Chapter 58: Inherited Eccentricity from the Supreme

Daoist Zhen didn't take the harm he caused to the child to heart at all. After returning to the Wei estate, he secretly pondered: "I entered this Wei family to use their power to find the person who stole the giant snake's corpse. I didn't expect to see a better flying sword embryo in a Qi Refining practitioner, and this person is most likely the one who ruined my good deed."

"Taking action against him like this can't be considered without reason!"

"It's just that when I tested the Wei family before, Wei Wei Lecheng was an old fox and had no intention of pulling chestnuts out of the fire for me. I intended to trick them into killing the boy, and then I would take the opportunity to steal the flying sword and run far away, leaving all the consequences to the Wei family."

"But now it seems that Wei Wei Lecheng only wants to plot my pill refining technique and has no intention of paving the way for me. To gain his trust yesterday, I had to leak some skills to my cheap disciple. This Wei family has some pill refining inheritance, but it is far inferior to my master's inheritance. My master's lineage is passed down to only one person... I will never take a disciple until my lifespan is exhausted."

"This cheap disciple..."

A flash of ferocity appeared in Daoist Zhen's eyes, and he sneered in his heart: "Since you don't want to take action, then I have to force you!"

He stood up and summoned Wei Wei Taiping. Wei Wei Taiping bowed to his cheap master, but heard his cheap master suggest: "Since you have become my disciple today and offered many gifts, as a master, I should bestow something upon you. It's just that all the magic treasures on me are fundamental things that I have cultivated with my life, so I cannot easily bestow them upon you... Only after I pass away will I pass on all my magic treasures."

"Although the Wei family has some family property, it is all in the hands of those elders with profound cultivation, and only the close descendants of the family will be bestowed. Your father is in his prime, and the family property is still to be left to your eldest brother."

"So I see you don't have any magic treasures in your hands... I have an opportunity for you here!"

Wei Wei Taiping was overjoyed. Originally, he thought that after learning the pill refining technique from this cheap master, he would find an opportunity to plot against this Daoist Zhen with his father and obtain all his magic treasures. But he was also worried. His father always favored his eldest brother more. Although he was his master, he might not get much.

He didn't expect there to be an opportunity here, so he kowtowed twice and said: "Thank you for the generous gift, Master! The disciple will never forget the master's kindness!"

"Don't be in such a hurry..." Daoist Zhen smiled: "This opportunity still requires your own efforts. This is a top-quality magic treasure embryo... When I eliminated that strange snake the day before yesterday, I discovered that the large plum tree in Sanyang Township has its own mysteries. It is rooted on a vein of Earthly Fiend Yin Energy, which is why that strange snake became a demon."

"This plum tree is a strange species, and it has been absorbing fiend qi for a hundred years. It is close to maturity and is an excellent embryo for refining magic treasures."

"If you cut down that tree and refine it with effort, it will not be difficult to refine it into a top-quality magic treasure..."

Daoist Zhen gave him a few more pointers. Wei Wei Taiping naturally agreed to everything. He retreated happily, his heart full of that future magic treasure, his greed covering his heart, and there was an indistinct haze covering his wisdom. After Wei Wei Taiping retreated, he wanted to report this to his father, but then he thought—

"Ye Ye always favors eldest brother. If I get that spirit material, what if he turns around and bestows it on eldest brother?"

"It's better to get the thing in hand first and make it a done deal." He summoned his own trusted followers, a group of evil servants and thugs, and under the crowd's escort, swaggered towards Sanyang Village.

Brother Qian Chen, after dancing with his sword on Nine Truths Lake that night, began to explore the edge of the Great Marsh. It is true that deep mountains and great marshes have many dragons and snakes. Along the way, Brother Qian Chen didn't know how many kinds of poisonous insects and snakes he had seen. All things in heaven and earth have their own abilities. Many insects are weak and die with a pinch, but if a Core Formation practitioner is slightly careless, they will lose their lives.

For example, the poisonous insects in the poisonous swamp that shoot shadows with sand, or the tiny ones invisible to the naked eye, which often form groups of hundreds of millions and fly up like white mist.

During this period, relying on the subtlety of his spiritual sense, Brother Qian Chen also discovered several strands of fiend qi.

It was just that they were either too mixed or their essence was too poor.

Superior fiend qi originates from Earthly Yin Turbid Qi, while fiend qi generated from the accumulation of corpses, the breeding of filth, the breeding of insects and snakes, and even the affairs between men and women, such as Peach Blossom Fiend, is a strange fiend qi originating from the intercourse of Yin and Yang. These fiend qi are also strange primordial qi, but compared to the various strange primordial qi in the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, their essence is much lower.

Moreover, such fiend qi is born from the creation of all things, and compared to the creation of heaven and earth, it has more impurity.

Therefore, superior fiend qi must also be pure, while inferior fiend qi is usually mixed. If the essence is inferior and mixed, for Brother Qian Chen, it is fundamentally unusable.

On the contrary, spirit herbs accompanied by Earthly Fiend Poisonous Miasma often have good quality. Brother Qian Chen also took some, usually only taking three-tenths, about the amount of one-third.

This is to leave roots for the spirit herbs, and also not to exhaust the meaning of creation.

Although the Great Marsh is so deep and vast, Brother Qian Chen couldn't finish picking even if he tried his best. Even if all the martial artists in Nine Truths County and even the world broke into the Great Marsh to gather herbs, they wouldn't consume one ten-thousandth of the Great Marsh's foundation. But Brother Qian Chen came from the industrial society of his past life and knew deeply how much damage human beings' unscrupulous collection of resources could cause to the environment.

Although he wouldn't point fingers at the human race in this world who were still expanding their living space, or criticize these martial artists who risked their lives for a spirit herb, or the wandering practitioners who struggled to cultivate, for their greed... when he encountered the same situation, he would usually leave a margin.

After all, Brother Qian Chen didn't lack this little bit of things...

Leaving some for the creatures here seems to be wasted in the mouths of snakes, insects, and poisonous creatures, but aren't these snakes, insects, and poisonous creatures that guard the spirit herbs also part of the spirit herb growth cycle? Many spirit herbs need these creatures to multiply and expand their populations. Otherwise, the Great Jin, with its thirteen states, wouldn't have so many spirit herbs growing only in these dangerous places.

Brother Qian Chen rode his Flying Cloud Pouch and escaped from the edge of the Great Marsh in a sorry state.

Besides harvesting a little spirit herb today, the most important thing was to know the dangers of the Great Marsh. The Ze hexagram means trap, and there are many natural formations in this Great Marsh. They are all trap formations, combined with poisonous insects and miasma, which have unpredictable power.

The more dangerous thing is the environment of the Great Marsh. For example, the Kongqing Marsh Brother Qian Chen encountered looked like an ordinary mud pond on the surface, but it was actually a spirit fungus of poisonous fly agaric that had rotted. Not only were there countless poisonous fly eggs in it, but the mud was dozens of times lighter than water, like foam. When blown by the wind, it would rise. If a little bit touched the skin, it would cause the whole body to rot and become nourishment for the poisonous fly eggs to hatch into maggots.

Brother Qian Chen had always been riding the Flying Cloud Pouch and never landed. If he hadn't watched a giant red strange python fall into the pool, he wouldn't have discovered this danger.

That red-scaled giant snake, which spat miasma and had cultivation not weaker than the one Brother Qian Chen eliminated on the plum tree, turned into a pool of rotten meat in the blink of an eye. The maggots on it turned into poisonous flies when they saw the wind... When they discovered Brother Qian Chen, they swarmed towards him, forcing Brother Qian Chen to take out the Seven Fiends Banner to wear them down.

Such heavy dangers made Brother Qian Chen have to drive the Flying Cloud Pouch close to the ground at all times and hold the Heaven-Covering Umbrella to prevent accidents.

During this period, he was attacked by poisonous snakes like withered branches, three-tailed scorpions, centipedes as thick as an arm, and poisonous earthworms as thin as hair, and various strange fierce creatures. This made Brother Qian Chen wonder, how did those martial artists who only had martial arts and could use some magic talismans to cast ordinary magic spells survive here and bring out spirit herbs?

Brother Qian Chen knew that these martial artists would follow the paths explored by their predecessors and knew how to avoid some poisonous insects and monsters.

But being able to survive here with these meager skills really made Brother Qian Chen sigh at the infinite potential of life.

After coming out of the Great Marsh, Brother Qian Chen still flew into the clear sky to gather the clear spirit qi of the nine heavens, then landed on the lake surface and unfolded a blue cloud, sitting in it to cultivate and refine it into his own true qi.

Brother Qian Chen did not refine his true qi into a true talisman and turn it into his own magic power. He was prepared to refine the quality of his true qi to the level of the nine heavens clear qi, and then see if he could use the Dao Dust Pearl to refine the Innate One Qi Supreme Clear True Talisman. Achieving Supreme Clear magic power in this way, containing such strong true power, is called eternal.

It means that Brother Qian Chen's true talisman magic power might even cause eternal changes in primordial qi.

Shrinking objects becomes permanently smaller, that strand of magic power never dissipates, eternal and constant. It is like turning stone into gold, and it will not retreat. All illusions and changes become real.

It is the extremely wonderful realm of refining the false into the real.

Waking up from meditation, Brother Qian Chen stretched leisurely, released the restriction to let the breeze on the lake blow in, and the refreshing lake breeze brushed his face, dispelling the faint fatigue in his bones. Brother Qian Chen lay high on the cloud bed, letting the Flying Cloud Pouch drift on the lake. The cloud bed drifted leisurely, the lake was extremely quiet, and only the shadows of water birds flying across the water surface remained.

While enjoying this peace and quiet, an ear-god didn't know when it had slipped over and was about to crawl into Brother Qian Chen's ear.

Brother Qian Chen reached out a finger, pressed the little thing on his finger, and smiled: "Don't crawl into my ear, just say it like this... If the news is useful to me, I have good things for you."

After saying this, he took out a little jade powder and placed it on his fingertip. It was indeed that Brother Qian Chen felt that crushing spirit pills was also quite useful. When entering the Great Marsh, it was used to deceive some small creatures guarding spirit herbs, and it had wonderful uses, so he crushed another one and kept it on his body, specifically to reward these little spirits.

The ear-god flew to Brother Qian Chen's fingertip quickly. The little person the size of a soybean sat on the fingertip, holding a piece of jade powder the size of its own head, gnawing on it happily, while saying something in a babbling voice.

Brother Qian Chen listened to the ear-god's report, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared, leaving only a deep abyss.

Not long after, a sword light swept across the lake and landed outside Jiao Bu Town. The ghost messenger who had been looking for him for a long time immediately manifested his form, bowed and said: "Are you the immortal who eliminated the demon on the plum tree? The City God ordered the small one to come and report something!"

Brother Qian Chen glanced at him, his face icy cold: "I already know your intention."

"Tell the City God, I, Brother Qian Chen, do not repeat mistakes... I accept this favor of his." ===== CHAPTER 59 =====