Chapter Thirty: The Art of Spiritual Awareness Attack

  The next morning, Ding Yan returned alone to Lianhuagu.

  This time back to Lianhuagu, Ding Yan had two purposes besides the identity jade card, one of which was to cultivate his skills. The identity jade card, Ding Yan had already completed engraving last night, now only left with one purpose, that is the problem of cultivating his skills.

  After becoming a loose immortal, the fist method passed down by the old village chief on the nameless small island was no longer applicable. As for the Qiankun Dao Jing, after leaving the Illusory Ninth Heaven, it once again fell silent, and even using that incomplete immortal seal could not activate it. In this way, Ding Yan had to resort to practicing the lotus valley cultivation method.

  "Ding Shidi, Shishu has already gone out of the pass and is waiting for you inside." Xue Changlao walked out from the inner valley, saw Ding Yan, and said with a smile.

  Ding Yan nodded and followed Xue Changlao into the inner valley.

  Lotus Valley is located in a large valley, which is divided into three layers: outer valley, inner valley and core valley.

  Wai Gu, is the place where the disciples of Lotus Valley live, with the largest scope, and there are ten mountain peaks inside, which belong to the practice places of the top ten disciples. From above, these ten mountain peaks form a ring shape, separating Wai Gu from Nei Gu. Normally, the disciples of Wai Gu are not allowed to enter Nei Gu. Only at the end of each month, the inner door disciples of Wai Gu will have the opportunity to enter Nei Gu and listen to the elder's preaching. As for the outer door disciples, they are just miscellaneous servants and are absolutely not allowed to enter Nei Gu. If discovered, they will be abolished from their practice and expelled from the sect.

  Nei Gu is the place where the elders live, and only those in the Scattered Immortal realm can reside here. Although there are few scattered immortals in Lotus Valley, the rules of the sect still exist. Now, Nei Gu has only two residents, namely Elder Xue and Valley Master Lu Renxing.

  As for the core valley, it is the only one of the gate's supreme elders, a place where a loose immortal who has passed through a calamity of scattered immortals cultivates in hiding.

  Ding Yan also entered the Core Valley for the first time and looked around after walking in.

  The core of the valley is not large, accurately speaking, it's just a small mountain valley.

  Inside the valley, fallen maple leaves filled the ground. In the center, there was a thatched cottage with some rare spiritual herbs planted outside. With a glance from Ding Xuan, he naturally saw that the core valley's primal energy was much more abundant than the inner valley.

  At the moment when Ding Yan's footsteps entered the small courtyard, a very powerful divine sense swept over his body.

  No holds barred and no reservations!

  Ding Yan furrowed his brow, a glint of cold light flashing in his eyes.

  A powerful spiritual sense burst out of his body and collided fiercely with that nameless spiritual sense.

  A dull thud.

  A faint ripple appeared in the air. Ding Yan shook slightly, and a strange light flashed through his eyes.

  Hiss...

  Xue Chang Lao, who was standing beside him, took a deep breath in reverse.

  As a loose immortal, he naturally felt the collision of the two strands of divine consciousness just now. In his perception, one of them was the Taishang Laojun who lived in seclusion in the thatched cottage, a loose immortal from the Lotus Valley. Ding Yan was only a newly ascended loose immortal, yet he was not at all inferior to Taishang Laojun in terms of divine consciousness. Under the collision of their divine consciousness, they were evenly matched, and even Taishang Laojun couldn't gain the upper hand.

  "Are you Ding Yan? The newly promoted loose immortal of Lianhua Zhen?" A pleasant voice came from inside the thatched cottage.

  "A woman?" Ding Yan was taken aback, but still replied "Not bad."

  "Good, very good." The woman's voice was elusive and uncertain, seeming to come from right in front of her, yet also as if it were far away in the sky.

  Ding Yan furrowed his brow, he didn't understand why the Supreme Elder of Lianhua Valley would summon him here, nor did he understand what the other party's intentions were.

  "You are already an elder of the Lotus Valley, and you can use any resources in the valley at will. If you want to leave, no one will stop you either. However, I hope that after twenty years, you can return to the valley once, and by then, I will have a request for you..." The woman's voice fell silent again.

  From start to finish, this elder never came out to take a look at Ding Yan.

  Ding Yan did not respond, nor did he veto it.

  With his cultivation base, what he sought was by no means an easy task. To say that there was no danger would be impossible.

  Of course, relatively speaking, the pay will also be very handsome.

  So Ding Yan neither agreed nor refused, but just kept silent.

  Ding Yan bid farewell to Xue Chang Lao and headed towards Jing Lou.

  Looking back at some of the locations where the core valleys were located, a ripple arose in Ding Yan's heart.

  "Divine sense attack, it turns out that in this world, there are also people who use this method. Unfortunately, her divine sense attack technique is a bit rough..."

  A brief exchange of spiritual awareness allowed Ding Yan to see some clues, and it seemed that the other party was also aware.

  The Xian consciousness attack technique is a method that Ding Yan relies on his past life experience to transform the spiritual consciousness into a divine ability. Simply put, it's just a change of soup but not medicine, its essence remains the same. After possessing this divine ability, one can make the Xian consciousness burst out with extremely strong power. Previously, when Ding Yan killed Wu Wei and Sima Hui, he used the Xian consciousness attack technique.

  Walking into the Scripture Pavilion, Ding Yan relied on the Elder Token and entered the second floor of the pavilion.

  The second floor has a much smaller collection of books, only about 100 or so volumes, and many of them are incomplete.

  Ding Yan spent the whole afternoon flipping through the ancient books, and after that, he also copied the remaining ancient books into the jade slips. After doing all this, it was already two days later.

  As he walked out of the building, Ding Yan saw an old man with white hair.

  The old man is the guardian of Lianhuagu's Scripture Pavilion, with only a cultivation base of eight Qi Refining stages.

  After seeing Ding Yan, the old man did not salute, but casually threw out a note and said, "This is what Gu Zhu left for you."

  Ding Yan nodded and took over the note.

  "Ding Shidi, this time the disciples who entered the mortal world will be handed over to you to take charge of."

  "Every time I send a disciple from the Lotus Valley to the mundane world, only one or two can come out successfully. There have been several times when not even one person came out. Hopefully, it will be better this time." The old man glanced at Ding Yan with a hint of meaning in his words.

  The mundane world is a big dye vat, and it's also a place for cultivating one's mind.

  Without a firm mind, it's easy to get lost in it. In the end, they give up their cultivation and refuse to come out again. Among the several major sects, every time they send disciples in, most of them will stay there, and only about one-tenth will come out.

  However, every decade or so, the major sects would send their elite disciples into the mortal realm. Those who could give up wealth and glory and emerge from it were all people with firm minds. These people basically all became loose immortals. For example, Elder Xue of Lotus Valley was one of the ten great disciples who walked out of the Great Array back then.

  "It's just mundane affairs..." Ding said in a low murmur.

  He remembered his past life, that he himself had also incarnated as an ordinary person to break through the Yuan Ying period, and after a lifetime of tempering in the mortal world, he finally broke through and entered the Hua Shen period.

  "One trial, one reincarnation, how many people can jump out of it?"

  With a squeeze of his right hand, the paper in his hand turned into powder. He then swung his sleeve and transformed into a stream of light, disappearing into the sky...

  Watching Ding Yan disappear in the distance, the old man narrowed his eyes slightly, and a dazzling light flashed through the turbid old eyes.