Chapter 527

"Aunt! Little Sister."

Li Xijun called out. Before him stood Li Qinghong, clad in jade armor and holding a white spear, along with his little sister, Li Yuexiang. Seeing him, Li Qinghong descended with a flash of lightning and said softly:

"Jun'er."

Li Yuexiang followed behind and greeted him. Li Xijun merely nodded and offered his congratulations: "Congratulations, Aunt, on your great increase in strength. I heard the overseas regions are in utter chaos, and I had been thinking of going to fetch Little Sister... but I couldn't spare the time. I was planning to write a letter to Brother Zhier, and it just so happens I've returned along the way."

"Was the journey back safe?"

Li Qinghong descended into the hall with him, and only after they were seated did she speak:

"There were some unexpected events... thinking about it carefully, there must be something fishy going on."

She recounted the events of the journey. Li Xijun listened carefully, pondered for a moment, and replied:

"There is indeed something fishy, though it's hard to see clearly. The East Sea is so vast, why did we happen to run into the Miao family and the Shen clan? Perhaps it is some faction..."

"Even if you hadn't gone, Aunt, Shen Yanqing would certainly have had no trouble holding out until the head of the Shen family arrived. In my view, it shouldn't be a True Person of the Shen family borrowing your strength to save someone... and I haven't heard that this True Person's divine abilities are particularly calculating. It shouldn't be him."

Li Qinghong nodded. She had also been pondering this along the way and said softly:

"I think it's someone who recognized 【Du Ruo】 and used this method to tip off the Miao family... but thinking about it carefully, what is the point of this? If a True Person had a scheme, it's just a Foundation Establishment magic treasure. If they came to the door to ask for it, could our family really refuse to give it?"

"I heard the Miao family also has True Persons. If this magic treasure were truly that important, they could just break through the Grand Void and take it from my hands, as easily as taking clothes off a couch. If they had done us a favor, our family would even have to thank them. Why go through all these twists and turns?"

Li Xijun gripped his jade cup, nodded slightly, and said:

"【Mysterious Thunder Heavenly Stone】... just the name alone shows it's not an ordinary item. To make Miao Quan brave the pressure of two Zifu cultivators to demand it, it's likely something extremely critical."

In his heart, he actually had some guesses, but he wasn't certain and didn't want to speak clearly: 'Could it be that True Person Chuting used the mouths of those two to tell Aunt about this Mysterious Thunder Heavenly Stone? But there was no need for that; sending someone to say a word would have sufficed. To make it so unclear, in the end, we only know a name.'

The aunt and nephew looked at each other, seemingly having reached a consensus, and quickly skipped over this topic. Li Xijun only said: "Regardless... I will go and investigate this thing thoroughly."

Li Qinghong then spoke of the intentions of the Cui family of Chongzhou. After hesitating for a moment, she recounted the conversation with Chi Buzi. Hearing this, Li Xijun broke out in a cold sweat, daring only to listen and not to speak. He replied: "If the Cui family says the Ning family might have it, then I will write a letter to the Southern Border to ask."

The aunt and nephew discussed for a while. Li Xijun began to write, one hand pressing down on his sleeve, and said warmly:

"Yuexiang..."

He had intended to bring up his sister Yuexiang's marriage, but seeing his aunt looking over with a light smile, he remembered that he himself had no prospects, and stopped his words in slight embarrassment.

Li Qinghong unfastened her jade armor, placed it gently on the table, and pulled a white outer robe from her storage bag to drape over herself, blending perfectly with her snow-white inner lining. Only then did she say:

"My cultivation has grown, and this spirit armor is no longer of use. I'll return it to the family."

Li Xijun nodded and put it away. She thought carefully and asked:

"By the way... does the Heir have armor? I was thinking that if there's an opportunity, I'll have one crafted for him."

"Armor..."

Li Xijun listened, was silent for a moment, and said softly:

"Aunt... the family has a few types of spirit ores... there are even Foundation Establishment grade ones. It would be better to craft a set of spirit armor or a feather garment for you to use, Aunt."

"Me?"

Li Qinghong frowned, but Li Xijun smiled and said: "He is only cultivating within the clan now, and in the future, he will have to manage the family business. With his bold character, what good things will he not have in the future? Aunt, think of yourself."

Li Xijun wiped his storage bag at his waist and took out a few items. It was a piece of silvery-bright refined iron: "This is 【Ni Water Cold Essence】. The iron mine in the family has been mined for decades. The cold iron extracted was hammered and refined many times, and the most essential part is kept here. It was refined over two hundred times to obtain this Foundation Establishment grade item."

The remainder was a thin golden sheet. Li Xijun explained:

"Aunt, you also know this thing. It is the 【Altar Gold Stone】. It was obtained together with the 【Earth Gaze Blood Stone】 that can heal wounds and save lives. It is also Foundation Establishment grade, but the size is not large..."

This thing was originally kept for Li Ximing to craft magic treasures. Later, after obtaining the Jingyang Ring, they thought they had magic treasures to use, but the reputation of Qing Song Temple grew larger and larger, and the few of them didn't dare to use it...

Li Ximing was focused on cultivation and had little interest in whether it was a magic treasure or not. Now that a great chaos was imminent, they decided to take it out early to have it crafted.

The last item was a light blue, head-sized mineral, which was 【He Yu Cui】. It was barely Foundation Establishment grade, but its strength lay in its large quantity, taken from the Yu family treasury.

He handed these items to Li Qinghong and only said: "Please, Aunt, go and have the spirit armor and feather garment crafted."

Li Qinghong was surprised for a moment, but nodded and accepted them, saying softly:

"Qingchi Sect will certainly conscript Foundation Establishment cultivators to go to the north. I will take people there myself; having a piece of spirit armor will be safer."

She paused and said softly:

"We don't know any reliable artifact refiners among the various markets. In the current world, chaos is endless. It's hard to say if they would take the items and run off. I can't quite trust them."

Li Qinghong had stayed in the East Sea for a long time, and her thinking had taken on some East Sea style, considering the worst first. She only said: "Wait for some time, Xizhi might come... it's better to leave these things to him."

"Aunt is right."

Changtian Peak.

Li Xizhi searched through several pavilions on the peak, but didn't find a single scroll of books. There were no fire veins or alchemy furnaces, and the medicine garden was also desolate.

Only on the main hall in the center hung a jade slip, hidden behind the hall. Li Xizhi, with his Foundation Establishment cultivation, checked carefully and took it out at a glance.

"Mercury-Serving Complete Origin Method", Fourth Grade.

The cultivation method was indeed a good one, but it seemed that it was already available for borrowing within the sect, and there was no marked Qi-gathering method. This method required a 【Secret Baigong Vermilion Liquid】, which seemed very rare.

Yang Ruizao strolled with him on the mountain, chatting as they walked. After chatting for a while, someone sent the item over, which was a translucent jade slip.

Li Xizhi read it once. This Changtian Peak really had some history. It was passed down through a single lineage within the sect, and the peak had its own cultivation methods, rarely taking cultivation methods from the sect.

It could be traced back to four hundred years ago. The peak master was called Changtian Daoist, who cultivated in the Helin Mountain Range, and later joined the Qingchi mountain gate, obtaining a peak.

He was skilled in the 【Complete Elixir】 path of "Secret Secret Baigong", and was known as the twin masters along with Ning Wenyue, the peak master of Yuehu Peak who had cultivated the "Lake Moon Autumn" at that time.

Later, Changtian Daoist died, and the Dao method was passed into the sect. Later generations learned to cultivate it, but no one could be like him again. Even the cultivation was slow, not even as good as ordinary methods. Generation after generation declined, yet generation after generation persisted in cultivation.

With the death of the last peak master, Zhang Lingshu, this lineage was considered cut off. The oral formulas and secret manuals all disappeared, leaving only one cultivation method.

The Yang family also noted that this cultivation method had been ignored in the Scripture Pavilion until now, and was also called the "Mercury-Serving Complete Origin Method".

''Secret Secret Baigong''

Li Xizhi was now a figure at the peak master level, and with the Yang family as his backing, his information gradually became well-informed. Seeing that he didn't seem to understand much, Yang Ruizao said softly: "Xizhi, this 'Secret Secret Baigong' belongs to the Complete Elixir path."

Li Xizhi heard it as if it were Metal Virtue, but the three metals were Exchange Metal, Geng Metal, and Leisure Metal, and there was no such thing as Complete Elixir. He only asked: "Is it Metal property?"

Yang Ruizao shook his head and said:

"If it were classified like the five waters as Water Virtue, five fires as Fire Virtue, twelve Qi, Origin Magnetism, and Yin/Yang, the Complete Elixir path would not be among them, but belongs to the 'Ancient Method'."

"The 'Xiu Kui' of the Great Xiu Kui Temple, the 'Jade Truth' of the Upper Origin True Person, and even the 'Heng Zhu' of the Heng Zhu Dao all belong to this category. Most of them have an ancient flavor of being witch-like, unpredictable, and seeking gold by serving mercury."

"It's just that in the description... this 'Secret Secret Baigong' is truly strange and miraculous. Perhaps it is not as good as the various methods popular today in frontal combat, but there are far too many things it can do in various aspects..."

Li Xizhi only remembered it silently, thinking in his heart:

"Since I have obtained someone else's lineage, if I can obtain this spiritual energy when I accept disciples and teach them in the future, there should be someone to cultivate this path..."

Putting away the cultivation method, he saw the rosy light flying from the south again. Yang Ruizao looked up in surprise, calculated the time, and said:

"It seems to be the fourth batch of people passing through. The manpower in the sect has already gone almost entirely. They should be going to conscript the various noble families."

Li Xizhi nodded. Yang Ruizao asked: "I wonder if Xizhi is among these orders..."

The two looked at each other. Li Xizhi only nodded. Yang Ruizao smiled:

"That's right, although the deployment hasn't come down yet... but the benefits have all been given, so you must be going."

Although he said so, Yang Ruizao's expression gradually became serious, and he whispered: "There are only two round trips left. Xizhi should go earlier. If you miss the time, I'm afraid you'll leave a handle for others."

Li Xizhi nodded. The two of them had the intention to watch, and flew up together on the wind, seeing the huge yet beautiful rosy cloud ship fold its long rosy wings and slowly land into the array.

People from all thirty-six peaks flew away on the wind. Li Xizhi and his wife's brother, Yang Ruizao, stood in the clouds on the wind, seeing the great array on the cloud ship also dissolve. Yang Ruizao asked:

"I wonder who is leading the team?"

But seeing the rosy light array slowly disappear, at the bow of the ship stood a golden-armored cultivator, with slightly deep eye sockets, broad shoulders, thick eyebrows and white hair, old eyes slightly narrowed, and a ferocious golden bow on his back.

The armor on the old man's body reflected white light in the brilliance, standing with his hands behind his back. Yang Ruizao was slightly shocked, glanced at Li Xizhi beside him, and smiled:

"So it is 【Geng Metal Gang String】 Li Xuanfeng."

Since Li Xuanfeng was taking this ship out, Li Xizhi would naturally go along. Just as he was preparing to fly onto the cloud ship, Yang Ruizao beside him paused slightly and said:

"My family also has two brothers... who want to go together."

Li Xizhi heard the song and understood the elegance. Without waiting for him to beg, he just smiled: "Brother-in-law, please bring people. Let us go together, and we can take care of each other on the way."

"Where are you talking about."

Yang Ruizao smiled and parted. Li Xizhi pondered slightly:

'It's hard to guarantee that this brother-in-law didn't get the news in advance, wanting the Yang family and the great-uncle to go together, making things so natural...'

The Chi family's efforts in this matter were very strong. Except for the peaks of the Yuan cultivation True Persons in the sect that were under his command, the rest had all sent their direct descendants. Yang Ruizao himself might not necessarily not go.

Li Xizhi was open-minded. Noble families could not just talk about friendship. It was based on mutual benefit. The Yang family also had many daughters. He could let Yang Ruizao be close to him, firstly because his own cultivation was outstanding, and secondly because the Li family was strong.

If the Li family were still the Li family when Li Tongya died, this brother-in-law would just smile at each other when they met to show politeness. Where would there be so many ways? He went through it in his heart, and did not go directly to find Li Xuanfeng, but flew to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall to receive his miscellaneous affairs with a new token.

"Stationed at Bai Xiang Valley, Bianyan Mountain, Xu State, listening to orders and dispatches, resisting demonic cultivators..."

He put away the token, took another map, and prepared to check it carefully. After thinking about it, just in case, he went to the Scripture Pavilion again.

'This "Mercury-Serving Complete Origin Method" is a secret method left on the peak after all. Perhaps there are some different chapters.'

He checked for a quarter of an hour, borrowed the sect's "Mercury-Serving Complete Origin Method" from the Scripture Pavilion, compared it carefully, and was slightly disappointed.

"The two copies are no different, exactly the same, but the one obtained on the peak is not restricted and can be sent home."

He asked carefully, and there was some 【Secret Baigong Vermilion Liquid】 in the sect, so he returned the cultivation method, entered the belly of the great boat, and found a compartment to enter first.

Li Xuanfeng should have gone to the main hall to report, and only the Ning family came to greet him politely first.

Li Xizhi waited for a while, and the Yang family arrived soon. The few brothers were only familiar faces. Perhaps they had met once when picking up Yang Xiaoer, and followed in the cabin.

The Yang family was a noble family with a long history, the Yue King clan of that year, with a deep foundation. Although there had been a low point, it had now stabilized its roots and showed a deep foundation.

But Li Xizhi saw clearly that the Yang family's flaws were equally obvious. In the chaos of that year, the secular clansmen of the Yang family died out. Now that they had turned into a Qingchi peak, the population was even thinner, and they often cultivated as soon as they were born. It was common for various lineages to be cut off.

What's more, the Yang family had no foundation outside the sect. Almost everyone showed the unworldly, indulgent, and carefree nature of disciples of great noble families. These people had only cultivated on the immortal peak since they were young, and were more extreme than other noble families.

At this moment, they entered before Li Xizhi. Although everyone greeted him, they retreated to the side and said some jokes. There was no sense of crisis about going to fight for life and death. Although the magic robes on their bodies were bright, their cultivation was not deep, appearing frivolous.

This was still better. Among them, there was one who was only at the Qi Refining cultivation. Not only was his blood energy turbid, but he was also holding a woman, who was at the Fetal Breath cultivation. Her appearance was very beautiful, and her cultivation method was very strange, seeming to be a type of furnace.

Li Xizhi looked around and didn't find any characters worth looking at. This brother-in-law of his probably didn't have an easy life.

"That's what they say... if one can break out from the slaughter, it's worth looking at."

Thinking this way, he was a little moved: "If there is an opportunity that is not so dangerous, I can bring the children of the Chengming generation."