Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 240 - 187: Zhou Libai’s Recruitment (Long - )

Chapter 240: Chapter 187: Zhou Libai’s Recruitment (Long Chapter)

Just as Li An had guessed, Longyu Gorge was very quiet, with no enemies coming to invade.

His grand formation continued to operate.

Following the flow of the river back to the cave, Li An put away his puppet and then walked out.

"The battle should be over, right?"

He asked proactively.

"It should be soon. We’re safe here... Unfortunately, by not participating in this battle, we’ll earn very few contribution points."

The other two cultivators sighed, lamenting that while they guarded this place, the contribution points they could receive were minimal.

...

After the battle ended, Li An and the others did not immediately disperse.

Mountain Master Jie seemed to have lost his mind, continuously launching attacks on Mountain Master Bai’s territory, causing multiple eruptions of Mountain Lord level battles.

Li An heard that Mountain Master Jie had suffered a huge loss this time!

His attack failed, and he lost many troops, while the Great Lizard demon offspring successfully transformed into a demon.

Additionally, Mountain Master Bai sent another team to attack Mountain Master Jie’s lair while he was away, reportedly stealing some Top Grade Blood Demon Elixir from him.

Moreover, his beloved adopted son, the Earth Spirit Leopard, was also killed.

But strangely, Mountain Master Bai’s side completely denied these claims, asserting that they neither took the Top Grade Blood Demon Elixir nor killed the Earth Spirit Leopard.

When other Mountain Masters intervened to mediate, it became a huge hassle. The whereabouts of the Top Grade Blood Demon Elixir and the Earth Spirit Leopard became a mystery.

The situation remained extremely tense, and a new war could break out between the two Mountain Masters at any time.

...

Returning safely to Spiritual Evil Peak.

Li An was excited and began to inventory his spoils of war.

A Nascent Soul demon offspring, a cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Core Formation stage—thus, his gains this time could be considered immense!

Within the Nascent Soul demon offspring’s storage ring, most items were used by the Demon Race.

Two Fourth Grade Demon Blood Flowers, capable of purifying the bloodlines of Spirit Beasts and the Demon Race, were extremely valuable to the Demon Race.

Two Demon Bones, seemingly excavated from ancient ruins, recorded two Earth Tier spells of the Demon Race.

A Fourth Grade Soul Forging Flower for tempering the Divine Soul.

In addition, there were a number of demon pills, Crystal Cores, roughly equivalent to Third Grade pills.

There were only over a hundred Spirit Stones, but they were surprisingly all Upper Grade Spirit Stones!

One Upper Grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to a hundred Middle Grade Spirit Stones.

They were essentially strategic resources, and selling many of these items could possibly ignite wars.

"These all belong to you now."

Li An directly passed the Demon Blood Flowers, Demon Bones, demon pills, and others to Xiaoqing.

Xiaoqing immediately chirped excitedly, affectionately brushing against Li An before quickly starting to devour the Demon Blood Flowers.

It was currently at the Mid-Stage Golden Core level, and these items were particularly useful to it.

Li An solemnly put away the Fourth Grade Soul Forging Flower found on the demon offspring.

This was the third Fourth Grade Spirit Medicine he had in his possession.

He then opened the storage rings of the cultivator at the Great Perfection of the Core Formation stage.

The resources were equally abundant. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

First was a Rank Four Magical Artifact—a small, exquisite crossbow, only palm-sized, with only three crossbow arrows left and a shooting range of just one mile!

Judging by the range alone, it didn’t match the standard of a Rank Four Magical Artifact, but its unique feature was that the arrows could evade Divine Sense detection.

This meant it was entirely an assassination artifact!

Not to mention someone at Core Formation—even a Nascent Soul cultivator, without exceptionally strong Protective Treasures, could be killed silently by it.

If Li An hadn’t acted swiftly and with great caution at the time, offering the elder even a moment to lock onto him, he would have been doomed!

Li An was quite fond of this crossbow.

Additionally, there were five or six Rank Three Magical Artifacts, which could be used to refine Li An’s Demon Armor.

There were also six or seven Third Grade pills.

There were over seventy thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones and over twenty thousand Lower Grade ones.

...

With these resources, Li An could continue to lie low.

Most importantly, he now possessed three Fourth Grade Spirit Medicines, which meant that in terms of preparing for the Nascent Soul breakthrough, he was far ahead of others.

The Nascent Soul stage was a barrier Li An had not broken through in his previous life.

Once reaching the Nascent Soul level, lifespan would increase significantly, and comprehension of the Heaven and Earth Dao would elevate to a higher level. Some geniuses, upon breaking through to Nascent Soul, could even grasp certain truths of creation and gain some Divine Powers.

Nascent Soul had an overwhelming advantage over Core Formation, and it could be said that if not for Li An’s extremely good luck in encountering a dying demon offspring, he would have had almost no chance despite being at the Golden Core stage.

...

After organizing the resources, Li An also pondered.

This time, the situation deviated from his predictions.

In his view, with an inside agent on Mountain Master Jie’s side, Mountain Master Bai’s chances of losing should have been higher.

Yet Mountain Master Jie was utterly defeated.

Could it be that the inside agent didn’t play a role? Or had the agent been removed by Mountain Master Bai over the years?

Li An believed the inside agent was most likely still there.

The last plan by Jiang Ribai was known to very few people except for Mountain Master Bai’s demonized subordinates.

Among those people, besides Jiang Ribai, none were rumored to have died.

The inside agent still existed but failed to give Mountain Master Jie accurate intelligence... Why was this?

Unless for the inside agent, Mountain Master Jie’s defeat was beneficial!

What’s the benefit? Just like Li An, to rob the other side?

Rob the other side...

Li An suddenly thought about how Mountain Master Jie’s lair was raided, and the so-called Top Grade Blood Demon Elixir was missing!

Could it be related to this?!

Furthermore, last time, the Demon Transformation Flower prepared by Mountain Master Bai for the Great Lizard was lost, and Mountain Master Jie claimed not to have it.

This time, the Top Grade Blood Demon Elixir was missing, and Mountain Master Bai also said they didn’t take it.

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