Chapter 109: Chapter 14: Spirit Crossing Envoy

The Profound Carp Association’s Cultivator laughed out loud, the light gauze hanging from his veiled hat swaying gently.

“A Tribulation Cultivator? How could someone like that be qualified to join our Profound Carp Association? Tribulation Cultivators are vagrants, short-sighted and unreliable. If we made him a member, it wouldn’t be long before he was embezzling medicinal herbs and Spirit Stones, or even just running off with the stones. While the Profound Carp Association can make him regret the day he was born, the losses we’d suffer would be irreversible.”

Yang Jing’s eyes widened, a look of shocked fear appearing on his face.

“Si Yuan was the Huang Family’s leader, Huang Dengtao!”

The Cultivator took a sip of Spirit Tea and nodded.

“Now you know how lucky you are to be alive, don’t you? I have to admire your courage, actually daring to report Si Yuan to the Association Head. With Si Yuan’s power in Huangyuan Marketplace, getting rid of you would not have been difficult. It was the Association Head’s benevolence that saved you. He reprimanded Si Yuan, allowing you to live peacefully to this day.”

Yang Jing sneered inwardly. ’He knows this is the Profound Carp Association’s way of showing me favor. It seems they didn’t find any real leads. They don’t suspect me at all.’

“The Association Head’s grace is immense! I will carve this kindness into my very heart!”

He put on an expression of tearful gratitude.

“From this day forward, you will replace Si Yuan. You will have total authority over all matters in the three marketplaces: Huangyuan Marketplace, Shangyang Marketplace, and Hongde Marketplace.”

The Cultivator stared directly at Yang Jing through the light gauze of his veiled hat.

Yang Jing’s expression first showed shock, then bewilderment. After a moment, it twisted into ecstatic joy.

“This… I am but a Qi Cultivator… This… How can I be worthy of such a position!”

“As long as you can provide a steady supply of Tier Two Spiritual Pills to the association, your position will be as stable as a mountain. The Association Head himself will back you up,” the Cultivator said.

“I am willing to give my all for the Profound Carp Association, to toil until my body is broken and my bones are dust!”

Yang Jing said, his chubby face taut with earnestness.

The Cultivator nodded in satisfaction, his figure gracefully gliding out of the tea room.

’It seems having a dead boss really is the fastest way to get promoted.’

Yang Jing sat in the tea room and poured himself a cup of Spirit Tea. ’This Cultivator is far more cautious than Huang Dengtao. Even when meeting a subordinate, he keeps his aura and Magical Power completely concealed, without leaking a single drop.’

’His veiled hat must be a Magical Artifact capable of blocking scents. He sat in this tea room for so long, yet he didn’t leave even a trace of his own smell.’

Yang Jing finished the entire pot of Spirit Tea before swaggering out of the Celestial Feather Tea House.

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「Two years later.」

Yang Jing, who had grown a little taller, sat cross-legged in his Quiet Chamber.

After two years of practice, with an ample supply of Five Elements Pills, his Cultivation had broken through to the Eighth Layer of the Qi Cultivation Stage. A pace like this was on par with even the direct descendants of Golden Core Clans.

The bottleneck to the Late Stage Qi Cultivation, a seemingly insurmountable chasm for countless Independent Cultivators, posed almost no obstacle to Yang Jing. He broke through smoothly after just one week.

However, because he had consumed so many Five Elements Pills, his body had developed a resistance to them. The amount of Magical Power he gained from a single pill was now less than a tenth of what it used to be.

Thanks to the large quantity of Spirit Pills supplied by the Profound Carp Association, he had already opened twenty-seven Acupoints in his Body Refinement.

He had also completely shared Yinjiao’s Thunder and Lightning Control Talent and Overturning Rivers and Seas Talent, as well as Chi Yu’s Celestial Demon Blood Transformation and Cocoon Formation and Embryonic Development Talents.

After completely sharing the Overturning Rivers and Seas Talent, it also assimilated the Water Manipulation Power he had obtained from the Golden-eyed White Ape, increasing its effectiveness to 105%. Higher-level Talents could merge with lower-level ones. The Great Strength Talent from the White Ape was also assimilated by the Mountain-Carrying Power Talent.

However, it was only after sharing the Cocoon Formation and Embryonic Development Talent that Yang Jing discovered cocooning was not as simple as he had imagined.

Once he possessed this Talent, the upper limit of blood and qi that could be stored in nine of his Acupoints, including the Blood Sea Acupoint and Guan Yuan Acupoint, increased dramatically. When the blood and qi stored in these nine Acupoints reached the amount required for cocooning, an esoteric connection would form, and the process would begin on its own.

An ordinary Blood Shadow Mosquito might only need the amount of blood and qi from a single Blood Circulation Pill to meet the requirements for cocooning. A typical Three Capitals Blood Demon Mosquito Mother, on the other hand, might need the blood and qi of an entire Demon. Chi Yu had eaten over a hundred Demon Fish. Although these Demon Fish had low Cultivation and weak blood and qi, they were at least equivalent to nine Demons at the Perfection of the Qi Cultivation Stage.

In the year since he had mastered Cocoon Formation and Embryonic Development, Yang Jing had consumed huge amounts of Demon Fish, Demon Beast Flesh, and Blood Circulation Pills. He had even shared the Celestial Demon Blood Transformation Talent to increase his eating efficiency, but he still hadn’t met the requirements to begin cocooning.

Yang Jing estimated that he would need to maintain this level of blood and qi intake for at least another year to accumulate enough for cocooning.

However, this massive intake of blood and qi had allowed him to make great strides on the path of a Body Cultivator. The strength of his physical body far surpassed that of other Body Refining Cultivators at the same Cultivation Realm.

In the past two years, he had earned a massive amount of Spirit Stones through the Profound Carp Association, all of which he had invested into Iron Head’s cultivation of the Five Talisman Scripture and the True Yang Body. He had finally poured enough resources into these two Cultivation Techniques to raise them to the Peak of Perfection Realm.

These two Cultivation Techniques also brought two Talents: [Five Elements Escape Technique] and [Pure Yang Body].

The Five Elements Escape Technique was a Talent one could comprehend by cultivating the Magical Power of the Five Talisman Scripture to the absolute limit of the Qi Cultivation Stage. He hadn’t expected to also gain this Talent just by raising the Five Talisman Scripture to the Peak of Perfection Realm.

The only thing was, he had spent nearly 100,000 Spirit Stones on this Talent. Acquiring the necessary Baleful and Astral Qi wouldn’t have cost nearly that much.

Yang Jing planned to gather the Baleful and Astral Qi, cultivate his Magical Power to the limit of the Qi Cultivation Stage, and see what changes would happen to his Five Elements Escape Technique Talent then.

He had also poured resources into the Inconstant Illusionary Form Technique, a Magic he had obtained from the Wu Family, raising it to the Peak of Perfection Realm. However, perhaps because it was a Magic and not a Cultivation Technique, Yinjiao didn’t comprehend any Talent from it. Still, the Peak of Perfection Inconstant Illusionary Form Technique was well worth the Spirit Stones Yang Jing had spent. After transforming, not only was his disguise seamless, but he could also drastically change his physical form.

After pushing the Inconstant Illusionary Form Technique to its limit, Yang Jing could even shrink his body down to the size of a house cat. The only problem was that this state consumed an enormous amount of Magical Power, and he could only maintain it for six hours.

He slowly retracted his pure Magical Power and stood up.

Yang Jing had changed into a brand-new Daoist Robe. His hair was washed clean and tied up in a Daoist Bun. Combined with his handsome face and tall stature, he could truly be described as dashing and debonair.

Today was the day the Spirit Crossing Envoy from the Five Elements True Spirit Sect was scheduled to arrive in Huangyuan Marketplace. He had been looking forward to this day for a long time.

The Western Continent was vast. The Five Elements True Spirit Sect naturally wouldn’t have Independent Cultivators from all over who wished to join the Sect travel on their own to the entrance assembly. Firstly, promising young talents could easily perish on the journey. Secondly, having too many miscellaneous people gathered outside the Sect would be difficult to manage, easily leading to chaos and creating opportunities for Demon Cultivators and Demons to exploit.

Therefore, for every sect entrance ceremony, the Five Elements True Spirit Sect would dispatch Spirit Crossing Envoys. They would pilot Flying Boats to various locations, conduct a preliminary screening, and then bring the qualified Cultivators back to the Sect to participate in the main ceremony.

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