I planted the spiritual roots for my people, and they bestowed upon me a body inscribed with incense

Surprisingly, even with the addition of the Ink Beast Skin and Dragon Spirit Wood, the cost was still eighty spirit stones, and Li Yuan readily took out eighty spirit stones.

After paying the spirit stones, Li Yuan lingered in Xiuzhen Pavilion for a while, but during this time he noticed something unusual: it seemed that he was being watched by the other people in the shop.

Even though that wisp of spiritual sense had been very faint, it was still detected by Li Yuan's powerful spiritual sense.

Seeing this, Li Yuan wandered around the Xiuzhen Pavilion again before leaving. Instead of leaving the market directly, Li Yuan lingered there for a while. This time, Li Yuan focused his spiritual sense on a young man holding a folding fan.

The young man walked the same way as Li Yuan after leaving Xiuzhen Pavilion. Li Yuan also sensed that his faint divine sense was coming from this man.

After realizing it was this person, Li Yuan stopped pretending to know nothing and openly probed the person with his spiritual sense.

The young man with the folding fan sensed Li Yuan's profound spiritual awareness, his expression hardening, and he couldn't help but think to himself:

"You've been discovered?" He then clasped his hands in a fist salute towards Li Yuan's direction before disappearing into the street in the opposite direction.

Based on Li Yuan's excuse, it's clear that his spiritual awareness has reached the peak of Qi Refining. He had just opened his spiritual awareness to warn this person, since the strength of one's spiritual awareness often represents the strength of one's personal power.

It would be best if this person would back down. If this person insists on pestering him, it means that he is not afraid of a Qi Refining Peak cultivator. At this point, Li Yuan should consider how to escape.

Still feeling uneasy, Li Yuan wandered around the market for the time it takes for two incense sticks to burn. After confirming that no one was following him, Li Yuan decisively embarked on his journey home.

Fifteen days later, Li Yuan returned to Bamboo Mountain on time. Looking at the misty spiritual energy floating in the sky above Bamboo Mountain and the newly grown spiritual bamboo, Li Yuan was full of energy. He replenished the magic power in his dantian, and after adjusting his mind, Li Yuan laid out the materials needed to refine the "Thousand Rivers Gathering Meridians Technique".

Li Yuan glanced at the main formation flag on Zhushan Mountain and estimated that it could accommodate three more formation flags. If he wanted to absorb the earth energy from other mountains, he would have to refine a main formation flag of a higher grade and with higher materials.

After calming his mind, Li Yuan began to refine the array flags. He refined them for ten days, and now there were eight array flags in front of him.

After Li Yuan put the five into his Qiankun bag, he began to wander around the small fishing village.

Most of the nearby hilltops already had array flags, and Li Yuan didn't want to waste these three spots, so he carefully selected where to plant the three array flags.

However, none of these three locations are currently Li family territory. After Li Yuan sets up the formation, he will still need to buy the mountain.

However, the wonder of the "Thousand Rivers Gathering Pulse Technique" lies in its ability to take the earth as its own body and completely integrate into the world, making it impossible for cultivators to fathom.

As long as Li Yuan doesn't reveal himself, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator probably wouldn't be able to figure out why the earth's energy is converging on Zhushan.

After setting up the formation, Li Yuan understood the incantation. As soon as the formation flag lit up, it connected with the main formation plate. At this moment, the wisps of white lines on the mountain peak converged towards the direction of Zhushan under the guidance of the formation flag.

After returning home, Li Yuan handed over the land he was going to buy to Li Tong. Originally, Li Daqiang was in charge of this matter, but since Li Tong was unable to cultivate at the moment, the matter fell to Li Tong.

The matter of Li Tong is already settled. Whether he knows it or not, Li Yuan cannot plant a spiritual root in him. Otherwise, if someone with ulterior motives discovers it, the Li family will surely perish, and even the Great Qing Dynasty will vanish instantly.

After entrusting the purchase to Li Tong, Li Yuan returned to Zhushan Mountain and began to immerse himself in cultivation.

At this moment, in the Soul Blood Secret Realm, Xu Qingfeng and Ouyang Suiguan stood side by side, surrounded by Shaman Si from the Shaman Kingdom and Zhou Tianlong from the Great Wei Dynasty.

Both of them were at the ninth level of Qi Refining. The reason they were bothering Xu Qingfeng and Ouyang Suiguan was naturally because Ouyang Suiguan and Xu Qingfeng had obtained it.

"Ouyang Suiguan, hand over the spiritual item to us, and we will let you leave. Otherwise, neither of you will get out of here."

After speaking, the shaman stared at Ouyang Suiguan with greedy and fierce eyes.

Ouyang Suiguan glanced at the shaman Wu who was speaking, and then at Zhou Tianlong of the Great Wei Dynasty.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, are you still determined to go down this path to the bitter end?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Tianlong's face turned completely manic.

"If I leave you here, who will know about this? Hahaha, so what if Daqing leaves the Purple Mansion? You still only have one path: death."

After saying that, he glanced at Shaman Five.

"Fellow Shaman, let's deal with this person first. Then we can split the Foundation Establishment spiritual item we get."

After saying that, Zhou Tianlong controlled his flying sword and slashed towards Ouyang Suiguan.

Shaman Five was not to be outdone, and unleashed his poison gas at Xu Qingfeng. Shaman Five originally wanted to deal with Xu Qingfeng first and then join forces to kill Ouyang Suiguan, but after Xu Qingfeng blocked several of his moves, Shaman Five lost face.

Xu Qingfeng didn't care about any of that. The poisonous gas all over his body had no effect on him. Apart from some skin corrosion, he didn't suffer any real damage.

Seeing that the shaman's strength was only so great, Xu Qingfeng no longer held back and unleashed several spells at the shaman, forcing him to retreat repeatedly.

Although Shaman Five is not good at magical duels, his own skills are far superior to those of magical duels.

Shaman Wu stared coldly at Xu Qingfeng, showing no fear of the spells that attacked him. After withstanding two blows from Xu Qingfeng, Shaman Wu finally managed to obtain a trace of blood from Xu Qingfeng's festering skin.

He glanced at Xu Qingfeng's black bloodstains without giving them much thought, smeared Xu Qingfeng's blood on his forehead, and excitedly recited:

"Great God of Blood Curses, I offer my entire spiritual essence in exchange for your protection." Just as Shaman Wu finished chanting the incantation, the bloodstain on his forehead gradually disappeared, followed by a thin line reaching towards Xu Qingfeng.

At this moment, Xu Qingfeng's hair stood on end. Realizing something was wrong, Xu Qingfeng's face turned serious. His hands were constantly making hand seals, and his body was trembling incessantly. Soon, a phantom of a temple appeared behind him.

"Immortal Xuanming, I offer my body to build temples for you, and my blood to fuel your incense offerings. I beg you, Immortal Xuanming, to protect my path."

As the temple behind Xu Qingfeng appeared, the black lines surrounding Shaman Wu seemed to be provoked and attacked Xu Qingfeng.

However, the temple phantom behind Xu Qingfeng was not to be outdone. Countless plumes of black smoke poured out from the temple phantom, corroding the incoming black lines.

This scene made Shaman Wu's voice tremble.

"Karma, you, you, you are actually cultivating karma!" Then, his eyes were filled with fear as he looked at Xu Qingfeng.

Just as he was about to remove the blood curse, Shaman Wu suddenly found himself unable to move, as if his body were filled with lead.

At this moment, the pouring black smoke directly attacked Shaman Five. When the black smoke disappeared, Shaman Five was left with only a skeleton.