The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings - Chapter 748 - Chapter 748: Chapter 698: Pooled Water Becomes a River

Chapter 748: Chapter 698: Pooled Water Becomes a River

“The Nine Realms of Spirit, each step is a journey to the heavens – The proverb certainly holds true,” Pei Xuanjing reflected within his heart.

Having meditated for several years, he took this time to both digest and consolidate the insights he had gained from the Dao Debating Conference and reevaluated his cultivation.

“At this ultimate moment, the path ahead of me is already clear. Cultivating a combination of spirit, energy, and essence simultaneously, with all three progressing at the same pace, is what sets my power apart from others at my level – I must stay resolute. After all, the Golden Core Dao is the path of fusing spirit, energy, and essence. If one is lacking, the golden core won’t attain perfection and I’ll be unable to make another breakthrough,” Pei Xuanjing silently clarified the foundations of his current cultivation practice in his heart.

All his practices, regardless of which Taoist skill or magic technique, were all built upon the foundation of spirit, energy, and essence which form the Golden Core Dao.

“From here onwards, my task is to wait for the Witch Deity Teaching to send over the copies of their techniques. I’ll then refine the Taoist rhymes of those techniques and wait until I have accumulated sufficient rhyme values to initiate the next simulation of my life,” Pei Xuanjing was planning for his current situation.

At this moment, the rhyme value required for a simulation of life had reached as high as twenty million since the conclusion of the last simulation. The rhyme values accumulated had been used up to guide Deer Elder, causing Pei Xuanjing to have very little remaining.

Even though refining the Taixu Mirror might give him around ten million rhyme points, this top-tier magic treasure was not that easy to refine, especially when its owner, the Taixu Venerable, had yet to fully perish.

Now, although Pei Xuanjing has hastened the process of obliterating and absorbing the Taixu Venerable by having many cultivators go into the Longevity World to comprehend the Dao, he has not completely refined the Taixu Mirror, only having refined roughly 60% even up to now.

Combining the Taoist rhymes he had already accumulated, his insights into practicing the Heavenly Dao, and the Daming World, Pei Xuanjing’s current possessions only consisted of a little over eleven million rhyme values, still far from enough for performing a simulation of a lifetime.

However, Pei Xuanjing was not rushed. Given his current standing at the peak of heaven and earth, he would not be daunted even if many powerful beings decided to form an alliance against him—he had precautions in place.

Not to mention that he could temporarily retreat into the Longevity World to hide if he can’t battle these powerful beings, even if he were plotted against and killed, he would eventually be able to be resurrected and return as long as the Longevity World is not destroyed.

One could say that although Pei Xuanjing is still far from becoming immortal, he, due to a fortuitous coincidence of creating the Longevity World, has gained some traits of a True Immortal—immortality.

Without many concerns in his rear, Pei Xuanjing was naturally not hasty—careful and steady progress suited him more.

After all, at his current realm, every step forward in cultivating was extremely important. There was absolutely no room for mistakes. Otherwise, greater sacrifices would have to be made to remedy the situation.

The plan to promote Heaven and Earth was still steadily progressing. However, as far as Pei Xuanjing was concerned, he didn’t need to lift a finger for now. He just had to wait until everything was ready before taking action.

Hence, for the next while, Pei Xuanjing’s real body remained entirely secluded on Shenxiao Mountain, focusing on studying the skills he had gathered from the Witch Deity Teaching and other powers, examining the doctrines, refining, and accummulating Rhyme values.

The reason he mentioned powers like the Witch Deity Teaching was because his sincerity and openness in his expounding during the Shenxiao Mountain Symposium had greatly impressed the powerhouses of these influences, and they had come to understand that Pei Xuanjing enjoyed studying the techniques of various powers. Therefore, after the Witch Deity Teaching had acted, they had sent many of their own techniques as well.

Of course, the Witch Deity Teaching had a prior agreement with Pei Xuanjing. Aside from a few of the sect’s key techniques and top-level divine abilities that he was not allowed to see, the rest of the techniques would not be held back from him.

Although the other powers had also sent some techniques, the levels and quality of these techniques were far inferior compared to those from the Witch Deity Teaching.

“However, every little bit adds up, so even though these skills are not of a high level, their quantity can still accumulate to form a substantial amount of Taoist rhyme.” Pei Xuanjing did not decline any of the techniques sent by these powers, nor did he disdain them due to their lower levels.

For him, regardless of the quality of these techniques, as long as they were previously unknown to him, he could refine them and gain Taoist rhymes from them. They held value to Pei Xuanjing.

Every little counts and adds up, he thought, adopting the principle of ‘every drop wears away a stone.’

“Moreover, these techniques may have no value for my cultivation, but for other cultivators, it might not be the case.” Pei Xuanjing contemplated.

One must remember that apart from being the Head Teacher of Shenxiao and the National Teacher of Great Ming, Pei Xuanjing also held another important identity—that of the president of the Taoist Academy. Numerous students from all the various provinces of the Daming World were, in name, taught by Pei Xuanjing.

While these techniques and skills may not have much cultivation value for Pei Xuanjing himself, they could be quite suitable for many of the students in the academies.

After all, the items given to Pei Xuanjing by these top-tier and first-rate powers, even if they were of lower cultivation levels, were certainly not common items. Within their respective levels, these techniques must be of the highest quality and possess unique value, otherwise these people wouldn’t have collected them, let alone offered them to Pei Xuanjing.

If they were to casually send Pei Xuanjing some commonplace items, it would not be a token of friendship or goodwill, but rather a slap in the face.

These ordinary academy disciples could find techniques to cultivate from within the academy. While Pei Xuanjing and many indigenous masters have continuously improved and developed techniques during the resurrection of Heaven and Earth, with their own powers growing continuously, there inevitably arose situations where they couldn’t keep up. After all, whether it was Pei Xuanjing or other masters, they are more inclined to prioritise their own cultivation and wouldn’t have much time for modifying techniques.

In fact, as of now, there were already awkward situations arising within the academy. That’s to say, for the ordinary disciples it might be alright, but for those with outstanding talents, many techniques within the academy were no longer able to satisfy their cultivation needs.

This was one of the reasons why many academy students chose to leave the academy and then later join the Great Ming Divine Dynasty and other powers for cultivation.

No matter how deep their sentiment for the academy was, but when the academy could no longer meet their needs, they would have to leave.