Immortal Taoist Lord: My Cultivation Have No Limits

Chapter 627: 201 Su Yu’s Strategy, Becoming a Nobleman_2
 

Su Yu arrived on Taixu outside the front gate of the Star Picking Tower. As he approached, a voice shouted, “Who’s there!”

Su Yu replied, “Elder Su Yu from the House of the Earth Immortal, I am here to visit my old friend Ma Shiqing, please pass on my message.”

A disciple at the entrance of the Star Picking Tower, who was leading the team guarding this place, looked surprised and replied respectfully, “The elder from the House of the Earth Immortal? Visiting our Brother Daozi?”

He added, “Please wait a moment, Elder Su, I will inform Brother Daozi!”

After waiting for a little while at the gate, two figures appeared at the exit.

One of them was Ma Shiqing, who Su Yu hadn’t seen for many years.

Compared to before, Ma Shiqing appeared much younger, with his hair now grayer. If he looked like a man in his seventies or eighties before, he now looked like he was in his fifties or sixties.

Moving to greet Su Yu, Ma Shiqing was taken aback as he felt the formidable presence emanating from Taixu and blurts out, “Brother Su, has Taixu reached the fourth stage!?”

Su Yu chuckled, “After all these years, if he still hadn’t made a breakthrough, I’d have to consider finding him a spouse, with the hope that his offspring might be more promising.”

Taixu beneath him chirped a parting shot, “If you’re promising to find me a mate, then do it instead of just talking.”

Su Yu recalled Taixu back into his magic artifact, the palace of movement. Su Yu was guided by Ma Shiqing and successfully entered the Star Picking Tower’s gate.

As they walked deeper into the compound, they discussed recent affairs.

Su Yu asked, “I heard some news on my way here that the Star Picking Tower is facing some difficulties recently?”

With a grave look on his face, Ma Shiqing nodded and replied, “Yes, due to an old grudge with Lunar Abode. If we hadn’t accepted Lunar Abode’s challenge for a Dao battle, perhaps the Star Picking Tower would already be engulfed in war.”

Su Yu looked at him and asked calmly, “Are you confident?”

Ma Shiqing took a deep breath and replied, “The opponent is a second-rank Nascent Soul Daoist whose Formation Dao level is just half a step away from reaching the mid-fourth rank.”

“If I can’t break through the Nascent Soul Realm in three years, maybe, I would choose to make a desperate move, to see if I can save the situation by using the Land Master’s power.”

Su Yu paused, looking Ma Shiqing up and down, his brow slightly furrowed.

Ma Shiqing was the first among Su Yu, Luo Qianyu, Taoist Qingquan, and Taoist Shuhai to reach the peak of the Core Formation realm.

However, now that Su Yu, Luo Qianyu, and Taoist Qingquan had all successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Ma Shiqing has ironically got stuck at the threshold of the Nascent Soul Realm and was unable to break it.

From here, it is unmistakably suggested how terrifying the skill panel is when there are no bottlenecks.

This becomes progressively more critical and important further on!

Upon studying Ma Shiqing for a moment, Su Yu suspected the root of the issue, “Is it a lifespan problem?”

Ma Shiqing nodded lightly and said, “This is one of the drawbacks of being a Land Master. Our lifespan gets heavily consumed, causing our bodies to age rapidly and our talents to deteriorate.”

“If I were to try to break through the Nascent Soul Realm now, even if I took Condensing Infant Pill, the rate of success might be less than half.”

“Regardless of the odds, in these three years, I’m still going to attempt the breakthrough.”

“If all hope is lost, then I’ll proceed to the battle as planned, muster all my strength, and establish a fourth-grade lower-level Land Master formation.”

The Star Picking Tower’s gate was not as grand as the Earth Immortal Mansion’s, but it was surrounded by Spiritual Mountains. Soon after Ma Shiqing became the Daoist of the Star Picking Tower, he had a cave dwelling on the hillside of the main peak. He led Su Yu straight to the cave.

After seating Su Yu in the courtyard next to a stone table, Ma Shiqing brought out a tea set and used water from a spiritual spring deep within the cave to make tea for Su Yu.

Sat opposite, Su Yu rested his forehead with a frown.

To him, the Star Picking Tower was in quite an exceptional location, being not far from Da Yue Mansion. It was one of the great powers closest to Da Yue Mansion, lying in the central region of the Dao world in Da Qian.

If one day, the Star Picking Tower under Ma Shiqing’s rule, having grown into a fifth-rank Land Master and controlling the Star Picking Tower, fell into the hands of Ma Shiqing of Da Yue Mansion,

Wouldn’t the Star Picking Tower essentially be a shield for Da Yue Mansion against the powerful forces of the central region in the world of Dao in Da Qian?

If this shield were to deteriorate and fall into Lunar Abode’s or even Wan Xian Palace’s hands…

Su Yu’s pupils contracted.

Although there currently existed peaceful coexistence between the Earth Immortal Mansion and Wan Xian Palace, peace prevailed in the Dao world of Da Qian overall, other than some friction between Yu Long Palace and the Nine Spirit Mountain.

But what if, after the older generation have faded, they become the mainspring or even top-line strength of each power, will there be unrest among the Ten Great Immortal Doors?

Possibly, the thought might be a little far-fetched now, but it wouldn’t hurt to prepare for the future!

As long as Su Yu, Ma Shiqing, Luo Qianyu, Taoist Qingquan, and others survived, there was indeed a possibility that in the future they could become the leading forces of the Earth Immortal Mansion and Star Picking Tower.

Any friction or instability then would unmistakably be directed at them.

Of course.

Excluding these paranoid thoughts, Ma Shiqing taking control of the Star Picking Tower would just be a beneficial thing for him.

With the Star Picking Tower’s Formation Dao strength, coupled with the Earth Immortal Mansion’s influence, there wouldn’t be many things that could threaten the Earth Immortal Mansion.

So how can Su Yu help Ma Shiqing?