, Fang Zhenghao stopped at the Nascent Soul stage, and he left the body, and he had no further connection with the Fang family.

When he was in the Nascent Soul stage, he severed all ties with his own descendants. How could he possibly care about the Fang family's descendants?

His current aura is clearly from the Fang family, so even if he wanted to get angry... it's pointless to even think about it.

As for the Fang family secretly possessing the Essence Blood Mother-Child Compass, which is at the Out-of-Body level, there's no way he would know about it.

But he still didn't quite understand, "Has his family gone mad? Why are they using this tactic against me now?"

Qingkong admitted that even if the Fang family descendants came looking for him now, he wouldn't acknowledge them—it wasn't cold-heartedness; he felt the same way about his own descendants.

But if you want to do something, at least say something in advance, it's better than not saying anything, right?

He simply couldn't understand the thought process of the Fang family descendants. Who gave them the audacity to do this to the Grand Protector of Lingyun Sect?

"..." Qianhuan Zhenzun remained silent for a while before speaking, "Fang Zhenghao has a ninth-generation descendant, Fang Qingyang, who entered the Nascent Soul stage at the age of 230."

"This person..." Qingkong pondered for a moment, then nodded in sudden realization, "I remember him, is he nearing the end of his lifespan?"

This Fang Qingyang... a thousand eight hundred years ago, he even sought him out. Seeing that Fang Qingyang had entered the Nascent Soul stage at a young age, he had given him some help.

But that's all the help we can offer. The Great Protector treats his own people the same way, let alone outsiders.
However, after calculating the time, he already understood what had happened.

Qianhuan spoke quite frankly, "To avoid being deceived, I even did some research... He did indeed have the potential to leave his body."

The Fang family has developed quite well over the past two thousand years. Fang Qingyang wants to restore the glory of his ancestors, so he frequently goes out on adventures to collect resources.

As a result, he suffered two serious injuries, which delayed his life. Now he is 1,600 years old, and his time is running out.

Even more unfortunately, there was no one to carry on the lineage. Apart from one Nascent Soul cultivator who was nearly three hundred years old when he condensed his Nascent Soul, the others were all nearly four hundred years old.

It seems like the younger generation is unreliable, and the family is on the verge of decline.

Then Fang Qingyang became anxious and began searching everywhere for resources, hoping to make a breakthrough to the Out-of-Body stage before his time was up.

At this point, everyone understands: far too many cultivators who reach this state fall into obsession or even madness.

It's all too common for a prosperous family to be ruined by an ancestor on the verge of losing his mind.

Fang Qingyang was indeed impatient and anxious, and he became anxious as the journey to the other world was delayed.

The family possessed the aura of Qingkong, as well as the forbidden artifact, the Essence Blood Mother-Child Compass. He gritted his teeth and took it all out.

However, he also knew very well that he couldn't handle this matter on his own, which is why he eventually found Qianhuan.

The Venerable Ones with profound virtues have a headache dealing with Qian Huan, but as a professional con artist, it's not difficult for lower-level cultivators to find him.

Go to any of the places he guards, promise him some benefits, and at least you can get your message across.

The Thousand Illusions True Venerable was also considering how to seize this opportunity, and upon hearing this, he made this arrangement.

That explained the matter of the aura. Upon hearing this, Qingkong shook his head speechlessly, "This child, sigh..."

"Stop talking about kids," Han Li glanced at him coldly, "They're older than me, what do you mean by that?"

"I mean I have no opinion," Qingkong said seriously, "but it's somewhat... well, don't worry about my feelings!"

“Hmm,” Han Li nodded in satisfaction, “I’m considering maintaining the dignity of all the True Venerables… But what’s the deal with this mountain?”

This mountain-shaped treasure is actually the Lingxu Mountain that disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, and it was originally an acquired spiritual treasure.

After leaving his body, the Thousand Illusions True Venerable once ventured into another dimension and discovered a huge mountain that seemed somewhat mysterious.

He was skilled in illusion magic and adept at identifying it. After careful examination, he guessed that this was the Lingxu Mountain.

There were various restrictions around Lingxu Mountain, but he wasn't surprised. A treasure of this caliber wouldn't just be left lying around for no reason.

This acquired spiritual treasure exists in its original form; there may be some explanation for this.

It's possible that the treasure possesses a spirit and is resting or going into hibernation on its own, or it could be that the original owner made some arrangements.

However, whether the owner is still alive is a question. Allowing a spiritual treasure to develop on its own after birth may not be a good thing for cultivators.

In any case, if Thousand Illusions True Venerable were to encounter such a situation, he would absolutely not give up and would definitely seize this immense wealth.

It took him over fifty years to carefully cut the spiritual treasure out of the space—and sure enough, this place was suitable for nurturing the spiritual treasure.

However, when he took out Lingxu Mountain, the nurturing power was almost gone, so it did not harm the spiritual treasure.

He then spent another twenty years roughly completing the refining of the spiritual treasure.

Even if such a spiritual treasure is acquired later in life, it is still quite difficult for a Nascent Soul Immortal to refine it.

When he finished refining it, he pondered that he would need hundreds of years to get used to it properly in the future. Suddenly, a thought came to him.

"Who dares to trespass on my sacred mountain?"

Qianhuan was terrified. He had thought before that this might be the work of a great master, but he had deliberately concealed this thought.

You absolutely cannot have this kind of thought, otherwise the other party is very likely to sense it, and trouble will follow.

Since it appears to be an unclaimed treasure, he absolutely cannot let it go. After refining it, any disputes can wait.

To his surprise, the other party suddenly attacked like this, leaving him completely stunned—this was definitely not a true being!
As for whether he was a Nascent Soul True Monarch, he wasn't sure, but he was at least a powerful being of that level, and he immediately knelt down.

"Senior, please spare my life! I thought the treasure was unclaimed and had been left by someone else to be destined for it. I really didn't mean to offend you."

He made a decision instantly: he would consider these eighty years as a waste. As long as he could save his life by handing over the spiritual treasure, it wouldn't be a loss!
There's really no way around it. If you touch something belonging to someone in a higher position and encounter someone who's difficult to talk to, you can just kill them without much consequence.

Fortunately, the powerful being was reasonable and accepted his explanation—which was likely related to his concealment of his thoughts.

The other party, probably proud of their status, didn't bother to probe his memories, simply stating that ignorance is no excuse.

As luck would have it, Qianhuan spent over fifty years retrieving the spiritual treasure, unwilling to cause any damage, as he intended to use it himself.

He was also very careful during the refining process, without any intention of "the treasure might have an owner," and did everything as quickly as possible.

The Great Power greatly appreciated this about him—regardless of your true intentions, at least you treated the treasure as something important.

The person said, "I originally intended to refine this into a Fangcun Mountain, but I found it wasn't very suitable, so I just left it there to develop on its own."

Now that you've gone to the trouble of retrieving it for me, it's a karmic connection. Since there was a ritualistic act involved, I'll give you a spiritual mountain clone to use.

In short, the great being is meticulous in his actions, and he himself is meticulous in his actions, but he simply resolves cause and effect in a simple way.

That person also warned him not to use this sacred mountain lightly, as he did not want to get involved in other karma.

It sounds unbelievable, but many powerful figures in the cultivation world do this.

In fact, this sacred mountain was the treasure he used to hide from other True Venerables who were investigating cause and effect.

He doesn't use Mount Ling to cause trouble; he simply hides in Mount Ling to escape karma, which doesn't go against the Great Power's original intention.

Anyway, those investigating him are all True Venerables, so why would he bother to provoke a Distracted Spirit?

If someone were to investigate him by following the cause and effect, it would be suspected that the powerful were bullying the weak. However, since his spiritual mountain was obtained legitimately, his great power would not be hindered.

This is Qianhuan's biggest secret, but now I have to tell it.

He didn't reveal any information about that powerful being, whether out of fear or because he himself didn't know.

However, none of the five True Venerables, including Han Li, dared to press for answers.

Qianhuan was going all out in this operation. His main body found a place to hide, while his two clones brought Lingshan over.

There's no way around it. While it may seem that a True Venerable of Out-of-Body Realm is incredibly powerful, the hardships involved in advancing further are something only the person experiencing them truly understands.