I can gather experience beads

Yunshui Sect. The main hall of the sect was solemn and the atmosphere was heavy. Gu Qingying sat on a high place, with a stern expression and a gaze like lightning. Next to her sat the chief elder of Yunshui Sect, who looked at the people below with a worried look on his face.

Under the hall stood more than ten foundation-building monks from the Yunshui Sect, all of whom looked old and tired. These people were the backbone of the Yunshui Sect, but now they were in their twilight years and their strength was gradually declining.

The new generation of Yunshui Sect has not yet grown up and is unable to shoulder the responsibility of the sect.

Gu Qingying raised her eyes and glanced at the Foundation Establishment cultivators below, feeling a surge of worry in her heart.

Although these old guys are experienced, their physical strength and energy are not as good as before, and they are inevitably overwhelmed when facing strong enemies.

And now, Xu Tianyi, who was highly expected, unfortunately died on the battlefield, which undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the Yunshui Sect.

"The group of bald donkeys from Miaoyin Temple have already retreated. They are such a short-sighted bunch." Gu Qingying said helplessly.

She knew in her heart that if Miaoyin Temple could make up its mind at this moment and directly fight with the Spirit Beast Sect, it might be possible to suppress the Spirit Beast Sect.

However, the reality was that Miaoyin Temple chose to retreat, which made Yunshui Sect unable to stand alone and the situation became extremely unfavorable.

Although Gu Qingying was unwilling to admit it, facing reality, the Yunshui Sect had to admit defeat.

At this time, the Grand Elder of the Yunshui Sect spoke up and said, "Sect Master, the only way to break the impasse now is for you to advance to the Golden Core Realm!" His tone was firm.

Gu Qingying nodded slightly: "The ingredients for the Sky-Breaking Pill are still missing the last three ingredients."

Everyone fell silent; they knew what this meant.

In order to obtain these three precious medicinal herbs, the Yunshui Sect was willing to pay tremendous effort and price.

But these three magical medicines are not so easy to obtain.

Gu Qingying took a deep breath, then said slowly: "Just bear with it a little longer..."

Her eyes fell on the broken soul tablet of Xu Tianyi in her hand, and a faint sadness surged in her heart.

Finally, Gu Qingying stood up and waved.

The foundation-building practitioners of the Yunshui Sect left silently, leaving Gu Qingying standing there quietly, wondering what she was thinking about.

......

The tenth day after Xu Tianyi was beheaded by Cao Rui.

The entire territory of Xiao State fell into complete peace.

It seemed that the Yunshui Sect and Miaoyin Temple had reached an agreement that no more Foundation Establishment cultivators would invade the Xiao Kingdom.

After the battle, the people from the Spirit Beast Sect who were building their foundation discovered that they had originally fought only to protect the signal tower.

And after the outcome of this battle came to an end, unsurprisingly, the entire Xiao Kingdom was incorporated into the scope of the Spirit Beast Sect.

Both the Yunshui Sect and Miaoyin Temple tacitly agreed to this.

This has a lot to do with the sudden emergence of Cao Rui in this battle.

Five Foundation Establishment cultivators died. This time in the secret war of the Xiao State, more Foundation Establishment cultivators died than in the previous battle between the Yunshui Sect and the Lingshou Sect.

It can be said that this time, the Spirit Beast Sect fought one against two and won the secret battle.

This secret battle in Xiao State is more meaningful than the previous battle in Qinglingfang City.

Lu Jiuxiao knew how to seize the opportunity, and he immediately dispatched a large number of monks from the sect to build small cultivation markets near each signal tower.

After discussion, Feng Qingyun of the new generation held a small formation plate and temporarily took charge of Xiao State.

The rest of the foundation-building monks returned to the sect and each performed their duties.

Cao Rui also returned to Qingling Market after setting up the signal tower.

After returning to the market town, Cao Rui first found Sun Ming.

The first thing he did was to sell the magic weapons and talismans of several foundation-building monks he had killed.

Cao Rui basically had no use for these magical instruments and talismans.

It would be better to sell it and exchange it for spirit stones.

Among the several foundation-building cultivators, Xu Tianyi's storage bag was the richest, with more than 10,000 spirit stones.

After selling several cultivators' magical instruments and spirit stones, Cao Rui earned a total of 40,000 spirit stones.

In this way, the spirit stones in Cao Rui's storage bag are almost approaching 100,000 spirit stones.

Cao Rui obtained another 100,000 spirit stones from Zhang Mo.

Because another 20,000 copies of the Lingyin Jade Pendant were pre-sold.

"I have to go back to the East China Sea to get the Spirit Pattern Mysterious Crystal, and then come back to start refining the Spirit Sound Jade Pendant."

On this day, the sun was shining brightly in Qinglingfang City, and the sky was as blue as a gem.

Cao Rui stood on the seventh floor of the training pagoda, with Zhang Mo and Ye Yunyin behind him.

Looking at the increasingly prosperous Qingling Market, the three foundation-building monks all had faint smiles on their faces.

Cao Rui held the Lingyin jade pendant in his hand and gently stroked its surface.

He informed the Lingyin Jade Pendant group chat: "I have to leave for the East China Sea in a while!"

"Bon Voyage!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Chief Cao."

There was constant echo in the group chat.

......

Cao Rui patted the beast taming bag and summoned Hei Yu.

He stepped onto Hei Yu's back and galloped towards the East China Sea.

After the battle with Xiao State, the group chat established by Cao Rui became an important platform for communication among the foundation-building cultivators of the Spirit Beast Sect.

This group chat not only provides convenience, but also brings the foundation-building cultivators of the Spirit Beast Sect closer together.

They can share their experiences and insights as well as sect affairs at any time.

However, Lu Jiuxiao expressed concern about Cao Rui's upcoming opening of this function in the second generation of Lingyin Jade Pendant.

He believes that this convenient way of communication may lead to some problems and may cause unnecessary trouble if it is open to the public.

Therefore, he suggested that Cao Rui carefully consider whether to open this function to everyone.

Lu Jiuxiao never took it seriously, and now he has become a loyal defender of the Lingyin Jade Pendant...

......

Time flies by like a white horse, and just a dozen days are gone in a flash.

Except for feeding Heiyu with deep-sea tortoise meat, Cao Rui also ordered Heiyu to keep on traveling all the way.

He crossed the entire Moon Kingdom, passed through the spiritual vacuum zone, finally arrived in the eastern part of Yunzhou, and came to the coast of the East China Sea.

Cao Rui did not choose to enter the East China Sea Market, but went straight to the mineral island without hesitation.

When he approached the island, he immediately deployed his powerful spiritual sense.

However, the next moment, his face became solemn because he found that there were very few people on the island, and there were obvious signs of fighting everywhere. This gave him an ominous premonition.

Cao Rui landed on the island and scanned with his spiritual sense, and finally found the monk hiding in a cave.

"Come out." Cao Rui transmitted the message through his telepathy.

The monk stepped out tremblingly, and his eyes lit up when he saw Cao Rui: "Master Cao! You are finally back!"

This cultivator was one of the disciples of the Spirit Beast Sect who had followed Qian Xiaotong to support Cao Rui.

"What happened? Where are Qian Xiaotong and the others?" Cao Rui asked him after he found that he was not injured but just frightened.

"Senior Brother Qian and the others are fine. They are all in the market town. I stayed behind to observe the situation!" The disciple of the Spirit Beast Sect looked at Cao Rui, as if he had found his backbone, and spoke slowly.