Chapter 118 Attack

Atop Crimson Flame Peak, inspiration soars into the sky, with clouds rising and swirling in countless forms.

After finishing his cultivation, Ji An circulated his magical power throughout his body. The magical power contained wisps of wood-elemental energy, which nourished his immortal meridians and physical body.

After being tempered by the spiritual energy of the Golden Fire, his magical power became lighter and purer, and he felt more at ease and without any hesitation when casting spells.

Metal overcomes wood, and wood generates fire. After being refined by the spiritual energy of metal and fire, the magic power within him gained a different aura, and he gained a more subtle understanding of the elemental energy of wood.

Ji An smiled. This way, the speed of improving cultivation would be slightly slower, but it would save the time of refining spiritual energy with pure magic power, allowing him to take steady steps.

The spiritual energy within the cave grew increasingly intense. He went to the herb garden and used the Azure Wood Transformation Technique and the Thick Earth Returning to Origin Mantra to nourish the spiritual herbs.

Due to environmental factors, the growth of the spiritual herbs is almost stagnant during the day, relying solely on the nutrients provided by the spiritual field. However, through his spells, the spiritual herbs can still maintain their growth.

Moreover, he discovered that the elixirs grown in such an environment were more vital.

Suffering can not only forge a person's resilience, but also the resilience of a miraculous medicine.

He felt that as long as he cultivated these spiritual herbs to the fruiting stage, their age would increase very rapidly, and there was a high probability that he could use the spiritual herbs he cultivated to break through to the Chaoyuan stage.

Ji An roughly estimated that in thirty or forty years, several spells that could accelerate the accumulation of medicinal time for spiritual herbs would be able to break through to the Great Perfection level.

This is something that no other spiritual farmer could ever achieve. His master had cultivated for over two hundred years, and only the Azure Wood Transformation Technique had reached this level.

He stepped out of the cave, his hands forming hand seals to unleash the Golden Armor Technique.

A layer of dark golden aura covered his entire body, making him appear as if he had been transformed into a bronze statue.

Then, he released the Wind Control Technique, and invisible spiritual energy enveloped his body.

With a light tap of his foot, Ji An leaped about three zhang (approximately 10 meters) and darted down the mountain.

Practicing spells anytime, anywhere has become second nature to him. With his mastery of the wind, he can adjust his direction while airborne.

With his flowing sleeves, he moved like an elegant crane, arriving at the cold pool at the foot of the mountain a quarter of an hour later.

Upon entering his room, he sat quietly for a moment until his breathing became even before preparing the talisman paper and ink.

After reaching the perfect level of the Blazing Flame Technique, he has been spending half an hour every day drawing Blazing Flame Talismans.

This is a commonly used talisman for Qi Refining stage cultivators. With his current spiritual strength and magical proficiency, he can draw it quite easily, with a success rate of nearly 80%.

In just ten days, his storage bag contained two hundred more Blazing Flame Talismans.

Ji An picked up the talisman brush, dipped it in the talisman ink, and wrote with great skill, the fire elemental energy flowing from the tip of the brush, and the transitions at the nodes of the talisman were smooth and effortless.

Soon, more than ten Explosive Flame Talismans were successfully drawn, without a single failure, making for a truly exhilarating experience.

Ji An was even more satisfied. He took out the fire-horned rhinoceros hide he had treasured for several years and the fire-attribute talisman ink of even better quality, and continued to draw the Explosive Flame Talisman.

Talisman paper cannot hold too much spiritual power, especially fire-elemental spiritual power. At most, one can draw a mid-grade first-level talisman using talisman paper.

It wasn't because his skills were lacking, but because of the limitations of the materials.

Ji An reached out and stroked the smooth animal hide, probing it with his divine sense to carefully feel the natural patterns within.

Unlike drawing talismans using talisman paper, drawing on the texture of animal hide makes it easier to create a talisman and allows for the infusion of more spiritual power to enhance its effectiveness.

He had no experience using animal hides to draw talismans, so he was extra careful and cautious, repeatedly examining the patterns in the animal hides before he began to draw.

At first, he often failed. If the rune nodes were not positioned correctly, the runes would be damaged, and the tough animal hide would burst into flames and turn into a pile of ashes in the next moment.

By constantly summarizing his experience, Ji An quickly adapted to drawing talismans on animal hides.

About an hour later, he drew thirty-six high-grade Explosive Flame Talismans, with a success rate of nearly 50%.

Looking at the talisman shimmering with orange-red spiritual light, he nodded in satisfaction.

The attack power of these talismans surpasses that of a full-force strike from a ninth-level Qi Refining disciple, posing a significant threat to early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

The materials for high-grade talismans are more expensive, but their price can be four or five times that of mid-grade talismans.

Ji An thought for a moment, took out the communication talisman sword, entered the information, and activated it by performing a hand seal.

This was sent to Liu Yu. He didn't need to hoard animal hides much before, but now he needs to buy them in large quantities.

Liang Qiu carried a jar the size of a head into the house and laughed:

"When I saw the light of the communication talisman sword fly out, I knew that you were making talismans here."

These are berries picked this morning, soaked in spring water; they're sweet and sour, and I'm bringing them here for you to try.

The forest yields many wild fruits and fungi, all with unique flavors, and he always collects some before sunrise.

Ji An reached out his hand and said:

"Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. Please place the jar on the ground and move it a little distance away."

Liang Qiu didn't understand his meaning, but he still obediently put the jar down.

Ji An controlled the output of his magic power, his hand seals changing as he unleashed a cold wind spell.

The temperature in the room plummeted, a layer of frost formed on the ground, and the ice flowers on the surface of the jar were crystal clear.

"Wonderful!" Liang Qiu exclaimed. It was a real pleasure to be able to eat chilled berries when the weather outside was so hot.

Ji An laughed heartily and used his object manipulation technique to send the jar into the other party's hands:

"Fellow Daoist, please try it first."

As the sun gradually sank behind the distant mountains, the golden-red mist on Crimson Flame Peak retreated back into the mountainside, and the intense spiritual energy slowly dissipated.

Liangqiu placed offerings on the stone table and called out to everyone at the top of his lungs.

Ji An walked out of the room, sat down, and said:

"Flying Tiger manages the entire Ling Mountain and works very hard every day."

Fellow Daoist Liang prepares such exquisite meals every day, which takes a lot of time.

I'm thinking that in a few years, I'll find two reliable people to help out, which will save everyone time.

The two had been cultivating on Crimson Flame Peak for nearly a year, and their cultivation levels had both improved considerably. Liang Qiu had broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining half a year ago, and Huang Feihu was not far from breaking through either.

With his help, it won't be difficult for the two of them to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills. Once they successfully establish their foundations, they will leave this place and start their own business, so he needs to make plans early.

The sect limits the number of people who can cultivate at spiritual vein nodes, but the restrictions on other places are much less stringent.

Huang Feihu glanced at Liang Qiu and said:

"It's entirely up to you, fellow Daoist."

Now that the spiritual trees at the foot of the mountain are growing vigorously, the task of burning spiritual charcoal will become increasingly heavy, and he is indeed a little too busy to handle it all.

He is about to break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining and needs to prepare for Foundation Establishment. It would be much easier if someone could help him.

"It's entirely up to you, fellow Daoist," Liang Qiu said with a smile. Recruiting people was his uncle's private matter, and there was no need to inform them.

"If anyone has a suitable candidate, please recommend one. They must be of good character and have reached the late stage of Qi Refining."

Ji An picked up his chopsticks and said again:

"A few days ago, I was casting rain on the spirit field and discovered that several acres of land contained spiritual energy that reached the level of a mid-grade first-order spirit field, which can be used to grow jade marrow rice."

Once the talisman grass matures, Fei Hu will go to the General Affairs Hall to purchase some seeds.

The green corn could no longer meet his needs, and he had long wanted to plant jade rice, but the spiritual field was not of a high enough level, so even if he planted spiritual rice, he would not have much of a harvest.

Huang Feihu smiled and echoed:

"Okay, it will be about ten days before we can harvest the talisman grass. I will go and buy the seeds then."

After a year of cultivation, the spiritual fields we cultivated in the valley outside have all reached the first-tier low-grade level.

"Fellow Daoist's planting techniques are definitely among the best of the sect's cultivators."

Ji An chuckled; the flattery was a bit too forced.

The Golden Spirit Sect doesn't have many Spirit Farmers at the Foundation Establishment stage, which is why it stands out.

Two weeks later.

Ji An planted the jade marrow rice and was using the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique when he suddenly felt his eyelids twitch. He felt uneasy, as if something bad was about to happen.

He couldn't help but frown, pondering the origin of this inexplicable emotion.

Zhang Erniu muttered to himself:

"Are these people flying so low and so fast in their shuttles? Are they in such a hurry to be reincarnated?!"

Whenever Ji An came out to cast spells, he would always run over, ostensibly to comprehend the spiritual essence, but actually to seek an opportunity to learn from him.

Ji An suddenly turned his head and saw two flying shuttles skimming the ground and rushing towards him from not far behind, covering a distance of dozens of feet in an instant.

His brow twitched; he instinctively sensed something was wrong and shouted:

"Get out of the way!"

The oncoming shuttle was too fast; there wasn't enough time to activate my own and board it.

At the same time, he changed his hand seals, and the Golden Armor Technique enveloped his body, followed by the Wind Control Technique.

Judging from the flight path, the two shuttles, one in front of the other, perfectly encompassed him in the middle.

He preferred to think he was overthinking things, and was ready to activate the sect's jade tablet at any time to send out a distress signal.

Erniu was a little confused. Escape? Why should he escape?

By the time he finally realized he needed to escape, it was too late.

A masked cultivator jumped out from each of the high-speed flying shuttles. A flash of silver light appeared, and Zhang Erniu's neck and body were separated after he had only taken a few steps.

The headless body lunged forward a few more steps due to inertia, and blood gushed out from its neck like a high-pressure faucet, leaving large patches of crimson stains on the ground.

Ji An sent out a distress signal, and he felt the spiritual pressure emanating from the two cultivators, which made his scalp tingle.

One is in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and the other is in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment; neither of them is someone he can currently contend with.

Moreover, since there were cultivators on each of the flying shuttles who hadn't disembarked, they would face a total of four people attacking them.

He is currently seven or eight miles away from Crimson Flame Peak, and the enemy is unlikely to give him the opportunity to rush there.

Damn it, how dare these bastards attack and kill sect cultivators within the territory of the Golden Spirit Sect!

Before Ji An could finish his thought, he saw a bright yellow fireball hurtling toward him.

Unable to fight back, Ji An knew he had no chance of winning. All he could do was stall for time and wait for the sect's rescue.

His body, like a large bird, turned in the air to avoid the incoming blazing fireball, while simultaneously casting a spell to release the Lesser Cloud Rain Technique.

Since acquiring the Dao Seed of Cloud and Rain Manipulation, his understanding of the Lesser Cloud and Rain Technique has reached a completely new level.

In his hands, the Lesser Cloud and Rain Technique can not only be used to make rain, but also to create fog.

Almost the instant he finished casting the spell, a large cloud of white mist rapidly spread out from him.

(End of this chapter)