I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

”You truly have profound fortune...”

Sword Fox Immortal sighed softly but did not refuse, reaching out to take the jade scroll.

These two seal techniques indeed have unique features, especially the Taiyin Spirit Forging Seal. When cultivated deeply, it allows the soul to separate from the body and exist in the world. It is a Tier Four Seal, extremely rare.

”The fall of a True Immortal, who can say what impact it might have? But increasing strength is never wrong. You must also cultivate diligently and craft more seals.”

Sword Fox Immortal advised before his figure transformed into light and vanished from Purple Sun Peak.

On Purple Sun Peak, for a moment, only Gu Yuan remained.

In the distant bamboo house, Cen Qingqing, under Gu Yuan’s care, had obtained five demon pills and was cultivating the Six Ren Golden Book of Alchemy to enhance her strength.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan’s eyes flickered, and he too disappeared from the peak.

Not having to go to the East Mountain Realm was indeed a fortunate matter for him.

Because in five years’ time, he had something extremely important to accomplish.

This event would bring significant changes to his fate.

In the Red Mist Secret Realm, within another hidden secret realm, the previously pure silver opportunity had progressed further.

Now, faint strands of golden light were beginning to overflow.

What could be the method that could dramatically change the fate of a Golden Core Cultivator?

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Spring passed, autumn came, and five years passed in a flash.

After five years of planning, utilizing the channels of the South Mountain Pavilion, the Cyan Peak Daoist School finally constructed a complete Void Shifting Array, connecting to another vast Great Domain, the East Mountain Realm.

Four Golden Core Ascendants, along with two Golden Core Honored Guests from the South Mountain Pavilion, a total of six Golden Core cultivators, began their journey to establish a pavilion in the East Mountain Realm, carrying numerous treasures.

The disciples of the Daoist School were all eagerly anticipating this transmission.

Once successful, it would greatly open up channels of communication for the Daoist School and allow them to experience the flourishing world of the East Mountain Realm.

A large number of disciples came eagerly to witness the grand event of the array’s activation.

But on Purple Sun Peak, there was a silence.

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion in his Cave Mansion, with golden brilliance flickering between his eyebrows, as if something was about to emerge from them.

”Pop!”

Suddenly, Gu Yuan trembled all over, frozen in place like a statue, utterly motionless.

And from between his eyebrows, a vague golden shadow slowly floated out.

At a glance, it looked identical to Gu Yuan in every detail.

It was exactly his soul.

The soul was ethereal, appearing fragile and likely to dissipate at any moment with a gust of wind.

Yet inside, there was a phantom Dharma Seal, swirling back and forth, threads of Taiyin energy wrapping around the soul, shielding it from wind and sun, allowing it to exist in the world briefly, unhindered. If exerted to its fullest, it could traverse a thousand miles in an instant, faster than any escape light.

This is the Taiyin Spirit Forging Seal!

”The soul separating from the body is truly a profound mystery...”

Gu Yuan looked down at his ephemeral hands and the motionless body, unable to resist exclaiming.

The soul made no sound, but intentions spread out, reverberating in the Cave Mansion.

In this world of cultivation, the soul is paramount. Unless one cultivates to the Daoist Embryo realm or above, the soul cannot leave the body.

If one’s soul is captured, the body will die within moments.

Before True Immortals established the Celestial Palace, demonic techniques ran rampant, with many demon cultivators using the souls of mortals and cultivators as nourishment for their cultivation.

But such methods are generally employed for attack or to supplement the divine soul.

To have the soul leave the body, one needs even more profound techniques.

And clearly, the Taiyin Spirit Forging Mother and Child Seal is one of them.

”Could this seal be a demonic seal handed down through the ages?”

”The Mother-Child Seal Technique, controlling souls, is indeed somewhat sinister...”

Experiencing the odd sensation of his soul separating from the body, Gu Yuan’s mind was in turmoil.

The Taiyin Mother and Child Spirit Forging Seal is a special Soul Seal, with transitions between illusion and reality just a thought away.

It can exist in the Dantian or with the soul, moving with the soul. This is also why Master Soul Cloud could escape with his residual soul.

And the most profound aspect of this seal is that once the Mother Seal is crafted, it can automatically generate the method to craft the Child Seal.

This method is almost identical to the Mother Seal, with subtleties even Daoist Embryos struggle to discern.

Gu Yuan took several years to finally craft this seal, ingesting moonlight, barely allowing his soul to leave the body.

But cultivating this seal requires slow and steady progress, the longer one absorbs moonlight, the more powerful the soul becomes, and the longer it can stay out of the body.

But Gu Yuan had only recently begun refining this seal, unable to leave his body for extended periods.

”Whizz!”

He thought, and his soul gently descended, merging with his cross-legged body.

Instantly, his body trembled, Gu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, consciousness restored.

Not only that, a silver-white phantom brilliance, like a flood dragon turned into a sharp blade, shot from his eyes.

This silver blade was ethereal, seemingly not of this world, yet its icy sharpness was unmatched, making the temperature in the entire Cave Mansion drop several degrees.

The blade swept across, rushing a hundred feet from the Cave Mansion before slowly dissipating.

Taiyin Godslaying Seal!

And with this strike, Gu Yuan became weak, the whole person drained.

He quickly closed his eyes, took a pill, and began to meditate.

After a long while, he gradually regained his strength.

”A divine soul attack is indeed extraordinary. But the side effects are truly severe, it can only be used as a trump card...”

Gu Yuan opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.

After breaking through to the Golden Core, a cultivator’s soul, tempered by celestial tribulation, becomes solid. Although the divine thoughts birthed on a soul vary in form due to differing Spirit Water ingestion, their essence remains largely unchanged.

After all, those who can break through to the Golden Core usually have consumed top-grade Spirit Water, making them exceptional.

So to attack others in the same realm with divine techniques requires an even more powerful method.

Among the three True Scriptures passed down by the Daoist School, each has corresponding divine thought seals.

The Thunder Element Celestial Capital Scripture also contains a seal known as the ”Thunder Heart Seal.”

However, various Dao Scriptures, aside from seals that match one’s attributes and are exquisite in nature, tend to be quite ordinary, not particularly powerful.

Like the Golden Brilliance Great Sun Sword Scripture, its main focus is the Golden Brilliance Great Sword Seal, a top-tier mysterious technique.

Aside from this seal, the accompanying sword escape, sword armor, and Sword Heart Seal, though superior to the techniques of an average Loose Cultivator, become wanting when confronted with true mysterious techniques.

The Great Thunder Origin Celestial Scripture that Gu Yuan cultivates also has an unparalleled secret seal, known as the ”Five Thunders Sky-Striking Seal.”

This seal can summon five thunders to strike from the sky, exceptionally extraordinary; it is a Seal of Slaughter with peerless power.

Unfortunately, Gu Yuan’s time since breaking through to the Golden Core is short, and his focus is entirely on sword seals, leaving him no time to cultivate this seal.

Moreover, the spiritual materials needed for this seal’s cultivation are dreadfully expensive, something Gu Yuan, freshly ascended to Golden Core, could not initially provide.

However, after conquering the Eight Rivers Clans and slaying the Black Water Infant Beast, he acquired this beast’s accumulated treasures over the years, barely managing to gather these materials.

”It should be about time...”

Gu Yuan calculated the days, his figure flickered, and he vanished into a lightning flash, disappearing from where he stood.

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Beyond the Nine Rivers Marsh, some thousands of miles, stands a grand island.

This island is vast; within it are mountains, within the mountains a basin, in the basin a riot of flowers, forest waves, waterfalls hang high, with buildings scattered across cliffs, suffused with abundant Spiritual Qi, occasionally immortal cranes take flight, making it a picturesque landscape.

This was the Moon Bamboo Market where Gu Yuan had once visited.

But this time, returning to the old haunt, Gu Yuan’s status was entirely different from the past.

Before he even arrived, a white Immortal Crane flew out from the market, coming obediently to his feet.

”My master has long anticipated your arrival. Please, Ascendant, join the little crane for the journey.”

The white crane spoke with human words, respectfully addressing Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan slightly nodded, stepped onto the back of the white crane, and then it spread its wings and flew, gliding light as a cloud into the depths of the island.