Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

The Unstable Situation of the Northern Sea - Chapter 61 Sky Spirit Palace

In fact, Lu Ping was a little disappointed. In his imagination, the True Spirit Sect, as a big sect in the northern sea, was bound to have many imposing airy pavilions and pagodas in its station. However, what came into his view was like a big farm.

Along the way, the spiritual Qi on Sky Spirit Mountain was naturally very rich. However, except for the abodes that were built by the disciples of the True Spirit Sect on the mountain, most of the other places had been opened up into different kinds of Spiritual Herb Gardens. Various spiritual herbs and spiritual materials were planted in them, and the Spiritual Herb Gardens were protected by different magic circles. These magic circles were not very powerful. Obviously, they were set to prevent the cultivators in the mountain from entering the Spiritual Herb Gardens by mistake.

Wu Ziniu looked at Lu Ping's expression and said with a smile, "Are you disappointed? To be honest, I was surprised when I first came here. Our True Spirit Sect is famous, but I never thought that its station is so simple."

Lu Ping said, "Yeah."

Wu Ziniu continued, "In fact, the reason is very simple. The cultivation resources are scarce. Therefore, every place where spiritual Qi converges has to be opened up as a place for growing various spiritual materials. Because there is a large spiritual vein on this mountain, there are countless convergence points of spiritual Qi on the mountain. Therefore, in addition to the abodes built by the disciples of our sect, the rest of these convergence points have to be built into Spiritual Herb Gardens and spiritual grain fields and so on."

Hearing Wu Ziniu's explanation, Lu Ping felt shocked, and he had an intuitive understanding of the cultivation world. Even things he didn't understand before seemed to have become clear.

They talked as they walked, and soon they came to the mountainside.

Because Sky Spirit Mountain had a large spiritual vein, the whole mountain was divided into three parts. The foot of the mountain had the sparsest spiritual Qi, cultivators at the Blood Dissolving stage built their abodes there. The mountainside had sufficient spiritual Qi and was the place where Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage cultivated. The place where the entire spiritual vein converged was at the top of the mountain, and only Grandmasters at the Dharma stage or high-ranked cultivators at the Alchemy stage could occupy it.

On the mountainside, there was a big palace built of green bricks and tiles, which had the bearing of celestial beings. Wu Ziniu pointed to the palace and said, "Here we are. This is the place where our sect handles daily affairs. Everything about you becoming an inner discipline will be handled here."

Lu Ping looked at the elegant palace and asked, "Is the leader of our sect also here?"

Wu Ziniu patted his head and said, "I forgot to tell you that our sect does not have a leader. Daily affairs are handled in the Sky Spirit Palace. The major events of our sect are discussed and decided by our Grandmasters."

When they got into the palace, Wu Ziniu took Lu Ping to a house in the back palace and said to him, "In this year, Master Xuan Yuan is on duty in the palace. He is at the third level of the Alchemy stage just like my teacher."

Then Wu Ziniu knocked on the door and said, "Master Xuan Yuan, disciples Wu Ziniu and Lu Ping came to see you."

A lazy voice came out of the room, "Come in. I've heard you nagging outside for a long while."

Wu Ziniu smiled at Lu Ping. They walked into the room. Lu Ping saw a sleepy middle-aged cultivator sitting behind a table and leaning against a chair. He was holding a huge wine gourd in his right hand, drinking the wine casually, and reading through a paper book in his left hand with interest.

This quite contradictory scene became extremely harmonious in every action of Zhenren Xuan Yuan, revealing a unique charm.

Wu Ziniu came forward and said with a smile, "Master, are you still reading a novel?" Then he pointed to Lu Ping and said, "This junior disciple entered the Blood Dissolving stage recently. My teacher asked me to take him to you so that he could choose his Cultivation Method."

Zhenren Xuan Yuan smiled and said, "You are here to trouble me, right?" After that, he looked up at Lu Ping. Lu Ping immediately felt as if he had been seen through by Zhenren Xuan Yuan. He only heard Zhenren Xuan Yuan say, "Good, you have a solid foundation, strong magic power, and young age. You are promising. What is your Foundation Bloodline?"

Lu Ping replied, "Dragon Bloodline of water attribute."

Zhenren Xuan Yuan clicked his tongue, then took a sip of wine and said, "Dragon Bloodline of water attribute?" Then he stopped talking.

Lu Ping was waiting for him to go on. Wu Ziniu had come forward with a smile and handed ten spiritual stones to Zhenren Xuan Yuan. He said with a smile, "Please give him some advice!"

Lu Ping looked confused. Did a Zhenren at the Alchemy stage still care about ten spiritual stones?

Zhenren Xuan Yuan turned a blind eye to Lu Ping's expression and said, "There are 19 kinds of Cultivation Methods for Dragon Bloodline of water attribute in our sect. In addition to eight kinds of Cultivation Methods that are only perfected to the Blood Dissolving stage, there were seven kinds of Cultivation Methods at the Alchemy stage and only four kinds at the Dharma stage. Which one do you want to choose?"

This time, without Wu Ziniu's reminding, Lu Ping hurriedly handed ten spiritual stones to Zhenren Xuan Yuan and said, "I'm a bit slow-witted. Please enlighten me."

Zhenren Xuan Yuan weighed the spiritual stones in his hand, said "You are worth teaching", took a sip of wine, and said, "The eight Cultivation Methods at the Blood Dissolving stage are not worth mentioning. Two of the seven Cultivation Methods at the Alchemy stage are purely Cultivation Methods of Water System. The other five have auxiliary attributes, such as gold attribute assists water attribute, water attribute assists wood attribute, wind attribute and water attribute assist each other, ice attribute and water attribute supplement each other, and gold attribute, water attribute, and wood attribute coexist, and so on. They are various but water attribute played a leading role in them."

Zhenren Xuan Yuan took a sip of wine, moistened his throat, and then said, "There is only one separate Cultivation Method of Water System among the Cultivation Methods at the Dharma stage. The other three are similar to what I mentioned before, and only the ways to cultivate them are different, but they all achieve the same end."

Seeing that Zhenren Xuan Yuan finished speaking, Lu Ping asked, "Which one is stronger? The separate Cultivation Method of Water System or the other Cultivation Methods with water attribute playing the leading role?"

Zhenren Xuan Yuan laughed and drank the wine without answering. Lu Ping understood and handed another ten spiritual stones to him.

Zhenren Xuan Yuan praised him as "observant", and then said, "It's hard for a person to cultivate Cultivation Methods perfectly. It depends on who performs them. The separate Cultivation Method of Water System lies in the word 'pure', but it is extremely difficult to achieve 'pure'. The other Cultivation Methods lie in the word 'change'. If you cultivate them well, they will be ever-changing and can help you a lot in battles."

With that, Zhenren Xuan Yuan's tone changed, and he said, "However, in all fairness, if the cultivation of the separate Cultivation Method of Water System could be pure, the separate Cultivation Method will be stronger than other Cultivation Methods. However, it's hard to achieve that. Determination, perseverance, and even chance are indispensable. What's more, the separate Cultivation Method of Water System focuses on discarding the useless and accepting the good, so its cultivation progress is slower than those of other Cultivation Methods, but it is easier to break through the bottlenecks in various stages of cultivation."

After that, Zhenren Xuan Yuan looked at Lu Ping and asked, "Kid, have you made up your mind?"

Lu Ping secretly clicked his tongue. He did not expect that there was so much knowledge about different Cultivation Methods. This might be the advantage the disciples of their sect had but the individual cultivators didn't have. It saved him a lot of trouble. If he were an individual cultivator, he would have to figure those things out himself. If he made one small mistake, he might ruin his cultivation way and couldn't even start over.