They had roasted beast meat for lunch . Yi Qing had somehow learned how to inspect spirit beast corpses along the way . He picked up some materials from the surroundings and used the leftover flames from the Red Lotus Karmic Fire to roast the beast meat .
Lonemoon respectfully lit a candle for Qing Yi who lay there motionless with his eyes still open . The beast meat was… freaking delicious . As he finished up his fifth beast steak, Lonemoon began to worry about his future .
Ever since he got to know Foodie Shen, his many years of Grain Liberation had slowly gone to waste . The foodie in him—which was present in every Chinese—was unleashed . He had not managed to reign it in . If this carried on, he didn't know when he would see the results of his Grain Liberation .
Rotten Shen Ying . She destroyed my immortal future and prevented me from achieving Immortal Ascension!
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"One more piece!"
After finishing their meal, they surveyed the once beautiful Immortal Pavilion . It had been completely destroyed . Shen Ying's sword had struck the Immortal Pavilion's foundation so that all that remained was the elixir-refining cauldron .
"Where should we go next?" Shen Ying glanced at Lonemoon . You're the boss—you call the shots .
"There's nothing valuable left here," Lonemoon answered as he looked at the elixir-refining cauldron . The Immortal Pavilion was in shambles and the pills in the treasury had lost their effectiveness . The Vegetation Spirit was the only valuable thing left in this entire ancient mystic realm, so they had no reason to remain here . "Let's go inside the cauldron to take a look . Once three months is up, we'll go home . "
"Please hold on!" The three of them were just about to move off when they were stopped by a voice from behind . Bitao suddenly floated toward them from out of nowhere . "How about the heritage? My two little friends, are you interested in inheriting the heritage?"
Lonemoon's heart skipped a beat . He had almost forgotten about the Immortal Soul . This was a heritage belonging to an immortal sect after all—there could be many long-lost recipes .
"Now that you mention it… you've already tried to hand your heritage down for so long . What exactly does it contain?" Shen Ying asked .
Bitao's eyes lit up on hearing her question . He obediently floated closer to her and answered, "Let me answer you, Great Immortal: my heritage contains all the recipes for all the pills and elixirs of the Dan Yang Sect as well as all the knowledge of refining pills . My Dan Yang Sect was the top Immortal Sect 50,000 years ago . We had countless alchemists, and many immortals would come to our sect begging for just one pill or elixir . "
"Oh . " So the heritage is just a compilation of life techniques .
"Great Immortal, I promise that whichever of your two subordinates who inherits my heritage will become the next renowned alchemist . He who inherits the heritage can easily refine any of the pills you saw in the Pill Storage Repository earlier . "
The corner of Lonemoon's mouth twitched . Hey, hey, hey . When did he become Shen Ying's subordinate? In any case, this heritage did sound really attractive .
Shen Ying blinked . Suddenly, her face lit up as if she had thought of a brilliant idea .
"Are you sure that the heritage contains the recipes for supreme-grade pills and elixirs from 50,000 years ago?"
"Of course! They are all treasures . "
"Oh, then after all this time… aren't they now outdated?"
"… Ah? Ah!" Bitao went silent .
"Look!" Shen Ying began to explain in a serious tone, "Times have changed and will continue to change . All your techniques were used 50,000 years ago . The outside world must have undergone tens of revolutions right?"
"…"
"Although your heritage doesn't contain digital products which rapidly become obsolete, but a few years… or a few hundred years would certainly be enough to make the recipes obsolete, right? After all, 50,000 years is enough to progress from the Stone Age to when socialism became popular . "
Bitao: "…"
Lonemoon: "…"
Yi Qing: "…"
Bitao didn't really understand, but… why did he suddenly feel like he was about to vomit blood? All these recipes for supreme-grade pills and elixirs from the honorable Dan Yang Sect are… really… outdated?
"My two… two Fellow Daoists . " He forced himself to face the two people standing beside him . "Can you please take over…"
But before he could finish, Lonemoon and Yi Qing both took a huge step backward .
"…" They didn't have to be so practical, did they? This was an ancient heritage they were being asked to receive—how could they despise it so?
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"My two Fellow Daoists, if either of you are willing to inherit this heritage, I… I…" Bitao looked around him, searching for something to offer . He gritted his teeth and with a look of shame, he pointed to the elixir-refining cauldron beside him and continued, "I will donate the Deviant Fire in that cauldron to you . How's that?" He had to pass down the heritage no matter what . Otherwise, he wouldn't rest in peace!
"The fire in this cauldron…" Shen Ying began .
Lonemoon and Yi Qing's faces turned pale and they both moved to cover her mouth .
Please, Patriarch! Could you let this mystic realm off?
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In the end, Lonemoon agreed to inherit the Dan Yang Sect's heritage . The Immortal Soul kept his word and passed down the Deviant Fire from the cauldron as well . Lonemoon split the Deviant Fire in two and gave the other half to Yi Qing .
Yi Qing did not know how to refine pills, but he had quite a bit of knowledge on weapon refinement . The Deviant Fire would be especially useful for refining weapons .
50,000 years worth of heritage wasn't even worth as much as a Deviant Fire…
Lonemoon studied the heritage closely . It turned out to be just as Shen Ying, that jinx, had said . Apart from some long-lost pill recipes, 80% of the recipes in the heritage were for outdated pills and elixirs . The current pills and elixirs were far more effective and the ingredients required to make them were far more accessible .
He felt as if he had just found education material from a whole other age—the recipes were useless . More importantly, the long-lost recipes were for pills and elixirs that had either been replaced in the Azure World or that had already ceased to exist . . At the end of the day, very little of it had any value .
After he looked through all the recipes, he immediately transferred the recipes in the heritage onto a jade slip . He would hand it to Xi Qiu once he got back to the Dao Repository and allow his disciples to study these recipes freely . At least this would fulfill Bitao's last wish .
The three of them remained in the mystic realm for over a month . During this time, Lonemoon wholeheartedly cleansed the Deviant Fire . The Deviant Fire was extremely powerful, so it took him a lot of effort just to contain it . This was probably because there was a lot of Immortal Qi surrounding them . After containing the Deviant Fire, his cultivation level—which had remained the same throughout the year—finally began to increase .
However, he had no time to celebrate . He turned around to look at Yi Qing who had also managed to cleanse the Deviant Fire . Yi Qing had woken up early every day to fix their meals and even planned to build a house for Shen Ying while they were here . Lonemoon wanted to vomit blood just thinking about it .
Damn it, there's no use comparing . Lonemoon felt as if he was a bastard to the heavens—Yi Qing was definitely the true son .
"Let's go back!" He picked up the broken pieces of his heart before he headed out of the ancient mystic realm . Even after exiting the mystic realm, he didn't communicate with anyone around him . Instead, he headed straight for Blackheaven Sect .
Lonemoon immediately brought Shen Ying and Yi Qing to the Main Peak's main hall . He took out the spirit herbs that he picked from the mystic realm from his storage bag . Xi Qiu grinned at the sight of it all, making himself look like a 200kg child .
"There are so many ten thousand-year-old spirit herbs! The trip must have been hard on Uncle-Master and Perfected Yi…" But then Xi Qiu suddenly paused as he studied Yi Qing with disbelief written all over his face . "You… your… your cultivation level… why is it…" Yi Qing was at the Nascent Soul stage when he had left Blackheaven Sect . How did he return as a Soul Formation cultivator? Was he blind?
"He had an epiphany in the mystic realm," Lonemoon explained as the corner of his mouth twitched .
"Yet… yet another epiphany!" Didn't he just have an epiphany not long ago? He is advancing so quickly! Xi Qiu suppressed his surprise and tried to think carefully . That was an ancient mystic realm—maybe he was lucky . He bowed to Yi Qing and congratulated him, "Congratulations, Supremacy Yi Qing . "
Yi Qing nodded in response .
"Oh, yes . " Xi Qiu suddenly recalled something . "Was the Upper Azure World…"
He wanted to ask about Qing Yin but before he could finish, he felt the ground shake beneath his feet . The entire Blackheaven Sect began to shake as a blinding white light shone from outside of the main hall .
"Protective Mountain Array!" Immediately, the Protective Mountain Array was activated . Xi Qiu's face turned pale as he turned to meet Lonemoon's eyes . "Something's happening!"
The two of them quickly ran out of the main hall while Shen Ying and Yi Qing followed closely behind .
The entire Blackheaven Sect was now being protected by the Protective Mountain Array . Not far from the array, a huge lotus flower was parked in the air . Atop the lotus flower stood hundreds of unknown cultivators . Each of them were donned in green and white checkered robes, all of them looking down with hostility .
An angry male voice sounded out .
"A little sect like yours actually dared to hurt someone from my Xuan Yuan Family . Hand over the three murderers who killed three of our elders . Otherwise, I will make a bloodbath out of this place!"
Chapter end
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