The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 13: Yin Water

Loud noises continued to be heard from the top of the mountain, and the Ten Directions Puppet Formation was broken one after another. Many disciples cleverly rushed up the mountain, concealing their auras and hiding themselves.

Only a few disciples wanted to rush out, but unexpectedly they were entangled by more and more black crows. After struggling for a while, they were submerged in the crow flock.

Li Yuan watched the ochre-colored halo on the top of the mountain gradually disappear and the shaking of the mountain subsided. The dark crows around him finally regained consciousness and fled.

The largest number of them flocked to Chouyun Mountain, while the rest flew to other places.

At this time, a layer of pale white light appeared on the sky, and a peaceful and positive energy spread out, and wherever it shone, all crows fell.

Countless crows fell to the ground and fell into a deep sleep as if they were drugged. They were like black snow and turned into ashes when they hit the ground.

This scene shocked Li Yuan and made all the cultivators present feel excited. It was impossible for anyone to have such great power.

A bright white light stood on the top of the mountain. Helian Wei and the elders all bowed down and said, "Welcome, ancestor."

In the bright white light, Yuhe Zhenxiu sighed, "Wei'er, you are too impatient."

Helian Wei hurriedly bowed and said, "It was my fault for not thinking carefully, which put the lives of the other disciples at risk. I am willing to accept the punishment!"

"It's done. We must bury all the cultivators with honor and comfort their families." Taoist Yuhe's eyes swept across the disciples and landed deep in the mountain. His eyes fixed, "Which Taoist friend is here?"

"You are such an evil person, destroying my precious land. I will fight you till death!"

A cry of anger shook the heaven and earth. It was cloudy and rainy on the mountain. Wherever the cold rain passed, all the grass and trees died.

A bald old Taoist stood on the Nine Clouds Tower, his eyes were not pupils, but two faint blue flames.

"Yin Ming Dao?" Taoist Yuhe smiled slightly, took out a hairpin with a white bird pattern from his temples, threw it into the air, and immediately the hairpin turned into a bird with long white feathers, emitting pure white light all over its body, and pounced towards the old Taoist.

The bald Taoist opened his mouth and spit out a ghost, which turned into a two-winged Rakshasa. Holding a three-pointed ghost fork, he started fighting with the white-feathered bird.

It was just that the white light was obviously very bright, and after just a few fights, the two-winged Rakshasa was at a disadvantage.

Upon seeing this, the bald old Taoist made a hand seal with his hands, and countless sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling rang out, shocking many Qi-refining disciples. The strongest direction of these ghost sounds was towards the top of the mountain.

Taoist Yuhe smiled gently, holding a musical instrument called "Xun" in his white hands, emitting circles of white light to disperse the ghost sound. At the same time, white light lit up again and covered the bald old Taoist.

Two balls of orchid flames shot out of the old bald Taoist's eyes, but they were immediately dispersed by the white light, and half of his body disappeared. He was so frightened that he said, "Xun Guang Shen He! Good, good, I will remember today's revenge!"

After saying this, he turned into a ray of faint light and fled to the north.

“Master, if we let this beast go, will it be possible…” Helian Wei hesitated.

“Haha, how can he escape?” Taoist Yuhe said with a smile, “The newly-minted Fu Kong Zhenxiu of Qingfeng Pavilion has been waiting in the north for a long time. This ghost general from the Yinming sect has only just completed his Dao foundation and has not yet arrived. With the [True Essence Water Wall], he cannot escape.

After all, Qingfeng Pavilion has noticed something, and we can’t just take advantage of them without leaving any benefits for them.”

"Master is really thoughtful!" Helian Wei said respectfully.

"Alright, have the disciples collect the bodies of their fellow disciples, and send some of them to search for spiritual objects and spiritual resources in Sorrow Cloud Mountain.

Come with me, the master."

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At the foot of the mountain, Li Yuan and other disciples were called out one after another to clean up the battlefield and the bodies of their fellow disciples.

After counting the number of people, it was found that nearly a hundred early disciples had died, and more than a dozen deacon disciples had also died. All of them were casualties after the formation was broken.

Even though the ancestor took action in time, such heavy casualties were still caused.

However, the wealth obtained was extremely rich. Apart from other things, just the crows at the foot of the mountain alone would cost an unknown number of spirit stones.

The ten elders each took the corpses of the late-stage demon crows and some of the corpses of the middle-stage demon crows, and let the disciples pack the rest themselves, taking as much as they could, and finally handing over the rest to the sect.

Li Yuan's storage bag was an ordinary three-square-meter storage bag. He only took the most valuable poison sac and the pair of claws from the demon crow, and left the rest.

Until night fell, Elder Gu released Baiqiao Secret Shop and loaded the remaining large number of demon corpses into the boat, and returned to the mountain first with the bodies of some disciples and the seriously injured disciples.

Only three elders and less than a hundred disciples were left to enter the cave and explore the things in the mountain.

Li Yuan was naturally left behind without exception and was assigned a cave to enter in search of spiritual objects.

At this moment, he was holding a fluorescent stone in his hand and moving forward carefully. In front of him was Yi Mu Kui leading the way. In his hands were two Vajra Talismans, which he would activate immediately at the slightest sign of trouble.

The cave smelled foul and was cold and damp, but fortunately there were no snakes, insects or ants. After all, if there were any, they would have been eaten by the dark crows.

Li Yuan walked for two full hours, but the road became more and more forked. On the way, he met a few fellow disciples. They talked about the road conditions with each other and then continued to move deeper into the depths.

After walking for five full hours, Li Yuan suddenly found his spiritual power guiding towards one of the roads at a fork in the road, as if something was attracting him.

Li Yuan was confused, but he still walked into the road. The further he went in, the more he noticed that the cave was getting more and more humid, and there was even water accumulating under his feet.

Until an underground river appeared in front of him, with the water flickering in the river, and there seemed to be some kind of spiritual creature.

"Is this... the Yin-yang water?"

The laws of water are ever-changing. There are 108 famous kinds of water in the world, and even more unnamed spiritual waters.

But when integrated, it can be roughly divided into several categories, including Ren water, Gui water, Zi water, Hai water, Yuan water, Zhen water, etc.

The sinking Yin water in front of you is a type of Gui water, which has the ability to extinguish bright fire, gather Yin and quiet, connect Chou and Wei, and eliminate Chen and Xu.

It did have some pulling force for Li Yuan who was cultivating Yuanshui. He glanced over and saw a dark corpse crow egg with a gloomy aura at the bottom of the river.

Then, he raised his sleeves, rolled up the dark water, and placed the egg at the bottom of the river into the World of Ten Thousand Trees.

Then he took out a gourd of Chen Yin water and picked up a few spirit stones from the river. These spirit stones are also called Yin Ming stones, which are suitable for ghost cultivators such as Yin Tu Daotong.

After marking, he returned along the same route to report back.

By the time he came out, only Elder Yu Guhong was left guarding the mountainside, and there were three or five other disciples who were using earth-moving techniques to build houses, apparently for permanent residence.

"The disciple has met the elder."

Li Yuan bowed. Yu Guhong was a little absent-minded. In the past few days, many disciples had gained nothing. He didn't believe that there were no spiritual things in this mountain. He casually asked, "Did you gain anything?"

"My disciple has discovered a hidden river deep in the cave. It should be the Yin-Yang water." Li Yuan took out the gourd of water and a piece of Yin-Yang stone and said, "There are still more or less Yin-Yang stones in the river."

"Oh? Sinking Yin Water? That's a good thing." Yu Guhong nodded and said, "River water has been deposited for a hundred years, contaminated with the Yin Qi of the earth. It is considered Sinking Yin Water when Gui and Wei are combined. If there is another Qi in it, or it accumulates for a thousand years, it can be regarded as the essence of sinking water, which is considered a spiritual resource for building the foundation of true cultivation.

But the mutation here has only been going on for a hundred years at most, so there is no way there could be such a spiritual creature. Take me with you to have a look."

Li Yuan naturally nodded in response, and took some effort to bring Yu Guhong to the dark river. When he saw the gloomy river water, his eyes were puzzled.

He placed the skull in his hand into the water of the Shenyin River and stared at it. In less than half a minute, he saw the skull's ghost fire burning. The Taoist was extremely excited and said, "Netherworld Spring! Is there a Netherworld Spring here?"

Li Yuan didn't dare to make a sound behind him, for fear that the Taoist in front of him would turn around and silence him.

The bad thing he was thinking about didn't happen. The Taoist patted his shoulder and said with relief: "You are practicing the Lower Yuan Jue, right?"

"That's right. I am practicing the Xia Yuan Jue in the Sutra Library at the mountain gate." Li Yuan replied.

"Hahaha, no wonder, the Yuanshui governs, all waters flow to the Yuanshui, no wonder you were able to discover this river. Just follow me and stay in this Sorrow Cloud Mountain, there must be great fortune waiting for you and me!"

Yu Guhong happily took him out of the cave and walked away alone.

Li Yuan could only sit down nearby to regulate his breathing. During this time, he saw several fellow disciples on the mountain holding compasses and arranging formation flags. It was obvious that this place would become a garrison, and it did not look like a small garrison with only three or two disciples.

The secrets of the mountains were not something he could know.

For now, all I can do is follow the arrangements of the elders.

In the blink of an eye, a day passed and a group of pavilions stood up in the mountains. Waves of shining light covered the Chouyun Mountain.

Li Yuan and dozens of his disciples opened up their own caves here and took turns patrolling the mountain for guarding.

Beside the dark river, Li Yuan opened a cave and set up the simple small formation given by the sect. Now he had a cave more than ten feet in size. This would be his home for some time to come.

I heard that the sect discovered some kind of Taoist spiritual object at the bottom of the mountain, so they turned this mountain into a permanent residence.

This place is rich in Gui water, and the disciples stationed here need to practice water-related skills in order to stay here for a long time, otherwise the Yang energy in their bodies will be eroded by the Gui Yin water energy.

There were only two elders left here. One was Yu Guhong, who was guarding the spiritual creatures deep at the bottom of the mountain. The other was Elder Qi Feng named Wang Xingyi, who was guarding the formation and handling daily affairs in the pavilion outside the mountain.

Li Yuan sat cross-legged in the cave, and breathed a sigh of relief. "Although it's not safe in the sect, I don't have to take turns on general duties. On weekdays, there is a large formation covering it, so I only need to patrol the mountain once a month."

More importantly, the place is rich in Guishui, and is cold and yin, which is not very suitable for other cultivators to practice, but for him, it is a treasure land for practice.

Gui water is yin, neither Kan nor true, but Yuan water has the Taoist meaning of being warm and harmonious, containing hundreds of rivers and gathering all waters, so it can naturally use the yin water energy of the earth.

Li Yuan practiced martial arts in the cave. Every time he moved his body through the Qi circles, a lot of spiritual energy would be added. Over time, the blood turnover rate in his body became faster and faster, which was 10% to 20% faster than when he practiced in the mountain gate.

The reason why it is one or two percent is that the spiritual energy of the dark river will increase a lot at the beginning and end of the month, and will gradually weaken in the middle of the month, so there will be changes.

But for Li Yuan, this is an extremely good place for practicing.

On this day, Li Yuan finished his practice and took out the bird egg he found in the river. The vitality in the egg was actually getting weaker and weaker.

This made him frown, because he wanted to keep this spirit egg as a spirit pet. After hatching from their shells, most Dark Corpse Crows have violent tempers, making them extremely difficult to subdue and communicate with mentally. Therefore, when they were sweeping the cave, many of his fellow disciples only focused on picking up the spirit eggs.

Recently, the prices of things related to Dark Corpse Crows have plummeted on the market, simply because there are too many corpses.

But even so, the disciples, elders and even the treasury of the Qi Ling Sect earned a lot of spirit stones and good things.

The events of Chouyun Mountain also made the three nearby families extremely jealous, and some even became dissatisfied with Qi Lingmen.

In the Chouyun Mountain base, Li Yuan still kept a low profile and practiced hard, rarely interacting with his fellow disciples, which made the other disciples think that he was a loner.

In the blink of an eye, one year has passed.

A flying boat slowly descended from the sky. It was the disciples on duty at the mountain gate. These disciples stationed outside the mountain had one month to return to the sect to participate in various matters within the sect as well as business needs.

Li Yuan boarded the flying boat, and there were seven or eight disciples returning to the sect with him. After leaving Chouyun Mountain, the group of people started discussing on the flying boat which was less than five meters long.

"Have you noticed that Elder Yu has not left the cave once in the past year?"

"Hey, it seems to be true! Every time I patrol the mountain, I never see Elder Yu. And the deep cave at the bottom of the mountain looks so gloomy and scary."

"Have you noticed that the coldness in that cave is very similar to the Death Cave dungeon at the mountain gate...

Will there be…"

"Don't talk nonsense! I don't want to go back to guard the garrison anymore after you said that."

"But there are only a few dozen of us disciples practicing water in the mountain gate. Who else can we send?"

A group of disciples were discussing the matter. Li Yuan, who was standing next to them, was slightly puzzled as he heard it. He remembered that Elder Yu had mentioned something about the Netherworld Spring, which must not be a good thing. In addition, there were ghost generals who had built their foundation and practiced true cultivation in this mountain back then. It was very likely that there were some hidden treasures at the bottom of the mountain.

Li Yuan shook his head and did not think too much about the treasure inside. Instead, he prepared to go back to the Chuangong Pavilion to find a way to tame the beast. He had to hatch the spirit egg and see how it went, so as to save the trouble of spending spirit stones to buy a spirit pet.

You should know that in the past year, almost every disciple of the Qi Ling Sect has a Dark Corpse Crow spirit beast. Some choose underage demon crows and forcibly tame them, while others choose to hatch them from spirit eggs and then slowly cultivate them after they recognize their masters. The Dark Corpse Crow is almost a standard feature of the Qi Ling Sect's disciples.

After the flying boat landed, Li Yuan entered the mountain and went straight to the Transmission Pavilion.

The Chuangong Pavilion has two floors, covering an area of ​​several acres. There are no less than ten thousand books on the first floor, covering all kinds of folk customs and skills.

As for the cultivation techniques, they are naturally on the second floor of the Transmission Pavilion, where there are special elders to guard and guide the disciples who are practicing the techniques.

After all, the Qi Ling Sect has a long history, and there are dozens of Qi Refining techniques, and none of them is incomplete or shallow.

Xia Yuan Jue is also one of the most popular exercises among disciples. The most important reason is that among the many exercises, there are few subsequent exercises for the foundation-building realm.

The practice of Xia Yuan Jue is simple and upright, and it also has foundation-building exercises. The practice speed is not slow either, so naturally there are many people who choose it.

However, the exchange for the late stage Qi Refining skills requires fifty spirit stones. Li Yuan was poor before and was still far from the late stage, so naturally he didn't want to think about exchanging.

Now that his skills have become more advanced, even if the Xia Yuan Jue is just a cover-up, if there is no record of changing the skills but he has practiced the later stage skills, it is bound to arouse suspicion.

(End of this chapter)