Yushan Sect, Xiaoyao Peak, Peak Master’s Hall.
Ling Xiaotian, who was feared by Ye Wuyang and Xie Hanshi, was sitting in the alchemy room of the Peak Master's Hall, staring at a burning incense stick in a daze.
The incense stick was only as thick as a grain of rice, yet it burned very slowly. The smoke curled up, and three inches above the fiery red butt, the straight cigarette seemed to suddenly explode, scattering in all directions.
Ling Xiaotian was a little annoyed. His alchemy skills had always been good. As long as he had a recipe and ingredients, Ling Xiaotian could refine a pill according to the recipe.
Ling Xiaotian had been feeling frustrated for the past few days. The reason was simple: his alchemy skills, which he had always prided himself on, had suffered a major setback. The incense stick Ling Xiaotian was lighting before him, using the exact same ingredients as the recipe, had no "summoning" effect.
This incense stick was the only one Ling Xiaotian had left. If it weren't for the need to find the Foundation Establishment furnace that had "lost" early yesterday morning, Ling Xiaotian would never have been willing to use it.
The incense stick, named "Summoning," was a treasure passed down through the Yushan Sect for tens of thousands of years. Ling Xiaotian had discovered it in the sect's treasure vault. Before using it, Ling Xiaotian followed the instructions and dripped a drop of his blood onto it. After lighting it, the scent emitted by the burning incense stick could summon back the cultivators who had consumed Ling Xiaotian's "Thousand Days of Drunk" and "Awakening Pill."
Ling Xiaotian is now at the second level of foundation building.
Two years ago, the owner of Ling Xiaotian's body was merely a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining. After Ling Xiaotian took over his body, in just two short years, his cultivation level leaped by one major realm and seven minor realms. This rate of progress was unprecedented, even when Ling Xiaotian was a prodigy disciple of the Lingxiao Realm.
But Ling Xiaotian wasn't happy at all. He knew his current cultivation was built on the countless spirit stones and treasures within the Yushan Sect's treasury. If his strength didn't grow rapidly, he wouldn't be able to maintain his position as the Sect's leader. If he were to be ousted from his position, everything Ling Xiaotian possessed would be like a tower on the sandy shore amidst the moonlight. One misstep would result in his death and even the destruction of his soul.
Only after Ling Xiaotian became the head of the Yushan Sect did he understand why his master had fought so hard for the position. Although the Yushan Sect was only a small, declining sect, the resources it possessed were so plentiful that Ling Xiaotian was astounded. Aside from a few minor cultivation techniques, there were mountains of top-grade spiritual stones of various attributes, a variety of magical elixirs and recipes, and thousands of years old spiritual plants stored in jade boxes, filling several large storage bags...
After Ling Xiaotian devoured the soul of Taoist Ling Yun, he discovered that the cultivation world of this time and space was missing many traditions. The technique of possessing a body was well known to every cultivator in the Lingxiao Realm, where Ling Xiaotian had previously lived. But here, it was considered a "secret method" by Taoist Baopu.
Taoist Lingyun's secret method is the "Furnace Ding Gongfa" of the Hehuan Sect in the former Lingxiao Realm.
When Ling Xiaotian was in the Lingxiao Realm, he had heard of a quick-acting method. However, using a furnace to practice was dangerous and sinister. At the time, Ling Xiaotian was a righteous cultivator, and his own cultivation speed was very fast. Naturally, he would not take such "deviant" methods seriously.
After Ling Xiaotian devoured the soul of Taoist Ling Yun, this set of skills also appeared in Ling Xiaotian's sea of consciousness. The current Ling Xiaotian is no longer the cultivator who adheres to the righteous path in Lingxiao Realm. In order to survive, Ling Xiaotian even did things like "taking over the body" and "nurturing the soul". Of course, he is no longer as "conventional" as before.
People are like this. After doing something bad, they will find excuses for doing it again. Ling Xiaotian was the same. He thought that he had always followed the righteous path in his heart, but ended up dying. Now, he wanted to follow his own "evil path". As long as he lived well, why did he care about others wailing in hell?
It is clearly written in Taoist Lingyun's "Furnace and Cauldron Technique" that the spiritual roots of the furnace and cauldron must be consistent with the spiritual roots of the cultivator. In other words, cultivators with spiritual roots of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, or martial arts can only find female cultivators with the same spiritual roots as themselves to be furnace and cauldron. Otherwise, spiritual energy of all attributes will be absorbed into the body, and after the spiritual energy is mixed, the cultivator will be in danger of exploding.
To verify the technique's flaws, Ling Xiaotian passed it on to Yue Zhenshan, the master of Piaomiao Peak. However, Ling Xiaotian kept Yue Zhenshan in the dark about the restriction that only female cultivators of the same spiritual roots could be used as the furnace. He intended to use Yue Zhenshan as an experiment, to see if his practice would ultimately lead to his body exploding and death, as predicted in the "Furnace Cauldron Technique."
Yue Zhenshan was unaware of Ling Xiaotian's selfish motives and thought that Ling Xiaotian was willing to invest so much money to win him over. After obtaining this set of skills, Yue Zhenshan was overjoyed and quickly began to practice in secret.
Everything Yue Zhenshan did was under Ling Xiaotian's surveillance.
A month later, Ling Xiaotian saw that Yue Zhenshan's cultivation had improved a little, and he didn't see any side effects like "body explosion" or "spiritual energy running wild". Only then did Ling Xiaotian start to use the "Furnace Cauldron Technique".
Ling Xiaotian's first cauldron was his dual cultivation partner, Wu Xiuyun. Before marrying Wu Xiuyun, Ling Xiaotian had actually planned to make her his own cauldron. Even Taoist Ling Yun coveted Wu Xiuyun, so how could Ling Xiaotian let her go?
The "Furnace Cauldron Technique" is indeed worthy of its reputation. Ling Xiaotian did not practice much, but just by absorbing Wu Xiuyun's skills, Ling Xiaotian could feel that his cultivation was steadily increasing every day.
After Wu Xiuyun was sucked dry by Ling Xiaotian, Ling Xiaotian was already immersed in the pleasure of achieving his own success by absorbing other people's skills, and could not extricate himself.
Unfortunately, finding a suitable furnace and cauldron is not easy. Ling Xiaotian has a water-attributed spiritual root, and female water-attributed cultivators are rare in the Yushan Sect. Otherwise, Taoist Ling Yun wouldn't have to go to the secular world to find a "female disciple" himself.
Ling Xiaotian turned his attention to the female cultivators from other sects.
Every successive leader of the Yushan Sect has overseen a secret treasury within the sect. This treasury contains not only rare martial arts techniques rarely seen by outsiders, but also a variety of unique elixirs and recipes. Ling Xiaotian's methods for refining the "Thousand Days of Drunk" and "Awakening Pills," as well as the technique for cultivating the "Chansi," were all obtained from the treasury.
Ling Xiaotian knew how to make pills, and the Yushan Sect was renowned throughout the cultivation world for its alchemy skills. With the recipes and ingredients, Ling Xiaotian was able to quickly create the "Thousand Days of Drunk" and "Awakening Pills."
Relying on these pills, Ling Xiaotian controlled a total of five female cultivators in two years.
These female cultivators fell in love with Ling Xiaotian at first sight. Those of higher status would stir up trouble in their own sects, clamoring to marry the head of the Yushan Sect. Those of lower status would come directly to the Yushan Sect and offer themselves to Ling Xiaotian.
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