Mortal Transformation into Immortal

Yu Ling sat cross-legged on the bed, motionless.

However, his aura grew increasingly profound.

A month later.

The aura surged to a peak, suddenly becoming even more powerful, before quickly gathering and disappearing.

"It's faster than expected."

After her aura returned to normal, Yu Ling slowly opened her eyes.

It went more smoothly than I had imagined. With the help of the Black-Tailed Kung Fu, I broke through the bottleneck and reached the sixth level of Qi Refining in just one month.

This is the benefit of cultivating powerful techniques. Although it consumes more resources, it also makes it easier to break through bottlenecks and achieve breakthroughs.

After successfully reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, not only did his magical power become more concentrated, but his physical strength was also greatly enhanced.

"The weight, thank you."

Looking at his left palm, Yu Ling could clearly feel that the little guy had become weaker. He had consumed a lot of spiritual energy to help him break through his realm.

Yu Ling continued to sit cross-legged, intending to stabilize his cultivation before proceeding further.

Ten days have passed.

"That's about it."

Yu Ling stood up; his cultivation had been completely stabilized.

With a thought, the aura within his body gradually faded, and he looked like an ordinary person.

He concealed his cultivation level.

The Black-Tailed Staff is also quite good at concealing one's aura.

Having learned so much from the experiences at the Blackfish Mine, he deeply understood that in this world of cultivation, one should never reveal one's true nature under any circumstances.

Especially cultivation level.

Before leaving Ziyang Sect, he had considered buying a treasure to conceal his cultivation level, but he had too few spirit stones and the treasure he bought was of ordinary quality, and its concealment ability was not as good as the Wushao Technique.

"Let's go home first and bury Father's remains in our hometown."

Yu Ling stood by the window, looking outside, and murmured to herself.

Now that my cultivation has broken through, there is still one thing I need to do: find my father's remains and bring them back to my hometown for burial.

His father died far from home and was buried in the wilderness. He had to find his remains and bring them back to his hometown to be buried with his mother and grandfather.

Yu Ling went downstairs.

They refunded the remaining room rate.

He still had a few ordinary Ziyang coins on him, which were more valuable than the Five Grains Elixir. He exchanged one of them for silver.

"Nanyang Prefecture".

On the street, Yu Ling was looking at a map.

He found the location of his hometown, which was in Yujia Village, Wuhe Town, Nanyang County.

I estimated that Nanyang County is more than 1,500 li away from Baiyun City.

"We could take a boat to Wutong County first, and then head back from there."

Yu Ling noticed that a large river would pass through Wutong County, so he decided to take a boat trip first, disembark at Wutong County, and from there it would only be five or six hundred li to Nanyang County.

He put the map away and went to find a boat.

The great river is just outside Baiyun City, and merchants mainly travel by boat.

To mortals, White Cloud City is a large city, but in the eyes of immortals, it is just a small gathering place for cultivators. There are not many cultivators, and no merchant guilds have set up flying boat stations here.

In Baiyun City, independent cultivators who cannot fly mainly travel by boat or horse, while immortal cultivation families are better off, as they can ride on tamed flying demonic beasts.

Wutong County is located downstream, and most merchant ships pass through there.

As long as you have money, taking a boat is not difficult.

"Young master, please come with me."

After boarding the ship, a young girl led the way for him.

The ship was bustling with activity, filled with singing and dancing, and mostly occupied by wealthy merchants and scions of prominent families.

After boarding the ship, Yu Ling kept secretly observing to see if there were any other cultivators on board. Although there were many people on the ship, he did not sense the presence of any other cultivators. Perhaps there really were none, or perhaps they were disguised as mortals.

He doesn't yet possess a primordial spirit, so he mainly relies on his eyesight and the ability to sense fluctuations in magical power to identify cultivators.

Most of the people on the ship have extraordinary bearing, so judging them by their appearance and demeanor is irrelevant. As for fluctuations in magical power, they are basically imperceptible unless one activates their magical power.

It's easy for cultivators to disguise themselves as mortals.

"Young master, this is the place."

The girl's expression was very respectful.

"Um."

Yu Ling nodded and went into her room.

The interior decoration was much better than that of the inn, costing him more than thirty taels of silver.

The boat will travel downstream and reach Wutong County in half a month.

The large ship weighed anchor and slowly glided downwards.

Yu Ling watched the mountains outside the window gradually recede into the distance.

"Let's cultivate."

After standing for a while, he sat down cross-legged in the room and began to cultivate.

"The spiritual energy outside is so thin."

he murmured.

After leaving the Ziyang Sect, he discovered that the concentration of spiritual energy outside was much lower. Even with the best talent, he couldn't cultivate by simply absorbing spiritual energy; he had to rely on spirit stones for help.

Therefore, spirit stones are a hard currency for independent cultivators.

Although he still had a spirit stone on him, he didn't use it. It was for emergencies. The spiritual power of this low-grade spirit stone would be absorbed in a few days.

So be it, Yu Ling activated his spiritual bones with all his might, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

This is why he was willing to spend money to travel by boat, so that he could cultivate peacefully on board, whereas traveling on his own would be tiring and exhausting.

......

Half a month has passed.

The merchant ship docked at the pier and arrived on schedule.

Yu Ling disembarked.

This wharf is just a small riverside town in Wutong County, with about a thousand households.

"Let's buy a horse first. If we ride a horse, it should take about three days to reach Nanyang County."

The rest of the journey could only be covered on horseback.

Yu Ling entered the town, intending to buy horses.

It was midday, and many farmers were working in the fields outside the town.

"Um?"

Yu Ling walked through the alleyways, and when she passed a corner, she suddenly stopped and looked at her palm in surprise.

It was the weight that sensed the spiritual energy.

"Even if there is a magic elixir, it won't work."

Yu Ling thought to herself, and followed her senses to find it.

Soon they arrived at the outside of a thatched hut.

"It came from there."

Yu Ling stood at the door and looked inside. There was a winnowing basket on the bamboo rack in the yard, with some medicinal herbs drying on it.

There was no one inside; they must have gone to work in the fields.

Yu Ling walked over and took out a "violet flower" from among the many medicinal herbs.

The spiritual energy emanates from within.

"It really is a miracle drug."

Yu Ling examined the thing. It was a transformed ordinary herb. He had encountered many such herbs when he was at the Ziyang Sect.

"Not bad, worth about twenty Ziyang coins." He was quite surprised as he sensed the spiritual energy contained within.

The spiritual energy is very strong. To grow to this extent in such an environment, it must have been growing for more than ten years.

This medicinal herb looked no different from ordinary medicine, and was picked and dried by farmers.

The weight emerged from my hand, drawing upon its spiritual essence.

Unfortunately, due to improper preservation of the elixir, much of its spiritual essence was lost.

Soon the entire medicinal herb was reduced to tiny fragments.

Yu Ling placed some loose silver coins on the winnowing basket and then left.

"I can travel around these ordinary towns more often in the future and use my ability to weigh things to find bargains," Yu Ling thought, looking at his palm.

Ordinary people's bones do not contain "spirituality" and cannot sense the difference of spiritual herbs. Even if they find spiritual herbs, they cannot distinguish them and treat them as ordinary medicinal materials.

It's feasible to have the ability to sense the medicinal properties of a medicine by weighing it.

These ordinary towns are rarely visited by immortals, and even if there are immortals, not everyone has such a treasure.

Yu Ling felt that she could make a living from this.

There's no need to go to the big cities; they're full of immortals who've already taken all the treasures. He wandered around White Cloud City and found nothing of value. In these smaller places, powerful cultivators wouldn't bother with such petty gains, and the weaker ones lack the ability, which gives Yu Ling an opportunity.