Chapter 249: Chapter 41: Enchanting Cultivation
In the end, it all came down to a clash between the Life Soul Masters of the two nations.
The battle between the Supreme Elders of the Yellow Springs Sect and the Baihua Sect captured the attention of every cultivator in the two nations.
Both were Life Soul Masters with profound cultivation and astonishing Divine Techniques. They exchanged over a thousand blows, yet the battle remained undecided, ending only when both were grievously wounded.
Seeing this, the other Life Talisman Cultivators jumped into the fray, hoping to use the chaos to help their side grievously injure the opposing Life Soul Master.
In an instant, the battlefield erupted into chaos.
Just then, Fang Cheng slipped onto the battlefield unnoticed. With the Nine Divine King Seals, he executed eight of the Yellow Springs Sect’s Late-stage Life Talisman Cultivators in quick succession.
He then joined forces with the Baihua Sect’s Supreme Elder to strike down the Supreme Elder of the Yellow Springs Sect, sealing their victory in one fell swoop!
After this battle, Fang Cheng’s fame swept across the land.
The Baihua Sect and the Thousand Talisman Sect formed an alliance through marriage. Fang Cheng married the Baihua Sect’s greatest beauty, a woman ranked first on the Yuan Country’s roster of beauties—the Saintess of the Baihua Sect.
The Saintess was the spiritual symbol of the Baihua Sect—pure as jade, graceful, poised, and noble. She was a peerless beauty in the mortal world.
Fang Cheng plucked this most beautiful of flowers and reveled in her splendor, feeling that his journey had been more than worthwhile.
At the same time, the Fang Family became the foremost family in the Yuan Country. With the clandestine support of two great sects, the Thousand Talisman Sect and the Baihua Sect, their prestige was momentarily unmatched.
The great families of the Yuan Country all rushed to curry favor. Knowing of Fang Cheng’s penchant for beautiful women, they selected the most stunning maidens from their own clans to marry into the Fang Family.
Fang Cheng remained unhurried. He did not drown himself in sensual pleasures, instead prioritizing his cultivation above all else.
Beauty was merely a means to an end, not the end itself.
Day by day, his power grew, until he finally broke through to the Life Soul Realm!
In that instant, he felt a gaze descend from the void, lingering on him for a moment.
For a split second, he felt as if he had formed a connection with some mighty entity.
He vaguely came to understand a profound mechanism: he and all his descendants had become reincarnated vessels for that mighty entity!
Should that mighty entity ever perish, it would inevitably regain its consciousness within one of his descendants.
He and his family had become that entity’s contingency plan.
This seemed to be a path to immortality, a method by which the great being could reincarnate endlessly, gaining infinite life and boundless opportunities.
Fang Cheng stopped.
He slowly withdrew from the dreamscape, returning to consciousness.
He was in the Quiet Chamber of Canglan Cave on Demon Lion Peak.
He slowly collected himself, watching as the last wisps of smoke curled and dissipated, leaving behind a pile of ash on the floor.
On more than a dozen sheets of Snow Silkworm Paper, a sprawling script chronicled the experiences of his Dream Spirit.
All the romance and splendor had vanished like an iridescent bubble.
’Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed it was Zhuang Zhou. What is the dream, and what is reality?’
As clarity returned to his expression, a seed of doubt quietly sprouted in Fang Cheng’s heart, making him question the very nature of reality.
He put away the Snow Silkworm Paper and contemplated for a long time before one thing became clear.
In the dreamscape, the Dream Spirit’s method of using divine grace to advance its cultivation was the key reason it became a reincarnated vessel for that great entity.
The process of refining the Dream Spirit had entangled him karmically with that mighty entity, but it wasn’t enough to make *him* a reincarnated vessel. In fact, it felt more like he was taking advantage of the powerful being.
’Could this be a scheme set up by another great entity, one that uses the Dream Spirit Technique to secretly siphon away the first one’s power?’
Fang Cheng was perplexed.
But the temptation was immense. By expending just a small amount of his own Essence, Qi, and Spirit, he could refine a Dream Spirit capable of unleashing a single, all-out strike from a Life Soul Realm cultivator.
At a critical moment, it could save his life.
After a moment’s hesitation, Fang Cheng decided against refining the Dream Spirit. He put the Snow Silkworm Paper away. He would not take that step again unless he had absolutely no other choice.
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