Chapter 383.2: The Poison of Cultivation Techniques, Mark of Sustenance

Meanwhile, a sudden announcement had appeared on the Divine Flower Society Forum. Qi Yuan had become the Divine Radiance Sect's first Violet Palace cultivator!

The society members spread the news excitedly, shocked beyond belief, all wondering who this person was.

└Who is this guy? Divine Radiance Sect's first Violet Palace? Is the Divine Radiance Sect really that weak? They don't even have a Violet Palace cultivator?

└It's probably some remote little sect.

└If it's just a remote sect, how could they post a forum-wide announcement?

└Maybe he's the illegitimate son of some major figure, forced to flaunt himself in secret like this.

└Perhaps he's even the son of a live-in son-in-law, unable to remain in the main clan and thus exiled to some remote region!

Everyone gossiped wildly, speculating about Qi Yuan's identity.

Just then, a notification appeared beneath the thread.

Warning: baseless slander. Yellow card issued. Recorded by the Divine Flower Society Disciplinary Committee. Please revise your comments and add the phrase "This is slander."

The cultivators all wore miserable expressions.

The Divine Flower Society Disciplinary Committee had originally been established under the guidance of a little fox demon. At first, its members merely patrolled the forums, searching for people insulting Blood-Clothed Sword God.

Later, the committee grew larger and larger, forming a genuine organization dedicated to forum moderation. It seemed they were carrying out the Blood-Clothed Sword God's wish to improve the moral climate of the cultivation world. Receiving one yellow card amounted to a warning. Receive three, and one'd have to write a self-reflection report.

Cultivators had a love-hate relationship with the Disciplinary Committee. They loved that if someone insulted them, they could immediately report it. They hated that they themselves could no longer casually insult others.

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At that moment, within the group chat of the Four Divine Flower Emperors.

Rogue Immortal frantically tagged Qiyuann Sovereign.

Rogue Immortal: You've reached Violet Palace?!

Great Sun Flame Emperor: Sigh How could you just disappear into seclusion for two and a half years and leave the Yuan God Sharing Society unattended?

As for Iceberg Empress, she was busy stabilizing her cultivation. A few years back, Qi Yuan had dispatched three Great Venerables to help her break through into the Yin Spirit realm.

Qi Yuan finally turned his attention toward the group chat.

Qiyuann Sovereign: Sigh My talent is simply too poor. Naturally, I had to cultivate diligently to break through. After all that effort, I only barely managed to reach Violet Palace. And even after reaching Violet Palace, I only have the Violet, but no Palace!

Rogue Immortal: What do you mean?

Thanks to Blood-Clothed Sword God's influence, Rogue Immortal's status had risen dramatically. One could say he now conversed with Violet Palace cultivators and associated with Yin Spirits. Thus, he possessed a deeper understanding of the Violet Palace realm. And yet, Qi Yuan's words still leave him completely baffled.

Qiyuann Sovereign: To break through into the Violet Palace realm, you need both the violet and the palace. I've more or less acquired the “violet”, gathering quite a bit of Violet Qi. As for the palace part, I already have a concept. I just need to find a painter to draw it.

Rogue Immortal was utterly stunned.

Rogue Immortal: V-Violet Qi?! Are you referring to the foremost qi of the Immortal Dao: the Chaotic Qi, Source of Primordial Energy, the Primordial Violet Qi?

Qiyuann Sovereign: That's right.

Rogue Immortal was completely shaken.

Rogue Immortal: I've heard that even Yang Spirits find it difficult to obtain a single strand of Violet Qi, yet you're using it for Violet Palace?

Violet Qi was so precious that it existed only in legends. Its value far surpassed Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. There was a world of difference between them. It was like someone earning three thousand a month suddenly learning that their roommate made ten to the tenth power trillion every month. It was simply unimaginable.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: Xiaoyu, you're making too much of a fuss. Even if Qiyuann Sovereign claimed he used the Dao Ancestor's bones as toothpicks, I'd believe him!

He was no longer surprised.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: The ten extra suns in the sky are Qiyuann Sovereign's Golden Cores. Have you ever seen Star Golden Cores before?

Gao Xiaoyu was Rogue Immortal's real name. Being called out directly left him somewhat embarrassed.

Rogue Immortal sighed: Sigh My horizons truly are too limited.

After all, according to everything he knew, breaking through to Violet Palace required comprehending the origin of the Immortal Dao, forging one's own path, and awakening an Origin Divine Technique. What did Violet Qi and constructing palaces have to do with Violet Palace? Well, perhaps they were related linguistically.

Qiyuann Sovereign: How has the Yuan God Sharing Society been during this period? How is the collection of cultivation techniques progressing?

He cared greatly about these matters as they were directly related to his future path. Now that he had entered Violet Palace, the number of cultivation techniques he required had increased even further. To some extent, the world's myriad daos were hidden within all cultivation techniques. What he was doing now was gathering fragments of those myriad daos.

Great Sun Flame Emperor hesitated.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: The methods you taught us before, along with Divine Flower Society's system of exchanging techniques by uploading techniques, have been very effective. I'll send you the collected techniques shortly. But...

Qiyuann Sovereign: But what?

Great Sun Flame Emperor: After your divine techniques got leaked, some mysterious experts came to our sharing society. They wish to meet you.

Back then, Qi Yuan had imitated certain online marketing strategies: encouraging everyone to upload cultivation techniques, slash prices, recruit assistance, and share divine techniques. Yet he remained generous, publicly releasing the divine techniques.

Hearing such news, Qi Yuan remained calm.

Qiyuann Sovereign: Oh? What do they want with me? Are they planning to kill me and seize my treasures? Where are their homes? I want to visit them and see whether they have any cats capable of cooking.

He recalled Xie Xinsu. His household back in the game had possessed a cat that could cook.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: They appear to be members of certain hidden clans. They wish to discuss matters regarding the Great Calamity with you. According to them, the divine techniques should not be spread too widely. Otherwise, once the number reaches a certain threshold, all cultivators in this world will die!

Great Sun Flame Emperor's eyes were filled with solemnity, along with a trace of bitter resignation. Although Qiyuann Sovereign continually created miracles, the waters behind the Great Calamity ran too deep.

After all, how many cultivators in Canglan World could truly assist Qi Yuan? The Great Calamity possessed the foundations of other worlds. Should it prove unable to prevail, it could simply call for reinforcements from the upper worlds. Those reinforcements would be the ancient gods themselves, or perhaps even the legendary Yang Spirits!

What about Canglan? Who could help Qi Yuan? He was practically fighting alone. The contributions of the others were negligible. Sometimes, Great Sun Flame Emperor even considered that Qi Yuan could simply leave this world and escape the vortex. After all, Qi Yuan had never cultivated those tainted techniques. Perhaps he could even establish contact with the entities behind the Great Calamity and swear allegiance to them.

Qi Yuan pondered briefly before sending a message. Is that so?

Qiyuann Sovereign: Don't worry. The Qi Yuan Eliminates the Great Calamity Plan is about to be finalized. At most, within half a year, my plan will be perfectly implemented. The Great Calamity will have nowhere left to hide. Those claims that divine techniques cannot be spread? What a joke.

Great Sun Flame Emperor felt a surge of complicated emotions.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: Qiyuann Sovereign, don't force yourself.

Qiyuann Sovereign: Hey, keep talking like that and I'll bring my Golden Core to your doorstep and use it to heat up your eggs!

Great Sun Flame Emperor: Nooo!!!

Great Sun Flame Emperor laughed before continuing.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: The hidden clan members left behind a contact method. They asked that, as soon as you emerge, you travel to the secret realm where their clans reside to discuss the matter of the divine techniques.

Qi Yuan typed casually.

Qiyuann Sovereign: Go my ass. If anyone's coming, it’s them.

Qiyuann Sovereign: Tell them that five days from now, I'll be traveling to Helan Province in the Eastern Lands and staying there for a while. If they wish to meet me, they can seek an audience there. Otherwise, forget it. I don’t like going out in general. Whenever I take the initiative to visit someone, it's usually to wipe out their entire sect!

Indeed, the first and only time he visited the Black Mountain Sect was to exterminate it. The same went for the Bright Palace. Of course, his trip to Helan Province to meet the painter wasn't for extermination.

Great Sun Flame Emperor: I'll relay your words to them. Heh. Since they've chosen to hide from the world, they might as well keep hiding. What true major power spends all its time pretending to be reclusive?

He wasn't afraid of the hidden clans. The Yuan God Sharing Society was now extremely powerful. If those hidden clans were truly formidable, they would have already crushed the sharing society and dragged Qi Yuan out into the open.

Wasn't the fact that they remained hidden proof that they lacked strength? Yet they still put on airs of transcending worldly affairs. Who exactly were they trying to impress?