Cultivation System: Stronger with Age Chapter 1478 - 649: Unintended Shade from Planted Willows (Part 2)

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Lin Xuankong achieved perfection in the Transcendence Fourth Layer and has begun cultivating the Brahma Heaven Seal technique. His recent victories against invading forces have made him a hero in the Great Yan Kingdom, spreading his name 'Profound Void.' He hopes this widespread recognition will generate the sincere reverence needed to fuel his new cultivation path. He sends out twenty-seven Brahma Heaven Seals to test their reach and begins to receive feedback.

Inside one of the scenes, there is a slightly dark thatched cottage,

where a man is standing on a table muttering something. Behind him is a slightly frail woman holding a child in her arms.

The angle of the scene is located three feet above the man’s head, meaning this scene was relayed back from the Brahma Heaven Mark floating three feet above the man’s head!

Lin Xuankong focused his attention on this scene, and immediately, the image became not only much clearer, as if Lin Xuankong himself was floating three feet above the man’s head, but he could also hear the voices of the man, woman, and the child in the woman’s arms with perfect clarity.

"....There’s not much good stuff at home, these few apples were bought by Zicheng from the market, just as an offering to Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable you.

Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable, if not for your decree instructing the Ninth Young Master Huang from the Capital City and Ding Ye, Miao Yun Lake and others to care for us poor folk of Qingyuan City, I’m afraid Zicheng’s family would have already died of cold and hunger on the streets! The gratitude of the Great Immortal Venerable is like a rebirth for us; Zicheng hereby vows that as long as the Zhao Family lineage continues, we will worship the statue of the Great Immortal Venerable in every generation!"

After muttering for a while, the man named Zhao Zicheng immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to the ghost-face image of Lin Xuankong on the table.

Behind Zhao Zicheng, his wife also knelt on the ground, holding their roughly one-year-old child, and bowed repetitively to Lin Xuankong’s portrait.

Using the Brahma Heaven Mark floating three feet above Zhao Zicheng’s head, Lin Xuankong carefully looked at the portrait on the table, then couldn’t help but smile. The crude artwork portrayed Lin Xuankong’s originally roguish physique as rugged and burly, with a fierce ghostly expression, standing over the broken body of an Ai Race cultivator.

The meaning of this artwork should be the scene from Chaokou Pass where Lin Xuankong slew the demon Dongtan Twelve of the Ai Clan’s Invincible Corps!

However, due to the crude craftsmanship, and the artist not having witnessed the battlefield firsthand, the scene depicted of the Immortal Venerable slaying the demon lacked any immortal aura, instead giving off a reminder of Liang Mountain’s Wu Song battling a tiger! Lin Xuankong naturally felt somewhat amused facing such a scene.

Nonetheless, Zhao Zicheng, his wife, and their family exhibited expressions and actions of extreme reverence toward the coarse artwork, as if the picture before them was a priceless masterpiece worth thousands and billions!

Lin Xuankong’s Brahma Heaven Seal Technique’s Brahma Heaven Mark could securely float three feet above Zhao Zicheng’s head, naturally indicating that Zhao Zicheng was truly hundred percent reverent towards Lin Xuankong from the bottom of his heart!

At this moment, Lin Xuankong could also sense that, as Zhao Zicheng’s family continually bowed to his coarse portrait, although faint, a continuous strength was being transmitted across several thousand miles from the location of Zhao Zicheng’s home on the west side of Qingyuan City!

This naturally was the power generated by the Path of Incense type of technique of the Brahma Heaven Mark! This spiritually oriented power, after being continuously converted through Lin Xuankong’s Brahma Heaven Seal Technique, gradually transformed into faint and continuous strands of True Qi, accumulating in Lin Xuankong’s Dantian.

Although the amount of True Qi generated was quite modest, far less than the Blood Spirit Technique True Qi gained from casually hunting a several-pound river fish using Lin Xuankong’s Blood Spirit Master Technique, the advantage was that the True Qi brought by the Brahma Heaven Seal Technique is never-ending. As long as Zhao Zicheng continues living, each time he worships, each time he recites Lin Xuankong’s name, each time he feels gratitude from his heart towards Lin Xuankong, it could bring a trace of True Qi!

In this way, gathering bit by bit, even if the daily accumulation of True Qi is less than the amount gained from a several-pound river fish brought by the Blood Spirit Technique, after several days or more than ten days of accumulation, it may surpass the amount gained from hunting one several-pound river fish!

The key point is, once the other party’s head is adorned with the Brahma Heaven Mark, it proves they are hundred percent reverent towards oneself. In the subsequent years, the other party alone could potentially provide oneself with continuous and decades-long True Qi supplementation!

Of course, if the other party’s spiritual power is stronger, for example, if they’re a cultivator with great spiritual power, as their realm becomes stronger, the spiritual power grows, the True Qi supplementation they could provide Lin Xuankong may also increase!

After observing for a while, Lin Xuankong withdrew his Divine Soul Power and concentrated his spirit on another image triggered by the Brahma Heaven Mark.

Immediately, Lin Xuankong’s gaze seemed to penetrate thousands of miles, landing again three feet above another woman’s head....

Approximately a few minutes later,

After observing all twenty-seven images bred from the Brahma Heaven Marks, Lin Xuankong couldn’t help nodding slightly, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

These twenty-seven Brahma Heaven Marks did not disappoint him; they were all very firmly positioned three feet above the head of certain citizens, becoming the roots for Lin Xuankong’s future continuous True Qi generation! As long as these twenty-seven citizens don’t die, in future decades, the True Qi total brought by these Brahma Heaven Marks and citizens may surpass the True Qi from hunting hundreds of thousands of lives using the Blood Spirit Technique!

However, this observation,

also made Lin Xuankong discover that nearly thirty percent of the twenty-seven citizens first attracted to the Brahma Heaven Marks were originally poor citizens from Qingyuan City!

It’s very clear that though Lin Xuankong in the past few days swept through numerous demon invaders of the Great Yan Kingdom, making him famous throughout the entire Great Yan Kingdom and other seven nations, it’s still the citizens of Qingyuan City who genuinely revere Lin Xuankong as ’Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable,’ accounting for over thirty percent more! It’s normal since although citizens of other cities are grateful for Lin Xuankong, the Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable, repelling demons and invaders from other countries, the benefits they received from Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable were less obvious and numerous!

Conversely, the poor citizens of Qingyuan City differ; if not for Lin Xuankong previously slaying Demon He Wu and ordering Ninth Young Master Huang to spend resources to take care of all the impoverished citizens in Qingyuan City, those citizens might have already perished! However, Lin Xuankong’s emergence as the Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable not only saved their lives but also provided future livelihood security, such grace is no less than a rebirth, how could those with fewer faults not be grateful and revere Lin Xuankong, the Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable!

After understanding these, Lin Xuankong naturally formed some thoughts in his mind------currently, his name as ’Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable’ is prominent throughout the Great Yan Kingdom, but to have more citizens become like Zhao Zicheng with hundred percent reverence towards him, certain further actions are needed....given Lin Xuankong’s present influence in the Great Yan Kingdom, doing something similar to Qingyuan City isn’t particularly difficult!

After pondering for a while,

Lin Xuankong then looked again at the remaining Brahma Heaven Marks above his palm and once more whispered: "Rise"

This time, he was already activating all the Brahma Heaven Marks above his right palm!

Lin Xuankong wanted to see if his recent actions, along with the deeds in Qingyuan City, could enable him to have close to a hundred eight citizens with hundred percent reverence towards ’Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable’!

If he could indeed secure so many citizens with hundred percent reverence towards ’Profound Void Great Immortal Venerable’ and continue to increase, then perhaps he could gradually transition his main cultivation method from the Blood Spirit Technique to the Brahma Heaven Seal! Whether this can be accomplished still depended on the next Brahma Heaven Marks!