A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 135

Chapter 133 The Search, Little Six Becomes Old Six, Extremely Pure Spiritual Energy

Before Han Li, a flash of white light appeared.

The teleportation talisman in his hand emitted a warm glow, protecting him from the spatial tearing force of long-distance teleportation.

The teleportation was successful.

After a flash of intense white light and a moment of dizziness, Han Li’s figure appeared in a simple stone house. The house was empty except for a blank-faced white-robed cultivator from the Star Palace.

This Star Palace cultivator was only at the mid-to-late Foundation Establishment stage.

He was sitting cross-legged in a corner of the room.

Sensing the movement from the teleportation array, he slowly opened his eyes, glanced coldly at the teleportation platform, and then closed his eyes again, showing no intention of paying attention.

Even though the newcomer was a Core Formation cultivator, he had no intention of acknowledging him.

Han Li ignored him as well.

In the shadows, he sensed the subtle auras of at least three Core Formation cultivators.

“This place is not safe to linger.”

“I wonder if that person from the Star Palace will do me a favor after receiving the spirit stones.”

Just in case, he quickly made his escape.

After choosing a direction, he headed north without looking back.

After flying for a short while, he quickly became two people.

Sha Hun also appeared beside him.

Traveling alone might attract the attention of some villains. But if two Core Formation stage cultivators teamed up, then the chances of being ambushed by humans would be much smaller. At that time, it wouldn’t be him taking detours to avoid others, but others taking detours to avoid him.

The difference was quite significant.

This flight lasted for more than seven months.

They traversed nearly 20 million miles,

passing countless islands of all sizes.

They rested several times, taking pills to regulate their breathing and recover their mana.

After all, being in poor condition in the outer sea was extremely dangerous.

Along the way, because he and Sha Hun kept their auras concealed and used invisibility robes to cover their figures, they avoided the sight of almost all high-altitude flying beasts and deep-sea beasts. Therefore, they escaped unscathed.

Just then, a commotion came from inside the spirit beast pouch.

Han Li’s mind raced, and he realized that Little Six, who had swallowed the sixth-level black dragon’s inner core, was showing signs of a breakthrough.

Breakthroughs in major realms require absorbing the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy).

Little Six was about to advance from the peak of the fourth level to the fifth, equivalent to a pseudo-Core Formation cultivator condensing a Golden Core.

“Taking the risk to bid on that sixth-level black dragon demon core was definitely the right decision.”

At that time,

many cultivators in the mid-to-late stages of Core Formation were vying for it.

Even an old monster in the Nascent Soul stage had made a bid.

However, that person only bid up to 20,000 spirit stones and then stopped participating.

Later, when the price exceeded 22,000, Han Li bid again.

He finally won the bid at 23,000.

After obtaining the sixth-level black dragon’s demon core, he directly gave it to Little Six to swallow raw. Although doing so was wasteful, as refining it into a pill would utilize every bit of the demon core’s energy, it was still more convenient and efficient. Furthermore, it would greatly facilitate Xiao Liu’s absorption of the purest primordial energy from within the demon core, thereby strengthening his bloodline, slightly enhancing his talent, and incidentally accelerating his growth.

Xiao Liu, at level four, could devour the inner core of a level six pure-blooded black dragon; the benefits were undoubtedly immense.

Sure enough,

in just half a year, the bottleneck at the peak of level four loosened.

“I need to find a place for Xiao Liu to break through,”

Han Li thought to himself.

The space inside the spirit beast pouch was cramped and lacked spiritual energy, making it unsuitable for breaking through cultivation.

Moreover, the commotion during a breakthrough was too great, and there was a lack of protective measures. If something went wrong, there was a high probability that the outer sea demon race would wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Therefore,

he flew for half a day,

specifically searching for a small island thirty miles in circumference, without any medium-sized islands within a thousand miles.

The island had no spiritual veins, which was crucial.

Normally, having high-quality spiritual veins to assist in a breakthrough would be more advantageous. However, his situation was different from Xiao Liu’s; he absolutely could not attract the attention of high-level demon beasts or even transformed demon cultivators because of spiritual veins. Therefore, breaking through on a small island without spiritual veins was safer.

Here, there were no transformed demon cultivators or high-level demon beasts, not even a single second, third, or fourth-level demon beast could be seen.

It was perfect for Xiao Liu to unleash his power.

Of course.

Before Xiao Liu broke through from the spirit beast pouch, he had specially set up the half-finished spirit-binding array he was researching at the breakthrough site, and also set up a defensive array directly below it, and dug two underground secret passages deep in the corners of the array.

This time, he personally took charge, cooperating with more than a dozen second-level iron-armed beasts, and in just half a month, they dug two hundred miles away in one go.

After the secret passages were reinforced, they were immediately sealed to prevent exposure.

Afterwards, if the situation changed and it became impossible, the breakthrough would be stopped immediately and they would be transferred through the secret passages.

Inside the cave where Xiao Liu was.

Han Li took out several fifth-level demon beast inner cores, guided all the essence within them out, and transformed them into part of the heaven and earth’s primordial energy. Then he threw out a large number of mid-grade spirit stones, and released the spiritual energy within the spirit stones with the help of the array power.

In this way, even without spiritual veins on the island, an environment rich in spiritual energy, suitable for cultivation and breakthroughs, was artificially created.

“Let’s begin, Little Six.”

“Roar…”

Little Six, nearly forty feet tall, could already understand human speech. After nuzzling Han Li, it roared to the sky, immediately drawing upon the surrounding spiritual energy.

Soon, the spiritual energy within the cave was absorbed by Little Six, used to create an internal space capable of containing the demon core.

This internal space was extremely wondrous.

The demonic energy within was like a lake. The surface of the lake shimmered, with mist rising from it. That mist was gaseous demonic power. The lake itself was liquid demonic energy. A bright moon slowly rising from the lake was the solid demon core.

“Huh? So much consumption? Not even five hundred mid-grade spirit stones enough?”

Han Li raised an eyebrow slightly.

Within the unfinished Spirit Binding Array, the essence of four level-five demon cores was being extracted in large quantities, and the spiritual power of five hundred mid-grade water-attribute spirit stones was also being released, which was then absorbed into Xiao Liu’s body.

However, even so, the spiritual energy still seemed somewhat insufficient.

To address this, Xiao Liu even rapidly absorbed all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of tens of miles around.

Seeing this, Han Li was not worried but happy.

As someone who had been through it all, he knew exactly what was going on.

“It seems that Xiao Liu’s physique is extremely powerful.”

Whether it’s a human cultivator or a demon beast, the higher the upper limit of their internal mana, the more external energy they need for breakthroughs. This is because only abundant external spiritual energy can provide the energy needed for the physical body to transform. At this moment, it’s not just about condensing the inner core, but also about tempering the body, cleansing the marrow, strengthening the physique, and sublimating the primordial spirit.

The required energy absolutely cannot be insufficient.

Insufficient energy only proves that Xiao Liu’s bloodline is not strong and does not require much spiritual energy. Insufficient energy

, on the contrary, proves that Xiao Liu’s bloodline is strong enough, with great potential, and its strength among those of the same level will be even greater. It may even be able to fight beyond its level.

“Five hundred is not enough, then give me another five hundred.”

Han Li was a decisive person.

He was very generous to the people and spirit beasts around him.

“Roar…”

With the more abundant external energy supply, Xiao Liu, seeing this, let out a long, joyful roar.

Its demon body unconsciously crossed the forty-zhang threshold.

Forty-one, forty-two… all the way to forty-nine zhang!

Each white scale became even whiter and more lustrous, and even more delicate.

The protective dark clouds surrounding its body became even thicker and darker.

A demon core the size of a thumb floated and sank within its inner space.

The Ink Dragon Little Six had officially entered level five.

…

After a test of obedience, Little Six remained very clingy and loved to rub against him.

It didn’t try to break away from him despite its breakthrough in level.

However, just in case, he reinforced the control restriction.

The process was simple, and Xiao Liu cooperated well.

…

With Xiao Liu.

No, with Lao Liu, the journey became much easier.

Lao Liu’s water escape technique was extremely useful.

Its speed was even faster than his and Sha Hun’s stable flight.

This was the innate advantage of a “Heaven and Earth Spirit Beast.”

The Mo Jiao was a water-type demon beast, born with the ability to escape through water.

It had an even greater advantage in the ocean.

Han Li then retrieved Sha Hun and hid it inside Lao Liu’s body, which had transformed into its dozens of feet long form.

With the isolation provided by Lao Liu’s body, he could even evade the divine sense of a transformed demon cultivator.

Afterwards,

it took another half a year of travel.

He finally arrived at a massive island thousands of miles in size: Thunder Sky Island.

“Go around it.”

There were suspected transformed demon cultivators on the island, and he didn’t want to risk trouble.

More than ten days later, a massive island, tens of thousands of miles in size, appeared in the sea more than a million miles north of Thunder Sky Island, in the eyes of the Mo Jiao, Lao Liu, and Han Li.

“Finally here.”

Han Li, still invisible, clenched his fist excitedly.

“Go to the northwest corner.”

He remembered that the location of the top-grade spirit ore vein on Biling Island was in the northwest of the island.

…

Biling Island was not an isolated peak like Star Palace Sacred Mountain.

Here, it resembled a piece of land.

On the island, thousands of feet high peaks and various mountain ranges stretched endlessly, with several towering peaks reaching into the clouds. Occasionally, one could see the many deep pits, fissures in the earth, and collapsed mountains left behind by the destruction caused by high-level demonic beasts fighting on them.

Traces of demonic beast activity could be seen at the edge of the island.

However, what was most surprising was that all the peaks on this vast island were extremely steep, like sharp swords. They were also completely smooth, barren of any vegetation. In fact, there was no sign of life on the entire island.

The place was grayish-white everywhere, like accumulated volcanic ash.

Furthermore, what was even more puzzling was that no fluctuations of spiritual energy or spiritual veins were found on the island.

It was like a spiritual energy vacuum.

After arriving at the northwest corner, Han Li began to examine each stone peak.

In this area, there was a stone peak connecting to a massive high-grade spirit stone vein beneath Biling Island.

He explored several peaks, including one ten-thousand-foot-high one, but found no trace of spiritual energy.

However, he wasn’t in a hurry.

Because he had taken the shortcut of the White Water Sword Sect, he had saved decades of sea exploration time; in other words, he still had plenty of time.

As long as he found a high-grade vein and used the top-quality spiritual veins here to aid his cultivation, his cultivation would surely advance by leaps and bounds.

This was much faster than consuming and refining high-quality pills made from sixth-grade demon cores.

More than a month passed in a flash.

Finally, while exploring a very wide peak several thousand feet high, Han Li unearthed a large area of light blue stones.

He pulled back his hand, grabbed a handful, crushed them, and then looked down at them.

These light blue stones looked no different from ordinary bluestone, but when he tried to penetrate them with his magic power, he immediately felt a sense of stagnation and blockage.

“No, this isn’t ordinary stone.”

If he possessed the Clear Vision right now, he could see the barely perceptible silver dust within the pale blue stone fragments. This silver dust was so subtle that even divine sense couldn’t perceive it, let alone the n*ked eye.

Yet, it was precisely this silver powder that hindered the penetration of magical power.

“Is it this strange mineral that confines spiritual energy deep within the stone peak?”

“Doesn’t that mean the island’s top-grade spiritual vein and its associated high-level spiritual ore vein are right below here?!”

Ordinary people wouldn’t understand what it meant for magical power penetration to be blocked by the blue stone.

But he knew very well.

The reason why the high-level spiritual stone vein on Biling Island hadn’t been discovered from ancient times to the present was precisely because of this layer of blue stone.

To be precise, it was because the silver dust blocked the spiritual energy of the earth’s veins, preventing the underground spiritual veins from seeping out of the earth.

It could even be said that the formation of the high-level ore vein also benefited from this layer of blue stone.

Because the layer of bluestone blocked the leakage of spiritual energy, the spiritual vein and its associated mineral veins remained hidden for at least 60,000 to 70,000 years. During this time, the rising spiritual energy entered but never left, constantly being refined and compressed. This resulted in the formation of a large number of high-grade spirit stones and even a single top-grade spirit stone.

“Dig!”

No.

First, set up an array!

To prevent the spiritual energy in the underground spiritual vein from leaking out and causing unnecessary trouble.

Soon, a spirit-binding array was formed with the mountain as the center.

Then, he began to dig deeper while using restoration techniques to backfill. After all, the bluestone layer could block magic power and spiritual energy, and naturally could block earth-遁 (earth-遁) techniques.

He didn’t want to run headlong into that layer of bluestone minerals.

“Thud.”

Another large piece of light bluestone was dug down.

This was already a hundred feet deep in the mountain.

In the next moment, a faint but extremely pure spiritual energy emerged from the crack.

Upon contact with this spiritual energy, Han Li’s eyes immediately lit up.

“The quality is indeed very high! It’s far purer than the spiritual energy contained within a mid-grade spirit stone! It’s even comparable to the mana quality of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.”

Keep in mind, this is only the outermost layer; the quality of the spiritual energy already far surpasses that of the forty-eighth level of the Star Palace Sacred Mountain’s cave area.

Saying it’s more than ten times better would be an understatement.

Drilling in, reverting to his original state—Han Li’s skill improved with each stroke, all in one smooth motion.   After

sealing the opening, he continued to descend. Just after descending another ten feet or so, the quality of the spiritual energy here reached a new high, making him feel even more comfortable.   Then, with what seemed like the umpteenth cut, he sliced off a small piece of bluestone and a large chunk of raw spirit stone ore. Once the vein was cut open, it was like an artery had been severed; a surge of even higher quality spiritual energy erupted from it.   This time, it wasn’t a steady overflow, but a gushing forth!   Fortunately, he had already sealed the passage behind him, otherwise, he would have been in serious trouble.   ”Such pure spiritual energy!”

Not only that, his divine sense also detected several fruits growing on the original mineral vein in this area.

They were several green spirit stones.

One of them was even more vibrant in color than any mid-grade wood-attribute spirit stone he had ever seen.

It was a high-grade wood-attribute spirit stone,

that is, a superior-grade spirit stone.

After digging out this spirit stone, he held it in his hand, absorbed some of its spiritual energy, and couldn’t help but let out a comfortable groan.

It was indeed a high-grade spirit stone.

The spiritual energy it contained was of a higher quality than the mana stored in his body.

Even the demonic power within a level six demon core couldn’t compare.

He held it and absorbed it; with just a little refinement, he could convert it into mana for storage.

“I’ve come to the right place.”

“With the thousands upon thousands of high-grade spirit stones in this high-grade spirit mineral vein and the assistance of that top-grade spirit vein deep within, I will definitely be able to quickly advance to the late stage of Core Formation!”

Brothers, I’ve done my best. I’m in the hospital, taking a taxi to get there while typing.

Also, I posted it in a rush last night, so I added some more content later. In other words, there was a 1000-word free addition to the previous chapter. Those interested can go back and check it out.

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