studiobondurri Chapter 22: Immortal-Seeking Lineage, Beginning of the Mystery’s Unraveling
Chapter 22: Immortal-Seeking Lineage, Beginning of the Mystery’s Unraveling
Chapter 22: Immortal-Seeking Lineage, Beginning of the Mystery’s Unraveling
After hearing all this, Li Yan was momentarily dumbfounded. He understood the gray-robed elder’s meaning, didn’t that imply that anything he did or said in the room could be known by his teacher? That door had absolutely no use at all.
But the gray-robed elder gave Li Yan no time to dwell on it.
“When divine sense becomes powerful enough, it can be used to kill directly. A powerful cultivator only needs a wisp of divine sense to kill someone without leaving a trace.
Once one’s cultivation reaches a certain stage, divine sense can further condense into an even more powerful divine intent. These are things you will slowly come to explore and understand in the future.
After I emerged from seclusion, I waited in the sect for a hundred years. The four branches still gave no sign of return. At that time, I had already reached the early Unity Stage. Though I had previously gone out to seek a successor during the Soul Transformation and Void Refinement stages, I found no one.
So I went out once more to seek a successor for my branch. That journey lasted five or six hundred years, still without results. In the end, I shattered the void and descended into the Mortal Realm.
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Li Yan thought for a moment and said to the elder:
“That person must be my teacher, right?”
The elder’s blurry figure nodded and said,
“Correct. That person is your current ‘teacher', Strategist Ji.”
When he said the word “teacher,” he deliberately emphasized it, with a hint of amusement in his tone.
Li Yan naturally picked up on the elder’s sarcastic implication. There was clearly something suspicious about this so-called “teacher” of his. He could vaguely guess it had something to do with himself, but he still didn’t know exactly what.
“Your ‘teacher’ is not some mundane martial sect member from the so-called ‘Woodshadow Sect.’ That was just a name he made up on the spot, a fictional sect. In truth, he belongs to the Immortal-Seeking Lineage.”
Li Yan couldn’t help but interject at this point:
“What is the ‘Immortal-Seeking Lineage’? Do they search for immortals?”
“You’re not far off. No matter how hidden cultivators are, for the sake of passing on their legacies or for other reasons, they inevitably have to interact with mortals, just like you today.
Therefore, mortals yearn to enter cultivation sects and obtain the path to immortality.
In the beginning, it was just a few scattered individuals going deep into the mountains, seeking immortal fates, hoping to encounter an immortal who would take them in as a disciple.
But deep mountains are full of monsters and ghosts. Often, before these people could find their immortal fate, they were already devoured by beasts or perished at the hands of evil spirits.
Clearly, that was not the outcome these hopeful cultivators wanted. So they began to group together to seek immortality, helping each other when they encountered dangers.
Although the results were better than before, the casualties were still high.
Later, martial artists from the secular world joined them, some were hired as escorts, while others joined of their own accord, seeking stronger power.
Over time, some of them, those with spiritual roots actually did find cultivation sects and became disciples, learning immortal arts.
There were also those who discovered dead cultivators’ techniques or cave dwellings. If they happened to have spiritual roots, they too could embark on the path of cultivation.
Naturally, this greatly encouraged others. Many stopped involving themselves in worldly affairs, and focused entirely on training martial arts, hoping it would allow them to explore deeper into unknown lands.
They did not live among mortals or wander the martial world. They focused solely on the pursuit of immortal fate. Thus, few in the mundane world even knew of them. Cultivators call them the Immortal-Seeking Lineage. That Strategist Ji is one of its inheritors.”
After hearing all this, Li Yan thought to himself:
“I wonder why my teacher lied to me about being from the ‘Woodshadow Sect’? What was he trying to hide?”
He still couldn't figure that out.
“After Strategist Ji obtained the jade book, the jade slip, and the paper book, he naturally treasured them. That paper book and jade slip were actually one set of immortal techniques, called ‘Dark Night Cyan Curtain Technique.'
The paper booklet recorded how to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, along with the incantations for the first three levels of the Qi Condensation Stage. The jade slip contained the techniques for levels four through ten. It appears to have been a beginner-level cultivation method used by disciples of a certain immortal sect.
The reason for this design was because beginner cultivators have divine sense that is too weak and cannot be projected outside the body. Only after reaching the third level can they unlock a jade slip.
So the first three levels are usually recorded in paper form, with immortal arts used to protect the book. Ordinary mortals and low-level cultivators, even if they obtain it, will be unable to open it.”
(Chapter End)