Chapter 317: Picking Flowers

After the magic power in the seven Qi seas recovered, Li Youyi looked inside his Divine Palace again.

The twelve-character Dao seed floated in mid-air, building a soul bridge, connecting with the magic power and soul in his body.

The magic power surging from this tenth spring was liquid, like a pool of water, illuminated by the twelve-character Dao seed above into five colors and seven hues, very much like glazed solution, with ten thousand divine meanings.

Since cultivating the tenth spring, Li Youyi had been reluctant to use the liquid magic power, always accumulating it.

Now that he had reached the Dao Seed Realm, liquid magic power surged out every moment. Compared to the Five Seas Realm, the spring eye was several times larger.

Li Youyi, with a trial mentality, mobilized the liquid magic power and transported it to the String Meridian and Trace Meridian. In his mind, one of the twelve divine shadows appeared, and he carefully experienced the charm he had realized while fighting it earlier.

His hands pinched finger seals, and finger shadows were layered.

"Whoosh!"

Cihang Aperture Opening was performed.

Around where his fingertips pointed, the air vibrated violently, forming a sonic boom cloud the size of a washbasin.

The speed of his finger strike exceeded the speed of sound.

A beam of finger energy flew out from the center of the sonic boom cloud, tearing the surface of the Tang Gu Sea, with a loud crashing sound, forming a long waterway.

On both sides of the waterway, waves rolled, with great momentum.

"Such strong power! The finger energy is condensed, and the penetration is terrifying, not losing to the first layer of great arts."

Li Youyi did not know how to practice the twelve scattered hands like practicing great arts; there was no division of first layer, second layer, third layer, and no complete and specific cultivation system.

"Perhaps, it is related to the scriptures I realized."

"Currently, I have just planted the Dao, using the twelve scattered hands as a bridge, and only obtained one scripture seed for each. The more scriptures I realize, the more profound I have practiced the Chan Sect's Twelve Scattered Hands, and the power will definitely be greater."

In Li Youyi's view, the twelve divine shadows presented by mobilizing the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish were not real people, but incarnations of twelve types of Dao.

He could not understand what "Dao" was, so he subconsciously anthropomorphized "Dao."

No one could explain it to him; everything could only be guessed.

Li Youyi then tried again, mobilizing the magic power in the seven Qi seas, performing the Cihang Aperture Opening move.

The power was indeed greatly reduced.

It was only equivalent to a small-success first-layer great art.

This was already very remarkable!

Li Youyi had just planted the Dao, yet he was proficient in twelve great arts. In this way, when fighting, he didn't have to rely entirely on magic tools and could have more changes, adapting to different combat environments.

One must know, Wang Shu spent three years practicing one great art and was directly conferred as a Son of God, leaping over the dragon gate like a carp.

If Wang Shu were still alive and learned that Li Youyi was proficient in thirteen great arts, he would probably be angered to death on the spot.

"Still try not to use liquid magic power, otherwise it would be too shocking to the world. Who knows, I might be caught by a Longevity Realm giant and forced to teach the cultivation method of the Twelve Scattered Hands."

"In the eyes of the outside world, I am Wind Mansion Dao planting."

Li Youyi performed the Twelve Scattered Hands one by one on the sea surface and clearly perceived that compared to before, he had new understandings and insights.

While performing the moves, he could perceive the existence of Dao, surrounding his body.

Invisible, untouchable.

One could only realize it bit by bit.

"Whoosh!"

He performed the Clear Void Cicada-Chasing Step, and the wisp of green cloud mist under his feet never dissipated.

Shuttle between the Xihe flowers, holding a magic tool jade bottle, collecting flower dew.

The main material for refining the Star Day Pill was Extreme Day Light Dew.

Yin Er said that it was a treasure born in the land of extreme day, like liquid light.

Li Youyi felt that the Tang Gu Sea could also be considered a land of extreme day. The dew of the Xihe flower was indeed not as good as the Extreme Day Light Dew, but he had studied it and found that it contained strong and scorching spirit light substances, having one or two percent of the efficacy of Extreme Day Light Dew.

After quenching, it was fully usable for refining pills.

The key was that Extreme Day Light Dew was extremely expensive, with one drop costing thirty or forty thousand Gushing Spring coins. And Xihe flower dew could be collected in large quantities every day.

Not long after, Li Youyi returned to the underground cave.

He sat at the bottom of the pitch-black cave, a strong sense of hunger came from his belly, and he took out the pre-prepared dried meat and chewed it in his mouth.

"This sense of hunger only comes every time I come out of the Time Cocoon. Could it be that Divine Palace Dao planting actually took ten days?"

Li Youyi recalled that the battle with the twelve divine shadows on the ocean of scriptures did indeed take a lot of time. The longest one took three hundred and twenty-seven fights to obtain the Dao seed scripture.

In the Spirit Realm, his thought power had already recovered more than half.

He released spirit light again, mobilizing the two fish eyes.

One was the Buddha Ancestor Relic, and one was the Dao Ancestor eyebrow bone.

"Whoosh!"

Light rose, the Taiji millstone appeared, and the space distorted.

Li Youyi sensed carefully and, when the space distorted, discovered time fluctuations.

The ocean of Dao texts and Buddhist scriptures appeared under his feet again, undulating like seawater and dazzling like a sea of stars.

He did not release battle intent, so the twelve divine shadows did not appear.

Li Youyi walked on the ocean of scriptures, his state of mind clear, observing and realizing carefully, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "I understand! The Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish is the supreme canon of the Chan Sect, containing an ocean of scriptures."

"The twelve divine shadows derived from the Twelve Scattered Hands are the twelve keys used to comprehend this canon. Or rather, they are twelve teachers who transmit the Dharma."

"Practicing the same canon, but those twelve people cultivated different results."

"I am now equivalent to gathering the strengths of twelve families to find the thirteenth result. Right, Mute?"

No one responded to him.

Li Youyi put away his complacent smile and retreated from the ocean of scriptures.

A long time had passed, and he didn't know what the situation was outside; he was a bit worried and could only wait until he returned to the Southern Clear Palace to go into seclusion and practice.

"Must find someone I can absolutely trust to help me see, what state am I in after simultaneously mobilizing the two fish eyes? Has the space changed? Has the time changed?"

Li Youyi walked out of the spider cave.

Outside it was pitch black and cold, with only weak light coming from the direction of the Black Swamp of Meditation Flowers.

In the air, a putrid smell that had accumulated for ten thousand years drifted over, containing miasma poison.

With his current cultivation base of the Dao Seed Realm, he had long since transcended the mortal body. This level of poisonous gas, when inhaled into the body, could be quickly refined by magic power.

Only poison like the "Earth Spirit Gray Mist" of Coffin Mountain still posed a certain threat to him.

Putting on his mask, Li Youyi had magic power mist overflow from under his feet, walked into the boundless dim swamp, and his figure was submerged in the miasma.

Er Feng flew out and stood on his shoulder, its six claws upright, its wings folded to wrap its body. Without looking at its head, it didn't look like a moth, but rather like a colorful bird.

Over the past nine months, Er Feng had grown a bit, reaching the second heaven of the Dao Seed Realm.

More than half of Li Youyi's wealth and resources were eaten by the seven of them.

Their growth speed was getting slower and slower. An ordinary thousand-year essence medicine, thrown to them, would not even make a splash after they ate it.

Li Youyi said to Er Feng: "We came to the Black Swamp of Meditation Flowers to do only two things. First, find the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone. Second, the Flower of Meditation."

"The more we find, the more we can exchange for a large amount of merit points, and then purchase more thousand-year essence medicines. In addition, look for the auras of Old Qi and Tuoba, and see how their harvest is."

"Whoosh!"

Er Feng spread its wings and flew into the high sky, its eyes becoming bright, and its sense of smell fully released.

Not long after, it discovered something, dived down, and flew rapidly in a certain direction.

"Is the perception so keen?"

Li Youyi performed his movement technique and followed closely.

After running for a dozen miles, a white strange flower the size of a fist appeared before his eyes. It grew in the rotten mud exposed above the water, without leaves, only a stem a foot long.

"The white Flower of Meditation is the lowest grade and can be exchanged for one thousand merit points. After taking it, it can allow a thought master to enter a deep state of meditation."

Li Youyi hurriedly took out the cold jade box and walked closer.

In the distance to the right, a dense and harsh sound came.

A group of Bone-Eroding Miasma Mosquitoes flew over, countless in number, like a black cloud.

The Flower of Meditation is like an Epiphyllum, growing extremely fast; after blooming, the fragrance will attract all kinds of fierce things nearby. Therefore, whether it can be picked depends entirely on luck, and the danger is extremely great.

Such a scale of Bone-Eroding Miasma Mosquito group, ordinary Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators would only be able to flee in panic if they encountered it.

Li Youyi ignored them, used magic power to wrap the white Flower of Meditation, picked it, and quickly put it into the cold jade box.

On the other side, Er Feng had already killed and repelled the Bone-Eroding Miasma Mosquito group.

"Bone-Eroding Miasma Mosquitoes are rank-level fierce insects, each one comparable to a martial arts expert of the first or second realm of the Five Seas Realm, why didn't you subdue them?" Li Youyi communicated with Er Feng using thought power.

Er Feng's answer made Li Youyi cry and laugh.

It said that the seven of them were usually not full, so if they subdued the Bone-Eroding Miasma Mosquito group, how would they feed them?

Li Youyi rolled his eyes; as long as food was provided to the seven of them, they could keep eating, the kind of eating that could burst themselves.

How could this be full?

Li Youyi released his thought power to probe the bottom of the rotten mud.

The Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone was found from the rotten mud deep under the Flower of Meditation. But, not every Flower of Meditation had it underneath; it all depended on luck.

Li Youyi was unlucky and gained nothing.

One day later.

Li Youyi put the fifteenth Flower of Meditation into the box.

Among them, twelve were white Flowers of Meditation, and three were blue.

The blue Flower of Meditation can be exchanged for ten thousand merit points and is a medicine to help great thought masters meditate deeply.

The most precious is the purple Flower of Meditation, which can be exchanged for one hundred thousand merit points and can help spirit thought masters meditate deeply.

Every deep meditation can greatly increase thought power.

"Eh!"

Li Youyi's eyes lit up, and his thought power nerve discovered strange fluctuations in the rotten mud under this Flower of Meditation.

A spirit light chain flew out from between his eyebrows and pierced deep into the rotten mud.

"Whoosh!"

A fragment of the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone the size of a rice grain was rolled out and fell into Li Youyi's hand. Er Feng flew over, landed on his shoulder, and stared with wide eyes.

"Finally found one, it seems it's not very difficult." Li Youyi carefully put it away.

He must collect more treasures like the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone, otherwise, after leaving the underground immortal mansion, where would he go to find them?

Without this object, the improvement of his thought power realm would definitely be extremely slow.

Er Feng made a "chirp chirp" sound in its mouth.

"Good, good, your contribution is great..."

Li Youyi narrowed his eyes and saw five figures, in a fan shape, surrounding him, holding magic tools, wearing the Rice robes of core disciples.

Looking at their posture, it was obvious that they had discovered Li Youyi collecting the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone just now and were hunting him as a fat sheep.

The atmosphere instantly became grave.

Coming close, one of the pure fairy body core disciples saw the Er Feng on Li Youyi's shoulder, his eyes changed instantly, and he immediately transmitted sound with magic power to the other four.

The five stopped their steps in unison, looked at each other, and were at a loss for a moment.

"What are you doing?"

Li Youyi wore a mask, his hands behind his back, his tone was faint, and his bearing was extraordinary.

The five looked at his straight posture, felt the invisible intent surging over, and suddenly trembled all over, immediately put away their magic tools, bowed to him, and didn't even dare to have the thought of fleeing.

One of the seventh-sea core disciples said nervously and tremblingly: "Greetings to the Fourth Son of God, we... we were just passing by..."

Li Youyi walked over, a few feet in one step: "Oh, you recognized me!"

"Cannot recognize the Son of God, but can recognize the Son of God's strange insect. When the Son of God killed Wang Shu, I was fortunate enough to watch the battle from afar. The Son of God's bearing is peerless, and we mortals can only look up from afar." The seventh-sea core disciple said.

Li Youyi said: "Saying these is useless! You were clearly trying to hunt me just now, to seize treasures, one by one, such great courage. If I were only at the Five Seas Realm cultivation base, wouldn't I have died in your hands by now?"

A fifth-sea core disciple was so scared that his legs went soft and he knelt in the mud swamp: "Son of God, spare our lives, we were really passing by, preparing to return. It was just that we discovered the light of the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone, so we came over to check, how would we dare to harm fellow disciples?"

The one before them was the one who killed the former Fourth Son of God with the same reason.

How could they not be afraid?

Before life and death, there is great fear.

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