Book 1: Chapter 2: Refining Qi For 3000 Years
Bai Qiuran, this was a name that only existed on the Qingming Sword Sect’s oldest disciple list.
Three thousand years ago, the demons of Nine Provinces and Ten Places were raging, and the civilians were masscared. At that time, all the major sects suffered heavy damage from the war with the barbaric devils and had not recovered their vitality, so they could only barely protect themselves.
In this chaotic world, a brilliant talented genius emerged – Qingming Taoist. With the sword in hand, he killed countless demons and returned peace to Nine Provinces and Ten Places. After that, he came to a mountain in Gu Province, adopted several talented and intelligent disciples, and founded Qingming Sword Sect.
Bai Qiuran was one of the disciples who was adopted by Qingming Taoist. He was an orphan picked up by Qingming Taoist from the battlefield. Before Qingming Taoist found him, he wandered on the battlefield, stealing from the dead bodies to make a living.
Because he was born with the Heavenly level of Wood Spiritual Root, he was favored by the Qingming Taoist and was taken to the mountain as his third disciple.
Bai Qiuran’s talents were very high, and his ingenuity was also the top among Qingming Taoist’s disciples. He began to practice at the age of ten. At the age of twelve, he had broken the bottleneck of the physical condensate and condensed body, and formally entered the path of immortal cultivation.
At that time, not only the entire Qingming Sect, but also the whole cultivation world had high hopes for him, thinking that he would become the second Qingming Taoist.
Bai Qiuran lived up to expectations, and he continued to work hard. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest cultivator in history to reach the tenth layer of the Qi Refining stage.
His master Qingming Taoist was overjoyed, and even postpone his indoor cultivation to deal with the Heavenly Tribulation, personally came out to build a stove and refined a superb Foundation-Build Pill for Bai Qiuran.
With the master’s gift and the blessings of fellow Taoist seniors from the same sect and in the cultivation world, Bai Qiulan started his indoor cultivation to break through the Foundation Establishment stage. He took the pill, stagnated the Dantian, let the spiritual power flow through the bones and veins in his body. Then after three days—
He broke through to the eleventh layer of the Qi Refining stage.
At that time, everyone didn’t care about it and thought that it was Bai Qiuran’s talents. Even the master Qingming Tao comforted Bai Qiuran, saying that “In ancient times, there are cultivators who can reach 15th layer in Qi Refining stage. They made great achievements later, so don’t worry, everything is fine.”
Three thousand years passed, his master Qingming Taoist successfully ascended to the Immortal Realm. After his master ascended, his big senior brother took over the sect leader position, failed to pass the Heavenly Tribulation and died. Today even the youngest grandson of the sixth generation descendant of his youngest junior sister succeeded in advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage and learned to use the sword to ride the wind.
And Bai Qiuran, as the most talented disciple at that time, successfully cultivated to the 66,664th layer of the Qi Refining stage.
To this day, even the little child whom he picked up when he traveled more than 700 years ago has become the Great Elder of Qingming Sword Sect. That guy was currently in an indoor cultivation, prepared to deal with the incoming Heavenly Tribulation. Yet Bai Qiuran was still struggling to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
He never gave up.
After Thunder Demonic Venerable was beheaded and killed by Bai Qiuran, Jue Yunzi immediately responded, commanding the disciples to clean up the mess, and then led the elders together to greet Bai Qiuran at the main peak.
“This time, thank you so much for saving us.”
After arriving at the sect leader’s courtyard on the main peak, Jue Yunzi brought the elders into the chamber together. however, he did not attend the seat but left the main seat to Bai Qiuran instead.
“This Thunder Demonic Venerable is almost comparable to a Great Ascension stage cultivator. I am afraid that no one in the Righteous Alliance can defeat it alone. By that time, not only the Qingming Sect will suffer a catastrophe, it will also be a disaster for the whole cultivation world.”
“It’s nothing.”
Bai Qiuran replied very gently:
“Among Master’s disciples, I am the only one who has survived to this day, and it is naturally incumbent upon me to guard the legacy that left by him.”
“Fortunately, there were no disciples injured this time, but it will take time for our sect to recover.”
The 3rd elder Bie Yunzi said:
“Sect leader, what about tomorrow’s disciple selection?”
“Postponed for three months.”
After thinking about it, Jue Yunzi said:
“The thunder beast destroyed the arrangement we made for the selection of disciples. Don’t cloud it, leave it to you, and restore the arrangement as soon as possible. As for the candidates waiting in the hanging sword town under the mountain, Qingming Sword Sect has invested to cover their room and board for the three months. ”
“There is also the reconstruction work of the sect protection array and the mountain gate, which must also be brought up.”
The 6th elder Qing Junzi said gently:
“When Sect leader was fighting with the Thunder Beast, the leaked energy destroyed a lot of buildings, including two warehouses. The materials inside were estimated to have been damaged a lot and needed to be supplemented and repaired.”
“Well, I’ll leave this to you, Qing Yunzi, you will lead a generation of direct disciples to supervise this matter. The funds needed, I will let Liu Yunzi allocate it to you.”
Jue Yunzi calmly commanded.
“Yes.”
Qing Yunzi and Liu Yunzi, two female elders of Qingming Sword Sect, resigned to deal with the matter after taking orders.
In the next few minutes, Jue Yunzi and the elders discussed the recent Zongmen affairs and arranged everything in an orderly manner.
During this process, Bai Qiuran didn’t say a word, just kept watching silently. When things came to a lag, he sighed:
“Time flies so fast. The innocent child who knew nothing at that time has now become the head of a sect.”
“All rely on the care of Uncle Ancestor.”
Jue Yunzi said to Bai Qiuran very sincerely.
When he was elected as the next sect leader position, he has encountered the assassination of Evil Sects or even other sects in the Righteous Alliance. Facing these dangers, Bai Qiuran has saved his life many times.
“I’m relieved to see you there.”
Bai Qiuran laughed:
“I’ll go down the mountain tomorrow.”
“Why do Uncle Ancestor have to go down the mountain?”
Jue Yunzi said:
“The selection ceremony for the Qingming Sect is coming soon. Now that the Thunder Beast is attacking, the other sects must have received news by now. If Uncle Ancestor isn’t present, maybe they will have other ideas…
“What are you afraid of?”
Bai Qiuran asked him:
“The Righteous Alliance has five major sects, among the other four sect leaders, who can be a match for you?”
“This……”
Jue Yunzi thought about it.
“I think, maybe, probably, if I’m unlucky….”
“For the leader of four Evil Sects, who can’t you beat?”
Bai Qiuran asked again.
“Ok……”
Jue Yunzi hesitated:
“I think I should be better …”
“Then why do you’re afraid!”
Bai Qiuran waved his hand:
“That’s it, I don’t believe it. You are the head of the elders and the elders of the divine stage, can’t you choose the disciples?”
“It seems like that.”
Jue Yunzi nodded, but asked again:
“Why is Uncle Ancestor suddenly going down the mountain? Since you moved to Seven Stars Peak, you haven’t been down Qingming Mountain for hundreds of years.”
“I’ll do it recently. It feels like I’m about to break through.”
Speaking of this topic, Bai Qiuran’s face showed a look of anticipation.
“I have a feeling that I will be able to successfully advance to the Foundation Establishment stage this time, but my super-extreme-incredible Foundation-Build Pill still lacked a few medicinal materials, so I need to go down the mountain to find it.”
“Come on, Uncle Ancestor.”
Jue Yunzi laughed:
“You said the same thing last time. Remember the hen you brought back two hundred years ago? It already reached the Golden Core stage. What about you? Still in the Qi Refining stage, just broke through more than ten layers. Do you know? Before the Great Elder began his indoor cultivation, he took my hand and smelt a tear, saying that the day he was out of his indoor cultivation, he’s either dead or ascend. As a result, he might not be able to see the day when Uncle Ancestor successfully advances to the Foundation Establishment stage. ”
Bai Qiuran clenched his fists, his face was as black as the bottom of the pot.
“Less nonsense!”
Regardless of the presence of several elders, he grabbed the collar of Jue Yunzi.
“I’m going down the mountain, give me some money! Oh yes, also the Heavenly Heart grass.”
“Uncle Ancestor.”
Jue Yunzi’s expression was changed.
“About the money, of course we should prepare for you, the Heavenly Heart grass? It’s something extremely hard to find even for us. There is no such thing in Qingming Sword Sect’s storage. Where can I find… ”
“I know that when you went down the mountain 30 years ago, you encountered one. Your kid, who are you trying to lie to?”
Bai Qiuran pointed to Jue Yunzi:
“Besides, you don’t practice Poison Path. If you want this thing to be useful, you should give it to me.”
“Uh, I’m going to sell it at the next auction of the Righteous Alliance.”
Jue Yunzi still resigned.
“Furthermore, you may not be able to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage., and it will be wasted in the end …”
“No more nonsense, do you give me or not?”
Bai Qiuran asked.
Jue Yunzi hesitated, then shook his head.
“Okay, that’s fine.”
Bai Qiuran walked outwards and murmured in his mouth:
“I went to little Liu to get the money. By the way, maybe I’ll ‘accidentally’ reveal to her that three hundred years ago, you and little Xuan, little Fu, little Bai sneaked into Moonlight Lake to peep her and little Qing’s bathing …”
The 2nd elder, the 4th elder and the 5th elder jumped out of their seat together.
“Sect leader!”
The 2nd elder Xuan Yunzi stepped forward first.
“Senior brother, Uncle Ancestor has guarded Qingming Sword Sect for more than three thousand years, and now it’s just a little grass, why wouldn’t you give it to him?”
“Exactly.”
The 4th elder Fu Yunzi followed.
“Besides that, Uncle Ancestor was our elders. What the elders wanted, as a disciple, we should go all out to find out for him. That is called our filial piety.”
“You… you two…”
Jue Yunzi’s face was full of cold expression.
“Sect leader, I think 2nd senior brother and 4th senior brother are speaking the truth.”
The 5th elder Bai Yunzi said:
“Moreover, it was you who took the lead at that time. If junior sister Liu and junior sister Qing go berserk, in the end you’ll also suffer the most.”
Jue Yunzi looked at the three companion who had no struggle, betrayed the revolution and immediately surrendered to the evil force, then looked at the evil force who was leaning against the door with a smile. He finally sighed.
“Uncle Ancestor, you’re right. I am your great-great-disciple, it’s my duty.”
The Qingming sect leader tried his best to look calm.
“What do you want, you just need to say one word, I will have men bring it to your Seven Stars Peak. You don’t have to collect things in person!”