txolops Chapter 308 Success and Pursuit
Chapter 308 Success and Pursuit
Chapter 308 Success and Pursuit
Above the clouds.
Li Ping urged the flying boat beneath his feet forward at high speed while looking down at the scene below.
The demonic path believes in the law of the jungle: "survival of the fittest, the strong prey on the weak." It basically does not interfere in the rule of the mortal world under its jurisdiction, allowing those mortals to fight each other, resulting in mountains of corpses.
Seeing the smoke of battle rising and bandits roaming below, Li Ping couldn't help but shake his head inwardly: "In such a chaotic world, the Yuan Kingdom has now completely become the territory of the four major demonic sects!"
The Yuan state was originally a western barrier for the Qi state.
It was also the battlefield where the Defenders Alliance blocked the westward advance of the four demonic sects. However, with the end of the last war between the righteous and the demonic, Donghua Mountain became a public market jointly governed by the righteous and the demonic, and the Yuan Kingdom fell completely under the control of the demonic.
Further east of the Yuan Kingdom are the four kingdoms of Jiuche, Yuyan, Cangmu, and Cheqi, which were respectively controlled by the Blood Shadow Sect, the Nine Nether Sect, and...
The four demonic sects, including the Hehuan Sect and the Yuling Sect, occupy the territory.
According to what Li Ping knew.
Among the four sects, the Spirit Control Sect should be the strongest, the Blood Shadow Sect the weakest, and the remaining Nine Nether Sect and Joyful Union Sect are roughly equal in strength, falling somewhere in between.
However, since Old Demon Lu disappeared with the Crimson Dragon Spirit Beast, the Spirit Control Sect no longer has enough strength to firmly suppress the other three sects.
Turning his gaze away, Li Ping looked at the small bronze mirror on the porcelain plate in his hand. One side of the mirror was incredibly smooth, reflecting light perfectly, while the other side was engraved with a large number of exquisite patterns, showing that this mirror was extraordinary.
This ancient mirror is Zhou Lingyan's natal magic weapon.
According to the information obtained from the recent soul search, this treasure is called the Lotus Mirror. When activated, it can reflect divine light to injure enemies. Zhou Lingyan has refined it with alchemical fire and true essence for more than two hundred years, so its power is quite good.
Besides her natal magic weapon, Zhou Lingyan's storage bag contained some pills, spiritual herbs, spiritual materials, and spirit stones. These gains quickly filled Li Ping's previously depleted storage bag.
Of course, what he cared about most was the Lotus Mirror.
A magic weapon, even the cheapest ones, cost only twenty or thirty thousand spirit stones, which is nothing special.
However, Zhou Lingyan's precious mirror was clearly not made of ordinary materials.
Moreover, the power of a magic weapon depends mainly on how much effort and time the cultivator has spent refining it.
The Lotus Mirror was refined by a Core Formation cultivator for over two hundred years, which makes it highly valuable.
Unfortunately, since the natal magic weapon is in harmony with the cultivator's mind and spirit, even if Li Ping refines it, he can only unleash up to seven-tenths of its power.
"Refine it for Xuan Yi to use!"
Li Ping opened his mouth and spat out a ball of elixir fire, which landed on the treasure mirror and began to be slowly refined.
Several days later, he finally sneaked across the Yuan Kingdom and the Jiuche Kingdom and arrived at the Cangmu Kingdom where the Hehuan Sect was located. By then, he had already refined the Lotus Mirror and put it into his stomach to continue to refine it with the fire of pills.
Outside the mountain gate of the Hehuan Sect.
A cyan flying boat transformed into a streak of light and flew down from the sky. At the bow of the flying boat, a graceful figure in a long purple dress stood prettily.
This alluring woman was, of course, Li Ping in disguise.
Currently, apart from not being able to use Zhou Lingyan's natal magic weapon for the time being, he is almost no different from Zhou Lingyan.
Moreover, after searching Zhou Lingyan's soul, he knew everything about her past life and interpersonal relationships. Even a Core Formation cultivator would find it difficult to see through the fact that the alluring female cultivator in front of him was Li Ping in disguise.
Whoosh!
The cyan flying boat plunged directly into the continuous mountain range. Just as it was about to crash into the sect's protective formation, a pink light shone out from the flying boat and landed on the formation's light shield.
The protective formation of the Hehuan Sect automatically separated, allowing the cyan flying boat to enter the sect.
As a sect elder and a Core Formation cultivator, Zhou Lingyan can freely enter and exit the sect's grand formation by relying on her identity token.
Of course, the sect's grand formation also has the ability to check appearance and aura. If other cultivators come with a token, they will be refused entry to the sect.
But now: the inspection is complete, Elder Zhou has returned to his sect, so he can leave!
Whoosh!
Instead of returning to Zhou Lingyan's cave as usual, the flying boat flew directly to the location of the sect's secret techniques pavilion.
Upon arriving outside the Mystic Arts Pavilion, the Foundation Establishment elder in charge of managing the pavilion hurriedly came out to greet him: "Disciple respectfully welcomes Elder Zhou."
"Hmm." Li Ping nodded, and then walked into the pavilion.
Only the Foundation Establishment elder remained standing outside the pavilion with a strange expression.
Demonic cultivators are selfish and do not like to mentor younger generations, so no Core Formation cultivator would take on a job like guarding the Secret Technique Pavilion, which is not only unprofitable but also interferes with their own cultivation.
Actually, there's nothing particularly good in the sect's secret techniques pavilion.
After all, even among fellow demonic cultivators, they dare not reveal their secrets to each other, and they guard their cultivation techniques very closely, never putting them in the secret techniques pavilion for the convenience of their fellow disciples, lest someone find their weaknesses.
The Secret Techniques Pavilion contains mostly ordinary cultivation methods, anecdotes, and inheritances.
It's somewhat useful for Foundation Establishment cultivators, but for Core Formation cultivators, it's practically like roadside trash.
He couldn't understand why Elder Zhou, whose reputation for beauty was widespread, rushed into the Secret Techniques Pavilion as soon as he returned to the sect.
"It's none of my business. I'll just do my job."
Just as Li Ping entered the sect's secret techniques pavilion to check information.
In the Logistics Hall.
A chubby young man in green robes sat high up, listening to the reports from the cultivators below.
Suddenly, he stood up abruptly, his eyes filled with shock and anger: "What? That vile wench Zhou Lingyan has returned to the sect! She stole my things and dares to swagger back like that."
The batch of spiritual herbs that Zhou Lingyan obtained from the Donghua Mountain market and asked Li Ping to refine into pills was the result of decades of searching by the entire Huan Sect.
He had originally planned to take this opportunity to make a fortune, but who knew that Zhou Lingyan would dare to interfere and ruin his plans.
To this end, he went so far as to spread rumors and intimidate the alchemists, saying that anyone who dared to refine pills for Zhou Lingyan was going against him, Shao Guang.
The purpose was to make Zhou Lingyan back down.
To his surprise, his informants told him that Zhou Lingyan had actually found a master alchemist named Yantou in Donghua Mountain Market to refine pills for her!
Not long ago.
He threatened to teach Zhou Lingyan a lesson, but he didn't expect that this lowly servant would ignore his threat and return to the sect so quickly.
"If I don't teach you a lesson, everyone else will think I, Shao Guang, am easy to bully!"
A glint of malice flashed in the green-robed youth's eyes; it was unclear what he was planning.
Upon entering the Mystic Arts Pavilion, Li Ping quickly located the area where the recorded inheritance was found, based on the memories obtained from the soul search.
He quickly scanned the wooden shelf where the jade slips were placed with his divine sense and soon found what he needed: "Detailed Explanation of Teleportation Arrays".
Picking up the jade slip, Li Ping glanced at it and saw that it depicted and introduced the specifications and forms of all known teleportation arrays.
Things were going so smoothly that he couldn't help but show great joy in his eyes.
He immediately took out a blank jade slip and began to copy it on his own.
As for paying with spirit stones, that doesn't exist.
While copying, his divine sense swept over other jade slips, but these jade slips only contained first-order and second-order inheritances, none of which caught his eye.
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He shook his head inwardly, then his gaze fell on the wooden shelf not far away that read "Observations and Miscellaneous Thoughts".
After achieving the Core Formation, one's status changes dramatically.
Through his conversations with fellow cultivators who had reached the Core Formation stage on Mount Donghua, he learned that the four major sects of the Demonic Path came from the Great Zhou Dynasty.
He had planned to travel to the Great Zhou after repairing the teleportation array, so he was also very curious about information about the Great Zhou.
Now that he has the opportunity, he certainly won't let it slip by.
He casually grabbed all the jade slips containing "Observations" and "Miscellaneous Talks," and copied the ones that interested him.
Actually, if these jade slips hadn't been restricted and would have self-destructed upon leaving the Secret Arts Pavilion, he would have simply taken them without going through all this trouble.
Half a day later, Li Ping left with the respectful farewell of the guards at the Secret Method Pavilion.
As for the cost of Li Ping copying so many jade slips, he didn't even dare to mention it.
Asking a Core Formation cultivator for spirit stones? Are you kidding me?
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The entire sect consists of Core Formation cultivators, okay?
"It's all done?" Li Ping found it hard to believe how smoothly the trip had gone.
He even had the idea of taking a trip to Zhou Lingyan's cave.
However, Core Formation cultivators usually carry their wealth with them, and Zhou Lingyan was no exception. In fact, her wealth had basically fallen into Li Ping's hands.
Although there were some miscellaneous items in the cave, they were not worth the attention of a Core Formation cultivator.
"Alright, we've already achieved our goal, let's not cause any more trouble and leave now."
Li Ping shook his head, and with a thought, the flying boat beneath his feet shot out and flew towards the outside of the Hehuan Sect.
"That lowly servant girl has left the sect? Good, very good!"
Upon receiving the message that Zhou Lingyan had left the sect, Shao Guang couldn't wait to leap up and fly out of the sect. His speed was so fast that it was completely disproportionate to his obese body.
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On a high-speed, cyan flying boat.
Considering that they are still in the territory of the Demon Sect, for safety reasons, Li Ping will still appear as Zhou Lingyan.
He held the jade slip titled "Detailed Explanation of Teleportation Arrays" in his hand, immersing his consciousness in it to read it carefully, nodding slightly from time to time.
Previously in the Mystic Pavilion, he had driven the guards far away and kept the area under his divine sense to prevent them from spying on him, so the guards had no idea what he had done in the Mystic Pavilion.
There's no need to worry about leaks.
After putting away the jade slip, Li Ping then pondered how to deal with Zhou Lingyan.
He is a magnanimous person.
After the soul search, Zhou Lingyan was practically an idiot, so he no longer cared about her trying to harm him.
After leaving the demonic territory a few days later, he killed the woman and cremated her.
The feud between the two was thus settled.
"Boom!"
But just as Li Ping was pondering, a deep, muffled voice came urgently from behind.
The terrifying and undisguised aura clearly revealed the identity of the person in question: a Core Formation cultivator.
"What's going on? Could it be that they're after me? Could it be that my impersonation of Zhou Lingyan has been exposed?" Li Ping immediately became alert.
The next moment—
A booming, arrogant voice came from afar: "Junior Sister Zhou, it's incredibly impolite of you to return to the sect without even saying goodbye to your senior brother!"
Li Ping stopped the flying boat and looked coldly at the newcomer!