Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

After all, the Taixuan Holy Land had been closed for a long time, and the last time a disciple of the Soul Condensing Realm was sent into the Secret Realm was thousands of years ago.

Since then, no cultivator of the Soul Condensing Realm had ever appeared in the Taixuan Holy Land, marking a severance.

As he needed to repair the Ancestral Dao Golden Body, Chu Zheng could not stray far.

Having spent most of the day, Chu Zheng finally confirmed his location after exploring nearly a hundred thousand miles.

The place where he was located was near the edge of the map, in a red area.

In the nearby red area, there was only the Dao Palace, glowing in gold in four places, while black areas were more widespread, featuring six spots, most of which held tremendous risks.

Four of the black areas had brief information labels, such as:

[Remnants of Ancient Killing Formation], [Powerful exotic creatures resembling Flood Dragons, high-quality magic treasures can hardly damage their scales, breath extremely poisonous], etc., all descriptions of dangers.

The remaining two black areas, lacking information labels, implied unknown risks; likely, some Soul Condensing monks mysteriously died in them, and the causes were still untraceable.

After weighing his options, Chu Zheng headed towards one of the areas glittering with gold light.

Although the area had been explored before, Chu Zheng believed that there must still be some 'treasures' left behind.

He hoped to find some fragments of Immortal Treasures or even Immortal Pills, even if he was currently unable to repair them, someday he would be.

Once his cultivation level was sufficient, these items would naturally prove extremely useful.

Soon, Chu Zheng arrived at the area marked on the map.

This place was clearly an ancient site of an Immortal Sect, covering a thousand miles, with a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy below, clearly indicating a Spirit Vein had once existed there.

After hundreds of thousands of years, isolated from the world, and the spiritual energy not yet dissipated, this Spirit Vein had been at least of top quality.

To avoid missing anything, Chu Zheng activated his Spiritual Eye and scanned the area.

Every inch of the ground showed clear signs of having been swept over, the last cultivator did not spare even the underground, having turned almost a thousand-mile radius upside down, evidently worried about missing any hidden treasure troves.

Quickly, Chu Zheng, following the general layout of this Immortal Sect, located its Alchemy Hall.

Inside, a mess, numerous Pill Furnaces, twisted and with their lids flung open, lay scattered, with dregs of medicines strewn all around.

[Fengyang Cauldron (Fifth Order/Incomplete): Top-Quality Magic Treasure, forged seventy thousand years ago, its spiritual energy depleted over time, arrays fallen apart, almost turned to scrap, repairable (0/200) (Detail)]

[Detailed Information: Endured Divine Fire forging over the years, absorbed the Essence of Herbs and Trees, possesses the energies of metal, wood, and fire, almost at the brink of Spiritual Awakening, can significantly boost alchemy success rate, once repaired, nourished with high-grade Divine Fire, likely to awaken within a hundred years.]

A treasure on the verge of Spiritual Awakening, once repaired, could offer substantial help within a hundred years as a Tongxuan supporter.

Spiritual Treasures, as compared to Magic Treasures, represent a metamorphosis; once awakened, endowed with consciousness, they possess life, no longer mere objects.

Capable of autonomously drawing nature's spiritual energy, repairing itself, the longevity they maintain in this world is a hundred times that of top-quality magic treasures.

In the corner of the hall sat several skeletons, obviously belonging to cultivators of this Immortal Sect, though whether these men were alive or dead when this part of the world was sealed remains unknown.

These bodies showed no traces of Storage Magic Treasures, most likely already taken by those who came before.

According to the panel's prompt, the cultivation of these skeletons mostly fluctuated between the Third Order and the Fourth Order, died of natural lifespan exhaustion.

From those scattered dregs and Waste Elixirs, Chu Zheng gathered several precious Spiritual Medicines.

A significant portion were of the Fourth and Fifth Order, with a small portion of Sixth Order Elixirs, valuable even to Divine Infant and even more so to cultivators of the Divine Transformation Realm.

Fourth-Order Spirit Pills, given Chu Zheng's current repair level, could be fixed in just a few days.

An ordinary alchemist, for such a batch of elixirs, starting from gathering the Spiritual Medicine, would need at least several months, with no guarantee of success.

Compared to that, Chu Zheng saved an immense amount of effort, essentially reaping the benefits without the work.

Soon, in less than half a day, Chu Zheng had swept clean the entire Immortal Sect site, and while he didn't find anything excessively precious, the gain was still substantial.

He didn't linger much longer, immediately returned to the Dao Palace, used up the refreshed repair chances, and then embarked on his next exploration.

In less than ten days, the nearby golden areas were all swept clean by Chu Zheng.

He obtained several damaged Magic Treasures, among which the most valuable was a half-human-high Golden Great Bow.

[Falling Star Bow (Seventh Order/Incomplete): A top-quality semi-immortal treasure, the bowstring forcibly snapped, the bow body cracked, immortal patterns broken, lacking materials, beyond your ability to repair (detailed)]

[Detailed Information: An extremely astonishing immortal treasure, one arrow fells stars, ten arrows shoot the moon, a hundred arrows pierce the sun, a thousand arrows as one, capable of killing a True Immortal. Currently lacking materials: Seventh Order Magical Beast Essence Blood, Seventh Order True Dragon Spine Tendon, Immortal Pattern Engraving Technique.]

The Falling Star Bow was found by Chu Zheng in a thousand-mile canyon, which more resembled the scars left by swords and blades than a canyon, and even today, it is still permeated with a murderous aura.

With Chu Zheng's current physique, walking through that canyon, he could feel a chill, as if facing the finishing strike of an unknown, powerful being from tens of thousands of years ago.

This sealed area must have witnessed extremely fierce battles and slaughter in the past.

Looking at those few black areas from afar, Chu Zheng glanced a few times and, at one location, he sensed a slight evil aura. Though minuscule, it was undoubtedly an evil aura.

The peerless Immortal King of ancient times, why would he seal this part of the world? Whether it's related to these evil auras, Chu Zheng could no longer confirm.

However, one thing can be known, there should not be a passage leading to the Evil Demon Realm in this sealed area.

Otherwise, this secret realm would have been eroded long ago, after nearly a million years.

...

...

In the blink of an eye, time flew by, and more than a month had passed.

Inside the Dao Palace, Chu Zheng anxiously used up today's refreshed repair attempts.

The moment his Golden Body was repaired, a robust cleansing aura surged into Chu Zheng's mind, with majestic divine sounds echoing continuously, coming from the distant void.

The panel's prompt soon sounded.

[Eternal Calamity Treasure Record (Tenth Order): Teachings of the Ancestral Dao, experiencing thousands of calamities, one can achieve the Daluo Golden Immortal Rank.]

Tenth Order! And it was a complete tenth Order technique!

Chu Zheng took a sharp breath, and before he could digest the complex information in his mind, he suddenly opened his eyes.

Looking at the repaired fragment, suddenly, his expression froze.

The appearance of this Ancestral Dao seemed oddly familiar.

After observing for a moment, he was slightly shocked and took out the Sun Wheel Mirror, floating it in front of him.

Looking at the reflection in the mirror, Chu Zheng looked up again at the Divine Statue, feeling a chill down his spine and goosebumps all over.

The Divine Statue looked even more like the first glimpse from earlier...

Whoosh—

While he was startled, a gust of evil wind rolled in from outside the temple door, and Chu Zheng's ears were filled with the clinking sounds of rolling and colliding sand and stones.

With Chu Zheng's current cultivation level, he couldn't see the scene in front of him clearly. The wind and sand even blocked his Divine Sense.

By the time he opened his eyes again, everything had returned to its original state.

The roof tiles were gone, the beams and columns collapsed, and the crimson twilight shone through, illuminating the dusty divine platform.

The Divine Statue enshrined on the divine platform was left only with its upper half, the lower part covered in ashes.

If not for the Eternal Calamity Treasure Record remembered in his mind, Chu Zheng would even doubt whether it was all just a dream.

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He activated his Spiritual Eye, looking again at the Divine Statue.

[Incomplete Divine Statue (Zeroth Order/Incomplete): An unknown divine statue, any remnants of traces have been completely erased, origin untraceable, irreparable.]

This...

Chu Zheng struggled to calm his stirring heart, but after a long while, it still pounded uncontrollably. He had no idea what had just happened.

The Ancestral Dao's blessing and then everything reverted back to how it was when he first arrived, as if someone had reversed time.

The current Divine Statue, moreover, couldn't be repaired again.