Cultivating Immortality: I Can See the Script of Life

Wan Yi thought of Han Tiezhu.

Han Tiezhu possesses the blue talent "Good Luck Galore".

His protagonist aura is much stronger than Qian Zhuo's, and his luck is definitely much better.

You'll have to be extra careful when dealing with him in the future. Don't offend him easily, or even if you can see the script and have foresight, you might still be ruined by his protagonist aura.

Suddenly, Wan Yi remembered another protagonist, Fang Xiu.

Although Fang Xiu possesses the golden talent [Destiny-Based Deduction], he has no talent related to luck.

"It seems that not all protagonists are lucky."

That's normal; protagonists in stories that involve abuse of the main character don't have much luck.

In some genres, the main character even dies or is replaced.

If that's the case, then in the future, when I encounter protagonists who lack luck or talent, I can confidently and boldly scheme against them.

Since they don't have the protagonist's halo, even if they are outmaneuvered, they can't turn the tables by luck.

Suppressing his thoughts, Wan Yi took out the five Yinming Stones from his storage bag and examined them carefully.

These five Yinming Stones are almost identical in size and shape, and feel icy cold to the touch.

Just by looking at them, it's impossible to tell which piece is real and which is fake.

It's impossible to tell which piece contains the Tiger Poison Gu.

Wan Yi pinched each one in his hands, then activated his spiritual sense to probe inside the Yinming Stone, trying to find the insect eggs hidden inside.

However, after probing with his spiritual sense, he found nothing unusual except for sensing the cold aura of the Yinming Stone itself, and he did not detect any insect eggs.

"Is it impossible to perceive through spiritual sense?"

Wan Yi frowned.

Since spiritual sense can't detect it, we'll have to resort to force.

Wan Yi squeezed his fingers hard, and the Yinming Stone was instantly crushed, turning into a pile of black rubble that fell onto the table.

"Looks like it's not this one."

Wan Yi casually swept the pebbles aside, picked up the second Yinming Stone, and squeezed it hard again.

Suddenly, Wan Yi's expression changed, and he opened his palm.

Among the rubble, there lay a small insect egg, not small in size, about the size of a thumb.

It is jet black and shiny, with a golden "king" character pattern on its surface.

It was the Tiger Poison Gu Insect Egg that he had been longing for!

"Found it!"

Wan Yi had already gathered information about the Tiger Poison Gu in advance.

To hatch the Tiger Poison Gu, it must be nourished with the blood of a tiger demon for forty-nine days.

The higher the quality of the demon blood, the stronger the Tiger Poison Gu that hatches from it.

After hatching, they still need to be fed with tiger demon blood.

By feeding it with the demon blood of the Qi-refining tiger demon, it only takes three or four years to cultivate the tiger poison gu into a Qi-refining gu worm.

After all, the Tiger Poison Gu is a low-grade Gu worm, and its level is what it is.

However, the Gu worms are living creatures.

Although it is cultivated and refined after birth and has no intelligence, it still has a lifespan.

A Tiger Poison Gu at the Fetal Breathing Realm can only live for about thirty years.

Once one reaches the Qi Refining Realm, one can live for about a hundred years.

Unlike spirit insects, Gu insects cannot reproduce directly and must use secret methods to lay eggs.

Tiger Poison Gu, a low-grade Gu worm, requires at least the cultivation of Qi-refining Gu worms before it can lay eggs.

Of course, if one is proficient in raising and refining Gu, one can combine Gu worms into other Gu worms of higher quality.

Both fetal breathing gu worms can be combined and refined into purple mansion gu worms.

But Wan Yi had no such idea at all.

"The art of Gu worms is profound and complex; it's not something that can be easily mastered."

"The Biyang Sect is not skilled in the art of Gu cultivation. Their Gu cultivation manuals are a mess and lack a systematic approach, with the highest level reaching only the Foundation Establishment stage."

"Even if I wanted to learn, I wouldn't learn anything good."

"The way of raising corpses and refining puppets is the fundamental principle."

"This is the Corpse Puppet Hall's signature skill."

As for the Tiger Poison Gu, Wan Yi only needs to hatch it as a trump card.

When other opportunities arise, they will be able to take his place.

Wan Yi took out a jade bottle from his storage bag, which contained the tiger demon's blood that he had prepared in advance.

He carefully placed the tiger poison worm eggs into a jade bowl, filled it with demon blood, and watched as the eggs greedily absorbed the demon blood, revealing a satisfied smile.

"Alright, now it's time for some painstaking work."

While the Tiger Poison Gu is hatching, I should take the time to study the art of raising corpses and refining puppets, and strive to refine a corpse puppet as soon as possible.

Wan Yi took out the "Great Technique of Raising Corpses and Refining Puppets" and began to study it.

This low-grade cultivation technique, essential for disciples of the Corpse Puppet Hall, is different from the techniques purchased from the Corpse Puppet Hall. In addition to the cultivation method, it contains many accompanying spells, all related to raising corpses and refining puppets.

Although they were all low-grade spells, they were sufficient for Wan Yi.

Once he has mastered all these techniques, it won't be too late for him to go to the Corpse Puppet Hall to exchange them for a few more advanced techniques.

Of course, Wan Yi did not neglect his duties in the mortuary or his daily cultivation.

During this period, he purchased a lot of cultivation materials, including pills and spiritual food, and his cultivation speed improved by leaps and bounds.

……

Time flies, and forty-nine days have passed in the blink of an eye.

For Wan Yi, these forty-nine days were incredibly busy, yet also exceptionally fulfilling.

Through his diligent practice, his body became filled with magical power, and he had fully mastered the twelve meridians.

Once you open any one of the eight extraordinary meridians, you can successfully break through to the middle stage of fetal breathing!

Wan Yi's face was full of smugness.

He's only been a beginner for two months, yet he's made such progress; nobody would believe it if I told them.

Completely defeated Han Tiezhu after three years of training.

However, this is normal.

Even a newly initiated disciple, after a year of working himself to the bone, can only earn a little over a hundred contribution points, which still have to be used to repay loans from the sect and the Yinshan Society.

If he didn't take on side jobs and earn extra money, he wouldn't be able to repay the loan with just the meager contributions he made as an outer gatekeeper.

In the end, they can only fall into a vicious cycle of borrowing to pay off other loans. It would be good enough if they could avoid being driven to death by loans, let alone make any progress in their cultivation.

Those who are top borrowers can manage to scrape together enough money for a loan, but at what cost?

There is no extra time for spiritual practice.

As a result, the first year was almost completely wasted.

However, cultivators practicing fetal breathing cannot directly inhale and exhale spiritual energy; they can only rely on pills and spiritual food to replenish their energy and enhance their magical power.

After those lords paid off their loans, they were penniless and had to continue earning contributions the following year to purchase cultivation materials.

It wasn't until the third year that I finally had the confidence to balance my spiritual practice with other things.

But those first two years were wasted.

Wan Yi, on the other hand, was never short of contributions. Even though he was busy with the mortuary work every day, he had plenty of resources, so his cultivation progressed rapidly.

Of course, he was also aware that his own qualifications gave him a significant advantage.

I am of average aptitude, much better than Han Tiezhu's inferior aptitude.

Although Han Tiezhu has a golden talent called "Heaven Rewards Diligence," it only means that he has no bottleneck in his cultivation.

Their cultivation speed is still as slow as that of those with inferior aptitude.

Moreover, the cultivation of the embryonic breathing realm will not encounter bottlenecks in the first place.

As long as you have enough resources, even someone with only inferior aptitude can cultivate to the late stage of fetal breathing.

The talent "Heaven rewards diligence" is almost useless in the early stages of cultivation.

In other words, it has considerable usefulness in the practice of magic and the study of skills.