Chapter 391: Li Wushao

Fei Luoya then rode the wind and left. Li Yuanjiao waited for a few breaths, and in the valley in the distance, another man flew over riding the wind, carrying double staves. It was Yuan Chengdun. He landed beside Li Yuanjiao, and Li Yuanjiao bowed:

"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist!"

Yuan Chengdun laughed and replied:

"I haven't received the elixir yet, so I can't go far. If this fellow had evil intentions and something happened, I wouldn't be able to clear my name."

Li Yuanjiao understood and took out the Suiyuan Pill, handing it to him. Yuan Chengdun also untied two jade slips and said warmly:

"This is my family's secret method. Please use it for your clan, and do not spread it at will."

"That is natural."

Li Yuanjiao nodded and replied:

This person's strength was very formidable. Li Yuanjiao had taken the scene just now to heart. After going over Fei Luoya's words in his mind, Li Yuanjiao smiled:

"Fellow Daoist's strength is truly astonishing. Yuanjiao admires it endlessly. If you encounter anything in the future, I wonder if I may ask Fellow Daoist to strike and help?"

Yuan Chengdun nodded steadily and replied:

"Your son is under my aunt's tutelage, and the Yuan and Li families have been allies for many years. Fellow Daoist, don't be polite. Just call Chengdun, and I'll loosen up my body. Sharing the spoils of war afterward is also a rare good thing."

"Good! Many thanks, Fellow Daoist!"

Li Yuanjiao saw that he was a generous and heroic man, and also a rare genius of the Yuan family. They exchanged a few enthusiastic words of friendship, and both had a good impression of each other. They cupped their fists and dispersed.

"This person has a majestic bearing and is a great man. Speaking of which, breaking through to Foundation Establishment at thirty-seven is very impressive."

Li Yuanjiao nodded secretly, remembering the bitterness Yuan Huyuan had poured out, and sighed:

"Fate is unkind. If this person had been born five hundred years earlier, the Yuan family would have had a place among the Three Sects and Seven Gates. Unfortunately, born five hundred years late, they can only provide protection for a while."

Li Yuanjiao flew on the wind while reading the "Six Weirs Fate-Matching Special Method" from beginning to end carefully. Seeing that the appendix at the end was 【Mystic Sheep True Person】, he lost a layer of doubt.

"In the end, my family's current situation has the help of Element and Xiao Chuting, and perhaps Great Lishan also has... With all parties checking and balancing each other, and paying attention to the Immortal Foundation, the Early Zifu has no intention of persecution."

"On the contrary, it is the Buddhist cultivators who play with fate, which is difficult to guard against..."

In this chessboard of the Early Zifu and Jinlian Mohe, the moves of the Early Zifu are visible and can be guarded against. It is just that Jinlian Mohe kills when they want to kill, and once they set the fate, you have to die, which is very difficult to guard against.

"In the end, it's just a cover-up technique; it can't overturn the sky."

He took out the pig demon's storage bag, looked left and right, and sighed:

"It's a poor pig..."

The most abundant things in the pig demon's storage bag were all kinds of spiritual items; the spirit stones were pitifully few. As a dignified Foundation Establishment pig demon, it only had thirty-two, which left Li Yuanjiao speechless for a while.

"My family is not one of the Three Sects and Seven Gates after all. The items in the Pig Demon Cave have already been promised to the fox demon to handle the demon cave, with more or less to make up the difference..."

Li Yuanjiao dragged the Foundation Establishment demonic pig back to the mountain, sealed the demon as usual, handed it to the clan cultivators to look after, and landed on the mountain. He scanned the riverbank with his spiritual sense and found the hook snake.

The hook snake wore a huge iron yoke forged by Azure Crow around its neck, and iron chains were nailed to its snake body. Its originally deep black scales were covered in filth, black and brown, lurking in the mud like a collapsed giant tree.

Beside it, An Jiyan was sitting cross-legged in the air. A group of Mount Yuting Guards were all elites of the Jade Capital Wheel, each holding an iron chain, standing quietly.

"Ancestor!"

Seeing Li Yuanjiao come over, An Jiyan hurriedly stood up. Li Yuanjiao nodded slightly and said:

"Ninth level of Qi Refining, do you have any plans to establish the Foundation?"

Since the destruction of the An family, An Jiyan had practiced more and more diligently, listening to the guidance of his wife Li Feiruo in everything, and had been very comfortable in the Li family. It had been twenty-four years, and he had reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. Hearing this, he sighed and replied:

"This subordinate is already one hundred and nine years old. Although I have made great progress in the past ten years, I know my own situation. Where is there any hope of establishing the Foundation? I do not wish to risk my life, only seeking to spend my old age in peace."

"Hmm."

Li Yuanjiao's gaze moved away from him and stopped on the hook snake. The snake demon was opening its black eyes, which were the size of an ordinary person's head, and ingratiatingly moved its head over. The Azure Crow chains made a clanging sound, and it said flatteringly:

"Immortal! The Immortal has come! This little demon has been waiting for a long time. I wonder what orders you have?"

Li Yuanjiao asked:

"Your Dao foundation 【Morning Cold Rain】, what kind of golden nature is it?"

The hook snake was slightly stunned, terrified, and replied:

"It is... it is... the Prefecture Water lineage."

"Prefecture Water?"

Li Yuanjiao's heart moved, but the hook snake screamed miserably:

"Immortal, spare my life! There are not eight hundred but a thousand little snakes like me in the East Sea. My Dao foundation is really not pure, not good for eating... It can't be sold for much!"

Seeing its appearance, Li Yuanjiao suddenly remembered Xiao Yuansi's words from back then:

"Dao foundations of the same lineage can also be swallowed by each other, but it will cut off the path to the Early Zifu... yet it is much more miraculous than ordinary Foundation Establishment... No wonder this hook snake is so afraid; it's afraid my family will sell it to immortal cultivators of the Prefecture Water lineage."

"This snake was born overseas and is a demonic creature. It is not like the Three Sects and Seven Gates in the sea, which block information layer by layer to facilitate the control of the cultivators below. There is a lot to dig out of its mouth!"

So his heart moved greatly, and he hurriedly asked:

"How many golden natures are there in the Water element? What are they called respectively? And how many are missing?"

The hook snake smiled ingratiatingly and replied:

"According to the Jiaogong... these Golden Core fruits are collectively known as Water Virtue. There are five paths, currently called the Five Waters, which are Kan, Pin, Lu, He, and Prefecture. Nowadays, only Kan Water and Prefecture Water have not yet returned to their positions. The Immortal's dragon snake is of the Kan Water lineage... so it's not good to eat me."

"So that's it!"

Li Yuanjiao suddenly realized and thought:

"Kan Water... is the golden nature Xiao Chuting requested!"

He continued to ask:

"If so, where are the Pin, Lu, and He waters respectively?"

The hook snake hurriedly replied:

"Lu Water... was long ago verified by the True Person of the Qingchi Demon Sect. He Water has always been an object of the Jiaogong. As for where Pin Water is, this little demon really doesn't know, only knowing that there is someone in that position..."

"Good."

Seeing such secret news, Li Yuanjiao felt very refreshed in his heart and immediately followed up:

"Is there a full name for the golden nature?"

"This little demon has no background. This bit of news is all hearsay; how would I know so much... I only know the names of the five Water Virtue fruits. There are also five paths for the Fire Virtue fruits..."

The hook snake stammered:

"This little demon heard rumors that there are Three Golds in the sea, which have already verified the fruits of the Jin Shi lineage. Therefore, Jin Shi is flourishing in the sea. Azure Crow copper essence and Shock Iron Cold Gold are everywhere, and the sharp energy hurts people. Even mortals can use iron tools and iron armor..."

Hearing this, a white-clothed figure suddenly appeared in Li Yuanjiao's mind, and he was secretly shocked:

"Wang Xun back then... was really a Golden Core immortal descendant!"

When Wang Xun visited the Li family back then, he once claimed that the Wang family ancestor was the head of the 【Three Golds in the Sea】. Li Yuanjiao was half-believing, thinking there were only three Golden Cores left in the sea.

Now that he looked at it, these Three Golds were not three Golden Cores at all, but three Golden Stone fruits! The Qingchi Sect had Golden Cores guarding it, and counting Wu Yue, there were probably ten Golden Cores in the sea.

"Good, good."

Li Yuanjiao nodded slowly, went over it in his mind, and suddenly leaned close to the hook snake, whispering:

"Oh? Since you said the fruits of the Jin Shi lineage have been verified, why are there five paths for Water Virtue, but only Three Golds for the Jin Shi lineage?"

The hook snake was stunned. He had never thought about it carefully and was suddenly stumped, muttering:

"That's right... why is this... Five Waters and Five Fires, but only Three Golds..."

He replied:

"This little demon really doesn't know! Immortal, please investigate!"

After forcing him several times, the hook snake had no more dry goods. Only then did he look at him silently, staring at the hook snake for a few breaths, making the demonic creature's scales stand up one by one, terrified.

The hook snake knew this was a life-and-death moment, flicked its tongue, and said submissively:

"This little demon cultivated bitterly for a hundred years before gaining intelligence. Entering the sea was just to chase spiritual water. I dare not have the heart to harm people. The spiritual water, double hooks, and snake beads have all been taken by the Immortal. Now I only ask to live..."

Li Yuanjiao lowered his eyebrows, calculating in his heart:

"The hook snake matter was entrusted by Kong Tingyun, and behind it is Profound Heaven, which has shown favor to my family many times, so there shouldn't be a big problem..."

He picked up the hook snake and whispered:

"I can also spare your life, but you must obey my family for the rest of your life. I have already borrowed a secret method and want you to cooperate in handing over your nature. Are you willing?"

The hook snake breathed a long sigh of relief. Seeing a way to live, it said happily:

"Willing! Willing!"

Li Yuanjiao tidied his sleeves. Li Xicheng had already arrived with a group of Mount Yuting Guards. He stepped forward and said respectfully:

"Uncle."

Li Yuanjiao asked:

"How many spirit stones are left in the clan?"

Li Xicheng hurriedly replied:

"The family spirit stones have always been reserved for offerings first. Fifty are left over. The 【Azure Ox Leaning River Array】 used one hundred and fifteen. Eighty were sent from Yu Shan to fill the hole, leaving fifteen extra."

Li Yuanjiao was speechless. The six types of spiritual items needed to subdue this demonic creature were worth about ninety-odd spirit stones. His family had three types, and the rest had to be purchased from various families. He took out fifty spirit stones and ordered:

"Your aunt is going to Xun Lin Yuan to break through to seclusion. Send a few people to follow."

Li Qinghong herself was still a bit apprehensive, but Li Yuanjiao was full of confidence in Li Qinghong.

There was snow on time on Wangyue Lake. Qingdu Peak stood on the lake, and several small hills had already risen around it. The black-brown stone peak stood quietly, and the cyan array was opened, isolating the inside from the outside.

The hook snake's deep black snake body coiled on this small stone peak, looking up with its head, spraying waves of white gas from its mouth, which flew out and flew toward the mountain.

Li Yuanjiao instructed it several times, saying that if the technique was broken, it would be severely injured, and the Li family had no extra spiritual medicine to match its fate. The hook snake was naturally very nervous, and white gas sprayed from its mouth.

Not long after, a white light rose from the mountaintop, breaking through the air and imprinting on the hook snake's snake head, which was as large as a carriage, lighting up a white mark. A bit of its nature was also stripped away and flew toward Li Yuanjiao's hand on the mountain.

Li Yuanjiao flew down slowly, and the "Six Weirs Fate-Matching Special Method" operated without suspense. The hook snake not only did not look withered, but its aura was soaring, spitting out cold air, clearly having gained benefits.

"It seems it really is a Early Zifu-level spiritual item..."

The six corners of the Six Weirs Fate-Matching Array were naturally the six types of spiritual items recorded. Li Yuanjiao placed a Taiyin Osmanthus flower in the center as the fate-matching item, and the Taiyin Moon Essence was filled to the brim, wasting and dissipating quite a bit.

With a flick of his hand, the hook snake's cold jade snake bead flew out and merged into its bloody mouth. The hook snake's aura was majestic for a time, and the color of its scales became deeper and deeper, having the aura of a demonic general.

The hook snake spat for half an hour, opened its huge snake eyes, and the white cold light in them flickered for a full three breaths before calming down. Its snake body coiling around the mountain peak twisted, making a crackling sound of falling stones.

It rode the wind and rose, casting a haze on the ground. It changed its form, turning into a black-clothed youth with a sinister face, narrow eyes, and tight, capable robes. He cupped his fists and said:

"This subordinate has seen the Master!"

Li Yuanjiao noticed that when the demonic snake showed its original form just now, the two long tails were still bare, and asked:

"Can the hooks on the tail still grow out?"

The poison of the hook snake was famous. Back then, Kong Tingyun had to borrow a magic tool to fix the hook snake's tail first. If those two poison hooks were missing, its strength would be inferior.

The black-clothed youth shook his head repeatedly and replied:

"Reporting to the Master, if I don't take any precious medicine or spiritual water, the double hooks on my tail will take decades to grow out..."

Li Yuanjiao frowned and said:

"I will keep an eye on it for you. Have you ever taken human form before?"

"Never. The East Sea doesn't care about this."

The black-clothed youth replied submissively:

"This subordinate breaking through to Foundation Establishment was also a matter of ten years ago. In the past few years, I have been in seclusion in the Saline Lake..."

Li Yuanjiao squinted and looked. Seeing his sinister face, looking fierce and poisonous, as if he would choose someone to devour at any time, he said:

"Why do you look like me, not like a good person."

He didn't expect Li Yuanjiao to say this, was stunned, and said awkwardly:

"The nature is in the Master's hands... naturally, it is somewhat like you."

Li Yuanjiao nodded. His family had gained a Foundation Establishment combat power, and his mood improved instantly. He smiled:

"Since you have taken human form, I must give you a name, to save you from being hook snake, hook snake all day."

The sinister youth lowered his head and responded. Li Yuanjiao pondered for a while and said:

"I see you look like a black-tailed snake, and since you have entered my Li family, you shall be called Li Wushao."

Li Wushao cupped his fists and said respectfully:

"Wushao obeys!"

Li Yuanjiao laughed and thought:

"It's still better to use names copied from people in the past, to save Qinghong from muttering and laughing at me in her heart."

With an extra Foundation Establishment demon cultivator in the family, many things became more manageable. Li Yuanjiao felt much more relaxed and said to Li Wushao:

"Go down and see Xicheng, and let him take you to recognize your own family, to save the Dragon King Temple from being washed away by the flood in the future."

"Yes!"

Li Wushao responded gloomily and flew down. Li Yuanjiao turned and entered the courtyard, picked up a pen and ink, and intended to write a letter to Qingsui Peak.

"Ask Zhier if this Fu Daimu has any background... If this matter can be done, then go and ask Yuan Chengdun or Senior Yuansi to strike once more, five people surrounding and killing this fellow."

"This guy has stayed in that territory for so long, he must have collected a lot of good things, precious medicines, witchcraft, and he also has a Foundation Establishment magic tool. Eliminating harm and gaining profit, and winning over Fei Luoya..."

A rare, sincere smile appeared on his face, and he secretly said:

"Zhier... has also been engaged to the Yang family girl for several years. I don't know if there are any offspring now. I must ask carefully."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 392 =====