Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Zhang Yuanjing said to Xing Guanghan, "Elder Xing, I need to speak with Zhang Xuan alone."

Xing Guanghan nodded, without a word or any sign of worry, and quickly walked backward until he reached Chen Yingxin. He said to her, "Calm your mind and spirit, and stir your blood energy. I will heal your wounds."

Chen Yingxin lowered her head and responded, standing still and allowing Xing Guanghan to place his hand on her smashed left shoulder. Her body trembled slightly, and her breath sounded like thunder.

Zhang Yuanjing led Zhang Xuan to the base of a cliff on the side, set up a simple isolation barrier, and asked, "After practicing the Candle Shadow Art, do you feel any discomfort?"

Zhang Xuan shook her head. "There is no discomfort. Everything is normal. After reaching the Great Perfection of the Blood Refining Realm, I didn't feel any obvious bottleneck. It was just like ordinary cultivation, and I broke through and advanced."

Zhang Yuanjing asked again, "How many of the Yishen Pills I gave you did you take?"

Zhang Xuan hesitated for a moment before saying, "I used them all."

"All of them?" Zhang Yuanjing's eyes narrowed, and his gaze landed on Zhang Xuan's face as if tangible. "Why did you take so many? Did you feel anything wrong with your soul?"

Zhang Xuan didn't know why Zhang Yuanjing was reacting so strongly, and said somewhat fearfully, "Daoist Master, are those pills exceptionally precious? Have I wasted them!"

Zhang Yuanjing realized that his tone was a bit too harsh, and quickly said, "I'm not saying you shouldn't have taken those pills. Since I gave them to you, it's natural for you to take them. I mean, you were only at the Blood Refining Realm before. Taking too many Yishen Pills might be harmful to your soul."

Zhang Xuan said quietly, "The Daoist Master had already instructed me before going to the Xuan Yin Cave, so I didn't think about taking too many Yishen Pills. It's just that, just that when practicing the Candle Shadow Art, I often felt a tearing pain in my soul. I really couldn't bear it, couldn't stand it, so I took one."

"I thought that after taking one, my soul would be strengthened and I could last longer. Unexpectedly, the stronger my soul became, the faster my cultivation became, and I couldn't stop at all. Correspondingly, the pain of the soul tearing became more frequent. I really had no choice but to continue taking pills until I broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, and then it got better."

Zhang Yuanjing instantly understood that this Candle Shadow Art was actually a demonic cultivation technique specializing in the soul, and it was very overbearing. The so-called soul tearing was actually urging the soul to grow stronger. If you could withstand it, you could continuously become stronger. If you couldn't withstand it, you could only stop cultivating, or slow down the speed of cultivation, or even become a madman or a fool.

"After entering the Foundation Establishment Realm, there was no more problem of soul tearing?"

Zhang Xuan said uncertainly, "I don't know either. It hasn't been a year since I entered Foundation Establishment, and I've been outside all the time, not cultivating much, so I don't know if it will happen again."

"Did you tell Xing Guanghan about this situation?"

"I told him about the problem of soul tearing. I didn't tell him about taking the Yishen Pills."

Zhang Yuanjing nodded and asked, "Did Xing Guanghan say how to solve the problem of soul tearing? It can't just continue like this."

"He said that there would be this problem in the Blood Refining Realm, and it all depended on whether the individual could withstand it. After Foundation Establishment, you have to go to the main altar of the Candle God Sect to solve it. I don't know if he said that to trick me into going to the Candle God Sect," Zhang Xuan said, lowering her eyes, her voice a little ethereal.

Zhang Yuanjing sighed softly, "Zhang Xuan, do you really want to go to the Candle God Sect? Xing Guanghan makes it sound easy, but the dangers involved are obvious with a little thought. It's definitely not that easy to deal with. If things go wrong, you will die and your body will be buried in a foreign land. Moreover, even if you succeed, fusing with the inherited divine beast is not necessarily a good thing. It doesn't sound like a proper method."

Zhang Xuan raised her beautiful head and said firmly, "Zhang Xuan knows what the Daoist Master is saying. However, none of this is important. If possible, Zhang Xuan would of course be willing to stay by the Daoist Master's side forever, through the north and south, wind, sand, rain, and snow. However, I am just a demonic cultivator. I cannot allow the Daoist Master to be regarded as a heretic by other fellow practitioners, and I don't want my existence to bring trouble to the Daoist Master."

"Zhang Xuan—" Zhang Yuanjing's heart was shaken, and he subconsciously wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Because he really hadn't thought about taking her with him.

Zhang Xuan seemed to see through Zhang Yuanjing's contradictory heart, smiled softly, a little lonely, and a little relieved.

She recalled the words Xing Guanghan had said to persuade her. As he had expected, Zhang Yuanjing would not take her with him, because any normal Daoist Core Formation cultivator would not bring a demonic cultivator with them, as this would invite disaster. Knowing this result, the hesitation that had remained in her heart disappeared completely.

Her clear eyes flowed with deep affection, but she said calmly, "I know that the Daoist Master can easily find places where turbid energy gathers in the Spirit Mountain Great Marsh, which can provide me with cultivation and also settle me down. However, what else can I do besides becoming a burden to the Daoist Master? I don't want that kind of life!

"I hope that when the Daoist Master encounters difficulties, I have the ability to help the Daoist Master; when the Daoist Master encounters danger, I can provide timely help and help the Daoist Master turn danger into safety; when the Daoist Master's cultivation is hindered, I can find blessed lands and miraculous medicines to open up a chance for the Daoist Master to break through; when the Daoist Master climbs a long road and walks alone, I can still accompany him, heart to heart; when the Daoist Master is tired, exhausted, troubled, and entangled, I can provide a safe and peaceful place for the Daoist Master to rest…"

"And all of this requires me to go further and become stronger in cultivation. I also want to enter the Core Formation Realm. If the Daoist Master advances to the Nascent Soul in the future, I also want to obtain that kind of strength."

"However, I know that relying on my own cultivation to reach that kind of realm is very slim. It's not that I don't want to work hard, nor that I can't endure hardship, I just don't want to fail!"

"Elder Xing said that the Candle God Sect has an inherited divine beast that resembles a black dragon, named Zhujiuyin, also known as Zhulong. Demonic cultivators who have practiced the Candle Shadow Art can fuse their bloodline with this beast. Once successful, they can cultivate unimpeded and reach the Transformation Realm of demonic cultivation, which is the Nascent Soul Realm of Daoist cultivators."

"Moreover, he also said that the desolate and dead area occupied by the Candle God Sect is very special. In the collision with the surrounding environment, it has formed many strange secret realms. Among them, the most magical is the so-called 'Eye of Yin and Yang', where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will form pure Yang Fiend Energy and Xuan Yin Fiend Energy due to the impact of turbid energy. The intersection of the two may give birth to strange gases similar to innate vitality, which have a high probability of allowing Core Formation cultivators to advance to Nascent Soul. The reason why he risked taking me to the Candle God Sect to compete for the position of sect leader was to compete for this opportunity. I think, if there is really this secret realm, can't it be used by the Daoist Master in the future if he needs it!

"The Candle God Sect has hundreds of thousands of followers. There is no sect leader now, but the Core Formation level combat power is very strong, comparable to a super sect. If I can become the sect leader, even if I can only command a small part of it, I can help the Daoist Master do many things."

"Therefore, after careful consideration, I agreed to go to the main altar of the Candle God Sect with Elder Xing. If I die, then that's my fate, and the Daoist Master doesn't need to worry about it. Zhang Xuan has also lived for fifty years, which is not a premature death. If I succeed, then that would be great. After I settle down, Zhang Xuan will send someone to find the Daoist Master and invite him to be a guest in Candle Shadow Valley."