Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 21 Class Differences

"Chen Beiwu has won!" the homeroom teacher exclaimed.

Ignoring the applause from the students below the stage, Xu Ziqing looked directly at Chen Beiwu and asked, "How did you do that?"

"What?" Chen Beiwu asked.

"Don't play dumb." Xu Ziqing rolled her eyes at him as she walked off the stage. "You can't hide from my senses with just the Water Gathering Technique."

Chen Beiwu smiled and said frankly, "Although the Blazing Flame Technique is troublesome and has seven variations, every time you change the technique, your magic power hesitates for a moment when it passes through the Tanzhong acupoint, and your perception will also decrease at that time."

To be fair, if Xu Ziqing hadn't placed too much faith in his divine sense, he would have had a hard time winning so quickly.

"So you even control the Water Shadow Gathering?" Xu Ziqing paused, turning back in surprise.

Water Shadow Gathering is a first-tier supreme-grade extraordinary technique of the same rank as Blazing Flame Guidance, and it is an advanced variation of the first-tier superior-grade Water Gathering Technique.

The water gathered by the Water Gathering Technique has a drawback: it cannot move.

The condensed water clones created by the Water Shadow Gathering can not only move freely, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, but also conceal the caster's aura while confusing the opponent's consciousness.

She barely managed to introduce the Blazing Flame technique after breaking through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, while Chen Beiwu was able to master the Water Shadow Gathering technique within a few days of breaking through to Qi Refining and skillfully apply it in actual combat.

No wonder Teacher Wang Kui publicly called Chen Beiwu a magical prodigy, believing him to be the student with the highest talent for magical cultivation at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School.

"This kind of technique isn't difficult; you can learn it at a glance." Chen Beiwu looked at her with a puzzled expression, as if wondering why she asked such a question.

Xu Ziqing's eye twitched, and she almost lost her composure as a lady from a noble family.

What a joke.

As the saying goes, magic is fast beyond seven steps, and accurate and fast within seven steps.

Before forming contracts with beasts, Qi Refining cultivators primarily relied on spells to fight each other.

Whoever is skilled in magic and can use it flexibly in battle will be the one to achieve final victory.

However, the techniques are difficult to master and it is hard to invoke the great principles of heaven and earth.

The cultivators of the Immortal Alliance believed that instead of wasting time learning spells and fighting for temporary victories, it would be better to spend their time comprehending the Great Dao of cultivating immortality by borrowing beasts.

In any case, after forming a contract with a beast, a Qi Refining cultivator will naturally have a means of protection.

Compared to cultivating the Great Dao and achieving immortality, mere magical techniques are utterly insignificant.

However, if every cultivator possessed the talent of Chen Beiwu to quickly master spells, most Qi Refining cultivators probably wouldn't mind spending time cultivating spells and then providing various buffs to their fellow beasts in battle.

"Not difficult, right? Fine, fine, if you're so capable, then learn the Blazing Flame Technique for me too." Xu Ziqing tossed her right hand behind her, and a spell jade slip instantly landed in Chen Beiwu's palm.

Chen Beiwu: "???"

He wasn't in Versailles, so comprehending magic was not difficult for Chen Beiwu at all.

In order to learn the Nine Breaths Breath Control Technique, he went through five hundred years of divine teachings in his dreams before finally managing to enter the gate by sheer luck.

Although Chen Beiwu did not know the exact grade of the Nine Breaths Breath Control Divine Power, he was certain of one thing.

After being taught, the first-tier supreme-grade extraordinary techniques that were difficult for Qi Refining cultivators to learn were as simple as a one-plus-one math problem to him. He could roughly understand the release principle with just one glance.

As for the Nine Breaths Breath Control Divine Power, Chen Beiwu only knows how to use it for now, and has no idea about its principles, let alone the great Dao contained within it.

But he dared to say: if the difficulty of learning a first-tier supreme technique is equivalent to learning a simple math problem, then the difficulty of learning the Nine Breaths Breathing Divine Power is equivalent to an obscure and incomprehensible mathematical book.

"Is this Blazing Flame Guidance really for me?" Chen Beiwu asked in surprise.

The official website of the Immortal Alliance contains knowledge of all sects in the world, and even the immortal techniques of the legendary Five Great Grotto-Heavens are collected, but cultivators need to spend spiritual energy to exchange for them.

Ordinary cultivators who want to obtain spiritual essence recognized by the Immortal Alliance must take spirit stones to the local Immortal Alliance bank for exchange. The exchange rate is one to one, meaning one low-grade spirit stone is equivalent to one spiritual essence.

Blazing Induction is a first-tier fire-type supreme technique, and its exchange price on the official website of the Immortal Sect is as high as 500 low-grade spirit stones per person.

Yes, that's right. The authentic techniques collected on the Immortal Alliance's official website can only be learned by the person who redeemed them; they cannot be taught privately.

If the recipient's family members wish to learn, they must spend spirit stones to exchange for the learning opportunity on the Immortal Alliance's official website.

Those who harbor侥幸心理 (a gambler's mentality) and dare to violate the rules will basically die under the laws of the Immortal Alliance.

It is precisely because of this that the Immortal Alliance can obtain a huge amount of spirit stones from cultivators every year by doing nothing but sharing knowledge about cultivation.

As the Immortal Alliance's rule continued to grow, spiritual energy gradually replaced spiritual stones, becoming the most credible currency for transactions among cultivators.

However, every year the Immortal Alliance has some unruly cultivators, or more accurately, cultivators who have been bankrupted by cultivation loans. They are fearless and like to use zero-yuan purchases instead of spiritual yuan payments.

Some extreme cultivators even degenerated into evil cultivators, causing riots in various parts of Tianyuan Star, and were eventually suppressed by the powerful enforcers of the Law Enforcement Division.

Chen Beiwu definitely wouldn't dare to buy it for free. All the first-tier spells he knew were learned at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School, as evidenced by the school's spell teachers.

As Wang Kui's favorite student, Chen Beiwu often received extra tutoring and learned first-order supernatural arts that his classmates could not access, but these were limited to water and wood-based supernatural arts with low destructive power.

The Blazing Induction is widely recognized as the most compatible, destructive, and versatile of all first-tier top-grade fire-type spells.

Its advanced spiritual technique, [Blazing Dragon Break], is even more remarkable, possessing immense power. In the event of a direct hit, it can even shatter the impenetrable defense of a late-stage Foundation Establishment expert.

Even though Xu Ziqing comes from the Xu family of the Fallen Dragon, the Blazing Flame Technique is still a very precious gift.

"Of course it's true." Xu Ziqing looked at Chen Beiwu with a smile, her eyes as clear as water.

Chen Beiwu did not refuse and thanked him.

He wasn't stupid; he could sense the goodwill of Xu Ziqing and Xu Lingling in their daily interactions.

If it were an ordinary person, and they were approached by two beautiful women with different styles and from wealthy families, they might be torn and not know which one to choose.

But Chen Beiwu was different. His approach was simple: neither taking the initiative nor refusing.

As long as he doesn't explicitly reject her, no girl will get hurt, let alone turn love into hate.

Chen Beiwu was so cautious simply because cultivation families were not to be trifled with.

Cultivation families vary in strength. Three generations constitute a family's social standing, five generations a financial powerhouse, nine generations a Foundation Establishment family, and only twenty generations or more constitute a Golden Core family (a generation in the Immortal Alliance is considered to be one hundred years).

The lifespan of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is between three and five hundred years.

If they can cultivate another Foundation Establishment cultivator within four or five generations, before the Foundation Establishment expert in the clan perishes, they can continue to bring blessings to four or five generations and be known as a Foundation Establishment family.

A family with the Golden Core cultivation level is even more extraordinary. It requires a Golden Core cultivator to be in charge and to continue for two thousand years. Such a force is a behemoth in a small place like Yuan Kong County.

Although Xu Ziqing was not the legitimate daughter of a Golden Core family, but rather born out of wedlock, she could still rely on the name of the Golden Core family to make many cultivators risk their lives and do things that ordinary people could hardly imagine.

For example, making a genius Qi Refining cultivator disappear without anyone noticing.

(End of this chapter)