Chapter Fifty-Four: Taking Stock of the Harvest

  After collecting everything from the乾坤袋, Yu then began to take stock of his own possessions. Among the three乾坤袋, Han Yang's was the largest, and he would use it to store his own items from now on. Adding the few pieces of Ling Stone left over from his previous cultivation, he now possessed four mid-grade Ling Stones and fifty low-grade Ling Stones. He could be considered to have a small fortune now. Indeed, killing people and setting fires was the fastest way to make money.

  Apart from the Ling Stone, I also possess a copy of the Floating Pagoda Immortal Record, one Fire Symbol Talisman that consumes a magic tool, and five times the magical power of Flame Strike. I have eighteen ordinary talismans, including three Fireball Techniques, two Golden Armor Techniques, ten Horse Armor Techniques, and two Fire Sea Techniques. The most precious one is a Five Thunder Symbol. The Golden Armor Technique can form a protective shield outside my body, which is much stronger than the Protective Jade Symbol. The Horse Armor Technique can increase movement speed, allowing me to travel thousands of miles in a day. The Five Thunder Symbol can summon the Five Thunder Bombardment, which belongs to mid-tier talismans.

  A set of seal-making tools, a wolf-hao pen, made by Wolf Demon Hao Mao, is a first-class law instrument. Four pieces of dragon blood ink, this is the magic symbol ink made from the blood of spiritual beasts and demon beasts. A Wu Hui inkstone, with a spell cast on it, can make people concentrate their minds. Three large bundles of talisman paper, specially made from water-ze grass and black spider silk, with the imprint of Dragon Tiger Mountain, totaling 300 sheets.

  Four jade bamboo slips, two notebooks of heart-gained insights, a few dan medicines, and a pile of miscellaneous items. As for the other Taoist robes, swords, and remaining items, they were all disposed of in Chengdu. The Tongxin twig was consumed during the great war. Except for the Lingcao medicine given to Shi Dafu, Yu Zecheng secretly kept some of the best products from the medicine garden, which are useful for increasing cultivation. Among them, the most precious is the 300-year-old ginseng with ten roots. These are all the remaining items that Yu Zecheng has for his immortal cultivation.

  Those medicinal pills had no marks on them, and I couldn't tell what they were. I didn't know if they were poisonous or miraculous, so I didn't dare to take them and could only leave them idle in the bag.

  After sorting out the things, Yu Ze Cheng began to learn the four immortal techniques of Jade Bamboo. Only then did he discover that the entwining technique and the giant wood strike still required a medium to cast successfully. The medium is also known as the necessary item to trigger the spell, such as the entwining technique requires the seeds of first-order spiritual wood thorn, and the giant wood strike requires a first-order spiritual wood-made spiritual wooden talisman. When using spells, they can only be successful with their help.

  No wonder Han Yang and the others had a pile of miscellaneous items in their Qian Kun bags, and Yu Zhen found 96 wooden thorn seeds and 27 completed Ling Mu Fa Yin among them. Fortunately, the Yu Wu Xian Shu and Huo Qiu Shu did not require any media.

  Lingmu crafting is quite easy, requiring only one piece of ling wood. It's just a small wooden block about an inch in size with condensed spiritual energy on top. The method for making it is introduced in the Floating Pagoda Immortal Record and is very simple, so anyone can make it.

  However, the seeds of this wooden thistle are difficult to harvest. In fact, Yu Zhen has collected some in the medicinal garden, but they are all in Shi Dafu's hands now. They have been used up, so let's go to Shi Dafu's place later and see if we can buy some.

  Yu Ze Cheng began to cultivate these four immortal techniques. Compared to the previous five immortal techniques, these four were too simple. The Giant Tree Technique took Yu Ze Cheng only an afternoon to master, and he no longer needed to recite incantations. A wooden character talisman appeared and entered his dantian.

  Each time it is used, the Lingying taken out of the Qiankun bag disappears in his hand and then transforms into a giant wooden stick three feet long and one foot thick in Yu Ze Cheng's hand. Within the range of divine consciousness, use divine consciousness to guide and track the target, whatever you want to smash will be smashed.

  The advantage of this giant wood strike lies in the fact that each hit contains a thousand kilograms of mass attack, relying on brute force to crush people. Moreover, as the infusion of Yu Ze Cheng's law increases, the giant wood will become bigger and bigger, in other words, the longer the preparation time for this technique, the bigger the giant wood, the more ruthless it is when crushing people.

  It took a whole day to master the entwining technique, and when the talisman was produced, it was also a wooden character, similar in shape to the giant wood strike talisman. The two merged slowly into each other in Yu Ze Cheng's dantian, transforming into a special wooden character talisman.

  Yu Ze Cheng can summon four vines within his spiritual realm to entwine the enemy, each vine being about one zhang long and three cun thick. The vines are extremely resilient, as demonstrated when Yu Ze Cheng used them on his disciple, Lin Ye Hong, who was unable to break free even after releasing her true energy for a short while.

  Before the two talismans were formed, the use of these two spells was still normal. After the talismans were formed, the wooden talisman that was finally combined in the dantian seemed to be stained with the power of blood and energy, and gradually had a weak change. From then on, when Yu Ze Cheng operated the giant wood strike, the giant wood would become incredibly hard, as if it contained the power of the talismans. The vines of the entwining technique also gradually gained the function of absorbing blood, and the duration of the vines' existence increased with the absorption of blood, no longer disappearing after a short while. In an experiment, a wild ox was entwined, and in the time it took to burn an incense stick, its fresh blood was completely drained.

  The spiritual technique of the noble object took half a day to master, and I obtained the character text. In fact, this is similar to the "Dragon Controlling Crane Hand" in martial arts, which uses both hands to move objects in mid-air. Yu Ze Cheng can control objects under 20 kilograms within a range of four zhang (about 12 meters) and slowly lift them into the air; exceeding this weight makes it impossible to manipulate.

  The fireball technique is the most difficult to master, and Yu Cheng has been practicing for two days without much progress, only able to form a small spark on his fingertips. Releasing this fireball technique is still very challenging for him, requiring persistent practice to grasp. However, once mastered, the fire symbol will no longer be that important to Yu Cheng.

  After the three immortal techniques were cultivated, the remaining ones became the talismans for observing the body's interior. Gradually, some discoveries were made. The talismans produced by the Supreme Heavenly Dao Blood Seal Technique learned earlier shone brightly in the dantian, enormous and boundless. In contrast, the two later-formed talismans, Mu and Yu, were half the size of the previous ones, without any luster, like younger brothers revolving around the three blood seal technique-produced talismans.

  It seems that the last three spells are just ordinary spells, mass-produced goods. The spells recorded in the Blood Sutra are at least the secret transmission of the sect. To say nothing of the others, the Wandering Air Technique can make oneself discover things that others cannot discover, and the Blood Array Technique is unrecognizable. The Blood Pollution Technique can destroy all spiritual structures, which shows the power of these immortal techniques. Unfortunately, more than 30 immortal techniques behind were burned to ashes, making Yu Ze's heart ache endlessly. The gap between these two spells is huge, so there will be such a phenomenon.

  All the spells have been cultivated, and three days have passed. Yu Ze Cheng put away the fire talisman, now he can only release five flame impacts. It's really getting less and less, it seems that he still needs to cultivate the fireball technique or collect materials to make his own fire talismans.

  But collecting materials is not easy, if you find them yourself. Now, within a 300-mile radius of Shanzhu City, I've already searched through the tens of thousands of mountains and still haven't found any materials. If I go to buy from others, I'll need to pay with spirit stones, which are crucial for my cultivation. Giving some away to others is heart-wrenching.

  That beauty pill, according to the formula introduction, can be refined by myself, but it requires a variety of materials. According to the records on the floating road, they are all rare materials. Where can I find them? Otherwise, refining the beauty pill will definitely make a big profit.

  Other alchemy recipes recorded in the floating pagoda, some of which can be refined by myself, but with no experience at all, the failure rate is absolutely stunning. The main thing is that I don't have any refining materials, if there were a market, it would be great, at least there would be a place to buy them. Now I can only watch the refining process on the floating pagoda every day, and use my brain to imagine and deduce the process.

  I wrote a secret letter to Hei Hu Tang, but it's been three days and there's still no response. Yu Ze Cheng is getting anxious, it seems that asking for help from others is not as good as relying on oneself, I can only think of a way to deal with Li Ye Bai myself.

  Actually, the last battle unexpectedly activated the invisible annihilation divine sense birth technique, and it was only with this that he was able to kill Yang Han. However, because every night he would enter the sea of divine sense, the generation of the demonic snake, as well as the various warnings recorded in the book, made Yu Ze Cheng have some subconscious fear of this secret art. After returning, Yu Ze Cheng deliberately avoided thinking about cultivating this immortal technique, until three days later when he could no longer avoid facing this issue.

  Should I refine or not, this question has been entwining in my mind. Yu Ze Cheng took out the Floating Tower Immortal Record again and looked at the words left by Miao Yu True Person. The characters were so lively and ethereal that they seemed to be floating like a fairy. Every time he saw these few words, Yu Ze Cheng had an inexplicable mysterious feeling and often got lost in thought for half an hour.

  After admiring the font, Yu Ze Cheng opened the "Floating Pagoda Records", casually flipping through the pages, feeling the growth process of the fragrant grass and spiritual medicine, remembering all their data, recording their collection places, their medicinal properties, and the names of the elixirs they could be combined with.

  Like this, Yu Ze Cheng read page after page, and before he knew it, the time had come to light the lamps in the evening. Through the "Floating Tower Records", Yu Ze Cheng seemed to have touched another world. In just a few words, countless sacred mountains and treacherous lands were faintly visible. Through them, Yu Ze Cheng caught a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the immortal cultivation world. How vast and mysterious that world was! The "Floating Tower Records" had given Yu Ze Cheng the wings of imagination, igniting his heart's desire.

  The lingering thoughts then turn into memories of ancient poems I saw before:

  "I have heard of the Jade Clear Cave, where the Golden Tablet received the Mysterious Scroll."

  Rise early and drive up to heaven's path, freely roaming among clouds and staying overnight in rosy dawn.

  Clear and bright, with a light step, I enter the empty valley.

  Immortal ancient stone altar, moss surrounds the green jade hall.

  Yang Gui Ling smoke purple, Yin Luo vent water green.

  Hearing of the Elixir Scripture from afar, a crystal spring flows into the bright jade.

  Before the assembly of the Feathered People, the White Day Heaven Dweller is solemn.

  Yu Ze then became completely immersed in this feeling, and suddenly he closed his eyes, made a firm decision, wanting to travel the world, wanting to embark on the path of immortality. He didn't want to be like Mo Xue Han Yang who died halfway, so he had to have real power at his disposal. Who cares about demons or evil paths? Who cares about secret demonic scriptures? He must learn, no matter what.