My Optimized Immortal Life

A month later, they were at the broken wall again. This time, Chen Qing did not come. Instead, he placed the storage bag containing the three defective soul-destroying talismans on a conspicuous bluestone, and left a message in it asking Zuo Ze to give him the antidote for the poisonous insect. After all, Zuo Ze was a foundation-building cultivator. If Chen Qing came, he would be handing his life over to the other party.

When Zuo Ze arrived here, he saw that there was a storage bag left for him, but no one was there. After he opened the storage bag and saw the ten soul-destroying talismans, his eyes lit up. Then he saw the jade slip left for him by Chen Qing. He took out the jade slip and put it between his eyebrows to take a look.

Suddenly he laughed.

"This wandering cultivator is truly interesting. I must collect his soul into my Hundred Souls Banner for my collection."

Zuo Ze smiled, then took out the blood-marked pill that could remove the blood-sucking spirit poison and placed it here. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, his expression suddenly turned ugly.

Damn it, he removed the blood-sucking insect.

In Zuo Ze's dantian, the trace of soul representing the blood-sucking spirit insect quickly dimmed and then went out, which meant that Chen Qing had already dealt with the blood-sucking spirit insect.

"Damn it! One Blood Vein Pill costs eight hundred spirit stones. How can a casual cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining get so many spirit stones?"

Zuo Ze took back the Blood Vein Pill and left the place in a rage.

On the other hand, Chen Qing had already left the Maple Valley Market. Since he had obtained the Blood Vein Pill that could be used to deal with the blood-sucking spirit insect, he must run away as soon as possible. As for leaving the Soul-Destroying Talisman behind a month later, it was just to trick Zuo Ze. This was his purpose.

Now Chen Qing is staying on a cliff three miles away from Fenglin Valley Market, looking at Fenglin Valley Market from afar. From where he is, he can almost see the whole picture of the market.

Looking at the Maple Valley Market, Chen Qing was quite sad. He had spent one year in the place where his original body had spent five years. This Maple Valley had witnessed his transformation from a mortal to the current fifth-level Qi Refining cultivator. However, this place was no longer a place to stay for long. Although Chen Qing was a little reluctant, he still had to leave. After all, he was a direct disciple of the Red Blood Sect, and this was the place where foundation-building cultivators lurked. No matter what, for his own safety, he had to run away in advance.

Taking out a green leaf that was about ten feet in size from the storage bag, Chen Qing injected magic power into it. The green leaf immediately took off into the air, taking him with it.

This was the flying magic tool he bought specifically for his escape, a mid-grade Qingye Boat. Although its grade was mid-grade, it cost Chen Qing 550 spirit stones. In addition to the 900 spirit stones that Chen Qing spent on buying the Blood Vein Pill, Chen Qing had lost half of his wealth in order to escape and solve the trouble. Thinking of this, Chen Qing was furious. Although Zuo Ze's blood-sucking essence Gu was a known Gu worm to all the major sects in the Song Kingdom's immortal cultivation world, its antidote, the Blood Vein Pill, was still extremely expensive. The blood and flesh essence of the monster was not expensive, but the expensive part was that one had to be a foundation-building cultivator to refine the Blood Vein Pill. Chen Qing's purchase of this Blood Vein Pill was equivalent to asking a foundation-building cultivator to take action. How could it not be expensive?

Now Chen Qing is ready to run away and leave Maple Valley. As for where to settle down, he already has an idea.

In the entire Song Kingdom's world of immortal cultivation, except for the locations of the major sects and families, the rest of the places with spiritual veins are occupied by the market. With Chen Qing's qualifications, without the spiritual energy blessing of the spiritual veins, it would definitely be much more difficult for him to break through the realm.

So after Chen Qing left Maple Forest Valley, he had to find the market again.

He had a goal for this long. In addition to the Black Water Lake, there was another lake with a radius of a thousand miles in the territory of Song State, named Qiubo Lake. There were many islands in the lake and there were also spiritual veins. Therefore, some cultivators opened up a market there. Without the influence of the sects and family forces, in Chen Qing's eyes, it was more suitable for him to practice in seclusion.

However, Qiubo Lake is a hundred miles away from Fenglin Valley. If Chen Qing wants to go there, it will take two or three months just by relying on the Qingye Boat. He may also encounter cultivators on the way, which is not safe.

It would be best to find a mortal caravan heading to Qiubo Lake, which would be both hidden and a good opportunity to practice.

After making a plan in his mind, Chen Qing flew towards the nearest mortal city on the Qingye magic weapon.

Meanwhile, in Maple Valley Market, an unexpected attack suddenly unfolded.

Zuo Ze had already entered the market town at this time. Looking at the cultivators around him and the formation surrounding the entire market town, he smiled cruelly. After entering an empty alley, he immediately put on a mask that could block spiritual observation. When the agreed time came, he took out a long black banner that was as tall as a person from his storage bag. There were many wisps of black air wrapped around it, and faint screams and wails could be heard from the banner.

"I wonder if my Hundred Souls Banner can be upgraded to a Thousand Souls Banner this time."

He chuckled and injected his magic power into the Hundred Souls Banner. Then, an extremely powerful magic power suddenly poured into him from the Hundred Souls Banner. That was the cultivation that he sealed in the Hundred Souls Banner. At the same time, the fluctuations of his eighth-level Qi Refining cultivation began to rise rapidly all over his body, nine levels, ten levels, and perfection. Then, the secret method of hiding his cultivation and concealing his breath could no longer work. Zuo Ze's breath and his spiritual consciousness, which had been greatly reduced due to his lack of cultivation, suddenly spread from the alley and quickly spread to half of the market.

After breaking through that boundary, Zuo Ze suddenly flew up from the alley and hovered in mid-air. The pressure of a foundation-building cultivator filled every corner of the world unscrupulously, making countless cultivators shudder.

"How can there be such pressure from a Foundation Establishment cultivator?"

"Who is that? The magical weapon in his hand seems to be the Hundred Souls Banner!"

"Oh no! It's a demon cultivator. Quickly notify the Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the place."

"How is that possible? The market town is protected by a second-level formation. How could a demonic cultivator enter?"

"..."

Just as everyone was shocked by Zuo Ze's appearance, the auras of dozens of demonic monks erupted inside and outside the market, causing even greater chaos.

Zuo Ze looked down at the monks who were in chaos below, smiled and activated the Hundred Souls Banner in his hand.

Suddenly, hundreds of resentful souls refined by the demonic monks flew out from the Hundred Souls Banner, covering a group of monks with desperate faces in the market.

At this time, the Black Water Sect's foundation-building cultivator guarding the market town immediately took action. A huge fire crow, three meters in size, flew out from the center of the market town and headed straight for Zuo Ze.

"Do Black Water Sect monks also practice fire magic? I thought I would be greeted by water dragon magic."

Zuo Ze laughed out loud and made a hand gesture with his right hand. Suddenly, dozens of seven-foot-long swords wrapped in black air appeared in the air, then shot out and collided with the fire crows in the air. The two annihilated each other, but in the end, there were only more than ten long swords left.

"It seems that I am better than him. Fellow Daoist, why don't you show up?" Zuo Ze smiled and activated the Hundred Souls Banner to extract the souls of the cultivators killed by the resentful spirits and merge them into the Hundred Souls Banner, allowing the aura in the Hundred Souls Banner to continue to grow.

At this time, a cultivator finally flew out from the market town. He was the cultivator from the Black Water Sect who was stationed there to build his foundation.

"Hundred Soul Banner, Devil Sword Technique, are you Zuo Ze, a direct disciple of the Red Blood Sect?"

The face of the foundation-building cultivator was solemn. A casual cultivator like Chen Qing certainly had never heard of Zuo Ze's name, but among the sects and families, Zuo Ze, the direct disciple of the Red Blood Sect's Red Blood Demon, had long been famous.

This foundation-building cultivator knew very well that if they fought alone, no one of them would be a match for Zuo Ze, but now he was in the formation and had the power of the formation to bless him. He had to fight with Zuo Ze first to see who would win.

But the fact that the other party was able to enter the formation meant that he might have a way to break it, so he was very nervous now.

"Yes, you actually know my identity. Why don't you run away? Do you think this formation can protect you?"

Zuo Ze smiled and took out a silver-glowing talisman from his storage bag and activated it.

"Second-level formation-breaking talisman!"

The Black Water Sect's foundation-building cultivator was horrified, feeling as if a ghost was haunting him, and immediately prepared to turn around and flee.

"Can you escape?"

Zuo Ze waved the Hundred Souls Banner, and hundreds of resentful souls changed their attack targets and surrounded the fleeing Black Water Sect's foundation-building cultivator.

The second-level formation-breaking talisman activated by Zuo Ze also turned into a ray of silver light, directly breaking the formation that covered the entire market town.