Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 384 - 246: Evil King’s Trail (Long - ) _3
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Returning to Evil Spirit Lake.
Beside his cave, Li An opened up a small medicine field specifically for planting the Red Infant Flower.
For others, it indeed would be difficult to keep it alive, but Li An possesses the breath of the Life Seed!
As long as there’s a sliver of life, with time and nurturing, there’s a chance.
Li An didn’t immediately plant the Red Infant Flower but kept it on himself, nurturing it with the Life Seed breath while preparing a lot of spirit soil for refining!
Then, he took out the raw piece of Rank Four Creation Jade.
This piece was quite large, about a foot square, and the bluish-green jade contained a pure, yellowish evil qi.
The extraction of this evil qi was quite simple for Li An, as the Demon Skills and Evil Skills he practiced all utilize evil qi.
But he pondered for a moment and did not use his cultivation techniques, instead focusing on creating three Rank Three Arrays!
Two of them were "Exorcism Arrays" which could slowly extract the evil qi, and the other was the Evil-Attracting Array, designed to gather the extracted evil qi and prevent its leakage.
With the raw piece of Rank Four Creation Jade placed in the two Exorcism Arrays, slowly, threads of yellow smoke indeed began to rise from the surface of the Creation Jade.
However, this process might take a very long time!
Li An estimated it would take five years to complete.
It was primarily because Gao Tai was a shrewd fellow; dealing with him required utmost caution, and Li An preferred to drag things out to mislead him.
"However, this part of the Creation Jade can’t be touched now; I still need to go out once more to buy some normal array materials..."
Li An was currently very poor and needed to quickly create some Rank Four Arrays to sell for some capital recovery.
Fortunately, he still had more than three hundred Top Grade Spirit Stones, otherwise, he wouldn’t even have the capital to buy ordinary array materials. He didn’t want to sell talismans at the moment, so he could only wait and see.
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In the blink of an eye, two years passed.
During these two years, apart from going to the Coiled Dragon Commerce Association to buy array materials and sell arrays, Li An essentially stayed at Evil Spirit Lake cultivating.
The royal family of Ji Country served diligently, delivering five hundred Top Grade Spirit Stones every year at a set time, along with a steady increase in the extraction of spiritual ore, making cultivation with spirit stones essentially sufficient.
His progress with the Golden Treasure Skill was rapid, and it wouldn’t be long before he mastered it, allowing him to focus on cultivating higher-level techniques.
— He once needed decades to cultivate a single part, but after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the efficiency was incomparable.
Additionally, he cautiously purchased some items for nurturing gu insects, currently able to refine some higher-level basic gu insects.
Li Shuangshuang also dedicated her efforts, selecting a group of people to enter Evil Spirit Lake and, with Li An’s consent, establishing several halls such as the Cultivation Technique Hall, Exchange Station, Spiritual Ore Hall, and Spirit Medicine Hall, forming the initial structure of the influence revolving around Li An.
In fact, on the Thousand Water Rhythm Continent, Evil Spirit Lake had faintly become the fourth significant Nascent Soul force standing alongside the Li Clan and Bishui Palace, although its foundation was undoubtedly far inferior to those three.
Li Shuangshuang was also approaching Core Formation more closely.
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"The Blood Ant Gu has been refined..."
Li An took out a small bottle, inside of which was some white powder!
This powder was made by selecting a species of small ants from Lake Heart Island, nurturing them into basic gu insects, and then grinding them down.
When placed in a liquid, they immediately dissolve, becoming undetectable even with Divine Sense, and once inside the body, the breath of the Life Seed conceals them, making them equally imperceptible.
But once Li An manipulates it, the gu insects would erupt from within the cultivator’s bloodstream. And although it was still a Blood Gu, this time it was more advanced than the one he used on Lin Fangping of the Seven Yin Sect last time!
The previous gu, termed a gu, was more akin to a poison without the effect of living gu insects, but this time he successfully cultivated several gu ants and made them into powder. Once inside the body, they would erupt much more fiercely.
The last gu could be countered by a True Core cultivator during its eruption without threatening their life, but this time it was different. Upon eruption, blood ants would manifest within the cultivator’s body, having a robust life force and even gnawing through blood vessels to enter other areas...
In sum, more ferocious and challenging!
His gu insects were initially prepared for Lin Fangping because he believed that the Seven Yang Spirit Body would sooner or later catch the eye of the Demon Sect... If it didn’t, then it was merely a strategic move, considered practice.
And now, Li An held gu technique in high regard, yet due to the difficulty of nurturing suitable insect bodies and the scarcity of materials, he couldn’t refine high-grade gu insects and had to continue using Blood Gu for now.
After a while, he planned to return to the Seven Yin Sect to find Grand Elder Lin Fangping and place them all on him!
"Gao Tai seeks an audience with Fellow Daoist Gu－－"
One day, Gao Tai arrived as scheduled, his voice ringing from afar.
Li An calmly greeted him into Evil Spirit Lake, but upon meeting, Li An’s brow subtly furrowed.
Because he discovered that Gao Tai’s aura... had changed!
Two years ago when he met Gao Tai, everything was normal, but now... there was a trace of evil qi within Gao Tai!
That evil qi was faint and well hidden; a general Nascent Soul cultivator might not detect it even face-to-face with Gao Tai, but Li An had followed the Evil King’s successor, Evil Fourteen, and practiced the Evil King’s Heaven-Stealing Skill, gaining Evil Essence from Evil Fourteen, so how could he not perceive it?
Moreover, this evil qi within Gao Tai was clearly formed by cultivating the basic technique from the Evil King’s lineage— the Evil Qi Skill!
