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第一千六百七十九章 天蚁上人与五行真解

Before his eyes lay a strange land.

However, unlike the Dan Yue Sect, this place was not an ancient cultivator's creation through great divine power. Instead, it was a natural spatial rift that had been utilized by someone.

"Buzz."

The sound of wings flapping entered Lin Xuan’s ears as he saw a torrential stream of blood fire ants rushing towards him. His spirit sense revealed at least ten thousand of them.

He couldn’t help but frown. While this number of spiritual insects was manageable, it still presented an interesting challenge. He decided to test his newly advanced divine techniques on these pests.

With a flick of his sleeve, hundreds of five-colored sword lights emerged from the sleeves and grew to over three feet in length as they surged forward with ferocity.

However, the blood fire ants showed no fear. These savage insects were inherently brutal. With each flap of their wings, small flames appeared like wind blades, piercing through the air towards him.

Each individual flame’s power was insignificant, but when tens of thousands gathered together, it became formidable.

The five-colored sword lights clashed with them, and spiritual light flashed wildly as the atmosphere grew turbulent. For a moment, neither side gained an upper hand, thanks to Lin Xuan's enhanced sword lights after his advancement.

"Interesting."

Lin Xuan murmured, a smile playing on his lips. He had witnessed the power of the blood fire ants, making him more eager.

With another flick of his sleeve, the Nine Heaven Bright Moon Ring flew out.

Lin Xuan waved his hands and cast several spells. Fire dragons and ice serpents appeared, rushing to the insect cloud where they clawed and bit at them. The demonic insects didn’t back down either, engaging in a fierce battle.

However, this wasn’t over yet. As Lin Xuan moved, a white hurricane appeared, stretching from heaven to earth, sweeping towards the demonic insects.

The hurricane was composed of wind blades, incredibly powerful. The insect cloud began to weaken and disperse as a result.

After a short while, most of the blood fire ants were decimated by Lin Xuan’s attacks, with only a few fleeing eastward. He wasn’t worried about accidentally killing the queen ant; these demonic insects had a well-organized system where the queen was solely responsible for laying eggs.

Soon, an ancient cultivator's cave appeared before him.

With another flick of his sleeve, a streak of green light shot out. These adult blood fire ants could not recognize their master, so Lin Xuan wiped them out as well.

His spirit sense revealed no signs of any restrictions in front of the cave entrance. This was unsurprising; living in seclusion here was already quite safe.

But better to be cautious, Lin Xuan activated his Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye and confirmed his judgment before carefully stepping inside.

A large hall greeted him with simple furnishings, measuring only twenty feet across. The only notable feature was a skeleton lying in the corner of the hall.

Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow as he walked over.

Attached to the waist of the skeleton was a storage bag.

"Hmm?"

Lin Xuan felt surprised and placed his hand on his chin, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Knowing that in today's spirit world, most storage bags were belt-shaped, with some resembling earrings or rings, this item’s craftsmanship seemed too crude. It resembled human-world storage bags almost identically. But clearly, the owner of this skeleton wasn’t from the same world; he must have been an ancient cultivator.

This judgment was likely correct, but Lin Xuan had no time to delve deeper into his origins. After a moment's hesitation, he picked up the storage bag.

With a downward flick, a burst of white light swept out, revealing numerous treasures on the ground—flying knives, flying swords, and shields. However, upon scanning with his spirit sense, Lin Xuan’s expression turned disappointed. They were too ordinary; these ancient treasures lacked any remarkable qualities. It seemed this person's cultivation was not impressive.

In addition to these items, there were three more: a tower-shaped artifact, and two jade eyes.

Lin Xuan hesitated before bending down to pick up the white jade eye first. Then he sank his spirit sense into it.

After a meal’s worth of time, Lin Xuan looked up with surprise on his face.

This senior had a far more complex identity than he imagined.

He was an ascended cultivator.

However, from his description, the human world where he resided wasn’t the same as the one he had left behind before ascending.

But that wasn't the main point. According to this senior, known as "Venerable Heavenly Ant," he stumbled upon a path of cultivation by chance and had mediocre资质. He managed to reach the Separation Realm only because of an extraordinary book.

His primary cultivation technique was The True Explanation of the Five Elements.

How could such a technique be considered extraordinary? It was amusingly simple: in the cultivation world, the more powerful techniques were also harder to master, often filled with bottlenecks. Techniques like Nine Heavens Profound Technique and Phoenix Dance Through Nine Heavens all followed this rule.

These were known as top-tier techniques, despite their difficulty, they could easily sweep through peers of the same rank.

In contrast, there was another type of technique that was relatively easy to advance in with few bottlenecks but had negligible power. In the same rank, it would be at the bottom.

The True Explanation of the Five Elements fell into this category. It was said to have such weak power that it was almost unbelievable. However, from another perspective, it was a remarkable book because there were no bottlenecks; for example, reaching the Foundation Establishment peak stage didn’t require any concern about breakthroughs—it happened naturally as he formed his golden core.

From the golden core to the Essence Condensation realm, and then to the Separation Realm, it followed the same pattern.

Thus, despite having mediocre资质, Venerable Heavenly Ant successfully reached the late Separation Realm, breaking through the void and arriving in the spirit world.

However, how weak were his other divine techniques? He revealed that he was only on par with an Essence Condensation后期 cultivator when reaching the late Separation Realm. Lin Xuan almost thought he had misread it.

The Separation Realm was a turning point; back then, Fairy Yuyan had easily killed eight Essence Condensation后期 cultivators in just a short while using her early Separation Realm strength. This Venerable Heavenly Ant, at the late Separation Realm, was only on par with an Essence Condensation后期 cultivator, which was quite surprising.

In truth, if this technique’s power were weak enough, it would have been fiercely contested by cultivators. After all, cultivation wasn’t about fighting; the ultimate goal was to achieve eternal longevity—immortality.

If one could cultivate The True Explanation of the Five Elements, they might easily become an immortal. Unfortunately, such thoughts were overly naive!

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