The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 28 Conspiracy
After returning to the cave, Li Yuan casually lay down on the bench, closed his eyes and listened to the breeze sweeping the leaves. The tip of his nose was filled with the fragrance of laurel in autumn. Birds in the nearby mountains chirped from time to time. The moon gradually floated above the branches, and its light illuminated the entire autumn courtyard.

Li Yuan's mood gradually calmed down in his sleep. He had been trapped in the boundless mountains for half a year, with unknown dangers and accidents coming at any time, so he had to concentrate highly.

By the next morning, the morning glow had covered the sky and the bright light illuminated Li Yuan's eyes. He habitually picked up the cup of tea and wanted to take a sip of it.

But it is empty.

"empty."

Li Yuan frowned and flicked his sleeves. The morning mist in the mountains flowed into the sand pot and turned into a handful of clear water. He picked up the tea lid, closed it, and placed it on the stone table. A thin fire slowly boiled the tea.

After a while, the aroma of tea filled the air, and the water boiled a few times before the fire was turned off.

Slowly pour yourself a cup of tea, hold it in your hand and drink it quietly.

However, his mind was no longer on the tea. Instead, he was recalling the route in his mind. He picked up a piece of talisman paper and drew out the route from Guanghu Lake and the ancient green vine tree out of the Ten Thousand Mountains bit by bit, making it a truly safe route.

If one day I am hunted by my enemies again, or if I am hiding from a powerful enemy, I will have a place to go.

After doing all this, Li Yuan's mind came to the Wanmu Realm, and he looked at the spirit bead and examined it carefully.

His Ten Thousand Wood Realm had the effect of isolating the inner and outer forbidden laws, which he discovered when hiding the Xuan Ling. So whenever he encountered something he didn't trust given by someone he didn't trust, hiding it in the Ten Thousand Wood Realm was the best choice.

His soul was beating as he examined the inside and outside of the spirit pearl, and he discovered that there was a hidden evil spirit inside the pearl. Li Yuan frowned, because this pearl was rare and integrated, if he wanted to destroy the evil spirit inside, he might have to break the pearl.

But if the pearl is destroyed, it is hard to say whether it will still be effective.

Li Yuan pondered for a moment and put the bead into the furnace. The fire in the furnace belonged to some unknown spiritual fire, but it was able to refine various puppets and was probably some kind of spiritual fire that could be used to refine tools.

With a divine thought, the treasure furnace caught fire, the blazing true fire alchemy furnace, and the blazing flames burned the copper. It took less than half an hour for the furnace to see mist and black smoke. With a slight scream, the black smoke disappeared, leaving only the white mist rising up.

After seeing this, Li Yuan extinguished the treasure furnace and took out the spirit bead from the furnace. He found that although the spiritual light of the treasure was a little dim, it was still pure and clear. Obviously, the backup plan left by Ze Wei had been eliminated.

Even if the spirit pearl loses some of its effectiveness, it is worth it. Otherwise, if it is not completely eliminated and used for cultivation, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After dealing with the spirit bead, he looked at the green gourd again. However, as soon as he opened the gourd mouth, a faint green smoke dissipated.

He thought to himself that something was wrong and hurriedly closed the gourd, but he had already passed out with his eyes rolled back.

Not knowing how long he had been unconscious, Li Yuan only remembered having a dream. In the dream, there were countless beautiful women who were extremely seductive to him. The whole building was filled with red tents and fragrance. Women of all postures were fawning and submissive, and some were even bold enough to have physical contact with him.

But Li Yuan in the dream knew that everything he saw was an illusion, and he remained unmoved no matter how hard these women tried.

After sleeping like this, he found that his spirit had returned to his body, and except for feeling a little groggy, there was nothing unusual.

Li Yuan secretly thought that he was lucky. Fortunately, he had always been cautious and had never touched these two items. If he had opened them in the Ten Thousand Mountains and been caught in this illusion and unconscious for ten days or half a month, he would probably have lost all his bones.

This time, Li Yuan came to the Wanmu Realm again. He ordered a wolf puppet to open the gourd, and then hurriedly left the Wanmu Realm without even looking at it.

After waiting for a full half hour, when his spiritual consciousness returned to the Ten Thousand Trees Realm again, his expression changed drastically.

Because the wolf puppet was no longer under his control.

Li Yuan's mind moved, and the silver cold needle stabbed forward secretly. At the same time, clear water and clear clouds appeared in front of him to protect his body. Then he cast the ice cone technique and released five ice cones in a row to block his movement.

"Fellow Daoist, spare my life! I am willing to be your slave!"

This wolf puppet could actually speak human language, and its voice was exactly the same as that of Madam Qing Meng!
Li Yuan showed no mercy. This wolf puppet was only in the initial stage of Qi Refining, and five ice cones pierced its limbs and head.

And the silver cold needle flashed secretly and penetrated the core magic restriction of the wolf.

Li Yuan's heart moved, and he drew out the fire in the furnace, wrapping the wolf's body and burning violently.

"Please spare my life, sir! I have the secret art of communicating with spirits and can understand the realm of foundation building. I am willing to help you break through the foundation building realm! Please spare my life, sir!"

The woman was still begging for mercy, but Li Yuan remained indifferent and unmoved, staring at the wolf puppet in the flames turning into ashes, but there was still a little fox spirit resisting the flames.

Although the fox was extremely frightened, it seemed unable to move and could only be trapped in place and let the fire burn.

Li Yuan urged his mind, and the spiritual fire in the treasure furnace suddenly burst out again, like a red river that submerged the little fox. The wailing sound continued until the soul was reduced to ashes.

Seeing this scene, he heaved a sigh of relief. After all, he knew nothing about these secret techniques that could parasitize the soul, and most of them were people and monsters with great origins or extraordinary Taoist traditions.

He didn't dare to be with such a cunning monster, not to mention that the Xuanyuan Wanmu Realm was the foundation of his life, and there was no way anyone else could know about it except him.

Even if it is sinking, its life or death is only in my own thoughts, and its intelligence is low and it cannot speak, so I dare let it stay in the world of ten thousand trees.

There is no room for negotiation on this secret, it must not be touched.

No matter what this evil woman thinks, the most secret thing is that her soul is torn apart.

This time, Li Yuan looked at the gourd that had been opened, and after carefully exploring it with his spiritual sense, he found nothing unusual. Then he carefully examined it a second time, bit by bit.

Only after making sure that there was really no danger did he use his primordial spirit to refine the gourd magic ban.

As soon as he touched the magic gourd, he sensed that it was extraordinary. He was afraid that it was a treasure of some great demon. It was a spiritual gourd that was nurtured for no less than a thousand years by the combination of Kan water and Yi wood, and then refined with some kind of magic ban, making it a half-tool and half-miracle.

This gourd can indeed collect water from heaven and earth, and after refining it, it turns into one-yuan heavy water. Naturally, the more of this spiritual water the better, and quantity is the key to success.

One yuan of heavy water, one drop of water can weigh one kilogram.

One drop of binary heavy water is equivalent to ten kilograms of water.

Triple heavy water, one drop is equivalent to a hundred kilograms of water.

……

One drop of five-element heavy water is equivalent to ten thousand kilograms of water.

As for the heavy water above, it is a legendary spiritual object. There are even rumors that a single drop can turn into rivers and seas. However, this legend has nothing to do with Li Yuan at the moment.

This heavy water can be used to refine tools, and can also be used as a magical tool, which is quite useful. A cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining can condense it, but it takes a long time, and one drop will take ten days to half a month.

If Li Yuan, who was now at the late stage of cultivation and specialized in water magic, tried to condense one element of heavy water, it would also take several hours. But if this kind of thing was used as a magic weapon, it would be useless without tens of thousands of drops.

Li Yuan touched his chin, thought for a moment, and decided to verify the authenticity of the gourd. He put away the treasure gourd, left his courtyard, came to a big river outside the mountain gate, and took out the gourd.

The name of this river is Qie River. It is a large river that flows for more than 2,000 miles. The water in the river is turbulent, so the mortals living at the foot of the mountain dare not use it for transportation.

Li Yuan opened the gourd, and with a urgency of his mind, he pointed the gourd mouth at the river and chanted, "Collect!"

The next moment, the mouth of the gourd flashed with a dark blue color, and the river water was immediately drawn up and rushed into the gourd madly. The direction of the hundred-foot-long river water was disrupted and it was swallowed up tirelessly by the gourd.

After sucking for half an hour, Li Yuan stopped, shook the gourd gently, and said in amazement: "You can drink a lot, it's not even half full."

After returning home, Li Yuan used his magic power to begin refining heavy water. The inside of the Qingyou Gourd was very calm and peaceful, but the water level was slowly dropping.

Moreover, it only takes half an hour to refine a drop of heavy water!

Li Yuan stopped with some distress. Although this gourd has greatly shortened the refining time, he can't always spare his precious time every day to refine heavy water.

Unless someone helps me...

An idea suddenly popped up in Li Yuan's mind.

He found a kind of puppet recorded in the Wan Kui Sutra in his soul.

"Real body puppet!"

Although this kind of puppet is only in the initial stage after being refined, its appearance and expression can be fabricated, and its intelligence is much higher than other puppets. You don't need to control it yourself, just give a simple command.

As long as the spirit source bead is installed on the real body puppet and it is allowed to transfer spiritual power to the Qingyou gourd, the magic ban in the gourd will start to work to refine the heavy water.

As for the Spirit Source Pearl, as long as he could refine a real body puppet and set up a water-based Spirit Gathering Array in the Wanmu Realm, he could let it maintain the array and fill the Spirit Source Pearl.

Ignoring the low spiritual power required to maintain the formation, one spiritual source bead can allow the second puppet to maintain the spirit gathering formation for a month, and this month can replenish about five spiritual source beads.

One is given to the puppet used to maintain the formation, and the other four can be used to refine the heavy water in the Qingyou Gourd for the first puppet.

A spiritual source bead is almost equivalent to the magic power of perfect Qi Refining. The upper limit of transferring magic power through the real body puppet is the initial stage of Qi Refining, and it can be refined day and night for at least ten days and ten nights.

Li Yuan pondered it in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was very likely to come true.

Who says there is no perpetual motion!
However, the material for refining the real body puppet requires the soul of a living person.

The main material is the Yunxi fruit from the Yunxi tree, mixed with more than ten kinds of spiritual materials into mud, and then Qixuan wood is used as branches and skull, spiritual mud is used as flesh, and soul is used as intelligence.

Li Yuan did what he said. He went out to collect his salary for the past few months and prepared to buy a spirit gathering array.

After he rode the cloud all the way to Lingfeng Peak, he met Elder Gu.

Elder Gu was very surprised to see him, "Junior Brother Li, didn't you get into danger when you went out? Why are you back in the mountains?"

Hearing this, he replied, "I escaped danger a month ago. The disciples guarding the mountain gate should have a record of it. How come Senior Brother Gu doesn't know about it?"

"What? I forgot. Qi Feng has been guarding the mountain gate for the past few years." Elder Gu was angry, but he immediately reacted and said, "But Junior Brother...

well…"

"What's going on?" Li Yuan asked in confusion, "Brother, please tell me what you want to say."

Elder Gu shook his head, couldn't help but sigh, and said only four words.

"The will of God is unpredictable."

"Junior brother, you don't have to do any chores in the next five years. Just focus on your cultivation. Also, remember not to stray too far from the mountain gate. I'm afraid the Nine Stars will come again. These things must be kept secret and not spread to outsiders." Elder Gu sighed for a while and finally said these words.

"Yes, Junior Brother, I will definitely keep it in mind." Li Yuan responded, and suddenly remembered something, "Senior Brother, can you find out anything about the rebellion in Chouyun Mountain back then?"

"Oh, that matter." Elder Gu shook his head, "The ancestor never showed his face, so we didn't know about it either."

"What about Senior Brother Ruan? Why haven't we seen him return to the mountain in recent days?" Li Yuan asked again.

"Ruan Jinghu? He was sent out by the ancestor to investigate some secret matters. He won't be back for ten or eight years." Elder Gu's tone changed slightly, but he still told the truth.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Gu, for telling me. I was thinking about meeting Senior Brother Ruan as soon as possible and getting drunk together!" Li Yuan showed a look of regret on his face, but he had a vague guess in his heart.

Elder Gu waved his hand, turned around and left without looking back.

Looking at his slightly hunched back, Li Yuan understood that this old man knew a lot of things, but was limited by many things and could only keep them in silence.

“Sometimes, knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing.”

Li Yuan came to the side hall where he received his monthly salary. The deacon who distributed the salary saw him and saluted excitedly, saying, "Disciple Shen Wen greets the elder."

"Why are you so excited?" Li Yuan looked at the disciple in front of him with amusement.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Elder. You've rarely been seen in the mountains, so I'm naturally excited to see you. After all, who among us disciples doesn't regard you as a role model?"

Shen Wen still looked at him excitedly, as if he could see through him.

"Role model?" Li Yuan asked with a smile, "I have always been low-key. I have little experience and mediocre strength among the elders. How come I have such a great reputation?"

"Elder, you have become one of the youngest elders from an unknown background, and even broke through the realm faster than the disciple of the ancestor. All of us ordinary disciples take you as an example. If we don't make a name for ourselves, we will make a big splash!"

Li Yuan felt helpless after hearing this. His breakthrough to the late stage at such a young age was indeed somewhat shocking, but if no one publicized it or deliberately hyped it up, no one would compare him with Li Yunming. Wouldn't that attract hatred?

A genius disciple, and a lowest-level deacon disciple. One day, the lowest-level disciple broke through earlier than the genius disciple.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan felt a chill in his heart. Who was harming him?

If Qian Shiyan's departure didn't make him feel anything, then the fact that Ruan Jinghu, who had broken through earlier than him, also left the mountain gate and disappeared made him have a terrible guess in his mind.

Qian Shiyan's warning and departure, Ruan Jinghu's disappearance, and Elder Gu's words made him think more.

Qian Shiyan deliberately concealed her amazing talent and true age. It was definitely not because she wanted to keep a low profile. I'm afraid there is some terrifying existence that is eyeing these extraordinary talents!
(End of this chapter)