Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 282 A Two-Person Journey and the True Understanding of Ink Clouds

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Sunlight streamed down at the towering city gate of the immortal city.

Two figures emerged silently. One of them was Li Ping, while the other was completely shrouded in a black robe.

Judging from the shapely figure under the robe, one could barely tell that the person hidden inside was a female cultivator.

Li Ping tossed out a flying boat, using his magic to control it to grow to seven or eight zhang in length. He then leaped into the boat, simultaneously calling to the female cultivator behind him, "Fellow Daoist Meng, let's go!"

"Hmm," the female cultivator mumbled in response, then followed her onto the flying boat.

Whoosh!

Li Ping activated his divine sense, and the flying boat instantly transformed into a dark silver streak of light, flying into the sky and disappearing from sight.

……

At the very same moment that the two left the immortal city.

Inside a cave somewhere in the inner city.

Three figures were sitting in the courtyard discussing something. Anyone familiar with them would recognize them at a glance as Huang Yan, Xiong Pohai, and Ye Chen.

"Sigh~ Although that person didn't agree to become the Supreme Elder of Immortal City, he still left with Meng Qingyi." Thinking of the information he had received not long ago, Huang Yan sighed slightly.

Immortal City had long been shaped into the three sects. As soon as Li Ping and Meng Qing left the city, he received the information through his informants.

Li Ping was a Core Formation cultivator and also his Daoist partner's uncle; given a choice, he didn't want to offend him.

However, Huang Yunzi, the ancestor, was already old, and the control of the Immortal City would be affected after his death, which changed the Huang family's situation and status in Ziyun Valley.

Therefore, he cannot compromise on this point.

Meng Qing is absolutely forbidden from forming a Core Formation... no, it should be said that the Immortal City does not allow Core Formation cultivators to exist.

"That guy's personality is like a tortoise." Xiong Pohai was somewhat skeptical that Li Ping would leave with Meng Qingyi. He shook his head: "I heard that seventy years ago, when the war broke out in the Western Wilderness, before the flames of war reached the Immortal City, he secretly slipped away."

"Besides, he didn't even accept the position of Supreme Elder offered to him by Junior Sister Meng. Why would he get involved in the affairs of the Immortal City now?"

Ye Chen's forehead injury had been healed with medicine, but thinking of Li Ping, he still couldn't help but feel a lingering fear in his heart.

I dare not harbor resentment, only the lingering fear of having escaped with my life.

After all, this is not the mundane world; even the most powerful people are afraid of a kitchen knife.

In the cultivation world, great power originates from oneself. Unless one also forms a core, it is difficult to harm a Core Formation cultivator even with the most elaborate methods.

He pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "The Meng family has a long history, and their ancestors were Core Formation True Persons of the Tianxuan Sect. If Meng Qingyi is willing, it shouldn't be difficult for him to produce a treasure that would tempt a Core Formation True Person."

Upon hearing his words, both Xiong Pohai and Huang Yan fell into deep thought.

However, after a moment, Huang Yan shook his head: "What you said is possible, but he is not even willing to accept the position of Supreme Elder, so he is not someone who is blinded by greed."

"I do have a guess," Xiong Pohai said, frowning. "Junior Brother Ye, you should remember that when that person had just established his foundation, you and I were ordered by Senior Sister Dai to invite him back to investigate the incident of Junior Nephew Lin's misfortune. It was Junior Sister Meng who helped him out of that predicament, and later he even moved into the Meng family's Immortal Peach Mountain as a rogue cultivator."

Xiong Pohai's gaze swept over the two of them: "I guess he has some favor to do with the Meng family. That guy is a bit of a coward, but he's someone who values ​​old relationships. Perhaps the reason he took Junior Sister Meng away this time was to repay the Meng family's favor."

After finishing his analysis, Xiong Pohai looked up at Huang Yan and Ye Chen, and saw that both of them had thoughtful expressions on their faces.

Ye Chen was thinking that Zhang Tie, Gu Musheng, Cheng Yao and others who were close to Li Ping had all achieved foundation building after Li Ping did.

Although he was unaware of the existence of the Fellowship, he could guess it with a little effort.

Zhang Tie and the others were able to successfully establish their foundations, which is probably inseparable from Li Ping. Li Ping may have given them a lot of help in the process of collecting spirit stones.

Huang Yan was thinking about what his Daoist partner, Ji Shuwen, had been talking about every day.

Back then, in order to accumulate contribution points for Foundation Establishment Pills at the Crimson Flame Sect, she had to be led by her grandfather to Uncle Li for help. When Uncle Li saw the grandfather and granddaughter arrive and understood the whole story, he sponsored her 1,500 spirit stones without saying a word.

It was thanks to Uncle Li's help that she was able to successfully establish her foundation before she was even thirty years old.

After thinking it over, they all nodded: "That's very likely. Li Ping helped Meng Qingyi perhaps to repay a favor."

"Fellow Daoist Huang..." Xiong Pohai hesitated, wanting to speak but then stopped.

Huang Yan gave him a reassuring look: "Fellow Daoist Xiong, rest assured. As soon as I received the news, I notified Uncle Qu. Li Ping has only recently formed his core, and he may not even have any magic weapons. He is definitely no match for Uncle Qu, and he cannot protect Meng Qingyi."

Upon hearing this, both Xiong Pohai and Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

They have already made the choice to join forces with Ziyun Valley. Having come this far, they are even less willing than Ziyun Valley to help Meng Qingyi achieve the Core Formation.

Once Meng Qingyi forms his core, they'll be in big trouble.

After all, for most people, an insider is actually more despicable than an enemy!

……

The dark silver flying boat sped towards the depths of the Cloud and Mist Mountains.

At the bow of the flying boat, Li Ping glanced around and smiled at the female cultivator standing timidly at the stern, saying, "Fellow Daoist Meng, you don't have to stand all the time. You can sit down and meditate to regulate your breathing."

"ah."

Upon hearing Li Ping's words, the female cultivator was startled, then quickly nodded vaguely, "Mm."

After saying this, Li Ping ignored her and flipped his hand, revealing a cyan jade slip in his palm.

The jade slip contains the third-tier array Dao inheritance that Meng Qingyi promised him, named "Mo Yun Zhen Jie". It is an inheritance that the array Dao cultivators of Tianxuan Sect have painstakingly summarized and innovated over the generations.

Its value even surpasses the third-tier alchemist inheritance that Li Ping obtained from the demonic cultivator.

The art of array formation can be said to be the skill with the highest learning threshold among all the arts of cultivation, and of course, it is also the skill with the most exaggerated potential.

Even a mere Qi Refining cultivator, if they can comprehend a third-order grand formation, can rely on the power of the formation to contend with a Core Formation cultivator.

Such a boost in combat power is unmatched even by puppets of the same rank.

Although puppets are powerful, the puppeteer himself is a weakness. A low-level cultivator who controls a high-level puppet to fight is easily beheaded by the enemy in a battle.

The enhancement provided by formations to cultivators is comprehensive. When a cultivator hides inside a formation, they can use the formation's power to protect themselves or conceal themselves so that enemies cannot find them.

However, formations also have weaknesses, namely that they are too cumbersome and need to be set up in advance, making them useless in skirmishes.

The reason Li Ping wasn't in a hurry to learn array formations was precisely because of this.

After all, as a rogue cultivator, his greatest advantage is his flexibility.

If he really encounters an enemy he can't handle, he won't rely on the formation to hold his ground; instead, he'll just grab his bucket and run away.

In this way, the array formation was of no use to him at all.

Even after he reached the Core Formation stage, he wouldn't have been in a hurry to learn the Dao of Arrays if it weren't for solving the problem of the third-order array in the underground cave of Xiaomei Mountain.

His unparalleled talent, besides being inherited, also requires nourishment; materials of the third rank or higher are not easy to obtain.

His gaze fell upon the jade slip in his hand.

A line of clear text, visible only to Li Ping, appeared above the jade slip.

[Third-Tier Array Master Inheritance: 100 mid-grade spirit stones, one portion each of third-tier spirit materials of the metal, wood, water, fire, and earth attributes, and one third-tier spirit vein. This can be used as nourishment to master the Dao of Third-Tier Array Formations.]

"Indeed, the power of array formations is immense, but the nutrients they require are also extremely troublesome!" Li Ping couldn't help but sigh.

Inheritance and spirit stones were not issues for him.

However, obtaining one copy each of the three tiers of spiritual materials—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—is rather troublesome.

For wood-attribute herbs, he could use thousand-year-old spiritual herbs instead; for earth-attribute herbs, on the way back to the Western Wilderness, the Earth Spirit Rat found one a thousand feet below the wasteland.

Li Ping also possessed the remaining third-tier spiritual materials of the metal, water, and fire attributes.

However, those are all used to refine third-tier puppets, and they have special effects; none of them can be missing.

Moreover, these spiritual materials were gathered with great difficulty by Daoist Gaoji. If he were to feed them to the Tree of Inheritance, the creation of a third-tier puppet would be a distant dream.

This is clearly not a good deal.

After all, the third-tier spiritual materials required for the Tree of Inheritance are not limited to a specific type; as long as the grade is high enough, they will be used. This makes it much easier for him to search for them.

"We'll be going to Donghua Mountain later, so let's ask around there then," Li Ping said, shaking his head.

Actually, compared to the last batch of nourishment, the third-tier spiritual materials with gold, water, and fire attributes don't seem to matter much.

One third-tier spiritual vein!

Li Ping felt a headache just looking at it.

The preciousness of a third-order spiritual vein is beyond doubt, and he actually had to use a third-order spiritual vein as nourishment if he wanted to control the third-order array inheritance.

There's no hope of getting this kind of nourishment in the Western Wilderness.

If he were to openly destroy a third-tier spiritual vein, regardless of whether that third-tier spiritual vein belonged to the Defenders Alliance or one of the Four Demonic Sects...

Anyone who dares to do such a despicable thing as digging up their own descendants will have their reputation ruined and be hunted down to death.

As for the third-tier spiritual vein beneath Xiaomei Mountain, Li Ping had long promised to leave it to the Yan and Ji families, so it naturally could not be used as nourishment.

Moreover, the Jiang Kingdom is located in the heart of the Western Wilderness. A third-order spiritual vein is the foundation for a family to pass down for thousands of years, so it would be a pity to destroy it.

Thinking of this, Li Ping turned his gaze to the depths of the Cloud and Mist Mountains.

There are also third-tier spiritual veins in the Cloud Mist Mountains.

The underground spiritual vein of Fenglan Immortal City was obtained by True Person Fenglan after killing a third-tier demon wolf.

If he wants a third-tier spiritual vein, he might set his sights on the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.

After all, due to the rampant monsters and poisonous insects, the spiritual veins in the Cloud Mist Mountains are far less valuable than those of the same level in the heart of the Western Wilderness, and other cultivator sects are not interested in establishing their lineages in the Cloud Mist Mountains.

However, Li Ping was not aiming to establish a lineage; he didn't need to care whether he could withstand the attacks of demonic beasts, as long as the spiritual veins were of the third rank.

However, Li Ping was not aiming to establish a lineage; he didn't need to care whether he could withstand the attacks of demonic beasts, as long as the spiritual veins were of the third rank.

"High-level spiritual veins often attract powerful demonic beasts with their emanating spiritual energy. To seize a spiritual vein, I need to deal with the demonic beasts within it first." Li Ping thought of another troublesome matter, and shook his head slightly: "I'll deal with it after I've refined the third-tier puppet."