Chapter 331

After fleeing several thousand li, Yunhe finally put away his wings and landed in a desolate, uninhabited region of poor mountains and evil waters.

Using the Earth Escape Technique to go underground, he drove his ice sword to simply carve out a temporary cave dwelling, set up a formation, then sat cross-legged on the ground to regulate his breath.

"Ridiculous, I'm not so stupid as to fight over a token for someone else, possibly even offending a major power thereby."

"Moreover, I already have that token, so there's even less need to get involved."

Assisting either side would offend the other, and it would likely be an irreparable offense, since severing someone's immortal fate is tantamount to taking their life—a major contradiction.

On the contrary, if he helps neither side, it appears he offends both, but that's not actually the case.

Such a contradiction is negligible for a Yuan Ying Cultivator, especially when there are sufficient benefits or threats.

Yunhe quietly regulated his breath for three days, occasionally scanning the surroundings with his divine sense; after confirming that neither side had pursued, he awoke from meditation.

"This trip has truly been a windfall."

Thinking of this harvest, Yunhe revealed a satisfied smile.

A five-colored fan, an ancient treasure Daoist cap, a Bagua mirror, five Jade Slip, ten ancient books, a key, three spheres that appear to be disposable magical treasures, a damaged Fourth Level puppet, countless remnants of Third Level puppets, a large quantity of gemstones and pearls, and even a stone jade bed.

With so much loot, frankly, this is truly the first time he's ever had such a haul.

Pfft!

With a flick of Yunhe's wrist, a five-colored fan appeared in his hand.

This fan is a feather fan, except its feathers are five-colored, each distinct, exuding five-element spiritual qi.

This is Yunhe's true objective for this trip to the Floating Cloud Senior's cave dwelling.

Based solely on its aura, he could confirm that this treasure is certainly related to the "Great Longevity Grand Five Elements True Scripture".

After holding it in his palm and examining it carefully for a moment, confirming there was nothing unusual, Yunhe infused his divine sense into it.

Whether or not the Floating Cloud Senior had previously refined this treasure, after Yunhe imprinted his spiritual mark and smeared his essence blood upon it, it counts as a preliminary refinement of the fan.

"A Fourth Level middle-grade magical treasure, the Five Elements Fan."

After refining it, Yunhe came to understand the fan's characteristics.

Within the fan, the five-element power flows freely, accompanied by numerous five-element Dao arts; a light flick can deploy these arts at will.

However.

Yunhe involuntarily furrowed his brows.

After turning the fan over several times, he still found nothing.

Could it be

Yunhe circulated his internal five-element mana, slowly infusing it into the fan.

Hum—

As expected, upon infusing his five-element mana, the fan emitted a slight tremor, and Yunhe could even feel his own internal five-element mana spontaneously beginning to circulate the grand heavenly circuit!

Feeling this change, Yunhe's eyes flashed with bright light.

"Indeed, five-element mana is required to fully drive this fan!"

Because after his five-element mana entered, a highly concealed seal within the fan quietly opened.

Immediately after.

The Five Elements Fan detached from Yunhe's palm and hovered in the air, whereupon rows of fine ancient characters appeared, namely the language of ancient cultivators.

Yunhe gazed intently at those characters and murmured:

"Great Longevity. Grand Five Elements. Five Elements Spiritual Body"

Instantly, his heart surged with ecstasy.

Found it!

I originally thought I would need to use this five-colored fan as a clue to seek the technique, but I never expected that the fan, which appears to be a magical treasure on the surface, is actually the inheritance artifact of the "Great Five Elements Sect"!

It contains the techniques of the "Great Longevity Grand Five Elements True Scripture", as well as secret arts and divine abilities!

"Ten layers, eleven layers, sixteen layers! The techniques recorded in the fan actually go up to the sixteenth layer!"

Doesn't that mean this technique is sufficient for him to cultivate to the early stage of Return to the Void?

Return to the Void technique!

You must know that in this realm, reaching Nascent Soul is the limit; Return to the Void is a legendary realm attainable only after ascension to the upper realms!

Technique, no worries!

"Secret art—Five Elements Spiritual Body."

The fan also contains the method Yunhe urgently needs to condense the "Five Elements Spiritual Body", which is a higher-level spiritual body compared to the "Small Five Elements Spiritual Body"; if successfully condensed, it will surely greatly increase Yunhe's cultivation speed.

"Huh?"

"No condensation method for the 'Great Five Elements Spiritual Body'?"

He calmed his mind and continued to browse downward.

"The Great Five Elements Sect is sealed; only those who have condensed a Five Elements Spiritual Body may enter via spiritual body arts?"

The fan actually also records the location of the ruins of the Great Five Elements Sect!

However, only cultivators who have condensed a Five Elements Spiritual Body can enter.

The Great Five Elements Sect is an ancient super-powerful sect; its location is not in this world, but a cave paradise torn open by ancient great cultivators when the ancient immortal realm was not yet fully stabilized, so finding it is extremely difficult, let alone the need to condense a Five Elements Spiritual Body to open it.

After that, the information ends, or perhaps it has been concealed.

One would think that only after successfully condensing a Five Elements Spiritual Body can one browse it.

"In that case, the ruins of the Great Five Elements Sect's mountain gate will sooner or later be a place I must venture into."

Yunhe muttered softly.

"But no matter what, the problem of the technique is solved. Moreover, we also have the method to condense the Five Elements Spiritual Body."

Just as condensing the Small Five Elements Spiritual Body requires the essence blood of five-element spirit beasts, condensing the Five Elements Spiritual Body likewise needs such essence blood, except the demands on the blood are higher and the condensation method is more complex.

This made Yunhe let out a long breath.

He only felt that his hanging heart finally let go.

As for the essence blood and such, after a good sleep with the Demon Beast Body, one can give it a try.

If even his Demon Beast Body's essence blood fails to meet the requirement, then condensing a Five Elements Spiritual Body in the cultivation world would be difficult for him.

He silently committed the technique to memory, memorizing all its secret arts and divine abilities in one go, and then Yunhe stored the fan in his dantian's qi sea.

Solving the long-standing problem with the technique undoubtedly lifted his spirits.

After retrieving the Five Elements Fan, he took out the ancient treasure dao crown.

The advantage of an ancient treasure is that it can be used straight away, without complex refinement or day-and-night sacrificial refining to fully unleash its power.

However, ancient treasures cannot be stored inside the body, making them somewhat awkward to use in combat; moreover, although they are powerful, their mana consumption is several times that of ordinary magical treasures, so ordinary cultivators are really not keen on using them.

As Yunhe infused mana into this dao crown, a mysterious hazy aura rose from it, and the ancient treasure actually vanished from his sight; even his divine sense sweeping over could hardly detect it.

It's actually a concealment treasure?

Yunhe's eyes lit up.

He tried wearing the dao crown on his head, and after infusing mana again, his figure, after a brief blur, disappeared.

A mid Nascent Soul cultivator's divine sense would probably fail to detect it; as for whether a late Nascent Soul cultivator could notice, we don't know yet.

But even so, the usefulness of this ancient treasure is beyond doubt.

The lotus crown isn't bad-looking either.

This ancient treasure dao crown is jade-colored, and wearing it on his head actually matches his attire quite well.

Wearing it directly on the head also saves the time of taking out this treasure.

In that case, this ancient treasure is still quite good.

If I also pair it with a cyan dao robe and a horsetail whisk, I can also dress up as a daoist.

Yunhe said with a smile.

Afterwards he took out a bagua mirror.

This mirror is ancient bronze in color, and its mirror surface is actually very clear.

The Floating Cloud Bagua Mirror appears to be a magic treasure personally refined by Senior Floating Cloud; it is a device for laying formations.

After spending some time refining it, Yunhe gained a certain understanding of this treasure.

Formation-laying devices are possessed by most formation masters, though their styles may differ somewhat.

The function of a formation-laying device is to survey the environment, speed up formation laying, and even if it's a matching device, it can also increase the power of the laid formation to some extent.

It is a typical auxiliary-type magic treasure.

Moreover, some formation masters habitually store commonly used formations inside the formation-laying device; this allows the formation to be set up very quickly, and even without formation plates and flags, one can temporarily activate twenty to thirty percent of the power of the stored formation in a short time.

After his preliminary refinement of this treasure, he discovered that Senior Floating Cloud had likewise left three of his commonly used formations inside this formation-laying device.

They are actually all fourth-level formations!

Fourth-level lower grade, Conceal Spirit and Gather Breath Formation.

Fourth-level lower grade, Embrace Origin and Gather Spirit Formation.

Fourth-level lower grade, Peaks and Metropolis Thick Earth Formation.

The three formations respectively have the effects of gathering breath, gathering spirit, and defense.

Good, good, good.

Seeing the formation patterns of these three formations, Yunhe was overjoyed.

Although these three formations are only fourth-level lower grade and cannot reflect Senior Floating Cloud's formation mastery, they are also exactly what Yunhe currently needs most.

If I can fully grasp these three formations, my formation level will definitely officially enter the fourth-level tier, becoming a genuine fourth-level lower grade formation master!

It's not necessarily the strongest, but it's absolutely the most suitable for him.

Obtaining a fourth-level lower grade magic treasure actually also came with the patterns of three fourth-level lower grade formations as a bonus.

Its value even exceeds that of the ancient treasure dao crown.

Afterward.

Yunhe then took out one by one the jade slips and ancient books obtained from this trip to Senior Floating Cloud's cave dwelling.

Before, he only gave it a quick sweep; now he can carefully discern what exactly is recorded in them.

Among them, part was obtained from the stone jade bed, and another part was obtained together with the Five Elements Fan.

Browsing these jade slips is extremely time-consuming, so Yunhe only looked at the beginning, made a preliminary probe of one or two, then sorted them by category and placed them, preparing to store them in his storage bag.

The content recorded in these jade slips and ancient books is mostly irrelevant; only two jade slips each contain a cultivation method.

However, they are not especially powerful cultivation methods; although each has its own characteristics, that's about it.

So Yunhe didn't examine them much; he just glanced a few times and then put them away.

Huh?

Just.

When Yunhe was just about to put these jade slips and ancient books into his storage bag, he discovered that his storage bag actually had an anomaly.

This was the first time he had encountered an anomaly inside his storage bag.

You know, his storage bag contains all his possessions, so he cannot be careless.

He hurriedly sank his divine sense, and after a search, Yunhe finally determined the source of the anomaly.

It was actually Senior Floating Cloud's stone jade bed!

And.

Not only was it the jade bed, but the gems and pearls that the Golden Core Refining Corpse Sect had taken from its hall also floated up in the storage bag along with the radiance emanating from the stone jade bed.

A large amount of gems and pearls, like the stars filling the sky, surrounded the stone jade bed.

At first glance it seemed extremely chaotic, but upon looking closely, it seemed that the distribution of these gems and jade contained some special pattern.

Between each gem and jade, it was as if invisible threads linked them together, finally converging onto that stone jade bed.

After confirming there was no danger, Yunhe then calmed down and examined it carefully for a long time.

His eyes, as if having realized something, slowly widened, revealing a hint of astonishment.

"This is."

(End of chapter)