Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation - Chapter 335: The Wear and Tear of the Great Dao
If one were to view Jin’an Country merely as a secular nation located in the Southern Region of the Chenping Continent, its scale could be considered above average.
Its territory is vast, and it boasts nearly ten cities with populations exceeding one million.
Its economy is prosperous, and the common people live and work in peace and contentment.
However, from the perspective of the cultivation world, it is quite the opposite.
It is severely lacking in cultivation resources, and there are almost no cultivation sects that can be considered to possess any real heritage.
It would not be an exaggeration to call it a wasteland.
Yet, it was precisely such a wasteland where, a year ago, disciples from the Moon Void Sect of the Star Heaven Sect came, attempting to search for something.
In the end, they found nothing.
Chen Yan had been wandering in the Southern Region of the Chenping Continent for over two years. During these two-plus years, he traveled to nearly a hundred dynasties located in the Southern Region and paid visits to hundreds of cultivation sects.
He did his utmost to maintain a low profile to prevent being detected by the Star Heaven Sect or other top-tier sects in the Southern Region of the Chenping Continent.
However, when it was necessary to display strength, Chen Yan was not at all stingy.
Just like today, when he interrupted the conflict between the Manor Lord of the Setting Sun Sword Manor and those two Xuan Sheng Sect cultivators.
Whenever Chen Yan paid a visit to a cultivation sect, he would ask about two things.
One was to inquire whether anything noteworthy had happened recently within the sect’s sphere of influence.
The other was to ask about the Star Heaven Sect’s recent deployments and movements in the local area.
However, under normal circumstances, Chen Yan would not ask too directly, but rather try to fish for information through casual conversation.
But today, he was not acting as an ordinary visitor, but rather speaking to the Manor Lord of the Setting Sun Sword Manor from the position of a superior.
Chen Yan did not know what exactly the Star Heaven Sect wanted to do.
He simply had to consider what the Star Heaven Sect, the only one among the Five Great Sects without an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator presiding over it in this era of the Dao’s revival, might be plotting.
The Star Heaven Sect dreamed of having an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator to oversee its affairs.
Although the other four great sects currently lacked the spare capacity to annex the Southern Region of the Chenping Continent, if this situation continued, it was almost a certainty that the Star Heaven Sect would gradually decline and ultimately be divided up by the four great sects.
The Star Heaven Sect currently had only two choices.
First, its Grand Elder Gu Jiancheng successfully stepped into the Immortal Ascension Realm, though this possibility was not great.
Even if someone were to ascend, it would likely be Bai Yuze of the Lingxiao Temple or Yu Zhou of the Mirage Palace first; it wouldn’t be Gu Jiancheng’s turn to break through first.
It was rumored that this year’s newly appointed Dignity Elder of the Moon Void Sect, who had just turned thirty-six, had already condensed nearly five thousand strands of innate true energy. At this cultivation speed, breaking through to the upper three realms before she turned forty should be effortless.
Perhaps, compared to Gu Jiancheng, it was Qin Qingyu who might take the first step to ascend.
Chen Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.
What exactly was the Star Heaven Sect searching for?
Was it the Dao Basis of an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator, or some other lost inheritance?
…
Chen Yan was still alive.
Two years ago, a certain incarnation of Xiao Bo’an had once appeared at the Enforcement Hall of the Night Weaving Gate of the Star Heaven Sect and informed Qin Qingyu of this news.
As for whether to believe it or not, that was entirely left for Qin Qingyu herself to decide.
Moon Void Sect, Moonlight Pavilion.
This was the cave abode of the current Dignity Elder of the Moon Void Sect, Qin Qingyu.
“Moonlight Beams” had now become Qin Qingyu’s representative term within the Star Heaven Sect. If one day Qin Qingyu truly could break through to the Immortal Ascension Realm, then her Daoist title would most likely be Realman Moonlight Beams.
Currently, Qin Qingyu’s cultivation realm had already surpassed that of the Moon Void Sect’s Sect Master, her master, Hu Tianyuan.
Sword Master, Upholding Law, Solemn Martial, Dignity; as well as the Grand Elder Council’s Pivot, Enforcing Laws, Garrison Martial, and Supervising Rectitude.
These positions were originally part of the sect system pioneered by the Heavenly Summit Mountain. However, later, the Heavenly Summit Mountain’s sect system was imitated and used by various cultivation sects across the Chenping Continent.
It could be said that the Heavenly Summit Mountain’s influence on the Chenping Continent’s cultivation world was even greater than imagined.
For example, the Kongshan Sect, which was established relatively late, completely borrowed the Heavenly Summit Mountain’s sect system for its own.
The difference between the Star Heaven Sect’s and the Heavenly Summit Mountain’s sect systems was limited to the Peak Masters replacing the original Sword Master Elders.
Hu Tianyuan had already submitted several memorials to the Star Heaven Sect’s Pivot Court, wishing to step down from his position as Moon Void Sect’s Sect Master and become an Offering Elder. This was because he had suffered hidden injuries during the Heavenly Summit Mountain Cataclysm seventeen years ago, which had not yet healed. He wanted to focus wholeheartedly on cultivation, trying to impact the upper three realms.
However, Hu Tianyuan’s request was rejected by the Supreme Pivot Court.
Because currently, the only person within the Moon Void Sect qualified to succeed Hu Tianyuan as Sect Master was the Moon Void Sect’s Dignity Elder, Qin Qingyu.
But the Star Heaven Sect’s Grand Elders did not want Qin Qingyu to take on the role of Sect Master.
They hoped Qin Qingyu could devote as much of her energy as possible to cultivation. Holding the position of Dignity Elder was already sufficient to provide her with some training in handling various sect affairs.
The Grand Elders needed Hu Tianyuan to serve as the Moon Void Sect’s Sect Master, to shield Qin Qingyu from wind and rain.
“Elder Qin!”
A voice of a Moon Void Sect disciple came from outside the Moonlight Pavilion.
Qin Qingyu slightly raised her gaze, looking towards the Moon Void Sect disciple who had entered the pavilion and was bowing respectfully in her direction with a cupped fist salute.
“Speak.”
She slowly spoke.
“Reporting to Elder Qin, there is also no information regarding the Dao Basis of the Sun and Moon Patriarch or the Star-Paying Respects Patriarch from the Great View Dynasty side.”
The Moon Void Sect disciple said.
“Understood.”
Qin Qingyu nodded.
This was already within her expectations. Finding the Dao Basis of the Sun and Moon Patriarch or the Star-Paying Respects Patriarch was definitely not a simple matter.
Realman Sun and Moon and Realman Star-Paying Respects both perished due to the wear and tear of the Great Dao. For Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators, this manner of death was much more dignified compared to dying from something like Karmic Backlash.
The lifespan of an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator was, in theory, as long as the heavens.
But even without entangling with any cause and effect, they certainly could not escape the wear and tear of the Great Dao.
Therefore, in a certain sense, Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators who perish due to the wear and tear of the Great Dao could be considered to have died of old age.
Precisely because they “died of old age,” the various cause-and-effect entanglements these Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators accumulated throughout their lives did not complete their cycle. Therefore, the Dao Basis of these Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators who perished due to the wear and tear of the Great Dao often would not remain within their sect, but would drift into the world.
Because it was highly possible that the uncompleted karmic cycles of these Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators might, along with their Dao Basis or inheritance, cause some irreparable adverse effects on their sect.
Furthermore, Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators who perish due to the wear and tear of the Great Dao are also unable to reincarnate and be reborn.
