The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 45 Jade Bow, Lotus Flying Boat

Having finally found some free time, Qinghe picked up the small jade bow that Chu Yunfei had given her and played with it.

"Is this magical artifact very precious?"

Jiang Yuan took it in his hand and looked at it; he didn't even have enough magic power to make it reveal its true form.

Qinghe tried injecting her magic power, and it barely grew to three feet long, but she couldn't draw out the invisible arrow.

"This bow must be a magic weapon refined by a late-stage Golden Core cultivator. It is powerful and valuable. Elder Chu removed the restriction beforehand, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to draw it at all."

"To unleash the full power of this bow, you must at least reach the Golden Core stage. It seems Chu Yunfei truly desires to take you as his disciple; this karmic debt will inevitably have to be repaid in the future."

Qinghe shook her head, unable to express her feelings about Mount Luofu in words. She had won first place in the outer sect selection, was forced to leave the sect, and then obtained a magic weapon from an inner sect elder.

"So this magic weapon is unusable now?"

"You need to spend some time refining it to connect it with your mind and soul. In the future, others will not be able to easily take it away, but you can summon it to fight enemies at any time."

Jiang Yuan taught Qinghe the method of refining, dripping a drop of her blood essence to recognize it as her master. After that, Qinghe spent three whole days refining the jade bow until she could handle it with ease.

This way it can be used to some extent, but no matter what, it cannot draw out an invisible arrow. The only way is to refine a few physical arrows.

Qinghe refined the Jade Short Bow, and Chu Yunfei also sensed it. After all, it was a magic weapon that he had personally refined, and from then on, it had no connection with him, but the cause and effect had been sown.

That day, Chu Yunfei acted swiftly and decisively, sending Lu Haoran and his disciple out of Mount Luofu. The Nascent Soul Grand Elder was extremely displeased. "I haven't even said how to deal with this, and you dare to act on your own?" He immediately dispatched two early-stage Golden Core disciples to eliminate Lu Haoran and his disciple, lest they gossip about it.

Chu Yunfei knew that old guy's temperament and that he would definitely not let it go easily, so he went out to protect Lao Lu for a while. Giving Qinghe that bow was also a way of protecting her. He would know who killed Cui Qinghe, and the Nascent Soul old monster would not take action himself.

Those two Golden Core cultivators were also unlucky. The elders were fighting, which almost caused the two brothers to perish. When they returned to Luofu Cave Heaven, they could only tell the truth.

The Nascent Soul Old Monster was even more furious, pondering how to teach Chu Yunfei a lesson, but then a huge accident happened.

Master Zhu sealed himself away for several years before finally emerging.

After the outer sect selection concluded, the inner sect also held its own selection process to choose true disciples. Such a significant event naturally required the three Nascent Soul stage cultivators to report to True Person Zhu.

To everyone's surprise, Master Zhu was once again presented with an illusion: the Luofu Cave was still flooded, with icebergs floating around. However, the water seemed to be receding, and there was a person standing on the iceberg.

The illusion vanished in an instant. Master Zhu felt that the person looked familiar, and suddenly realized that it was none other than that Golden Core cultivator from the inner sect.

"So that's how it is! Mount Luofu is finally going to produce a restorer of its dynasty! What a joyous occasion!"

Master Zhu then spoke up and summoned all those young men.

With all eight inner sect elders present, Master Zhu suddenly pointed and said, "This old man wishes to take this lad as his last disciple."

Before Chu Yunfei could react, those Nascent Soul stage monsters were already in a panic.

No, you haven't taken on a disciple for over a thousand years. Besides, if you take him on, the seniority system will be messed up, and we old folks will have to call him Junior Grandmaster!
Master Zhu ignored all that and continued pointing and gesturing, "That guy..."

Chu Yunfei quickly stepped forward and knelt down with a thud, saying, "Disciple Chu Yunfei."

"Yunfei! Excellent calligraphy! The future of Luofu Mountain rests on your shoulders!"

Those Nascent Soul cultivators were completely dumbfounded!
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When Lao Lu discovered that Jiang Yuan was teaching Qing He how to forge weapons, he brought out all his savings, laying them out in a room for Qing He to choose from.

Qinghe wasn't embarrassed to take them, but she didn't really understand how to use them yet, so Lao Lu just left them piled up in the weapon-refining room. Qinghe's cultivation level had improved too quickly before, and she was lacking in many things, so it would take some time to make up for them.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, one can fly through the air, but this consumes a lot of mana. Therefore, most Foundation Establishment cultivators will refine a flying artifact, such as Master Lu's talisman boat, which is the most common choice.

Sword cultivators mostly like to ride on flying swords, leaving a long trail of spiritual energy behind them. It looks very cool, but it also consumes magic power. The advantage is that they can attack with their swords at any time.

Most other cultivators would refine flying artifacts according to their own characteristics.

Jiang Yuan suggested that Qinghe refine a lotus flying boat using ten-thousand-year-old yin wood from the spiritual vein. Such a precious material is difficult for even Nascent Soul cultivators to obtain. As her cultivation level increases, the number of restriction layers can be gradually increased, and it can even evolve into a defensive or offensive magic weapon.

Qinghe had a fear of caves and dared not venture into the spiritual spring; just looking at it terrified her.

Jiang Yuan then went to the Spirit Spring Cave again and collected several pieces of ancient, submerged wood, intending to use them to refine the Lotus Boat for Qinghe.

This flying boat was first cut and pieced together from ebony wood to form its approximate shape. It was about ten feet in diameter and could easily accommodate two or three people standing on it.

Then, runes are used to connect each petal to the main body. When flying, the petals spin and break through the air at extremely high speed, and can also open and close freely at will.

Thus, if attacked during flight, the petals can be folded up and used as a shield. Later, when one's magical power is higher, the petals can also be separated and used as a means of attack.

Jiang Yuan dared not mention that in his past life he had a mortal enemy, a holy maiden of the Demonic Sect, who used such a lotus-shaped flying boat. That woman stood atop the lotus-shaped flying boat, wielding a thunderfire bow, and Jiang Yuan suffered many losses at her hands. It was precisely because of the jade short bow given to him by Chu Yunfei that Jiang Yuan remembered the lotus-shaped flying boat.

Old Lu also witnessed Qinghe's refining process and deeply doubted what realm the Guan family boy was originally at, as such a profound and unfathomable technique was unheard of.

Old Lu wouldn't pry, and Jiang Yuan would just brush it off; there was no need to get entangled.

Qinghe was only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and it took her more than half a month to refine a lotus flying boat, which could be considered as cultivation. At least she became more proficient in the use of true qi.

Once completed, the flying boat can be stored away and transformed into a lotus flower the size of a palm, but when released, it grows to a width of ten feet.

The flight array will initially be filled with spirit stones. Later, when cultivation levels are higher, talismans can be used directly, or one can simply activate it with their own magical power. Even at the Golden Core stage, when one can transform into a beam of light to fly, it is still not as effortless as using a flying artifact.

Jiang Yuan himself is only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, so he can't fly. Even if he has a flying magic weapon, he could die if he falls.

For safety, a talisman boat with an outer shell like Old Lu's is better. Let's wait and see. Right now, the most important thing is to improve our cultivation.

Jiang Yuan needs to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining and comprehend the innate essence. One Yin Water Spiritual Vein is probably not enough, so he often goes to the Spiritual Spring to cultivate and try to open up the Yang Water Spiritual Vein.

The magic needle technique is no longer effective; it's lucky if it doesn't kill the person, and it's extremely lucky if it produces a "deep well of madness".

While Jiang Yuan was cultivating, Qing He would use her lotus-shaped flying boat to go to the top of the cave to collect spirit stone ore. The vein was too shallow; there were only a few pieces on the surface, and nothing at the deeper parts.

After several days of hard work, the spirit stone ore filled half a room. It was unpolished and varied in size, and it was estimated that it could be cut into hundreds of thousands of pieces.

Jiang Yuan guessed that the cave originally had a very rich spiritual energy, so a layer of spirit stone ore condensed at the top. Later, when the spiritual energy was exhausted, it could no longer be formed.

When Lao Lu left, he received 20,000 spirit stones from the outer gate of Luofu Mountain. Adding this to his original stock, he only had a little over 50,000 spirit stones in total.

The tens of thousands of spirit stones on the cave ceiling were a considerable sum, but compared to the Earth Core Emulsion and the ten-thousand-year-old submerged wood, those spirit stones were nothing.

But Jiang Yuan would never dare to show it off now. Those were things that Nascent Soul stage monsters dreamed of, and to reveal them would be courting death.

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