Chapter 70: The Xiantian Realm (Please collect and follow)
"In the past, haven't you and I also searched for such legendary traces of immortals?"
Fu Zhizhou was somewhat puzzled.
In their nearly twenty years of seeking immortality, the four brothers had searched everywhere for immortal traces, hardly resting for a single day.
Why was Wei Tu suddenly changing his tune today?
"It is different from before. This time, the immortal traces in Danqiu Mountain are highly likely to be real, which is why I am trying to stop you..."
Wei Tu chose his words carefully as he explained.
The immortal traces the four of them had searched for in the past were mostly based on rumors and shadows; even when they learned of them, they knew they were not very credible.
But the traces in Danqiu Mountain were different; their credibility was high, otherwise Fu Zhizhou wouldn't have thought of heading to Luonan Dao to investigate personally.
Shannan Dao and Luonan Dao were a thousand miles apart; a single trip would take at least one or two months.
Not to mention the subsequent inquiries.
Hearing this, Fu Zhizhou was first surprised, then he re-chewed Wei Tu's words and nodded. "Third Brother is right. The closer one gets to success, the more cautious and prudent one must be. One cannot afford to be careless."
Previously, he had been so eager to seek immortality that he was not as thorough or comprehensive as Wei Tu. Now that he had calmed down, he also felt that his way of handling things had been too reckless.
"It's just..."
"To watch an immortal blessed land right before one's eyes without investigating it... it feels somewhat unsatisfying..."
Fu Zhizhou sighed.
To this day, they had been seeking immortality for nearly twenty years, yet they had not even seen the face of an immortal...
And how many twenty-year periods does a person have in a lifetime?
Seeing this, Wei Tu understood immediately that Fu Zhizhou could not wait—his desire to go to Danqiu Mountain to explore the mystery was not because he was unaware of the danger, but because he had chosen to selectively ignore it.
"Fourth Brother is only thirty-seven now; he has good talent and is still young. If he is this anxious and impatient, let alone Eldest and Second Brother," Wei Tu thought to himself.
It seemed like twenty years was nothing in a hundred-year life, but their twenty years were different; it was the most brilliant and promising stage of youth...
Who could feel at ease watching their prime years go to waste?
Fu Zhizhou's "recklessness."
He could suppress it for a moment, but not for a lifetime.
In a few years, if Fu Zhizhou still saw no progress in his cultivation, he would likely plunge headlong into Danqiu Mountain to find the immortal traces again.
Such behavior was just like Wei Fei swallowing the "Blood Food Pill."
Both were unwilling to watch their hard work turn into nothing.
Thinking of this, Wei Tu decided to reveal his current "martial progress" to steady their hearts.
After five years of cultivation, with the help of the "Thick Earth True Qi," he had completed the step of "Refining Qi into the Marrow," a necessary step for an external martial artist to break through to the Xiantian Realm.
Next, he only needed to nurture a breath of Xiantian Qi within his dantian to break through to the Xiantian Realm and become a legendary Xiantian Martial Master.
"Within five years, I have a sixty percent certainty of breaking through to the Xiantian Realm. Within seven years, I have an eighty percent certainty..."
Wei Tu said in a heavy voice.
He was not lying.
When he first began practicing the *Marrow Refining Scripture*, his Gold-Purple Fate indicated that it would take thirty years to reach perfection and break through to the Xiantian Realm.
But after obtaining the immortal cultivation method, his internal qi had transformed into "Thick Earth True Qi," and under its influence, the time required to break through to the Xiantian Realm had been correspondingly shortened.
"Once your foolish brother reaches the Xiantian Realm, you and I shall investigate Danqiu Mountain together," Wei Tu added.
"Xiantian?"
Fu Zhizhou was stunned.
Nurturing "Xiantian Qi" was much like finding the sensation of qi and breaking through the "Qi Sensing Realm"—it required both hard work and opportunity.
He and Wei Tu were at the same realm, the "True Qi Realm," but he was not as certain as Wei Tu that he could succeed in breaking through within a certain timeframe.
Thinking of this, Fu Zhizhou hurriedly pressed for details, asking if Wei Tu had gained some new cultivation experience that made him so certain of breaking through within five years.
Wei Tu shook his head, saying he had no such experience, but that it was merely a sudden intuition—a sense in the depths of his soul that he would break through within five years.
—He said all he could. If Fu Zhizhou refused to listen and insisted on exploring Danqiu Mountain before he achieved the Xiantian Realm, then Wei Tu would have no other choice.
They were all adults.
They all had their own considerations of pros and cons.
One warning was enough.
"A sudden intuition..." Hearing this explanation, Fu Zhizhou fell silent.
In the martial arts world, there were many records regarding "sudden intuitions"; there was no shortage of people who broke through realms or created martial arts because of such flashes of insight.
Wei Tu could naturally be one of those "lucky ones."
"I will listen to Third Brother and wait another five years."
Fu Zhizhou nodded heavily.
In five years, he would be forty-two, roughly the same age as Kou Liang was now.
He was far from the age where his blood and qi would decline.
He could afford to wait.
...
Four years passed in a flash.
On this day.
Just as Wei Tu finished teaching the stance training of the *Tiger-Crane Double Form* to Wei Erlang, he suddenly felt a warm current emerge from his dantian, nourishing his entire body.
As he closed his eyes again, the external "spiritual qi" that he had failed to find while circulating his immortal cultivation method could now be felt outside his body.
This "spiritual qi" was divided into five colors, scattered within the qi of heaven and earth.
However, it was extremely thin.
In the vast Wei residence, Wei Tu only saw a dozen or so wisps of spiritual qi drifting about.
Seeing this, how could Wei Tu not understand? At this moment, he had finally broken through to the long-awaited Xiantian Realm.
"So, immortal cultivation methods can only be practiced by martial artists in the Xiantian Realm..."
"No wonder the four of us have made no progress after more than twenty years of practicing them."
Inside the seclusion room, Wei Tu sat cross-legged and circulated the immortal cultivation method once more.
At this time, the Thick Earth True Qi stored in his dantian began to draw the five-colored spiritual qi floating in the outside world into his body.
However, to Wei Tu's great disappointment, when the five-colored spiritual qi entered his body, only the earth-yellow spiritual qi, identical to his "Thick Earth True Qi," remained in his dantian.
The spiritual qi of the other attributes dissipated completely with every breath he took.
At the same time.
Wei Tu sensed that a new line of text had appeared on his Gold-Purple Fate.
[Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Body · Thick Earth Body (1/100): Eight practices a day, completed in forty years.]
"Forty years?"
"Only ten years more than it took to master the *Marrow Refining Scripture*?"
"It seems this perfected Thick Earth Body is not a particularly formidable realm in the path of immortality," Wei Tu reasoned, shaking his head.
Having possessed the "Late Bloomer" fate for so long, he had gained some understanding of its characteristics; he knew that the higher the realm, the harder it was to reach, and the more time it required.
"Achieving the Xiantian Realm increases lifespan to two hundred years. Danqiu Mountain..."
"There is no rush for Danqiu Mountain..."
Wei Tu pondered for a moment and took out the *Basic Understanding of Talisman Dao*, which he had obtained by chance seven years ago.
Now that he had Xiantian True Qi and could draw external spiritual qi into his body, he should be able to draw the immortal talismans described within.
He planned to add some life-saving trump cards before exploring the immortal traces of Danqiu Mountain.
In his view, ordinary martial arts methods would likely find it difficult to cause any harm to those from immortal lineages.
(End of Chapter)