The Golden Elixir is A Star, and You Call This Cultivation?
Chapter 37 Qi Yuan’s Plot_1

Chapter 37: Chapter 37 Qi Yuan’s Plot_1

After his final assassination, Qi Yuan rapidly and relentlessly scoured the entirety of the Heishan Sect.

However, due to the lack of time, his main focus was on the library.

To Qi Yuan, cultivation techniques were of utmost importance.

An infinite number of cultivation techniques, coupled with the vast amount of knowledge he had amassed and his ability to access hidden information, would enable him to continue refining the Qi Yuan Sutras and carve out his own path in cultivation.

"Time to go."

Factoring in time, Qi Yuan swiftly took his leave from the Heishan Sect.

...

Duan Qianrou, dressed in a plain, chest-high robe, was presently seated on a Yun Rabbit vehicle.

The Yun Rabbit, a creature with three heads and eight legs, could travel both on land and in the sky with an unsurpassed stability. Therefore, its fate was not to be eaten, but to be an excellent dual-environment transport.

"Everyone, we must stand together in our negotiations with the Heishan Sect. We cannot back down. Giving 20% of the Blood Crystals to the Heishan Sect is already our limit—we can’t increase it any more!" said a bulky man.

There were over ten people in the Yun Rabbit vehicle—all of them were mining lords of the major Blood Crystal mines in the bloodless city.

Just a few days ago, the Heishan Sect demanded that the mining lords increase their Blood Crystal quota from 20% to 30%.

This enraged the mining lords beyond measure.

The bloodless city was not under the jurisdiction of the Heishan Sect. Handing over 20% was already unreasonable enough.

Yet now, they had upped it to 30%. This was simply overbearing.

"Alas, Old Wang, what good does it do us to form a united front?

The Heishan Sect has the backing of the Black Phoenix Old Demon; even the three major Cultivation Sects have to give them face.

How can the likes of us, scattered cultivators, go up against the Heishan Sect?

I fear that if we don’t increase our tribute, we won’t be able to return to the bloodless city," an old man who was at the Foundation Establishment Stage remarked hopelessly.

The people present all bore grave expressions.

Such a thing was something the Heishan Sect would definitely do.

The elders of the Heishan Sect—weren’t each one of them ruthless?

Even Yu Linglong, who appeared pitiful at first glance, practiced dark magic by killing people before she was taken under the tutelage of the Black Phoenix Old Demon.

As for the disciples of the Heishan Sect, most were from a life of criminal cultivation, one can only imagine how nasty their temperaments are.

"Alas, if only a Sword Immortal would appear one day and destroy the Heishan Sect with a single sword strike. That would be wonderful!"

"Even the three major sects can’t do anything about the Heishan Sect; where could we find a Sword Immortal?"

"Old Wang, lower your voice; don’t let the disciples of the Heishan Sect hear you."

Duan Qianrou, sitting in the Yun Rabbit vehicle, was also feeling a bit melancholic.

But then, the speed of the Yun Rabbit vehicle decreased.

The people inside tensed, thinking they had run into someone from the Heishan Sect.

When the curtain was pulled back, they saw a handsome young man.

Duan Qianrou was surprised, as this young man was the one her mother had happily chatted with earlier today.

What...What was he doing in the territory of the Heishan Sect?

And moreover, why was he so close to the headquarters of the Heishan Sect?

Was he a disciple of the Heishan Sect?

Thinking of this, Duan Qianrou felt disgusted.

Not that she was unreasonable, but it was a well-known fact that not a single good person existed in the Heishan Sect!

"Excuse me, everyone." The person was indeed Qi Yuan, who had just descended from the destroyed sect. He looked at everyone and slowly said, "Can I ask, which nearby market houses the Lingtian Pavilion?"

When the people heard that he was merely asking for directions, they relaxed.

They were genuinely afraid he was a disciple of the Heishan Sect.

"The Lingtian Pavilion is in the Tianyun Market," Duan Qianrou answered.

"Thank you, everyone!" Qi Yuan bowed courteously. Simultaneously, he thought to himself that there were indeed more good people in this world than one might imagine.

Duan Qianrou thought of something and couldn’t help but ask, "How did you end up at the Heishan Sect?"

Everyone understood that Duan Qianrou knew this young man and, therefore, there shouldn’t be a problem.

"I came here to...stargaze," Qi Yuan stammered. He was really bad at lying, so he just said the first thing that came to mind.

Duan Qianrou laughed aloud, "I apologize for being so intrusive. And remember, the Heishan Sect is very dangerous. Don’t come here unless you have to."

"You’re right, it’s too dangerous here. I should run as fast as I can!" said Qi Yuan. As soon as he finished speaking, he took off.

Watching Qi Yuan disappear in a cloud of dust, everyone present found it quite bewildering.

"Mining Lord Duan, do you know that young man?" Old Wang asked. "He seems like an interesting character."

"I don’t know him," Duan Qianrou denied.

The others didn’t say anything more, assuming that Duan Qianrou was just a woman of good character.

It was just a minor interlude.

Everyone brushed it off.

The Yun Rabbit vehicle quickly set off again.

Everyone soon arrived at the gate of the Heishan Sect.

"Why is the White Bone Bridge broken?"

Everyone was astonished.

If one wanted to proceed to the Heishan Sect, they had to cross the White Bone Bridge.

Now, the White Bone Bridge was no more.

"Look, what’s that?"

Everyone immediately cast various spells to see what was happening inside the gate of the Heishan Sect.

They saw the gate of the Heishan Sect had collapsed and, within the sect, bodies were scattered everywhere.

"That’s...an elder’s Nascent Soul," someone stammered.

"The Heishan Sect has been annihilated!"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

After all, that was the Heishan Sect, the overwhelming Heishan Sect!

To annihilate the Heishan Sect, at least a Nascent Soul old monster would be needed, right?

Aren’t they afraid of offending the Black Phoenix Old Demon?

Suddenly, everyone turned to look at the Old Wang who had mentioned an immortal destroying the Heishan Sect.

Old Wang quickly waved his hands, "It wasn’t me, I didn’t!"

Meanwhile, Duan Qianrou narrowed her eyes, considering the young man they had met on the road earlier.

Had he...seen something?

The hearts of everyone present were filled with different thoughts, but they all understood that chaos was about to descend upon the Great Business Empire.

...

Tianyun Market.

Qi Yuan was walking faster than usual.

After leaving the Heishan Sect, he suddenly realized that he hadn’t managed his affairs properly.

While Yu Linglong had indeed perished under his Human Dao technique,

what if... there was more than one bearer of the Purple Bamboo Body in the Heishan Sect?

What if...the Sect Master of the Heishan Sect, Black Wind Daoist, was also a Purple Bamboo Body?

The Black Phoenix Old Demon could be flying a false flag, and Yu Linglong might only be the Purple Bamboo Body in the public eye, while his adopted son, Black Wind Daoist, or other members of the Heishan Sect, could be the clandestine Purple Bamboo Bodies.

He couldn’t afford to return to the Heishan Sect.

Therefore, after much thought, he came up with a solution.

That was to spread the news of the existence of the Purple Bamboo Body in the Heishan Sect!

That way, by the time the Black Phoenix Old Demon emerged from his closed-door cultivation and came to the Heishan Sect, what he would find would be... a Heishan Sect without a single body left.

Qi Yuan could hardly imagine the craziness of cultivators desiring to break through to either the Nascent Soul Stage or even the Purple Mansion stage.

Therefore, he asked for the location of the Lingtian Pavilion on the way.

The Lingtian Pavilion served as a unique existence within the Great Business Empire.

It could be said that 80% of the game jade slips, 90% of the projection jade slips, and 50% of the communication jade slips came from the Lingtian Pavilion.

In Qi Yuan’s understanding, this was equivalent to the Penguin Corporation from his previous life.

He came to the Lingtian Pavilion with the intention of using its various jade slip channels to inform the cultivators of the Great Business Empire that there was a Purple Bamboo Body in the Heishan Sect.

In this way, countless cultivators would dare to gamble and head to the Heishan Sect.

Then when the Black Phoenix Old Demon came out of seclusion and arrived at the Heishan Sect for a quest of who destroyed the Heishan Sect?

A quest for whom?

The people!

The bodies of the disciples of the Heishan Sect would be scattered across every corner of the nation!