The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 25: Pure Cultivation
Beneath the towering mountains, there is a dark and deep valley filled with tall trees and snakes and insects.

A dark cloud was rising slowly, and after it reached a height of more than a hundred feet, it rose even more slowly.

Li Yuan in the clouds looked at the magical weapon which was getting slower and slower with some surprise. Baibi Wulan was a special flying magical weapon, which naturally came with magical restrictions such as the art of lightness, but after rising to a height of a thousand feet, it could only rise at a difficult speed.

He had considered the danger of getting lost in the mountains, but he did not expect that the earth's power was so terrifying. If Li Yuan did not hesitate to increase his magic power, he might be killed by falling to death at high altitude without the support of magic power!
This was no joke, even if his body had been cleansed and blood had been replaced, and he could survive a fall of a hundred feet. But in the Helian Mountains, just like the gravity he faced in his previous life, the force of gravity would increase as he fell from a height of several thousand meters, and he might really die from the fall.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan had to give up the idea of ​​flying into the sky and escaping from the mountains directly after most of his magic power was depleted.

But walking aimlessly in the mountains is a very dangerous thing, so Li Yuan still released Chen Ming in the hope that this mountain bird could perform some magical functions.

Chen Ming took him around in the mountains for who knows how long, but not only was there no sign of getting out, but they were getting deeper and deeper.

It's not that Li Yuan doesn't want to live in seclusion here and practice diligently, but because the Wu earth here is heavy and the Ji earth is evil, which can overcome all elements of water. Not to mention practicing here, if he stays here for a long time, his cultivation will probably be damaged.

After walking for about half a month, Li Yuan had completely lost his way and could only follow Chen Ming all the way. He killed countless poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and even collected three or five spiritual herbs that were decades old.

But he still couldn't get out of the vast mountains until one day Chen Ming suddenly screamed and rushed forward with him.

Li Yuan was cheered up. No matter whether it was good or bad, as long as there were changes, there would be a way out.

He followed Chen Ming and flew in the air. They rushed for dozens of miles in one breath when a light source suddenly appeared in the dark forest.

Li Yuan stepped forward in surprise, and after taking a quick look with his divine sense and finding nothing unusual, he quickly flew towards the gap.

The blinding light made his eyes a little uncomfortable, but he still forced himself to look around.

This sight made him a little dumbfounded.

Because the scenery before your eyes is not empty land, but a vast expanse of water that stretches as far as the eye can see.

The water is indigo blue and sparkling. Birds fly across the water, fish swim and shrimps crawl in the shallow water near the shore. Looking towards the center of the water, you can see a deep blue color reflecting the nearby mountains.

"Is this... a lake in the valley, or is it the sea?"

Li Yuan was somewhat shocked, but he did not dare to act rashly, because in such a vast expanse of water and in the deep mountains with no one, who knew if there were any monsters or evil creatures in the water?
He walked along the water's edge for a long time, and even flew around the water's edge for a day or two, before he finally determined that this was a huge mountain lake valley!

They also encountered barbarians in the mountains. Most of them had long braided hair and spoke an incomprehensible foreign language. They also had many tattoos of poisonous insects, snakes and beasts on their bodies. However, they knew how to cook food with fire before eating.

Li Yuan had no contact with these barbarians, after all, he was an outsider.

So he simply dug a cave on the rocks near the water's edge, planning to practice seclusion there for a while.

There is water from the big valley here, which can flush out the earth evil, harmonize yin and yang, and all things are born between the mountains and rivers, which is also suitable for the category of Yuan water.

Li Yuan placed a warning magic circle, but he was still not reassured, so he released two puppets to guard the cave, and asked Chen Ming to stay near the cave and not run around to cause trouble.

After doing all this, he calmed down and meditated to regulate his breathing.

Then he thought about his next plan. It was impossible to go back to the mountain for the time being. The big lake in front of him proved that he was no longer on the edge of the mountain. Without a clear route guide, it was impossible to get out.

Even though you can see the sun and the moon on the lake, you will still lose your sense of direction if you walk far away.

Then I can only practice here for a period of time. I need to improve my cultivation level, after all, I am still far from achieving perfect bone solidification.

In addition, he also needs to find time to make the Spirit Source Beads. If he has enough Spirit Source Beads, he will be able to activate that top-grade magic weapon, which is equivalent to having a powerful killing weapon.

Then you have to continue practicing the Shuiyunjian escape technique and you can't fall down. After all, it is a life-saving escape technique.

You can also make some puppets to replenish consumables.

In Li Yuan's eyes, puppets that cannot win are only used to self-destruct and hurt the enemy. Others are reluctant to do so, but he is willing to do so.

When I think about it this way, I still have a lot of things to do.

After adjusting his mindset, Li Yuan closed his eyes and began to practice his skills, drawing the water-based spiritual power from the surrounding area into his body. After circulating through the small and large circles, it then wandered around the bones in his body, condensing the spiritual bones bit by bit.

Normally, it takes half a year to condense a piece of spiritual bone, but Li Yuan's practice of using Yuanshui to nourish the bones naturally increased the speed a lot, and he could condense a piece of spiritual bone about every three months.

At this rate, even with the blessing of the spiritual lower Yuan Zhen Jue, it would take about fifty years to cultivate to the perfect state.

This was already an incredible speed in the eyes of others. One must know that spiritual roots were most important in condensing the Immortal Bone. Li Yuan only had average spiritual roots. Logically speaking, he should have been like many elders in the sect who would not be able to achieve perfection until they died of old age.

But even with the help of this heaven-defying martial art, Li Yuan still felt that there was not much time left.

He is nearly sixty years old this year. He needs to practice for another forty or fifty years, and it will take him over a hundred years to achieve perfection. He only has fifty or sixty years left to break through to the Tao and comprehend supernatural powers.

This is because once a Qi-refining cultivator reaches the age of 150 or 160, his body and soul will both decline in energy and blood, and the possibility of a breakthrough will be greatly reduced, making it almost impossible to succeed.

He didn't know about others, but the two peak masters in the Qi Ling Sect had the support of an entire peak, but they were still stuck for decades without taking that step. Peak Master Helian even died on the Chouyun Mountain. It was enough to imagine how difficult it was to reach the first level.

But Li Yuan had no choice now. Not to mention that he was penniless and had no spirit stones to buy elixirs to improve his cultivation, even if he bought them, he would not dare to take them.

The Secret of Spiritual Communication with the Lower Yuan has mentioned that taking these pills will subtly increase the difficulty of breaking through the realm. The more you take, the greater the difficulty will be.

Li Yuan could only rely on years of hard training to make up for the gap in his spiritual roots. He practiced in seclusion for more than three months in a row, and only came out after a piece of condensed spiritual bone appeared in his body.

As soon as I walked out of the cave, I saw Chen Ming sitting on a thick branch, pressing the waist of a big red snake with his sharp claws and pecking at the snake's gall with his sharp long beak. The bright red blood flowed down the branch, dripping on the thick rotten leaves and soil, and was sucked up by poisonous insects one after another.

"You guys, you can't eat these poisonous insects carelessly."

Li Yuan stretched out his hand to beckon. Shen Ming's feathers revealed bright colors. These feathers were already poisonous, so he couldn't touch this little thing as he did before.

Shen Ming nodded disapprovingly, then stopped at his shoulder and combed his feathers.

This guy has eaten countless rare and bizarre spiritual fruits in the World of Ten Thousand Trees. He seemed to be immune to all poisons. Now, he has become poisonous, but his demonic power has not improved much.

However, monsters have a long lifespan, so their cultivation speed is naturally very slow, so many sects have the saying that one beast can be passed down for three generations.

After leaving the cave, Li Yuan took a walk in the forest to relax his brain for a few days. It was quite interesting to be in the mountains. If he really didn't leave the cave for years, he would be no different from a living dead.

When it comes to spiritual practice, one must be relaxed and diligent. Since Li Yuan came to the mountains, he has been here from summer to winter. As the weather gets colder, the barbarians have also hidden in the caves and no longer come out.

When the first snow falls on the Helian Mountains, the sky and the earth are clear, snow hangs on thousands of branches, and the north wind blows icy rain. Thousands of birds are silent, thousands of animals return, and most snakes, insects and ants run underground to avoid the cold.

Li Yuan also returned to the cave and began to make the Spirit Source Pearl. This pearl was the secret of the Qi Ling Sect and could replace the Spirit Stone to drive the puppet. It could also be recycled. If there were enough of them, it would be a strategic material for the Qi Ling Sect.

The Lingyuan Pearl is made of the fruit of the Qingquan Lingshu as the main material, mixed with several kinds of spiritual water. By imposing magical restrictions, spiritual energy can be stored in it.

However, this kind of thing can't be stored for long, and half of its spiritual power will be lost in ten years at most. Moreover, this bead can only be used for a period of sixty years at most, after which the magic prohibition and spiritual materials will lose their effectiveness and become useless.

It is precisely because of these two limitations that the Qi Ling Sect did not put all its efforts into refining this bead.

The Lingyuan Pearl in the Wan Kui Sutra also has these limitations, but the spiritual power that can be stored in it is comparable to the magic power of a late-stage perfect cultivator.

Li Yuan started a furnace in the Wanmu Realm, picked the fruits of ten Qingquan spirit trees, and then added various spiritual materials and threw them into the furnace to refine them into shape.

His many years of experience in refining puppets made him half a weapon refiner. The Lingyuan Pearl was not a magic weapon, so the refining technique was naturally simple. He was able to refine three of them in the first attempt.

Afterwards, Li Yuan engraved magical bans on these spirit source beads one by one. It took him half a month to finally finish two of them. The other one was destroyed due to his lack of skill.

He then drew spiritual power into the two spirit source beads. This was the spiritual power of heaven and earth, not the magic power in his body.

Li Yuan held two pure white beads the size of longan in his hands. In a good mood, he took out the top-grade magic weapon.

Then he began to carefully investigate the restrictions. With his powerful spiritual sense, he finally found a curse seal on the eighth restriction that was different from the magic weapon. It seemed that this curse was the tracking seal.

Li Yuan's mind moved, and he began to use his magic power to refine the treasure. At the same time, the heart blade condensed by his soul shattered the tracking curse. He felt relieved only after a careful inspection.

Ordinary low-grade magic weapons only have one to three levels of magic prohibitions, mid-grade ones have four to six levels, and high-grade ones have seven to nine levels of magic prohibitions.

As for the top-grade magic weapon, that is the best among all the magic weapons, and even a master weapon refiner cannot create a top-grade magic weapon.

Unless he is wealthy and powerful enough to first refine a spiritual weapon, and then use his magical powers to repel the spirituality, causing the power of the spiritual weapon to be greatly reduced and degraded into a top-grade magical weapon.

Therefore, each top-grade magic weapon is the embodiment of a person who has truly established a foundation and cultivated his supernatural powers and Taoism, and only the closest people can obtain it.

Li Yuan took advantage of the cold winter weather when the Yuan water was blocked and made eighteen Lingyuan beads in a row. All of them were filled with water-based spiritual power. If a high-quality magic weapon was activated, it would be equivalent to having the help of eighteen late-stage cultivators.

Even if the spiritual power required for the Shangfeng Xuanyu Order is huge, it should be enough.

The past few months have passed in a flash. The ice and snow have melted in spring, and the remaining snow is still hanging on the branches, but the whole mountain has changed to a new green color. Li Yuan sits cross-legged on the shore, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The wind from the lake blows his long hair behind him, and his robes rustle.

When spring comes and life returns, it is the time of the year when Li Yuan can practice the fastest. Naturally, he must seize this opportunity to practice diligently.

At noon that day, Li Yuan had just finished practicing a great circulation of energy when he heard a hurried crow’s cry coming from the forest behind him.

"Cuck!"

"Quack! Quack! Quack!"

Then I saw a group of birds startled and flew up from the forest, scattering and fleeing. It was obvious that some terrifying beast was wandering in the forest.

Li Yuan frowned, but he couldn't just ignore it.

He jumped up, his steps a little lighter than before, and floated towards the place where the crow's cry came from.

After walking only a few hundred feet, he saw a thick ancient tree falling down and crashing towards him.

Li Yuan twisted his body and turned over to step over the huge tree, which hit the ground with a loud thud.

He looked and saw Shen Ming flapping his wings desperately to fly and dodge among the branches of the tall trees, but his wings seemed to be stained with some green liquid, so he could not fly too high.

On the ground, there was a giant green python that was over ten feet long. The python was emerald green all over, and its body was thick and wide, enough to swallow the height of two adult men. Its pair of vertical golden snake eyes like lanterns stared at the black crow.

Li Yuan waved his sleeves, and the silver cold needles sneaked away silently. At the same time, two Yi wood puppets fell down, bent their bows and aimed their arrows at their heads, and suddenly released two light arrows.

The big green python had unusual spiritual perception. It quickly turned around and opened its mouth to spit out a ball of green poisonous water, which actually corroded the two arrows.

Its huge body was incredibly flexible as it crawled on the slippery ground, rushing rapidly towards the more tempting thing in front of it.

The green color in front of Li Yuan flashed and turned into heavy clouds that blocked the way like a wall. Although the giant python sounded terrifying, it was only a demon in the middle stage of Qi Refining. It was stuck after breaking through only one layer of the cloud wall.

"Whoosh~"

A silver light flashed, and a slender silver needle pierced the giant python's pupil. Blood splattered, and the giant python roared in pain, shaking its body as it struggled.

Li Yuan pushed out with both hands, and three sword-like ice cones pierced into the green python's body, and blood flowed all over the ground.

At this moment, Shen Ming turned around, pounced on the giant python, tore open the snake's body with his mouth, and pecked at the snake's internal organs.

"boom…"

The giant python struggled for a long time. Even though snakes have strong vitality and their internal organs were cut open, they were dead.

"Don't wander around and get into trouble next time!"

Li Yuan gave Chen Ming a warning, but the black crow didn't even raise its head and just focused on eating blood.

He also cut off a piece of the snake's body and put it in his storage bag as spiritual food. The meat of monsters also contains spiritual power, and it is a good nourishment to eat occasionally.

"Wow~"

"Whoo~"

As soon as Li Yuangang returned to the lakeshore, he saw a sudden strong wind blowing over the lake. Huge waves appeared on the originally calm water surface, hitting the huge rocks on the shore, creating waves as white as snow.

(End of this chapter)