Chapter 6: Slaughter and Establish Foundation!

  "Not for exchange."

  "Ten pieces of mid-grade spirit stone."

  Li Qingyun quoted a very concise price, with almost no room for bargaining.

  High-quality spiritual tools are not rare, but ordinary cultivators don't have many either. The price of ten mid-grade spirit stones is absolutely not high, and if you resell them, there's even a considerable profit to be made. Throughout the entire cultivation world, due to resource scarcity, it's almost always impossible to conduct full-price transactions with spirit stones; in fact, spirit stones themselves are important commodities. In most cases, cultivators trade with each other through bartering, exchanging items such as spiritual tools, medicinal pills, materials, and so on.

  "Deal!"

  The stiff-faced Grey-robed Daoist readily took out ten mid-grade spirit stones and handed them over to Li Qingyun.

  The transaction was completed quickly.

  Li Qingyun left immediately after obtaining the Ling Stone.

  However, as he left, the gaze of others towards him also carried a hint of sympathy. That gray-faced Taoist was not a good person at all. He was extremely ruthless and cunning, notorious in the scattered cultivation world for his sinister and treacherous nature. Normally, nothing could be seen of him unless there was something to gain, but once there was, he would appear as if a shark had smelled blood.

  All these years, he has absolutely not been idle in killing and robbing!

  A mere Qi Refining Seventh Layer cultivator, yet he can bring out a top-grade artifact and doesn't seem to have any grand or prestigious aura.

  It's highly likely that the other party has discovered some unexplored treasure trove, and the benefits he gets are definitely not limited to this one point.

  In the world of immortal cultivation, every now and then there would be some newcomers with pretty good luck, but if they weren't careful and revealed their wealth, they would immediately attract the envy of other cultivators.

  There are many such unlucky people every year!

  Huilian Daoren immediately set up his magic treasure and chased after Li Qingyun's retreating figure.

  Before leaving, he glanced coldly at the other monks behind him and said in a chilly tone: "This fat sheep has already been eyed by me! If you all want to make a move, think clearly about the consequences!"

  The Taoist with a gloomy face set up a gust of dark wind and chased after him.

  The other monks cursed a few times in hatred and had no choice but to stay where they were.

  "Get out!"

  "They eat meat themselves, but don't even give us a sip of soup."

  "This old guy will definitely come to no good end!"

  The other loose cultivators exchanged a glance before returning to their original positions.

  Perhaps in those large sects, the cultivators of the foundation-building period are not considered anything, but among the scattered cultivators, the foundation-building period is already considered a high-level expert. Scattered cultivators often do not have enough resources to provide for themselves, and their cultivation methods are often mixed and uneven. Perhaps some people will be lucky enough to cultivate to the Golden Elixir stage, but more people will be unable to achieve the Golden Elixir in their lifetime due to hidden problems left over from the foundation-building period. Throughout the entire immortal realm, before forming the Golden Elixir, the most taboo thing is to cultivate too many different Daoist methods.

  At the foot of the mountain.

  Li Qingyun slowed down his pace as he entered the dense and primitive forest.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, someone followed up afterwards.

  Look at that eerie and deathly aura, it seems like he has cultivated some sort of blood sacrifice technique.

  Most of these scattered cultivators do not have an orthodox inheritance, and many are practicing whatever they can get their hands on. Out of ten scattered cultivators, about nine have practiced one or two evil techniques that harm others. Compared to the disciples of other sects, the survival of scattered cultivators is undoubtedly much more difficult. When those sect disciples were still under the supervision of their masters, building their foundation and not allowed to leave the mountain until they reached the Void Elixir stage, those scattered cultivators had already experienced numerous life-and-death struggles.

  Many people thus directly embarked on the path of evil!

  "I'm staying behind!"

  The figure of a Taoist with a pale face appeared in the rear, raised his hand and threw out a banner of dark soul.

  That crimson banner was thrown out, and a gust of wild wind rose, followed by the mournful wails of countless vengeful spirits, constantly disrupting his opponent's mind. As the gray-faced Taoist chanted the spell, six blurry figures flew out from within the banner, directly pouncing on Li Qingyun, attempting to control his soul.

  This treasure is very poisonous, if it's controlled.

  It's completely unnecessary to even interrogate, just refine the soul in the treasure and everything will be clear.

  A hint of murderous intent appeared on Li Qingyun's face.

  This Yin Soul Flag has such power, at the very least it needs to be blood-sacrificed with thousands of people, and those six blurry shadows are even more refined into foundation-building cultivators.

  A golden light appeared!

  Li Qingyun's figure suddenly disappeared into thin air, and in the next instant, he appeared right in front of Huilian Daoren.

  "How is it possible?"

  "This is the Five Elements Escape Technique! Only cultivators above the Void Dan stage can use it!"

  The Taoist's face revealed a hint of horror, and he immediately raised a mirror to block his own body.

  Crack!

  A crisp cracking sound rang out.

  Li Qingyun raised his hand and slapped it forward, directly shattering the middle-grade magic tool. He then turned his hand over and grabbed the neck of the ash-faced man.

  He showed a hint of disgust on his face and swiftly twisted off the other's head.

  A dark soul emerged from the corpse.

  It let out a terrified cry and wanted to fly away in escape.

  Li Qingyun raised his hand and made a stroke, and a golden sword light appeared. The yin soul was cut in half on the spot and dissipated into smoke.

  Although his cultivation was only at the 7th layer of Qi Refining, Li Qingyun's body had condensed Golden Elixir and Jade Liquid. Any technique below the Nascent Soul stage could be easily executed. Not to mention that he also possessed the physical body of a Golden Elixir True Man, which was originally cultivated using the Dragon Clan's cultivation method modified and passed down by the Dragon Maiden. Although it couldn't grant him a true dragon body in the end, his physical body was more than enough to effortlessly crush the vast majority of Golden Elixir cultivators.

  However.

  This law also has a fatal weakness!

  That is the inverted scale, all dragons have an inverted scale on their body, and he naturally has a canopy door on his body.

  As for this piece of reverse scale, where is it!

  No one knows yet, because no one has been able to force him to reveal where his reverse scales are.

  The dark soul flag lost its power to support itself after the death of the gray-faced Taoist, and it fell to the ground with a snap. Li Qingyun raised his hand and beckoned it into his palm, then grasped both ends with his hands and snapped it in two, producing a twisting sound like metal being bent. As it was nearly a top-grade artifact, Li Qingyun had to mobilize a thread of Golden Elixir Liquid before he could finally break it into two pieces and thoroughly destroy it.

  A multitude of souls appeared.

  After the destruction of the law treasure as a container, those blood sacrifice souls were also released.

  After all, it was just a low-grade magic treasure, and Li Qingyun erased the internal law seal without letting those souls disappear, which wasn't a difficult task.

  Li Qingyun flung out her sleeve and said in a deep voice: "Let them all be reincarnated!"

  "Who dares to linger in this world, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

  A vast array of ghosts knelt down, then merged into the ground. The underworld has its own way of guiding them. They followed the yin energy of the earth's veins and naturally flowed to the River Styx.

  As for the souls of those six Daoist priests, they hesitated for a moment.

  With their abilities, they can indeed cultivate into a yin spirit. However, if they don't seize the opportunity to reincarnate and start anew, at most they'll just become a lonely ghost or wild demon in the underworld.

  They may not be willing to reincarnate like this, completely abandoning their consciousness in this life.

  "Hmmph!"

  Li Qingyun let out a cold snort, and a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

  Perhaps because his cultivation looked really too low, there were still people in the six Daoist soul who were unwilling to give up and wanted to escape quietly.

  As long as you escape from here and find a place where yin energy converges to cultivate, you can soon think of ways to seize the house.

  A golden sword light appeared.

  The slightly restless yin soul was immediately destroyed on the spot, and the other cultivator souls were shocked and frightened, and then they honestly trembled all over and went to reincarnate.

  "You don't know what's good for you!"

  Li Qingyun's gaze swept across the ground, making sure all the souls had been drawn into the underworld by the earth's yin energy before turning around to take the spoils of war from Huilian Daoist.

  He didn't pity those people!

  He just looked down on those cultivators who used ordinary people as sacrifices for their magic treasures, which was completely a bottomless thing.

  For this kind of person, he has never been soft on killing.

  Don't look at Gray-faced Taoist's cultivation being low, it's only in the late stage of foundation building, but there are indeed many good things on his body!

  It seems that he is also a loose cultivator who has lived for many years. In his storage bag, there were more than ten low-grade magic treasures of various kinds, as well as dozens of medium-grade spirit stones and a rare high-grade spirit stone. Li Qingyun directly crushed the other two unfinished Yin Poison Blood Sacrifice artifacts, and then put these spoils into his own Xumi ring.

  The storage bag can't be put in because the internal space will conflict with each other, he plans to sell it directly next time.

  With the wealth of the Gray-faced Taoist, Li Qingyun was able to gather enough resources to reach the tenth layer of Qi Refining. This made him consider whether he should do some business first before trying to recover his cultivation. After all, the spiritual energy resources needed to restore his cultivation were simply too enormous.

  With Ling Stone, everything is easy to say!

  Li Qingyun hurried along the road while cultivating his skills, and soon he reached the 8th layer of the Refining Qi stage.

  At this rate, he can advance to the 10th layer of Qi Refining today. Next, he needs to prepare enough Foundation Establishment Pills.

  Then make a breakthrough and enter the foundation period!

  However, the price of foundation-building pills is not cheap, and Li Qingyun needs a large quantity, which is probably not an easy task. If necessary, he may even have to refine the pills himself, because it's unlikely that there will be such a large supply of foundation-building pills available in the outside world for the time being. In this case, he estimates that he will have to study the art of refining pills again.

  It's a headache to talk about it!

  Li Qingyun was indeed excellent in terms of innate talent for cultivation, but when it came to alchemy, he didn't have much natural ability.

  Now it can only be walked and watched.

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