Born with immortal seed

Chapter 391 A Courageous Spirit Hidden in the Sleeve

"Thunder Sound Sword?"

There are countless flying swords in the world, and it's normal for them to encounter similar styles and forms.

If it weren't for the Core Formation cultivator opposite him raising his sword and activating it, creating a gathering of sword light and a thunderous sound, Bai Zichen wouldn't have recognized it as the Thunder Sound Sword.

The sword's color was slightly different from the Thunder Sound Sword he had forged, but once activated, its origin could still be confirmed.

It's not surprising that other third-tier flying swords, whose sword-forging secrets have been passed down outside, have been learned by others and forged by them.

However, the two flying swords, the Sound Bamboo Sword and the Thunder Sound Sword, are made from special materials. Apart from those cultivated using the Azure Divine Technique of Yi Wood, almost no other spiritual bamboo of the same kind has ever appeared in the world of cultivation.

Once you see the cultivator wielding those two flying swords, you can immediately confirm their identity.

"A cultivator from Youlongmen? No, it's a cultivator from the Yulong Sect who escaped from Chilong Island!"

Upon seeing Lei Zhujian, a water dragon roared behind him, and water vapor gathered into a river, which was a sign that the cultivation of the Core Formation Scroll of the Dragon Transformation Scripture had reached its perfect stage.

Once a cultivator advances to the Nascent Soul stage and practices the Dragon Transformation Scripture, they possess the power of a dragon with every gesture, and their true essence is as vast as the sea.

Bai Zichen immediately identified him as a cultivator from Youlongmen, thinking that the incident from back then had come to light and that the person had tracked him down.

But then he realized something was wrong. Where did the Youlongmen, which had no sacred beast blood essence, come from if it had obtained the inheritance of the Kongyulong Sect?

When Chilong Island was destroyed, a cultivator from the Fish Dragon Sect used his Nine Yang True Fire to burn the spiritual bamboo on the island to ashes, leaving not even a single spiritual seed behind.

On the contrary, the core disciples selected by the Fish Dragon Sect each brought their own lineage's inherited treasures, and it was quite normal for one of them to be the Thunder Sound Sword.

Looking at the corner of the person's clothes, there was an embroidered pattern of a sea fish leaping high, half of its body having transformed into a dragon's body.

Half-dragon, half-human – that is the symbol of the Fish-Dragon Sect!

"You recognize the Thunder Sound Sword and know about the Dragon Gate Tour... You must be Bai Zichen, a descendant of Bai Muxing!"

Li Hansi's voice carried a hint of gritted teeth. When a million demons attacked from the sea, he was chosen as the last seed of the sect and escaped from Chilong Island with the essence of sacred beasts and cultivation resources.

After realizing that his sect had been destroyed and fleeing, he planned to use Bai Muxing as a pawn to lure away the pursuers.

Unexpectedly, Bai Muxing struck first, trapping Li Hansi and another disciple in a mermaid encirclement, and also stole the sacred beast's essence blood crystal.

Fortunately, Li Hansi had many secret treasures on him, and he pulled out one third-tier talisman after another, managing to fight his way out.

The other disciple wasn't so lucky. Just as he was about to escape the encirclement, a flying harpoon pierced his head, splattering red and white blood all over Li Hansi's face.

He dared not look back, affixed a third-tier flying talisman, and left the Myriad Star Islands directly.

After arriving inland, he lived in the Central Region, where human cultivators were most concentrated and strongest, for fear of being chased down by the Dragon Lord's subordinates.

The complete cultivation technique and supernatural power inheritance, a bracelet storage magic treasure filled with enough resources for several people to cultivate to the peak of the Core Formation stage, and a box full of high-grade spirit stones, a total of one hundred.

With such favorable cultivation conditions, Li Hansi's cultivation to the Core Formation stage proceeded very smoothly, achieving it in less than thirty years after leaving the Myriad Star Islands.

But after achieving the Golden Core stage, endless regret follows.

With his sect destroyed and nearly killed on his escape, Li Hansi arrived in the unfamiliar Central Region, feeling utterly insecure.

He only wanted to form his core as soon as possible and have some ability to protect himself.

Being chosen as a successor disciple of the Xuanming lineage, his aptitude must be exceptional.

Without a shortage of cultivation elixirs and spiritual objects for forming the core, and without pursuing alchemical theories, one can achieve the core-forming realm in one fell swoop.

However, without mastering the theory of alchemy, Li Hansi's cultivation progress slowed down after he formed his core, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as extremely difficult.

It should be noted that on Chilong Island, he possessed a top-tier water-based spiritual body and was praised by a Nascent Soul True Monarch as the most suitable candidate to cultivate the Dragon Transformation Scripture.

There's no reason why someone with abundant cultivation resources would only reach the perfect Core Formation stage when their lifespan is almost over.

The negative impact of failing to achieve mastery of alchemy during the foundation-building stage was fully manifested in his case.

A hundred years ago, after Li Hansi achieved the Core Formation, he ran a trading company in the Central Region for hundreds of years. Finally, he brought news about the disciples of the Crimson Bright lineage.

A manager from the Northern Region brought back a batch of spiritual materials from Liang Kingdom. While chatting with his colleagues, he mentioned that there was a family in Black Mountain that started by cultivating spiritual bamboo, and now they had produced a descendant who had reached the Core Formation stage.

That Core Formation cultivator was already famous throughout the Northern Region because of his amazing talent in swordsmanship.

When Li Hansi came to a meeting with the managers of the business to assign tasks for the coming year, he heard the names Bai Shi and Ling Zhu and his heart skipped a beat, so he simply rushed over to Heishan.

The loss of the sacred beast's essence blood, a treasure passed down through generations, had become a deep-seated regret for him. The fact that the Thunder Sound Bamboo could not mutate in the bamboo forest and he could not forge the Thunder Sound Sword was a minor matter, as there were other third-tier sword-forging secrets in the Fish-Dragon Sect.

The most important thing is to sever the cultivation path of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword.

The Fish Dragon Sect established its base in the treacherous Outer Seas, a place where only strength mattered, and the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword played a significant role in this.

There were once three Core Formation True Persons who had mastered the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, who joined forces to ambush a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

The three swords were unleashed simultaneously, causing the opponent to suffer the five signs of decay and his lifespan to be exhausted.

Although his final counterattack took the lives of two Core Formation cultivators.

However, the power of such a great supernatural ability is too strong. As long as a few people in each generation can cultivate it, even without a Nascent Soul True Monarch in charge, the Fish Dragon Sect can firmly maintain its position in the Myriad Star Islands.

No sect dared to challenge it or attempt to usurp its position.

It wasn't until the Dragon King summoned several transformed demons, gathered millions of sea beasts, and had an inside agent destroy the great formation that Chilong Island fell.

Furthermore, the essence and blood of the sacred beast have always been kept in the hands of the Xuanming main lineage, which means that they have the final say on who can obtain the aura of the sacred beast and who is qualified to cultivate the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword.

This is also the best way for the main lineage of Xuanming to control the other lineages.

Upon arriving in Black Mountain, Li Hansi quickly confirmed that the Mozhu Bai Clan was the family founded by Bai Muxing.

However, after infiltrating the Bai family and searching back and forth several times, he still couldn't find the essence blood of the sacred beast.

He possesses a secret technique of his own lineage, so if the sacred beast's blood essence crystal is nearby, it will react regardless of any restrictions in between.

There is no restrictive formation in the world that can prevent the sacred beast's essence blood from transmitting its aura outwards.

Undeterred, Li Hansi returned to Black Mountain multiple times over the years, attempting to find clues, and even secretly used soul-searching techniques on the Bai clan chief.

Afterwards, they dressed the old man up to make it look like he had died of natural causes.

Because of his advanced age, no one suspected anything.

However, the soul search yielded nothing.

As the patriarch of the Bai clan, he had absolutely no memory of the Fish-Dragon Sect or the essence blood of the sacred beast.

However, the presence of a foundational cultivation manual of the Crimson Nirvana Sutra in the storage bag confirmed that the Bai family were indeed descendants of Bai Muxing.

"The essence blood of a sacred beast is so important, yet Bai Muxing didn't explain it to his descendants or hide it in the family. Could it be hidden somewhere else...?"

Li Hansi was puzzled, but suddenly sensed an opportunity to break through to a higher realm, so he could only put the matter aside for the time being and go into seclusion to cultivate.

Not long after emerging from seclusion, he sensed that the treasure-refining secret technique he had set up in his sea of ​​consciousness had been broken. He came to take a look, which led to the scene before him.

"You know the inside story of the Fish-Dragon Sect. Did Bai Muxing pass on the essence blood of a sacred beast to you?"

Now it was Li Hansi's turn to refuse to give up; since it concerned the essence of the sacred beast, he had to get to the bottom of it.

"So they are disciples of the Xuanming lineage, here to find the whereabouts of the sacred beast's essence blood..."

The moment Bai Zichen recognized the Thunder Sound Sword, he unleashed a finger strike that knocked two Foundation Establishment disciples unconscious.

Matters concerning the Fish-Dragon Sect should not be known to outsiders.

When the two of them actually heard the words "Fish Dragon Sect" and "sacred beast blood essence," it put him in a difficult position.

Since reading the contents of the jade slip left by the Bai family patriarch, Bai Zichen has been very clear about the situation of the other survivors of the Fish-Dragon Sect.

The Chiming lineage is not our own; they are traitors, enemies no less deserving of annihilation and destruction of our sect.

I never imagined that I would get along well with the other branches of the Fish-Dragon Sect.

"The essence blood of the sacred beast is truly in your hands... Quickly return it to its rightful owner, and I can even allow you to be recognized as a member of the Fish-Dragon Sect and return to its walls!"

The Thunder Sound Sword Light was ready to strike, and the water beneath its feet rose, with water dragons appearing and disappearing. Among the ripples of water were magical treasures exuding powerful auras.

Li Hansi's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and his otherwise ordinary features suddenly exuded an indescribable charm.

"Such arrogance! Let's see what you've got!"

Bai Zichen sensed the incessantly pulsating Ziwei Xuanlei Sword within his dantian and calmed it back down.

The sword's spirituality grew stronger day by day, becoming increasingly active.

It was precisely because it sensed that the remaining lifespan of the cultivator outside was within the killing range of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword that it was eager to try and kill him.

He had kept this supreme divine power hidden for many years, intending to unleash it upon a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Although the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword was used to kill the Xuanming lineage cultivator, it had a strong sense of destiny and reincarnation.

But in Bai Zichen's opinion, this person was not worthy of using the Time Sword.

"Killing this man will not only avenge the fallen disciples of our sect, but also cut off the remnants of the Fish-Dragon Sect from their covetousness of the Bai family... lest the Bai family get into trouble because of the sacred beast's blood after I leave Black Mountain!"

Bai Zichen flicked his sleeves, and moonlight spread out, quickly occupying a corner of Cold Crow Gorge.

At the same time, a silver-white sword thread leaped out and shot silently across the entire arena.

"Refine the sword into silk!"

Li Hansi exclaimed in surprise, focusing all his attention and daring not to be careless in the slightest.

He had heard of Ge Cang and Bai Zichen's reputations, but he thought they were just exaggerated rumors.

The Qingfeng Sect is a small, remote branch of the sect. There are hardly any Core Formation cultivators in the entire sect, so how could it possibly produce any extraordinary figures?

It's likely that the Liang Kingdom's cultivators lacked knowledge and relied on mutual flattery to build their reputation.

During Li Hansi's childhood, the Fish Dragon Sect was the overlord of the Myriad Star Islands, with countless sects and immortal cultivation families submitting to it. As the main lineage's disciple, he always looked down on everyone.

Even after arriving in the Central Region, this habit didn't change much; they still didn't take cultivators from outside the Central Region seriously.

Only after engaging in combat did I realize that I had made a huge mistake.

(End of this chapter)