I have Immortality In The Cultivation World

"Dead... dead?"

Wu Qiong's face turned pale with fear, and his voice trembled as he repeatedly bowed and spoke.

"Senior, please leave quickly. I, I, I... will also pack up."

His father had been a cultivator, and even without a Spirit Root, he was very knowledgeable about cultivator methods. Offending the Mount Qi Wu Deity meant that even death would be difficult to achieve, as one's soul could be extracted and tormented inside a Magic Artifact for hundreds of years.

Zhou Yi asked, "Where do you plan to flee to?"

"To sea."

Suppressing the fear in his heart, Wu Qiong said, "My father liked to fish and found several small islands in the Eastern Sea, leaving behind a number of things for his descendants to use in times of crisis."

Zhou Yi nodded slightly, reassuring him.

"There's no need for trouble. Since I have caused this situation, I will take care of the consequences. It's just the Mount Qi Wu Deity!"

"Senior, could you be a Nascent Soul Ancestor?"

Wu Qiong was doubtful, wondering how his father, a mere Loose Cultivator at the Qi Refinement stage, could recognize such an important figure.

"Let's not talk about being an Ancestor. I've just lived a bit longer," Zhou Yi replied. He took out a divination cylinder and said, "Let me divinate first and wait for a Daoist friend to solve the problem."

As he spoke, he gently shook the cylinder, and the divination stick fell to the ground, shining with light.

Auspicious!

"I haven't seen such an auspicious day in decades. Continually encountering such fortune in divination, using this tiny Severing Heaven Technique to divine the Severing Heaven Sect is bound to cause trouble!"

Entering the main hall.

Wu Qiong served Spiritual Tea and took out a jade slip, saying respectfully.

"This should belong to Senior."

Zhou Yi waved his hand and drew the jade slip over, his Divine Sense probing its contents. He found not only basic spells but also a Qi Refining Technique called 'Mountain God Scripture'.

"This technique is crude and simple, quite similar to the Qi Refining Technique I comprehend from the Builder Tree. It seems this bird deity is quite the follower. But one cannot just be strong in this world; background and power are essential!" Zhou Yi remarked after a moment.

Soon after.

A light of escape descended, turning into an old man in a blue robe, who greeted Zhou Yi warmly upon seeing him.

"Brother Zhu, I've thought of you day and night, and finally, I've been able to wait for your arrival!"

Zhou Yi said distantly, "I am Sun Xing, and my surname is not Zhu."

In a year's time, he would have surely shown his true colors, given that he hadn't concealed his identity when attending the lecture in Da Heng Capital. However, exposure was no matter, the Green Cloud Mountain God was of transparent origin, a cultivator born and raised in the Dongsheng Divine Continent.

"Ah, my mistake. It's Brother Sun then," the old man realized immediately, knowing that the person in front of him shared neither the surname Zhu nor Sun, just like himself, having a myriad of names and Daoist titles. He laughed and said, "I am Bai Suixin. I was so pleased to meet Junior Brother that I waited for a long time by the seaside."

Zhou Yi asked with curiosity, "How did Brother Bai learn I was in the Eastern Sea?"

Bai Suixin, hearing the word 'brother,' was immediately overjoyed. It's a pleasure to converse with an intelligent person, and he explained.

"The ancestors in the sect were concerned about Junior Brother and divined your location with a Secret Technique, instructing me to wait for you here."

"I appreciate the ancestors' care!" Zhou Yi responded with an epiphany. Even after employing numerous Secret Techniques to conceal fate, one couldn't block a Near-Void Immortal's divinations, especially since the Severing Heaven Sect was proficient in arts of divination.

"Of course. I've heard that Junior Brother was trapped within the Mend Heaven Sect, a perilous place indeed!"

Bai Suixin said solemnly, "To save Junior Brother, the ancestors in the sect consumed quite a bit of their lifespan, capturing a thread of destiny."

"Since the sect's ancestors care so much..." Zhou Yi said playfully, "then I will immediately abandon the Mend Heaven Sect and return to our sect to cultivate, striving to make significant contributions to the Severing Heaven Sect!"

"Eh?"

Bai Suixin's mood swung from joy to sorrow upon hearing this, his face looking bitter, "I can't deceive Junior Brother. The ancestors in the sect instructed you to stay with the Mend Heaven Sect a while longer to investigate their Divine Enthronement movements."

"Is Brother Bai joking? How could I, a mere Nascent Soul, deceive a Near-Void Immortal?" Zhou Yi's complexion darkened as he spoke coldly, "The Mend Heaven Sect has plenty of divination techniques. If I truly act as a spy, it wouldn't take long before I'm exposed, and being scattered in the soul would be too generous a wish!"

Bai Suixin hurriedly said, "The ancestors in the sect will conceal your destiny. Unless an immortal descends, no one can probe your identity."

"The Mend Heaven Sect has treated me well." Zhou Yi spoke slowly, "They not only provided Divine Abilities but also appointed me the Green Cloud Mountain God. I can't betray them!"

"You still care about these things?" Bai Suixin asked in surprise, knowing from his inquiries that this cultivator, whose real surname he didn't know, was greedy and flattering, not at all like someone loyal to a sect.

Zhou Yi rubbed his fingers together and said, "Brother has misunderstood; I am very willing to join the Severing Heaven Sect, but... there needs to be extra compensation!"

Hiss!

Bai Suixin couldn't help but inhale sharply. Could there really be someone so greedy in this world? He tentatively asked, "What does Junior Brother desire?"

"The first is naturally Cultivation Techniques."

Zhou Yi said, "The Mend Heaven Sect gave me four; our sect surely won't give less, right?"

Listening to Zhou Yi say "our sect," Bai Suixin felt disgust for the first time, but remembering the orders from the ancestors in his sect, he nodded, "That should be the case."

"Secondly, there's the matter of territory."

Zhou Yi continued, "It surely must not be smaller than Qingyun Mountain. I think Qi Wu Mountain is not bad, what do you think, brother?"

"That old bird is a bit troublesome..." Bai Suixin looked at Zhou Yi's determined expression and gritted his teeth to say, "But it is just an old ferocious beast. We are disciples of a great human race sect; it is only right to slay it and return clear skies to Qi Wu Mountain."

"Third is the Wish Power Beads."

Zhou Yi said, "Bring me ten thousand colorless quality beads, and I will gladly toil for the Severing Heaven Sect."

"Junior Brother must be joking; I don't even own that many."

Bai Suixin's expression changed, raising a finger, "A hundred beads. The colorless quality is already rare, and the price of Wish Power Beads has skyrocketed tenfold. Not even a Divine Transformation Heavenly Monarch could produce ten thousand."