Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Zhang Yuanjing kept Pan Zhengyu behind mainly to inquire about his spiritual roots and cultivation methods.

This person possessed both wood and water spiritual roots, and the cultivation method he practiced was water-based. His energy channels were long and enduring, skilled in defense and perseverance, and his battle prowess was quite strong. He was considered quite famous among the 'Zheng' generation disciples.

His cultivation had already reached the peak of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and he had been stuck at the bottleneck for several years. He was accumulating merit points to exchange for a high-grade Bitter Essence Pill or a Beast King Pill.

Zhang Yuanjing didn't say much, only instructing Pan Zhengyu to seek him out at the Zhi Zhi Tower in ten days. Pan Zhengyu had some guesses in his heart, but he wasn't certain and left with a mix of anticipation and anxiety.

Ten days later, when Pan Zhengyu received the long-awaited high-grade Bitter Essence Pill in the Zhi Zhi Tower, his excitement was beyond imagination.

Zhang Yuanjing gave him half a year, regardless of whether he broke through or not, he had to accompany him into the Profound Origin Secret Realm.

Pan Zhengyu went into closed-door cultivation with great excitement, while Zhang Yuanjing, following Tong Tianfu's request, had to leave the Profound Origin Hall and patrol the area west of Shumi Mountain.

Following the information provided by Hao Zhengxiong, he headed west, traversing thousands of mountains and ridges, until he reached Azure Sky Peak. This place was three million miles away from Heavenly阙 Mountain and used to be a boundary marker. East of this mountain belonged to the core area of the Profound Heaven Sect, where only affiliated forces of the Profound Heaven Sect could exist, and no independent sects were allowed.

The dozen or so small sects that Hao Zhengxiong had contacted were all west of this mountain, scattered within a range of 500,000 miles. In the past, when the Abyss of Heavenly Demons launched a large-scale attack on Flowing Cloud City, they didn't even look at these small sects and were too lazy to spend time dealing with them, so they managed to survive.

Zhang Yuanjing inspected these sects one by one, most of which were hidden in dangerous mountains and evil waters. Some even lacked spiritual caves and prominent spiritual veins, barely managing to survive.

From Azure Sky Peak westward, there were no traces of cultivators from the Abyss of Heavenly Demons for hundreds of thousands of miles, until he discovered several strongholds of the Abyss of Heavenly Demons 700,000 miles away.

Too lazy to waste effort, he summoned the Yang Refining Umbrella, directly attacked, destroyed the protective arrays, and beheaded the Core Formation cultivators, ignoring the low-level cultivators below the Foundation Establishment stage. Then, he went to the next stronghold. In this manner, he destroyed four strongholds in half a month. The remaining strongholds, hearing the news, had already been abandoned.

Zhang Yuanjing stopped while he was ahead and turned back to the Profound Origin Hall, not giving the other party a chance for a Nascent Soul cultivator to chase and kill him.

This trip took exactly six months.

Pan Zhengyu, after accumulating a lot of experience, broke through to the late Foundation Establishment stage in less than four months with a high-grade Bitter Essence Pill. He had already come to the Zhi Zhi Tower no less than five times and finally met Zhang Yuanjing.

Zhang Yuanjing encouraged him and told him to hand over the task of patrolling the secret realm to the deputy deacon. In a few days, he would enter the Profound Origin Secret Realm with him, and there would be tasks for him to do.

He also summoned Zheng Yuandu to inquire about using spirit stones to offset Huo Zhengkai and Zhou Yuming's assignments.

Zheng Yuandu had already completed the matter, but said that the Hall of Law Enforcement had stated clearly that only five years could be offset. The remaining five years must be spent in the Hall of Law Enforcement accepting assignments, otherwise, they would be dealt with according to the sect's laws.

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment and instructed Zheng Yuandu to inquire about how many other Core Formation elders' disciples in the sect, like Huo Zhengkai and Zhou Zhengming, used spirit stones to offset their assignments.

After dealing with the matters in the hall, Zhang Yuanjing informed the Fire Crow Daoist and took Pan Zhengyu into the Profound Origin Realm, heading straight for the swamp.

He instructed Pan Zhengyu to patrol around the swamp. If any disciples from the sect came, he should persuade them to return, saying that he was cultivating in seclusion here and could not be disturbed.

The reason for this arrangement was that he was worried that when he dealt with those broken bones, the broken bones would generate evil power and control these disciples to attack him, adding a lot of trouble and easily leaking information.

Pan Zhengyu was puzzled, wondering what Zhang Yuanjing saw in this swamp, but he didn't dare to ask, honestly guarding outside, blocking the occasional Foundation Establishment disciples who came here.

Zhang Yuanjing first chose a place where an arm-length broken bone was located. As before, he dug a tunnel in the ground, connecting to the underground cave where the broken bone was located, completely ignoring the majestic malice surging from the broken bone.

He released the Primal Source Stone, letting it devour spiritual energy on its own. He also released the Yang Refining Umbrella, both for protection and to absorb spiritual energy.

Then, next to this broken bone, he sat cross-legged, took out the Heavenly Fire Flowing Gold Grass that he had cultivated for several years, held it in his hand, guarded his soul, and focused on the operation of his cultivation method, and began to cultivate in this way.

The broken bone would not allow him to do this, so it urged more malice, repeatedly impacting his mind, sometimes as a roar, sometimes as a wail, sometimes as an illusion, sometimes as a killing intent, and sometimes completely disappearing, but soon it would surge into his brain like a surging wave.

This kind of interference did affect Zhang Yuanjing's cultivation, often forcing him to interrupt. However, he would quickly adjust and continue to concentrate and calm his mind, absorbing spiritual energy little by little and cultivating.

The malice released by the broken bone was also varied and extremely capable of interference.

However, after more than ten days of cultivation, Zhang Yuanjing gradually adapted to the intrusion of this malice, and could continue to cultivate, and his cultivation also slowly increased.

The broken bone had no other way, and could only play tricks on the strength and release of malice, but it had little effect on Zhang Yuanjing.

Time flew by, and four months passed quickly, and the spiritual energy around this broken bone had become quite thin.

Zhang Yuanjing stopped his cultivation and sacrificed the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace to collect the broken bone.

Sure enough, without spiritual energy to use, although the broken bone struggled fiercely, it was simply unable to resist the suction of the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace, and was soon taken into the furnace.

Seeing that this method was feasible, Zhang Yuanjing was also quite happy.

Not to mention the broken bones he obtained, even cultivating here was more than twice as fast as in the Zhi Zhi Tower.

Among them, the gathering of spiritual power was the main reason, but the tempering brought about by the repeated intrusion of malice was also an important factor.

He had no way of judging how many years the Heavenly Fire Flowing Gold Grass had improved, but since the increase in cultivation was twice as much as before, the years of improvement of this grass must not be twice as much, but it must be much stronger than in the Zhi Zhi Tower.

He put away the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace and flew over the swamp on his flying sword. Before long, he saw Pan Zhengyu rushing from the west.

This person was also considered diligent. Although Zhang Yuanjing had been gone for four months, he did not slack off because of this, nor did he secretly leave.

Zhang Yuanjing told him clearly that he would cultivate here for several years, and he needed him to patrol here all the time, one to prevent others from coming here, and the other to pass messages between him and the Profound Origin Hall. If there was anything urgent in the Profound Origin Hall, he needed to come to the swamp to call him.

Pan Zhengyu agreed without hesitation.

Zhang Yuanjing was naturally generous and gave him five Bitter Essence Pills, telling him to do his job well, and there would be rewards in the future.

He went to the wilderness and used Yin and Yang fire to refine the broken bones. This bone was much larger than the previous one, so it took six days to refine it into that black mud-like substance. The amount obtained was naturally more than a hundred times more than before, and it really filled several large jade boxes.

Entering the swamp again, Zhang Yuanjing did not rush forward, but still chose an arm-length broken bone and began to take drastic measures.