Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation

Chapter Seventy-Three: Purple Mansion Kongshan Art

Approximately a quarter of an hour later.

Countless birds startled and took flight from the direction of the Rear Cliff woods, fleeing in all directions.

Quite a few birds also flew toward the direction of Chen Yan and Yue Chi, and when these birds reached the location of the Rear Cliff’s restrictive formation—

Pop!

Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

Pop! Pop! Pop!

They exploded into one cloud of blood mist after another.

“What a pity. How many spirit herbs must they have eaten, how many immortal dews must they have drunk on this Kongyuan Mountain to condense a few strands of true energy within their bodies?”

Yue Chi, standing to the side, sighed softly.

Not long after, a figure emerged from the direction of the woods, walking slowly toward the direction of the Rear Cliff’s restrictive formation.

Though it was said to be walking slowly, the speed was actually extremely fast.

One step covered a hundred zhang.

In just a few breaths of time, that figure appeared before Chen Yan and Yue Chi.

“Disciple Chen Yan pays respects to Master.”

Saying this, Chen Yan quickly bowed and saluted the figure.

“Mm.”

Lin Qifeng nodded, then released his true energy outward. The vast true energy of a Qi Sea Realm cultivator was hundreds of times more profound and dense than that of a Martial Spring Realm cultivator. Ripples began to form in the previously empty space before them; it was the restrictive formation left here long ago by True Person Kongmiao, now resonating with Lin Qifeng’s true energy.

Then, Lin Qifeng took a step forward. The Rear Cliff’s restrictive formation shattered like glass, and after he completely stepped out from the Rear Cliff, those shattered pieces of glass reformed into the restrictive formation.

It had already been a year since his last meeting with Chen Yan.

For long-lived immortal cultivators, a year’s time wasn’t considered too long. Even those great powers of the upper three realms might go into seclusion once for several decades, or even over a hundred years.

“What major events have occurred within the sect during this year I’ve been away?”

Lin Qifeng asked.

“Calm and uneventful. The only major event that happened was probably done by your disciple.”

Yue Chi said.

“Oh?”

Lin Qifeng’s gaze shifted toward Chen Yan’s direction. Then, when his eyes locked onto the token at Chen Yan’s waist, Lin Qifeng’s gaze suddenly sharpened:

“You are already the Chief Disciple of Kongyuan Mountain?”

“Yes.”

Chen Yan replied.

“What is your current cultivation level?”

“Late-stage Energy Channeling Realm.”

This was the cultivation realm Chen Yan currently declared to the outside world. Advancing from the early-stage Energy Channeling Realm to the late-stage in one year wasn’t exaggerated to an outrageous degree, but it was definitely within the scope of a genius’s progress.

Among the current generation of disciples on Kongyuan Mountain, those who could progress at such a speed numbered no more than ten.

“Late-stage Energy Channeling Realm… how is that possible…”

Lin Qifeng frowned, showing a puzzled expression.

How could someone with late-stage Energy Channeling Realm cultivation become the Chief Disciple of Kongyuan Mountain?

Back then, Qi Yadong was at the peak-stage Energy Channeling Realm cultivation level. Whether in terms of seniority and foundation accumulated on Kongyuan Mountain, or cultivation level, he was superior to Chen Yan in every way. Yet, he was still far from the position of Kongyuan Mountain’s Chief Disciple, because, starting from some unknown time, Martial Spring Realm had become a hard requirement for a peak’s Chief Disciple.

At that time, Song Wencheng had gone to great lengths, making connections everywhere and frequently bringing Qi Yadong into the public eye, all to make him Kongyuan Mountain’s Chief Disciple. Otherwise, Qi Yadong wouldn’t have died in the outer court competition.

“Your disciple has accomplished something truly remarkable. Forget about the disciples of Kongshan Sect in his generation; even you and I, and perhaps even Master himself, might not be able to achieve the merit he has accomplished.”

Yue Chi said with a smile.

“This kid brought down that old man Fu?”

Lin Qifeng asked in surprise.

The corner of Chen Yan’s mouth twitched twice. He really didn’t know just how much his cheap master hated Fu Qian.

“Not that.”

Yue Chi shook his head:

“Chen Yan has improved upon the version of the Kongshan Art that has been passed down within the sect for over ten thousand years. He temporarily named the improved version the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art. It has already achieved considerable success in the pilot program at Kongyuan Mountain’s Scripture Hall. Both the smoothness of true energy circulation and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy during cultivation, as well as cleansing the meridians, have seen significant improvement.”

“Improved the Kongshan Art…”

Even Lin Qifeng felt his limbs go numb with shock upon suddenly hearing this news.

It must be known that since the founding of Kongshan Sect, it has existed for over eighty thousand long years in this land of Chenping Continent.

The founding patriarch of Kongshan Sect was named Li Xuanyin, a Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator.

Originally, Li Xuanyin was just a rogue cultivator, and Kongyuan Mountain was merely the place where he lived in seclusion and cultivated the Dao.

Until, based on the various fragmented cultivation methods he had collected, combined with his own insights and experiences gained over many years, he created the Kongshan Record.

The Kongshan Record is divided into two parts: the Kongshan Art and the Kongshan Formless Chapter.

From then on, relying on the Kongshan Record, Li Xuanyin established his sect on Kongyuan Mountain, founding Kongshan Sect.

With a Myriad Transformations Realm great power presiding over it, Kongshan Sect quickly became a somewhat famous second-rate sect on Chenping Continent, but it could only remain at second-rate.

Until three thousand years later, an unprecedented and unparalleled monstrous talent appeared.

True Person Kongmiao, Yan Yunhe.

Yan Yunhe was the first person to improve the Kongshan Record. He didn’t just improve it; he also created the third part of the Kongshan Record, the Kongshan Kongmiao Commentary.

From Body Forging to Ascending to Immortality, he took less than two hundred years in total. If he hadn’t been feeling his way across the river by touching the stones, needing to create his own mental cultivation method to cultivate the upper three realms, Yan Yunhe could probably have achieved the feat of going from Body Forging to Ascending to Immortality within a hundred years.

The appearance of Yan Yunhe also laid the foundation for Kongshan Sect’s promotion from a second-rate sect to a super first-rate sect.

After that, the modifications made by Kongshan Sect disciples to the Kongshan Record became minuscule, basically only minor tweaks.

Until Chen Yan appeared.

That is to say, if the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art improved by Chen Yan can be fully implemented throughout the entire Kongshan Sect in the future, and if he can even make some degree of improvements to the later Kongshan Formless Chapter and Kongshan Kongmiao Commentary, then Chen Yan’s name might be linked together with Founding Patriarch Li Xuanyin and the first Ascension great power, Yan Yunhe.

But that is all for later.

“…Recite your Purple Mansion Kongshan Art for me to hear.”

Lin Qifeng said.

“As you command, Master.”

Following Lin Qifeng’s order, Chen Yan recited the Kongshan Art that he had merged and improved using the Purple Mansion Record for Lin Qifeng to hear.

Lin Qifeng circulated true energy through his meridians for several cycles according to the method Chen Yan described, then his eyes lit up.

The smoothness of true energy circulation within the meridians was significantly enhanced compared to the original Kongshan Art.

With the enhancement of the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art, the combat ability of cultivators below the Qi Sea Realm within the sect could be increased by at least thirty percent.

This disciple he had casually taken on originally seemed to have even more secrets than he had imagined.

Not just the technique for concealing his cultivation level, but now this improvement to the Kongshan Art as well.

It all completely exceeded Lin Qifeng’s understanding.