Chapter 135: Cultivation
Two Feng Shui Koi, one black and one white, competed to swallow the dewdrops rolling off the lotus leaves.
A loach-sized Xiao Hei Snake rolled around on the lotus leaves playfully, occasionally snatching dewdrops formed from Moonlight Essence Qi from the two Feng Shui Koi.
"Ding-a-ling!"
On the Jade Plate floating On the Water Surface of the Jade Vat, besides the two dove egg-sized bright silver orbs, there was now a thumb-sized brass bell.
When the two Feng Shui Koi surfaced to swallow the dewdrops, the water ripples they created pushed the Jade Plate to drift On the Water Surface, causing the bell to collide and emit a crisp sound.
The Restriction Spirit Marks around the Silver Sword Pill and the Great Desolation Bell flickered with alternating bright and dim light, like breathing coals, greedily absorbing the Moonlight Essence Qi accumulated in the Cave.
Tang Song changed into a light crane cloak Daoist robe and walked gracefully onto the Altar, quietly observing the thirty-six Armored Corpses he was nurturing.
The thirty-six black lacquer Blessings and Longevity vertical coffins were wide open, revealing the glittering silver armored corpses inside.
Tang Song walked up to a silver armored corpse. This werewolf armored corpse, with an average height of two and a half meters, had skin and fur that looked like solidified silver plate armor pieces all over its body.
Tang Song flicked a finger, and a crisp, low "ding" sound echoed from the silver plate armor piece, the resonance lingering, truly sounding as if he had struck silver.
Boss Tang stood at the center of the Altar. The thirty-six silver armored corpses, invulnerable to blades and guns, capable of flying and burrowing, gave him an inexplicable sense of security.
He spread his hand, and the Five Yin Wallet, which had been placed on the Long Table nearby, flew spinning into his palm.
He summoned the Five Yin Pouch, and streams of black Qi rope flew out from within, wrapping around the thirty-six upright coffins and the thirty-six silver armored corpses inside, collecting them all into the Five Yin Pouch.
Without the thirty-six black lacquer upright coffins, the entire Altar felt somewhat empty for a moment, inexplicably losing some of its terrifying atmosphere.
However, without the thirty-six silver armored corpses acting as filters, relying solely on the Formation at the top of the Cave to condense the Misty Qi, the Misty Qi inside the Cave visibly dissipated by half in an instant.
Splash! The two Feng Shui Koi in the Jade Vat seemed to sense the decrease in Moonlight Essence Qi, flicking their fish tails and leaping out of the water.
"Don't rush, don't rush. This place is too small. I'll take you somewhere bigger later!"
Tang Song patted the Jade Vat, then walked to the edge of the Altar with his hands behind his back. Below the Cave, countless white bones were piled up like mountains.
Although he had gathered some Skeleton Demons that had reached a certain level when he went to Antarctica, during this period, it wasn't just the corpses and bones of people who died violent deaths in New York that were transported here.
As Boss Tang's Underground Forces expanded their Territory, he also contracted the sanitation and cleaning work in some large cities like San Francisco and Boston.
It was just that transporting corpses here was more troublesome, and many places had to build cold storage facilities similar to morgues.
After accumulating for a period of time, these corpses would then be transported to New York.
These corpses, their flesh and blood nourished the zombies, and their white bones transformed into Skeleton Demons.
If this were in the Jambudvīpa World, Tang Song's behavior would have long since led to him being subjected to Demon Slaying.
But this was Marvel, and the only Bald Mage Boss Tang feared seemed to have no intention of bothering with him.
After all, she was protecting the entire reality dimension. She didn't intervene in the First and Second World Wars.
She was nowhere to be seen when the Kree nearly destroyed Earth back then.
In Tang Song's memory, even during the First Avengers War, when aliens invaded Earth, she merely observed from the side and didn't take action while she was alive.
She even saw through the Timeline of her own death but had no interest in changing it.
It seemed that this Sorcerer Supreme also had no interest in Tang, this outsider.
Well, Boss Tang held great respect for such an elder who sat and watched the changing situation, unmoving as a mountain.
Of course, the premise was that she remained unmoving! When he first arrived in this world, he even wanted to find that Tibetan Snow Mountain Temple and offer some incense money to this Master.
However, after thinking about it, although the Sorcerer Supreme had a bald head, she wasn't a great monk, so whether she would accept the incense money was another matter.
What if he delivered himself to her door and walked into a trap? That would be trouble.
If the Sorcerer Supreme really intended to come knocking and cause him trouble, Tang Song would risk Soul Reincarnation to let her see if his Sword was sharp!
Of course, whether he could win or not was another matter!
After all, compared to Thanos, who casually destroyed half the Universe, Boss Tang was just an inconspicuous Cleaner, a corpse collector.
You shouldn't pick on the weak, right? If you have the ability, go find trouble with Thanos.
Tang Song looked down.
The white bones accumulated in the pitch black Cave were far more than several thousand...
When they sensed the aura of living people, the densely packed white bones simultaneously raised their heads. Hundreds and thousands of skulls' eye sockets simultaneously lit up with green phosphorescent fire.
Surrounded by these white bones, a silver-gray shuttle-shaped Spaceship was quietly parked.
Many Skeletons were climbing on top of the Spaceship, chasing the phosphorescent fire...
The Hive Base in Raccoon City was still under construction, and his Five Yin Pouch couldn't occupy the space forever.
So Boss Tang parked this Spaceship, obtained from under the Antarctic Glacier, in his Corpse Nurturing Ground.
At the very least, in terms of safety, this place was second only to being carried on Tang Song's person!
Even if the entire Avengers were dispatched, relying on these Skeleton Demons could still break one of their teeth.
Of course, the current Avengers were still in the womb, merely a plan existing on Nick Fury's computer.
Tang Song glanced at the Spaceship, then turned back to the center of the Altar, where the rosewood Long Table and jade Meditation Cushion were.
Tang Song sat cross-legged on the Meditation Cushion and brewed himself a pot of tea.
As he sipped his tea, he felt the surging True Essence throughout his body. Cultivating to this step, he had to consider Condensing Baleful Qi.
Regarding the matter of searching for the Subterranean World, out of consideration for its importance, he had already sent Frank to accompany Trevor Anderson to Iceland to search for the Tunnel leading to the Subterranean World.
As long as they found the entrance to the Subterranean World, Tang Song would spare no financial or material resources to pry open the Gate to this Subterranean World where Baleful Qi existed.
But how could Baleful Qi exist in the Subterranean World?
Tang Song sipped his tea, pondering the reason behind it. He still couldn't figure it out even after finishing the pot of tea in the purple clay teapot. After finishing the tea, Boss Tang sat cross-legged on the Jade Meditation Cushion.
In between breaths, two streams of white light from his nostrils were like spirit snakes swallowing and spitting. Two Sword Pills rose and fell irregularly between his palm and nostrils, following the two streams of Supreme White Lung Qi.
The True Essence and Supreme White Lung Qi continuously refined the two Sword Pills, purifying the Grade and Force of these two Magic Tools.
Above Tang Song's head, the bell-sized Great Desolation Bell had now grown to be taller than a person, like a large bell hanging in a Temple.
Golden and brilliant, the light sound of the bell allowed Tang Song to enter a better state of mental tranquility.
At the same time, streams of True Essence from Tang Song's Heavenly Spirit transformed into streams of White Qi and converged into the Great Desolation Bell.
While refining the Great Desolation Bell, the Great Desolation Bell also continuously fed back, purifying the True Essence inside Tang Song's body.
Not only the True Essence, but with every bell chime, Tang Song's bone and muscles underwent slight vibrations following the bell sound.
This was the Great Desolation Bell tempering Tang Song's Physical Body...
The *Tianhe True Method* that Tang Song cultivated was known as having boundless Magic Power in the Jambudvīpa World...
Once cultivated successfully, it was like the Milky Way hanging upside down in the sky, boundless and endless, with incredibly vast and powerful Magic Power.
However, as for the Physical Body, it was inferior to some True Inheritance from both Buddhist and Daoist sects.
Take the most famous Daoist *Eight Nine Arcane Art* for example.
Cultivated to Great Completion, it was untouchable by myriad calamities, granted three heads and six arms, the ability to Imitate Heaven and Earth, myriad transformations, was good at avoiding calamities, possessed complete Divine Abilities, and boundless strength.
It had the reputation of achieving sainthood through the Physical Body, comparable to Great Divine Ability Users in the Immortal Realm.
At the end of the ancient era, Innate God-Demons suffered calamity, and the Buddhist and Daoist sects governed the world, establishing the ancient Heavenly Court.
They single-handedly created the so-called Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain system.
More than ten Great Divine Ability Users and five Great Experts in the Creation Realm joined forces, severing the most pure Earth Veins and Spirit Veins of the Jambudvīpa World,
And created the Heavenly Court! And Spirit Mountain!
Which are the Ancient Thirty-Three Heavens and the Western Pure Land passed down in the Jambudvīpa World.
At the same time, they set up heavenly rules and regulations, stipulating that Cultivators above the Pure Yang Realm must enter these new worlds for Cultivation.
Therefore, at the end of the ancient era, many people would add the two words True Immortal after the Pure Yang Realm.
However, by the time of the recent ancient era of the Jambudvīpa World, three venerables of the Daoist Sect transcended, and two patriarchs of the Buddhist Sect secluded themselves.
Some Great Divine Ability Users outside of the Buddhist and Daoist sects rose up, and even several Great Experts in the Creation Realm appeared.
Solely relying on the more than ten Great Divine Ability Users of the Buddhist and Daoist sects was already insufficient to support the Heavenly Court, this colossal entity.
The Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain system thus collapsed.
It is said that the collapse of the Heavenly Court was related to a True Inheritance of the Daoist Sect who cultivated the Eight Nine Arcane Art.
By the era when Tang Song transmigrated to the Jambudvīpa World, the Heavenly Court had already become a Legend!
However, the Eight Nine Arcane Art of the Daoist Sect was passed down.
When Tang Song first heard this Legend and the name of the Cultivation Method, he felt it was somewhat like a mythological figure in his memory.
Therefore, he specifically paid attention to this *Eight Nine Arcane Art* at the source and remembered it in his mind.
Unfortunately, the Cultivation Conditions for this Cultivation Method were truly harsh. One could only cultivate it after Sha Condensation, Gang Qi Refining, Forming a First-Rank Great Pill, and Developing Magic Power.
Tang Song, the Sword Pill, and the Great Desolation Bell, a trinity, entered a state of Cultivation amidst the lingering bell sound.
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Around three or four in the morning, Tang Song put away the three Magic Tools.
On the nearby Long Table, the Blood Ink mixed with gold powder in the waiting inkstone had already dissolved.
Tang Song casually picked up the jade handle Talisman Brush on the Long Table and began splashing ink and Drawing Talismans.
Ever since starting the Vampire Farming Mode, Tang Song now no longer lacked Materials for Drawing Talismans.
However, Drawing Talismans, this thing, even with Tang Song's Cultivation and hand speed, he could only draw around a hundred sheets a day. This was still when he drew the familiar Vajra Talisman.
Drawing Talismans was like writing calligraphy; it could nourish Qi and purify the True Essence condensed by the Tianhe True Method inside Tang Song's body at this time.
Currently, Boss Tang had more and more talented Subordinates, and Cultivation Resources were also being spread wider and wider.
Especially in the area of Talismans and Magic Tools. Magic Tools were fine; currently, only a few important Subordinates, namely Lane, Kane, and Frank, had been issued them.
But Talismans were different. For this kind of consumable, just the Vajra Talisman alone, hundreds of sheets had been distributed.
Unfortunately, Lane and the others hadn't cultivated enough, and the person who could Draw Talismans now was just Boss Tang himself.
...
"Boss!"
After leaving the Cultivation Cave, Lane, the head Butler, had already been waiting for a long time.
Tang Song rubbed his eyebrows: "What is my schedule for today?"
In the past few days since he returned to New York, there was a large pile of matters that needed to be dealt with.
Lane could represent him in some matters, but some still required him to show up in person.
"Nothing important. Stark Industries sent an Invitation, inviting you to attend the Stark Industries Expo!"
Lane instructed a few maids to set the table while reporting Tang Song's itinerary for the past few days.
(End of chapter)