My ordinary path to immortality shouldn't end here.

Chapter 124 The Immortal Rank Above Attaining Immortality
In Hua Xianying's view, this "Bai Er" will inevitably be used and killed by Xuan Kongzhi and his son Xuan Yunmo in the future. Her promise means that at that time, she will take action against this Shushan Sect Leader and do her best to ensure that this "Bai Er" is successfully reincarnated!
This is her thank-you gift to those who have achieved "120"!

This gift of gratitude is quite substantial.

After all, Mount Shu has forty-nine Celestial Immortals of the Mi Luo Supreme Realm. Why is it that Xuan Kong can become the leader of Mount Shu? The interests and influence involved are undoubtedly enormous.

Going against Xuan Kong would be tantamount to antagonizing at least one-fifth of the True Celestial Immortals of Mount Shu. Otherwise, how could Xuan Yunmo, with only the Great Completion of Qi Refining cultivation, command the disciples of the Human Immortals of Mount Shu?

"Thank you, Immortal Hua."

Bai Chijing thanked him and left. As he walked out of the cave, he saw the sword boy waiting outside.

Upon seeing him, the sword boy tilted his head back, glanced at him, and said indifferently, "You do have a good sense of self-awareness, which is commendable."

The sword boy seemed somewhat satisfied with what he said.

Bai Chijing was puzzled upon hearing this.

But he was young once too, and he had encountered many ridiculous things at the beginning of his cultivation at Tujian Mountain, so he quickly understood what the sword boy was talking about.

"Is it because I didn't take the opportunity to become a disciple?" Bai Chijing asked.

After all, if he were willing to kneel down, call Hua Xianying "master," and kowtow repeatedly when Hua Xianying mentioned half a disciple, then Hua Xianying would most likely accept him.

But this was something Bai Chijing himself did not want to do.

He has no shortage of methods, and he knows his own path forward. He came to this Shu Mountain realm simply because he had nowhere else to go in the mortal world of Yao.

If Yao Tian had allowed him to ascend back then, Bai Chijing wouldn't have risked coming here even if he knew about the Shu Mountain Realm.

Upon hearing Bai Chijing's question, the sword boy nodded, then took out a bamboo scroll and a sword pellet from his robes. After thinking for a moment, he then pulled out a small flag from his sleeve.

"This is the Sword Tempering Scripture. Although it is not a top-tier method, it directly points to the ultimate truth of the sword. This method is relatively easy to learn. Then, you only need to temper the sword pellet, and you can gradually improve your cultivation by relying on the transformation of the sword pellet. Your sword dao talent is dark and mysterious, which is considered inferior to the sword dao. This method can make up for your lack of talent."

As he spoke, the sword boy tossed the bamboo scroll and the sword pellet to Bai Chijing.

Then, after glancing at the small flag twice, he simply said, "I got this after killing a heretic," and casually tossed it to Bai Chijing.

"Alright, I've completed what Master instructed," said the Sword Boy, before leaving with Bai Chijing's inspired form.

The journey there was not as fast as the journey there. It took the Sword Boy a full incense stick's time to bring Bai Chijing out of the clouds, and then, in a flash, they arrived at the Sword Grinding Cliff.

At this point, there was no one left on the Sword Grinding Cliff.

"Thank you very much!"

Bai Chijing leaped off the sword boy's magic sword, then clasped his hands in a salute.

However, the Sword Child completely ignored Bai Chijing's inspired form and flew away. In the blink of an eye, he was already deep within the Shu Mountain range.

Instead of returning to Xielong Cave to report, he went to find his friend.

There are quite a few special disciples of Shu Mountain like Jian Tongzi, but none of them have a master like Jian Tongzi, who is also a Celestial Immortal named Mi Luo, and who also possesses a celestial sword.

Although the magical treasures of the Shushan disciples are all top-notch and far superior to most of their peers, not every Shushan disciple who has just entered the sect possesses a magical treasure at the Human Immortal level.

Most of the disciples who enter the Shu Mountain sect are swordsmen who have reached the Qi Refining Great Perfection stage.

Among the eight generations of disciples of Mount Shu, those who could be considered as having a lineage that allowed them to become sword-wielding children were actually fewer than a handful.

Meanwhile, Bai Chijing, whose body was imbued with the spiritual light of the two magical treasures after being given a cultivation method by the sword boy, did not first open the bamboo scroll or check the two magical treasures. Instead, he closed his eyes and repeatedly recalled the feeling when he saw Hua Xianying.

However, Bai Chijing's inspired reflection was actually just with his eyes closed; what he was truly reminiscing about was his true self, Bai Chijing, far away at the foot of Tianlong Pass.

After repeatedly reflecting on this and constantly concentrating his attention on the realm of Miro Zhizhen, the six-hour period for today finally arrived.

The air was filled with a powerful, surging energy, yet also ethereal and elusive.

It flows into the bead in the palm of the right hand.

The eye-like object within it then moved slightly.

Then familiar text appeared:

Today, you used your spiritual insight to tease a group of cultivators who were essentially low-level versions of those in the External Realm and External Aspect Realm. However, you inadvertently attracted the attention of the Three Heroes of Shu Mountain, specifically the Immortal Hero of China. This renowned, rebellious immortal of Shu Mountain is troubled by your fabricated identity. Your appearance before the public has given this rebellious immortal an opportunity, and he is willing to risk offending the Shu Mountain Sect Leader to use you as bait to lure the Old Demon.

[Search and obtain the four-tiered immortal rank above the path to immortality +1]

"Climb high and look far!"

"Circumstances change with circumstances!"

"A desire to transcend the mundane world!"

"A world apart, not of this realm!"

These are the four stages beyond attaining immortality. "Ascending to great heights and gazing into the distance" and "emotions changing with circumstances" correspond to the cultivation of the "Vast and Virtuous Earth Immortal" stage, while "transcending the mortal realm" and "a world apart from the human realm" correspond to the cultivation of "Miro Supreme Truth." Upon understanding these four immortal stages, Bai Chijing found that his cultivation suddenly changed, as if an infinitely powerful force had appeared within him, constantly propelling him upwards.

His cultivation level increased rapidly.

The look in Bai Chijing's eyes began to shift unpredictably, as if he were about to climb to a high place and look into the distance!
Unfortunately, at the crucial moment, most of the pushing force dissipated, and without enough stamina, Bai Chijing was unable to advance further.

However, although Bai Chijing ultimately failed to achieve immortality in one step, his cultivation level had already reached the Upper Realm of the Outer Heaven.

A sudden realization, seemingly a sudden enlightenment but not quite, allowed Bai Chijing to directly leapfrog a major realm of cultivation!
Before attaining immortality, Yao Tian's cultivation system consisted of nine stages.

At this moment, Bai Chijing had undoubtedly reached the final step. He could already vaguely glimpse the gate to immortality.

"Shushan is truly a treasure land!" Bai Chijing couldn't help but have this thought. He had tried to "find" something from Ling Jia in the past using this method, but he had never achieved the same result as today.

Perhaps the reason for this is that the "Golden Immortal" is too transcendent, but Bai Chijing leaving his inspired reflection directly in Shu Mountain can also be said to have unintentionally taken the wisest step.

"Perhaps I really am born with great fortune?"

Bai Chijing couldn't help but think of this.

……

While his true self benefited greatly, Bai Chijing's inspired body no longer needed to pretend, and he retrieved a portion of the demon monk's memories.

Because it contains cultivation experience related to this "Sword Tempering Scripture".

However, the demon monk had also practiced this method.

The demon monk's ability to create the "Great Realm of the Mind," which directly leads to the Celestial Immortal realm, also draws inspiration from the "Sword Tempering Scripture." At this moment, Bai Chijing retrieved the cultivation experience from it and, after performing a series of similar operations, the sword pellet remained completely still.

But it doesn't matter, Bai Chijing has already borrowed the demon monk's swordsmanship talent, so in the next instant, this sword pellet flashed with spiritual light.

The moment this sword pellet moved, it meant that Bai Chijing's inspired body had entered the basics of the "Sword Tempering Scripture".

For other Shushan disciples, even mastering the basics of the "Sword Tempering Scripture" wouldn't significantly improve their abilities. But for Bai Chijing, it was a completely different story.

Because he has directly linked the "Sword Tempering Scripture" with the demon monk's swordsmanship talent.

After all, this is the embodiment of inspiration.

It's not a clone!

Although this inspired body can manifest power equivalent to that of the true body, it cannot cultivate certain methods as perfectly as an avatar.

If he were to cultivate this "Sword Tempering Scripture," it would be easy for him to expose that he is not made of flesh and blood.

Moreover, this method is a sword cultivation technique.

At this moment, Bai Chijing, relying on "Lingtai Tian", wove a great net of the mind, fixing the demon monk's swordsmanship talent within it and making it his "long-term borrowed" item. Not satisfied, he continued to expand this great net of the mind, connecting all the people in Shushan whose minds he had planted his image in with this great net of the mind.

Once these mental images became connected, streams of sword energy continuously converged towards Bai Chijing's inspired reflection.

Then, the sword pellet flashed again.

This is because it has been nourished by sword energy!

The disciples of Mount Shu cultivate and refine their sword energy, which not only makes their supernatural abilities more extraordinary, but also nourishes their magical swords, continuously enhancing their power.

A moment later, the sword pellet transformed into a bracelet-like object and landed on the wrist of Bai Chijing's inspired reflection.

At that very moment, sword energy began to surge around Bai Chijing's inspired form.

This is already a minor success in the "Sword Tempering Scripture"!

When this method yielded some results, the traces left by Bai Chijing's inspired body practicing the "Summer Gathering Technique" were directly washed away by the sword energy of the "Sword Tempering Scripture".

If Hua Xianying were to look at Bai Chijing's inspired reflection again, she wouldn't feel even the slightest bit of subtlety!

Hua Xianying's cultivation level far surpasses Bai Chijing's, but Bai Chijing's self-created "Ten Greedy and Desireless Suffering Immortal Scripture" is indeed worthy of being listed on the list of the most vicious and evil techniques!

Its evil nature is so extreme that it can even mock the "transcendental" Celestial Immortal Mi Luo.

clang!
A long, resounding bell rang throughout the servants' quarters of Shushan.

This is the sound of the bell in the servants' quarters.

It was the sound that all the menial disciples dreamed of, and they longed for that sound to ring out because of them. Because when the Dao bell rang, it meant that a menial disciple had cultivated to an extraordinary level and was thus exceptionally accepted as an initiation disciple.

The long cry from the servants' quarters right now is a result of Shirochi Kei's inspired reflection.

After all, if someone who has mastered the "Sword Tempering Scripture" to a minor level in just a few hours is not qualified to become an entry-level disciple of Mount Shu, then who is qualified?

This also shows that when the Lingtai Heaven is not suppressed, it is truly terrifying!
(End of this chapter)