Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 349: The Mountain Demon King
"Our sect has already arranged for someone to guide you in the Yaohua Sect. You should hurry over to contact him. Then you will be able to pass the Yaohua Sect's inspection and enter the sect..."

"To become an initiate, you must swear an oath. Listen carefully to this incantation. When the time comes, your soul will be able to bear most of its effects. Even if you are needed to serve this sect, it will not be affected..."

"I'll remind you again, the power and ambition of our sect are beyond the comprehension of a country cultivator like you. The Yaohua Sect won't be your refuge... When you join this sect, you'd better not have any unnecessary thoughts, otherwise you'll ruin our great cause. I'll make sure you know the pain of extracting the soul and refining the spirit!"

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The surrounding area was filled with lush vegetation and the mountains were tall and deep. Li Ye's aura was concentrated as he shuttled between the trees.

And the words that the envoy of Yanshen Sect said when he came to him thirty years later were still echoing in his mind.

"There are actually people lurking in the Yaohua Sect, and they might even be of a high status?"

Li Ye thought secretly.

Even with such preparations, the Yanshen Sect still had to send him...

"It seems that the Yaohua Sect is probably refining some secret treasure. I need to demonstrate a high enough level of attainment to participate in it, so that I can help the Yanshen Sect achieve its goal and seize the treasure as soon as possible."

This kind of shitty thing is basically a matter of life and death, or even a matter of no chance of survival.

It is possible that the first moment of action is to lock onto the Yuanying Zhenren in the sect, and then suppress or even kill him directly with great supernatural powers.

If Yanshenzong was more reliable, he might have prepared some means or support for him, so that he would have a chance to escape.

But judging from their situation, it is likely that there is at most a contact who will take the things and leave immediately. It is unknown whether he will care about his life or death.

Although Li Ye now has a fourth-level body, which is enough to fight against it, he may not be able to escape by relying on his own attainments in formation.

But he must be crazy to be so devoted to Emperor Yanshen!

"But if this happens, wouldn't the Yanshen Sect be directly exposed to the public and known to the Southern Border Immortal Cultivation World?"

He always felt something was wrong.

Unless by that time, they no longer care about it.

Li Ye had many thoughts in his mind. Although he had some ability to protect himself, he might just overturn the table when things really got out of hand, but acting rashly was not his usual style.

We still have to figure out the matter of Yanshen Sect first before making any plans.

Before this, joining the Yaohua Sect was not entirely a bad thing for him.

Thinking of this, Li Ye's thoughts fell on his dantian.

I saw the wooden cauldron hanging above the golden elixir in the center of the dantian. It looked like many jade reliefs of plants and trees were constantly flowing and changing on the cauldron, which was really magical.

In the cauldron, which was originally empty and only contained the spiritual essence of many plants and trees, a small tree with lush branches and leaves, purple-blue in color and interwoven light silver spiritual patterns, was firmly rooted.

At first glance, it looks like a potted plant together with the body of the tripod, quite delicate and cute.

This small tree is the Sky World Tree!

After years of sacrifice and refinement, the quality of the Wood God Cauldron has reached the peak of the third level, and the empty space within the cauldron has also evolved greatly under the impetus of countless plant and wood spiritual essences. Not only has it expanded a lot, the energy of the plant and wood void has also undergone a qualitative change compared to when it was just refined.

Now, it is completely sufficient to carry the Sky Realm Tree for a short period of time. Otherwise, if there is no such means, and he can only rely on carrying the Sky Realm Tree to travel, with such a large noise, even Li Ye would not be able to safely cross the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range and reach the Southern Border Countries.

After all, although the current rank of this Sky Realm Tree is only at the peak of the third rank, its essence is at the fifth rank. Now it is just that its accumulation is not worthy of its essence.

But if it is really refined, it will probably be of great benefit even to a fourth-level being.

When he swaggered into the mountain, his aura leaked out, and even the demon king in the mountain would be tempted by him, and would directly mobilize thousands of beasts to besiege him and seize the treasure himself.

Although Li Ye has the fourth-level combat power, he is not confident enough to deal with such a situation.

Knowing that there were many spiritual veins hidden in the mountains, he did not think of using the soul-stealing method. For the same reason, if he made too much noise, he might be beaten up by a group of people.

It would be better to think of less exciting methods.

Over the years, he had already perfected the Blue Sky Tree Sea formation. Even without the Sky Realm Tree Pingyang Mountain formation, it only slipped from the peak of the third level, but it was still the best among the third level.

What's more, there are now three fake pills guarding Pingyang Mountain, and Li Ye has kept all the extra demon pills. If there are still people in the sect who can practice to the late stage but are unable to break through to the golden elixir, they can exchange them for contributions.

Although it is somewhat strange that the sect is full of fake pills, it is indeed due to limited talent. Even if Li Ye wants to help, he can't force them to pile up. It is considered good enough to be able to do so.

In this way, even if he leaves, Pingyang Mountain's ruling position in the four countries will not change at all, and it will be enough to support him until the day he returns!

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As Li Ye gradually went deeper into the mountains, the closer he got to the top of the mountain, the more types of monsters he saw along the way.

Although third-level monsters are still rare, the frequency with which his perception is triggered has visibly increased.

Fortunately, he now had both spiritual roots and a spiritual body, and he had already mastered the wood escape technique to an extremely high level. With his [perception] that allowed him to detect any monsters in advance, he was able to avoid them early on. He did not encounter any monsters all the way until he crossed the mountaintop and headed towards the southern border countries.

But just as he continued to move forward in a low-key manner without stopping, Li Ye's heart suddenly became alarmed. The ability brought by the [Sensing] entry brought such a strong prompt for the first time.

Compared with the time when the messenger from Yanshen Sect possessed Xue Chou and came to the door, it was much more fierce!

If you encounter such a situation in the Mountain Range of Ten Thousand Beasts, you don’t have to think too much to know that it must be the target of the Demon King in the mountain!

Li Ye exerted his magic power and pushed the Wood Escape Technique to its limit, and was about to escape by crossing a small hill.

At this moment, the surrounding grass and trees began to surge, emitting a dark green demonic aura, which actually suppressed his wood escape technique and forced Li Ye, who had escaped for a distance, out from a root system.

"Your aura has been reduced to nothing, and you move through the grass and trees with minimal ripples. Your Wood Escape technique is so exquisite that even I was almost fooled... It seems I was right. You really do possess a Wood Element treasure! You must have killed those little guys in the mountains earlier!"

Li Ye's face was gloomy, and he looked towards somewhere in the mountains when he heard the sound.

Amidst the swirling grass and trees, the shape of a green ox gradually emerged.

It is huge and strong, with various flowers and plants covering its body, but underneath it seems that it is not an ordinary membrane but scales, and a pair of sharp horns reaching into the sky.

Now her eyes were looking at him with a hint of teasing and surprise.

The implication of his words was that he had obviously regarded Li Ye as an opportunity that had come to him!
(End of this chapter)