Chapter 69: Preaching at Qilin Cliff!

Chapter 69: Chapter 69: Preaching at Qilin Cliff!

In front of a divination stall at the market.

Lin Qingqing was suddenly stopped by the old fortune teller. The moment he opened his mouth, he said, "A beam of light is shooting out from the crown of your head."

She thought to herself, "Why does this sound a bit familiar?"

After spacing out for a moment, she thought, "I remember now. When Old Wuu first saw me at my house, he said the exact same thing. He also said..."

"Young lady, I see that you have an extraordinary bone structure. You are a one-in-a-million sword training prodigy! If you were given a Superior Sword Technique in the future, wouldn’t you transform into a dragon and ascend to the heavens?!"

Just as she was reminiscing, the old man at the divination stall eloquently spewed out the exact second half of that sentence.

Lin Qingqing looked at the old man suspiciously and said, "Do you... know Wuu Liusheng?"

"Wuu Liusheng??"

The old man at the divination stall paused for a moment.

He then shook his white cloth banner that read "Ask anything, and I shall tell all," and said, "As for this old man, people call me Qin Half-Immortal. Could this Brother Wuu you speak of be in the same trade as me?"

Lin Qingqing smiled. "If you don’t know him, forget it."

Saying that, she fished out a piece of broken silver from her pocket and placed it on the Divination Master’s stall. With a crisp and sweet voice, she said, "I just thought of a familiar elder, that’s all. There’s no need for fortune-telling. I wish you a prosperous business. Farewell."

She turned to leave.

Seeing this, Fortune Teller Qin Half-Immortal said, "It’s fine if you don’t want your fortune told! I can see that you are remarkably gifted; you only lack the guidance of an expert. If I charge you one tael of silver now, how about I point you toward an expert you can take as your master?"

Beside her, Qii Zhengyi cupped his fists apologetically. "I’m sorry, Senior. My junior martial sister and I already have a master. We appreciate your kind intentions."

They already had a master?

Qin Half-Immortal blinked and asked, "What kind of master did you take? Have you never thought about switching to another?"

Thinking of Chen Sha, Lin Qingqing smiled. "My master is number one in the world. I wouldn’t trade him for anything. Farewell."

Qin Half-Immortal stroked his beard and watched the two leave. Furrowing his brows, he muttered to himself, "Judging by their footwork, they must have practiced Superior Martial Arts... Which Sect do they belong to?"

Just then, a person dressed in black and wearing a bamboo hat walked past Qin Half-Immortal.

He immediately sensed something. His eyes flickered as he watched the figure in black follow in Lin Qingqing’s direction, thinking, "So they are from Dao Yi Mountain. This young girl is an absolute prodigy with an innate Mystic Sword Intent. Even if given an ordinary Martial Art, she could cultivate it to the level of a master. If she were to cultivate a First-Grade Martial Scripture, reaching the Great Innate Realm would be effortless."

He continued pondering, "Isn’t a person born with such great destiny a hidden dragon of the Jianghu, just like the rest of us? It seems I need to write a letter to Chess Master and inform him."

With that thought, the Fortune Teller packed up his divination stall and silently followed after them.

Down the mountain, in the Jianghu, worldly affairs and human relations were as tangled as a mess of hemp. In a single day, an untold number of changes could occur.

On Dao Yi Mountain.

Chen Sha thought about Song Yu. He wondered how many things his senior martial brother would encounter during the year since he descended the mountain. He thought, "Eldest Martial Brother is already over forty years old. His experience in the Jianghu is far richer than mine, and he has the Cosmic Light Stone I gave him. As long as he doesn’t encounter a First-Grade Great Innate expert, why should I worry?"

What he needed to focus on now was the next direction for his own cultivation.

Chen Sha flipped through the Twenty-four Body Gods Divine Atlas of the Great Yellow Court in his hands. "At the Peak of Grandmaster Realm, it is time to try and ’see’ the gods within my body."

His gaze fell upon the divine atlas of the Great Yellow Court.

The First Clever God, named Master Jueyuan, courtesy name Dao City, colored white.

Life and destiny are invisible, so they are entrusted to the heavenly light; the heavenly light is invisible, so it is entrusted between the two eyes.

This was the measurement and visualization method for the Twenty-four Body Gods within the Great Yellow Court. This first god, Master Jueyuan, presided over a person’s intelligence and wisdom, residing in the glabella—the space between the eyebrows.

Master Jueyuan, courtesy name Dao City, was colored white.

To see him, one needed to use True Qi to concentrate their thoughts on the glabella until a patch of white light appeared. That meant they had successfully visualized the image of this Body God.

However, this step was extremely dangerous.

Not to mention that the glabella’s acupoint was directly related to the vision of both eyes, using True Qi for visualization was equivalent to flushing True Qi directly into the brain. One slight mistake could fry one’s nerves to the point of idiocy.

Cultivating the Great Yellow Court to the First-Grade Great Innate Realm was no small feat; the strict conditions and immense danger of this final major hurdle were extraordinary.

"Fortunately, I have the Southern Heavenly Gate. If I blindly attempt visualization in the outside world, a single moment of carelessness could cause my True Qi to run amok. Not only would I fail to see the ’Clever God’, but I would also face immense risks. It’s much better to do this behind the Southern Heavenly Gate. After all, what enters there is just my Cosmic Light Projection. Even if I mess up the visualization, my true body won’t be harmed," he mused.

Chen Sha then thought of the clay statue behind the Southern Heavenly Gate—Zhang Daoxuan, who was supposedly related to the Celestial Master of the Jade Emperor Sect. He pondered silently, "I also need to figure out the meaning behind the words ’True Realm’. This time, I will enter Zhang Daoxuan’s scene for a trial, and conveniently cultivate the Divine Spirit of the Great Yellow Court while I am inside..."

He lit a stick of calming incense and sat cross-legged on a futon. In no time, he entered the Meditation Realm. His Heart Spirit and consciousness crossed the Southern Heavenly Gate and arrived at that hillside.

Passing by the other clay statues and temples one by one, he arrived at the Earth God Temple of the Daoist dressed in the Celestial Master Robe.

"There is a Dao Mark in front of Sect Leader. Do you wish to enter Section One of the Zhang Daoxuan Chapter: ’Preaching at Qilin Cliff’ scene for a trial?"

Preaching at Qilin Cliff?

Qilin Cliff...

Chen Sha had never seen this location name in the historical records of the Dao Yi Sect. Even if it existed in the Divine Land World, it probably wasn’t a famous place.

Regardless, he had to enter and see for himself.

"Enter!"

With Chen Sha’s internal confirmation...

SPLASH!

He felt the surrounding scenery rapidly shrink, as if his consciousness was being pulled away from the hillside. Then, vivid and heavy colors appeared in his line of sight. Gradually, these colors drew closer to him, forming distant landscapes.

Tall mountains, flowing waters, waterfalls, flying springs, rugged rocks, and a crowd of figures climbing the mountain, looking like tiny black ants.

His perspective continuously zoomed in.

In a daze, Chen Sha felt as if he had been physically tossed into the scene ahead.

When he opened his eyes again.

Before him was a small mountain path. Along the way, there were many people dressed in ancient, exotic clothing with high hats and wide belts, climbing the mountain.

"Welcome, Sect Leader, to Section One of the Zhang Daoxuan Chapter: ’Preaching at Qilin Cliff’."

"The key figures in this scene are: Zhang Daoxuan, Old Ghost Xu, Zen Master Shede, and Guu Changming."

"Sect Leader must defeat the four key figures in this scene to clear this section and unlock the next section: ’Three Religions’ Joint Ascension Chart’."

These words flowed down from the Southern Heavenly Gate within Chen Sha’s mind.

His attention was immediately drawn to the final line of text.

"The next section is the ’Joint Ascension Chart’?"

Ascension Chart?

Just the word "Ascension" alone was enough to let Chen Sha know how massive the amount of information hidden behind this line of text was.

This meant that...

As long as he cleared this section, he might be able to discover the principles of Ascension for those people from different worlds in the First Heaven behind the Southern Heavenly Gate?

He might even be able to uncover the truth behind certain world tiers.

Chen Sha looked at the small mountain path. The cliff walls on both sides were covered in crawling moss, and there were many stone steps leading up. As he walked upward, he could hear the conversations of the passersby:

"Master Zhang is one of the leaders of the Hidden Dao Lineage. It’s said that this time, he has created a peerless Divine Skill named the ’Jade Emperor Tower’. It has a total of twelve levels. The first nine levels correspond to the Acquired Realm, while the final three levels are Cultivation Techniques for the Innate Realm. Nowadays, the Hidden Dao Lineage is mostly made up of hermits, making it difficult to find a successor. Thus, he wants to select a few successors here at Qilin Cliff to pass down the legacy of the ’Jade Emperor Tower’, ensuring his lineage doesn’t die out."

"In other words, Loose Cultivators like us with no Sect or affiliation have a chance to become Master Zhang’s disciples this time."

"Don’t get your hopes up too high. I heard that some experts from the Confucian, Buddhist, and Demon lineages have also come to listen to the sermon."

"I heard that too. Old Ghost Xu of the Demon Sect, Zen Master Shede of the Buddhist Sect, and Guu Changming of the Confucian Sect—they are all great figures at the Middle Innate stage. They definitely have a much higher chance than us."

Although the passersby were conversing in hushed voices, how could they possibly hide it from the ears and eyes of a Grandmaster Peak expert?

Jade Emperor Tower?

When the passersby mentioned the first sentence, Chen Sha was already in a daze as he thought, "It really is the Jade Emperor Sect’s Foundation Technique. But what kind of power systems are the Acquired Ninth Layer and Middle Innate they mentioned afterward? Since there is a Middle Innate, could there also be a Lower Innate and an Upper Innate?"

This didn’t seem to be the current power system of the Divine Land World.

"I’ll know once I go up and take a look."

Chen Sha buried these questions in his heart. Half an incense stick of time later, he reached the end of the mountain path and arrived at a flat rocky ground at the mountain peak. Hundreds of figures were already sitting cross-legged there.

On a distant stone platform, an old Daoist wearing a yellow Daoist Robe was currently preaching Martial Arts principles, word by word.

Chen Sha only needed a single glance to clearly and unmistakably feel the aura of the yellow-robed old Daoist:

A First-Grade Great Innate!