r18novel Chapter 5 Secluded Cultivation
Chapter 5 Secluded Cultivation
Holding the token, Wen Tianren led Qingyu to the cave on the sacred mountain.
Upon entering the cave, a row of living rooms, cultivation rooms, a medicinal herb garden, an insect room, a spirit beast room, and so on came into view.
The cave dwelling is very large, with more than a dozen rooms serving various functions. You can feel the abundant spiritual energy as soon as you enter.
Although it cannot compare to Wen Tianren's cave on Holy Demon Island, it is at least twice as dense with spiritual energy as the outside world. This Holy Mountain truly deserves to be called a top-tier spiritual vein in the Chaotic Star Sea.
The cave dwelling itself has good protective barriers, capable of withstanding attacks from Core Formation cultivators.
The most distinctive feature of the array and restrictions of this sacred mountain cave is that as soon as someone attacks it, the Star Palace guards will immediately come. Therefore, no one dares to attack the array and restrictions of the sacred mountain cave, and there is no need to worry about anyone breaking in.
However, Wen Tianren's secrets were too great, so he naturally couldn't trust these restrictions. After looking around, he immediately took out a bunch of array flags and talismans and set up his own array restrictions in various corners.
"Alright, Qingyu, find a room to use as your cultivation room. The resources I gave you are enough for you to cultivate to the Core Formation stage. Your cultivation is a bit weak now, so you need to intensify your cultivation. I'll call you if anything happens." Wen Tianren was quite good to this only person by his side, and relied on the system to copy a large number of resources suitable for her current use.
Qingyu responded and found a room to leave.
Wen Tianren casually found a room to use as his cultivation room. He hadn't had time to take care of the spirit medicine room, spirit beast room, and insect room yet.
During this time, Wen Tianren also began to sort out his assets and plan for the future.
"I've copied a lot of things, and now I only have about 400,000 spirit stones left. I need to hurry up and earn more spirit stones," Wen Tianren muttered as he checked the number of spirit stones remaining in his several storage bags.
If a Core Formation cultivator from the outside world heard this, they would probably faint from anger. An ordinary late-stage Core Formation cultivator with one or two hundred thousand spirit stones is already considered wealthy. How can you, an early-stage Core Formation cultivator, have so many spirit stones and still complain that it's not enough?
Because Wen Tianren relies on spirit stones to recharge and replicate, especially considering the small green bottle later on, he naturally needs a large number of spirit stones.
"I need to make some elixirs and rare materials to earn money."
Although the Chaotic Star Sea is vast, places suitable for the growth of spiritual herbs are scarce. Therefore, spiritual herbs are in short supply in the Chaotic Star Sea, and it is not unreasonable for thousand-year-old spiritual herbs to sell for thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars here. In comparison, the price of demon cores is much cheaper.
Therefore, most of the elixirs in the Chaotic Star Sea are made with demon cores.
However, selling only spiritual herbs would easily be noticed. Relying on the system, Wen Tianren recharged 300,000 spirit stones and copied all kinds of spiritual herbs, pills, ordinary magic tools, magic treasures, rare ores, and spiritual materials.
During the following period, Wen Tianren constantly changed his appearance and traveled between various trade fairs and business alliances in Tianxing City, quietly selling off all the resources he had.
Half a month later, a shop called Beidou Pavilion in the north of Tianxing City opened its doors. It mainly sold magical artifacts, as well as formations, talismans and some rare materials.
The Beidou Pavilion was opened by Wen Tianren. He had been in the Core Formation stage for several years, but had not yet refined his own natal magic weapon.
Although the Six Paths Supreme Saint gave him the materials and crafting method for the Heavenly Yang Gilded Needle, he did not want to use this magic weapon as his natal magic weapon. Instead, he wanted to use a weapon called the Zhou Tian Star Needle from the Little Big Dipper Star Yuan Gong as his natal magic weapon.
This treasure is also a flying needle type magic weapon, combining the techniques of the Zhou Tian (a system of internal energy cultivation). A set consists of 365 flying needles. When used, they can be separated to fight the enemy or combined into one to form different forms to fight the enemy. This magic weapon can also be used to set up the formation contained in the Little Big Dipper Yuan Gong (a technique of internal energy cultivation) to fight the enemy. It is extremely powerful.
Wen Tianren opened the Beidou Pavilion to hone his weapon-refining skills, collect the spiritual materials needed to refine magical treasures, and experience the vicissitudes of life.
The reason why Wen Tianren was able to refine this most difficult flying needle-type magic weapon was because he came from a family of weapon refiners in the Chaotic Star Sea. They were quite famous in the Chaotic Star Sea and their family had their own weapon refining tradition.
However, the original owner's physique and talent were discovered by the Six Paths Supreme Saint, who secretly slaughtered the original owner's entire family.
After learning this secret, the original owner of this body wanted to take revenge at all times. However, under the Six Paths' gaze, he could only focus on cultivation. When the desire for revenge arose, he would take out the clan's weapon-forging inheritance to study and comprehend it. In this way, his weapon-forging skills were naturally top-notch.
Before long, many cultivators in the city knew about this Beidou Pavilion, whose magical artifacts were all of the highest quality.
And so, Wen Tianren stayed in Tianxing City for fifteen years. During these fifteen years, he not only improved and became familiar with the method of refining his natal magic weapon, but also earned a huge amount of spirit stones through the system, and his cultivation level broke through to the mid-stage of Core Formation.
On this day, Wen Tianren lay on the recliner in the shop as usual, flipping through an ancient book on formations.
At this moment, Qingyu, who was beside Wen Tianren, entered the store and brought him some news.
"Young master, I asked you to keep an eye out for anyone forming their core in the thirty-ninth level of the Holy Mountain. There's been a result. Today, a cultivator formed his core. I've inquired about him; his surname is Han, and he has been in seclusion for over sixty years."
Upon hearing this news, Wen Tianren forgot all about reading and hurriedly put down the ancient book, but his expression remained calm: "Not bad, you've also reached the peak of Foundation Establishment. You've been accumulating at this level for a long time. From now on, start preparing for Core Formation." After saying that, Wen Tianren handed her a storage bag full of cultivation resources—all the pills and spiritual materials she could use.
"Fellow Daoist Xiao is truly blessed with good fortune in love~ With a beauty like Sister Qingyu, no wonder you don't fancy the female disciples of my Miaoyin Sect." A voice that could make one's whole body go weak floated in from outside the door.
The newcomer was a charming young woman, whose every gesture exuded allure.
"So it's Fellow Daoist Zhou. I can't compare to Fellow Daoist Zhou, who, as a woman, controls such a vast business as the Wonderful Sound Sect. In terms of beauty, Sect Leader Zhou is the most famous beauty in the Chaotic Star Sea." Wen Tianren replied politely after hearing the woman's words.
This woman's name is Zhou Yuan, the sect leader of Miaoyin Sect, and the mother of Zi Ling, the most beautiful woman in the Chaotic Star Sea.
Zhou Yuan's husband was also a Core Formation cultivator of the Miaoyin Sect, but he was intercepted and killed more than 20 years ago while escorting goods for the sect. Since then, she has been the only Core Formation cultivator left in the sect.
Over the years, Zhou Yuan has been trying to recruit rogue cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage into the Miaoyin Sect.
Coincidentally, Wen Tianren's Beidou Pavilion was not far from the Miaoyin Sect's residence. Over the past ten years, Wen Tianren had done business with the Miaoyin Sect for hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. He was also a Core Formation cultivator. Zhou Yuan had tried to recruit him into the Miaoyin Sect, even saying that as long as he joined and became an elder, she would give him two beautiful disciples as his concubines.
But Wen Tianren politely declined each time.
"I don't think Sect Leader Zhou came here today just to tease me, you're a very busy person." Wen Tianren knew that Zhou Yuan wouldn't come to his door without a reason, so she must have something to ask him.
"Fellow Daoist Xiao, what are you saying? I came here this time to do something for you—I was fortunate enough to find the Geng Jing that you asked me to inquire about before." Zhou Yuan covered her mouth and smiled as she explained the reason for her visit to Wen Tianren.
As she spoke, Zhou Yuan took out a piece of metal the size of a walnut from her storage bag. It was silvery-white with faint golden patterns flowing around it. It was Geng Essence, one of the most precious artifacts for refining weapons in the cultivation world.
"This piece of Geng Essence was originally the treasure of a small sect. It used to be quite prosperous, possessing not only Geng Essence but also the Thunder Bamboo, one of the three great divine trees of the cultivation world. However, this sect is now extremely impoverished, with only one successor remaining. So, not long ago, they packaged this item with some other spiritual materials and sold it to our Miaoyin Sect. Remembering that Fellow Daoist Xiao asked me to inquire about the whereabouts of this Geng Essence, I came to find you after purchasing it."