txolops Chapter 326: A Review of the Gains
Chapter 326: A Review of the Gains
The Wind Shuttle transformed into a blurry blue shadow, silently traversing the clouds high in the sky at an astonishing speed.
Jiang Rufeng, who took the initiative to take over the driving task, felt the top-level wind attribute magic weapon beneath him traveling at a speed several times faster than his own escape technique. He gained a clearer understanding of the profound foundation of the Nascent Soul old monster, and his face occasionally showed a mixture of amazement and awe. He controlled it more and more carefully.
Beside her, Yuan Yao sat cross-legged at the front of the flying shuttle, her brows slightly furrowed, intently studying the ancient jade slip in her hand that recorded the "Nether Phoenix Technique".
She knew that once she reached a safe place in the outer sea, she would have to dissipate her cultivation and start over.
For Core Formation stage cultivators, switching their main cultivation method is an extremely dangerous and time-consuming undertaking. A cultivator's Golden Core is formed using their original cultivation method, and their magical power attributes are deeply bound to it.
If the cultivation method you switch to has conflicting attributes, forcibly cultivating it will result in minor issues such as disordered magical power and regression in cultivation, or even the collapse of your golden core and destruction of your foundation.
Unless the new technique is an advanced version of the old technique from the same source, and the magical attributes are inherited from the same lineage, it is almost equivalent to destroying one's own Great Wall.
Yuan Yao naturally understood these principles. But when she raised her eyes and secretly glanced at Luo Ming's profile, who was resting with his eyes closed and his breathing deep, a resolute look flashed in her eyes.
In order to go further on this path to immortality, and in order to... keep up with Brother Luo's pace, she is willing to endure decades or even longer of arduous cultivation.
Even if the road ahead is difficult, she will never regret it.
Luo Ming seemed to sense something, slowly opened his eyes, and caught a glimpse of Yuan Yao's serious and sometimes confused and sometimes enlightened expression. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly.
He thought to himself, "This woman may seem carefree and unconcerned with details at times, but she is actually resilient and has a deep understanding of things."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have resolutely left the sect with Yanli to venture out into the world back then. Now, a truly suitable and promising path lies before her, how could she, with her personality, possibly give it up?
He then thought of Yuan Yao's matter of rebuilding her cultivation, and his mind began to work: "The Yin Body combined with the 'Nether Phoenix Technique' has great potential. However, at the beginning of the transformation, the foundation is especially important. In order to ensure a stable path in the future, and also for... well, to maximize the benefits for each other when cultivating together in the future, it seems I have to give her a hand."
Ideally, it should be like when I rebuilt the Azure Nether Scripture, using the power of the Profound Water Condensation Array to repeatedly temper and solidify the foundation of my transformed magical power, striving for ultimate purity.
Luo Ming's current resources are not what they were when he was rebuilding his cultivation—back then, he sold almost all his resources, keeping only a few magical artifacts and other necessities to raise the spirit stones needed for the rebuild.
Thanks to the benefits of the spirit stone mine on Biling Island, he now possesses so many spirit stones that they could easily support ten Yuan Yaos to rebuild their cultivation.
He has now reached the peak of the mid-stage Core Formation realm, and his magical power has reached its limit. He only needs to return to the outer sea to go into seclusion and break through to the late-stage Core Formation realm. He is just one step away from the Nascent Soul stage.
At this moment, cultivating the Azure Nether Scripture is of little significance, so I might as well take advantage of this leisure time on the journey to take stock of what I have gained from this trip to the Void Heaven Palace.
He first took out the storage bags of the eight Core Formation cultivators he had obtained through his rampage of killing and looting after leaving the Void Heaven Palace.
These bags were bulging and varied in style, and the spiritual energy they emitted was quite chaotic. It was clear that the original owner had been involved in many murders and robberies, and the bags were filled with all sorts of things of unknown origin.
Luo Ming scanned the contents one by one with his divine sense, quickly categorizing them.
Spirit stones were piled up in heaps; various pills and jars, no matter how flowery the labels were, he first carefully used his divine sense to examine their medicinal properties and roughly categorize them.
Dozens of magical treasures and artifacts of varying quality shimmered with spiritual light, but he only glanced at them briefly before turning most of them aside with little interest—given his current perspective and wealth, these magical treasures used by ordinary Core Formation cultivators were simply not worth his attention.
However, he singled out a few ancient treasures and talismans with special materials or unique functions, intending to examine them in detail later.
Soon, the eight storage bags were emptied, and the miscellaneous items, materials, jade slips, etc. inside were roughly categorized and stored away.
Although these "groceries" are not individually valuable, the total amount is considerable. They will be quite useful in the future, whether for personal use, as rewards to subordinates, or to be disposed of in exchange for necessary resources.
After cleaning up these, Luo Ming's expression turned slightly serious, and he took out two more items. One was a storage bag that was completely black, embroidered with a hideous ghost face, and exuding pure, cold demonic energy; the other was an ordinary, unremarkable, gray storage bag, surrounded by a dense aura of corpses.
These two items were naturally obtained from the fallen Extreme Yin Ancestor and Xuan Gu Shangren.
In addition, there was a jade slip about half a foot long, with a warm and white color, as if it were carved from the finest jade, but with natural bone texture, lying quietly beside it.
Luo Ming first picked up the dusty storage bag that belonged to Xuan Gu.
Luo Ming first picked up the dusty storage bag that belonged to Xuan Gu.
He probed into it with his divine sense, and after a moment, a flash of light appeared at his fingertips, and a small arrow about three inches long, with a vibrant green color, as if it had just been cut from a bamboo joint, and with faint golden lightning patterns flowing on its surface, appeared in his palm.
It was that magical arrow made primarily of Golden Thunder Bamboo!
"Golden Thunder Bamboo..." Luo Ming gently touched the arrow shaft with his fingers, feeling the pure, evil-repelling divine thunder energy contained within it, which had a natural restraining power against yin spirits and ghosts. His eyes flickered slightly.
"Golden Thunder Bamboo is almost extinct in this world, with Han Li being an exception. The Xuan Gu Old Demon obtained this small section from who knows where and refined it into this arrow. If it weren't for Han Li's heaven-defying luck, this would probably be the only Golden Thunder Bamboo magic weapon still existing in the human world."
He held the emerald green arrow in his hand and played with it for a while. This thing was very effective against ghost cultivators and demonic cultivators, and it was a good targeted weapon, so he carefully put it away.
Then, he took out a few more items from Xuan Gu's storage bag: an ancient jade slip containing the formula for the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng Elixir.
A bluish-black flame, sealed within a specially made jade bottle, constantly wriggling and shifting, emanating a chilling soul power fluctuation—this was Xuan Gu's "Mysterious Soul Yin Fire," cultivated through years of arduous practice.
This fire is even more domineering than the Heavenly Corpse Fire. Some of the strange and secret techniques in the Xuan Yin Scripture rely on it to perform. This is also one of the trump cards that allowed Xuan Gu to dare to plot against the extreme Yin.
After Luo Ming killed Xuan Gu, he extracted the fire from Xuan Gu's dantian.
In the original world, Xuan Gu used this fire to fuse with the Dry Blue Ice Flame to create a powerful Asura Sacred Flame. He was extremely envious of this fire and planned to try to fuse it after advancing to the late stage of Core Formation.
As for the other cultivation manuals, jade slips, refining materials, spirit stones, and pills in the Xuan Gu storage bag, Luo Ming glanced at them briefly and mostly just shook his head slightly.
Xuan Gu had just escaped from that deserted island, and his wealth was far less than it had been in its prime. Apart from the things mentioned above, the rest were not very attractive to Luo Ming now.
His gaze finally settled on the pristine white jade slip made from a rib, and he immersed his consciousness in it, quickly browsing through the vast amount of information within.
The Xuan Yin Scripture is all-encompassing, from offensive and defensive techniques to refining ghosts and controlling souls. In particular, it has explored the use of Yin spirits, ghosts, and corpse puppets to the extreme, making it a top-tier cultivation method that points directly to the Great Dao.
However, after carefully reading through the jade slip for a while, Luo Ming simply put it down gently. His face did not show much excitement or greed. Instead, he appeared quite calm, even somewhat... uninterested.
"The technique is indeed top-notch and extremely profound. It's a pity..." Luo Ming sighed inwardly.
He found that apart from the Yin Demon Slash technique, which was useful to him, everything else was rather useless.
Luo Ming now looks down on even top-tier cultivation techniques like the "Mysterious Yin Scripture," mainly because he gained too much during his trip to the Void Heaven Palace, raising his standards too high.
They captured the Ghost King in the Land of Ghostly Resentment, acquired the Thousand Demon Banner, and their magical treasures' power surged. Later, they obtained the Nine-Bend Spiritual Ginseng, a spiritual root of heaven and earth, whose value was immeasurable.
Along the lava road, he collected a large amount of high-grade fire lizard materials. If he were to refine them into the Eight Golden Light Mirrors, he would elevate the power of this treasure to the same level as the Myriad Soul Banner.
Afterwards, the rare pills, the blood essence of powerful demon beasts, and the incredibly powerful "Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire Pearl" that the Nascent Soul cultivators and other Nascent Soul elders gave them were all enough to make Core Formation cultivators fight tooth and nail for them.
Not to mention the three top-tier secret techniques in the Scripture Pavilion, and the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi, the Void Heaven Cauldron, and the Azure Ice Flame, all of which are highly sought after by Nascent Soul cultivators from the outside world.
Luo Ming shook his head slightly and casually put away the jade slip containing the Xuan Yin Scripture, along with the dusty storage bag containing the Xuan bone.
Then, his gaze finally fell on the last black storage bag, which exuded pure Yin energy and was embroidered with a hideous ghost face—the legacy of the Extreme Yin Ancestor.
The life's treasures of a Nascent Soul stage demon would surely not disappoint him. A hint of anticipation flashed in Luo Ming's eyes as he reached out and grabbed the storage bag.
Luo Ming probed the pitch-black ghost-faced storage bag belonging to the Extreme Yin Ancestor with his divine sense, examining it carefully. After only a few breaths, a glint flashed in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly, revealing an uncontrollable joy on his face.
"As expected of the lord of Extreme Yin Island, a powerful figure in his own right. His wealth..."
He secretly praised it. Compared to the eight ragtag cultivators before him, and the Xuan Gu who had perished for many years and was now impoverished after his resurrection, the value of the Extreme Yin Ancestor's personal wealth was almost equal to the sum of all his previous gains!
First, there were spirit stones. There were piles of mid-grade spirit stones, roughly estimated to be at least tens of thousands! There were also two high-grade spirit stones, brimming with spiritual energy, stored separately in an exquisite jade box, their shimmering light dazzling the eye.
Aside from spirit stones, there are a wide variety of high-quality items.
Bottles of pills with different labels emitted powerful medicinal fluctuations, some cold and others pure. Among them were rare items that could enhance the cultivation of the Core Formation stage, temper the soul, heal injuries and save lives, and even a few bottles of pills that were effective for Nascent Soul cultivators.
A large number of clearly labeled and categorized materials for refining weapons, alchemy, and talisman making were on display before Luo Ming's eyes. Many of these materials were things he had only heard of before.
Each magical artifact and ancient treasure possessed a restrained spiritual light and a profound aura. Although most of them leaned towards the yin and evil, they were all exquisite, far superior to the items used by ordinary Core Formation cultivators.
What Luo Ming cared about most, besides the pair of Yin-Yang rings he gave to Yuan Yao for self-defense, was this uniquely shaped, jet-black, seemingly pieced together from countless bones, shuttle-shaped magical artifact that exuded a strong Yin energy and an ominous aura.
"This is... the Netherworld Ghost Boat?" Luo Ming recognized the object.
The palm-sized black bone boat landed in his palm, its touch icy cold and its aura chilling to the bone. He examined it carefully and indeed sensed a complex soul-sealing space at the core of the boat, densely packed with no fewer than hundreds of Yin spirits!
Among them, more than a dozen auras were exceptionally powerful, reaching the level of the Core Formation stage! These Yin spirits roared and charged unconsciously within the Soul Sealing Space, but were firmly bound by the restrictions on the boat.
"Good stuff!" Luo Ming's eyes lit up.
Although he had not cultivated the "Mysterious Yin Scripture" and could not unleash the full power of this treasure, these sealed Yin spirits, especially the dozen or so Core Formation stage Yin spirits, were a great tonic for him!
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