303: Legacy

In short, Flame Peak was definitely the most popular True Disciple Peak among the Qixia Sect's Nine Great Mountain Peaks.

Except for the era of Crimson Cloud Real Person, at all other times, Flame Peak had the most True Disciples.

Moreover, the skill Flame Peak specialized in was the Separating Fire Great Skill, which was also a Great Skill with extremely powerful offensive capabilities.

At the same time, this Separating Fire Skill also had many derivative skills, and there were even some True Disciples who cultivated these derivative skills to the powerful level of Great Skills.

After all, in the cultivation world, there has always been a saying: there are no useless skills, only useless people!

Back then, Crimson Cloud Real Person also cultivated a minor skill, one that was not well-known.

Didn't he, step by step, rely on his astonishing talent and comprehension to forcefully evolve a minor skill into a Great Skill, even to the level of an Unsurpassed Skill?

However, many cultivation methods have changed now, and Su Can's thought was: since there are usable Great Skills that can further aid his cultivation,

then why should he painstakingly ponder those minor skills step by step, spending effort and energy to deduce them?

Standing on the shoulders of giants allows one to go further and encounter fewer thorns on the path ahead.

After all, times are different, and cultivation methods have also changed.

Currently, Su Can practices both ancient and modern methods, cultivating both ancient techniques and modern techniques.

The Embryonic Core method, using skills to seed cores, is a modern method.

While the Eight Desolations Steps and Reincarnation Overlord Fist, these footwork and fist techniques, are actually ancient methods.

Su Can practiced both ancient and modern methods because he had no choice and did not understand them.

By the time he understood, the Reincarnation Overlord Fist had already been cultivated, and currently, there was no substantial conflict between the two ancient and modern methods.

“Never mind that, let's first find the Separating Fire Great Skill of Flame Peak. I don't believe Qixia Palace left so cleanly without leaving any legacy behind.”

Su Can took a deep breath and walked up Flame Peak.

The scorching power grew increasingly intense.

His footsteps swiftly glided over the reddish Mountain Peak.

Suddenly, Su Can's steps paused, and he let out a surprised sound.

He saw a vine appearing in a crevice between rocks on his front left.

This vine was just like Flame Peak, entirely crimson, without a single green leaf.

Even the fruits it bore were crimson, the same color as the mountain itself.

If Su Can's spiritual vision hadn't been strong enough, he wouldn't have easily spotted this vine.

“This Flame Peak is incredibly hot, a place of extreme yang; ordinary herbs cannot survive here, unless they are fire-attribute spiritual essences.”

“It seems this vine is not an ordinary medicinal herb; it should be a spiritual essence of heaven and earth.”

Su Can quickly walked over, then bent down to examine it closely.

“It's Crimson Flame Fruit!”

Su Can was slightly surprised, identifying the origin of the vine.

The Crimson Flame Fruit is a type of spiritual essence of heaven and earth, a fire-attribute spiritual medicine, growing only in magma fields after volcanic eruptions, absorbing the powerful fiery energy contained in the underground magma.

The medicinal power of this fruit is immense; once it bears fruit, it is a high-grade spiritual essence.

If the growing environment is extremely extreme, it can even cultivate top-grade Crimson Flame Fruit, or even super-grade Crimson Flame Fruit.

“I didn't expect to find such good things on Flame Peak.”

Su Can's face lit up with surprise, and he quickly took out a good jade container, carefully wrapping the Crimson Flame Fruit with his True Essence power, plucking them one by one.

“Excellent, a total of six Crimson Flame Fruits. If I use Crimson Flame Fruits to refine pills, it means I have six opportunities to refine pills.”

Su Can subtly calculated in his mind, and couldn't help but feel happy.

With his pill refining success rate, six Crimson Flame Fruits could yield at least five finished pills.

The greatest use of Crimson Flame Fruit, of course, is for refining body-tempering and bone-strengthening pills, as well as pills for training spiritual consciousness.

In the Golden Core stage, this medicinal material, combined with several other spiritual essences, can also be used to refine Fire Tempering Pills.

These can enable Golden Core cultivators to generate core fire, and for those who already have core fire, it can temper their core fire, improving its grade and quality.

“Actually, this vine is also a powerful medicinal material, but I won't do anything that depletes resources. The environment of Flame Peak is special, so if I leave its roots, it can still produce Crimson Flame Fruits in the future!”

Su Can happily collected the Crimson Flame Fruits and continued walking up Flame Peak.

This time, he didn't walk as fast, but instead spread out all his spiritual power, exploring as he walked to see if there were any more Crimson Flame Fruits or similar spiritual medicines.

After all, the environment of Flame Peak is unique, and some spiritual essences of heaven and earth require such an environment to grow.

Indeed, his guess was correct.

Along the way, although his spiritual power was consumed quite a bit, he discovered many good things that were invisible to the naked eye.

He almost dug three feet deep, obtaining many treasures.

For example, the Fire Gu Worm, which sounds like a type of Gu worm, is actually a spiritual essence of heaven and earth even rarer than the Crimson Flame Fruit.

This Fire Gu Worm can repair physical injuries, mend bones, and reconnect meridians, which are merely its ordinary effects.

There were also Fire Sword Grass, Earth Fire Lotus, and Crimson Sun Stone Lichen, each no less valuable than the Crimson Flame Fruit.

Especially the Crimson Sun Stone Lichen, which is a stamen that grows from a refining material, extremely effective, and a top-grade spiritual medicine!

Soon, Su Can arrived at the palace complex on the mountainside.

This palace complex was significantly larger than those of the Seventy-two Peaks, with each main hall being independent.

This was because True Disciples resided here.

The Nine Great Mountain Peaks only accepted True Disciples.

And True Disciples, compared to the inner sect disciples of the Seventy-two Peaks, might not even appear one in a hundred.

Therefore, the True Disciples of the Nine Great Mountain Peaks lived very luxuriously; their clothing, food, housing, and transportation far exceeded those of inner sect disciples by ten or even a hundred times.

Su Can quickly strolled around the True Disciple Hall and indeed gained a lot.

Especially the Pill Furnaces and artifact tripods in the True Disciple Palace, which were all magical treasures integrated with the Earth Fire Grand Array.

That's right, they were magical treasures!

Every Pill Furnace and artifact tripod in each True Disciple Palace was of the magical treasure level.

This was because each Earth Fire exit was a core node of the entire Mountain Peak's grand array, requiring powerful magical treasures to suppress it.

But now, these Pill Furnaces and artifact tripods of Flame Peak had all become Su Can's personal wealth.

Because after investigation, Flame Peak had already become a dead volcano.

So these Pill Furnaces and artifact tripods could now be moved and taken away.

However, Su Can did not move them temporarily.

Anyway, besides him and Gu Qingfeng, no one else could come here.

The top priority was to quickly find Flame Peak's treasure of the peak, the Separating Fire Great Skill.

Whoosh!

Su Can lightly clenched his palm, collecting seven or eight jade slips.

These jade slips were also found in the True Disciple Palace.

So far, he had only examined two.

One was a skill transmission jade slip, and the other recorded some precautions for refining certain pills.

The skill transmission jade slip recorded a sinister method of spiritual consciousness attack.

Currently, Su Can had no use for it.

Although his spiritual power was strong, it was at most at the Embryonic Core level, not yet suitable for cultivating such a skill.

“I'll put these jade slips away for now and first check the Lihuo Palace at the peak.”

Su Can looked towards the peak, a hint of anticipation flashing in his eyes.

Soon, Su Can arrived at the peak of Flame Peak.

It was evident that the peak of Flame Peak was very large, but it had been cut in half by someone using a Great Skill.

As for why it wasn't a sword, it was because Su Can felt a domineering saber intent, like a raging fire, emanating from it.

And Lihuo Palace was a huge palace built against the other half of the peak.

In front of Lihuo Palace was a fan-shaped plaza, paved with thick Profound Crystal Iron, making it incredibly hard.

Even so, Su Can could see it covered with footprints of varying depths, as well as saber marks, fist imprints, and so on.

“I'll try this Profound Crystal Iron too!”

Su Can took a deep breath, suddenly roared, his True Essence and magical power surged wildly, and terrifying light and divine patterns condensed on his fist.

The aura of these divine patterns was incomparably domineering, seemingly capable of refining all things and devouring everything.

Even the air became extremely distorted upon contact with the divine patterns.

Bang!

A terrifying punch distorted the void!

It fiercely struck the Profound Crystal Iron on the ground!

Instantly, light exploded, runes burst forth, forming a terrifying storm.

However, when all the storm ceased.

When Su Can looked at the Profound Crystal Iron on the ground with full anticipation, he immediately fell into doubt.

He saw that the punch he had just thrown with all his might hadn't even left a mark.

“Damn it, it can't be, right? Am I that weak?”

Su Can was a bit incredulous. He extended his hand, conjured a Sun Gang Saber, which exuded an incomparably domineering and scorching power, and fiercely slashed at the Profound Crystal Iron ground again.

The result was a clang, sparks flew, and the Sun Gang Saber shattered into countless runes, no longer taking shape.

Yet, on the Profound Crystal Iron ground, not even an imprint was left.

At this moment.

Su Can finally realized his insignificance and weakness.

He looked at the deep footprints and extremely deep saber and sword marks in other places, and finally understood that on the path of cultivation, he had only just begun.

His floating heart slowly settled down.

Then he looked up at Lihuo Palace, his gaze instead becoming more resolute as he walked towards it.

Entering Lihuo Palace, Su Can headed straight for the cultivation secret chamber.

But Lihuo Palace was too large; Su Can only found it after wandering around inside for several circles.

The palace of Lihuo Palace was also made of Profound Crystal Iron, mixed with unknown exotic crystals.

This Profound Crystal Iron was considered a marvel in the cultivation world, naturally incredibly hard, but it couldn't be used for refining artifacts, as it would cause a terrifying explosion upon refining.

However, Su Can didn't dwell on these details too much.

He constantly kept his purpose in mind, which was to find the inheritance of the Qixia Sect.

Upon arriving at the cultivation secret chamber, the myriad of books and jade slips made Su Can's eyes light up.

This cultivation secret chamber was grand and magnificent, and entirely made of exotic crystals, incredibly hard. One look told him it was the place where the palace master of Lihuo Palace meditated and cultivated.

Therefore, these books and jade slips in front of him very likely contained the inherited skills of Lihuo Palace.

Su Can waved his hand, first collecting all the beast skins and thread-bound books, then began sifting through the dozen or so skill transmission jade slips.

He first picked up the first jade slip, his spiritual consciousness probing into it, and a large surge of information poured into his mind—it was a fragmented ancient method.

Su Can frowned, immediately put it down, and picked up the next one.

The second skill transmission jade slip was a secret art for controlling puppets with spiritual consciousness, which was practically useless to Su Can, who possessed the Puppet Skill.

He decisively put down the second skill transmission jade slip and picked up the third.

“Eh?”

Suddenly, Su Can let out a surprised sound, because he discovered that this third jade slip was not made of jade, but of bone.

And faintly, this bone jade slip emitted a trace of obscure demonic power and aura.

“Could it be… this is a demon cultivator's inherited bone slip?”

Su Can suddenly became interested and quickly extended his spiritual consciousness into it.

Boom!

A huge tremor suddenly made Su Can dizzy and his ears ring, then he heard a beast roar, and a terrifying Great Demon appeared before Su Can's eyes.

This Great Demon resembled a large ox, entirely crimson, and when enraged, its body glowed, like a burning red copper charcoal, flowing with scorching demonic power like magma.

And it was clearly visible to the naked eye that within the flowing magma-like demonic power, there were countless dense runes, emitting a terrifying aura.

This large ox seemed to be fighting with 'humans'.

The human figure was blurry, enveloped in a ball of light, and with every move, crimson divine light permeated the heavens and earth, forcing the large ox to roar incessantly, constantly gaining terrifying wounds all over its body.

Moreover, the wounds were entangled with dense crimson runes, forming wisps of crimson divine light, hindering the terrifying ox demon's recovery.

This battle was earth-shattering and lasted for an unknown period.

Su Can couldn't see the battle clearly at all.

He only knew that at the end, the terrifying ox demon let out a mournful cry, its entire body glowed again, and its body was continuously refined.

Finally, it roared with all its might, and with a crack, it resisted the refinement, and a piece of demon bone split from its body.

It opened its mouth and spat out, and countless runic messages all entered the demon bone.

The scene ended there abruptly.

Su Can immediately knew that this bone jade slip in front of him was very likely the demon technique inherited from that ox demon.

Sure enough, a fierce and domineering demonic intent instantly appeared in his mind, revealing a cultivation technique.

This cultivation technique was called the Great Demon Scripture!

“Goodness, this Great Demon Scripture is not simple. It actually encompasses everything, not just cultivation techniques, but also some demon race skills. I've stumbled upon a treasure!”

Su Can laughed excitedly, this was truly a pillow sent when he was sleepy; he was just worrying about how Tiger Da and the others would cultivate.

And now, he had actually obtained a Great Demon Scripture with an extremely powerful inheritance.

“Excellent, excellent. After I finish exploring the Qixia Sect, I can go back up and let Tiger Da, Big Yellow, and the others cultivate this Great Demon Scripture.”

Su Can was in a very good mood, immediately set aside the Great Demon Scripture, and then continued to examine the other jade slips.

Soon, a joyful sound came out.

Su Can held a jade slip, revealing a look of pleasant surprise.

Because within this jade slip was precisely the inheritance of Flame Peak that he had been looking for, the Separating Fire Great Skill.

“I knew it, the ancestors of the Qixia Sect would definitely leave a legacy to inherit the Dao, and it's true!”

“I actually found this Separating Fire Great Skill.”

“Hahahaha…”

Su Can was overjoyed, and eagerly probed it with his spiritual consciousness.