Chapter 215: Perfection
The banquet was set at noon.
Only Li Weiyi and Li Ling attended the banquet.
In today’s battle, the two were destined to become famous under heaven among the new generation. Tang Wan Qiu attached great importance to it, introducing the masters from various factions in the Northern Territory to them one by one, showcasing Snow Sword Tang Court’s supernatural strength, with the intention of winning them over.
In the Northern Territory, the “Yin Mountain Demon King” on par with Tian Ya Ridge, and the Northern Di Three Thieves “Moon Clan”, “Wanyan Clan”, and “Tuoba Clan” on par with the Three Great Barbarian Thieves, had all submitted to Snow Sword Tang Court.
After ten years of campaigning, the north was almost unified.
In the Seven States Land, only the Nether and Feng States remained under the Imperial Court’s control, all because the Misty Grassland lay in between, with great fog that had not dissipated for ten thousand years, chaotic space, and neither side dared to march rashly, fearing being buried in an ambush.
The Northern Territory’s First Rank ten people, Tang Wan Qiu already held eight of them, only the two invitations of Lintai Leader “Chen Ziliang” and Feng State Number One Expert “Feng Yin” remained.
As for Second Rank and Third Class martial cultivators, there was no need for Tang Wan Qiu to worry; his subordinate masters would naturally go out, sever their heads, and present them before him.
And Ge Xian Tong and Zuo Qiu Hong both suffering heavy losses was the best timing to clean up Chen Ziliang and Feng Yin and unify Northern City.
After the banquet, Li Weiyi and Li Ling returned to their residence.
Tang Wan Qiu received a secret report from the infiltrator.
“Jiang Ning has come to Northern City!”
“With Ge Xian Tong injured, while the Imperial Court temporarily adopts a defensive stance, its focus is shifting north to prevent Snow Sword Tang Court from unifying Northern City.”
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Tang Wan Qiu gathered the white fox fur around her neck, looking at the interlocking icicles under the blue tile eaves, and said with a smile, “Ge Xian Tong is really ridiculous, crippling herself in the first battle! The Imperial Court should have had the strength and qi soul to unify under heaven, yet now in the Four Territories, it can only manage one.”
In the darkness, someone asked, “Should we take this opportunity to completely cripple them?”
Tang Wan Qiu shook her head: “No rush! The Imperial Court has strong practitioners like clouds, not just as simple as one Ge Xian Tong. In the Eight States Land, there are countless outstanding persons. Luantai and Lintai have cultivated countless Imperial Guards, and merely one Jiang Ning is already very difficult to deal with. It is said that the Dragon Awakening Art has reached minor accomplishment, able to mobilize Dragon Soul Power.”
“Here’s what we’ll do! You go spread a piece of news, saying that the Imperial Court is already waning like the setting sun. In this Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, not to mention taking the top spot, they won’t even be able to claim one territory—it’s simply laughable!”
The person in the darkness said, “You’re trying to divert trouble to the east?”
“Should we let the two bugs in the Eastern Territory win without effort?”
Tang Wan Qiu was calm and composed: “At present, Luan Sheng Lin You can only choose one between the Western Territory and Southern Territory, most likely managing the Western Territory, as that is his main base. The Southern Territory has Zuo Qiu Hong; although Zuo Qiu Gatehouse has suffered countless high-level martial cultivator casualties, it is after all the host, still strong in troops and horses.”
“If the Imperial Court wants to claim one territory, the Eastern Territory is the best choice.”
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Li Weiyi and Li Ling walked along the rain corridor, returning to their residence.
“I remember, you once said that my blood could Blood Drop Awakening Corpse?” Li Weiyi transmitted with magic energy, asking thus.
The voice belonging to Zen Sea Observing Mist rang out from Li Ling’s mouth: “Want to save someone? Don’t even think about it, you can’t save them. Do you really think you’re the judge of life and death? Want to let someone live, and they live?”
Li Weiyi’s gaze was deep and somber, and at the earlier banquet, he too had a heavy mood with a fake smile on his face.
Zen Sea Observing Mist said: “How long have you been cultivating? After a hundred or thousand years of cultivation, the life and deaths you’ve seen will be a hundred or thousand times more than now—can you save everyone?”
“The three on Shaoyang Star could retain their memories and become departed spirits. That is because their cultivation before death was extremely high, and extraordinary power preserved their remnant soul consciousness.”
“Look again at the departed spirits in the Nether Realm of the Dead—how many can retain memory and consciousness? All mere ghosts and monsters.”
“I could be awakened by your blood, first because the lingering thoughts in my bone body had not dissipated. Second, because the Bronze Ship itself possesses unfathomable secret abilities of gods and ghosts.”
“In fact, a normal Yang Marriage definitely requires extremely complex rituals and sacrifices to inform your clan ancestors—it’s not as simple as just a drop of blood to awaken a corpse.”
“I reckon that when your vitality is strong enough, plus contact with soul cultivation, you can master the Blood Drop Awakening Corpse secret technique. But it only temporarily awakens the corpse to fight for you, not for long.”
Li Weiyi sighed: “It was my delusion!”
“Better to cherish the living than mourn the past. How is the body cultivation going?” Zen Sea Observing Mist asked.
Li Weiyi said: “Vitality Minor Accomplishment, but shaping the muscles and organs still needs time. Jar Master said that absorbing one jin of Immortal Soil would reach minor accomplishment; currently, it’s about six or seven taels absorbed. Has the Divine Stove Wood been found?”
“The paper bearing the Golden Sword Talisman is refined from Divine Stove Wood,” Zen Sea Observing Mist said.
Finally, there was a piece of good news.
Li Weiyi said: “How about refining more Golden Sword Talismans?”
“With Li Ling’s Calamity Fire Realm mind power cultivation, simultaneously controlling three hundred Golden Sword Talismans is already the limit. Moreover, Spiritual Light Flame is consumed extremely quickly,” Zen Sea Observing Mist said.
“I’m also a Great Mind Master!”
“You’re only Earth Fire Realm—how many can you control? Not much use.”
The three realms of Great Mind Master: Earth Fire Realm, Heavenly Fire Realm, Calamity Fire Realm.
Above that are Spirit Mind Masters with alchemy and artifact refining abilities.
“Golden Sword Talisman” and “Divine Stove Wood”—the former involves Divine Sword Talisman, the latter involves Li Ling’s whereabouts over the past month.
Obviously, they needed to hide it as much as possible, lest it be traced to Zen Sea Observing Mist, which would be more loss than gain. Therefore, Li Weiyi had no idea of letting Li Ling refine more Golden Sword Talismans for other Great Mind Masters to use.
He handed healing pills to Cang Li and Yin Nine, instructed Bai Shu to watch over Yang Zhiyong and Yang Yun, and Li Weiyi returned to his room.
After deploying the formation, he entered the Blood Mud Space.
Zen Sea Observing Mist also followed in, while Li Ling stayed outside.
Divine Stove Wood is a kind of earth core divine wood as hard as jade, which erupts with the lava to the surface layers. Named because it can only be found in Shenzao Diyuan, it is a supreme treasure for martial cultivators cultivating tendons and skin.
Zen Sea Observing Mist gave Li Weiyi a piece, then flew onto the Jade Boat by herself to refine and absorb it.
She also wanted to cultivate the physical body!
“She said we’d come back together for the New Year! But after coming back, she buried her head in cultivation again.”
Li Weiyi stared at the red-clothed graceful figure meditating at the bow, and suddenly understood why she could cultivate to the Son of Heaven’s level. She was fundamentally unbound by emotions, always placing cultivation first.
He temporarily put away the Divine Stove Wood in his hand.
Li Weiyi sat beside Jar Master’s coffin, took out the Dao Fruit: “This Fourth Sea of Qi, I must cultivate it to perfection as soon as possible; otherwise, I have no power to contend with the true young generation masters.”
The terrifying cultivation of Luan Sheng Lin You left a deep impression in Li Weiyi’s heart.
If he didn’t have the seven Phoenix Wing Moth Emperors to help, compared to Yang Qingxi who was not successor level, there was still a certain gap. And even a successor level master stronger than Yang Qingxi—how many moves could they last against Luan Sheng Lin You?
“Do you still remember the risk I told you about?” Jar Master said.
“I’ll be careful.”
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Jar Master was very prudent, lifted the coffin lid, and the remnant body stood up from the coffin, with blood light ten thousand zhang on his body, transcendent aura, and the Nine Emperor Banner in his hand erupted with a spatial power, sending the Dao Fruit into Li Weiyi’s fourth qi sea inside his lung leaves.
“Hua!”
Space surged.
Li Weiyi’s lungs immediately transmitted a heart-piercing pain.
He hurriedly gathered his consciousness and checked inside the qi sea.
The Dao Fruit was fixed by Jar Master at the center of the qi sea, like a divine sun hanging in the air, its radiance illuminating the entire chest cavity.
“Boom!”
The Dao Fruit spun rapidly, magic energy gushing out like a flood, forming an increasingly large vortex, violently mad, as if about to tear the qi sea apart.
Every breath could increase two or three thousand units of magic energy.
Jar Master could use this move, and of course other top factions could too, to help their disciples accumulate magic energy faster.
But normally, only when the qi sea reaches ten thousand units or more would Dao Lotus be used.
As for Dao Fruit, only successor level geniuses cultivating Zu Tian would use it.
Successor level geniuses can generally expand Zu Tian to tens of thousands of units in size. Filling tens of thousands of units of Zu Tian with magic energy counts as Seventh Sea Perfection, which can be called “Five Seas Realm Great Perfection”.
While Li Weiyi’s Fourth Sea was only about eight thousand units, yet a Dao Fruit was inserted to accumulate qi in the qi sea, naturally carrying some risk, making Jar Master extremely cautious.
Using Dao Lotus actually also has some risk, not much better.
In merely a few breaths, Li Weiyi only felt his lungs swelling to the point of bursting, magic energy rampaging inside his body.
Fourth Sea was full…
“Hua!”
Jar Master’s arm shook, Nine Emperor Banner spun.
Space trembled slightly.
The Dao Fruit was pulled out by the Nine Emperor Banner and immediately placed back into the iron box, sealed and preserved.
One Dao Fruit contained tens of thousands of units of magic energy, but just now only ten thousand units were released.
“Quickly perform the breathing technique and Qi Tempering Art,” Jar Master said.
Li Weiyi’s face was flushed red, his heartbeat extremely fast, striving to maintain himself in the state of Jade Void Breathing Technique, using the breathing technique to exhaustively constrain the rampaging magic energy in his body.
One must know, his first three seas combined had only over four hundred units of magic energy.
Suddenly having eight thousand units of foreign magic energy in his body far exceeded his control ability. This magic energy belonged to some Dao Seed Realm Martial Cultivator, originally extremely pure, but now rapidly dissipating, approaching fourth-tier qi.
The most essential energy was all wasted.
Spending half a day, Li Weiyi’s breathing finally became smooth, and the operation of magic energy in his body entered the right track.
Magic energy surged out from the Fourth Sea, through one hundred twenty string pulses, entering one hundred twenty golden veins spread throughout the body.
The rejection of foreign magic energy was very strong; it must circulate repeatedly in the body to gradually integrate.
Reaching this step, Li Weiyi finally had energy to spare, using the Qi Tempering Art from 《Heavenly Demon Codex》, strand by strand quenching these eight thousand units of foreign qi.
Time flew by.
Li Weiyi finally completed the initial integration of the magic energy in his body on the seventh day. With just a thought, the magic energy of the Fourth Sea would flow out, transporting to various parts of the body. No longer like seven days ago, like a dead sea that couldn’t be shaken.
“Jar Master, it seems I’ve completely mastered the magic energy in the Fourth Sea—can I impact the Fifth Sea now?”
Answering him was Jar Master from underground: “Don’t mess around, you’ll die. You now have only just integrated it; at least two or three months are needed to fully fuse and penetrate, quenching away the rejection of the Dao Fruit’s magic energy. Before that, I won’t allow you to impact the Fifth Sea.”
