Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 358 - 240: Returning to Profound Yang as Sect Leader (Extended - )
The Spirit Realm is too vast, its area is immense, and the distance between continents, even a Core Formation cultivator, couldn’t possibly traverse it by flight.
Therefore, generally when crossing continents, one relies on transmission arrays!
Li An inquired a bit and found that he is currently in a region called Qingyun Province; the transmission array is in the largest city of Qingyun Province, Cyan Cloud City, controlled by the Dao Sect. If others want to use it, they have to pay a substantial amount of Spirit Stones to the Dao Sect!
In the Spirit Realm, the most popular are Top Grade Spirit Stones; one Top Grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to a hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones, and one piece is enough for Li An’s cultivation for a month!
Upper Grade Spirit Stones are next, while Middle Grade and Lower Grade Spirit Stones are rarely circulated, only some small forces and small sects use them.
Not all forces stand as lofty as the Dao Sect; in the Spirit Realm, there are also small forces like the Profound Yang Sect.
Li An couldn’t help feeling troubled; right now, he is utterly penniless, trying to gather enough Spirit Stones to go to the New Continent is exceptionally challenging!
To go to the New Continent, even using the lowest grade transmission array, requires two hundred Top Grade Spirit Stones—equivalent to twenty thousand Upper Grade Spirit Stones.
If it’s a transmission array with higher confidentiality and security, then the price is unimaginable.
In recent years, the New Continent has become the latest "gold rush land," attracting many cultivators, and with more people, the price has been driven down; if it were before, the price might have been three or four times what it is now!
What troubles Li An now are the Spirit Stones.
He is not in a hurry. While exploring the forces like bandits and robbers around Cyan Cloud City, he also relies on a Mid-Stage True Core python to find and hunt Spirit Beasts to accumulate Spirit Stones.
"Dahei, quick!"
On this day, Li An was chasing a Mid-Stage Core Formation Spirit Deer with the python Dahei; Li An had Dahei chase in front while he lay in ambush. As the Spirit Deer passed by him, his Spiritual Power transformed into a long blade, slashing out with one strike!
The Mid-Stage Core Formation Spirit Deer died instantly.
After collecting the deer skin, bones, and meat, Li An lightly checked the contents of his storage bag.
Over the past six months, through hunting Spirit Beasts, he finally accumulated some savings of his own.
He changed into suitable clothes and bought a middle-grade storage bag.
"Three Upper Grade Spirit Stones, nine hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones..."
Li An’s eyes held a complex expression. He is already considered an extremely excellent hunter, persevering through wind and rain for six months, yet he is still far from gathering the travel expenses.
"Who knows if those few robbers dare to appear this time..."
After clearing the scene, Li An set out with the python; soon, they arrived at a forest five hundred miles away.
Entering a previously selected earthen cave, Li An hid himself.
—He spent three months constantly gathering information to finally track down the whereabouts of a few robbers, and then another three months waiting in ambush, yet those robbers never appeared even once.
Li An sighed deeply, considering the vastness of Daozhou, where the law and order are so good, indeed cultivating under the Dao Sect’s protection is genuinely nice. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
He was currently in a place not far from a mine of a Core Formation cultivation clan in Qingyun Province.
Li An waited here also counting on luck—every time this mine’s ores were extracted, he would come over.
Because, according to his analysis, as long as those robbers don’t leave Qingyun Province, this place is most likely to be robbed.
But, after waiting for three months, there had been no gains at all.
Another two months passed, and this day, Li An came to this place as usual.
"Hmm?!"
Finally, his eyes lit up, and as the array of the mine opened for extraction, from all directions of the mine, four or five beams of light quickly rushed over, and a fierce battle erupted.
Li An stayed hidden and didn’t move at all but sensed the situation on the battlefield with his Divine Sense, far superior to others.
Among the five Evil Cultivators, the strongest were two Late-Stage Core Formation cultivators.
When the battle ended, the five successfully seized their loot and split up to leave. Li An immediately followed one of the weaker ones, tailing him for a thousand miles until this cultivator finally stopped in a remote forest, counting his spoils, while Li An quietly appeared.
Suddenly, Dahei attacked; the cultivator hastily countered, while at the same time, Li An shouted, activating the Soul-Devouring Sonic Wave Skill, which made the cultivator lose his mind for a moment, and Dahei took the opportunity to bite off his head!
It was extremely tragic.
"The Soul-Devouring Sonic Wave Skill of the Ten Thousand Souls Sect is truly astonishing."
Li An couldn’t help but exclaim.
In fact, besides the Soul-Devouring Sonic Wave Skill, Li An also had some involvement with the core cultivation technique of the Ten Thousand Souls Sect, the Ten Thousand Souls Scripture. It allows one to forcibly bind the souls of those killed within their body, extracting the power of their resentment for cultivation, eventually reaching the level of Tuoba Wanchong, making it extremely difficult for average cultivators to resist.
But, the Ten Thousand Souls Scripture does not appeal to Li An!
Tuoba Wanchong’s Ten Thousand Souls Scripture, Evil Fourteen’s Heaven-Stealing Skill, and others... For Li An, they are of little use because the main cultivation methods he practices are the Life Nourishing Immortal Skill and the Immortal Celestial Demon Skill.
The Ten Thousand Souls Scripture, Heaven-Stealing Skill, and such are merely "royal methods" at best, while the Immortal Celestial Demon Skill is an "imperial scripture," and the Life Nourishing Immortal Skill is even more unfathomable.
He prefers some techniques from various evil sects, the ones he is most proficient with now are the Soul-Devouring Sonic Wave Skill, the My Lord’s Art, Gu techniques, the Evil Shadow Skill, and the Four Death Skill from the Demon Sect.
The Soul-Devouring Sonic Wave Skill attacks the Divine Soul, while the My Lord’s Art has miraculous effects of hypnosis, instigation, and guidance, leading people to follow Li An’s commands unknowingly. The combination of the two is invincible. However, both require a strong Divine Soul as a foundation, but Li An’s Life Nourishing Immortal Skill strengthens the Divine Sense, and the Immortal Celestial Demon Skill can plunder the power of others’ Divine Souls, allowing him to use them directly!
