Vampire Cultivation Notes

A ten-year-old chicken blood vine costs two spirit stones per foot.

A twenty-year-old chicken blood vine costs seventeen spirit stones per foot.

This price is reasonable and not simply due to scarcity. Since spiritual herbs also have a lifespan, the ability to break through this lifespan limit is known in the cultivation world as "spiritual herb breakthrough."

Once a medicinal herb breaks through to a higher level, its potency increases dramatically, and its price naturally skyrockets.

Judging from the current growth of the chicken blood vine, it seems to be riding on the coattails of the green lotus. Li Jieqing feels that the day when he can obtain a large quantity of twenty-year-old chicken blood vine is not far off.

There is also the Vermilion Fruit used to refine Qi-Nourishing Pills.

Both being medicinal herbs, the Vermilion Fruit is longer-lived than the Chicken Blood Vine, generally living for about three hundred years, and its medicinal power increases with age.

Li Jieqing had never heard of a Vermilion Fruit that was over three hundred years old in Taipingfang, but now he felt that as long as he planted it, the first Vermilion Fruit to break through the threshold in Taipingfang might just be the one here.

A Vermilion Fruit that is over three hundred years old is already a treasure that Foundation Establishment cultivators would fight over.

"Good babies, they're all good babies!"

Li Jieqing got up from the ground, his mouth almost crooked from smiling, as if he could already see a future where he would have no shortage of cultivation resources.

He should have planted medicinal herbs long ago. Since he's immortal, all he had to do was find a good place to sow the seeds and wait two or three hundred years, then he wouldn't have to worry about using them.

Now that we have the second-grade Creation Lotus, the waiting time can be shortened even further.

"...They're growing very fast, but why are they all looking so wilted? And the leaves are even turning yellow a bit?"

Li Jieqing suddenly noticed a problem with the precious elixirs and couldn't help but look up at the sky.

The underground space is close to the spiritual vein, and there is also a green lotus gathering spiritual energy near the herb garden, so the concentration of spiritual energy is not lacking.

But it seems that the essence of the sun and moon is not being distributed?

……

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Barren hills and mountains.

Li Jieqing arrived during the day and, upon reaching the underground passage at the foot of the mountain, sent a signal using a sound transmission jade talisman.

Before long, the one-armed manager came out, first looking around before offering a hand salute and saying, "Thank you for coming, fellow Daoist. Was your journey safe?"

"Not bad, the white tiger isn't hungry today."

"Fellow Daoist is joking. The matter of the Cloud Seal has been settled. I heard that you have other business to attend to. I wonder if you would like to stay here or come inside to talk?"

Li Jieqing thought for a moment, stared at the one-armed steward for a while, and then smiled and said, "Then let's go in."

"Alright."

The one-armed manager, expressionless, led the way.

Inside the desolate mountain, there was a hidden paradise.

The two walked into the passage for quite a while, about six or seven miles, and arrived at a magnificent golden pavilion.

Inside the cave, candles burned brightly, and spiritual energy permeated the air. The steps were made of beautiful jade.

For a moment, Li Jieqing felt as if this was not underground. He had stumbled upon a luxurious scene that did not resemble a shelter, and he couldn't help but hold his breath and focus even more intently.

"Fellow Daoist, you may not know, but my Wanbao Pavilion has a considerable foundation, and this is one of the places I prepared long ago. Outsiders cannot find it or break into it unless they want to," the one-armed manager explained along the way.

"So, there was a traitor that night?" Li Jieqing laughed.

"..."

The one-armed steward almost wanted to turn and leave immediately, but he restrained himself and said one last thing: "I'll go and ask the fairy steward for instructions first. Fellow Daoist Zhao, please feel free to do as you please."

"Oh... okay."

At the foot of the jade steps, Li Jieqing smiled and answered, his gaze fixed on the one-armed steward as he took his leave, walked further and further away, and finally disappeared around the corner of the pavilion.

Instead, his heart began to beat faster and faster.

Despite being a vampire, he felt a surge of bloodlust at this moment.

It was a mixture of fear of the power of Foundation Establishment and excitement at peeking into forbidden territory.

Originally, Li Jieqing did not intend to come here today, but even outside the mountain, his blood-searching technique could no longer find that faint blood aura.

The Fairy of Luxurious Colors has lost her life force!

We've already probed indirectly along the way, and although the manager's words were watertight, the bloody aura hasn't reappeared in the direction the one-armed manager went...

The meaning behind this is truly extraordinary.

For a moment, Li Jieqing was filled with mixed emotions.

Having probed this far, he naturally guessed that Fairy Shecai was no longer able to show herself, and that his claim of going to report to Fairy Shecai was just a pretense.

We'll know once the one-armed steward comes out.

If Fairy Shecai is indeed dead.

The legacy left behind from the foundation-building stage, plus the assets of the Wanbao Pavilion, must be incredibly abundant!

If I could get it, I would probably have all the resources to cultivate all the way to the Foundation Establishment stage, and I would no longer be troubled by the difficulties of cultivation!

For example, the Foundation Building Pill!

There has never been a Foundation Establishment Pill in Taipingfang City. Although Li Jieqing obtained Jiang Ping'er's breakthrough notes, he had no idea where the Foundation Establishment Pill came from.

However, if one could obtain Fairy Luxurious's legacy, there might be something related to the Foundation Establishment Pill inside.

even.

Even if they could just get more spirit stones, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, they wouldn't have to stay in the ruins of Taipingfang City to survive by clinging to the spiritual veins and suffer from the scourge of the demon tiger every day.

"ah--"

"His desires are truly insatiable..."

Li Jieqing took a deep breath, and suddenly burst into laughter.

Why would someone be so conflicted about wanting what belongs to others?

They even dared to disregard the potential dangers and plunge headlong into this unfamiliar underground space.

I realized that I was indeed a greedy person.

Li Jieqing couldn't help but laugh.

……

Greed aside, if he hadn't coveted the path to immortality back then, why would he have left his hometown and given up his studies and official career?

But at this moment, if it were for the treasure in the pavilion in front of them, they would directly and ruthlessly kill the one-armed manager and the remaining two mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, and seize the treasure.

How are they any different from the Yu brothers, Scorpion Lady, and even the Jiang couple back then?

"Although my cultivation method and physique are somewhat flawed, I am actually of exceptional virtue and renowned for my kindness. I have always believed in avoiding dangerous situations, so why should I let greed cloud my judgment and commit such heinous acts of murder and arson?"

My gaze shifted away from that corner passage.

Li Jieqing examined himself for a while, then suddenly understood something. He quickly left the spot with his hands behind his back and stepped onto the jade steps.

Yeah, it's best to just pick up the scraps from behind the scenes; it's better to give up on personally committing murder and arson.

Too dangerous!

For example, right now.

Even if he was more than 50% sure at this moment, Fairy Shecai had already met with misfortune.

However, there is still a two or three chance that Fairy Shecai has recovered from her injuries and is now able to conceal her own blood energy.

He even secretly suppressed his teasing of Wanbaoge, waiting to plot against him for the sake of the Qi Refining Technique.

The world is vast and full of wonders.

Li Jieqing secretly thought that he was really blinded by greed and his spiritual love had taken hold. Because he obtained the Thousand Illusions Mask too easily last time, he dared to run in this time despite such a great risk, and arrogantly thought that Fairy Shecai's life or death was unknown, so she must be dead.

Even if Fairy Shecai really passes away, if she leaves behind some means for the others in Wanbaoge, wouldn't they still be in great danger?

Why should he take action and set an example for the real cultivators in the streets? In the end, it would just be others who would benefit.

Thinking of this, Li Jieqing simply put on an innocent and harmless expression.

Regardless of who is watching from the shadows, he will do his best to be a good person today.

Now that we're inside, we pretend to genuinely trust Wanbaoge and take the initiative to step onto the jade steps and enter the open pavilion hall.