Chapter 186: This Cultivation Method is Fated with Me! (Two-in-One, Requesting Subscriptions)

Life is like a game of chess; worldly affairs are hard to predict.

The Jiuye Mountain Market was originally just a place with a First Tier Low Grade Spirit Vein.

For such a low-tier spirit vein location, Su Ping, with his Foundation Establishment status as Baihe Zhenren, was more than capable of holding the fort.

In the eyes of others, it even seemed a bit beneath him.

Yet, unexpectedly, as the environment across the Cultivation World gradually deteriorated.

The First Tier Spirit Vein location, which others previously thought unworthy of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's status.

Had become a hot commodity in the eyes of various small sects that possessed Foundation Establishment cultivators.

It became a place they needed to conspire together to seize by force or trickery!

This was something Su Ping had not anticipated back then.

Fortunately, as things stand now.

Su Ping felt he could still handle the schemes and plots of these small sects before him.

Furthermore, in Su Ping's view, these small sects that ran over from Nanhuang did not think about properly opening up the Ancient Relic, but instead spent all their efforts dealing with a kind-hearted cultivator like himself.

One look and it was clear the other party were not good people!

Even if he ran away, other innocent cultivators would suffer their poison.

It was likely that the higher-ups of these sect cultivators had long been a group of evil cultivators or Demon Cultivators!

As a righteous cultivator with a little bit of ability in this place, he ought to act on behalf of heaven!

Outside Jiuye Mountain, the Nanhuang cultivators, unaware that they were actually still within the range of the Array, rested for a short while.

Especially after waiting for that unlucky sword-cultivator Foundation Establishment to fully draw the three Dharma Swords from his body and strap them back onto his back.

This group of people set off again, and after the white-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator summoned a white cloud, it carried everyone as they flew along leisurely.

Throughout the entire process, they were not worried that the Foundation Establishment cultivator at Jiuye Mountain Market would come to beat a drowning dog.

After all, judging by common sense.

If the other party really wanted to kill them, being trapped in the Array would have been the best opportunity.

Merely being expelled showed that the other party ultimately dared not kill and blow things out of proportion!

These people flew to their sect's temporary stronghold.

A valley where nothing grew due to a snow disaster.

A humid mountain breeze blew through the valley.

Under the sunlight, the air shimmered with a faint white light.

Occasionally, halos would flicker, showing outsiders that this place was protected by a special Array.

The white-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator held up a Wooden Tablet.

Before long, he steered the white cloud into the valley and disappeared from sight.

Su Ping followed from high in the sky dozens of miles away, using the vision of a spirit mouse to stare from afar to avoid being discovered.

After confirming that the valley was indeed the stronghold for this batch of Nanhuang cultivators.

Su Ping's mind stirred.

Exorcist Mage Yunkong appeared on the ground, and after equipping the Storage Bag Su Ping threw out.

He sped rapidly toward the valley.

The Array set up in the valley looked dazzling, but in fact, in Su Ping's eyes, it was full of errors and omissions.

He estimated that the Array Master who set up this Array was at best just at the Entry level of the First Tier.

Wasting so many materials for nothing, it was truly a waste of heaven's gifts!

Inside the valley.

The white-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator led his sword-cultivator junior brother straight into a stone house to pay respects to their master inside.

In the stone house, the sect master of the Baiyang Sect, dressed in purple robes, slowly opened his eyes.

Golden Light that could not be concealed shot from his pupils, instantly suppressing the light of the precious pearls in the room until they all dimmed.

After a few breaths.

This sect master frowned slightly and threw a bottle of Pill to the sword-cultivator disciple.

Then he said:

"You have no major internal injuries, nor have you been implanted with any triggers."

"It seems that fellow's foundation is limited, and he is still wary of us blowing things out of proportion."

"However, the Array Master... is a bit troublesome."

"I am also an Array Master, and I know very well the difficulty of this path; those who can achieve something in it are all people with astonishing intuition."

"Even without evidence, the other party has likely guessed some of our little schemes."

"Your little tricks are useless."

As this purple-robed sect master said this, he stretched his arms, and as a series of crisp sounds erupted from his body.

Wisps of white flames emerged from his body.

Seeing this scene, the white-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator hurriedly knelt on one knee and loudly congratulated his master on his divine art advancing another step.

The purple-robed sect master smiled faintly on the surface, but he was quite proud in his heart.

Recently, as he struggled for the sect's survival, under the pressure of the general environment, he began to try practicing some of the sect's Secret Techniques.

Yet, unexpectedly, these Secret Techniques allowed his cultivation art to progress rapidly, and he had actually broken through his previous bottleneck.

It is just a pity that most of the sect's wealth had been offered to the Artifact Heart Sect.

This Central Region was actually similar to the Nanhuang region; the population everywhere had almost been carved up by various families and sects.

Otherwise, buying tens of thousands of martial artists to cooperate with secret drugs for cultivation, to see if he could break through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, would be more beneficial to the sect's development in this sect master's view.

"When dealing with an Array Master, do not try to be clever."

"You two go down and tend to your injuries first; wait for me to contact the other two sects and gather the strength of all three."

"When the time comes, we shall use brute force to break their finesse, and simply force that Baihe Zhenren to surrender!"

After the purple-robed Sect Master finished hearing the debriefing from his two prized disciples, the thought of capturing Baihe Zhenren alive to extract the secrets of his array foundations had already taken root in his heart.

But before he could even watch his two prized disciples respectfully exit the doorway.

Boom!

The entire valley suddenly emitted a dull, thunderous roar.

Immediately after, the prized array of the purple-robed Sect Master cracked open from the sky with a 'Crack!' sound!

The entire process was simply too fast.

So much so that this purple-robed Sect Master, despite being an Array Master himself, did not even have time to act to maintain the array and unleash its full potential.

The greatest protection of this stronghold vanished into thin air.

Then, the purple-robed Sect Master had just burst through the roof and arrived outdoors.

He saw a meteorite of Cold Ice falling from the sky.

"Enemy attack!"

The purple-robed Sect Master's expression changed; white flames erupted from his entire body, and he transformed into a flame giant at least ten meters tall, stretching out his hands in an attempt to block the meteorite.

Yet, the moment his hands made contact, he held on for no more than half a second... before being crushed into the ground by the meteorite!

Under the thunderous roar, the valley erupted with a white light.

In the blink of an eye, it completely transformed into a land of ice and snow.

A few breaths later.

The white-haired youth who had caused all this held an ice sword and slaughtered his way from the valley entrance to the valley floor.

There was almost no obstruction along the way.

The Qi Refining disciples of this sect had long since been turned into ice sculptures by the shockwaves.

However, a white tiger Spirit Beast did charge out along the way.

After Su Ping discovered that this white tiger Spirit Beast had long since lost its intelligence and was merely a living puppet.

He felt no pity and directly summoned a large ice sword, pinning this white tiger Spirit Beast, which was equivalent to a peak Body Cultivator, to the ground.

"You... who exactly are you! Why have you come to attack us!"

On the valley floor, the disheveled white-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator still wanted to struggle a bit.

But after seeing his sword cultivator junior brother get his head sliced off by a single sword strike just moments ago, his fighting spirit dissipated and he asked in despair.

"Evil demons and heretics, everyone has the right to punish them!"

After approaching the valley, Su Ping had already discovered the filthy deeds of this sect.

He no longer had the slightest bit of goodwill toward these cultivators.

Then, without waiting for the white-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator to say anything more.

Exorcist Mage Yunkong had already unleashed a Cold Ice Array to suppress the opponent's attempt to surge his Dharma Power, and directly threw a punch that exploded the opponent's heart.

Afterwards, Su Ping, controlling Yunkong, did not go to chase down the purple-robed Sect Master who had seen the situation was dire and fled from underground.

Instead, he stomped fiercely toward the collapsed stone house!

The ground sank, turning into a large pit.

Inside the pit, there were shockingly hundreds or thousands of corpses.

Most of these corpses were martial artists and mortals, with a small number of Loose Cultivators.

Basically, all of them had been killed after suffering inhumane torture.

Just by taking one look, Su Ping could roughly guess that these people had been used to practice Magic Art.

Judging from the memories obtained from the Blood God Sect, these Nanhuang sects probably didn't have many good people among them from top to bottom!

The Artifact Heart Sect only seemed to have decent manners because they were newcomers and, being a large sect, were watched over by the Great Immortal Sects above.

Su Ping estimated that his Jiuye Mountain Market being targeted also had to do with the fact that there was a relatively large population there.

They were viewed by these sect cultivators from Nanhuang as fresh materials for practicing their arts!

Outside the valley.

Relying on the Earth Escape Technique, the purple-robed Sect Master had escaped the moment the Meteor Fall occurred.

Just as he emerged from underground, he found that everything went black before his eyes.

He had unexpectedly appeared beside a snowy mountain.

In the icy and snowy environment, just as he intended to fly through the air, he was struck by a biting cold wind blowing from the sky.

He let out a miserable scream and fell onto the snow.

"What kind of wind is this!"

"This... where is this again!"

Watching the disheveled state of the purple-robed Sect Master.

Su Ping was still a bit worried that the opponent might be playing a trick; after all, even though they were ignorant and didn't even know they had fallen into an array map, they were still a small, insignificant sect.

They were, at the very least, a sect leader, a bona fide Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage Great Cultivator!

Su Ping did not reveal himself, but continuously utilized the power of the array map to wear down the opponent's strength.

That gust of cold wind from just now was transformed from Innate Clear Qi.

It was not yet perfect, but after refining it for a longer time, it could be transformed into a strand of Innate Calamity Wind!

By then, its power would likely increase several times over.

Su Ping summoned a tornado containing Cold Ice Heavy Water, which truly forced out this guy's trump card.

This sect master once again transformed into a giant of flames.

At the same time, two purple Talismans flew from his hand; one transformed into a long spear of thunder, and the other transformed into a hundred-meter fire dragon.

Both possessed power capable of threatening the life of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.

It was just a pity that he was trapped within this Dharma Array; despite having trump cards, he could not even force out Su Ping's true form.

Before long, the Cold Ice Heavy Water surged over, extinguishing both his thunder spear and fire dragon.

After he himself became exhausted, his body was covered by the Cold Ice Heavy Water.

In a short amount of time, frost covered his entire body.

As the chill seeped into the purple-robed sect master's body, leaving him unable to even self-destruct,

Su Ping then sent a voice transmission to conduct an interrogation.

At first, the interrogation did not go smoothly.

Fortunately, some knowledge from the memories of the Blood God Sect came in handy at this moment.

Unexpectedly, this purple-robed sect master did not recognize that he had entered a Dharma Array, but he did recognize the secret arts of the Blood God Sect.

He immediately suffered a mental breakdown and began to beg for mercy, truthfully reporting the information he knew, only asking not to be turned into an incense-offering boy...

This gave Su Ping a new understanding of the Blood God Sect's notoriety in Nanhuang.

And from the mouth of this purple-robed sect master,

Su Ping also learned that it was a last resort for these small Nanhuang sects to run to this Central Region.

Their populations and Spirit Veins in Nanhuang had either been seized or destroyed by the Demonic Path.

Plus, the large sects led by the Artifact Heart Sect were also fleeing.

Originally able to survive by playing the large sects against each other, they were now left with no way out.

Those with better talent, such as this purple-robed sect master's senior brother and the former sect leader, simply defected to the large sects to become Deacons.

Only someone like him, who was neither here nor there and unwilling to start as an Outer Sect Disciple, could only take the disciples in his sect onto an Immortal Boat provided by a large sect and come to this unfamiliar region to reclaim land.

As for the corpses in the stronghold,

This purple-robed sect master did not feel there was anything wrong with them.

Those martial artists and mortals were all bought by him from other Markets.

Their purpose was meant for practicing arts.

As for the claim that using humans to practice arts was the way of the Heavenly Demon,

Every sect and faction in Nanhuang had more or less similar Evil Arts and Magic Arts.

The difference, on one hand, was whether they were used regularly or only during breakthroughs.

On the other hand, large sects generally would hunt down disciples who went astray and began slaughtering indiscriminately while practicing Magic Arts.

At other times, everyone just turned a blind eye.

Su Ping learned the locations of the other two conspiring sects from the other party's mouth.

And after discovering they were not far away,

Su Ping controlled Exorcist Mage Yunkong, coordinating with his own Dharma Array and the assistance of the Spirit Bead.

Before the time of the Memory Illusion ran out, he broke through the next two sect strongholds in succession.

While imprisoning the other party's Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Dharma Array,

he also discovered various corpses in the stations of these fellows.

These small sects from Nanhuang seemed to have their operational guidelines cut from the same cloth.

Furthermore, Su Ping actually discovered two surprises.

In the Storage Bag of one sect master, he found a communication Wooden Talisman and an Inheritance Jade Slip from the Demonic Path's Demon Heart Sect.

In the possession of a Foundation Establishment Elder of another sect, he discovered a wooden statue of an evil god, confirming that this guy was a degenerate who had colluded with evil cultivators.

Three small sects losing contact simultaneously.

This could be considered a major event for the current Artifact Heart Sect.

Xiao Mu Zhenren was also alarmed and personally piloted an Immortal Boat, accompanied by several Inner Sect Deacons, to rush to the scene.

After first going to the White Sun Sect and seeing the frozen and purified corpses in the pit, Xiao Mu Zhenren's expression was somewhat unnatural.

The other Deacons, however, were not surprised.

They only felt that this small sect was a bit reckless and did not think it was particularly improper.

But after heading to the second sect and discovering the traces of the Demon Heart Sect left by Su Ping,

Xiao Mu Zhenren was both angry and shocked, and the several Deacons even cursed on the spot to demonstrate their loyalty to the sect.

It was truly because the conflict between the Artifact Heart Sect and the Demon Heart Sect had already reached a boiling point.

Once suspected by the sect of having connections with the Demon Heart Sect, that would be a massive problem!

And upon seeing the evil god wooden statue in the ruins of the third small sect, as well as the Blood Sacrifice Dharma Array underground,

these Artifact Heart Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators who came to investigate were all breaking out in cold sweat.

They did not dare to continue investigating.

They hurriedly reported the information they had obtained.

Involving the Demon Heart Sect and an evil god.

The Artifact Heart Sect's reaction was also extremely fast.

More Immortal Boats flew over, and even Golden Core Elders and High Monks from the Great Golden Light Temple came over.

And after seeing the familiar traces of frost left behind,

these Golden Cores all thought of that unfathomable white-haired Cultivator.

"Amitabha, it seems that benefactor who hates evil as a personal enemy has struck again."

"Since it was that person, I imagine they only took action after discovering these small sects were involved with evil cultivators, so there is no need to investigate further."

The Golden Core of the Artifact Heart Sect echoed the High Monk's words.

Both sides tacitly agreed not to continue the investigation.

Regarding the nearby Jiuye Mountain Market.

Only Xiao Mu Zhenren had made a few routine inquiries there.

No Cultivator believed that Baihe Zhenren could sweep through three sect strongholds in a single day.

After all, even the weakest of these small sects had two at Foundation Establishment!

And they possessed various Evil Arts, Magic Art methods, and trump cards for survival.

Believing that Baihe Zhenren was the culprit would be better than believing that Chiyuan Xianren would emerge from seclusion tomorrow to sweep away all the Evil Spirits in the world again.

Moreover, looking at the traces on the battlefield, it was clearly the work of that white-haired Cultivator with a profound background.

Jiuye Mountain, on the contrary, was not troubled by the white-haired Cultivator.

Instead, in the eyes of the investigating Cultivators, it became strong evidence proving that they were not involved with evil cultivators or the Demonic Path!

After Su Ping finished cleaning up those three small sects.

He stayed quietly in the Jiuye Mountain Market to cultivate.

And while he was at it, after returning to the Pot Heaven, he took stock of this harvest.

Then he couldn't help but smile.

These small sects in Nanhuang had very average strength, but they possessed quite a few Inheritance Jade Slips.

Those Demonic Path secret techniques and miraculous Evil Arts.

Su Ping did not learn them himself, but that did not stop him from understanding them a little while sending them to the Great Library to increase the building's foundation.

Additionally, Su Ping also obtained some rare materials that were priceless and hard to find from the pockets of those sect masters.

These materials eventually became embellishments within the array diagram.

Becoming one of the foundations of the array diagram.

After those sect Foundation Establishment cultivators were drained of their knowledge, Su Ping sent them to their deaths and buried their remains in the Burial Ground.

Inside the Zhaoyue Tingfeng Pavilion.

After Su Ping brought himself to his best state.

He took a deep breath and took out the Inheritance Jade Slip from the one who colluded with the Demonic Path's Demon Heart Sect.

Recorded in the Jade Slip was the Demon Heart Sect's cultivation method: Heart Refining Art of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

This cultivation method could strengthen Divine Sense and steadily improve supernatural powers.

It was a major reliance for the geniuses of the Demon Heart Sect to crush opponents at the same realm.

Of course, the premise was that one could successfully practice it and maintain one's original nature and heart.

Su Ping was initially resistant to this cultivation method.

But after reading the instructions, the thought that he could try it out sprouted.

Strengthening Divine Sense and improving supernatural powers were full of seductive magic for every Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Of course, Su Ping only intended to try it first; he would only formally cultivate it once he could purify it and ensure there were no side effects.

As he circulated the cultivation method, pale white flames emerged in Su Ping's heart.

Combined with his own Divine Sense.

Su Ping could feel the emotional fluctuations of every person and every Spirit Beast in the Pot Heaven.

With a thought, Da Hei and the others already had a contract with him, and they quickly outputted their own emotional fluctuations to feed the flames burning in Su Ping's heart.

Soon, this power, similar to incense refined by demonic fire, flowed through Su Ping's entire body.

The emotional fluctuations were too small, or rather, the quantity was not enough.

Su Ping did not feel any enhancement in his Divine Sense or supernatural powers.

Instead, strange thoughts surfaced in the depths of his mind from time to time.

Su Ping knew that these thoughts, which seemed to emerge on their own, were the side effects of practicing this Magic Art.

Su Ping took a drop of Purification Potion.

He only felt his brain buzz slightly.

"Hoo!"

Su Ping closed his eyes again, and after finding no more strange thoughts emerging.

Su Ping could not help but show a hint of joy.

The Purification Potion could purify the side effects of this cultivation method!

In this way, the time for his own supernatural powers to reach Great Success could also be accelerated!

And the supernatural powers at Great Success could, in turn, accelerate the cultivation of his main body.

Sure enough, this divine art was destined to be with him!