A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 111

Chapter 110 Take care, don’t worry about me anymore.

Seeing this scene, Han Li remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he chuckled.

This scene caused Master Hong Fu to frown slightly; though she said nothing, she felt quite uncomfortable.

This scene instantly turned Dong Xuan’er’s initially fervent heart into one of sorrow, frustration, coldness, and anger.

She knew very well that if it weren’t for Ancestor Linghu here, half of the precious spiritual herbs and two nearly thousand-year-old herbs that had been taken would have been hers. Her great-aunt no longer needed them, so she would naturally have secured them for her. They would be used for her future Core Formation and even after that.

But Ancestor Linghu…

“This ancestor certainly wouldn’t need them himself, so it’s probably mostly for the sake of his own clan members?”

The girl bit her lip lightly.

This scene also made Huang Nie and Linghu Huiming extremely envious.

Those spiritual herbs were enough to refine several batches of Yuan-Enhancing Pills to help cultivators like them in the mid-stage of Core Formation improve their magical power.

With the help of several batches of Enhancing Essence Pills, at least decades of arduous cultivation would be saved.

Reaching the late Core Formation stage would then only take three to five years.

“I must ask the Ancestor for some later…”

Huiming thought to himself.

Originally, with Hong Fu present, obtaining these precious spiritual herbs would have been extremely difficult.

But the big fish eats the small fish. With

Uncle Linghu present, Hong Fu could only watch helplessly as half the spiritual herbs were taken at the Nascent Soul Ancestor’s beck and call.

It was a pity that Uncle Linghu was too concerned with saving face; if it were him, he would have taken all the precious spiritual herbs and the finest ones to cultivate the clan’s disciples.

…

Afterwards, more disciples from Huangfeng Valley appeared one after another.

A small team of six brought out more than 140 spiritual herbs, including many fine ones and three rare ones.

“So many spiritual herbs.”

“As expected of the Linghu family’s elite team.”

“…”

The praise from the Foundation Establishment stage managers gradually rose around them, causing the six who had just left the forbidden area to unconsciously raise their chests.

“Ancestor, Haolong has lived up to expectations.”

A direct descendant of the Linghu family, accompanied by five collateral descendants, bowed before Ancestor Linghu.

“Hmm, you obtained ninety-six spirit herbs by yourself, very good.”

Old Monster Linghu nodded indifferently.

If Han Li had appeared with so many spirit herbs before him, he might have truly looked at his clansmen differently.

Unfortunately, the pearl was before him.

Han Li brought out more than two hundred spirit herbs on his own.

Linghu Haolong, however, only brought out ninety-six with the assistance of his team.

Moreover, both in quantity and quality, they were far inferior.

What was there to be proud of?

However, such indifference was particularly painful for Linghu Haolong.

After all, their team originally had an average of more than twenty herbs per person, and he hadn’t done anything particularly outstanding among them. However, since the team was formed around him, and it was his ancestors who provided the talismans, top-tier magic artifacts, and mid-level talismans, enabling the team to venture deep into the forbidden area and reap considerable rewards. Therefore, the other five members each received only ten spiritual herbs, enough to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill. The remaining ninety-odd spiritual herbs were all obtained by him, the core member of the team.

These ninety-odd spiritual herbs were equivalent to the total gains from three or four previous explorations of the forbidden area over ten or twenty years ago.

He alone achieved such remarkable results; why shouldn’t he gain the ancestor’s favor?

Filled with resentment, he retreated behind the Foundation Establishment manager.

Soon, he learned of Han Li’s situation from a clan uncle.

He was immediately astonished:

“How is this possible?”

How could the difference be so vast?

On their side, each person had a talisman, two top-tier level 1 spirit beasts, pairs of exquisite top-tier magic weapons, and ten mid-level talismans…

Even so, to obtain so many spiritual herbs, four of their five talismans were used, and the remaining one was almost exhausted. Many of their top-tier magic weapons were damaged, and even four of their level 1 top-tier spirit beasts had perished.

Such a great sacrifice was all it took to achieve this result.

And yet, they were inferior to someone who went alone?

“This Uncle-Master is so strong!”

“Yes, this Uncle-Master Han is truly amazing.”

“No wonder he’s become a legendary figure talked about by many…”

For the first time, the Linghu family disciples held Han Li in high regard.

Only after personally experiencing the hardship of gathering herbs did everyone understand the significance of bringing out over two hundred spiritual herbs.

…

Not long after,

another team appeared.

This time, it was the Chen family’s team.

An eleven-person team.

They brought out over one hundred and eighty spiritual herbs.

“One hundred and eighty-eight plants?”

“Many are high-quality specimens, five or six hundred years old…”

“There are also many rare ones…”

Several Foundation Establishment stage managers clicked their tongues in amazement.

The more they examined, the more surprised they became.

“There’s a Cold Essence Grass that’s nearly a thousand years old…”

Cold Essence Grass is already extremely precious, long extinct in the outside world.

A Cold Essence Grass that’s nearly a thousand years old is even rarer.

The advantage of having more people was evident at this moment:

more people meant a greater chance of success in the sweep, and a higher margin for error in responding quickly to crises. In addition, they could explore deeper into the area more leisurely, venturing into those rarely visited red danger zones to obtain rare spiritual herbs that others had never picked and taken away.

Clearly,

the Chen family’s team had ventured deep into the central area of the forbidden zone,

exploring many dangerous areas that no one had explored before.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have had such a great harvest.

Of course, there were also disadvantages.

For example, the efficiency of looting was relatively low,

because the quantity of spiritual herbs in the herb-producing areas was limited. If six or seven people can deal with the guardian beasts of the forbidden area, then eleven or twelve people can certainly deal with them as well. Moreover, after more than ten people have wiped out the beasts or small groups of beasts, the amount of spiritual herbs obtained will not increase with the increase in the number of people.

In other words, a team of eleven or twelve might not necessarily yield as much as a small team of five or six combined.

“A huge harvest, a huge harvest…”

“I never imagined such a rare treasure could be brought out…”

“Won’t the elders’ cultivation advance significantly soon?”

“With this harvest, Huangfeng Valley will surely surpass the other six sects in a few hundred years and become the number one sect in Yue Kingdom.”

Three teams brought out over five hundred spiritual herbs.

This was unheard of, unprecedented.

In the past, the total harvest of the seven great immortal sects of Yue Kingdom during each Blood Trial was only two or three hundred spiritual herbs. Only when the Moon Sun Pearl was first created could the Hidden Moon Sect alone bring out three or four hundred spiritual herbs, thus laying the foundation for being the “number one sect in Yue Kingdom.”

But this time, Huangfeng Valley, with just three teams, achieved the same excellent result as the Hidden Moon Sect’s cheating with the Moon Sun Pearl.   There will definitely be other teams bringing out satisfactory spiritual herb harvests

in the future .

As expected,

after the twenty teams emerged,

Huangfeng Valley’s total harvest of spiritual herbs was exceptionally rich, reaching an astonishing two thousand or more.

The mature Purple Monkey Flower, Jade Marrow Fungus, and Heavenly Spirit Fruit—the three main ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills—could, if combined with the thirty-one auxiliary ingredients cultivated by the sect itself, be enough to refine tens of thousands of Foundation Establishment Pills.

It’s worth noting that Huangfeng Valley previously only distributed a little over two hundred Foundation Establishment Pills every ten years.

If the total harvest of these main ingredients could be fully converted into finished Foundation Establishment Pills,

the sect’s future number of Foundation Establishment cultivators would experience an explosive surge.

And not only would the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators increase dramatically,

but the number of Core Formation cultivators would also increase significantly in the next century due to the abundance of high-quality and rare spiritual herbs.

Even those in the mid-to-late stages of Core Formation would not be as scarce as before.

Huangfeng Valley now had the foundation to once again have three or four Nascent Soul stage cultivators online simultaneously.

This was the potential value of the Blood Forbidden Land, a source of spiritual herbs.

…

Upon returning to his sect, Han Li immediately exchanged his merit points for mid-grade spirit stones.

These 1,300-plus mid-grade spirit stones, enough to be worth 700,000-800,000 spirit stones in the Southern Heaven, were enough to power him.

At the same time, he obtained the Nascent Soul cultivation insights summarized by Elder Linghu and other Nascent Soul cultivators from Yellow Maple Valley, and also retrieved the Golden-Backed Mantis that had lost its bladed arm, as well as the Blood Jade Spider that had been tamed and was now relatively obedient.

Dong Xuan’er was still somewhat puzzled:

“Junior Brother, why are you taking them?”

The Blood Jade Spider and the Golden-Backed Mantis weren’t fully tamed yet and weren’t very obedient.

“Senior Sister, aren’t the reinforcements from Yuanwu Kingdom and Zijin Kingdom almost at Jingu Plain? It seems the final battle is approaching. And these two demonic beasts are, after all, level 4; on the battlefield, they might be of some help to me,”

Han Li said, spouting nonsense with a straight face.

Dong Xuan’er and the other girls actually believed him:

“Alright.”

Three more days passed.

After Dong Xuan’er retrieved the two more giant tiger puppets from the Dong family elders, Han Li didn’t linger and planned to quickly leave Hongying Mountain and return to his own cave. So, half-jokingly, he said,

“By the way, Senior Sister, come find me at my cave with Senior Sisters Xiuting and Xiulan in a month. I’ve prepared a little surprise for the three of you…”

This seemed like a joke, but in reality, he had other plans.

Sure enough,

after returning to his original Spirit Spring Cave and secluded himself for half a month, he immediately deactivated the Inverted Five Elements Array and quickly left Taiyue Mountain via the hundred-mile-long underground secret passage.

He headed to the barren land of Xizhou in Yue Kingdom.

Then, he traveled to the border between Yuanwu Kingdom and Yue Kingdom, taking advantage of the confrontation between the seven sects of Yue Kingdom and the six sects of the Demonic Path at Jingu Plain, sneaking back to the location of the mine’s teleportation array by night.

“First, I need to recover my cultivation.”

Currently, he was only at the Qi Refining stage.

Meanwhile, in the Chaotic Star Sea, various demonic beasts roamed, and even in the Inner Star Sea, there were many high-level demonic beasts. During their journey, they might encounter troublesome demonic beasts, or even treacherous cultivators.

Restoring their cultivation to the Foundation Establishment stage was crucial. He

swallowed a Foundation Establishment Pill and

began his secluded cultivation to refine its medicinal power.

Meanwhile,

Dong Xuan’er, Xiu Ting, and Xiu Lan, having accepted the invitation, arrived at their cave dwelling on the northwestern edge of Taiyue Mountain half a month later.

“Huh? Where’s Junior Brother’s grand formation?”

Dong Xuan’er was slightly surprised not to see the Reversed Five Elements Formation.

She took out a communication talisman and sent a message, but received no reply for a long time, immediately sensing something was amiss.

Just as she was about to do something, an Iron-Armed Beast emerged from the ground, entering the three women’s field of vision:

“It’s Junior Brother’s spirit beast.”

“The Iron-Armed Beast seems to have a small flag in its hand?”

“Isn’t that the main formation flag of Junior Brother’s cave dwelling?”

The three women retrieved the main formation flag and used it to open the cave dwelling.

Upon entering, they saw four storage bags on the table, each labeled with its purpose.

The four storage bags were for the three women and Master Hong Fu.

Dong Xuan’er took the jade slip from her master Hong Fu and examined it, her eyes widening immediately.

Xiu Lan and Xiu Ting also gaped, their beautiful eyes widening:

“This, this…”

The reason was simple: each of their storage bags contained thirty rare and precious forbidden-land spiritual herbs.

These could be used to refine high-quality pills suitable for Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Such a generous gift deeply moved the two women:

“Junior Brother Han, this is truly wonderful.”

“Yes, truly wonderful…”

Dong Xuan’er’s storage bag contained a jade slip, a hundred high-quality spiritual herbs, and the first nine levels of the Qingyuan Sword Technique and the third-stage Chongyuan technique! The jade slip revealed Dong Xuan’er’s background and her connection to the Hehuan Sect’s Old Demon Yunlu! It specifically highlighted information related to her physique,

informing her of the unique nature of her constitution!

She was not a waste at all, but a genius.

She simply hadn’t yet activated her physical characteristics.

The gifted storage bag also contained six ice-mountain snow lotuses and other cold-attribute spiritual herbs, along with information about Xin Ruyin’s Dragon Roar Physique and her talent in array formations. What Dong Xuan’er would do next was her own choice. She was

specifically instructed not to pass on the special Three-Turn Rejuvenation technique, a secret art of dispersing internal energy, to anyone else.

The information shone brightly in Dong Xuan’er’s eyes.

“Senior Sister, take care. Don’t worry about me…”

The last sentence on the jade slip made the girl’s eyes redden after reading it:

“Junior Brother…”

Why did he leave without a word?

Was Master not good to you?

Was I not good to you?

Finally, there was Master Hongfu’s storage bag, containing two jade slips and a bottle.

The jade slips contained two pieces of information.

One stated that Spirit Beast Mountain was a spy for the Seven Sects, and had now returned to the embrace of the third major sect of the Demonic Path, the Spirit Control Sect, and might betray the other six sects at any time. This implies that if Linghu Laozu were to take his anger out on someone, he could choose an opportunity to leave Huangfeng Valley.

Secondly, it recounted the general situation of the Xi Kingdom to the north and south of the heavens, and provided some intelligence on the three sects of Yunmeng, specifically mentioning the miraculous effects of the “Spirit-Stabilizing Pill” in aiding in the formation of

the Nascent Soul stage. The text subtly guided and advised Master Hongfu to go to the Luoyun Sect on Yunmeng Mountain to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Master Hongfu might understand the effects of the Spirit-Stabilizing Pill, but Dong Xuan’er might not. Informing Dong Xuan’er of its existence was also a way of encouraging her to give it a push.

As for the bottle, it contained a weakened primordial spirit!

It was the primordial spirit of the cultivator from the Yuling Sect!

“How could this be? The Spirit Beast Mountain is actually a spy? What about the front lines…”

The three women paled upon seeing the information.

They dared not linger any longer

and immediately used their fastest escape techniques to return to Hongying Mountain.

They only hoped the news would arrive in time.

(End of Chapter)