Chapter 55: Foundation Establishment Cultivator

The yellow-clothed woman nodded and said: "Master is outside the camp. We came in a hurry and don't know the direction of Brother Lu and the others yet. Please ask Senior Brother Chen to go and explain the situation to Master."

After Chen Ziyang finished listening, he immediately replied with a face full of joy: "I really didn't expect you to come so fast. Please forgive me for any neglect. Junior Sister Gao, let's go over quickly, don't let Senior Uncle Liu wait for a long time."

After speaking, Chen Ziyang put his palm upward and made a gesture of please first. The yellow-clothed woman didn't be polite either, moved her lotus steps and walked in front, and Chen Ziyang followed.

After the two walked out of the camp, they soon came before the palace-dressed woman.

"Disciple Chen Ziyang, pay respects to Senior Uncle Liu."

Chen Ziyang looked at this woman who looked much younger than him, didn't dare to be careless on his face, and respectfully bowed his head and performed a salute.

He was forty-seven years old, not very old even among Qi Refining cultivators, but he already looked like a middle-aged man. Calling a woman who looked more than ten years younger than him Senior Uncle really felt somewhat strange.

However, this was a very common thing in the cultivation world. In the cultivation world, the capable come first. As long as there was no clear master-disciple relationship, even an old Qi Refining cultivator had to respectfully call a Foundation Establishment cultivator who was decades younger than him a senior.

This Senior Uncle Liu looked like she was eighteen or nineteen years old on the surface, but in fact, her age was older than Chen Ziyang.

In the cultivation world, most female cultivators practiced techniques that had the effect of maintaining youth. Just looking at the surface, one couldn't tell the real age of these people.

After Qi Refining cultivators broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they washed their marrow and whole essence blood, and after their lifespan greatly increased, they could also return to the appearance of their youth.

The palace-dressed woman waved her hand at Chen Ziyang and said: "No need for extra courtesy. You tell me first, where did Junior Nephew Lu and the others go."

Chen Ziyang hurriedly got up and pointed out the direction Lu Yunfei and the others went this morning to the three.

Lu Yunfei and the others had only been gone for more than an hour. If Foundation Establishment cultivators traveled with all their heart, they could catch up with them in at most two quarters of an hour. The palace-dressed woman thought for a while and decided to catch up with Lu Yunfei and the others first, so as to avoid any unexpected situations for these people.

"Alright, let's go over and see first. You just wait here for news."

After obtaining the accurate specific location, the Liu-surnamed woman, the palace-dressed woman, slightly raised her plain hand, released a flying boat magic treasure, and after jumping onto the flying boat with the other woman behind her, she performed a spell on the yellow-clothed woman not far away. A burst of breeze suddenly floated under the yellow-clothed woman's feet, and soon she was also rolled onto the flying boat.

The three stood on the flying boat, not appearing crowded. With a flash of spirit light, the flying boat slowly floated into the high sky and flew rapidly in the direction pointed by Chen Ziyang.

Looking at the flying boat that slowly disappeared from his eyes, Chen Ziyang in the camp shook his head with envy, secretly thinking in his heart: "I really don't know when I will be able to succeed in Foundation Establishment in this life, and like these Foundation Establishment seniors in the sect with great divine abilities, step on the flying boat and soar in the sky."

There were more than ten thousand Qi Refining disciples like him in the Xiaoyao Sect, and there were only three hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators. Among these Qi Refining cultivators, there were only more than a hundred who had hope for Foundation Establishment. Without outstanding talent or a powerful background, Qi Refining disciples like Chen Ziyang, even if they could cultivate to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, could not accumulate enough merit to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, and it was difficult to have hope for Foundation Establishment.

"Senior Uncle Liu has already passed. Brother Lu and the others will definitely be safe and sound this time." After sighing softly, Chen Ziyang slowly walked back into the camp.

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In a cave filled with chilling winds, Yang Wuqi stroked the beloved demonic blade in his hands, looked at the trembling disciples below, and asked in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"Out for so long, have Liangshan and the others returned?"

A young man with a few scars on his face hurriedly stepped forward carefully and replied: "Master, Second Senior Brother and the others returned last night. Now they are preparing for the blood sacrifice on the altar. Master, rest assured, Second Senior Brother and the others had good luck this time and caught three Qi Refining cultivators again. Your magic knife will definitely be successfully refined soon."

"Hehe, Liangshan and the others did a good job this time. After Master refines the magic knife, I will definitely reward you well." Yang Wuqi finished speaking, looked at the magic knife in his hand, and revealed a trace of strange smile.

He had been hiding in the Fuyun Mountain Range for more than three years, just to refine this magic treasure in his hand. Now this magic knife had absorbed the essence souls of dozens of Qi Refining cultivators, and it was not far from completion.

As long as this magic treasure was successfully refined, with the help of this magic knife, plus his cultivation at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, in the future, as long as he didn't encounter experts above the Jin Dan stage, there shouldn't be many people among Foundation Establishment cultivators who could leave him behind, and he wouldn't have to be sneaky everywhere like before.

Yang Wuqi was originally from a small sect within Song Guo. After visiting a demonic cultivator cave dwelling in his early years, he luckily obtained the inheritance of a complete Jin Dan demonic cultivator. After comprehending this demonic technique, he couldn't withstand the temptation, turned to practice demonic techniques, and became a demonic cultivator.

After practicing hard for decades, relying on several sneaky blood sacrifices, he not only succeeded in Foundation Establishment but also spread this demonic divine ability nearby and accepted dozens of disciples.

At first, Yang Wuqi acted very carefully and cautiously, not daring to reveal his demonic techniques. He hid in Donglin Prefecture in the south of Song Kingdom for many years and had never been discovered by other cultivators.

It was just that the techniques practiced by demonic cultivators were all somewhat too opportunistic. If they wanted to quickly improve their magic power cultivation, they often needed some sinister and bloody refining methods. To speed up their cultivation speed, they would choose to blood-sacrifice other low-tier cultivators. Some demonic cultivators would not even let go of ordinary mortals. For this reason, they were despised by the righteous cultivators of the entire cultivation world.

Five years ago, one of Yang Wuqi's disciples, while providing him with the items needed for blood sacrifice, unexpectedly was tracked to his hiding place by a cultivator in Donglin Prefecture, who accidentally discovered their practice of demonic techniques.

Although he discovered and killed that cultivator in time, that cultivator happened to be from a Foundation Establishment family in Gulong County, Donglin Prefecture. After some investigation, they still exposed their whereabouts.

Subsequently, several major Foundation Establishment families in Gulong County joined forces and raided their old nest. Fortunately, Yang Wuqi received the news in advance and took a part of his disciples to escape in advance.

After Yang Wuqi escaped from Gulong County, in these few years, they wandered around in various prefectures of Song Kingdom and couldn't find a stable place to stay. Several times they were almost tracked by cultivators sent by the Xiaoyao Sect, and the days were quite uncomfortable.

Three years ago, Yang Wuqi brought his disciples to the Fuyun Mountain Range and established a secret cave dwelling, which finally settled down.

This time, in order to search for a large number of cultivators' essence souls to refine a magic treasure, he had been constantly sending his disciples to help him capture lone itinerant cultivators in the Fuyun Mountain Range for the past two years, and had already captured many unlucky cultivators near Guiyunfang.

Now this magic knife only needed to absorb some more cultivators' essence souls to completely transform into a magic treasure. The days of hiding and dodging for the past few years could be considered not in vain.

In recent years, their constant capture of cultivators had also attracted the attention of Guiyunfang. It was just that their cave dwelling happened to be built in an unexplored place in the Fuyun Mountain Range. For several years, the cultivators sent by Guiyunfang to track them didn't dare to come to such unknown places and had never discovered their traces.

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