Everyone's Immortal Cultivation: Starting from a Junior Talisman Maker

Chapter 226 Hiding Merit and Fame, Rewarded by the Lotus of Understanding (Please Subscribe)

Of course, the Nascent Soul leaders of several nearby countries were quite wary of that mysterious cultivator.

However, the mysterious cultivator's killing of a Nascent Soul True Monarch from the Wuqi Kingdom was not entirely without benefit to these countries.

With that mysterious cultivator hiding in the shadows and exerting deterrence, the Wuqi Kingdom, having lost a Nascent Soul True Monarch, should no longer dare to lead its army to invade their countries.

Even the Nascent Soul leaders of several other countries, unaware of the mysterious cultivator's background, dared not easily leave their country's capital, Immortal City, for a long time afterward.

Moreover, the Nascent Soul leaders of various countries discovered that after the mysterious cultivator killed the Golden Sun True Monarch of Wuqi Kingdom, he did not continue to infiltrate the capital cities of other countries to attack the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of those countries.

This initially caused the Nascent Soul leaders of various countries to tremble with fear for a while, but they eventually breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially the Northern Cold True Lord.

He was filled with worry when he learned that the mysterious cultivator had infiltrated the capital city of Wuqi Kingdom, Immortal City, killed True Monarch Jinyang, looted the Wuqi Kingdom's treasury, and destroyed the city's protective array.

After all, compared to Wuqi Kingdom, their Xia Kingdom has a deeper foundation, and during the time he went to Yue Kingdom to provide support, their domestic defenses were relatively weak.

If that mysterious cultivator is after valuable resources, then he might target Xia Kingdom next.

Fortunately, after the two Nascent Soul True Monarchs from Wuqi Kingdom withdrew their troops from Yue Kingdom, Bei Han Zhenjun rushed back to the capital city of Xia Kingdom, Xiancheng, at breakneck speed.

Discovering that the mysterious cultivator had not attacked their Xia Kingdom's capital city, True Monarch Bei Han secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that the mysterious cultivator's attack on Jin Yang Zhenjun of Wu Qi Kingdom this time was not motivated by a grudge against Wu Qi Kingdom, but rather by a desire to seize the precious resources in their national treasury."

Upon returning to the Immortal City of the Capital, Bei Han Zhenjun pondered the mystery of why the mysterious cultivator hadn't infiltrated his country's treasury to loot it.

Especially after he returned to the Immortal City of Kyoto and observed for a period of time, he found that the surrounding countries were all peaceful and there was no further news of the mysterious cultivator. This made him even more certain of his guess and put his mind at ease.

It is worth mentioning that after returning to the Xia Kingdom, Bei Han Zhenjun heard from his secretary that Yang Feng and several other high-ranking members of the Xia Kingdom at the Core Formation Realm had gone out during the time when Jin Yang Zhenjun was killed.

However, they did not suspect that the mysterious cultivator was related to Yang Feng and his group.

After all, according to the information sent back by the intelligence agents who were lurking in Wuqi Kingdom, True Monarch Beihan had heard that the mysterious cultivator was very powerful.

Moreover, he was suspected of possessing multiple fourth-tier magic treasures, and he didn't know much about the mysterious cultivator's specific identity or his own cultivation level.

This made him subconsciously believe that the mysterious cultivator who killed Jin Yang Zhenjun must be a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator who had some grudges with Wu Qi Kingdom or Jin Yang Zhenjun.

He never imagined that the mysterious cultivator who killed Jin Yang Zhenjun would be a Golden Core cultivator.

After all, the difference in strength between a Golden Core cultivator and a Nascent Soul cultivator is simply too great.

Under normal circumstances, even if a Golden Core cultivator possesses multiple fourth-tier magic treasures, in his view, with the Golden Core cultivator's control ability, it would be difficult to unleash the powerful might of the fourth-tier magic treasures and kill a Nascent Soul cultivator who is beyond his realm.

It's like a child who is only a few years old trying to kill an adult man.

Even if the child had a weapon, or even a handgun, many people believed that with the child's abilities, it would be difficult for him to easily kill an adult man with the weapon or handgun he had.

Yang Feng was able to kill Jin Yang Zhenjun so easily without sustaining any injuries.

The main reason, besides possessing multiple powerful magic treasures capable of killing Nascent Soul cultivators, is that...

It was also related to the fact that he had taken a small amount of the Millennium Revitalizing Elixir, which raised his soul strength to a level close to the fourth rank, and that he had also cultivated the fourth-rank puppet control technique to a level close to the entry level.

These personal abilities are equivalent to Yang Feng not only possessing several highly lethal weapons or pistols, but also being extremely skilled in their use.

Most importantly, when Yang Feng was controlling the fourth-tier puppet to fight against Jin Yang Zhenjun, he took advantage of the opponent's underestimation of him and successfully trapped him with that fourth-tier mid-grade illusion killing formation.

This is equivalent to Yang Feng locking the other party in a locked room with traps and no way to escape, and then standing outside with a pistol to launch a sneak attack.

Even if True Lord Jinyang were incredibly powerful, he would not escape death.

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Meanwhile, cultivators from various countries, upon hearing that a mysterious cultivator had infiltrated the Wuqi Kingdom, killed a Nascent Soul True Monarch, looted the Wuqi Kingdom's treasury, and destroyed the protective array of the Wuqi Kingdom's capital, Immortal City, were filled with worry and discussed among themselves, speculating about the true identity of the mysterious cultivator.

Yang Feng, the person involved in killing the Golden Sun True Monarch, had already quietly returned to his residence and was diligently cultivating in his manor as usual.

During this time, in his spare time from cultivation, Yang Feng also became a bystander on several occasions, listening to people around him talking and speculating about the identity of that mysterious cultivator.

He discovered that most people admired and worshipped him for killing the Golden Sun True Lord of Wuqi Kingdom.

After all, his killing of Jin Yang Zhenjun not only reduced the number of Nascent Soul Zhenjun in Wuqi Kingdom.

Moreover, with him lurking in the shadows to exert his influence, he can keep the two Nascent Soul True Monarchs of Wuqi Kingdom wary, and they might not dare to send troops to invade their Xia Kingdom again in the future.

May their Xia Kingdom, and even several neighboring countries, become stable.

In particular, many ordinary people in their Xia Kingdom, as well as those middle and lower-level cultivators who were conscripted, no longer had to live in fear every day, lest the Wuqi Kingdom lead its army to conquer their immortal city or die on the battlefield.

Therefore, in the eyes of many cultivators in the Xia Kingdom, Yang Feng's act of killing Jin Yang Zhenjun was simply a way to solve a huge crisis for their Xia Kingdom.

This naturally earned him great gratitude and respect from many cultivators of the Xia Kingdom.

Of course, these people did not know that the mysterious cultivator who killed Wu Qi was him.

But Yang Feng discovered that everyone was filled with gratitude and admiration for him, even though no one knew he was the mysterious cultivator who had killed Jin Yang Zhenjun.

It seems even more satisfying than the feeling of being the center of attention, with everyone knowing that he killed the Golden Sun True Lord of Wuqi Kingdom, and thus feeling gratitude and admiration for him.

After all, he could hear the people around him praising him genuinely, without their knowledge, right in front of him.

And at the same time, on the other side.

After Yang Feng killed Jin Yang Zhenjun and returned to the Immortal City of Kyoto.

After more than a month of hard training, he finally maxed out the experience points for the first level of the True Meaning of Fire.

"You have diligently studied the true meaning of fire within the Great Dao's True Meaning, and your understanding of the true meaning of fire has slightly improved. Experience points for the true meaning of fire +23, +28..."

"..."

"Congratulations on successfully comprehending the first level of the True Meaning of Fire. You have been rewarded with the special treasure, the Lotus of Understanding Hearts. The reward has been sent to your system inventory. You can open the system panel to view the details." Yang Feng saw the message notification that appeared before him, and his heart stirred. He immediately opened the system panel and looked at his inventory.

"The Lotus of Understanding People (a special treasure) grants cultivators a magical talent for discerning people's hearts. This talent allows them to perceive others' inner thoughts and their emotional loyalty within the range of their divine sense."

After reading the introduction to the Recognizing Bead, Yang Feng was surprised that the system would reward him with such a precious material.

With a thought, Yang Feng immediately took the Heart-Knowing Lotus out of his inventory.

The next second, an oval lotus seed the size of a peanut appeared in Yang Feng's hand.

Without hesitation, Yang Feng immediately put the lotus seed in his hand into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.

As a sweet taste mixed with a hint of bitterness filled his mouth, after a while, once Yang Feng had digested the Heart-Knowing Lotus, he discovered that he had indeed gained a special talent.

That is, he discovered that he didn't need to deliberately investigate at all; he could see the inner thoughts of his servants and stewards in his manor, as well as the Golden Flame Eagle that he had raised for many years, at a glance through his divine sense.

The Golden Flame Eagle, after decades of breeding, has now reached the third level of cultivation. However, because its bloodline is not particularly noble, it has only formed an upper-level True Core. Without a great opportunity, it will be difficult to advance further and break through to the fourth level in the future.

Perhaps it was because Yang Feng had signed a master-servant contract with it, and because Yang Feng had never mistreated it over the years, even providing it with a large amount of precious resources to nurture it, that Yang Feng found it to be very loyal to him.

Yang Feng noticed that even among the servants and steward Hong Fu at his manor, they all held him in high esteem and fear.

"It seems that the servants in my manor are all quite loyal to me. So far, I haven't found any servants who have been bribed or who are spies from enemy countries planted by others."

After probing the thoughts of the servants and stewards one by one, Yang Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Over the years, he has treated his servants fairly well. According to Yang Feng, these people were selected by the relevant departments of Xia State and underwent regular psychological examinations before they became servants to manage his manor.

Moreover, Yang Feng has lived in Linghai Garden for so many years, and these servants have never revealed any information about his personal privacy to outsiders.

That is why he, and other high-ranking cultivators in the Xia Kingdom, have felt relatively at ease with these servants in recent years.

However, people's hearts are unpredictable. Some people may change after experiencing some changes or encountering some irresistible temptations.

Now that Yang Feng possesses such a special talent, he no longer needs to worry about people with ulterior motives lurking around him, or those who dare to covet the opportunities he possesses, or those sent by others to monitor him.

Furthermore, with this talent, Yang Feng will be able to promptly identify who is loyal to him, admires him, is jealous of him, or hates him, which will save him a lot of trouble in the future.

Thinking about this, Yang Feng was quite satisfied with the talent ability to see into people's hearts that he had gained after maxing out the experience points for the first level of the True Meaning of Fire.

Thinking that it had taken him nearly a hundred years to max out the experience of the first level of the True Meaning of Fire, Yang Feng couldn't help but open the system panel and take a closer look.

On the system panel, his age was now 180 years old.

And his cultivation in all aspects.

Several years have passed, and it has improved significantly.

His magical cultivation has now reached the seventh level of the Golden Core Realm (magic power: 73/100).

Yang Feng originally estimated that, based on his previous cultivation speed, it would take him another four or five years to raise his magical power to the eighth level of the Golden Core Realm.

However, some time ago, Yang Feng obtained several fourth-tier treasures from the Wuqi Kingdom's treasury that could enhance his spiritual root aptitude, which improved his spiritual root aptitude and accelerated his cultivation speed considerably.

Yang Feng estimated that, based on his current cultivation speed, he might be able to raise his magical power to the eighth level of the Golden Core Realm in just three or four years.

His physical cultivation has now reached the third stage, seventh level (Qi and Blood: 35/100).

Yang Feng estimated that, based on his current cultivation speed, it would take him another ten years or so to raise his physical cultivation to the third rank, eighth stage.

As for his spiritual cultivation, his current progress is at the third level, sixth stage (spirit: 79/100).

Yang Feng estimated that, at his current cultivation speed, it would probably take him another four or five years to raise his soul cultivation to the third level, seventh stage.

As for the magic.

In recent years, Yang Feng has spent most of his time comprehending the true meaning of the Great Dao, and only takes a small amount of time each day to practice his magic.

Therefore, in the past few years, Yang Feng has not only increased the experience value of that fourth-order puppet control technique to the beginner level: 927128/1000000.

He did not take the time to cultivate other third-tier techniques, and therefore did not obtain any fourth-tier natural treasures from the system in the past few years.

As for the true meaning of the Great Dao.

Although Yang Feng has spent a lot of time on this in recent years.

However, currently, apart from maxing out the experience points for the first level of the True Meaning of Fire, I've only managed to do so.

The other true meanings are still far from being able to max out the experience points for the first level.

The true meaning of water, based on current experience, is 8262786/10000000.

The first level of the True Meaning of Earth currently has an experience value of 8154785/10000000.

The current experience value for the first level of the True Meaning of Wood is: 1978256/10000000.

There is also the first level of the true meaning of gold, with a current experience value of: 1756278/10000000.

Yang Feng estimated that, at his current rate of comprehension, it would probably take him another ten years or so to fully comprehend the first level of the true meaning of water and the first level of the true meaning of earth.

As for the true meaning of wood and the true meaning of metal, Yang Feng estimated that even if he comprehended the first level of the true meaning of fire and could spare more time to study it, it would probably take at least several decades to fully comprehend the first level of both of these great Dao true meanings.

Fortunately, Yang Feng is only 180 years old this year.

At this moment, his physical condition is still more than a hundred years away from the point where his bodily functions begin to decline.

Therefore, Yang Feng is not in a hurry at the moment.

Especially after Yang Feng killed the Golden Sun True Monarch of Wuqi Kingdom, there is no need to worry that the other two Nascent Soul True Monarchs of Wuqi Kingdom will dare to invade their Xia Kingdom.

This allowed Yang Feng to focus on his cultivation without any worries for the next few decades.

(End of this chapter)