txolops Chapter 32 Evergreen Local Chronicles
Chapter 32 Evergreen Local Chronicles
in the dark.
Looking at the reserved figure before him, the Wang family patriarch's eyes revealed disappointment. He shouldn't have made Qu Yan the patriarch in the first place. Qu Yan's abilities were undeniable; he handled all the family affairs with great efficiency. However, his personality was too weak, and he always sought stability.
This kind of personality was fine while he was still alive; he would make the decisions on important matters, and Wang Quyan, the clan leader, only needed to carry them out.
But now, his failure to break through to the later stage has damaged his essence. Although he is not as short-lived as the outside world says, and may pass away at any time.
But his lifespan, which was originally supposed to be fifty or sixty years, has indeed been reduced to only ten years or so.
If he dies, how can such a clan leader lead the clan forward?
He could see right through his descendants' thoughts; they thought they could live in peace and security in the Immortal City thanks to the blessings of their ancestors.
The Wang family ancestor was indeed a confidant of Master Fenglan, and had made great contributions to the Immortal City.
But the blessings bestowed by a virtuous person will only last for three generations!
The blessings of his ancestors had little left for him.
The Wang family's ability to occupy so many resources in the Immortal City and achieve its current status is mainly due to his mid-Foundation Establishment strength!
After he passes away, does the Wang family still want to rest on their laurels and sleep soundly?
The Immortal City has so many resources that even Feng Lan Zhenren's disciples don't have enough to go around. How can the Wang family, who doesn't have a Foundation Establishment cultivator in charge, possibly occupy them?
In the future, the Wang family may not even be qualified to compete for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Moreover, the Wang family patriarch had a vague suspicion that someone had secretly sabotaged his attempt to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, which led to his failure and near-death experience.
The Wang family patriarch sighed inwardly, "I must cultivate a Foundation Establishment cultivator for the family before I pass away, or the family will be finished!"
"As for the position of patriarch..." The Wang family patriarch looked at the reserved figure before him, "If there is a Foundation Establishment cultivator in charge, then let him be as composed as possible!"
In fact, he never liked Wang Quyan and was not comfortable entrusting the family to him.
Originally, he had fifty or sixty years left to live, while Wang Quyan, at his age, could only serve for thirty years at most before his energy waned. He could then train a suitable clan leader for the family after Wang Quyan abdicated.
But now, he has less than ten years left to live, and it is too late to train a new clan leader.
If anything unexpected happens, it could easily cause family turmoil, resulting in more harm than good.
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Inside the courtyard, Li Ping packed up his equipment and let out a soft sigh.
This journey was fraught with difficulties, and the other cultivators were all badly tricked.
But for him, it was a worthwhile investment.
By sheer chance, he managed to solve the problem of cultivation techniques.
That's right, he has decided to make the "Zeshui Health Preservation Technique" his main cultivation method.
The fact that this technique ignores the bottleneck of minor realms and increases the success rate of breaking through to major realms by 50% is simply too tempting.
Based on Li Ping's past cultivation experience, the bottlenecks encountered in cultivation are the most tormenting.
In daily cultivation, the difference in spiritual root aptitude has an impact, but it only affects the cultivation speed; it's a difference between fast and slow.
However, during the breakthrough process, the difference in spiritual root aptitude affects whether or not one can break through; this is the difference between having and not having.
Those with poor aptitude sometimes cannot even pass levels on their own and must spend a lot of resources to purchase resources to assist them.
If you fail to pass the level, you will be injured and your life force will be damaged!
For example, the third brother, Gu Musheng, had to take a Qi Condensation Pill to help him break through to the Qi Refining stage.
If Qi Refining is this difficult, then Foundation Establishment is even more so.
The Bai family patriarch possesses the aptitude of two spiritual roots and is over two hundred years old, yet he is still at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage. Could it be that he doesn't want to break through?
Dai Sangyu possesses a unique "cloud-type" spiritual root and has a master at the Core Formation stage as her backer. She is over 170 years old and almost gone, yet she is only now attempting to form her Core. Is it because she doesn't want to do it sooner?
There was also the Wang family patriarch whom Li Ping had just met. He didn't know about the aptitude of the Wang family's spiritual root, but the fact that he could cultivate to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage was enough to prove that his spiritual root was no worse than that of the Bai family patriarch.
The results of it?
If one fails to advance to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, one's life is nearing its end.
Li Ping's spiritual root aptitude is not as good as these people's. However, by mastering multiple second-tier skills through the Tree of Inheritance, he can indeed obtain a large number of spirit stones.
However, some resources cannot be bought with spirit stones!
Fenglan Zhenren, who controls an immortal city, would she lack spirit stones?
Her disciples are still struggling to advance in the Foundation Establishment stage!
Li Ping wouldn't be so arrogant as to think he could obtain resources that even a Core Formation cultivator couldn't.
However, by cultivating the "Water Nourishing Life Technique," he could skip the bottlenecks of minor realms. For him, there was only one obstacle in the Foundation Establishment stage: the final Core Formation.
Moreover, he has a 50% success rate in forming his core. If he is lucky enough to get some spiritual items that can help him form his core, the success rate could even rise to 60% or 70%!
Actually, it doesn't matter if he doesn't use other auxiliary spiritual items to help him form his core.
Combined with the "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" technique, which grants cultivators the ability to withstand injuries during breakthroughs, he could attempt to form his core repeatedly given enough time.
If the success rate is 50% once, what about ten times?
The only worry about cultivating the "Ze Shui Yang Sheng Jue" is whether he can reach the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage within two hundred years without taking any drugs.
Li Ping believed that this should not be a problem. As long as he did not go out and waste time, and focused on cultivating diligently in the spiritual land, two hundred years would be enough for him to reach the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.
Perhaps it won't take that long.
After all, he wasn't a useless person with five or four spiritual roots; he was a cultivator with three spiritual roots. Although his cultivation speed couldn't compare to that of those with heavenly spiritual roots, other spiritual roots, or two spiritual roots, it wasn't slow either.
"Now that the matter of the cultivation method has been decided, I'll go to the inner city to rent a cave dwelling tomorrow, and while I'm at it, I'll also strategize on how to activate my 'world-shaking talent'," Li Ping thought to himself.
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After considering the issue of cultivation methods, Li Ping picked up the miscellaneous books he had taken from the Wang family's secret cultivation pavilion.
The term "miscellaneous chapters" is a general term for all books except those on cultivation methods, skill transmission, and magic.
This miscellaneous piece that Li Ping took was a travelogue by a cultivator, titled "Changqing Fengwu Zhi" (Records of Changqing Scenery), written by a Foundation Establishment cultivator who called himself "Changqing Jushi" (Changqing Hermit).
According to the introduction at the beginning of the Fengwu Chronicle, the Evergreen Hermit was active more than a hundred years ago. He was originally a rogue cultivator, and by chance, he obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill, thus successfully establishing his foundation.
After achieving Foundation Establishment, Changqing Jushi had no interest in establishing a family. Instead, he traveled around and visited almost every region of the Western Wilderness cultivation world.
Until his death, he recorded what he had seen and heard, which became the "Changqing Local Chronicle".
Li Ping took this miscellaneous book because he hoped to understand the current situation of the cultivation world in the Western Wilderness through the "Changqing Gazetteer," such as the distribution of power, famous experts, and dangerous places.
Li Ping was even curious about what it was like outside the Western Wilderness cultivation world.
After all, this place is called the Western Wilderness, so is there an Eastern Wilderness? A Northern Wilderness? A Southern Wilderness?
Of course, just like before he reached the Foundation Establishment stage, when his footprints only touched the land of one country, Li Ping estimated that Foundation Establishment cultivators probably did not yet have the ability to go beyond the Western Wilderness.
As a travelogue written by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Li Ping was already quite satisfied that "The Evergreen Chronicles" allowed him to further enhance his understanding of the Western Wilderness.