Daily Divination From Market Rogue Cultivator To Immortal Venerable - Chapter 326

Chapter 326 Bloodline Advancement, Raiding the Yin Soul Sect (Seeking Subscriptions)

Li Chang’an had achieved his goal for this trip.

He glanced back at the flying boat.

There were still many treasures on board that tempted him.

In fact, the flying boat itself was an extremely powerful treasure, but he didn’t have the ability to take it yet.

“I need to pay more attention to these Great Jin Treasure Tokens in the future.”

Li Chang’an didn’t linger any longer. He used his escape and concealment techniques to quietly leave and return to Changqing Mountain.

His puppet body remained by Zi Xi’s side, searching for treasure with them.

There were many formations in this ruin.

He only needed to break the formations.

If they encountered powerful demonic beasts, Zi Xi, Mu Hongyu, and the others would kill them.

Soon,

Li Chang’an learned that

the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the four major sects had all entered the depths of the ruins, attempting to break the flying boat’s formation, but so far without success.

“That’s a perfectly intact fifth-order formation. In the current cultivation world, most people can’t break it.”

Li Chang’an didn’t have high hopes for these Nascent Soul sects.

After returning to Changqing Mountain…

He meticulously reviewed his many gains from the trip, discarding anything unusable.

Then, he pushed the Evergreen Mountain Formation to its limit and set up a smaller formation within his cave.

“Dahuang’s bloodline advancement is crucial; we can’t be careless.”

Li Chang’an had previously learned from his conversation with the artifact spirit that not every advancement was successful.

A beast’s bloodline is predetermined.

Advancing one’s bloodline means defying fate, and various unforeseen events could occur.

After making all the preparations,

Li Chang’an summoned Dahuang and tossed him the Myriad Demon Bloodstone.

“Dahuang, I’ve done everything I can. Whether you succeed or not depends on yourself.”

“Thank you, Master!”

Dahuang was overjoyed, his voice trembling.

If he successfully advanced, he would possess a Earth-grade bloodline like the Xuan Shui Turtle, opening up a much wider path to immortality.

Perhaps he could even become a fourth-tier Demon Lord!

Li Chang’an said in a deep voice, “Calm your mind and don’t let your emotions affect you.”

“Yes!”

Dahuang immediately swallowed several calming pills to adjust his state.

A moment later…

He calmed down completely, opened his mouth, and swallowed the Myriad Demon Bloodstone.

Instantly,

a thick, bloody smell erupted from his body.

A layer of scarlet light gradually appeared around his body.

“It’s begun.”

Li Chang’an stood solemnly to the side, protecting Da Huang.

The protective formation of the cave was already operating at its maximum, isolating the cave from the outside world.

Not long after,

within the layer of blood light surrounding Da Huang, phantom images of demonic beasts appeared.

These demonic beasts all had ferocious faces, their eyes filled with malice and resentment, struggling and howling within the blood light.

“Roar—”

Countless frenzied roars echoed within the cave.

If not for the formation’s isolation, they could probably be heard for dozens of miles around Changqing Mountain.

At the same time,

Da Huang’s expression also showed more pain.

But he persevered, and his bloodline grade began to steadily rise.

About an hour later,

the blood light became increasingly dense, and the entire cave was filled with a layer of blood.

Suddenly.

A phantom of a demonic beast broke free from the blood-red light, transforming into a somewhat incomplete demonic soul, and frantically pounced on Da Huang.

“A mere remnant soul, yet it dares to cause trouble?”

Li Chang’an’s tone was icy as he activated the Beast Taming Wheel.

“Suppress!”

The Beast Taming Wheel blazed with golden light, like a radiant sun.

The remnant soul howled, its face contorted with pain and fear, and soon vanished into nothingness, completely disappearing from the world.

After it, many more remnant souls pounced on Da Huang.

But without exception,

they were all suppressed and killed by the Beast Taming Wheel.

The entire process was thrilling yet harmless, ensuring Da Huang was never disturbed in the slightest.

That evening,

the blood-red light gradually dissipated.

Da Huang’s aura also stabilized.

Li Chang’an put away the Beast Taming Wheel and used a bloodline testing spell to test its bloodline grade.

“Earth-grade bloodline, successful!”

He smiled, letting out a sigh of relief.

This grade of bloodline was quite astonishing, comparable to the Earth Spirit Root of a human cultivator, and had a certain hope of breaking through to the fourth grade in the future.

After a while,

Da Huang suppressed all his aura, sensing his own condition, his face full of joy.

“Thank you, Master, for protecting me!”

“How is your talent? Has it become stronger?”

“Yes!”

Da Huang excitedly replied.

His talent had far surpassed what it used to be; he could not only track various auras but also sense the presence of treasures.

Just like Liu Xuanfeng’s third-tier earth dragon, he had the ability to find treasures!

“Find treasures? It seems my guess back then was correct.”

Many years ago, Li Chang’an had guessed that if Da Huang’s talent improved further, he could possess the ability to find treasures.

Now, this guess had become a reality.

“Rest well, adapt to your condition, and in a few days, come with me to the Black Dragon Mountains to find that one-horned mountain-drilling beast.”

“Yes!”

Da Huang nodded excitedly.

In the following days,

he continued to adapt to the changes brought about by the improvement in his bloodline.

…

On this day, the sun rose in the east.

A man and a dog left Changqing Mountain and headed straight for the depths of the Black Dragon Mountains.

Before this…

Da Huang had searched for years without success.

But this time, he found the aura of the one-horned mountain-drilling beast as soon as he entered the deep mountains.

“Master, it’s deep underground!”

“Lead the way.”

Li Chang’an used his escape technique, and following Da Huang’s guidance, he quickly found a nest deep underground.

He used his Shadow Transformation Illusionary Body, while Da Huang used the Concealment Bead.

The auras of both man and dog were well hidden, and the one-horned mountain-drilling beast did not detect them.

At this moment,

the one-horned mountain-drilling beast was still resting.

Li Chang’an noticed that beside the beast was a tortoise shell of fourth rank.

“So there’s a divination treasure. No wonder it was difficult to deduce.”

Li Chang’an understood the reason for the failed divination.

He moved quietly, secretly setting up array treasures, outlining array patterns.

Before long,

a near-fourth-rank array was formed.

The mountain-drilling beast’s nest was within the array, firmly locked by the entire array.

“It should be safe now.”

A flash of spiritual light appeared in Li Chang’an’s hand, and the Beast Control Wheel appeared.

He moved with lightning speed, his escape technique reaching its peak, instantly appearing beside the Mountain-Drilling Beast and unleashing the Beast-Controlling Wheel.

The beast, caught off guard, was instantly bound by the wheel.

“Human cultivator, how dare you! Once I break free, I will surely sever your head!”

it roared, its face contorted in rage.

Li Chang’an remained silent, simply activating the Beast-Controlling Wheel.

Golden symbols appeared on the wheel, gleaming brilliantly, and were successively injected into the Mountain-Drilling Beast’s body, causing it to scream in agony.

Not long after…

He wailed and begged for mercy, “Senior, spare my life! This little demon submits! Please, senior, spare this little demon!”

Li Chang’an said calmly, “Don’t be afraid, I won’t kill you. I just want to ask you a question. If you answer well, I will release you.”

“Senior, please ask. This little demon will answer everything I know.”

“Where did you get these few Yellow Sand Star Crystals?”

Li Chang’an’s mind stirred, and he took out Yellow Sand Star Crystals from his storage bag.

The Mountain-Drilling Beast immediately replied, “My previous cultivation place had a large Yellow Sand Star Crystal mine, but that cultivation place has been occupied by the Yin Soul Sect.”

As he spoke, he transmitted a divine sense, which contained a map marking the location of his previous cultivation place.

It was still far from here, but very close to the Yin Soul Sect’s spiritual veins.

“The reason I cultivated there was not only because it produced Yellow Sand Star Crystals, but also because the Yin energy there was dense, which could conceal my own aura.”

Due to fear of the Beast-Controlling Wheel…

The mountain-drilling beast obediently confessed everything.

Li Chang’an took out a wood seed, refined it into a puppet, and then put it into his spirit beast pouch, intending to raise it for extracting its essence.

Afterward, with a wave of his hand, he collected all the treasures, including the tortoise shell, erased the aura of the place, and used earth elemental power to completely destroy the underground nest.

Having done all this,

Li Chang’an rushed towards the location of the yellow sand star crystal mine.

A short while later,

he paused, looking ahead.

“There’s an array.”

Several third-tier arrays were set up outside the yellow sand star crystal mine.

Some Yin Soul Sect cultivators were entering and leaving the mine.

Li Chang’an quietly controlled a Foundation Establishment stage Yin Soul Sect cultivator, manipulating him into the mine.

Before him appeared hundreds upon hundreds of black coffins.

Looking around

, the entire mine was filled with coffins.

Inside each coffin lay a corpse, nourished by the yin energy of the place.

“This place is teeming with yin energy; the Yin Soul Sect has used it as a breeding ground for corpses.”

“The Yellow Sand Star Crystal mine seems to have been completely mined out.”

Li Chang’an frowned slightly, controlling the Foundation Establishment cultivator to continue deeper.

As expected,

the mine had been emptied, not a single Yellow Sand Star Crystal remaining.

“It seems we’ll have to deal with the Yin Soul Sect directly.”

Li Chang’an’s gaze deepened as he looked towards the location of the Yin Soul Sect’s spiritual vein.

He used his escape technique to quietly arrive outside the Yin Soul Sect’s mountain gate and lay in wait.

Several days later,

a Golden Core elder left the Yin Soul Sect.

Judging from his direction, he was heading towards the ancient sect ruins deep within the Black Dragon Mountains.

Li Chang’an immediately acted, capturing him in the blink of an eye.

After interrogation, he refined him into a puppet.

Subsequently,

he controlled this Golden Core puppet to enter the Yin Soul Sect’s mountain gate and examine the treasures in the Yin Soul Sect’s treasury.

“This person didn’t lie to me. There are no Yellow Sand Star Crystals in the treasury; all the Yellow Sand Star Crystals are in the hands of the Holy Son Wu Gu.”

During the previous interrogation, this person had already confessed everything.

The Yin Soul Sect’s treasury contained no Yellow Sand Star Crystals, only a large number of demonic treasures.

Li Chang’an glanced at it and saw dozens of containers holding souls.

Almost every container was full of souls.

“Tens of millions of souls!”

With so many souls, it was impossible to exchange them all using only the contribution of this Golden Core puppet.

Of course,

Li Chang’an had no intention of exchanging them.

His plan was simple:

rob them directly!

However, before that, he had to take down the Holy Son Wu Gu.

Over the next few months,

Li Chang’an rapidly infiltrated the entire Yin Soul Sect, refining all twenty-odd Golden Core cultivators into puppets.

Furthermore, he had taken over the Yin Soul Sect’s formations.

To prevent any unforeseen circumstances,

he even added several near-fourth-order formations.

With his current abilities, dealing with ordinary Holy Sons wouldn’t be difficult; there was no need to prepare so many.

But, even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit; he couldn’t afford to capsize in a ditch.

“That’s about it.”

After preparing everything, Li Chang’an didn’t act immediately, waiting for the divination to appear.

That night,

the divination appeared as usual, indicating good fortune.

He felt reassured and immediately controlled the twenty-odd Golden Core cultivators of the Yin Soul Sect, heading straight for the Holy Son Wu Gu’s secluded cultivation place.

“Holy Son, we have urgent news to report.”

“What is it?”

“We’ve discovered Li Fan’s hiding place.”

“What?!”

Wu Gu’s voice suddenly rose sharply.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared outside the secluded cultivation area.

He was impatient and asked, “Where is Li Fan hiding? Speak quickly! I will personally kill him!”

“Holy Son, please look!”

Li Chang’an unleashed a burst of magical power, transforming it into a map before Wu Gu.

Wu Gu was so eager to kill Li Chang’an that his attention was completely drawn to the map, and he hadn’t considered the possibility of being attacked within the Yin Soul Sect’s mountain gate.

But in the next instant,

more than twenty Golden Core cultivators simultaneously attacked, unleashing deadly magical weapons.

Wu Gu couldn’t react in time; his attention was still on the map. He was struck by more than twenty chillingly powerful assassination weapons and instantly exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

He perished!

“Soul, come!”

Li Chang’an raised his hand and

summoned Wu Gu’s soul beside the blood mist.

Only now did he finally react, staring in disbelief at the numerous Golden Core cultivators of the Yin Soul Sect, both shocked and furious.

“Why did you kill me? Who bribed you? Was it the other Holy Sons?”

Li Chang’an, too lazy to waste words, directly stored him in the Soul-Bearing Banner.

Afterwards,

he opened Wu Gu’s storage bag, carefully searching through it, and quickly found his purpose:

Yellow Sand Star Crystals!

Inside his storage bag was a large quantity of Yellow Sand Star Crystals, enough for Li Chang’an to refine the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill.

In addition,

there were over two million soul fragments,

and a large number of precious high-level demonic treasures.

“Hmm…”

Li Chang’an’s heart stirred slightly as he suddenly noticed a rather peculiar treasure.

He took it out and examined it closely.

This was a thumb-sized bead, entirely golden, gleaming with a precious light, of excellent quality—clearly a fine treasure.

However, it showed no reaction to magical power, only to divine sense.

“This is a treasure of divine sense, but it’s not the kind of storage treasure I’ve obtained before.”

Li Chang’an probed it with his divine sense, refining it.

After a moment, the refining was complete, and he understood the function of the golden bead.

“It’s actually a divine sense defense treasure!”

Li Chang’an’s face lit up with joy.

This treasure was of extremely high quality, reaching near-fourth rank, and was called the Divine Suppression Bead.

As the name suggests, it could guard against divine sense and defend against enemy attacks using divine sense.

“What a wonderful treasure!”

With a thought, Li Chang’an felt the bead spin, transforming into a golden light that flew into his sea of consciousness, floating and sinking above it.

With this bead guarding it, his entire sea of consciousness became much more stable.

Although he rarely encountered divine sense attacks now, it was better to be prepared than not!

Afterward, Li Chang’an looked at the numerous Golden Core puppets.

“As the Holy Son of the Nether Soul Sect, Wu Gu holds an extremely high position within the sect. His death will certainly not be easily forgiven; the Nether Soul Sect will likely send even more powerful figures. I fear a Nascent Soul elder might descend, and these puppets cannot be spared.”

Li Chang’an always held Nascent Soul sects in awe.

He immediately activated the Wood Seed Technique, causing the remaining twenty-odd Golden Core cultivators to explode simultaneously.

Their treasures would naturally all belong to him.

After that,

Li Chang’an went to the treasure vault and library, collecting all the treasures and books.

He also didn’t let go of the spiritual herbs and beasts still being cultivated.

This time,

he didn’t use any formations to conceal his actions.

During the looting, he manipulated the Yin Soul Sect’s grand formation, suppressing and killing all the demonic cultivators practicing in the spiritual land.

Whether Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment, not a single one survived.

Li Chang’an waved his hand, collecting their storage bags and casting a series of fire-based spells, burning everything to ashes.

After this

, only a bare spiritual vein remained in the entire Yin Soul Sect.

“It’s a pity I don’t know how to extract spiritual veins,”

Li Chang’an said with some regret.

If he knew how to extract spiritual veins, he would naturally have taken the entire third-tier spiritual vein to cultivate the Changqing Mountain spiritual vein.

“Never mind, I can’t be greedy.”

Li Chang’an composed himself and used his escape technique to leave.

…

After returning to Changqing Mountain,

Li Chang’an inventoried all the treasures he had acquired.

Many of the demonic treasures were useless to him.

He selected some Soul-Devouring Banners that he could absorb.

As for the others,

they could only be used for trading.

Besides, the number of souls within the Soul-Devouring Banners had surged dramatically.

Li Chang’an poured all the souls from the Golden Core cultivators and the treasure vault into the Soul-Bearing Banner.

The number of souls had reached an astonishing 25 million!

All the souls simultaneously provided power to the Fiend Soul, allowing its strength to break through the third-tier limit.

Although it wouldn’t reach the fourth tier,

it far surpassed ordinary peak Golden Core cultivators.

Li Chang’an asked the spirit, “How many more souls are needed to give it fourth-tier strength, enough to rival a Nascent Soul cultivator?”

The spirit quickly replied.

Based on the current quality of the souls, the number of souls required to rival a Nascent Soul True Monarch would be staggering.

One hundred million souls!

There was a huge gap between Golden Core cultivators and Nascent Soul cultivators; it was almost impossible for a Golden Core cultivator to defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator.

To cross this gap, a massive amount of souls would be needed to fill it.

“Too many. Even if I eliminated several more Yin Soul Sect members, I might not be able to gather this many souls.”

Li Chang’an shook his head slightly, temporarily abandoning the plan.

Just then,

Jiang Muyu suddenly ran over, bringing him a new message.

“Young Master, someone has discovered an unclaimed third-tier spiritual vein in the Black Dragon Mountains! Various factions are vying for it. Should we intervene?”

“Hmm?”

Li Chang’an took the message and glanced at it, his eyes immediately showing a strange expression.

This so-called unclaimed third-tier spiritual vein was none other than the Yin Soul Sect’s spiritual vein!

Because he had cleaned everything up so thoroughly, leaving not even a trace of its aura, outsiders believed the spiritual vein was inherently unclaimed.

“No need to pay attention, let them fight it out,”

Li Chang’an casually replied, putting down the message.

In his view, no matter how fiercely the various factions fought, it was useless. This spiritual vein would either return to the Netherworld Soul Sect’s hands or be controlled by the Purple Cloud Sect.

Only Nascent Soul sects were qualified to have their hands on it; Golden Core forces had no chance.

Sure enough.

That very evening, a demonic cultivator announced that the spiritual vein was the location of the Yin Soul Sect’s mountain gate.

The news caused an uproar.

Many people couldn’t believe that such a powerful Golden Core force as the Yin Soul Sect could be wiped out!

But soon more demonic cultivators confirmed that the spiritual vein did indeed belong to the Yin Soul Sect, and that they were still alive because they were carrying out sect missions.

For a time, almost the entire Southern Region was discussing this matter.

“Who is so powerful that they could wipe out the entire Yin Soul Sect?”

“I heard the Yin Soul Sect has a grudge against a Golden Core cultivator named Li Fan, could it be him?”

“He doesn’t have that ability, I guess it was the Zixia Sect that made the move…”

Besides the Zixia Sect, it seemed no other force had such ability.

Therefore,

many people had already concluded that the Zixia Sect was responsible.

As for Li Chang’an, he had no connection with the Yin Soul Sect, and no one suspected him.

At this moment,

he was deep within the Changqing Mountain cave, releasing Wu Gu’s soul from the soul banner.

“You are the Changqing Mountain Master, Li Chang’an?”

Wu Gu’s face was grim as he stared intently at him.

“With your abilities, you couldn’t possibly convince those Golden Core cultivators. Who is behind you?”

(End of Chapter)