Li Gu's demonic soul flickered rapidly as it thought quickly about ways to save itself. It felt that it could still be rescued.
"I have a seriously injured uncle who has been summoned by the Order more times than I have. There may be secrets in his soul that you want to know."
"It was severely damaged by humans a few years ago, and now it is hiding in a secret place in the water. Only one tenth of its strength remains."
Realizing that Shen Lian was interested in her memories, Li Gu had no choice but to use her uncle's, after all, her biological father had already used them.
"The demon clan is indeed kind to its fathers and filial to its sons."
Shen Lian sneered and without wasting any time, a ball of five-colored fire ignited and enveloped the demon soul.
“Sizzle!”
In the flames, balls of yin and yang light rolled up and pierced through the demon soul repeatedly like sharp swords, and large pieces of memory fragments flowed out from the demon soul.
Even if Shen Lian wanted to get the uncle of this demon, he could just sort out the information in his soul bit by bit.
In a moment, Li Gu's demonic soul was cut into tens of thousands of pieces. Half of the shattered soul power was burning with Yin Fire, and the other half was beating with Yang Fire, with clusters of colorful smoke swaying.
"Is this the strength one should have in the early stage of Void Refining?"
From the shattered demon soul, Li Gu’s terrified thoughts spread out, and he wailed in pain.
"I really have an uncle, he is a post-refined ..."
Shen Lian activated the power of rules and fiercely burned the broken demon soul three times, destroying the soul smoke that was produced into nothingness.
"I've killed your ancestor, and you're still missing an uncle?"
If it were any other race, Shen Lian might have been recruited as a dog.
But as for the Sky Demon Clan, it’s better not to have this dog. Although Heiya is shameless, at least he has a more positive bottom line. The Sky Demon Clan is a race without any bottom line.
This clan was too filial, and he was afraid.
"call!"
With a slight sigh of relief, Shen Lian began to investigate the magic storage treasures of this demon cultivator.
"How can I be so poor? How come I only have over 2,000 top-grade spirit stones? They are not even enough for me to cultivate. How come I still have a bunch of mid- and low-grade spirit stones?"
"As expected of a Heavenly Demon, he even robs a Golden Core cultivator."
Inside the cave, Shen Lianqi kicked the demon cultivator's body several times.
There are a lot of things, but most of them are garbage.
The most useful things are just a few pieces of level six ore.
But for Shen Lian, what he needs now is the best quality spirit stones; high quality spirit stones are useless.
It cannot be used as a resource for Taoist practice, and the value of the matchmaker's money of 30 million high-quality spirit stones has been greatly reduced. This is the cleanest and most hard-earned money he has ever earned.
[Shen Lian: The Initial Stage of Refining Void (Five Qis Converging to the Origin)]
[Physical Training: Sixth Stage Early Stage (Xuan Yang Body)]
[Taoism Cultivation: The Initial Stage of Refining the Spirit and Returning to the Void (Tai Shang Thirteen Sutras)]
After ascending to the fairyland for more than two hundred years, Shen Lian finally advanced the three major methods simultaneously and cultivated them to the sixth level. His combat power is comparable to that of the late stage of refining emptiness.
This was also demonstrated in the little demon. It was easy for him to crush a veteran demon in the early stage of the refining void, as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.
If Shen Lian had not encountered this little demon named Li Gu, all this knowledge would be enough to make him dance with joy in the cave.
But the little demon's memory forced him to face even more towering and cruel chasms on his path of cultivation.
With so many thoughts in his mind and after taking stock of his current actual situation, Shen Lian couldn't help but sigh.
"Why don't you join a large sect? It's too difficult to complete the preparation for the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations on your own."
Over the past two hundred years, he had spent more than twenty-one million spiritual enlightenment points in one go to elevate his Taoist practice to the realm of refining the spirit and returning to the void. The top-grade spirit stones hidden in You Shifang were almost used up.
The spiritual energy contained in the best spirit stones is not fixed. Some have more and some have less. On average, one spirit stone can extract more than twenty spiritual energies.
When cultivating to the realm of Refining the Spirit and Returning to the Void, each small realm is almost double the sum of all the previous realms. It can be said that in order to cultivate to the perfection of the realm of Refining the Spirit and Returning to the Void, not to mention spirit stones, at least 120 to 50 million divine enlightenment points are needed.
Fortunately, there are nearly 20 million divine enlightenment points remaining. He has planned to give himself 20,000 years to survive the nine-nine heavenly tribulations, which is still ample time.
As for the top-grade spirit stones, it is not a big problem. After all, he is still the ancestor of three top-level virtual refining forces.
Let the younger generation suffer a little, and take care of the ancestors first. Twenty thousand years will pass quickly.
If the three families share the burden equally, there would be almost no pressure on the younger generations to pay in installments over 20,000 years.
In fact, many younger generations may have breached the contract thousands of years ago.
The old ancestor neither charges interest nor asks for penalty. It is hard to find such an old ancestor even with a lantern.
In addition to Taoist cultivation, one only needs to practice the Dharma step by step, and elevate the two rules of the Five Elements and Yin and Yang to the third level.
The third rule of soul has also been introduced. Shen Lian's spiritual power has always been much stronger than those of his peers. The power of the soul can enhance external perception and is a necessary rule of investigation.
In addition, after witnessing the old Taoist's heavenly tribulation, he also wanted to comprehend the rules of space.
There is no other reason, the rules of space are more arbitrary in the fairy world, and it is a powerful tool for escaping and fighting.
However, we still need to collect the subsequent practice methods related to the Five Qis Converging to the Origin Gong.
As for physical cultivation, I also need to change a method. I don’t know if it’s because of my current practice method, but I haven’t felt the appearance of the physical cultivation tribulation.
Moreover, the grade of the "Xuan Yang Body" on his body is too low, not even at the "spiritual" level. You must know that physical cultivators can also comprehend the rules, and the rules of physical cultivators are also very direct, which is the rule of power.
Since you have decided to go through the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations, you naturally have to treat the subsequent cultivation with high standards.
To upgrade one's natal spiritual plant, one must also sacrifice and refine another natal spiritual talisman. As for the method of making natal spiritual pills, that is also available in the fairy world.
Shen Lian picked up relevant rumors from the information sent back by several ancestors, that there were cultivators in the fairy world who refined elixirs into their natal treasures.
However, because of the previous experience of the Nine Aperture Foundation Building Pill, he felt that it would be better to put the Innate Spirit Pill on the back burner.
Although this pill has disappeared for thousands of years, Shen Lian always feels that it must still be there.
The worst thing is that he made this broken thing with his own hands.
What a sin.
After calming down, Shen Lian spoke.
"Physical cultivation, come on, come on!"
In an instant, the ancestors of Wangshu Valley and Huang family started digging out things from the Sutra Repository again.
Black Rock Golden Eyes
"The Magic Power of Supporting the Sky"
The Immortal Body of the Sun
…
"Liujia Minggong"
Wangshu Valley and the Huang family have many physical cultivation methods, three of which have reached the 'spiritual' level, but Shen Lian is still a little dissatisfied.
He practiced physical training for only one purpose: to withstand beatings.
Being able to withstand beatings represents strong vitality and a long lifeline.
The life of physical cultivators in the fairy world is already difficult. Unlike Taoist cultivators who have dissipated all their magic power, he has no way to dissipate his physical power. It is most likely that four heavenly tribulations will be superimposed on each other.
It’s scary to think about it.
Of these spiritual level physical training techniques, the best one, the Tianyang Immortal Body, can only be practiced to the late sixth level. If you practice it now, it won't be long before you have to think of a new method, so it's better to wait and see if you can get a better one.
"It's barely ok for the three forces to support me to cultivate to the Great Perfection of Refining Void, but it's too far to take into account the three paths of cultivation at the same time. Especially the secret treasure for overcoming the heavenly tribulation of the Hedao, only a few of them know about it."
"call!"
Inside the cave, Shen Lian stood up depressedly and stretched his muscles.
If he had enough resources, he wouldn't mind staying in seclusion forever.
Unfortunately, they are too poor. The 30 million matchmaker money brought from Yunxiao Realm is enough to buy ordinary sixth-grade spiritual objects, but the best sixth-grade spiritual objects all require top-grade spirit stones.
Subsequent cultivation of Taoism, purchasing of high-level physical cultivation techniques, and even the subsequent crossing of the nine-nine heavenly tribulations all require a large amount of spirit stones as a support.
According to the relevant memories dug out from the memories of Patriarch Wangshu, Huang Youdao, and You Shifang, after the three ancestors cultivated to the perfect state of refining emptiness, they prepared more than one million top-grade spirit stones as resources to deal with the Sanjiu Heavenly Tribulation.
For example, the Hedao cultivator in Wangshu Valley, before he passed the 39th Heavenly Tribulation, he purchased a small piece of seventh-grade lower-grade Wood Source Dao Gold, the size of a baby's fist, which was worth more than 300,000 top-grade spirit stones.
The raw ore of Wood Source Gold is not expensive, with one piece costing no more than 30,000 top-grade spirit stones. However, if one wants to preserve the rules within the ore completely, a Hedao cultivator is needed to refine it.
As for the Hedao cultivators, they don’t want the best quality spirit stones; what they want are spirit crystals.
The exchange rate for top-grade spirit stones and spirit crystals is one hundred to one, but in the Huai River area, as long as there are sporadic spirit crystals, they will be exchanged by cultivators at a price three, five or even more times the exchange price.
It's so exaggerated that as long as you have spirit crystals, you can give us the price, or give us both the spirit crystals and your life.
Three hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones are equivalent to three thousand low-grade spirit crystals, and the normal price of Muyuan Daojin is only about eight hundred low-grade spirit crystals.
但对于望舒那一代的老祖来说，这还算是赚便宜了，因为她用灵石购买到了木源道金，几倍的黑心在合道天劫面前算啥？ 三十万的木源道金，六十万的渡劫秘宝木属性的辰明月华树枝干一条，十万一枚的中极升元丹三颗，要是再算上辅助参悟木之规则的青木补韵丹，为合道天劫消耗的极品灵石接近一百五十万。
另外两家老祖的消耗，也差不这个数。
总的来说，这些渡劫相关的灵物总价也就七八十万极品灵石，可由于资源缺少，造成了价值翻倍。
对于老祖们来说，合道天劫不能以价格贵不贵来衡量，渡过去数十上百倍的资源就回来了。
渡不过去，族群一朝返贫，有可能数十万年都得一蹶不振。
一个三九天劫的消耗就如此恐怖，那九九天劫的消耗……
“呼呼……”
沈炼长长呼了一口气，让自己冷静冷静。
一个三九天劫消耗超过百万，他想要渡九九天劫不得准备十倍的消耗？ “十倍？”
呢喃一声，十倍好像不太够稳健。
一百倍……
恍然间，沈炼好像看到了天上一条极品灵石组成的天河，朝着他摇摆。
这才刚飞升仙灵界，就背上了一个小目标的负担，把三大势力打包卖掉也卖不出这么多的灵石。
呼……虽说目标远大，可饭还是要一口一口吃，先寻到体修法门要紧，所以沈炼准备出关了。
来仙灵界转眼也两百多年，三种修炼之路虽说还不甚完美，可也算是让他有了一些自保之力，能够离开淮水之地了。
淮水是一定要离开的，云霄界大开，在仙灵界比炸了一颗八阶合道灵宝还厉害。
从古到今，小千世界的修士都是一个接一个的飞升，偏偏云霄界举界融入仙灵，这比裴天澜成云霄界第一个炼虚造成的影响还要大。
这让云霄界在小千世界中怎么混，其它小千世界会不会有什么想法，其它势力的老古董们会不会感兴趣？
不是沈炼恶意揣测，他只是正常的做出判断，说不定现在已经有未知的修士将眸光投落过来了。
云霄界内虽说尾巴收的很干净，可补天教之前做的那么多事情，现在怕是早就传了出来。
无论猜的正确与否，暂时远离淮水之地没啥坏处。
动一动，有益身心安全。
……
“真大。”
淮阳河上，一艘宝船上沈炼负手而立，远眺着宽广的河面，再次由衷的的感慨着。
淮水之地各族林立，生活着大大小小的种族。
太昊仙盟、泾河商会便是这片浩瀚之地的巨擘之力，只不过泾河商会这个庞然大物显得很和善，没有宗门那种威势，习惯于迎来送往。
太昊仙盟就不同了，五家仙宗盘踞在五块相邻的淮河支流上，声威浩瀚。
每家宗门内都有一株六阶上品的灵木，形成了一方小型的灵木洞天福地。
除了这两大势力外，淮河中较大的支流有三十七条，分别盘踞着小号的炼虚级别势力。
更小的支流上，便是化神、元婴级别的势力生活的地盘了。
仙灵界浩瀚是浩瀚，可修士的纷争远比云霄界更强，每日为了争夺资源，不知道有多少生灵入轮回重开新号。
整体来说，在淮水之地炼虚中期就已经属于强者，霸占着淮河中的支流较大，灵气交足的地盘。
炼虚后期、圆满并不多，除非是有什么盛事，或者是专门去寻找，不然的话普通修士根本难以碰到。
而淮水附近几条星河距离的其他地域，整体实力也和淮水差不多，炼虚大圆满就是最强了。
准确的说，淮水和附近的苍渊、更远一些的月华、巨幽星，都属于同一个界层，大体在一个水平面区域上。
整个仙灵界在混沌、仙踪之地下面，还有九重三天。
从上到下分别是上中下三重苍天，上中下三重昊天，上中下三重钧天。
淮水之地所在这一平面层便是上钧天，下面还有两重天，分别是中钧天和下钧天。
中钧天整体比上钧天差一些，炼虚后期乃至炼虚中期就能称雄了，下钧天又比中钧天差一些，炼虚中期都少有。
一些强大的小千世界诞生的强者，有时都比下钧天某些区域的整体实力都强。
钧天和昊天之间是一片朦胧的星海，星海无比辽阔高耸，并不容易穿行。
是因为仙灵界开辟的时候，天地间浊气下沉，清气上升，久而久之，越往下浊气积攒就越多。
三重钧天中，也就上钧天这一重还能诞生合道境修士，中、下钧天没丁点可能。
浊气的存在限制了灵机，更限制了规则的显化，从根源上堵住了修士的修行路。
和小千世界的修士一样，下重天的修士也是想要一步步登临高处，呼吸清气的。
但凡有修士说，我就喜欢吸浊气，吸尾气，不用问此人绝对是贱。
沈炼飞升之前所看到的浩瀚天穹，淮水滚滚流淌，眼界实际上只是看到了钧天和昊天的交界处的星海。
有意思的是，据说苍天、昊天，钧天三天之间交界的大星海屏障，还有每一天内的上中下三重内的小星海屏障并不是自然形成的。
说这个之前，沈炼首先声明一点他对仙灵界言出法随、伟岸无双的前辈，始终保持着最真诚的敬意。
他的这些消息都是小道听来的，绝对是胡说八道。
仙灵界的浊气下降，清气上升乃是大势，可时不时的天地秩序总会有那么几天不舒服。
天不舒服，就会造成灵气反冲潮汐，将沉底的浊气给卷上来，天地重新进入清浊交汇之景。
前辈们为了保护仙灵界的环境，所以就分出了三大天九重境，并且用了一点点手段形成了如今的星海屏障。
自从三大天之间的星海隔离带出现后，仙灵界的天又成了蓝蓝的天，反冲的浊气也只会在钧天内翻腾了，至多跨过星海进入昊天境内。
牺牲一下最下面的钧天一境，维持整个仙灵界的清气完整，前辈们功德无量。
至于苍天、昊天、钧天三天九重出现后，造成了下钧天修士们的修炼困境，这都是小事。
小辈们要懂得知足，前辈们安稳趴着睡，才有小辈们的安稳，对不对，难不成你们想让前辈们三天两头的醒过来到处转转？ 有什么不习惯的，克服克服，几千年转眼间就过去了，努努力转世后进入上一重天中。
再说了，星海界壁只是难渡一些，又不是过不去。
这么多年都是这样，哪里有问题啦，抱怨之前自问一下你努力修行了吗？
……
“前辈万安。”
宝船上的沈炼，心中默默的诵读，他始终把前辈放在心里。
沿着淮阳河看了一下，沿途城池内的实际景象和了解到的消息一样，也让他放心下来。
他也怕强者太多，一飞升上来就掉落到下游层次。
以他如今的实力横渡上钧天境问题不大，淮水之地不能留了，先去临近的苍渊之地黄家，把黄家府库内的几件灵物和极品灵石收拢收拢。
苍渊距离淮水只有一条星河的距离，乘坐虚空横渡的宝船的话，也就十多年时间，最远的巨幽星也才四条星河，百年内足够将三家转一圈。
有了这批资源足够接下来继续修行一段时间了，也能好好谋划一下赚灵石的问题。
另外，沈炼已经通过黄有道和望舒两人，给两家势力的族人弟子传达了命令，打探体修和五气朝元功的消息。
大半年后。
淮水主河中游，一头巨龟横踏在滔滔大水上，巨龟的背上是一座方圆千里的庞大城池，笼罩着一片五彩斑斓的灵禁中。
山龟身上布满了重重迭迭的疤痕，脑袋扎入淮水中正在牛饮。
虚灵山龟，钧天境内常见的横渡虚无之地的灵兽。
此兽性情温和，特点能吃能长，对得起入肚子的每一口饭，四阶就能长到千里大小，坏处就是真的能吃。
地域之外的虚无之地危险重重，第一次横渡虚无沈炼自然选择做安稳的交通龟具，也能观察一下浩瀚虚空内的景象。
交了灵石沈炼登上了巨龟，选了一个中等的客房入住。
虚灵山龟足足在淮河上喝了三天三夜，整个龟甲下面的肚子里面，水声翻滚如雷。
驾驭山龟的是一位长着尖尖绿耳朵的中年炼虚中期修士，他从储物洞天中拿出的灵米、灵兽肉如长河一样灌入山龟的嘴巴里。
吃饱喝足的灵虚山龟晃了晃身子，朝着淮水之外踏步而去。
……
云霄界。
“来来来，道友要道侣不要，我林家……”
“我王家的族女上品三灵根……”
More than two hundred years have passed, and the fairy order shrouding the Yunxiao Realm is still there, and the rolling spiritual energy is still pouring into the realm, but it is not as strong as at the beginning.
In an inconspicuous treasure ship, a monk with green spiritual light shining all over his body was suspended, and his aura seemed very calm.
The treasure ship was covered with countless spiritual barriers, isolating it from prying eyes from both inside and outside.
The monk was floating quietly as if in deep sleep.
High on the treasure ship's deck, a monk in coarse linen clothes and a large straw hat leaned against the side of the boat. A pair of eyes from under the brim of his hat looked around with great interest at the monks from the same family who were trying to snatch the bride.
He has been watching the plays here for nearly two hundred years. They are performed every now and then and are very interesting.
Of course, while watching the show, he was also looking at the cultivators coming and going around, and paying more attention to the cultivators flying out from the Yunxiao Realm.
"It is unheard of that a cultivator from one world could ascend to heaven with his entire world."
After a long time, the big straw hat was pulled down to cover the face.
"Pei Tianlan, Pei Tian..."
The fingers tapped on the side of the boat, making a tapping sound.
"Looking at his actions within the realm, he has eliminated all traces and has been planning for thousands of years before making his move. This is enough to show that this cultivator is very cautious. He may have already escaped beyond the Huai River."
Inside the treasure ship, a figure in the green light opened and closed his eyes.
"Not necessarily. This cultivator had been planning for nearly ten thousand years, and although he hid himself everywhere, he finally announced to the world that he had established the Bu Tian Sect."
"Repairing the sky, repairing the sky, in the name of repairing the sky, the whole world ascends, which is enough to show that this cultivator is not so indifferent to fame and fortune."
"You have done something so earth-shattering, and shocked countless cultivators in the entire Huai River area. As the person behind all this, do you think you will come back to witness your own work and satisfy your inflated heart?"
"This has nothing to do with being cautious, but with my own habits. Taoist friends who often kill people know that returning to the scene after committing a crime and watching the spectacular scene is the most exciting moment."
"This envoy is very curious about this cultivator. According to the comprehensive information, this cultivator has extraordinary skills. Let's dig it out and see. Maybe we can take it into our Lingmu Immortal Palace."
Hearing this, the monk under the straw hat sneered and said nothing more.
"It's up to you. They may not come if you want them to."
"Besides, this world has been touched by the Heavenly Demon. The old demon Wuwang is a tough guy."
The immortal envoys of Lingmu Immortal Palace are aloof from external things and do not intervene in the disputes between local forces. Their main task is to guard the spiritual trees and collect spiritual trees and information.
There will be an immortal envoy in every region, and his strength can be at the level of refining emptiness. Of course, the specific realm depends on each person.
The Lingmu Immortal Envoy of the Huai River area is a rare Green Wine Clan cultivator. Although he is only in the middle stage of the Refining Void Realm, he is proficient in several secret techniques and is good at strange secret arts.
With his own secret skills and a strong backer, he can almost walk sideways on the Huai River.
The Straw Hat Monk was the Spirit Wood Immortal Envoy from the neighboring Cangyuan Land. He happened to be escorting a spirit tree to the Huai River, so he came over to take a look.
One of the two was in the boat, and the other was outside. Neither of them was in a hurry to leave, and no one knew what they were thinking.
"There are so many secrets in this Yunxiao Realm. What is the Heavenly Demon Palace doing here?"
The eyes under the straw hat were rolling around.
…
Over two hundred years.
As the cultivators from the Yunxiao Realm came out, many things also spread throughout the Huai River.
For example, the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce had cultivators in the Yunxiao Realm cultivate Yin-Yang Spirit Leaves, capture cultivators with five spiritual roots, and so on. They even used the order of this world to cover up and arrange for cultivators from the Huai River area to reincarnate in the lower world. These news had already been leaked.
Many forces that were arranging for the reincarnation of monks in the lower world had already arrived outside the Yunxiao Realm. After a lot of collection, they were unable to collect even the ashes of the reincarnated clansmen.
On the contrary, more than two hundred years ago, many cultivators saw from afar the thunder of punishment from the sky striking the Yunxiao Realm.
During this period of time, people have repeatedly seen the vice president of Jinghe Chamber of Commerce, Qi, appearing outside the Yunxiao Realm, with an attitude that no strangers are allowed in, which further confirms the rumor.
Everyone also reacted in hindsight. No wonder the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce had sent the Branchless Dragon Ape to garrison here. It turned out that the Yunxiao Realm had brought huge profits to the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce. The Yin-Yang Spirit Leaves that some of them bought from the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce were produced from this realm.
It’s okay this time, all the reincarnated monks who were arranged were struck to death. Many monks gloated over it and secretly thought that these bastards deserved it.
Of course, these are not the most exciting ones.
Everyone is curious about a cultivator named Pei Tianlan.
Nowadays, among the young ladies in the red and green dragon boats outside the Yunxiao Realm, there is a saying that if they want to get married, they should marry Pei Tianlan.
The best girls from each family are now hiding in the dragon boat and not coming out. Every day they look around through the cracks in the windows, trying to find where Pei Tianlan is.
Did it fly out, or is it hiding within the boundary?
A seven or eight thousand year old Shenhua cultivator is immortal, but a seven or eight thousand year old Lianxu cultivator is in his prime.
Can fight and give birth.
They can do it all, whether on land or on water, or nine levels of ice and fire.
Unify the realm, dig the soil in the Immortal Palace, enhance the vitality within the realm, break the limits of the small thousand worlds, and lead everyone to fly together!
All these events told the cultivators in the Huai River area that this was a man of both means and courage.
A brilliant immortal, a great monk who has never appeared in the history.
If nothing else, after finding this person, I can have two kids and borrow some sperm.
Such a cultivator will definitely have a higher probability of achieving the Dao in the future than other cultivators, so it is better to leave a bloodline in advance to get ahead of them.
Yunxiao Pei Tianlan, what a magnificent monk! It's him, it's him, it's him! ...
In the green dragon boat of the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce, Vice President Qi's frown had not relaxed for a long time.
The Yunxiaojie trade route he led was in complete defeat, which had a huge impact on the Chamber of Commerce and also had a great impact on his voice in the Chamber of Commerce.
You should know that there are three vice presidents in the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce, and each vice president has a group of dependent monks and families under him.
The Yin-Yang Spirit Leaves that were previously ordered but could not be delivered are still a good deal, but the forces consisting of more than a dozen reincarnated monks have been coming to cause trouble frequently recently.
The instigator of everything is this guy named Pei Tianlan.
He led everyone to break through the boundary, causing the reincarnated monks hiding in the boundary to be sensed by the order of the fairy world, and were struck by thunder and turned into ashes.
Was there anything wrong with his prior arrangements? He had clearly blocked the two roads in and out of the Cloud Realm, which seemed to be a foolproof plan to anyone.
Who could have thought that a person like 'Pei Tianlan' would pop up in the Yunxiao Realm? You have a way but you don't take it, you cross the border.
It's really like wiping your butt with a screen window, letting the fellow Taoists in the fairy world know about it.
Now, not only is the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce looking for this cultivator, but Vice President Qi has noticed that many forces are looking for Pei Tianlan, so the Chamber of Commerce President has also issued an order to search for Pei Tianlan with all their might.
It doesn't mean that we have to kill. As a chamber of commerce, we can see if there is any possibility of cooperation.
Now, there are various forces and people with all kinds of thoughts surrounding the Yunxiao Realm.
But this cultivator has been missing so far, and no one knows whether he escaped early or hid in the realm and did not come out.
It's not that he hasn't used divination, deduction, tracking and other techniques, but the fairy order near Yunxiao is shrouding it, interfering with the performance of the secret techniques.
In addition, this cultivator named Pei Tianlan is so damn secretive. Apart from what we could learn about through the cultivators from the Yunxiao Realm, there is no other trace of him.
Unfortunately, we are currently unable to go down into the Yunxiao Realm and can only passively guard outside.
At this time, the jade disc of communication in Vice Chairman Qi's arms flew up.
"Vice Presidents Yun and Zhou went to see you again and asked you to punish you for what happened in the Cloud Realm. They want to take away the management rights of the two large mineral veins in Jinjing Lake and Liusha River. You have agreed."
Watching the spiritual light in the jade disk dissipate, Vice President Qi frowned even deeper. He had previously suspected that the president had arranged something else in the Yunxiao Realm, but he did not find anything unusual.
Moreover, after the Cloud Realm split apart, the leader had no other arrangements except for the normal investigation.
There are clear rewards and punishments within the Chamber of Commerce. Yunxiaojie was punished for his failure this time, and taking away two trade routes is also a normal punishment. The mineral veins in these two waters are the largest mineral veins in his hands.
"Pei Tianlan, you spoil me."
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Cangyuan, yellow sand mountain.
The vast abyss is filled with mountains and valleys, and Huangsha Mountain is the ancestral land of the Huang family that has been passed down for millions of years.
As a family that once produced a Hedao ancestor and still has a mid-stage Lianxu cultivator in charge, the Huang family has declined a bit, but it is still a dominant force in the vicinity.
Looking from afar, the mountains are a mixture of earth yellow and gold, and even the grass and trees are yellow.
After seventeen years of journey from the Huai River, Shen Lian finally stood on the edge of the Huang family's home.
The Huang family has a large territory, and their ordinary clansmen have built hundreds of large and small cities around the Huangsha Mountain. All clan members above the Nascent Soul stage have a small mountain range as a cave residence, where their blood relatives can live together.
Shen Lian did not pay much attention to these youngsters. He took advantage of the cover of night and, under the guidance of Huang Youdao, quietly entered the Huang family.
Huang Youdao, as the ancestor of the Huang family, practiced in seclusion in the deepest part of the Huang family's ancestral land. No other members of the family lived in the area within a radius of ten thousand miles.
This is a land of yellow sand.
As the yellow sand leaked out grain by grain, a sunken area appeared, and nine ochre-colored stone statues were revealed, emitting a biting cold air.
Shen Lian came here across the galaxy with the clear purpose of visiting the clan library.
There are two auras of the early stage of refining emptiness visible near the Huang family treasury, but there is no problem for the family ancestor to go to the clan treasury.
The Huang family's clan treasury is protected by a sixth-grade top-grade formation. It is the last sixth-grade top-grade spiritual object handed down from that year, but it only maintains the minimum level of operation. After all, the family is not rich.
After Huang Youdao entered the clan treasury, he directly skipped the first floor, which was filled with tens of thousands of spiritual objects, all of which were used by second, third, and fourth level juniors.
After entering the second level, the quality is higher, with thousands of fifth-level ores, boxes of high-quality spirit stones, and some fifth-level spirit herbs, medicines, and elixirs.
When they reached the middle of the second floor, Huang Youdao cast a spell and a piece of quicksand emerged, trapping the man directly underneath.
As the quicksand emitted wave-like ripples, the third level slowly changed from an illusion to reality.
Compared to the previous two floors, this floor is very small, with only a space of a thousand feet. Most of the shelves made of sixth-level spiritual wood are empty, and some of the boxes are sealed and covered with thick dust.
There are also notes marked on the outside of the wooden box.
There were a total of four sixth-grade low-grade spiritual treasures, two sixth-grade mid-grade spiritual treasures, five sixth-grade low-grade talismans, and nearly five hundred boxes of top-grade spirit stones, each marked to contain one thousand pieces, but more than three hundred of them were empty.
At the deepest part, there is a small box with a ban on it and the words "spiritual crystal" marked on it. The lid had been opened long ago and was empty inside.
There are also more than a dozen pieces of sixth-level ore, which are the best among similar ores and are also placed on the shelves.
As for the sixth-level spiritual medicine, there are only a few of them.
The clan library is like this.
The things in the Huang family warehouse cannot be taken away, otherwise the family will not be able to operate and there will be problems. Shen Lian still has to maintain the character of Huang Youdao.
With three forces as support, it would be easy for him to sell the finished products he refined.
However, he has not yet figured out what skill to use to earn spirit stones.
When in the Yunxiao Realm, the Butian Sect displayed the skills of alchemy, weapon refining, formation, and puppetry. To be on the safe side, these four skills cannot be displayed too much for the time being.
Once the three families have a steady stream of high-quality resources, others may not know about it, but Ye Dongliu of the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce will definitely have some guesses, because he and Huang Youdao and the other two were planning the reincarnation together.
Huang Youdao and the other two are no match for Ye Dongliu now.
It may even have been spread in the Huai River area that a fellow named Pei Tianlan has cultivators under his command who are proficient in formations, alchemy and other methods.
The making of talismans and spiritual plants was not often shown to others in Yunxiao Realm, mainly because the resources in Yunxiao Realm at that time were unable to supply these skills.
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"Ancestor."
Huang Youdao had just walked out of the clan treasury when the head of the Huang family, who had received the message earlier, rushed back.
The head of the Huang family is named Huang Shiren.
Huang Shiren has a very gentle personality, and to be frank, a little weak, which is why Huang Youdao promoted him to be the head of the family.
The head of the family needs to be obedient, nothing else matters.
"Shi Ren, have you arranged the matters related to the tribulation?"
"Reporting to the ancestor, a substitute has been arranged. After the tribulation is passed, it will be announced to the public that the clan member who passed the tribulation unfortunately died under the heavenly tribulation."
Huang Shiren nodded, this was something that had been decided long ago.
It is impossible for the Huang family ancestor to go outside to endure the tribulation. The fluctuations of a heavenly tribulation are too great, and it would be easy to be exposed if it attracted other cultivators to spy on it.
The ancestor is different from other cultivators who have reached the perfect state of spiritual transformation. If outsiders were to notice anything, the danger would be too great.
For this reason, he was arranged to prepare for this matter long before the ancestor was reincarnated.
In order to prepare for the ancestor's return and the tribulation, Huang Shiren has often encouraged the old incarnation to try his best over the years, just in case he could survive the tribulation by chance.
Although there has been no success over the years, it has brought about the trend of cultivating perfect gods in the clan.
"Um."
Huang Youdao nodded and said, "I just checked the treasury and took out some top-grade spiritual stones and ores. The family has indeed declined over the years. As the clan leader, I'm sorry for the hardship you've suffered."
"After I have survived the heavenly tribulation, I will ask my old friend to exchange a sixth-grade high-quality talisman for my clan."
Huang Shiren's eyes lit up. A sixth-grade high-quality talisman could already threaten a person who had reached the Great Perfection of Refining Void. Now the Huang family was just an empty shell, and was at a disadvantage in the dispute with other nearby forces, which were pressing the Huang family step by step.
"Ancestor, is the channel safe?"
Huang Youdao glanced at Huang Shiren. This young master is quite capable. He can still stay awake in front of a sixth-grade top-quality talisman.
“It’s absolutely safe.”
Huang Youdao narrowed his eyes and nodded. He was the channel. How could it not be safe? Would I harm myself? It was not easy to be an ancestor. Before the clan treasury was emptied, he had to bleed to feed the family.
"Shiren obeys the old ancestor's orders."
"By the way, after I overcome the tribulation, I will send Kun Suo to the ancestral land and I will teach him personally."
Huang Kunsuo is the great-grandson of Huang Shiren. He has superior spiritual roots and a special physique. As soon as he was born, he was given the family name Kun.
"Thank you, ancestor."
Huang Shiren prostrated himself on the ground and bowed deeply, then listened to a few instructions before turning around and leaving.
Huang Youdao squinted his eyes and looked at Huang Shiren's back for a few more times before retracting his gaze. For more than two hundred years, this young patriarch was still very obedient.
The sixth-grade top-grade spiritual talisman material was obtained thanks to the stupid spiritual beast Ghost Dragon from You Shifang. On the way to Cang Yuan, Shen Lian had been skinning it, extracting its tendons, and preparing the spiritual ink.
Although Huang Youdao and the other two were reincarnated successfully, with the help of his original body, the Five Elements Rules also reached the second level at an astonishing speed within two hundred years. However, after all, he has only just completed his spiritual transformation, so he still needs to prepare some talismans.
If you want to reap the rewards, you have to invest first.
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A few years later.
Above the yellow sand of the Huang family's ancestral land, the calamity energy between heaven and earth dissipated little by little, and a ball of brilliant spiritual essence of heaven and earth fell from the sky and landed on Huang Youdao.
Thousands of miles away from the range of the heavenly tribulation, Shen Lianmao shrank his body in the cave.
Huang Youdao's clone's tribulation really made him nervous for a long time.
You have to know that he has now occupied part of Huang Youdao's fate. The order of immortals is supreme, and he was very scared during the tribulation.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly. The appearance of the Lianxu Heavenly Tribulation represented that Huang Youdao's fate had really avoided the spying of the order of heaven and earth.
But Shen Lian also had a prediction that although he could avoid the heavenly tribulation of Lianxu, he would most likely be unable to avoid the spying of the immortal order when he merged with the Dao.
But it doesn't matter. At most he can refine it into a puppet as a disposable spiritual treasure. As long as he can survive the nine-nine heavenly tribulations, it will be fine.
Someone in the clan was undergoing the heavenly tribulation of refining the void. According to custom, the Huang family activated the formation to seal the void, prohibiting cultivators from traveling to the void where the tribulation was occurring. Even if outside cultivators wanted to watch, they would not be able to see anything from thousands of miles away, not to mention cultivators from other forces outside.
Soon, the news came.
Another old cultivator of the Huang family who had reached the perfect state of transformation was unwilling to die, and forcibly triggered the heavenly tribulation of refining emptiness. He was clearly on the verge of success, but fell short at the last moment, and was chopped into pieces.
Then, a low-key funeral was held among the branch of the clan that had survived the tribulation.
Huang Youdao's heavenly tribulation was half as strong as Shen Lian's, but it was many times stronger than Pei Tianlan's. It was worth his reincarnation. With the blessing of the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, the law of gravity successfully entered the first level.
"With my blessing, Huang Youdao's magical power should be almost the same as that of the middle stage of the Void Refining Realm."
After a comprehensive consideration of Huang Youdao, Shen Lian made a judgment in his mind.
According to what the little demon said before, this level of combat power is also considered to be the level of a true disciple in the Hedao Holy Land.
The only difference between Huang Youdao and the true disciples of the holy land is that he is too old. After his fate is restored, his life span before reincarnation is counted starting from that before.
It's like an old man refining his talent.
"Hey, fellow Daoist, come with me and develop in a low profile."
"Being strong at first doesn't make you strong. If you try to be strong, you will be able to crush the begonias even if you are strong enough."
After Huang Youdao passed the Lianxu Heavenly Tribulation, although he still needed to hide to avoid being attacked by hostile forces, his control over the family suddenly increased.
Shen Lian also began to prepare sixth-grade top-grade talismans for Huang Youdao. Ten thousand years ago, the Huang family had reached the great perfection of the Refined Void realm, but ten thousand years later, they suddenly fell to the middle stage of the Refined Void realm. It is conceivable how much territory and resources they have lost.
The ancestor of the family has not come out for ten thousand years, and has become a vassal of the Huang family. The hostile families of the Huang family are not fools either, and they have already swallowed up more than half of the territory of the Huang family.
To put it bluntly, you are just asking for more. Eat a little today, and if your Huang family ancestor doesn't come out tomorrow, eat a little more the day after tomorrow.
In comparison, Wangshu Valley does a great job.
During his reincarnation, Patriarch Wangshu arranged for himself to die suddenly.
After losing the master of Lianxu Dayuan, Wangshu Valley was immediately suppressed by the surrounding forces and its territory continued to shrink, but it managed to maintain its foundation and the overall territory was very stable.
Just when Shen Lian was preparing to improve his talisman-making skills, early that morning, a treasure ship with the flag of the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce appeared in the air outside the gate of Huangjiashan.
"Zhao Junqing from the Jinghe Chamber of Commerce came uninvited, please don't blame me, fellow Huang."
(End of this chapter)