SFS Chapter 127 Hidden Soul Cliff, 4th-Tier Insect Corpse?
Chapter 127 Hidden Soul Cliff, 4th-Tier Insect Corpse?
A gust of wind blew by.
The robes on Feng Yuan Lao Gui's body rustled.
Lin Li looked at the other party's brownish-yellow wooden ghost mask, whose dark green eyes were extremely calm.
"Do I have any other choice?"
Lin Li countered with a question.
"My dear disciple, of course not."
"I forgot to tell you, my disciple, I know your background very well. Besides you, you have two brothers of the same clan."
"When the Spirit Ruins City Secret Realm opens, you will definitely see your other brothers."
"My disciple, you should be grateful that you have the bloodline of the Treasure-Devouring Rat. If it weren't for this bloodline, I might not have accepted you as my disciple."
"Once I obtain a suitable magical artifact, I will certainly not go back on my word as your master."
"Becoming my disciple will definitely put you in a much better position than your two brothers."
"You only have three breaths to consider."
"Once my interest wanes, I can easily turn you into a puppet, which would also have some effect."
Feng Yuan, the old ghost behind the mask, spoke in a very calm tone.
"Three breaths..."
"This Nascent Soul cultivator has a strange personality; having lived for so many years, he might actually do it."
Lin Li's pupils contracted slightly.
But at least this veteran ghost didn't play games; everything was laid out in the open.
As for his former cheap master, Yun Youzi, who may have some unseen plans, it's possible that once he enters Lingxu City, he might never be able to leave.
"Disciple greets Master!"
After a moment, Lin Li made a decisive judgment and decided to find another cheap master.
Perhaps we can continue to collect the bloodlines of other Nascent Soul stage demon races.
This cheap master of mine, Feng Yuan Lao Gui, is actually an old monster in the mid-Nascent Soul stage.
"it is good."
"From now on, your name will be Ziyou."
"As a disciple of the master who carries treasures, this magic weapon is called the Xuan Yin Ling Sha Sword."
"Keep this for your self-defense."
After seeing Lin Li bow and pay his respects, Feng Yuan nodded in acknowledgment.
The next moment, he took out a magical flying sword with a black scabbard from his storage bag. The flying sword seemed to have a spirit and landed behind Lin Li.
In the blink of an eye.
Lin Li then sensed wisps of sword energy emanating from the black scabbard floating behind him, forming an invisible sword energy shield around him.
"Ziyou thanks Master for bestowing upon him this name."
Lin Li spoke again.
"good."
"Come with me."
"This place is a third-order spiritual vein in Lingzhou, within the territory of the Southern Yue Kingdom."
"A sect has established itself here, called Hidden Soul Cliff."
"And I am the Supreme Elder of Hidden Soul Cliff."
"Your outfit needs some changes."
Feng Yuan, the old ghost, took out a dark gray robe from his storage bag, which transformed into a black stream of light and was worn by Lin Li. He also prepared a small, dark gray wooden ghost mask for Lin Li.
Black horns grew on the ghost's face, and its aura suddenly changed, becoming shrouded in yin energy.
"Master, aren't you a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Eastern Sea Kingdom?"
"What's wrong?"
Lin Li asked with some doubt.
"Too many enemies."
"The more aliases you have, the better; the more well you hide them, the better."
"There are some Nascent Soul cultivators in the cultivation world of Dongming Kingdom who are my mortal enemies."
"The situation in South Vietnam is somewhat better now."
"It was already extremely risky for me to show my face in the Black Dragon Mountains before."
"Fortunately, the Nascent Soul stage cultivators in the Eastern Sea are currently focusing their attention on the demon race in the Star Sea."
Feng Yuan, the old ghost, swept up Lin Li, and the two figures, one big and one small, stepped onto a small black cloud of malevolent energy and headed towards a low mountain range in the distance, heavy with malevolent energy.
"Master, why are we going to the Black Dragon Mountains?"
Lin Li hesitated for a moment before finally asking the question.
When Lin Li was caught by this second cheap master, he even felt like he was about to start over.
"I went there to pick up bargains."
"Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator is seriously injured and then dealt with, there are many people willing to pay a high price to buy a Nascent Soul cultivator who is still alive and imprisoned."
"Moreover, if there is one more Nascent Soul stage Yin Soul in my Ten Thousand Soul Banner, its power will be increased considerably."
"Moreover, this trip was quite fruitful."
"You advanced to the Core Formation stage so early."
"Then it might be of some help to your teacher."
Feng Yuan glanced at Lin Li beside him. Although he hadn't found a seriously injured Nascent Soul cultivator, he had found a Foundation Establishment stage Treasure-Devouring Rat with the bloodline.
That's not bad at all.
After all, it can play a very important role in Lingxu City.
In the blink of an eye.
Several dozen breaths later.
The old man and the young man then entered this thick layer of ominous clouds.
"There don't seem to be many people here, but the variety and quantity of Gu worms are endless."
Upon entering the low-lying mountain range protected by malevolent clouds, patches of malevolent energy swirled throughout the mountains, with hazy, multicolored mist-like energy hovering above the peaks.
Within the ominous clouds, swarms of various Gu worms could be seen flying about.
Different species of Gu worms may even fight each other.
As for human cultivators, not a single one was seen.
"I chose this place because I wanted to raise an insect egg."
"It's a pity."
"Even after collecting the essence of a hundred kinds of spirit Gu and gathering the essence of a hundred Gu, and refining it into a Hundred Gu Pill, it still doesn't have much effect."
"It seems we can only collect the essence of the Thousand Gu, but we can't gather enough from Nan Yue and Dong Ming."
Feng Yuan, the old ghost, said calmly.
After all these years, it wouldn't be bad to have an extra young Taoist priest by my side to talk to, and to exchange a few more words.
Previously, Feng Yuan Lao Gui also had his own Daoist disciple.
But one by one they died, and after their passing, their souls were refined into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
After that, Feng Yuan, the old ghost, stopped accepting disciples.
Now, many years later, there is finally one more Ziyou.
"Insect eggs!?"
"Could it be a Gu worm with Nascent Soul stage potential?"
"Master, may I take a look!?"
Lin Li's eyes lit up. For an insect egg to be valued so highly by Feng Yuan, a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, the egg's bloodline aptitude must be at least mid-stage Nascent Soul or higher.
This is definitely not to be missed.
"Of course."
"Your bloodline and aptitude are not bad."
"The late stage of Core Formation is not difficult."
"However, forming a Nascent Soul is extremely difficult."
Feng Yuan, the old ghost, had already examined the little treasure-devouring rat's bloodline aptitude; it was top-tier, third rank.
Right.
If this little treasure-devouring rat truly possesses a fourth-tier bloodline aptitude, then Yun Youzi would absolutely not allow it to take any risks whatsoever.
"Thank you, Master."
"This disciple will certainly do his best."
Even if my aptitude isn't up to par, I still want to find a spiritual artifact for Nascent Soul formation and try it out once.
Lin Li responded firmly.
"Um."
"Then cultivate diligently."
"Once the Spirit Ruins City opens, the higher your cultivation level, the more assistance you will receive."
Feng Yuan nodded in acknowledgment.
"Yes, Master."
Lin Li bowed with his hands clasped in greeting.
These cheap masters at the Nascent Soul stage, though called masters, are really just tools to be used as rats.
It was just a matter of mutual exploitation.
At this moment, the forest stands during the flight.
It can also occasionally detect the Yin energy in the surrounding void, and much of the Yin energy contains the essence and blood of the surrounding Gu worms after their battle.
After refining strands of Yin Sha spiritual energy into your body, you will see a series of prompts appear before your eyes.
[Inclusion successful]
[Second-tier, low-grade bloodline, Crimson Blade Mantis Demon!]
[Inclusion successful]
[Second-tier, low-grade bloodline, Blood Jade Spider!]
[Inclusion successful]
[Second-tier, mid-level bloodline, Purple-winged Fire Python!]
...
Within the Reincarnation Disc, various forms of Foundation Establishment Gu worm bloodline figures emerged.
After passing through just over ten low mountain peaks, nine more figures with Gu worm bloodlines appeared within the towering Reincarnation Plates.
To Lin Li's surprise, the sect's encampment at Hidden Soul Cliff was extremely well-hidden.
Below a crevice in a dense forest in a valley.
Nearly two hundred feet underground.
What was originally a crack only an inch wide becomes increasingly wider as you go down into it.
When they reached two hundred feet underground.
The cracks were already more than ten feet wide.
At the bottom of this hidden valley crevice, on one side of a steep cliff, there is a door about ten feet high, and in front of the door is a black python with a tiger's head that is more than ten feet long.
When the old man and the young man landed in front of the door.
Suddenly, a pair of orange-yellow tiger eyes opened on the black tiger's head.
"Foundation Establishment Perfected..."
Lin Li swept a wisp of his divine sense over it and immediately sensed the cultivation level of the tiger-headed black python.
Lin Li's current spiritual power is estimated to be among the best in the late Foundation Establishment stage.
"Greetings, Sect Master."
"I've seen it..."
Tiger Twelve, the black python with a tiger's head, saw the small figure following the sect leader, Lin Li, who was wearing a ghost mask and carrying a black longsword. He froze on the spot for a moment.
"This is my newly accepted disciple."
"Just call me Senior Brother."
Feng Yuan said calmly.
He then cast a hand seal that landed on the ancient stone gate.
Boom!
The stone door slowly opened, and a dense aura of yin energy emanated from it. However, Lin Li also sensed from that yin energy that there seemed to be the presence of other demons and humans within the door.
"Junior Brother Hu Twelve greets Senior Brother."
Tiger Twelve hurriedly bowed, and then its massive body swiftly swam to one side, clearing the way for those inside.
Lin Li entered through the ancient-style gate.
Lin Li felt as if he had entered an underground town. The surrounding rock walls were covered with various glowing spiritual creatures, and a huge white lantern demon was flying back and forth in the air.
These luminous spirits illuminated the pavilions and towers along several streets in the underground town.
Looking around, although the number of disciples in the Hidden Soul Cliff sect was not large, all the figures on the street were at least at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and there was not a single mortal among them.
Even in some of the pavilions, there were a few Foundation Establishment stage auras.
There were eight Foundation Establishment stage cultivators alone.
"It's good to have some vitality."
"Otherwise, facing some silent stones and herbs all day long would be incredibly boring."
Lin Li always felt that these cultivators were very strange. Although they were Qi Refining cultivators, they all looked like ordinary people walking on the ground, dressed as merchants, farmers, blacksmiths, and street vendors.
Feng Yuan, the old ghost, was quite satisfied at this moment; everything was going very well.
They all seem to be playing some kind of role, performing their daily acts according to their established personas on several streets in this small town.
In Hidden Soul Cliff, one needs to perform daily rituals to obtain cultivation resources, which can only be acquired at the end of the month.
If one can play the persona they have created well, some minor cultivators at the Qi Refining Realm will be favored by the sect leader and bestowed with Foundation Establishment spiritual objects to help them establish their foundation.
That is why they do not know whether the sect leader is in the sect, because every few years there will be precedents where Qi Refining cultivators are bestowed with Foundation Establishment spiritual objects.
Eventually, some will attain enlightenment and advance to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Notice.
Once they advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, they will have the opportunity to move into one of the largest pavilions in the town.
...
"Come with me."
"Now, in this Hidden Soul Cliff, you and I, master and disciple, are the closest of friends."
"Those insect eggs, I'll extract a few strands of your essence blood, and see if it's effective against them."
As Feng Yuanlaogui spoke, a hint of anticipation appeared in his eyes.
To him, the Gu worm with the late Nascent Soul stage aptitude was far more important than this little Treasure-Devouring Rat with only the Core Formation stage aptitude.
Once the former is hatched, its chances of advancing to the Nascent Soul stage are almost a certainty.
Moreover, this Gu worm was obtained from the secret realm of Lingxu City. It is the only spiritual object that has been obtained over the years that has the ability to come to life.
If we can keep it alive, we might be able to learn some secrets about Lingxu City.
Lin Li's heart sank when he heard what Feng Yuan Lao Gui said.
He was 100% certain that if his life essence had any effect on the insect eggs, not only would he die, but his two siblings from this life, the Treasure-Swallowing Rats, would also be captured by this old ghost.
In just over ten breaths.
Feng Yuan, the old ghost, then led Lin Li to a cave on a cliff several miles behind the town.
The old man and the young man walked straight through the array outside the cave and went deep into the cave.
Deep within the cave.
In the Spirit Eye Spring, where the spiritual energy is most abundant, a shrunken Gu worm, only seven or eight inches long, is soaking in the clear spring water. The Gu worm is shaped like a broad bean and is dark brown all over.
The insect's body has layers of folds on its surface.
Is this Gu worm still alive?
Lin Li scanned the insect's body with his divine sense, but seemed to detect no signs of life.
but.
He could sense that more than half of the spiritual energy gushing from this spiritual eye spring was absorbed by the withered insects.
This suggests that this withered, dried-up worm, which appears to have been dead for many years, still has a glimmer of hope.
At this moment, without Feng Yuan Lao Gui saying anything, Lin Li slightly opened his mouth, and wisps of pale silver blood flew out from his mouth.
The pale silver blood flew into the Spirit Eye Spring, instantly replacing the clear spring water with a pale silver hue.
But the next moment.
The pale silver color vanished instantly, completely devoured by the shriveled insect corpse that had been soaking in the spring water…