Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

28: Chapter 28 Focusing on Cultivation!In the blink of an eye, ten years passed in an instant.

To this day, Gu Yan still had not managed to condense a Martial Soul, but to him, this was not unexpected.

In this world, Martial Cultivators condense their Martial Soul by using their relatively weak mortal soul as a foundation.

By sensing the martial will of heaven and earth and undergoing thousands of refinements, they can finally condense it into form through arduous cultivation, much like molding a statue out of clay, step by step.

Since he stepped onto the path of immortality, he had been refining Qi and nourishing his spirit, making his soul grow stronger day by day, far beyond what his mortal soul used to be.

The three hundred and sixty-five acupuncture points throughout his body and his Dantian formed a complete cycle on their own; as his spiritual power circulated, it subtly nourished his Divine Soul, causing it to transform toward a higher level.

If he were to force himself to turn back now and attempt to stuff this already strengthened soul into the Martial Cultivator framework—which started from a weak mortal soul—it would be like trying to press a tree that had already grown deep roots and lush leaves back into the form of a seed, only to then try growing it according to the steps for a seedling.

It was not that he could not, but the essence had already changed, and the paths were contradictory, making it a futile effort.

”So be it,” Gu Yan said with a relieved smile.

”The transformation brought about by the three hundred and sixty-five acupuncture points in my body is already enough.”

He was confident that if he were to compare himself to Cultivators of the same rank from the novels of his past life, he could absolutely exhaust them to death.

Others only had one Dantian to accumulate spiritual power, while he had three hundred and sixty-five acupuncture points plus one Dantian.

It should be noted that the total amount of liquid spiritual power in each of his acupuncture points was no less than that in his Dantian.

Logically speaking, a Cultivator’s accumulation of spiritual power eventually had an upper limit, and after it was full, it would need to be compressed to form a Golden Core.

However, Gu Yan felt as if he had no upper limit, and his spiritual power was still growing extremely slowly.

He could only attribute this anomaly to the orange trait, Five Elements Spiritual Body.

In these ten years, although he had not formed a Golden Core, his Divine Sense range had reached a radius of two thousand meters.

Another twenty years passed, and Gu Yan was now seventy-one years old.

He still had not formed a Golden Core, but he was not anxious.

With a Lifespan limit of over eight hundred years, he had plenty of time to experiment and wait.

He calculated that when he reached one hundred and twenty years old, after drawing a new trait, there might be a new turning point.

Currently, Gu Yan’s external martial cultivation level was at the Early Stage of the fifth turn, and he had smoothly become an Inner Sect Elder of the Taiyi Dao Sect.

Naturally, he no longer needed to pay any fees for this small courtyard.

As for Lin Wei and Chen Lao, with the continuous support of his Medicinal Pill, both had broken through to the Early Stage of the sixth turn of martial cultivation, stepping into the realm of Martial Immortal and becoming the two people with the highest cultivation level in the Sect.

They were on good terms with Gu Yan and visited him often.

Therefore, how could the high-level members of the Sect not know that the rapid improvement in their cultivation might be related to Gu Yan?

But everyone maintained a tacit understanding, and no one broke the silence.

Gu Yan now also had a Daoist name, Changsheng Daoren.

This name pointed directly to his original intent; it was concise and profound, serving as both self-encouragement and a declaration of his ambition.

Later, Gu Yan noticed that the Sect had its suspicions, so he no longer deliberately hid things.

He began to give the Medicinal Pill he refined with spiritual power to the Sect Leader, Xuan Chenzi.

After Xuan Chenzi consumed the crimson blood warm sun pill gifted by Gu Yan, the Bottleneck at the Peak of the fifth turn that had trapped him for many years was broken in one stroke, and he successfully entered the realm of the Sixth-Turn Martial Immortal!

Gu Yan also handed over the remaining Medicinal Pill to the Sect to be used to reward Elders or outstanding Disciples.

To express his gratitude for Gu Yan’s immense contribution to the Sect, Xuan Chenzi granted him the greatest convenience.

Gu Yan could use the Sect’s treasury at will without needing to provide contributions.

He even gifted Gu Yan a Pill Furnace that had been passed down for a thousand years, of excellent quality, which belonged to the Ancestral Master who founded the Sect.

Accepting this generous gesture, Gu Yan felt a slight stir in his heart.

He did not ask for much, merely the medicinal herbs needed for Alchemy.

Since he had received such courteous treatment from the Sect, he considered giving back.

He made a copy of the seventh turn Cultivation Technique, ”Xuanyuan Martial Soul True Explanation,” which he had obtained from the Scripture Pavilion of the Great Qian Dynasty, and gifted it to the Sect Leader, Xuan Chenzi, only instructing him that the source of this item was inconvenient to disclose and should not be widely publicized.

Xuan Chenzi’s expression turned serious, and he solemnly agreed.

Subsequently, Gu Yan also taught this Cultivation Technique to Lin Wei and Chen Lao.

As for whether the two could break through to the seventh turn or even higher with this, that depended on their own fortune.

This was all he could do.

After all, his true martial cultivation level also stopped at the sixth turn.

On the path of condensing a Martial Soul, he feared he would make no further progress.

Thus, Gu Yan simply let go of the martial path completely, devoting his days to Immortal Cultivation and refining some Medicinal Pill for the Sect in his spare time.

The strength of the Taiyi Dao Sect increased greatly as a result, replacing the Lingyun Sword Sect located in the Central Plains of the Great Qian Dynasty to become the new leader of the Righteous Path.

After all, the Taiyi Dao Sect now openly possessed three Sixth-Turn Martial Immortals!

The title of the number one Dao Sect was now well-deserved.

The entire Great Qian Dynasty, because of this, speculated that the imperma nence yama, who had appeared out of nowhere thirty years ago and swept away the demons for five years, was some expert within the Taiyi Dao Sect.

Xuan Chenzi, Lin Wei, Chen Lao, and others knew it was definitely not themselves.

Combining this with the seventh turn Cultivation Technique gifted by Gu Yan, they all already had a vague answer in their hearts.

On this day, within the Forbidden Ground of the Taiyi Dao Sect.

The Grand Elder, Yun Chenzi, who had been in seclusion for many years and had reached the half-step seventh turn, was talking with the Sect Leader, Xuan Chenzi.

Yun Chenzi stroked his beard and pondered, his gaze deep and distant, as he suddenly mentioned an old matter.

”During the last True Martial Assembly, I once passed by Elder Gu’s courtyard and accidentally sensed that the heaven and earth Qi inside his room was extraordinary. My heart stirred, and I probed slightly with my Martial Soul, only to be injured by a Talisman he used...”

”Such methods are mysterious and unpredictable, and absolutely cannot be explained by ordinary martial arts.”

Xuan Chenzi was shocked upon hearing this: ”Junior Martial Uncle, why are you only saying this now?”

Yun Chenzi glanced at him and said calmly, ”I have already made it clear to you; if you acted without knowing the gravity of the situation and disturbed this... Fellow Daoist, causing him to leave the Sect, wouldn’t that be penny-wise and pound-foolish?

As it is now, he resides within the Sect, bestowing Medicinal Pill, secretly teaching Cultivation Technique, and causing my Taiyi Dao Sect’s influence to grow day by day; isn’t this the best situation?”

After careful consideration, Xuan Chenzi deeply agreed.