This is a way of nurturing disciples that, while different from the Four Seasons Sect, ultimately leads to the same goal.

Celestial Vein Sword Mountain, while strict, offers exceptionally abundant rare cultivation resources, including Celestial Vein Spirit Medicines.

These Spirit Medicines, which are almost impossible to find outside these regions, are given to young cultivators who may have just begun Qi Refining.

Incidentally, Wei Qingye hopes that his junior brother has reincarnated here.

Along the way, he specially inquired about some details from Li Ye, and they agreed that when Li Ye returns, they will go to the Four Seasons Sect together to create a body.

So, the three of them soon arrived at Ring Heaven City.

This place is a massive circular city.

Ancient bluestone city walls surround a desolate area thousands of miles around, centered on Celestial Vein Sword Mountain.

Beyond the city walls is where people reside.

There are countless martial arts halls each divided into separate regions, connected by bridges stretching across the sky, forming an overall circular city.

Li Ye had heard of this before, as this kind of engineering is quite famous on the Four Seasons Sect's side.

It's known that the wasteland around Celestial Vein Sword Mountain spans thousands of miles; enclosing the entire perimeter with walls is quite an engineering feat, even in the Cultivation Realm, this construction is considered a marvel.

Arriving here.

Li Ye stood beside the thick walls marked with the traces of passing time, looking up at the several hundred-foot-high city wall, and marveled: "Building this place must not have been easy."

"Indeed it was difficult, but it's alright," Wei Qingye seemed accustomed to the place and found nothing special about it, after all, this is where he came from.

This place is essentially equivalent to the marketplace over at the Four Seasons Sect, and where the outer sect disciples of Celestial Vein Sword Mountain reside.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Qin Qian waved at the city gate, and after passing through a gate with very strict array checks, the scenery suddenly opened up—not the kind of ancient bluestone city Li Ye imagined.

Rather, it was exceedingly lively and bustling street scenes.

—On the streets wide enough for dozens of carriages to travel side by side, people walked back and forth, frolicking, and on both sides of the road were various shops, peddler stalls set up by traveling merchants.

The people here mostly have excellent Essence, Qi, and Spirit, standing upright with straight backs, even the elderly among them hold their heads high.

What's more peculiar is that mortals and cultivators cohabit here, just at a glance, Li Ye saw several Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators whose aura he could perceive.

They walk among the crowd like ordinary people, not using any magic to travel.

This surprised Li Ye.

Even the Four Seasons Sect follows the principle of minimal interference between mortals and immortals, yet the proud Sword Cultivators here can already live with mortals, even deliberately restraining their sharpness.

He said nothing, did not inquire, walked forward between the two, with the cries of vendors, jests in conversations, and mothers calling children home for meals along the way, giving him an unexpected sense of peace.

Not chaotic—or perhaps because he liked it, he did not find it chaotic.

Gradually, he slowed his pace, restrained his spiritual power, and walked leisurely among the crowd.

Wei Qingye and Qin Qian exchanged a glance on either side of him, the meaning being—

See, even the cultivators from Four Seasons Sect can't resist the allure of this place!

…

After walking for half a two-hour period.

They arrived in front of a martial arts hall with a sign saying "Qin Family Martial Arts Hall," Li Ye was almost halfway inside when he suddenly noticed small characters on the sign:

Once taught the inner sect disciples of Celestial Vein Sword Mountain.

The words Celestial Vein Sword Mountain were specially bolded in golden paint, but the font was very small, giving a strange, contradictory feeling of being both seen and unseen.

Li Ye looked at Qin Qian with a puzzled gaze.

The latter nodded awkwardly, then shouted into the martial arts hall: "I'm back!"

A moment later, a large group of sweat-covered young boys and girls in training attire rushed out from the martial arts hall, surrounding the three, speaking all at once:

"Brother Qian, why did you just get back!"

"I made your favorite glutinous rice cake and dumplings!"

"Don't block the door, let Brother Qian and the two esteemed guests inside!"

Finally, a somewhat rough male voice parted the crowd, and a tall man as sturdy as an iron pillar walked over, wearing a thin shirt with muscles coiling like roots and tendrils.

He looked fierce but was indeed just a mortal, at least with no spiritual qi fluctuations.

However, judging by the respectful tone when the young ones called him "Hall Master," he was indeed the hall master here—a mortal teaching cultivators?

The hall master glanced at Li Ye and Wei Qingye, finally resting his eyes on Qin Qian, smiling with satisfaction: "You rascal, always bringing esteemed guests home time and again."

"Esteemed guests, please come in, let's talk inside."

"Alright."

Li Ye followed them into the martial arts hall with a sense of doubt.

As a result, this martial arts hall surprised Li Ye once more, the interior space far larger than it appeared from outside, probably spanning more than a dozen acres, featuring various weapons and numerous human-shaped wooden piles.

Young boys and girls earnestly practiced sword swings and thrusts.

The wooden piles were cut and pierced…actually spewing blood, with the amount varying by location, and the blood quickly absorbed by the wooden floor upon hitting the ground, appearing even more peculiar.

This place was indeed filled with oddities; suppressing his doubts, Li Ye finally arrived at a quiet courtyard.

After the Hall Master instructed someone to serve tea, Qin Qian explained the reason for coming here to Li Ye.

Not just for planting those precious Celestial Vein Spirit Medicines, but also…

"Have you heard of body cultivation?"

"Of course, I've heard of it." Li Ye's mind flashed with insight, looking at the tall Hall Master: "Could it be that he is also a Body Cultivator?"

"Exactly."

Qin Qian elaborated: "The cultivation realm is vast, naturally there are ways for people to cultivate without spirit roots, unique to us here is the Celestial Vein Body Cultivation.

My father had some fortuitous encounters as a child, embarking on the path of body cultivation which accumulates spiritual qi within the meridians, solely strengthening the body without mana.

Did you not help Senior Brother Wei pacify the Sword Vein Bamboo Shoot within him before, recently our hall obtained a Celestial Vein Bamboo capable of enabling cultivators to take the body cultivation path.

But it seems to have encountered some issues preventing growth, and thus cannot produce the bamboo sap necessary for activating the Celestial Vein.

I wish to ask for your help to see if it can be healed, if successful, I shall offer spirit pills with both hands!"

So you've taken such a long detour, just to ask me to heal a spirit plant, is that it?

And here he was thinking it was some crucial matter, turns out it's just the spirit plant?

"Where is it, take me to see."

Li Ye immediately felt relaxed.

He planned to finish looking quickly, and later see if he could find any hidden treasure or something in Ring Heaven City.

"Right here!"

The Hall Master brought out from a corner a bamboo that was at most the length of an arm, its hue a type of magnificent color, reflecting various shades under sunlight depending on the angle.

[Name]: Celestial Vein Bamboo

[Mood]: Very Sad

[Condition]: The Celestial Vein nurturing it will detach and fall in seven days; after the Celestial Vein completely falls, it needs to be nurtured within the Celestial Vein again to continue growing.

"..."

What?

Celestial Vein falling?

Li Ye maintained a composed observation on the surface, but inside a tumultuous wave surged, the Celestial Vein detaching sounded exaggerated, wasn't it potentially another significant hazard?

He pondered a bit, then asked: "This thing indeed seems odd, the spirit qi within it, I've never seen before, it has a lofty and ethereal feel.

Could it be because it was grown in a Celestial Vein nursery? Whether during growth, did the nursery or Celestial Vein encounter issues causing its current state of exhaustion?"

Finally, he added a joking comment: "If the Celestial Vein falls, then maybe it can be healed indeed."

To his surprise, everyone's expression became serious immediately.

Wei Qingye asked word by word: "If the Celestial Vein truly fell..."

His expression immediately shifted from seriousness to jubilant excitement under Li Ye's slightly tense observation:

"That would truly be a splendid thing!"

"..."

This statement nearly disrupted Li Ye's Qi Cultivation.

A good thing?

Could there be secrets unknown to him hidden within it.

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