Traveling through time to cultivate immortality: a life and death test

"Qian'er, we have to break through to the Nascent Soul stage within a hundred years. It is impossible to achieve this by staying in the sect and practicing hard." Liu Xing seemed to have thought of his master again. He was still in a low mood at the moment, and the joy of breaking through to the late stage had been diluted a lot.

"Brother Xing is right. Why don't we go out and travel around the world and look for opportunities." Seeing that Liu Xing was not very happy, Nie Xiaoqian thought of traveling to help her husband get out of his sadness.

"That's what I was thinking, but we still need to make adequate preparations before that." Liu Xing is meticulous and plans everything carefully before taking action.

In the decades following the wedding ceremony and Elder Su's lecture, the Qianji Sect entered a period of rapid growth. Its fame attracted talented individuals from around the world. Not only did they recruit numerous exceptionally talented disciples, but seven or eight of the temporary Nascent Soul guests became permanent members of the Qianji Sect. Of course, recruiting Nascent Soul members required not only significant financial resources, but Su Xingchen, before his death, had expended considerable effort to secure their willing submission. By this time, the Qianji Sect's apparent strength had become the preeminent in the world.

However, Liu Xing and Cao Changyun knew that the sustainability of this prosperity depended on whether an elder could break through to the late Nascent Soul stage within the next century, or whether Liu Xing could break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Otherwise, if news of Elder Su's passing spread, the Qianji Sect would become a target of public criticism, and collapse would be imminent.

Liu Xing took out Elder Su's treasures, sharing them with his wife. They both refined the treasures, arming themselves and increasing their combat effectiveness. He also spent a large sum of money to acquire two Vajra relics from a Nascent Soul Elder from the Buddhist sect. He and his clone began to comprehend and practice the "Ming Wang Jue," seeking breakthroughs in physical cultivation. Finally, he procured a large amount of materials and refined various restriction arrays. He also refined four puppets in the middle stage of the Jindan stage: two for his wife's self-defense and two for his clone's assistance. With his wife and clone's spiritual powers, they could only control two puppets of the same level at once. As for himself, the Jindan puppets were of little use to him.

Ten years later, Liu Xing had cultivated the "Ming Wang Jue" to the minor success stage, and Nie Xiaoqian had also mastered a powerful secret technique. At this point, the term of the current head had expired, and Liu Xing took the opportunity to step down, allowing his clone to continue his retreat in the Ten Thousand Bone Pit, leaving him with a large quantity of medicinal pills. Liu Xing estimated that by the time he returned from his travels, his clone would have reached the late Jindan stage.

Everything was ready. Liu Xing and his wife said goodbye to Nangong Yan, left the sect, and traveled around the world hand in hand.

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"Qian'er, are you okay?" Liu Xing didn't care that he was still dizzy, and hurriedly asked about the condition of his wife whom he was holding tightly.

"Ahem, I'm fine." Nie Xiaoqian's weak voice came, and it was obvious that she was seriously injured.

Based on the information he'd gathered over the years, Liu Xing traveled the continent's mountains and rivers, collecting numerous elixirs. However, much of the information was inaccurate, leading to failure in his quest. Now, ten years later, while exploring an ancient medicinal garden, Liu Xing and his wife accidentally fell into a spatial rift, nearly killing both of them.

Liu Xing found a small cave nearby, set up several defensive measures, and settled his wife there.

"Brother Xing, where is this?" Nie Xiaoqian took the pill and rested for half a day to suppress her injuries.

She looked around and found herself on a small island in the vast ocean. The air smelled wet and salty, and it was a very unfamiliar place.

"We may be in an unknown area deep in the ocean. When we meet a fellow cultivator, we can ask him and we'll know. Don't worry, ma'am. Just heal your wounds first." Liu Xing comforted his wife.

Although he hadn't left the island, his vast spiritual sense had already explored the area within a radius of 150 kilometers. However, all he saw was the turbulent sea. There were some otter-like monsters roaming in this area, but they were only at level one, so Liu Xing naturally had no interest in them.

"Yeah." Seeing that her husband was confident, Xiaoqian continued to meditate and regulate her breathing with her eyes closed.

Liu Xing checked his wife's injuries again and found them to be fine. With the Grandmaster Alchemist by his side and the elixirs he had gathered, he estimated she would recover in ten days to half a month. He himself, aside from a slight dizziness, was fine and fully recovered after meditating for half a day.

"Qian'er, just rest and heal here. I've set up restrictions. Even if a Yuanying monster comes, he won't be able to break through in a short time. I'm going out to investigate the surrounding situation and will be back soon."

"Go ahead, Brother Xing, be sure to be safe and come back as soon as possible."

So Liu Xing turned into a long rainbow and flew in a certain direction.

Suddenly, his spiritual sense sensed an old man fleeing towards him in a panic. He was at the early stage of Jindan cultivation and kept looking back, as if there were extremely dangerous pursuers behind him.

Liu Xing extended his consciousness backwards and discovered that a giant otter demon was chasing him. This otter was ten feet long, with long whiskers around its mouth like steel needles, and it was at the level of a sixth-level demon beast. No wonder the old man was no match for it, and now he was seriously injured and fleeing.

Liu Xing quickly hid himself in the clouds. He was just about to ask someone for directions, and saving the old man would be a good opportunity for a conversation.

In a matter of seconds, the old man had escaped to the cloud beneath where Liu Xing was hiding. By this time, he was at the end of his rope. The otter's water wave technique had already entangled him, and the surging waves transformed into two giant pythons, encircling the old man. The giant demon let out a sharp cry of excitement. Human golden elixirs are a great tonic for demons, and this delicious meal will soon be in their mouths.

Seeing the giant monster about to bite off the old man's head, Liu Xing knew that if he waited any longer, the old man would be dead, so he took decisive action. He casually swung a flying sword, severing the otter in half. With a flick of his hand, he sucked the otter's demon pill into his own hand, his power astonishing. At this time, the mountain cat in the spirit beast bag called out to its master, seemingly eager for the otter's demon pill. Liu Xing smiled slightly and gave the demon pill to Duoduo without any concern.

The old man thought he was going to die, and he closed his eyes, ready to be killed. But he waited for a long time, but the otter's fatal blow did not come. When he opened his eyes, he found that it was a young man in his thirties who had killed the giant monster with a sword and saved him. The young man's cultivation was unfathomable, and he had no idea of ​​the depth.

"Gibberish..." The old man was smart and immediately bowed his head, saying something that Liu Xing could not understand at all.

Liu Xing could sense the old man was expressing his gratitude, but he couldn't understand the language. Liu Xing's bewildered expression made the old man's heart skip a beat. Had he accidentally angered him? Killing people in the Chaos Sea was too easy. So, the old man broke out in a cold sweat, kowtowed repeatedly, and begged for mercy.