Chapter 134: What Can Save You, My Sense of Security
Chapter 134: What Can Save You, My Sense of Security
At the Yunhua Sect’s base, Li Si sat inside a newly constructed grand temple. Not far away was his double, Little Li Si, who sat practicing cultivation seriously. After all, he had infused it with one hundred thousand points of Creation Magical Power. If left on standby, it could operate for a hundred years without lag.
This was a snack specially left for that Big Fly.
Behind Little Li Si stood a towering, ten-meter-high Divine Idol that was mysterious, majestic, and enveloped in flowing streams of Fate.
Anyone who saw it would praise it, saying what a magnificent Divine Idol it was.
This was the most luxurious Statue Avatar Li Si had created so far, version 01!
It was modeled after Xu Changsheng.
It was also used to set a trap for Big Fly.
But that alone was not enough. Li Si actively investigated everything about Big Fly. To know yourself and your enemy ensures you won’t lose in a hundred battles. He couldn’t keep letting Big Fly mess with him so passively.
Although Big Fly left him a large sum of money every time, this kind of humiliation was something no man could bear.
He took out five divine materials. These were obtained earlier after killing the Ghost Shadow, the Eye of Karmic Retribution, and the Proud Bamboo Forest. They could be used to upgrade the Yunhua Law Seal.
As these five divine materials merged into the Yunhua Law Seal and were refined in the Fate Forge, the coverage range of the Yunhua Law Seal increased significantly.
Without saying a word, Li Si willed it, and the Yunhua Law Seal silently covered the Mingyue Law Seal.
Hmm, the feeling of creating nested alternate identities was fantastic.
Most importantly, the safety margin greatly increased. For example, he could instantly jump between the three areas covered by the Kaoshan Law Seal, Yunhua Law Seal, and Mingyue Law Seal. Even if it were that Big Fly, unless they met face to face, it would have no way to deal with him.
This included Jiuxuanzi. Even if she was so angry that green smoke rose from her head, she couldn’t chase him across two thousand li.
She could only swallow her anger, stay in Greyrock City, and control Greyrock City as quickly as possible, turning it into her stronghold.
After all, she was a True Immortal who had lived for thousands of years. Once she got serious, she was terrifying.
Only his own Fairy Leader pretended to be confused, allowing Li Si to mess around freely in Kaoshan City.
Indeed, as soon as Jiuxuanzi woke up tonight, she decisively did several big things. But they weren’t the kind where those who comply thrive and those who resist perish. This old exterminator cleverly utilized the advantages Li Si had left behind.
The first thing: she cordially summoned the current leader of the Mingyue Sect, who was also the Golden Core City Lord, Meng Yu. In just three sentences, she pointed out several fatal flaws in his cultivation. Then, with a few more sentences, she revised the Mingyue Sect’s core technique, raising its quality by at least one plus.
Then, the second thing: she had Meng Yu send over his two daughters and three sons. After a round of selection, she kept one son and one daughter, announcing that they would be accepted into the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect and become her, Jiuxuanzi’s, personal disciples.
This was to win people’s hearts. No matter how foolish Meng Yu was, how could he not know the great name of Jiuxuanzi, the True Immortal? Besides, he wasn’t stupid. He was immediately grateful.
Jiuxuanzi even said one more thing: Back in the day, I had a brief encounter with your ancestor. The peach blossoms were blooming, and the willow trees were green. We talked happily. Unfortunately, the path of cultivation was vast and elusive, and we never met again.
Finally, the third thing: Jiuxuanzi personally took out several valuable treasures from the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect. One was the Gengjin Sword Array, one was the Lingxin Sword Rune, and one was the foundation of the Jiuxuan City Protection Array.
With this foundation, Greyrock City would eventually have a City Protection Array just like Kaoshan City. As long as there was enough Magic Power, Greyrock City would be safe.
In short, both sides talked happily, and the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect directly became the supreme authority in Greyrock City.
If Li Si weren’t Old Ancestor Mingyue, if the Hundred-League Law Seal weren’t in his hands, and if he hadn’t further taken control and covered it with the Yunhua Law Seal, within a month, Greyrock City would have to be surnamed… it would belong to Jiuxuanzi.
It just showed how formidable this old exterminator was. Her level was more than one tier above his own Fairy Leader.
But Li Si did all this voluntarily. If he didn’t do this, how could he confuse that Big Fly?
He didn’t want his newly acquired Fetal Breathing Dao Body to be destroyed again.
In the latter half of the night, Li Si watched Jiuxuanzi’s performance. After she went online, Li Si teleported to a spot near Greyrock City, about ten-odd li away from the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect.
Then, he threw out the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, locking onto Mizhou. This was Mi Zhou’er’s nickname. Maybe the living conditions in the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect were too poor, so even naming had such artistic conception.
As for now, of course, he suspected that the Unknown Deity/Demon, Big Fly, had still left something on Mizhou.
He figured Jiuxuanzi probably knew too. But everyone was fishing; only he cared about this poor senior sister.
Before, he deliberately avoided contact with Mizhou, afraid of alerting the enemy. But now, he had the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, a Creation treasure. He should be able to win steadily.
Instantly, the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl soared through the Dark Mist. Wherever the pearl passed, the ghosts and monsters in the Dark Mist all became visible. Including the Dark Mist itself, which wasn’t actually mist, but a kind of very, very tiny insect. They clustered densely, wriggling, pulled by some unknown force, rampaging everywhere in the Mortal Realm.
At first, Li Si wanted to check on Mizhou, but Mizhou showed no abnormalities at the moment. Instead, these commonplace Dark Mist insects caught his attention.
Three things came to mind.
First, where did the Dark Mist come from?
Second, were Mist Demons really formed from the souls of the unjustly dead?
Third, what exactly were the Dark Mist insects?
When he first came to this world, he thought the Dark Mist was the Evil God’s method. But now, the Giant Mushroom was almost cleansed. It was confirmed as the source of pollution, but what level was its polluting power?
Was there an unknown mastermind behind the scenes using the Giant Mushroom’s pollution as a cover to secretly cause trouble?
Was there really only one mastermind behind the scenes?
Could his own people be trusted?
Who was the one hiding the deepest?
Li Si suddenly felt he had no sense of security.
“Should I try deducing now?”
He now had the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, a Creation treasure, the floating-point deduction database created by the tech geeks of the Yunhua Sect, plus his high-level Divine Ability, the Deduction Method. Maybe he could discover something.
“But it might also bring trouble.”
Li Si hesitated for a long time but ultimately gave up. It was said the Dark Mist first appeared twelve hundred years ago, but back then, it was small-scale, only appearing in some dead cities that had been massacred. Later, it gradually expanded.
Some cultivation sects, including True Immortals, tried to eliminate the Dark Mist. It worked initially, but later the Dark Mist kept appearing, and they simply couldn’t find the source.
These were records within the Yunhua Sect.
Li Si was just a small Golden Core cultivator now. He’d better not act recklessly. Wouldn’t it be better to spend this time adding a few more friends to his contact list?
“Speaking of which, that Mist Demon King said he would send me a gift. It’s been almost two months now; why hasn’t there been any movement? People these days have no integrity at all.”
Li Si complained internally but did not leave. Instead, he had the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl continuously and comprehensively observe Mizhou. Maybe nothing unusual would show in the short term, but with twenty-four-hour non-stop surveillance, especially with a Creation treasure like the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl that could illuminate both the Mortal Realm and the Illusory Void, any slight irregularity would be recorded.
Finally, based on the evil spirit algorithm, an approximate analysis could be made.
After making this decision, Li Si ignored the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl. He directly found a hidden spot in the wild, set up a sealing formation, and began his cultivation. No place was safer than this.
After all, he was now triple-protected by the Yunhua Law Seal, Mingyue Law Seal, and the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl. Forget people in the Mortal Realm; even if some Evil Entity or Evil Spirit emerged from the Illusory Void, they wouldn’t be able to slip past.
Of course, if Big Fly came, that would be a different story.
For the next seven days, Li Si stayed put, and the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl remained stationary.
During these days, he prioritized cultivating the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect’s core technique, the Scripture of Praying to Heaven, to the third level. This was relatively easy.
As a result, Li Si obtained his fourth Golden Core.
But it wasn’t a Jiuxuan Golden Core; it was a Praying-to-Heaven Golden Core.
He also gained one hundred thousand points of Heaven-Imploring Dharma Power.
That’s right. Although the Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect had the words “spirit sword” and “Jiuxuan” in its name, the philosophy of its core technique was to pray to heaven.
Li Si studied it carefully; it contained the meaning of a heaven-bestowed Divine Ability.
But whether this “heaven” referred to this world or that Nine Heavens Cave Mystery Sect in the Land of Infinite Vastness was unknown.
Additionally, after mastering this Scripture of Praying to Heaven, the success rate for deducing techniques in the Fate Forge suddenly reached 91%. It looked like victory was in sight, but the cost for deduction also became greater, changing to one portion of Golden Fate.
“Surely a 100% success rate wouldn’t require one portion of Purple Qi Luck, right?”
Li Si felt it was a bit of a scam. Naturally, he wouldn’t waste a precious portion of Golden Fate to attempt deduction. He just put this matter aside.
Now, he needed to consider which Dao Techniques or Divine Abilities to learn.
The Jiuxuan Spirit Sword Sect was the upper sect of the Floating Cloud Sect, so its Dao Techniques and Divine Abilities were astonishingly numerous. There were as many as eighty-one innate secret heritage Divine Abilities, plus another nine law-based Divine Abilities.
And countless ordinary Divine Abilities, Dao Techniques, Formation Arrays, alchemy, rune techniques, etc.
Even with the help of the Fate Forge, Li Si couldn’t possibly learn them all. Besides, a large portion of these Dao Techniques and Divine Abilities required specialized study of a branch technique to master them. The Floating Cloud Sect was originally such a branch.
So, after careful screening, Li Si chose three Dao Techniques and Divine Abilities that were most suitable for him at the moment.
The first was the Praying-to-Heaven Curse. It was the most orthodox Dao Technique derived from the Scripture of Praying to Heaven. The Floating Cloud Sect also had it, but neither Li Si, Xu Shen, Jiang Ying, nor Ji Chang were qualified to learn it.
Because the minimum requirement for this Divine Ability was the Nascent Soul stage.
Its specific effect was just one: to draw the power of heaven and earth for one’s own use. They were: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder. Seven types. Quite domineering.
The Floating Cloud Sect’s Divine Heaven Thunder Control Technique was actually a stripped-down version of the Praying-to-Heaven Curse.
The hidden sword aura inside the Hidden Sword Spirit Rune that Jiuxuanzi gave Li Si earlier was also metal-attribute energy drawn using the Praying-to-Heaven Curse. After refining it, it turned into sword aura, sealed within the spirit rune. Once activated, it could heavily injure a Nascent Soul within a hundred li.
Very impressive.
The second was the Heart-Control Sword. The initial cultivation difficulty wasn’t high; Foundation Building was enough. But it required practicing the Spirit Sword Heart Sutra technique. Its specific function was to sever inner demons and calamities, especially Mortal Tribulations. It could cut them off as soon as they appeared.
At first, Li Si scorned it, thinking it was the cultivation world’s version of the Sunflower Manual. Later, he realized he had misunderstood. Damn, it was an old acquaintance.
That’s right. The Floating Cloud Sect’s basic Dao Technique, the Heart Cleansing Curse, was a slightly modified version of this Heart-Control Sword Dao Technique by his Fairy Leader. She removed its sharpness, hid its loneliness, and evolved it into what it was.
But clearly, a thousand years ago, the Heart Cleansing Curse might have suited the cultivation world back then. But given the current situation, the Heart-Control Sword was more appropriate.
So he chose it without hesitation.
The last one was the Jiuxuan Spirit Response Deduction Method. Jiuxuanzi used this earlier when deducing Li Si. The Floating Cloud Sect’s Deduction Method was its stripped-down version. In fact, his Fairy Leader’s so-called Everlasting Single-Sheet Heart-Controlling Demon Observation of Freedom Response Rune also came from this.
Moreover, this thing could also eavesdrop on thoughts.
In short, after learning about it, Li Si’s feelings were so complex he couldn’t describe them in words.