Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 135: Healing Wounds

The cave mansion, which hadnʼt seen a visitor in nearly half a year, had become extremely desolate and dilapidated, and because Li Zhirui had absorbed the Spirit Source Spring, the spiritual energy here was no longer as rich.

However, this gave Li Zhirui a sigh of relief. If there had been someone here, he wouldnʼt have been able to explain how he appeared out of nowhere.

The reason for his eagerness to emerge was primarily to find out how long he had been asleep, and to find a safe place where he could purchase Spirit Pills to treat his soul injury.

Although Li Zhirui had restored his original soul strength and even became stronger by devouring Qinghuaʼs fragment of spiritual soul, it did not mean that his soul injury was healed.

Moreover, he was worried that sleeping for too long had made him miss the agreed one-year period, resulting in him being confined to Da Rong Island for ten years.

Li Zhirui left the mountain range cautiously and, when he was close to Green Wood Market, suppressed his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi Cultivation.

This time, while queuing to enter the city, he suddenly spotted a Treasure Mirror added to the city wall.

”May I ask, fellow Daoist, what is this Treasure Mirror for?” Li Zhirui asked, puzzled.

”Could it be that youʼre from out of town?” The person looked at Li Zhirui oddly and explained offhandedly, ”Itʼs said that a great demon who has seized anotherʼs body has appeared, and this mirror can check whether cultivatorsʼ spiritual souls perfectly fit their physical bodies.”

Unless it was an infant whose body possession was not yet fully formed, after body possession, there would certainly be a slight gap between a spiritual soul and the physical body, which would require gradual and constant effort to wear down and integrate.

”I once visited with an elder from my family. This time, I am out on my own for training,” Li Zhirui explained, and followed up with a question, ”Whatʼs the deal with that demon?”

Seeing that the person was becoming impatient, Li Zhirui quickly took out thirty Spirit Stones, which made him drop his impatience and he began to explain with a smile, ”About half a year ago, a Golden Core Cave Mansion emerged from within the mountains...”

Li Zhirui wasnʼt particularly interested in the process the other person described, because he had experienced it first-hand.

However, he deduced that he had been unconscious for about five to six months, and adding the over three months spent training before, he hadnʼt exceeded the one-year limit.

”Right,” the cultivator reminded, ”Those so-called eldersʼ cave mansions are actually the desperate attempts of old monsters to revive themselves after refusing to die. Fellow Daoist, you must be careful in the future.”

Li Zhirui already knew this from Qinghua and also guessed why Du Zhe was so familiar with the formation inside the cave mansion, as it seems he had obtained the Treasure Map deliberately spread by Qinghua before his meditation death.

”Thank you, fellow Daoist.” Li Zhirui took out several more Spirit Stones as gratitude.

The Treasure Mirror shone on the two of them, revealing no anomalies.

After entering the city, Li Zhirui first headed to the Pill Tower to inquire about Spirit Pills that could treat soul injuries.

”Fellow Daoist, such Spirit Pills are quite expensive...” However, once Li Zhirui revealed a hint of Foundation Establishment energy, the shop assistant immediately changed his tone, saying, ”I did not recognize Mt. Tai with my limited view. Elder, please come with me!”

After some consideration, Li Zhirui spent over five thousand Spirit Stones to purchase ten bottles of Nourishing Spirit Pill, Warming Spirit Pill, and several other second-grade Spirit Pills.

The spiritual soul is extremely important to cultivators, and the difficulty in refining such Spirit Pills is high, hence the price is quite expensive.

Then Li Zhirui rented a cave for two months to start his seclusion and heal his injuries.

Different paths, each situation unique.

Meanwhile, after leaving Da Rong Island, Li Shiqing headed north along the Boundless Sea, eastward from Guangqing State, then detoured around the battlefield between Shen Leishan and Yin Wind Cave at the border with Myriad Thunder State and Great Void Tao, and entered Wind Corruption Prefecture without any danger.

For this, he spent a little over a month.

Upon entering Wind Corruption Prefecture, Li Shiqing dared not fly in the sky because the differences between Demon Cultivators and immortal cultivators were extremely evident and easy to distinguish.

He could only rush on ground, carefully searching for traces of Demon Cultivator forces.

On the third day after entering Wind Corruption Prefecture, he successfully found a Demon Cultivator family, and because many family members were sent out to war, leaving only two Foundation Establishment members to guard, Li Shiqing easily subdued them.

”Are there any other Foundation Establishment forces nearby?” After killing the Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators, Li Shiqing began to interrogate the Qi Cultivation Demon Cultivators separately.

The answers he got were varied and bizarre—some said the Zhang Family to the east only had two Foundation Establishment members, while others said the Zhang Family was actually a Golden Core family.

Li Shiqing was frustrated by this but helpless, as those people knew that regardless of what they said, they couldnʼt escape death.

So they simply blurted out nonsense, perhaps even leading him to a powerful force and then he could get killed, considering such an end as revenge.

In the end, Li Shiqing had to kill them all, fulfilling their desire to die, and then sought clues in the Scripture Pavilion.

Soon, he locked onto his next target: three hundred li to the west, there was a Golden Evil Mountain, occupied by a Foundation Establishment sect called the Golden Corpse Sect, similar in strength to this family, so he figured there wouldnʼt be many Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the mountain gate.

Although this method of completing tasks was slow, it ensured his safety without injury, hence it was the safer approach.

However, there was also an issue—over time, Li Shiqingʼs chances of being exposed only increased.

Thus, Li Shiqing had to speed up, to complete the task set by Shen Leishan before the Demon Cultivators could react.

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Time always flies, and in the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

By this time, Li Shiqing had already obliterated eight Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator forces and had the heads of seventeen Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators in his possession, only three short of fulfilling Shen Leishanʼs task.