Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 606: Chapter 349 Solution_2

Li Yuanba surmised, from Weng Yi’s state while sleeping, that he was cultivating some special cultivation technique. Later, by offering to trade for it and listening to Weng Yi’s involuntary thoughts, Li Yuanba learned of the precious nature of the “Greedy Heaven Sleep Dream Technique.”

Though Weng Yi certainly had many other valuable cultivation techniques, Li Yuanba decided not to pressure him any further.

Weng Yi was like a ticking time bomb, which might explode if pressured too hard.

“Very well, you stay here. I will bring you resources for cultivation. In the next few days, I will observe your performance before deciding whether to take you as a registered disciple!” Li Yuanba said with a smile.

After Li Yuanba left, Weng Yi secretly let out a long sigh of relief.

He didn’t let his guard down at all, for with his current realm, he simply couldn’t tell if he was under surveillance.

He didn’t think Li Yuanba wanted to do anything to him; as a Golden Core cultivator, Li Yuanba could easily kill him without knowing his background.

Therefore, when he saw that Li Yuanba was willing to shelter him, he truly believed it.

After resting for a night, Weng Yi had a visitor early the next morning.

“My name is Yue Xing, and the Elder has asked me to bring this to you!” The visitor was Deacon Yue Xing, who looked at Weng Yi with envy in his eyes as he spoke and handed over a jade bottle to him.

In his view, Weng Yi had incredible luck to caught the attention of Li Yuanba.

Who was Li Yuanba? He was a disciple of Elder Jian, a grandstudent of Ancestor Lu, and moreover, a grandstudent who received Ancestor Lu’s attention.

Whether one was noticed by their master, was an extremely important distinction.

Many Nascent Soul Ancestors hardly knew much more than the names of their disciples, with face-to-face meetings being rare.

However, Ancestor Lu had even fought a major battle against a Venerable from Qianye Temple for Li Yuanba’s sake, not to mention that Li Yuanba’s current position was influenced by Ancestor Lu.

Within Senluo Sect, countless disciples wished to be accepted by Li Yuanba as his disciples. Since becoming a Golden Core cultivator, Li Yuanba had yet to take a single disciple.

“Thank you, Deacon Yue!” Weng Yi, who knew something about Jieshan City, naturally recognized this Yue Xing Deacon, and he bowed in thanks.

Alone, he opened the jade bottle and was surprised to see the Spirit Pills inside.

There were ten First-grade Spirit Pills. If they were ordinary First-grade Spirit Pills, he, as a Nascent Soul Ancestor, wouldn’t care much, but all the Spirit Pills in the jade bottle were top-grade First-grade Spirit Pills, which even ordinary Qi Refining Cultivators couldn’t obtain.

Top-grade First-grade Spirit Pills were typically accidental creations by Alchemists. Even elite disciples of great sects were only given a few.

For the first time, Weng Yi considered the idea of becoming a registered disciple of Li Yuanba. Perhaps being Li Yuanba’s registered disciple was a good choice.

These top-grade First-grade Spirit Pills were very important to him. Such pills, which could be taken without any side effects and could rapidly enhance one’s strength, would perfectly conceal the rapid improvements in his cultivation that would come later.

He smiled and gratefully took out a top-grade First-grade Spirit Pill.

The reason for his grateful appearance was to show to anyone who might be watching him.

As the top-grade First-grade Spirit Pill dissolved in his mouth, he thought about using it to increase his strength just enough to display his talent and induce Li Yuanba to consider taking him as a registered disciple.

But as the Spirit Pill melted, he sensed that something was wrong.

His insides were invaded by a fierce poison. The venom was so aggressive that he couldn’t have prepared for it, even if he had known it was coming, not to mention that if the poison had merely touched his skin, he wouldn’t have been able to stop its toxicity.

He wanted to use the remaining energy of his Nascent Soul, his last means of survival or rather his desperate measure.

But in a blink of an eye, his body lost a vast amount of vitality, leaving him hardly enough life force to act, let alone survive.

Within just two breaths of time, he found himself gasping for survival, staring at the sky unwilling to accept why Li Yuanba, a Sword Cultivation Golden Core, would resort to such methods against him.

Shouldn’t a Sword Cultivation Golden Core be fearless, charging bravely against any foe? How could he use such despicable means against a mere Qi Refining Cultivator like himself?

“Could it be that Li Yuanba has discovered my true identity?” Full of doubts and an intense unwillingness to accept his fate, Weng Yi, or rather Patriarch Weng Zhao, met his demise.

Outside his room, Li Yuanba had already laid out the fourth-grade Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate. Even if Patriarch Weng Zhao retained the strength for one last strike, the fourth-grade Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate would prevent him from causing too much destruction to Jieshan City.

The top-grade First-Grade Spirit Pill that Li Yuanba had Deacon Yue Xing deliver to Patriarch Weng Zhao had been infused with a hint of poison.

This poison, derived from the Absolute Spirit Illusion Snake, a creature nearly at the level of a Great Demon, was so potent that, let alone a Qi Refining Cultivator, even a Golden Core cultivator who consumed it would face certain death.

Among the items previously exchanged by Li Shiming, there were some traces of the Absolute Spirit Illusion Snake’s deadly venom, intended for Li Yuanba’s use when necessary.

The top-grade First-Grade Spirit Pill was part of the previous stock.

Patriarch Weng Zhao probably never guessed, even in death, that the moment Li Yuanba became aware of his presence through Divine Thought, he knew his identity, which led to all the subsequent schemes.

After all, Li Yuanba never intended to face Patriarch Weng Zhao in direct combat; even if Patriarch Weng Zhao, after body seizing, only had the strength of the Qi Refinement Realm, he was still a Nascent Soul Ancestor reborn as a Qi Refining Cultivator, likely to have some life-saving techniques.

Li Yuanba waited a long time until there was no more breath of life from Patriarch Weng Zhao’s side, no trace of his living essence could be detected, only then did he approach.

His Divine Thought swept over the body and his eyes slightly brightened. While the corpse seemed ordinary, there was a special aura within it, the aura of ‘Nanming Leaving Fire.’

If this body were to be refined into a Corpse Refining, there was a fair chance of gaining control over ‘Nanming Leaving Fire.’

Furthermore, he didn’t know whether the essence of ‘Nanming Leaving Fire’ still existed in the body; regardless, Patriarch Weng Zhao would have left the seed of ‘Nanming Leaving Fire’ within the body he seized.

It was unknown whether the seed would disappear or be extinguished upon his death.

Without hesitation, Li Yuanba collected the body into his Space Ring and then sent a message to Deacon Yue Xing before heading towards Jieshan Mountain Pass.

At Shushan Sect, Li Shiming also flashed out of his cave dwelling, not needing to inform anyone; he turned into a beam of sword light shooting out of the sect.

After leaving the sect, he used the ‘Charming Soul Concealing Secret Technique’ to conceal his figure within the shadows of trees and rocks, rapidly traveling using ‘Step by Step Lotus.’

Li Yuanba passed through the Senluo Sect’s Jieshan Mountain Pass without any obstacles.

He didn’t go to the Righteous Gate but waited in the buffer zone.

Li Shiming, traveling with ‘Step by Step Lotus,’ took two hours to reach the Jieshan Mountain Pass and passed through just as easily, given his status.

The two met in the buffer zone, and if not for the body seized by Patriarch Weng Zhao, Li Shiming would never have done such a thing.

It was precisely because Li Shiming knew how powerful ‘Nanming Leaving Fire’ was; if the body truly contained the seed of ‘Nanming Leaving Fire,’ there was a chance that after refining it into a Corpse Refining it would still possess the ‘Nanming Leaving Fire’ seed, which would be a tremendous aid for him in the future.

For this, even if it meant exposing a slight connection with his avatar Li Yuanba, it was worthwhile.

Both he and his avatar Li Yuanba held exceedingly high positions within their respective sects, and a bit of contact between them wouldn’t lead to any negative speculation.

“Fellow, we meet again!” Li Yuanba greeted with a smile. Not waiting for his main body to reciprocate, he took out the body that Patriarch Weng Zhao had seized.

“Fellow, all is well!” Li Shiming, even more composed than his avatar Li Yuanba, returned the greeting while accepting the body.

The body was taken into the mechanical room space, where within its microscopic control, he examined the condition of the body.

He saw the sparkling of the ‘Nanming Leaving Fire’ rule pattern within the body, not entirely extinguished, with a spark inside the body still flickering, on the verge of dying out.