Li Yuanba returned to the Shiwan Mountains from the sphere of influence of the righteous path. During this period, he continued to use the method of randomly changing routes to ensure that his route would not be predicted.
But it was obvious that his worries were in vain, because until he returned to Wanjian Peak of Senluo Sect, he did not encounter any interception from Qianye Temple again.
As for the actions taken against him within the Senluo Sect, they were unable to discover even his whereabouts. After learning that he had left the sect, they had been searching for him, but it was not until he returned to the sect that they learned of his exact location.
When he arrived at the sect, he hid in Wanjian Peak.
Even the cultivators within the sect didn't even have the chance to see Li Yuanba, let alone know the state of his cultivation.
He concealed this intentionally. Once he became a Jindan cultivator, he wouldn't have to fear anything anymore.
Not long after returning to the sect, he learned the news about Zhixin Arhat and Zhihui Arhat.
Zhixin Arhat was killed, and a venerable from Qianye Temple came forward and brought back Zhihui Arhat. It was rumored within the sect that Qianye Temple paid a heavy price to the Senluo Sect for this.
No wonder Qianye Temple didn't have the energy to track down Li Yuanba. The Wise Arhat could not rest in peace when he was being chased by so many demon cultivators in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
By the time the Wisdom Arhat was rescued, Li Yuanba had already returned to the Senluo Sect.
"It will be more troublesome in the future!" Li Yuanba muttered to himself as his left hand fingers gently stroked a ring on his right hand.
This ring is the space ring belonging to Zhixin Arhat. The origin of this space ring cannot be revealed in the righteous forces, but within the influence of Senluo Sect, its origin is clear and there is nothing to worry about.
The reason why he said this was because Qianye Temple definitely knew that he had cut off Zhixin Arhat's arm and taken away the space ring.
In other words, Qianye Temple knew that he had the jade foot relic passed down from the divine feet tradition, and the heart-shaped relic passed down from his telepathy tradition.
Even if it has nothing to do with his reincarnation, just these two relics of magical power inheritance will make Qianye Temple not let him go.
Of course, there would be absolutely no problem for him to stay in Senluo Sect, but as long as he left the sect, Qianye Temple would continue to track him down and capture him.
Being an enemy of a big sect like Qianye Temple, even though he was a true disciple of Senluo Sect and was already in a hostile state with Qianye Temple, he still felt tremendous pressure.
Sect hostility and personal vendetta are two different things, especially since he is only a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, which makes him almost unable to protect himself in front of Qianye Temple.
However, the pressure also gave him motivation. This time he fought with two Arhats and successfully cut off the arm of one of them. Although the fighting method was extremely strange, it still made his sword intent stronger again.
Facing the suppression of the two Arhats, the sword intent was finally vented, which was extremely important for the growth of the sword intent.
He practiced the 'Sword Intent Soaring into the Sky'. When his sword intent grew, what remained of his practice was the accumulation of spiritual power.
One month after returning to the sect, after taking nearly a dozen top-level elixirs, he successfully brought his realm to the peak of foundation building.
That night, a round moon hung in the sky, making the Wanjian Peak look like it was covered with a layer of white snow.
The nearly four-meter-tall corpse was facing the moon, devouring the cold and yin energy brought by the moon. The corpse's entire body was pitch black, with silver light flashing on its skin from time to time.
This is a sign that the corpse refining state has reached the peak of the Iron Corpse. It is not surprising to see an Iron Corpse in the Senluo Sect, but this Iron Corpse has a golden hoop on its head, which looks particularly strange.
This was Li Yuanba's corpse refining state. During the day, he took a top-level elixir, which completely filled the spiritual lake in his body without any gaps.
The 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' he practiced was one of the top techniques in the world of immortal cultivation. In addition, due to the effect of sword intent, the spiritual power in the sword cultivator's body was much purer than that of other cultivators. So after he filled up his spirit lake, he almost didn't need to compress the spiritual power in his body anymore, and he reached the pinnacle of foundation building.
At this point, as long as he had some insights, he could break through the foundation-building stage and advance to the golden elixir stage.
Of course, there would only be one person who could advance to the Golden Core Stage so easily in a thousand years.
The vast majority of cultivators at the peak of the foundation-building stage have undergone constant tempering, allowing their bodies and spirits to be elevated to the extreme, forming a special realm with the spiritual lake in their bodies, which is the half-step golden elixir.
In fact, the Half-Step Golden Elixir is not a necessary step in the process of making the elixir, but a helpless compromise. If the elixir can be made directly, who would be willing to waste decades of time?
Becoming a half-step golden elixir is a kind of comfort gained after decades of wasted time.
Half-step Golden Elixir is only half a step away from the Golden Elixir stage, but the difficulty of this half step, if there is no corresponding opportunity, it will be impossible to comprehend the last step, which may be the end of cultivation.
Li Yuanba also had some ideas about his own pill formation in his mind. This body had excellent talent, but the talent of anyone who could become a peak foundation-building cultivator would be poor.
He estimated that he would most likely stay at the peak of the foundation-building stage for a long time, eventually achieving the half-step golden elixir before considering the matter of making the elixir.
He estimated that it would take him three years to make the elixir, and this was a goal he could only achieve if he had a sufficient supply of top-level elixirs and the support of top-level skills such as the "Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky".
At night, he transformed himself into a corpse-refining state to practice as usual. The practice in the corpse-refining state came from the corpse-refining instinct, absorbing the cold and yin energy between heaven and earth for his own use.
The spiritual lake in his body disappeared while he was in the corpse refining state. When he faced the round moon, due to the effects of his practice during the day, the extreme yin and yang in his body could not reach a balance.
The body of the refined corpse actively attracts the yin and cold energy between heaven and earth into the body, in order to replenish the imbalance of extreme yin and yang caused by lack of balance.
Outside Wanjian Peak, Elder Yue stood in the air. Due to the mountain protection formation, he was unable to sense the situation inside the formation.
He is determined to obtain Wanjian Peak.
He knew more secrets than other Jindan elders in the sect. He knew that there was a great chance that Elder Jian was already in seclusion, preparing to reach the Yuanying realm.
He knew even more about the agreement between Elder Jian and Patriarch Lu. Not to mention Elder Jian's failure to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, even if Elder Jian successfully became a Nascent Soul cultivator, he would not stay in Senluo Sect.
If Elder Jian breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, Wan Jian Peak will lose its effect on him.
In other words, the competitor for the ownership of Wanjian Peak that he needs to deal with is Li Yuanba, the disciple of Elder Jian.
Now that Elder Jian is in seclusion and Elder Lu is also in seclusion, as long as he does not harm Li Yuanba's life, even if he robs Wanjian Peak, it will only be an internal conflict of the sect, and the ancestors above him are enough to protect him.
Refining Wan Jian Feng into a magic weapon would be enough for him to replace Elder Jian and become the strongest cultivator in the Jindan stage. He thought it would also be a good thing for the sect.
After comparing the benefits and losses, Elder Yue made a choice.
Of course, it was impossible for him to attack Li Yuanba within the sect, but many previous arrangements had failed.
After hearing that Li Yuanba had returned to the sect, he personally went to Wanjian Peak, wanting to meet with Li Yuanba and try to get Li Yuanba to give up Wanjian Peak voluntarily through exchanging interests.
Elder Yue cast a spell, but received no response.
He released his spiritual thoughts and found that the formation of Wanjian Peak was in full swing, which showed that Li Yuanba was very alert to his own safety.
"Huh, how come the cold and yin energy is flowing in?" His mind sensed the changes in the cold and yin energy, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself in surprise.
As far as he knew, Elder Jian's disciple Li Yuanba was a pure swordsman with extremely high talent.
Elder Jian was looking for disciples based on their own talents. Although over the years, the Senluo Sect had accepted many disciples with talent in sword cultivation, these disciples were from the Demon Sect's sphere of influence and had more or less learned some magic cultivation techniques, so they did not receive Elder Jian's favor.
It was not until the appearance of Li Yuanba, who had mastered the sword intent in the early stage of foundation building and practiced pure sword skills, that he was chosen as a disciple by Elder Jian.
"Could it be that Li Yuanba is practicing magic?" Elder Yue thought maliciously.
He thought again and thought that maybe this was really possible. Li Yuanba was attacked many times when he was traveling. Especially the last time, he asked the Jindan cultivator Niu Ziru to take action. For some reason, Niu Ziru failed to succeed and disappeared instead.
I believe that Li Yuanba chose magic skills because he sensed danger and that the speed of practicing sword skills was too slow.
The progress of the magic cultivation method is very fast. If the talent is good enough and there are enough resources, the progress is much faster than other Buddhist and Taoist methods.
In addition, the power of the magic cultivation technique is also extremely strong, especially the strangeness and mystery in it, making it difficult for the enemy to defend against it.
Therefore, even some righteous cultivators, after obtaining the magic cultivation techniques, would not be able to stand this temptation and would actively practice the magic cultivation techniques to improve their own combat effectiveness.
When faced with danger and unable to cope with it with their own combat power, many cultivators have no choice but to resort to magic cultivation techniques.
When Elder Yue thought of this, a sinister smile appeared on his face.
"In that case, I'll help you this time!" he said to himself calmly.
He took out his identity jade disc, and then used his authority to control the sect's formation, mobilizing a large amount of cold energy to Wanjian Peak.
The Senluo Sect is a demon sect, and many of its monks practice demonic arts. Most of the demonic arts require the assistance of Yin and cold energy, so there are formations in the sect that are specifically designed to provide Yin and cold energy.
This formation transforms the spiritual power emitted by the spiritual veins into Yin-cold energy, and then guides it through special channels to the caves in need of Yin-cold energy.
Elder Yue wanted Li Yuanba to speed up his progress in practicing magic skills. He knew that the cold energy of magic skills conflicted with the sword intent of sword practitioners. Once Li Yuanba succeeded in magic skills, his identity as a true sword practitioner would be in jeopardy.
He mobilized a large amount of cold energy that he had authority to mobilize and sent it toward Wanjian Peak.
Anyway, this behavior is not an act of aggression, but rather a form of care for the younger generation.
Li Yuanba did not expect this kind of situation to happen. When the corpse was in the state of absorbing the cold and yin energy with all its strength, suddenly a large amount of cold and yin energy surged in.
The practice of corpse refining state itself is an instinctive absorption behavior and is not under his control.
That is to say, he is a Tai Chi Taoist body. The human state and the corpse state can maintain balance by absorbing energy autonomously. Otherwise, without the corpse refining practice method, it is impossible for the corpse refining state to have such a practice effect.
He realized that something was wrong, but it was too late. The huge amount of cold and yin energy was completely absorbed into the corpse's body.
The corpse-refining body, which was almost four meters tall, expanded again. This was because there was too much cold and yin energy. If his corpse-refining body had not been strong enough, it might have exploded by now.
His red eyes were filled with horror. He wanted to return to his human state, but was unable to do so due to the influence of the cold energy in his body.
What’s even more terrifying is that the cold and yin energy outside is endless, and his corpse-refined body is still absorbing the cold and yin energy.
He wanted to intervene in the changes in his body, but the body of a corpse was completely different from that of a human. Human cultivation techniques were of no use to the body of a corpse.
He now felt a little regretful. Why didn't he think of looking for a method of refining corpses?
In the past two years, he had indeed discovered some corpse-refining techniques in the Senluo Sect, but the quality of those techniques was not high and the effects were not good. They were all simple techniques summarized by the demon cultivators when they were refining corpses.
Anyway, the speed at which he absorbed the cold and yin energy when he was in the corpse refining state met his requirements, so he did not look for any corpse refining practice techniques.
The cold energy was rushing around in his body, but his physique was extremely strong in his corpse-refining state, allowing him to withstand the impact of the energy in his body.
A wild desire was rapidly expanding in Li Yuanba's heart, and he wanted to fight desperately.
He soon realized that too much cold and gloomy energy was gathering and was affecting his mind.
He quickly calmed his mind and emptied his mind to reduce the impact of the cold energy.
He only hoped that the influx of external cold energy would stop soon. After a while, it would be daytime and the cold energy between heaven and earth would be greatly reduced. Then maybe he could survive this.
With his mind empty, his body had reached the peak of the Iron Corpse level through repeated collisions of cold energy, and his body surface was glowing with silver light.
Li Yuanba's unintentional action allowed the corpse-refining body to deal with the accident through instinct.
After being washed through countless times by the Yin and cold energy in his body, every bone, every muscle, and every inch of skin of the corpse's body turned silver, and its defense was greatly enhanced.
When the strength of the corpse's body reaches a certain requirement, the cold energy in the body gathers towards his heart.
Above his heart, cold and yin energy collided with each other madly. The previous collision had not yet ended, and more cold and yin energy gathered from all over the body continued to collide.
If the corpse's body was just a little bit weaker in strength, this kind of collision would cause it to completely collapse.
Perhaps it was a breath, or the time of a stick of incense, or perhaps an hour. Li Yuanba's mind was empty and he had no concept of time. He only felt a substance like a black hole appear above his heart.