Traveling through time to cultivate immortality: a life and death test

Liu Xing instructed the wolves to continue resting there and awaiting orders, while he himself dived deeper into the Niesha Valley. The sinister aura there penetrated the body, and without Jindan cultivation, it would be impossible to survive for more than a quarter of an hour.

After walking about ten miles, Liu Xing stopped in a remote cave. He set up a concealment formation and then went into the cave.

He opened Xiao Feng's storage bag and began to count his gains. Because the wolf pack members were present, it wasn't appropriate for him to count the spoils in person. So he found an excuse to hide in this deserted place and quietly count the treasures.

What he cared about most was the strange flower basket, which was surprisingly as powerful as a magic weapon. Xiao Feng's lifeblood magic weapon was the Scarlet Blood Blade, but it had been severely damaged and had a large crack in the middle, making it basically useless. Now that its owner was dead, the magic weapon was basically worthless.

The flower basket was woven from an unknown type of rattan, a brownish-brown color that gave it a rustic, rough appearance. Liu Xing was a master of weapon refining, but he couldn't discern the specific technique behind it. It seemed to defy all modern refining techniques. Liu Xing determined that this magical artifact was at least 100,000 years old, so he'd call it an ancient treasure.

Liu Xing looked at the flower basket over and over again, unable to figure out what it was. So he began using the standard method for sacrificing a top-grade magical instrument to try sacrificing the flower basket. Although the difficulty was far greater than that of a top-grade magical instrument, he managed to complete it after two weeks, and Liu Xing was overjoyed.

Fortunately, Liu Xing's mana and consciousness have reached the middle stage of the Jindan realm. Otherwise, he would have no way to deal with the ancient treasure. Ordinary cultivators at the false elixir realm would not be able to sacrifice ancient treasures. This was the conclusion Liu Xing came to after sacrificing the flower basket.

He then tried to control the flower basket, discovering that it could forcibly seize the opponent's magical weapon, but only if the enemy's magical power and consciousness were inferior to his own. The flower basket aimed at the opponent's magical weapon and sprayed out a gray glow, forcibly collecting the opponent's magical weapon into the flower basket.

Even more impressive was the flower basket's extraordinary defensive power, even the magical weapons of Jindan cultivators were incapable of damaging it. No wonder the flower basket easily blocked the simultaneous attacks of three late-stage Foundation Establishment puppets and two level-four combat-strength spirit pets, Jiao Jiao and Duo Duo. This demonstrated its immense defensive power.

However, wielding a flower basket has its drawbacks: it consumes a significant amount of mana and spiritual awareness. However, wielding an ancient treasure is more powerful than wielding someone else's magic weapon. As long as there's enough mana and spiritual awareness, the ancient treasure can unleash its full power. However, a magic weapon's power is greatly diminished by the death of its owner, making wielding it by someone else as difficult as a child swinging a sledgehammer.

Liu Xing happily picked up the flower basket and couldn't let it go. He finally had a magic weapon that could fight against the Jindan magic weapon.

Secondly, he was interested in Xiao Feng's secret technique of leaving his body. This was a necessary means for the soul to escape at the critical moment when the physical body was destroyed. Although he must not let his physical body die, who could predict the future accurately?

After a cursory glance through Xiao Feng's manuals on cultivation techniques, he finally found a book titled "Secret Method of Soul Leaving the Body," and began to study it carefully. The technique was relatively simple, and Liu Xing mastered it in just one day. It turned out to be a very simple method for cultivating the soul, the core of which was a mantra. He primarily learned this mantra, then silently chanted it, and his soul would enter a mysterious state, leaving his body and flying out.

After Liu Xing mastered the spell, he tried it out. Sure enough, his primordial spirit was ready to fly out of his sea of ​​consciousness. However, Liu Xing stopped just in time, not letting his spirit leave his body. This was a dangerous move. The soul is extremely fragile. Once out of the body, the wind can blow it around. If it encounters something unclean, it can damage the primordial spirit. Once the primordial spirit is damaged, healing elixirs are extremely difficult to find, so almost all cultivators carefully protect their primordial spirits.

It would be great if there was a treasure that could protect my soul from being disturbed, so I wouldn't have to worry about being possessed. Liu Xing thought with lingering fear after experiencing a battle of possession.

While examining the books and jade slips, Liu Xing also discovered a recipe for the Fengzhi Pill. Fengzhi Pills were a pill that increased the chances of forming a pill. According to the recipe, they could increase the chances by 30%. Liu Xing was overjoyed; a 30% increase was already a very high percentage. He was well aware of his poor spiritual roots and hadn't been very confident of successfully forming a pill. Now with the Fengzhi Pills, his chances were much better.

However, the ingredients for Fengzhi Pills were extremely precious, requiring the demon core of the Level 5 demon beast, the Wind-Splitting Beast, and the thousand-year-old Huangjingzhi as the main ingredients. Liu Xing currently had no idea how to obtain these ingredients, but he knew he could find them if he couldn't. If that didn't work, he could ask his master for help.

Liu Xing was very happy and carefully put away the recipe.

The storage bag held three hundred thousand spirit stones, mostly mid-grade, but also five high-grade ones. High-grade spirit stones were rare treasures, their powerful energy intoxicating. Liu Xing picked up a high-grade stone and gently inhaled. A surge of powerful spiritual energy instantly flowed into his body, exceedingly a hundred times faster than that of a mid-grade stone. Liu Xing quickly stowed the high-grade stone. It was his ultimate treasure for rapidly recovering his mana against powerful enemies, and also for replenishing his mana when he needed to break through bottlenecks. With these five high-grade stones, he felt more confident in breaking through the Jindan bottleneck.

Liu Xing picked through the dozen or so other top-grade magical instruments, finding none particularly remarkable. He figured he'd sell them all for cash later. However, one instrument, the Yinling Bottle, caught his eye. It was a magical instrument used to collect high-level demonic spirits. He cast a spell to open the bottle and discovered a Level 5 demonic spirit within, a valuable resource for refining even higher-level puppets. The Yin-Gathering Bowl, which Liu Xing had previously seized from Song Ming, the Young Master of Xuanyin, was no longer sufficient for his own use. With this Yinling Bottle, he knew it would be perfect for capturing Level 5, 6, and 7 demonic spirits in the future.

The second thing was a large amount of medicinal herbs, which were basically enough to make up the auxiliary herbs for several of his elixirs. What surprised him most was that he actually found two 800-year-old Haoyue grass and a bottle of blood essence from a level 5 monster.

Without a second thought, Liu Xing quickly refined two furnaces of Haoyin Pills from the two Haoyue Grasses and his Yinming Stone Milk. He now had four bottles of Haoyin Pills in his storage bracelet, waiting for him to find time to refine them in seclusion and improve his cultivation. However, these pills weren't enough to help him cultivate his mana to the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, and he still needed to continue searching for pills to increase his mana.

There were also a large amount of refining materials. With these materials, Liu Xing expected to be able to refine a large number of magical instruments, formations, and puppets. It turned out that Xiao Feng had placed all the core medicinal herbs and materials of the logistics department in his storage bag, thinking that it was foolproof, but who knew that it would benefit Liu Xing.