Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

On the vast, endless blue sea.

The airship sped past, leaving a silvery-white trail in the sky.

Li Ping stood at the bow of the flying boat, his eyes thoughtful.

Not long ago, after failing to sell the information that "the mastermind behind the killing of Guan Qianzai was the Datong Society" in the Shadow Killing Tower, he also updated the information about Chao Xuan of the Heavenly Thunder Sect.

As expected, Chao Xuan remained holed up in the Cangyun Mountains, showing no intention of venturing out.

Li Ping estimated that he had less than sixty years left to live.

He was about to pass away before he reached the end of his life, yet he showed no anxiety.

After reflecting on Chao Xuan's tortoise, Li Ping purchased a new map of the East Sea in Lingxiao City before leaving and flying towards the East Sea.

His destination was a sea area in the East China Sea called "Turbulent Waters". Because this sea area is far from the coastline, it is considered the boundary between the near sea and the deep sea, so there are more high-level monsters.

Even if human cultivators want to establish families and build up power in the East Sea, they will try to stay close to the mainland to avoid being harassed by high-level demonic beasts.

Li Ping was looking for a high-grade third-tier spiritual vein as nourishment, so naturally he wouldn't go looking for islands inhabited by cultivators and mortals.

It wasn't that he was worried about his own strength; with his strength, he could easily find a weak point and drive away all the humans living on it. But if he did that, the island would lose its spiritual veins, and all the cultivators and mortals would have to make a great migration.

Li Ping didn't want to do something that would incur the wrath of both heaven and man.

Therefore, he chose the Turbulent Waters as his target, intending to go to this sea area to find an unclaimed, top-grade third-tier spiritual vein as nourishment for his array inheritance.

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However, the sea area was indeed too vast. Even with Li Ping driving the flying boat at full speed, it took him half a year to fly day and night, covering millions of miles, before finally arriving at the turbulent sea area.

Along the way, Li Ping carefully concealed his presence and did not encounter any high-level demonic beasts blocking his path.

Upon arriving at the turbulent waters, the next step is to search for a high-grade third-tier spiritual vein.

With his patient search, half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

Standing above an oval-shaped island with a radius of nearly a hundred miles, Li Ping looked down with a mixture of surprise and delight in his eyes.

The good thing is:

Before this, he had already found seven islands in the rapids, and the one in front of him was the eighth.

However, the seven islands in front of him were either deserted islands without spiritual veins, or they had spiritual veins, but the quality of the spiritual veins did not meet his requirements.

As for the spiritual island in front of him, he easily judged the concentration of spiritual energy on the island by scanning it with his divine sense. The spiritual vein under the mountains in the eastern part of the island was of just the right quality, reaching the third-grade high-quality, which met his needs.

What surprised me was:

This spirit island is not unclaimed; a group of white-headed giant scaled eagles has made it their lair, and the leader of this group has already reached the late stage of the third rank.

Besides the leader, who was at the late stage of the third tier, there were two other giant scaled eagles in the group, one at the mid stage of the third tier and the other at the early stage of the third tier.

As for the second-tier giant scale eagles, there were at least a hundred of them. Li Ping was too lazy to count the first-tier giant scale eagles, but he roughly estimated that there were at least a thousand.

Every now and then, giant scaled eagles would fly out from the island, plunging into the sea to catch their prey, and then return to the island with their prey.

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After observing for a while, a hint of hesitation appeared in Li Ping's eyes.

He didn't take the first and second tier giant scale eagles seriously.

What he really cared about were the Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagles: one late-stage Tier 3, one mid-stage Tier 3, and one early-stage Tier 3.

Before they take human form, demonic beasts do not possess high intelligence. Therefore, apart from those demonic beasts with true spirit bloodlines, other demonic beasts are generally no match for humans of the same level.

With Li Ping's current strength.

He was in the mid-stage of Core Formation, while the Wildfire Sparrow and Earth Spirit Rat were in the early stage of the third tier. He also had a third-tier puppet, equivalent to an early-stage Core Formation cultivator.

On the surface, their combat strength is still inferior to that of these giant scaled eagles.

However, considering that he relies on powerful magic weapons to possess strength comparable to the late Core Formation stage, and that the Wildfire Sparrow, as a spiritual beast of heaven and earth, has combat power comparable to a mid-Core Formation stage cultivator.

He has a good chance of defeating the giant scaled eagle clan.

"Let's start with you guys."

After much deliberation, Li Ping finally made a decision.

After all, if he were to abandon this spirit island and search for other suitable targets, it's hard to say whether he could even find one.

Even if we do find it, doesn't that mean there aren't any monsters living on that spirit island?

What if the monsters that inhabit the area are even more difficult to deal with than these giant scaled eagles?

Is he going to look for another island?

Li Ping wouldn't waste time like that.

Besides, as long as he takes the initiative to ambush and kill the mid-stage Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagle, dealing with the remaining two won't be too difficult for him.

brush!

With a wave of his hand, Li Ping...

Wildfire Sparrow, Earth Spirit Rat, and expressionless third-tier puppet all appeared before him.

The two beasts curiously surveyed their surroundings. Li Ping was about to tell them the next tactic when suddenly, he frowned and then took out a dusty gray token from his storage bag.

It was the token from the underground auction that he had obtained from He Chuan more than ten years ago.

Now that Li Ping was holding it in his hand, a crimson compass suddenly appeared in the center of the gray token, pointing to the southwest.

Li Ping's face lit up with realization: "So that's why the underground auction is about to begin."

He remembered that when He Chuan sold him the auction token, he had said that the specific location of the auction would appear on the token five years in advance, and as long as he arrived on time and had the token in hand, he could participate in the auction.

He originally thought that the so-called specific location referred to a written description, and he was worried that the written description might be ambiguous, and that he would have to spend a lot of effort to find the specific location.

Unexpectedly, it uses this arrow navigation format.

With automatic navigation, you can easily find the auction location by simply following the arrows, which undoubtedly saves a lot of effort and avoids mistakes such as going in the wrong direction.

"Interesting." Li Ping nodded slightly and put the gray token back into his storage bag.

Putting the underground auction aside for now, what he needs to do now is to kill the group of giant scaled eagles in front of him and inherit the third-tier high-grade array technique.

Thinking of this, he looked at the Earth Spirit Rat and gave it detailed instructions.

His plan was to kill the mid-stage Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagle by surprise, then he would hold off the late-stage Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagle leader, while the two beasts and the puppet would join forces to kill the remaining early-stage Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagles.

Finally, the one person, two beasts, and one puppet joined forces to besiege the late-stage Tier 3 Giant Scaled Eagle leader, creating a situation where they outnumbered him and forced him to flee and relinquish the spiritual vein, or perhaps try to kill him directly.

The key to this tactic lies in the Earth Spirit Rat.

Li Ping used his divine sense to detect the locations of the three great demons.

Next, the Earth Spirit Rat used its Earth Escape Technique to bring them closer from underground before launching a sudden attack!

The edge of the island.

"Squeak~"

A wisp of earthy yellow spiritual light enveloped the man, two beasts, and a puppet, then merged directly into the ground and disappeared.

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