Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 144 The Great Dao of the Five Elements
Upon hearing this, Yuan Liu's expression changed slightly.

Although those spiritual liquids are not considered extremely precious in the Water Palace, they are by no means something that can be disposed of casually. Even the spiritual liquids that these little turtles can obtain each year are limited.

He had used up all his own spiritual liquid some time ago, and the spiritual liquid he sent out in the past month was all stolen from the Water Mansion's warehouse.

Looks like they're going to steal some more this time.
Just then, a delicate, coquettish voice suddenly rang out, causing the three demons, who were feeling rather guilty, to change their expressions drastically.

"Good! Yuan Liu, so you really took all that spiritual liquid! I'm going to tell Grandfather!!"

"Yuan Jiu!!!"

Yuan Liu was at a loss when he saw the little turtle that suddenly appeared from behind the reef with its eyes wide open in anger. But then he saw his little sister turn around and run away, swimming straight towards his grandfather's garden!
Yuan Liu was extremely anxious and hurriedly followed after them while calling out!

"Yuan Jiu!! Wait a minute!"

The fish and shrimp demons stood there somewhat bewildered, exchanging glances. In the end, the two demons quickly caught up with their sixth young master and ninth young lady.

On Rotten Peach Mountain, Niu Yi resumed his daily cultivation, occasionally taking some time to enjoy tea and play chess with his two senior brothers.

Since He Xi began cultivating Taoism, he often came to this Rotten Peach Mountain, and gradually became more and more familiar with the three of them.

At this time, under Niu Yi's management, Rotten Peach Mountain finally gained some semblance of its true name as Peach Mountain. Although the area below the mountainside was still covered with lush green trees, the area above the mountainside had been planted with thousands of peach trees by Niu Yi, transforming it into a peach forest.

The peaches on this mountain were mostly taken by Niu Yi for brewing and food, and many were also given to his fellow disciples. However, many peaches still fell to the ground after ripening on the trees and rotted, becoming nutrients for this Rotten Peach Mountain.

On this day, Niu Yi was sitting cross-legged in the peach grove, meditating with his eyes closed.

A yellowish-brown spirit pearl floated above Niu Yi's head, shimmering along with the yellowish-brown light emanating from his body.

To be honest, this Earth Spirit Pearl is indeed a top-tier treasure in the Three Realms. Even if Senior Zhen Yuanzi hadn't given him the Earth Origin Pill, Niu Yi would have been fully confident that he could comprehend the Great Dao of Earth within a hundred years, though not as quickly as he has now.

This Earth Spirit Pearl is a treasure born from the Great Dao of Earth. It can be said that with the Earth Spirit Pearl, as long as one has enough comprehension, comprehending the complete Great Dao of Earth is basically a sure thing, without any difficulty. It's just a matter of comprehension, whether it will happen sooner or later.

Now, Niu Yi has completely mastered the Earth Spirit Pearl. This Earth Spirit Pearl is not just a treasure that can help him comprehend, but also enhances the power of his earth-elemental spells and supernatural abilities. It is also a top-notch defensive treasure that can be used to defend against attacks using the Earth Elemental Dao.

However, Niu Yi has not yet refined this Earth Spirit Pearl into his natal magic weapon.

Senior Brother Guanghui suggested that he wait a little longer and that he should also quickly master the other four elements of metal, wood, water, and fire in the Five Elements Escape Technique, comprehend the Great Dao of the Five Elements, and then integrate them.

Niu Yi probably understood his senior brother's intentions. It seemed that his senior brother also wanted him to try to collect the Five Elements Spirit Pearls, and then rely on the Five Elements Escape Technique to refine the Five Elements Spirit Pearls into a set of natal magic treasures similar to supernatural magic treasures.

At that time, these five Five Elements Spirit Pearls will only occupy one of his natal magic treasure slots, and their power will be immeasurable.

The idea was wonderful, but the reality was...

So far, he has absolutely no clue about this matter. He can neither shamelessly ask others for that treasure, nor does he have such a good treasure to exchange for it.

Fortunately, this matter is not urgent at the moment. The Earth Spirit Orb has already brought him considerable benefits, and he has many other things to do.

The most important thing now is to complete the cultivation of "Golden Light Across the Earth" as soon as possible. This supernatural power is more powerful than he imagined, and the difficulty of cultivation is also greater. Fortunately, his cultivation level has now broken through, making the cultivation of "Golden Light Across the Earth" much easier than before. It seems that he should be able to completely master this supernatural power in at most two years.

According to the eldest brother, as long as this supernatural power is fully unleashed, traveling tens of thousands of miles in an instant is not a problem; one can travel to the North Sea in the morning and to Cangwu in the evening. At that time, one can go anywhere, both in heaven and on earth.

The other supernatural power was "Sun and Moon in a Pot," which he had also figured out to some extent, and he practiced it with the jade wine pot in his hand.

Now, those jade wine pots, no bigger than two palms, can hold a whole pool of wine.

As for his Chaos Green Gourd and Primordial Furnace, Niu Yi is currently refining them.

Niu Yi was somewhat helpless about this. It was clear that these two treasures were of a much higher grade than the Earth Spirit Pearl, and should be something that only beings at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal and Demon Saint could use.

Even with his current cultivation level, he only has the qualification to refine, and refining is as slow as a tortoise crawling. But even so, Niu Yi has gained a lot of benefits.

Putting everything else aside, the amount of precious energy he generates daily is already thirteen strands, which is more than 1,300 strands of precious energy.

When he had complete control over the Earth Spirit Pearl, he could condense eleven strands of precious energy every day. The remaining two strands of precious energy were gradually added up recently when he was trying to refine the Chaos Green Gourd and the Primordial Furnace.

I wonder how much precious energy he could condense every day if he could completely refine these two treasures in the future.

Now that so much precious energy has appeared, Niu Yi has been investing it into the Karma Divination Coins every day, and he has quickly upgraded the Karma Divination Coins to the Gold grade, and now it is slowly moving towards the Color grade.

Besides that, there is one more thing he needs to figure out.

That was the fruit swallowed at the end of the Duobao River. Within it lay a fragment of the Dao, the Dao of Duobao.

In fact, if Niu Yi had simply been digging into his own bloodline like other demons, then what he would have first comprehended would have been this incomplete Path of Many Treasures.

This would allow him to rapidly advance in his cultivation, reaching the level of a Great Demon King, or a Taiyi True Immortal. However, he would then be unable to use this path, which was most suitable for him, to glimpse the Great Luo realm, simply because this path was incomplete and he could not cultivate the Dao Fruit.

It now seems that his three-legged golden toad, Brother Jin Fu, who is constantly cultivating the Great Dao of Fairness, switched to cultivating the Great Dao of Fairness because he could not cultivate the Dao fruit in his bloodline, hoping to step into the Great Luo realm through this Dao.

And that Fox King, who lived for tens of thousands of years, still had no hope of becoming a Great Luo Immortal, and that was precisely because of this.

However, their existence is already quite privileged, allowing them to enter the realm of Great Demon Kings without any hindrance. Such a background is something that many demons dream of!
But Niu Yi would never stop there. Unlike other demons who constantly dig into their bloodline to improve their cultivation, he did so because his cultivation level was high, which allowed his bloodline to be fully activated.

This path of many treasures suits him perfectly; it can be used as an aid to get involved, but it cannot, and need not, be his main focus.

………………

On Rotten Peach Mountain, the wind blows and peach blossoms fall, a scene of serene beauty.

But what Niu Yi didn't know was that at that moment, a kind-looking old man in white robes wearing a star crown was flying through the clouds towards Rotten Peach Mountain.

(End of this chapter)