After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 100 - Ji Qingluo

Chapter 100: Ji Qingluo

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Inside the secret realm.

Jishi True Person was seriously looking at the alchemy formations Jiang Huai had left behind. As Jiang Huai arrived, he looked at Jishi True Person, who smiled at him.

“Come and see if I’ve replicated it correctly?”

Jiang Huai came to his side, examining the alchemy formations Jishi True Person had created. The directions were correct, but there were still many flaws. He explained them to Jishi True Person, who listened very attentively like a student diligently listening to a teacher.

“How’s your friend doing?”

“She’s healed.”

“That’s good.”

Jishi True Person asked casually, then continued, “I’ve worked hard to study your alchemy formations and discovered something.”

“Hmm?”

“Although I can also deconstruct the core principles of the alchemy formations you use, it’s different from yours. It seems no matter how I construct the alchemy formations, there’s always an inexplicable barrier that prevents me from using your formations to refine perfect pills. I have a premonition that it’s because I haven’t been favored by the heavens, while you are a person favored by the heavens, and that’s why you can defy the rules like this.”

“Is there such a theory?” Jiang Huai had never really thought about it before.

“But your method of alchemy is really interesting. If I didn’t have limited time, I would really like to keep you here for a few more days.”

Jiang Huai smiled helplessly, taking out a book from his storage ring. The book contained all the core techniques of his alchemy formations, which he handed to Jishi True Person.

“You can study this slowly, all my insights into alchemy formations are in there.”

Jishi True Person’s face immediately showed an ecstatic expression. After a moment, he suddenly asked in surprise.

“Did you prepare to pass down this method of alchemy in advance?”

“Actually, I’m not that selfless.”

Jiang Huai replied somewhat awkwardly, “I was planning to sell it for a good price, but I never found a suitable buyer. Most buyers couldn’t afford it.”

“I’ll make a copy.”

Jishi True Person flipped through the booklet Jiang Huai had brought, quickly copying all the characters, and then returned it to Jiang Huai. After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Huai said earnestly.

“Thank you, Jishi True Person, for your help this time. I will complete the task you entrusted to me as soon as possible.”

“There’s no rush, I can wait a hundred years, and there’s no need to thank me. It’s your own talent that allowed you to complete the trials I left behind in my lifetime. It’s all fate.”

Jishi True Person shook his head, “Your Way of the Pill and Way of the Sword both start higher than mine. I look forward to the day when you shine brightly in the outside world. Maybe in a thousand years, you will also have the day when you cut through the heavenly gate and ascend.”

Jiang Huai just laughed helplessly. He had never thought about ascending. Since he was doing well in this world, why go to another world to find trouble? He wasn’t pursuing the path of immortality; he just wanted to stay with his loved ones until old age.

“Speaking of which, Jishi True Person… I have a small request.”

“Go ahead.”

“Is there a Dragon Blood Spirit Flower in the Burial Dragon Valley?”

“It’s in the Dragon Corpse Forest of the first area. You can go there to pick it. The Dragon Blood Spirit Flower is guarded by a Zirui Beast.”

As Jishi True Person spoke, he lightly tapped Jiang Huai’s shoulder. Jiang Huai quickly felt a warm current merge into his body, as if Jishi True Person had imprinted something on him.

“The Dragon Corpse Forest has many medicinal herbs planted. These heavenly and earthly spirit herbs are now ownerless. There were trials I set up there for the younger generation of cultivators to take a herb. With my imprint, go find the Zirui Beast. The imprint will tell it you are my friend, and it will let you freely choose three herbs to leave with. This imprint will also protect you from any beasts in the first area. They all recognize my imprint and dare not act rashly.”

Jiang Huai’s eyebrows twitched, “Thank you, Jishi True Person.”

This trip to the Burial Dragon Valley could be said to be the most rewarding secret realm he had visited in all his years.

“We’ve already said there’s no need to be so formal. I didn’t expect to find such an interesting method of alchemy after my death. This remnant soul can now pass the time in this secret realm for another hundred years.”

Jishi True Person laughed lightly, patting Jiang Huai’s shoulder, “Alright, go now. This jade stone can also be used as a key to open the Burial Dragon Valley secret realm. When you meet Yao Miao in the future, use this jade stone to come see me.”

Jiang Huai nodded lightly, holding the jade stone given by Jishi True Person as he left the space, returning to the cave.

Bai Li was sitting on a bluestone, her hands propping up her cheeks, quietly waiting for him. Jiang Huai approached her.

“Alright, shall we go?”

Bai Li nodded obediently, stood up, and walked out of the cave with him.

……

The weather outside the cave was clear and bright.

Jishi True Person’s inheritance secret realm was in the first area. Previously, Jiang Huai and Bai Li had taken Concealment Pills and walked with trepidation, but this time Jiang Huai had Jishi True Person’s imprint, which made him feel much lighter. The fierce beasts saw the two of them with kind and gentle eyes, showing no aggression at all.

Bai Li, just like before, hopped and skipped through the secret realm, her footsteps were light. Jiang Huai casually picked two sweet spirit fruits, one for each of them, and they headed steadily towards the Dragon Corpse Forest.

By the time they arrived at the Dragon Corpse Forest, it was already evening, and the sky had darkened slightly. At the forest, there were already five or six cultivators present, each engaged in battle with fierce beasts. Although they were fighting, it was not a battle to the death.

When Jiang Huai and Bai Li arrived, they triggered the secret realm’s rules and heard a message pre-recorded by the Jishi True Person. The message explained that although the spiritual herbs in the Dragon Corpse Forest were ownerless, one must defeat a fierce beast from the first area to obtain them. However, they were not to take the beast’s life, and the beasts, bound by the rules, would accept challenges from cultivators. If defeated, they would offer up the spiritual herbs without taking the cultivator’s life.

The Dragon Corpse Forest was filled with red maple trees, and the canopy of the valley seemed to be dyed red by them. Beneath their feet lay the land that buried the dragon corpse. Jiang Huai, who bore the imprint, soon encountered a large lion covered in purple fur emerging from the dense forest. It looked at Jiang Huai and quickly understood the message transmitted by Jishi through the imprint, speaking in human language.

“What spiritual herb do you desire?”

Jiang Huai looked around and saw that even the lowest-grade herbs in the central garden of the Dragon Corpse Forest were of heavenly-grade. His eyes settled on the Dragon Blood Spirit Flower, which was of excellent quality and could alleviate three-tenths of Chu Xianning’s hidden injuries.

Turning to Bai Li, Jiang Huai asked, “Is there anything you want?”

He patiently explained the effects of the various spiritual herbs and what kind of pills they could be refined into. After listening, Bai Li shook her head and replied.

“No.”

Jiang Huai then chose the Clear Night Purple Sandalwood Flower and the Cold Jade Exquisite Fruit, both high-grade heavenly materials that were rare and valuable, each worth upwards of five hundred thousand spirit stones. He planned to refine the Clear Night Purple Sandalwood Flower into two pills to enhance cultivation, insight, and greatly benefit the soul, which he would give to Wen Wanwan and Wen Fufu.Cold Jade Exquisite Fruit was intended for Luo Qingyu to refine into a pill that would enhance her cultivation and was particularly compatible with her Ice Soul Profound Body. The remaining medicinal power could be used to treat Luo Yueguan’s health.

After selecting the herbs, the Zirui Beast harvested them and delivered them to Jiang Huai with its tail. Jiang Huai reached out to receive them and thanked the beast softly. The Zirui Beast glanced at him, shook its tail, and left.

The cultivators who were fighting the fierce beasts were stunned and bewildered by this scene.

Why didn’t he have to go through a trial? It’s not fair!

Their trials were also nearing an end. Among the five practitioners present, the best one had only obtained a low-grade heavenly-grade Spiritual Flower, which would sell for no more than one hundred thousand spirit stones on the market.

How could it compare to Jiang Huai, who simply asked and received three high-grade heavenly spiritual herbs delivered by the guardian spirit beast?

When the others looked at Jiang Huai and discerned his first-level Qi Refining cultivation, some cultivators’ eyes darkened with ill intent.

Jiang Huai merely smiled at them and was about to turn away when he heard a voice behind him.

“Fellow Daoist, please wait.”

Jiang Huai turned around and asked, “What is it?”

He looked towards the source of the voice and recognized the white-robed cultivator as someone vaguely familiar, bearing a slight resemblance to Ji Qingchen. Jiang Huai paused, listening as the man asked.

“May I know how you convinced the Zirui Beast to willingly give you the spiritual herbs? Could you share your method?”

Scratching his head, Jiang Huai innocently replied.

“I stumbled upon the ancestral land of the Jishi True Person and passed his inheritance test. This is the reward he gave me, allowing me to collect it myself.”

“The cultivation you possess… how did you pass the test?” the man asked, puzzled.

“Oh, the test of Jishi True Person only required talent in alchemy and the Way of the Sword. Cultivation level wasn’t important, so I passed.”

Jiang Huai patiently explained. “Any other questions?”

The white-robed cultivator looked at Jiang Huai, a hint of wariness in his eyes, but the allure of the three high-grade heavenly spiritual herbs was incredibly tempting.

Not just him, the other four Nascent Soul late-stage casual cultivators felt the same.

“Fellow Daoist… do you have any plans to sell those three spiritual herbs?”

“No,” Jiang Huai shook his head.

He smiled slightly, “I advise you not to harbor any ideas. I never fight over others’ possessions, but if someone tries to take mine, I won’t be lenient.”

“You jest, fellow Daoist. It was just a question,” the white-robed cultivator replied with a gentle smile.

Beside him stood a black-robed cultivator who had been fighting a fierce beast earlier, earning a heavenly-grade spiritual herb for him. With his own Core Formation late-stage cultivation, he really had no right to step into this first area.

The black-robed cultivator’s eyes had been fixed on Bai Li, paying little attention to Jiang Huai. After a moment, he communicated with spiritual energy in a whisper.

“The girl beside him has the aura of the Serpent Clan, but there seems to be a trace of dragon qi as well. She may have gained a great opportunity in this secret realm, possessing the potential to transform into a dragon. Her cultivation is only at the Nascent Soul early stage. Young master… if you brand her with a slave mark while she is young, you could also rise to become one of the top talents of the Eastern Region.”

“Serpent Clan?”

Ji Qingluo was taken aback, seemingly connecting something with Jiang Huai’s first-level Qi Refining cultivation, and looked at Jiang Huai, “Are you Jiang Huai from the Tianxuan Sect?”

“Indeed,” Jiang Huai did not hide it.

It wasn’t that he wanted to stand there and chat with these few people, but from the moment he obtained the spiritual herbs, they had locked onto him with their qi, not giving him any chance to leave.