Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Strands of lightning emanated from the body's surface.

It was then swallowed by the engulfing fire, not wasting a single bit.

in this way.

Three years later, Gu Qing had fully recovered from his injuries. His black hair, bound by the purple lightning crown, fluttered in the wind. He had regular features, rugged eyebrows, and piercing, restrained eyes, exuding an extraordinary aura.

The inner lining was pure black, covered by a layer of lace gauze, and the outermost layer was a black robe with gold trim and lightning patterns. A pair of high-quality eight-step Void Boots were placed on his feet.

While not exceptionally beautiful, her looks were certainly above average.

His strength has been fully restored, and the confidence that comes with that strength gives rise to a natural and unrestrained demeanor.

"Completely devouring the Chaos Divine Lightning brought too many benefits."

First and foremost, there's the matter of physical fitness.

Having completed its rebirth from destruction to creation, Phoenix Blood Pool also exerted its strength, not only improving its mastery of fire magic, but also giving the second of its three flowers, the Jade Flower of Essence, a nascent form.

With one or two more upgrades, he will be able to condense the Jade Flower.

Even if there are no more opportunities in terms of physical strength, the Jade Flower will naturally condense as cultivation improves. In other words, the only path to the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top is the Flower of Qi.

At the same time, the thunder patterns on the Dharma Principle Elixir were strengthened.

It also gave birth to extremely powerful lightning flames, which, in terms of killing power, are even more powerful than the Zhu Rong True Flame.

Furthermore, a new understanding of the laws and principles related to chaos has been gained within the Heavenly Heart Ancestral Aperture.

Gu Qing had never encountered this kind of power before.

Not to mention comprehension. Although one may quickly gain some control over power through the shortcut of the Devouring Path, one is unable to use it effectively, which is one of the drawbacks of the Devouring Path.

Therefore, after devouring the five elements and generating the fire of the five elements, Gu Qing still needs to specially refine the Five Elements Spirit Pearls, which are used to combine practice and comprehension to thoroughly master the path.

"It's time for my cultivation level to improve as well."

He pondered this in his heart.

Gu Qing took to the air and used his Fire Element Escape Technique to fly towards populated areas. He needed to gather information about this world.

The fastest way, of course, is to grab a local and search their soul directly.

When the difference in cultivation level is too great, divine sense can easily do this without harming the person being searched.

Ganlin Town.

Three years ago, no cultivators had come to investigate the place where Gu Qinghao's meteor fell. So he came to the nearest small town, found a decent-looking mortal family, and directly searched their souls.

Eliminate a large amount of useless information.

He has mastered the language, some history and geography of this world, and also has some information about cultivators.

"I see."

With a casual eraser of any mortal's memory of him having been seen, Gu Qing had a general understanding of the situation in the human realm.

This place is called Yan Kingdom, and everyone here is a mortal.

Cultivators are completely isolated from the mortal world. Only when chaos reigns in the human realm will a cultivator emerge from the mountains to slay demons and save the people from suffering.

In normal times, only a few cultivators travel the world to accumulate merit.

Because they are so rare, it's not easy for Gu Qing to catch even one.

It is difficult to see the whole picture of this world from the perspective of mortals alone.

Before entering, the six spheres of light that the world outwardly manifested should be different realms.

Therefore, this realm should be further divided into six realms.

"So, it's because powerful beings gather the spiritual energy of the six realms that the spiritual energy in the mortal world is so scarce, making it difficult to find cultivators?"

"Choosing this place as a foothold will do more harm than good."

After all, Gu Qing came here to cultivate, and without enough spiritual energy, the Five Elements Refining Spirit Technique wouldn't yield any good results.

The most urgent task is to find the cultivators and obtain more information.

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The capital of the Yan Kingdom.

Gu Qing chose Kyoto as his first stop. Among cultivators, there are always those who crave pleasure and have no hope for their cultivation path; going to a prosperous place increases the chances of finding something. However, ever since entering this realm, Gu Qing seems to have been constantly plagued by bad luck.

He scanned the area with his divine sense countless times, but found no cultivator.

Forced to wander the world, I went wherever there was prosperity, but I just couldn't find it.

So they changed their strategy and began searching for famous mountains and lakes.

It took five months to find the source through spiritual energy, and only then did we make some progress.

Qifeng Mountain, a famous mountain in Yan Kingdom, has a rich spiritual energy, barely qualifying it as an eighth-grade spiritual land. On the mountain is a Taoist temple called Qinggong Temple. Although it is not large in scale, it has three old Taoists who have cultivated true essence.

The realm is analogous to the lower level of the eighth rank, the realm of refining essence into qi.

Gu Qing didn't mind and directly stepped across the void to descend in front of them, causing them to kneel in fear and worship.

"Greetings, Immortal." ×3

"Get up, do not resist."

The old Taoists exchanged glances, neither knowing what Gu Qing was up to, and only felt a slight headache before it ended.

After sorting through the memories of the three people, Gu Qing frowned deeply; it was much more complicated than he had imagined.

This world is indeed said to have six realms, which are also the dwelling places of six races.

Immortals, mortals, gods, demons, monsters, and the underworld.

The Celestial Race – the Celestial Realm; the Human Race – the Human Realm.

The Gods – Beyond the Heavens; the Demon Spirits – The Demon Realm.

Demons – Blood Sea Realm; Netherworld Clan – Ghost Realm.

Very complicated.

The gods were born from chaos at the beginning of creation. They have endless lifespans and immortal divine power. They are born to govern certain laws of the world and can be considered to have laws become spirits. They are symbols of power, but they are also subject to the rule of Heaven and cannot interfere with the development of all living beings.

Furthermore, many ancient gods returned to the heavens, their bodies vanished and their consciousness dissipated, but their divine power remained. Gu Qing, in order to comprehend and control the laws of this world, must filter out this divine power, but divine power itself is a manifestation of the laws of nature.

Filter them out, and nothing is left.

The Immortal Realm is a group that gradually formed after human cultivators ascended to immortality. There are immortals born in the first place, as well as immortals who ascended to immortality.

The celestial realm is rich in spiritual energy, hundreds or thousands of times richer than the mortal realm. It also possesses celestial spiritual energy, allowing one to cultivate an immortal body and live for hundreds of thousands of years. With a little effort, living for a million years is not a problem.

This situation left Gu Qing speechless.

If he wants to cultivate, the best way is to go to the Immortal Realm. If he directly tears through space to go there, it would be like being an unregistered person, unable to cultivate openly and legitimately.

But if he takes the path of ascension, he becomes an immortal who ascends to heaven, and his cultivation can be done openly and legitimately, turning darkness into light.

Aside from immortals and gods, the three old Taoists didn't know much about other realms. Gu Qing was filled with mixed emotions, feeling as if he had stumbled upon a great opportunity.

Putting everything else aside, if one could truly cultivate an immortal body, even if the laws were missing, there would be ways to gradually replenish them after returning to the Cangwu Realm.

The only thing to consider is the level of power these immortals have reached, and their position compared to the Four Nine Immortal Paths.

This requires Gu Qing to verify personally.

Then comes bloodline!
In the world of mountains and seas, the Heavenly Dao has a special fondness for bloodlines. The better one's birth, the better one's aptitude, which to a certain extent determines the upper limit of an immortal.

Those who achieve immortality through cultivation can never reach the realm of "Immortal Lord"; only their descendants can attain it.

This is very strange, it's like it's been locked up.

As for more detailed hierarchical classifications, the three old Taoists had no recollection of them.

Gu Qing gathered all this miscellaneous information onto the jade slip and stopped thinking about it.

They are now focusing on the "ascension" that directly impacts their own interests.

So... how does one ascend to heaven?
Good deeds!

This further shattered Gu Qing's common sense and logic, because ascension is a lofty and prestigious thing, and it is the lifelong pursuit of the Cangwu cultivators.

What kind of good deeds can help someone ascend to immortality?

The three old Taoist priests' memories were also unclear. They only knew that accumulating good karma would give them the opportunity to ascend to immortality, and it had nothing to do with their cultivation level.

Even ordinary people have the opportunity to ascend to immortality as long as they accumulate enough good karma, which completely shattered Gu Qing's view on cultivation.

This inevitably brings to mind the Daoist theories concerning the Five Virtues and the Five Elements. (End of Chapter)