Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 76 – Chen Ji

In his previous life, that Adept Chen of Chen Ji’s had also caused quite a sensation when he was promoted to the realms of life.

Based on the two hundred years of lifespan of the high order cultivator s, after the age of one hundred and twenty, the peak of his cultivation should have already been passed. If he did not cross the threshold of the martial arts realm before one hundred and twenty, and become a Adept Realm Cultivator to extend his lifespan yet again, then the remaining eighty years would basically be considered as the last years of his life.

In reality, not to mention a hundred and twenty years old, even after the age of a hundred, there were very few cultivators that could advance into the realms of life.

In fact, even though this Spiritual Master Chen Ji was an inner disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect before he advanced to the realms of life, he was already oveundred and twenty years old, and did not have the potential to advance to the realms of life. Thus, he was sent to the Banyan Mountain to be the leader of the cultivators guarding the mountain.

However, this Adept Chen had never given up on trying to advance to the realms of life, and this person had always believed in the idea that other people would just treat it as nonsense, and that when his body was being strengthened, the age limit of the realms of life could be delayed.

Just when everyone had almost forgotten about this old man who was wholeheartedly obsessed with advancing to the realms of life, Chen Ji, on the other hand, shocked everyone with his stunning performance. When he reached the age of one hundred and forty, he finally transformed his essence into astral energy and broke through the obstruction of the realms of life in one fell swoop.

After the Adept Chen, the cultivation world of the Yuxian did indeed give rise to a wave of emotions, especially when one’s lifespan grew longer. A cultivator who initially thought that he had lost all hope of advancing his cultivation became even more hopeful.

However, in his previous life, even before the Adept Chen had fallen, Yang Junshan had never heard of anyone successfully breaking through to the realms of life after the age of one hundred and twenty.

There were also some people who claimed that this Adept Chen had grasped a kind of body forging technique that was at least of high quality. This kind of secret method’s key point wasn’t the effect of body tempering, but was that the secret method itself had the ability to extend the lifespan of a cultivator, and it was also able to extend the lifespan of the Martial Realm Cultivator by at least fifty years, causing the lifespan of the to reach the age of two hundred and fifty years. This way, although this Adept Chen was already one hundred and forty years old, he would normally not even be considered aundred and twenty years old.

Whether this guess was real or fake, Yang Junshan did not know in his previous life, but now, he had the chance to figure it out.

Ever since Yang Junshan recognized that this Chen Ji could possibly be that County Official Chen from his previous life, and since that day in Banyan Mountain, he had once told Yang Junshan to come and ask him about the matter of body forging. After the Qinshui fought over the land, Yang Junshan went to the Banyan Mountain to seek Chen Ji’s guidance on the secret of body forging.

This Chen Ji was indeed very familiar with the training of the body. During the exchange, Yang Junshan discovered that this Senior Chen Ji had done research on at least seven types of low rank body forging, and he had definitely mastered more than three types of low rank body forging. There were at least three to four middle ranked body forging that he was familiar with, but there were two middle ranked body forging s that he himself trained in.

During the process of Yang Junshan’s teaching, even though he had oveundred years of experience in his previous life, and his experience might not be any less than this Chen Ji, but when Chen Ji casually listed the series of flaws and mistakes in the process of Yang Junshan’s Mighty Ox Fist, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the low grade fist techniques themselves, Yang Junshan was so shocked that cold sweat broke out all over his body. Not only did he restrain his original thoughts of studying, he also started to sincerely ask this old man for advice.

What Yang Junshan did not know was that Chen Ji was equally shocked by Yang Junshan’s [Body Tempering] Inherent Skill. He had never seen a thirteen or fourteen year old boy, whose body had not even fully matured yet.

What also made Chen Ji happy was that during the exchange between the two, the youth in front of him not only had extremely high comprehension ability, it could basically be understood in one point. He was also able to point out a few novel points of view, which made Chen Ji himself feel refreshed.

Originally, Chen Ji was not willing to see Yang Junshan, who was a strange person who had talent in the body forging, buried away like that, and so he only wanted to give him some pointers. But unexpectedly, after a few visits from Yang Junshan, during the process of communication, Chen Ji became more and more fond of him, and the things he taught went from shallow to deep, and he was even more diligent, as though he was teaching Yang Junshan as his own disciple.

Yang Junshan originally came with a goal in mind, but was gradually subdued by the old man’s attainments in the body forging. He began to sincerely ask for advice and treat him as his master.

In this period of over a year, although Yang Junshan’s cultivation had been progressing at a slow pace, his progress in terms of his body had increased by leaps and bounds, and now that Yang Tiangang’s Seven Stones Iron Bow was in his hands, it seemed to have become softer and softer. What made him even happier, was that even though Yang Junshan had never revealed the secrets of the Mountain Monarch Map, after more than a year of accumulation and enrichment, he seemed to be getting closer and closer to cultivating the Tiger Leap Art from the Monarch Map.

Last time when Yang Junshan visited the old man in Banyan Mountain, he told him that he was preparing to leave the Banyan Mountain to train. The next time, he could directly go to the county city to find him.

Following the memories he had of the county city in his previous life and the address that Chen Ji had given him, Yang Junshan easily found the place Chen Ji was at. This was a small courtyard within a small alley, who would have thought that the person who lived inside would be an inner disciple of the highest level martial arts realm of the Heaven-Shaken Sect.

“Greetings, senior!” It waespectful bow, but Yang Junshan’s respect for the old man came from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Ji was still dressed in green with white hair and beard, but was brimming with vigor and vitality. Upon seeing Yang Junshan, he sized him up and said: “You’re going far away?”

Yang Junshan nodded his head: “That’s right, junior’s cultivation is almost at the peak of the Spirit Enlightenment Realm, my father has instructed me to return to the Yang Mansion in the Bluestone Town to pick out a spell for the fourth stage, and to come visit senior today, at the same time, I am also bidding my farewells to senior, going to the Chenyu County for a year or so, I am afraid junior will not be able to ask senior for your help.”

Yang Junshan’s identity would naturally not be hidden from Chen Ji, at least the Bluestone Town’s Yang family waower to be reckoned with, back then Yang Junshan’s grandfather who was known as the “Liehu”, Chenyu County’s “Liehu” Yang Lie was also quite famous, he was in the same generation as Chen Ji, Chen Ji had also heard of this person’s reputation, back then when he heard that had failed in his attempt to break through the realms of life, he had sighed incessantly, and Yang Junshan did not need to hide anything.

Chen Ji nodded his head, and said: “Coincidentally, this old man also needs to go into seclusion to cultivate, so this time cultivation is also extremely important to this old man.

Yang Junshan calculated based on the time he had in his previous life, Chen Ji was probably going to go into closed door cultivation this time to make his last effort to break through the realms of life, thus he said: “Senior will definitely be able to complete his closed door cultivation this time, it has been a success!”

Chen Ji laughed: “Originally, this old man was still a little perturbed, but after teaching you the body forging for over a year, this old man has gained quite a bit, especially your own bizarre theories, although most of them have no basis, but the novelty of a lot of points still has some benefits, it adds to this old man’s confidence.”

Yang Junshan could not help but blush a little, the opinions he used to communicate with Chen Ji were mostly the views of the heaven and earth changing, the mainstream view after the integration of the cultivation world, these views were all not Yang Junshan’s own things, but Chen Ji was merely a small fry in the midst of the sects, and it was difficult for him to see everything with a single glance.

Yang Junshan thought for a moment, then said: “It’s been a while since I’ve been able to benefit from it like senior, junior will definitely not be able to cultivate as fast as I did in the past. Senior, do you have anything else to teach me?”

Chen Ji nodded his head, and said thoughtfully: “Most of the Bluestone Town’s arts are passed down to the Heaven-Shaken Sect, in fact, many of the large and small families, sects, and powers in the Yuxian are all related to the Heaven-Shaken Sect. Mn, I heard that your Yang Family inherited the earth attribute cultivation technique, and amongst the earth attribute techniques, there is an extremely common technique that very few people are willing to cultivate in, in exchange for the ‘earth attribute technique’, you can use it to cultivate for a while.”

“Earth Accumulating Technique?” Yang Junshan naturally knew about this technique, but there had been very few people who were willing to cultivate it, so he asked in confusion: “What is the use of practicing this technique?”

This technique focused on the caster and absorbed all the dirt and rocks around him into the caster. In the end, his entire body was covered by a thick layer of soil, turning him into a clumsy native.

It was said that the cultivators who created this technique at the beginning were trying to move the spiritual earth during the process of creating the Ling Tian, and later on, people found out that this technique could also be used as a defensive technique. After all, the dirt and rocks that were absorbed into one’s body had a protective effect.

However, this spell was simply too useless. If it was convenient to construct a field, one could use a large carriage to transport the spiritual earth, so why would it make one’s head and face be covered? If it was used to defend against enemies, even one’s own head would be covered, but if the opponent hit you everywhere, how could you defend against it?

Because no one cared about this spell, it was not hidden by anyone. Instead, it was widely spread in the cultivation world, but very few people were willing to cultivate it.

“Do you know the ‘Ground Spirit Art’?” Chen Ji asked again.

“Of course!” Yang Junshan replied, “The Earth Elemental Spiritual Art is a life-saving technique used by earth attributed cultivators, and it is also one of the hardest techniques to learn in the world of cultivation.”

Yang Junshan paused, seeing Chen Ji’s smiling and nodding expression, he asked in astonishment: “Could it be that between the ‘Earth Nailing Technique’ and the ‘Earth Escape Technique’ …?”

Chen Ji nodded his head: “That’s right, this old man had the good fortune to hear from a senior in the Heaven-Shaken Sect who had cultivated the ‘Earth Disappearing Spirit Art’ from the mouth that the ‘Earth Gathering Technique’ was derived from the ‘Earth Disappearing Spirit Art’. If you were to successfully cultivate the ‘Earth Dispersing Technique’, if you were to have the good fortune to cultivate the ‘Earth Disappearing Spirit Art’ again in the future, it would be twice the result of your work with half the effort!”

Yang Junshan was overjoyed, and immediately expressed his gratitude: “Thank you for your guidance, senior!”

Chen Ji nodded his head, hesitated a moment, and said: There are some things that your Limestone Madame Yang’s family needs, and this old man was originally not willing to keep her mouth shut, but you brat, I can consider it as me having feelings, so I will listen to you, and whatever reason your father came to Mengyu County, I will know, although you are a direct descendant of the Yang family, but right now, the person who is supporting you is not someone you can provoke. Since it is only going back to the old house to select some techniques, then come back after you are done, and don’t need to stay there to keep your eyes open.