Chapter 515: Chapter 423 Hope_2
"The ’Dayan Divination Method’ can serve as a backup option. For an Immortal Cultivator, being able to calculate fortune and misfortune and perceive the secrets of heaven is always beneficial."
"As for these three Divine Skills: ’Summoning Wind and Rain,’ ’Ruyi Qingling Great Handprint,’ and ’Eight Dragons Locking Heaven Sword Formation,’ if there’s no better choice, reluctantly practicing them is not impossible."
"But I possess the ’Derivation’ technique, which allows the autonomous generation and mass production of Divine Skills, offering me more options. These three skills, along with the ’Seven Emotions Magic Sword,’ belong to the offensive type, so they can be set aside for later."
Chen Jichuan mainly focuses on selecting from his list of Super-level Techniques.
Wind Thunder All Heavens Great Escape.
Five Elements Escape Technique.
Guiyuan Hiding Method.
Three-in-One Indestructible Golden Light Body Protection Technique.
Blood Light Refraction Taiyin Divine Mirror Technique.
Each of these Super-level Techniques serves different purposes, comprehensively enhancing a cultivator’s survival abilities and diversifying their Immortal Dao methods. All of them can be considered as backup options.
There’s also the ’All Heavens Desire Demon Five Lustful Fat Magic.’
When this technique is unleashed, the person trapped by it immediately feels various sensations like soreness, pain, itchiness, sweetness, softness, comfort, and pleasure. Their mind is overwhelmed with countless thoughts, their will swaying, and various emotions surging. This provides significant inspiration and benefits for practicing the ’Seven Emotions Magic Sword.’
Another technique is the ’Pure Heart Mantra.’
This is a Super-level Technique deduced by Chen Jichuan during his time in the Starry Sky World, created to help him navigate the Independent Immortal Tribulation. Reciting this mantra enables one to remain steadfast, immune to external demonic influences.
The ’Seven Emotions Magic Sword’ manipulates emotions, and it is often said that "those who play with fire are bound to burn themselves." Practicing the ’Pure Heart Mantra’ as a safeguard seems necessary.
This way, just counting casually, there are far too many techniques to derive and teach.
"Time is tight."
"I can only do my best."
Chen Jichuan thought and planned.
The spectacle in the field was dazzling, with Wang Yan’s swordsmanship skillfully suppressing Wanying Venerable, leaving Chen Jichuan, Yu Ming Immortal Venerable, Yu Cheng Venerable, and Shanhua Venerable watching with delight.
The ’Nine Immortals’ secretly controlled nine major fierce bird tribes, driving billions of fierce birds from Fierce Bird Mountain, in coordination with the formation within the mountain, to hunt down Golden Light Immortal Venerable and others.
Wave after wave, fighting to the last breath.
Fierce Bird Mountain seemed like a perpetual motion machine, with fierce birds endlessly regenerating, dying, and reviving, an infinite cycle.
This is the terrifying aspect of the fierce birds.
Their lack of fear of depletion, low spiritual wisdom, and absence of fear made them unafraid of death. Their ruthlessness suppressed the instinctual fear of death that living beings usually harbor, rendering them fearless in the face of death.
Fighting against an endless swarm of deadly and fearless fierce birds inevitably feels foolish.
One day.
Two days.
Three days.
The slaughter and fighting seemed to have no end, and finally, impatience arose.
"Concealing and hiding!"
"Bunch of cowards!"
Golden Light Immortal Venerable, radiating golden light all around him, illuminated the ten directions. Each of his steps shattered every obstacle, and in one hand, he held ’Half Mountain Venerable.’
Clang!
With one hand, he deflected Wang Yan’s magic sword, rescuing ’Wanying Venerable’ from within the starlit sword waterfall.
He then called out: "Yongye!"
With that, he took bold steps in swift movement, forcefully carving out a path of survival.
"Who can stop me?!"
The ’Small Sumeru Right and Left Nine Palace Immortal Formation’ hindered Golden Light Immortal Venerable’s entry into the depths of Fierce Bird Mountain. Yet, given his strength, escaping was a mere trifle.
Yongye Venerable, under his command, didn’t need assistance and followed him out.
The Golden Light Immortal Court was the first to break out of the predicament.
The other two Immortal Venerables no longer lingered.
"Let’s go!"
Taiyin Immortal Venerable, along with Baihua, Mangg Guang, Chi Mei, and Golden Phoenix—the four Venerables—also left the mountain decisively.
Taiyin Immortal Court withdrew from the fray.
"We’re leaving too!"
Finally, Guangmu Immortal Venerable and Ming Zhou Venerable, comparatively weaker, joined forces and, albeit somewhat strained, managed to battle their way out of the mountain.
In an instant.
Fierce Bird Mountain grew cold and barren.
...
"Lucky they fled quickly."
Wang Yan returned with her sword, somewhat dissatisfied. In these three days, she had relentlessly attacked Wanying Venerable, aiming to subdue him for tens of thousands of years. However, Golden Light Immortal Venerable intervened, saving Wanying Venerable, whose injuries from the past three days would likely heal in a mere century or so.
"Making him behave for a century is already a decent outcome."
Chen Jichuan remarked with a smile.
After all, Golden Light Immortal Venerable was an old Immortal Venerable, far more ancient and powerful than Yu Ming Immortal Venerable.
Hoping to seriously injure Wanying Venerable right under his nose?
That’s unrealistic.
Using Wanying Venerable to test the sword techniques was worthwhile; at the very least, their efforts weren’t in vain.
"Forget about them. Come, have tea."
Wang Yan set aside her thoughts, sat beside Chen Jichuan, and poured tea for everyone.
Yu Ming Immortal Venerable and the others weren’t in a hurry to leave.
However, external matters needed resolution. Yu Ming Immortal Venerable turned to Yu Cheng Venerable and said: "Could I trouble Junior Brother to pay a visit and explain the situation to the three Immortal Venerables outside? No need to bother with extraneous issues."
Having chosen to side with Chen Jichuan and his wife, it was naturally necessary to draw a clear line with Golden Light Immortal Venerable and the others.
As for double agents?
Not to mention Yu Ming Immortal Venerable’s status and position—at their level, tricks like double agents or plots were trivial and laughable.
If one couldn’t overpower an opponent in direct combat, then conspiracies and schemes were pointless.
Everyone understood this principle.
"I shall make the trip."
Yu Cheng Venerable stood up.
"Fellow Daoist, later you may invite Chihong Immortal inside. I’ve caused him to suffer unwarranted calamity after taking control of Fierce Bird Mountain."
Chen Jichuan spoke to Yu Cheng Venerable.
Originally, due to his lack of strength, Chen didn’t dare open the Five Elements Origin within Fierce Bird Mountain to outsiders in the short term. But now, with the mountain’s formation established and Wang Yan—a top-tier Venerable—stationed there, even the combined forces of the Three Immortal Courts had been repelled. What was there to fear moving forward?
Given Chihong Immortal’s ties to Yu Ming Immortal Court and his 200-year-long humility outside Fierce Bird Mountain, letting him cultivate in the Fire-element Origin for a hundred years as a favor to Yu Ming Immortal Venerable would not be a difficult choice.