The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 69 Spirit Gathering Array
While sipping his tea, Jiang Yuan casually remarked, "The Azure Sea Tide is a high-level Nascent Soul cultivation technique, primarily based on Ren water, combining Yin and Yang with the ebb and flow of tides. When cultivated to a high level, it possesses immense power. Sister Liu has complete Ren and Gui water meridians, making her perfectly suited to cultivate this technique. However, to ensure smooth cultivation later on, she needs to open at least a dozen Ren water acupoints before forming her core."

Liu Caiwei couldn't help but shake her head and sigh. Even if she refined two level-six demon cores, she might not be able to open up so many acupoints.

Jiang Yuan seemed to know her concerns, "We'll be settling on the sea, so we won't lack water-type demon cores. There's no need to worry about resources."

Liu Caiwei boldly asked, "But I wonder how many acupoints Brother Guan has opened?"

Cui Qinghe answered again, "My husband has opened forty-two acupoints in his Yin water and thirty-seven in his Yang water."

Liu Caiwei knew perfectly well that the Yin Water Meridian only had fifty-four acupoints in total, yet Guan Canghai had opened forty-two of them. No wonder Wan Haiming's "Eight Directions of Annihilation" couldn't freeze him. He already had the foundation to form a core, so why had he been delaying it?
Jiang Yuan said, "Sister Liu, there's no need to hesitate. If you switch to cultivating the Azure Sea Tide, it will naturally open up some Yang Water Acupoints. When the time is right, you can condense the Golden Core and go further in the future."

Liu Caiwei had never thought of cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage; she only wanted to form the Golden Core, increase her lifespan to five hundred years, and either live in seclusion in the Three Forests or travel the world with Shen Wangzhi. That would be enough for her.

Now that I have received such a great opportunity, I naturally need to rethink my path of cultivation.

Shen Wangzhi also selected a fire-based cultivation technique from the jade slip, which was extremely compatible with the Maoshan fire-based cultivation technique and did not require any changes to the method.

Jiang Yuan actually knew that the strongest technique in the jade slip was the metal-type technique. That Nascent Soul senior had learned a lot in his life, but the strongest technique was sword control.

Shen Wangzhi has already formed his core, so he no longer needs to worry about the limitations of his spiritual root and can completely break through the Gengjin spiritual vein to practice sword control techniques.

Anyone who wants to advance to the Nascent Soul stage must have all five elements complete and all spiritual veins connected. The Golden Core stage does not need to replenish the five elements, but the Nascent Soul stage definitely does.

Listening to Guan Canghai's discourse on the Dao, Shen Wangzhi and Liu Caiwei both felt they benefited greatly. They knew that obtaining a high-level cultivation technique did not guarantee the attainment of the Nascent Soul stage, but Guan Canghai seemed to have a thorough understanding of all aspects of cultivation.

Shen Wangzhi even suspected that Guan Canghai's magic weapon contained the soul of a master, since he had never heard of anyone being reincarnated and cultivating again.

Having addressed Liu Caiwei's concerns, Shen Wangzhi brought up the matter of the Spirit Gathering Array. The four of them then left the cave together and began repairing the damaged array.

Seeing the broken and scattered rocks, Jiang Yuan became even more certain that this great formation had been destroyed by a heavenly tribulation.

From the air, the rocks didn't look very big, but when we flew up closer, we realized that almost every single rock was several meters long and more than ten meters high. I wonder how that predecessor managed to get them over there.

Thousands of boulders were pieced together to form twenty-four innate trigrams. The general shape is still there, but many of the boulders have completely disappeared, and most of the remaining ones are damaged.

Thus, the four had no choice but to go to a nearby island to quarry the boulders and then find a way to transport them over. Even for Golden Core cultivators, moving boulders weighing tens of thousands of kilograms each is not an easy task, especially considering the sheer volume required.

The actual repairs could only be carried out when the tide went out. Shen Wangzhi used earth magic to repair most of the stones that were not completely broken.

Of the four, only Shen Wangzhi's earth magic was decent, so he was left to repair it while the other three focused on mining and moving the boulders.

It took more than three months to complete the surrounding innate Bagua.

On the main island, the Tian Shu position of the Big Dipper constellation had completely collapsed, and it took several days to build up a small hill.

Finally, the left and right auxiliary positions of the Big Dipper formation are two small islands. Due to the long-term erosion of the sea, they have been completely hidden underwater and have to be built up with some huge rocks. Fortunately, they do not need to be particularly regular and can be built up by quarrying some reefs in the shallow sea nearby.

After working so hard for more than half a year, Shen Wangzhi felt it was time to give it a try.

After the formation was activated, the islands and reefs within a radius of eight hundred miles completely disappeared from the sea, while a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth began to gather inside. This formation was truly ingenious, requiring no spirit stones, yet it could draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth with just a few stones.

On the vast ocean, the most abundant energy is naturally water-based. Given the scale of this spirit-gathering array, even without refining demon cores, Jiang Yuan and Liu Caiwei would be able to form their cores.

Only then can this cave dwelling be considered complete.

Almost a year has passed since the Tamna Island massacre, and there has still been no sign of Choi Cheong-ha. Those who were waiting to see the spectacle have gradually forgotten about it.

The resentment accumulated by the Laoshan Daoist sect grew deeper and deeper. They suspected that Luofu Mountain had hidden Cui Qinghe and was secretly instigating the Taiyi Sect and Qingcheng Mountain to plan a big operation to overthrow Luofu Mountain.

The Taiyi Sect chickened out, saying, "No, no, it's not that bad."

It wasn't that the Taiyi Sect was cowardly; for such a major matter, they had to consult with the Nascent Soul Ancestor within the sect. Ancestor Yin, who was at the mid-Nascent Soul stage, cast a divination to calculate the matter of besieging Mount Luofu. This divination was quite serious, almost sending the old man to his death.

In the illusion of the old god Yin Lao, not only did Taiyi Cave collapse, but the entire small broken ball was also submerged by a great flood, and he spat out a mouthful of blood two zhang away.

Mo Qiuren was also punished by the sect leader. It was just a Foundation Establishment Pill recipe, why did it have to be like this?
Mo Qiuren dared not mention the elixir formula again. He figured it was better to rely on himself than on others, and decided to figure it out on his own.

Laoshan, however, did not give up. Unable to find Cui Qinghe, they followed the clues to Maoshan and investigated Shen Wangzhi's whereabouts. The inner sect of Maoshan was completely unaware of this.

Fortunately, Maoshan still had a few late-stage Golden Core elders. Only Nascent Soul cultivators could suppress them. The elders from Laoshan's Hall of Affairs could only threaten them a few times.

Qingyun Sect and Shenjian Sect were not so lucky. They were attacked by Laoshan Deacon Hall several times, and even their two sect leaders were seriously injured.

The Qingyun Sect is mostly populated by female cultivators, and they couldn't withstand such torment, so many young disciples ran away.

Li Shouzhong and Zhang Chi are considered the pillars of the Divine Sword Sect. Even if they could be contacted, the sect leader insisted that they could not be found.

The two brothers obtained some demon cores in Tianshan and intended to return to their sect. However, on the way, they heard that Cui Qinghe, Shen Wangzhi, and others had killed several Golden Core cultivators from the Laoshan Dao Sect on Tamna Island overseas. As a result, Laoshan destroyed the Qingyun Sect and the Divine Sword Sect.

Li Shouzhong was quite shrewd. He knew that although the matter had nothing to do with him, it was impossible to explain himself clearly. If it fell into the hands of Laoshan, he might be subjected to soul-searching and spirit-stealing. So he and Zhang Chi returned to Tianshan and decided to find a place to stay there.

Old Lu and Jingxuan were naturally terrified and spent quite some time hiding.

Cui Qinghe's name was so famous that the cultivation world did not believe that Lu Haoran was Cui Qinghe's master, but they would not give up searching for him.

Fortunately, when Lao Lu came out of the mountain, he changed his appearance. After the storm had passed, he secretly sneaked back to his cave in the Five Ridges. He found that no one had touched it, so he opened the passage and restored the flow of the spiritual spring. From then on, he closed the cave and never dared to come out again.

Three years later, Chu Yunfei, the young master of Luofu Mountain, advanced to the Nascent Soul stage at the age of 177, becoming the youngest Nascent Soul cultivator in the world. Major sects from all over the world came to congratulate him, and the outer sect of Luofu Mountain was bustling for three days and three nights.

Then, some busybodies mentioned Cui Qinghe, and Chu Yunfei made a bold statement in front of hundreds of guests: if Cui Qinghe wants to return to Luofu Mountain, I, Chu Yunfei, will definitely protect her.

Only then did Laoshan believe that Cui Qinghe was truly not in Luofu Mountain.

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