Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 156: Liuying Bingchan: Fellow Daoist Ling, please stay!
The main purpose of the mechanical puppet that Ling Changqing had just released was for scouting and surveillance.

From its high vantage point, it can have a clear view of the environment within a radius of 500 meters.

If the detection range is narrowed, the accuracy of identification can be improved, and some not-so-sophisticated stealth and concealment spells can be seen through.

Once the mechanical puppet detects an unidentified monk approaching, it will give a timely warning, allowing Ling Changqing to prepare to meet the enemy.

After doing all this, Ling Changqing continued to control the Taoist puppets at the bottom of the lake to work, and large areas of gray-black silt were dug up.

This action alarmed more creatures lurking deep in the mud, so the four Taoist soldier puppets that were working were subjected to more intensive attacks, and the scars on their bodies gradually increased.

Fortunately, Ling Changqing controlled the flying sword to provide full support and killed these troublemakers in groups, thus avoiding the situation where the Taoist soldier puppets were exhausted to death by them.

A quarter of an hour later, several more pieces of purple crystals appeared one after another, some large and some small, and were all collected by Ling Changqing into the storage bag.

According to the information in the jade slip, the area of ​​Jingyue Lake is not small, covering hundreds of hectares. It is impossible to dig it all over.

So Ling Changqing planned to stay for another hour and then leave, and dig up as many purple crystals as he could.

There are countless opportunities in Dragon Soul Valley, and he can't possibly spend all his energy here.

"...I wonder how Liu Qin and the others are doing?"

Ling Changqing muttered to himself.

Luo Qingxuan's personal female servants are also on his side. I hope they are safe.

An hour passed quietly, and by the time Ling Changqing finished work, there was a pile of precious purple crystals in his storage bag, the largest of which was as big as a bowl.

The reason why he had such a big harvest was due to Ling Changqing's extraordinary luck, just like the rich harvest he got every time he went to work at sea.

If it were a Foundation Establishment cultivator with average luck and aptitude, it would be hard to say whether he could obtain even one-tenth of Ling Changqing's gains.

If you are not careful, you will be eaten to the bone by those troublesome indigenous creatures.

However, when recovering the four Taoist soldier puppets, Ling Changqing still frowned. These iron lumps were full of pits and their spiritual light was much dimmer, and the degree of damage was quite serious.

If we don’t want them to be completely scrapped, these four Taoist soldier puppets will definitely be useless in the future. We can only wait until the training in Dragon Soul Valley is over and then take them back for repair.

Of course, compared to Ling Changqing's gains, this operation still made a lot of money, so there is nothing to regret.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Ling Changqing took out ten antique jade coins and a set of bronze tortoise shells, and concentrated his mind to tell a fortune.

"Well, let's go to the Fallen Cherry Mountains first. The opportunity that Mother mentioned is there..."

Based on the feedback from the hexagram, Ling Changqing made up his mind.

……

In a remote cave somewhere.

Seven or eight male and female cultivators from the Yu family were sitting around a campfire. Some of them had blood on their bodies, as if they had just been through a fight.

On the iron rack above the bonfire was a fat, shiny and tender deer of a foreign species, its belly ripped open and stuffed with collected medicinal herbs and wild delicacies. The tempting aroma filled the cave.

Sitting in the main seat were the twin brothers from the Yu family, both wearing dark black Taoist robes and carrying long swords on their backs. They had indifferent eyes and seemed to have no interest in anything.

Yu Piaoyun and Yu Piaoyue, the two brothers came from a very ordinary background and were not even considered as descendants of the side branch within the Yu family.

However, their spiritual roots are of top quality, and their luck and fortune are also extraordinary. Therefore, when they were thirteen years old, they were spotted by an ancestor of the Yu family and taken in to be carefully cultivated.

Among the new generation of Yu family, the Yu Piaoyun brothers are undoubtedly outstanding. As long as they don't die midway, they can be expected to reach the Nascent Soul stage in the future.

At this time, beside them, a beautiful young female cultivator put away the jade slip in her hand and said gently:
"According to the map, our current location should be near Shahuan Hill. Going east for more than 1,600 miles, we will reach Zuilongtai."

Yu Piaoyun didn't say anything. Yu Piaoyue raised her eyelids slightly and said softly:

"In that case, shall we go to Zuilongtai later? I heard that the opportunities there are quite good, and we can be ranked in the top 30 in this Dragon Soul Valley?"

"That's right, but it's not clear what the situation is there. If other families take it first, we will have to fight a hard battle!"

The young female cultivator said cautiously.

Yu Piaoyue smiled and said, "Good things can't be waited for. If you want them, you can only grab them with your ability! That's it. We'll set off after we've eaten and drunk enough!"

"Then... aren't we going to wait for the other family members to join us?"

Someone asked.

Yu Piaoyue said: "Let's just go with the flow. We'll meet as many people as we can on the road, and we won't force anyone who doesn't want to go with us."

The degree of competition within the nine major families is far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Even if they have the same surname, they will be ruthless when attacking their brothers and sisters in order to gain power or opportunity.

Everyone had no objection to this, and the matter was settled.

Among the young men from the Yu family who came this time, the few immortal seedlings from the direct lineage received much more support than the twin brothers.

Therefore, meeting too early is not good news for either party.

……

Between the mountains, a dark river with a width of over a hundred feet and a gentle flow meanders.

“…Ahhh!”

Suddenly, a series of thunder-like roars erupted in the water, and the water surface began to churn violently.

Soon, large patches of glaring scarlet appeared in the river, as if a dye vat had been overturned.

After a while, a dragon girl with a haughty look slowly walked out of the water. She was wearing soft armor as black as ink and holding a slender straight knife with a red glow.

In her other hand, she was holding up a jagged tail. It was the tail of a several-meter-long, gray-colored water beast that was deader than dead.

There were several shocking scars on the bloated body of the water beast, the most serious of which directly broke its spine in two.

The dragon girl walked up to the river bank step by step, put down the prey in her hand, and began to cut and pack it up.

The storage bag she carried had limited capacity, so it was impossible for her to pack up the entire thing and take it away. She could only choose to cut off the most valuable part.

"It's the dragon girl..."

Faint cries of surprise were heard, and a group of male and female monks swarmed over on flying swords from a few hundred feet away.

Judging from the patterns on the jade pendants around their waists, they should be the Cui family's team, with a total of fifteen people.

The dragon girl raised her head, glanced at them coldly, and continued to work busy at her hands.

The leading male cultivator from the Cui family hesitated for a moment. He had already recognized that this girl was the one who stood at the front of the dragon clan team before entering the Dragon Soul Valley.

Obviously, such a tough guy is not someone that an ordinary monk can afford to provoke.

However, with the absolute advantage in numbers, the situation seems to be different.

The male cultivator from the Cui family put on a warm smile and said gently:

"My lady, I am Cui Yuanzhen, the direct descendant of the Cui family. The inner elixir of this mastiff dragon beast is very important to me. I wonder if you would be willing to give it up?"

He was thinking of convincing the other party to give up the inner elixir of this third-level water beast, and then he would give her some spirit stones as compensation.

No matter how powerful she is, she is just a foundation-building cultivator. She can't fight against fifteen people on her side at the same time, right?

The dragon girl opened her red lips slightly and uttered a word coldly:

"roll!"

"..."

The smile on Cui Yuanzhen's face froze.

He didn't expect that the dragon girl wouldn't give him any face at all.

"Daoyou, please don't be ungrateful!"

Cui Yuanzhen's voice turned cold: "There are fifteen of us now, and other brothers and sisters from the same clan are on their way here. Are you sure you want to turn against us?"

The dragon girl grasped the long straight knife with red light flowing around it and slowly stood up:

"Want to die? I'll make your wish come true!"

Before he finished his words, Cui Yuanzhen's vision was already filled with blinding, rolling sword energy.

"don't want……"

Cui Yuanzhen was horrified, and a suffocating sense of crisis instantly surrounded everyone present.

In a hurry, the two spiritual weapons on his body that activated automatically to protect their masters only lasted less than a breath before they were shredded into pieces by the endless sword energy. Then, he felt his eyes go black, and his soul fell into eternal darkness.

In less than ten breaths, the dragon girl had put away her knife, lowered her head and continued to busy herself with her own things.

There were fifteen more corpses on the ground, all of them died with their eyes open, and blood was all over the ground.

Perhaps they simply have never understood how huge the gap in strength can be between mediocre and genius at the same level of cultivation.

After a while, the dragon girl finally finished dealing with the water beast. She stood up and began to search the Cui family monks for their relics.

After one round, she had more than twenty storage bags, storage bracelets, flying swords, crowns, boots, robes and Taoist robes.

Now that she had enough storage magic tools, she pondered for a moment and finally decided to take the entire water beast away.

When another group of Cui family monks arrived, all that was left at the scene was bloodstains that had not yet dried and a body that had been stripped clean.

"… Bastard! Who dares to harm a member of the Cui family? Who did it?"

The young man in the lead was furious.

The rest of the men and women also had indignant expressions. The Cui family was one of the nine great families in Yuzhou, and the children of the family had always been arrogant and proud.

A female cultivator leaned over, took a closer look, and said in a firm tone:

"Brother Mingfeng, there should be only one perpetrator, and he hasn't gone far yet!"

"Alone? Are you sure?"

Cui Mingfeng's face changed slightly, as if he couldn't believe it.

If what this cousin said was true, then the other party's identity should most likely be one of the few immortal seeds among the nine great families.

If that's the case, wouldn't the twenty or so people around me who go up there just be serving food?

"…Forget it, let's go find Brother Yuansong. We can't take care of this matter anymore!"

After a brief consideration, Cui Mingfeng chose to give in.

Although his talent and strength are not that good, he still knows his own strengths and weaknesses.

……

After leaving Jingyue Lake, Ling Changqing flew his flying sword at a low altitude, but the speed was not very fast.

More than two hours later, the flashing of swords and the sounds of spiritual weapons and various magical spells in the distance attracted Ling Changqing's attention.

It was at the edge of a stone forest with ancient trees and towering trees. Dozens of female practitioners were besieging a strange tree shrouded in black mist.

These female cultivators all wore sapphire blue Taoist robes, and each of them was beautiful. They formed a sword formation and attacked in coordinated manner.

The tree was more than thirty feet tall, and its dense crown was like a giant umbrella. Its numerous branches and leaves twisted and waved like poisonous snakes, constantly emitting low and strange hissing sounds.

Rolling black fog continuously gushed out from the branches and leaves. Wherever it passed, the grass and trees along the way withered and rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Dragon Ridge Tree Demon?"

Ling Changqing's expression condensed slightly. This thing was recorded in the jade slips, and its strength was equivalent to that of a peak third-order ferocious creature.

This thing is quite difficult to deal with head-on, but its weakness is also obvious, which is its relatively slow reaction speed.

Therefore, the monks can still deal with it by relying on their advantage in numbers, provided that they are not hit by its spiritual attack.

As long as one can successfully kill a Longling Tree Demon, the fruits and tree heart on its body will become extremely precious resources.

The fruit can be used as the main material for refining the third-level life-extending elixir, and the tree heart can repair and restore the damaged soul essence.

Do you want to go over and get involved?
Ling Changqing was a little hesitant. Logically speaking, the other party had more people and he was alone, so he shouldn't be so unwise.

But the fruits and heartwood of the Dragon Ridge Tree Monster are extremely rare. If you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to find another one.

After thinking about it, Ling Changqing still chose not to go over, but just watched from a distance.

This group of female cultivators should be from the Liuying family, because among the nine major families in Yuzhou, only the Liuying family is headed by pure female cultivators.

Although there are male cultivators in this family of immortal cultivators, their status is generally not high and they have little say.

The reason is simple. The Liuying family's several clan-protecting skills are only suitable for women to practice, and men cannot practice them.

Therefore, the Liuying Family became an alternative existence in Yuzhou, and their overall strength was not weak, ranking second, only after the Yu Family.

This is also the key reason why the Liuying family has been prosperous. After all, there are so many beautiful women in the family. If the family is not strong enough, it would have become a vassal of other major forces.

Ling Changqing collected his scattered thoughts and focused his attention back on the battle situation in the distance.

The average strength of those female cultivators was indeed not bad. After a period of layers of siege and strangulation, the Dragon Ridge Tree Demon was already covered in wounds and exhausted.

After barely holding on for a while, the big guy finally ran out of energy and fell to the ground with an unwilling roar.

The female cultivators of the Liuying family cheered at the same time. They naturally felt a great sense of accomplishment for being able to kill such a rare and ferocious creature.

Afterwards, under the command of the leading lady in white, more than a dozen female cultivators stepped forward and began to clean up the battlefield.

Some female cultivators who were accidentally injured stepped aside, took some pills and began to regulate their breathing.

Seeing that there was no chance anymore, Ling Changqing turned around and prepared to leave.

"...Fellow Daoist, you have been spying on me for so long, why don't you come over and have a chat?"

A soft and pleasant voice sounded in my ears.

Ling Changqing looked back with some surprise, and saw the leading lady in white looking at him, and their eyes met in the air.

The opponent's apparent cultivation level is only at the peak of the foundation building stage, but according to Ling Changqing's intuition, she should also be a favored girl from heaven, and her actual combat power cannot be guessed by common sense.

"Can you please not come over? I'm leaving now!"

Ling Changqing transmitted the message from a distance that he didn't want to have anything to do with the other party.

"no!"

The figure of the royal sister in white disappeared from the spot, and when she reappeared, she was already very close, only because she used a talisman to move.

Ling Changqing had no choice but to bow and said, "My name is Mu Fanqing, nice to meet Fairy Liuying!"

"Mu Fanqing?"

The white-robed lady was slightly startled, and a hint of displeasure appeared on her flawless face:
"Is your identity not to be exposed? Why do you have to pretend to be someone else?"

"???"

Ling Changqing had a puzzled expression, as Xue Qingtan had arranged Mu Fanqing's identity for him, and there was indeed such a member of the Mu family's side branch.

"...Fellow Daoist, Mu Fanqing from the Mu family died in an accident half a year ago. It just so happens that we all know about this."

Another clear and elegant voice was heard.

Ling Changqing turned his head and saw a beautiful, intellectual and elegant woman in bright yellow palace clothes coming on the wind, followed by seven or eight female cultivators.

When she saw clearly the appearance of the beautiful young man in purple, her eyes suddenly changed, and a flash of unbelievable shock flashed across her eyes for a moment.

"Oh it's you?!"

The beautiful lady in palace clothes spoke with surprise and joy, her elegant and charming voice trembling slightly because of excessive excitement.

"You recognize me?"

Ling Changqing asked doubtfully.

The lady in white seemed to react as well and said in surprise:

"You must be Ling Changqing, right? Rumor has it that the Deep Sea Dragon Clan recently recruited a son of destiny as their consort. It seems to be true..."

"Sorry, you got the wrong person!"

Ling Changqing shook his head: "I am not the son of destiny you mentioned. Goodbye!"

Having said that, he was about to leave.

The lady in white stepped in front of him:
"Fellow Daoist Ling, please stay. My name is Liuying Bingchan. It's fate that we met. How about we travel together?"

Ling Changqing: “…”

(End of this chapter)