Unlimited priesthood

Chapter 140 Immortality
Zhong Chuan (Shenhe)
Occupation: Hermit Immortal.

Occupational level: Level 2, Level 10.

Professional Talent: The Fisherman, a Hermitage.

Professional skills: Xingyi Quan, Five Elements Technique, Yu Ling Jing, Shennong Bencao Jing, Xingyi Shenwu Jing, Basic Explanation of Alchemy, Basic Explanation of Talisman Technique, Basic Explanation of Weapon Technique, Basic Explanation of Formation Technique...

Professional items: None.

General skills: Omitted.

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"Retain your professional talent!"

"Retain your professional skills!"

"Start career advancement!"

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"Based on your experience and achievements, you can choose one of the following professions to replace your original profession: Hermit Immortal!"

"Profession 1: Dongting Dragon Lord (You have obtained a seal by chance, which seems to belong to the Dragon Lord of the Upper Realm. It can transform fish into dragons and become immortals. With this authority, you can become the Dongting Dragon Lord.)

By managing Dongting Lake, practicing the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon, and enlightening aquatic creatures, one can gain a large amount of professional experience by cultivating fish and dragons. The efficiency of practicing the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon will be greatly improved, the growth efficiency of Dongting aquatic creatures will be greatly improved, and there is a chance to evolve into a true blood dragon species.

Professional experience carries the properties of dragon energy. Each time you advance a professional level, it significantly enhances your true dragon bloodline. You can consume professional experience to refine the exclusive professional item, the Fish-Dragon Seal.

"Professional Talent: Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon (A mortal fish can transform into a dragon through nine transformations, and a mortal can become an immortal through nine transformations. Consuming a massive amount of professional experience to perform the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon temporarily increases cultivation level, supernatural powers, and magical strength. Each use enhances the true blood of the dragon race and the spiritual root of immortality)"

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"Career Two: True Cultivator of a Hundred Arts (You, who come from a fishing and farming background, discover that cultivation does not necessarily involve fighting and killing, battling against heaven and earth, farming and raising fish, refining pills and crafting weapons, making talismans and setting up arrays can also lead to a path to immortality.)"

You can gain a massive amount of professional experience through various cultivation techniques such as spirit plants and beast taming, pills, talismans, arrays, and artifacts. This greatly increases the efficiency of your cultivation and the effectiveness of your spirit plant, spirit beast, spirit pill, spirit talisman, spirit artifact, and spirit array products.

Each advancement in profession level significantly improves cultivation aptitude, and profession experience can be consumed to refine exclusive profession items (such as the Treasure Bag).

"Professional Talent: All Arts Converge (The Great Dao has three thousand paths, but all lead to the same destination. The same is true for the arts. Every skill has commonalities and complementary aspects. Improving one skill improves all skills, and vice versa. You can consume professional experience to convert the ranks of the various cultivation arts, or combine the power of the various arts to improve the rank of one technique)"

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"Profession Three: The Immortal (Who in this world does not die? No matter how beautiful and charming you are, in the end you are nothing but a beautiful skeleton; no matter how talented you are, invincible in the world, in the end you will be buried by a handful of yellow earth. You who enter the Dao in your old age and cultivate the truth understand that the most important thing in cultivating immortality is to live a long life. Only by not dying can you have a future.

You can gain a certain amount of professional experience through cultivation and other means. The profession panel will add cultivation and lifespan sections. The older you are, the more lifespan you have, the more experience you gain, and the stronger the cultivation effect. Each time you advance a profession level, you can significantly increase your lifespan.

Practicing longevity techniques and consuming longevity elixirs significantly enhances the efficiency of all life-extending methods; it can even consume professional experience to extend lifespan.

"Professional Talent: Longevity and Life-Nourishing Method (Achieving immortality and possessing methods for nourishing life; all lifespan losses not caused by the passage of time can be recovered through rest and recuperation)"

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It’s time to go back to the classic three-choice phase.

The Dragon King of Dongting Lake, the true cultivators of all arts, and those who live forever.

Which of the three professions is the best?

In terms of combat power, the Dragon King of Dongting is undoubtedly the strongest. His talent, the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon, allows him to transform from a fish into a dragon and from a mortal into an immortal. This not only greatly enhances his combat power in a short period of time but also permanently improves his dragon blood and spiritual roots, giving him a significant advantage in both battles and cultivation.

In terms of development, the Hundred Arts True Cultivation is definitely the best. Although on the surface it may not seem like it improves combat power or help with cultivation, that's just on the surface.

With spirit stones, why worry about lacking combat power?

With elixirs, why fear the difficulty of cultivation?

Not to mention things like formations.

Cultivating all skills to achieve immortality and reaching the heavens is definitely not a pipe dream.

But after much deliberation, Shen He finally chose the third option – the immortal!
Although the Dragon King of Dongting Lake was good, and the Nine Transformations of the Fish-Dragon were powerful, he didn't think much of them.

Because he has the backing of the human empire and has access to more and better cultivation methods, there is really no reason for him to cultivate this Fish-Dragon Nine Transformations Method of unknown origin.

As for the Hundred Arts True Cultivation, although it has great value, it is not irreplaceable. Shen He has too many means to make up for the development in this area, and does not need to rely on professional strength to break through.

Only the immortals are an exception. Although immortality can be achieved by all major systems in the later stages, it can only be achieved in the later stages. Those immortal immortals, Buddhas, and saints are existences of the twelfth rank.

Without becoming an immortal or Buddha, or a saint, one should not speak of immortality.

Although Shen He has many advantages, he cannot guarantee that he can become a 12th-tier professional, ascend to immortality, and attain eternal life before the end of his life.

The profession of immortality can provide him with a layer of protection.

In addition to this, the immortals have another great advantage: they can "spend their lives" to cultivate.

Its innate life-preserving method allows it to replenish all the lifespan lost naturally outside of time through rest and recuperation.

what does this mean?
This means that Shen He can spend his life lavishly to cultivate martial arts or spells that consume lifespan.

This kind of method is often avoided by people, because it involves mortgaging the future for a temporary gain, which is not sustainable and is not the right path.

But what if we could overdraft indefinitely in the future?
Shen He possesses the Zhuangzi Dream of a Butterfly from another world, which allows him to extend his lifespan by utilizing the time flow between worlds. With the power of immortality, he can dedicate his life to cultivation or fighting, constantly improving his realm and cultivation level. His strength and combat power are then fed back to his body, making his development speed even more astonishing.

This has great potential!

I'll train my skills with all my might, and even take out loans to cultivate!
This alone negates many of the advantages of the Dragon King of Dongting and the Hundred Arts True Cultivators.

So, what reason is there not to choose it?
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"Advancement successful!"

"The professional talent [Fate Angler] has been upgraded to [Longevity Fate Angler]."

"Profession Talent [Secluded Cultivation Ground] Advances to [Longevity Immortal Paradise]" "Profession Skill 'Xingyi Quan' Gains Advanced Trait - Martial Arts Health Preservation!"

"The professional skill 'Five Elements Technique' has gained an advanced characteristic—the mutual generation of the five elements!"

"The professional skill 'Spirit Control Scripture' has gained an advanced trait—'Life and Death Together'!"

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A notification sounded, indicating that the advancement was complete.

Shen He turned his gaze back to the profession panel.

Zhong Chuan (Shenhe)
Occupation: Immortal.

Cultivation level: Martial Arts Stage 4, Spirit Control Stage 4, Immortal Path Stage 3.

Lifespan: 99/500.

Occupational level: Level 3, Level 1.

Professional Talents: Longevity Fisherman, Longevity Immortal Paradise, Longevity Nourishing Method.

Professional skills: Xingyi Quan, Five Elements Technique, Yu Ling Jing, Shennong Bencao Jing, Xingyi Shenwu Jing, Basic Explanation of Alchemy, Basic Explanation of Talisman Technique, Basic Explanation of Weapon Technique, Basic Explanation of Formation Technique...

Professional items: None.

General skills: Omitted.

Immortal Angler: You are an immortal angler whose fishing skills improve with age and lifespan. The older you are and the longer you live, the higher the probability of catching high-level fish, rare fish, and various celestial encounters.

Immortal Paradise of Immortality: You are an immortal hermit. Your secluded place of cultivation is a blessed land of immortals in the eyes of the world. Countless people have devoted their lives to seeking it, but none have been able to enter. The effect of gathering spiritual energy in seclusion is greatly enhanced, the effect of longevity and life-preserving methods within the blessed land is greatly enhanced, and there is a certain probability of attracting various opportunities to flow into the blessed land.

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The job panel has changed again.

First, two brand-new sections, "Cultivation Level" and "Lifespan," have been added.

Needless to say, Shen He is currently cultivating three major systems: martial arts, spirit control, and immortal techniques. The names of each realm are different, which makes it somewhat complicated. It can be displayed intuitively on the panel.

His lifespan is also quite clear. Shen He currently possesses both martial arts true essence and immortal qi cultivation, so conventionally he only has a lifespan of four hundred years.

However, he also cultivated the art of spirit control, and obtained one hundred lifespans from the four contracted spirit beasts, including Long Yu, so his lifespan is five hundred.

If you deduct 100 from 500, you'll have 400 lifespans left, which you can use to spend your life and cultivate various forbidden techniques.

When their cultivation advances to the Golden Core stage or even the Nascent Soul stage, they will have thousands of years to squander. They can not only practice magic, but also refine some "evil" magic treasures.

A bright future beckons to him!

Finally, there are two class talents that can be further enhanced.

The "Longevity Fate Angler" technique directly links the probability of catching spirit fish and obtaining immortal encounters to age and lifespan. The older one is and the longer one's lifespan, the better the spirit fish and immortal encounters one will catch. Combined with the "life-saving" method, fishing and treasure hunting are practically divine assistance.

Although the Immortal Paradise of Immortality is not linked in this way, it still enhances the effect of secluded cultivation and spiritual gathering, as well as the effect of longevity and nourishment, allowing him to hide better and spend his life more effectively.

If things continue like this, he won't even need to leave Dongting Lake anymore; he can become a cultivation giant while staying at home.

This also coincides with his development plan.

Currently, in the inland cultivation world, the four major sects of righteousness and evil are engaged in a fierce battle around Wanshou Mountain. It is unknown when the battle will end and bring peace to the world. Traveling outside is simply too unsafe.

Although with his current strength, he is almost invincible once he reaches the Core Formation stage, in a world teeming with opportunities for immortality, there's no guarantee that no unexpected event or "cheat code" might occur.

Therefore, Shen He decided to stay at home for the next period of time, honestly farming, raising fish, practicing martial arts and cultivating immortality, and only come out of seclusion when the world is at peace or when he has mastered his divine skills.

As for causing trouble, let's put that aside for now. This world is too complicated. It's said that there are Nascent Soul stage monsters and even Deity Transformation stage Venerables overseas. He doesn't have the ability to confront these people head-on yet.

So and so...

"laugh!!!"

In the real world, in the staff dormitory, a sound of air being released was heard, and the life support capsule door opened.

Shen He sat up, opened his personal terminal, and entered the Special Bureau's internal network.

He wanted to buy some "life-saving" techniques.

This method of obtaining life-saving techniques is not openly sold by the human empire, so it cannot be obtained through regular channels and can only be purchased from within the "Special Bureau".

The logic behind this is not hard to understand. This method of using life-saving techniques mortgages the future. If it is sold or even promoted publicly, it will diminish the potential of the people and cause some "geniuses" to perish prematurely. This is clearly not what the imperial leadership wants to see.

However, this method of overdrafting to break the ban also has its merits. At least it is very much needed by professionals on the front line who fight against the minions of evil gods. Therefore, the human empire did not completely ban it, but instead kept it in its internal network.

As a combat department dedicated to eradicating evil cults and combating various anomalies, the Special Bureau naturally possesses this type of martial arts and magic, and at a rather high level.

"The Divine Martial Disintegration Technique"

The Secret Teachings of the Dragon and Elephant Breaking the Limits

The Sutra of Wisdom that Exhausts the Root of All Dharmas

Blood Condensation Explosion Yuan Breakthrough Divine Qi

The Heavenly Extreme and Earthly Limit Gang Sha Elixir Method

"The Primordial Spirit Sacrifice to Slay Demons with the Ultimate Sword"

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　I also owe yesterday's update. I'm going out for dinner now, I'll write it when I get back.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)