Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 168: Chapter 125 Mortal Body, Shoulder to Shoulder with the Divine!

Chapter 168 -125 Mortal Body, Shoulder to Shoulder with the Divine!

The enhancement of Exorcism Mage Yun Kong started on a good note.

Su Ping took a look at his Fishing Warehouse.

Apart from the reserved Second Tier Fishing Points to exchange for a Fishing Compass, the haul he had accumulated over time could be exchanged for 1200 Fishing Coins.

After some thought, Su Ping decided to go for another twenty draws.

After all, he needed to reserve some for exchanging Spiritual Medicine and for the expenses when the Travel Shop had good items available.

Thus, another set of ten consecutive draws began!

This time, two Teleportation Talismans appeared in one go.

That was considered a double-purple draw, indicating his luck today was indeed not bad.

Su Ping took a deep breath, had the Fox-faced Witch Sakura make him another cup of hot tea, and added another blessing for himself.

After muttering a prayer for the Fox God’s blessing,

Su Ping initiated his last set of ten consecutive draws for the day!

Swish!

This time, the long-missed golden light finally appeared.

Grateful to the Fox God, Su Ping first looked at the purple light that came with the golden light:

“An ancient Sealing Demon Tower, a special building of Rare quality; exclusive to Pot Cave Heaven, its arrangement slightly boosts the production of Spiritual Energy and it is upgradable.”

“A special building that can increase Spiritual Energy production? And since it’s a Sealing Demon Tower, let’s pair it next to the Floating Illusion Temple.”

Having drawn a special building, Su Ping instantiated it atop the second floating mountain in his Pot Cave Heaven.

The concentration of Spiritual Energy in Pot Cave Heaven joyfully increased by 10!

Suddenly, there appeared a rhomboid stone tower about seventy to eighty meters high with nine layers.

At each of the four corners of the stone tower stood twelve-meter high stone carvings of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.

On each layer of the tower, there were also various carvings of Demon Suppression Divine Beasts circling it.

However, Su Ping could feel that the tower itself didn’t contain any imprisoned demons.

The upgradeability of the tower was interesting.

It was not about merging identical buildings but providing demons for the tower to charge the Four Holy Beasts stone carvings.

An upgraded Sealing Demon Tower could provide a random Holy Beast blessing.

The effect was currently unknown, but given the complexity, he figured the effect would not be too poor.

As for the demons… he wondered if bringing Demon Beasts or Evil Demons from the Immortal Cultivation World would count.

That might be difficult, as bringing sentient beings into the Pot Cave Heaven would require an invitation to be accepted!

And, there was no way to know how dangerous it would be to imprison them.

Su Ping glanced at Big Black Fish Chi Wen and the Spiritual Rats White and Grey but refrained from using them as experimental subjects, planning instead to bring back some Spiritual Beasts when he had time for experimentation.

After all, having raised them for so long, he had grown somewhat fond of them.

Leaving the Sealing Demon Tower aside for now, Su Ping turned his attention to the golden light.

His heart skipped a beat, and he inwardly praised the arrival of a Rare Quality companion.

“Apprentice Fire Knight, companion, Rare quality; exclusive to Pot Cave Heaven, upgradable.”

“Rare Explanation: Fire Knights come with Unyielding Will; their mortal flesh is on par with deities.”

Fiery red flowing hair, snugly fitted knight’s armor, and steel boots of the same color.

With his left hand in an iron gauntlet, he wielded a Fine Iron Greatsword as tall as a person.

Add to that a face that was a bit handsomer and more arrogant than Louis Koo’s younger self and a mysterious yet polite smile that seemed permanently affixed to his face.

This Apprentice Fire Knight’s arrival exuded a supreme mysterious charm that not only captivated Su Ping but also made Yun Kong, the Exorcism Mage, and Sakura, the Fox-faced Witch, curiously look over and greet him with a bow.

“Cave Heaven Lord, Apprentice Fire Knight Elvin reporting to you!”

The Fire Knight presented a salute to Su Ping, hitting his chest with his fist.

Immediately, Su Ping asked him directly about what he liked.

Upon hearing it was fine wine,

White Crane Child brought some of the various famous wines that had been accumulating in the storeroom from the Registered Disciples.

The Fire Knight, delighted, picked up a few bottles of strong liquor and guzzled them down voraciously.

Faster than Su Ping could drink water.

Su Ping, watching his approval rating rise quickly, felt just as happy.

Compared to the original game, where raising favor was difficult, it now seemed much too easy.

After all, whether it was on Water Blue Star or in the Immortal Cultivation World, as long as it was something they liked, he could just keep giving gifts.

Even if the quality wasn’t enough, he could make up for it with quantity.

After the Fire Knight finished his drink,

Su Ping asked him to demonstrate his abilities.

As an Apprentice Knight, Elvin was proficient in horsemanship and various weapons,

But what he excelled in the most was the Two-Handed Greatsword.

His strength was tremendous, his speed not slow, and he had a terrifying combat intuition.

He could also wield Fire Element Power to imbue his Greatsword with the Light Flame.

This flame, similar to the witch’s Thunderbolt and Exorcism Mage’s Ice Array, offered enhanced suppression against Evil Demons.

Add to that the fact that his Unyielding Will allowed him to ignore most psychic attacks,

Su Ping felt that the Rare Quality Fire Knight Elvin was like having an additional combat-related Spiritual Body.

And indeed, the competition proved this point.

After the Exorcism Mage Yun Kong and the Fire Knight Elvin began fighting, even though both were at the late period of Qi Cultivation and Yun Kong had even leveled up once, it was still Exorcism Mage Yun Kong who was utterly defeated after ten moves.

Even when Su Ping used the Memory Illusion with Divine Sense reinforcement, at the same cultivation level, he only barely managed to fight the other to a draw.

This gave Su Ping a new understanding of battle intuition.

This was only the beginning; he would be able to gain new passive or active skill enhancements in the future!

The potential was enormous!

However, if it weren’t for such strong potential, how could it live up to the phrase, “A mortal body, on par with deities”?

He had originally planned to save the Experience Books to help Exorcism Mage Yun Kong break through to Foundation Establishment.

But now it seemed, letting the Fire Knight reach Foundation Establishment combat power might be the better option?

Su Ping was very satisfied and, after arranging a room for the Fire Knight Elvin,

He also began cultivating earnestly in the Pot Cave Heaven.

It wasn’t until the Town Return Talisman’s cooldown was over

that Su Ping went back to the Immortal Cultivation World and directly returned to the Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop.

As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Su Ping began to inquire about various kinds of specialized knowledge.

By offering up some local specialties, he made good relations with several small Immortal Cultivation Families nearby.

Afterward, he successfully got the consent of a small Immortal Cultivation Family, the Yu Family, and was allowed to enter their library.

The family even thoughtfully summoned two old cultivators who had been guarding the library year-round to await Su Ping’s commands.

Su Ping naturally made full use of this.

After all, he was truly there to read books and learn, not to cause destruction by taking away unique works or stumble upon some treasure.

With the help of the old cultivators,

After learning about how to unlock the secrets of Storage Spirit Artifacts or other Spiritual Artifacts, which could either be known to large Cultivation Families or perhaps found in the miscellaneous books of non-righteous people with questionable reliability,

Su Ping found the Yu Family’s bookshelf that contained records of books on side sects and non-orthodox practices.

With the help of his Divine Sense, after one morning had passed,

Su Ping found the knowledge he needed.

It belonged to an Unparalleled Genius of a great sect who, after becoming a Golden Core, encountered problems breaking through and thus harbored his interests in various side sects and non-orthodox practices, seemingly hoping to find a different path.

However, while he didn’t find a new path, he did come up with hundreds of strange side sect and non-orthodox Secret Techniques.

Among these was the method to unlock the Divine Sense of Spiritual Artifacts.

After glancing through it roughly, Su Ping discovered that this method seemed to have the same underlying principles as the Demon-Suppression Vajra Array of the Golden Ray Monastery!

Both used the power of a strong, directed belief to wear down the original Divine Sense of the Spiritual Artifacts.

Thereby achieving the effect of erasing the traces of the original owner.

Only this method seemed plausible, but in practice, it wasn’t very useful in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Those large families above Foundation Establishment had better ways to deal with Spiritual Artifacts if they acquired them.

As for families not qualified enough, on one hand, the chance to obtain a Spiritual Artifact was extremely slim,

On the other hand, even if they happened by chance to get a Spiritual Artifact, such activities would create huge disturbances, essentially like being a firefly in the dark night.

Because Divine Senses of Spiritual Artifacts are not like residuals of Evil Spirits; they will resist and thus create some kind of fluctuation.

These fluctuations could be vibrations only sensed by Divine Sense, or they might be some sorts of strange celestial phenomena.

And no matter which type, they are very likely to attract the original owners or the powerful individuals related to them, and the artifact would revert to its rightful owner afterward.

Don’t ask why they don’t suppress the resistance; those who have the ability and know how to suppress it would also have better methods to erase the Divine Sense of the Spiritual Artifact without needing so many roundabout methods…

Su Ping continued to read other Secret Techniques.

He found them quite interesting, yet all had many flaws.

No wonder these side sect practices could only stay on the sidelines and never enter the mainstream!

For instance, Su Ping also encountered the entire Qi Cultivation section of the Paperman Technique here.

This Paperman Technique could manipulate papermen, and its power in the early stages was not bad, but the more it was used, the more the user would become paper-like, eventually turning into a paperman himself.

That was one thing, but according to the annotations, after the late period of Qi Cultivation, the papermen created were actually monsters and not the original being anymore.

Most cultivators at that time had already dissipated their Divine Souls, leaving behind only a paper puppet that thought it was the original, repeating the same actions continuously.

As for the cultivators who practiced the Paperman Technique and broke through to Foundation Establishment…

The annotator expressed that they hadn’t seen a single one yet.

“Though full of flaws, the technique has a low barrier to entry and requires few resources, so it’s worth noting down in case it comes in handy as waste material utilization sometime?”

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With a direction in mind and in high spirits, Su Ping left the library satisfied.

Afterward, he naturally didn’t refuse the Yu Family’s invitation to a midday banquet and met with over a dozen young men and women they introduced proactively.

As he scanned the Yu Family children, who ranged from eleven or twelve to six or seven but all already knew proper etiquette, Su Ping understood what they were thinking.

Obviously, they were hoping that he could take one or two of the qualified children when he established his own sect,

Thus cementing the relationship between the two parties even more.

Su Ping expertly painted a rosy picture, stating that when he was more established in Foundation Establishment and truly planning to take disciples, he would certainly consider the Yu Family first.

Then, after an amiable exchange, they parted ways.

For dinner that night, Su Ping dined at another small Immortal Cultivation Family’s home.

Again, he sketched out grand plans and perused the family’s library, discovering many books on side sects that had different annotations but similar content.

After finalizing the plan to unlock the Divine Sense of the Spiritual Artifact,

Su Ping chose to go to Water Blue Star,

Ready to unlock the two Spiritual Artifacts left by the female cultivator at the Foundation Establishment level!