Traversing countless worlds from the primordial era

Chapter 27 A Bountiful Harvest: Devouring Five Elements Spiritual Objects

Faced with lightning, a five-colored light flashed behind the thunder, and the lightning vanished. Wind and thunder are outside the Five Elements; the divine light of the Five Elements cannot sweep them away, but it can disperse them.

The leader was greatly shocked. Lightning spells were powerful, but extremely difficult to execute. Unless a Foundation Establishment cultivator possessed a mutated lightning spiritual root, it was very difficult to even begin to master them. The leader's ability to control lightning relied on this formation. Countless Foundation Establishment cultivators had perished due to the immense power of lightning.

"He has a magical treasure on him." The eldest brother thought that Lei Ming had just used a defensive magic treasure.

The second and third brothers became more cautious, and the white beam of light shooting from the gourd rushed towards Lei Ming. Five-colored light flashed in front of Lei Ming, and the white beam of light disappeared, along with the two gourds.

"Where are our magical artifacts?" The second and third brothers looked at their empty hands.

"Watch out!" The leader suddenly stepped in front of the two. He saw the five-colored light flash again and his heart pounded with fear. The leader was holding a talisman and was about to activate it when the five-element divine light flashed. He felt dizzy and then lost consciousness. The talisman also disappeared from his hand.

"Come over here too." Two more beams of light appeared, and the second and third brothers disappeared as well.

Lei Ming casually swept away the four array flags, then transformed into a five-colored rainbow and headed southeast. This five-colored rainbow was a Five Elements Escape Technique that he had comprehended by combining the Five Elements magic. It was still in its initial stage, but its speed already far exceeded that of flying boat magic treasures, and ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators could not keep up with it at all.

"Has the Three-Headed Serpent not returned yet?" Huang Xingzhi felt uneasy. He sent someone to the place where the Three-Headed Serpent lived, but it was empty.

"Could something have happened?" Huang Xingzhi wondered, then immediately shook his head. "No, even if something did happen to them, they would have sent out a whole message. Besides, that young man is only at the early Foundation Establishment stage; how could he possibly be a match for the three-headed serpent?"

Huang Xingzhi never dreamed that such a supernatural power as the Five Elements Divine Light existed in this world.

"He made another fortune."

Lei Ming tallied his spoils and was astonished by the wealth on the three-headed snake. There were more than two thousand spirit stones alone, not to mention two talisman treasures, eight top-grade magic artifacts, numerous spirit talismans, and other pills.

"This price tag far exceeds that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator. It seems they've robbed quite a few times." Lei Ming accepted the items with a clear conscience. Instead of returning to his cave, he changed direction and headed towards the market of Spirit Beast Mountain.

More than two months later, Lei Ming returned to Huangfeng Valley. He had already exchanged all of the dozen or so spiritual herbs, and his gains were substantial.

For the past two months, Lei Ming had visited the markets of the six major sects, excluding Huangfeng Valley. After each transaction, he would be followed by one or even several groups of people. Some of these people were disciples from the immortal sects who specialized in handling dirty business, while others were rogue cultivators, with cultivation levels ranging from the early to the peak of Foundation Establishment. However, without exception, they all became treasure-delivering servants, and because of them, Lei Ming's gains almost doubled.

Thunder roared back up the mountain, and the formation opened a gap, which he immediately flew into.

Han Li was cultivating spiritual herbs when Lei Ming felt a surge of spiritual energy as soon as he entered the cave.

"It seems Brother Han's preparations are almost complete," Lei Ming said, looking at the medicinal herbs.

Han Li smiled as well: "Brother Lei, the spiritual energy here is higher than I expected, and the cultivation speed of spiritual herbs has also greatly increased. Judging from your appearance, you must have gained a lot on this trip."

Lei Ming laughed heartily, revealing more than a dozen storage bags at his waist. The storage bags had limited space and couldn't hold too many things.

"So many?" Han Li stared wide-eyed as Lei Ming emptied the contents of each storage bag. He saw more than 50 jade slips alone, each containing either cultivation techniques or pill recipes.

"These are array plates, all quite powerful. Only a few were bought from the Heavenly Star Sect, the rest were gifts from others... These are the spirit herb seeds you requested... I kept a few talisman treasures instead of selling them, so I'll give them to Brother Han."

Han Li stared in surprise at the talisman in his hand.

"Brother Lei, why did you buy so many talismans?"

Lei Ming shook his head: "Talisman treasures are not easy to buy, and I didn't even buy them; I stole them from the enemy. They wanted to rob me, but unexpectedly, they gave me a treasure instead."

"In that case, I'll accept it." Han Li didn't have any special talent; he relied on spending money to acquire powerful magical artifacts and talismans.

"Although I know Brother Lei is extremely powerful, I am still quite surprised to see these talisman treasures. So many Foundation Establishment cultivators using talisman treasures are no match for Brother Lei," Han Li said with emotion.

Lei Ming smiled slightly. Han Li probably never imagined that these people wouldn't even have the chance to use their talisman treasures in front of Lei Ming.

"The Five Elements Divine Light is truly amazing!" Recalling the battles of the past two months, under the Five Elements Divine Light, no matter how powerful Lei Ming's opponents' magic power and magical artifacts were, they were all swept away in an instant.

"Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the peak can't withstand the Five Elements Divine Light. I wonder if a Core Formation cultivator can withstand it," Lei Ming couldn't help but think.

Han Li returned to the spirit herb garden with the spirit herb seeds and pill formulas, while Lei Ming also began his seclusion to study the Five Elements cultivation techniques. He had acquired over twenty advanced Five Elements cultivation techniques this time, but only three could reach the Nascent Soul stage; the rest only went up to the Core Formation stage. Lei Ming wasn't bothered by this; he would find a way to obtain better techniques once he reached the Core Formation stage.

Lei Ming made his selections and chose five cultivation techniques: "Mysterious Gold Devouring Qi Technique", "Azure Wood Sword Technique", "Heavenly Origin Water Transformation Technique", "Blazing Sun True Technique", and "Spirit Turtle Absorption Technique". These five techniques were all advanced techniques with the five elements attributes, and the last three could be cultivated up to the Nascent Soul stage.

Lei Ming started cultivating with wood-attribute techniques. He replaced the Evergreen Technique with the Green Wood Sword Art. It has to be said that advanced techniques absorb spiritual energy much faster than basic techniques. A vortex of spiritual energy appeared directly in Lei Ming's training room, and he devoured a large amount of spiritual energy.

Lei Ming was immersed in cultivation, but he had to stop two days later.

"The spiritual energy here is still too thin." Lei Ming said helplessly. He had already mastered the basics of the Green Wood Sword Technique, and the spiritual power in his body had become purer under the compression of the Green Wood Sword Technique, but the spiritual energy outside could not keep up.

Lei Ming could only rest for two days until his spiritual energy recovered before he began to comprehend the "Mysterious Gold Devouring Qi Technique." In this way, it took him more than three months to master the five advanced cultivation techniques, and his cultivation level reached the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage.

Han Li went to Yuelu Palace more than a month ago to rent the earth fire for refining pills. If it were anyone else, they certainly wouldn't dare to refine Foundation Establishment Pills themselves, but Han Li wasn't afraid; he had plenty of spiritual herbs.

After meditating for two days, Lei Ming readjusted his state. He took out a yellow stone and placed it in his dantian. The stone was about the size of a fist, but it was quite valuable; it was a Tianhua Stone, an earth-attribute spiritual object.

A yellow light emanated from Lei Ming's dantian, enveloping the Tianhua Stone. Before long, the Tianhua Stone turned into a pile of black slag.

Lei Ming's eyes were tightly closed. At this moment, the Five Elements Pine Nuts were absorbing the earth attribute essence of the Heavenly Flower Stone. The earth attribute essence contained in the Heavenly Flower Stone was extremely small, and the Five Elements Pine Nuts quickly completed their absorption.

Lei Ming saw that the other four of the five-colored rays in his dantian remained unchanged, while the yellow ray increased slightly.

"The path to divine runes is still a long way off..." Lei Ming sighed inwardly.

Supernatural powers are divided into innate and acquired, but their power varies. The power of a supernatural power depends on the divine runes it contains. These divine runes are an understanding of the laws of heaven and earth. The more divine runes a supernatural power has, the stronger it is. For example, the supernatural power that a sage comprehends is almost a complete law, with 49 divine runes.

Lei Ming was not originally qualified to comprehend supernatural powers, but the Five Elements Origin merged with him, giving birth to innate Five Elements supernatural powers. However, Lei Ming's current strength is too weak, and the Five Elements Divine Light does not even have a single divine rune.

"Fortunately, this isn't the Primordial World, otherwise my Five Elements Divine Light wouldn't even be able to farm a single magic weapon."

Lei Ming shook his head and continued to devour the Five Elements spiritual objects. The Yue Kingdom didn't have many Five Elements spiritual objects; Lei Ming had gone to great lengths to obtain only a few. After the Five Elements Pine Nut devoured these spiritual objects, it seemed to have grown a bit, and its five-colored radiance had intensified.

"These are not enough; I need more spiritual items of the Five Elements!"

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Let me talk about the book's progress. It's been published for almost half a month now, and there aren't many favorites or recommendations yet. However, seeing many readers following and commenting gives me a lot of motivation to keep writing. Before the book goes on sale, I'll be updating about two chapters of around 5,000 words per day, which I can guarantee, and the update schedule will be relatively consistent. I'm currently working hard to build up a backlog of chapters, and if everyone likes it after it goes on sale, I can release more chapters at once.

Furthermore, many readers have said that Taiqing, as the leader of the Human Cult, wouldn't scheme against humanity, so my setting is flawed. Let me clarify: Taiqing is the leader of the Human Cult and enjoys the fortune of humanity, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't scheme against humanity. Taiqing naturally desires a strong human fortune, but this fortune has many sharers, the greatest being Nuwa, and then the ancient sages of humanity, followed by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were ordained by Heaven to suppress the human fortune, but the ancient sages of humanity are not. The three ancestors of humanity possessed a considerable amount of human fortune, but they had great merit; as long as humanity exists, they will not perish. Taiqing doesn't actually want great sages to emerge from humanity; he desires the overall prosperity of humanity. Great sages possessing the merits of humanity would also influence the direction of humanity and affect his control over it. Those with the potential to become great sages are the humans created by Nuwa, and he doesn't want these people to survive. Moreover, the human race's fortune is still small, and they haven't become the main characters yet. Taiqing doesn't care whether their fortune is a little more or less. Taiqing didn't directly take action either, but indirectly weakened the first batch of humans by setting up calamities, which is also in line with his status as the leader of the sect.

The story of "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality" is already halfway through. I will speed up the pace from now on. The Five Elements Divine Light has appeared, and Lei Ming is about to wreak havoc. Please look forward to it, fellow readers.

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