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Chapter 178 Dealing with the Aftermath
Chapter 178 Dealing with the Aftermath
Half a month later,
The underground secret chamber of the third-tier spiritual vein cave of the Miaoyin Sect
Wearing a mask, Chen Yi transformed into an old man and used magic to remove some of the restrictions placed on the female cultivator. His voice was hoarse as he said:
"Zhou Zihan, the personal disciple of Lin Fan, the former sect master of Miaoyin Pavilion, married the evil cultivator Han Ya Zhenren as a concubine and stole the spiritual bamboo of Miaoyin Sect for Lin Fan and Han Ya Zhenren to cultivate."
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This information was pieced together by Chen Yi from fragments on the surface of the other party's soul and information from their storage bag.
That "Cold Crow Master" is his real name as a heretical cultivator; the title "Purple Maple Master" he uses to refer to others is a false name.
"Who are you? An elderly Core Formation cultivator who keeps a rat demon? There are no cultivators like you near the Thousand Sound Mountains."
"Hehe, don't worry about my identity."
"Tell me the detailed information about Master Hanya, and I will preserve your complete soul and allow you to be reincarnated."
Even though the woman had been subdued and her cultivation crippled, turning her into a mortal, Chen Yi transformed into an old man and put on a mask.
The world of cultivation is filled with countless strange and wondrous techniques. Chen Yi worried that the wisp of evil thought within her soul might be able to remember something through her senses.
Anyway, it's not troublesome to temporarily change your appearance, and it's good to give yourself an extra layer of protection.
"Reincarnation?" The female cultivator laughed bitterly. "My soul no longer belongs to myself. I can't reincarnate even if I die."
My husband, the Cold Crow Immortal, is merely an identity he presents.
If you kill me, no one in the entire cultivation world of southern Qi will be able to protect you!
"Heh, just a heretical cultivator who practices demonic arts."
What do I have to fear from those who dare not show their faces?
I have a way to deal with that evil spirit in your soul. I can remove it when you die, allowing you to leave this world cleanly.
If you're willing, you can say so; if you're not, then forget it.
With a hoarse voice, Chen Yi flicked out a Lesser Five Elements Divine Sense at the mid-stage of the third rank.
The divine sense touched the female cultivator's brow briefly and then withdrew.
In that instant, the female cultivator regained a brief moment of clarity, and the wisp of evil that had been troubling the depths of her soul receded by half.
"A master of the Divine Soul Dao at the mid-stage of Core Formation?! Who exactly are you, senior?!"
Zhou Zihan was shocked, staring incredulously at Chen Yi's aged arms and skin, his mind racing.
"Swear that you will ensure my successful reincarnation, and I will tell you everything."
"Ha, a mere prisoner dares to make me swear an oath?"
I cannot guarantee that you will be successfully reincarnated.
All I can do is try my best to expel the evil spirits from your soul as you die.
Whether you can successfully reincarnate is up to you.
Chen Yi shook his head and refused.
However, the more the female cultivator said this, the more she believed it to be true.
There's no need for a powerful figure like her, a junior in the Soul Path cultivation lineage at the mid-stage of Core Formation, to deceive her.
"Okay. I'll take the bet."
The female cultivator gritted her teeth and accepted it, then began to sob and recount how Lin Fan had sold her.
How did that terrifying demonic cultivator torture her?
She was originally at the peak of Foundation Establishment, with a chance to form her Core.
As a result, the powerful demonic cultivator drained her foundation, causing her magical power to drop several levels in quality, and significantly diminishing her overall spiritual essence.
Finally, her answer to Chen Yi was that the Cold Crow True Person kept a mid-grade third-tier Soul Dao Black Crow spirit pet, and that he himself was at least a mid-stage Core Formation demonic cultivator.
This infiltration into the southern cultivation world of Qi Kingdom has an ulterior motive.
She didn't know the specifics of the mission, but she guessed it was related to the secret realm of the Jade Dragon Sect.
Chen Yi roughly understood that this person was probably one of the mid-level figures who spearheaded the southward advance of the demonic path.
"Hmm, mid-stage Core Formation cultivator, demonic cultivator, possesses a mid-stage third-tier Soul Dao spirit pet."
This is only his apparent strength.
Such people are best avoided.
Chen Yi was glad that he hadn't killed the woman immediately.
"We almost alerted the enemy!"
As for the claim that the Cold Crow Immortal and the demonic path were plotting to seize the secret realm,
Chen Yi didn't care.
When the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.
In the vast cultivation world of Qi, there are several Nascent Soul cultivators, at least a three-figure number of Core Formation cultivators, and countless Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Even if it were to perish, it would still have to struggle for a hundred or two hundred years.
By then, Chen Yi had already planned to escape.
For the next three months, Chen Yi obediently stayed in the sect to cultivate.
Using the system's power, it slowly absorbed the wood-attribute spiritual energy from the mid-grade third-tier Xuan Yin bamboo.
The wood element within the Taiyi Longevity Mantra in his body gradually began to radiate spiritual light, no longer simply "dead mantra" nurtured through dual cultivation, and was moving towards the final step of spiritual perfection.
At the same time, Chen Yi dispatched the first batch of second-tier low-grade flying sparrow puppets he had crafted to patrol the entire Tianyin Mountain Range.
Every few days, the puppet would return to replenish its puppet crystals and inform Chen Yi of the situation outside.
This is Chen Yi's achievement in the field of puppetry over the past seven years.
With his foundation in array formations and his powerful divine sense, his puppetry skills improved remarkably quickly.
At least, it's faster than the puppet genius Ning Bu'er was back then.
Over the years, he gradually used up the gains he made in the secret realm, dabbling in supernatural powers, escape techniques, winemaking, and puppetry, many of which proved quite effective.
The only thing he felt constrained by was the art of divination.
This thing is really hard to master.
Each cultivation session consumes either lifespan or innate talent and potential.
Chen Yiqian gave up after practicing a few times.
He must use his lifespan and innate talent for cultivation; he cannot waste it on this.
"Forget it, let's focus on improving our cultivation first. Cultivation and combat strength are the foundation. As for those unorthodox methods, it's better not to learn them."
Actually, Chen Yi still harbored some resentment. Divination and divination were indeed very useful skills in the world of cultivation.
I wonder if a substitute can be found for this kind of depletion of lifespan and innate talent.
If he can find it, Chen Yi still wants to learn it in the future.
In the past few months, after being draped in the Moon Spirit Veil, the Treasure-Hunting Rat has become even more powerful.
In the underground spiritual vein world of the Thousand Sound Mountains, he almost became a king.
It already possessed talents in earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to move freely and find treasures), and under Chen Yi's training, it also learned some lightning crystal attack techniques.
Now, with the invisibility ability of Moon Spirit Veil, she is invincible among second-tier demonic beasts, relying on stealth techniques to ambush them and strike and escape in a single blow.
Even the giant pangolin, which was several times its size, benefited from it.
Over the past few months, the treasure-hunting rat has brought back many earth-attribute treasures for Chen Yi.
Items like spirit stone milk, spirit bamboo shoots, various spirit ores, and stone marrow can be worth thousands of spirit stones.
The rat's cultivation was becoming more and more perfect each day. Under Chen Yi's perception, its demonic power was gradually approaching the peak of the second tier, already surpassing that of the Crimson Flame Sparrow.
It proposed to break through to the third-tier Great Demon realm, and showed a longing for the third-tier earth-type demon core given to it by its companions in the imperial city's black market.
Chen Yi has consistently refused.
"Breaking through to the third tier is a big deal, don't rush it. You should hone your fundamentals and go find some spiritual items."
When the time is right, you will be given the opportunity to make your move.
Of course, after Chen Yi refused, he also gave it a little something in return.
Its cultivation level has improved, and its physical condition has barely met the requirements.
Chen Yi implanted nine third-tier lightning crystals into its body using the method of planting lightning crystals.
To make it more powerful in combat.
The mouse had no choice but to continue working in the mountains, accumulating demonic power and spiritual objects for itself, while also handing over 70% of its harvest to Chen Yi.
This time, its strength has increased, and it is preparing to attack the late-stage second-tier white jade python guarding the third-tier spirit herb.
Snakes are natural predators of rodents, but there are also differences in demonic power and supernatural abilities.
The mouse decided to give it its all in order to reach level three.
For the past few months, Lin Xiaoyu has remained calm and focused on her cultivation, completing sect missions and fulfilling her duties as an ordinary disciple.
After observing her, Chen Yi guessed that she must have gone into hiding.
During this time, Chen Yi made two feints to leave the mountain gate.
In fact, the person did not leave.
After testing the waters, Lin Xiaoyu did not report Chen Yi's whereabouts to the outside world.
Under the triple reconnaissance of the Crimson Flame Sparrow, the Puppet Flying Sparrow, and the Treasure-Seeking Rat,
Chen Yi found no evidence that any True Core cultivators had entered the Tianyin Mountain Range to hunt him down during the two days he left the mountain.
Now that Chen Yi's spiritual sense is stronger...
Chen Yi could implant a small portion of his divine consciousness into these two spirit pets, as well as the puppet flying sparrow.
Within a radius of no more than five miles, they share their visual and sensory abilities, granting them a small portion of Chen Yi's advanced divine sense.
It has a good ability to detect early-stage third-order creatures, including early-stage Core Formation cultivators.
"It seems that the person behind Lin Xiaoyu has no doubts about me whatsoever."
On this day, on a dark and rainy night...
Chen Yi left a True Illusion Talisman inside the cave, which emitted the same late-stage Foundation Establishment level magical power fluctuations as his original self.
Then, he quietly used a concealed version of the Wind and Thunder Escape Technique, carrying a woman wrapped in Moon Spirit Veil in his hand.
They left the Thousand Sound Mountains overnight.
This concealed-breath version of the Wind and Thunder Escape Technique was developed by Chen Yi over the past few years through analysis and improvement of the old tortoise's high-level Turtle Breath Technique.
Its effect is that when using Wind and Lightning Escape, the fluctuation of magical power is reduced to a very low level, and the sound and lightning effects almost disappear.
If it were an inconspicuous night, with other weather conditions providing cover, even ordinary Core Formation cultivators would find it difficult to detect that it was a streak of light.
Thunder and rain poured down relentlessly in the night sky above the Thousand Sound Mountains.
There was a faint glimmer of wind and thunder.
It blended into the overall thunderstorm environment and was completely inconspicuous.
With Chen Yi's current Wind and Thunder Escape Technique, when used at full power, his speed is already approaching that of a mid-grade third-tier escape technique.
Although its energy consumption is high, Chen Yi uses the lightning crystals within his body as his energy source.
Despite running for a day and a night, it still held up.
With the aid of a powerful concealment technique, even a Core Formation stage cultivator would find it difficult to detect his presence without careful attention.
After a night and a day of flying at 70% speed
Chen Yi had already arrived at Honghe City, which was 28,000 li away from the Thousand Sound Mountains.
He briefly scanned the cultivator levels in this market with his divine sense.
They discovered that the person with the highest cultivation level was only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
Chen Yi hid his senior sister Zhou Zihan in a nearby cave and had the treasure-hunting rat guard her.
He then entered the market, disguising himself as a petite late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
He shrouded himself entirely in a black robe, and his voice was also altered to make it impossible to tell whether he was male or female.
"You are the manager of this market town. I have two third-tier spirit bamboos here. Would you be willing to take them?"
Chen Yi took out two spirit bamboos that he had absorbed most of their spiritual energy from.
This reduced its quality from mid-grade (third tier) to barely reaching the third tier level.
Even so, such a third-tier spiritual item is a rare find, perhaps only once every two years, in a Foundation Establishment market.
The round, chubby late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator's eyes lit up, and he immediately tried to withdraw.
Chen Yi, disguised as a man in black robes, had no interest in further discussion. He swiftly and decisively sold the two spirit bamboo stalks for five thousand spirit stones.
Then he turned around and left, flying away from the market and into the mountains.
The round, chubby late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator beckoned for pursuit.
But they found that in the blink of an eye, they had lost sight of the other party's target.
"Late Foundation Establishment stage, suspected to be a female cultivator, with extremely strong concealment abilities."
The chubby, late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was reluctant to leave and took the people back, fondling the two spirit bamboos with great affection.
Chen Yi, moving at a speed slightly faster than that of a typical late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, arrived at the near-third-tier Red Maple Immortal City, three thousand miles away from Red River Market, in just one day.
In this immortal city, he again sold five third-tier spirit bamboos, disguised as a petite cultivator in black robes.
One of them is of quality close to that of a mid-grade tier 3.
In total, they collected several thousand spirit stones, as well as various spirit herbs worth several thousand spirit stones.
These transactions lasted for three days.
On the last day, when Chen Yi took out the spirit bamboo again, several subtle divine senses had already swept over him.
One of their divine senses was at the third level!
He felt that was about right.
That evening, after selling the nearly third-grade mid-level spirit bamboo,
He used all 18,000 spirit stones he had on him to buy the [Spirit Purification Liquid], a water-attribute Core Formation spiritual item he had long admired, at a premium.
Such Core Formation spiritual objects are rarely found in near-third-tier immortal cities. They are usually locked up by true Core Formation experts for use by their descendants, disciples, and relatives in their Core Formation process.
And yet, in such places, they are being sold at prices exceeding the market value.
It is most likely used for fishing.
Because those who can afford this stuff are all easy targets.
But Chen Yi came here specifically to be lured in.
After spending a fortune to purchase this item, Chen Yi, now a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, used a concealment technique of the same level to quietly leave Red Maple Immortal City under the moonlight.
Sure enough, shortly after leaving the Immortal City, several faint divine senses began to track and investigate him.
One of them was at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, and the other two had pseudo-Core Formation divine senses.
To Chen Yi's surprise, there was also a True Core level divine sense.
However, even the cultivator with the True Core level of divine sense was only chasing Chen Yi at the speed of a Pseudo Core cultivator.
In recent years, after demonic cultivators drove monsters to invade, the official forces and sects of the Qi Kingdom have gradually shrunk.
The reduced deterrent effect against cultivators who had undergone calamities led to chaos throughout the cultivation world of Qi.
For someone like Chen Yi to engage in such a "swaggering" transaction, requiring nearly 20,000 spirit stones, is a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
In the eyes of any cultivator undergoing tribulation, they are a fat sheep.
Today, Chen Yi is not going to fish.
Instead, they chose a cultivator undergoing tribulation and devoured him, like a fish.
No matter who it is, as long as this petite cultivator who sells spirit bamboo and buys Core Formation spiritual items dies at his hands, that's enough.
Four people pursued them, but the one at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage retreated after a brief sensing of their presence.
The opportunity was given to the three fake alchemy masters.
Sensing that someone was chasing him, Chen Yi paused briefly before speeding up and running rapidly towards a valley not far away.
The three pursuers immediately turned towards Chen Yi.
To Chen Yi's surprise,
He was not attacked immediately.
Instead, the three people behind them started discussing it first.
Perhaps, in their eyes, Chen Yi, a lamb to the slaughter, was doomed to die.
"Fellow Daoist, where do you come from? Could you possibly give us, the Two Fiends of Xuanming, some face and let us have this fat sheep ahead?"
One of them spoke, and the other, a fake Dan, flew towards the person, and the two joined forces.
Clearly, two of these three are in cahoots.
however,
The last person, however, showed no fear whatsoever:
"What are these Xuanming Two Fiends? How dare they contend with me?"
The last person revealed a trace of True Core level magical power, intimidating the two.
"A True Core cultivator?!"
The two men's expressions changed, and they immediately turned and left.
"What kind of world is this? A mere 20,000 spirit stones, and even a True Core cultivator is acting as a Tribulation Cultivator?!"
Just after the two turned and left...
The True Core cultivator's expression changed; he realized he had almost lost all sense of the fat sheep.
Only a faint trace of fluctuation remained in his divine sense, flying towards a certain place in the valley.
After seeing the two fake Core Formation cultivators far away, he chased after them towards the valley at a speed exceeding that of ordinary early-stage True Core Formation cultivators.
The two fake cultivators who had left sensed the other's speed and were filled with lingering fear.
"Such speed of escape must be no ordinary True Core cultivator."
After a while,
The two fake pills gazed at each other from a distance of more than ten miles.
There seemed to be brief fluctuations indicating a fight in the valley.
Then, a streak of azure light flashed and quickly disappeared into the distance.
"Azure Wind Escape, a member of the Feng family?!"
"The Core Formation cultivator of the Feng family is either Feng Xiansheng or Feng Xianqiang!"
"It's a good thing we didn't fight them head-on. If we had really fought, we definitely wouldn't have come out on top. And the Feng family is the most vengeful. We wouldn't be able to use our names as the Xuanming Two Fiends anymore."
The two looked over there, feeling a lingering fear.
(End of this chapter)