sjar Chapter 76 Encountering an Old Friend in the Immortal Realm
Chapter 76 Encountering an Old Friend in the Immortal Realm
Much later.
Li Lan stepped forward and solemnly placed the Mingzun finger bone into a jade box. Then, looking at the cat on the stone table, he said, "Thank you for your help, senior. May I ask how to address you?"
Although the cat looked very well-behaved and cute, Li Lan dared not underestimate it.
When he fought the demon soul, he was fully aware of the situation in the cave. The cat had woken up halfway through, but it did not make a move. Instead, it waited until the demon soul was forced to draw out the black water from its finger bones before it could win with a single blow.
This clearly shows that the cat is extremely intelligent.
Moreover, the other party is an old monster from the same era as Mingzun.
Even the Venerable One held it in high esteem!
Its origins are probably quite astonishing, but the Mingzun didn't say, and Li Lan didn't dare to ask.
Meow meow~~
The snow-white cat meowed twice, but Li Lan somehow understood what it meant. It meant that Li Lan didn't need to call it "senior," just "sister"!
He was taken aback. The cat... was it female?
"Meow... I've used up so much magic power, time to sleep... Meow meow, True Dragon Technique Foundation Establishment and Core Formation Scroll~~ I'll cultivate first, and then I'll take you away when I wake up~~"
The cat yawned sleepily, raised its little paw, and a beam of light entered Li Lan's mind. Then she continued to sleep on the stone table.
Li Lan was utterly astonished as she processed the information in her mind.
What the cat gave him was none other than the subsequent techniques of the True Dragon Skill, leading all the way to the Core Formation stage!
"The true dragon transcends tribulation to become a five-colored immortal, heavenly fire attains enlightenment and all souls are silenced... Does the so-called tribulation refer to the tribulation before becoming an immortal?"
Li Lan pondered that this meant he needed to use the True Dragon Technique to cultivate to the Tribulation Transcending stage, overcome the Heavenly Tribulation, and then begin the cultivation stage of the "Five-Colored Immortal."
For now, this is the only way we can try it out!
Li Lan then began to understand each point, but he discovered that... his understanding and insights seemed to be of little use.
Even setting aside the True Dragon Technique, he only kept the three spells that the Bright Lord had passed on to him in his heart, and found it difficult to cultivate them for a while.
After all, he was a genuine cultivation failure...
Li Lan felt a little conflicted, then took a deep breath, turned around, and left the cave.
He planned to go out first, dig out the remains of the ancient saints, and at the same time look for spiritual objects!
He remembered that this place was located on the North Hu Plain. In the Abyss Realm, the North Hu Plain was the place where the most spiritual creatures were born because it was an ancient battlefield where too many experts had sacrificed themselves.
Stepping out of the cave, he was met with a thick black fog. Li Lan activated his True Dragon Technique to protect himself. The desolate plain was deserted.
In two years, those who could leave had already left, and those who couldn't had died, turning this land into a wasteland.
Li Lan cautiously began searching for spiritual objects. Danger lurked in the surrounding black mist, with the remains of ancient beasts and grotesque walking corpses lurking at any moment. If he were discovered, he could very well be in danger.
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Spring goes and autumn comes; in the blink of an eye, another two years have passed.
Over the course of two years, Li Lan searched every place within a thousand miles of the cave and indeed found a great deal of White Bone Flowers and Azure Cloud Fruits, weighing several hundred kilograms.
On this day, Li Lan sat cross-legged inside the cave, surrounded by spiritual objects. He began to absorb a massive amount of spiritual energy!
A massive amount of spiritual energy flowed into his body, and various insights emerged. In his dantian, the extremely dense true dragon energy began to liquefy drop by drop...
This process is called foundation building!
For ordinary people to establish their foundation, they need to pass three major tests: magical power, divine consciousness, and physical body. They also need to have reached a certain level of enlightenment, which is extremely difficult. However, at this moment, his spirituality directly accumulated and he performed the magic without any delay, moving forward without hesitation!
Boom!
A thunderous sound rang out beside him, and lightning seemed to flash. Under the impetus of the Great Dao, spiritual energy in his dantian surged like spring rain, and the dense spiritual energy turned into droplets of liquid that fell onto his dantian, forming a small pond.
The liquefaction of spiritual energy is the foundation building stage.
Generally speaking, the size of the spiritual liquid pool, the amount of spiritual liquid accumulated, and the quality of the spiritual liquid after Foundation Establishment determine a cultivator's potential and true strength.
At this moment, thunder rumbled continuously in Li Lan's dantian, and a dragon's shadow loomed across the sky. The thunder urged the spring rain to fall, and it continued for a long time. The small pond gradually became a pool, and the pool water accumulated into a lake!
When others begin their Foundation Establishment journey, a puddle the size of a palm is considered a success. If it can become a small pond, that's good. Only geniuses can condense spiritual liquid into a pool-like body of water.
But now... Li Lan's spiritual liquid is like a lake, and the lake water is like the morning glow, with the rising spiritual mist being beautiful and magnificent, and vaguely there seems to be a golden dragon swimming around.
As the thunder subsided, suddenly, a host of images flashed into his mind: the cat sister's breath on the stone table, the dust falling from the cave ceiling, the dew condensing outside the cave, and a walking corpse drifting by...
Divine consciousness!
Li Lan was quite pleased. After entering the Foundation Establishment stage, the increase in magical power was self-evident. The biggest change compared to Qi Refining stage cultivators was the birth of divine sense.
Divine sense is like "radar," capable of searching for things within a certain range.
Currently, Li Lan's spiritual sense range is approximately one mile.
According to his understanding, even cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage can only reach this level.
Having familiarized himself with the use of his divine sense and completed the changes in his dantian, Li Lan has now officially become a Foundation Establishment cultivator!
His panel has changed:
Name: Li Lan
Realm: Early Foundation Establishment
Cultivation Techniques: True Dragon Technique, Sky-Splitting Technique (not yet learned), Earth-Standing Technique (not yet learned), Sun, Moon and Stars Technique (not yet learned), True Understanding of Elixirs (not yet learned), Flame Technique (Mastery)...
Spirituality: 3 (Level 2)
While Li Lan was overjoyed, he looked at the spirituality with a puzzled expression... After two years of searching and accumulating, he still had about ten catties of Qingyun Fruit left after completing the Foundation Establishment, but now, after sacrificing it all, he only had three points of spirituality.
This is outrageous!
But after studying it for a while, he instantly understood!
There are different levels of spirituality.
The Abyss Realm is limited by the environment of heaven and earth. Even if powerful beings who died in battle released their spirituality and formed spiritual objects such as the Azure Cloud Fruit and the White Bone Flower, these spiritual objects could not break through the level of one.
The so-called first level should correspond to the spiritual energy used in the Qi Refining stage. It was mentioned in the True Explanation of Pills given to him by Zhu Xianchou. For example, spiritual medicines are also divided into grades. First-grade spiritual medicines are often used by Qi Refining cultivators, while second-grade ones are welcomed by Foundation Establishment cultivators.
To acquire level two spirituality, one would probably have to look for it among second-grade spiritual herbs.
Meow meow~~
As Li Lan pondered, a cat's meow came from the stone table. The sleeping cat stretched, rolled over, stood up, and raised its little paw, indicating to Li Lan that it was time to leave.
Li Lan nodded in agreement. Now... it's time to go to the Immortal Realm.
"Meow meow~~ Hug meow."
The cat leaped lightly and landed directly in Li Lan's arms. Li Lan quickly hugged it, but felt something was off.
He had previously associated this cat with "old monsters" and "living fossils," but now he increasingly felt that its personality was really just that of a little kitten...
She closed her eyes and continued to sleep in Li Lan's arms. Li Lan suddenly realized that she must have been injured and was rarely awake.
She might have woken up now just to guide Li Lan, so she didn't want to expend too much energy and had Li Lan act as her "sedan chair carrier".
Guided by the cat, Li Lan first left the cave and dug out many broken bones from a pile of rocks not far away.
These remains were all decayed; there were almost no intact skeletons.
The cat said that when the saints were fighting in the Black Sea, they were suddenly attacked by the immortals, so the battle lines that were originally able to hold on collapsed like a house of cards.
The saints wished to return to their homeland, but feared that their own remains would bring great calamity to the celestial realm. Therefore, they refined a portion of their own remains into mortal bones that could not withstand any power, thus entrusting them to the celestial realm.
Unexpectedly, the Supreme Immortal Venerable not only severed their roots in the Immortal Realm during the Great War of the Saints, causing them to lose their fighting power, but also set up the Abyss Realm to suppress them, leaving their remains here.
Li Lan felt both respect and sorrow.
He fought to the death on the front lines, only to be betrayed from behind, his very foundation of his own path was severed, and his remains could not return home...
No wonder so many of the deceased harbored such deep resentment, wanting to kill the Supreme Immortal Venerable!
He collected the remains one by one. Although there weren't many, he still carried a large bag on his shoulder and strode towards the Immortal Realm.
He walked very carefully, but he found that with the cat there, many ancient beasts and walking corpses blocking his way dispersed on their own. This surprised and amazed Li Lan. What was the origin of this cat?
No wonder Mingzun said that with her there, Li Lan was able to leave this place.
Three months later.
Li Lan traversed the Beihu Plain into the territory of Dali and found the entrance to the Immortal Realm.
As Li Lan embarked on his journey, he looked back and saw only the ruins of Chengdu, the capital of Dali. A few ancient palaces stood tall in the black mist. The civilization and history of this land, the ordinary people who once lived in the streets and alleys, and the emperors and generals in the grand palaces had all completely vanished into dust.
Everything was like a dream.
He turned and headed towards the immortal realm!
……
Soon after.
Li Lan's pace slowed down.
Ahead, a vast Great Wall blocked his path.
The Great Wall on the frontier of the immortal realm!
"kill!"
"kill!"
The shouts of battle shook the heavens. At this moment, a great battle was breaking out. The immortal experts defending the Great Wall took the initiative to attack and sweep away the walking corpses below the city!
The massive number of zombies were almost all formed from the alienated creatures of the Abyss Realm. They had lost their original nature, and their strength and speed had become like those of tigers and leopards, even growing fangs and claws.
Even so, the power of the walking corpses is at most comparable to the Qi Refining stage of the Immortal Realm, but these walking corpses... also have an amazing characteristic.
Unkillable!
At this moment, the cultivators sent by the Immortal Realm were by no means experts, so in the great battle, the Immortal Realm was even at a disadvantage and suffered many casualties!
"Hurry up! It's all your fault, you damned lowly people of the Abyss Realm, that caused this calamity... Don't back down an inch!"
At the city gate, a woman in red, holding a leather whip, coldly supervised the battle!
A group of low-level cultivators are struggling to hold on.
"Miss, if this continues, they will all be killed..."
An old man spoke up next to the woman in red.
"They deserved to die anyway, so what if they died?!"
The woman in red said coldly.
“Miss, let it go. These people are all former residents of the Abyss Realm. If Li Yue returns and finds them all dead, it will likely cause more conflict, which would be inappropriate.”
The old man shook his head: "Besides, they can't resist these strange corpses either."
The woman in red said coldly, "Li Yue is nothing but an ant from the Abyss Realm. Does she think she can transform into a dragon just because she entered the Sword Sect? I will let her know who the true Holy Maiden of the Sword Sect is!"
She coldly looked at the many low-level cultivators in front of her: "Fight to the last one, or you will be considered a defector!"
The old man sighed.
A group of low-level cultivators fought with all their might against the alien corpses.
Li Lan hid behind a group of zombies. With the cat's guidance, he also disguised himself as a zombie. The cat concealed his presence, so the zombies did not realize that he was a living person.
As he pondered how to sneak across, he suddenly spotted someone among the many low-level cultivators from the Immortal Realm.
That person... was actually Liu Ziwen!
He was once the tutor of the Jinxiu Palace and later followed Li Yue. He had a long-standing friendship with Li Lan.
Unexpectedly, he also came to the Immortal Realm!
Li Lan was filled with mixed feelings. He hadn’t expected to run into an acquaintance so soon after arriving in the Immortal Realm!
Now, Liu Ziwen's cultivation has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, but he is no longer able to resist the alien corpse. The spirit sword in his hand has been dulled, and he is panting heavily with despair in his eyes!
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