The Primordial Law

Chapter 317 Picking Flowers
After the magical energy in the seven Qi Seas was restored, Li Weiyi once again looked inward at the Divine Palace.

The twelve-character Dao seed floated in mid-air, forming a soul bridge that connected with the internal energy and soul.

The magical power gushing from this tenth spring is liquid, like a pool of water. Illuminated by the twelve-character Dao seed above, it is colorful and resembles a glassy solution, full of myriad divine essences.

Since cultivating the Tenth Spring, Li Weiyi has been reluctant to use liquid magic power and has been accumulating it.

Now that it has reached the Dao Seed Realm, liquid mana is constantly gushing out. Compared to when it was at the Five Seas Realm, the spring is several times larger.

With an experimental mindset, Li Weiyi mobilized his liquid magic power, channeling it towards his String Meridian and Trace Meridian. In his mind, one of the twelve divine figures appeared, and he carefully savored the essence he had gained from his previous battle with it.

The fingers form hand gestures, creating a series of overlapping finger shadows.

"Wow!"

The consecration ceremony of Cihang was performed.

The air around the point of the fingertip vibrated violently, forming a sonic boom cloud the size of a washbasin.

The speed at which the fingers are extended exceeds the speed of sound.

A beam of light shot out from the center of the sonic boom cloud, tearing the surface of Tanggu Sea apart with a loud crash, forming a long waterway.

The waves churned and rolled on both sides of the waterway, creating a magnificent spectacle.

"Such powerful strength! The concentrated finger energy has terrifying penetrating power, no less than the first level of a great technique."

Li Weiyi didn't know how to cultivate the twelve moves of scattered techniques like a grand art. There was no division into one, two, or three levels, nor a complete and specific cultivation system.

"Perhaps it's related to the scriptures I've come to understand."

"I have only just begun to cultivate the Dao, using the Twelve Scattered Techniques as a bridge, and have only obtained one scripture seed for each of them. The more scriptures I comprehend, the more profound my cultivation of the Twelve Scattered Techniques of the Chan Sect will be, and the greater its power will definitely be."

In Li Weiyi's view, the twelve figures that appeared when he activated the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish were not real people, but rather the incarnations of twelve Daos.

He couldn't understand what "Tao" was, so he subconsciously personified "Tao".

No one could explain it to him; everything was just guesswork.

Li Weiyi then tried again, mobilizing the magical energy in the seven Qi Seas to perform the Cihang Enlightenment technique.

Its power was indeed greatly reduced.

It is only equivalent to the first level of a minor mastery technique.

This is already quite remarkable!

Li Weiyi had only just begun cultivating the Dao, yet he had already mastered twelve major techniques. This meant that in battle, he wouldn't need to rely entirely on magical artifacts, allowing for greater flexibility and adaptation to different combat environments.

It should be noted that Wang Shu spent three years cultivating a great technique, and was then directly appointed as a divine son, achieving a remarkable leap in status.

If Wang Shu were still alive, he would probably die of anger upon learning that Li Weiyi was proficient in thirteen great arts.

"It's best to avoid using liquid mana, otherwise it will be too shocking to the world. Who knows, we might be captured by a giant in the Longevity Realm and forced to teach us the cultivation method of the Twelve Scattered Hands."

"From the outside world's perspective, I am Fengfu Zhongdao."

On the sea, Li Weiyi demonstrated each of the twelve freehand techniques one by one, and clearly felt that he had gained new understanding and insights compared to before.

While performing the moves, one can sense the presence of the Dao, which surrounds one's body.

Unseen, ungraspable.

You can only understand it little by little.

"Wow!"

He used the Pure Void Chasing Cicada Step, and a wisp of blue cloud and mist remained beneath his feet.

Wandering among the Xihe flowers, holding a jade bottle, a magical artifact, she collects the flower dew.

The main ingredient for refining the Starry Night Pill is the dew of the polar day.

Yin Er said that it was a treasure born from the land of polar day, like liquid light.

Li Weiyi felt that Tanggu Sea could also be considered a place of polar day. The dew of the Xihe flower was indeed not as good as the dew of polar day, but he had studied it and found that it contained a strong and scorching spiritual light substance, which had one or two tenths of the effect of the dew of polar day.

After some tempering, it is sufficient for alchemy.

The key difference is that the midnight sun dew is incredibly expensive, costing 30,000 to 40,000 Yongquan coins per drop. In contrast, Xihe flower dew can be collected in considerable quantities every day.

Not long after, Li Weiyi returned to the underground cave.

He sat at the bottom of the pitch-black cave, feeling a strong hunger pang in his stomach. He took out the jerky he had prepared in advance and put it in his mouth to chew.

"This feeling of hunger only comes each time I emerge from the Cocoon of Time. Could it be that the Divine Palace Seedling took ten days?"

Li Weiyi recalled the battles with the twelve divine figures on the ocean of scriptures, which indeed took a great deal of time. The longest battle lasted a full three hundred and twenty-seven times before he finally obtained the Dao Seed Scripture.

In the spirit world, his mental power has been mostly restored.

He released his spiritual light again, activating the two fish eyes.

One is a relic of Buddha, and the other is a bone from the brow of the Taoist patriarch.

"Wow!"

A radiant light rose, a Tai Chi millstone appeared, and space distorted.

Li Weiyi carefully sensed the space and discovered fluctuations in time.

The ocean of Taoist and Buddhist scriptures appeared once again beneath my feet, undulating like the sea and dazzling like a starry sky.

Since no battle intent was released, the twelve divine figures did not appear.

Li Weiyi walked on the ocean of scriptures, his mind clear, carefully observing and comprehending. Suddenly, a smile appeared on his face: "I understand! The Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish is the supreme codex of the Chan Sect, containing an ocean of scriptures."

"The twelve divine shadows that evolved from the twelve scattered techniques are the twelve keys to comprehending this codex. Or rather, they are the twelve teachers who imparted the code."

“They practiced the same codex, but the twelve people achieved different results.”

"Right now, I'm essentially combining the strengths of twelve different approaches to find a thirteenth possible outcome. You're such a silent type, aren't you?"

No one responded to him.

Li Weiyi suppressed her smug smile and withdrew from the sea of ​​scriptures.

A long time has passed, and he doesn't know what's going on outside. He's a little worried and can only wait until he returns to Nanqing Palace to go into seclusion and cultivate.

"I need to find someone I can absolutely trust to take a look at my current state after activating both fish eyes simultaneously. Has the space changed? Has time changed?"

Li Weiyi walked out of the spider hole.

It was pitch black and cold outside, with only a faint light coming from the direction of the Dark Flower Swamp.

The air was filled with the putrid stench of millennia of sediment, containing miasma and poison.

With his current cultivation level at the Dao Seed Realm, he has long since transcended the mortal body. This level of poison, once inhaled, can be rapidly refined by his magical energy. Only poisons like the "Earth Spirit Gray Mist" of Coffin Mountain still pose a certain threat to him.

Donning the mask, Li Weiyi stepped into a boundless, dark swamp, his figure disappearing into the miasma as he emerged from beneath a cloud of magical energy.

Two phoenixes flew out and perched on his shoulder, their six claws upright, their wings folded to cover their bodies. Without looking at their heads, they didn't resemble moths or butterflies, but rather colorful birds.

Over the past nine months, Erfeng has grown a bit and reached the second level of the Dao Seed Realm.

Li's only wealth and resources were mostly consumed by those seven.

Their growth rate is getting slower and slower. If you throw an ordinary thousand-year-old herb at them, it won't even make a ripple after they eat it.

Li Weiyi said to Erfeng, "We came to the Dark Flower Swamp to do only two things. First, to find the Spirit Platform Fiery Star Stone. Second, to find the Flower of Meditation."

"The more you find, the more merit points you can exchange for, and then buy more millennium-old medicines. Also, look for Old Qi and Tuoba's auras and see how they've reaped their rewards."

"Wow!"

The two phoenixes spread their wings and flew into the sky, their eyes becoming bright and their sense of smell fully released.

Before long, it spotted something, swooped down, and flew at high speed in a certain direction.

"Is your perception that sharp?"

Li Weiyi used his movement technique to follow closely behind.

After running for several miles, a strange white flower the size of a fist appeared before them. It grew in the decaying mud above the water's surface, without leaves, only a foot-long stem.

"The white meditation flower is the lowest grade and can be exchanged for 1,000 merit points. After consuming it, it allows the meditator to enter a deep meditative state."

Li Weiyi quickly took out the Cold Jade Box and walked over.

From a distance on the right, came a dense, piercing sound.

A swarm of venomous mosquitoes flew in, their number countless, like a black cloud.

The Meditation Flower, like the ephemeral beauty of the night-blooming cereus, grows extremely quickly. Once it blooms, its fragrance attracts all sorts of malevolent creatures from the vicinity. Therefore, whether or not one can harvest it depends entirely on luck, and it is extremely dangerous.

Such a large swarm of bone-corroding mosquitoes would cause even ordinary martial artists at the Dao Seed Realm to flee in panic.

Li Wei ignored them, used his magical energy to envelop the white meditation flower, plucked it, and quickly placed it into the Cold Jade Box.

Meanwhile, Erfeng had already driven back the swarm of bone-corroding mosquitoes.

“The Bone-Eating Miasma Mosquito is a general-level ferocious insect. Each one is comparable to a martial arts master in the first or second realm of the Five Seas Realm. Why don’t you subdue it?” Li Weiyi communicated with Erfeng using his telekinesis.

Erfeng's answer left Li Weiyi both amused and exasperated.

It said that the seven of them were usually not enough to eat, so how could they feed the swarm of bone-eating miasma mosquitoes they had subdued?

Li Weiyi rolled her eyes. As long as the seven of them were provided with food, they could keep eating until they were stuffed to death.

How can I possibly get enough to eat?
Li Weiyi released his mental power to probe the underground of the rotten mud.

The Spirit Platform Star Stone is found in the rotten mud deep beneath the Flower of Meditation. However, it's not found beneath every Flower of Meditation; it all depends on luck.

Li Weiyi was unlucky and gained nothing.

……

after one day.

Li Weiyi put the fifteenth flower of meditation into the box.

Among them, there are twelve white meditation flowers and three blue ones.

The blue meditation flower can be exchanged for 10,000 merit points and is a medicine to help Grand Masters meditate deeply.

The most precious item is the Purple Meditation Flower, which can be exchanged for 100,000 merit points and can help spiritual practitioners meditate deeply.

Each deep meditation greatly increases mental power.

"what!"

Li Weiyi's eyes lit up; his telekinetic nerves detected strange fluctuations beneath the rotten mud of this flower of meditation.

A chain of spiritual light flew out from between his brows and pierced deep into the rotten mud.

"Wow!"

A tiny fragment of the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone, about the size of a grain of rice, was pulled out and fell into Li Weiyi's hand. Two phoenixes flew over and landed on his shoulder, staring intently with wide eyes.

"Finally found one. It doesn't seem too difficult." Li Weiyi carefully put it away.

He must collect more treasures like the Spirit Platform Star Stone; otherwise, where will he find them after leaving the underground immortal abode?

Without this item, his mental power level would improve at an incredibly slow pace.

Erfeng made a "chirp chirp" sound.

"Good, good, you've done a great job..."

Li Weiyi narrowed his eyes and saw five figures, arranged in a fan shape, closing in on him. They were holding magical artifacts and wearing the rice robes of core disciples.

Judging from their posture, they had clearly discovered that Li Weiyi had just taken the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone and were trying to hunt him down.

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

Upon approaching, one of the core disciples with a pure immortal body saw the two phoenixes on Li Weiyi's shoulder, and his expression changed instantly. He immediately used his magical energy to transmit his voice to the other four.

The five people stopped in their tracks, looked at each other, and were at a loss for what to do.

"What are you doing?"

Li Weiyi wore a mask, stood with his hands behind his back, spoke in a calm tone, and exuded an extraordinary air.

As the five men looked at his upright figure and felt an invisible force surging towards them, they trembled instantly, put away their magical artifacts, bowed to him, and didn't even dare to think of escaping.

One of the core disciples of the Seventh Sea trembled with nervousness as he said, "Greetings, Your Highness, Fourth Divine Son. We...we were just passing through..."

Li Weiyi strolled over, taking several steps at a time: "Oh, you recognized me!"

"I can't recognize Your Highness, but I can recognize your extraordinary insect. I was fortunate enough to witness Your Highness's slaying of Wang Shu from afar. Your Highness's demeanor is unparalleled; we mere mortals can only admire you from afar," said the core disciple of the Seventh Sea.

Li Weiyi said, "Saying all this is useless! You were clearly trying to hunt me down and seize my treasures. You all have such audacity. If I were only at the Fifth Sea Realm, wouldn't I be dead at your hands by now?"

A core disciple of the Fifth Sea, terrified, knelt in the mud, his legs buckling: "Your Highness, spare us! We were just passing by and were heading back. We only came to investigate after discovering the radiance of the Spirit Platform Fiery Star Stone. How could we dare harm our fellow disciples?"

The person before me killed the former Fourth Divine Child for the same reason.

How could they not be afraid?

There is great fear when faced with life and death.

(End of this chapter)