111 I Give You One Day, Think About It Carefully (1/2)

The Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader once did practice the Heaven Burning Blood Technique.

It was a few years ago, when by chance, he got the practice method of the Heaven Burning Blood Technique through a merchant. For a Xudan Stage cultivator who had been stuck on the level nine for more than ten years, this, without a doubt, was a blessing from the heaven.

Trapped with incomplete core cultivation method, in theory, the highest the Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader could reach was the peak Foundation Establishment Stage. However, one time, he accidentally consumed a top rank spirit fruit; in the twinkling of an eye, his magical power increased dramatically. Only in this chance coincidence that he had a breakthrough, reaching the Xudan Stage. However, the future path of cultivation was completely in the dark.

Like the blind men touching an elephant kind of cultivation, it was really difficult for him to go further based on his aptitude and perception. If only he could get that top rank spirit fruit again… Unfortunately, spirit fruit was difficult to find; encountering one in the past was already the accumulation of his luck from the past several generations...

Thus, only by the help of Heaven Burning Blood Technique, this technique of sacrificing lifespan in exchange for massive magical power, would he have an opportunity for a breakthrough.

However, when the Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader had just sacrificed ten years of his lifespan, he found out that, although he gained a lot of magical power, it was still far from having a breakthrough. Purely relying on the magical power accumulation to push forward the cultivation stage, using the point of view of literature and art argument, its difficulty was far beyond the Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader’s imagination. Wanting to breakthrough using the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, perhaps he needed to sacrifice more than one hundred years of his life! This was not a good bargain...

“Heaven Burning Blood Technique is never intended to be used by lazy oafs to take a shortcut. The devil cultivator who invented this technique only used this Heaven Burning Blood Technique as a last resort after trying everything. In fact, most people have a serious misunderstanding on how this technique work. They only saw what Heaven Burning Blood Technique could do on the surface: lifespan equal to cultivation—but they ignored the true meaning of this technique.”

“The true meaning?”

“When you look at the name, you can also see it. What the Heaven Burning Blood Technique burn is blood, not life. Heh, you want to ask what’s the difference? Very simple, when you coldly calculate that the lifespan was equal to the amount of magical power, what you burn is just your life. When you completely disregard the life element and purely focus on the Immortal Cultivation Path, in order to walk further and further, what you burn is blood, hot blood. To put in another perspective, the Heaven Burning Blood Technique requires a cultivator who has a fanatical obsession in Immortal Cultivation. On this point, whether it was those Thousand Spirit Sect believers in the White Moon Country who believed that they could oppress people below them with higher cultivation stage, or you, a Xudan Stage cultivator with uncertain future, all are far from that.”

Towards the history and characteristic of the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, the Sect Leader’s knowledge was far below Wang Lu, so he just quietly listened while pondering why Wang Lu must tell him these words.

“Because I think you ought to think about such a problem. Since I know the nature of this Heaven Burning Blood Technique, how can I misuse this technique like the Thousand Spirit Sect?”

While speaking, Wang Lu had arrived before the Wang Family Village school. From the inside came the undulating voice of the dirty old man He Yun. He was explaining cultivation method and some shallow basic skills. Yet, He Yun’s explanation was systematic, with appropriate detail, reflecting the very deep basic skills.

However, the Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader knew that that old guy was, perhaps, just went by the book. The one who really could prepare this teaching material was exactly the youth before him, the Sect Leader of Wisdom Sect who only cultivated for less than three years… However, what was the point in letting him see this?

“Heh, why don’t you see it for yourself?” Then, Wang Lu opened the school door. Inside, dozens of villagers quietly sat, motionless like carved stones as they listened to the dirty old man’s lecture.

The Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader was stunned, but the bigger shock came soon after that.

From the eyes of these villagers, what he saw was fanaticism, which commensurate with their sitting rock posture, just like the lava that was burning deep underneath… That was the extreme longing and yearning for the Immortal Path!

After letting him see the inside for a while, Wang Lu then withdrew from the school, smiled and asked, “Do you understand now?”

The Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader rhetorically asked with sinking voice, “Why?”

Why would a group of doomed-to-miss-the-Immortality people have such a passion for the Immortal Path? This… was completely incomprehensible.

“Because of ideal.”

Wang Lu said, however, he didn’t hurry to explain what were those villagers’ ideal was, instead, he asked back, “Do you have ideal?”

The Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader was taken aback; he didn’t expect Wang Lu to ask such a question, so he didn’t know how best to answer that.

“You have cultivated for more than a hundred years and established the Seven Stars Sect, don’t you have a purpose? According to you, base on your cultivation, you could even join the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, then why are you still trapped inside the Seven Stars Sect? In your heart, don’t you have any ideas?”

Upon listening to Wang Lu’s remarks, the Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader, for a time, had mixed feelings. Indeed, if not for his own ideals, he would’ve sought shelter from one of the big sects early on. After becoming an obedient running dog for another sect for a few years, naturally, there would be bones thrown to him, but...

Wang Lu didn’t let him wallow in emotion for too long as he smiled and said, “Presumably, for the sake of being free and so on. Rather than being a running dog in a sect, you rather go out and try to make it alone. That’s why the Seven Stars Sect could exist. Frankly speaking, your development is quite good; if you really took shelter in the other sects, with your qualification, you may not necessarily reach your current cultivation stage.”

“Heh.” The Seven Stars Sect’s Sect Leader chuckled twice while inwardly acknowledging that the other party’s reasoning was sound.

“That’s why, having an ideal is a good thing. Because of ideal, you have a good cultivation, have your own force. Even if it can’t be compared to the brilliance of those great people in the Immortal Cultivation World, at least, it’s a lot better than a lifetime of obscurity, right? However, your ideal is nothing more than that.”

While they spoke, walking on the village road, a villager was passing through their side hurriedly. Wang Lu pulled him aside and asked straight to the point, “What are you cultivating for?”