Vampire Cultivation Notes

Dongfu District, the underground cave dwelling of the former Master Baozhou.

Li Jieqing sat cross-legged by the Green Lotus Pond, with the Thousand Illusions Mask on his left and the Green Water Sword hanging in his right hand, remaining motionless for three days.

Although outwardly serene, the inner dantian was surging with magical power, the Small Heavenly Circuit of the Blood Heart Freedom Record was being fully activated.

As Li Jieqing entered the late stage of Qi Refining, the spiritual energy gathered around the Azure Lotus Pond surged in and poured into his body almost without any hindrance.

A few wisps of hair on her forehead moved without wind, their spiritual energy flowing through them, leaving a thin layer of frost on her cheeks and hair.

Until a certain moment, the external spiritual energy and the internal true energy clashed from the small circulation, rushing towards the dantian. The essence of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, belonging to the five elements, merged with the spiritual energy of the five elements of heaven and earth. This was the Taoist practice of harmonizing the dragon and tiger.

Li Jieqing's true energy was refined in the interaction of the dragon and tiger, transforming into even deeper magical power.

Once his true energy was fully refined, Li Jieqing opened his eyes, his magical power surged, the thin layer of frost on his hair disappeared, and he regained his full vigor.

Eighth level of Qi Refining!

It's done!

It took twelve years for him to break through from the sixth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level.

However, it only took seven years to go from the seventh to the eighth level of Qi Refining.

This was not only because they were both at the late stage of Qi Refining and had no bottlenecks, but also because of the spiritual gathering effect of the second-grade Ruyi Green Lotus, which allowed Li Jieqing to absorb a lot of spiritual energy, suppressing the hidden dangers of his forced breakthrough to the late stage of Qi Refining back then, and enabling him to cultivate faster than ordinary mixed spiritual roots of five elements.

"Having reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, my magical power has become much stronger. My divine skill has been perfected. Shouldn't we celebrate...?"

Li Jieqing was pondering whether to go find Xingniang or Xieniang to celebrate, but the next moment, he shook his head, chuckled, and gave up the idea.

It has been almost seven years since Taipingfang Market was destroyed.

Years ago, he set a deadline for himself: to obtain the Foundation Establishment technique and break through to the next level within ten years, and then abandon Taipingfang City, this spiritual land, and leave.

Seven years have passed, which is about right.

Once their cultivation levels are stable, they can then arrange the follow-up to the identities of Ancestor Fengxin and Blood Hand Demon, and then leave and change their identities.

"Back then, the demon tiger broke through to the second level because of my luring it into the cave, causing the great calamity of Taiping Market, which was not my intention. Therefore, I worked hard to cultivate the land and nurture the market for seven years, so that order could be restored. I also spread the Foundation Establishment Technique, which can be considered as doing my best."

Li Jieqing naturally did not believe that the destruction of Taipingfang Market was his fault.

The main issues lie in the demon tiger itself, the pressure from Jiang Ping'er and the other two disciples of the upper sect, and the cause and effect of the two-hundred-year-old massacre of demon beasts in Taipingfang.

He was just going with the flow and took on a little bit of responsibility.

Therefore, I have helped many acquaintances to the best of my ability, and I can say that I have a clear conscience.

Now that the rice has been sold for seven years and the market has resumed operation, it's time to cut off the supply and run away.

"I will stop planting this spirit rice once the last batch is sold. Many people in the neighborhood already suspect that I have taken grain from the treasure boat master's granary. If I continue to sell it, it will only create more trouble."

"...The ginseng planted back then has already accumulated over 180 years of medicinal properties. If we wait a little longer, it can be used to refine high-grade Qi-nourishing pills. When we pull it out, we need to be careful to avoid it failing to grow."

"The Vermilion Fruit has ripened twice. A thirty-year-old Vermilion Fruit can be used to refine a low-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill, a sixty-year-old Vermilion Fruit can barely be used to refine a mid-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill, and a ninety-year-old Vermilion Fruit is still not ripe, what a pity."

"We've stockpiled quite a batch of chicken blood vines, some of them are ten or twenty years old, so we won't lack raw materials for refining Fengxin Pills in the future."

"However, having changed into the identity of the Ancestor Fengxin, one must be more cautious when refining and selling Fengxin Pills..."

"No, I have the Green Lotus to accelerate ripening, so I don't lack raw materials. Actually, I can focus on developing another type of elixir then?"

Standing in the herb garden, Li Jieqing suddenly remembered his new identity and couldn't help but smile.

The Ruyi Green Lotus is truly a wonderful treasure.

My new self-cultivation plan is starting to take shape.

Taking advantage of the years of market collapse, he acquired several rare pill formulas from cultivators, and he can try to refine them and choose a new flagship product.

Over the years, besides useful things like prescriptions, we've also acquired a lot of other random and miscellaneous items.

Beside the herb garden, Li Jieqing carefully checked his storage bags in preparation for moving.

He already had a storage bag with a capacity of ten square meters. Over the years, he has received gifts from kindred spirits and has also collected a dozen or twenty more storage bags. All in all, it is more than enough to hold the entire cave dwelling.

However, it's impossible to use all of these storage bags.

Not only would he end up looking like an elder of the Beggars' Sect with all those storage bags hanging on his body, but Li Jieqing also didn't have the magical power or time to maintain so many storage bags.

Both the Azure Water Sword and the Thousand Illusions Mask require time to nurture.

Therefore, all that Li Jieqing has left are three larger storage bags and one spirit plant bag, which are currently hanging inside his robe.

"This spirit rice plant, I don't know when it came from... I threw it away."

"The porcelain bottle that once contained the blood of a monk... I threw it away."

"Fifty catties of damp spirit charcoal... keep it... or just throw it away..."

Li Jieqing stood by the herb garden, measuring the space in his storage bag, and throwing miscellaneous items one by one into the white cornfield outside.

These storage bags are enough. The miscellaneous items aren't important. After clearing out some space, they'll be enough to hold the medicinal herbs to be transplanted and the Four Trap Chessboard.

"This is... the item that Jiang Wei and his wife brought out of their cave from Wangyue Valley back then?"

A statue ended up in the hands of Li Jieqing, who was cleaning out his storage bags, and was not casually thrown away.

This is the statue of "King Heng," which is widely worshipped among the people of the Great Xin Dynasty. It is said to be a savior deity from countless dynasties ago, and many counties still worship him to this day.

Li Jieqing, coming from the secular world, naturally recognized the statue.

I had no doubts before, but now that I know a little about the origin of the cave's owner, I have a different understanding of the statue of the King of the Ridge.

"Could this King Heng be the one who took the Ruyi Green Lotus from the sword duel at the Ruyi Sect five hundred years ago?"

"A person's life is as fleeting as a blade of grass in autumn. To ordinary people, what happened five hundred years ago is already like a myth..."

When Li Jieqing picked up the statue again, he used his magic to examine it over and over, but still found no divine signs.

Unlike the stubborn stone chessboard, this was indeed an ordinary statue. With the erosion of time, even a mortal could destroy it with a little force. It was unknown why the owner of the cave had left this thing inside.

Li Jieqing was pondering.

suddenly!

Outside the cave, a message arrived and crashed directly into the protective magic array on the ground.

With a thought in mind, Li Jieqing went down to the ground to investigate.

But there was nothing else inside the formation, only eight large, nonsensical characters in cloud script.

The superior ancestor is approaching; set sail immediately!

With a clenched fist, Li Jieqing extinguished the eight characters of information and gasped in shock.

How terrifying!