Floating Immortal Order

Chapter 26: Blessed With Wonderful Luck

Autumn Water

When Jin Yu’s mood eventually stabilized, she took a seat and glared at Xu Disheng. “Sheng’er! Why did you never reply to our letters? I even sent people to Youyang City several times, but you didn’t even leave a message for us! They were always turned away by the Youyang Palace’s guards!”

Xu Disheng shook his head and replied, “I was always single-mindedly cultivating, oftentimes not leaving my pagoda for 1 or 2 years at a time. I was really not in the mood to be bothered with trifling matters.”

“Trifling matters?” Jin Yu repeated, growing even angrier.

Xu Disheng didn’t allow her to continue as he looked towards the little girl in the back and smiled. “Yan’er?”

Xu Yan was staring at him with round eyes, her face slightly red. “Brother,” she murmured affectionately.

Sure enough, Jin Yu’s attention was diverted by this and she said to Xu Yan, “You always go on and on about your brother every day, but now that your brother actually came back, you’re acting all shy now?”

Xu Disheng reached out his hand and patted Xu Yan’s long hair with a smile. “You’ve already grown into a big, beautiful girl now, haven’t you? Have you had your Dao Channels measured yet?”

As her head was being patted gently, Xu Yan’s little face blushed even deeper, none of her usual peppy cleverness apparent at this moment. “They were measured a few years ago. I have Grade 6 Dao Channels,” she peeped shyly.

Xu Disheng looked deeper into the pavilion and only saw a few maids within. A bit surprised, he asked, “Why don’t I see Mother Xun?”

“So at least you still remember Mother Xun, huh? Mother Xun used to talk about you every day, but these past few years she was able to accumulate some wealth. She was also starting to get a bit old, so I arranged for her to return to my old home in the Jin Clan. In her last letter, she said her family opened a horse carriage business, and they’re doing quite well,” Jin Yu replied.

Xu Disheng nodded in understanding. He talked for a while with the mother-daughter pair, then he left and returned to his own Green Bamboo Pavilion.

The inside of the pavilion was the same as it was all those years ago. Everything was clean and spotless, making it clear that there was someone assigned to cleaning it on a frequent basis.

With a calm look in his eyes, the youth was standing by the window on high as he gazed down on the distant scenery of Zhenhai City.

“Regional Lord,” a deferential voice called from outside of the pavilion.

“Enter.”

A black-armored officer walked in with two other Zhenhai Army soldiers. It was Xu Cheng, the vice commander of the Zhenhai Army all those years ago. Now, he was the commander of the whole Regional Army.

Xu Cheng looked at the youth before him and bowed. “Regional Lord, upon the orders of the Grand Elder, I am here to bring Regional Lord the item that was taken out from the Bai Clan’s storage.” When he finished speaking, he signaled to the troops behind him. They presented to Xu Disheng an ancient sword, which was a little more than a meter long. The scabbard was simple and unadorned, without any character engravings on it.

Xu Disheng received the longsword and slowly unsheathed it.

When the ancient sword was revealed, it looked average, without anything unique about it. There were only two characters engraved on the blade. Autumn Water.

He tried to insert a strand of Shangqing Profound Qi into the blade. It flowed unobstructed, and there wasn’t the slightest resistance from the blade.

When the profound qi passed through the tip of the sword, the seemingly average blade suddenly let out a clear ringing sound.

The length of the Autumn Water Sword began to glow intensely with white light. With a flash of sword light, the table before him was instantly split into two. When it finally slid into two halves, the surface of the cut portion was extremely smooth.

Xu Disheng muttered to himself, “It really deserves its name as a high quality Martial Treasure. For the Bai Clan to produce a Xiantian transcendent and also have this Martial Treasure, they were truly blessed with wonderful luck.”

Xu Cheng and the other troops just lowered their heads and pretended to not hear.

The Bai Clan’s Xiantian was slain by him, and now their precious Martial Treasure is in his hands and he still dares to call them lucky? If Bai Xiuyu and Bai Fanyu heard him say this, they would have risen from their grave and died again from pure anger.

Of course Xu Cheng didn’t dare to say any of this out loud. He was from a branch of the Xu Clan, and after the Xu Clan became the presiding clan in the Region, he replaced Xiang Nan as the commander of the Regional Army. He even remembered the auspicious happenings surrounding Xu Disheng’s birth, but he was determined to take that secret to the grave.

As he stood there with his head lowered, the youth’s calm, flat voice sounded in his ears. 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝙣𝒐𝒗𝙚𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝒎

“Xu Cheng, was it? You may be excused now.”

Feeling as if he had been relieved of a huge burden, his face relaxed. After saluting to Xu Disheng in farewell, he brought the other troops along with him and slowly left the Green Bamboo Pavilion.

Xu Disheng stroked the length of the Autumn Water Sword, a happy look in his eyes. Seizing this treasure from the Bai Clan was truly an unexpected windfall. Martial Treasures oriented towards slaughter were extremely rare. It was also a sword type, so if a cultivator of profound laws were to use it, they could display an astonishing level of might. To top it all off, it was a high quality Martial Treasure, which absolutely couldn’t be refined by mere Martial Technique Xiantians.

According to his estimates, a Martial Treasure of this quality could only be refined by Profound Law Xiantians like Daoist Lord Qingxin, or others at the Sea of Qi stage. This Autumn Water Sword was most likely made by a Daoist Lord from a different Dao Palace, and it probably wandered about for a long time before eventually ending up in the hands of the Bai Clan by pure coincidence.

He returned the Autumn Water Sword to its scabbard. The youth restored his mood and took a seat upon the couch to begin cultivating in silence. He fully revolved the Nourishing Soul Mantra to slowly recover the Soul Force that he had expended earlier today from using the Passing Soul Mantra.

The next day, Xu Disheng went to the Western Ravine Palace to verify the conjecture that he had made previously.

The rate at which he was transforming Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy into Shangqing Profound Qi was continuously increasing. In the course of 10 years, he had already managed to fill 60 to 70 percent of his meridian points with Shangqing Profound Qi, which was abnormally fast.

At this time, he was thinking of using the Dao Channel Measuring Platform to see whether or not the cyan jade flute really was slowly raising his aptitude.

When the Xu Clan became the presiding clan of the Region, the Dao Channel Measuring Platform was moved from the Guo Clan to the Xu Clan, so Xu Disheng could now use it at any time.

Xu Disheng arrived alone at a secret chamber and examined the Dao Channel Measuring Platform before him. He flipped himself up onto the platform and sat down.

A probing strand of qi sprung up from the stone platform, just like 10 years ago. Xu Disheng didn’t resist, allowing the strand of qi to swim once through his meridians before returning to the stone platform.

The Dao Channel Measuring Platform began to tremble slightly. One halo of light clung to the surface of the stone platform, which then suddenly rippled outward silently.

Ten circles!

Ten splendidly bright white circles of light were trembling as they floated around the stone platform. Grade 1 Profound Meridians! This was the limit of what the Dao Channel Measuring Platform could detect!

Xu Disheng got off the stone platform and examined his sea of consciousness.

Above his sea of consciousness, just as it was every single day from his birth 15 years ago, the small, exquisite cyan jade flute was slowly spinning, spilling forth cyan light to nourish his sea of consciousness and the meridians in his entire body.

This secret was way too frightening! Grade 1 Profound Meridians was a level of aptitude high enough to shock the heavens!

Xu Disheng wasn’t all that surprised since he had already begun to suspect this fact long ago. At this moment, he was just trying to thoroughly confirm this truth. Besides, he had always remembered what Daoist Lord Qingxin had mentioned at that time about the ‘Spiritual Root Sequence’. In this system, Grade 2 Profound Meridians could only be considered as ordinary. While Grade 1 was higher than Grade 2, he did not feel that Grade 1 Profound Meridians, which were only one step above ‘ordinary’, could be all that more special in the entire context of the ‘Spiritual Root Sequence’.

After putting away the stone platform, Xu Disheng exited the secret chamber and arrived at the main hall of the Western Ravine Palace, where Xu Qinying and others were currently holding a banquet.

Several armored soldiers stopped in front of him, and they all saluted in turn. The commanding officer among them spoke up respectfully, “Regional Lord, Grand Elder, the Patriarch of the Jin Clan, Jin Qingdi, has come bearing congratulatory gifts. He has already arrived in the Juying Palace Hall in the city, and has been received by the Patriarch.”

Xu Qinying replied, “We will go immediately.” After he watched the soldier receive the order and leave, he turned to Xu Disheng and said, “Your Uncle has come to congratulate you for becoming the Regional Lord.”

“Please don’t make fun of me, Great-Grandfather. When this matter is over, I’m going to ask Senior Martial Brother to issue an order to officially establish our Patriarch as the Regional Lord,” Xu Disheng said.

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Xu Qinying nodded. He knew that Xu Disheng wasn’t going to stay long at the Xu Clan, since that would only serve to burden him instead.