The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 50: Fate and Disaster
There were scattered osmanthus flowers floating on the puddles in the yard. A black crow flapped its wings, landed on Li Yuan's shoulder, then lowered its head to comb its feathers.

Chen Ming had awakened several years ago, and lived up to expectations by becoming a mid-stage demon beast. Although its strength could not be of much help to Li Yuan now, its potential was much stronger than that of its ancestors on Chouyun Mountain.

After all, none of its ancestors could devour hundreds of precious spiritual fruits like Chen Ming.

There are not many tree species in the Ten Thousand Woods Realm that can condense spiritual fruits. Most of the spiritual trees are in the growth stage of sprouting green leaves, or the flowering period. Only a few strange spiritual trees may have a different growth period from ordinary plants and will bear fruit.

Among these fruits, there are even fewer that have magical effects, and some are poisonous fruits that are deadly to humans.

However, for a monster like Chen Ming who was born with corpse poison, it has many benefits.

After becoming a mid-stage demon beast, its body became stronger, but its size became smaller.

However, it can also spit out poisonous clouds from corpses and swallow spirits.

All spirits and souls will be sucked up by the faint black light that spurts out of its mouth.

This conclusion was drawn because Li Yuan released the spirits of the ghost beasts that he had left behind, but they were all devoured by Chen Ming in one breath, and dozens of ghost beasts were completely powerless to resist.

In addition, Chen Ming also awakened a certain talent. Li Yuan did not have a special method to raise the beast, so he temporarily called this talent Soul Chasing.

Anyone who has been stared at by Chen Ming's crow eyes can be sensed from a hundred miles away.

This method of tracking does not rely on smell, perspective or the like, but on the soul!

Chen Ming's perception of the souls of living beings cannot be concealed by any means, unless a true cultivator uses supernatural powers to isolate it, it can be prevented from being discovered.

In this way, Chen Ming can be considered quite useful to him.

In the Wanmu Realm, there is also a treasure bottle named the Zhenhai Shengchao Bottle. It is a top-grade magic weapon that can collect all kinds of water and is good at suppressing it. It is a magic weapon specifically for defense.

With these two items, it will help him to comprehend the Dao to some extent.

Li Yuan picked up another storage bag, and a bunch of things poured out. The most common items were red and green women's clothes, which even smelled of women's incense, which made his face blush.

He flicked his fingers and set fire to the clothes, which were obviously Madam Yun's clothes.

Li Yuan continued to search for useful things and saw several jade slips that recorded the secret techniques of sex, and even some strange gadgets sandwiched among the pile of items.

The corners of his mouth couldn't stop twitching. No wonder the couple had such a good relationship. They devoted themselves to studying the art of dual cultivation day and night. How could their relationship not be deep?
Li Yuan burned all these things with fire, and then continued to dig around, and found more than a dozen medium-grade spirit stones. Finally, he had money again.

The rest were all bottles and jars, a mess of unknown elixirs. In addition, there were two mid-grade magic tools, a hairpin and a silk, which looked pretty good for magic, but the styles were all used by women.

He didn't dislike it. Who would think that there were too many magic tools? Whether selling them or using them as consumables, they were both good choices.

Li Yuan took out another small green bottle and scanned it with his divine sense, and found that there was still life in it.

He opened the vial and saw that there was actually a pair of insect eggs inside. However, their scent was very weak and it seemed that they would not survive for long.

It's the eggs of the fragrant butterfly.

Li Yuan's heart moved, and he input a stream of magic power to warm them, then dripped blood to impose a ban to see if these two spirit butterflies could be rescued.

After leaving the World of Ten Thousand Trees, he activated a sound transmission talisman and turned into a stream of light and flew away.

Then he sat patiently under the eaves, waiting for someone to come.

It looked as if the rain had been falling for a long time. Moss had grown in the corners of the courtyard walls, and the osmanthus trees were beginning to wither.

This attic courtyard has been built for more than a hundred years. The osmanthus tree in the yard is also a spiritual species selected by the previous owner. Now it can barely be considered a hundred-year-old spiritual tree, but this kind of spiritual wood is not very precious. After all, it is not a valuable species.

Before going into seclusion, Li Yuan suddenly remembered that he seemed to have a disciple whom he had not seen for seventeen years. If he went into seclusion again, who knows how many years it would take.

Since I have accepted you as my apprentice, I should at least fulfill my responsibilities as a master. Otherwise, it would not be good if the master and the apprentice become estranged when they are used in the future.

"Ding ~"

At night, a bell finally rang outside the door. Li Yuan made a hand gesture and a door appeared in the formation.

Zhang Qi respectfully stepped into the courtyard. In the entire Qi Ling Sect, there were only a few people who kept their caves open all year round. His master was really cautious.

"Disciple Zhang Qi, hello to Master!"

He came to the courtyard, knelt in front of Li Yuan, and bowed and saluted, just as respectful as he had been back then.

Even though Zhang Qi had broken through and become a deacon disciple nine years ago.

"Get up. I have been in seclusion for seventeen years. I am not acting like a master." Li Yuan smiled and pointed to the wooden chair next to him, saying casually, "Sit down."

"Disciple dare not." Zhang Qi lowered his head, not daring to raise it. "How can a disciple and a master sit together? Disciple dare not cross the line."

"Haha, I am not a conservative person." Li Yuan shook his head and laughed, "It is rare that you write to me every three months, without fail for seventeen years.

Tell me, what has happened in and outside the mountain over the years? "

“Yes! Master.” Zhang Qi dared to raise his head slightly, but when he took a glance, his expression suddenly changed. He looked at Li Yuan in surprise and stammered, “Master…you…you…”

"What's wrong?" Li Yuan said with a smile, "Could it be that you can see my master's cultivation?"

"Disciple is guilty!" Zhang Qi immediately bowed again, this time touching the ground with his head, and said in a deep voice: "Disciple has something to say, please forgive me, Master!"

"Just say whatever you want to say." Li Yuan also noticed his disciple's abnormality and said calmly, "Don't worry, I am not a conservative person."

"Yes, then I will speak out boldly!"

Zhang Qi gritted his teeth and said directly: "My disciple practices the ancient art of divination and has a basic understanding of the ancient qi method.

When I raised my head just now, I suddenly saw you, Master...

The fate above your heaven is black and red, it is a killing calamity!"

"Killing robbery?" Li Yuan was not angry, but asked carefully: "Where does the robbery come from? How dangerous is it?"

"this…"

Zhang Qi took out a tortoise shell with nine holes drilled in it, three ancient bronze coins, and fifty yarrow stalks, divided into two equal bundles.

He took up yarrow and scattered it among the nine holes of the tortoise shell. He threw in three copper coins to determine the yin and yang lines. Fifty yarrow stalks fell and divided into twelve pieces, with one remaining as a leap year, and the missing pieces were facing north and south.

Zhang Qi made divinations with a solemn expression for half an hour before wiping the sweat off his forehead and said in a deep voice, "Master, have you had any good fortune recently?"

Li Yuan thought back to Tianyi Yuanshui and nodded, "Not bad."

"That's it. When you are in great danger, you will find good luck. When good luck is at its peak, you will encounter disaster. In addition, I have calculated that Master, your fate has always been heavy...

The two combined will bring disaster. If there is any movement, it will be a death trap. "

Zhang Qi's face was filled with worry, and he advised, "Master, please listen to my words and do not move rashly."

"Don't worry, I know what's going on." Li Yuan smiled and handed him a letter. "Go and give this letter to Peak Master Chen Guan, and tell him that I will be in seclusion from today on, and you must not disturb me unless the survival of the mountain sect is at stake."

"Yes! I will definitely hand it over to Master Chen Guanfeng." Upon hearing this, Zhang Qi nodded quickly.

"It seems that there are many people with ulterior motives in Xuanfeng, otherwise your hexagram would not be moving rashly." Li Yuan smiled and said, "Continue to tell me about recent events."

"Yes, Master!" Zhang Qi responded and began to say: "Seventeen years ago, the mountain gate was closed and only opened once a year to purchase large quantities of spiritual materials.

Sixteen years ago, a deacon disciple named Shan Jianming broke through to the late stage and became an elder.

……

Thirteen years ago, the elderly man in Yunzhou City whom you, Master, asked me to look after died of old age with a smile on his face.

Twelve years ago, Elder Wang Ye passed away.

Eleven years ago, elders Wang Qiusheng and Wang Qiuxi passed away.

Nine years ago, deacon disciples Chen Shuhan and Hua Yi broke through to the level of elders.

Eight years ago, the deacon disciple Han Yu broke through and became an elder. This person becoming an elder also shocked many people in the sect, because this person's spiritual basis is said to be of low character! He became an elder in his nineties!
……

Four years ago, Deacon Disciple Di Xuan became an elder.

Three years ago, the sect sent out the elders to cast a great spell to raise the ground of Yunzhou City by a hundred feet. At the same time, they gathered the people of Yong, Tingqi, and Xiayou into the city, turning the ground into a mountain a hundred feet above the ground.

Two years ago, three families of true cultivators from Tongshan Wang, Qinghe Xu, and Qingfeng Pavilion came to visit. Less than a month after the three families returned, Wenshan Market was closed.

At the same time, the nearby Shangxingfang and Sanqingfang also closed after three months. Each family began to recruit independent Qi-refining cultivators, causing independent cultivators in Guangyuan Mountain Range and other nearby areas to be very panicked.

At the end of the year, Xiaoxia Mountain and Xueyin Valley stopped their hostility and joined forces to close the mountain.

A year ago, it rained for three months and floods occurred everywhere.

……

Although this year's rain is not blue rain, it has been falling for four months.

"

After listening to all these things, Li Yuanzuo sighed and said, "In the past seventeen years, things have changed and people have changed. The old people have passed away and the new people have emerged.

Now is not the time to be sentimental. I think the world is undergoing a major change. The two elders in the sect have foresightedly made arrangements in advance. I heard that Xuanfeng is training the disciples to form a battle formation, right?"

"Yes, I heard that it was the ancestor who gave the order personally."

Zhang Qi nodded.

"That's it. The two old ancestors had already gathered the most impressive independent cultivators in Guangyuan Mountain Range 20 years in advance, and regarded them as the advance combat force when the great changes came. Or in other words, they were called cannon fodder disciples.

The sect has been refining puppets day and night for nearly twenty years, and with the wealth accumulated over thousands of years, I think it will be enough to survive this beast tide."

"A beast tide?" Zhang Qi was shocked. "The monster beasts in Guangyuan Mountain Range are extinct. How can there be a beast tide?"

Li Yuan stood up, looked at the rain falling from the sky, and expressed his guess:
"The monsters on the ground are extinct, what about those in the water?"

(End of this chapter)