Chapter 807 - 422: Peak of Jiuxiao

Of course, Tie Dan is a very cautious person, not easily swayed even when others bow and call themselves servants and flatter with sweet words.

Thus, regardless of the monk princess or whatever, everything went as usual. He deftly tied up Ci Yun with hemp rope, sealed the Mud Pill Palace with a talisman, and carried her in his sleeve pocket.

The next stop is Qianyang City, heading straight to Linglong Pavilion.

Yes, this is Tie Dan’s plan.

You must let the person who tied the bell untie it.

Since everything began with the Nine Heavens Leisure Immortal Monarch, the Ziwei Immortal Palace, and Nanhua Immortal.

Since everything should also end at the Leisure Palace, the Taiyin Immortal Palace, and Taixu Immortal.

Then, if you want to completely uncover the secret of the Heavenly Demon, what was taken from the Immortal Palace, and the Nine Heavens Leisure Daoist Collection, naturally these are the keys that cannot be bypassed.

It’s a pity that Huangfu Yi is too stubborn, like a bull, refusing to learn the Leisure Cultivation Skill, making it so Tie Dan has no chance to observe the skill.

So Tie Dan decided to go himself.

If you can’t beat them, join them.

Since Huangfu doesn’t want it, then Xuantian will walk the Leisure Dao! He will ascend the Peak of Jiuxiao!

Anyway, the Mystic Sect doesn’t allow learning it, it’s a dead end, so he might as well try it, perhaps when all seems lost, a new path will emerge.

So Tie Dan planned to go north against Huangfu Yi’s route, retracing it, following the clues, to capture all the carefree demonesses and personally ponder what this carefree magic is all about.

Although there are risks of becoming possessed, as long as he can comprehend the Leisure Dao and grasp the method to summon the Heavenly Demon, he can cooperate with Chen Xuantian’s experimental operation in Weiyuan, luring and killing Heavenly Demons one by one, fishing on both ends, leveling up on both ends, diligently practicing. With his comprehension and natural talent, he will surely someday penetrate the sword dao specialized for dealing with Heavenly Demons.

Upon reaching great success in Divine Skills, he estimated he could tackle the Songshan Mountain dungeon, bring out the hidden boss Nanhua for a fight, and eventually battle the Leisure Palace, challenging the final boss, the Faceless Immortal.

Yet, the ideal is beautiful, reality is bleak. Tie Dan encountered problems right at the first step of practicing Leisure Cultivation Skill.

The Carefree Cloud Riding Escape couldn’t be used.

To be fair, the Cloud Riding Escape is indeed powerful, even Tie Dan, with his high standards, acknowledges the brilliance of this escape skill, it activates without any sign. If Tie Dan hadn’t known the method and used Xuanji Ice Qi to counter the Xiaoyao Sect’s Inner Strength in advance, the opponent would’ve escaped desperately, not easily caught.

Moreover, this escape contains a great move, Nine Heavens Extreme Cloud Flash, splitting into nine escape lights in an instant, truly an excellent secret technique, the name itself hints at the foundational skill the Nine Heavens Immortal Monarch relied on for fame, well-tested, an ultimate survival skill.

Tie Dan estimated he definitely needs this skill when reaching the Peak of Jiuxiao, so he naturally first looked at the Jade Cicada Inheritance, trying to learn this decisive escape method.

It turned out the technique wasn’t effective.

Ineffectiveness, meaning the Dao wasn’t communicated, not necessarily lacking enlightenment, just lacking fate.

Tie Dan considered himself an incredibly talented Daoist, but he had to admit, though rare, he had encountered ineffective situations before.

Quite normal, the Divine Communication Techniques are vast; even with high aptitude, without sufficient time to study, it’s impossible to master all the secret skills.

For example, the Mystic Sect’s Five Arts, Tie Dan now has almost no time to delve into them, only learning roughly, copying talismans according to the Daoist Collection, success is success; failure is failure.

Perhaps only the Mystic Sect Leader Daoist Lingxu, pretending to be young despite unknown longevity, the shameless old turtle claiming to be a once-in-a-millennium genius, could master and comprehend all Daoist Skills.

Thus, Tie Dan took the Leisure Cloud-Riding Cicada in hand and studied it carefully.

Within this cicada lies Ci Yun’s master, the Primordial Spirit of Sister Taozi from the dream, naturally yet to be reborn, the Primordial Spirit is still asleep in the jade.

According to Ci Yun’s explanation, as long as you hold the Jade Cicada in your mouth, under the tongue, let it soak in saliva, infuse Daoist energy.

Then use the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique to communicate with the soul in the jade, hear Sister Taozi’s dream whispers, sentence by sentence of the True Scripture, thus obtaining the transmission of Leisure Dao’s Skill.

All along this journey flying by crane, Tie Dan kept the Jade Cicada in his mouth, listened to the transmission of Leisure Skill, then tried to learn accordingly, but unexpectedly none of it worked.

Ultimately, it’s because the core of the Dragon Temple’s true inheritance, the Nine Heavens Leisure Essence, can’t be practiced by one person.

It makes sense, after all, the feature of Xiaoyao Sect allows stealing others’ True Yuan, replenishing Dao Breath for personal use, akin to the threshold other sects reach upon Divinity Transformation and great success in Divine Skill, the Nine Qi Unity they could barely glimpse, Xiaoyao teaches upon Qi Refining entry-level.

Certainly, attempting to mimic ineffectively, Xiaoyao disciples practice the Nine Heavens Leisure Essence, ultimately to accommodate all types of Daoist energy, avoiding Qi Body conflicts during Dual Cultivation and Energy Replenishment, preventing clashes of water and fire, demonic possession, or self-destruction.

Therefore, if discussing combat power, compared to Tie Dan’s world-threatening refinement of Nine Luminaries North Star Sword Qi, is naturally incomparable, even if he casually refines an extremely honed Xuanming Xuanji True Qi, Ci Yun’s power can’t resolve, firmly restricted.

Similarly, the practice method of the Nine Heavens True Essence, the refining approach is unique, moreover requiring no further elaboration, needs two people’s Dual Cultivation Joyful skill, the secret manual of bedchamber, hence one person’s Circulation Qi Sea isn’t enough, the entry-level first True Essence Qi must be Yang Yuan and Yin Yuan co-refined by master and student together.