Chapter 112 The Witch Returns
After returning to Ziyun Peak to rest for two days, the third-grade alchemist Wang Hua came here.
He was ordered by the master to come and discuss the matters of Qingxuan Peak with Li Yu.
Although Li Yu was only a second-grade alchemist, he was better than third-grade alchemists in refining second-grade pills. When Qingxuan Peak was handed over to him, not only did the Yuanying Patriarch who was responsible for making decisions on the sect's affairs have no objection, but all the peaks in the alchemy sect also had no objection.
Although they also coveted the resources of Qingxuan Peak, many third-grade alchemists were convinced that Li Yu was in charge of the peak.
Firstly , Li Yu had good relations with all the alchemy masters. As soon as they heard that he could help them refine pills for free in the future without asking for any reward, they opposed him. Isn’t this repaying kindness with enmity and being ungrateful?
Secondly, if they have problems in the future, they may have to ask Li Yu for help. Unless a third-grade alchemist is crazy, he will go against him. What's more, it is useless for them to oppose the decisions of the Elders.
Even if we take a step back, given his relationship with Elder Zhao, it would be natural for him to inherit his legacy. If Elder Zhao knew about this in his afterlife, he would be very pleased.
Under the arrangement of the head master, the process of Li Yu taking over Qingxuan Peak was very smooth.
In Kunlun Cave, there is naturally a world of difference between a peak and a villa.
Qingxuan Peak is covered by a protective formation. No outsiders . The entire mountain is Li Yu's private territory.
In Kunlun, anyone who can own an entire mountain as a private territory must either have a cultivation base above the Nascent Soul stage, or become a third-grade alchemist who can control a peak with the strength of the Foundation Establishment stage. In the entire Kunlun, there is only him.
For Li Yu, the biggest difference between the Qingxuan Peak and Ziyun Peak villas is that they are bigger.
In the palace complex, there are places dedicated to alchemy and places dedicated to practicing spells. Each palace is protected by a powerful formation, so no matter how loud the noise is inside, it will not be transmitted to the outside.
Then there are the medicinal fields on the mountain. These were Zhao Guangxuan’s personal property. After he died, the sect managed them temporarily for a period of time and then handed them over to Li Yu.
However, for such a strong man, the most important things must be in the storage magic weapon. Li Yu has been paying attention to the progress of the witch's cracking.
Before moving away from Ziyun Peak, Li Yu held a banquet in Piaoxiang Pavilion to bid farewell to his old friends.
During this period, Li Yu learned a lot from them, some of which were about cultivation, and some were about life, all of which benefited him a lot.
Although Li Yu will no longer be in Ziyun Peak in the future, what he promised them before still counts.
A few days after moving to Qingxuan Peak, Li Yu submitted an application to the head master, wanting to rename Qingxuan Peak to Yuxuan Peak.
Except for a few large peaks, the names of other peaks in Kunlun change frequently. Almost every peak master will modify the original peak name to one they like.
The reason given by Li Yu was that the name of Qingxuan Peak was given by Elder Zhao Guangxuan. Seeing things reminds people of people. Every time he heard the name of Qingxuan Peak, he would think of Elder Zhao's voice, appearance and smile, and a feeling of sadness would arise in his heart...
Of course, the head master agreed to his extremely reasonable proposal.
So, from today on, there is no Qingxuan Peak in Kunlun Cave Heaven anymore, and the name of Yuxuan Peak, because of Li Yu, soon became known to the disciples of Kunlun.
Li Yu's task every month is to refine second-level pills for the sect. The sect's requirement for him is to produce one top-quality pill per furnace, requiring quality rather than quantity.
After all, there are many alchemists in Kunlun who can refine second-grade elixirs, but there is only one second-grade alchemist, Li Yu, who can consistently refine top-grade elixirs.
This kind of elixir, which does not contain any poison, will be specially provided to geniuses with outstanding talents to further improve their cultivation speed.
Li Yu's monthly alchemy task is not heavy. He only needs to refine twenty furnaces of Tongmai Pills, which is about the same as the share of all the other peaks in the alchemy world. If he needs to refine more, he will have to compete with others for resources. However, he has no background in the upper levels and cannot get more.
After getting Li Yu's permission, Zhou Zixuan recruited some female disciples from Biyun Peak to be responsible for the maintenance of the medicinal fields on Yuxuan Peak. This was what she learned when she joined the sect, so it was most appropriate to let her take care of the medicinal fields.
In this way, when Li Yu is not in the sect, there will be no one to talk to her.
On this day, on the hillside of Yuxuan Peak, beside a beautiful stream, the laughter of young girls could be heard from time to time, and the air was filled with an enticing fragrance.
Today, Senior Sister Bai brought the three sisters here to play, which was a rare occasion. Li Yu went to Yuzhu Peak and called Senior Sister Xu and Jiang Li to have a barbecue here. He learned this barbecue skill from Xu Yi, and it was highly praised by Xu Yi himself.
Ling'er ran around Li Yu, rolling on the grass, splashing in the stream, and then running over to ask Li Yu to feed it a piece of meat. It was the happiest one after moving here.
After all, compared with the small courtyard in Ziyun Peak, this is the environment suitable for it to live in. Without that kind of cramped feeling, its nature can be fully released.
At a certain moment, Xu Qingxin came to Li Yu and asked, "You have already established your foundation. Have you decided which attribute of cultivation technique you want to practice?"
Li Yu shook his head and said, "Not yet."
He had just established his foundation, and had been busy with other things these days, so he had no time to think about the practice.
For a single spiritual vein, there is actually not much difference between the foundation-building period's exercises and the Qi-refining period's exercises. The only difference is that after the foundation-building period, more powerful spells can be cast. However, for multiple spiritual veins, the difference is huge.
After the foundation-building period, the magic power is more condensed, and different combinations of the five elements will result in different changes. Water and fire merge into thunder, water and wood merge into wind. The foundation of the water attribute, combined with the thickness of the earth attribute, will merge into the ice attribute. The fire attribute plus the earth attribute, a meteorite falling from the sky, is much more powerful than a simple fire rain technique.
Li Yu asked Xu Qingxin, "Which attribute does Senior Sister Qingxin recommend me to cultivate?"
Li Yu was very convinced by the advice of his beloved senior sister.
Xu Qingxin said: "Among the various attributes of the exercises, the most powerful one is naturally the thunder method. The wind attribute exercises are also good. You can choose one as your main practice and one as your secondary practice. I don't recommend you to choose more. The more exercises you practice, the more time you will need. If there is no one to guide you, you will take a lot of detours. If you choose the wind and thunder attributes, I can still guide you in your practice..."
Li Yu remembered that Senior Sister Qingxin cultivated the three spiritual veins of water, fire, and wood, and was very proficient in spells of thunder and wind attributes.
Xu Qingxin gave Li Yu two books of spells, one called "Purple Sky Spell" and the other called "Wind Control Spell". Both were top-level skills with wind and thunder attributes. Disciples without connections had to go to Purple Sky Peak to buy these skills. This saved Li Yu at least 20,000 spirit coins.
However, he still came to the Zixiao Peak Market.
Senior Sister Qingxin practiced these two techniques because she could only practice these two techniques. Li Yu had two more spiritual veins than her, and several more combinations. Wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't learn more spells...
As for learning too much and having no one to guide him, that was not something he would worry about at all.
The headmaster, Master Xuanzhen, and Senior Sister Qin, all of them have the Five Spiritual Veins. If you have any questions, just ask them.
Li Yu walked into a hall at Zixiao Peak, which was dedicated to selling cultivation techniques. A female disciple saw Li Yu coming in and immediately trotted over and asked excitedly, "Senior Brother Li, are you here to choose a technique?"
Li Yu nodded and said, "What kind of exercises are suitable for cultivation in the foundation-building stage? Can you introduce them to me..."
The disciples who can be shopping guides here have to undergo professional training before coming here, and they are very familiar with various exercises. The woman led Li Yu and introduced them one by one: "These are the basic exercises of the five elements, and the price is the cheapest, one thousand spirit coins per book. The ones here are the intermediate exercises of the five elements, five thousand spirit coins per book. These high-level exercises cost ten thousand spirit coins per book..."
The speed at which a cultivator practices cultivation largely depends on his own talent. Advanced techniques can slightly increase the speed of practice, but not too much. However, more advanced techniques record more profound spells, and have certain advantages in fighting.
For practitioners of magic, it is naturally better to choose high-level skills. Professions that do not often fight with others, such as alchemists and weapon refiners, will not be too slow in practicing basic skills.
The biggest difference between different levels of martial arts is the upper limits.
With the basic techniques , there is no problem in practicing to the Golden Core stage. With the intermediate techniques, one can practice to the Nascent Soul stage. With the high-level techniques, one can practice all the way to the Spirit Transformation stage. As for the practice methods after the Spirit Transformation stage, they are not available here.
After taking over Qingxuan Peak, Li Yu had so many spiritual coins that he could not spend them all. He bought one of each of the five elements' high-level skills.
Watching Li Yu spend 50,000 spirit coins without blinking, the beautiful female disciple swallowed her saliva. For the 50,000 spirit coins, she could get a 1% commission, which is 500 spirit coins. Together with what she had saved before, she could buy a Tongmai Pill.
Thinking that Li Yu was practicing the Five Spiritual Veins, she introduced it to Li Yu more enthusiastically: "Brother Li, look here. This book of basic thunder attribute skills costs 5,000 spirit coins. This book of "Purple Sky Art" is a high-level thunder attribute skill, which contains many powerful thunder attribute spells. It only costs 20,000 spirit coins. There is also this book of "Controlling Wind Art", a high-level wind attribute skill, which also costs 20,000 spirit coins..."
Li Yu had already obtained these two books of martial arts from Senior Sister Xu, so there was no need to buy them.
Afterwards, with the girl's kind introduction, he bought a high-level ice-based martial arts book called "Xuanbing Jue" for 20,000 spirit coins.
There is also a book called "烾焃诀". Although the name is a bit strange and difficult to pronounce, it is a fusion technique that combines the attributes of fire and earth. If you practice it to a high level, you can summon meteorites with flames, or turn a piece of ground into magma. The power is extremely extraordinary...
In addition, there is a book called "Tian Yin Gong", which is a rare sound-based skill. People who practice the water and gold spiritual veins can practice it. The sound-based spells can attack the body and soul at the same time. With the help of certain special magic weapons, it can exert extremely strong power. It is said that even the core disciples of Tian Yin Sect are practicing this skill.
These skills are all fusion skills and are expensive. Three skills cost Li Yu 60,000 spirit coins. Adding the previous five, 110,000 spirit coins were gone within a quarter of an hour.
Thinking back to two years ago, he was still risking his life for a hundred spirit coins. He couldn't help but feel emotional. It's great to have money...
Although with his connections, he could get something for free, but he has more spirit coins than he can spend. If something can be done with money, he will never use favors to get it done. This is his code of conduct.
The female shopping guide was so happy that she almost fainted. In such a short while, she earned enough spirit coins to buy a Tongmai Pill. How great would it be if there were such wealthy customers every day?
Before today, she was just a passerby disciple who had a crush on Li Yu, but from now on, she announced that she would do the same as her roommates, put Brother Li's portrait on the head of her bed, and look at it for a while before going to bed...
After returning to Yuxuan Peak, Li Yu took out the nine books of martial arts.
He spent more than 100,000 spirit coins at one time, but he didn't feel sorry at all.
These high-level skills are expensive for a reason.
Those who practice water-based martial arts will not be able to defeat those who practice ice-based martial arts unless their magic power is half a realm higher. The spells in "烾焃诀" are also naturally antagonistic to earth attributes. If you can't beat them, you can't even run away. You have to use earth escape in the last second and swim in magma in the next.
Sound spells can cause both physical and soul damage. No matter what attribute a cultivator has, they will have a headache when encountering them, especially disciples of the Soul Refining Sect. When fighting with sound cultivators, both themselves and their spirit ghosts will be attacked...
Li Yu's idea is very simple. It is always a good idea to learn more spells. Either you can restrain others or be restrained by others.
Li Yu took a rough look at those books on high-level Five Elements skills. They were indeed different from the low-level skills he had practiced before. The trajectory of the magic power running in the body was very different. However, his talent was not high, so he could not perceive the increase in the speed of practice at all.
Although the spells included in the exercises have not changed in essence, the casting speed is faster and the power of the spells is higher, which can greatly reduce the cost of practicing spells. For those who practice magic, it is recommended to choose high-level exercises.
Li Yu tried the Five Elements magic and found that it was easy to get started. There was basically no threshold and it was in line with the previous low-level skills.
But the five integrated skills are not that simple.
To release thunder magic, it is not enough to just fuse the magic power of water and fire attributes together. There are many details and key points involved. Li Yu practiced for most of the day according to the description in "Purple Sky Art", but he didn't release even a single thunderbolt.
Senior Sister Xu was right. Without someone to guide you, it would be hard to even get started, let alone master this kind of fusion technique.
Li Yu didn't waste any more time and went straight to Yuzhu Peak.
But this time he was not here to find Jiang Li, but Senior Sister Xu.
Xu Qingxin learned about Li Yu's purpose and smiled, saying, "It is common knowledge in the world of immortal cultivation that it is difficult to master thunder-attributed skills. If you try to learn by yourself, you will never be able to master it in eight or ten years..."
Li Yu looked at Xu Qingxin and asked, "Senior Sister, what should I do?"
Xu Qingxin said: "Stretch out your hand."
Li Yu reached out his hand decisively.
Xu Qingxin held his hand and said, "It may be a little painful, just bear with it."
Before Li Yu could answer, he saw a flash of purple light on her palm. At the same time, Li Yu felt his body go numb and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.
Xu Qingxin let go of her hand and said, "Try it again according to what is said in Zixiao Jue."
Li Yu took a deep breath and circulated his magic power according to the description of the technique. This time, a purple arc of electricity appeared on the palm of his hand.
Li Yu said in surprise: "It works!"
Xu Qingxin smiled and said, "It's not that easy. This lightning was triggered by the lightning I injected into your body. However, you should remember this feeling and practice according to the method in the technique. In half a month at the fastest and a month at the slowest, you will be able to release the most basic lightning technique."
Sure enough, in less than a quarter of an hour, after the lightning that she injected into his body dissipated, Li Yu's magic power ceased to work, but there was no response.
If one wants to practice thunder magic, one must first have a master who also practices thunder magic. Otherwise, it would take ten or eight years to slowly explore. Li Yu has Sister Xu to teach him step by step, so naturally it won't take that long.
With the help of Senior Sister Xu, he practiced on Yuzhu Peak for two hours every day. Ten days later, Li Yu activated his dual-attribute magic power, and a purple filament shot out from his fingertips, hitting the ground and leaving a black pit.
Xu Qingxin said in surprise: "It seems that your understanding of thunder magic is better than I thought."
Li Yu said modestly: "It's all because of Senior Sister Xu's good teaching."
Senior Sister Xu played a huge role in his ability to comprehend the thunder method so quickly. She input dozens of thunders into Li Yu's body every day. With those thunders as guides, Li Yu was able to learn the thunder method so quickly.
But it is only the entry level. Thunder magic is the same as other magic. If you want to master it, you need a lot of practice, and it takes more time than practicing other magic. There are very few people who practice thunder magic in the world of immortal cultivation.
However, although the practice process is a little difficult, the power of thunder magic is also recognized as the best.
Li Yu has just started learning the "Purple Sky Art", while the other "Wind Control Art" is simpler. He learned it three days ago. It can release simple wind blades, but the power is not high. If you want to use it to defend against the enemy, it also requires a lot of practice.
A quarter of an hour later, Li Yu left Yuzhu Peak.
His flying speed was obviously much faster than a few days ago, even more than twice as fast. This was also the effect of the wind attribute. In terms of attack power, the wind attribute was inferior to the thunder attribute, but when it came to running, it was definitely the best among all attributes.
Li Yu has already mastered the thunder attribute and wind attribute, but he has not yet mastered the other three fusion techniques.
These dual-attribute fusion techniques are extremely powerful, but they are also difficult to practice. If you don't have someone to guide you and you only rely on yourself to explore, it will be difficult to achieve success quickly.
After returning to Yuxuan Peak, Li Yu went to the orchard.
Soon after he and Zhou Zixuan moved here, they opened up a few acres of orchard. They used wood magic to ripen many fruits, even some spiritual fruits. At the beginning of every month, they would send some to the various peaks of Dandao to maintain relations.
Li Yu prepared two fruit baskets, picked some fruits that he had carefully cultivated, and came to Yuxu Peak.
The head master was not here today, so Li Yu left a basket of fruit and carried another basket towards a palace inside.
The first time he gave a gift to Senior Sister Qin, the two of them were not familiar with each other. They were not familiar with each other the second time, and they were not familiar with each other the third time. But after dozens of times, they became familiar with each other. Although Senior Sister Qin didn't talk much, when Li Yu asked her questions about cultivation, she would answer them, and she would often hit the nail on the head.
Li Yu has never admired anyone in his life, and Senior Sister Qin is definitely one of them.
Not only does she have an extremely high level of cultivation, but her insights into various types of magic are also more profound than those of old men who have lived for more than two hundred years. Li Yu has learned a lot from her. In a sense, she can be considered half his master.
This time when delivering fruits to her, Li Yu also asked her about some questions regarding the exercises.
It was not until an hour later that he left Yuxu Peak.
Somewhere on Yuxuan Peak.
Li Yu stretched out his palm, and a trace of cold air came out from his palm. He swung his palm forward, and a cold current surged through. A pine tree several feet away was instantly covered with a layer of frost.
Under normal circumstances, the magic power of the foundation-building period can freeze the entire tree.
With the guidance of Senior Sister Qin, Li Yu has just started to learn "Xuan Bing Jue" and the power of his spells needs to be improved. If he wants to unleash the power of ice spells, he needs a long time of practice.
Li Yu was planning to familiarize himself with ice magic when he suddenly had an idea.
The witch finally found him.
Over the past six months, he had been practicing most of the time and had little contact with the demon girl. Many times, when he wanted to find the demon girl, she would not respond for a long time, so he could basically only wait for the demon girl to take the initiative to find him.
After the two souls established a connection, the demon girl's first words were: "I am going to visit your Kunlun. Please prepare yourself."
Li Yu was stunned for a moment and said, "Ah, again?"
The demon girl asked, "Why, you don't welcome me?"
Who knows what she will do when she comes. Li Yu advised: "I am also considering the overall situation. You are the Saint of the Demonic Path. It is not right to come to Kunlun twice in half a year. What if others suspect..."
The demon girl said: "Zhao Guangxuan's space bracelet was broken, and I got ten Tuomai Pills for you."
Li Yu was silent for a moment, then said decisively: "Whenever the young lady comes, I will be at Kunlun to welcome her..."
