According to the message from Lotus Fairy's flying sword, this trip might not be so safe. Besides the Nine-Headed Serpent, there might also be demonic cultivators interfering. It's a good thing to have more experts go and help.
Lotus Fairy was once a spiritual lotus found by Drunken Immortal at Drunken Immortal Cliff. By absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, she gradually developed sentience and could speak. Originally, Drunken Immortal intended to refine her into a pill to help him overcome the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and become a Celestial Immortal.
However, he was kind-hearted and felt that Heaven had a virtue of cherishing life. Since the spiritual lotus already had sentience, killing her to make medicine was no different from killing a person. Instead, he used a pill to help her transform, took her as a disciple, and taught her Daoist methods and his alchemy techniques.
Later, Drunken Immortal failed to pass the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, leaving a trace of his true spirit to reincarnate. The spiritual lotus cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage, often befriending righteous cultivators with her pills, and even asked an Elder of the Heavenly Evolution Sect to use the Minor Evolution Divine Calculation to find Drunken Immortal's reincarnated body.
In this life, Drunken Immortal did not become human, but transformed into a spiritual mushroom. Lotus Fairy found the spiritual mushroom, moved it to Drunken Immortal Cliff, and meticulously cared for it daily to aid its cultivation. The spiritual mushroom gradually gained sentience and was about to transform.
Spiritual mushrooms are treasures of heaven and earth, especially transforming ones. They are highly beneficial for both cultivators and demonic beasts.
Therefore, before the spiritual mushroom transformed, it attracted a Nine-Headed Serpent in the Nascent Soul Stage. Lotus Fairy was skilled in alchemy but not in combat, so she was no match for the Nine-Headed Serpent and could only send a message via flying sword to request help from Emei Sword Cultivators.
After Zhenren (Immortal) White received Lotus Fairy's plea for help, he immediately dispatched the Yun Zhong Seven, who happened to be free in the sect. He also hoped to use Lotus Fairy's pills to help the Yun Zhong Seven break through from Core Formation Realm to Nascent Soul Stage.
This led to the scene where Li Chuan encountered and battled the Elder of the Xuan Yin Sect.
"Then many thanks to the seven seniors."
Hearing Chu Yuxiang's quick agreement, Li Chuan immediately spat out the newly refined magical artifact, the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, from his Dantian.
"Qingfeng, you don't need to call us seniors. Cultivation has always been about the capable being the teacher. Although we have cultivated for a few more years than you, we cannot bear the title of senior.
If you don't mind, since we are all from the Xuanmen Orthodox Sect, you can just call us Master Brother and Master Sister.
I am the eldest of the Yun Zhong Seven, named Chu Yuxiang. You can call me Master Brother Chu, just like the others."
After Chu Yuxiang finished speaking, the other six also announced their names.
"I am the second, Zhan Donglai."
"I am the third, Cheng Xuanfeng."
"I am the fourth, Qin Ruohua."
"I am the fifth, Ying Zhen."
"I am the sixth, Dong Hao."
"I am the seventh, Shangguan Qian."
Li Chuan naturally smiled and agreed, calling all of them Master Brother and Master Sister. Previously, he called them seniors because, according to Li Qingfeng's identity, the Yun Zhong Seven could indeed be considered seniors.
Now that the other party was willing to treat him as an equal, it was naturally for the best. It's easier to communicate as peers; it's uncomfortable to speak from a lower generation.
"Master Brother Chu, let's go!"
Tossing the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, Li Chuan leaped onto it.
However, when the seven saw Li Chuan controlling the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, they all collectively froze, then stared at Li Chuan with extremely incredulous eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing the seven's unusual expressions, Li Chuan's heart stirred, and he roughly guessed what was happening.
Indeed, Chu Yuxiang, the eldest of the seven, asked with a probing tone:
"Master Brother Qingfeng, I observe your true essence is loose and uncohesive. Why does it feel like you haven't yet formed a core? Did you perhaps sustain some injuries during your battle with Nan Tong of the Xuan Yin Sect?"
Whether a person is at the Foundation Establishment Stage, Core Formation Realm, or Nascent Soul Stage can easily be identified by the degree of refinement of their true essence when they use magical artifacts and spells.
When Li Chuan first killed Nan Tong, because he was using Chakra instead of true essence, the Yun Zhong Seven did not notice.
But just now, when Li Chuan controlled the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, the loose true essence was clearly not that of the Core Formation Realm.
However, Li Chuan had killed Nan Tong, who was at the peak of the Core Formation Realm, with a single punch. If he were in the Foundation Establishment Stage, it would truly be hard for them to believe.
Therefore, they speculated whether Li Chuan's true essence was so uncohesive because he had been injured during the recent magical battle.
Li Chuan smiled at this and did not hide it:
"Oh, no, that's not it. The demonic cultivator from the Xuan Yin Sect was indeed formidable, but fortunately, this junior also has secret arts for self-defense, and I luckily didn't suffer any harm. As for the loose and uncohesive true essence, that's because this junior's aptitude is ordinary, and I haven't formed a core yet."
He was in the Foundation Establishment Stage; this couldn't be faked, nor did it need to be. His strength was evident, and having strength was the most important thing.
As for cultivation realms, a lower realm defeating a higher realm would only highlight his extraordinary talent, making him worth befriending, which was not a bad thing at all.
"Alas, when I was eight years old, my Master brought me to cultivate in the mountains. I cultivated diligently for twelve years, yet I still couldn't form a core. I can't compare to you Master Brothers and Master Sisters. Therefore, I came down the mountain to gain experience, hoping to find an opportunity to form a core.
But soon after settling down, I encountered demonic cultivators slaughtering a village and harming people to refine demonic treasures. Hmph, as a righteous cultivator, how could I tolerate them? So, I fought with them."
Li Chuan roughly made some subtle adjustments to Li Qingfeng's experiences and recounted them slowly.
"What, truly only Foundation Establishment Stage?!"
Hearing Li Chuan's narration, the seven simultaneously swallowed and looked at each other in dismay.
They hadn't expected that Li Chuan was indeed only in the Foundation Establishment Stage. While it wasn't unheard of in the cultivation world for someone in the Foundation Establishment Stage to kill someone in the Core Formation Realm.
As Emei Sword Cultivators with top-tier aptitude, at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage, if they were to encounter a relatively weak cultivator at the early Core Formation Realm alone, they would also have a chance to win.
However, Li Chuan's situation was completely incomparable. After all, the Elder of the Xuan Yin Sect he faced was not at the early Core Formation Realm, but at the peak of the Core Formation Realm, and he was not weak himself; he was a genius who could fight across realms.
Moreover, the power of Li Chuan's previous explosive punch, in their view, already possessed the might of a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator's strike using a magical artifact.
Foundation Establishment Stage? How much of a genius must a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator be to possess such strength? Perhaps only their Master Sister and Master Brother Changkong, who were empowered by the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords in their sect, could possess such strength at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
"Master Brother Qingfeng, don't be disheartened. You've only cultivated for twelve years, and having such strength at the Foundation Establishment Stage is already incredibly impressive. We all took a hundred years to form a core. No need to rush, no need to rush."
Seeing that Li Chuan seemed to be unaware of the outside world, and despite internally complaining like crazy, Chu Yuxiang still offered comfort verbally.
The other six also nodded in unison like chicks pecking at rice.
If someone like you laments about poor aptitude, then what are we? Trash?
Now, in their impression, Li Chuan was a genius with heaven-defying aptitude, yet seemingly not very knowledgeable about the cultivation world, pure and kind-hearted, hating evil as if it were a personal enemy, a righteous disciple who had just entered the world for experience.
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