Chapter 54: Jade Capital

"This formation looks solid and hard to destroy. I'm afraid it has already exceeded the Embryonic Breath realm."

Li Xiangping shot two more arrows, and seeing the formation remain motionless, he sighed lightly.

"Young Clan Leader, our Li family has no formation inheritance, so breaking the formation is not easy. Why not go with that Wan family..."

Li Qiuyang looked around, walked back and forth on the hillside a few times, but didn't see any clues, so he asked.

"No."

Li Xiangping shook his head and said softly:

"Second Brother is about to break through to Jade Capital, so there must be a turning point. Why share it with that Wan family? By then, whether the formation is broken or not, we will have to give them a share."

"If some precious spiritual items come out, it's possible the two families will turn against each other. Why take this risk."

"The Clan Leader is right!"

Li Qiuyang apologized and retreated behind him with a calm expression.

"I called you here because I have made a few arrangements."

Li Xiangping waved his hand and said in a low voice:

"Yesheng, go and prepare the manpower in Jingyang Village. Discuss it carefully with Uncle Ping'an. We must start building mountain roads and courtyards on this mountain in the next few years, and we must mark out these pieces of land and guard them."

"I have surveyed the earth veins around here. The land around the hillside is rich in spiritual energy, a large piece of spiritual field. Planting two crops of spiritual rice every five years can produce at least one hundred catties of spiritual rice. From now on, it will be handed over to you, Qiuyang, to manage."

"Yes!"

Li Qiuyang responded in a low voice and, under Li Xiangping's signal, went down the mountain with Li Yesheng to negotiate with Ren Ping'an at the foot of the mountain.

"Added to our Li family's current production of three hundred catties, we can also have a surplus of two or three spirit stones every five years. In a few more years, we will be able to be more generous."

Watching the two go down the mountain and disappear from view, Li Xiangping turned his head to look at the dull Li Xuanxuan and smiled:

"Why are you hanging your head and not speaking?"

"Uncle is really so trusting of Brother Qiuyang."

Li Xuanxuan frowned and looked up at Li Xiangping.

Li Xiangping laughed and said in a low voice:

"The Li Qiuyang family is low-key and sensible, especially his father Li Chengfu, who knows how to advance and retreat. You and I can rest assured to use them. Now our Li family has vast land and few people, so there is no need to be stingy with the power in our hands. Be bold and let these people do it."

"Li Qiuyang can reach Embryonic Breath, but he may not be able to reach Qi Refining, and even if he reaches Qi Refining, he may not be able to produce offspring with spiritual apertures. He can never compare to my main line. There is no need to guard against him becoming too powerful now. As for the Liu family of Jingyang, they have already become in-laws of our Li family, and the only cultivator has become one of our own, so there is even less need to mention it."

Watching Li Xuanxuan's thoughtful look, Li Xiangping lowered his head and leaned close to his ear, laughing in a low voice:

"Besides, where did I trust him? His father and brothers are all at the foot of my Lijing Mountain. Li Qiuyang has low cultivation and is young. Jingyang Village is managed by Ren Ping'an and Li Yesheng. What kind of waves can he make?"

Li Xuanxuan's brows immediately relaxed. He went over these words a few times in his heart and smiled:

"Nephew has been taught!"

Li Xiangping then raised his head, frowned, with a bit more coldness in his eyes, and said sternly:

"Learn well by Uncle's side. This Li family will eventually be handed over to you. Uncle and Eldest Uncle didn't start cultivating until they were sixteen or seventeen, so they won't be able to go as far as you. What's more, life and death are unpredictable. The monsters in the mountains are increasing day by day, and no one knows what will happen. Our Li family must hurry, and you, Li Xuanxuan, must also hurry."

"Life and death are unpredictable."

Li Xuanxuan repeated in a low voice. His father, whom he had never met, suddenly appeared in his mind, and he felt a sudden sourness.

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"The essence of Embryonic Breath lies in Jade Capital. The Jade Capital Wheel is in the Ascending Yang Prefecture, which is the fifth wheel of Embryonic Breath. After that, condense the sixth wheel, the Spirit Initial Wheel, in the Ascending Yang Prefecture, and you can swallow a mouthful of heaven and earth spiritual energy to advance to Qi Refining."

Li Tongya slowly woke up from his meditation, feeling very happy. Feeling the spiritual sense he had given birth to wandering around his body, the world in front of him was completely different. He could see strands of spiritual energy wandering around him.

Spiritual sense covered the formation flag in front of him, and the Mist-in-Fog Array on Lijing Mountain shook. Li Tongya felt a sense of control as if it were his own arm. Everything on and off the mountain was under his control, and the blood seals left by the few cultivators in the family in the formation flags could be erased immediately.

"After condensing the Jade Capital Wheel, mortals can no longer easily harm me."

Carefully adjusting the layout of the Mist-in-Fog Array on the mountain to completely cover the exits of the few small paths that had increased over the years, Li Tongya picked up a small piece of bluestone on the ground, easily squeezed it into powder, and everything within a zhang around him was clearly visible in his mind.

He could easily dodge flying dark arrows and could also use magic power to catch white-glittering blades with his bare hands. A Jade Capital Wheel cultivator could easily defeat dozens of mortals, and with maneuvering, could even defeat an army of hundreds or thousands.

Pushing open the back courtyard door, Li Tongya saw Li Xiangping practicing cross-legged in the courtyard. Under the detection of his spiritual sense, the four spiritual wheels on his body were as dazzling as light spots.

"So this is how spiritual sense observes cultivation. Four spiritual wheels mean the fourth level of Embryonic Breath, the Green Origin Wheel."

Watching Li Xiangping slowly open his eyes, Li Tongya smiled:

"Congratulations to Third Brother for breaking through to Green Origin."

Li Xiangping smiled bitterly and replied:

"So this is the spiritual sense of the Jade Capital Wheel, seen through at a glance."

Li Tongya laughed and looked at Li Xiangping, both seeing the expectation in each other's eyes.

The two passed through the back courtyard and walked into the small house at the very back. Li Mutian was already sitting in the small house, looking at the two who stepped in together.

"Father, I have given birth to spiritual sense and can take a look at this magic tool."

Li Tongya cupped his hands, watched the old man nod slowly, and then carefully stepped forward, using his spiritual sense to touch the mirror.

Lu Jiangxian woke up when Li Tongya broke through to the Jade Capital Wheel. Feeling the power fed back by the Profound Pearl Talisman Seed, he calculated the power of his Supreme Yin Profound Light.

"It is equivalent to an attack gathered from the full essence and energy of a Spirit Initial Wheel at the peak of the Embryonic Breath realm. Caught off guard, it should be able to kill a cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining."

Feeling Li Tongya's spiritual sense slowly pouring into the mirror, Lu Jiangxian felt as if he had been poked by a small tentacle, quite like the feeling of the girl at the same desk poking him with a pen in class when he was in school.

Feeling desolate for a breath, Lu Jiangxian gathered his thoughts back to the young man in front of him, cooperatively releasing dazzling white light, slowly rising from the stone platform.

Pure white moon splendor continuously gushed out, wrapping the mirror body and lifting it up. Pale white moonlight permeated down from the stone platform like mist, submerging half of the room, overflowing from the windows and door thresholds, and finally dissipating outside the house like smoke.

Li Xiangping and the others were immediately shocked by the formation of white light flashing and moonlight flowing. Feeling the cool moonlight flowing over their ankles or wrists, their minds were clear, and they looked at the stone platform with expectation. ===== CHAPTER 55 =====