Daoist Master of Qing Xuan

Shen Lian stayed for one full month. Even if the Tongtian Skill was to be taught by a Divine Fox, it was still a very complicated Dao technique.

That day, Shen Lian was still deducting the dangerous pass of the Tongtian Skill. In the middle of the bier, a Bagua eventually formed from his Yin spirit, this was the image of the internalization. The Bagua wandered, the substance alternated, with the position of the universe, the six virtues reciprocated and somewhere in the unseen world, there were strands of abstruse.

He suddenly had another eye. Perhaps eye could not be used to describe it but he had gotten another perspective out of nowhere, which allowed him to see the situation outside of the Taiwei Pavilion.

The breeze of the wind caressed the lawn, the clouds in the sky floated leisurely. Until he turned his attention to the blue sky and white clouds, he saw a ray of light descended. It was Hong Qianya.

Shen Lian’s heart tugged and then he exited the second level of the pavilion and walked out from within.

He had some achievement with the Tongtian Skill and he could get news of the people and matter of a certain parameter but it was no use to him because the chief of Qing Xuan had the Tian Dijian which had that surveillance capability. The parameter of the surveillance depended on the mana Shen Lian put into it.

Hong Qianya wore a vermillion Dao robes, a curved jade hairpin was simply placed in his hair bun. He seemed as though Huo De Xing Jun had arrived ¹ . He saw Shen Lian and the languid look. However, as Shen Lian descended out, there was no sound or breath to his movement as his entire breath was reserved. He could not stop praising Shen Lian in secret. It was truly the nine transformations of Huandan since his spirit could completely move so freely unattached to the body.

He got it wrong, though. Shen Lian’s breath that was naturally reserved was a sign of his small achievement of the Tongtian Skill. His Qi dynamic was also naturally hidden.

Shen Lian stood firm ten feet away from Hong Qianya, with his hands clasped behind his back he asked, “Elder Hong, you came looking for me?”

Hong Qianya bowed down. Even though Shen Lian’s age was small but with him achieving the nine transformations of Huandan, his shocking mana and his position as the chief, even when Daoists do not emphasize on etiquette but they could not abandon it too.

He then followed, “Because you were not there in the Qing Xuan Hall. I later found out from Jingqing Tongzi that you were at the Taiwei Pavilion so I came searching here.”

Shen Lian smiled simply and said, “My mana is progressing but my supernatural powers are not catching up, that is why I came to search for techniques and skills in the pavilion. You must have searched hard. Since you needed to find me, it seemed that this matter is no simple matter and this is no place for discussion. We will continue in the Qing Xuan Hall.”

He was not exaggerating when he admitted his mana was progressing and his supernatural powers were not catching up. Hong Qianya was dumbfounded when he heard this. All this time, the supernatural powers would always catch up with the mana. This was because, with the hardships of the cultivation of Dao, it would be tens and hundreds of years before being able to break through a juncture. With so much time, what type of supernatural powers could not be cultivated to catch up?

Like Chen Jianmei who was stuck in Ruhua for so many years and with him focusing on the Shapeless Sword Incantation, he was able to make a big breakthrough on this swordcraft. His supernatural powers have surpassed some Huandan elders.

Once he achieved Huandan, his swordcraft was even more unparalleled. It was actually rare for supernatural powers to not catch up with the cultivation experience.

In actuality, Shen Lian himself was really clear. Even though his combat capabilities seemed strong, but he still relied on Grandmaster Yuanqing’s sword will and the abstruse of the Taixu Divine Qi. Of course, there was also the help of Being and Non-Being Sword Aura.

All these were just advantages. Furthermore, there was still a slight difference between his own attributes and the Dao techniques that was cultivated at one time. He was now at the strategically advantageous spot as he was able to get thousands of techniques and skills with a tilt of his head, but he could not get the authentic method to reach the zenith. Shen Lian himself realized this and so he went to the Taiwei Pavilion.

He initially wanted to find a skill or for exceptional massacre but he did not think that he would unknowingly find the Tongtian Skill.

This skill was more suitable to his current situation. He bears the heavy burden of Qing Xuan and on the path of attaining Dao, the foundation was his life. With this skill by his side, he would ultimately have a more safe and peaceful life.

With his flocket extended, a gush of wind swept the two down Zifu Peak swiftly and then quickly up to Qing Xuan Hall.

The hall was chilled and quiet. Shen Lian then responded to Hong Qianya.

Shen Liam smiled, “Tell me, what is it?”

Hong Qianya replied, “Five thousand miles southeast from here is the sea territory under the jurisdiction of the Nine-Head Demon King. That demon king has attained Dao and his mana is wide. However, even though he is just next to Qing Xuan but it has always been peaceful. However, for reasons unknown, the demon army and demon general of the demon king’s subjects began vigorously attacking the non-formal cultivators near the sea area and the descendants of the Qing Xuan disciples. Many cultivators are already devastated.”

Shen Lian pondered and said, “Qing Xuan is duty bound with the demons assailing among the nearby outsides of the sea. You can publish these tasks in the good deeds hall, look for the disciples to go and vanquish these devils. They could also get experience and some toughening up.”

Hong Qianya replied, “I had that intention too, there were non-formal cultivators of the island that sent out two of their most capable disciples to eliminate the demons. What they did not expect was that the two had their limbs cut off and was sent back.”

Shen Lian had a stern look as he said, “With that said, that would mean someone is purposely against us then?”

Hong Qianya stroke his mustache as he replied, “I think so too. I sent out two persons and they had not even reached a hundred miles when they met an incoming sword gleam and had their limbs cut off. They were sent back with a paper crane.”

“Could you identify the source of the sword gleam?” Shen Lian asked.

Hong Qianya answered with a serious expression, “If I am not mistaken, that would be the doings of the Qingjiang Sword sect’s True Wandering Light Sword.”

Shen Lian knew that the Qingjiang Sword Sect was a big sect of this universe. The whole sect trained with the cultivation of the sword for their entire life and the True Wandering Light Sword was the foundation of its Dao scripture. Once one has cultivated and practiced it, like the wandering clouds, it fluctuates in a thousand ways and the force of the sword was elusive. Anyone cultivator beneath Huandan who did not have a sensitive spiritual sense would easily fall prey to it.

It was just that there had not been any immortal Zhenren that appeared in the Qingjiang Sword Sect in five hundred years and the one with the highest cultivation experience was the Sword King of Three Defeats, Meng Xunzhen. This person had lost three times in his entire life to the same person, that person was Daoist Huanzhen of the Guangqing Celestial Sect. In the end, he came up with the name ‘Three Defeats Sword King’ and became close friends with Daoist Huanzhen.

To say that the one who did this was Meng Xunzhen would be unlikely but it would definitely be his disciples.

Shen Lian thought for a while and understood more or less what the other was plotting. He explained, “They only want to stop users from sending people to rescue those non-formal cultivators and the close relatives of the previous teacher-elders. Under the Nine Headed Demon King’s banner, there is entirely no demons that could transform on their own. With a few Ruhua disciples working together with the group of non-formal cultivators, it would be enough to deal with a few formidable demons. If we still have to go to war over this trivial matter, I’m afraid it would weaken our title. It seems that this person is convinced that Qian Xuan does not have any descendant?”

Hong Qianya answered, “It is so. We are now not sure just how high up this person’s cultivation experience is, we leave the countermeasure in your hands, Chief.”

Shen Lian softly said, “It would be unlikely to say how high it would be, even if it was Meng Xunzhen who dared to come today, I am able to have him stay permanently. I have my own plans for this matter. Elder Hong, can you treat and cure these two disciples well?”

Hong Qianya replied, “Their conditions are stable but it is quite troublesome with their limbs cut off.”

Shen Lian sighed, “I remember we have three Life-generating elixirs, get two for them.”