Chapter 99 Dao Seed - Yi Wood Rejuvenation
"If I have the ability to help you, I will certainly do so, but ultimately you have to walk your own path."
"Lingyu, you are cautious by nature. As long as you forge ahead, Foundation Establishment will be nothing to you. Show the same courage you had when you fought the Foundation Establishment cultivator a year ago."
Ge Ying could tell that this disciple lacked confidence and needed encouragement.
"Thank you for your guidance, Master," Li Lingyu said, her eyes sparkling with pride at the affirmation.
"My lifespan is only a few decades. I only hope to see you all grow up faster. After the demon calamity breaks out, you brothers must help each other."
"We would do the same even without Master's orders."
Ge Ying nodded and smiled:
“Ge Luoying of the Yingyue Peak lineage is my descendant. She has been hunting demons and honing her skills in combat for many years. You disciples who have only recently joined my sect have never seen her.”
I'll give you all a chance to get together sometime in the future, and try to stay close to each other.
Her Taoist partner and child perished during an expedition. Gloin, her former grandniece, resembled her much in her youth and was very much loved by her.
This former grandniece had no interest in alchemy or planting; she only loved the unrestrained and carefree spirit of sword cultivation and possessed considerable talent in combat. Therefore, she sent her to the tutelage of her Uncle-Master Lin Qiubai at Yingyue Peak.
Lin Qiubai is a sword cultivator at the Chaoyuan stage, and he is renowned throughout the entire Western Continent.
Li Lingyu was slightly startled. Yingyue Peak was the sword cultivator lineage of the sect, and although its members were few, they were the sect's main fighting force.
She smiled wryly and said, "We are naturally willing to get close, but we are afraid that Senior Sister Ge is not easy to get along with."
Most sword cultivators are aloof and arrogant, and may not look up to ordinary disciples like them.
She understood her master's meaning: he wanted to leave more connections for Ge Luoying.
Refining flying swords requires consuming many spiritual items, but sword cultivators are required to be sincere in their hearts and sincere in their swords. They never cultivate the various arts of immortality, and they have to fight and seize all the external items they need.
If a cultivator has a wide network of connections, it is much easier to collect external items. However, sword cultivators are often arrogant and difficult to get along with, so their network of connections is often poor.
After all, no one wants to be friends with someone who looks down on them, unless they have ulterior motives.
Ge Ying understood the bad temper of most sword cultivators, and simply smiled faintly:
"Let's get to know each other. If Luo Ying needs help after I pass away, I hope you will lend a hand out of respect for me."
"If Senior Sister Ge needs our help, we will definitely not refuse."
Li Lingyu pursed her lips and then spoke:
"What will happen in the future is still unknown. Perhaps Master will make great progress and break through to the Chaoyuan stage."
"Heh, you kid, you don't even believe what you're saying, do you?"
Ge Ying shook her head slightly, a look of relief flashing in her eyes. Her gaze was calm and distant as she looked at the void before her, and after a long while, she let out a long sigh.
After years of cultivation, she felt that she had gradually come to understand the true meaning of the cultivation method. If she had made this understanding a few decades earlier, she might have really had the opportunity to break through to the Chaoyuan realm.
She is currently only at the eighth level of Foundation Establishment, but her vital energy has already begun to decline. At most, she can break through to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.
Unless one has an extraordinary stroke of luck and obtains a third-tier longevity pill or other longevity-extending spiritual item to replenish their lifespan, there is absolutely no way to break through to the Chaoyuan stage.
Even cultivators in the Chaoyuan stage would compete for the third-tier longevity pill. Although she considered herself to be wealthy, she couldn't compare to the well-off families of those in the Chaoyuan stage.
The sunset glow, like a burning furnace, blazed across the sky with boundless passion, and the mountains seemed to have secretly drunk a treasured vintage wine, turning a rosy red.
As the sun cast its last rays, Ji An landed at the foot of Ningcui Cliff.
He looked up at the sky, watching the dark flying boat swoop down from the sky, and thought to himself that with a faster tool, the talisman bird was indeed eliminated.
Landing on the open ground in front of the bamboo house, Li Lingyu jumped out of the flying boat and made a hand seal, shrinking the flying boat to an inch in length and landing in her palm.
"Senior sister, a smile is playing on your lips and your eyes are sparkling. What happy thing has happened? Tell us about it!"
Li Lingyu tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, revealing a mysterious smile:
"It'll be a secret for now. You'll find out tomorrow. I'm going to prepare dinner now. We'll talk later."
Ji An scratched his head. Judging from the other party's flight path, it should have returned from its master's cave. It must have been taught some wonderful techniques.
He wasn't curious; everyone has their own destiny.
Ji An tossed a Spirit-Feeding Pill to the wild goose, which swallowed it and cried out happily before flying off to a nearby stream to catch fish and shrimp.
Ningcui Cliff is a second-tier spiritual vein, and the stream contains a lot of spiritual energy, making the fish and shrimp plump and delicious.
While his senior sister was preparing food, Ji An entered the bamboo building, sat down cross-legged, and circulated the secret technique of opening the meridians to nourish his immortal meridians.
For over a year, he had no shortage of elixirs and spirit stones, and he cultivated in a second-tier spiritual vein. Although there was a stone tortoise that was a major competitor for his food, his cultivation level still increased rapidly.
He practices the meridian-opening secret method every day, and now he has completed the opening of 30% of the meridians recorded in the secret method.
Later, as his magical power reaches the ninth level of Qi Refining perfection, the speed at which he opens up his branch meridians will be able to increase even further.
If he obtains the Foundation Establishment Pill, he will be very confident that he can establish his foundation in one fell swoop.
Ji An, who was cultivating, stopped and suddenly opened his eyes. The abnormal fluctuations in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth outside startled him awake.
I stepped out of the bamboo house, the restrictions lifted, and the bright moon cast its clear light, turning the open space into a silvery white expanse, like a calm body of water.
Not far away, the bamboo grove rustled softly.
"So that's why I was so happy, it turns out I've made preparations for foundation building!"
Ji Anxin thought to himself that he would stop cultivating and simply sit in the recliner to feel the changes in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Foundation building requires constantly compressing mana. By observing changes in spiritual energy, one can deduce the rhythm of the other person's foundation building process and use it as a reference in the future.
In fact, he has witnessed three Foundation Establishment stages.
Nothing was said that night.
The next morning, a surge of spiritual pressure broke through the magical barrier and spread outwards. Ji An shouted:
"Congratulations, Senior Sister, on getting your wish. In the future, remember to help your junior brother out, since I protected you for one night."
"loquacious!"
A sharp cry rang out, but the joy and excitement in her voice were quite evident.
A few days later, Li Lingyu moved away from Ningcui Cliff after choosing a cave dwelling. Half a month later, she brought a disciple who had purchased a flying boat to complete the transaction, and Ji An's storage bag contained another 220 spirit stones.
At the foot of the mountain, Ji An had become his own territory. He improved his cultivation, nourished his immortal veins, practiced spells, managed his herb garden, and cultivated spiritual fields. He honed himself at his own pace, neither hasty nor slow.
After a year, he felt that his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, so he stopped taking pills.
Each day, I completely deplete my magical power once, and only through meditation can I restore my magical power to a pure state.
Two years later, he had opened up all the branch meridians he could, and the immortal meridians formed a well-developed "network" that spread throughout his body, including his head, fingertips, torso, legs and feet.
At this point, he had made all the necessary preparations, except for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
At the beginning of the Si hour, outside the medicine garden.
Ji An stood in the forest of purple yang trees, his mind immersing in the stone tortoise, his eyes unfocused.
[Master: Ji An]
[Taoist Rhyme: 0]
[Spiritual clues: Kan (坎) spirit 1649.6, Gen (艮) spirit 504.8, Zhen (震) spirit 16.4, Xun (巽) spirit 1437.9, Kun (坤) spirit 1421.3, Qian (乾) spirit 1.5]
[Spell: Withering and Flourishing Technique (Perfect 61%)]
After several years of accumulation, I finally have enough spiritual energy to condense the Wood Element Seed.
"Refine the spiritual energy and practice the Withering and Flourishing Technique."
Ji An's consciousness entered the space of the stone tortoise and stepped on the Xun position.
As he continued to practice his magic, green grass grew beneath his feet, gradually growing taller until it withered and turned yellow. Growth and death formed a cycle, withering and flourishing, yet life continued endlessly.
A dark green seed of Tao appeared out of nowhere and fell into the acupoint.
[The Dao Seed - Yi Wood Rejuvenation (Unranked), hidden in the Jade Spring Cave, allows one to comprehend the true meaning of the Yi Wood Dao spell 'Life, Death, Withering and Flourishing,' and slightly enhance their understanding of Yi Wood Dao spells.]
[Spiritual clue: Xun (巽) spirit 1437.9→69.5]
Only a moment had passed in the outside world before Ji An's eyes cleared again.
At this moment, he felt that the trees were slightly different in his spiritual sense. He seemed to be able to feel the internal veins of them and the spiritual energy flowing through the veins.
In a flash of inspiration, he activated the withering and flourishing incantation, his hand gestures shifting and his fingers flashing out afterimages as he reached out to grab forward.
Large, shimmering green specks of light flew out from the trees in front of him, gathered in his palm, and almost instantly formed a round, emerald-green bead the size of a pigeon egg.
Time seemed to pass in an instant, experiencing the transition from summer to winter. The ankle-high grass in the woods withered and decayed, giving people a sense of lifelessness and desolation.
'Can the Withering and Flourishing Technique be this powerful?'
Ji An was shocked. In the past, casting the Withered Wood Technique was a slow process. After casting the spell, more and more green light spots would first gather in his palm, and then the gaseous wood elemental energy would begin to condense into spiritual liquid and finally solidify.
In the past, when absorbing the vitality of spirit wood, one had to get close, preferably right up against it, otherwise the efficiency of absorbing the wood elemental energy would be very slow.
Now, with just a simple hand gesture, the wood elemental energy flowing within the plant is savagely plundered, displaying a domineering power that holds life and death in its hands.
The element of wood symbolizes growth and vigorous vitality, but all things in the world are divided into yin and yang, and Jia and Yi wood represent the yin and yang aspects of the element of wood.
Although the two different branches of magic share the common characteristics of the wood element, they also have differences. Yi wood belongs to yin and can plunder the vitality of plants.
Ji An's eyes flashed. He wondered if the Withering and Flourishing Technique could be used as an offensive spell, since there were wood-type demonic beasts among them.
In addition, the human body contains the five elements, so could the "Withering and Flourishing Formula" also play a role?
His thoughts wandered, and he always felt that he was about to push open a door, but he could never find the way in.
By the time he came to his senses, it was nearly noon.
"It's just not meant to be."
Ji An smiled slightly, stopped thinking about it, and quickly used the Withering and Flourishing Technique to condense round beads.
He closed his right eye, pinched a wooden bead between two fingers, and faced the sun. You could see something flowing faintly inside.
Actually, this is an illusion. The Wood Element Pearl condensed by the Great Perfection Level of the Withering and Flourishing Technique becomes different, and the Wood Element Qi inside is more active.
'It would be best if these wooden beads were not sold to the public in the future.'
With these thoughts in mind, Ji An secretly made a hand seal to open the magical barrier and enter the herb garden.
He walked over to Xiang Yong and said gently:
"Old Xiang, you can continue to handle the work of condensing the Wood Element Pearls. Leave the work of casting the Flame Spell on the fire-attribute spiritual plants in the medicine garden to me."
He has already obtained three Dao Seeds, and now he will focus his energy on the Sharp Metal Technique and the Flame Fire Spell.
"OK."
Xiang Yong nodded in agreement. He felt that activating the Withering and Flourishing Technique would take too much time, and that the other party had probably lost interest and patience.
Current spell level:
[Spell: Fireball Spell (Perfect 23%)]
Sharp Metal Technique (Perfect 81%)
Object manipulation (Perfect 58%)
Wind Control Technique (Perfect 10%)
Water Curtain Technique (Perfect 36%)
Geng metal refers to (perfect 21%).
[Cold Wind Technique (Minor Success 5%)]
(End of this chapter)
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