Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

"puff!"

The towering body of the Shadowless Ape King crashed to the ground, and the stench of blood filled the cave.

The squeaking apes and their offspring, their eyes gleaming with ferocity, pounced on Li Ping, but in the blink of an eye, Xuan Yi, controlling the Devouring Yuan Sword, skewered dozens of them like candied hawthorns on a stick.

The remaining apes let out mournful cries and dared not approach any further. They merely watched from afar, their bright eyes flickering like ghostly flames in the dark cave.

Li Ping glanced at them briefly before turning his attention away from the low-level ape demons and focusing on dealing with the spoils of war.

A third-tier demonic beast is a treasure from head to toe.

With a flick of his sleeve, a small green bottle flew from his hand. He then made a hand seal and chanted incantations. A blue light landed on the hideous head, and a ball of yellow fire was slowly pulled out under the blue light, flying towards the bottle's opening before being absorbed into it.

Li Ping looked up and sucked the green bottle towards him, a smile appearing in his eyes.

The essence of a third-tier demon beast is quite valuable and can be used to refine a low-grade third-tier puppet, so he naturally wouldn't let it go.

He put the green bottle into his storage bag, and then took out a jade box and a jade bottle.

They collected a yellowish-brown demon core and a large mass of essence blood radiating astonishing spiritual energy.

Despite the large size of this third-tier demon beast and its gushing blood, after being refined by Li Ping's alchemical fire, all the impurities in its flesh and blood were removed, leaving only less than five hundred drops of its essence blood.

Needless to say, demon cores can be used to refine pills that enhance cultivation and foundation-building pills.

The essence blood of third-tier demon beasts is also very useful, such as for refining weapons, making pills, and crafting talismans; it is a rare and valuable item.

After carefully storing the demon core and essence blood, Li Ping looked at the demon corpse on the ground again.

During the process of refining the essence blood, the rest of the Shadowless Ape King's flesh and blood were burned to ashes by his alchemical fire, leaving only a withered skin and white bones with a golden sheen on the ground.

The fur can be made into third-tier talisman hides for crafting spirit talismans, while the bones tempered by spiritual energy can be used for weapon crafting. Both are excellent spiritual materials, and Li Ping put them all into his storage bag.

Finally, there was the thick, long piece of spirit wood that the Shadowless Ape King used as a weapon. It was a piece of unknown third-order spirit wood. Li Ping didn't know where it came from, but now it had become Li Ping's spoils of war.

After storing all the spiritual items that caught his eye in his storage bag, Li Ping walked to the Spirit Eye, the place in the cave with the densest spiritual energy: "This should be fine."

"Squeak~"

The earth spirit rat appeared in front of him for no apparent reason, with a red spirit herb in its mouth, as if it were asking for credit.

Li Ping examined it and found that it was a thousand-year-old spiritual herb, probably naturally grown within a third-order spiritual vein.

After carefully storing away the thousand-year-old spiritual herb, Li Ping flicked his sleeves, and one hundred mid-grade spirit stones, five pieces of spiritual materials with five elemental attributes, and the jade slip of "Ink Cloud True Explanation" appeared on the ground at the same time.

Then he waved his sleeve again, and the Jade Eye of Spirits appeared in his palm.

Based on past experience, when he inherits memories through the Inheritance Tree, he will be trapped in an illusion for a period of time, during which he will have almost no reaction to the outside world.

Previously, he received his inheritance in his own cave dwelling, so he didn't have to worry about safety issues at all.

But now, he is in the Cloud Mist Mountains, which are teeming with demonic beasts, and the third-tier spiritual vein beneath his feet cannot be taken away like other items. He must receive the inheritance here.

Therefore, security became a concern for him.

He has a third-tier protective formation, so theoretically he's safe as long as no third-tier demonic beasts appear. But what if...?

After pondering for a moment, he did not rush to pass on the knowledge, but instead ordered Xuan Yi to guard the Spirit Eye and kill all the ape demons that dared to approach.

He then commanded the Earth Spirit Rat to take him underground. They went down to a depth of over a thousand feet before stopping. He then used magic to compress the surrounding soil and gravel, and took out the spirit wood from the Shadowless Ape King to support himself. He forcibly created a space a thousand feet underground that was nearly a hundred feet long, wide, and several feet high.

After doing all this, he took out the set of third-tier array flags he had obtained from the secret realm from his storage bag, set them up one by one according to their positions, and placed the array plate in the corresponding position. After confirming that everything was correct, he nodded slightly and commanded the earth spirit rat to take him back to the ground.

"After I faint, take me and Xuan Yi back to the underground space, then put the Spirit Eye Jade into the array plate to activate the array, understand?" Li Ping solemnly instructed the Earth Spirit Rat.

"Squeak~"

The Earth Spirit Rat patted its chest confidently, indicating that it understood and everything was fine.

Li Ping stood there, pondering his plans.

After he falls into a coma and enters the inheritance illusion, the Earth Spirit Rat will take him to dive thousands of feet underground and activate a third-order formation. With the protection of thousands of feet of thick earth and the third-order formation, more than 90% of the dangers can be eliminated.

In addition, Xuan Yi will protect him.

Without his control, Xuan Yi's combat power will be somewhat reduced, but relying on the power of the formation, he will have no problem fighting against monsters below the mid-stage of the third rank.

Even if something goes wrong in this short time, the Earth Spirit Rat can take advantage of Xuan Yi holding off the enemy and escape with him using Earth Escape Technique.

"There are no problems now, let's begin the succession!"

With everything arranged, Li Ping no longer hesitated. After giving the Earth Spirit Rat several instructions, he gave Xuan Yi specific orders.

He then took a deep breath, stretched his right palm forward, and countless air fibers, visible only to himself, spread outward from his palm, forming a huge transparent network that enveloped the jade slip, spiritual materials, spiritual stones, and the spiritual eye site.

As these items slowly disappeared before Li Ping's eyes, the Tree of Inheritance in his sea of ​​consciousness gradually released a faint green light, and a slender branch slowly grew out from it...

During this process, he gradually fell into a hallucination.

"Mo Yun, Qi Refining Level Two!"

Seven or eight young men and women, with their youthful appearances, lined up to have their cultivation levels tested by their family elders.

When the cold voice of "Level Two Qi Refining" rang out, Mo Yun immediately felt strange gazes coming from all around.

"He's already fifteen years old, how come he's only at the second level of Qi Refining? His cultivation is too slow."

"Yes, even the younger Mo merchants have cultivated to the mid-stage of Qi Refining."

"He possesses three spiritual roots, and his spiritual root aptitude is not bad."

"I heard he's obsessed with array deduction and doesn't practice cultivation at all."

"You've become addicted to studying formations, huh? No wonder..."

……

Not only were his peers in the surrounding clan gossiping about him, but even the elders in the family were very troubled by this thin, quiet, and withdrawn little guy.

Since he accidentally came into contact with array formations a year ago, he has gone mad, no longer focusing on cultivation, and spending all his time poring over that introductory book on array formations and deducing their meaning.

"You can't go down this path. It takes at least fifty or sixty years to achieve anything in array formation research. Countless predecessors have wasted their energy and effort, yet they couldn't even get to the basics. You're still young; don't go down the wrong path," the elders patiently advised him.

But he wouldn't listen. He lowered his head and spoke, his voice hesitant but firm: "They are them, and I am me."

The elders in the family sighed and didn't say anything more.

Perhaps in his view, being born into a Foundation Establishment family like the Mo family, a cultivator with three spiritual roots has no chance of establishing a foundation anyway. Moreover, Mo Yun's cultivator father died early, and his mother was a mortal, so his chance of establishing a foundation was even more remote.

So even if it's delayed, it just means you'll reach the late stage of Qi Refining a little later.

When he gets older, he will focus on cultivation. As for now... let him be.

Sixteen years old, second level of Qi Refining.

Seventeen years old, second level of Qi Refining.

Eighteen years old, second level of Qi Refining, apprentice of Lingnong.

Nineteen years old, second level of Qi Refining, apprentice of Lingnong.

Twenty years old, second level of Qi Refining, unemployed.

The clan's elder called him over and criticized him for being so engrossed in divination and neglecting his spiritual fields.

"Your annual stipend from the family is temporarily suspended until you break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining," the Elder of General Affairs announced his punishment, his tone filled with disappointment.

"Go back and reflect on your actions." The elder in charge of general affairs coldly dismissed him.

Despite losing his job, Li Ping was not discouraged; on the contrary, he was delighted because he could now focus on studying array formations.

Twenty-one years old, second level of Qi Refining, unemployed.

Twenty-two years old, second level of Qi Refining, unemployed.

Twenty-three years old, second level of Qi Refining, unemployed.

Twenty-four years old, second level of Qi Refining, unemployed.

He stayed at home for four years, and during those four years he didn't even step out of the door. Apart from his mother bringing him food every day, he had never seen a stranger.

The name "freak" gradually spread within the family.

The mother, whose hair was streaked with gray, cautiously asked him, "My son, I heard from the clansmen that you've fallen into demonic possession?"

Mo Yun shook her head: "I didn't."

The mother visibly breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. I don't understand the affairs of you cultivators. Your father didn't like to talk to me about it when he was alive."

Mo Yun remained silent.

Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, and twenty-nine years old.

Most of his peers had already cultivated to the fifth level of Qi Refining or above, and some had even broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining, becoming independent members of their families. Mo Yun, however, remained indoors, studying his array formations.

His cultivation level was still at the second level of Qi Refining.

Apart from his mother, he has been largely ignored by most of his clansmen, but his mother's hair has turned increasingly white as she takes care of him.

Mo Yun remained silent in the face of her mother's nagging.

until--

At the age of thirty, having reached the second level of Qi Refining, he became an advanced array master and was accepted as a disciple of a Core Formation cultivator in the Tianxuan Sect using his array skills.

On this day, the former freak became the pride of his mother and the Mo family!

At the age of forty, he successfully established his foundation, and his cultivation level caught up with that of the family elders.

With his master's guidance, his mastery of array formations advanced by leaps and bounds, and in that same year, he became a mid-grade first-tier array master.

Seventy years old, mid-Foundation Establishment stage, first-tier high-grade array master.

One hundred and twenty years old, late stage of Foundation Establishment, second-tier array master.

At the age of one hundred and ninety, he formed the Golden Elixir.

At two hundred years old, he absorbed all the essence of the array formation research of the Tianxuan Sect's array masters throughout the ages, and reached the second-tier superior level in array formation.

At the age of four hundred and fifty, he independently deduced the third-order array method.

At the age of five hundred, he summarized his life's research on array formations and formed a third-order array formation inheritance, named "Mo Yun Zhen Jie" (True Explanation of Ink Clouds)!

After a loud laugh, he passed away suddenly.