The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 14: The Darkness
So Li Yuan changed two methods with great pain, one was naturally the late stage practice of Xia Yuan Jue, and the other was the Beast Taming Jue.

The elder who was teaching the skills was a fat middle-aged man wearing gray clothes. He asked curiously, "You don't look that old, do you?

Are you going to prepare for the later stages of the practice so soon?"

Li Yuan scratched his head awkwardly and smiled, "I still have another two decades to reach the late stage. It's just that I'm stationed in Sorrow Cloud Mountain, and it's inconvenient to go back and forth, so I'll come back first to take a look and figure out the practice."

"Oh~ Chouyun Mountain." The fat elder nodded, "Okay, that place is suitable for Yinshui and other types of cultivation, and it is also suitable for Xiayuan Jue.

Come, activate this Heart Guardian Stone again, and then you can go."

Li Yuan bowed and said, "Thank you, Elder."

He came to the floating hexagonal stone in the center of the Sutra Library and placed his palm on the stone surface. A faint light wave rippled on the surface of the stone for a while and then returned to calm.

When a disciple enters the mountain gate, he or she will swear an oath not to privately teach the skills learned in the mountain gate's scripture pavilion. The Guardian Heart Stone is the witness of the oath, so it must be activated every time a skill is exchanged.

Li Yuan only felt a strange feeling of being watched in his heart, which disappeared after three or two breaths.

He put away his skills and turned back to his residence.

On the way, from time to time, you can see a few dark crows flying around in the mountains. They are obviously the demon crows that the disciples have raised as spirit beasts.

However, the black air exhaled by these black crows made the originally fairy-like mountain gate look a little out of place.

At the same time, the disciples in the mountains were even more in awe of the ancestor Yuhe. After all, his strength alone was enough to suppress tens of thousands of dark corpse crows. How powerful was that?
Li Yuan returned to his cave and read through the Beast Taming Art. He breathed a sigh of relief. There were not many places where spells were mentioned that needed to be used. They were mainly about concluding a contract with essence and blood, and the difficulty of the spells did not seem to be high.

If there is any advanced method, I am afraid he will not be able to learn it even if he studies for a year or two.

Because as he practiced the spiritual communication with the lower Yuan Zhen Jue for a longer time, he found that his talent in magic was getting worse.

Fortunately, after nearly ten years of refining puppets and being blessed by the Ten Thousand Wood Realm, his spiritual consciousness has far surpassed that of a mid-stage cultivator. With a strong spiritual consciousness, it will naturally be easier to practice magic.

In addition, the higher the realm, the easier it is to practice low-level spells, so he can still learn one or two mid-level spells.

Now Li Yuan has mastered the Ice Cone Technique very well. After all, he has spent more than ten years practicing it, so he has finally mastered it.

He practiced for most of the day and became familiar with the spell before he took out the black egg.

After a period of time, the deathly aura on the black bird egg became three times thicker. Even if it was a Dark Corpse Crow, the chick inside might have died.

He had no choice but to pick up this spiritual bird egg. You should know that there are many bird eggs in Chouyun Mountain, but most of them are ordinary bird eggs. Only the eggs laid by the Dark Corpse Crow in the late stage of Qi Refining can be spiritual eggs. Once they hatch, they are monsters. Their potential and abilities are not comparable to the offspring laid by those middle-stage monster birds.

Li Yuan knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so he bit his finger and used his blood as a pen to draw a blood-red sign, muttering, "I will use my blood to support your birth. I will be your master and you will be my servant. For eternity, our lives will be connected!"

"Om~"

As Li Yuan performed the spell with difficulty, the blood curse merged into the black spirit egg.

After only a dozen breaths, the egg suddenly moved, and then a crack spread from the middle of the eggshell.

"Click~"

A slight cracking sound was heard, and Li Yuan approached the eggshell with full anticipation and waited.

But after this sound, there was no movement.

Li Yuan was stunned and couldn't help but break the eggshell himself. He found a bald flesh-colored baby bird lying inside the eggshell.

"Move! Why aren't you moving?"

He said, "Why don't you move? Don't die! My spirit stone!"

Li Yuan no longer cared about its ugliness at this time. He condensed a little spiritual power at his fingertips and transferred it into the body of the baby bird.

After waiting for a while, the baby bird's bare wings moved, and then it slowly raised its head, and its eyes, which had not yet removed the eye mask, also moved slightly.

"It's good that he's alive, it's good that he's alive." Seeing this scene, Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, the thirty spirit stones of the Beast Taming Technique were not wasted.

The baby bird cried weakly and tried to get closer to him, but could only stumble to its feet.

Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh. This baby bird might be born with a deficiency, which made it so weak.

He scanned the area with his spiritual mind, went outside the mountain to catch a few insects, and fed them to the bird. The bird then fell asleep in the palm of his hand.

"Let me give you a name. You were born from the water of Chenyin and the air of the dead. Let's call you Chenming."

Li Yuan found a piece of cotton material and made a nest, then placed it in the quiet room so that he could look at it while practicing.

Then in the next few days, Li Yuan went to visit Ruan Jinghu in his cave, but unexpectedly learned that he had been in seclusion.

The fact that he could achieve seclusion meant that he was very likely trying to reach the late stage of Qi Refining!
Such rapid progress amazed all the disciples.

Li Yuan came to Baique Tower again and looked at the ranking. The one ranked first was Qi Feng's disciple Wang Lengchan.

The second one is Ruan Jinghu. It seems that this disciple of Qi Feng is a person who refuses to admit defeat and insists on suppressing others.

He looked down again and saw that the top ten were all famous figures among the deacons and disciples, among whom Li Yunming was already ranked ninth.

After searching for a long time, Li Yuan was puzzled when he couldn't find Qi Hongzhi's name. So he found a nearby disciple and asked, "Brother, why is Brother Qi Hongzhi not on the list? I remember that he was ranked in the top ten!"

Ever since the ranking of Baique Tower was established, this place has become a good place for disciples in the mountain to gossip and chat, or to make friends with others, so there are quite a few people here.

The young disciple had obviously just entered the mountain not long ago. When he saw the deacon disciple asking him, he hurriedly said, "Brother, you haven't been out for a while, right?

Two months ago, Senior Brother Qi Hongzhi was on a mission and was robbed and killed. This incident made the elders furious, and they sent two elders to investigate, but unfortunately the location was too far away and they could not find anything.

"Dead?" Li Yuan was shocked. "Brother Qi is so powerful, how could he be killed by a villain?"

"Alas~" the young disciple sighed, "Although Senior Brother Qi is powerful, he can't do anything about the large number of thieves. I heard that they were ambushed by a group of thieves who roam around and commit crimes all year round. As for other details, I don't know."

Li Yuan couldn't help but look sad when he heard this, "Poor Senior Brother Qi was harmed by a villain like this! Thank you for telling me, Junior Brother."

After saying that, he turned away sadly, as if he was really a fellow apprentice of Qi Hongzhi. Li Yuan felt a little cold in his heart. Qi Hongzhi and Ruan Jinghu asked him to join forces to explore the secrets, but unfortunately he was too weak to take the risk.

Later, the two returned to the mountain with great strength and their cultivation levels increased rapidly. There must be some incredible inheritance or treasures in the ancient cultivator's cave.

Now, the only people who knew about the cave were Ruan Jinghu and himself. Even though Ruan Jinghu and I had a good relationship and some friendship as classmates, times had changed, and who knew how people's hearts would change?

Li Yuan has always assumed the worst of others. As a man who has lived through life, he naturally knows that human hearts are treacherous.

"It seems that I should go back to the mountain less often in the future. I will just stay at the Sorrow Cloud Mountain for 20 to 30 years to see if I can enter the late stage."

He was thinking in his mind, and then ran all the way to the foot of Qifeng Mountain. There was a small street here where the disciples of the mountain bought and sold spiritual objects. It was less than a hundred feet long and sold all low-level stuff and semi-finished products. Any good stuff would not be sold here, but in Wenshan Market.

Li Yuan found a street stall and sold all the corpses of the Dark Crows in his storage bag at a low price. A year later, the price of the Dark Crows had increased slightly compared to when the Sorrow Cloud Mountain Station was first built.

Then they bought some materials for refining puppets. These things were secretly accumulated by the disciples. The elders knew that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish. These things did not violate the rules of the sect, so they did not care.

The next day, Li Yuan went to the sect to collect his salary and took back all the spirit stones and spiritual resources he had accumulated for a year. He was only worth 68 spirit stones.

Returning to the courtyard, sitting on a recliner in the yard, looking at the familiar scenery, Li Yuan silently enjoyed his solitude.

Practicing to achieve immortality and staying away from the mundane world, he is alone, free of worries, without friends or relatives. Isn't this endless loneliness a kind of training of the mind?
Li Yuan stayed in the cave for a month and made a puppet in his spare time.

Then they took the boat again and returned to the Chouyun Mountain base.

As soon as I got off the flying boat, I heard several fellow disciples complaining, "We have to stay in this miserable place for another year."

"Think positively, at least we don't have to do chores in the mountains. This time when I returned to the mountains, I went to the winery at the foot of the mountain to buy a lot of good wine and brought some delicious food. Then, won't we be able to live freely in the mountains?"

"Hahaha, great, great, Brother Feng and I really have the same idea! I specially brought a yellow cow to slaughter it cleanly, so Junior Sister Xu's cooking skills can be put to good use!"

A few people were laughing and discussing how much good wine and meat they had brought. Seeing that Li Yuan was alone, one of the round-faced young men came over and said with a smile: "My name is Fengzi. Junior brother, why do you look so nervous?"

Li Yuan replied: "My surname is Li, and my given name is Yuan. I have been practicing hard and rarely leave my cave, so I don't know many fellow disciples."

"Oh, Junior Brother Li." Another middle-aged man with a fat body suddenly remembered something and said with a smile, "I have heard of your great name for a long time! My name is Tian Xiong. Junior Brother Li is so young, but he has already become a deacon disciple. He will definitely be able to become an elder in the future!"

"No, no, I'm just taking advantage of the senior from Qingfeng Pavilion." Li Yuan clasped his fists and declined.

“My name is Xu Qinglian, and it turns out that I am the Junior Brother Li Yuan who was so famous in the mountains back then.

Since we are both disciples of Lingfeng, and we are stationed in this Sorrow Cloud Mountain, why don't you have a drink with us today?"

The woman behind him, who looked to be in her thirties, came forward and invited him with a smile. Even in her disciple's long gown, her figure was able to outline her curves. In addition, there was a kind of young woman's charm in her every move, which made her even more attractive.

Feng Zi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but put his arm around Li Yuan's shoulders, pointing at him with a smile, "Junior Sister Xu is cooking for us today, and we are in for a treat. Junior Brother Li Yuan, you can't refuse!"

Tian Xiong also smiled and said, "Why don't you go quickly? Let's go to my cave. I brought several jars of good wine. The more people there are, the more fun it will be!"

Li Yuan couldn't refuse at this time, so he could only let them drag him to Tian Xiong's cave. After all, other people saw him leaving with the three of them, and there were elders stationed here, so he was not afraid that these three fellow disciples would dare to attack him.

So the group arrived at Tian Xiong's cave, and Xu Qinglian cooked three or five side dishes herself, plus a large pot of braised beef and a few jars of aged wine. The four of them naturally enjoyed the meal very much.

When people drink too much, they naturally talk more.

Several people started talking about interesting things, which made the atmosphere lively.

Tian Xiong drank the most, his face was already red, he smiled and held the bowl and said: "I am 72 years old this year, in another 30 to 50 years, I can go back to the mountain and enjoy wealth and prosperity. By then, why don't we be rich men together, and be local emperors, wouldn't it be great?"

Xu Qinglian laughed when he heard this and said, "You idiot, you're only seventy-two and you're already thinking about leaving the mountain? I'm afraid you haven't practiced your Earth Covering and Suppressing Technique for a long time, right?"

“Hahaha, Junior Sister Xu still understands me.” Tian Xiong said drunkenly, “I hate doing those menial tasks the most, they are almost no different from being a mining slave.

With my low-grade spiritual roots, there is no hope for me to cultivate to the later stage. Rather than suffering in the mountains for a lifetime, it is better to go down the mountain early to enjoy life. Then I can live to be eighty years old, which means I can be considered a wealthy person for a lifetime."

Feng Zi sighed, "By the time I came down the mountain, my family members had already passed away. Going down the mountain alone, without any relatives or friends, I might as well give it a try. If I can make it to the later stage and become an elder, it will be a great blessing.

But none of us can compare to Junior Brother Li. He is less than fifty years old, but he is already a deacon disciple. His spiritual roots are not inferior to those of the top grade!"

Li Yuan waved his hand and said, "Senior Brother Feng is too kind to me. If I hadn't gotten the opportunity from the senior of Qingfeng Pavilion that year, I would probably still be wasting my time among the early disciples.

In the later stage, I am afraid it will take another two decades to have hope. "

"You guys!" Xu Qinglian shook her head and laughed, "The path to immortality is difficult. There are so many mortals down the mountain, plus the three states, but only we have three or four hundred disciples in the Qi Ling Sect.

In the entire Guangyuan Mountains, there are tens of thousands of cultivators, but there are only about 10 to 20 true cultivators from the four sects. We should just take it one step at a time.

As for cultivation, it doesn't really matter whether you cultivate or not, the most important thing is your life. "Old Tian, ​​how long has it been since you fought with someone? If you meet someone with bad intentions one day, what will you do?"

"Well... I might as well stay in the mountains. What's so scary about this?" Tian Xiong hesitated.

"That requires some self-defense items." Feng Zi said with a smile, "And self-defense items require spirit stones the most. But I have a way to earn a lot of spirit stones."

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan's alert heart instantly tightened. What tricks are these fellow disciples going to do now?

"Oh? Senior Brother Feng, is there any solution?" Xu Qinglian asked expectantly.

"There is a hidden river at the foot of the Sorrow Cloud Mountain. The spiritual energy contained in it is very good. There must be a spiritual vein underground!"

"What?" Li Yuan frowned, "Brother, the mountain sect has strictly prohibited privately digging for spiritual veins in Chouyun Mountain!"

"Don't worry, there must be some treasure in this base in the center of the cave, and Elder Yu is guarding it there.

But the spiritual veins we dug will not have any impact on the spiritual objects at the elders' place. I can fully guarantee this!" Feng Zi patted his chest and promised.

"Everyone, how about you think about it carefully? Last time, I secretly dug up more than 30 spiritual stones, which is still difficult for me to use alone. If you are willing and cooperate properly, each of us can get at least nearly 100 spiritual stones a year!"

"What? Nearly a hundred dollars!" Xu Qinglian was full of surprise and said quickly, "I do!"

(End of this chapter)