From Celestial Official to Great Celestial Venerable

Chapter 84 Eighth Level of Qi Training
Flowers bloom in an instant?

Qin Chuan's eyes flickered slightly, and he said, "It sounds like it might involve the supernatural power of time and space?"

Years, time...

In any world, it is one of the most unsolvable forces and laws, manifesting in all living beings as the changing of things and people, as bones and dust, as spring, summer, autumn and winter, birth, aging, sickness and death, growth and change...

"Hehe, the mystery of such supernatural power is beyond the comprehension of a mere mountain god like myself."

The mountain god of Cuiluan Mountain said:
"This old man can only answer some of the questions that are within my duty, fellow Daoist."

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan realized that the old mountain god didn't want to say more. Perhaps it wasn't out of wariness, but simply because he, a mere mountain god, was afraid that saying too much might touch upon some taboo related to the sacred land.

He wisely refrained from asking further questions and instead said, "Can I observe the area from here on my own for a bit longer?"

"Fellow Daoist, please take care." The mountain god bowed.

In any case, it was just a garden of spiritual fruits, and the other party had genuinely come to learn about the cultivation of spiritual fruits. He didn't mind showing goodwill in any way he could do to help.

When Qin Chuan turned around and walked to the grafted trees that had recently been nourished by the blooming flowers and were growing rapidly and ready to bear fruit, he explored them one by one.

[Item: Fragrant Orange Variant Spirit Tree]

[This is a graft of the Fragrant Orange and the Perfect World Orange. It was inspired by the great master of the Moon Cold Palace with the technique of "flowers blooming in an instant" and matured in an instant. It contains the residual charm of the Great Creation Technique and can be refined into an incomplete version of the "Withering and Flourishing Finger" technique, or it can be recycled into 200 Dharma Essences.]

After a while.

【Withering and Flourishing Finger】

[The Daoist arts of the Moon Cold Palace, once mastered, can unleash the Qi of Withering and Flourishing, capable of causing an object to wither and flourish in an instant.]

Qin Chuan immediately grasped the key points and crucial aspects of this technique, and secretly sighed:

"This is a technique far superior to the 'Yi Wood Azure Sky Technique'."

If the Yi Wood Azure Sky Technique merely infuses spiritual plants with vitality to strengthen their foundation and promote rapid healing, then the Withering and Flourishing Finger accelerates their life cycle, allowing a plant to grow rapidly or wither away in an instant.

It feels like everything is being prematurely ripened.

"If this technique is merely a manifestation of lingering energy, then does the instantaneous blooming of the flower truly involve the acceleration of time?"

After all, Qin Chuan looked at the grove of spirit orange trees and thought to himself:

"If it were the Withering and Flourishing Finger, once it is used, the result would be irreversible. However, this Spirit Orange graft seems to have been accelerated to the result step, and its withering and flourishing speed has stopped. Only time can reasonably stop withering and flourishing without disrupting the natural cycle."

With this thought, he felt even more awe for the profound heritage of the Moon Cold Palace: the immortal sword of ten thousand years, the Dao of Time, and the Moon Cold Palace Fairy Sangsang, who was probably similar to Sun Qinghan and had already reached the Golden Core Realm.

By evening.

Qin Chuan offered to leave, and Liu Sangsang also woke up from the mountain god temple. Seeing Qin Chuan emerge lightly dressed, she chuckled and asked:

"Well, have you completed the task entrusted to you by your county god?"

Qin Chuan cupped his hands in greeting: "Thanks to the fairy, I have learned a lot about spiritual farming here. I believe that after returning to my hometown, I will be able to conquer the jade from other mountains."

"If it's useful, it means that Sun Qinghan will have to repay the favor properly next time he sees me."

Fairy Sangsang chuckled:
"Alright, then I'll take you back."

Qin Chuan was well prepared this time.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the flying sword raced through the sacred mountains and markets outside the perfect Shengjing City, and through the streets within the city.

During the process, Qin Chuan naturally wouldn't just stand obediently in the sword light of Fairy Sangsang and do nothing. After he returned to the outside of Honglu Temple, Tianyun Furnace once again took advantage of Fairy Sangsang's ten-thousand-year-old immortal sword.

[The 'Sword Qi Transformed into Silk' technique has been refined]

The sword energy can be transformed into finer threads, not only maintaining its power but becoming even sharper and more penetrating. It is even more mysterious and unpredictable than the 'Silver Light White Hair Needle Technique' that Qin Chuan previously mastered. And this innate swordsmanship saintess of the Moonfrost Palace sensed even the slightest change in Qin Chuan's swordsmanship.

She gazed at Qin Chuan, whom she had already escorted to the outside of the Court of State Ceremonial:

"To be honest, have you gleaned some insight from my sword light again?"

Before Qin Chuan could speak...

She immediately stopped, saying, "Stop talking, I don't want to hear it anymore. Unless you're willing to join my Moonfrost Palace, I don't want to know how much you've taken advantage of me. Go in now."

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan also revealed a gentle smile and said, "I will definitely repay the kindness that Fairy has shown me today if we meet again in the future."

After saying this, he solemnly bowed and took his leave.

Watching Qin Chuan's retreating figure as he went inside, Sang Sang narrowed her eyes like a fox, thinking to herself, "He saw me fly on my sword twice and was able to have two sudden enlightenments. Is this person even more suited to sword forging than I, a born sword immortal?"

The idea was abandoned.

"It's a pity that he's not one of my Heavenly People and has the identity of the Eastern Victory Heavenly Court, so he's definitely unwilling to leave Heaven and join my Holy Land. Otherwise, my Moon Cold Palace might have another future Great Sword Immortal. What a pity, it's really a good thing for that woman Sun Qinghan, she actually has such good luck to be able to recruit such a good subordinate."

After Qin Chuan returned to the Honglu Temple.

Master Xuanji gazed at the receding sword light in the sky and exclaimed in amazement:
"When your Qinghan County God told me, he only said that Perfect World had an old friend who helped them, but he didn't say that it was actually the Holy Maiden of Moon Cold Palace."

"I was just about to ask you, teacher, which Dao Prefecture is this Moon Cold Palace a sacred site of?" Qin Chuan asked.

“Naturally, it’s Taiyin Daozhou. Back in the days of the Wilderness World, this Daozhou was one of the two capitals of the entire Wilderness Land. It was originally the secondary capital of the Barbarian King. Later, with the establishment of the Perfect World, someone in this Daozhou comprehended a Heavenly Dao beneath the Daozhou and thus created the Moon Cold Palace,” said True Man Xuanji.

"A Heavenly Dao?" Qin Chuan asked in surprise, "Can the Heavenly Dao be measured by a 'gate'?"

"Other worlds may not be able to do this, but the Perfect World is truly a place where the Heavenly Dao manifests itself. I don't know what changes occurred on this land 30,000 years ago, but the Heavenly Dao actually materialized into forty-nine Dao principles, which were scattered into forty-nine continents. Thus, the forty-nine Dao states were formed. Since then, anyone who can comprehend the Heavenly Dao from the continent beneath them can become a Holy Lord of a place and rule over a region. It is said that the first Holy Lord of the Moon Cold Palace comprehended a sword technique related to the Heavenly Dao of 'Time'." Master Xuanji explained.

"As expected of time..." After verifying it twice, Qin Chuan became even more convinced of his guess, and then looked at his fingertips.

So, I guess I've only scratched the surface of the Time Sword Technique?

Since the Withering and Flourishing Finger is an incomplete technique of the Flower Blooming in an Instant, it must be another evolution of the Time Sword Technique. So, how can it not be said that it has obtained a trace of the Time through layers of inheritance?

For him, just a little bit was enough.

The rest can be left to Dharma.

For the next period of time, Qin Chuan focused on refining the energy within his body.

He has already accomplished all the objectives of his trip to the heavens for exchange. Apart from accompanying others on a few group activities, he has been practicing in the Honglu Temple.

When Yuan Siyao went to listen to Qi Cangming Zhenjun preach, he was cultivating.

While the other masters traveling with him went to other industries to exchange Taoist skills, he was also cultivating.

When Master Xuanji went to observe the five grains in the fields of Perfect World, he was also cultivating.

And so, a month and a half later, Qin Chuan successfully digested all the energy in his body and, with the help of the spiritual energy under the Honglu Temple, successfully stepped into the eighth level of Qi Refining.

It's not his fault. This trip only has a maximum of three months. He will be returning to Dongsheng Shenzhou soon. After returning, there will never be such a rich spiritual environment again. If he doesn't seize the opportunity to make good use of this ley line environment in the outer heavens...

Back in Jiuchuan County, it would take at least two or three years of arduous training to have any hope of breaking through to the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Just as Qin Chuan broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, including some miscellaneous matters and the journey, it would be three months before the deadline was reached.

Everyone who accompanied the group on this trip to outer space has completed their respective exchange and learning tasks and is preparing to return to Dongsheng Shenzhou.

(End of this chapter)