The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 70 Laoshan's good days are numbered.
Now that they had settled down, the four of them focused on cultivation for the next three years.

Jiang Yuan himself hadn't even formed his core yet, but he had already planned out Qinghe's cultivation path to the Golden Core stage.

At the Golden Core level, one must lay a solid foundation. Before advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, it takes at least twenty years of honing one's skills. Naturally, there will be more competition and one will need to cultivate more spells.

Jiang Yuan first had Qinghe open a Yang Water Meridian and connect two or three acupoints so that she could practice the Weak Water Technique. Later, when she returned to the Central Plains, she could hide her cultivation and change her appearance, so that even a Nascent Soul cultivator might not be able to tell.

After the water channels were opened, Qinghe finally mastered the complete "rain of flowers".

It should have been called "Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon," primarily based on ice, generating a large number of snowflakes that would interfere with vision and slow down movement.

With Qinghe's acquisition of the Wood Wind Divine Power, Jiang Yuan made corresponding changes to the Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon Divine Power, reversing the primary and secondary elements of water and wood. He used wood petals as the main element, incorporating water magic to enhance the petals' destructive power, resulting in equally immense power.

"Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon" also has a variation called "Ice Lotus," which compresses a large amount of Yin and cold Qi of water and wood into an ice flower. If one can connect the Yin Water Meridian and cultivate it to a high level, its killing power may surpass Wan Haimin's "Eight Directions Annihilation."

Jiang Yuan demonstrated by throwing out an ice lotus flower. It started as a bud, with its tip spinning to pierce through defenses. Then the petals bloomed, and the chilling power exploded instantly.

Once she masters the Ice Lotus spell, when she returns to the Central Plains, Qinghe will naturally be able to shed the image of the Red Lotus.

The Crimson Lotus spell was, after all, a temporary modification by Jiang Yuan and hadn't been developed much. Its previous ability to unleash its immense destructive power was likely due to Qing He's skill in controlling her true energy. Even before she had formed her core at Shennong Peak, she could condense the Crimson Lotus for five breaths without it exploding.

Jiang Yuan's demonstration was easy, but Qing He spent several months cultivating the "Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon" move. This was mainly because she had too few water-related acupoints and had not yet connected the Yin Water acupoints, which prevented her from cultivating the Ice Lotus.

However, with the aid of the Vajra Technique, Qinghe's acupoints will open up quickly.

Qinghe's set of spells should be used for a long time, even up to the Nascent Soul stage. The core is the Wood Wind Divine Power, while the Water Magic is just an auxiliary.

Naturally, the Wood Wind Divine Power can also be refined into the Lotus Flying Boat, making the flight speed several times faster. If a little water spiritual energy is infused into it, the lotus will become transparent, and the attack power of the scattered petals will be extremely strong.

Jiang Yuan himself is still working hard to open up the acupoints. He aims to open all 54 acupoints of Gui Water and 134 acupoints of Ren Water before forming the core. These are too many, and it is unlikely that he can open them all before reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

Some people are born with a fully opened spiritual meridian and acupoints; such people are called Heavenly Spiritual Roots. Cultivation is very easy for them, and they will not encounter any obstacles before forming their core.

Jiang Yuan had to put in a lot of effort to adjust Guan Canghai's eccentric physique, and only now was he showing some improvement. If the Yin Water Meridian could be connected to all the acupoints and become a pseudo-heavenly spiritual root, then forming the core would naturally be a piece of cake.

After receiving guidance from Jiang Yuan, Liu Caiwei began to switch to the "Azure Sea Tide" cultivation method three years ago, and her cultivation level did indeed drop at first.

After opening several Ren Shui acupoints, Liu Caiwei herself felt that her killing power had increased several times compared to the Qingyun Sect techniques she had previously practiced, and it was no longer the weak and powerless feeling of those water-based techniques.

Liu Caiwei was already capable of forming her core at this point, but she followed Jiang Yuan's advice and tried to open up as many Yang Shui acupoints as possible, without rushing to advance.

Shen Wangzhi was originally best at talismans, and his fire-type killing power was only average. In order to improve his killing power, he went to great lengths to refine a flame blade as his natal magic weapon.

After reading the cultivation techniques on the jade slip of the Nascent Soul senior, he realized that he had taken too many detours.

At Jiang Yuan's suggestion, Shen Wang made up his mind to sever the flying knife magic weapon from his own soul, which greatly reduced his cultivation level.

He then used the materials from the throwing knife to refine another flying sword, specializing in metal-based sword control techniques.

That transparent flying sword was a Nascent Soul level magic weapon. Even without its original owner's restrictions, it would have been impossible to successfully refine it before reaching the Nascent Soul stage. Jiang Yuan had never revealed the real reason why Shen Wangzhi had to destroy his natal magic weapon. In the cultivation world of Tianlong Star, those who reached the Nascent Soul level or above would not use external objects to refine their natal magic weapons. Instead, they would refine and generate the magic weapon within their own cultivation foundation.

That is the true natal magic weapon, which can be both real and illusory, has extremely strong killing power, and you will never have to worry about it being taken away.

That's why Jiang Yuan never let Qinghe refine her natal magic weapon. The Azure Fox Bow can be used until at least the late Golden Core stage, and its killing power will only increase.

While cultivating, Jiang Yuan also emptied the storage bags of the five Golden Core cultivators from Laoshan.

Previously, I was worried about being tracked, so I used several layers of talismans. Now, with two Nascent Soul level arrays inside and out, there is absolutely no way they can be sensed.

Wan Haiming was truly a powerful and wealthy man. In addition to the fireproof inner armor, he also possessed a golden flying sword magic weapon, which was also of the late-stage Golden Core grade and seemed to have a small amount of gold essence mixed in, making it extremely sharp.

The most valuable item is a spatial magic treasure, which Jiang Yuan estimates can hold living beings, though the extent of its space is unknown. Given Wan Haiming's cultivation level, it certainly wasn't something he crafted himself.

Only cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage can create such a space; who knows where he got it from?

There are also five other various offensive and defensive magical artifacts. They are not very well refined, but the materials used are of excellent quality. They can be dismantled and refined again in the future.

Wan Haiming isn't completely dead yet; his soul is still trapped within the red thread, so the restrictions on the magic weapon remain, making it impossible to remove them now.

Wan Haiming's storage bag contained more than 5,000 spirit stones, including three specially refined high-grade spirit stones, whose spiritual power was hundreds of times that of ordinary spirit stones.

Jiang Yuan guessed that Wan Haiming's spells consumed a lot of mana, and ordinary pills wouldn't be enough to replenish it during a battle. Without rare treasures like Earth Core Elixir, using high-grade spirit stones was the best option, as they could quickly restore his mana.

The storage bags of the other four Golden Core cultivators contained a total of more than three thousand spirit stones. Each of them had one or two offensive and defensive magic treasures, but none of them were very good and could only be dismantled for materials.

There were also some talismans and pills of acceptable quality, but Jiang Yuan didn't need them. Keeping them would only cause trouble, so he just destroyed them.

After seeing these things, Jiang Yuan got an impression of the Laoshan Dao Sect. The high-level elites of the Hall of Affairs were nothing special, and the overall strength was very average.

Laoshan is based on water magic, but the magical weapons it uses are all ordinary flying swords and shields, which shows that it has no confidence in the killing power of magic.

Wan Haiming's powerful move, which could freeze ten miles in the air, looked terrifying, but it was superficial and lacked real killing power. Qinghe had mastered the "Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon" technique, and she might even surpass him in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. On the contrary, Jiang Yuan was somewhat surprised by her sonic attack.

In the cultivation world of Tianlong Star, there is a wondrous demonic sect, whose members are all stunningly beautiful female cultivators, skilled in sonic attacks, and whose magical artifacts are musical instruments such as the pipa, guqin, golden flute, and jade xiao, making them very difficult to deal with.

When used properly, sonic spells can often lead to unexpected victories.

It seems that Wan Haiming's soul is still somewhat useful. As the chief of the Laoshan Hall of Affairs, in addition to inheriting the cultivation techniques, he must be very familiar with the defenses and restrictions inside and outside Laoshan. Anyway, since we're going to destroy his soul, it's not a loss to search him while we're at it.

The feud with Laoshan is now firmly established. Jiang Yuan's first serious injury in the small world was thanks to Laoshan, and he is now forced to hide overseas.

Given Jiang Yuan's personality, Laoshan will not have an easy time.

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