Chapter 275

Bee Elder

Ice Osmanthus Fairy sprang up with a "whoosh", and upon seeing Yunhe appear, she instantly showed a look of delight.

Yunhe

Since Yunhe displayed strength comparable to a Yuan Ying Cultivator, how difficult it has been for her as the master of the Ice Immortal Pavilion.

What she fears most is that Yunhe will completely disappear from now on, which would spell trouble for their Ice Immortal Pavilion.

Although she knows Yunhe still needs the main ingredient of the Ice Heart Elixir, the ten-thousand-year Ice Heart, and also knows he needs Congealed Fat Dew, she cannot guarantee whether he still needs these things.

If Yunhe were to discard them, where would she go to look for their Supreme Elder?

Seeing Ice Osmanthus Fairy's delighted look, Yunhe sat down with a smile, pressed his hand downward, gesturing for her not to be too agitated.

At this moment Ice Osmanthus Fairy finally reacted, a blush appearing on her dignified face; realizing she had been somewhat indiscreet, she hastily performed a salute, then picked up the teapot and poured Yunhe a cup of spiritual tea.

Without waiting for Yunhe to speak, she again hastily took out a small jade bottle from her storage bag and pushed it toward him.

Ice Immortal Pavilion

After doing these, she only then cautiously looked at Yunhe again.

Why does Ice Osmanthus Fairy worry that Yunhe will never return?

Because she clearly knows that Yunhe fought that Yuan Ying old devil of the Ghost Sect precisely because of their Ice Immortal Pavilion.

If not for her recruitment, her promise of the Ice Heart Elixir and ten-thousand-year Ice Heart making Yunhe become the Supreme Elder of their Ice Immortal Pavilion, and his slaying of the Ghost Sect's Fu Gui Elder, they would not have provoked the Ghost Sect.

If she had not sensed the danger and wanted Yunhe to go meet them, they would not have been ambushed by Ghost Sect cultivators.

She feared Yunhe would think this outing of his was her scheme colluding with outsiders.

Although she knows the matter has little to do with her, ultimately this matter is indeed closely related to the Ice Immortal Pavilion.

Myriad Ghost Ancestor

Heart Demon Tribulation

With this, his Nascent Soul Elixir will be completely restored, its potency unaffected; this is his greatest reliance for breaking through to the Yuan Ying realm.

Cloud Escape Talisman

To be frank, Yunhe has not failed to consider this possibility; this is also one of the reasons he hid in secret for three months.

In fact, it proves that this ambush, Ice Osmanthus Fairy did not participate.

Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation

Fourth Level Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation

Third Level Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation

After all, his dealings with the Ice Immortal Pavilion are also normal.

The Ice Immortal Pavilion gave him the Ice Heart Elixir and ten-thousand-year Ice Heart, which are superb elixirs for dealing with the Heart Demon Tribulation, and he has acted on their behalf three times.

Ice Heart Elixir

Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Heart

Fortunately, he had taken precautions beforehand, and his methods far surpass those of an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, making it a narrow escape.

(maybe also) "Yuan Ying Realm" from line21: we have Yuan Ying Realm not in glossary; we should include. Add "Yuan Ying Realm".

(maybe also) "Nine Ghosts Old Fiend" from line31: we have Nine Ghosts Old Fiend. Add.

(maybe also) "Ghost Sect cultivator"? skip.

(maybe also) "Ice Immortal Pavilion's Dao lineage"? skip.

After all, he has already shown his fangs; unless it's a matter of life and death, anyone acting must consider the consequences and be prepared to withstand Yunhe's backlash if they fail.

(maybe also) "Ice Cassia Fairy" already.

(maybe also) "Bee Elder" already.

Speaking of which, in the eyes of many outsiders, Yunhe has displayed such strength that the Ice Immortal Pavilion's lineage might be about to change hands, yet Ice Osmanthus Fairy, after getting along with him for a while, does not have such worries.

Because in her view, Yunhe is a diligent cultivator devoted to the Dao, showing no interest in power, inheritance, or lineage.

(maybe also) "Elder" already.

(maybe also) "Ice Heart Elixir" already.

(maybe also) "Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Heart" already.

(maybe also) "Congealed Fat Dew" already.

(maybe also) "Nascent Soul Pill" already.

(maybe also) "Yuan Ying Realm" added.

Ice Osmanthus Fairy showed an expression of realization: "Indeed, this formation was left by that Yuan Ying old ancestor of our pavilion; later, due to some changes, after that old ancestor passed away, the formation was damaged, and our Ice Immortal Pavilion also lacks any formation inheritance, so... now that third-rank mountain-protection formation was purchased at great cost by several previous pavilion masters."

(maybe also) "Golden Core Cultivator" already.

(maybe also) "Cloud Escape Talisman" already.

(maybe also) "Fourth Level Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation" already.

(maybe also) "Third Level Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation" already.

(maybe also) "Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation" already.

(maybe also) "Yuan Ying Ancestor" already.

(maybe also) "Third Level" already.

(maybe also) "Fourth Level" already.

(maybe also) "Yuan Ying Stage" already.

(maybe also) "Yuan Ying Cultivator" already.

(maybe also) "Nascent Soul" already.

This is natural.

"Moreover." Yunhe paused, his eyes turning slightly cold, his voice dropping a few degrees, "The Ran family, trouble the Pavilion Master to help this seat, exterminate them."

After his brief understanding, the three mid-stage Golden Core cultivators who together with the Nine Ghost Old Monster ambushed him were respectively the patriarchs of the Ran, Xu, and Cai families; however, the Xu and Cai families were not martial nation cultivation clans, only the Ran family belonged within the martial nation's borders.

Ran family?

Hearing Yunhe's words filled with killing intent, Binggui Xianzi's heart jolted.

She replied, "This servant can handle it."

Yunhe's expression softened, he bowed to Binggui Xianzi, then proceeded to his own cave dwelling.

He placed the Cold Chant Flood Dragon into the cold pool.

This time he killed many people, yet he still hasn't tallied the spoils.

The three clan patriarchs, a late-stage Golden Core cultivator of the Ghost Sect, and moreover a Ghost Sect Supreme Grand Elder—their storage bags ought not disappoint him.

Several days later.

Yunhe set down the Jade Slip in his hand, rubbed his slightly sore neck.

"So that's how it is."

He drew a jar toward himself from before him, opened it, and found inside still a half-bottle of viscous liquid emitting purple light accompanied by a nauseating stench.

"The toxin extracted and refined from the corpse-killer insect's eggs can actually conceal a cultivator's divine sense probing for a short time; if it's the toxin refined from a thousand-year corpse-killer insect's eggs, even without any secret method, even a Yuan Ying cultivator's divine sense can achieve brief evasion—no wonder I almost fell victim without noticing."

Yunhe let out a sigh.

Combining the toxin with a secret method as a concealment technique is actually rather interesting.

Within the Jade Slip is recorded this secret art, called the "Ghost Insect Breath-Restraint Technique", originating from the Ghost Sect's inheritance.

He did not find the Ghost Sect's inheritance in the Nine Ghost Old Monster's storage bag, but being able to retrieve this secret art is not bad either.

Because the Jade Slip also records the breeding method for the corpse-killer insect, the primary condition being the need for yin qi and a cultivator's corpse—these Yunhe does not lack, he can fully cultivate them himself.

With this method, his concealment ability is further improved.

Moreover.

If he cultivates the corpse-killer insect and combines it with this secret art, he can't be blamed for abandoning immortal virtue; he can use this method against cultivators harboring malicious intent.

The only regret is that the toxin left in this jar is scarce, at most enough for him to use three or four times.

If he cultivates the corpse-killer insect himself, it's not that he must reach a thousand-year level of the insect's eggs to evade a Yuan Ying cultivator's divine sense probe; however, the longer the years of the eggs, the better the effect and the longer the duration, whereas short-year eggs may not be as effective.

"There should be plenty of stock within the Ghost Sect."

He put away the Jade Slip, and collected the items displayed before him one by one.

Not to mention Spirit Stones and such, the three great cultivation clans, the Ghost Sect's Supreme Grand Elder, the Spirit Stones he currently carries added together are absolutely not inferior to those of a Yuan Ying cultivator.

No, one could even say a Yuan Ying cultivator might not have more Spirit Stones than he does.

But at the Yuan Ying level, what truly holds value, unless it's top-grade Spirit Stones, otherwise the remaining Spirit Stones are certainly not as valuable as some higher-grade materials.

Of course, he also harvested a considerable amount of materials.

"I didn't expect that the Nine Ghost Old Monster really hid a lot of stuff—Heavenly Yin Silkworm silk, the Hundred Joint Withered Bones nurtured for hundreds of years in the Yin-killing land, and the Gathering Yin Stone—with these materials, the Demon Beast Body's beast soul banner can also be refined, and its quality after refinement will be higher than that of the Cultivator Body's beast soul banner; with a slight infusion of beast soul it can advance to the rank of a third-level supreme treasure, and when the Demon Beast Body breaks through to the fourth level it can smoothly advance to a fourth-level treasure."

"Moreover, some other materials happen to be just right for repairing the Ice Spirit Pavilion's fourth-level formation. Complete restoration is unrealistic, but recovering sixty to seventy percent of its power should be no problem; its effect would be considerably stronger than a third-level superior formation, and it could even be grudgingly called a quasi-fourth-level formation."

With this quasi-fourth-level formation, plus the Yuan Ying corpse-refining, as long as he is inside the Ice Spirit Pavilion, Yunhe need no longer worry about early-stage Yuan Ying cultivators.

In the Jade Slips left by that former Yuan Ying ancestor of the Ice Spirit Pavilion that Binggui Xianzi gave him, although he couldn't find the formation diagram, he still gleaned some information about that fourth-level formation from various minor details.

Having him replicate that formation is currently beyond him, but merely repairing part of it should pose no problem.

Yunhe flipped his palm, and a jet-black pearl appeared in his hand.

This is the Nine Ghost Old Monster's natal treasure.

Having reached the third-level supreme grade, the "Cold Soul Pearl".

"No wonder the Nine Ghost Old Monster could summon an incarnation of the Myriad Ghosts Old Ancestor."

This treasure can harmlessly separate a strand of a cultivator's soul and store it within to nurture.

The longer the nurturing time, the stronger the soul becomes.

When the cultivator draws the soul from this treasure, he can make his own soul even stronger!

The soul is one of a cultivator's foundations, related to his divine sense and primordial spirit; a stronger soul undoubtedly means a stronger divine sense.

Furthermore, for ghost cultivators, nurturing the soul can to some extent increase their lifespan.

The Nine Ghost Old Monster thus placed a strand of the Myriad Ghosts Old Ancestor's soul within this pearl to nurture, both to help the Myriad Ghosts Old Ancestor strengthen his soul and spirit, and to give himself an extra lifesaving measure at critical moments.

One can imagine that this strand of the Myriad Ghosts Old Ancestor's soul has already been nurtured in this pearl for an extremely long time, and with the Nine Ghost Old Monster feeding ghosts with his body and offering blood as sacrifice, he can make the Myriad Ghosts Old Ancestor's descended incarnation far surpass the "Body Possession Great Method".

"Excellent treasure!"

Although this treasure's attack and defense capabilities are rather ordinary, this soul-nurturing ability truly lives up to its supreme treasure rank.

Yunhe's divine sense is already strong, not only because of the "Thousand Gu Myriad Insects Art", but also because he possesses two bodies that give his soul innate strength; yet no one would complain about having a strong divine sense, and if he could strengthen it a bit more, that would naturally be better.

"However, this treasure, I dare not use it with my Cultivator Body, for I cannot confirm whether the Myriad Ghosts Old Ancestor has left any countermeasures upon it. So I'll give it to the Demon Beast Body, after all, the divine sense and demon sense of the two bodies are interconnected."

Besides this "Cold Soul Pearl", the other seized treasures, some given to the Demon Beast World, the little fox Bai Ning having just broken through to the third level can also use treasures.

Moreover, there are some he's too lazy to spend time dismantling and reforging; he lacks none of these materials, keeping them either to sell later or to give as gifts is also fine.

After finishing sorting the spoils, Yunhe once again took out a piece of ancient Jade Slip.

This is the Jade Slip that Binggui Xianzi found for him; among the several Jade Slips left by the Ice Spirit Pavilion's Yuan Ying ancestor, he feels this one is the most important.

Because what is recorded in this Jade Slip.

It is the insights of a Golden Core cultivator breaking through to Yuan Ying, the Nascent Soul condensation experiences!

When he first obtained this Jade Slip, Yunhe was quite surprised, never expecting the Ice Spirit Pavilion to have such a thing.

But later he gradually came to appreciate it.

Binggui Xianzi intended to use this to subtly express her apology for Yunhe's ambush incident, hoping to smooth out some knots in his heart.

One cannot help but say.

Bing Gui Xianzi, a mere mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, can keep the inheritance of the Ice Immortal Pavilion sect going to this day, still has some means and grit.

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