Cultivation: Being Immortal

Shenmu City in the central region

Lin Jiang took out two fourth-grade Demon Cores and placed them on the table. Small Shadiao’s eyes brightened, but quickly dimmed again.

"Brother, don’t waste this money."

"Are you giving up just like that? Don’t you want to improve?"

"I don’t want to anymore. I’m fine as it is now."

Small Shadiao replied, saying that the path to advancement was too difficult. Every day felt like living as a stone person, there was no joy. He preferred his current happiness.

"Do you know how difficult it was for me to obtain these two Demon Cores? They originally belonged to the Holy Heavenly Sect’s Tianxing Trading Company. Just handling the transactions already cost a lot of money. And I still had to buy the Demon Cores. Furthermore, I spent ten days helping Bai Pangzi organize his messy accounts."

Lin Jiang said, speaking with the sentiment of an elder. Lin Jiang truly put a lot of effort into obtaining this Demon Core.

The Tianxing Trading Company doesn’t belong to Bai Yu alone; there are other disciples from the Holy Heavenly Sect. To win them over, a lot of money was spent. As a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, he even had to treat them with respect.

"Brother, even if I continuously eat fourth-grade Demon Cores, I can’t break through the limitation of my bloodline. At most, I can reach the late fourth-grade stage, but I can’t break through to the fifth grade."

"Let’s think of a way for this opportunity, first let’s improve our cultivation to the late stage of the fourth rank, what do you think?"

"Not good, anyway I gave up. Now I’m doing well, no worries about food and drink, and I have something to play with every day."

"Come closer."

"What are you doing, brother?"

"I’ll teach you a lesson. I tried to reason with you, but you didn’t listen. So, I have to resort to violence. Not all filial children come from being beaten with a stick, but rebellious children will never be present."

Lin Jiang became very angry, and instantly lost his patience. He is also a caring and loving father, but unfortunately some people don’t cooperate, so he has to resort to violence.

Lin Jiang hammered Small Shadiao, and Small Shadiao was completely convinced. He obediently went into seclusion to digest the fourth-level Demon Core.

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"Brother Yun, your craftsmanship is simply amazing. The auditors from our Holy Heavenly Sect didn’t say a word of idle talk."

Bai Yu found Lin Jiang and excitedly said to him that recently people from the Holy Heavenly Sect came to Tianxing Trading Company to audit the accounts, and it was Lin Jiang who took care of it.

The accounts were done beautifully, but intentionally left a few small issues for them to check, making it difficult for the auditors to say anything.

"These are all small issues, Brother Bai, you have recovered well!"

Lin Jiang said that recently Bai Yu had a dangerous encounter and became extremely thin, like a skeleton wrapped in skin, but now he has returned to a normal person’s body shape and even has a tendency to become plump again.

"Oh, these are all fake. Now I am just an ordinary Nascent Soul stage cultivator, or even weaker. Lately, I have been eating all day, so tired. Even if you kill me, I won’t believe that one day I will get tired from eating."

"Can’t you use medicine as a substitute?"

"No, the cultivation methods are different."

Bai Yu said that he can also take medicine, but he cannot store it in his body due to his cultivation method.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let’s have a meal together, my treat today!"

"No, no, no, I have to pay today. Whoever tries to snatch it from me will be in a hurry."

"Hahaha, okay, let’s go without arguing."

Lin Jiang laughed out loud, then the two of them found a restaurant to eat at.

In Shenmu City’s high-end restaurants, the two of them had already tried all of them. Under their strong market demand, these restaurants were constantly innovating, either by introducing specialties from other places or by creating their own unique dishes, just to keep the two wealthy patrons coming back.

Eating meals inevitably involves drinking alcohol. Some people get crazy when they are drunk, some people fall deep asleep, and some people become talkative and talk nonstop.

Lin Jiang had long known that Bai Yu becomes talkative when he gets drunk, so he had told Bai Yu a long time ago that he couldn’t use his spiritual power to dissolve the effects of alcohol after drinking.

They couldn’t help but talk about Yang Luo as soon as the topic came up. Bai Yu had great admiration for Yang Luo and was a crazy supporter. He paid close attention to Yang Luo’s affairs and would even mention a lot of things about Yang Luo when communicating with other fellow disciples. This gave Lin Jiang a better understanding of Yang Luo.

For example, from Bai Yu’s words, Lin Jiang learned that Yang Luo had brought out many cultivation techniques that were unheard of in the cultivation world, including some unfamiliar terms.

Even the people from the Holy Heavenly Sect knew that Yang Luo was not from this realm, but they didn’t know exactly who she was or what her background was. Was she a time traveler, a reincarnation of a powerful being, or did she have other extraordinary experiences?

However, the Holy Heavenly Sect doesn’t care about this. It doesn’t matter where Yang Luo comes from or what her identity is. As long as Yang Luo can bring benefits to the Holy Heavenly Sect, they won’t reject her.

After eating and drinking enough, Lin Jiang peacefully left after the second performance.

"Brother…"

"What’s up?"

As soon as he entered, he saw Small Shadiao waiting for him.

"Brother, Yu Hai asked someone to find me."

"What’s the matter?"

"He wants to corrupt me, steal your secret technique."

"What does that mean?"

"Brother, you used to sell advanced spiritual talismans to the Shenmu Sect company before, but you haven’t sold any recently. Instead, you helped Big White Guy. Yu Hai found out about this and also knows that you have learned the fourth-level new talisman technique. Yu Hai is interested now."

"Yu Hai can also use the fourth-level new talisman technique."

"He only knows one kind, and he wants something better. He must have found out."

Little Shadiao said. Lin Jiang has been getting close to Bai Yu during this time, and anyone can see that Lin Jiang wants something from Baiyu.

And with Lin Jiang’s great progress in talisman technique, we can pretty much guess what Lin Jiang is planning.

"What’s Yu Hai’s offer?"

"Yu Hai offered a very low price. We didn’t talk about money, but he said that he can offer us protection within Shenmu City and prevent the same things that happened to Bai Yu before."

"That’s a load of nonsense!"

Lin Jiang got very angry. Who does Yu Hai think he is, just asking for things in one sentence?

"Brother, Yu Hai is from the Shenmu Sect. If he comes after us, we will be in trouble. After all, this is the territory of the Shenmu Sect."

"If we can’t stay here, we can always find another place, right?"

"Do we still need to run?"

"For now, let’s not run. We haven’t acquired Bai Yu’s techniques yet. Let’s wait until we have them before deciding."

"What did we say to Yu Hai in response?"

"Keep him occupied. Tell him that I haven’t acquired all the new talisman techniques yet. I’ll let him know once I have them all at once."

"Will he believe us?"

"He will. The new talisman techniques are constantly being perfected. It’s not like they have been available for a long time."

Lin Jiang said. Every day, there is news about the new talisman techniques coming from various sources. Many prestigious sects spend time and effort organizing it. It’s normal for Bai Yu to have access to the latest technology.

"Okay, I’ll tell him that, but brother still needs to prepare. Once Yu Hai takes action, it won’t be easy to resolve."

"I know, be careful too. Make sure those women from the Shenmu Sect are taken care of early on, don’t cause trouble for me."

"Don’t worry, brother. I’ve never failed with women before."

Small Shadiao nodded. He didn’t listen to these words. Only with a few disciples from the Shenmu Sect acting as insiders could he obtain more information. He wasn’t just wasting his time.

"Damn it, Bai Yu has really become a fat pig. So many people are watching him."

Lin Jiang sighed. Life is full of contradictions. If you don’t have any abilities, you live a miserable life. If you have abilities, you live a difficult and dangerous life. Who knows how many people are watching.

After thinking for a while, Lin Jiang didn’t take Yu Hai’s threat to heart. It’s true that Yu Hai is in the Soul Changing Period and a local native, but he can’t openly confront Lin Jiang. He’s greatly restricted.

So for now, Lin Jiang will keep him stable. Once he’s gathered enough benefits, he can confront Yu Hai directly. At that time, if worse comes to worst, they can just go their separate ways. Lin Jiang doesn’t believe Yu Hai is as powerful as Yang Luo.

Lin Jiang cleared his distractions and entered the room. As soon as he walked in, he felt a joyful atmosphere coming from the wooden barrel where his treasured artifact was stored.

"Little Qing, how are you today?"

Lin Jiang walked over to the wooden barrel and retrieved the sword, then carefully wiped it with silk.

After much thought, Lin Jiang named his treasured sword Qing Gang Sword and gave it the nickname Little Qing.

Little Qing couldn’t answer Lin Jiang, as it didn’t have that capability yet. However, it could express simple emotions like happiness or sadness.

Many swords had this kind of agility, which was a necessary requirement to advance to a spiritual treasure. If they lacked this agility, they would just be lifeless objects and not worth investing in.

However, there was still a long way to go to become a true spiritual treasure. They couldn’t be easily crafted.

"One external refining method can surpass ten years of nurturing through the internal refining method, but now we need to retain this energy."

Lin Jiang glanced at the wooden barrel, the green liquid was nearly transparent. The sword absorbed the energy, so Lin Jiang stored it in his dantian to nurture it.

This is also a crucial point, just like when humans eat. It’s only beneficial if they can absorb the nutrients. If they can’t absorb them, it’s just a waste.

So how effective a refining method can be depends on the Internal Refining Method that follows.

"Little Qing, when the time comes, father will get you some good things so that you can advance and transform as soon as possible."

Lin Jiang said to Qing Gang Sword. Small Shadiao has advanced and become a younger brother. So from now on, Qing Gang Sword will have to be a son. Of course, that has to happen after advancing to a spiritual treasure. It is said that the Item Spirit of a spiritual treasure can take on a physical form. Then Lin Jiang will have another son to fight with.

The joy of beating a son is not something outsiders can understand.

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