The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 78 If you're going to play, play big.

Two hours later, the Supreme Elder of the late Nascent Soul stage of Laoshan personally arrived at the desolate mountain near the Divine Sword Sect. Song Tianxi was nothing but a pile of flesh and blood, having been shattered to death by ice magic.

This technique is difficult for anyone other than a Nascent Soul cultivator to perform, yet there is still no trace of a Nascent Soul cultivator's intervention.

A message was left on a nearby tree: "The murderers are Guan Canghai and Cui Qinghe."

These characters were formed by nailing peach petals to the tree, and they are deeply embedded in the tree. This wood-based technique is quite remarkable and should have the killing power of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

The Nascent Soul Elder keenly sensed a trace of demonic energy within the surrounding wood elemental energy. Could it be that some powerful demon has emerged in the cultivation world, and that it practices evil demonic arts?

However, neither calculating cause and effect nor using tracking techniques yielded any results, which filled him with horror.

It all started with that brat Zhang Xuanyong, who insisted on finding some new Foundation Establishment Pill formula. What a mess he made!

Even those in the late Golden Core stage can't go out; anyone who tries will die. We old folks can't just wander around outside all the time!
Jiang Yuan and Cui Qinghe are currently near Shennong Peak. This area is nominally a neutral zone, where cultivators are prohibited from digging caves. In reality, there are no spiritual veins near Shennong Peak, so no one would go into seclusion here to cultivate.

Jiang Yuan ignored all that and dug a temporary cave behind a small waterfall. Inside was a stone chamber about three zhang wide, with an illusion array set up in front of the door.

Jiang Yuan needs to dispose of Song Tianxi's soul as soon as possible, and also search for it to see if he can get any new information.

Having seen Shen Wangzhi use the Soul-Locking Talisman a few times before, Jiang Yuan specifically sought his advice and learned that he was now able to inscribe the Soul-Locking Talisman using the Heart Talisman Technique.

Having mastered the Spirit-Trapping Array and Soul-Locking Talisman, there was no need to provoke him with words like when dealing with Wan Haiming. He could directly suppress him with the array, weaken his soul power with the talisman, and then begin searching for his soul.

The fact that Laoshan actually wanted to contact Taiyi Sect and Qingcheng Sect to besiege Luofu Mountain was particularly clear in Song Tianxi's memory, and he was probably also afraid.

Jiang Yuan deliberately captured this memory and stored it in a memory talisman. This is your own doing. If no one had helped Laoshan, Luofu Mountain could have really wiped them out.

Then there are the spies planted in various sects. After Wan Haiming died, Laoshan replaced several people just in case. The new list was drawn up by Song Tianxi. He thought about it for a long time, so he also has a very clear picture.

Jiang Yuan originally didn't want to cause trouble when he returned to the Central Plains, but he found the faces of those guys from Laoshan disgusting. Since he had already started, he might as well make it bigger.

Cui Qinghe didn't want to implicate innocent people, so she left a message and appeared at the Divine Sword Sect, calling out her name. Naturally, someone would spread the news.

Laoshan has no further reason to bully those innocent minor sects.

After destroying Song Tianxi's soul, Jiang Yuan and Cui Qinghe went to Wanmiaoxuan, naturally concealing their cultivation levels and altering their appearances.

One of the main goals of this trip back was to purchase medicinal herbs. We were already short of spirit stones, but we found more than 5,000 spirit stones on the three Golden Core cultivators in Laoshan. Combined with the 8,000 spirit stones we had before, we could buy quite a lot of medicinal herbs.

When faced with such a large client, Elder Ye personally came to greet him and even inquired which sect he belonged to.

Elder Ye knew that it was impossible for a rogue cultivator to have such a large-scale operation; this batch of medicinal herbs could easily produce several hundred bottles of pills.

Jiang Yuan casually answered with Wanghailou, saying it was a newly established sect that was not yet famous in the cultivation world, but would definitely become very famous in the future.

Shen Wangzhi had to thank his younger brother; this promotional effort had been successfully completed.

After Jiang Yuan and the others left, Elder Ye inadvertently discovered that he had a talisman on him. Could it be that those two Foundation Establishment stage guys had used some tricks on him?
The talisman had the words "Wang Bu Liu Xing" written on it.

Old Master Ye nearly fainted. Good heavens! Just because of that extra bag of medicinal herbs, the Taiyi Sect lost a Golden Core cultivator, and a few years later, five more Golden Core cultivators died in Laoshan, causing an uproar throughout the cultivation world. Old Master Ye immediately realized that the talisman must contain more information. He found a room, set up a barrier, and infused the talisman with magical power, causing several lines of text to appear in the air.

Is this the new foundation-building formula?
So this is what those two alchemy masters were after. You're going to kill me!
Old Master Ye was filled with apprehension when he saw the words inside the talisman: "Respectfully presented by Cui Qinghe: Thank you for your warning, Old Master Ye. This prescription will be made public in a few days. Two of the ingredients are not commonly found. Wanmiaoxuan can purchase them in advance and will surely profit from them!"

Five days later, many people who left Shennongdingxian City found that they had more talismans on their bodies or in their bags.

The two disciples from Mount Luofu were nearly scared to death. The contents of a recording talisman revealed that the higher-ups of the Laoshan Dao Sect were discussing joining forces with the Taiyi Sect and Mount Qingcheng to besiege Mount Luofu.

Disciples from Emei Sect, Qingcheng Mountain, Kongtong Mountain, Luofu Mountain, and many second-rate sects all obtained the new Foundation Establishment formula, as well as a photo of Cui Qinghe.

Cui Qinghe personally appeared and said that a few years ago she obtained a new Foundation Establishment Pill formula by chance. She originally wanted to refine a few batches of pills to earn some spirit stones, but she was coveted by the Taiyi Sect and the Laoshan Dao Sect. The Golden Core cultivators of the two Dao Sects intercepted and killed several rogue alchemists outside Shennongding Immortal City, and even searched their souls to find the pill formula.

Cui Qinghe was also nearly intercepted and killed, and had no choice but to flee overseas. However, she was still pursued by the Laoshan Deacon Hall all the way to Tamna Island.

Fellow Daoists and their sects who had previously interacted with the Laoshan Daoist sect had been humiliated for many years, living a life worse than death.

All of this was for the sake of a pill formula. The greed and cruelty of the Laoshan Daoist sect are despicable!
Now, Cui Qinghe is making this prescription public to prevent it from falling into the hands of malicious people.

Cui Qinghe's tears were genuine; she was forced to repeat the story dozens of times because of this photograph, leaving her emotionally exhausted.

Jiang Yuan had to teach her word by word, not to be too honest, and to write essays in which she had to portray herself as the perfect victim, and absolutely not to describe how she killed someone, even if she was forced to resist.

The goal is not to clarify the matter, but simply to lead to the conclusion that weak, independent cultivators, hunted down by major sects for years, were forced to reveal their pill formulas.

This move will undoubtedly win the favor of low-level cultivators across the land. In the teahouses and taverns of the major immortal markets, those who enjoy grandstanding are mostly low-level rogue cultivators and disciples from some insignificant sects. These people may seem like nobodys on the surface, but once their numbers increase, the public opinion they generate will be very powerful.

Jiang Yuan was a proud son of a righteous sect in his previous life, and had never made such a scheme before. All those evil tricks came from his life experiences in the small world of the previous two lives. In the Internet age, anything is possible, and he could learn some crooked tricks every day.

Although this has caused countless consequences that will have to be repaid in the future, we have been driven to a dead end by Laoshan and simply cannot tolerate it.

What the major sects are more concerned about is the traitor within their respective sects from the Laoshan Dao Sect.

Two days later, all the spies of the Laoshan Daoist sect who had infiltrated various sects were captured. Several of them self-destructed their primordial spirits, and those who were captured alive naturally had to undergo soul-searching and spirit-extraction.

In the basement of the Laoshan Deacon Hall, more than a dozen soul lamps went out with a series of "poofs".

Before the Taoist sect of Laoshan could understand what was going on, they hastily drafted a talisman and announced it to the world: Guan Canghai and Cui Qinghe were evil and heretical, and they hoped that all Taoist sects in the world would join hands to kill them.

Then, many people forwarded Cui Qinghe's accusation to Laoshan, and even erased the contents of the prescription.

Now the whole world knows the new Foundation Establishment Pill formula, except for Laoshan, where eight Golden Core cultivators have died.

The old sect leader Lan wished he could strangle Zhang Xuanyong, all for a broken pill formula. How was he going to handle this?

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