Shennong Sequence

Once the spiritual essence of the precious medicine has been collected, Zhao Yun will enter the Myriad Spirits Imperial City every day.

As he wandered through the streets and alleys, his gaze swept over the ancient pines on the street corners that exuded the aura of wood spirit, the magical artifacts in the shop counters that gleamed with the light of their spirits, and the faint spiritual energy that unconsciously emanated from the cultivators passing by. He observed little by little and absorbed the spirit of all things.

Furthermore, the celestial city system is extremely strict, with numerous rules and regulations. In addition, although there are many spiritual entities within the city, most of them already have owners.

Spiritual essences are either hidden deep within the courtyards of other people's mansions or displayed in the arrays of shops; very few can truly be freely collected on the road.

Not to mention, the city walls and buildings of the Immortal City cannot be touched in the slightest. If one rashly tries to seize the spirit, it will inevitably trigger the array alarm within the Immortal City's buildings, which will attract the questioning of the Immortal City's guards and cultivators, and will also be a big problem!
So Zhao Yun wandered around the Immortal City for two days, then simply changed his strategy, frequently traveling between the Imperial Immortal City and the mountains and forests outside the city:
With each step he took through the mountains and forests, he would use incantations to absorb the spiritual energy of his surroundings:
Draw upon the rich spirit of the earth from the ground beneath our feet, which is soaked with morning dew.
Gather the vibrant spirit of wood from the swaying branches of the trees and the budding flowers around us;

Capture the vibrant spirit of water from the babbling brooks flowing through the forest;

Even from flying insects and swimming fish, he only takes a tiny bit of life essence, without harming the essence of life, silently accumulating nutrients for the growth of the "innate yellow sprout seed"!

Although Wang Teng collected a wide variety of spiritual beings in this wild world,

But after these spiritual elements are sent into the inner world, they are tempered by the great fire of Yin and Yang.
With the nourishment of the creative energy nurtured by heaven and earth within the body, impurities can be gradually removed, and it can become pure.

Therefore, Zhao Yun would go out according to a fixed schedule every day:
While gathering the essence of all things, they also collected some strange substances and some energy of all things that they had never collected before!

Over time, this has led to the formation of a regular route.

However, this fixed route actually created hidden dangers!

The Gao family, whose innate jade stone was taken by Zhao Yun, has always harbored resentment towards him—after all, the value of an innate jade stone is extremely high!
Although Zhao Yun's side possessed a material transformation method, capable of continuously generating wealth,
Even if you have money, you can't just buy innate treasures with money. You can't even get the qualification to participate in the auction for innate treasures!

This is enough to show how precious innate resources are.

Therefore, the "innate jade stone" that was originally a bait set by the Gao family was easily taken away by Zhao Yun, so he naturally held a grudge and wanted to take revenge.

However, the innate jade stone had already been completely refined by Wang Teng... Of course, ordinary outsiders could not possibly fathom Zhao Yun's inner cultivation level.

Because for cultivators at the Qi Refining stage, others can roughly judge their cultivation level by observing the characteristics of their weapon crafting, combat skills, and the spiritual aura emanating from their physical body.

However, once one enters the Foundation Establishment realm, especially when a Great Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator's inner world is formed, all their Dao techniques become completely internalized and no longer exposed.

Furthermore, the Foundation Establishment realm is a model of internal cultivation, and it generally does not show any specific external signs.

Furthermore, a Foundation Establishment cultivator's body will also have a layer of "world membrane" formed from world matter condensed on its surface, which is both a protective barrier and a barrier to prevent prying eyes!

To truly discern the specific cultivation level of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, there are only two possibilities:
Either the other party takes the initiative to reveal their level of expertise;

Either the observer's realm is far superior to his, so that he can discern the other's foundational realm at a glance from subtle details such as the other's aura and the fluctuations of the amniotic sac.

Furthermore, any attempt to spy will inevitably trigger the World Membrane outside the Foundation Establishment stage! Once the World Membrane senses the intrusion, it will instantly alert the entity itself, making any secret spying impossible...

Therefore, the Gao family would never actually send a powerful expert at the Golden Core stage of the Great Dao just to investigate Zhao Yun's cultivation level.

Moreover, a powerful figure of that level would have their every move affect the fortune of a region, so why would they bother with such a trivial matter?
Therefore, when sending juniors to secretly spy, since the cultivation of Foundation Establishment cultivators is measured in years, ten years is just a short gap in refining a cultivation level. How could they be easily seen through by people of lower realms?

Therefore, these younger generations originally thought that Zhao Yun had only laid the foundation for the Great Dao a few years ago, and that he was only just consolidating his foundation and was still in the stage of polishing his basic skills.

Even if they discovered that Zhao Yun had been collecting the Five Elements spiritual materials a few years ago, seemingly intending to condense the Five Elements spiritual essence and cultivate the realm of Dragon and Tiger Intercourse according to the immortal method of the Myriad Spirits lineage.

But it was precisely this appearance that led them to a greater misjudgment of Zhao Yun's actions in drawing and collecting resources!

After all, Zhao Yun could use the material transformation method to re-convert the analyzed spiritual materials, so although he seemed to be collecting them frequently, he didn't actually buy many resources...

So they estimated that Zhao Yun was out of money and at most had reached the second stage of Foundation Establishment: Dragon and Tiger Intercourse!
This is precisely why the cultivators of the Gao family who had been keeping a close eye on Zhao Yun made a huge misjudgment of his cultivation level.

Previously, Zhao Yun had always stayed in the Imperial Immortal City or the Dao Power Treasury, rarely going out, like a nail stuck in the same spot.

Even during crucial periods of his spiritual transformation, he would specially invite Xin Ruyin to act as his protector to ensure that his spiritual practice would not be disturbed.

This made it impossible for those who wanted to target him to find an opportunity, adding many difficulties for them...

But now, things have changed. Zhao Yun has started running outside the Imperial Immortal City every day, and quite regularly at that!

This change was keenly noticed by the junior cultivators who were watching him, and they immediately reported it to their superiors without hesitation.

They then secretly followed Zhao Yun for two more days, carefully observing his movements and confirming his pattern of leaving the city every afternoon and returning on time...

The Gao family then dispatched Gao Huan, the only person they had carefully nurtured over the decades to achieve the Foundation Establishment of the Great Dao.

Gao Huan has already reached the seventh level of the Great Dao Foundation Establishment: Zhen Leiji. His purpose in coming here is to intercept Zhao Yun and retrieve that innate jade stone!
If they don't get this precious treasure back, the Gao family will truly be unable to eat or sleep in peace.

This is a rare and precious treasure; how can it fall into the hands of the enemy so easily?

Therefore, in their view, retrieving the jade was the right thing to do, and if they could teach Zhao Yun a lesson along the way, that would be even better...

As for the sect's punishment, the Gao family had already made contingency plans:

At that time, someone will step forward to take the blame, and it is absolutely impossible for our family's promising Foundation Establishment cultivator to fall into trouble due to punishment.

In addition, Zhao Yun was also a worthy opponent that the Gao family had prepared for Gao Huan to hone his skills.
Because stepping on a Great Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator is tantamount to trampling on their fortune, thereby plundering it invisibly and strengthening oneself... (End of Chapter)