Chapter 710 - 704: Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven, Over 40 Immortals
In the cave mansion, Qin Feng sat cross-legged, his spirit fully immersed in the Demon Refining Pot.
He was observing the state of the spiritual beasts on each level!
It had been over three months since their return to the sect.
Indeed, their rapid success in the Immortal Dao had caused quite a stir when they first returned to the sect. The entire sect celebrated, and the news spread beyond, causing a sensation in the Southern Domain.
And that was not all. When some forces with business ties to other domains relayed their deeds in the Northern Domain to the Southern Domain, discussions about them became a target for countless cultivators.
Especially Qin Feng’s use of his cultivation at the Dharma Image Realm to seize the Beiming Immortal Mansion left behind by a great power of the Kunpeng Clan in the Beiming Sea Domain, followed by the experience of being hunted by numerous great cultivators with Primordial Spirits in the Northern Domain, and their theft of top-level divine fruits from the palace of the Divine King in another world, these events turned into the hottest topics among cultivators and maintained a high level of interest!
The Beast Taming Sect seized this opportunity to greatly promote their name, turning these two individuals into a golden signboard and using Qin Feng and Li Miaozhen, the Masters of Qi Luck, to attract more young men and women with outstanding talents to join the sect.
Anyway, ever since they became Masters of Qi Luck, trying to keep a low profile was impossible; their every move was closely watched.
So, of course, the Beast Taming Sect would exploit this, gaining fame for the sect and making many young people aspire to join.
With one wave of overt and covert momentum-building and promotion after another by the Beast Taming Sect, almost the entire Southern Domain now believed that the Beast Taming Sect was destined to rise.
Especially with the strong return of Qin Feng and Li Miaozhen, it was an almost undisputed matter.
In such circumstances, many families and medium to small forces wished to board this vessel of the Beast Taming Sect, which was forging ahead, to gain some benefits for themselves.
And what better way to board this vessel than to have their descendants join the Beast Taming Sect and become one with the sect?
It just so happened that in recent years, the Beast Taming Sect had greatly opened up their mountain gate and widely accepted disciples. As long as the person had a clean background, no problematic origins, and excellent talents, they hardly refused anyone!
Since Luo Zhancheng led his forces to fully conquer that world and occupy all its territories, he not only gathered the fortune of an entire realm, forcibly achieving immortality, but also obtained a foundation much stronger than that of common cultivators after becoming an immortal.
After all, it was a medium world. Adding to that, it had been oppressed by all gods and the Light God Realm for over ten thousand years, without producing a divine being, let alone higher-level upper divine spirits!
Even though Luo Zhancheng took a shortcut, with such an abundance of Qi Fortune supporting him, his future achievements are inconceivable and limitless.
This was also why the Gui Ling Ancestor initially insisted on not allowing Elder Liuling to take action personally, but instead arranged for Luo Zhancheng to go and claim kingship.
Elder Liuling had already achieved the status of a Profound Immortal, and even with the Qi Fortune from that world, he could not achieve immortality, so it was better to cultivate a cultivator with lower strength but greater potential, essentially grooming the next generation for the sect.
Apart from Luo Zhancheng, who received the most benefits, the Beast Taming Sect also acquired a complete medium world as a resource land.
Even though the resources of this medium world were somewhat less compared to the Red Flame Demon Realm, because medium worlds also vary in size and resource abundance.
The Red Flame Demon Realm was not only several times larger than that continent but also had frequent crustal movements and volcanic eruptions, with energy leaking from the depths of the earth’s core, making it rich in resources and quite strong among medium worlds.
Although the world that Luo Zhancheng and the sect cultivators occupied was also vast, the land actually suitable for ordinary life forms was just that continent, and years of exploitation by the gods had reduced its resources somewhat.
However, ‘somewhat less’ is still relative. No matter what, it is a whole world and has a territory much larger than what the Beast Taming Sect occupies in the Southern Domain.
What is more important is that this world is exclusively possessed by the Beast Taming Sect, unlike the Red Flame Demon Realm, which must be shared with the Ghost Controlling Sect, the Five Poisons Sect, and dozens of other medium and small sects.
Therefore, the resources the Beast Taming Sect obtained from that world are more than what they got from the Red Flame Demon Realm.
More importantly, the resources fetched from there don’t contain Demonic Qi, unlike those from the Red Flame Demon Realm, which need to be specially refined to remove Demonic Qi before use.
Therefore, the Beast Taming Sect is now quite wealthy, able to support so many cultivators and having two medium worlds as training grounds for the sect disciples. What a uniquely advantageous condition that is; no wonder many family forces are moved and willing to send their talented offspring to the Beast Taming Sect.
But all these are, for the time being, unrelated to Qin Feng.
He does not need to be overly distracted by the sect’s affairs. As long as he keeps the sect in mind, the sect is willing to spare no efforts to cultivate them, the two Masters of Qi Luck.
Along with the other disciples who had participated in the trials of the Five Domains and achieved good results, receiving the Heavenly Dao’s reward of Qi Fortune, they too received great support from the sect for their cultivation.
Among them, several notable ones, Lianxing, Gu Wumou, and Lin Jingxin had already condensed their Primordial Spirits and were now preparing for becoming Immortals!
While others, such as Kong Xuan, Wei Yan, Fang Zheng, Qi Wushang, and Liu Wuxiang, had also advanced to the Dharma Image Realm and were not far from the Primordial Spirit Realm, they could break through at any moment and refine their Primordial Spirits.
Now, not only had the older generation of cultivators in the Beast Taming Sect accumulated considerable advancement through countless resources and opportunities, but they had also drawn insights from novel cultivation techniques from otherworlds, boosting the Dao cultivation of many elders significantly. The younger generation of disciples had made even more rapid progress.
Even true disciples like Lianxing and Gu Wumou had surpassed many veteran elders. Ma Xingkong, Liu Wuxiang, and others were fiercely catching up. Their progress caused many of the older cultivators to click their tongues in amazement, feeling the sentimentality of the young overtaking the old like waves in a river!
This was the benefit of expeditions, as well as a microcosm of the grand era’s background!
Not just the Beast Taming Sect, but all sects and clans in the cultivation world were growing stronger at a visibly accelerated pace under this wave of change.
However, this process of strengthening always started with the major sects that won in the expeditions, followed by the smaller sects that supported and participated with them in battle. After obtaining sufficient resources from otherworlds, these sects then radiated these benefits to their affiliated families and many smaller forces, consequently affecting a vast area nearby. Numerous otherworld resources emerged in many markets, enabling even loose cultivators to benefit.
But speaking of individuals, those who benefited the most were the likes of Qin Feng who not only personally participated in the battles but also won various resources time and again.
That’s why he managed to achieve Immortal Dao and attain longevity at such a young age!
Since returning to the sect, Qin Feng had not been in a hurry to practice cultivation. His progress had been too fast; now, he should not seek further speed, but rather take time to consolidate his gains.
So after making a few appearances in the sect, he went into seclusion in his cave mansion.
His retreat, however, was not in Heavenly Snake Ridge, but in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven.
Having become an Immortal, there was nothing wrong with going to the Heavenly Snake Ridge, but unless necessary, it was more appropriate for him to be in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven.
Not only because the concentration of spiritual energy here was stronger, but in some special caves or areas, due to the cultivation of generations of predecessors and the nurturing of special array formation restrictions, these places contained corresponding Dao rhythms, which made it easier to comprehend the Laws.
Qin Feng and Li Miaozhen, because of their dense Qi fortune and outstanding talents, were arranged by the sect to cultivate in the respective cave mansions.
In fact, not only them, but Lianxing, Gu Wumou, and others also had the freedom to cultivate anywhere in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven, in places imbued with the Laws.
This was a privilege given by the sect to talented disciples, but this generation of geniuses all had Qi fortune bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, so their rate of progress was exceptionally fast!
As for the words spoken by Li Miaozhen when she had just returned to the sect, Qin Feng did not take them seriously.
Even Ning Wuxu and Luo Zhancheng felt the same.
Although Luo Zhancheng once bragged proudly in front of Ning Wuxu, boasting that his disciple was capable, so much so that she could reverse Yin and Yang and scheme to have Qin Feng taken in marriage, upon reflection, his earlier enthusiasm faded, and he instead felt that he had given away his disciple at a loss.
Because they had become Immortals!
Within the Inner Sect, various lineages still divided into their domains, each with its own allegiance, but that was all cast aside upon entering the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven.
The main reason was the scarcity of elders who had achieved Immortal Dao. Under the plotting of the Gui Ling Ancestor and with support from Elder Kongkong, the Jue Tian Ancestor had refined this cave heaven to be incredibly expansive through tens of thousands of years. The interior spaces were vast, otherwise, it wouldn’t be able to accommodate so many spiritual beasts.
After the Gui Ling Ancestor ascended to immortality, and the sect embarked on expeditions to take over two worlds consecutively, an abundance of resources had allowed the inner space of the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven to expand significantly. They had even specially relocated many spirit veins, strengthening the resources of the cave heaven.
And how many Supreme Elders does the Beast Taming Sect have?
Longevity was, after all, difficult to achieve; not simply a result of having enough resources or powerful cultivation techniques.
Since the beginning of the expeditions, a dozen or so elders had ascended to Immortality, a culmination of the sect’s years of accumulation. There were not a few cultivators like Yu Hualong who had cultivated diligently for many years and just lacked the opportunity to advance. Elder Chu of the Divine Bull Lineage was actually in a similar situation, which is why there appeared so many immortals like a gushing well after the commencement of the expeditions.
But even if adding Qin Feng, Li Miaozhen, and the earlier Supreme Elders, the Beast Taming Sect had a total of just over forty immortals.
Although this number was already quite astonishing to outsiders, it was truly inconspicuous within such a vast cave heaven.
Therefore, in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven, there were no domain divisions, and there was also no so-called factionalism. If Qin Feng and Li Miaozhen became Daoist companions, they could simply establish a cave mansion without worrying about who would marry whom.
Because even if a marriage were to take place, they would still be cultivating within the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven, without any clear way to delineate ownership.
This was why Luo Zhancheng felt he had lost out, not only investing a disciple for free but also possibly having to provide a generous dowry when they became Daoist companions!