txolops Chapter 116 Bloodline Reversion
Chapter 116 Bloodline Reversion
Inside the pavilion.
Upon hearing Li Ping's words, the Meng family patriarch chuckled and looked at Li Ping with interest: "How many do you want, Fellow Daoist Li?"
Li Ping smiled and held up two fingers: "Two hundred spirit stones!"
Upon hearing this, the Meng family patriarch merely chuckled and waved his hand, saying, "I am willing to give Fellow Daoist Li five hundred spirit stones, in exchange for this matter being accomplished."
"Five hundred spirit stones?" Li Ping raised an eyebrow, then relaxed. "The Meng family can wait for good news."
After accepting the spirit stones and promising to act as a matchmaker for his family's descendant, Li Ping got up and saw the Meng family patriarch off.
After he left, Li Ping called Bai Lin and asked her to deliver the storage bag containing five hundred spirit stones to Zhang Tie.
And she was instructed to inform Zhang Tie that the marriage to the Meng family girl could now be settled.
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Back in the training room.
Li Ping took out the Fiery Arrow Eagle's egg and placed it in the center of the room. Then, he stared at its crimson shell and fell into deep thought.
He was pondering what Zhang Tie had said earlier.
According to Zhang Tie, the egg was found by True Person Fenglan on the body of a demonic cultivator he had captured.
Prior to this, he had killed a demonic cultivator and given the cultivator's belongings to Master Fenglan. It was through these belongings that Master Fenglan was able to track down and capture another demonic cultivator.
So here's the question: how many demonic cultivators are there in this immortal city?
However, Master Fenglan was not worried about keeping it a secret, and directly bestowed the Fierce Arrow Carved Egg Egg upon Zhang Tie.
Li Ping couldn't help but speculate: "Perhaps these demonic cultivators have already been wiped out by True Person Fenglan."
Shaking his head, Li Ping stopped thinking about the demonic cultivation issue and instead placed his palm on the crimson egg, slowly injecting the life-preserving mantra into it.
According to what Master Fenglan told Zhang Tie, when the egg was stolen by the demonic cultivator, it was still tainted with the aura of two adult Fiery Arrow Eagles. Once the spirit-sealing talisman was removed, the adult Fiery Arrow Eagles would immediately come looking for him.
But now that so much time has passed, the residual scent on it has almost completely dissipated.
Furthermore, since the female eagle, which had a closer connection with the eggs, has died, the remaining male eagle is unlikely to come looking for them again.
Therefore, Li Ping prepared to use the power of the Nourishing Life Technique to replenish the essence of the lost egg and hatch the little life inside.
A wisp of magic power was inputted and quickly absorbed, and soon the 'hunger' feeling was transmitted through contact.
Li Ping smiled and increased the rate at which he input mana.
The egg seems to contain a bottomless pit, and no matter how much magic power he inputs, it will be instantly swallowed up.
Even when Li Ping's magical power was almost exhausted, he had to stop inputting it.
That feeling of 'hunger' continued to emanate, unusually strong and powerful.
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Li Ping removed his hand from the egg, a serious look appearing in his eyes.
He sensed something was wrong. When he treated Xiao Yunzhi when she was on the verge of death, except for the last day, Xiao Yunzhi showed no reaction at all.
Even on the last day, when he tried to pull away, Xiao Yunzhi suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm; it was a subconscious reaction.
Even after he completely removed the toxins from her, Xiao Yunzhi did not wake up immediately.
This is what a patient should look like.
But isn't the tiny life inside this egg supposed to be a dead egg that's almost impossible to hatch?
Li Ping was filled with deep doubt: "The life force inside the egg is so intense, and it's still hungry after consuming so much of my health-preserving mana. It's enough to replenish the life essence of a Foundation Establishment cultivator for nearly a hundred years. How can this be a dead egg?"
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Li Ping would have suspected that there was a third-tier demon beast hiding inside the egg.
"Something's not right, something's not right!" Muttering to himself, Li Ping put the crimson egg into his special spirit beast bag before heading towards the Meng family's ancestral land.
He planned to borrow the Meng family's library to find out what was going on.
Upon arriving at the ancestral home of the Meng family, Li Ping explained his purpose, and the Meng family patriarch granted his request without much hesitation.
Of course, the Meng family would not show him the cultivation techniques, secret arts, and inheritances they had collected.
The only books he could consult were miscellaneous ones: geography, natural history, and personal experiences.
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A little over half a day later, Li Ping emerged from the Meng family's library, his expression a mixture of surprise and delight.
After searching through a large amount of information, he finally found a situation similar to the egg he had in a miscellaneous book called "Cold Moon True Man's Notes".
Master Lengyue kept a pair of black-footed birds, and the female bird laid an egg.
Unexpectedly, just when Master Lengyue thought he was going to have another Black-footed Bird, the egg inexplicably lost most of its essence, and the remaining essence was not enough for the Black-footed Bird chick to hatch.
Considering that the Black-footed Bird can only grow to the late stage of the second tier at its maximum, and that replenishing the egg's essence is extremely costly, enough to bankrupt a Core Formation cultivator.
Therefore, Master Lengyue did not take any measures to save him, but simply let the life force within the black-footed bird egg gradually disappear due to the lack of original vitality.
But when the egg had completely turned into a dead egg and Master Lengyue was about to have a meal, he was surprised to find that what was growing inside the egg was not a black-footed bird, but a black phoenix!
Wu Feng, from Cola Novels, your portable library with more than ten thousand volumes. He is a celestial spirit bird possessing a trace of the true spirit phoenix bloodline!
If resources are sufficient, a fully grown Black Phoenix can rival a Nascent Soul stage cultivator!
Upon witnessing this scene, Master Lengyue sighed with regret.
After some research, he speculated that the reason why most of the essence in the egg was lost was because an extremely rare thing happened to the black-footed bird chick: it reverted to its ancestral bloodline and became a black phoenix, and consumed a large amount of essence in the process.
This resulted in the remaining essence being unable to sustain the birth of the Black Phoenix!
As a result, Lengyue Zhenren tasted Wufeng Barbecue with tears in his eyes.
In conclusion, Master Lengyue summarized: If you encounter a situation where most of the egg's essence has inexplicably disappeared, you must carefully check the condition inside the egg. If the egg's aura is weak and lifeless, it is most likely a dead egg.
However, if the egg contains a strong aura and vigorous vitality, it is very likely that the offspring inside the egg have reverted to their ancestral bloodline.
At times like these, one must never give up or abandon anything. If one can obtain a spirit beast with ancestral bloodlines, it will be the best help on the path to immortality.
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Li Ping went to the market and bought several sets of beast-taming restriction techniques. After returning to Immortal Peach Mountain, he injected all these restrictions into the cubs inside the eggs using a blood restriction method.
Furthermore, he planned to place another restriction every few days to ensure that the spirit beast would recognize him as its master after hatching and would never betray him.
In fact, all of Li Ping's actions were unnecessary.
After all, he would use the power of the Nourishing Life Technique to continuously supply the life essence of the spirit beast cub inside the egg, so that it could successfully hatch.
During this process, the spirit beast cub will continuously devour his magical power and develop a deep dependence on him.
By the time they hatch, they will have already taken on his shape. They will be incredibly affectionate towards him, regarding him as their father, and the possibility of betrayal will be very low.
However, just to be on the safe side and to prevent the spirit beasts from going through a rebellious phase, Li Ping still had to set up a large number of blood restrictions and contracts.
This way, the probability of betrayal can be minimized.
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"By the way, what kind of celestial bird will the Fiery Arrow Eagle's bloodline revert to its ancestral form?" Li Ping looked at the crimson egg and couldn't help but feel curious again.
He speculated expectantly: "Red-horned crow? Fire phoenix? Or something else?"
As far as he knew, the Fiery Arrow Eagle should be a descendant of a fire-type true spirit.
After continuous hybridization and degeneration, its bloodline has become extremely mixed and diluted, and it can no longer be called a divine bird of heaven and earth.
But there are probably only a few kinds of celestial birds that are closest to it in bloodline.
If its bloodline is reverted to its ancestral form, it should also be one of these rare and divine birds.
But no matter what kind of celestial bird it was, Li Ping had no objections; on the contrary, he was happy to applaud.
After all, if he properly nurtures him to adulthood, he will have an assistant who can rival a Nascent Soul cultivator.
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He meditated to restore his magical power, infused the bloodline ancestral egg with vitality, and began refining a second-grade low-level pill, absorbing the 'innate qi' within it to promote the evolution of the health cultivation technique's magical power.
Before we knew it, the end of the year had arrived.
After more than a month of hard work, the deficiency in the egg's essence has finally been made up, and it has returned to a normal state of development.
At this point, barring any unforeseen changes, the probability of life successfully developing inside the egg is over 30%.
Li Ping was naturally not satisfied with this success rate.
Next, he will continue to feed the spirit bird chicks inside the eggs with the power of the life-preserving mantra to ensure their 100% survival.
This process may take several years, but Li Ping has enough patience to wait.
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Time quickly came to the New Year's gathering of the Fellowship, and Bailin had already returned to High Ridge Mountain several days in advance.
In the afternoon, figures arrived at Li Ping's cave. It was still early before sunset, and Zhang Tie and the other four had already arrived.
After a year apart, the five of them have all changed.
Needless to say, Zhang Tie had successfully established his foundation, becoming the second Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Tongzhou Guild.
Gu Musheng broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining last year. Although he devoted himself to cultivation over the past year, he was limited by his own aptitude and only made progress at the eighth level of Qi Refining, without being able to break through to the next level.
Judging from her aura, Cheng Yao has already reached the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining and is expected to break through to the eighth level of Qi Refining next year.
However, what puzzled Li Ping was that her robe was gone, replaced by an ordinary overcoat.
Qi Hanmo, at the sixth level of Qi Refining, estimates that he will need about two more years to reach the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining and attempt to break through to the later stage of Qi Refining.
Of course, given his four spiritual roots, he might struggle with the bottleneck in the later stages of Qi Refining for a while.
Bai Qing is at the fifth level of Qi Refining, and he is confident that he can break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining next year.
Of course, it's also possible that after being warned by Li Ping, his father no longer dared to bother him.
After recounting their respective situations, the five people, including Li Ping, smiled and congratulated Zhang Tie in unison on his successful foundation building.
When Zhang Tie heard the five people offering their congratulations, he couldn't help but scratch his head.
While I was happy, I also felt a little out of place.