Cultivation: I Have a Golden Talisman

After sending off the cultivators who had attended the gathering, Fang Cheng returned to the Netherworld Daoist Palace to discuss matters with Sun Fuguo, Cai Li, and Xun Yuanchu.

Sun Fuguo had not appeared earlier. Instead, he had remained hidden, supporting Fang Cheng by neutralizing the Corpse Venerable Elder’s attack and protecting the terrain around Taiyue Mountain.

Now that the Yinluo Sect had established its estate, there was still a considerable gap between it and the top sects of the Eastern Wilderness. However, in terms of top-tier combat strength, it was already not far behind the Taiyi Sword Sect and the Immortal Luo Sect.

Fang Cheng’s public slaying of three Life Soul Loose Cultivators demonstrated his overwhelming, ferocious might, terrifying the assembled cultivators. In their minds, he was now on the same level as the Nine Truths Sect Master, the Nine Nether Demoness, and the Sea Emperor’s Palace Prince Consort. In fact, many even considered him a cut above those three.

Meanwhile, Sun Fuguo secretly neutralizing the Corpse Venerable Elder’s Divine Technique also revealed that the Yinluo Sect possessed other Life Soul-level combatants besides Fang Cheng.

This one glimpse revealed the whole picture.

To be able to nurture a prodigy like Fang Cheng, how could the Yinluo Sect’s foundation possibly be shallow?

It could be said that Fang Cheng’s goal of establishing the Yinluo Villa in the Eastern Wilderness was already more than halfway complete.

Most factions would now be wary of the Yinluo Sect, treating it with awe and respect. In the future, when the villa’s disciples traveled the world, mentioning the Yinluo Sect’s name would make things much more convenient for them.

With the support of resources from the Wilderness Domain, not to mention the Black Tortoise Divine Pill, Fang Cheng believed the sect would soon be able to nurture a new batch of Life Talisman Realm Cultivators.

Furthermore, Sect Leader Xun Yuanchu, Cai Li, and several of the Yinluo Sect’s other seven Peak Masters also had a chance of breaking through to the Life Soul Realm, thanks to the abundant precious medicines from the Wilderness Domain.

Just as the Nine Nether Saintess, Bing Wuyi, was leaving, she had, whether intentionally or not, revealed that she recognized Fang Cheng as the Fierce Tiger Taoist. She had also kindly informed him that the Rakshasa Sect harbored ill intentions toward the Yinluo Villa, and that the Corpse Venerable Elder and Evil Maitreya had been sent by them.

"The Rakshasa Sect’s goal was to see if our sect possesses any special methods for subduing demons. After this probing attempt, they’ll likely drop the idea. However... our sect and the Rakshasa Sect are destined to fight one day."

Fang Cheng said to the other three.

Cai Li was puzzled. "Why is that?"

Fang Cheng smiled. "Years ago, I snatched a fourth-rank Magical Artifact from one of the Rakshasa Sect’s Life Soul Elders. Given the Rakshasa Sect’s way of doing things, they will never let a grudge over murder and stolen treasure go so easily."

"The Star Moon Treasure Umbrella," Xun Yuanchu sighed.

When they were setting up the Mountain Protection Array, Fang Cheng had used this fourth-rank Magical Artifact as the core of the Grand Array. It was bound to be revealed to the world eventually. Once the Rakshasa Sect learned of it, it wouldn’t be difficult for them to deduce the identity of their mysterious foe from all those years ago.

That was one reason. There was another: after Fang Cheng had killed the Rakshasa Sect’s Young Master and Master Zi Kuang, he had vanished without a trace, as if he had disappeared from the Eastern Wilderness into thin air. It was easy for people to speculate that he had left using a Cross-domain Transmission Array.

Now that he had revealed his combat prowess, it left a great deal to the imagination.

Long before everyone had come to the Wilderness, Fang Cheng had Cang Wuya compile summaries of the major factions into jade slips for everyone to copy and read. Thus, the few people present were all aware of the power wielded by the Rakshasa Sect, a titan ranked among the top three in the Eastern Wilderness.

Sun Fuguo said in a deep voice, "With the villa’s current strength, self-preservation shouldn’t be an issue even when facing a power like the Rakshasa Sect. As the sect grows stronger in the future, we may even have a chance to stand against them as equals."

"We just need to tell the junior disciples to be careful. If they run into any Rakshasa Sect cultivators, they should do their best to avoid them and prevent any incidents."

They had all participated in setting up the Taiyue Mountain Protection Array, so they were extremely confident in the Grand Array’s power.

Even a Life Soul Cultivator from a major sect, armed with a fourth-rank Magical Artifact, would not necessarily be able to breach the array.

Besides, Fang Cheng had other tricks up his sleeve; he would not be so easily constrained.

The four of them discussed it briefly but didn’t dwell on the matter of the Rakshasa Sect.

Their conversation then turned to the Black Tortoise Divine Pill and the Vermilion Bird Divine Pill.

At first, Sun Fuguo had assumed Fang Cheng had simply stumbled upon a Heaven-defying Treasure Medicine like the Vermilion Bird Divine Pill. He never would have guessed that Fang Cheng actually possessed its pill formula!

What surprised and puzzled him even more was that Fang Cheng had openly told him and Su Miao that he possessed the Divine Pill’s formula.

In the past, Fang Cheng would never have done something like this. But after witnessing the Demon Lord’s hand in the depths of the Earth Abyss, his perspective was no longer confined to the small corner of the world that was the Abyssal Marsh.

He intended to lead the Yinluo Sect to an unprecedented golden age, and then see if he could suppress the hidden threat posed by the Demon Lord.

Otherwise, given the Yinluo Sect’s previous trajectory, he feared it would face the danger of annihilation in the future.

In fact, in the entire, vast Red Profound Realm, there might not be a single safe place left!

’Must I really flee this realm to escape the calamity?’

Leaving aside whether he even had the ability or means to leave an entire realm, the mere legend that Tribulation Realm Cultivators could not undergo tribulations to advance their cultivation in other domains was enough to extinguish any thought he had of simply eking out a meager existence.

Currently, the matter of the Vermilion Bird Divine Pill was known only within a small circle of the Yinluo Sect’s upper echelon, making it one of the sect’s greatest secrets.

Fang Cheng had already gathered all the Spiritual Medicines required for the Divine Pill and was cultivating a considerable amount of them in his Pocket World Spiritual Building.

In the future, the Divine Pills would continue to be refined by the Fang Family, and all Late-stage Life Soul Cultivators in the Yinluo Sect would have priority to purchase them.

Besides Mu Xuanyu, there were three others among the eleven new concubines Fang Cheng had taken for the Fang Family who were skilled in alchemy. Although their cultivation was not as profound as Mu Xuanyu’s, with Fang Cheng’s training and guidance—supplemented by the Profound Fire Pill and a Dual Cultivation Secret Method—breaking through to the Mid-Life Talisman Stage in the future would be no issue.

The same logic applied to the Black Tortoise Divine Pill.

By comparison, the demand for the Black Tortoise Divine Pill was much greater, and the supply of Spiritual Medicines in the Pocket World Spiritual Building would likely be insufficient. The Yinluo Sect would need to continue using merit points as an incentive, issuing a large number of missions to gather the Spiritual Medicines required for the Black Tortoise Divine Pill.