Daily Divination From Market Rogue Cultivator To Immortal Venerable - Chapter 330

Chapter 330 Gu Yunqi is captured alive, Li Chang’an is puzzled (Please subscribe)

A few days later,

Li Chang’an returned to Changqing Mountain.

He took a large amount of array-setting materials to the Mo Clan, adding several near-fourth-tier arrays for them.

After completing this task, he began to focus on planning how to deal with Gu Yunqi, while also taking stock of his own abilities.

His divination skills had reached the lower fourth tier, and this skill alone was enough to crush Gu Yunqi.

In addition,

the near-fourth-tier array could unleash power exceeding the Golden Core limit.

The strength of the Fiend Soul had also exceeded the Golden Core limit.

“As for the sword array, I have reached mastery, and can perfectly control eighty-one third-tier high-grade sword energies.”

With a thought, eighty-one strands of sword energy appeared.

The sword array composed of these sword energies was far more powerful than the Golden Core limit. In terms of killing power alone, it was much stronger than the Fiend Soul and the near-fourth-tier array.

Unfortunately, Li Chang’an still hadn’t found a way to balance the Yin-Yang sword array.

If he could add the Great Geng Gold Sword Array…

The combined power of the two sword formations would undoubtedly be even stronger, perhaps even posing a slight threat to a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

“Alright, these methods should be enough. After all, Gu Yunqi isn’t a Nascent Soul cultivator.” Li Chang’an

was fully prepared.

Soon,

he left Changqing Mountain and entered the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Gu Yunqi had been to this secret realm before, because Wei Xu had found a partially depleted Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill here.

If one pill could be found, there was a possibility of finding more!

Therefore,

Li Chang’an chose the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm as his target for Gu Yunqi.

He went deep into the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm, selected an ancient sect ruin, and began setting up his formations within.

In just three days,

he used a vast amount of array-setting treasures to set up more than twenty near-fourth-tier grand formations within the ruins!

These formations were layered, interlocking, and ever-changing; breaking one would reveal many more, each capable of depleting at least one of Gu Yunqi’s fourth-tier trump cards.

In addition, two fourth-tier tortoise shells were also placed within them.

Centered on two tortoise shells, he filled the entire ruins with the profound power of fourth-order divination.

Deep within the ruins

, he buried a large number of terrifyingly powerful third-order high-grade magic pills.

These magic pills could self-destruct instantly, each explosion possessing the power equivalent to a strike from a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

Afterward,

Li Chang’an began placing some ancient treasures.

These treasures, all collected from various parts of the Zhao Kingdom, exuded an aura of vicissitudes, antiquity, and decay.

After this arrangement

, the entire ruins were filled with the aura of treasures.

If an outsider were to come here, they would surely believe that many undiscovered ancient treasures remained within.

“Almost there!”

Li Chang’an waved his hand, tossing three golden Earth Cloud Sand Pills into the array.

He activated the formation, blurring the ruins within, making them hazy and indistinct, vaguely revealing the radiant light of numerous treasures.

Then,

he deliberately created a crack in one of the formations, making it appear as if it had been damaged over time.

The aura of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill wafted out from the cracks.

“Three Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills! I refuse to believe Gu Yunqi won’t come!”

Li Chang’an was full of confidence.

He controlled Qin Hong, the puppet, to cross the boundary between the two domains and quietly arrive at the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm.

Then, using Qin Hong’s body, he used the recording stone to capture the scene of this ruin and intercepted the leaked aura of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill.

Having done all this,

Li Chang’an controlled Qin Hong to return to the ancient ruins and back to the Yellow Sand Sect’s flying boat.

He didn’t immediately find Gu Yunqi but waited for the divination to appear.

At midnight that night,

a golden light appeared before his eyes.

[Divination Updated]

[Today’s Divination – Auspicious]

[You used the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill as bait to lure Gu Yunqi into the trap, successfully refining him into a puppet and obtaining the last key to the Ancient Wood Cave.]

“Auspicious divination, this matter is settled!”

Li Chang’an secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He had been preparing for this day for many years.

If something went wrong, he didn’t know how much longer he would have to prepare to obtain the final key.

He composed himself, not letting his guard down, and manipulated Qin Hong to find Gu Yunqi inside the flying boat.

“Fellow Daoist Gu, I went to the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm in the Southern Region these past few days.”

“Fellow Daoist Qin, what were you doing in the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm?”

Gu Yunqi asked casually, his tone indifferent.

Li Chang’an replied, “The ruins of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty appeared in that Thousand Lakes Secret Realm, so I wanted to try my luck, perhaps finding more ruins of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty.”

“Oh? Did Fellow Daoist Qin find anything?”

“I didn’t find any Great Jin ruins, but I discovered some things that Fellow Daoist Gu might be interested in.”

A flash of spiritual light appeared in Li Chang’an’s hand, revealing two treasures:

a recording stone and a jade bottle.

Inside the jade bottle was the aura of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill that he had sealed.

Gu Yunqi looked doubtful, took the recording stone and the jade bottle, and probed them with his divine sense.

The next instant.

His mind trembled, and even his aura became disordered for a moment.

In the image captured by the image stone, three blurry pills appeared. Although obscured by the array, their golden aura gave him a clue.

The aura emanating from the jade bottle confirmed Gu Yunqi’s suspicions.

“Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills!”

The efficacy of these three Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pills seemed to have not diminished much over time.

Their emanating aura

far surpassed that of the one Wei Xu had obtained.

Gu Yunqi took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement and striving to remain calm.

He looked up and asked, “Fellow Daoist Qin, you were unable to take those three precious pills away because of the formation blocking your way?”

“That’s right!”

Li Chang’an nodded in response.

“There’s a near-fourth-order formation within those ruins. To break it by force, you’d need to use a fourth-order trump card. But unlike you, Fellow Daoist Gu, I don’t have a Nascent Soul master, so I don’t have many fourth-order trump cards.”

“I understand!”

As the eldest disciple of True Monarch Huangsha, Gu Yunqi naturally possessed quite a few fourth-order trump cards.

He only needed a fourth-order talisman to break that near-fourth-order formation.

He solemnly said, “Fellow Daoist Qin, if this succeeds, I’ll owe you a favor. Please lead the way for me.”

“Alright, Fellow Daoist Gu, follow me.”

Soon, the two quietly left the flying boat and rushed to the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm overnight.

The Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill was extremely important to Gu Yunqi, so he didn’t tell anyone.

As for Qin Hong,

he didn’t have much suspicion.

After all, the aura of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill couldn’t be faked.

It’s impossible that Qin Hong found the formula for this ancient elixir, gathered all the necessary materials, and had someone specifically refine it to deal with him.

…

And so it went.

Gu Yunqi was led by Li Chang’an to the depths of the Thousand Lakes Secret Realm, to the ruins.

Sensing the aura of the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill emanating from the cracks in the formation, a barely perceptible excitement flashed in Gu Yunqi’s eyes.

“It really is a quasi-fourth-order grand formation, but it has been damaged over time.”

After observing for a moment, a flash of spiritual light appeared in his hand, and a fourth-order talisman appeared.

He activated the talisman, its surface spiritual patterns burning, releasing a dazzling golden light, like a blazing sun, crashing into the quasi-fourth-order formation.

Boom!

The two collided.

The talisman shattered instantly, and the quasi-fourth-order formation collapsed in an instant.

In a flash.

The aura of countless ancient treasures rushed towards him.

Gu Yunqi had no doubts and headed straight for the deepest part of the ruins, where the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill was located.

Seeing the Earth Cloud Yellow Sand Pill right before him, his eyes lit up with joy, and he reached out to grab it, only to grasp at empty air.

“Not good!”

Gu Yunqi’s expression changed slightly, realizing something was wrong, but it was too late.

Between heaven and earth,

more than twenty quasi-fourth-order grand formations appeared simultaneously.

The power of fourth-order divination permeated the formations, filling everything around with a mysterious and unreal aura.

“Qin Hong, how dare you harm me!”

Gu Yunqi roared angrily, his killing intent rising in his chest.

“Once I break out of this place, I will definitely cut off your head!”

Saying this, he probed his storage bag with his divine sense, trying to take out a fourth-order trump card to break the formation.

But he was shocked to find that the storage bag had vanished!

The omnipresent power of divination confused the mysteries, making his perception of everything blurry, as if he had fallen into a nightmare, and he didn’t even know when the storage bag had been taken away.

Gu Yunqi’s face gradually turned ugly.

The storage bag not only contained a fourth-order trump card, but also the treasure he used to contact True Monarch Yellow Sand.

And now…

Everything was gone!

“Even without a fourth-tier trump card, I can still break through this place!”

A ruthless glint flashed in Gu Yunqi’s eyes. He instantly burned his lifespan, his full head of black hair turning gray, and his aura suddenly surged, far exceeding the limit of the Golden Core stage.

“Break!”

He roared, using his strongest Heaven-grade spell, attempting to break the formation by force.

Boom!

A thunderous roar echoed between heaven and earth.

If it were a true near-fourth-tier incomplete formation, he might have actually broken it.

However, all twenty-odd formations here were intact, their array patterns intertwined, simultaneously withstanding his astonishing attack without suffering the slightest damage.

“Impossible!”

He gritted his teeth and unleashed another spell.

But the result remained unchanged.

The next instant,

array forces appeared, each exceeding the limits of the Golden Core stage, all blasting towards Gu Yunqi.

“No, I will not perish here!”

Gu Yunqi, his hair disheveled, roared hoarsely, countless grains of yellow sand appearing around him.

The numerous array forces bombarded him, but did not inflict any damage, only creating wave after wave of shimmering yellow sand.

Seeing this,

Li Chang’an, who was secretly controlling the array, looked solemn.

“The Undying Yellow Sand Body!”

He had seen it in ancient books.

Cultivators with a Yellow Sand Spirit Body had a certain chance of awakening the Undying Yellow Sand Body.

This physique was extremely special.

When faced with a life-or-death crisis, one could transform oneself into a cloud of yellow sand, weakening the enemy’s attack to the greatest extent.

At this moment, Gu Yunqi was using the Undying Yellow Sand Body.

After being bombarded by hundreds of array forces,

he was still unharmed!

“Return!”

Gu Yunqi shouted.

Immediately afterward, a gust of sandstorm swept up, carrying much of the blasted sand back into his body.

In an instant, he returned to his original form.

Even

his aura remained at its peak, without the slightest drop.

“As expected of the strongest holy son of the Yellow Sand Sect, if nothing unexpected happens, his chances of forming his Nascent Soul are extremely high.”

Li Chang’an showed no mercy, continuing to activate the power of the array.

The Yellow Sand Undying Body is not truly indestructible!

The advantages brought by innate physique ultimately have their limits.

In the following half-quarter of an hour,

Li Chang’an forced Gu Yunqi out of the Yellow Sand Undying Body state several times.

He noticed that the time Gu Yunqi needed to recover each time was getting longer and longer.

Finally,

when another wave of array power struck Gu Yunqi,

he could no longer transform into the Yellow Sand Undying Body and could only rely on his own strength to withstand it.

“Boom!”

Gu Yunqi’s face paled slightly as he cast a defensive spell, repelling the array power.

His armor was shattered, and his other protective treasures had all turned to dust. His golden core was growing increasingly dim.

As time passed, he gradually exhausted all his means, but the power of the formation was inexhaustible.

Finally, even his magical power was almost depleted.

He was on the verge of a dead end.

“Qin Hong, when did I offend you?”

Gu Yunqi no longer hoped to fight his way out and shouted.

Now, he

only wanted the answer to this question.

He and Qin Hong were both Holy Sons, rivals.

But as a True Monarch’s disciple, he had always held himself in high esteem and rarely competed with ordinary Holy Sons for opportunities, having no grudges against Qin Hong and others.

“Inside the Great Jin Ruins, that near-fourth-tier spiritual herb you coveted was also useful to me, but I gave it to you. Do you remember?”

Gu Yunqi’s eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the blurry figure outside the formation.

Just then,

a familiar voice rang in his ears.

“Fellow Daoist Gu, you haven’t offended Qin Hong, but me.”

Li Chang’an’s figure slowly appeared, standing before Gu Yunqi.

Upon seeing his face,

Gu Yunqi was utterly shocked, his pupils dilating slightly, unable to believe his eyes.

“Li Chang’an, how could it be you?”

In his eyes, Li Chang’an was merely a weak opponent.

Even if Li Chang’an possessed near-fourth-tier array techniques,

Gu Yunqi was still confident he could kill him.

After all,

setting up an array takes time.

Gu Yunqi knew that even if he were incredibly stupid, he wouldn’t allow Li Chang’an to

set up an array. Even if he were truly enveloped by a near-fourth-tier array, he had fourth-tier trump cards to break it.

But now, the facts were undeniable.

He had been driven to a dead end by the power of arrays!

“Li Chang’an, why were you able to take my storage bag?”

Gu Yunqi’s voice was hoarse, his heart filled with resentment.

If his storage bag were still there, he could have used his many treasures to fight his way out.

Even if he couldn’t fight his way out, he could ask True Monarch Huangsha to save him.

Li Chang’an’s tone was calm: “Fellow Daoist Gu, do you still remember that time in the Great Jin ruins palace, you were unable to take the treasures inside no matter what you did?”

“That palace?”

Gu Yunqi recalled the situation at that time.

After that incident, he asked True Monarch Huangsha and learned that the reason he couldn’t get the treasures was because the palace contained fourth-order divination power.

“Illusion and reality are indistinguishable, truth and falsehood are reversed, mysteries are confused, Li Chang’an, you…you are actually a fourth-order divination master!”

Gu Yunqi’s expression was ashen, and he collapsed to the ground, understanding everything.

Facing a fourth-order divination master, what use were all his methods?

Such a person.

Even his master, a Nascent Soul True Monarch, had to treat him with caution.

“Li Chang’an, you are such a prodigy! To learn a fourth-order divination technique at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, your comprehension, even if not quite matching Mo Qingkuang’s from ten thousand years ago, is not far off… It’s laughable that I always treated you as an ordinary rogue cultivator…”

Gu Yunqi murmured hoarsely, realizing his defeat was not unjust.

He hadn’t lost to an ordinary rogue cultivator, but to a once-in-a-millennium genius!

“Fortunately, Heaven is ultimately fair. It gave you such comprehension, but not a particularly good spiritual root. You most likely haven’t grasped the method of raising your spiritual root, otherwise your Golden Core quality wouldn’t be only mid-grade.” “

Fellow Daoist Gu is mistaken.”

Li Chang’an flicked his finger, sending out a beam of green light.

This green light flew into Gu Yunqi’s body, transforming into a seed of wood beneath his heart.

Immediately afterward,

the seed took root and sprouted.

Thin branches, imbued with Li Chang’an’s Golden Core power, gradually eroded Gu Yunqi’s body.

“An Immortal Golden Core!”

Sensing the quality of this Golden Core power, Gu Yunqi was once again shocked.

“Li Chang’an, you’re also an Immortal Golden Core!”

Moreover, the quality of Li Chang’an’s Golden Core power was even higher than his. Even

among Immortal Golden Cores, there were differences in quality!

Gu Yunqi asked incredulously, “Li Chang’an, how much liquid mana did you accumulate before you formed your Golden Core?”

“Three hundred and sixty-five drops.”

Li Chang’an didn’t hide anything and told the truth.

Hearing this, Gu Yunqi’s whole body trembled, and a tidal wave of emotions surged within him.

“A perfect cultivation technique! Such a technique actually exists?”

“Of course it exists.”

Li Chang’an nodded; he was also somewhat curious about Gu Yunqi’s state before forming his Golden Core.

“Fellow Daoist Gu, how much mana did you accumulate before you formed your Golden Core?”

“Three hundred and sixty-three drops.”

Gu Yunqi gave a very high number.

His accumulation was already very close to a perfect state.

It seemed that the cultivation technique he practiced was a rather good True Heaven-grade technique.

However, it was ultimately slightly inferior to perfection.

It was this slight difference that made his Immortal Golden Core inferior to Li Chang’an’s.

“I always thought that the quality of my Golden Core was enough to make me the envy of the entire Zhao Kingdom’s cultivation world. Today I understand what it means to be outmatched!”

Gu Yunqi sighed deeply.

After learning about Li Chang’an’s Foundation Establishment cultivation, he was completely convinced.

Whether it was the quality of his Golden Core or his cultivation techniques, he was no match for Li Chang’an.

He lost in every aspect!

If the two were to fight at the same level, Li Chang’an could defeat him even without using formations or divination techniques.

Furthermore,

the branches constantly spreading within his body made him understand why Qin Hong worked for Li Chang’an.

“It seems that you not only obtained Mo Qingkuang’s inheritance, but also improved his Blood Seed Technique with your unparalleled comprehension.”

Gu Yunqi’s expression darkened, and he gave up resistance, allowing Li Chang’an to refine him into a puppet.

“Finally, it’s done!”

Li Chang’an breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully without any unexpected incidents.

He put away the two puppets, Gu Yunqi and Qin Hong, and collected all the arrays, magic pills, and ancient treasures in the area, erasing all traces of their presence.

After doing all this, the ruins returned to their original state.

Li Chang’an’s figure flickered, transforming into a stream of light and disappearing.

…

That day, late at night.

Li Chang’an returned to Changqing Mountain, entered his cave, and sealed the cave entrance.

He took out Gu Yunqi, but did not ask any questions. Instead, he used his Divine Intervention Technique to send hundreds of strands of divine sense into Gu Yunqi’s body to search carefully.

Soon, he saw a symbol that was entirely earthen yellow in Gu Yunqi’s sea of consciousness.

It was this symbol that created Gu Yunqi’s Yellow Sand Spirit Body.

“Strange, the symbols of Gu Yunqi, Mu Xiaoqing, and Song Yu’er are all in their seas of consciousness, so why is Ye Mengxian’s symbol inside her spine?”

(End of Chapter)