txolops Chapter 186 White Bone Ridge and Giant Bone Peak
Chapter 186 White Bone Ridge and Giant Bone Peak
"If it were Qiulan Mountain, with four members of the same family reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, what would be the point of White Tiger Ridge?"
"However, longevity-extending spiritual items aren't easy to come by; even a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the third level can't withstand them!"
"The same applies to Giant Bone Peak."
At this moment, Huang Dali looked worried.
Looking down at the rice seedlings in his hand, he realized that these seedlings had all been personally nurtured by him using his Foundation Establishment spiritual power.
If raised properly, this can become second-tier spirit rice.
Regardless, plant the seedlings first, and then discuss it with the old mountain owner after that.
After a while.
Huang Dali conjured a yellow, demonic wind and headed towards the depths of White Tiger Ridge.
Nestled among towering mountains and lofty peaks.
On a clearing beside a winding river, there was a courtyard that looked quite secluded, surrounded by several rustic wooden pavilions.
They are in that courtyard right now.
There was an old demon with a tiger's head and a human body, wearing a loose yellow robe, slowly expounding on magic and incantations.
In front of him were four young demons at the late stage of Qi Refining: two tigers, one wolf, and one bear, all of whom were major demons in White Tiger Ridge.
Each of them possesses a first-class superior bloodline aptitude, making them some of the most talented young demons in White Tiger Ridge in recent years.
"Ugh."
"If only a second-tier bloodline could emerge from the mountains."
Huang Dali, who arrived on the wind, looked at the four young demon figures in the courtyard. Even with the assistance of Foundation Establishment spiritual objects, the chances of these young demons breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage were at most 50%.
And this was a smooth process.
Generally speaking, achieving 40% is already considered quite good.
In this situation, advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage is not easy.
When Huang Dali landed in the courtyard and revealed his figure, the young demons all stood up and respectfully bowed to him, repeatedly addressing him as "Second Ancestor."
"Senior brother."
"Something's happened. A little spirit monkey with a second-tier bloodline has appeared in Qiulan Mountain."
"It's said that he's only a few years old, and he's quite perceptive."
"Akiyama is about to rise to prominence!"
"It is unclear what specific aptitude it is within the second tier."
As soon as Huang Dali said this,
The pupils of the four young demons in the courtyard suddenly contracted, their eyes filled with astonishment as they looked down.
They naturally understood what a second-tier bloodline aptitude represented. With the assistance of a Foundation Establishment spirit object, and if things went smoothly, they could advance to the Foundation Establishment stage much more easily than they could, without any barriers or obstacles.
"Akiyama is really lucky!"
"At such a young age, Huang Yue has managed to produce a spirit monkey with a second-tier bloodline aptitude under his tutelage, and it is even from his own clan."
"This is truly a stroke of good fortune."
"However, Huang Yue and I have both lived for more than three hundred years, and our lifespans are not much longer."
"It's unlikely that a sect with four Foundation Establishment cultivators would appear in Qiulan Mountain."
"You all have first-tier superior bloodlines, and you have a good chance of advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage. Your second ancestor advanced with first-tier superior bloodline aptitude. Although the fortune in Qiulan Mountain is good, you still need to put in a lot of effort to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage."
now.
The slightly thin, elderly tiger demon looked at his disciples in front of him and slowly spoke to encourage them.
"Yes, Ancestor."
The four young demons all responded firmly.
"You may all leave now. I have something to discuss with your second ancestor."
After the old tiger demon finished speaking, the four young demons in front of him bowed respectfully and left the courtyard.
After all the younger generation left.
The old tiger demon Huang Zizai's expression immediately became serious.
"Junior brother."
"Is there anything else you want to say?"
"Speak freely."
Huang Zizai looked at his junior brother. Both of them were tiger demons. Huang Zizai had given his junior brother his name. The white tiger bloodline in the White Tiger Ridge lineage was almost extinct.
And this lineage has declined generation after generation. Among the many tiger demon cubs in the younger generation, only two have the bloodline aptitude of the first rank.
This led them to invest so many spiritual resources to recruit tiger demons from the Hengshan Mountains to join White Tiger Ridge, but they did not get the second-tier bloodline they wanted.
"Senior brother, shouldn't we join forces with Giant Bone Peak?"
"What if one family becomes the dominant force in Mount Qiulan?"
Huang Dali had just opened his mouth.
Huang Zizai raised his hand to stop him, seemingly to cut off Huang Dali's speech.
"No."
"What kind of creature is that old monster with white bones on Giant Bone Peak? That guy's methods are bizarre and unpredictable. Even if we've signed some kind of spiritual contract with him, do you dare to trust him?"
"Not to mention the other Foundation Establishment stage bee demon on Giant Bone Peak, how ruthless he was. The reason he was able to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage was because he devoured so many of his own kind of bee demons before he managed to use a secret technique to succeed by sheer luck."
"We at White Tiger Ridge would never allow ourselves to have any further involvement with such a powerful force."
"How's the thing I asked you to do going?"
After responding, Huang Zizai looked up at Huang Dali and asked him a question.
"In reply to Senior Brother, those human cultivators and our tiger demon clan have already produced quite a few half-demons."
"The original spiritual root of the Lan family combined with the bloodline of our Spirit Tiger clan has indeed had some effect. Among the first batch of children born, there is already one with a first-order superior half-demon bloodline."
"And it seems there's some mutation in their bloodline."
"It is of higher quality than ordinary first-tier superior bloodlines."
"But not a single half-demon child has obtained the aptitude for a second-tier bloodline."
Huang Dali replied honestly.
"What a pity."
"We paid a heavy price to capture that group of Lan family members."
"Wait another ten years."
"Our only chance lies with the Lan family members. When the Lan family patriarch perished in Black Mountain, we were able to capture so many of our clansmen, which was a great risk."
"They have fallen out with the Wang family."
"In the past few years, when we from Baihu Ridge were out in the countryside, we had quite a few conflicts with the Wang family from Qingjian Mountain."
"If there are still no half-demon cubs with second-tier bloodlines in ten years, then we will have to make a choice. It is not a wise move to continue to provoke a Foundation Establishment family for the sake of some Qi Refining stage Lan family members."
Huang Zizai solemnly instructed.
"I will follow my senior brother's orders."
"Oh, right."
"Should we continue our investigation into the background of that second-tier bloodline spirit monkey from Autumn Mist Mountain?"
Huang Dali was somewhat unsure of what to do.
"nature."
"Don't worry, your senior brother will live for at least another twenty years."
"During this time, I, your senior brother, will definitely strive to obtain another Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object for our White Tiger Ridge."
"I absolutely have to make a trip to Xuanyu Immortal City."
"Even my old bones are worth a lot of money."
"Go."
After Huang Zizai finished speaking, he calmly closed his eyes.
At this moment, Huang Zizai recalled his father, the original patriarch of White Tiger Ridge. When his father was dying, he used his tiger bones and essence to exchange for a spiritual object that would help him break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
It was that heavy Foundation Establishment spiritual object that allowed him to successfully advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, thus protecting their tiger demon clan in White Tiger Ridge.
After all, the second-tier medium-level spiritual vein in White Tiger Ridge is like a child holding gold if there isn't a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator in charge; it simply cannot be protected.
...
at the same time.
At Giant Bone Peak, nearly a thousand miles away.
This mountain area is deserted and filled with the aura of corpses and evil spirits.
Furthermore, low-level Yin Corpses can be seen wandering everywhere in the mountains and forests, and there are skulls and various strange skeletons in the weeds.
Deep in the mountains and forests.
On the cliff face, stone caves and cages have been carved out.
Inside the cages were human and demon figures, dressed in tattered clothes, who had been captured. Most of them were human and demon cultivators at the early stage of Qi Refining. In the larger caves in the mountains below, there were groups of humans imprisoned.
Outside the cave.
There was a pale-faced woman wearing a red robe, sitting cross-legged on a white bone lotus platform. A few steps in front of her, in the void, floated a soul banner that was nearly ten feet in size.
On the black and red intertwined soul banner, there are many intertwined ghosts.
There is also the aura of a malevolent spirit.
Anger, resentment, and murderous intent intertwined and condensed on the enormous Soul Banner. Lady White Bone, who was nurturing the second-tier magic artifact Soul Banner, seemed to sense something.
A cloud of black mist descended from the sky and landed on one side. Inside was a short, seemingly only one-meter-tall old man in black robes, whose head was covered with swollen pustules.
Two sharp teeth were faintly visible in his mouth.
"Fellow Daoist White Bone".
"Qiu Lan Mountain is really lucky. Not only does it have a spirit mine, but now it also has a half-demon monkey with a second-tier bloodline aptitude."
"I'm afraid that Akiyama will still be able to get the lion's share in this area."
The old bee demon said in a very solemn tone.
"Second-tier bloodline aptitude?"
Is it low-grade or mid-grade?
Upon hearing this, Lady White Bone turned to look at the bee demon who had just arrived.
No spiritual cultivator with a second-tier bloodline aptitude should be underestimated. The foundation-building seed they condense after entering the foundation-building stage contains supernatural power that is much stronger than that of a first-tier bloodline aptitude.
Once a battle begins, the difference in bloodline aptitude becomes significant. The stronger the aptitude, the more powerful the innate supernatural abilities will be compared to those of cultivators of the same level.
"I don't know."
"All we know is that the news has spread throughout Qiuye Town, and it seems that Huangyue released the news on his own initiative."
The old bee demon shook his head and said.
"It's nothing more than creating a stir."
"That old ape probably doesn't have much time left to live."
"After that old ape left, only those two Foundation Establishment cultivators remained in Autumn Mist Mountain."
"They're all in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, so they shouldn't be too difficult to deal with."
"That Crimson Flame Crystal Mine seems to be protected by only a second-tier low-grade magic array."
"They're all in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, so they shouldn't be too difficult to deal with."
"That Crimson Flame Crystal Mine seems to be protected by only a second-tier low-grade magic array."
"Our chance will come after that old ape passes away."
Lady White Bone looked at the soul banner she was refining in front of her, a murderous glint in her eyes, and said.
After sharpening the knife for so many years, it's time to let it see blood.
"Still the same as always."
"It was Jie Xiu who did it; it has nothing to do with our Giant Bone Peak."
The old bee demon chuckled as he spoke, a chilling killing intent flashing in his eyes.
The reason why the old bee demon joined Giant Bone Peak was because he and Lady White Bone met while cultivating in the Hengshan Mountains.
However, when they were practicing as cultivators, they always concealed their physical forms.
Nobody recognized him.
"Fellow Daoist, it's been a long time since we've had anything to whet our appetites. Could you perhaps...?"
The old bee demon pointed to the location of the stone caves and cages on the steep cliff and a smile appeared on his face.
"You may choose one."
Lady White Bone nodded slightly.
Recruiting this bee demon monster into their ranks would cost Giant Bone Peak a considerable amount of spiritual resources each year.
However, it was precisely because of the presence of two Foundation Establishment cultivators that Giant Bone Peak gained some fame and attracted some demons and Qi Refining cultivators to join them.
The two of them maintained some reputation outside of Giant Bone Peak.
However, in the forbidden area of Giant Bone Peak, they have captured many cultivators who had sought refuge with Giant Bone Peak over the years. But as more and more cultivators have gone missing, although there are various reasons, more and more people are beginning to suspect them.
Their reputation as the Giant Bone Peak is getting worse and worse.
Regardless, they definitely reaped the first wave. Even if there were fewer cultivators in the later waves, the White Bone Lady was able to refine her own magical artifacts, and the first batch was enough.
The standard for the Hundred Soul Banner has definitely been met, but the Thousand Soul Banner is still a long way off.
It was made by refining the essence of one hundred cultivators at the mid-stage of Qi Refining. Humans and demons combined their essences and absorbed a lot of various evil energies. After the Hundred Soul Banner was completed,
At least its soul banner's power is absolutely top-tier among second-tier low-grade magic weapons.
If a Foundation Establishment essence can serve as the main soul, the power of this soul banner can automatically be upgraded to the middle level of the second tier.
Unfortunately, finding a Foundation Establishment stage master soul is not easy!
Lady White Bone, however, had her own goals: an old ape from Autumn Mist Mountain and an aging tiger demon from White Bone Ridge.
Unfortunately, neither of them were easy to deal with.
Moreover, they were all very cautious, and Lady White Bone couldn't possibly monitor their movements at all times. She could only wait for an opportunity or try her luck in Xuan Yu City.
...
Soon after.
As time went by, other topics gradually emerged in the surrounding area.
The matter of the second-tier bloodline half-demon spirit monkey in Autumn Mist Mountain was also overshadowed by other matters.
It seems that the news was only circulating for a little over a month.
Cultivation knows no time.
In the blink of an eye.
Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the past few decades, the stone houses outside Qiulan Mountain have expanded outwards. Thanks to the influence of Old Ape Huangyue, the number of Qi Refining cultivators joining Qiulan Mountain has also increased in recent years.
Among them were not only demons but also a small number of human forces.
Several more human cultivators appeared in Autumn Leaf Town, and even a few more human youths appeared in Four Seasons Academy.
Huang Yue has never refused the participation of human cultivators, and after a few years, the humans will also unite with the demons in Qiuye Town. The natives of Qiuye Town do not reject the half-demon children born from their union.
After all, the one in their Autumn Mist Mountain who has the most potential to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage is a half-demon.