Chapter 779: Three Profound

Cape. The coral cave was full of light, seawater rolling, rolling up layers of white fine sand, flowing out from the cave like a waterfall, floating in layers on the ground. A large piece of white shells shuttled between the sand, rolling up layers of water light.

The Daoist in white-gold clothes had his hands on his knees. Between his breaths, Mingyang spiritual energy rolled, and faintly, light purple flames flew out, circling around him.

Li Li Ximing had refined three 【Profound Certainty Essence-Gathering Elixirs】 in a row, grinding and suppressing most of the flames in the Juque Court, and the situation improved immediately.

He still had quite a few spiritual objects and precious medicines on him, and even more spiritual water. Prescribing the right medicine, he used the 【Baipu Cold Water】 received at the Early Zifu Dharma Assembly and his own 【Taiyun Flower】 to refine a furnace of elixirs, swallowing them in one breath. The glass-like colors on his Dharma body that had been burned also slowly returned to normal.

More than a year passed in a flash. Estimating that his injuries had recovered by sixty or seventy percent, and the Qingxu Temple had also collected almost enough, Li Li Ximing finally opened his eyes, causing the cave to be full of light. He took out the jade pendant from his sleeve and looked at it; there was no major event at home.

"Only this jade pendant, nurtured by my divine ability, was secretly given to Grandfather. It hasn't been crushed yet... which means there is no life-and-death crisis at home."

He put away the formation plate in the cave and flew out of the cave. Li Li Ximing found that the seawater was still blue, but the seabed was completely different. Looking around, it was covered with fine white sand, and faintly, a few white shells at the Fetal Breath stage could be seen busy on the seabed.

"Strange..."

Li Li Ximing understood at a glance. He knew nothing about formation arrays and couldn't seal any divine ability. A Early Zifu cultivator of the Mingyang lineage practicing here immediately caused the spiritual energy of this place to change. The coral cave should have been spraying Mingfang stones day and night, but the spiritual energy at the cape was insufficient, only spraying out layers of white sand.

Even so, it allowed the monsters passing by to stay and settle down. Looking at this appearance, I fear it was about to become a small spiritual land. Li Li Ximing glanced at it. Not far away, there were one or two excavation traces. I don't know if it was Qingxu Temple or which family had come to mine it.

'Not easy... Mingfang stones are used to build palaces in Jiangnan... the bigger the piece, the better... First time seeing someone use it as spiritual sand to collect.'

Since the fate had arrived, and the ground was rarely full of vitality, Li Li Ximing simply stretched out his hand, pressed his fingers to his lips, and spat out a mouthful of Mingyang purple fire.

The purple fire hung in front of him. Li Li Ximing took out another jade pot. This thing was only Qi Refining, brought purely for drinking tea. He formed a seal and cast a spell, operating the divine ability to leave three or five inheritances, and only then locked the purple fire inside.

Li Li Ximing's fire control technique could be called terrifying. This jade pot immediately transformed into a purple-red color, extremely hot, emitting bursts of Mingyang radiance. Li Li Ximing threw it casually, throwing it into the cave.

The originally stagnant white sand waterfall flowed again. Li Li Ximing estimated that his mouthful of purple fire would slowly dissipate and could operate for seventy or eighty years. His interest arose, and he picked up a pen and wrote: "【Valley Wind】"

He flicked his sleeve, his figure disappeared, crossed a hundred miles, and the next moment manifested above Qingxu Temple.

He saw the wind blowing the wheat waves, a vast expanse of fertile fields, and the temple buildings were scattered in an orderly manner. Only a year or so had passed, and Qingxu Temple was completely different. The monks in yellow clothes below no longer appeared all over the mountains, but were dotted among the farmers in coarse cloth and short clothes.

He landed with light, manifesting in the highest temple. All around appeared empty. The monks of Qingxu Temple were indeed fewer, presumably having taken off their monk robes to reclaim wasteland.

Li Li Ximing sat at the stone table in the courtyard, just hearing a burst of footsteps. Facing him was Xia Xia Shouyu's questioning voice. This woman was very dissatisfied, straightly saying: "It's just an elixir formula, it hasn't been obtained for a full half month?! How much ability do those people have to make you so embarrassed."

"Xia Shouyu... a clever woman cannot cook without rice, without resources... what to use to exchange?"

Then there was a burst of noise. Clearly, many people had come. Xia Xia Shouyu was annoyed and dealt with it, sneering:

"No resources? Your little thoughts... I can't see through them? It's nothing more than coveting the few elixirs the True Person gave me. I dare to give them... do you little bastards dare to want them?"

The few men who followed behind were clearly all Xia family members, with different expressions. The leader glared and wanted to scold her, but swallowed it back fearfully, replying: "What you said is meaningless, the True Person doesn't know when he will return... How can there be so many resources available in the temple?"

"Pah!"

Xia Xia Shouyu pushed the door and entered, but the scolding words were suddenly blocked in her throat. She saw that the courtyard was full of light. A man in white-gold Daoist robes was sitting by the stone table, holding a book of alchemy, reading it casually. The heavenly light on his brow flickered, chilling to the bone.

"Thump!"

Xia Xia Shouyu had only stepped half a foot into the courtyard when she knelt on the ground with a "thump." The few people behind also changed their expressions greatly, one after another, falling like rolling gourds.

In an instant, people knelt outside the courtyard, knelt in the courtyard, knelt on the steps, and one slipped on the threshold, half of his buttocks tilted high, not daring to move, the whole ground like statues.

Clearly, whether it was the island-protecting formation of Qingxu Temple or the formation in the courtyard, it was as if it didn't exist for this True Person. Xia Xia Shouyu was truly scared out of half her life, trembling and saying: "True Person's immortal carriage is here, the little one failed to welcome you, please forgive me..."

Li Li Ximing sat in the upper seat, his gaze moved away from the alchemy book in his hand, nodded noncommittally. Dealing with these overseas cultivators ultimately couldn't be too polite. He just raised his brows and said:

"Elixir formula."

Elixir formula!

Xia Xia Shouyu kowtowed, immediately took out a jade box from her storage bag, and turned to look at the trembling crowd behind her. Now, one by one, they were all honest, taking out the elixir formula from their sleeves in panic and handing it to Xia Xia Shouyu.

She glared fiercely at these few men, then turned around and presented everything respectfully in her hands. A thick stack of animal skin scrolls was placed on the jade box. Xia Xia Shouyu moved an inch and said respectfully: "The little one sent all the cultivators in the temple out this year, searching everywhere. Everything visible at the cape, famous, or rumored, has been checked, and the harvest is here."

Li Li Ximing picked them up one by one and read them. No one on the ground dared to move. Soon, the old Temple Master Xia also rushed over. Seeing this scene, he didn't dare to speak and hurriedly knelt on the ground.

Li Li Ximing flipped through them. Sure enough, most of them were made up. Only three elixir formulas looked reliable, all of which were spiritual objects and resources from ancient times.

"One is Qingxuan's 【Baoxuan Divine Mountain Elixir】, using 【Daoist Fuyuan Tai Secret】 as the main medicine; one is Taiyin's 【One Qi Ling Heart Elixir】, using 【Qingyin Mother Medicine】 as the main medicine; the last one is Capital Guard's 【Purple Water Immortal Ze Pill】, refined with 【Jiangtou Profound Soul】 and 【Xianqing One Qi】."

It had to be said that ancient cultivators were truly rich. None of the spiritual objects here were lower than Early Zifu, among which 【Daoist Fuyuan Tai Secret】 was a treasure of Qingxuan. Who would use it to refine elixirs?

The later 【Qingyin Mother Medicine】 had never even been heard of. 【Xianqing One Qi】 was a Early Zifu spiritual object of the Qing Qi lineage, and 【Jiangtou Profound Soul】 was nine times out of ten also a precious spiritual object of the Capital Guard...

Li Li Ximing only had hope for the 【One Qi Ling Heart Elixir】. If he used 【Taiyin Moon Flower】 to replace it, he might be able to exert some effect after repairing it.

Just as he was reading the elixir formula, someone hurried up from below, not daring to get close, only handing up a jade slip, which was passed among the kneeling cultivators and sent to Xia Xia Shouyu.

Xia Xia Shouyu saw at a glance that it was the elixir formula that had been haggled over just now. Clearly, it had already been acquired, but it was dragged and haggled over, wanting her to exchange it with an elixir, nothing more than wanting to embezzle it privately.

She was hateful in her heart, but on the surface, she could only present it respectfully. Li Li Ximing's eyes lit up, his heart moved, and this jade slip immediately fell into his hand.

No other reason: among so many ancient elixir formulas, there was finally one recorded in a jade slip! He glanced at it. This jade slip was not newly engraved; it looked like the original, recording a 【Heavenly Heart One Intent Elixir Method】, which was the 【Mifan Sect】 lineage.

Although this 【Mifan Sect】 had a name somewhat similar to the 【Mifan Temple】 of Mount Xiaoshi Mountain, this lineage was not a fresh guest. It had long been famous in Jiangnan. There was a 【Mifan Sect Ruin】 in the East Sea. Li Li Encheng of the Mount Qingchi Sect's famous 【Wall Water Elixir】 and the ancestor of the Chi family, Chi Wei, had both benefited greatly from it.

But when he looked at the jade slip in his hand, he immediately became suspicious and raised his brows: "Since it was bought from someone else's house... shouldn't a copy be made? Why was the original brought back?"

A man behind Xia Xia Shouyu moved forward, trembling: "Big... adult... that person also snatched it... his alchemy is shallow... this jade slip is mysterious and complex, we little cultivators... get dizzy after one look, let alone copy it..."

Li Li Ximing narrowed his eyes and asked:

"Oh? Then he was willing to sell?"

This man was asked this question, his legs cramped with nervousness, and he shouted:

"True... True Person! He himself had refined it step by step, but this alchemy technique had already failed, that's why he went to sell it!"

Li Li Ximing slowly sat up straight, solemnly exploring his spiritual sense into it. Sure enough, he saw the vast ocean-like text inside.

"At the beginning of heaven and earth, Yin and Yang were formed first. The Human Emperor built his career, and the Five Virtues were born. The Three Profound were bestowed, so it was the first Dao Treasury. The Three Profound were surrounded, and the Four Paths assisted them. Below the Three Profound, there were Twelve Mansions... Mifan Sect, inheriting Douxuan..."

Li Li Ximing suddenly realized: "Mifan Sect is already an extremely ancient lineage, and it is actually also a Douxuan lineage... This is unheard of... With such a big background as the Douxuan lineage, no wonder one or two opportunities could nurture people like Chang Yun Xiaozi, Ye Huai, and Guo Guo Shentong..."

Now he valued this 【Heavenly Heart One Intent Elixir Method】 even more. He read it on the spot, the more he read, the stranger and more regrettable it became. Finally, he put the jade slip on his hand, actually not knowing what to say.

【Heavenly Heart One Intent Elixir Method】 was extremely strange. This thing didn't emphasize the alchemy of the Early Zifu Jin Dan path of seeking elixirs through nature, but instead emphasized seeking elixirs through life. It was complex to the extreme. Li Li Ximing read it roughly, and the difficulty was extremely high.

"No wonder the cape cultivators couldn't refine it. This thing is extremely difficult even for me to refine. The cape is full of Early Zifu Jin Dan path cultivators... where could it be refined? Even if these things were learned... in the end, one's life would be refined away..."

He looked at the jade slip in his hand and pondered: "If that's the case... it's no wonder Guo Guo Shentong and Chang Xiao harmed the people of destiny most cruelly. These two guys don't know what methods they obtained from the Douxuan lineage, maybe they are also plotting this piece."

"Chang Xiao was also plotting against my family's heir this time... It's a pity I didn't expect him to be so decisive and cruel. At least it's a Early Zifu-level force. If he takes action suddenly, he will offend me to death..."

It's just a pity that what he held in his hand was only an elixir method, not even being able to see more of the Mifan Sect's lineage, let alone the more ancient Douxuan lineage. He put away the jade slip and pondered: "Three Profound, Douxuan is already one of them. I don't know if Tongxuan can reach it. There is one left, I don't know whose house it is... The Qing Song lineage is the only one in Jiangnan, and it's not certain that it's also a Profound."

He didn't say a word, and Xia Xia Shouyu and the others below knelt bitterly, waiting anxiously. Until Li Li Ximing raised his brows and ordered: "You stay, the others disperse."

The courtyard rolled down like a gust of wind, leaving only Xia Xia Shouyu kneeling. Li Li Ximing looked at her and asked:

"What lineage do you practice?"

Xia Xia Shouyu hurriedly said respectfully: "The little one practices "Fu Fire Go Cold Formula," and the Immortal Foundation achieved is called 'Bai Li Heart.' As for what lineage it is, no one in the ancestors has ever achieved it, so I don't know what it is."

She immediately took the cultivation method, and Li Li Ximing glanced at it. Sure enough, it was an ancient method without a grade, but the content didn't look very brilliant, mostly three or four grades. He raised his brows and said:

"Rare... it's actually 'Huo Fire,' really a lineage rarely seen in Jiangnan... Good, good, good, unexpected joy!"

Li Li Ximing had long planned to take Xia Xia Shouyu back to the lake. Each lineage had its pros and cons. The lineage she practiced was naturally the more different from the Li family's, the better. Even if this woman failed to break through, this "Fu Fire Go Cold Formula" was a rare lineage.

He nodded with a smile and pondered about the elixir: 'It's a pity I don't know the principle of mutual generation and restriction of the 'Huo Fire' lineage, only remembering some descriptions of leveling dampness and removing rain, turning cold into heat. Avoiding Water Virtue and Cold Qi, choosing Fire Virtue is the safest.'

So he raised his brows and said: "Are there any monsters that spit fire and play with flames nearby? The Foundation Establishment Great Dao promised to you should also be given to you."

This sentence made Xia Xia Shouyu almost overwhelmed with joy. She kowtowed repeatedly on the ground and shouted: "Adult's grace, the little one cannot repay it in nine lives. If there are orders in the future, I will die without hesitation..."

She didn't say too many flattering words and said respectfully:

"I only heard that the Kong Que Sea to the east has many islands and many peacocks, each as large as a courtyard, swallowing gold and spitting fire, fierce and pressing. There are also one-horned cow monsters in the sea, all of which are monsters that spit fire and play with flames."

Li Li Ximing remembered that there was also a Early Zifu force, Mount Jiuqiu Mountain, in this Kong Que Sea. Logically, he could also go to see it, but seeing this woman so shrewd, he secretly planned:

'Zhou Ming's appearance... Foundation Establishment might not even be achieved... his reputation has always been bad, and it's easier to be used. It's impossible to let him marry any Early Zifu descendant! This Xia Xia Shouyu is smart, clever, gifted, and her background is clean... and she has a good appearance... it's just right.'

As for Li Zhouming's own thoughts, Li Li Ximing was not worried. This child was very lustful, so he wouldn't worry that he wouldn't want to marry, so he said:

"Prepare well. After achieving the Immortal Foundation, there will be opportunities waiting for you."

His figure scattered like flowing light. The sky was already dark, and the courtyard suddenly dimmed. Xia Xia Shouyu's eyes were shining brightly. She stood up and thought to herself: 'As long as there is a chance to get out of this poor place... and not be trapped to death on this desert island... it is a great fortune!'

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