Pay to Cultivate Immortality? My Sect is Completely Free - Chapter 352

Chapter 352 — The One Who Breaks the Deadlock, the Wooden-Sword Youth

What is longevity qi?

The simplest example: normally, the lifespan limit for someone in the Nascent Soul Realm is one thousand years!

A Nascent Soul cultivator, badly wounded and with a damaged foundation, might not reach that limit—perhaps dying of old age at nine hundred years.

If at that point there were a ten-thousand-year precious life-extending herb, it could repair the damaged foundation and let him live to the thousand-year limit.

That is life-extension!

On the Continent, such precious life-extending herbs are exceedingly rare and prized, fought over by many old monsters.

After all, the path of cultivation is filled with battles and bloodshed—who doesn’t carry some wounds?

So what use is longevity qi?

When longevity qi enters the body, it can directly increase lifespan!

Directly increase it, and it can even break through the lifespan limit!

For example, a Nascent Soul cultivator who acquires a hundred years’ worth of longevity qi—after refining it—will have his lifespan limit raised from one thousand years to one thousand one hundred years!

“One lower-grade immortal crystal contains about a hundred years’ worth of longevity qi.”

“And this intermediate-grade immortal crystal actually contains as much as one thousand years’ worth!”

Su Bai was stunned in his heart, unable not to marvel that the Immortal Realm is truly otherworldly!

With this longevity qi, the lifespans of Immortal Realm people are far longer than those of the human world!

Of course, immortal crystals are extraordinarily precious and not everyone can obtain them; they’re likely controlled by only a few.

As always: in the same world, the strong rule—those who are rich grow richer, those who are poor perish.

…………………….

At the same time, in the heart demon world.

After the previous two failures, Su Bai finally grasped the pattern!

This time, he did not rush to wipe out the demonic beasts and liberate the human race.

Instead he scouted nearby, searching for the boy destined to become the Peerless Heavenly Venerable!

Finally, one day Su Bai stopped and watched a figure in the forest ahead.

It was a boy of about fourteen or fifteen. Years of malnutrition had left him frail and emaciated.

His clothes were tattered and patched beyond count; even so, they barely covered him and could not keep out the cold wind.

Yet, under these harsh conditions, the boy was brandishing a wooden sword, swinging it in chaotic practice.

The wooden sword was homemade—rough, even slightly warped.

Despite that, the boy did not stop; he swung again and again.

A faint ripple of spiritual energy flowed around him. Though insignificant, it proved he had sensed spiritual energy.

But lacking a proper cultivation method, he could not advance in Qi Refining.

One strike, two strikes, three strikes…

Ten thousand strikes!

He had swung the sword at least ten thousand times!

His already malnourished body nearly exhausted itself; he collapsed to the ground and could not rise.

Huff—huff—

The boy kept panting, his face pale, utterly exhausted.

Yet his eyes held an unyielding glare!

“I will become stronger. I will have my revenge!!”

“My people cannot continue to be ravaged by those demonic beasts!!”

“I will kill those brutes!!!”

He ground his teeth and muttered under his breath. With each word his body trembled, as if recalling the miserable scenes of his childhood!!!

As if he had gathered up all his anger and hatred into this moment!

“Young man, even if you swing your sword a million times, ten million times, a hundred million times, do you think you can defeat those powerful demonic beasts?”

Su Bai appeared. He looked at the boy lying on the ground, shook his head, and asked with a wry smile.

The boy suddenly lifted his head and looked at Su Bai.

“I can!! I will!!”

He ground his teeth and said through clenched teeth.

“Then tell me—on what basis do you think so?”

“On the strength of that wooden sword in your hand?”

“On that negligible power of yours?”

Hearing this, the boy’s expression gradually dimmed.

A heart full of righteous blood is not wrong.

But many things cannot be resolved by righteous passion alone!!

The boy fell silent.

Although he hated those demonic beasts with all his heart, his eyes could not take a life…

Not to mention the demonic beasts elsewhere: even the pack that kept his tribe had several demonic beasts at the Divine Transformation Realm!

What does Divine Transformation mean?

A snap of the fingers can move mountains!!

A wave of the palm can overturn the earth!!

And he wasn’t even at Qi Refining—how could he fight??

However, before long, the dullness in the boy’s eyes flared up again.

“I know it will be hard to fight, but because it’s hard, should I not fight?”

“If everyone thought like that, when could our human race ever stand up?”

“If everyone gave up, would there still be hope for the human race?!!”

“I don’t fear hardship, I don’t fear pain—I only ask to become stronger!!”

“I only hope that one day, when I hold my wooden sword and cut off a beast’s head, that beast’s blood will wash away my people’s humiliation!!!”

The boy roared through clenched teeth, full of endless resentment, unwillingness, and… resolve.

Though weak in strength, he refused to surrender!

Such temperament, such determination, such youth!

Su Bai couldn’t help but smile.

Yes, it was him!!

“Hahaha, what spirit!”

“You want revenge, young man?”

Su Bai suddenly laughed loudly and walked to the boy’s side.

“Of course. I will slaughter all those damned beasts, avenge my father and mother, and avenge everyone in my tribe!!”

“No matter how difficult!!! I will do it!!!”

He gritted his teeth and spoke with absolute determination; his voice was clear and forceful.

“All right!”

“I’ll help you!”

Su Bai smiled.

“You truly are willing to help me?”

The boy looked at Su Bai, a little excited.

This was a stranger’s face, but he knew the Su Bai before him was not ordinary!

Could an ordinary person, in this world overrun by demonic beasts, carry such bearing?

Could an ordinary person, in this world overrun by demonic beasts, be dressed so finely?

“I will teach you an Immortal Technique, and from now on I will come here every afternoon to train your swordsmanship!”

Su Bai said, touching the boy’s forehead with his finger.

“Immortal Technique… this is an Immortal Technique?”

The boy was stunned, as if a new world had opened.

Countless strands of spiritual energy, like bioluminescent light, poured crazily into his body. His injuries healed instantly, and his withered meridians were rapidly nourished.

In an instant, his previously feeble body regained strength!

Qi Refining, complete!!!

The youth stood there stunned, staring at Su Bai as if he were still dreaming.

“Crack!”

He turned, swung his wooden sword, and cut through a nearby sapling.

“Whoosh!!”

In an instant, the sapling was severed, the cut smooth and clean.

It wasn’t an illusion!

He had truly entered Qi Refining!

At that moment, the surge in his heart was indescribable.

Then he suddenly dropped to his knees before Su Bai and began pounding the ground with his forehead.

“Master above!!!”

“Please accept your disciple Wu Wushuang’s kowtow!!!”