Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

Lin Zhao has returned to his post.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, he naturally saw the scene of the Yin Skeleton King passing by.

The colossal skeleton, thousands of feet in size, exudes an oppressive aura emanating from the vast difference in their cultivation levels, even with just a glance.

The Yin energy was so dense that even hundreds of miles away, one could still feel a bone-chilling cold on their skin.

Although his combat strength had already touched the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage, he still didn't want to confront the fourth-tier Ghost King when he saw it unleashing its full power.

Lin Zhao withdrew his gaze and noticed that something was amiss around the perimeter of the cave.

The other areas were filled with gloomy atmosphere, lingering misfortune, and flickering ghostly fire.

The area around his cave was a bit too clean.

That's too eye-catching.

Lin Zhao thought for a moment, then raised his hand and summoned the Heavenly Treasure Jade Talisman.

Tier 3, Five Ghosts Transporting Talisman.

The talisman flew out, and the runes condensed in the air into five semi-transparent little ghosts.

The five ghosts scattered, chattering amongst themselves. They were not aggressive; their specialty was transporting magic.

A moment later, the five ghosts returned one after another.

They brought over some broken stone tablets, several skeletons that had been dead for who knows how many years, and a few twisted ghost locust trees, bare and with branches reaching towards the sky like ghost claws.

Lin Zhao directed the five ghosts to leave these things outside the cave.

The stone tablet is half-buried in the soil, withered bones are scattered among the rubble, and ghost locust trees stand on both sides of the entrance.

He then had the five ghosts bring in some wandering ghost energy and malevolent energy, spreading it around the area.

After finishing all this, Lin Zhao examined her work.

The once clean cave is now shrouded in gloom, with scattered tombstones and withered bones everywhere.

It looks like a ghost cultivator's lair that has been abandoned for hundreds of years.

Lin Zhao nodded in satisfaction, turned and walked into the cave, the entrance slowly closing behind him.

Lin Zhao began to enter a meditative state, closing his eyes and entering deep concentration.

An invisible connection spanned millions of miles, landing on the Tianxing Peak of the Cloud Sea Cangming Sect.

The illusory image of the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel descended into the consciousness of the Five Sacred Mountains Avatars along this connection.

Lin Zhao is about to begin comprehending the rules of wood.

Among the Five Elements rules, he has barely grasped the basics of the Metal rule and has even created a special metal artifact called Tianxi Gold.

Over the years, the rules of wood have also made progress—especially since the main body obtained the fourth-tier spiritual artifact, Qingwu Wood, which is equivalent to obtaining a key to unlock the door to the rules of wood.

Different rules have different entry methods.

Lin Zhao believes that the core of the rules of wood is withering, flourishing, life, and death.

Lin Zhao plans to create a powerful divine ability that can heal injuries, named the "Azure Sun Rejuvenation Technique," as an entry point into the Wood Principles.

This spell contains four abilities: healing injuries, cleansing the marrow and meridians, tempering the spirit, and prolonging life.

Lin Zhao was prepared to incorporate all the understanding she had accumulated before into it.

Healing the injuries was fundamental; he had repeatedly worked through the process and figured out the approach.

He himself had created a Taoist ritual site for the cleansing of marrow and meridians, and had complete experience to draw upon.

Repairing the soul requires starting with Ghost Soul Crystals. The third-tier Ghost Soul Crystals hunted in the Nether Bone Domain are excellent materials for tempering the divine sense and repairing soul injuries.

He set a clear path for this spell: first, to achieve the two basic functions of healing injuries and cleansing the marrow and meridians; and then, once the framework was stable, to delve deeper into repairing the soul and prolonging life.

More than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Zhao would go out during the day to hunt ghosts and collect ghost crystals as research materials, and return to his cave at night to perfect the Azure Mystic Returning Heaven Technique.

Cultivating the Wood Laws in a place like the Netherworld Bone Domain, filled with ghostly energy, may seem contradictory, but it is actually very beneficial—life, death, decay, and prosperity are all one; without the reflection of death energy, how can one truly understand the essence of life?

While treating a Netherworld monster that was on the verge of death due to the corruption of evil spirits, he successfully performed the prototype of the Azure Profound Rejuvenation Technique for the first time—a pale blue spiritual light surged from his palm, and the wound on the monster's abdomen healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although it is not yet stable, the spell has begun to take shape.

The group of ghost cultivators who had previously tried to request reinforcements finally met several peak Core Formation stage cultivators.

The reason it took a year was because it wasn't easy to persuade these old monsters entrenched deep within the Nether Bone Domain.

They usually stay in their own territory and none of them are willing to move easily.

They went to great lengths and used a lot of resources to finally persuade two peak Core Formation stage ghost cultivators to step forward.

They are Wu Jiu Zhenren and Han Ya Zhenren, respectively.

But these two don't seem to get along.

True ghost cultivators are all spirits who have lost their physical bodies, their forms are fleeting, and their bodies are surrounded by yin energy.

But Wu Jiu Zhenren was different—he used some unknown method to maintain a physical body that was no different from that of a normal living person.

Dressed in white, with a handsome face, he exuded a faint spiritual charm instead of the decaying, malevolent aura of ordinary ghost cultivators.

Among a group of eerie ghost cultivators, he seemed so out of place.

This unusual situation naturally displeased Master Han Ya.

But they didn't fall out in the end—both of them had reached the peak of Core Formation in the Nether Bone Domain, and both were protected by fourth-tier Ghost Kings, so they wouldn't easily break off relations unless something major happened.

Several ghost cultivators led the two to a place a hundred miles away from Lin Zhao's cave. The Cold Crow Immortal was the first to challenge them.

As a result, no one paid any attention to him.

Master Wujiu stood at the back, hands behind his back, his gaze sweeping around the perimeter of the cave, before he reached out and stroked his chin.

There are some sayings about this place.

The outer restrictions and the underground yin veins are integrated into one, not simply a superposition of formations.

Instead, the entire cave was completely transformed into part of the underground spiritual vein. This kind of method is not something that an ordinary Core Formation cultivator can set up.

Lin Zhao naturally noticed that someone was coming.

Those few ordinary Core Formation Ghost Cultivators are insignificant.

That Cold Crow Immortal was at the peak of Core Formation, but that was all.

The only one who caught his eye more was Master Wujiu—he found this man somewhat unfathomable.

His cultivation level was at the peak of Core Formation, yet his aura was more restrained and powerful than others of the same level, and there was also an inexplicable sense of familiarity about him.

Adding to the information he had previously obtained, Lin Zhao had a guess in his mind.

After a while, Master Hanya began to attack the cave's protective barriers.

A dark red array plate hung in front of him. He made hand seals, and the spiritual patterns on the array plate lit up one by one, turning into streaks of crimson light that bombarded the stone tablets and vines surrounding the cave.

The disguised tombstones and withered vines on the outside quickly crumbled under several rounds of bombardment, revealing the true restrictive structure beneath.

Master Hanya snorted coldly, took a step forward, and prepared to continue his strong attack.

Lin Zhao then came to his senses, his expression somewhat strange. He suspected that Wu Jiu Zhenren was also a member of a sect.

If that's the case, then it's not appropriate to take action directly.

He thought for a moment and decided to let them in—he could look around inside the formation at his leisure.

Master Han Ya was the first to charge into the cave.