Chapter 34: Nine Springs Outline
In the afternoon, tribe members temporarily residing in Date Plum Manor bustled about, preparing to depart.
In the Battle of Zangxian Town, nearly a thousand tribe members were killed or injured, and countless Otherworld Coffins were lost.
Although that group of Buddha Bandits had retreated, there were many peculiar and abnormal aspects to their actions. This matter was of great importance, and Cang Li had to return to his tribe as soon as possible to report the detailed events to the tribe elders, while also worrying about further complications.
Gao Huan, due to a “congenital language barrier,” boarded the carriage early without interacting with anyone.
He had a great talent for languages, mastering four foreign languages, so he was not worried at all about the communication barrier he would face alone, and was confident he could learn the language of this world in a short time.
Cang Li, along with a group of tribe masters, emerged from the manor.
Walking alongside him were two tall, mysterious women wearing veils.
One of them was actually a Pure Immortal Body, her skin as radiant as jade, with a cold personality. Cang Li had never heard her speak since they met in the Departed Spirit Fog Domain.
The other woman wore a red dress, with a White Bone Wind Chime tied to her waist; she had a cheerful disposition and was extremely talkative.
They were “lost travelers” who had accidentally intruded into the fog domain, and their names were Qi Shanshan and Cai Yutong, respectively.
It was Cang Li who saved them.
Cang Li was not inexperienced with encountering peerless beauties who possessed the Pure Immortal Body, but even among Pure Immortal Bodies, there were differences in beauty.
He would forever remember the astonishment he felt when he first saw Cai Yutong. The opportunity to encounter such a heroic rescue of a damsel in distress, although this Coffin Scooping mission had been perilous, was it not also a mixture of fortune and misfortune?
“My sister and I plan to go to Jiu Li City first. If it’s not on your way, we won’t trouble the Young Tribe Leader…”
Before Qi Shanshan could finish, Cang Li smiled and said, “What a coincidence! I’m returning to the Cang Li Tribe and will also be heading to Jiu Li City immediately. More importantly, the path to Jiu Li City itself passes by the Cang Li Tribe. You two young ladies can be guests at my tribe then.”
“The Young Tribe Leader possesses both extraordinary and refined heroic bearing, a sense of responsibility and chivalry, and is also warm and hospitable, treating others with sincerity. This young lady is seeing such a first-class man for the very first time.”
Qi Shanshan gracefully bowed and pulled Cai Yutong onto the largest and most luxurious carriage at the front of the convoy.
By the time Gao Huan lifted the carriage curtain and looked towards the front of the convoy, the two women had already boarded.
Cang Li stood tall beside the carriage, tidying his clothes. The nervousness he hadn’t felt even when encountering a peak master from the Buddha Bandits now appeared on him.
“We’re about to depart. Where has that girl Li Ling gone?” he asked.
An elder Martial Arts Cultivator behind him replied, “Fourth Miss said she had something to attend to temporarily and that we shouldn’t wait for her.”
“Something to attend to? In Yao Guan, what could she possibly have to do?”
Cang Li knew his sister’s cultivation level and her consistent independent nature, so he didn’t ask further. He tried to appear as refined and gentle as possible before boarding the carriage.
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Li Weiyi drove the carriage alone, whipping the horse as it galloped along the firm dirt road by the river.
The Shou Li Tribe conducted Coffin Scooping several times a year, and they traveled by land more often than by water. Therefore, this dirt road was built extremely wide, with ancient willows thousands of years old and giant mulberries hundreds of years old planted on both sides.
Through the gaps between the rapidly receding tree trunks, one could see numerous Giant Ships sailing on the wide waters of the Sui River. The ships were laden with Otherworld Coffins, and tribe members of the Cang Li Tribe, holding weapons, patrolled the deck closely.
It was evident that Cang Li was leading a small group to express formal gratitude to the Shou Li Tribe, hence their being ahead. The main body of the Cang Li Tribe and the Otherworld Coffins were traveling by water, following behind.
The carriage was ultimately a bit slow. By the time Li Weiyi could see Zangxian Town in the distance, the sky had already darkened.
The sun had set, leaving only the fiery red sunset glow on the horizon.
“Old Zhao said that the wilderness at night is extremely unsafe, with Departed Spirits and Fiend Demons becoming exceptionally active. We might even encounter Fierce Insects and Cursed Monsters. It’s at least two to three hundred li to the Blood Sea, so we might as well stay a night in Zangxian Town.”
Li Weiyi was unaware of the strange legends surrounding Zangxian Town and felt no reverence for it. However, the fact that so many people had died there yesterday made him feel slightly uncomfortable.
Having already experienced battles and witnessed the terrifying Soul Sea, he was not afraid even though there were bloodstains everywhere around the market town.
All the corpses had been cleared away.
Only some small animals he had never seen before scurried through the grass, licking the blood in the soil.
Upon arriving at Zangxian Town, Li Weiyi dismounted and led the strong horse forward.
The sky grew even darker, and the sunset glow had turned to a cold hue.
A faint mist, either slowly seeping out from the mountains and wilderness or surging up from the roaring Dragon Slaying Pass Waterfall, made Li Weiyi’s vision increasingly hazy.
Li Weiyi turned his head vigilantly, feeling as though something was following him.
“Am I being overly suspicious? This place doesn’t seem like a peaceful spot. I hope no White Bone Demons or Camel Bell Ghosts appear.”
By the dirt road at the town entrance, numerous Giant Stone Statues stood, stretching for several kilometers.
They had massive heads, some weighing tens of thousands of jin, and others even hundreds of thousands of jin, all gazing in the same direction.
Li Weiyi thought they resembled the Giant Stone Statues on Earth’s Easter Island. He stopped and looked in the direction they were facing.
In the far distance stood a majestic mountain peak, shaped like a pyramid. Birds circled there, and the clouds were low. In the dark cyan night sky, it appeared exceptionally grand and magnificent.
Not only by the dirt road but also on the Sui River bank in the distance, there were countless Giant Stone Statues.
“Zangxian Town… it’s impossible that an immortal is actually buried here, right?”
Li Weiyi chuckled to himself, leading his horse and carriage into the Desolate Market, which had been washed a dark red by blood. He didn’t go deep in, finding a courtyard with relatively intact houses and walking directly in.
Before long, a bonfire was lit in the courtyard.
In the night sky surrounded by mountains, it was like a sudden lamp.
Li Weiyi transferred bags of food from the carriage into the space within the Evil Camel Bell.
Since opening the third spring eye, he could already make the Evil Camel Bell activate even larger.
“I don’t know if I can summon that three to four meter tall camel. It feels like it can carry physical objects. Inside the bell, who knows, it might contain the entire camel caravan…”
“Let’s try again after my cultivation realm is a bit higher.”
After transferring all the food, Li Weiyi picked up the Evil Camel Bell and found that its weight had not changed significantly, making him realize even more how extraordinary this item was.
To be able to master this item, one can imagine that Yu Tuo Nan, in his lifetime, must have been quite an extraordinary being. But why isn’t he as famous as Zen Sea Observing Mist?
Sitting by the campfire, Li Weiyi took out a can of Golden Crow Blood and took a sip.
Suddenly, he realized that his ability to break through so quickly was likely all thanks to the Golden Crow Blood. The Golden Crow is no ordinary bird; how precious is its blood?
In this world, a Martial Arts Cultivator with high-grade talent could only open four springs after ten years of hard cultivation.
Even if Zhao Zhizhuo exaggerated the difficulty, it shouldn’t be too far-fetched.
I am just a mortal, not a deformed humanoid race, nor a pure immortal body. How can my cultivation speed be so fast?
It might be because of the Golden Crow Blood!
Li Weiyi finally figured everything out and decided that this time when he returned to the Bronze Ship, he would definitely bring more Golden Crow Blood. It would be best to also try and see if he could cut off several dozen jin of Golden Crow meat and Black Flood Dragon meat.
Took out the cultivation classics gifted by Cang Li 《 Nine Springs Manual 》 and carefully flipped through it.
The cultivation method of the Spring Gushing Realm is not rare. As long as you have money, you can buy it in many places.
But the preciousness of the Nine Springs Manual lies in the unique understandings and experiences of many Martial Arts strong practitioners of the Jiu Li tribe recorded on it, which, if carefully pondered, can make it easier for young cultivators to open spring eyes.
Cang Li naturally knew that a mere Nine Springs Manual could not repay such great kindness, and promised Li Weiyi that if he ever needed it in the future, he could provide him with a cultivation method above the Spring Gushing Realm.
《 The Nine Springs Manual was treated as a gift from a friend, not involving any repayment of favors or social obligations.
“The law is—internal magic power, leaving the body to form qi.”
“The Way, the fruit, and Nirvana are Dharma, omnipresent, filling the universe.”
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Li Weiyi observed and pondered.
Some of this world’s writings were learned from Senior Disciple Sister, he can understand thirty to forty percent. It must be understood in conjunction with the diagrams above, which is even more obscure than reading classical Chinese.
The general meaning of the manual is: Dharma is the energy of heaven and earth, permeating everything in the world, but cultivators in lower realms cannot see or touch it.
Dharma, like water in the soil.
Cultivators use breathing techniques to draw “magic power” to their side, then open spring eyes within their bodies, allowing “magic power” to pour into their bodies from the spring eyes, becoming power to renovate the physical body and be used for oneself.
The stronger the breathing technique, the more “magic” is drawn to oneself within the same realm. When consumed intensely, it has greater endurance, allowing one to fight for an entire day without magic power depletion.
The more spring eyes that are opened, the stronger the physical body can be remodeled, and naturally, more magic power can be mobilized.
77 “The Jade Void Breathing Technique should be very strong. Even on that night when I was pursued by the Thousand-Headed Dragon Vine, it was only physical exhaustion, not a depletion of my magic power.”
Li Weiyi thought this in his heart, skipped the breathing technique recorded in the Nine Springs Manual and directly looked at the vein map that followed.
Guide map page, the left page is male, the right page is female.
On the male and female portraits, there were dense, fine lines, in white, red, silver, and gold, extending from the nine major acupoints of the human body.
“The color and number of veins within each person’s body are different?”
Li Weiyi felt that he didn’t seem to need any vein maps; every time he opened a spring eye, he would just grope around a bit, and more than ten silver veins would automatically be born.
Why is it so troublesome?
He was more interested in the nine spring eyes mentioned in the 《Nine Springs Manual》 and wanted to know where they were located and how to open them.
The three spring eyes he has opened so far were all by chance, with no method at all.
If not for the aid of a rare and precious great medicine like Golden Crow Blood, with his mortal and mediocre aptitude, it would already be a blessing from heaven if he could open one spring now.
