Chapter 685: 678

Cultivation was inherently somewhat monotonous and dull.

During breaks from cultivation, pulling out the Grassman Curse for a few days was such a good form of entertainment.

But now, the person had been cursed to death, and that little bit of entertainment was gone…

Gathering all the items from the ground used for the Seven-Day Curse Killing Technique, Chen Hai had a face of helplessness and sighed.

Furrowing his brow, he pondered for quite some time.

He was always hasty to do good and generous to a fault, even when others offended him, he was magnanimous and kind, generally preferring to convince through reason.

Thinking it over, he just couldn’t figure out any other enemies to use the Seven-Day Curse Killing Technique on.

“I am, in every respect, just too loyal and kind.”

“Being such a good person, always doing good deeds for everyone, it’s really frustrating not being able to find a formidable enemy,” he lamented.

With a long sigh, he rose from his cross-legged sitting position and stood up from the ground.

In the past, when he felt bored, he could take out the Mongolian Skin Grassman to curse Demon King Chili and vent his frustrations.

But now, feeling bored and without any form of entertainment, he could only leave the grand hall and wander outside casually.

He hadn’t even left the summit yet, merely standing near the grand hall on a nearby cliff and taking in the view, when he felt that Black Water Immortal Mountain was evidently much livelier than before his seclusion.

“Has the number of people on this mountain already exceeded a hundred?”

“It seems that in the decades of my seclusion, quite a few people have entered the Black Water Myriad Spirit Pool and successfully received their inheritance.”

“No wonder I feel that my cultivation speed has been getting faster in recent years.”

“From the Mid Period of an Earth Immortal, to the Late Period, and now to Earth Immortal Perfection, it has only taken a bit more than fifty years.”

With a slight sensing, the situation on the Immortal Mountain was all etched into Chen Hai’s mind.

For a cultivator like him, more than fifty years might only seem like the blink of an eye.

But when it really comes down to it, over so many years, seas could turn to mulberry fields.

Just over a year after he started his seclusion, his wife, Ye Qingqing, had already resigned from her position as Sect Master and opened a cave mansion nearby the summit for cultivation.

Chen Hai was certainly aware of this.

When Ye Qingqing first moved to Black Water Immortal Mountain, Chen Hai had spent several uncultivated days with her.

However, afterwards, as he immersed himself in cultivation, he did not pay much attention to some of the things that happened and was no longer very clear about them.

“Fortunately, over these years, Qingqing has also successfully made further progress and stepped into the level of a True Immortal and True Demon.”

“The aura on her body feels a bit chaotic and hasn’t fully settled down yet.”

“It looks like she must have had her breakthrough not long ago and is now stabilizing her realm.”

Ye Qingqing’s cave mansion was only a few steps away from this summit.

With just a slight sensing, Chen Hai had already discerned her current situation.

Since she had just had her breakthrough and was still stabilizing her realm, after some consideration, Chen Hai decided not to go over and disturb her hastily.

Withdrawing his sensing, he meticulously examined his current situation.

Within his body, the energies that traversed the void to nourish him were as many as over fifty strands.

The energy contributed by the sect disciples through their ascetic cultivation, though varying in strength, added up to a terrifying number.

Compared to when he was cultivating alone before the Black Water True Technique was created, now he, even by doing nothing but lying down and sleeping all day, could improve his power and realm by as much as ten times what he once could.

However, now that he had reached Earth Immortal Perfection, he had come upon a bottleneck.

The power fed back to him by his disciples could only increase his reservoir of energy but was unable to let him leap to the heavens and directly become a Heavenly Immortal.

After all, the Heavenly Immortal Realm depended on enlightenment, requiring a true understanding of the Unity of Heaven and Man.

Only by truly comprehending this principle could one merge with the Power of Heaven and Earth, ensuring that every move they made was blessed with its support.

The feedback from his disciples’ rigorous cultivation could maximize his cultivation efficiency, but in terms of such grand realm breakthroughs, its effectiveness was undoubtedly minimal.

Despite this, Chen Hai was already quite content.

After all, with his original cultivation rate, advancing from Earth Immortal Mid Period to Perfection in merely fifty years would have been impossible; it would have taken closer to five hundred years.

Those disciples who had recently joined the sect mostly had their cave mansions established below the mid-mountain.

Sensing the energy of numerous disciples sitting cross-legged and toiling in their cultivation inside those cave mansions, Chen Hai nodded his head in approval, “My disciples should indeed be ascetics devoted to seclusion and hard cultivation.”

“Those who use the pretext of seeking fortune to wander about frivolously, gaining the heritage of the Black Water True Technique, are simply wasting it.”

“After all, the concentration of spiritual energy inside my cave mansion is ten to a hundred times richer than the outside world. For them to be able to cultivate the Black Water True Technique and establish their cave mansions within my Black Water Immortal Mansion is, in itself, the greatest fortune.”

Chen Hai murmured softly to himself, and of course, he had his own selfish reasons for such thoughts.

After all, those disciples who had obtained the heritage of the Black Water True Technique and were in seclusion could bring him a degree of power feedback.

Those who always ran outside to explore ancient ruins in search of opportunities would certainly spend much less time in secluded cultivation, and whatever they gained outside brought not the slightest benefit to Chen Hai!

Weighing the two, Chen Hai naturally favored those who knew only to cultivate in seclusion.

It should be noted that his willingness to open the sect and accept disciples, no matter how splendid the apparent reasons, was in truth because he wanted to use these disciples to maximize the efficiency of his own cultivation.

If it weren’t for this, he, who was not one to act without profit, having always been reluctant to take disciples, would not have such generous inclinations, occasionally lifting restrictions to allow those people to try their luck and receive the heritage at the Black Water Myriad Spirit Pool.

After sensing the state within the numerous cave mansions on the mountain, Chen Hai extended his sensing to various parts of his territory.

Originally, his Earth Immortal Domain could only cover a range of a hundred li around Black Water Immortal Mountain.

However, now that he had broken through several Small Realms and reached Earth Immortal Perfection, his domain had increased several times in size.

A five hundred li radius around Black Water Immortal Mountain had already been completely covered by his domain.

Compared to the past, the domain he had condensed was now much more concealed.

It should be noted that when Zuo Yunxiao pursued Yang Shaoqing and others into his domain, he had barely entered when he detected something amiss and promptly withdrew from Chen Hai’s domain.

Of course, such an outcome could also be due to them both being Earth Immortals, but Zuo Yunxiao’s realm might have been higher than Chen Hai’s.

However, Chen Hai’s now more concealed domain, unless he activated the power within it, would be very difficult for an Earth Immortal level cultivator to perceive.

“Eh, why would she appear in the West Barbarian Mountain Territory and enter my domain?”

The moment Chen Hai started to perceive the situation within his own domain, his entire person clearly startled, and in the next instant, his figure flickered and vanished.