Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

"Disfigured?"

Wei Xi was quite surprised, not because he didn't understand the purpose behind it. But how many people could possibly come to this place? Did they really need to hide their identities?

"Strange," Wei Xi thought to himself, "Could it be that he was disfigured before? Or was he trying to hide it from someone else?"

Wei Xi couldn't answer these questions for the time being, but he did memorize the location map.

Unable to open the Qiankun Bag, Wei Xi had no choice but to trace the location map onto his small notebook, which he used to prevent forgetting things.

Fortunately, Wei Xi had some hamster-like habits; besides her storage bag, she also carried some other items on her person. She pulled a short knife from the other boot.

As an aside, while Wei Xi's spending wasn't as haphazard as Qin Feng's or Lian Gou's, she wasn't exactly frugal either. Purchasing refining furnaces and basic materials for cultivation was naturally the biggest expense. Before leaving the sect each time, she would replenish her supplies. She had ten short swords, daggers, and woodcutting knives, two sets of bedding for each person, a month's worth of dry rations for Lingyin, and cotton clothes, silk, medicine, and loose silver were all provided. There was also some food, though it consisted mainly of durable dried food and pickled vegetables.

Wei Xi was originally a weapon refiner who cultivated immortality by burning spirit stones, and with Chongxiao City spending spirit stones lavishly (not really), he really didn't have many spirit stones left in his pocket.

Wei Xi chose to become a weapon refiner as her career path for two reasons: first, she wanted to cling tightly to Elder Flower's coattails; second, she genuinely enjoyed pondering these matters.

Wei Xi took it in stride—throughout history, few weapon refiners have been able to store spirit stones; his furniture was made entirely of precious materials, high-end magical artifacts, and a dazzling array of furnaces.

For example, after Wei Xi's cheap master, Xian Hua, became famous, he rarely stayed at the Qingcheng Sect. This was because he liked to travel all over the world to collect materials. Over the decades, he accumulated a considerable fortune, which can be seen from the rare spiritual plants he planted near his residence.

Even a novice cultivator like Wei Xi has developed the "bad habit" of hoarding materials. To be honest, she currently possesses three incredibly precious materials: Longevity Wood, Tears of the Dried-up Sea, and Fire (she doesn't know its name), which represents the power of drought. The materials she bought in Chongxiao City are also quite presentable.

Struggling with a lack of funds, Wei Xi's materials, though fewer in quantity than Elder Flower's, were of comparable average quality!

It's truly a cause for celebration that Wei will remain in a state of relative poverty for the foreseeable future!

Fortunately, Wei Xi was not one to indulge in extravagance and debauchery. The art of weapon refinement is a career path that requires high investment and yields high returns; otherwise, his financial situation would have been even worse throughout his life.

[Tethered Silk] was retrieved by Wei Xi—at this point, she was already seventy percent certain that this item was inextricably linked to the warp and weft of heaven and earth. It was fine to use it to tease the illusory figure earlier, but who knows what might happen if she actually encountered something left behind by Zuo Fei.

“【Tethering Silk】,” Wei Xi even had time to exclaim, “Hurry up and show me what you’ve got! I’m just a lowly cultivator, what kind of talk is it for you to follow me through thick and thin like this?”

Without a trace of shame for not striving for improvement, Wei Xi perfectly embodies the ability to be flexible and adaptable.

Unfortunately, the silk thread ignored her and stayed wrapped around her root bone to sleep.

Recalling the majestic appearance of the heavens and earth during the Green Moon Tide, and then glimpsing the lazy [threads], Wei felt his blood rush to his head, and the five words "I hate that you're not living up to your potential" jumped out of his mind.

"Never mind," Wei Xi said with a wry smile, "If you were truly the warp and weft of heaven and earth, you would have torn me apart long ago."

With his support crumbling, Wei Xi could only rely on himself to understand the messages left behind by his predecessors.

Wei Xi carefully put away the charred wooden stick and examined the location map marked on the paper.

Wei Xi should not think too much about the future now, lest he waste time.

However, no matter how Wei Xi looked at it, it seemed scattered and disorganized. Even if he rearranged the dots in different ways, he couldn't discern any direction. His line of reasoning should be correct; could there be some points he'd missed?
The flickering light within the eight-armed phantom gradually dissipated, and its movements slowly returned. Without delay, Wei Xi thought, "Excuse me!" but his hands moved swiftly, channeling spiritual energy into it. The phantom returned to stillness, the energy dissipating into its torso.

But this time Wei Xi's plan backfired; the points flashing within the eight-armed phantom remained unchanged.

“This bone is broken.” Wei Xi frowned slightly. “The spiritual energy flowing in didn’t block it; it actually gathered near those few points.”

Wei Xi, possessing a naturally obstructed physique, clearly understood the difference between the two. Logically, spiritual energy should flow through the physique if left unattended. However, the last time the elixir residue was used, very little spiritual energy remained, only lingering in crucial areas.

This time was different. Wei Xi was willing to use his spiritual energy to go down, and once inside, it gathered at a few points, leaving no path for the spiritual energy to flow.

"It's like their bones were broken. But that doesn't make sense either, so how did it turn?"

Wei Xi's reason and what he saw were locked in a fierce struggle, and he couldn't understand the logic behind it at all.

However, the number had not decreased, so Wei Xi could only temporarily suppress his doubts and continue to study the location map.

"There is no beginning and no end. It is said to be a direction, but it does not indicate east, west, south and north."

"No means no need!" Wei Xi was like Zuo Fei reincarnated at this moment, her mind had never been so chaotic. "This place is all woven from yin and yang energy into flowers."

Wei Xi looked down for a moment, and Lingyin's bird beak squeezed out a human voice, saying fiercely, "So you just happened to run into me!"

Having said that, Wei Xi resigned herself to her fate, squatted down, wrapped her hands in her clothes, and punched the flower buds on the ground twice. After punching one spot, she quickly rushed to another and punched twice more with her spiritual power. She ran around to about ten spots in this way, and upon closer inspection, the locations were exactly the same as those on the paper.

At first, Wei Xi was a little hesitant. But after a few punches, the flower bud didn't react at all, so she became bolder and gradually developed her own style, making every punch land hard!
After those few blows were finished, Wei Xi vaguely heard a fairly loud noise coming from below, but it was so mixed that it was hard to hear clearly.

But the sound was definitely coming from Wei Xi's direction, so Wei Xi made the right move.

According to Wei Xi's idea, Zuo Fei's lack of a label meant it wasn't necessary. Furthermore, the area was filled with flower buds woven from yin and yang energies, interconnected like a spider web, layer upon layer, with countless interlocking connections.

This reminded Wei Xi of the methods of weapon crafting.

This method has a long history, though its origin is unknown, but it is extremely convenient for summoning objects. However, the conditions are somewhat demanding. It requires setting up a net of spiritual energy to wrap each item and connect them together. Then, a secret method is used to carve the item into the net. When needed, striking the preset nodes will allow you to retrieve the desired item from the net.

However, this method is somewhat useless. If the warehouse is kept in a tidy manner and no shady methods are used, why would such a big effort be needed? Therefore, it was lost long ago. If it weren't for Elder Xian Hua's casual mention of it, Wei Xi probably wouldn't even know about it.

It can only be said that Wei Xi's fate was not to die; he transferred the casual writings from the book to the present matter, and happened to run into the path of the earliest batch of cultivators.

In the blink of an eye, the voice grew closer.

Before Wei Xi could get close, the flower buds in the very center of the affected area slowly moved away, piling up and pushing aside like greasy waves of oil.

"This is..." (End of Chapter)