Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 290 Inheritance and Seclusion

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Upon returning to Jiang State, Li Ping traveled all the way to Bifeng Lake.

Yan Hengchuan and his wife hurriedly welcomed him to Ling Island.

Inside the pavilion on the island in the middle of the lake.

Li Ping took out the last second-tier high-grade puppet from his body and said with a smile, "Hengchuan, I will be going into seclusion for a while. I will leave this second-tier high-grade puppet to your three families as a family heirloom. During this time, you should also keep an eye on the news from the Immortal City and Donghua Mountain."

Over the years, Li Ping has crafted a total of six second-tier high-grade puppets.

As he broke through to the Core Formation realm, these puppets became of little use to him, and he gradually bestowed them upon his juniors.

The Ji family of Flying Snow City received one, and Zhang Tie and the other three from Wind and Mist Immortal City each received one. The one now being given to Yan Hengchuan is the last second-tier high-grade puppet he possesses.

It is also the one equipped with the most complete set of magical artifacts, with the Soul-Destroying Greatsword and the Blood-Transforming Shield both on this puppet.

"A high-grade, second-tier puppet!"

After Li Ping explained what a puppet was and the power of a second-tier high-grade puppet, Yan Hengchuan and his wife were both shocked and opened their mouths wide.

After the initial shock came overwhelming joy.

Clearly, they all understood the immense significance of a puppet with combat power equivalent to a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator for their family.

"Thank you for bestowing this treasure, Grandmaster!" Yan Hengchuan was overjoyed. "Grandmaster, you can go into seclusion without worry. I will definitely act as your eyes and ears and gather information for you."

Upon hearing this, Li Ping smiled and nodded. After thinking for a moment, he took out a stack of second-grade high-quality thunder talismans from his storage bag and distributed them to the two of them.

He had stockpiled too many second-tier high-grade spirit talismans for the sake of safety.

As he broke through to the Core Formation stage, these talismans became useless to him, and he had already given away quite a few of them over the time.

Seeing the joy on the faces of Yan Hengchuan and his wife after they accepted the talisman, Li Ping was lost in thought.

With his current early-stage Core Formation level of magical power, he is already capable of creating mid-grade third-tier talismans.

However, when making third-tier spirit talismans, he also faces the same problem as when refining third-tier pills: the scarcity of materials.

The ink required for a third-tier spirit talisman can only be made using the essence blood of a third-tier demon beast as raw material.

The same applies to talismans; they require third-tier spirit wood or the hide of a third-tier demon beast as raw materials.

Such spiritual materials are simply unavailable outside the market, and Li Ping does not yet have the ability to hunt third-tier demonic beasts. However, he can accelerate the cultivation of third-tier spiritual wood through Gray Island.

However, Gray Island can only cultivate one spiritual plant at a time. Instead of using the free time to cultivate third-tier spiritual wood to make spiritual talismans, Li Ping would rather cultivate spiritual herbs to refine pills and improve his own cultivation.

Ultimately, talismans are merely external possessions; one's own cultivation is the true foundation.

Besides, once he refines the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Banner, his natal magic weapon, he probably won't need the talisman anymore.

Ultimately, however, it's because the time acceleration on Gray Island can only affect one spiritual plant at a time.

Even a True Immortal who has reached the Core Formation stage has a limited lifespan.

He only has a mere 360,000 years left to accelerate, and the raw materials for his two life-bound magic treasures, Golden Profound Wood and Radiant Star Wood, alone will consume 110,000 years of that time.

His natal magic weapon and his own cultivation were far more important than the talisman, so Li Ping could only postpone his plan to make the talisman.

Even if he had extra time, he would prefer to cultivate spirit trees and refine third-tier puppets.

A one-time use talisman is obviously no match for a puppet.

After explaining the situation to Yan Hengchuan and instructing him to pay close attention to intelligence regarding Fenglan Immortal City, Li Ping left Bifeng Lake and flew towards Xiaomei Mountain.

Upon arriving at Xiaomei Mountain, he summoned Ji Shuchen as usual, intending to bestow upon him a stack of spirit talismans and give him some instructions regarding the spiritual land of Xiaomei Mountain.

However, to Li Ping's surprise, Ji Shuchen did not come alone.

Li Ping sensed that a middle-aged cultivator had come with him, whose face resembled Ji Shuchen's when he was young, and whose cultivation had also reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

He guessed that it might be a younger member of the Ji family.

Ji Shuchen left the middle-aged cultivator outside and went into the house alone, bowing respectfully: "Uncle Li."

Li Ping smiled and nodded, took out a stack of second-grade high-quality thunder talismans and gave them to him, while informing him that he would be going into seclusion at the foot of Xiaomei Mountain.

Ji Shuchen was overjoyed to receive the talisman. He knew perfectly well that Li Ping had already bestowed countless benefits upon the Yan and Ji families during his time back in the Western Wilderness.

But then, as if suddenly remembering something, his expression dimmed slightly: "Uncle Li, I'm afraid I won't live to see you emerge from seclusion again."

Ji Shuchen is currently in his early 110s and is not far from the end of his lifespan.

A Core Formation cultivator might spend decades in seclusion, so there's nothing wrong with what he said.

At this moment, Li Ping understood why he had brought the younger generation of his family to see him; it was probably because he had the idea of ​​entrusting his son to someone else.

However, the blessings bestowed by a virtuous person will only last for five generations!

Li Ping took care of Master Ji, who was his guide in the path of immortality and had been kind enough to teach him the Dao.

Ji Shuchen, Ji Shuxuan and others were introduced to Li Ping by Master Ji when he was alive, which is why Li Ping took good care of them. However, after Ji Shuchen died, this friendship gradually faded away.

"My nephew has already chosen a successor for the Ji family, intending to entrust him with the secrets of the underground spiritual veins of Xiaomei Mountain, as well as the future of the family." Ji Shuchen's eyes were filled with expectation: "Uncle Li, could you give him some guidance?"

Looking at the withered old man with completely white hair and beard in front of him, Li Ping smiled and nodded: "Since you're here, there's no harm in meeting him. Tell him to come in."

Upon hearing Li Ping's agreement, Ji Shuchen's withered face lit up with joy. He eagerly called out towards the door, "Yizhou, why aren't you coming in to pay your respects to the patriarch!"

Upon hearing the patriarch's call, the respectful middle-aged cultivator outside the door quickly entered and bowed respectfully to Li Ping, saying, "Greetings, Patriarch."

Li Ping smiled and nodded: "Get up, there's no need for such formalities in front of me."

Next, Li Ping learned from Ji Shuchen.

Ji Yizhou possesses the aptitude of four spiritual roots and is considered Ji Shuchen's grand-nephew by seniority. He is nearly sixty years old this year and has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, making him a man in his prime.

Ten years ago, Ji Shuchen selected him as the next patriarch of the family, and has been intentionally grooming him ever since.

Now, Ji Shuchen no longer manages family affairs and lives in seclusion in Xiaomeishan to raise the children of the three families. Yizhou is the actual person in charge of the family.

After learning the details, Li Ping, as usual, bestowed upon Ji Yizhou magical artifacts and talismans, much to his delight.

After Ji Shuchen explained the situation, he learned that the three families also possessed a third-tier spiritual vein beneath Xiaomei Mountain, waiting for them to manage it.

However, the Ji family has gone through nearly three generations and nearly a hundred years, but still has not been able to acquire the strength to protect the spiritual vein.

Therefore, for the time being, they can only look on with envy at the prospect of third-tier spiritual veins.

At the beginning, apart from Li Ping.

Only Master Ji and his two sons, along with Ji Shuchen, knew this secret. Now, it is Ji Shuchen, Ji Yizhou, and Yan Hengchuan who know the secret.

After Ji Shuchen passed away, only Yan Hengchuan, Ji Yizhou, and two others knew the situation beneath Xiaomei Mountain.

And perhaps we'll wait until the day Yan Hengchuan and Ji Yizhou pass away.

The third-tier spiritual vein beneath Xiaomei Mountain remains forever hidden from the light of day.

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A cold, underground pool.

Li Ping flew into the island through the hole created by the Wildfire Sparrow's spiritual fire.

He casually found a flat spot on the ground and sat down cross-legged. He patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist and released the earth spirit rat, allowing the two spirit beasts to roam freely on the island.

In fact, if Li Ping had released the Earth Spirit Rat to search for treasures during his seclusion, he could have gained even greater benefits.

However, the Western Wilderness is human territory, and demonic beasts are almost extinct there. If the Earth Spirit Rat is released, it may encounter human cultivators, which could put it in danger.

Therefore, Li Ping simply let it stay on the Spirit Island with the Wildfire Sparrow to cultivate.

Yan Liming's second golden core had not been immersed in the River of Oblivion for long enough, and the residual soul imprint had not yet been washed away.

As for the "Zeshui Nourishing Life Technique," once one reaches the Core Formation stage, progress in this technique cannot be seen overnight, and Li Ping is not in a hurry to practice it now.

After pondering for a moment, he took out the Golden Profound Wood he had obtained in the Cloud Mist Mountains, and used his mind to control it to fall into the Gray Island in his sea of ​​consciousness, where he planted it in a place far away from the Yaoji Star Wood.

Gray Island is not large, and after planting two spirit trees, it has become somewhat crowded.

Moreover, the original time flow ratio of 1,000 to 1 has become 500 to 1 because it is shared by the two spirit trees.

"It will take about nineteen or twenty years for the Golden Profound Wood to reach the age of ten thousand years, at which point it can be used to refine magical treasures," Li Ping nodded with a smile.

Like spirit beasts, spirit trees also have an upper limit to their own quality growth.

For example, when Li Ping opened the island's formation, he found that there were only some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs left in the herb garden, none of them were of higher or lower age.

The reason lies in the quality of the medicinal herbs themselves. Medicinal herbs below the third rank will die before they can grow for a thousand years. Medicinal herbs of the third rank can grow for a thousand years, but they will not continue to grow after that.

The reason Li Ping only planned to cultivate the Golden Profound Wood to the age of ten thousand years was because, as a fourth-order spiritual wood, the Golden Profound Wood could only grow to the age of ten thousand years at most.

As for the Yaoji Starwood, it is the most superior divine wood in the world.

Theoretically, there is no upper limit to its growth. As long as it is not picked, it can continue to grow until the limit of this world is reached.

After planting the golden privet.

Li Ping took out the various spiritual herbs and materials he had collected from his storage bag, and then took out the alchemy furnace.

Although the second Golden Core has no cultivation bottleneck, the magical power still needs to be cultivated by oneself.

Fortunately, the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture is not as special as the Zeshui Nourishing Life Technique. He can rely on taking medicine to cultivate the technique to the Core Formation stage in a short period of time.

He now plans to take advantage of this time to refine the necessary elixirs.

At the same time, he also planned to refine a third-tier puppet during his seclusion.

In this way, when he emerges from seclusion again, he will be a dual-cultivator of both physical and magical bodies with two Golden Cores, and he will have a third-tier puppet as his protector.

With this kind of strength, they can at least stop being so fearful of the outside world, even if they can't run rampant in the Western Wilderness.