Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 1480: Chapter 1209: Seizing the Initiative

”Jiu, why are you hiding the fact that you’ve already broken through to the Human Immortal?” Upon seeing Li Zhirui for the first time after coming out of seclusion, Li Zhixuan immediately asked about the doubt in her heart.

Li Zhirui then told her his original plan and laughed, ”I just didn’t expect you and Ming Yao to break through one after another, and the threat from the Great Zhou Dynasty is also very serious. The Cave Abyss Sect can’t attend to us at the moment.”

Although it was a miscalculation, since the outside world still didn’t know, he planned to keep it hidden until the day it couldn’t be kept secret any longer.

After all, hiding one’s cultivation wouldn’t disrupt his own cultivation progress.

”But it’s you who seems to have gained quite a bit from this trip,” Li Zhirui teased.

Although Li Zhixuan didn’t seem as formidable as before, making it apparent she was not to be trifled with, the feeling she gave him was even more dangerous.

Just like a treasured sword that, once unsheathed, would certainly see blood and seal a throat!

”I was lucky and came across a fortuitous opportunity that benefits my cultivation.”

She didn’t elaborate on the specifics, and he didn’t inquire further.

”Do you plan to stay with the family next, or continue traveling?”

Li Zhixuan thought for a moment and said, ”I’ll stay with the family for now, to refine my Dao Heart, organize the insights and experiences from the journey, and also guide the younger generation to repay the family’s support over the years.”

”That’s good, the road in pursuit of Dao is long, there’s no need to rush.”

Li Zhirui suddenly reminded, ”You mustn’t randomly pass down the Sword Tao of Slaughter to the clan members, but if you find someone suitable, let the family test them first before passing down your methods and skills.”

”I don’t plan to pass down the Sword Tao of Slaughter for the time being.”

Li Zhixuan gave a clear answer, and it’s likely she wouldn’t pass down the Sword Tao of Slaughter to the clan members.

After all, this path is too difficult, with high demands on temperament and Dao Heart; if one cannot control their internal killing intent, it could easily lead to madness and rampage.

And if it were to erupt in the family grounds, even though the family had several Human Immortals and Individual Immortals to oversee, they wouldn’t be able to stop it in an instant. By then, causing slaughter in the family grounds and killing a few clan members would be disastrous, and she might even be implicated.

”Do as you see fit.” Li Zhirui did not interfere with this matter; the family currently did not lack a cultivation technique that could be cultivated to the Realm of Human Immortality.

Moreover, her inheritance was too extreme and unsuitable as the main cultivation technique of a power. At most, it could be a trump card protector like in Li Zhixuan’s previous sect.

After the pleasantries, the two began to sit and discuss Dao, drawing from each other’s cultivation insights. After all, the stone from another mountain can polish jade, and absorbing beneficial content from others’ experiences helps spark new realizations.

If an outsider were present, they would see a pool slightly trembling, with a fragrant white lotus, and a Mysterious Sword surrounded by blood and evil qi.

These two phenomena were the manifestations of the results of the two’s cultivation.

If they were to attack each other, it would be the Derivation Method Dao Contention, using their insights into the Great Tao to taint the other, thus leaving a contamination. But since they were exchanging insights, it was naturally not so dangerous, and they slowly began to connect, gaining insights from one another.

Aside from their core cultivation techniques and divine powers, the two had no secrets from each other and trusted one another completely.

For this reason, this discussion of Dao consumed several years.

Both of them had quite significant gains.

Li Zhirui’s advancement in Sword Dao was exponential, greatly enhancing the offensive capabilities of his divine powers; Li Zhixuan gained a deeper understanding of the Purification Principle, better controlling her Dao Heart, and both of their realms saw significant improvement.

Unfortunately, this kind of Dao discussion only had remarkable effects the first time, and not thereafter.

”I will go back and prepare some content for the upcoming lecture.”

Li Zhixuan took her leave, and Li Zhirui also went into seclusion to organize the gains from their exchange, integrating them into his own system.

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”Ancestor Xuan is going to give a public lecture too!”

”And it’s said that she will also discuss the path of Human Immortality, even more profound than Ancestor Rui’s previous lectures.”

”That’s too far beyond us, it’s content we simply cannot comprehend at our current level.”

Being overly ambitious is one of the great taboos of cultivation!

Forcibly listening to content at too high a level could easily lead to madness and becoming nothing more than a corpse.

”Even if I wanted to listen, I couldn’t! No transmission to those with false ears, so Ancestor Xuan will definitely exclude us then.”

Back when Li Zhirui lectured, he did the same—gradually filtering out the clan members when reaching deeper parts, to avoid harming them.

Furthermore, Li Zhixuan’s lectures were more inclined towards Sword Cultivators, unlike Li Zhirui’s more universally applicable topics for the general public.

Regardless, Li Zhixuan, a powerful ancestor in Human Immortality, was even more sought after for her lectures.

Because within the family, Sword Cultivation ranks as the third largest practice sect.

The first is ”Earth Spirit Tao Record,” opening an inner world where all power returns to oneself; the second is ”Wanling Sutra,” contracting a Spirit Beast for mutual growth and protection.

Other practices included cultivating Five Element cultivation techniques like ”Taiyi Scudding Wind Path Scripture,” ”Thick Earth Yungeng Dao Decision,” and some smaller schools of thought.

For example, Li Zhirui knew an alchemy technique commonly practiced among the family alchemists called ”Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace Nourishing Elixir Treasure Manual.”

Qi Cultivation and the Foundation Establishment Realm were no different from common techniques, but upon forming a Golden Core, one must refine a Dinglu-like Life-bound Magic Treasure and place the Golden Core within it, using Mana as the fire to temper the Golden Core.