Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 181 Arena 8
"Looking at his words and actions today, he really hasn't changed at all," Qin Feng frowned. "But Zhao Dazui, he got hurt after encountering this guy."

"It's really hateful that I tried to speak up for Zhao Dazui but failed!" Lian Gouqie said angrily.

Unfortunately, no matter how much he hated him, he was still not strong enough. The thought of this made him even more angry and his vision went dark.

"Zhao Dazui hasn't woken up yet. Let's talk about this after he wakes up!" Wei Xi said this, but a sense of sullenness rose in her heart. However, she didn't want to think about it too much, so she suppressed her anger and secretly advised herself to remain calm.

The drama here was full of twists and turns, and people on the ring came one after another. The next few groups were all low-level cultivators who were not very outstanding, or the battles ended quickly due to a huge gap in strength. It was already the seventh group.

On the third stage of this group, there was a cultivator from the Xiuxiang Sect named Xin Shangyang. Since Wei Xi's opponent was from the same sect as this cultivator, he shifted his attention to him.

But Wei Xi looked over and couldn't remember what this person looked like.

Wei Xi's memory was not bad. It was mainly the monks of the Xiuxiang Sect. Very few of them wore proper clothes. Ordinary disciples were fine, but the exposed skin was covered with layers of patterns, which looked like close-fitting clothes with questionable aesthetics.

However, Xin Shangyang had only been in the art for a short time, and there were only two sets of patterns on his upper body. He was also very fair-skinned, and when he stood in the sun, it was so dazzling that it hurt people's eyes, so it was difficult for anyone to notice his appearance.

It doesn't matter. The most important thing for this person is to show the methods of the Xiuxiang Sect. Wei Xi kept his spirits up and watched the battle.

There are also some records about the Xiuxiang Sect in Bailu Pavilion.

The founder of the Xiuxiang Sect, Xiao San, was a slave born into a powerful family in Zhongzhou. The Ju State, which is now in its heyday, was once just a frontier barbarian in the eyes of the people of Zhongzhou.

Xiao San, accompanying his master on his study tour, encountered a talented woman at a lantern festival in Suzhou. His master, drawn to her and wanting to be intimate with her, was troubled by his own unattractive appearance. So, he asked his handsome companion to memorize his works so that he could meet the woman.

Although it was unclear why the description of "handsome appearance" was widely circulated, Xiao San, who was not very proficient in literature, completed the task and made his master win the beauty with this title.

Wei Xi could easily imagine the surprise of the deceived woman when she found out that the man she married was not her lover, and her surprises one after another when she found out that her lover was actually a servile slave.

In short, it was not going to be easy for all three of them. One night, things finally reached an irreversible point: the drunken master used a needle dipped in dye to tattoo the word "sin" densely on Xiao San's face, and the next day he handed Xiao San's indenture to the human traffickers.

Xiao San, who had a high fever, was sold like this. At this time, his face was horrifying and he was bedridden. The human traffickers, with the idea of making as much money as possible, sold him to the Western Region Dead Immortal City as raw material for making corpse oil.

Xiao San was thrown into the oil pot. Although he was sick and frail, he burst out with a strong will to survive and crawled out from the pile of corpses.

Xiao San happened to be discovered by an old man who was collecting oil residues. He saved his life and followed the old man to work as a handyman.

The Dead Immortal City was once a famous cemetery with a sensitive geographical location. It is filled with tombs of different styles, tribes, and periods.

Over time, those neglected and unattended graves became the perfect mass graves when yin and yang were unstable.

As he wandered through the mass graves, Xiao San would copy the murals in the mausoleums in his spare time. He didn't know what had happened, but every time he dreamed, he would wake up sweating and cursing, unable to recall what he had seen or heard. From the above story, we can see that Xiao San was not a completely good person, but he was definitely a ruthless person.

Xiao San came up with the idea of light sleep tattooing: maintain a light sleep state, and with the corresponding training, tattoo the key information on his body while dreaming. Dip the needle in some sleep-inducing powder to facilitate deeper exploration of dreams.

There are several versions of the story that follows. Some say Xiao San offended a powerful being who died there; some say Xiao San formed a pill through constant attempts; and some say Xiao San was taught a secret code by a senior in his dream. He tattooed the code on his body, and when he woke up, he cracked the secret of the Dead Immortal City.
Although there are still different opinions at this point, this betrayed servant eventually became the founder of the Xiuxiang Sect and protected the area.

The notebook Wei Xi was reading was left behind by a senior from the sect long ago. This senior had visited the Xiuxiang Sect while searching for certain materials in the Western Regions and had commented at the end of the passage, "My humble opinion of Xiao San's portrait is that he is truly heroic and extraordinary. It is worth seeing if you remove the 'sin'."

He also wrote that the city of the dead immortals, where the Xiuxiang Sect is located, is "gloomy and strange, full of ghosts and shadows. Compared with the other sects in the northern border, it has a unique scenery."

Regardless of how the now deceased Grandmaster Xiao created his portrait, the Embroidery Sect has branched out into several branches. The most common of these is self-tattooing. The content of the tattoo is simple: whatever you dream about is tattooed on your body.

Another method is to tattoo or embroider the contracted beast, which is equivalent to cross-species hybridization that saves time.

In short, the disciples of this sect are quite honest in a sense. If they don't have anything, then they don't have it.

The person Wei Xi was observing was fighting against a merman cultivator from the Dongyi Tunhai Sect.

These mermaids suffered losses at the hands of the monks of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect in the secret realm, and now they were filled with anger and wanted to vent it. In the eyes of the mermaids, all human monks were the same, so they didn't even say hello, but just flapped their tails and tons of sea water poured down on them.

This move caused huge waves in the surrounding sea water. Fortunately, Xin Shangyang dodged in time, otherwise he would have been doomed.

Mermaids grew up in the sea, enjoying the best of both nature and location. Due to their bloodline, they can often display strength beyond their level, which is difficult for ordinary cultivators to match.

The reason why this move is not good is definitely not because of the move technique, but because the quantity is not enough.

The mermaid didn't even frown, and slammed the stone ground with her broad tail a dozen times, and more than ten water balls half a person's height flew towards Xin Shangyang.

Xin Shangyang didn't know where he learned the martial arts skills, and although he looked a little embarrassed, he managed to avoid these seawater bombs without any danger.

These huge water balls fell into the ocean, exploding the originally calm sea surface. All ten arenas were affected to some extent. The two people on the No. 2 arena had turned from bright and beautiful phoenixes into drowned rats, and their moves were also affected.

Considering that he had seen the monks of the Embroidered Image Sect fighting in the secret realm, Wei Xi was quite curious: What kind of patterns were embroidered on this blue and white porcelain?

As for the Swallowing Sea Sect's merman, Wei Xi wasn't optimistic about him. Being a merman had its pros and cons. These mermen could only manipulate water-attributed spells and their derivative variations. In a contest between low-level cultivators, their lack of skills dictated a limited number of tactics.

After enduring another round of attacks, Xin Shangyang finally activated his spiritual power, and the pattern on his chest lit up.

(End of this chapter)