Chapter 55: Foundation Establishment Cultivator

The yellow-clad 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 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 quickly. I hope you will 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 turned his palm upward, made a gesture of please first, and the yellow-clad woman didn't decline, walking in front with lotus steps, and Chen Ziyang followed.

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

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

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

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

However, this was a very common thing in the immortal cultivation world. In the immortal cultivation world, those who are capable are first. As long as there is no clear master-disciple relationship, even an old Qi Refining cultivator must respectfully call a Foundation Establishment cultivator who is 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’s.

In the immortal 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 a Qi Refining stage cultivator breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they wash the marrow of their whole body’s essence blood, and after their lifespan greatly increases, they can also return to the appearance of their youth.

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

Chen Ziyang hurriedly stood up and pointed out the direction Lu Yunfei and the others had gone this morning to the three.

Lu Yunfei and the others had gone for only more than an hour. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator traveled with one 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 not to have any unexpected situations happen to 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, who was the palace-dressed woman, slightly raised her plain hand, released a flying boat magic treasure, and after taking the other woman behind her onto the flying boat, she cast a spell at the yellow-clad woman not far away. A breeze suddenly rose under the yellow-clad woman’s feet, and soon she was also rolled onto the flying boat.

The three stood on the flying boat and didn't look crowded. With a flash of spiritual light, the flying boat slowly floated into the high sky and flew rapidly in the direction pointed out by Chen Ziyang.

Looking at the flying boat slowly disappearing from his eyes, Chen Ziyang shook his head with envy and thought to himself: "I really don't know when I will be able to successfully build a foundation in this life, and be like these Foundation Establishment seniors in the sect who have great divine abilities, stepping on a flying boat and soaring into the sky."

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

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

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In a cave dwelling full of gloomy wind, Yang Wuqi stroked the demonic knife he loved in his hand, looked at the several trembling disciples below, and asked in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"You have been out for so long, have Liangshan and the others returned?"

A young man with several 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 demonic knife will definitely be successfully refined soon."

"Hehe, Liangshan and the others did a good job this time. After I refine the demonic knife, I will definitely reward you well." After Yang Wuqi finished speaking, he looked at the demonic knife in his hand and revealed a 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 demonic knife had already absorbed the essence souls of dozens of Qi Refining cultivators, and it was not far from great success.

As long as this magic treasure was successfully refined, with this demonic knife to assist, plus his fifth-level Foundation Establishment cultivation base, in the future, as long as he didn't encounter experts above the Golden Core stage, there wouldn't be many people among Foundation Establishment cultivators who could leave him behind. 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 Golden Core demonic cultivator. After comprehending this demonic technique, he couldn't withstand the temptation, turned to practice the demonic technique, and became a demonic cultivator.

After decades of bitter cultivation, relying on several sneaky blood sacrifices, he not only successfully built his foundation 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 technique. He hid in Donglin Prefecture in the south of Song Guo for many years and was never discovered by other cultivators.

It was just that the techniques practiced by demonic cultivators were a bit too opportunistic. If they wanted to quickly improve their magic power and cultivation base, they often needed some sinister blood-sacrificing refining methods. To speed up their cultivation speed, they would choose to blood-sacrifice other low-level cultivators. Some demonic cultivators wouldn't even let go of ordinary mortals. For this reason, they were despised by righteous cultivators in the entire immortal cultivation world.

Five years ago, one of Yang Wuqi’s disciples, while providing him with the items needed for blood sacrifice, unexpectedly was tracked by a cultivator in Donglin Prefecture to his hiding place, and they accidentally discovered that they were practicing 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, their whereabouts were still exposed.

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

After Yang Wuqi fled Gulong County, they wandered around in various prefectures of Song Guo for the past few years and couldn't find a stable place to settle down. Several times they were almost tracked by cultivators sent by the Carefree Sect, and their days were quite miserable.

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 essence souls of cultivators to refine a demonic treasure, he had been constantly sending his disciples to help him capture lone loose cultivators in the Fuyun Mountain Range for the past two years, and he had already captured quite a few unlucky cultivators near Guiyun Market.

Now, as long as this demonic knife absorbs some more essence souls of cultivators, it can completely transform into a demonic treasure. The days of hiding and dodging for the past few years can be considered not in vain.

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

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