Chapter 267

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "The path of mental power cultivation is extremely dependent on talent and also relies on family wealth."

"The distribution of martial cultivator talent and physique decreases uniformly from low to high. Young Heaven Sons are rare in every generation; there are some Transcendent ones, Nine-Spring Supreme Persons are more numerous, and then come the Eight-Springs, Seven-Springs..."

"Mental power is different! At the level of a Great Reader, there are only top geniuses and mediocre ones; there are very, very few people in between."

"It is precisely because of this that there are far fewer mental power practitioners than martial path practitioners."

"As Li Ling said, Spirit Readers under sixty are few and far between in the Jiuli tribe; in fact, they can only be considered the batch of people with average talent. They are neither up nor down, having hope of impacting the Holy Spirit Reader in the second sixty-year cycle of their lives, but the hope is extremely slim. Out of ten, I estimate only one can succeed."

"The top mental power practitioners! For example, Li Ling's father, I estimate that he became a Holy Spirit Reader before the age of sixty. Such people are seen once in a hundred years even in thousand-year-old clans."

Li Li Youyi said, "Could it just be because the family wealth is deep? If it weren't for the financial support of the entire Cangli tribe, Old Li would probably have found it very difficult to become a Holy Spirit Reader before the age of sixty, with a lifespan of three hundred years."

Mental power cultivation is different from the martial path; once one becomes a Holy Spirit Reader, one is instantly no longer a mortal whose lifespan is trapped within two sixty-year cycles, and can live for at least three hundred years.

Like an immortal!

Those who seek longevity through the martial path need to break free from one longevity lock after another.

Li Ling rolled her eyes at Li Li Youyi.

Although she only learned half a year ago that Li Li Songgu was actually a Holy Spirit Reader.

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "Wealth is also a part of a practitioner's talent! It is precisely because of this that martial cultivators with higher family backgrounds automatically add a layer of talent. You were able to achieve today's accomplishments in over a year; didn't you also rely on wealth?"

Li Li Youyi had to agree and laughed, "In terms of wealth, I relied on acquired efforts."

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "A Great Reader who reaches the Disaster Fire Realm before the age of thirty... you should have learned when participating in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival; it is quite easy to gather one or two hundred of them across the twenty-eight states of Lingxiao."

"These people are already considered to have high talent! But even if they cultivate for another ten years, those among them who can become Spirit Readers are few and far between."

"Li Ling, you tell him why this is."

Li Ling, who was already seventeen, was graceful and had a height of 1.7 meters; her figure had become full, and she was still barefoot, revealing long and straight jade legs: "Because one must experience the Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire to possess the qualifications to impact the Spirit Reader."

"From breaking through to a Great Reader, to cultivating the spiritual light in the Spirit Realm to perfection, is considered reaching the Disaster Fire Realm. And the Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire, calculated, is equivalent to nine times this process."

"Mist Master said that my mental power and talisman talent are already outstanding among my generation. But it took more than half a year to complete the first refinement."

"Before the age of twenty-five, I have hope of completing the Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire. Before the age of thirty, I have hope of becoming a Spirit Reader."

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "Becoming a Spirit Reader before the age of thirty is considered a genius on the mental power path, and one has a chance to become a Holy Spirit Reader before the age of sixty."

Li Li Youyi calculated, "I spent 100,000 Spring Coins and took nearly half a year to cultivate the Spirit Realm to perfection. In other words, to impact the Spirit Reader, I have to wait at least three to five years, and I have to spend a million Spring Coins?"

Li Ling knew how perverted Li Li Youyi's mental power cultivation was; in any case, she felt inferior and had a sense of frustration at being easily caught up no matter how hard she tried.

She said, "You spent most of your time on martial path cultivation this half-year; mental power cultivation naturally costs a huge amount."

Li Li Youyi thought of the spatial power of the Buddha Relic: "If I use spatial power to assist in cultivation, will it be faster?"

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "I don't think it will be much faster than swallowing Light Flame Pills and meditating under the Fusang Divine Tree. Unless you take the Buddha Relic directly to Tang Gu Sea, but you might not be able to return to the Lingxiao Life Realm! That sea area is rumored to be millions of miles wide and is the meeting place of the three realms, but it is extremely dangerous."

"Before becoming a Transcendent, I don't suggest you go on a one-way trip without leaving a way back."

"The treasure I mentioned that can assist in impacting the Spirit Reader realm is called the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone."

"This object is a holy relic of the ancient great sect, the Pogaluo Sect, which has disappeared in the long river of history."

"More than a thousand years ago, I obtained some Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragments in a secret realm. According to the records on the secret realm murals, a complete Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone was as large as a mountain and was the foundation that allowed the Pogaluo Sect to dominate this land for ten thousand years."

"At its peak, the Pogaluo Sect was several times broader than the Lingxiao Life Realm in the state of three hundred states a thousand years ago, and its territory reached many areas of the current Nether Realm of the Dead."

"But as the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone was continuously consumed and became scarcer, the high-level officials of the Pogaluo Sect began to control and even prohibit the mining of the star stone. Not long after, due to uneven distribution and mutual suspicion, a civil war broke out."

"In that battle, the remaining Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone was shattered!"

"After tens of thousands of years, the fragments of the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone were also almost exhausted, completely becoming a legend."

Li Ling said, "No wonder I have never heard of this object."

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "I brought back dozens of Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone fragments to the Brother Zuoqiu Sect back then. It's hard to say if the Brother Zuoqiu Sect still has any left, although the possibility is slim. But you can go and ask Zuo Qiu Ling, or that old guy of the Confucian Dao lineage; one piece is enough!"

Li Li Youyi said, "But I still need to complete the Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire first, right?"

"With your mental power talent, plus the Fusang Divine Tree and wealth, if you temporarily put down the martial path and go all out, two years, two years should be enough to complete the Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire."

Master Master Lingwei Master laughed, "Breaking through to become a Spirit Reader in two or three years—such mental power talent will surely be able to shock the people of the Lingxiao Life Realm again. The martial path is crippled, but mental power has risen; you are still a person above others."

"Then I will teach you the Dao Sect formation and Dao Sect mental techniques, and combine them with insect control; you will absolutely be able to fight and be invincible among your generation."

Obviously, Master Master Lingwei Master really wanted Li Li Youyi to put his main energy into mental power cultivation and inherit his mantle, so his tone was full of temptation.

The Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire would take two years, and the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone was ethereal.

This path was not easy to walk!

Chan Hai Guan Wu held an Xihe flower in her hand and suddenly said, "I can refine top-grade magic pills, Star Day Pills; swallowing one can complete one refinement of Disaster Fire. Swallowing nine can complete the Nine Refinements of Disaster Fire."

Only by reaching the level of a Spirit Reader can one refine magic pills and magic artifacts.

Therefore, every Spirit Reader is exceptionally precious to major forces, like a cash cow.

The grades of magic pills are divided into: low-grade magic pills, mid-grade magic pills, top-grade magic pills, and supreme-grade magic pills.

Light Flame Pills belong to low-grade magic pills and are worth about a thousand Spring Coins.

Five Seas Pills belong to mid-grade magic pills and are worth about ten thousand Spring Coins, and they are priceless. The pill formulas and refining materials are all monopolized by major forces at the level of thousand-year-old sects, controlling the promotion channel of the Five Seas Realm.

The "Star Day Pill" that Chan Hai Guan Wu just mentioned is a top-grade magic pill; its price is naturally more expensive, and normally, it requires a Holy Spirit Reader to refine it.

As for the "Longevity Pill" mastered by the Dueguan, it belongs to a priceless item and is a spiritual treasure above magic pills.

A look of ecstasy appeared on Li Li Youyi's face.

"Xihe flower and Extreme Day Light Dew can be used as the main medicine, and fourteen auxiliary medicines are needed. The Spring Coins you have here... are barely enough!" Chan Hai Guan Wu said.

Li Li Youyi's smile disappeared; the Spring Coins stored in the blood-mud space also had to be used to buy Dao lotuses and Dao fruits for martial path cultivation. Moreover, spring fluid might also need to be bought again.

Master Master Lingwei Master said, "Using top-grade magic pills to cultivate Disaster Fire is a serious waste; isn't it a bit too extravagant? Star Day Pills are completely enough for a Spirit Reader's cultivation."

Chan Hai Guan Wu said, "Then forget it!"

Forget it?

Li Li Youyi hurriedly said, "Give me a list, I'll go buy them; the Jiuli Hidden Sect can subsidize half anyway."

"I'll go buy the fourteen auxiliary medicines; it's a good time to go out and get some air."

Chan Hai Guan Wu's cultivation had grown significantly, and her confidence was much stronger; she instructed Li Ling to use the boundary bag to hold the Spring Coins, and then said, "You go to the Jiuli Hidden Sect and get some Extreme Day Light Dew. Not too much, refining eighteen pills, eighteen drops will be enough!"

"Are eighteen drops enough? Master Master Lingwei Master said Star Day Pills are pills taken by Spirit Readers, so let's refine more! If the money is not enough, we can sell dragon bones."

Li Li Youyi had four dragon bones; two were given by the Hidden Lord, and two were given by Zuo Qiu Brother Zuoqiu Hongting.

Dragon bones are body-refining treasures; refining one into the body can make one's physical combat power comparable to the weakest martial cultivator of the first heaven of the Dao Seed Realm. At the same time, it can reshape the root bone.

Li Li Youyi felt that at the current stage, breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm as soon as possible was far more important than refining dragon bones to cultivate the physical body.

Other martial cultivators were flocking to dragon bones. Li Li Youyi, however, was noncommittal, feeling that dragon bones might not be stronger than his own root bone.

Yin Eleven, Yin Twenty-four, and others had returned to Lizhou with the Hidden Lord half a year ago.

Since the war in Lizhou had ended, the young Hidden People naturally had to return to the Jiuli Insect Valley to cultivate.

Old Qin had not appeared since escaping Qiuzhouzhoucheng half a year ago, worried that his aura would be detected by the old guys of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect, causing unnecessary trouble.

Old Zhuo was still in Qiuzhouzhoucheng, but he was elusive. He only told Li Li Youyi that he would appear when Li Li Youyi needed him most.

Li Li Youyi didn't believe that he would protect him personally at any time, and he felt very insecure in his heart.

There was no way.

For such ancient Hidden People who had lived for who knows how many years, how could Li Li Youyi control them?

He could only believe that there was such a life-saving talisman by his side.

The sun set, and night had just fallen.

Li Li Youyi ascended to the Fourth Heaven of Taoli Mountain and headed to the Council Hall to request an audience with the newly appointed head of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect, Zuo Qiu Zuoqiu Cangwu.

Since the promulgation of the Longevity Martial Prohibition Order, Zuo Qiu Ling, who had reached the Longevity Realm, had stepped down from the position of head.

Although Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators can stabilize blood energy, delay aging, and consolidate their foundation, they are still in the category of mortals, and their lifespan can only reach a maximum of two sixty-year cycles, which is 120 years.

This is the limit of a mortal's lifespan!

In the first sixty-year cycle, the body is at its absolute peak, desperately raising resources, training, and fighting.

In the second sixty-year cycle, all Dao Seed Realm experts who have reached the seventh heaven or above and have hope of impacting the Longevity Realm will drop the worldly affairs in their hands and cultivate with all their might. Either they go into seclusion, or they head to the Nether Realm of the Dead and major secret realms to seek adventures.

It is precisely because of this that the Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators with very loud reputations in the world are all figures on the "Sixty-Year Record," aged within sixty years, and are the power-holders of worldly affairs for major forces.

Zuo Qiu Zuoqiu Cangwu is the number one expert of the Dao Seed Realm within the sixty-year cycle of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect.

(End of chapter)