NOVEL NEXT Chapter 294: The Flying Immortal Technique
Chapter 294: The Flying Immortal Technique
“Luck is on my side. I didn’t expect to get a spiritual herb so easily. Based on my instincts as someone in the Origin Tracing Realm, this herb should be able to extend one’s lifespan by several hundred years.”
Xu Lian was well aware that the reason for his smooth success was largely due to his formidable strength.
The five-colored, eight-tentacled creature he had encountered earlier exuded an aura that suggested it was at least at the third or fourth level of the Origin Tracing Realm. If it was an ordinary Origin Tracing Realm expert who had found this spiritual herb, obtaining it wouldn’t have been so easy. A fierce battle would have been inevitable.
However, with his cultivation at the seventh level of Origin Tracing, he had used the Great Desolate Dragon Grasp, and before the creature could even react, it was flung to who knows where. This is the unreasonable advantage of overwhelming strength.
“No wonder every cultivator wants to become a powerhouse. Being strong is truly exhilarating.”
Xu Lian activated his water technique, gliding through the water like an arrow fish as he continued his search for spiritual herbs.
This was the result of him deliberately slowing down his water speed. If he were to go all out, he could traverse the entire Ten Thousand Peaks Stone Sea in an instant.
The reason he didn’t push his speed to the limit was that the Ten Thousand Peaks Stone Sea was somewhat peculiar. It could compress his spiritual senses and obstruct his vision, as if he were navigating through a dense fog. Carelessness was not an option. If he accidentally stumbled into the lair of a Sea Clan Sage or Sea Clan Supreme, things could take a turn for the worse.
“There’s a spiritual herb in the middle of that red coral.”
“And another one in that crevice over there.”
“What the…”
“There are so many of them!”
As he swam, Xu Lian found one spiritual herb after another, as if he had stumbled into a medicinal garden. He was so thrilled that he could almost faint from excitement.
However, as he continued harvesting, he began to feel that something was off.
“Spiritual herbs shouldn’t grow so densely, and there’s not a single guardian beast in sight. This is highly unusual.”
He glanced around, but found nothing out of the ordinary.
Was he overthinking it?
Had he truly hit the jackpot?
“Regardless, I’ll collect them first and think about it later.”
And so, in earnest, he began harvesting.
One herb at a time, handful after handful.
Several hours later…
His storage bag was completely full.
“…” He was completely stunned.
“This doesn’t make sense!”
“O once told me that spiritual herbs that can extend one’s life by several hundred years are regulated resources. In terms of rarity, regulated spiritual herbs are even harder to come by than regulated cultivation resources. How could there be so many of them here?”
“Even if this red-marked area is dangerous and only top-tier experts dare to venture here, it shouldn’t have this many spiritual herbs, right?”
Xu Lian felt a chill run down his spine. There was something deeply disturbing about this.
He took out a sea map and examined it carefully, confirming that he hadn’t taken a wrong turn.
“So, what’s going on?”
Frowning, he looked at the vast number of spiritual herbs still ahead of him. He was almost too scared to continue harvesting. This was too bizarre!
It was like a penniless man stepping out of his house and finding a stack of cash, then another, and another… Who could handle such a situation?
“No, I have to go back and consult with O. I can’t risk having a major disaster.”
Reluctantly, Xu Lian looked at the densely growing spiritual herbs in front of him and decided to stop harvesting for now.
With a splash, he broke through the water’s surface, traversed space, and returned to the Divine Clan’s ancestral land.
“Husband, you’re back so soon?”
Pei Zhaoxi was a bit surprised.
“I came back for something.”
Xu Lian casually replied as he walked toward the mist-shrouded lakeside deep within the ancestral land.
The lakeside was empty. O was nowhere to be seen.
“Did something happen?”
This made him even more uneasy. The Goddess of Time had been in seclusion here. Unless something urgent had come up, she would hardly ever leave this place.
He took out a purple jade token and activated its communication function. “Wa, where did you go?”
Wa?
He was stunned. Had he just called “O” “Wa”?
A slip of the tongue?
After all, he was a top expert at the seventh level of Origin Tracing. How could he, an ordinary person, slip up like that?
“Fa.”
“Ah.”…
He tried a few more times, but the slip persisted!
No matter how he tried to pronounce it, he still couldn’t say O’s name!
“What’s wrong with me?”
Xu Lian patted his mouth.
He whispered a few times, but still couldn’t say O’s name.
“…”
This made him completely silent.
After waiting for a while, there was still no response from O through the jade token.
Had something happened to O?
The Goddess of Time had touched the Supreme’s realm, and she wielded the laws of time. Even if several Supremes had attacked her together, she wouldn’t have disappeared without a trace.
“If things are like this, there must be a demon at work!”
Xu Lian’s heart sank.
From the moment he had started harvesting those spiritual herbs, everything had been strange. The herbs seemed endless!
Now that he was back in the ancestral land of the Divine Clan, he found that O was missing, and when he tried to communicate through the jade token, he couldn’t even say her name.
“Have I encountered something… eerie?”
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became. A cold shiver ran down his spine, and his hair stood on end.
When the eerie entity wasn’t present, you couldn’t feel its existence. But once it appeared, you knew that it was there.
“What should I do when I meet the eerie entity?”
He forced himself to calm down.
He had some experience with it. When he traveled by boat from Green Bamboo Town to Pingyang County, he had encountered a female eerie entity in red.
The first step was to remain calm… but beyond that, he wasn’t sure.
“The Goddess of Time’s cultivation is too high. She has touched the realm of the Supreme, and Supremes are beings close to the gods. Except for those close to them, ordinary people cannot look directly at a Supreme or utter their name. The eerie entity I’ve met isn’t strong enough to allow me to say O’s name.”
Realizing this, Xu Lian felt a slight sense of relief. It didn’t seem like this Saint Spirit was very powerful, at least not at the level of a Supreme.
He took out bundles of spiritual herbs from his storage bag and couldn’t help but laugh.
Spiritual herbs weren’t cabbages or radishes. How could there be so many of them?
“This is all an illusion!”
Xu Lian summoned true fire in his hand, and the bundles of spiritual herbs instantly ignited, turning to ash in a matter of moments.
The spiritual herbs were an illusion.
His return to the ancestral land of the Divine Clan was also an illusion.
Even the people in the ancestral land were illusions.
This was why he couldn’t say O’s name. It wasn’t strong enough, and the illusions it created weren’t real enough to allow him to utter her name!
“What a powerful eerie entity. I almost fell for it… or perhaps I already have.”
Xu Lian sneered.
He quickly ran through the entire Sacred Spirit Record in his mind. As his cultivation continued to improve, he had access to more and more divine techniques and secret arts, many of which were designed to break illusions.
“The Flying Immortal Technique!”
He closed his eyes, his hands moving swiftly as he formed seals.
Accompanied by an indescribable sound of an immortal taking flight, the crown of his head seemed to open, and a small figure emerged, standing in mid-air. The figure was dressed in pristine white robes, its sleeves fluttering in the wind.
This little figure looked just like him. In fact, it was his true spiritual essence.
The Flying Immortal Technique referred to the true spirit ascending like an immortal!
“Break!”
The small figure, like an immortal descending to the mortal realm, uttered a divine command.
As soon as the command was spoken, it was as if the words themselves carried the power of law. The entire ancestral land of the Divine Clan shattered like porcelain, collapsing in an instant!
All around him was seawater.
And towering stone mountains that resembled stalagmites.
Xu Lian floated in the water, his eyes vacant and lifeless. Three inches above his head, the small immortal-like figure stood, exuding an otherworldly aura.
The small figure’s eyes, cold and sharp as lightning, gazed into the distance. A spiritual herb was growing there, guarded by an old sea demon. Obviously, this illusion was created by the old sea demon.