txolops Chapter 184 All-Powerful Divine Interpretation
Chapter 184 All-Powerful Divine Interpretation
Xiantao Mountain Cave.
After the New Year, Yu Menghan visited again.
It's time for the monthly treatment of the Seven-Colored Illusionary Butterfly again.
Li Ping stroked the Heavenly Profound Crystal and channeled the power of the Nourishing Life Technique into the Seven-Colored Illusionary Light Butterfly to heal its injuries.
A moment later, he moved his hand away, drenched in sweat.
After completing today's treatment and checking on the Seven-Colored Illusionary Light Butterfly, Yu Menghan smiled with satisfaction.
She put the Heavenly Mystic Crystal, which sealed the Seven-Colored Illusionary Light Butterfly, into her storage bag.
At the same time, she took out a huge piece of black divine wood from her storage bag and placed it horizontally in the courtyard of her cave.
Yu Menghan smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, this piece of thousand-year-old ironwood should meet your needs, right?"
This black sacred tree was the treatment fee she promised to pay Li Ping—a three-zhang-long, thousand-year-old ironwood.
"Oh?" Li Ping looked surprised when she took out the sacred wood.
However, the inheritance of nourishment was of utmost importance, and he wouldn't just listen to Yu Menghan's side of the story. Immediately, he walked to the thousand-year-old ironwood and began to examine it carefully.
Upon seeing his actions, Yu Menghan couldn't help but purse her lips.
After a long while, and having checked and confirmed that everything was correct, Li Ping smiled and cupped his hands in greeting: "Since the fairy says so, then I will not stand on ceremony. This piece of ironwood is exactly what I need."
After putting the ironwood into his own storage bag, Li Ping returned to the pavilion and chatted with Yu Menghan.
During the conversation, he brought up another matter: "By the way, Fairy Yu, I recently discovered that my divine sense is not quite enough when I am operating the Myriad Craftsmanship Puppet. I wonder if your esteemed merchant guild has any techniques for enhancing divine sense for sale? I am willing to pay a high price to acquire them."
He had gathered all three nourishment ingredients: a 10,000-craft puppet, a three-zhang-long piece of thousand-year-old ironwood, and a third-tier living soul.
In theory, he can now obtain the memories left by the puppet master of the Heavenly Craft Sect in the Myriad Craft Puppets through the Tree of Inheritance, and possess the ability to create third-tier puppets.
However, the third-tier living soul in his hand came from Yan Liming, a cultivator who had reached the Core Formation stage in the demonic path.
As a Core Formation cultivator who has lived for over four hundred years, Yan Liming's memories are a vast treasure trove. Moreover, Li Ping hopes to understand where he obtained the crafting method for the 'Zhou Tian Xing Chen Banner'.
Therefore, before obtaining the other party's memories, he was reluctant to feed their soul to the Tree of Inheritance.
However, his own cultivation level was only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and his spiritual sense was not strong enough to forcibly search the soul of a Core Formation cultivator, so the soul search was put on hold.
His original plan was to wait until his cultivation reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment and his spiritual sense greatly increased before attempting to search Yan Liming's soul.
At his current cultivation speed, it would take him about 30 to 40 years to break through to the later stage. But now that he has the thousand-year-old ironwood, Li Ping can't wait that long.
He came up with another idea.
That is to cultivate techniques that enhance spiritual sense, increase the strength of one's spiritual sense, and then search Yan Liming's soul to extract all his memories.
To his dismay, he searched through Jade Cliff Palace, Myriad Laws Pavilion, and even asked Zhang Tie to search the Secret Laws Pavilion in Immortal City, but he still couldn't find this type of cultivation technique.
Clearly, cultivation techniques that enhance spiritual awareness are extremely rare in the world of cultivation.
Ultimately, Li Ping had no choice but to turn his attention to Yu Menghan.
She comes from the extremely mysterious Yinghai Chamber of Commerce, which might be able to meet Li Ping's needs.
"A technique to enhance spiritual awareness?" Yu Menghan was taken aback at first, then fell into deep thought.
Upon seeing this, Li Ping was overjoyed, knowing that there might be a breakthrough in the matter. He immediately nodded and said, "That's right, it is indeed a technique to enhance spiritual sense."
After thinking for a long time, Yu Menghan nodded: "I do know about this kind of technique. In fact, this technique of our sect also comes from the Tianqiao Sect. It was created by the cultivators of the Tianqiao Sect specifically for controlling puppets."
However, when the Tianqiao Sect was wiped out, its secret techniques pavilion was also destroyed. This cultivation method, which ended up in our hands, only has the first incomplete level remaining. Completing it can enhance a cultivator's spiritual sense by about 20%. I wonder if this might meet your needs, fellow Daoist?
"Only the first layer of fragments remains... and it can only enhance divine sense by 20%..." Li Ping was slightly disappointed.
However, after some mental calculation, he realized that his spiritual sense was already about 50% stronger than that of an ordinary mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator. If he could increase it by another 20%, he would be close to the spiritual sense of a late-Foundation Establishment cultivator.
There is a good chance of successfully searching Yan Liming's soul.
He nodded: "I wish to purchase this manual; I hope the fairy will grant my request."
Yu Menghan readily agreed to Li Ping's request: "It's nothing, no problem."
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Another month passed, and Xiong Pohai, Xu Guike, Lin Yue and other cultivators from Dai Sangyu's lineage set off for Yan Kingdom with the cultivators from Ziyun Valley.
Yu Menghan then returned to Xiantao Mountain.
After the treatment, she took out a purple jade slip from her storage bag and placed it on the table: "Fellow Daoist Li, this is the cultivation method for enhancing spiritual sense that you need."
"Oh?"
As he spoke, Li Ping picked up the jade slip, immersed his consciousness into it, and began to read it carefully.
After a moment, he put down the jade slip, a smile spreading across his face: "This is exactly what I needed. With a flick of my finger, I instantly traveled to the wonderful world of Chapter 183, 'The Divine Interpretation of All Spirits.' Thank you very much, Fairy Yu. May I ask how many spirit stones you require?"
Yu Menghan, true to her reputation as a wealthy woman, waved her hand magnanimously when Li Ping asked about the price: "Consider this a gift from your younger sister to Fellow Daoist Li."
Since he could save some spirit stones, Li Ping naturally accepted the offer and put the jade slip away without hesitation.
After Yu Menghan left, he sat alone in the pavilion and picked up the jade slip again to study it carefully.
This secret technique, belonging to the Tianqiao Sect, is a method for enhancing spiritual awareness. Its name is "Wanling Tongshen Jue" (Myriad Spirits Divine Technique), and it is specifically used to control puppets.
After cultivation, one can not only enhance their own spiritual sense, but also gain the ability to split their spirit.
Once the cultivation is successful, the cultivator can multitask and control multiple puppets in battle simultaneously without worrying about being overwhelmed.
Unfortunately, just as Yu Menghan said, only the first layer of the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" remains. It can only enhance the strength of one's divine sense by 20%, and even the ability to split one's spirit into three parts is limited to this.
In other words, even if he successfully cultivates the first level of the technique, he can only control a maximum of three puppets in battle.
However, the general outline of "The Divine Technique of All Spirits" mentions that this secret method for enhancing spiritual awareness actually has five levels.
If one can master all five layers of secret techniques, not only will the strength of one's divine sense double, but one will also be able to divide one hundred and eight divine thoughts and simultaneously control one hundred and eight puppets in battle.
"If I have the chance in the future, I must find a way to get my hands on the remaining four levels of the cultivation technique," Li Ping thought to himself.
Back in the training room, he temporarily set aside his own cultivation and began to practice the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique".
His spiritual sense was already about 50% stronger than that of other cultivators of the same level. Now, relying on his powerful spiritual sense, he was cultivating the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" with great ease.
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Donghua Mountain, Jixia City.
Xiao Changkong frowned as he discussed matters with his two junior brothers.
One of his two junior brothers was Yan Changqiu, who had the appearance of a vigorous old man, and the other was Qiu Changfeng, a young cultivator in a flowing green robe, who was another late-stage Core Formation cultivator from the academy.
What could command the serious attention of the three de facto leaders of the academy was certainly no small matter.
In fact, they were discussing the message about Dai Sangyu killing his teacher that Huang Yunzi had sent not long ago.
In just a few days, the Defenders Alliance lost three Core Formation level combatants, which is an extremely shocking event.
Qiu Changfeng asked with a puzzled look, "Senior Brother Xiao, Senior Brother Yan, you have both been to Fenglan Immortal City. What are your thoughts on this matter?"
Yan Changqiu sighed: "I did spend some time with City Lord Bai, but at that time, City Lord Bai's disciple was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator and a female cultivator. Since men and women are different, I didn't pay much attention to her."
Xiao Changkong nodded slightly: "I have been friends with City Lord Bai for many years. Judging from her personality, she is indeed rather soft-hearted and acts in a disorganized and chaotic manner. If she was suddenly ambushed by a disciple she trusted, it would not be surprising if she could not react in time."
"However..." He shook his head again: "Although her newly formed Core Formation disciple is proud and straightforward, in my opinion, she would not stoop to siding with a demonic cultivator."
Qiu Changfeng frowned: "So, Huang Yunzi's message contained false statements. Perhaps there's more to the story behind the deaths of Lord Bai and his disciples?"
"It's hard to say. As the saying goes, you can know a person's face but not their heart. I'm not 100% accurate in judging people either." Xiao Changfeng placed the black ring on the table.
He said calmly, "There is indeed the aura of a demonic cultivator within this ring made of Soul-Nourishing Wood, and the aura is extremely pure. It should have been left by a high-level demonic cultivator who cultivated the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Technique. This technique can only be practiced by the core disciples of the Nine Nether Sect. Even if Huang Yunzi wanted to fake it, he couldn't possibly make it so realistic."
"The Nine Nether Soul Devouring Technique..." Yan Changqiu and Qiu Changfeng both nodded, clearly having heard of this famous technique.
Qiu Changfeng asked, "Then how should we handle this matter?"
Xiao Changfeng shook his head helplessly: "Normally, we only need to send a Core Formation cultivator to investigate the truth of the matter. But now, the four demonic sects have launched a large-scale invasion, and the Qi Kingdom is facing a demonic army. Core Formation cultivators cannot easily leave Jixia... Let's put this matter aside for now and not draw any conclusions. We will find a way to investigate it clearly in the future and give Fellow Daoist Bai justice."
That being said, all three of them knew very well.
The easiest way to investigate the truth is to go to the scene in person as soon as possible. If you delay for a while, the evidence will be erased, and it will be difficult to find out the specific situation.
It can only be said that this happened at the worst possible time.
After all, no one can say for sure how long this protracted war between good and evil will last.
After discussing the matter of Master Fenglan and his disciples, the three then discussed their battle strategy against the four demonic sects.
"It's highly likely that the Yuan Kingdom cannot be defended." Xiao Changkong frowned. "I've decided to withdraw all Yuan Kingdom cultivators back to the Qi Kingdom, making Qi the main battlefield this time!"
Qiu Changfeng and Yan Changqiu had no objection to his decision.
Previously, the Alliance of Defenders was able to engage in a tug-of-war with the four demonic sects in the Yuan Kingdom mainly because it had the support of cultivation sects in the Central and Western Regions.
But now, cultivators from the Central and Western Regions have all gone to the north to support the Yan and Liang kingdoms.
They were outnumbered and outmatched, and had no choice but to cede the Yuan Kingdom.
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