txolops Chapter 264 Star Escape and Treasure Hunting
Chapter 264 Star Escape and Treasure Hunting
On the flying boat.
As Gaoji Daoist's introduction came to his ears, Li Ping nodded slightly.
According to the information that Gaoji Daoist obtained from the "Record of Wonders of the Universe", Yaoji Starwood is the most top-grade star attribute material. The divine wood naturally contains a large amount of star power and can be used to refine almost all star attribute magic treasures.
The magical artifacts made from this divine wood not only have power comparable to those top-tier magical artifacts without needing to be refined, but also, in an open-air environment, can gain an additional ten or twenty percent of power by utilizing the power of sunlight, moonlight, and starlight!
Most importantly, this divine tree not only naturally contains the power of stars, but it will also slowly recover even if the power of stars is exhausted.
In this way, even in a dark room, once the stellar power within the magic weapon is exhausted, it can be replenished once more.
If it is another low-grade spiritual material, it can only be stored in the banner by refining the power of external stars.
Once it's used up.
Being in a dark room, unable to access the light of the sun, moon, and stars, one is left completely helpless.
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"The Starry Sky Wood grows slowly, taking a thousand years to grow a foot. Judging from its appearance, Fellow Daoist Li's piece is only a little over a thousand years old, and doesn't quite reach the legendary wonders." Gaoji Daoist's words were tinged with regret, but he immediately added with emotion, "However, it's enough to refine magic weapons. Refining magic weapons from this spiritual wood should save you hundreds of years of refining effort."
Having spent time with Li Ping, he had long understood that Li Ping, as a rogue cultivator, believed in pragmatism and knew that he would not continue to cultivate the Yaoji Starwood for future generations.
Even if he were to squander resources, he would still use the sacred wood on himself, hence the saying.
Li Ping nodded slightly, and said calmly, "Thank you for your guidance, senior. I understand."
At the same time, he was already overjoyed and could no longer contain himself.
He wanted to refine 365 Zhou Tian Xing Chen Banners as his natal magic weapon, so a foot-long piece of Yao Ji Xing Chen Wood was naturally not enough.
In fact, a piece of sacred wood that is one foot long can only be used to make one Star Banner at most.
Moreover, the quality of this mere thousand-year-old divine wood in his hand did not meet Li Ping's expectations.
Once a natal magic weapon is forged, it will accompany the cultivator for life, continuously advancing in rank as the cultivator progresses.
Although the power of a magic weapon mainly depends on the time spent by the cultivator in refining it with alchemical fire and essence, the better the initial refining materials are.
In his words, Daoist Gaoji lamented that the divine tree was only a thousand years old, unaware that Li Ping possessed a purple aura space and a second gray island.
If this thousand-year-old Yaoji Starwood is planted on Gray Island, it will grow at a rate a thousand times faster than the outside world.
In this way, the sacred tree can reach the age of ten thousand years and grow to a height of ten feet in just nine years!
Of course, even if the divine tree grows thicker over time, a ten-foot-tall divine tree is still not enough for Li Ping to refine 365 Star Banners.
But that's alright, ten feet isn't enough, a hundred feet should be enough!
Of course, Li Ping would strive to refine the best of his natal magic weapons whenever he had the chance, and he had plenty of patience for this.
In any case, he can use the Devouring Yuan Sword magic weapon left by Yan Liming for the time being. Once he refines one or two more third-tier puppets, his combat power will be no weaker than other Core Formation cultivators.
Moreover, he was not fond of fighting, focused on health preservation, and loved peace.
Therefore, it doesn't matter if the natal magic weapon is forged a little later.
Of course, even though the 365 Star Banners would require a great deal of spiritual materials, they wouldn't need to be a hundred feet long. He estimated that 60 or 70 feet would be enough.
However, the spirituality of a Starry Divine Tree that is 60,000 or 70,000 years old cannot compare to that of a Starry Divine Tree that is 100,000 years old, so Li Ping still plans to cultivate the Starry Divine Tree in his hand until it is 100,000 years old before making any decisions.
For him, it was just a matter of waiting a hundred years.
However, this would disrupt Li Ping's plan to switch to cultivating new techniques.
Whether a cultivator can achieve longevity does not actually depend on powerful magic weapons or highly effective spells.
After all, there are always people more capable than you, and mountains beyond mountains.
In the world of cultivation, over time, one will inevitably encounter enemies that are difficult to defeat.
At this point, the ability to escape becomes very important.
Li Ping's biggest trump card is actually the special effect of his health preservation technique in healing his own essence, which allows him to use the "Blood Wing Escape Technique" to escape without limit.
For example, now that he has broken through to the Core Formation stage, as long as he is focused on escaping, even a Nascent Soul cultivator would not be able to capture him without paying a price.
Originally, he had crafted the Star Banner, his natal magic weapon, which allowed him to use the "Star Escape Technique." In terms of speed and mystery, it was even superior to the Bloodwing Escape Technique.
Having the ability to escape using the Star Escape Technique, one can switch to another cultivation method.
However, if he couldn't refine the Star Banner for the time being, but still had to switch to cultivating techniques, then Li Ping would feel completely insecure.
"Let's wait and see. We'll switch to cultivation techniques after we've refined the Star Banner magic weapon!" Li Ping made his decision after a moment's thought.
With 100,000-year-old Yaoji Starwood as the flagpole, the flagpole material naturally cannot be inferior. In the next hundred years, he will have to find a way to find high-level flagpole materials.
Even though he can't take pills to improve his cultivation because of practicing the "Zeshui Nourishing Life Technique", a hundred years should be enough for him to cultivate to the mid-stage of Core Formation. At that time, he will be less than 240 years old and will still have plenty of time to break through to Nascent Soul.
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Several days later, Silvermoon City after its reconstruction.
Li Ping concealed his aura and followed the flow of people into the city. He stopped at several shops and sold off all the unused magical artifacts and miscellaneous materials he had in his hands for spirit stones.
At the same time, he also tried to acquire the spiritual materials needed to refine third-order puppets.
However, unsurprisingly, there was nothing to gain.
The far north is too barren, and even if third-tier spiritual materials appear, they will eventually fall into the hands of those Core Formation sects and will not circulate in the market at all.
With a helpless sigh, Li Ping found a second-tier cave dwelling in front of the address recorded in the letter that Xu Guike had sent back to Feixue City a few years ago.
Now that he was in Silvermoon City, he naturally had to greet Xu Guike.
To his surprise, Xu Guike had already gone to the Ice Sea to hunt demons and was not cultivating in seclusion in the cave, so he had come to nothing.
Since he hadn't seen anyone, Li Ping didn't plan to stay in Silvermoon City to wait.
He immediately shook his head and planned to retrieve the treasures that Gaoji Daoist had hidden, and then return directly to the Western Wilderness.
But just as he was about to leave, he bumped into an acquaintance.
"Eh, Li Xiao... no, I should address him as Fellow Daoist Li!" The speaker was dressed in a blue robe and had a gentle and refined appearance. He was none other than Lu Chang'an, the Great Zhou Confucian cultivator whom Li Ping had met in Flying Snow City.
At this moment, he looked at Li Ping with great surprise, as if he hadn't expected that the Foundation Establishment cultivator he had met before would become a Core Formation True Person of equal status to himself after decades.
Li Ping recognized the person who greeted him and nodded with a smile, "So it's Fellow Daoist Lu. I didn't expect to meet you here. Didn't you return to the Great Zhou?"
"Well, it's a long story." When Li Ping asked why he had appeared in the far north again, Lu Chang'an couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Li Ping and Lu Chang'an had only met once and had no real relationship. Therefore, when he saw Lu Chang'an's wry smile, he simply nodded and showed no intention of listening to Lu Chang'an's complaints.
He cupped his hands in greeting and said, "I have other important matters to attend to. I'll share a drink with Fellow Daoist Lu another day."
Lu Chang'an was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, but he quickly returned the gesture with a cupped hand: "Fellow Daoist Li, please go ahead and attend to your business."
A moment later, watching Li Ping's departing figure, a strange look appeared in Lu Chang'an's eyes.
He came from the Great Zhou Dynasty and was born into a Confucian family, holding a noble position and having an extraordinary background.
Therefore, he was treated as an honored guest in this far north and received a warm welcome from the local monks.
However, this fellow Daoist Li Ping had no intention of befriending him at all.
Did he not know that befriending a Core Formation cultivator from the Great Zhou Confucian Sect would make his future path much smoother?
Or is it that he doesn't care?
Lu Chang'an quickly shook his head, banishing the little incident of encountering Li Ping from his mind, and turned to think about another matter: "The headmaster wants to use the 'Sword of Utmost Sincerity and Truth' to slay the Ice Dragon, and ordered me to lead the charge. Alas... the Ice Dragon is not so easy to kill."
"Once the mountains are separated from the Great Zhou for a long time..." Lu Chang'an thought of this, and a sigh flashed in his eyes again.
Things aren't peaceful within the Immortal Alliance!
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Li Ping didn't take the incident with Lu Chang'an to heart.
He knew that Lu Chang'an was a man of great importance, not an ordinary Core Formation cultivator.
But given Li Ping's principles of conduct, he would not only avoid befriending such people, but would also deliberately stay away from them.
After all, the world revolves around those chosen ones.
While getting close to them may offer opportunities for gain, it also makes it easy to get involved in the power struggles and conspiracies surrounding them. One wrong move and you could be caught in the vortex and perish.
With his cheat-like abilities, Li Ping had no shortage of cultivation resources and techniques, so he naturally kept his distance from people like Lu Chang'an.
He only wanted to quietly cultivate immortality.
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After leaving Silvermoon City and getting a quick sense of direction, Li Ping leaped into the air and flew rapidly towards the place where Gaoji Daoist hid his treasure.
Several days later, at a glacier tens of thousands of feet high, the dark silver light stopped.
Li Ping waved his hand to put away the flying boat, then flew around the glacier several times to determine the direction, and then flicked his sleeve.
"Whoosh~"
A black flying sword shot out from his sleeve and swam directly towards the waist of the glacier.
The power of the magical artifact was terrifying; it easily carved a hole several meters in diameter in the waist of the glacier.
While maneuvering his flying sword to clear a path, Li Ping also flew into the cave himself.
He continued along the glacier's interior, going nearly ten thousand feet underground, before finally spotting a dark, man-made passage.
He continued along the glacier's interior, going nearly ten thousand feet underground, before finally spotting a dark, man-made passage.
Without much hesitation, Li Ping continued flying downwards along the passage.
However, he only planned to retrieve the treasure alone and had no intention of releasing Gaoji Daoist, lest Gaoji Daoist use the array and other means in the treasure vault to have any improper thoughts.