The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 75 Asking for Stone
Xiao Yunyu rushed over and saw the Peak Master being so polite to him as soon as he entered the door. He became cautious and said, "Peak Master, what is this..."

"The ancestor said it himself, let Junior Brother Xiao be the deputy peak master of Fu Peak!" Bai Chen stood up with a smile, and there was admiration in his eyes, "Junior Brother Xiao is so young, but he has already impressed the ancestor. His future is really limitless."

"Ah? Deputy Peak Master? Me?" Xiao Yunyu was surprised. "But I just broke through to the late stage not long ago. I'm afraid I don't have enough experience, right?"

"Haha, since the ancestor said it was you, no one will dare to question you." Bai Chen said generously, "Don't worry. No matter what you do, I will support you behind the scenes."

After hearing this, Xiao Yunyu's expression calmed down a little. He thanked him and then turned and left.

After returning to his cave, Xiao Yunyu felt uneasy and asked, "Old Ghost, do you think the ancestor has already noticed my abnormality?"

The old voice suddenly sounded, "That's possible. After all, although this true cultivator is weak, he is proficient in mind skills. You might reveal your true identity at any time. However, the ancient Qi Ling Sect emphasizes rules, so he won't take your opportunity directly and openly.

However, this may not be the case for the following peak masters."

"Oh? Which peak master are you talking about?" Xiao Yunyu frowned.

"Chen Guan is a man who is devoted to his clan. He is a rare loyal person. He is also very kind and considerate. He is a talented person.

Wang Lengchan is proud and arrogant, but he has lost his spirit because of the disasters he has suffered many times. Neither of these two people is the kind of person who would attack you.

Chu Ziyi from Xuanfeng seems to be quite strategic, and you, the leader of Fufeng, are very scheming and are behind the scenes. You should be careful of these two people."

"Then you say, should I choose to flee to another place far away?" Xiao Yunyu asked, "Qiling Sect is too restless."

"Hmph, do you think that any sect would accept a half-baked disciple like you? If it weren't for the beast tide, you would probably still be a casual cultivator. Without true cultivation, you are just an ant. You still want to travel to other places, which is purely a way to death!" the old voice scolded.

……

In front of the courtyard, Han Yu, dressed in a green robe, stood at the gate with a little trepidation. Although the gate was old, the peach trees around it were more colorful than anywhere else.

This is the symbol of Qi Ling Sect's power and status today. All important events in the sect come from this.

Now, he, Han Yu is also going to step into it!

"Disciple Han Yu, pays homage to the ancestor!"

The long wind chime hanging in front of the door made a pleasant and crisp vibration sound, which seemed to be transmitted to the inside of the door.

Two half-gray and half-red courtyard doors slowly opened, and a mixture of the fragrance of osmanthus and peach blossoms wafted into the air, as if it was spring outside the door and autumn inside.

Han Yu walked lightly into the courtyard gate and saw the silver-haired ancestor under the osmanthus tree. He bowed again and said, "Disciple Han Yu, hello to the ancestor!"

“I asked you to come here, but you should also know that the heavy burden of Lingfeng will fall on you in the future.” Li Yuan turned around, and a hint of magical power flashed across his light pink eyes, and then quickly extinguished.

Obviously, Han Yu in front of him was not a man with a destiny. It seemed that he chose the "Moonfall Water Sutra" mostly for its power.

"Disciple has some speculations in his mind, but he dare not be at ease." Han Yu said respectfully.

"You are practicing the Moon Falling Water Sutra? How far have you progressed?"

"Replying to the ancestor, it is the Moon Falling Water Scripture! I have been lucky enough to cultivate to the third level."

"The third level?" Li Yuan's eyes moved slightly, and he smiled kindly, "But you have had some chance before, right?"

"This..." Han Yu's words were a little unclear.

"No need to tell me." Li Yuan laughed, "The master does not ask about the disciple's fate. But you should know that this fragment cannot be refined into true cultivation without the Moon-Watching Gui Stone!
Have you thought about the future path after solidification and perfection?"

"This... I know it." Han Yu hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "I know the whereabouts of the Moon-Watching Stone. But it is in a dangerous place, so I want to wait until I have completed my Qi Refining before taking the risk!"

"I see." Li Yuan concentrated and asked, "If you have this stone, how confident are you that you can achieve true cultivation?"

"My disciple's realm is low, so I dare not say everything. It's at most 30%." Han Yu said cautiously.

"Thirty percent, that's not low at all." Li Yuan nodded and said, "If you trust me, I will run a trip for you and retrieve the Moon-Watching Stone as soon as possible! Of course, if you have your own plans, you don't have to worry.

Go back and think about it for three days, then send me a letter with your reply."

Han Yu was shocked and said in a hurry: "Disciple is willing! Disciple absolutely trusts the ancestor. If it weren't for the ancestor's protection, the sect would have been gone long ago.

Disciple thanks the ancestor for taking so much trouble for me!"

……

After more than a month, Li Yuan flew away into the Chouyun Mountain.

What secrets does the Netherworld Cold Spring have? He must go and explore it himself!

The Dharma light fell and walked into the formation. There were already tens of thousands of spiritual trees and materials planted on the Chouyun Mountain. Although there were many of them, most of them were not very valuable and did not attract any covetousness.

He came to the bottom of the mountain quietly. The further he went down the mountain, the colder it became, as if the coldness could penetrate into his bones, and an aura that touched his soul gradually emerged around him.

After walking hundreds of feet underground, they finally saw a round pool about ten feet wide. There was a faint chill in the pool, and the water was gurgling. A pure cold energy blew towards them, bringing with it some kind of benefit to the soul.

"The Netherworld Cold Spring is a top-grade spiritual object of the Mysterious Stage! If the news of this object were to spread, I'm afraid that the True Cultivator Gong Hanyu might be tempted."

Li Yuan urged his spiritual sense to sweep towards the source of the cold spring. The extremely cold air seemed to be able to freeze even his spiritual sense, but Li Yuan's mental ability was extraordinary and he penetrated deep into the bottom of the spring.

He sensed a source of Guishui energy. Most of the Yin energy in the pool, which came from He Hanqi, gathered and fell on the Guishui spirit object.

But once this thing is taken away, this cold spring will probably become a cold spring of a yellow-grade spiritual weapon.

Li Yuan resisted the temptation and did not take away the source of Guishui. After all, he had to consider the younger generations of the sect more.

Then, his spiritual thoughts wandered densely and carefully in the depths of the cold spring. After searching for half an hour, he actually found that there were extremely tiny insect eggs soaked in the spring water, clinging to the cold water. They might be carried up by the cold mist at any time and fall on the person who practiced with the help of this spring, then wake up, hatch, enter the body, devour the essence and blood, and raise the insect.

This kind of insect eggs would be difficult to detect even for a true cultivator in his early years. If he had not been sensitive to water sources and able to distinguish different species in the water, I'm afraid he would not have noticed it at all.

What's more, Yu Guhong was only in the late stage of Qi Refining at that time. I'm afraid he had accidentally planted the magic poison when he was practicing with the help of this cold spring.

Li Yuan sighed, and his mind split into thousands of extremely thin needles, which pierced through the cold spring and pierced the eggs of the poisonous insects. Wherever they passed, the poisonous insects were killed. He used his mind to kill the life of these poisonous insects directly. Even if these poisonous insects were very tenacious, they would never be able to regenerate. This cycle repeated for several months. Li Yuan explored the water source for a long time, and only felt relieved after he was sure that there were no more poisonous insects in the cold spring.

Then he set up some prohibitions specifically to control insect poison. If any insect poison entered again, he would be able to sense it and prevent tragedy from happening again.

After doing all this, Li Yuan flew alone to the southeastern part of Guangyuan Mountains.

As for worrying about whether someone would rob and kill him, he believed that as long as he took out the Qingming Zhaoyun Lantern, no one would fight with a madman who had not much time left but wanted to exchange his life for another. The key point was that there would be no benefit even if he won, but the consequences would be extremely serious.

Li Yuan couldn't help but be anxious. During his more than a hundred years of life, he had to train the next generation of true practitioners for the Qi Ling Sect.

As for Qian Shiyan, it's best not to come back. Otherwise, she represents not only a true cultivator, but also the Lishan Qian family behind her.

As for Chen Guan, who has already gone into seclusion, the chances of success are actually only 20 to 30 percent at best, and he will most likely fail.

Wang Lengchan, on the other hand, was quite hopeful. With the help of the Netherworld Cold Spring, his hope would be greater. However, whenever he mentioned the Netherworld Cold Spring, he always felt a gloomy feeling in his heart.

Although Cui Huaiqiu, who has gone out for training, has a rare Golden Sword Body, his life span is limited after all. There is little hope that he can break through and establish his foundation.

He had secretly looked at the other disciples, and found that most of the deacons did not even have a 10% chance of success.

Even though Xiao Yunyu was entrusted with a destiny, he did not have much sense of belonging to the Qi Ling Sect. After becoming a true cultivator, he was the kind of person who devoted himself to the Tao and would never take over this mess that hindered his path to the Tao.

There is also Chu Ziyi, who has some hope, but he is only a latecomer after all. Even if he really succeeds, how can he dare to hand over the leadership of the sect to an outsider who joined halfway?
There are not many remaining disciples that are worthy of my attention.

The one that Fufeng Peak Master Bai Chen cultivated was also a fragment, which was about the stars and was called "The Star Control Method". It was a pity that it was a fragment, and it required the rare celestial phenomenon of nine stars surrounding the moon that only occurs once in a thousand years to return to the Tao phenomenon and have the possibility of evolving into magical powers.

However, the phenomenon of nine stars surrounding the moon was only recorded twice in ancient books: one thousand eight hundred years ago and one seven hundred years ago.

Leaving one's fate to a vague vision is really unreliable.

Apart from these promising disciples, only Han Yu's technique could be considered promising. Li Yuan naturally had to try his luck. If he could really get the Wangyue Gui Stone, and be ruthless enough to let Qi Feng use the Tianqi language to bless it once, there would always be a 45% or even 50% chance of breaking through to the true cultivation realm.

Li Yuan was thinking about the future in his heart. Ancestor Wang Xun had worked hard for hundreds of years to ensure the continuation of the Qi Ling Sect, and he couldn't let the inheritance be cut off in his hands.

The next generation of true practitioners will probably face a more complicated and chaotic situation. The ancestor of the Wang family of Tongshan will try to break through the golden elixir every few decades at most, but will most likely fail and die.

By then, the Guangyuan Mountains will have lost this stabilizing force and will naturally be in chaos. There may even be sects of immortals from other realms competing for the sacred mountain and resources.

Also, will Qian Shiyan come back and use her former identity as a disciple of Qi Lingmen to make Qi Lingmen a puppet of the Qian family?

And maybe in another six hundred years, the beast tide will come again.

and also……

The more Li Yuan thought about it, the more he realized that he had endless worries.

The green color filled the vision and a large lake appeared in front of Li Yuan.

"Wangshan Lake!"

This place is a dangerous place for Qi-refining practitioners. There are countless green-eyed monster toads hiding in the lake. This monster can reach the late stage of Qi-refining when it grows up. It can spit out poisonous water from its mouth, and it can also emit a ray of spiritual light of the Yi wood attribute from its green eyes, which can fix people.

Of course, for true practitioners, these demon toads are not dangerous at all, it’s just that their value is too low, and there are so many of them that it would be a waste of time and energy to clean them up, so it’s not worth taking action.

There is a mountain on the west bank of the lake. The mountain is covered with lush green vegetation and stands tall over the lake, like a cliff, so the lake is called Wangshan Lake.

Han Yu once accidentally hid in the lake for more than half a month to avoid the thieves.

One night when the moon was full, he witnessed with his own eyes thousands of demon toads gathered at the bottom of the lake. The moonlight shone through the lake and refracted between the rocks buried in the lake. There was a stone that exuded a rich aura of moonlight and Guishui. However, at that time, thousands of demon toads surrounded the stone, worshiping it like a god. Han Yu was just a small Qi-refining cultivator, so how dare he snatch it?
After returning to the mountain, he looked through the classics and finally confirmed that this stone was the legendary low-grade spiritual object Wangyue Guishi.

Li Yuan quietly sank into the water, waiting for the full moon.

The sky gradually darkened and the moonlight gradually brightened, but it was just moonlight falling on the lake, nothing special.

Li Yuan had been squatting there for half a month, but he didn't see the scene that Han Yu described.

He pondered and looked at Wangshan Lake. It was impossible for Han Yu to lie under his magical power of mind reading, so it was either the wrong season.

He counted on his fingers, compared the time sequence with the stars in the sky, and deduced the season that Han Yu had mentioned.

"Yes! It should be during the Gui month, Gui day and Gui hour every year, when the Gui water gas rises, the Taiyin sinks, and the Zi and Gui mate, that the wonder can occur!"

However, it is only August now, and there is still some time before October, so Li Yuan simply waited patiently.

This wait lasted for more than two months, and finally on the Gui month and Gui day, Li Yuan sank to the bottom of the lake again, waiting for the night to fall.

But just as the moon rose, a powerful breath emerged from the bottom of the lake. The toads in the lake became riotous and swam to the bottom of the cliff. Thousands of toads gathered in front of the rocks. The moonlight in the sky gradually became brighter, and a ray of moonlight fell into the lake and fell into the mouth of a giant toad.

The giant toad held a pearl in its mouth. The emerald green pearl reflected the moonlight and fell onto the rock.

An oval white jade stone the size of a pebble gradually shone, drawing the Gui water energy at the bottom of the mountain to the back, while the front faced the moonlight, showing two colors, one dark and one plain.

Li Yuan felt relieved when he saw this scene. It was indeed Wangyue Guishi!
However, this demon general who suddenly appeared was quite difficult to deal with.

Li Yuan thought about it, and his mind moved. Immediately, a vibration sound came from the lake shore not far away, and the puppets roared and ran towards the cicada group.

At the same time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, blocking the moonlight, and a drizzle began to fall.

This scene made the monster swallow the bead in its mouth quickly, and then transformed into a short dwarf man, with a gloomy face, "I wonder which Taoist friend is here to visit?
I am the Bi Yue demon general among the 72 demon generals of Yun Lan Mountain. I have asked for permission to practice here!"

Although Li Yuan knew Yunlan Mountain, with the treasure in front of him, who would listen to him about his origin?
He directly used the Water Cloud Body, transformed into eighteen figures, and flew away to various places.

One of them swept away the black and white gem at an incredibly fast speed, then turned around and flew away.

"You bold thief! How dare you steal my treasure!" The dwarf was so angry that he jumped up and quickly turned into a green rainbow to block Li Yuan's way.

(End of this chapter)