darknovel 122. Chapter 122 I Have Become A Daoist! (Two In One For Subscription)
122. Chapter 122 I Have Become A Daoist! (Two In One For Subscription)
Chapter 122: I've Made It! (Two-in-One Subscription Request)
Although Su Ping had made up his mind to go to the ruins of the North Dipper Seven Star Sect, he didn't leave immediately. Instead, he summoned the steward of the Nine Leaf Mountain Market, gave him a wooden plaque with his divine sense aura and some spirit stones, and asked him to go to the Yunshan Market to wait.
When the caravan from the Western Wilderness came again, Su Ping allowed the steward to buy some monster girls such as cat girls, rabbit girls, or snake girls.
On one hand, Su Ping was indeed a little curious about these monster girls.
On the other hand, these monster girls had missing divine souls, which could help increase popularity and prevent any problems when he was not around.
As for whether these monster girls would have any hidden tricks, if they were the kind of special monster girls with innate spiritual bodies that even Gold Core cultivators would be tempted by, Su Ping would have to be more careful.
However, for goods like these that were sold to a large number of Qi Refining cultivators, it was necessary to consider the cost and whether it was worth it to set up so many hidden tricks that wouldn't be discovered and damage his reputation.
After instructing various matters, Su Ping left the Nine Leaf Mountain Market and flew towards Xuan Turtle Island.
With his familiarity, this flight journey was about ten percent faster than the last time.
However, when he arrived at Xuan Turtle Island, Su Ping found that the island was already deserted.
Not only were the people from the Eastern Departure family gone, but the villagers from the fishing village that used to be here were also all missing.
"I reminded them last time, could it be that they were still killed by evil cultivators?" Su Ping muttered in his heart. Instead of landing directly on Xuan Turtle Island, he took out the Memory Wand.
The next second, the white-haired youth, Yun Kong, descended from the sky and appeared on Xuan Turtle Island.
Using his divine sense to scan the abandoned port and the newly built residential area, Su Ping didn't find any signs of battle.
It seemed that the residents of the island had evacuated safely.
If that was the case... it meant that something had happened on the island that made those people feel unsuitable to continue living there, but it hadn't posed any immediate danger?
Hmm... that meant that some kind of fixed-range evil spirit had appeared?
Su Ping controlled Yun Kong and leaped to the highest point of the Eastern Departure family's mansion, looking around. Sure enough, he found a place where a large amount of evil energy was emanating.
"Evil spirit, if left alone, we can only wait for high monks or immortal sect experts to come."
"But with the current situation in the Red Kite Immortal Sect's territory, I'm afraid not many people have the time to come to the overseas islands, right?"
"Unless this evil spirit has undergone a rare mutation, raising the priority of handling it!"
"But if that's the case, I'm afraid the fishing spot on Xuan Turtle Island will also be affected, right?"
"Therefore, this time, I can only rely on myself to deal with this evil spirit?"
If Su Ping didn't have the memory illusion, he would definitely choose to stay away from the evil spirit.
But now that he had the memory illusion, his courage gradually grew.
The white-haired youth, Yun Kong, appeared in the place filled with evil energy.
Based on the arrangement, it should be a warehouse located in the backyard of Zhuangzi.
Looking at the traces that have not been cleared around.
Su Ping, who has been a helper for twenty years and has read extensively, can tell that a similar exorcism formation has been held in this nearby courtyard.
Then it seems that someone has been identified as an evil cultivator.
After being killed or tied up, they were thrown into this warehouse.
It looks like it was set on fire during the cleanup.
However, it is unclear why the evil cultivator in the warehouse underwent a mutation and turned into an evil spirit.
So the person in charge of the Dongli branch immediately panicked and chose the safest method... to abandon Xuanturtle Island and escape.
This is understandable, but Su Ping thinks that if he were to put himself in their shoes, he would probably act the same way.
"Hoo!"
Divine sense sweeps through the room.
After confirming that the source of evil qi is inside.
Su Ping's heart moves.
Suddenly, a 20-meter-long ice giant sword falls with a bang!
It directly destroys the entire warehouse, and a burst of cold air erupts, turning half of the backyard into an icy world!
At the same time, without even looking at what kind of evil spirit this is, the white-haired youth, Yun Kong, has already formed a sword in his hand and continuously swings it, releasing flying ice swords that pierce into it.
Roar!
Under the cold air, accompanied by a miserable roar.
A hideous giant with three mutilated heads and a height of over five meters crawls out of the collapsed warehouse.
This giant is strange in that it does not have a lower body, as if its entire body is fixed on the muddy ground.
As it roars and swings, a large amount of evil qi sprays out from its mouth and nose, forming invisible evil spirits that pounce towards the white-haired youth.
Buzz!
A purple mark from the Punishing Evil and Dispelling Demons Stone Lion appears on the white-haired youth's body.
Under the flash of purple light, it actually repels all the evil spirits attempting to invade.
"The blessing of the stone lion indeed has a special effect on evil spirits!"
"This makes me less worried about facing evil spirits."
"Other cultivators are most afraid of being affected by various special attacks generated by evil qi, which can affect their mentality and cultivation. Therefore, they are extremely wary of evil spirits."
"As for the attack aspect, the ice attacks of the exorcist mage are not so effective!"
Su Ping analyzes the opponent while fighting.
After confirming that the opponent is a similar evil spirit to the earthbound spirit, Su Ping lets Yun Kong create distance and starts sniping it with a heavy sniper rifle.
As expected, physical attacks are even less effective.
After the three heads of the opponent are blown up, they almost instantly recover and the evil qi is not depleted.
It is not as effective as ice attacks.
Apparently, the physical form itself has little effect on evil spirits.
The key is to eliminate the evil energy!
The white-haired youth put away his sniper rifle, then leaped into the air to avoid the opponent's suddenly elongated hand, which seemed to stretch like rubber.
Then, a purple light burst from his forehead.
The beautiful and tragic lightning strike from the fox-faced priestess Sakura appeared in mid-air and smashed down on the evil spirit.
Immediately!
With this lightning strike, the evil spirit let out a scream that could be heard throughout the entire island.
In Su Ping's spirit mouse's field of vision.
The concentration of evil energy in this evil spirit suddenly decreased by one-third!
"It really is the Heavenly Thunder Breaking Evil Spirit."
Su Ping had discovered the weakness of these evil spirits.
Then, he threw out a purple light fox talisman.
Immediately, the purple light fox with Foundation Building strength joined the battlefield.
This evil spirit immediately appeared even more vulnerable.
A few minutes later, with a cry from the purple light fox, it summoned the Heavenly Thunder.
With a loud bang.
The evil energy was completely dispersed and disappeared.
Only a few remnants of the evil spirit were left in place.
Su Ping was very familiar with these things, as they were sealed artifacts.
However, Su Ping remembered that other cultivators would use artifact formations to seal and eliminate most of the evil energy from the evil spirit's main body, and then slowly wear it down into these remnants over time.
But he didn't expect that with the help of the power of thunder, he would directly turn it into remnants. He wondered if he could consider it a merit after wrapping it up and purifying it?
In addition, Su Ping also thought that the thunder power of the fox-faced priestess Sakura should not be as simple as just lightning. It was able to restrain the evil spirits to such an extent, which might be related to the thunder light controlled by the fox god, possessing a stronger power to restrain delusion.
Su Ping had the memory illusion clean up the aftermath.
After confirming that there was no danger, he flew to the Heavenly Pool and sat cross-legged by the pool to start fishing.
There was no one around. This time, the second-tier fishing spot on Xuan Turtle Island only refreshed 150 fishing attempts.
Su Ping calmed his mind and cast the fishing hook into the pool.
With the start of the mini-game.
Fishing began.
And in this process, Su Ping, who was multitasking, found that he could still control the clouds to patrol around the island just in case.
Surprisingly, he found a diary that they hadn't had time to take away from a small house by the seaside.
It seemed to be written by a child from the Dongli family.
Su Ping casually flipped through it and found that most of the content was not serious.
Either he discovered that someone was secretly getting together with someone else, or he discovered that someone had a grudge against someone else.
The only thing that caught Su Ping's attention was that this child mentioned that the elder specifically lectured them.
They were told that if they ever encountered a white-haired youth in the future, regardless of the other party's identity, they must show utmost respect!
"A white-haired youth?"
"Should we remind the branch servants of the Dongli family? Is this position perhaps the beloved disciple of a hidden expert or the true inheritor of a great immortal sect?"
"And it's also related to the Dongli family?"
"Anyway, it definitely won't be someone as insignificant as me, a low-profile exorcist."
Su Ping silently complained in his heart, then put the diary back in its original place.
He fished until midnight.
Finally, Su Ping heard the prompt that he had used up all his fishing attempts.
He looked at his current fishing experience:
[Current Fishing Level: Level 5 (350/5000)]
After reaching level 5, only second-tier fishing spots can provide experience. The road to becoming a fishing expert is still long!
But now he was not in a hurry to level up his fishing. Instead, he needed fishing coins to exchange for experience books, draw chances, and abundant spiritual water.
And these resources couldn't be obtained quickly; they could only be accumulated slowly over time.
This time, there was no special fish catch.
After all, he had just caught a rare fish, the juvenile Xuantu, with great potential last time. According to the law of conservation of luck, he estimated that he would have a chance to catch something good next time or the time after that.
Su Ping enjoyed a simple supper in the Pot Heaven.
It consisted of ten kilograms of monster beast meat and a little over a kilogram of spiritual wine.
He also cooked about two kilograms of spiritual rice porridge and shared it with his pets.
After that, Su Ping went to the large spiritual fish pond and looked at the juvenile Xuantu and the big black fish Chiwen.
Chiwen hadn't changed much.
Under the care and feeding of the past month, the juvenile Xuantu still appeared to be the size of a palm.
But in reality, this was just its appearance.
With a thought from Su Ping, the juvenile Xuantu could instantly grow larger.
Previously the size of a palm, it could now transform into the size of a millstone.
Su Ping discovered that eating monster beast meat indeed helped its growth.
Su Ping was considering whether to use the memory illusion to secretly hunt and kill a few large monster beasts near the Ten Thousand Mountains, so that he could bring back a meal for the Xuantu and let it grow into a behemoth capable of carrying an entire mountain sooner.
Eat well and drink well!
Su Ping opened the map he had drawn himself.
After confirming the direction of the Big Dipper Seven Star Sect, he wasn't in a hurry.
Instead, he returned to the Water Blue Star again, waiting for the weather balloons ordered by the named disciples to arrive at the warehouse.
These were ordered by Su Ping before he left. By using the method of paying more, they directly intercepted the equipment that was supposed to be sent to a certain university.
In addition, after Su Ping became a Foundation Building cultivator, he received a large-capacity storage bag as a gift.
After dismantling the weather balloons into multiple parts, Su Ping successfully transported them over.
And then, with the help of divine powers, it was completed, and with the help of alchemy techniques, the most troublesome welding problem in the eyes of the workers on the Water Blue Star was solved.
A white weather balloon carried Su Ping slowly into the air, reaching an altitude of over 16,000 meters in no time.
At this altitude, Su Ping attached a concealment talisman and an illusion talisman of superior quality.
Unless someone below had a god's eye view and knew in advance that there was a flying object at high altitude, even a Foundation Building cultivator would not notice the existence of this weather balloon at such a height.
After all, the divine sense of a Foundation Building cultivator usually only extends a few hundred meters, even if it can be extended to a kilometer at most.
At the same time, the height of a flying boat is generally around three to five thousand meters, and it only rarely flies to an altitude of ten thousand meters.
For them, an altitude of over sixteen thousand meters is not that they cannot fly up, but that it is unnecessary to expend that much mana.
In addition, the weather balloon itself does not emit any mana fluctuations or cause any abnormal spiritual energy.
Normal cultivators would never realize that there could be a flying object that could stay at that altitude for a long time without consuming mana.
Su Ping took advantage of this blind spot and slowly approached the sea area near the island temporarily named Seven Star Island by the cultivators, riding on this type of weather balloon.
"I won't even set foot on the island, I won't even go near the nearby sea surface, I'll just stay at an altitude of sixteen thousand meters away from the other party."
"Even so, it can still be affected... The danger level of this relic should be at least Gold Core or even Nascent Soul level. These big shots should have started clearing it out a long time ago."
"Of course, if that's the case, I can only admit defeat and quickly teleport away, then hide in the Pot Heaven."
Su Ping sat cross-legged in the basket of the weather balloon, overlooking from a high vantage point, not directly looking with his naked eyes, but using a specially made telescope to look down at the sea area below.
The interior of this telescope also had a complex multi-reflection structure, and Su Ping silently recited a calming spell to prevent himself from emitting unnecessary emotions.
Although it was complicated, the key was to minimize the perception of the cultivators below.
The panoramic view of Seven Star Island could be seen at a glance.
At this moment, there were more than ten different-sized flying boats hovering above Seven Star Island.
Most of them displayed the flags of different cultivation families.
Only the largest one displayed the name of the Qi Xin Sect.
But this was also to be expected, after all, it was Mu Zhenren who went to this relic and extinguished his soul lamp.
At the very least, he was a Foundation Building cultivator who managed a large-scale market.
It was reasonable for the Qi Xin Sect to come and check the situation.
And on the coast of the island, there were many buildings and fishing boats moored.
A formed camp had already been set up on the coast, and even a formation was arranged to shield Su Ping's observation.
Accompanied by Su Ping's observation.
On the flying boats, some of the Foundation Building cultivators faintly felt an indescribable sense of unease.
However, they did not suspect that there was an unidentified flying object without mana fluctuations at high altitude.
Instead, they speculated that there might have been some strange changes inside the relic.
After they arrived at Seven Star Island, they immediately sensed that the sect relic on this island was not simple.
In fact, there was still a hidden realm inside the relic.
Inside the hidden realm, there was a faint aura that made all these Foundation Building cultivators excited.
However, because of the precedent set by Mu Zhenren's soul lamp being extinguished.
These Foundation Building cultivators all made a life-saving choice from their hearts.
After realizing the problem, they retreated and became bystanders on the Immortal Ark.
Watching the various foreign cultivators who came to seek immortality enter and exit near the ruins, and even daring ones who went to the secret realm.
But no one could come back afterwards.
This made these Foundation Building cultivators even more fearful of the secret realm, and they hesitated whether to give up this opportunity and report it to their respective sects.
"I'm not willing to give up."
On the deck of the Immortal Ark of the Qixin Sect, a Foundation Building cultivator with the same surname as Mu, a disciple of Mu Zhenren, stared at the ruins of the Seven Star Sect in the center of the island, his eyes filled with desire.
These past few days, he could feel a deep desire for something in his soul.
It seemed that it was something that could make him, a mid-stage Foundation Building cultivator, immediately become a Gold Core cultivator!
And it wasn't just him who had this feeling.
The other Foundation Building cultivators also had similar feelings.
But none of them had the intention to be the vanguard for others.
Suddenly, the Foundation Building cultivators noticed a white-haired youth walking on the horizon of the sea in the distance.
The youth was stepping on a giant ice sword, quickly freezing the surrounding seawater to slide forward.
In no time, the white-haired youth arrived at the coast.
"A foreign cultivator who came alone?"
"White hair? It's quite rare, but his strength is only at the late Qi Refining stage? It's not impossible that he has hidden magic tools!"
A Foundation Building cultivator picked up a bronze mirror to examine and discovered the true strength of the demon hunter Yun Kong, but couldn't be sure.
After all, in the current cultivation world, there were more and more people pretending to be weak.
Be cautious and there won't be any major mistakes.
No new orders came for the Foundation Building cultivators.
Su Ping, controlling the white-haired youth Yun Kong, didn't encounter any obstacles after coming ashore.
There were no late Qi Refining stage cultivators jumping out to claim that they had taken control of the ruins.
The white-haired youth walked quickly and soon saw the location of the ruins.
The entrance of the Beidou Seven Star Sect was not inferior to the outer gate of the Chiyan Immortal Sect.
In Su Ping's opinion, this island didn't have spiritual veins, and he didn't know what kept the formation of the ruins running.
But now, this formation only had a part of its concealment ability left.
Su Ping didn't use any tokens, he just stepped into the gate and was able to see the continuous buildings on the mountainside and mountaintop.
The architectural style was grand, with many stone carvings that were very imposing.
There were large stone statues that were more than ten meters tall.
Especially on the large square on the mountainside, there was a giant wolf stone statue that was nearly a hundred meters tall.
This giant wolf was lifelike, especially its eyes were extremely vivid.
At first glance, one would almost think that it could come to life.
"This was carved based on the appearance of the Greedy Wolf illusion, right?"
Su Ping looked at the giant wolf and lingered around it for a while, imprinting its aura completely in his mind.
Only then did he continue forward.
Su Ping didn't spend any time on the houses he encountered along the way. After all, he had arrived late to this place.
The surrounding houses had already been looted countless times.
Just think of it as picking up leftovers.
Arriving at the top of the mountain, Su Ping also saw other cultivators.
They were all gathered in this grand hall, and when they saw the white-haired youth appear, only a few nodded in acknowledgment.
"This is!"
Su Ping saw that in the main hall, there was a bronze door standing more than ten meters tall right in front!
The bronze door was half open, emitting a faint white mist from inside.
"It's the entrance to the secret realm!"
"There is actually a secret realm on this island, and the formation should exist with the help of the secret realm!"
"No wonder there have been Foundation Building cultivators falling inside. It's much more dangerous than ruins!"
Then, under the puzzled and confused gazes of the cultivators present, the white-haired young cultivator who had just entered walked straight towards the bronze door.
And in an instant, his figure disappeared inside the door!
"He went in alone? Hasn't he heard that even Foundation Building cultivators have fallen inside?"
Several Qi Refining cultivators in the later stage whispered in astonishment.
Then it seemed that some cultivators were infected by Su Ping's fearless spirit, or maybe they had already been prepared and would have chosen to take a risk even without Su Ping's appearance!
More than ten cultivators who were obviously together, led by a Qi Refining cultivator in the late stage of the Great Perfection, bowed to the surrounding cultivators and rushed into the bronze door together.
Inside the secret realm.
As soon as Su Ping entered, he knew that there was a problem with this secret realm.
It was completely silent all around, with withered mountains and forests and piles of foul-smelling mud everywhere.
Coupled with the seemingly perpetually dim sky.
And the pervasive evil energy and the scarce spiritual energy density that was even lower than that of the overseas islands.
Even his divine sense was compressed to only about one-tenth of its usual range in this evil environment.
Su Ping was well aware that any cultivator would realize they were being targeted in this environment.
And would choose to retreat first before considering other options.
However!
The exit disappeared synchronously after entering.
No wonder none of the cultivators who entered had successfully returned.
Fortunately, Su Ping had only entered a memory illusion, so he wasn't afraid of not being able to go back!
With no danger of death, Su Ping relaxed and began to observe the anomalies around him.
But in just a minute's time, the cloud avatar controlled by Su Ping encountered more than ten waves of evil energy clusters attacking from all directions.
Fortunately, with the protection of the evil-warding blessing from the stone lion, these evil energy clusters were mostly repelled and dissipated before they could get close.
It saved a lot of effort.
This allowed Su Ping to pass through the withered mountains and forests and see a mountain covered with stone tablets.
On this mountain, Su Ping noticed the presence of other cultivators.
They stared fanatically at the immortal texts on the stone tablets, murmuring to themselves incessantly.
Approaching, Su Ping saw a thin and emaciated cultivator grinning and muttering to himself:
"Master Dao, I've made it!"
"I'm about to become an immortal!"
"Hehehe! Master Dao, I'm going to become an immortal!"
After understanding what he heard, Su Ping took a step back and looked at the stone tablet the other person was looking at.
He found that those immortal texts... seemed to be the content of the Qi Refining section in the Northern Dipper Greedy Wolf Manual.
"These stone tablets... could they all be the cultivation stone tablets of the Northern Dipper Seven Star Sect?"
Su Ping was shocked, scanning the surroundings, bypassing those cultivators who seemed abnormal, and looked at the content of the stone tablets. The answer flashed in his mind.
"But why are these cultivators so crazy?"
"Can practicing the Northern Dipper Death Scripture drive people insane?"
"Or is it because of these evil energy clusters?"
Watching another evil energy cluster emerge from the ground and attack him but fail, Su Ping used his divine sense to notice that the spiritual energy of these crazy cultivators was being drained and flowing into the ground.
Deep underground.
There seemed to be a terrifying yet tempting existence hidden.
Su Ping stopped in his tracks, not intending to continue forward along that tempting path.
Instead, since he was already here, he decided to transcribe all the immortal texts on these stone tablets.
Even if he couldn't leave.
With the synchronization of his memory, Su Ping could still write down the contents he saw on the weather balloon.
Although these transcribed immortal texts lacked many of their original charms and lacked the function of auxiliary cultivation.
It was still better than nothing, right?
And in this environment of the secret realm, it was difficult to judge whether this auxiliary function was good or bad.
It was better to take it slow and learn slowly, relying on the lack of fear of side effects... he would eventually find the right path!
Today is a bit busy, so this chapter is combined into two. Normal updates will resume tomorrow. Thank you all for your support and understanding!
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