Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 509 Divine Sword's Victorious Intent

"Looks like you won't have the chance to be a fool."

Liu Xiong raised his eyebrows slightly, a faint, cold smile playing on his lips.

He raised his right arm slightly, and a thick, black mist, as black as ink, surged in his palm.

Yin Mingren caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye and felt a chill run down his spine.

Liu Xiong Yu's name is renowned throughout the Zhenhun Sect! He is an extremely rare cultivator with the Wind Spirit Root, especially skilled in speed. Even Elder Luo's intervention could not stop him.

In his presence, she felt she was nothing more than a plaything.

Thinking of this, Yin Mingren patted the storage bag at his waist, and his whole body flashed to a distance of ten feet away with the white light.

Before he could catch his breath, a soft laugh reached his ears: "Since you're here, why rush to leave?"

The voice was so close that Yin Mingren's hair stood on end—Liu Xiong Yu was right behind him, less than three feet away! The hand wrapped in black mist slowly covered his head as if comforting a child.

"Stop! I'm willing!"

Yin Mingren's eyes were wide with rage.

But the roaring stopped abruptly.

The black mist, like a living thing, burrowed into his seven orifices, and his entire face withered and weathered at a visible speed, turning into a pale white skeleton in an instant. Only his wide-open jawbone still held the extreme terror of his dying moments.

Li Xiangming clenched his fists upon witnessing this scene.

Liu Xiong Yu's strength is even greater than I remembered. Moreover, his ruthless act might very well have been a warning against any rash actions.

"What, do you need me to do it for you too?"

Liu Xiong Yu gave him a cold look.

Li Xiangming remained silent and turned to the remaining gray-robed cultivators.

Even if Liu Xiongyu didn't say it, he could probably guess that Ma Wu had died at the hands of the Soul Suppressing Sect!

Therefore, Liu Xiong Yu's hatred for the Zhenhun Sect far exceeded that for the Shengyi Sect.

The last time this guy appeared at Xiaoping Mountain was to seek revenge. Now, the word "do it for him" further highlights his murderous intent. Even if he doesn't make a move, the gray-robed cultivator is bound to die.

Getting him to take action was simply a way to tie him to a certain rope.

Li Xiangming had no choice but to walk slowly to the gray-robed cultivator.

The gray-robed cultivator naturally sensed the danger. His face was filled with terror as he waved his hands repeatedly, crying, "No, don't kill me! I'm willing to obey all orders from the two seniors."

As he spoke, he actually knelt down and banged his head on the ground, leaving a dark red stain on the stone.

Li Xiangming stopped in his tracks, and the gray-robed cultivator, thinking there was a chance for a turn of events, happily raised his head.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiangming swiftly struck out with his palm, and the gray-robed cultivator fell to the ground as if struck by lightning.

"You're one of a kind when it comes to being this unlucky."

Li Xiangming sighed slightly, squatted down, and searched the other person's body.

Soon, he found some scattered spirit stones and pills, as well as several jade slips.

"what?"

The other jade slips contained information about identities or missions, but this one was brand new and contained a large number of descriptions of cultivation techniques.

"The sword has form, but its meaning is boundless. One wields the sword with spirit, and nourishes the soul with intention. Ultimately, one can shatter illusion and see one's true self. I am the fourth-generation successor of the Shengyi Sect. After three hundred years of accumulation, I have written this visualization technique to help my disciples to temper their spirit and refine their will, so as to prove the true essence of the sword."

Li Xiangming was shocked after reading only the first part.

Those who can live for three hundred years are at least Golden Core cultivators; this is actually a Golden Core level soul cultivation technique.

As we all know, the soul is extremely complex, and cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage can only have a superficial understanding of it.

Fortunately, the experience summarized by our predecessors is also applicable to future generations.

There are many cases in the cultivation world where people in the Golden Core stage or even the Foundation Establishment stage can achieve astral projection, possess others, and even sever their own souls to create divine avatars.

However, these behaviors are extremely risky and do not meet the needs of most people.

Therefore, the cultivation world shifted its focus to the derivative of the soul—divine consciousness!
The divine sense is controlled by the cultivator, can be projected outwards, and is highly sensitive to the divine sense of others. Once the divine sense is severely damaged, the soul will also suffer a backlash.

Taking advantage of these characteristics, various spells were created in the cultivation world that use divine sense to fight enemies. Although they are different from methods like "body snatching" that directly use the soul, they are essentially aimed at the soul and are therefore collectively called soul spells.

The "Soul-Piercing Needle" technique, collected by the Li family, uses one's own divine sense to transform into a steel needle, striking the enemy's divine sense, thereby causing the opponent's soul to tremble and enter a state of dizziness.

The Green Cloud Fairy's proud "Ice Melting and Soul-Melting Technique" follows the same logic.

This soul-soul technique from the Longyuan Sect is even more domineering. Once unleashed, it almost completely destroys the enemy's divine consciousness. If the soul suffers such a severe injury, its owner often dies suddenly, without even a chance to recover.

Ultimately, however, soul magic utilizes existing souls in combat and cannot alter the strength of one's own soul.

Once the enemy's spirit is strong enough, the caster will not only be unable to effectively kill the enemy, but will also suffer a backlash, losing the ability to fight and escape in an instant, which has a bit of a "do or die" feel to it.

In order to better utilize the power of soul magic, the cultivation world has created special techniques to strengthen the soul, ensuring that the caster is always in a "crushing" position, and giving rise to the new concept of "soul cultivation".

The counterpart to soul cultivation is not sword cultivators, body cultivators, or ghost cultivators who focus on a single path, but rather magic cultivators.

What is Dharma practice?

All cultivators who use magical power to fight are considered magic cultivators, including specific categories such as swordsmanship, body cultivation, and ghost cultivation.

In other words, soul cultivators form their own system. They rely on their powerful souls to ignore magical power, that is, to ignore the difference in realm, and directly kill their enemies.

It should be understood that in the cultivation world, magical power has always been revered.

Most people don't bother to refine their souls, but the emergence of soul cultivation has completely changed this situation.

Whether for prevention or for the sake of one's cultivation path, cultivating the divine soul technique has become an inevitable trend, and the higher the cultivation level of a cultivator, the deeper their understanding of this.

This trend has created an even greater gap in achievement levels.

Even now, those Nascent Soul level monsters are all masters of manipulating the soul. Even if their physical bodies die and they lose all their magical power, they can still kill people invisibly with their Nascent Souls.

However, the cultivation of the spirit and soul is extremely difficult to master and carries great risks.

If the Li family's "Hun Yuan Ru Yi Jin" fails to circulate properly, it will only cause a disorder in magical power or damage to the meridians. For such internal injuries, at most you can consult a doctor, or if you don't have the means, you can take elixirs to recuperate on your own.

However, the damage caused by even the slightest carelessness of the spirit is irreversible.

Without the supervision of a master or elder, to tamper with one's own soul is a path to death.

The extremely high barrier to entry, coupled with its powerful effects, meant that the Divine Soul Cultivation Technique was destined to circulate only within a small circle. Even many Foundation Establishment cultivators could not find a way to train their Divine Soul.

As a former Golden Core clan, the Li family naturally possessed such a lineage. Before the collapse of Tianzhu Mountain, the fleeing clansmen took almost all of their inherited cultivation techniques with them. However, the fleeing Li family split into two branches in Libei Road. The branch that went south was caught up in the Longyuan Sect rebellion in Hanjiang Prefecture, leading to another split. Among them, Li Huinan and others lost all their inheritances related to the divine soul. Even low-level divine soul techniques like the "Soul-Piercing Needle" were only learned during the Zhangning Prefecture period.

That's why Li Xiangming was so surprised and delighted when he saw the jade slip in his hand.

"The Divine Sword's Victorious Intent Contemplation? Or a single contemplation method?"

Li Xiangming became even more excited. Visualization was a type of spiritual cultivation technique. Its principle was to transform the spiritual soul into a concrete object, constantly decompose and reconstruct it in the sea of ​​consciousness, and repeatedly torment it in order to strengthen the spiritual soul.

Although this method is time-consuming and laborious, often requiring decades to achieve good results, it has an advantage that other spiritual cultivation methods cannot match: safety.

Safety means that the knowledge can be passed down on a large scale, which is perfect for a cultivation family like the Li family.

But after glancing at it a few times, Li Xiangming frowned again.

The Divine Sword Victory View is not a traditional spiritual cultivation method, but rather a technique specifically designed for a special school called "Intent Sword Style".

The so-called "Intent Sword Style" is essentially a method of soul cultivation, but this senior of the Shengyi Sect classified it as the way of the sword, and the whole text is about establishing a sword heart and preserving sword intent.

In practical applications, the spirit is used as the sword and the consciousness as the point, achieving the effect of an "invisible sword" defeating a "tangible sword".

Although the idea is good, and according to the description of the technique, its effect in actual combat is also outstanding, its cultivation difficulty is hundreds of times greater than that of ordinary soul cultivation techniques. The introductory step of "planting a sword soul" alone has stumped countless people.

The number of cultivation notes attached to the jade slip reveals that only a handful of people have truly mastered the so-called "Intent Sword Style".

"Perhaps it would suit my elder brother."

Li Xiangming's eyes flickered. Li Xiangren's talent was beyond doubt. If he obtained this technique, his combat power would definitely undergo a tremendous change.

Thinking of this, he immediately put the jade slip into his pocket and turned back to look at Liu Xiong Yu.

At this moment, Liu Xiong Yu had already entered the cave, seemingly never expecting that a mere Qi Refining cultivator would possess a Golden Core level Divine Soul Technique.

Li Xiangming received an unexpected surprise, and his resistance lessened slightly.

Knowing he couldn't escape Liu Xiong Yu's grasp, he followed him into the cave, looking around at his surroundings.

This is an ordinary cave dwelling with three bedrooms and a living room. All the facilities are very simple. The innermost room seems to be the master bedroom. In the center, a small tomb has been built, with a poem engraved on the tombstone.

A song of raging waves shatters the demonic aura.

The lone string remains unbroken, guarding the soul of the mountain.

Even if the snow on the Dai Peak fades away,
The sound of the zither travels a thousand miles to reach Puyin.

Standing in front of the tombstone, Liu Xiongyu said calmly, "It can be said that both sects have put their hearts into building a cenotaph. It is not in vain that Master Miaoyin made great contributions on the battlefield of Nanbin and stayed in Daishan to protect this area even in death."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangming bowed to Master Miaoyin.

Although he did not know much about the life of the Myriad Sounds Immortal, the fact that Heng Kingdom was able to conquer the territory of Pu County was not unrelated to the other party's contributions. Strictly speaking, the Li family's relocation to Pu County was also due to the other party's kindness.

Liu Xiong Yu remained noncommittal, then waved his hand, causing the air behind the tombstone to distort and ripple with transparent waves.

Once the spatial fluctuations subsided, an ancient, bluish-gray stone coffin appeared out of thin air.

Li Xiangming approached out of curiosity, only to find that the uncovered stone coffin was completely empty.

Liu Xiongyu explained, "The tomb of the Myriad Sounds Immortal was originally empty; her physical body was not here. However, all signs indicate that her last known location was Mount Dai. My master persevered and finally discovered the clues at the bottom of the temple."

As he spoke, Liu Xiongyu lightly touched the cold walls of the building with his palm, tapping them repeatedly with his fingertips, as if he were performing some kind of magic.

A moment later, the stone slab at the bottom of the coffin made a muffled sound and slowly sank, revealing a dazzling golden light through the crack.

"follow me."

Liu Xiong Yu gave the order and transformed into black smoke, disappearing into the crevice.

Li Xiangming hesitated for a moment, but still obeyed.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't tempted by the inheritance of the Nascent Soul stage.

After a moment of disorientation, Li Xiangming opened his eyes and immediately realized that his position was extremely dangerous. He was standing on a protruding rock, with the sea of ​​clouds churning beneath his feet and the bottomless abyss.

"Purple Shade Cave?"

Li Xiangming turned around, his gaze suddenly narrowing. He and Liu Xiong Yu were facing a sheer cliff that seemed to reach the sky.

In front of Liu Xiongyu, three powerful characters, like dragons and snakes coiled, clearly represent the "Purple Shade Cave" they had been searching for.

Liu Xiong Yu seemed to notice Li Xiangming's gaze and said in a low voice, "Ordinary people who find the cave of the Myriad Sound Immortal and see an empty house will either think it is a fake tomb or think that the Myriad Sound Immortal's inheritance has long been taken away by predecessors. Very few people can come to this place. But this is the most desperate obstacle."

Li Xiangming flashed and landed in front of the cliff. Embedded in the mottled rock face was a stone door of unknown material, its patterns unusually intricate, with faint, flowing crimson light.

Li Xiangming immediately recalled the bloodline restriction Liu Xiongyu had mentioned, and a look of apprehension flashed in his eyes.

Any restriction is not to be trifled with. Neither Liu Xiongyu and his disciples nor the cultivators of the two sects could do anything about this stone gate, which shows how powerful it was.

But his role was...

Before Li Xiangming could think any further, Liu Xiongyu seemed to know what he was worried about and said, "Don't worry, I am confident that I can open the Purple Yin Cave with the key in my hand."

Li Xiangming frowned: "Then why did you insist on having me come here? Wouldn't it be better for you to keep the Purple Yin Cave's inheritance all to yourself?"

"The more people there are, the more strength there is."

Liu Xiong Yu chuckled: "Moreover, the demonic heart within you has an unparalleled advantage in exploring secret realms."

Li Xiangming snorted coldly; he knew exactly what Liu Xiong Yu was up to.

The advantage of the evil green robe lies in its ability to devour magic power. If the key in Liu Xiong Yu's hand fails, then he will have to act as a human key, actively triggering the bloodline restriction, allowing the evil green robe to devour the violent magic power within the restriction.

The same principle applies to exploring secret realms; when some treasures are blocked by restrictions, it's time for the evil green-robed figure to make his appearance.

However, the evil green robe is not omnipotent. It has already absorbed the golden core magic power from the mysterious scroll. According to past patterns, only magic power at the Nascent Soul level should be able to interest the evil green robe.

The bloodline restriction before them was set up by the Venerable Miaoyin. If the evil Green Robe remains unmoved, Li Xiangming will meet his demise.

Clearly, Liu Xiong Yu didn't care about any of that. To him, how could it not be worth risking other people's lives for a chance to obtain a priceless treasure?
"You don't need to look so gloomy. Maybe everything will go smoothly for us?"

Liu Xiongyu took out a stone tablet and gently pressed it into the recessed area of ​​the door knocker.

In an instant, the patterns on the stone gate lit up, and eighteen golden lines flowed along various patterns to form trigrams, which was quite spectacular.

Liu Xiong Yu's voice continued: "Go in! You should know that I am not a stingy person. This is my chance, but it is also your chance."

Li Xiangming took a deep breath, stepped forward and pushed open the stone door, and the green figure disappeared inside.

Liu Xiongyu followed closely behind.

Neither of them realized that a sharp, suppressed laugh suddenly came from the bottom of the cliff.

(End of this chapter)