Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 139 - 137: Sudden Wealth_2

Tong Yangʼs face showed a hint of bitterness as he said, ”The cultivation technique I practice is called the ʼDemon Serpent Devouring Spirit Sutra,ʼ derived from the ʼHeavenly Dragon Demon Transformation Scripture.ʼ That old demon wants to devour the dragon energy of the serpent that we cultivate, to transform and become a Jiao, breaking through to Nascent Soul.”

”How did you find out about the location of his seclusion?”

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As they continued to interrogate him, and with Tong Yangʼs renewed oath, the demeanor of the Golden Core cultivators from Shen Leishan became very grave.

But now there was a very thorny problem, the Old Demonʼs place of seclusion was deep within Wind Corruption Prefecture, inside the gates of Yin Wind Cave!

Even though they knew the exact location, they had no way to disrupt his sacrifice and breakthrough!

Whatʼs worse, it seemed that Yin Wind Cave had made such calculations long ago. The Golden Core cultivators cultivated in the ʼDemon Serpent Sutraʼ were not limited to nine, even without Tong Yang, they could replace him with another Golden Core.

The reason Tong Yang was chosen was simply that his physique was highly compatible with the ʼDemon Serpent Sutra,ʼ the dragon energy of the serpent he cultivated was purer than that of others.

The only plan Shen Leishan could think of was to have someone infiltrate during the Old Demonʼs Tribulation Transcendence, to intensify the power of the thunder tribulation and make him die in the process!

And this person, could only be the Demon Cultivator from Wind Corruption Prefecture standing before them!

”We can give you the Five Thunder Soul Dispersion Skill, and weʼll provide you with two third-order Escape Talismans, but you must disrupt the Old Demonʼs breakthrough!” the Sect Leader said, glaring at Tong Yang with piercing eyes.

”Fine!” Realizing he could only turn to Shen Leishan to escape this fate after learning he was to become a sacrifice, Tong Yang had anticipated this outcome.

He had no choice, although it was extremely dangerous, and he could perish with just a slight misstep, if he didnʼt agree, it would mean certain death!

However, he had one condition, he must get the talismans and the skill now.

Under the witness of the Heavenly Dao, they reached this agreement.

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Meanwhile, Li Zhirui, who had been healing his wounds in Green Wood Market, opened his eyes after a little over a month.

”The injuries to the spiritual soul are truly not so easily healed,” Li Zhirui muttered with a sigh.

Even after consuming a large amount of healing Spirit Pills during this period, his injuries had not completely healed.

Moreover, due to the spiritual soul being injured, Li Zhirui couldnʼt frequently use his divine sense. A splitting headache was the least of his troubles; what was most important was that it could worsen his injuries.

”However, itʼs almost time for the one-year period agreed upon with my family; itʼs time to go back.”

Thus, Li Zhirui decided to first return to Da Rong Island and enter seclusion within clan grounds to heal and recover from the spiritual soul injury.

But before that, he needed to take inventory of his previous gains!

Li Zhirui had previously absorbed a Spirit Source Spring into his space; now the spiritual energy within his space was no less than that of the third-order Spirit Vein owned by his family.

And the Spirit Stones needed to cultivate spiritual medicine had been reduced by nearly twenty percent, allowing him to save a significant amount of Spirit Stones.

Apart from that, he had also absorbed a fragment of Qinghuaʼs spiritual soul. It was a pity that the memories within had been ground to dust by the space, leaving only a trace of obsession, which was absorbed by Li Zhirui.

And that bit of obsession was Qinghuaʼs contemplation and thoughts on Breaking the Pill into a Baby!

Although this was far in the future for Li Zhirui, with this memory, his difficulty in breaking through to Nascent Soul would be much less than others.ʼ

Especially for cultivators like Li Zhirui, who came from small forces with insufficient heritage, having been shown the way to cross the threshold of Nascent Soul, he wouldnʼt have to waste lots of time on self-contemplation.

If oneʼs luck wasnʼt good enough, they might never find the threshold to Nascent Soul until the end of their lifespan.

Of course, for Li Zhirui at present, these were still far too distant. So, he sealed this memory in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, to be retrieved when needed.

Besides that, there were the treasures on Qinghuaʼs person. He had originally thought that the storage ring would contain many good things, but instead, it was empty.

The objects he had collected, those of lower grade were displayed outside to attract cultivators, while higher-grade Spiritual Objects were placed on those Jade Slips, making them easy for Li Zhirui to find.

The two third-order Magic Artifacts were both top-grade in the Wood category, and very rare and precious magical treasures. One was the Green Haze Thunder Shock Command, capable of unleashing the spirit light of Green Haze and thunder attacks, with extraordinary power.

The other was the Wood Spirit Protecting Heart Bead, which could withstand the strongest blow from a Golden Core cultivator and protect the heart vessels, serving as a life-saving magical treasure.

As for the Jade Box, it held a fourth-order spiritual object - the Thousand-Year Wood Core.

With just one glance, Li Zhirui hurriedly closed the jade boxʼs lid, fearing the leakage of spiritual energy.

At the same time, he had made up his mind to keep this spiritual object, intending to use it for forging his life-bound magic treasure after his breakthrough to the Golden Core stage!

Although a life-bound magic treasure could also advance as the cultivator breaks through, it is still subject to the limitations of the spiritual objectʼs grade used in its making.

To avoid the future need to find a suitable spiritual object and go through the trouble of integrating it into the life-bound magic treasure, some Golden Core cultivators from major powers use fourth-grade or even higher-grade spiritual objects for their life-bound magic treasures!

A fourth-grade spiritual object, and one so full of wood energy at that, was naturally something Li Zhirui wanted to reserve for his own use.

As for Li Shiqing, judging from his willingness to part with two third-grade spirit beast eggs, even if Li Zhirui offered him the Thousand-Year Wood Core, he would not accept it.

In the remaining jade bottle, there was only one spirit pill. After his repeated inspections, he ascertained that this spirit pill was a Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pill, and its ability was just as its name suggested—it could help a Foundation Establishment cultivator break through a minor realm!

Of course, using a spirit pill to make a breakthrough meant the mana was not as refined, and the cultivator would need to spend time polishing it, but it was still faster than advancing slowly by oneself.

So Li Zhirui planned to assimilate this spirit pill after he advanced to the mid-phase of Foundation Establishment, allowing himself to break through to the late phase of Foundation Establishment and save himself more than a decade, striving to reach Core Formation before the age of one hundred.

He had once read in a casual travelogue a record stating that one who reaches Golden Core by the age of one hundred could very likely spontaneously comprehend a Divine Power!

Though Li Zhirui had not seen such accounts elsewhere, he strove towards this goal, adhering to the idea that it was better to believe in its possibility than to dismiss it outright.

Now with this Barrier-Breaking Pill, he felt even more confident!

Moreover, Li Zhirui felt that with his current pace of cultivation, he would only need about five years or so to break through to the mid-phase of Foundation Establishment!

Then, after assimilating the Barrier-Breaking Pill, he would break through to the late phase of Foundation Establishment, and at that time, he would be less than fifty years old.

He would still have a full fifty years to polish his mana and comprehend the two Core Formation Comprehension records of his family.

Li Zhirui reined in his increasingly scattered thoughts and began to examine the three jade slips left behind by Qinghua.

One jade slip contained the fourth-grade cultivation technique ”Supreme Yi Xun Wind Path Scripture,” but only included the methods up to the early phase of Nascent Soul, with the later methods incomplete and fragmented.

Li Zhirui felt indifferent about this, as he could not abandon the ”Myriad Spirits Scripture” to switch to cultivating another technique.

The other two jade slips, on the other hand, brought him a pleasant surprise. They recorded an Escape Skill Divine Power capable of transforming oneself into a clear breeze and a secret message about a Secret Realm.

Li Zhirui carefully read the message, muttering to himself, ”So it turns out a Secret Realm can be fixed to a place using a Boundary Fixing Stone and then controlled for entry and exit through a formation!”

However, Boundary Fixing Stones are extremely precious and rare. According to Qinghuaʼs records, even a top Golden Core power like Wood Spirit Sect only controlled three Secret Realms.

This included a third-grade Secret Realm shared by all the Golden Core powers in Green Mountain State, a relic from the original ruler of Green Mountain State.

The foundations of the Li family were indeed too shallow, unaware of the dangers hidden in the ancestral mansion and ignorant of the secrets of Secret Realms...

But Li Zhirui also understood that such matters could not be rushed and had to be accrued slowly after all, given that the Li family had only risen to a Golden Core power about a year or two ago.

Beyond these precious treasures, the vestment robe, crown, and meditation mat upon which Qinghua sat were all third-grade low-tier Magical Treasures.

But Li Zhiruiʼs gains were far from just these!

Even when compared to all of his gains, these were but a drop in the ocean!

Although the remaining items were obtained from Foundation Establishment cultivators, their sheer number was staggering!

These were the storage bags of well over a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators!

Li Zhirui spent several days just tallying the spiritual objects on their persons, initially thrilled with each find but eventually becoming numb to it.

Fortunately, he managed to take an inventory of all the spiritual objects in the end, amassing a total of more than a hundred thousand spirit stones, over a hundred second-grade magic artifacts of various grades, assorted second-grade spirit pills, spiritual objects...

Especially since many among them were Loose Cultivators, their entire wealth was in their storage bags which now all fell into Li Zhiruiʼs hands.

Of course, though the quantity was substantial, there were no excessively precious treasures.

”Really... even average Golden Core cultivators probably arenʼt as rich as I am, right?” Li Zhirui, changing from his recent dejection, laughed out loud with a big grin, feeling extremely pleased.

If there was a cultivator who had cultivated some Pupil Skill looking at Li Zhirui, they would see his whole body filled with a tempting treasure light!