Chapter 359: Chapter 155: The Mountain and River Immortal Strikes the Heaven-Striking Sect
Life and Death Mountain and River Sect.
Outside the mountain gate.
The red lacquered main gate slowly opened.
"Wuwei Sect Leader, Feng Zizai?"
"What are you here for!"
"It hasn’t been three years yet. Isn’t the three-year deadline not up? To come and storm my Life and Death Mountain and River Sect now, could it be... are you thinking of throwing away your entire life?"
"Previously, you snuck into my sect using the ’Transformation Skill’, intending to steal the Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill, and we haven’t settled that account with you yet. Now you’re rushing back here, you must really have a death wish!"
Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Sect is located in Tongye State’s ’Nirvana Mountain’, with a long history of sect establishment, not founded by Left Gate Leader Zuo Shanhe.
Before the sect’s cultivation technique was revived, it was already known for achieving the True Skill Third Layer, capable of opening the Celestial Gate, reaching the level of ’physical body immortality’.
At this moment, the disciples that came out were all dressed in white, with ’Life and Death Nirvana Phoenix’ embroidered on their backs. They had exceedingly youthful and outstanding appearances, all looking to be in their early twenties.
In contrast, Feng Zizai’s group, except for Jixia, looked shabby, indistinguishable from thieves.
Originally, Jixia had knocked on the door of the World’s First Mysterious Sect with his own name, ’Li Treading Immortal’.
But to no avail.
This name held no fame, no one in the world recognized or knew it.
Yet...
Beyond a hundred steps.
The unkempt, disheveled Feng Zizai, with deep eyes, looking to be around thirty years old, was indeed renowned.
When the Mountain and River Sect members first opened the main gate, they glanced at Jixia without speaking a word. But as soon as they caught sight of Feng Zizai from afar, their expressions drastically changed, and with a ’snap’, they closed the door tight.
Less than half a moment later, as if facing a great enemy, they summoned a group of disciples to walk out in succession.
Among them, the two leading figures first took a look at Jixia, paused for a moment, and then turned their gaze towards Feng Zizai and his group, their voices cold and firm:
"The Sect Leader is in seclusion, striving to break through the ’True Master’ threshold, vowed to perfect the ’Life and Death Nirvana True Body’, advancing to the fourth step. It’s a critical time right now, there’s no time to entertain you, nor to waste time with you!"
"Leave quickly, or your life will be taken today!"
Upon closer inspection, the two had billowing sleeves, dressed like other members of the Mountain and River Sect, but their sleeves, which moved without wind, bore ’golden stripes’.
This is the emblem of status in the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect.
Disciples who have mastered the first layer of the Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill represent their entry into the sect, allowed to wear the ’Mountain and River White Phoenix Robe’, with their sleeve cuffs adorned with a layer of ’silver stripes’.
And those who reach the second layer...
Have their cuffs adorned with golden stripes, indicating attainment in the Primordial Pill Realm!
The Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill, through revived cultivation, has been pushed to its limits by Left Gate Leader Zuo Shanhe, divided into three layers in total.
The first layer, ’Great Innate’, cultivates Life and Death True Qi, hidden in the Yellow Court, thus preserving youth forever, with appearances not fading.
Ordinary martial artists’ lifespan is limited, no different from mere mortals, but those who join the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect and master the first layer of cultivation technique can, theoretically, live up to one hundred twenty or thirty years.
Living another sixty years could even compare to a Primordial Pill!
That’s not all,
Mastering the second layer of the ’Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill’, one can refine the ’Nirvana Divine Power’, a symbol of the second threshold of the Primordial Pill Realm’s Dragon Tiger Divine Power, its characteristics penetrating tendons and bones, skin and membrane, the spinal acupoints, even achieving limb regeneration!
Great Innate ’Eternal Youth’, Primordial Pill Realm ’Limb Regeneration’!
Under the heavens, among the sixteen powerful sects, none can find or achieve such means.
Therefore, the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect claims to be the ’World’s First Mysterious Sect’, using post-heavenly techniques compared to the innate gifts from demon, Half-Demon Divine Blood!
And this is just the second layer.
After the revival of cultivation, Left Gate Leader Zuo Shanhe stated that if the ’Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill’ could be completed, it would be possible to open the Celestial Gate, cultivating the ’Life and Death Nirvana True Body’ recorded in the scroll, entirely, utterly, surpassing the martial artist level!
Zuo Shanhe, at the time of cultivation revival, was already a hundred years old. When he broke through the Primordial Pill, his peers were nearly all deceased.
So within the sect now, there is only him by seniority, and all disciples act as his disciples, with no distinction between true transmission, entry-level, or outer sect.
Because cultivating the ’Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill’ is harsh and arduous.
Even as the World’s First Mysterious Sect, Life and Death Mountain and River Sect has never greatly expanded, merely emphasizing the bonds of destiny, admitting those with ’aptitude’ as disciples.
At this moment, the one reprimanding Wuwei Sect Leader Feng Zizai was someone called ’Canyuan’, another named ’Xiufa’.
Both were personally brought up by Zuo Shanhe, before their Taoist names, all bearing the master’s ’Left’ surname, having been collected as his loyal true transmission over the years.
Both have mastered the second layer, refining the ’Nirvana Divine Power’, possessing abilities like eternal youth, limb regeneration, and various miraculous methods. Their true age can no longer be discerned.
They looked at Feng Zizai’s group below the hundred steps, confrontational and coldly berated.
Which led Feng Zizai to helplessly scratch his head, pointing at Jixia standing before them and loudly said:
"The two of you, can’t you see the child standing right in front of you?"
"The youngster has come to apprentice, and the three of us brothers have complied with our agreement with Left Gate Leader. Without the three-year mark, no one knows the outcome. One step cannot be taken towards the mountain gate of the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect, look."
After saying this, Feng Zizai stomped his foot, shrugged his shoulders, with an innocent expression.
With a pair of sword-like brows and bright starry eyes, Canyuan Taoist heard this and looked at Jixia, examining him several times, finding him somewhat familiar:
