Chapter 440 Initiation (Rasi Mountains 2)
However, the essence of orthodox and unorthodox methods is the same. This "Refining Spirit Scripture" is just like that. It is both orthodox and unorthodox, depending on how the cultivator who possesses it uses it.
Hu Shi and his eighteen companions had been practicing blood magic for many years. Later, they came to the Jade Void Palace's Blood Elixir Workshop. Because of the convenience of the Blood Elixir Workshop, they were freed from the need to consume raw essence and blood and started taking elixirs instead.
Especially Hu Shiba and Jiao Shiwu, when they were working as gatekeepers, they welcomed and saw many different faces, which broadened their horizons and gave them some love and wisdom to be normal cultivators.
Now, with Ji Rong's second initiation, all four cultivation methods have finally been mastered.
Eight spiritual chains rose from their Dao elixir, and Hu Shiba, Li Ke, and Li San closed their eyes to experience the newly acquired method.
Jiao Shiwu, brandishing eight spirit chains, joyfully soared into the sky, laughing loudly, "Haha, I see! All spiritual energy in the world is usable, blood essence is usable, spirit wood is usable, why should we be fixated on the spirit of blood essence? I should absorb the spiritual energy of all things..."
"Slap!" Before Jiao Shiwu could finish his excitement, Ji Rong slapped him with a whisker and laughed, "It's just completing a method."
"Get down quickly! This technique consumes a lot of spiritual energy, so use it sparingly. We need to get going!"
As Ji Rong approached the Laxi Mountains, she discovered that there were many living beings here. Perhaps because of the large number of living beings, the order of heaven and earth had tilted towards the mortal masses.
Although there is not much spiritual energy in this mountain, there are quite a few enlightened cultivators.
Ji Rong searched mountain after mountain, and finally found the ruins of "Fangu Cave Heaven" on the mountainside of a mountain called Fangu Mountain.
It turned out that due to the depletion of spiritual veins and the increasingly narrow coverage of spiritual energy, the struggle over the Fan Gu Cave Heaven never ceased a few years after the Mao Han clan left.
One or two battles are of little consequence to the underground spiritual veins; but continuous fighting year after year is absolutely unacceptable.
Because the cultivators used their skills to compete for the spiritual veins and did not cherish the mountain, the already shrinking underground spiritual veins could not bear the burden and collapsed.
On that day, spiritual energy poured out through the broken opening, completely extinguishing the last remaining thoughts of the cultivators in the Laxi Mountains.
After that, everything that could be moved within the cave was taken away by other cultivators, and the spiritual crystal mines derived from the spiritual veins were also exhausted. All the cultivators with connections moved away, leaving only a few minor cultivators on the ruins, clinging to the last bit of spiritual energy that had not yet dissipated to survive.
Although the shattered spiritual veins damaged the very foundation of life, they also gave birth to countless intelligent beings. Despite years of pursuit by flesh and blood traffickers, they have not been completely captured and can still be seen everywhere.
But they are not living well now. Although their descendants are becoming increasingly intelligent, their lives are becoming increasingly impoverished.
As soon as Ji Rong and her group entered this area with its sparse spiritual energy, they cleared out three groups of search teams that were carrying sturdy magic cages and were trying to capture minor cultivators.
Using their methods against you, Ji Rong didn't even change the cage; she stuffed all the members of the search team into the cage and hung it around Hu Shiba's neck.
Then, they arrived at the old site of Fan Gu Cave, where they spread out clouds and mist and explored the spiritual veins;
Xiaobai was used to doing this job, and with proper cooperation, the task was completed in one go.
After Ji Rong finished doing all that, she raised her head and looked at the mountain python and the mountain rat, saying, "Get to work, replenish your meridians!"
The mountain rat immediately burrowed into the ground to clear away the debris, lock the spiritual flow, and fix its head and tail; the mountain python opened its mouth to replenish the spiritual flow veins with earth water and irrigate the source flow.
Once they saw the spiritual veins beginning to flow, they emerged from the soil and respectfully bowed to Ji Rong, saying, "My lord, it can flow now."
Ji Rong nodded to indicate that she understood. She waved her roots and found some small veins in the ground to migrate over and connect with this large vein, allowing it to truly flow autonomously.
After completing all this, they continued their patrol of the mountain.
They climbed over the top of Lasi, touched the snow that had just formed into flowers, and buried several corpses that had turned into ice sculptures.
They arrived at the Mortal Sea, explored the lifeless waters, and then headed towards the former site of the Mortal Ancient Cave.
Upon reaching the foot of Fangu Mountain, Ji Rong looked at Hu Shiba and Jiao Shiwu and said, "Shiwu, Shiba, I intend to leave you two here to guard the Laxi Mountains and protect the newly cultivated Fangu spiritual vein, so that the intelligent beings in this mountain have the basic conditions for cultivation and will no longer be captured and sold. Do you two have any objections?"
Hu Shiwu nodded repeatedly, while Jiao Shiba asked, "Sir, what if they run out of food and start killing each other?"
Ji Rong said, "This is fate, we don't need to worry about it. But if anyone else comes to steal, kill them all. If either of you has any difficulties, one of you should go back to Bitter Water Lake to find your sect leader, and he will give you what you want."
"Understood!" Hu Shiwu and Jiao Shiba excitedly replied in unison.
After instructing Jiao Shiba and Hu Shiwu, Ji Rong led the three gods, Li Ke, and Li San to the East Hengshan Mountains, which were right next to Cangzhou. He wondered what kind of scenery awaited them there.
Once Ji Rong and his group had disappeared from sight, Hu Shiba suddenly asked Jiao Shiwu uncertainly, "Shiwu, did the master mean that we should guard this mountain?"
Jiao Shiwu affirmed matter-of-factly, "Yes, it must be because we guarded the Blood Pill Workshop's gate well in the past, which impressed Lady Ji and made her remember us."
Now they've given us cultivation techniques and promoted us to guard the Mortal Ancient Spirit Vein, ensuring peace in the mountains—they're really giving us brothers a big shot! Look at us now, in the Blood Pill Workshop, we're the most promising ones!
Upon hearing this, Hu Shiba nodded in deep agreement and said, "That's right, the lord values us highly! It's just that this place is too poor, and we lowly cultivators can't even scrape off eight pounds of flesh."
“What’s there to be afraid of when we’re poor? We don’t have to live in cages like we did when we were kids. Now we have twenty-one mountains to run around on.”
"Where shall we stay?"
"We should live in the abandoned site, where the spiritual energy is most abundant!"
"Let's build a hut there, gather the tribespeople from the mountain, count them, and establish rules. Then we can guard the spiritual vein and lie down in peace."
"That's right!"
However, wishes are beautiful, but reality is harsh.
Hu Shiba and Jiao Shiwu had just finished building the shelter when they summoned the junior cultivators, and their appearance struck them deeply.
Young, intelligent, emaciated, numb...
Whenever they made eye contact with these minor cultivators, the despair in their eyes always made Hu Shiba and Jiao Shiwu feel as if they had returned to the crowded prison of the Kunlun Mountains, where they could neither lie down nor stand up.
After they barely finished counting the number of minor repairs, they squatted under the makeshift wooden shack and cried together all night.
The next day, the tiger and the dragon began to work. They each ran back to Bitter Water Lake to carry seeds and low-grade spiritual grains to fill their stomachs. They also consulted with Shan Zhongfeng and Yu Cang, and asked for about ten wooden books. After returning, they taught the junior cultivators in Fan Gu Mountain how to identify herbs and treasures and how to kill and skin them.
Identify medicinal herbs and treasures to nourish oneself;
The art of killing and skinning was used against external thieves;
Thanks to their simple and practical management, after several years, the small trees in the Laxi Mountains finally grew up gradually, like wild grass in the wind.
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