txolops Chapter 297 Spirit Flame Evolution and Rescue
Chapter 297 Spirit Flame Evolution and Rescue
After observing for a while, Li Ping finally made up his mind.
By absorbing the aura and stellar power emanating from the Yaoji Starwood, the Yin-Yang Star Flame is indeed slowly evolving.
It's evolution, not advancement!
Advancement is a change in quantity.
Just like the Earth Spirit Rat, which cultivated from the early stage of the second tier to the middle stage of the second tier, its strength did increase, but this increase was only in its demonic power and its treasure-hunting talent.
Evolution, on the other hand, is a qualitative change.
Similar to the ancestral regression of the Wildfire Sparrow, it awakened the Vermilion Bird bloodline within its body, transforming from an ordinary Fiery Arrow Eagle into a majestic bird of heaven and earth that soars through the skies.
The stellar power nurtured within the Yaoji Starwood, a top-tier spiritual wood of heaven and earth, is far superior to ordinary starlight in terms of both purity and profound spirituality.
In fact, Li Ping could sense it.
What it emits is just some waste produced during the growth process.
However, these waste materials are considered rare resources for the Two Elements Star Flame.
Just as the urine of a true dragon can transform fish and shrimp into dragons and ascend to heaven, the waste produced by the Yaoji Starwood is now enabling the Yin-Yang Star Flame to evolve to a higher level!
Li Ping was delighted with this.
He withdrew his divine sense from the gray island and began dealing with the other items he had purchased at the auction.
After carefully checking and finding that the items were not marked, he put them all into his storage bag.
After doing all this, Li Ping slowly reviewed the previous transaction process, mentally checking for any omissions or flaws to avoid leaving any loopholes.
……
The next day, Li Ping appeared at a large shop in the market, and after displaying his Core Formation realm cultivation, he generously bought a batch of second-tier spiritual materials.
Soon after, he appeared at another large shop and bought another batch of second-tier spiritual materials.
……
After visiting several shops, Li Ping finally managed to purchase all the spiritual materials needed for the second tribulation of body refinement in the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture".
In this way, apart from not finding out the specifications of the teleportation array in the Cloud Mist Mountains, he basically achieved the purpose of his trip.
In the world of cultivation, teleportation arrays are even more obscure than puppets.
Although making puppets is a huge waste of spiritual materials, at least they can provide an extra helper.
And what about teleportation arrays?
Not only do Nascent Soul cultivators with spatial spiritual roots have to painstakingly search for spatial nodes, but the two ends of the found spatial nodes must also be located in valuable areas... Most sects simply don't have the opportunity to build teleportation arrays. Although they have stored knowledge about teleportation arrays, no cultivators have studied them at all.
Just like Li Ping's "Trinity, Global Strike" in his previous life.
Apart from a few superpowers, other countries have no interest in even touching it, let alone studying it.
Li Ping inquired with several senior shopkeepers at large stores, but ultimately gained nothing.
He estimated that if he wanted to confirm the specifications and form of the teleportation array, he might have to personally search and consult the secret techniques pavilion of a major sect like an academy.
However, he doesn't have that opportunity yet, since how could an outsider be allowed to enter the secret techniques pavilion of a sect so easily?
"There's no rush for the teleportation array. My second Golden Core hasn't reached its bottleneck yet, and I haven't refined my natal magic weapon. There's no need to rush to the Great Zhou." Li Ping pondered as he flew towards the outside of the market.
He went to the Great Zhou Dynasty to further his cultivation in the path of immortality, not for tourism.
The Western Wilderness lacks fourth-order spiritual veins, which means that if he had remained hidden there, he would never have reached the stage of shattering the core and transforming into an infant.
Besides the essential condition of forming a spiritual vein for the infant, there are other requirements.
After cultivating the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture with his second Golden Core, Li Ping felt that with his three spiritual roots, it was virtually impossible for him to break through even a small realm after the Core Formation stage on his own.
If he can't find a way to break through the bottleneck in the Western Wilderness, he will have to go to the Great Zhou to find a way.
However, the Second Golden Core cultivator is currently only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. It will take him nearly twenty years to reach the Core Formation stage.
Cultivation at the Core Formation stage is even more time-consuming. Even with a continuous supply of pills to refine, it would take him at least thirty or forty years of hard work to reach the peak of the early Core Formation stage.
In other words, he doesn't need to rush to the Great Zhou within the next fifty years.
He has ample time to find out the specifications of the teleportation array and repair it.
"I hope the teleportation array on the other side of the Great Zhou is working properly, otherwise I'll have to go through all the trouble of flying across the vast ocean to get to the Great Zhou," Li Ping thought as he flew.
He moved quickly and soon left the market.
As soon as he left the market, his speed instantly increased, and he disappeared into the distant void in the blink of an eye, vanishing without a trace.
Considering that I participated in this auction, interacted with many Core Formation cultivators, and exposed my wealth to some extent, I decided to participate.
To avoid being targeted, Li Ping summoned the Devouring Yuan Sword, merging himself with the weapon to transform into a beam of light, flying at great speed and covering hundreds of miles in no time.
Whoosh!
The light flew into a valley, and when it came out again...
Whoosh!
The light flew into a valley, and when it came out again...
The burly man Li Jingyu had disappeared, replaced by a graceful figure in a light blue robe.
After reverting to his original identity, Li Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief. He took out a flying boat from his storage bag and used it to travel at a leisurely pace towards the Jiang Kingdom.
Now, even if someone were to pursue him, he wouldn't worry.
Li Jingyu is arrogant and domineering, and has a considerable fortune, but that has nothing to do with Li Ping.
During the flight, Li Ping took out a spirit tree with purple secret patterns all over its trunk from his storage bag. The roots of this spirit tree were also wrapped in a ball of soil full of spiritual energy to ensure the vitality of the spirit tree.
This spiritual wood is called "Purple Pattern Wood," which Li Ping obtained from the Bai family patriarch shortly after he established his foundation.
The purple-veined wood given to him by the Bai family patriarch was three hundred years old, and he used it as nourishment for the Tree of Inheritance.
However, considering the rarity of spiritual materials, he specially kept the roots of the purple-veined wood and carefully cultivated them. He did not forget to carry them with him when he was on the run, and he would plant and cultivate them once he settled down.
Therefore, the current purple-veined wood is eighty years old and has reached the first-grade superior quality.
In fact, the highest level that Purple Veined Wood can grow to is the third tier.
One step every ten years, two steps every hundred years, three steps every thousand years.
Tier 3 is also the limit for the growth of Purple-veined Wood.
Li Ping now plans to plant the Purple-veined Wood on Gray Island. Once it grows to two thousand years old, it will be easy to harvest it and cut it into four or five pieces of third-grade spiritual materials.
In this way, not only will the necessary nutrients for alchemy and weapon crafting be available, but the surplus can also be used to craft magical artifacts for the puppets.
Whoosh!
With a thought, the purple-veined wood vanished into thin air, reappearing on the gray island.
Li Ping planted the Purple Veined Wood in a remote part of the island, nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at the Yaoji Star Wood and the Golden Mystic Wood.
After so many years of cultivation.
The Yaoji Starwood has reached an age of eleven thousand years and a height of eleven feet, but it is still far from meeting Li Ping's needs for refining treasures.
The Golden Mystic Wood has reached six thousand years of age and will soon be ready to be used to refine magical artifacts.
However, after Li Ping planted the Purple-Veined Wood, the flow of time on the island was once again distributed, with each spirit tree only having a little over 333 times the time acceleration.
This also slowed down the growth of the two sacred trees on the island.
However, Li Ping had plenty of patience, as long as the Golden Profound Wood could mature before his second Golden Core was formed.
As for the Yaoji Starwood... just thinking about the power of the Zhou Tian Star Banner, he wouldn't have any complaints even if he had to wait a few more years.
……
During the flight, Li Ping also released the Earth Spirit Rat, letting it search for treasures along the way.
Since I'm just killing time anyway, trying doesn't guarantee I'll find the treasure, but not trying guarantees I won't find it.
But to Li Ping's surprise, he had just released the Earth Spirit Rat.
The Earth Spirit Rat twitched its nostrils slightly for a moment, then immediately began squeaking and transformed into a streak of earthy yellow light, flying rapidly toward Li Ping's right.
Li Ping smiled; he hadn't expected the Earth Spirit Rat to discover the unclaimed treasure so quickly.
Whoosh!
The flying boat instantly changed direction and flew in the direction of the Earth Spirit Rat.
……
In a long, secluded canyon.
Two female cultivators suddenly appeared, breaking through the void. As soon as they appeared, they staggered and almost fell to the ground, looking quite disheveled.
If Li Ping were here, he would recognize at a glance that the beautiful woman in the blue silk dress was Meng Wanjun.
Meng Wanjun's breathing was somewhat disordered. Before she could check her own condition, she quickly helped the female cultivator beside her: "Fellow Daoist Tang, are you alright?"
"I feel a little dizzy," Tang Daoyou said softly, rubbing his forehead.
Meng Wanjun quickly comforted her, "I just used a small teleportation talisman to move us together thirty miles away. It's normal to feel dizzy when traveling through space. Let's hurry back to the market, otherwise it will be troublesome if those people catch up with us."
"Yes, Fellow Daoist Meng, you're right." Fellow Daoist Tang nodded, then suddenly her expression changed drastically: "How did they catch up so quickly?"
Meng Wanjun couldn't help but follow her gaze, but all she could see was emptiness.
At that very moment, she sensed a sudden surge of magical energy around her.
"not good!"
Sensing something was wrong, Meng Wanjun only had time to activate the protective talisman left to her by her master at the critical moment, and her figure retreated rapidly.
"Pop!"
The hastily activated protective shield could hardly withstand Fellow Daoist Tang's long-planned sneak attack, and it shattered in the blink of an eye.
A flying needle landed directly on her left shoulder.
Actually, the flying needle was originally aimed at her heart, but after being blocked by the protective shield, Meng Wanjun finally reacted and avoided the vital area.
But the next moment——
Before Meng Wanjun could even feel relieved, she felt a numbness spreading from her left shoulder, and half of her body went numb.
Clearly, the flying needles were poisoned.
Seeing her 'best friend' wielding a magical weapon towards her, she forcefully summoned her magical power and used her jade hairpin to fight against the other's weapon.
But gradually, as the poison spread, her originally agile magic became dull, and her skillful magical artifacts became as heavy as a thousand pounds.
Moreover, the sound of flying weapons cutting through the air could be heard in the distance, indicating that Tang Ning's accomplices had arrived.
Despair welled up in Meng Wanjun's heart: "Am I going to die?"
boom!
An earthen wall appeared out of nowhere in front of her, blocking the deadly magical weapon attack.
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