Cultivation: I Can Reincarnate Into Various Worlds

The Divine Way—a strange path.

In the classics of the Flying Feather Immortal Palace, there were also sporadic records concerning the Divine Way. However, the great cultivators who annotated these texts often dismissed it as an unorthodox, alternative path, inferior to the true Immortal Path.

It's just that this Fox Demon Huan'er's cultivation is still too shallow; the information she possesses isn't much. Xu Xing concluded, slightly shaking his head after browsing through more than two hundred years of her memories.

After processing the memories, Xu Xing departed from Fierce Tomb Ridge.

Following Fox Demon Huan'er's recollections, he bypassed Mountain Ghost Tower, another peak within Ten Extremity Ridge, and soon arrived at a mountain settlement called Peach Fragrance Town.

Although called a town, Peach Fragrance Town was by no means small. In terms of scale, it was considered a large city under the jurisdiction of the Black Mountain Sect.

He stopped before the Black Mountain Sect's headquarters.

Xu Xing expressed his desire to join the Black Mountain Sect and become one of its Sect Members.

The Black Mountain Sect was a Human Clan faction. It governed a large territory, protecting the region and fighting against the demons of Ten Extremity Ridge, and held a good reputation in Yinshui County.

The initiation ceremony to join the Black Mountain Sect was similar to that of the Immeasurable Sect, also requiring a "Blood Oath."

However, the Blood Oath of the Black Mountain Sect was not a "Blood Oath Talisman." Instead, it required Sect Members to separate a wisp of their Divine Soul, through which three great evil curses were sworn to bind them.

Xu Xing cared little for this. He could be reborn once in the Emperor Jin World, so wasting this current life was of no consequence to him.

Clearly, a curse upon his Divine Soul would hardly affect his next incarnation.

「One month later.」

Thanks to his considerable cultivation and the vicious curses he had sworn, Xu Xing quickly established himself in the Black Mountain Sect. He was appointed by the Sect Leader, Si Lanqing, as the Deputy Temple Master of Peach Capital Town.

In the main room of a magnificent temple's rear courtyard in Peach Capital Town, Xu Xing sat opposite a middle-aged man dressed in black. This was Qiu Qing, the Head Temple Master of Peach Capital Town, whose position was superior to Xu Xing's.

"Junior Brother Chang's requests..." Qiu Qing began, "the Sect Leader has agreed to them all."

"I've made a fool of myself before Senior Brother Qiu..." Xu Xing said with a smile. "In my youth, I chanced upon a Ghost Immortal cultivation method and thus embarked on this path. Unfortunately, it was an incomplete version, making further progress difficult..."

"It is my great fortune to have joined our sect and obtained the subsequent cultivation methods. Otherwise, I might have languished on this path for my entire life..."

Gazing at the Jade Slip on the table, Xu Xing's face lit up with unconcealed joy. He made no show of reservation, immediately taking the Jade Slip and examining its contents with his Divine Sense.

On the Ghost Immortal Path, a Nine Tribulations Ghost Immortal was equivalent to the Elixir Mark Realm. The realms beyond that were Approaching Yang, Returning to the Netherworld, and Fate Determining.

This is different from what I initially thought.

In truth, the "Dragon Flame Sacred Jiao Method" he had acquired in the Bloodline World was not an incomplete cultivation method, but a complete one.

However, to enter the Elixir Mark Realm, the "Dragon Flame Sacred Jiao Method" alone was insufficient. One also needed a technique to form an Elixir Talisman to have any chance of breaking through.

The so-called Elixir Talisman involved opening an aperture within the Yin Soul's Sea of Consciousness. This aperture would then replace the function of the Niwan Palace in a living human body.

The Ghost Immortal Path was one of death before rebirth.

The three realms following the Elixir Mark Realm—Approaching Yang, Returning to the Netherworld, and Fate Determining—were all steps to transform the Ghost Immortal's Yin Soul Body towards Yang, eventually leading to revival...

"I see Junior Brother Chang's gaze is fixed on the 'Profound Abyss Pill Seal'; he's clearly lost interest in what I'm saying..." Qiu Qing remarked. "It's understandable. I was the same when I first received my cultivation method; I was completely engrossed..."

After a stick of Pine Divine Incense had burned down, Qiu Qing decided it was time for his guest to leave. He casually offered an excuse and courteously escorted Xu Xing to the door.

Ghost Immortal cultivators, before achieving Return to Yang, possessed Yin Soul Bodies and could not enjoy worldly sensory pleasures. They could only bask in Pine Divine Incense to soothe their Divine Souls.

However, Pine Divine Incense was expensive.

Qiu Qing and Xu Xing were hardly close friends. Treating Xu Xing to a stick of Pine Divine Incense was already a considerable gesture.

"Yes, Senior Brother Qiu," Xu Xing acknowledged. "Then, Junior Brother, I shall take my leave for now..."

Being tactful, Xu Xing rose and cupped his fists in a salute. With a wave of his sleeve robe, he opened the door and, transforming into a gentle breeze, returned to his own quarters.

Once inside his residence and with Qiu Qing gone, he eagerly pressed the Jade Slip to his forehead, resuming his study of the method to form the Elixir Talisman.

「Time flew during cultivation. In a flash, more than twenty years had passed.」

In less than four years, Xu Xing had fully comprehended the method of creating the Profound Abyss Pill Seal and successfully formed his Elixir Talisman, advancing to become a Nine Tribulations Ghost Immortal.

However, while the Elixir Mark Realm was relatively easy to reach, the Return to Yang Realm was difficult to attain. This latter realm required the complete reconstruction of meridians, organs, blood, and more throughout the body.

But Xu Xing was not in a rush. His thirty years of closed-door cultivation in the Main World equated to nearly six hundred years in the Emperor Jin World.

However, in the twentieth year, an unexpected event occurred, forcing him to end his seclusion.

The two major sects of Yinshui County, the Black Mountain Sect and the Fragrance Sect, went to war over a treasure.

The two factions engaged in fierce conflict.

As a Ghost Immortal who had joined the Black Mountain Sect midway, Xu Xing naturally couldn't escape being pressed into service.

He didn't mind handling a few minor tasks. But in the seventh year of the war, as the Black Mountain Sect began to lose ground, Xu Xing, after being ordered to launch a surprise attack on the Fragrance Sect's stronghold in Everblue City, began to harbor thoughts of defection.

Perhaps because he hadn't undergone reincarnation in this world, he lacked 'Immortal Fate' and found it difficult to establish a firm foothold. In his several battles against members of the Fragrance Sect, he consistently encountered opponents a full realm higher than himself...

Naturally, Xu Xing refused to undertake this surprise attack on the Fragrance Sect's base in Everblue City.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Black Mountain Sect, he still had a thirty percent chance of survival.

But in his assessment, undertaking this mission was almost certainly a death sentence.

On the eve of his supposed departure, Xu Xing casually concocted an excuse and hid himself away on an unnamed mountain in Yinshui County, going into seclusion.

Soon, within three days, after the Black Mountain Sect failed to locate Xu Xing, they activated the Soul Token he had left with the sect, causing the three great evil curses to take effect.

This time, only his Yan Shen Body could resist the onslaught of the three great curses. Xu Xing could not dispel these curses as easily as he had the Blood Oath Talisman...

Someone from the Black Mountain Sect is coming...

In the seventh month of the curses taking effect, Xu Xing could no longer fully withstand their torment. His Divine Soul unintentionally wavered once, allowing his aura to leak out.

Within the Black Mountain Sect, there were Ghost Immortals who had already reached the Fate Determining realm. Such Ghost Immortals could rely on even a wisp of a cultivator's aura to remotely cast deadly curses, killing without a trace.

If not for Xu Xing's ingenious array technique, he likely would have been found by a Life Determining Ghost Immortal on the very first day of his defection.

To have hidden successfully for seven months—his methods could indeed be called brilliant.

But I was already prepared for the demise of this 'other me.' I've already transferred all the Artifacts and other valuables from this body...

Xu Xing wasn't afraid of a Life Determining Ghost Immortal finding him.

At worst, it was just dying one more time.

Rather than fall into enemy hands...

It's better to end my own existence...

Xu Xing prepared to disperse his Yin Soul.

Otherwise, if he fell into the hands of a Life Determining Ghost Immortal, he didn't know if such a being possessed means to prevent him from dying even if he wished it.

But—unfortunately.

Just as Xu Xing was about to shatter his Yin Soul...

A white-haired woman wearing a Bamboo Hat appeared within his Water Mirror Array.

The white-haired woman was rushing towards him, her face etched with anxiety.

Shi Yuyan?

Seeing this familiar figure, Xu Xing was momentarily stunned.

A wave of regret washed over him, but his composure quickly returned.

A man without Fate... is destined not to go far. It might be for the best to shatter my Yin Soul now. Otherwise... with my personality, I would find it difficult to face this woman who had once been my mother...