Vampire Cultivation Notes

"Hmph, you'd better make a decision this year and come explore the cave with me!"

Master Chengming suppressed his anger.

Suddenly, a message arrived from his waist. Due to his official duties as the head steward of the neighborhood, he could not linger and turned to leave.

However, before leaving, Master Chengming remembered something else and turned back to leave a cold remark.

"You're not afraid of Yu Mingli's death, but what about Jiang Wei and his wife?"

"A few days ago, Master Baozhou's cave received a message that Jiang Ping, who joined the Ruyi Sect sixteen years ago, is preparing to return. If he travels by sea, he will arrive within two months. When that time comes and he wants to investigate the fate of your other parents, if I don't cover for you, will you still be alive?"

"Jiang Ping'er..."

Li Jieqing was stunned: "Did she break through to the Foundation Establishment stage?!"

Chengming Daoist ignored it, as they both disliked each other and went straight out the door.

After Chengming Daoist left, Li Jieqing sat alone for a while, then suddenly got up and hung a sign in front of the courtyard that said "No Visitors Allowed".

"Ten years, no, it's been sixteen years..."

Li Jieqing recalled the girl who had visited his shed when she was thirteen or fourteen years old; her every smile and frown was still vivid in his mind, and he felt a pang of sadness.

How ever-changing things are!

As an elder, he was entrusted with the care of his beloved wife and her son before their deaths, so that the family could be reunited.

Now, fate has brought us together.

However... Li Jieqing is preparing to run away.

Inside the small courtyard.

Li Jieqing sighed leisurely with his hands behind his back. His cultivation level was not high enough, so he had no other choice but to run away.

Sixteen years, almost seventeen, Li Jieqing lamented that he had only cultivated to the peak of the mid-stage Qi Refining realm, stuck at the bottleneck, unable to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining. Chengming Daoist had even guessed his background of mixed five-element spiritual roots.

Even if one has a mixed five-elemental spiritual root, being stuck for so many years is almost enough.

Li Jieqing has recently felt his bottleneck loosening, and he feels that if he were given another two years of painstaking practice, he would definitely be able to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Unfortunately, time waits for no one.

Jiang Ping'er returned ahead of schedule. Although her cultivation level is unknown, her status as a member of the upper sect, which allows her to leave the mountain gate, suggests that her cultivation level is definitely not that low.

It's close to Foundation Establishment.

Li Jieqing really didn't want to meet her.

Rogue cultivators in the streets have never had any integrity. If Jiang Ping comes with the identity of a member of an upper sect, he will definitely tell you the story of how Jiang Wei and his wife followed him and then disappeared.

Now that things have come to this, what are we waiting for if we don't run away?

"...Chengming, you old bastard, I'll spare you this time. I'm off!"

Li Jieqing began rummaging through boxes and cabinets, packing all his belongings.

Over the course of ten years, he monopolized the Fengxin Pill, making a huge profit by using his own blood. As a result, he accumulated a considerable fortune. He had long since disposed of the Jiang family's storage bag and replaced it with a full ten-cubic-meter storage bag.

Several more magical artifacts were also acquired: one for protection, one for escape, and one for reconnaissance; all were of superior quality.

It's not that we can't afford to buy more, but that we can't afford to maintain them. If magical artifacts aren't regularly infused with magical power for maintenance, and are simply left idle, the internal restrictions will soon break down.

Li Jieqing was busy with his cultivation, and keeping these few magical artifacts made him one of the most extravagant and generous cultivators in the area.

After all the magical implements were put on neatly, the spiritual talismans, thunder pills, alchemy materials, cauldrons, miscellaneous books and formulas, and various pills accumulated over the years were taken out and counted.

One of the pills, a mysterious emerald green, is the rarest and most precious breakthrough pill in Taiping Market, practically priceless.

The effect is to assist cultivators in breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining; the higher the grade, the greater the success rate.

Although this pill has some side effects, after using the Breakthrough Pill to break through, the cultivator's true qi cannot be fully replenished, and it will take more time to make up for it.

However, once they reach the late stage of Qi Refining, they are basically among the top combatants in Taipingfang City, capable of fighting against the monsters of the wasteland and obtaining more resources.

Furthermore, for independent cultivators in the marketplace, the late stage of Qi Refining is basically the limit.

Since we can't break through to the Foundation Establishment stage anyway, why bother with potential future problems?

Given this background, even low-grade breakthrough pills are always more sought after in Taiping Market than high-grade Qi-nourishing pills, truly having a price but no market.

Li Jieqing managed to obtain a mid-grade breakthrough pill only by taking advantage of his cooperative relationship with Cheng Mingdao.

He originally didn't plan to use it, intending to wait until the last moment to talk to Chengming Daoist.

But now it's unavoidable; even if there are some potential problems, we have to get on the train first and buy the ticket later.

All resources and treasures have been inventoried.

After counting the remaining 1,700 spirit stones, Li Jieqing fastened his storage bag, donned a black cloak and a human skin mask for the first time in many years, activated a high-grade concealment talisman, and flashed out through the back door without stopping.

Over the past ten years, Li Jieqing has come to vaguely know where the treasure cave is hidden in Wangyue Valley, and he has most likely been looking in the wrong direction before.

Once he goes out and finds a place to take the Breakthrough Pill to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining, he can try it out at Wangyue Valley and find out.

After searching for ten years, I'd rather run away than not go and see for myself.

Beneath the archway.

Li Jieqing, who had rushed over, shuddered and frowned.

"Who...the One-Horned Taoist Priest?!"

The Blood Heart Freedom Secret Record contains a spell that can detect the blood energy within a certain range around the body, called the Blood-Seeking Spell.

Furthermore, Li Jieqing's vampire physique allows him to memorize the scent of each person's blood.

The combination of the two almost produces a qualitative change.

Over the past decade of diligent cultivation, more than half of the upper-class cultivators in Taipingfang have had their blood exchanged with elixirs by Li Jieqing, and this has been recorded. He has essentially woven a net from his small courtyard on South Street, and can clearly see the movements of every cultivator whose blood he has drunk.

Li Jieqing noticed this at that moment.

The old Taoist priest, who had just left the courtyard that morning, was rushing straight towards this place.

Expanding the scope of his academic search, Li Jieqing discovered that the old Taoist priest with the unicorn horn had been chasing him all the way from the small courtyard on South Street, moving at an extremely fast speed, completely disregarding the local custom of walking slowly.

"Walk!"

If things go wrong, running away is the best option!

Li Jieqing pulled down his hood and quickened his pace toward the exit beneath the archway.

On the street, the old Taoist priest with the unicorn horn had already appeared. Although he was old, his eyes were sharp and quick. His gaze swept over the pedestrians at the door and finally stopped precisely on Li Jieqing.

"That's him!" The old Taoist priest with the unicorn pointed.

"!!!"

Li Jieqing turned around abruptly, only to hear a sword's cry fall just in time.

Dangerous!

At his waist, a defensive magic artifact resembling a jade pendant was activated, and a thick, golden color spread all over Li Jieqing's body.

The next instant, a sword light struck, slashing down on him.

The sword energy ripped open the hood of Li Jieqing's cloak and sliced ​​off his human skin mask. The moment Li Jieqing's body touched the sword light, he was sent flying backward, crashing into the center of the archway and rolling smoothly into the wilderness.

The sword light receded, and the next moment, Jiang Ping slowly descended from the sky, dispelling the dust with a wave of his hand, his magical power surging.

"That's a good decision. If you had resisted my sword technique head-on, your magic weapon would have been destroyed without a doubt..."