You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 203 Mysterious Seed! Shocking Secret!
The black gold killing array begins!
As Qi Ping activated the black gold killing formation engraved on the dark stone scales, an extremely terrifying formation covered the old man in the middle stage of foundation building!
And with the dark stone scales as the foundation, it connects the power of heaven and earth!
The terrifying feeling of oppression made every pore on the body of the old man in the middle stage of foundation building stand up.

"This temporary formation is much worse than the complete formation that took a lot of effort to set up in the territory."

"Not only does it require me to expend more spiritual power and energy to control it, but its endurance and the power of heaven and earth it can mobilize will also be much less."

With just one glance, Qi Ping judged the strength of the formation.

For a mage, the difference in combat power can be huge in encounters, when he has time to arrange formations in advance, or in his own nest that he has managed for a long time.

"But it's more than enough to deal with this old guy!"

At the moment the formation was formed, Qi Ping did not care about the frightened reaction of the old man inside, but directly controlled five extremely sharp black gold sword auras, and in an instant pierced the heart and head of the foundation-building old man who was fighting with Ya Ya!
When facing an enemy whose realm is higher than his, Qi Ping dared not hold back at all.

After killing the enemy, Qi Ping quickly fled from here with the storage bag of the foundation-building old man.

As for the corpse, Qi Ping left some bees behind to carry it away and dispose of it. Perhaps this action could delay a lot of time.

After leaving, while escaping, Qi Ping forcibly broke open the storage bag of the foundation-building old man's soul.

At this time, you must take out the useful things inside as quickly as possible, and then discard all the things that may expose your location and have no value.

But after opening the storage bag of the old man who was building the foundation, Qi Ping couldn't help but frown.

"Why are there so many human corpses?"

Judging from the things in the old man’s storage bag, he should indeed be a casual cultivator.

Because there are a lot of miscellaneous things inside, but there are not many truly high-value spirit stones, and there are only less than four thousand spirit stones.

Compared with those sects' disciples who are in the early stages of the foundation-building period, they are very shabby.

The skills were also piled up in a mess. Judging from the fact that Qi Ping had killed many disciples from the sect, this situation would basically not occur. Those disciples were generally not allowed to take the sect's skills out of the sect.

The pills inside are of relatively low quality.

A cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building would actually have such a shabby family background!
It can be seen from this how difficult it is for independent practitioners to practice.

The only thing that made Qi Ping feel that he had gained a lot was that there were actually three foundation-building-level skills and spells, as well as three second-level spirit seeds, one of which even exuded a strong fire-attributed spiritual power!
Qi Ping's skills and spells are probably not very powerful, but they play a significant role in his research and accumulation of foundation-building spells.

But the three second-level spirit seeds gave Qi Ping a bit of surprise!

No wonder this old guy came to kill Qi Ping based on some guesses alone. It turned out that he had this idea in mind long ago to collect three second-level spirit seeds.

But what really made Qi Ping uncomfortable was not his meagre wealth, but the items among them that obviously came from different cultivators.

Qi Ping estimated that the various miscellaneous items inside came from at least ten cultivators. Combined with the old man's behavior of ambushing today, it was probably that most of them took the initiative to ambush people who might have wealth and opportunities.

In addition, there are cultivation products made from human corpses inside, so it is not difficult to guess the old man's cultivation method and past style of behavior.

"It is probably because of the shortage of cultivation resources that he embarked on this crazy path."

In the Qingtian Domain, during the Qi Refining Stage, one can still earn resources through farming and animal husbandry, but when it comes to the Foundation Building Stage, there is really nothing to ask for. Whether or not one can buy a second-level elixir leaked by the Qingyuan Sect at a premium or a high price depends on luck!
"Is that why you collect second-level spiritual medicine seeds?"

"Then he killed people and stole their wealth. He then attempted to use the corpses to improve his cultivation and aptitude."

"No wonder this person has such a strong evil spirit!"

Especially the matter of refining corpses to improve cultivation and enhance aptitude made Qi Ping feel a little uncomfortable.

"On the road to immortality, how many people have gone mad because of it? And how many people have died because of it?"

The number of cultivators who died because of this old man alone is probably an unimaginable number. Qi Ping thought about it from another perspective. If he was rejected by the sect and reached the foundation-building stage but could not obtain any resources to improve, even though his aptitude allowed him to continue to improve and he had a strong desire to cultivate, what would he become in the end?
After thinking about it, Qi Ping himself couldn't be sure what he would become in such a desperate situation. Without actually experiencing it, all the answers were false. The possibility of a desperate situation driving a person crazy was too great.

When Qi Ping transferred all the useful things to other storage bags for the bees to take away for a safe period, Qi Ping finally found an extremely exquisite book made of special spiritual materials.

There were four powerful characters written on the pages: "Notes on the Path to Immortality"!
"Could it be the cultivation experience of some powerful cultivator?"

So after escaping and finding a safe place, Qi Ping left this notebook and asked the bees to help him open it.

[I started to refine Qi at the age of twelve! I broke through to the middle stage of Qi refinement at the age of sixteen! This year I am eighteen years old and have reached the fifth level of Qi refinement. Tomorrow I will join the Qingyuan Sect and make rapid progress on the road to immortality!]

[Because of my age, I have been rejected by ten sects in a row. Is it true that I have no hope on the path to immortality? No, I don't accept it! Why can't I make it on the path to immortality? ]

[I have finally completed my Qi training, but after decades of searching, I still cannot find a foundation-building technique. Is my path to immortality going to end here? ]

[After decades of searching, I finally found a foundation-building technique called "Blood Evil Technique" on a Qi-refining kid! Based on flesh and blood? It turns out that the flesh and blood of a genius cultivator is the best foundation-building pill! How cruel! But I'm here to build the foundation! ]

[Hunting down nine sect disciples, melting the blood and flesh divine pill, finally breaking through the foundation! My fate is in my own hands! ]

[They all say that casual foundation-building cultivators have no future, but I don't agree! Even if I have to step on the corpses of millions of people, I will climb up! If there are not enough resources, I will rob them! If I don't have enough qualifications, I will melt my flesh and blood! ]

[Hehehe! I have reached the middle stage of foundation building! Next step! The late stage of foundation building! ]

"It turned out to be this person's monastic notes?"

After finishing reading this book "Notes on the Path of Immortality", Qi Ping felt disappointed and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Although this notebook was not signed, Qi Ping guessed that the real owner of this notebook was the old man, and the key item "Blood Evil Art" also appeared in the old man's storage bag.

This notebook has dozens of pages, recording all the important events of this old man since he started practicing Taoism. The last thing he did was to kill a fat sheep who might know the news of the second-level spiritual vein.
The fat sheep in the end naturally refers to Qi Ping. In the second half of the notes, the words fat sheep and blood food appear more and more frequently.

A notebook outlines the entire process of this old man's transformation from a high-spirited young man to a crazy foundation-building cultivator.

"Ah, won't there be more and more crazy people starting from the foundation-building period?"

Those who are driven to despair by resource constraints, driven mad by asceticism, and whose faith in Taoism is broken
Qi Ping suddenly felt that the higher he went on the path of cultivation, the more likely he would uncover the terrifying side of the world of immortal cultivation.

From what Qi Ping has learned so far, it seems that only the cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage and mortals are living well under the protection of the iron-blooded means of the top sects in the world of immortal cultivation.

With resources so scarce during the Foundation Establishment Period, there will definitely be a lot of people who will go crazy as a result. Especially those with stronger Taoism hearts are more likely to go crazy.

However, what made Qi Ping feel even colder was that this "Blood Evil Art" had been practiced by someone on the bounty list of the mysterious black market. It was a method of cultivating top-quality blood food!

In other words, this old man's crazy life was just an effort to turn himself into a top-grade blood food! How sad and ridiculous!

Thinking of this, Qi Ping couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Now that I have the spirit seed, I'd better not hang around outside anymore, lest I run into some lunatic again!"

"We must return to the territory as soon as possible and use the elixir to improve the strength of my animal companions and me!"

Especially the fire attribute spirit seed was actually a second-level intermediate one, but Qi Ping was unable to determine what type of spirit medicine this seed was.

But judging from the druid's perception and the deduction of [Natural Perception], this spirit seed should be a good thing.

Qi Ping estimated that with it, it should be enough to improve his strength a lot and allow Ya Ya to complete his transformation.

After making the decision, Qi Ping immediately set off to rush back...

(End of this chapter)