The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 38 Deep Sea Pearls
In the small courtyard in the mountains, the light curtain of the formation was always floating with a layer of faint blue light covering the entire attic. In the quiet room, Li Yuan's mind sank into the world of ten thousand trees, and he opened the storage bag with great anticipation.

This is a storage bag for the late stage of Qi Refining. Li Yuan doesn't believe that a star general like this who specializes in robbery among the Nine Palaces would be poorer than himself.

To be honest, in terms of storage bags that are visible, Li Yuanzhen is the poorest among the late-stage cultivators, even worse off than the casual cultivators.

The top-grade magic weapons and refined puppets were all hidden in the Ten Thousand Woods Realm. Apart from daily clothes and the like, the storage bag only contained three mid-grade magic weapons: the Silver Cold Needle, the White Wall and the Black Mist, and the Clear Water and Clear Clouds.

Opening the storage bag of Tiankuxingjiang, there was a mountain of spirit stones inside, as many as four or five hundred pieces!
Because they are all low-grade spirit stones, the number looks quite large when piled up, but it is still slightly inconsistent with the worth of a late-stage cultivator.

Li Yuan checked those bottles and jars again, and surprisingly found a Dinggu Shengxian Pill, which was a precious pill taken by mid-stage cultivators to break through to the late stage. A high-quality precious pill could even be worth hundreds of spirit stones.

The precious pill in front of him had an eerie aura, and was somewhat ghostly. Li Yuan was not an alchemist, so he couldn't tell what kind of bone-fixing pill it was.

In addition, there is half a bottle of elixirs for improving magic power, but only four pills are left. It looks like a righteous five-element elixir, but it's a pity that Li Yuan doesn't dare to take it. After all, every pill he swallows may increase the resistance when breaking through the foundation in the future, and the possibility of failure will also be greater.

After searching carefully, Li Yuan found a wooden box among a pile of talismans. He opened it carefully and only dared to look after finding that there was nothing to plot against him.

I saw a light green treasure scroll lying inside, emitting a rich and refreshing spiritual energy.

"This is…"

Li Yuan was a little hesitant to confirm, so he quickly took out a book from his storage bag, flipped through it for a long time, and his eyes fixed on a certain page.

"Sanyun Shangxun Baolu, taking the wind image of the Eight Trigrams, borrowing the auspiciousness of six two, following the Xun, the leaves change!"

“A precious scroll! It turned out to be a precious scroll made by a true practitioner of the Way of Talismans using his magical powers!”

Li Yuan was ecstatic, talismans are generally referred to as such, but in true cultivation they are mostly called magic talismans, which are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower, corresponding to the approximate strength of the initial, middle and late stages of Qi training.

When something reaches its extreme, it becomes a rare treasure. The best talismans are only heard of, because of the difficulty of making talismans and the scarcity of materials, few true practitioners would go to the trouble of making the best talismans.

Everything above the true cultivation, whether it is tools, pills, talismans, or methods, cannot be measured by the system of Qi Refining Realm.

Simple talismans are no longer capable of reaching the power of true cultivation, so talismans are rarely used in true cultivation.

But there are many exceptions. For example, those who practice talismans as their way of life are called talisman practitioners in the world. They can use their own talismans to imprint their supernatural powers, just like array masters who use the power of heaven and earth to create talismans that are comparable to the power of true cultivation.

This Sanyun Shangxun treasure scroll is an extremely precious treasure scroll. It borrows the auspicious number six-two Xun hexagram in the Eight Trigrams of Heaven and Earth to perform the number of wind escape. It returns to the southwest in the prenatal period and to the southeast in the postnatal period. These are the two directions.

The number of six is ​​also the limit of this talisman. If you use it six times at most, good fortune will turn into bad fortune and you must abandon it. Otherwise, you will be involved in the mysterious changes in your fortune and die without knowing how you died.

But this also means that Li Yuan has used Wind Escape six times, and there is even a chance that he can escape from the hands of a true cultivator. As for a true cultivator, as long as he uses the magic talisman, no one can catch up with him.

However, the precious talisman has a fatal flaw, which is that it needs to be activated by using hexagrams and leveraging the power, which means that it takes a long time to activate.

Otherwise, the Crying Star General would have activated this talisman to escape that day.

However, for Li Yuan, as long as this talisman is used properly, it will be able to turn death into life!

After getting this precious scroll, the other things in the storage bag were no longer valuable. As for the information about the Nine Palaces, the text books and jade slips had no connection with it.

The late-stage cultivators have already been veterans in the Nine Palaces for many years, so it is unlikely that they would leave any clues in their storage bags.

After a short rest, Li Yuan returned to the Sutra Library five days later and became an idle elder.

In addition to his daily practice, he would continue to read ancient books and jade slips, and even made four picture albums, recording in different categories the elixirs, herbs, artifacts, monsters, exotic insects, and special spiritual objects in heaven and earth that he had read and known about.

Even if a cultivator has a photographic memory, it still takes a lot of time to search through his vast memory to find something.

Therefore, disciples who occasionally came to borrow ancient books from the Sutra Repository would find that the young elder guarding the door of the pavilion was always reading or copying something on the bookshelf. He did not look like a cultivator, but rather like a scholar reading books.

Half a month later, Li Yuan's only disciple, Zhang Qi, came to ask him about some difficulties in cultivation.

Although Li Yuan is not a Taoist master with profound cultivation, he is a late-stage cultivator after all. He can still give advice on some initial problems and impart experience during breakthroughs.

Zhang Qi is not a person who is content with his lot, but he is a smart person who knows when to advance and when to retreat, judges the situation, and is determined to make progress.

Li Yuan is a master who doesn't trust anyone, so naturally he doesn't believe that Zhang Qi would go through fire and water for him. But he just needs Zhang Qi to do what he can. With this master-disciple relationship, many things will go smoothly.

"I heard that Elder Cui has become very famous recently and he has killed hundreds of ghost beasts by himself. Is this true?" Li Yuan asked casually.

Zhang Qi smiled and said, “Yes, my disciple was also on the battlefield that day.

Although I was behind the battle line, I could still see Elder Cui holding a golden sword, destroying hundreds of beasts with one strike. I'm afraid that his might could..."

At this point he whispered: "I'm afraid he can be on par with the two peak masters. Many disciples privately say that Peak Master Chen Guan is not worthy of the position, and that the Peak Master of Lingfeng should be Elder Cui."

Not long ago, the four forces in Guangyuan joined forces and sent disciples to the deep mountains to seal the haunted crypt.

Many disciples within the sect were transferred, but fortunately, the Qi Ling Sect now has a large number of disciples, so transferring one or two hundred people will not have much impact.

It has been more than 30 or 40 years since Qi Ling Sect began to recruit disciples. The number of disciples has increased greatly, and naturally the number of breakthroughs has increased a lot. There are also five or six elders in the late stage of Qi Refining in recent years, and there are enough manpower. Li Yuan, who is considered half-useless by everyone, has not been mobilized to fight.

Hearing Zhang Qi's words, Li Yuan nodded and said, "Just listen to these words. But don't say a word. We, the master and the disciple, don't need to get involved in these matters.

Although you are young, you are also very patient. I didn't make a mistake about you. Just concentrate on your cultivation. Here are 100 spirit stones, which is a token of your appreciation. When you have enough spirit stones, go buy a Blood-Changing Heart Pill and prepare for a breakthrough."

Zhang Qi took the spirit stone with great joy and bowed, "Master, I thank you for your kindness. I will not let you down!"

"Go."

Watching Zhang Qi retreat, Li Yuan in the Sutra Library began his busy work again, flipping through books and copying down some strange and magical objects.

When it was getting dark and seeing that no one had come all day, Li Yuan stood up, stretched slowly and comfortably, and then prepared to close the door.

At this moment, a disciple came hurriedly, "Wait a minute, Elder, I want to borrow an ancient book!"

Li Yuan frowned, but still knocked on the door and said, "Why are you so late? Go quickly and hand over a spiritual stone and put it on the cabinet first."

"Yes! Yes! Thank you, Elder!" The young disciple hurriedly walked to the cabinet and put a piece of spirit stone in it, then walked towards the book storage area of ​​the Sutra Library.

Li Yuan returned to the wooden table and sat down again, waiting for him to get the book before closing the door, as he had to wait to practice.

When it comes to spiritual practice, it is not the case that the longer you practice, the better. In ancient times, there were strict time limits for daily meditation and Qigong practice. Even with the changing seasons, the length and start of daily practice varied.

Nowadays, there are no such old rules in the cultivation world. People just stick to their skills and practice hard.

However, some top-level exercises will mention that it is best not to practice for too long every day, otherwise the circulation of the five elements in the body will be disrupted, which over time will damage the meridians and cause disorder of the five elements in the body.

Li Yuan usually practiced for seven or eight hours every day, leaving only four hours in the Sutra Library, either reading some ancient books or studying talismans.

Occasionally I would feel a little sleepy, so I would sleep for half an hour every three to five days, and then continue to repeat this life feeling refreshed.

"Hurry up, the Sutra Library is not closed yet!"

An urgent voice came from outside the door, which made Li Yuan come back to his senses and look up. Three young disciples wearing the robes of deacon disciples walked in and hurried to the counter.

The burly disciple in the lead said with a smile: "Elder, the three of us want to borrow ancient books. Here are the spirit stones."

He held three spirit stones in his hand and placed them in front of the cabinet, then bowed with a smile.

Li Yuan was a little surprised, so he accepted the spirit stone, took out the registration book, and said, "Take out all your identity tokens so that I can record them in the book."

"Yes, Elder." A man and a woman behind him also responded, took out tokens together, and asked Li Yuan to remember their names.

As for the disciple who entered first, Li Yuan had no intention of registering him. As long as he did not register his name, the spirit stone would be his.

But now that more people have come, Li Yuan still has to follow the rules. As an elder, no one would tell anyone that he was greedy for a little advantage, not even the peak master would care. If other elders knew about it, they would just think he was one of their own.

People who don't fit in with the group always have a short life. Even if you want to change something, you have to save your own life first.

Li Yuan didn't want to change anything. He didn't have the virtues of a saint. He was just an ordinary man who wanted to live.

Watching them enter the Sutra Library, Li Yuan carefully watched these disciples looking through books and found that most of them were books that recorded spiritual objects.

The burly man said to the man and woman behind him, "Let's split up and investigate. We need to find out everything related to spiritual objects, changes in the earth veins, and river hydrology."

"Got it, Senior Brother Nie."

The two of them answered and did not waste any time before burying themselves in the book to look it up.

Not long after, another disciple came running over in a hurry. He was so tired that he couldn't catch his breath. He barely bowed and said, "Greetings, Elder. I wonder if I can still borrow the Sutra Library today?"

The Sutra Repository is open daily with limited hours, generally from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., which is roughly the time period from noon to sunset. As for the specific time, that depends on the personal wishes of the elder who guards the pavilion.

Li Yuan asked curiously, "No one usually comes for three to five days, but so many people came today.

But did you encounter any unusual incidents? "

“This…” The dark-faced disciple in front of him hesitated for a while, and then said directly: “Disciple, I will tell you the truth.

For some unknown reason, today inside the mountain gate, the disciples whose caves were built beside lakes and rivers discovered that the river water was shaking. There was no wind or rain, but the water level had risen a lot.

Moreover, there were some flashes of light at the bottom of the river. The disciples went down to the river to search and found several strange stones. Many of their fellow disciples were talking about some rare treasure that had appeared in the world.

So I thought that there were countless ancient books in the Sutra Repository, so I thought there should be records of it.”

"Oh? Strange stone? I have heard of many spiritual objects. Maybe I can help you solve this puzzle." Li Yuan was curious. Seeing that he was hesitant, he said, "Look, they have been looking for it for a long time and still can't find it. I think it will take several days to find one more."

"this…"

The black-faced disciple hesitated for a moment, then took out two stones and placed them in front of the cabinet, "Please help me solve my doubts, Elder."

Li Yuan looked at the two pale white round stones, which were not much different from ordinary pebbles.

He reached out and picked up two stones. They felt heavy in his hand and had a faint smell of water. It seemed that they were soaked by some spiritual object.

Other than that, there was nothing unusual.

Li Yuan did not frown. This kind of stone seemed familiar, but he had been reading hundreds of books every day recently, so he really couldn't remember it for a moment.

He put his hands behind his back and walked slowly back and forth, recalling things in his mind.

After thinking for half an incense stick of time, he suddenly remembered something. He flashed to the front of the cabinet like a ghost, picked up two stones and observed them again.

This flash frightened the black-faced disciple so much that his face turned pale. He looked nervously at the elder in front of him who looked even younger than himself.

"This is deep sea pearl stone!"

"Such stones can only be turned into pearls when the bodies of clams and other animals cover the stones at the bottom of the deep sea and are buried for dozens or even hundreds of years.

These two pieces of pearls and stones are obviously only semi-spiritual objects, and are slightly insufficient even for refining weapons.

But if the pearls and stones are deposited by clams and shells, they can also be regarded as a kind of precious spiritual material, which can be used in refining weapons and medicines.

If you want to take this opportunity to get some spiritual stones, you might as well walk around the riverbed more often, you might get something else."

Hearing this, the black-faced disciple said happily, "Thank you, Elder, for clearing up my doubts."

He happily took his stone and left, while Li Yuan was pondering in his heart, why did the deep sea creature appear inland?
The Guangyuan Mountains are located in the southern part of the Nanjue Continent. Further south is a wasteland area, followed by the endless Hundred Thousand Mountains. No one knows what is beyond the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

However, even if the deep-sea veins moved, causing a tsunami or an earth dragon turned over, these deep-sea pearls and stones could not reach the water system of the Guangyuan Mountains.

unless…

It was probably some kind of sea monster that hid in the water system of Guangyuan Mountains and deliberately scattered these strange rocks.

Otherwise, it's impossible that the sea water is flooding back and submerging the continent?

Li Yuan shook his head, threw these thoughts out of his mind, and then calculated the time. When the time came, he shouted: "The pavilion is closed today! If you want to find something else, come back tomorrow."

He would not delay his own cultivation time just to get a few more spirit stones for the mountain gate.

(End of this chapter)