Longzang

Chapter 1203 Exorcising Demons and Conquering Heaven
Xu Henshui, filled with worry, left first. He didn't return to Qingming, but went to Taichu Palace, intending to seek advice from Danming Zhenjun on the matter of this batch of pills.

Ji Liuli lingered a few more moments, staring at Wei Yuan from left to right, and then asked, "Is this an avatar?"

"Yes."

"Well done. If it weren't for the obvious weakness in strength, I wouldn't have been able to tell. What did you use to refine it?"

Wei Yuan listed a bunch of pill ingredients and high-level puppet materials. Then Ji Liuli asked another question: "Does it feel synchronized with the main body?"

……

At this moment, Wei Yuan's main body was still deep in the ancestral mountain, and most of his divine sense was manipulating the great array to refine the silk threads deeper. Now the net woven by the world-refining array has penetrated thousands of miles underground, and only now has it barely reached a glimpse of the edge.

Only then did the ancestral mountain begin to stir, with faint roars and howls emanating from its depths from time to time, as if an ancient ferocious beast were buried beneath it.

The Refining World Array truly lived up to its reputation as an array created by the Venerable Lord; its subtleties far surpassed those of ordinary immortal arrays. Its erosion was as gentle and silent as a spring breeze and rain. After years of effort, Wei Yuan was almost able to completely envelop the ancestral mountain when the hidden will deep within the mountain realized something was wrong and began to struggle.

However, the Refining World Array was already complete, and that mass of will did not seem to be a real sentient being, but rather a spiritual entity naturally born in this region. Therefore, it could only barely slow down the progress of the array's extension and could not change anything.

Since such a serious incident had occurred during the alchemy process, Wei Yuan took it very seriously. After Xu Henshui left, he re-examined the entire alchemy process and the ingredients used.

After analyzing the various aspects of prosperity, it was finally determined that there were three possible root causes of the problem: first, the fortune; second, the blood mud that resembled black sludge; and third, the ancestral land itself.

This time, without even needing to expend any luck, Wei Yuan knew the reason must lie in luck itself. Or rather, it lay with him personally.

Having figured things out, Wei Yuan decided to take action against the black sludge.

The blood mud infused with the blood of immortals has proven to be a rare and valuable medicinal material. Just then, tens of thousands of newly recruited Dao Foundation cultivators arrived, so Wei Yuan tailored a brand-new activity for them to solidify their Dao Foundation: digging for blood mud.

Refining the immortal's remains using the World Refining Array does not contradict excavating the mountain for the template Dao Foundation. Wei Yuan has identified a total of six blood mud veins, the shallowest being only a few hundred feet from the mountain surface, while the deepest is several miles away. Wei Yuan selected four of them and began excavating them simultaneously.

Qingming has now reached a new level in mining, and there are professional cultivators specializing in mining and geology to handle the professional matters. Wei Yuan only needs to point out where to start digging.

Yu Zhizhuo dispatched nearly a thousand professional geographers this time. They first drilled holes in the ore to examine the underground structure. Several Dharma Aspect cultivators, with special supernatural abilities, directly used earth-walking techniques to drill into the mountain to observe the structure, mark the strata and veins, and then designed a mining plan based on this data.

Then, dozens of template-based workers, each holding a mining-specific tool called the "Stone-Splitting Gold-Dividing Drill," took their positions. At the supervisor's command, all the "Stone-Splitting Gold-Dividing Drills" shot out a thin stream of water, containing tiny crystalline particles of light, which struck the rocks!
These water flows have an extremely strong erosive force. When they hit solid rocks, they erode a small hole in the blink of an eye, and the hole deepens at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Dozens of Dao Foundation Establishments continuously activated their magical artifacts, each responsible for their own small area. In the blink of an eye, a large hole appeared in the mountain. The Golden Core Dharma Image in charge of the site occasionally used a torrent technique to wash away the debris worn down by the magical artifacts.

Wei Yuan's avatar, hidden in the air, watched with a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a complex feeling of mixed emotions, often including nostalgia and nods). These template Dao Foundations held magical artifacts, all emitting the Golden Light Water Blade Technique he had created. Back then, Wei Yuan had relied on this technique to roam the underground world with Yu Zhizhuo, laying the foundation for Qingming's first major achievements.

This Dao technique has now been fixed onto a magical artifact, becoming a mining marvel. A single Dao Foundation template wielding this drill can excavate mountains faster than a typical late-stage Dao Foundation. With dozens of templates arrayed together, the excavation speed has even surpassed that of a Dharma Aspect cultivator. Changing to a new set every half day, the drilling cross-section becomes as large as a house, and the excavation progress reaches over ten zhang per day. Wei Yuan has provided four mineral vein locations; after studying them, these geomancy cultivators are simultaneously digging dozens of tunnels—otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have so many templates.

After observing for a while, Wei Yuan returned to his cave and used the bustling world of the myriad realms to check on the situation of the previous batch of cultivators who had taken the elixir.

At this point, more than a month had passed since the distribution of the Foundation Strengthening Pills, and almost all of the 500,000 pills had been distributed. Of the original 10,000+ Spirit Rhinoceros Foundation Strengthening Pills, only about a thousand remained. The vast majority of the pills had been redeemed within three days of being listed.

That's 500,000 pills! This shows just how terrifying the need for a million template Dao foundations is. Under traditional circumstances, even if over a hundred alchemists from several generations of the Creation Temple worked together day and night to refine them, they still couldn't feed a million templates.

However, more than half of the Jade Void Foundation Strengthening Pill, which can improve the foundation of Earth-rank Dao, is still remaining. This is because the pill is precious, so Xu Henshui set a very high exchange threshold, specifically to reward those who have made contributions.

Since January, Wei Yuan has been gradually accumulating Dao Foundation Luck. Although Dao Foundation Luck is also cyan, its shape and texture are significantly different from ordinary people's luck, much like the difference in texture between jade and glass.

With this wave of pill distribution, Wei Yuan gained over 50,000 Dao Foundation Luck, which immediately boosted his spirits, making him realize that he had made the right move.

Actually, the change in aptitude isn't very noticeable at this stage, but if one or two lucky individuals in a city improve their Dao foundation, immediately all the Dao foundations in the city will know. That's how much fortune comes about.

Wei Yuan found the cyan color of both the Dao Foundation Luck and Human Luck very unsettling. Clearly, the luck of cultivators differed greatly from that of ordinary people, yet they shared the same color. This wouldn't be a problem for ordinary cultivators, but Wei Yuan was now practically a master of luck, dealing with different energies daily, which made the situation increasingly awkward.

He suddenly realized something: the colors of these energies were all determined by the patriarch. Could it be that in the patriarch's eyes, all energies below the Imperial Realm were the same, so they were all painted the same color?
The more Wei Yuan thought about it, the more convinced he was that his idea was correct. Times had changed, and Wei Yuan felt it was necessary to redefine the concept of destiny.

Once the thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed. Wei Yuan immediately divided his divine senses by more than a thousand points and began to work on resetting the destiny.

……

In that deep, indescribable place, many auras were restless and uneasy.

A voice rang out: "Your Majesty, all 100,000 powerful warriors in our world have arrived! The Great Formation of the Dipper and the God of War has also been set up. We are just waiting for your command, and all 100,000 warriors will attack at the same time, following the marks left by the Ancestor when he ascended to heaven, and join forces to unleash the 'Azure Nether Demon-Slaying Blade'!"
"No matter how powerful the demon or monster in the upper realm, there is only one of them. Even with the separation between the two realms, it's unlikely they could withstand ten thousand demon-slaying blades!"

A calm and authoritative voice rang out: "Very well! Demons run rampant, I will vanquish them; if Heaven is unjust, I will strike down Heaven! I will slay them!"

Ten thousand battle cries converged in one place, shaking heaven and earth. Countless ancient demon-slaying swords rose into the sky, forming a mighty river of swords that shattered the celestial barrier and crashed into the upper realm!
In an instant, countless cultivators in Qingming suffered from dizziness, fever, weakness in their limbs, and some even experienced vomiting and diarrhea, with the most severely affected confined to their beds. All the physicians from Sun Yu's Medical Clinic were mobilized, working tirelessly day and night. Sun Yu himself and his three hundred beautiful disciples also personally participated in the operation.

A day later, Sun Yu concluded that this was a case of wind-heat invading the lungs and intense heat toxicity.

P.S.: I'm not feeling well today, so I'm a little short.

(End of this chapter)