Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Holding the abacus, Li Ye withdrew his consciousness from the several jade slips or golden books in front of him that contained the exquisite details of the formation. He recalled Zhan Xiao's detailed insights, annotations, and deductive diagrams in them, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"I never thought that this old man Zhan Xiao actually had such a rich collection of treasures. Even this array inheritance seems to have come from his family. I don't know how he managed to become a casual cultivator..."

"But despite having such a large collection of formation books, even at his age, his attainments in formation are only at the lower fourth level, close to the middle level..."

Li Ye shook his head.

Being able to cultivate the art of formation, which can mobilize the power of heaven and earth and involves the changes of the void, to the fourth level, old man Zhan Xiao's talent cannot be bad.

Among the monks of the same age at that time, he was considered a genius and others could hardly match him.

But despite having such a rich collection of array classics, he only managed to reach the fourth-order lower grade. Even at the end of his life, he still hadn't taken a step towards a breakthrough...

All we can say is that his talent may only support him so far.

Anyone who can break through to the Nascent Soul stage is a person of extraordinary talent and great opportunity.

After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, except for the few cultivators who have reached the Divine Transformation stage, they are almost the top existences in this world.

As the resources available for cultivation become increasingly scarce, there will still be differences between Nascent Soul cultivators.

Moreover, there are differences among geniuses.

Some people have exhausted their talents at this point, while others are still geniuses among their peers.

Although Zhan Xiao has a solid foundation, he can only go so far here, which is the limit of the resources he has obtained and his own qualifications.

In this way, Li Ye could understand why Zhan Xiao had such a strong desire to kill him.

If it were his own cultivation and formation skills, they would have stagnated at a certain level for many years, until his life span was almost over, and he would have only glimpsed an opportunity to make further progress.

However, it was taken away by a man who appeared out of nowhere, was younger than him, and had formation skills that were several times better than his. Later, he even took over the status and authority of his sect bit by bit.

Faced with such a guy who almost took away several of his most important things, he would probably have murderous intentions and would want to kill him as soon as possible!

Li Ye guessed that the reason why Zhan Xiao did not take action at the beginning was that his puppet clones were basically practicing near Jin Lanzhou's cave and could not get out. Even if he had an idea, he would not have the chance.

At the same time, this fellow's cultivation level had regressed after he took over another body and was reborn. He didn't even have time to recover through seclusion, and he didn't have the ability or energy to harm the puppet clone.

Otherwise, he might not have waited until after the war, when the puppet clone followed Jin Lanzhou back to Lingbie Island and set up a large formation to solve the problem.

When Li Ye thought of this, he couldn't help but think of himself.

With the panel, he has been continuously collecting and cultivating new spiritual plants. Compared with the low-level disciples of Zixuan Sect back then, his talent and ability are constantly improving.

Now I have obtained a new spiritual root of heaven and earth, the Purifying Willow, and soon I will get another unique bonus.

Compared to others who are constantly exhausting their potential with every step forward, Li Ye is constantly moving forward and is also constantly raising the upper limit of his potential.

Although the road to immortality is full of difficulties, fortunately, he finally has a unique road to heaven!

As long as you are alive, there is a chance that you will achieve enlightenment.

After carefully sorting out all the formation books and illustrations left by Zhan Xiao, Li Ye continued to organize the spoils.

Back then, Guo Tinghan had sacrificed his own Nascent Soul, activating the fifth-order golden tortoise spirit hidden within the golden-patterned tortoise's shell. His body and all that remained of him were swept away, most likely falling into the hands of Jin Lanzhou.

When they finally searched for the remains, they did find two storage artifacts.

Li Ye opened them one by one and immediately saw some differences.

One of them was completely empty inside, with nothing left.

In the other storage magic tool, he didn't see any treasures and food suitable for Jin Lanzhou's refining. He estimated that they were all used to recover from their injuries.

As for the talismans and the like, they had been almost all used up in previous attempts to break the formation and fight, especially the most precious talismans for breaking the ban, not a single one was left.

However, there is a large collection of various spiritual objects used for refining weapons and making talismans.

The reason why there are so many of these is probably because they are the sum of Jin Lanzhou and Guo Tinghan's belongings, and there was not enough time to refine them into practical treasures.

Now that it has fallen into Li Ye's hands, he can use it to refine the magic weapon at hand and make some improvements to his natal puppet.

It had been some time since he broke through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, but the time he had to refine his natal puppet was relatively limited, so he sent it to the East China Sea to act as an undercover agent.

Now that the war has come to an end, all we need to do is to maintain our position. We can temporarily take back our natal puppet and use our own magic power to coordinate with these spiritual objects to upgrade its grade.

In this way, he can send it to Lingbie Island to guard it on his behalf and make use of the spiritual fields on the island, and he can feel more at ease.

These are just the basics, and they also need to be combined with what is obtained from the Lingbie Island treasure house.

Continuing to look through the books, he found that there were several magic weapons among them, all of which were objects he had seen before. Li Ye didn't care much.

Only when he saw that there were only a few waves left inside, far less than the turbulent waves when he first took the gem out of the treasure, did Li Ye pause.

"This thing accumulates water waves. It's perfect for my natal puppet to refine into the Five Elements Furnace..."

"Excluding the robe that was damaged in the fight, everything that True Lord Han Tao left behind has fallen into my hands and has been used by my natal puppet..."

After counting them one by one and removing the miscellaneous items, there were only three items left in front of Li Ye.

Two of the jade slips contained the same contents of the Linggui Zhenhai Jue. Although the contents of the techniques were exactly the same, the attached annotations were different.

They were left by Guo Tinghan and Jin Lanzhou respectively, carrying their insights into practicing martial arts.

Throughout the entire exercise, from the very beginning of Qi training, there are continuous references to the shape of the golden tortoise, with its changes, transforming into the mysteries of the exercise.

After this technique reaches the Nascent Soul chapter, it contains content about refining the golden-patterned tortoise shell and controlling this treasure.

Not only does one need to practice the Spiritual Turtle Sea-Suppressing Technique, but one also needs to use the technique to draw in a wisp of power from the golden tortoise's spirit and imprint it on the Nascent Soul to achieve it.

Moreover, after being branded by it, the efficiency of practicing martial arts will also be improved under the feedback of the breath of the golden-patterned tortoise shell.

Even so, it has been contaminated with some demonic energy, which will affect the purity of the Nascent Soul to some extent, but in the Nascent Soul realm, one can control the fifth-order treasure, and even the cultivation can advance by leaps and bounds, so these disadvantages are nothing!

The only problem is that this treasure can only be refined by one person at a time for his or her own use, and others, even those who practice the Spirit Turtle Sea-Suppressing Art, cannot shake it at all.

This restriction lasted until Guo Tinghan became the island master and inherited the legacy. Only then did he develop a method to slightly change it... (End of this chapter)