Chapter 272: All Alone
Over the next two days, Li Weiyi and Zuo Qiu Qingying became close friends who talked about everything.
Using this relationship, Li Weiyi smoothly borrowed the alchemy room of Zuo Qiu Gatehouse.
Refining high-grade dharma pills like Star Day Pills required extremely high standards for the pill furnace and flames.
Yin Er was a pragmatic person who handled matters very efficiently, sending someone the next day to deliver thirty drops of Extreme Day Light Dew to Taoli Mountain. With materials complete, Zen Sea Observing Mist didn’t want to delay even a moment.
If not for promising to help Li Weiyi refine pills, she would have gone to Fu Prefecture long ago.
Zuo Qiu Qingying looked at Li Ling entering the alchemy room and casually closing the door, extremely surprised: “Li Ling can already refine pills?”
“Her? She’s all thumbs but addicted to it, just a Calamity Fire Realm Great Mind Master, can’t refine dharma pills at all.”
Li Weiyi changed the subject, asking: “Qingying sis, you’ve already become a Spirit Mind Master, right?”
Zuo Qiu Qingying showed a proud look in her eyes but humbly smiled: “Just barely entered the Spirit Mind Master level.”
“One-star Spirit Mind Master?” Li Weiyi said.
A Calamity Fire Realm Great Mind Master, after undergoing “Nine Calamity Fire Refinements,” must condense a Mind Power Star to be considered entering the Spirit Mind Master level.
Spirit Mind Masters are graded from one star to nine stars.
In terms of combat power, they match Dao Seed Realm strong practitioners on the Martial Way path, each with their own strengths.
Zuo Qiu Qingying nodded and sighed: “Weiyi, the path of Mind Power Cultivation is hard to walk, much more difficult than the Martial Way, and extremely costly. Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone fragments are a shortcut, but too expensive. My dad talked to Elder Qi about it, but that old guy is stubborn, gives no one face.”
“But there is a path you can try.”
Li Weiyi showed a joyful expression and hurriedly asked what method it was.
Zuo Qiu Qingying said: “You can join the Secret Realm Division! Secret Realm Division members, because they travel in extremely dangerous places year-round, can purchase clan resources at sixty percent price. Additionally, they can use merit points instead of Spring Coins for payment.”
Li Weiyi made a bitter face: “Sixty percent price is still one million two hundred thousand Spring Coins, still can’t afford it.”
Zuo Qiu Qingying laughed: “Are you silly? You have no merit points, but my dad has been in the Secret Realm Division for thirty years, he has plenty of merit points.”
“This… no merit, no reward!” Li Weiyi fell silent.
Zuo Qiu Qingying said: “At the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, if not for you fighting desperately to help, Zuo Qiu Gatehouse wouldn’t have won! I heard the first batch of resources supported by Du’e Temple for Zuo Qiu Gatehouse has already arrived at Taoli Mountain. Including three Longevity Pills per year… you know, in the past thousand years, Lingxiao Palace only had ten every Jia Zi.”
In the era when Zen Sea Observing Mist lived, Du’e Temple provided ten Longevity Pills each year to help her contend for under heaven. But Lingxiao Life Realm then covered three hundred prefectures, with far more martial cultivators than this era, and the situation more complex.
Li Weiyi was shocked: “Doesn’t that mean Thirteenth Uncle can soon breakthrough to longevity?”
Zuo Qiu Qingying gently shook her head, but couldn’t hide the joy in her eyes: “Not that fast, my dad only reached Dao Seed Realm Ninth Heaven recently, still needs time to accumulate. But becoming a Longevity Realm giant is just a matter of time. So his merit points are just sitting there unused, better to use them to help you. Don’t feel burdened, it’s what Zuo Qiu Gatehouse owes you.”
Li Weiyi laughed: “If I refuse again, it’d seem pretentious… Mm, thanks Qingying sis, thanks Thirteenth Uncle.”
“But joining the Secret Realm Division still requires putting on a show, at least execute one mission in a secret realm.” Zuo Qiu Qingying said.
Li Weiyi said: “That’s natural, but need to wait a bit more. I want to try Feng Fu Sowing Dao, and go execute secret realm missions after becoming a Dao Seed Realm Martial Cultivator.”
Zuo Qiu Qingying smiled charmingly, full of allure: “No rush, cultivate well on your own, come find me for anything, treat Zuo Qiu Gatehouse like your own home.”
……
Zen Sea Observing Mist spent five days to refine the Star Day Pills, a total of twenty-nine.
An astonishingly high yield rate.
Li Weiyi asked: “When to leave?”
“Tonight.” Zen Sea Observing Mist said.
Li Weiyi said: “So urgent? Since the matter is so important, why not tell Zuo Qiu Gatehouse directly and let them figure out a way?”
“We can learn some things, those old guys can’t know nothing. Don’t underestimate the transcendent figures of this era, each living over a thousand years, none are simple.”
Zen Sea Observing Mist’s beautiful eyes held a smoky haze, and she continued: “I’m going because I have a reason I must go. Those three old guys are going with me, Li Yuanzhe’s Nine Emperor Banner will be very useful.”
Li Yuanzhe was Jar Master, also the leader of the Jiu Li clan a thousand years ago.
Zen Sea Observing Mist, Li Ling, Jar Master, Coffin Master, Spirit Tablet Master left together overnight.
Li Weiyi didn’t go with them, very clear on what he should and shouldn’t do right now.
What he should do right now.
Was secluded cultivation to settle and strive to complete Nine Calamity Fire Refinements as soon as possible, impacting Spirit Mind Master. If he could truly activate the time power of Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, his cultivation speed would be completely different.
At the same time, continue quenching qi, cultivating the Sixth Sea.
Before leaving, Jar Master used the spatial power of Nine Emperor Banner to embed the Dao Fruit into Li Weiyi’s Feng Fu, expanding Feng Fu to twenty thousand cubic. The additional ten thousand cubic magic energy would require at least two months to quench.
The limit of Feng Fu was still unknown, far from fully cultivated.
Li Weiyi returned to Blood Mud Space, the entire world quiet, with an unprecedented sense of loneliness.
No Zen Sea Observing Mist on the Jade Boat, no nagging from Jar Master underground.
Jar Master’s coffin, Spirit Tablet Master’s spirit tablet, and the Spring Coins in the five boxes… all gone!
“Why do I feel like she stole my home and looted everything? This Mist Heavenly Child isn’t tricking me into marriage, is she?”
Li Weiyi sighed long, leaped onto the Jade Boat to cultivate alone, but discovered over a dozen sparkling ice crystals on the ship.
Inside the ice crystals were five dragon bones and seven dragon seeds.
“This…”
Li Weiyi couldn’t believe his eyes, hurriedly taking from his boundary bag the four dragon bones and two dragon seeds he already had, plus one Longevity Pill.
“Okay, I misunderstood her! She does like giving surprises… she must have taken the Longevity Pills too, knowing I have one, so didn’t leave any for me?”
Li Weiyi took out seven dragon bones and gave them to the Seven Little Ones.
The seven little ones had helped him countless times, in many fierce battles, without their aid the outcomes might have been entirely different.
Now nine inches long, their combat power could match some Dao Seed Realm First Heaven martial cultivators.
Of course, even at the same Dao Seed Realm First Heaven, combat power gaps were huge.
Even not counting successor level figures, a Dao Seed Realm First Heaven martial cultivator like Wang Zhi was only average.
First, no Daoist Arts cultivated.
Second, not Pure Immortal Body.
Third, war weapon just a first-grade Hundred Character Artifact.
If the Seven Little Ones could add the power of one dragon bone each, then each one’s combat power would absolutely stand at the peak of Dao Seed Realm First Heaven. Even Second Heaven masters wouldn’t be impossible to challenge.
Li Weiyi sat cross-legged on the Jade Boat, twenty-one Star Day Pills left in the pill bottle.
The other eight were taken by Li Ling.
“Old Li must pay up! Otherwise if his daughter becomes a Spirit Mind Master before twenty years old, won’t his face split from grinning?”
Li Weiyi pinched a Star Day Pill between two fingers, its light extremely blinding, unable to open his eyes to see the pill script on it.
Swallowed it in one gulp!
Entering the abdomen, a warm power spread to every piece of flesh and pore.
His whole body lit up, divine splendor brilliant, rosy glow filling the entire Blood Mud Space.
Fusang Divine Tree meditation method deployed, imagining himself as those two towering mulberry trees, transporting the rosy glow emitted by the pill in his body strand by strand into the Spirit Realm in the Brow, repeatedly forging to achieve metamorphosis of spiritual light.
Calamity Fire First Refinement took a full three days.
Over the next three months, Li Weiyi waited for news from Zen Sea Observing Mist while in secluded cultivation.
Nine Calamity Fire Refinements, quenching magic energy, cultivating Chan Sect Twelve Loose Hands, and researching Dao Seed condensation methods.
Martial Way and Mind Power advanced in parallel.
With the help of nine Star Day Pills, what other Calamity Fire Realm Great Mind Masters needed years or even decades for “Nine Calamity Fire Refinements,” he completed in three months.
In the Spirit Realm in the Brow, spiritual light was bright to the extreme, nearly liquefying.
But after multiple attempts, he couldn’t condense the Mind Power Star.
“Spirit Mind Masters are truly hard to cultivate, every step needs massive time for accumulation and repeated refining. Wonder if Yin Er has news on Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone fragments and three-thousand-year thousand-year medicinal herbs?”
Thinking of this, Li Weiyi put the Seven Little Ones into the insect bag, left the cave mansion, and went down the mountain.
Zuo Qiu Qingying heard Li Weiyi had come out of seclusion and caught up to him at the sect gate: “Weiyi, heard someone is openly acquiring Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone fragments in Qiu Prefecture City in your name?”
Li Weiyi laughed: “It’s Jiu Li Hidden Sect helping me, gotta think of more ways. Hey, Qingying sis, any secret realm missions lately? I have time now!”
Zuo Qiu Qingying’s eyes lit up, then she smiled: “Right now almost all Secret Realm Division people have gone to Fu Prefecture Underground. But there are a few missions not too dangerous, we two can go together.”
“How soon can we go?” Li Weiyi asked.
Zuo Qiu Qingying said: “If you’re in a hurry, tomorrow after I handle your joining Secret Realm Division, we can set off together.”
“That’s great! I’ll first say hello to Jiu Li Hidden Sect people, set off tomorrow.” Li Weiyi expressed thanks to her again.
Watching the excited departing Li Weiyi, Zuo Qiu Qingying’s smile faded from her face, turned and headed to the Fourth Heaven meeting hall.
……
Li Weiyi and Yin Er sat in a noodle shop by the bridge, each ordering a bowl of noodle soup.
“News on Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone, Snow Sword Tang Court secretly contacted my subordinates a few days ago, saying they have it. But must talk to you personally, I feared a trap, so didn’t rashly agree. The existence of the Seven Strange Insects has many eyeing you covetously.” Yin Er said.
Li Weiyi added some vinegar to his bowl, laughed: “Who says not? I’m innocent, but guilty for holding the treasure. Mm! Tang Wan Qiu is quite reliable, Snow Sword Tang Court… shouldn’t be too bad, let’s meet!”
“Also, notify Yin Five for me, meet at noon tomorrow outside North City Gate, come with me on a long trip.”
……
Monthly ticket!
