Celestial Taoist

Su Qingyao had said that there were no Taoist cultivation methods in the system. Could she have been lying? He quickly searched through the information and found that although there was a lot of data, there were indeed no cultivation methods. They were mostly auxiliary materials, interpretations, and references for cultivation.

After establishing their Dao foundation, Taoists in the world of Heavenly Punishment usually choose their own path of cultivation. This is related to the Great Dao they will eventually form. The guidance materials contain countless known directions of the Great Dao, but they can generally only be used as a reference.

The profession of Taoist is very new. More than two thousand years ago, the founder of the sect created the Origin Great Dao. Wherever the founder thought and desired, all living beings manifested their spiritual roots. Since then, more than two thousand years have passed and no new Great Dao has been born. Therefore, later Taoists basically do not need to worry about conflicts in the path of the Dao. As long as it is not the Origin Great Dao, as long as you have the ability to cultivate the Great Dao, the rest will be a smooth path.

However, only intelligent beings have the opportunity to be born with spiritual roots, and different spiritual roots also have a general range of major paths that can be cultivated. Li Mofan glanced at these major path plans and realized that his spiritual root did not seem to be among the known types.

But it's not so bad. In the more than two thousand years that Taoists have existed, there have been predecessors who have already developed solutions for how to cultivate in this situation. The most mainstream method is "tracing back to the source". This method draws on the idea of ​​"returning to one's ancestry" in the cultivation of purifiers. It takes the spiritual root as the anchor point, traces back to the original aura of the spiritual root, awakens the hidden qualities of the spiritual root itself, and then finds a cultivation direction and path that suits oneself.

There are more than a dozen materials needed for this backtracking. As long as one of them is cultivated into the spiritual root, one can achieve "tracing back to the source". However, these materials are not cheap. Li Mofan started by looking at the cheapest one, the Glazed Fruit, and was secretly shocked. There was not a single one that cost less than 20,000 Heavenly Coins. With his current wealth, he could barely scrape together half a Glazed Fruit even if he sold all his equipment. He would also have to see if it was sold in the store. If the only one available was the most expensive Creation Spirit Liquid, which cost more than 300,000 Heavenly Coins, he would probably have a hard time tracing back his path.

It seems I'll have to work hard on the tasks. This is the first time Li Mofan has experienced the value of money since he embarked on his cultivation journey. Even a simple source tracing is so expensive. If other cultivation aids are not so expensive, they must be even more terrifying. He just saw in the information that there are spiritual items that can improve the quality of Dao Fruit formation. Shaking his head, he quickly gave up the idea of ​​looking at the spiritual items. If he did, he was afraid that he would be discouraged and lose interest in cultivation.

Now that he has the Universal Yuan Core Shield, as long as he accumulates enough spiritual power, he will be more confident when accepting higher-level missions. Li Mofan opened the mission interface of the Heavenly Punishment System. After he formed his Dao Foundation, the number of missions increased significantly. Looking at the dazzling array of missions, he quickly filtered them in his mind and soon selected a mission with a reward of two thousand Heavenly Punishment Coins.

[Level 35 Quest] [Replace the Magic Array Core]

After becoming a beginner-level talent, he was finally able to view the mission details. He focused his attention on the mission name and received a brief description of the mission. The mission was to go to an alternate world called Edge World 23 and help a powerful mage replace the core of a magic circle left behind in this world. The mission required that the magic circle and mission items not be damaged, otherwise the Heavenly Punishment System would claim compensation for any damage caused upon his return.

The difficulty of this mission lies in its time consumption. As the name of the world suggests, this world is quite remote, so remote that even the Tianfa world does not have a teleportation array to reach it. According to the mission instructions, one must cross the outer void to reach the nearest world, Xuanhuang 65.

In fact, with Li Mofan's current strength, he could have completed even more difficult missions, but doing them alone would put him at a disadvantage. Li Mofan's first time participating in a team mission resulted in him being outmaneuvered by a high-level talent, making him cautious about teaming up now. He's hesitant to team up with people he doesn't know well. However, with Su Qingyao's attitude drastically changed, Li Mofan is now less inclined to actively seek her out.

Huo Di, the evolved human he encountered in the previous trial mission, was a good teammate. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that a talent that has been recycled will live like an ordinary talent. After the mission ended, Li Mofan tried to bring Huo Di out of the portal, but found that he was the only one who was teleported out after passing through the portal.

He stopped thinking about it and figured he could find a suitable teammate later. Time passed quietly as he breathed in and out. About 10 hours later, Li Mofan exhaled a breath of stale air and stood up from his meditation.

This was the longest meditation he had ever done since he began cultivating, and also the one that absorbed the most spiritual energy. Now, not only could his body no longer hold a single trace of spiritual energy, but the huge 3000-point spiritual energy space in the Universal Yuan Core Shield was also completely filled by him.

During the breathing exercise, he also received a mission item. This time, it was delivered by a real person. Inside the package was a flat, multi-faceted gem. According to the mission instructions, this gem contained the Ark of the Otherworld, which was necessary for the mission. He had seen others use storage equipment several times before, but this was the first time he had handled a real one. He held the gem in his hand and probed it with his spiritual energy. He felt that it was a space several tens of meters in diameter. A small ship covered with mechanical devices occupied most of the space. He felt that he could take out the small ship with a thought, but the dormitory space was too small to place it properly, and he was not in a hurry to take it out.

Pushing open the door, Li Mofan squinted at the sight of the daylight that had been absent for so long. In the Tianfa world, there was no distinction between day and night; the sky emitted a soft light at all times. Time here was calculated according to a fixed set of logic. Li Mofan had done some research on it, but he couldn't get used to it at all, so he let the computer translate the time into the familiar time sequence on Earth.

It was still the teleportation array next to the recruit camp square. This time, few people paid attention to him anymore. Two or three days had passed. Su Qingyao's story might still be spreading, but as another party involved, he was obviously not very important. Even his appearance had been forgotten. After all, it was Su Qingyao who was dazzling, not himself. Li Mofan shook his head self-deprecatingly and stepped into the teleportation array. Among the fees for issuing low-level missions, the teleportation fee was often the most expensive, often more costly than hiring a talent.

This teleportation took longer than any of the previous teleportations Li Mofan had experienced. Several minutes passed amidst the shifting light and shadow before he finally felt solid ground beneath his feet. He stepped out of a teleportation receiving area surrounded by a white metal wall with sharp angles. Not far away was a small town that covered a considerable area. Li Mofan walked over to ask for directions.

Upon reaching the entrance, two tall guards fully clad in standard combat armor reached out to stop him. The guard on the right said in an unfriendly tone, "Military restricted area, no unauthorized personnel allowed!"