Chapter 191 Countless Heroes [5K]
In the end, Ye Linyuan accepted Liu Xuanheng's commission and left Lingsang Islands with Liu Xuanheng's descendants.
After leaving the Lingsang Islands, Ye Linyuan looked back at the huge archipelago, only to find that the entire island was covered with array patterns one after another. Apparently, a super complex array had been prepared for a long time.
Ye Linyuan had some guesses about Liu Xuanheng's preparations, but he was not particularly optimistic.
The biggest trouble for small families and individual cultivators who want to break through to the Jindan stage is still external enemies. It is far from enough to rely on their own strength. Generally speaking, the best way is to take advantage of the situation.
Those who have backers can join powerful sects, while those who don’t have backers can only take advantage of the entanglements of various forces, letting them restrain each other and thus achieve a breakthrough.
But these leveraging of power are essentially exchanges of interests, and are useless when facing fellow enemies.
If Liu Xuanheng did not have any enemies at the Jindan level, then he could survive in the cracks, or even sell out his own interests or win over the Jindan forces in various ways, and use their power to protect and complete the breakthrough.
After all, a newly added golden elixir can at most get a share of the Seven Domain Alliance. There are more than 20 golden elixirs in the entire Seven Domain Alliance, and everyone’s interests are different.
Some people don't want a Jindan breakthrough, while some people want to add new Jindan cultivators to break the pattern here.
For example, the Chixia Sect and the Sanyuan Alliance. Facing the pressure from the Tianxing Sword Sect, the Chixia Sect would like to add a new Jindan force to share the firepower.
For example, the Sanyuan Alliance is an alliance formed by three Jindan cultivators. They are generally more tolerant of new Jindan cultivators.
Especially when the cultivator who is about to be promoted to the Golden Core stage has many powerful trump cards, he can often make the other Golden Core cultivators fear him and they may not be willing to kill him completely by shooting him first.
After all, if you need to pay a certain price, such as taking out a third-level talisman or a trump card to kill a person who has reached the Jindan stage, then you have to consider whether the grudge with the other party is worth the price.
If there were no grudges or interests, only a fool would use his trump card or treasure on someone with whom he had no grudges.
But all this often becomes very different under the entanglement of fellow enemies.
As fellow Jindan cultivators, they rarely fight each other to the death, because once a life-and-death fight comes to a head, there is a high possibility that a third party will take advantage of them.
As for the enemy of his fellow practitioners, he is a formidable foe that he will never stop fighting until his death. Even if it costs the Taoist Master Jingnie a huge price, he must kill Liu Xuanheng in the cradle.
Other Jindan forces might obstruct secretly, but as long as they are not sure of killing the Taoist Master Jingnie, they will not personally take action to stop him from killing his fellow enemies.
Moreover, most of the Jindan masters in the Seven Domain Alliance have their own fellow practitioners. They don't want others to jump out and tear their faces against them when they kill their fellow enemies one day.
Therefore, in today's world of immortal cultivation, most high-level cultivators who are not involved in the fights between their fellow enemies will choose to stand idly by, and most will only choose to obstruct them in secret.
Of course, if there is a huge hatred, such as the hatred of genocide or the hatred of wife murder, these are grudges that cannot be resolved until one death, and can still cause these Jindan masters to tear each other apart.
It is precisely because of this that Ye Linyuan believes that if the Blood Soul Monster is wholeheartedly seeking the truth, then his possibility of achieving enlightenment is greater than that of Liu Xuanheng.
Because of the special inheritance of the Blood Soul Monster, he has no enemies of his own in the sea area of the Seven Domain Alliance.
"Forget it. I'll do my best without being exposed."
Ye Linyuan sighed in his heart, then withdrew all his thoughts, and finally brought the baby back to Yejia Island.
After returning to Yejia Island, Ye Linyuan left it in Yejia City.
The boy's name was Liu Ping'an. Because he was too young to see his talent, Ye Linyuan could only find a wet nurse to take care of him, and asked the elders of the clan to always take care of him.
If this boy has the aptitude to practice cultivation in the future, Ye Linyuan will lead him on the path of cultivation. If he does not have the aptitude, he can only be a peaceful mortal. The Ye family will choose an island for him in the Xinghu Islands to reproduce offspring.
After dealing with this matter, Ye Linyuan came to the Star Tower and began to use divination and astrology to calculate again and again, trying to figure out the success or failure of Liu Xuanheng's breakthrough.
But after calculating for a long time, Ye Linyuan sighed slightly in his heart.
According to his calculations, the probability of Liu Xuanheng successfully forming a pill and surviving was almost the same as he expected.
Of course, if Liu Xuanheng has some hidden cards that Ye Linyuan doesn't know about, this probability might be able to be further increased, but it is hard to say to what extent it can be increased.
However, if Liu Xuanheng really has other cards up his sleeve, then they must be top secret and cannot be told to anyone. In order to prevent leaks or being figured out by the Taoist Master Jingnie, he will definitely not let Ye Linyuan know.
"There's no point in overthinking. Just do your best."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and while there was still time, he began to comprehend his own Tao and Dharma.
During this trip to the Blood Prison Secret Realm, Ye Linyuan obtained a large number of ancient inheritances. Although most of these ancient inheritances are no longer useful, the principles and theories contained in them are still the essence.
After obtaining these three thousand ancient scrolls, even though Ye Linyuan has only had time to absorb a small part of them, his understanding of Taoism has also advanced by leaps and bounds.
So not long after this retreat, Ye Linyuan had a breakthrough in his core Taoism. One of the four core spells, "Nine Sky Bright Moon", took the lead and broke through to the realm of pseudo-supernatural power.
So far, Ye Linyuan has already cultivated seven pseudo-magical powers, including the soul-nourishing technique, the spiritual rain technique, the divination technique, the Geng golden needle, the Wanhua sword technique, the Nine-Sky Bright Moon, and the Black Turtle Breathing Technique.
After Jiuxiao Mingyue stepped into the pseudo-divine power, Ye Linyuan clearly felt that the power of Wanhua Sword Art had increased by another 10%.
"My foundation in this life is obviously stronger than that in my previous life. If I can reach the realm of superior golden elixir, my direct combat power will probably be even stronger than that in the early stage of golden elixir in my previous life."
Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart and walked out of his retreat.
He came to the spiritual medicine garden, in front of the towering water tree.
After years of cultivation, this water wood has reached the second-grade upper grade and has accumulated a lot of foundation.
Ye Linyuan performed the Zhetian Yangling Technique and sacrificed a little of his life to nurture the water tree. He found that its spirituality had increased a lot again, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Perform the Zhetian Yangling technique once a year, spending one year of your life to nurture this tree. After sixty years, its essence will be fully accumulated."
"By then, combined with the sixty mysterious heavenly spiritual energies, it will be a natural progression for this wood to be promoted to the second-level rare world."
Ye Linyuan pondered it in his mind and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
If this water wood can be promoted to a rare spiritual wood, it may become one of the key trump cards for his promotion to the Golden Elixir stage.
Afterwards, he came to the Lingcan Workshop and discovered that after years of cultivation, the water silkworms were only one step away from the late stage of foundation building.
So he handed over the Liu family's spiritual silkworm cultivation inheritance to Chu Lingxi, and then said solemnly: "Lingxi, whether it is possible to cultivate rare spiritual silkworms depends on you."
Chu Lingxi took the inheritance, looked at it and smiled, saying: "With the help of this item, plus the method of contracting medicine, the chances of the water silkworm being promoted to the second-level rare spiritual silkworm in the future should be no less than 70% to 80%. "
Ye Linyuan nodded. The method of nourishing the soul with medicine is one of the supreme inheritances of the ancient divine Ao lineage. Naturally, it has the miraculous effect of changing one's destiny.
With the exclusive method of feeding the spirit pill, plus sufficient blood grass, this water silkworm may not only be able to be promoted to the second-level rare spirit silkworm, but also have a chance to be promoted to a quasi-heaven and earth true spirit in the future.
As for whether I can be promoted to the true spirit of heaven and earth, I dare not think too much about it for the time being.
Because to advance to a true spirit of heaven and earth, it is not enough to rely on the rare third-order blood spirit grass, blood jade flower, and blood fruit, but also requires rare wonders of heaven and earth that are rarely seen in the world.
Getting back to the topic, after confirming that everything in the family was fully prepared and only needed enough time to grow and digest, Ye Linyuan left the Seven Islands of Star Lake.
Carrying the Qingyu Sky-breaking Boat and the Fake Dan Puppet, he arrived at the Lingsang Islands quietly.
He came to the bottom of the sea of the archipelago, familiarized himself with the terrain of the archipelago, and then hid quietly in the sea.
He hid in the sea thousands of meters deep at the edge of the Lingsang Islands, ready to use the fake dan puppet to defend against the enemy at any time.
Today, Ye Linyuan's spiritual awareness range is comparable to that of a fake dan cultivator. If he attaches himself to a fake dan puppet, he can allow it to fight up to three thousand miles away from him.
This distance and depth are enough to ensure Ye Linyuan's safety, and the sea water can also block the exploration distance of spiritual consciousness to a certain extent. Even a powerful person in the Jindan realm will find it difficult to find Ye Linyuan hiding here.
After doing all this, Ye Linyuan then sent a message to Liu Xuanheng, informing him that he had arrived.
At the same time, Liu Xuanheng, who was deep in the Lingsang Islands, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after receiving the news.
“He’s already in place.”
The old ghost Blood Soul and Taoist Wu Yun on the side breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Linyuan's fake pill puppet is one of Liu Xuanheng's biggest trump cards that he dares to break through. If Ye Linyuan is not in place, then their success rate will definitely be greatly reduced.
Taoist Wu Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "Although this Taoist friend Ye is cautious, he is never a person who speaks out of turn."
"Now that he's here, we're confident of what to do next."
The old ghost of Blood Soul nodded, then looked at Liu Xuanheng and said, "Brother Xuanheng, go and break through. The two of us will protect you." "Okay."
Liu Xuanheng nodded and immediately stepped into the retreat room.
In the entire Liu family, except for Liu Xuanheng's Taoist partner Su Lian'er, no one else knew anything about Liu Xuanheng's retreat and breakthrough.
During the first half of Liu Xuanheng's retreat, he did not receive any news from the outside world.
It was not until half a month later that a huge vortex of spiritual energy suddenly appeared in Lingsang Island, and the cultivators there realized that something was wrong.
"The island leader has made a breakthrough."
Seeing the huge vortex of spiritual energy emerging, the entire Lingsang Island was in chaos, and many people used communication talismans to pass on the message.
Unfortunately, the transmission range of the first-level talisman is only a few thousand miles, and it is impossible to spread the message beyond the Lingsang Islands. Only a very small number of second-level talismans can pass the message out.
And at this moment, a huge complex formation suddenly opened in the Lingsang Islands.
Throughout the Lingsang Islands, array patterns lit up one after another, and one island after another became the core of the super array, eventually covering the entire Lingsang Islands.
Most of those second-level talismans were blocked by this complex formation not long after they flew out, losing their spirituality and falling into the ocean.
"We are well prepared."
Ye Linyuan watched all this and nodded slightly.
Judging from the advance preparations and the news blockade, Liu Xuanheng's skills and trump cards are indeed very sufficient.
Moreover, Liu Xuanheng seemed to be on guard against some of the cultivators of the Liu family, and the foundation-building cultivators in charge of presiding over the formation seemed to be a group of new faces.
Just from what Ye Linyuan saw, there were more than thirty cultivators in the early stage of foundation building.
"what happened?"
At the same time, inside a towering courtyard in the Liu family mansion, several cultivators showed expressions of shock.
This group of foundation-building cultivators are several older generation elders from the Liu family’s immortal clan, and their leader is the Liu family’s great elder who is in the late stage of foundation-building.
Originally, among the Liu clan of immortals, the most respected one was the Great Elder of the Liu clan.
But since the rise of Liu Xuanheng, the status of the great elder has gradually declined.
Especially before the Jiazi year, after Liu Xuanheng displayed amazing skills and strength and dealt with several descendants of the Great Elder with an iron fist, these elders of the older generation gradually became marginal forces of the Liu family.
At this time, several elders of the Liu family looked at the vortex above the sky and couldn't help but reveal a trace of shock.
An elder couldn't help but turn pale and said with great embarrassment: "Liu Xuanheng didn't even tell us about such a big thing as Jindan in advance."
"As elders, don't we have any credibility in his eyes?"
The other elders also had different expressions. Someone immediately said coldly, "As a junior, he has suppressed us over the years, and he still doesn't trust us uncles at such a critical moment."
"You are truly an unfilial descendant."
"OK OK."
The Great Elder waved his hand and then said, "No matter what, it is a great thing for the clan leader to form a pill. We must fully support him."
"Let's go, we will go and protect him immediately."
As he said this, his expression suddenly changed slightly and he hurriedly walked out of the courtyard.
It was at this time that the Liu clan elders were shocked to find that they were completely surrounded by a group of cultivators.
There were seven or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators coming, led by a few young Foundation Establishment cultivators. They looked at the Great Elder calmly and spoke.
"Elders, what are you going to do outside?"
"Liu Tianyang, Liu Tianmeng, didn't you both fail in building your foundation?"
The moment he saw everyone, the Liu family's great elder showed a trace of surprise.
But Liu Tianyang waved his hand and said calmly: "The clan leader has already said that you guys are useless, so let us break through in secret."
"Secret breakthrough?"
The Great Elder's expression changed slightly, and he immediately felt something was wrong.
He quickly suppressed his arrogance, looked at everyone and said, "We are going to protect the clan leader, you all quickly get out of the way."
"Dharma protector?" Upon hearing this, Liu Tianyang sneered and said, "Is the Great Elder going to protect the Dharma, or to stop the clan leader from achieving enlightenment at the critical moment?"
Upon hearing this, the Great Elder's expression suddenly changed and he said, "How dare you, youngsters, stop talking nonsense."
"Is it?"
Liu Xuanyang waved his hand, and the cultivator beside him immediately threw a few letters back. Then he said calmly, "But I heard that someone promised you a second-grade golden elixir just to prevent the clan leader from achieving enlightenment."
When the Great Elder saw the letter, his expression suddenly darkened.
He immediately stopped pretending and sneered, "I admit that Liu Xuanheng is an extraordinary man. He is a rare talent in my Liu family."
"But the road he is walking on is a dead end with no chance of survival. Instead of hoping for his successful breakthrough, why not use his life in exchange for my breakthrough to the Fake Pill realm?"
"Ah."
A group of young monks sneered, and Liu Tianmeng said, "Old man, the fox's tail is finally exposed."
"A bunch of unfilial descendants."
The Great Elder's face suddenly turned pale, and he immediately said angrily: "Now that Liu Xuanheng is in seclusion, who among you can stop me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Great Elder soared into the air and immediately rushed towards the group of monks.
But at this moment, a series of figures appeared and stopped the great elder. Then two snow-white butterflies flapped their wings and came over, and with the flap of their wings, they killed the great elder in the sky.
The remaining few Liu elders also died here in an instant.
"Mysterious Soul Frost Butterfly."
At the same time, Ye Linyuan, who was hiding in the dark, withdrew his thoughts.
He had originally planned to see if anyone would take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble before the Taoist Master Jingnie arrived, and help Liu Xuanheng deal with some minor troubles, but now it seems that Liu Xuanheng had already prepared everything.
One has to admit that Liu Xuanheng's skills and background are indeed extraordinary, and the Liu family's great elder is also deeply rooted, but he was completely sidelined in just a short period of sixty years.
Now he still wants to be presumptuous, but he is like an ant and is killed in an instant.
Perhaps in Liu Xuanheng's eyes, this great elder in the late stage of foundation building was just a clown from beginning to end.
"This Liu Xuanheng, whether in terms of skills, background, or talent, can be called a golden elixir."
"But facing a fellow enemy, success also depends on luck and trump cards."
A thought emerged in Ye Linyuan's mind, but he quickly put it away.
The world of immortal cultivation is vast and naturally there are countless heroes. He has seen many people with such skills as Liu Xuanheng in his previous life, but whether he can achieve something in the end depends on whether his luck and destiny can help him.
Liu Xuanheng was born in a humble family, into a foundation-building immortal clan. His natural luck was not as good as others. If he was born in a golden elixir or primordial infant immortal clan, his possibility of achieving the golden elixir would be extremely high.
Of course, if Liu Xuanheng had been born into the Jindan Immortal Clan, without the hardships and trials of his youth, he might not have developed the skills and character he has today.
“The road to rise and fall is full of ups and downs.”
"There are countless heroes and heroines in ancient and modern times, most of whom were buried in obscurity."
(End of this chapter)
