Immortality Cultivation: Fellow Daoists, please live for two more episodes!

In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed.

Shuiyue Branch, Inner Gate Stone Chamber.

Zhou Youyuan sat cross-legged on the stone platform, his spiritual energy flowing extremely slowly, like a pool of stagnant water being forced into a very narrow ditch. After finally completing a full circle, a strand of energy sank down along the Yongquan acupoint on the sole of his foot.

This wisp of spiritual energy dissipated as soon as it entered the ground.

It doesn't matter if it dissipates; what matters is that with each wisp that dissipates, he can clearly feel his body twitch slightly, as if something is being drawn away from his bones.

That is lifespan.

"The Art of Escape and Shadow" is a technique for escaping danger.

The effect is ridiculously powerful, but the price is even more outrageous. The outrageous part is that the price doesn't require spirit stones or consume magic power; it only consumes lifespan.

Each cycle of cultivation consumes half a year's lifespan and accumulates a wisp of "Escape from Emptiness Power," which remains in the meridians and will not dissipate unless used.

When you use it, you can release it all at once, and the speed can be increased several times.

To ordinary cultivators, this technique is utterly inhumane; who would risk their life to save their legs?

But Zhou Youyuan was no ordinary cultivator.

Time stands still, life is endless.

What's half a year? He has plenty of half a year to spare.

After completing the thirty-sixth cycle of spiritual energy, Zhou Youyuan exhaled a breath of turbid air and ended his practice.

Two months, seventy-two cycles of the heavens, and thirty-six years of lifespan were exchanged for thirty-six strands of power to escape the void.

That's enough for him to run at full speed for another thirty-six times, on top of his level eight Qi Refining.

What does 36 times the speed mean? It means that an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, without using any magic treasures, might not be able to catch up with him based solely on their speed.

Of course, it can only be used once. Once it's used up, you have to start saving again from scratch.

But once is enough.

Since he had decided to take the risk, he didn't want to run away repeatedly, but rather to seize the opportunity at the crucial moment and run away immediately.

Putting away his cultivation technique, Zhou Youyuan looked at the stone table in front of him again.

A chessboard was placed on the table.

It wasn't the kind of chessboard used for playing chess. There were chess squares, but instead of black and white pieces, the squares were inlaid with jade pieces about the size of a thumb.

The jade piece is engraved with a miniature of the mountainous terrain of the outer gate of Shuiyue, from the low hills on the outside to the deep valley on the inside, making it clear at a glance which roads lead to and which do not.

This treasure is called the "Hengjian Pan" and it is a valuable item that he had asked He Qing to find over the past two months.

It's called a chessboard, but it's actually more like a miniature simulation game.

By infusing spiritual energy, one can simulate the movement of people and deduce changes in the situation on the board. The most wonderful thing is that the board contains a hidden spiritual technique that can calm the mind and keep the head clear during the deduction, preventing external interference.

That's right, it's still used to defend against that innate Yin-Yang Dao Foundation.

It can be considered an upgraded version of "The Flowing Dawn".

By using a two-pronged approach, he can not only completely get rid of the influence of this damn thing, but more importantly, he can finally try to study it.

It's absurd, really.

This Dao Foundation has been with him for almost two years. For the first year or so, he was completely unaware of it, being led step by step by "Mars guarding the heart". At the time, he didn't think anything of it, but now when he thinks about it, it's terrifying.

He painstakingly sent this incomplete Dao Foundation to a higher place, thinking he was making strategic plans, but little did he know that every step he took was the Dao Foundation using him to find a new owner for itself.

It wasn't until the shattering of his consciousness by the Crossing the Death Chime that he was truly awakened, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him from head to toe.

Afterwards, they obtained "The Inner Illumination of Flowing Dawn" as a rough filter, which barely blocked the hidden attacks at the Qi Refining level, but it was only a barely effective one.

This thing can detect low-level bewitchment, but it can't detect interference above the Foundation Establishment level. It's like trying to catch water with a bamboo basket; more leaks than it catches.

Now that the "Hengjian Pan" has filled this gap, with two layers of insurance, he finally has the confidence to test this old man's limits.

After trying it, he actually discovered two ingenious uses for it.

The first method involves condensing the power of one's Dao foundation into a ball of light, which, when struck, amplifies a particular thought in the other person's mind.

Note that it's about magnification, not manufacturing.

What was already in the other person's heart was stirred up by this ball of light, burning even more fiercely, like adding fuel to a fire.

The greedy become greedier, the angry become angrier, and the indecisive are completely paralyzed and unable to move.

But if the other party is calm and has no thoughts, then hitting them with this ball of light is no different from farting.

The second ingenious use is more direct and also more despicable, disrupting the balance of Yin and Yang.

This yin and yang is certainly not the grand yin and yang that transcends life and death and overturns the world, but rather the small yin and yang between men and women. To put it bluntly, it's a form of enchantment.

He can amplify the charm of a chosen person to an extreme degree, to the point that the opposite sex around him cannot take their eyes off them.

Zhou Youyuan remained silent for a long time after discovering this second ingenious use.

In the end, he lived the life he most envied.

Enough with the small talk, let's get down to business.

Zhou Youyuan fiddled with the jade piece on the "Hengjian Pan" and pulled his mind back from the Dao Foundation.

Two months is not a short time, and the situation outside is no longer what it was before he went into seclusion.

Jucai Pavilion is now much larger than the small loan shop it used to be.

With Wanjitang's endorsement, He Qing's business of distributing mineral sands opened up upstream channels for Jucaige.

Because Master Shenyuan had other plans behind the scenes, the Fujiao Society couldn't suppress a small shop that posed "no threat" for the time being.

Just as both sides were poised to strike and neither dared to make a rash move, Jucai Pavilion, like a slippery eel, took advantage of the stalemate between the snipe and the clam to slip upwards.

Nowadays, within the outer sect of Shuiyue, whenever loans are mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind for the disciples is always the name Jucaige (Gathering Wealth Pavilion).

In addition, Qiu Wu's recruitment went smoothly; Shuiyue never lacked thugs who were short of money. Three hundred points a month, a contract of servitude signed, a vow of Dao heart made, and thugs were in hand.

It has suddenly become the third largest force in the outer sect, second only to the Fujiao Society and the Wanji Hall, which has shocked many outer sect disciples.

Now that he was financially secure, Zhou Youyuan naturally wouldn't be stingy.

The good stuff I've accumulated during these two months of seclusion includes one piece of "Escape from Emptiness and Shadow" and another piece of "Hengjian Pan". I got them all from Luoxia Peak by asking He Qing to send messages through the paper spirit cranes I had prepared before my seclusion.

The real person never shows their face, but the money is still spent and the goods are still taken.

As he expected, Shen Ye's business in selling spiritual plants in the outer sect was going smoothly, and his cultivation level also rose accordingly.

In the light screen of "The Record of Sending Off the Dead," the panel of the destined person number six looks much better than it did two months ago.

Well then, it's about time.

Excessive comfort can lead to a lack of ambition.

Shen Ye, who only knows how to farm, is of no use to him.

What he needs is a Shen Ye who is ambitious, skilled, involved in karmic connections, and ultimately dies in a high enough position.

But now his own time is running out.

Yu Miaoxian's side could explode at any time. The karma of the innate Yin-Yang Dao Foundation is still tied to him. We must add some more fuel to Shen Ye's ambition before she comes knocking on our door.

Thinking of this, Zhou Youyuan took out another paper crane.

Place a ball of light that amplifies desire inside, with a line of small characters written on it:

"Haven't you been searching for Pei Changgeng's cause of death? How about we make a deal? I'll tell you how he died, but in return, you do me a favor: go to the outer sect and find a man named Shen Ye..."

He wrote the recipient's name on the back of the paper crane.

Soft branches.

The paper crane flapped its wings and flew silently out of the stone chamber.

Meanwhile, at Jucai Pavilion.

Zhou Youyuan's mind stirred slightly, and Lin Qiusheng put down the account book in his hand and called Qiu Wu over.

"Judging by the days, the tricks we've laid on the person next to Shen Ye should be kicking in by now."

"That's about it."

Qiu Wu thought for a moment: "Judging from the cultivation method we adjusted back then, in another half month, the signs of spiritual energy depletion will be impossible to hide."

"Then let Manager Lü make another trip."

……

Rouzhi was a clear pawn in Shen Ye's scheme to add fuel to the fire.

Old Lu's side was a hidden pawn used to close the net on Liu Yinyin.

Two hands, one overt and one covert, one in front and one behind.

This blond-haired kid he found should also follow his script and step into the game.