Chapter 467: A Mayfly in the Universe, a Grain of Sand in the Ocean

Chapter 467: A Mayfly in the Universe, a Grain of Sand in the Ocean

Chapter 467: A Mayfly in the Universe, a Drop in the Ocean

Next to the forest, a stream gurgles.

Li Zhongren controlled the flying carpet to land, lit a bonfire here, and started cooking.

When practicing Taoism, even when you have reached the foundation-building stage or the golden elixir stage, you still need to eat. The only difference is the quality of the food.

The reason is very simple. Aura has many advantages, and can even maintain the energy circulation of the body. But there is one thing it cannot do. Aura cannot be converted into matter, so unless you are a practitioner who has abandoned your physical body.

Such cultivators can indeed give up food and instead absorb spiritual energy to sustain their souls.

As long as you have a physical body, you need to maintain your metabolism by replenishing substances.

Not to mention, for cultivators in the Qi training stage, even their internal body structure has not changed.

"No warning at all."

In the dark, several robbery cultivators carefully observed the master and disciple beside the stream.

Although they specialize in robbing others, it doesn't mean they are not afraid of death. They are just not afraid of others' death, but they are still afraid of death themselves.

After observing for a while, one of the robbery cultivators spoke with a hint of desire in his eyes. The reason was very simple. Li Ningshuang was too beautiful. Even for a mortal, it was rare to have such a beautiful appearance.

In fact, the reason why his predecessor was able to buy Li Ningshuang was entirely because Li Ningshuang had not grown up at that time. If it were now, he definitely could not afford it.

"That girl belongs to me, and I only want her."

"can."

It's not surprising that there were several other Tribulation Cultivators, because this guy was practicing the way of collecting and replenishing energy, which is also one of the magic techniques. Even an ordinary person can be used as a furnace to extract essence.

Naturally, such monks are naturally more lustful.

"Then, how do you attack? Directly or by using tactics?"

"There is only one person, and he is riding a flying carpet. Even if he is at the tenth level of Qi training, what does it matter?"

"indeed."

There are a total of four Tribulation Cultivators present, the youngest is at the fifth level of Qi training, and the highest is at the eighth level. Moreover, they are all experienced in hundreds of battles. Coupled with the deliberate sneak attacks, even if the opponent is at the tenth level of Qi training, he can only fail here.

The reason is very simple. During the Qi training period, the improvement of each level can indeed bring a staged improvement to the cultivator. However, this improvement is not enough for the cultivators in the Qi training period to ignore the difference in the number of people.
"Okay, I'll take the lead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a male cultivator with pale skin among the four cultivators took the lead in attacking. He raised his hand, and the entire stream was instantly wrapped in thick fog. Moreover, a strong smell of a dried and rotten corpse suddenly appeared in the air.

This cultivator was a member of the Corpse Refining Sect, one of the six paths of the Demonic Sect. All their spells were related to corpses and death, and the most famous one was the Corpse Refining Technique. And the most terrifying thing about this Corpse Refining Technique was that it turned one's own body into a corpse, rather than creating a so-called zombie.

The disadvantage is, of course, that you will become less human and will gradually lose many human emotions.

The advantage is that the cultivators of the Corpse Refining Path have a long lifespan, a strong body, and can recover their spiritual energy at an extremely fast speed, because the greatest feature of the Corpse Refining Path is that they are not afraid of spiritual energy pollution, and the control required for the recovery of spiritual energy is much smaller.

"Let's go too!"

After the corpse gas mist spread, the other three robbery cultivators also picked up their weapons and quickly rushed towards Li Zhongren's position. They had cooperated with each other many times and were familiar with the route.

This corpse gas mist is not only poisonous and extremely toxic, but it can also confuse the senses and even the intuition of the besieged.

Many times, for some monks with lower strength, their attacks are often not noticed until they are already in front of them, resulting in them losing the initiative and ultimately losing their lives.

"when!"

However, this time, when their weapons reached the designated location, a crisp sound was heard, accompanied by a rebound that made their wrists tremble.

It was a giant, round, ice bowl!
It was upside down there, protecting the two people inside, and their attacks only hit this layer of solid ice. Although some marks were left, they were quickly repaired when their weapons left the ice bowl.

Of course, this is not the point.

It's not like they haven't encountered similar monks before, and every monk has a few hidden treasures.

But the problem is the spell itself.

As a monk who lives on the edge of a knife, he noticed the difference in the ice bowl constructed by this talisman at first glance.

It was smooth, delicate, transparent, and seemed to have no trace of impurities, especially since it was able to repair itself just now.

All of this proves one thing.

This is a talisman for the foundation-building period.

Build the foundation, build the foundation.

Lay the foundation.

With the foundation, there will be extra room for operation for many things.

For example, the more subtle and delicate manipulation of power allows the talismans in the foundation-building period to far surpass those in the Qi training period in terms of control over spiritual energy, and all of these can be seen intuitively from the effects of the talismans.

Don't underestimate these. The same spell, when used at different stages, will produce very different effects.

Especially after reaching the foundation-building stage, these talismans will even have a certain foundation for formations during their effectiveness.

For example, automatic repair is an ability that can only be born after there is sufficient basic support.

This made him very sad.

Such a Foundation Establishment Period talisman, if sold in the market, would cost at least two thousand low-grade spirit stones, and this was under normal circumstances. If some major event occurred, the price would rise again. After all, drawing a Foundation Establishment Period talisman was not easy, even for a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Period, and a cultivator's time was very precious, so no one would waste too much time on it.

And the guy in front of me used this talisman without even thinking about it.

"Damn it, this is all my money!!"

Several Tribulation Cultivators thought of this at almost the same time.

One of the guys even shouted out, and swung the weapon in his hand even harder at the ice bowl.

"Your money?"

"for you."

After Li Zhongren made sure that he would not be killed quickly, he did not hold back either.

Instead, the Lion is broken and going all out!

He stretched out his hand and took out ten Foundation Establishment talismans from his storage bag.

And then just threw it out.

After the ten Gengjin Sword Qi spells were activated, ten sword qi immediately appeared in the air. Even in this foggy environment, the ten Gengjin sword qi glowed with golden light, illuminating the surroundings. You could even see the color of the metal from the sword qi.
"Whoosh!"

Almost at the same time, ten sword energies rushed towards the four people, and there was even a whirring sound of air being pierced in the air.
"I"

Seeing this, the four robbery cultivators all thought of one word in their minds: it’s over.

They knew very well that a person who could use ten foundation-building spells at will could take out more. There was no doubt that they had met a tough opponent.
Unfortunately, there is no if in reality.

Ten foundation-building Gengjin sword energies connected with each other, forming a huge sword formation, and stabbed at the four people.
The other three were killed on the spot, except the corpse-refining guy, who was still alive because of his special physique. However, he was chopped into pieces by the remaining sword energy the next moment.

He didn't want to waste time talking to these robbers, and he had no interest in the property left behind by them.

If he really sold them freely, the talismans in his storage bag could be sold for at least 50 million low-grade spirit stones, which sounded like a terrifying number.

This is indeed the case, when there is no failure rate in drawing talismans and they can be infused quickly.

In today's market, this is a dimensionality reduction attack.

Of course, as mentioned before, unless he wanted to die, he would never do this.

No matter what others say, Tianshui Sect will be the first one who will not let him go, this is the goose that lays golden eggs.
"Hu~~"

He threw out another fire-type foundation-building spell, and the corpses of the four robbery cultivators were burned cleanly, along with their storage bags, turning into ashes.
Then, Li Zhongren took Li Ningshuang away and continued on their journey.

About two days later, Li Zhongren found Li Ningshuang's hometown, a small town built by independent cultivators nestled in the mountains and beside rivers.

The town is headed by the Li family, and ordinary people living here are tenants of the Li family.

Of course, Li Zhongren did not go directly to the door.

First, he didn't want to deal with the Li family.

Second, if he showed up with Li Ningshuang, the fact that his cultivation level had increased from the third level to the tenth level would be exposed, which was very important.

Therefore, Li Zhongren would not even let Li Ningshuang meet her mother, but only took her to secretly take a look at his mother.

Fortunately, her mother's life was okay. She possessed the most basic spiritual roots and had cultivated to the third level through years of hard work. She was a qualified production machine.

"Master, let's go."

After taking a look at her mother to make sure she was okay and without any sadness on her face, Li Ningshuang, who was wrapped in the concealment talisman, spoke.

She could see that although her mother did not hate her, she didn't miss her much either. She had even heard from others that her mother had given birth to a child almost every year in recent years, and most of them had been sold.

"Ah."

Li Zhongren nodded and left quietly with Li Ningshuang.

From this moment on, Li Ningshuang's worldly ties were completely severed.

Li Zhongren suddenly had an idea and used the heavenly book to deduce it.

Li Ningshuang's mutated spiritual root actually cracked due to the impact of this incident.

In other words, the moment the outer shells that enclosed the mutated spiritual roots were broken, that was the moment when Li Ningshuang entered the foundation-building stage.
"Then I have to hurry up."

Li Zhongren thought to himself.

Don’t let your apprentice overtake you, that would be embarrassing.

However, he also knew that facing the terrifying cultivation speed of the Heavenly Spiritual Root, even if he had a cheat, it would be difficult for him to really catch up with him. After all, this was a child of destiny, a cheat that was legally opened by the will of this world.
Can't afford to offend, can't afford to offend.
Fortunately, this child has no hatred towards me now, and is full of good feelings towards me.——
Great wasteland.

The so-called wilderness is an uninhabited wilderness consisting of giant trees, grasslands, and various wild beasts, spiritual beasts, demon beasts, and other living creatures.

It is considered a restricted area for humans.

It is a land beyond the influence of cultivation civilization.

That’s why it is called the Great Wilderness.

However, this is also a treasure house for the monks. You can get almost any natural treasure in the wilderness as long as you have enough strength.

Therefore, even the Tianshui Sect has a bunch of pioneering groups under its command.

The meaning of their existence is to explore the wilderness, find good places, and find good resources.

Just like the fairyland where he lives, it is a spiritual vein discovered by the pioneering team. Thus, the fairyland was born based on the spiritual vein.

Now, with the help of the flying carpet, Li Zhongren officially left the coverage of Tianshui Sect and came to the real wilderness.

Moreover, under the guidance of the Heavenly Book, the end of his journey was a huge lake.

Looking ahead, you can't see the end, as if it's a vast ocean.

And his chance lies at the bottom of this huge lake.
"At the bottom of the lake, so is it some kind of fish or some kind of demonic beast or spirit animal?"

Li Zhongren was hiding in the weeds at the moment, looking at the lake from afar.

“Deduction.”

Soon, Li Zhongre gave up thinking and opened the heavenly book again to deduce.
"I see."

After a long time, a hint of relief flashed in Li Zhongren's eyes.

To put it simply, this lake is home to a kind of fish that possess the bloodline of the ancestor monster Kunpeng.

What he had to do was to catch fish, extract their blood, and finally refine the blood into his own body through the Heaven Swallowing Qi Technique.
"It seems that I will live here for a while."

Fortunately, Li Zhongren had made preparations long ago.

In a short while, a huge tree was hollowed out.

This is a towering tree that is at least as thick as a house.

He dug out a three-bedroom apartment from the inside of the tree.

At the same time, he pasted several concealment talismans in the tree hole. With them, his smell, vibrations, and other things would be hidden. Basically, as long as he did not fight with others in the tree hole, this foundation-building level talisman could last for a long time.

At dusk, Li Zhongren stood outside the tree hole and watched the sunset in the distance, dyeing the entire huge lake golden.

This magnificent spectacle made him feel the greatness of the universe and his own insignificance.

We are like a mayfly in the universe, a grain of sand in the vast ocean.
"Master, dinner is ready."

Li Ningshuang in the tree hole pushed the door open and walked out.

"Ah."

Li Zhongren nodded and looked around. There was no trace left under the cover of thick weeds.

Only then did he return to his room feeling satisfied.

The reason why he is so careful.

Firstly, it is to defend against those spiritual beasts and demon beasts, but more importantly, it is also the pioneering groups or the independent cultivators who are exploring.

In the wilderness, the only rule is the fist, and the rule of the survival of the fittest has been taken to the extreme.

Let's just put it that way.

When two pioneering groups encounter each other, if they do not belong to the same force, the most likely possibility is that they will fight directly. Let's not talk about anything else for now, just fight first, because only in this way can we deter the villains.

He was alone, and he had no time or materials to draw talismans in the wild. If he used one less talisman, he would naturally not take the initiative to get involved in the war.
(End of this chapter)