Chapter 441: 445. Chapter 444 Daoist Art Book
445. Chapter 444 Daoist Art Book
"Hateful, that Auntie Zhang Gui Gui Qian is truly hateful. A Yin-Yang Creation Cauldron actually costs a Longevity Elixir. If I had known this, I wouldn't have come here to patronize his business. This old Daoist doesn't believe that one can't buy a better magic treasure with money these days. Tai Yi, you are also too generous. You gave away a treasure like the Longevity Elixir just like that. You should have just left him hanging for a few days to whet his appetite."
Just after walking out of the Treasure Pavilion, Senior Bald started complaining.
He was used to being poor, and seeing Li Yi being slaughtered like this also made his heart ache, as if this Longevity Elixir had been given away from his own hands.
Li Yi, however, had a calm expression and was unmoved: "No matter how good the Longevity Elixir is, it's not as important as the improvement of my own strength. Auntie Zhang Gui Gui Qian of the Treasure Pavilion was right; bartering, each takes what he needs. It's just that I am interested in the second magic treasure, but Auntie Zhang Gui Gui Qian indicated that I should come back in three months, saying that the magic treasure is not in the Dao Court and is far away in another place, and it will take some time to transport it back. But I can't wait for three months."
"Forget it. Being able to get 108 high-grade magic artifacts and one top-level magic treasure is worth it for this trip. Go to the Dao Treasury Pavilion and buy some magic arts, then everything will be ready, and we can leave the Dao Court tomorrow."
"Auntie Zhang Gui Gui Qian wants to raise the price after making a profit. Tai Yi, you can't spoil him. With this money, you can buy it in the Treasure Court as well," Senior Bald said.
Li Yi smiled and felt it made sense.
Now he had many magic treasures in his hands, and his strength had improved by leaps and bounds. If he took a few more Three Flowers Realm experts, he would like to see what that Tai Xianweng could do to him when he crossed dimensions back to Earth. He had no backing before, but now he would find one; otherwise, it wouldn't do to always be bullied.
Afterward, the two went to the Dao Treasury Pavilion again.
The manager of the Dao Treasury Pavilion was very enthusiastic. Hearing that Li Yi wanted to buy Daoist arts, he took out several thick books without saying a word.
"All the Daoist arts collected by the Dao Treasury Pavilion over the years are here. They are all-encompassing, one spirit stone per book, no credit."
Li Yi checked the goods, opened the Daoist art book, and looked at a Wall-Passing Art. Relying on Xiang Xiangzi's Primordial Spirit Flower, he quickly understood the mystery. With a hand gesture, he actually passed through the wall, which was very magical.
"These magic arts are genuine, but performing magic arts requires consuming magic power. Without magic power, these magic arts become decorations. The Dao Treasury Pavilion collects the magic arts in the Dao Court and compiles them into books, just so that in the future when spiritual energy recovers, the Daoist arts will not be cut off. It can be considered as doing a good deed for future generations," the manager of the Dao Treasury Pavilion sighed.
"I'll buy them all." Li Yi didn't talk nonsense, threw out a spirit stone directly, and packed them all away.
Compared with magic artifacts, Daoist arts have no storage cost after being compiled, and after Li Yi buys them, the Dao Treasury Pavilion can continue to print new books, so the price is very low.
But for Li Yi, these Daoist arts are worth a thousand gold.
"Wall-Passing Art, Earth-Escaping Art, Invisibility Art, these are all small arts. Are there no truly top-level Daoist arts?" Senior Bald was very dissatisfied. In his view, these magic arts were tricks and could fool ordinary people, but for him, they didn't count as true Daoist arts. Because the price was cheap, he didn't say anything.
After all, compiling these was indeed time-consuming and laborious.
"Top-level Daoist arts, what does the Daoist refer to..." the manager asked.
Senior Bald said: "For example, Five-Colored Divine Light, Turning Stone into Gold, Plucking Stars and Grabbing the Moon, etc.?"
"The Daoist is joking. Every one of the magic arts you mentioned is enough to serve as the inherited Daoist art of a top sect. Even in the Age of Dharma Decline, how could anyone sell them to my small Dao Treasury Pavilion for a few catties of rice?" The manager shook his head and smiled, indicating that there were no such things.
Even if there were, they couldn't afford to buy them.
"Alas, that's a real pity." Senior Bald looked regretful.
However, he also understood.
It is understandable for practitioners to sell magic artifacts and magic treasures; after all, it is normal to sell some family property for a living. But this kind of top-level Daoist art concerns the Daoist tradition. If this were sold, it would be betraying the master and destroying the ancestors, and one would be struck by lightning.
"It's already very good that Senior Bald can get so many Daoist arts," Li Yi said with a smile: "Let's go, return to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion. We still have to go to the Treasure Continent to see tomorrow."
"Fine, the fate of the Dao Court is exhausted. Go to the Treasure Court to try your luck again. In the past, this old Daoist heard that after the Age of Dharma Decline arrived, all the practitioners on the overseas immortal islands gathered in the Treasure Court. Now that so many years have passed, I don't know what the situation in the Treasure Court is like." Senior Bald nodded.
After saying that, he didn't force it anymore. After all, Li Yi had already obtained the inheritance of the three sects, and the rest was just icing on the cake.
After Li Yi sent Senior Bald back to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, he found a quiet place to study the Daoist art books himself. He felt that some small magic arts were very practical, such as the House-Building Art. You only need to perform the magic, and the mud on the ground gathers into shape, turning into a small house. If you add some magic power, the mud house can turn into a stone house, which is sturdy and durable and won't collapse for hundreds of years.
If learned exquisitely, with the magic, even a city can be built in one go.
How can such a magic art be said to be useless?
For example, the Body-Cleansing Art. After performing it, all the filth on the body is gone, and the whole body is clean and tidy, so there is no need to take a bath.
For another example, the Dream-Entering Art. This point is somewhat similar to the Dream-Entrusting Method of the Four Seas and Eight Continents back then, but it is more exquisite. You only need a strand of hair of the person you want to entrust the dream to, or something they carry with them, to ignore the distance and enter their dream. Of course, the premise is that the practitioner must be in a sleeping state; otherwise, the magic art is useless.
He was full of enthusiasm at this moment, constantly studying and learning some small magic arts inside to fill some of his deficiencies.
"This trip to the cultivation world was indeed the right one. If it were in another world, it would be impossible for me to get so many Daoist art inheritances with my strength." Li Yi thought to himself: "But here, spiritual energy is exhausted, and Daoist arts are worthless. So many magic arts, thousands in total, only cost one spirit stone."
Of course, not all Daoist arts are useful, and there are many useless ones.
For example, the Virility-Enhancing Art, Li Yi didn't need it.
The time for studying magic arts passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was noon the next day. If it weren't for the reminder from the smart brain Lan Ji, he would have almost missed the time.
Closing the Daoist art book, Li Yi put it into the Five-Colored Bracelet. He sighed deeply, feeling the exquisiteness of the Daoist arts.
This is the foundation of a world.
You must know that Earth's cultivation has only produced an Eye-Witness Art in these few years, which is completely incomparable.
"Cloud-Mounting."
Li Yi stood up, performed the magic art, and a cloud of auspiciousness supported him, letting him rise into the air and fly directly toward the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
At this moment, in the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, more than a hundred people were already waiting for a long time. Of course, there were not that many real experts. Most of them were masters bringing disciples, disciples bringing wives, and dragging families along, which was why there were so many.
However, Senior Bald, Old Daoist Wu, and Liu Guzi, three acquaintances, were among them. They were determined to follow Li Yi.
"Tai Yi is here on time."
"It's the Heaven Dao Sect's Cloud-Mounting and Mist-Riding Art. I haven't seen it for a long time. I really miss it."
"Are we going to the Treasure Court? This old Daoist is starting to look forward to it. I've stayed here for too long, and I have no thoughts at all."
Everyone discussed.
At the same time, in another part of the Dao Court, another cloud of auspiciousness flew over. On the cloud, there were also more than a hundred people. It was the two immortal maidens of the Heaven Dao Sect bringing the surviving disciples under their sect to gather.
"Tai Yi, the time has come. May I ask if we should set off immediately?" The goddess Yun Feizi bowed gracefully and then asked.
"Seniors, follow me and set off." Li Yi performed the Cloud-Mounting Art again. A huge cloud of auspiciousness supported the people in the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and flew into the sky, then merged with his own cloud of auspiciousness, turning into one.
Goddess Yun Feizi said: "Tai Yi, I will lead the way."
Afterward, she volunteered, driving the cloud of auspiciousness to fly in a certain direction outside the Dao Court. The cloud of auspiciousness flew past, very fast, like a white rainbow rapidly passing through the sky.
Li Yi was not to be outdone and followed closely behind.
With the blessing of magic power, crossing the sea to go to the Treasure Court was not a difficult task.
It's just that in the Age of Dharma Decline, no one would be so extravagant to use magic power to cross such a long distance.
But right now, this is the only way to take these nearly three hundred people away. Although Li Yi has the Thunder Fighter and the Shanyi, the capacity is limited. But after this experience, he still has to go to World No. 6 to buy a few transport spaceships to put in the Five Elements Bracelet. Anyway, the current storage space is very large, and everything can be put down.
Under the performance of the Cloud-Mounting Art, Li Yi and the people of the Heaven Dao Sect soon moved away from the Dao Court and arrived at the sea.
"In the Age of Dharma Decline, why are there no traces of sea monsters?" On the way, Li Yi looked at the calm sea and couldn't help but ask.
"This concubine knows."
Xiang Xiangzi smiled and replied: "Tai Yi, look at this sea, calm and peaceful, with very few fish and shrimp. Why is this? This is because after the Age of Dharma Decline, spiritual energy vanished. No matter how the sea monsters eat, they cannot be full. Even if they eat the whole sea, they cannot fill the need, and in the end, they can only starve to death."
Li Yi suddenly realized.
"The artifact spirit within the Dao treasure has already been extinguished, so there is no fear of spiritual energy pollution. Rest assured," Cang Erzi said.
He now must eat Spirit Blood Elixirs and gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to ensure his own consumption.
If he were to eat like an ordinary person, even if he were eating 24 hours a day, his stomach wouldn't be full, and he might very well starve to death himself.
The higher the cultivation realm, the greater the consumption.
This is an iron law that cannot be changed.
"It's not just that the monsters are extinct, this world has also become much smaller. Many cave heavens have collapsed, hidden, the Heaven Beyond Heaven has fled, and some big worlds have also been blocked." Xuan Yuezi said: "In the past, relying on the Cloud-Mounting Art to fly to the Treasure Continent would take at least three months, and taking a spaceship would take at least three years, but now it is estimated that it will only take one day."
"Only when spiritual energy recovers, cave heavens appear, and big worlds open, will the world return to its original appearance."
Li Yi's expression moved when he heard this, and he immediately thought of Earth.
The current Earth is actually also getting bigger.
After the cross-dimensional gate opens, it connects various worlds. In the future, if there are big worlds merging and connecting together, it will also form an extremely huge world.
This is similar to space connection, not just a simple intersection of heaven and earth. For example, Li Yi went to the Savage World. It seemed that he just walked through a forest, but in fact, he entered a world. Fortunately, it was not deep. If he walked far, he didn't know how much time it would take to come back.
After the fusion is deep in the future, and there is no distinction between each other, the people behind will not think that the Savage World is another world, but will only think that it is a part of Earth. Maybe they will also take a name called Huang Continent. ===== CHAPTER 442 =====
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