Chapter 135: People with the same fate [5K]
He arrived outside Lingsang Island, then revealed a trace of his own aura and randomly found a reef outside Lingsang Island to wait.
Not long after, a stream of light came out from Lingsang Island and landed silently beside Ye Linyuan.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, what can I do for you by showing your presence here?"
Ye Linyuan looked over and saw a young man with a vigorous appearance. He immediately bowed and said solemnly, "Brother Tiancan, I hope you will not mind my intrusive visit."
"No problem."
Liu Xuanheng smiled slightly, then looked at Ye Linyuan and said, "It has been ten years since we last met. Fellow Daoist Ye, you came to see me today. Could it be that you still want to buy spiritual silk?"
"Fellow Daoist, I am indeed very smart. This time I am here for the spiritual silk."
Ye Linyuan nodded and said with a smile.
Liu Xuanheng nodded, and then asked, "How much do you want this time?"
"Two pounds and four ounces."
Ye Linyuan opened his mouth and revealed a shocking number.
Liu Xuanheng was slightly stunned. The second-level spiritual silk is not an ordinary spiritual treasure.
Only one or two ounces of this kind of treasure are needed to refine a formation flag, two or three ounces are needed to refine a second-level spiritual weapon, and one pound is more than enough to refine a robe.
Ye Linyuan asked for two kilograms and four ounces of spiritual silk at one time, which was not something an ordinary cultivator in the early stage of foundation building could afford.
But after a moment of surprise, Liu Xuanheng smiled and said, "Two catties and four ounces of spiritual silk, I can actually take it out, but what do you need to buy it?"
"Is this thing okay?"
Ye Linyuan took out a large bottle of Xuanyuan Dan and placed it in front of Liu Xuanheng.
Liu Xuanheng only took a glance and couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't expect that you are actually a second-level alchemist. No wonder you can reach this level at such a young age."
"How about this, if you can produce 160 Xuan Yuan Pills, we'll make the deal."
Ye Linyuan nodded when he heard this, and immediately took out a magic pill and said, "Okay."
One ounce of second-grade low-quality spiritual silk is worth two hundred spirit stones, and the value of two pounds and four ounces is just about the same as the market price of Xuanyuan Pill.
After they completed the transaction, Liu Xuanheng said, "If you have any extra Xuanyuan Pills, especially Lingzhen Xuanyuan Pills, you can come and trade with me in the future."
"Don't worry, I won't give you a bad price."
Ye Linyuan collected the spiritual silk and said with a smile: "If there is any extra, I will naturally come to find you, fellow Taoist."
Having said this, Ye Linyuan did not stay long. After saying goodbye, he left Lingsang Islands.
Not long after Ye Linyuan left, a beautiful female cultivator appeared behind Liu Xuanheng.
The female cultivator came to Liu Xuanheng and asked in confusion, "Husband, for that plan, the clan prepared a large number of battle flags, and there is not much spiritual silk left. Why did you sell him so much spiritual silk at once?"
"What do you know?"
Liu Xuanheng shook his head, then looked at the direction where Ye Linyuan left, and said thoughtfully: "Am I the same kind of person as him?"
"The same kind of people?"
The female cultivator was a little surprised, and a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes.
Liu Xuanheng nodded, and then said: "The path to the highest level of Taoism is sad and lamentable. We are all the great medicine planted by others."
"No matter how talented and brilliant one is, in the end, he is just a good spiritual medicine."
"The stronger, more amazing, and more prosperous we are, the more satisfied those people will be, just like us watching a magical herb getting better and better."
"They are the old men on the stream, and we are the fish in the water. They are sitting above the clouds, waiting for us to leap over the dragon gate, and then they will devour us completely."
"Fate has not given us any power to choose, but as a husband, I do not believe in fate. Drawing my sword to fight the sky is my husband's only choice!"
Liu Xuanheng whispered slowly, the murderous intent in his pupils concealing the deep despair.
The higher his cultivation level, the more he understood what he was facing, but he was very clear that he had no choice, and escaping would only become a source of cultivation for those who came after him.
To die as a coward or to fight to the death, Liu Xuanheng has made his own choice in this life.
"We share the same fate."
Liu Xuanheng smiled faintly, then looked at the Xuanyuan Pill in his hand and threw it to the female cultivator beside him: "Maybe one day, we can fight side by side."
The woman was silent. She held Liu Xuanheng's hand distressedly and said, "Since we are in the same boat, why don't you give him a hand?"
"It's useless. How can it be called a thriving medicinal herb if it hasn't experienced wind and rain?"
Liu Xuanheng shook his head, then smiled: "Only the strongest spiritual medicine can grow piercing thorns, and only then can it have the possibility of hurting those people."
"If he can't even deal with Meng Changfeng, I'm afraid he won't be able to make it that far."
"..."
After Ye Linyuan left the Lingsang Islands, he set up the Qingyu Sky-breaking Boat and headed for the Qinghe Islands.
When he was leaving, he looked back at Liu Xuanheng and couldn't help but sigh: "It's that volume of skills, another poor man."
"That's right. How many people who embark on the path of cultivation are not pitiful people?"
Ye Linyuan shook his head, revealing a hint of self-mockery.
He calmly raised his head and looked up at the sky, only to see that the sky was covered with clouds, and the endless dark clouds were deep and unfathomable. At the end of the distant sky, there seemed to be an unfathomable giant mouth that wanted to completely swallow everything.
"What happened in the ancient battle against the sky?"
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and couldn't help but recall the biography he had read before.
Legend has it that in ancient times, everyone was trying to comprehend the way of heaven and earth, and almost no one would take the path of swallowing the way.
But for some unknown reason, at the end of the ancient times, the world changed drastically, and the three thousand ancient sects and eight hundred side sects in the Nine Heavens Ancient Domain actually gave up all their grudges and joined forces to attack the sky.
That battle caused the sky to collapse and the earth to split, and finally, with that sword strike, the entire ancient era was completely buried, turning into a long sad song in the years.
No one knows what happened. All they know is that after that battle, the Jiutian Ancient Domain completely collapsed and turned into the nine ancient realms of Juntian, Cangtian, Biantian, Xuantian, Youtian, Haotian, Zhutian, Yantian, and Yangtian.
Now, the ancient world where Ye Linyuan is located is the Haotian Ancient World, one of the nine ancient worlds.
After the destruction of the ancient times, the traditional path of cultivation gradually disappeared in the ancient world of Haotian, and the path of swallowing the Tao became the mainstream of this world.
Up to now, the high-level cultivators between heaven and earth, whether actively or passively, have unknowingly embarked on the path of Devouring the Dao.
"The sky is shrouded in darkness and hostility is rampant."
"I'm afraid there is something wrong with the way of cultivation in the Haotian Ancient Realm, and even the way of heaven in this world."
Ye Linyuan whispered slowly in his heart, and finally put all his thoughts aside.
He hated the Path of Swallowing Dao and always believed that it was an evil path and he would never take it, but he could not change it.
The only thing he could do was to become as strong as possible, until one day he could transcend the clouds and search for the buried ancient relics, and perhaps get a glimpse of the scene back then.
"Take each step carefully, proceed steadily, and practice hard while protecting yourself."
"One day, I will be able to uncover the mystery of all this."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, then restrained all thoughts and continued on his way to Yejia Island.
All the way back to Yejia Island, Ye Linyuan first gave three soul-nourishing pills to Shui Hanqing, and then took out eighteen top-grade spirit-gathering beads and integrated them into the spirit fields in the valley and the spirit eyes on the top of the mountain to upgrade the levels of the two spirit eyes.
The reason for promoting two spiritual springs was that after Zhou Yuwan and Chu Lingxi were promoted, the Ye family's one second-grade lower-grade spiritual spring was no longer enough.
In addition, the spiritual fields in the valley will need to be upgraded to the second level in the future, so it is also necessary to have a spiritual spring to provide spiritual energy.
According to Ye Linyuan's estimation, after he upgrades the two spirit eyes into spirit springs using the spirit upgrading method, combined with the second-order spirit gathering array and the spirit locking array, the spiritual energy produced by the spirit veins of the entire Star Lake Seven Islands will be doubled.
By that time, it should be enough to satisfy the cultivation of many foundation-building monks, and it can also accumulate excess spiritual energy to enhance the power of the formation.
"With sufficient spiritual energy, once this matter is resolved, we can plan to cultivate the second-level spiritual field."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart that cultivating a medium-grade spiritual field requires a large number of spiritual shells in the early and middle stages of Qi training, and the output of the Bright Moon Shell Clan is far from enough. If purchased from outside, one acre would cost several thousand spiritual stones, and these resources are basically strategic resources and are not so easy to buy.
Moreover, once he asked Minghuang Jianzi to buy these, he would definitely guess the true strength of the Ye family. Even if they had a common enemy, Ye Linyuan did not dare to let Minghuang Jianzi know all his cards.
Therefore, this time, Ye Linyuan planned not to purchase a large number of Lingbei shells through Minghuang Jianzi, but to increase the production of Lingbei shells through his own means.
"It will take another year for the spiritual spring to be promoted, and the cultivation of the spiritual shell will require the materials to be complete."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and then went directly to the retreat room.
But with a flick of his sleeves, he took out twenty-four pieces of second-grade low-grade spiritual wood, and two pounds and four ounces of second-grade low-grade spiritual silk.
Among these twenty-four pieces of spiritual wood, fourteen are from the second-level five-element wood. The original Taoist patterns between them can perfectly match each other, and they are the best materials for refining a set of large-scale formation equipment.
The remaining ten pieces were obtained from Prince Minghuang, and should have been obtained from the branches of upper-middle-grade second-level spiritual trees. The auras between them were not connected, and they were only suitable for refining small formations or separate second-level spiritual weapons.
"Twelve pieces are used to refine the Yuanchen Water Control Flag, and the remaining twelve pieces are just enough to refine two sets of second-level spirit gathering arrays and spirit locking arrays."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his mind, and then began to compile the formation.
The compilation of the second-level formation flags is not easy. Ye Linyuan was busy for more than a month before he successfully refined all the formation flags.
Afterwards, he used twelve of the formation flags to form two sets of second-order spirit gathering formations and spirit locking formations, and replaced them in the spiritual fields on the mountain top and in the valley.
After doing all this, he sacrificed and refined the twelve sets of formation flags, transforming them into a new set of Yuanchen water-controlling flags.
"good."
Looking at the Yuanchen Water Controlling Flag in front of him, Ye Linyuan's heart couldn't help but move slightly, revealing a rare smile.
This set of second-level Yuanchen water-controlling flags is a large-scale second-level lower-grade formation, consisting of a total of twelve second-level lower-grade spiritual weapons.
The power of each of these flags is only average, but their combined power is comparable to that of a top-grade spiritual weapon.
If Ye Linyuan personally activated such a formation flag, the Yuan Chen water that appeared would be enough to cover the surrounding area of nearly a thousand feet, and it would be no problem to trap a few ordinary middle-stage foundation building cultivators.
"With my current strength, if I didn't have this set of Yuanchen Water Control Flags, I could only be considered comparable to the Black Kui Demon King or the Nine-Curved Spirit Crane in its prime."
"But with this formation in hand, even if the two of them attack together, I will be invincible."
"The only problem is that this formation consumes too much mana. In the early stages of foundation building, the mana will be drained out in just a few moments."
Ye Linyuan fondled the formation flags and couldn't help but smile as he said, "Fortunately, I have strong magic power, and Qiu Shui Changtian can restore my magic power, so it should be enough to activate this formation."
After pondering like this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but check his own magic power.
He practiced the Cang Hai Ming Yue Gong, and in the early stage of building the foundation he had three times the magic power of the same level. Although he has not yet fully cultivated it, it is still very amazing.
He remembered that when he broke through the foundation-building stage, he had eighteen levels of magic power. After eleven years of hard training and taking elixirs, he had increased his magic power by forty levels.
In other words, he now has a total of fifty-eight magical powers.
Such powerful magic power is enough to rival the ordinary fourth-level foundation building. If Ye Linyuan continues to take Xuanyuan Pills and practice for nearly three years, his magic power should be able to reach seventy.
By that time, with more than sixty magical powers, plus Qiu Shui Changtian's continuous recovery of magical power, it should be enough for Ye Linyuan to activate this formation for a long battle.
"The magic of this formation should be enough for me to use until the late stage of foundation building."
Ye Linyuan estimated in his mind, then put away the Yuanchen Water Controlling Flag and absorbed it into his Dantian to nourish it.
After dealing with all this, Ye Linyuan practiced in seclusion for a while, and the materials promised by Minghuang Jianzi were delivered to his door.
These materials are all first-grade, mid-to-low-quality refining materials. Most of them are of low grade and value, but there are as many as three thousand pieces.
After Ye Linyuan received the materials, he immediately summoned the weapon refiners from the Song and Ye families and asked them to refine these materials into first-level mid-to-low-grade magical weapons.
Refining three thousand first-level magic weapons at one time still shocked everyone in the two tribes, but they had no objection and started refining. Finally, after spending several months, they refined these three thousand magic weapons.
"The array equipment is complete."
Looking at the formation equipment in front of him, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but feel a little certain in his heart.
He personally used these formation devices as a basis and set up a formation covering an area of ten miles in the sea outside the Seven Islands of Star Lake.
After doing all this, he glanced at Jiaoyuebei beside him, and then said, "Next, it's up to you."
"it is good."
Jiaoyuebei answered with some excitement, then it flew into the formation and injected its own Dao essence into the vast shallow sea.
After this shallow sea was contaminated with his Taoist essence, it spat out the Moonlight Mirror. In an instant, the moonlight in the sky continued to gather towards the core of the formation, and finally turned into a transcendent formation with a radius of ten miles.
Afterwards, Ye Linyuan activated the Big Dipper Star Array, drawing in the power of the moonlight from the nine heavenly stars, and continuously integrated it into the transcendent formation.
"The second-level Taiyin Shehua Formation is finally complete."
Ye Linyuan smiled slightly, then clapped his hands and asked, "How do you feel?"
"With this set of formations, my future path of cultivation will be smooth."
Jiaoyuebei replied with a smile, and then looked at the ten-mile-wide land of Dao Yun, only to see that the land of Dao Yun was filled with a large number of spiritual shells and ordinary shells.
At this time, those ordinary shells began to transform continuously under the influence of the Dao, and the spirit shells also continued to gain momentum under the blessing of the Dao, and seemed to be beginning to undergo a slight transformation, and the probability of being promoted to the middle or even late stage of Qi training in the future would be greatly increased.
"The quasi-second-level training ground, Bright Moon Sea, has also been initially built."
"In the future, in this dojo, the probability of ordinary shells transforming into spiritual shells will greatly increase, and the probability of spiritual shells improving their cultivation will also continue to increase."
Ye Linyuan couldn't help but nodded slightly. This shallow sea with a radius of ten miles is a special quasi-second-level spiritual building field.
Such temples, similar to the Hanchi Snow Region and the Lihuo Golden Lotus Pond in Ye Linyuan's previous life, are all temples with extremely special functions.
The Bright Moon Sea in front of us can increase the cultivation speed of the Bright Moon Clam and increase the strength of the Bright Moon Clam to a certain extent, but the most crucial effect is that it can greatly increase the reproduction speed of the Spirit Clam.
Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but say: "With the Bright Moon Sea and the Taiyin Hua Collection Formation, your cultivation speed will not be too slow in the future, but you have to pay more attention to the matter of multiplying spiritual shells."
"Master, rest assured. Jiaoyue will definitely provide you with the spiritual shells you need for the second-level spiritual field."
Seeing this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but nodded slightly.
As the cultivation level of Jiaoyuebei increases, the Dao essence it manifests can allow ordinary and spiritual bei to continuously transform. This is the innate ability of the spiritual bei clan, and Jiaoyuebei is the best among them.
In the future, as the Taoist temple here expands, the production of Lingbei will soon increase.
Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan went straight back to the spiritual field. He cleared out ten acres of spiritual field and used them all to plant the five elements of wood.
Although the five elements of wood do not have any special properties, they are relatively simple to grow and are more likely to mutate.
Planting a large number of five-element woods is the best choice for obtaining second-level spiritual wood. If you select and cultivate the best ones from them, the possibility of cultivating rare five-element wood in the future will be greater.
After planting these five elements of wood, Ye Linyuan clapped his hands and said, "It seems that the Qianyang water used to cultivate spiritual plants should also be purchased on a large scale."
"Forget it. Let's leave these to Minghuang Jianzi for now. I'll open up a channel to directly purchase Qianyang water in the future."
"The most urgent task is to deal with the war in three years."
Having said this, Ye Linyuan withdrew his distracting thoughts and returned to his retreat room to practice.
For a cultivator who is building a foundation, three years is not a long time. Ye Linyuan woke up from his retreat that day and exhaled slowly.
"After more than ten years of practice, this Minghe Gongying has finally reached the Mahayana realm."
He also whispered slowly, and then slowly dissipated, but his real body appeared on the top of the mountain of Yejia Island.
It turned out that at that moment, he used the Ming River's shadow to split, leaving behind an illusion that was difficult to distinguish between true and false, but his real body had instantly left the top of Yejia Island.
"Linyuan."
Shui Hanqing appeared beside Ye Linyuan, looking at his back in the moonlight, with a hint of worry in her eyes.
At this time, Ye Linyuan put his hands behind his back, looking at the bright moon in the sky, his eyes could not help but show a hint of deepness: "I have successfully cultivated the Sixth Transformation Condensation Technique. The Bright River and the Moon have both reached the Mahayana stage. Now my strength has reached its temporary limit."
"Your life span is getting longer, and Minghuang can't wait any longer. It's time to seize the Sword Intent Grass."
(End of this chapter)
