Chapter 198: Core Formation Secret Art (For the Silver Grand Alliance! )
Chapter 198: Core Formation Secret Art (For the Silver Grand Alliance! )
The Song Clan, as the foremost immortal cultivation family in the State of Yue, possessed countless treasures.
It was highly probable for a talisman treasure to appear on the last Foundation Establishment cultivator.
"Hmph!"
Song Qing gazed at Fang Xi, as if looking at a dead man.
Then, the gray talisman in his hand rapidly erupted with intense spiritual light, transforming into a small gray sword that, carrying two or three tenths of a spirit artifact's power, rapidly stabbed towards him!
"Go!"
Fang Xi had already positioned the second-order turtle puppet in front of him. At this moment, he directly withdrew his Divine Consciousness control, allowing the second-order puppet to intercept the small gray sword.
Bang!
Fang Xi's expression was incredibly solemn. Seizing this brief moment, he also took out the Vermilion Bird Ring talisman treasure!
Not only that, his face flushed as he abruptly activated the 'Lesser Demonic Disintegration Art'!
Within his body, above the deep pool of spiritual power that had originally been somewhat depleted, strands of blood-qi and vital essence converged, forming drop after drop of liquid spiritual power, totaling twenty to thirty drops!
Activating the Lesser Demonic Disintegration Art could instantly boost spiritual power by about thirty to forty percent!
Fang Xi's current spiritual power cap was seventy-five drops of liquid spiritual power. As a Martial God, with abundant blood-qi and a body robust enough to withstand such expenditure, his spiritual power actually surged by nearly thirty drops of liquid spiritual power!
Although such a surge in spiritual power would immediately vanish afterwards and greatly damage his vitality, at this moment, the strength of Fang Xi's spiritual power was almost on par with that of an ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator!
At this moment, he poured all of the surging spiritual power into the talisman treasure in his hand.
Chirp! Chirp!
A ball of red and yellow flames appeared.
Within the red and yellow flames, a clear cry resembling a bird suddenly echoed.
Then, a ring flew out, and in a flash, it ensnared the small gray sword, rendering it immobile.
"Vermilion Bird Ring? !"
Song Qing paled in shock: "You're from the Black Heaven Sect? !"
His small sword talisman treasure had already been used several times; it was simply no match for the spiritual energy-filled, utterly brand new Vermilion Bird Ring.
In less than two rounds, it was incinerated by the Vermilion Bird Fire until its spiritual power was exhausted, degenerating back into a gray talisman, and then dissipating into scattered bits, turning to ash!
And after Song Qing let out a strange cry, he swept his finger over a ring on his hand, and astonishingly, over a dozen second-order talismans appeared!
Yi Wood Divine Thunder, Bing Fire Divine Thunder, Blazing Fire Golden Saber, Profound Yin True Water. . .
Sheet after sheet of second-order mid-grade, and even superior-grade, talismans were furiously activated by him, consuming his spiritual power. Under a barrage of explosions, Fang Xi's puppets were all blown to pieces, scattering in all directions.
Song Qing, meanwhile, urged his Purple Essence Bracelet, not lingering in battle. He directly formed hand seals with both hands, his face flushing red, and transformed into a streak of bloody light, escaping!
"Demonic escape art?"
Fang Xi also formed hand seals with both hands, and blood essence emerged from his fingertips: "'Blood Ignition Escape Art'!"
Swoosh!
The next moment, he put away his puppets and talisman flying sword, also transforming into a bloody long rainbow, tenaciously pursuing Song Qing from behind.
The two, one chasing and one fleeing, in the blink of an eye, had escaped over a hundred li.
"What madness is this?"
Song Qing swept his Divine Consciousness behind him, and seeing Fang Xi performing the Blood Ignition Escape Art, he was so enraged that he cursed aloud.
He couldn't understand; he himself was doing it to escape with his life, which was why he had no choice but to use this secret art that greatly damaged his vitality.
The other party had no life-and-death enmity with him, so why go to such lengths?
Even less did Song Qing expect that the elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator he had barely even bothered to look at back then would actually possess such strength, capable of forcing him, the Young Master of the Song Clan, into such a desperate situation!
The opponent's spiritual power was even comparable to that of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, and his escape light was even faster than his!
The distance between the two sides was continuously closing.
"Ahhh. . . you forced me!"
Song Qing transmitted a message via Divine Consciousness, his expression ferocious.
The next instant, he abruptly stopped his escape light. With thunder pearls clutched between each of his ten fingers, he fiercely scattered them backwards: "Today, I will perish with you!"
Fang Xi's expression remained unchanged. The Green Reaping Sword flew out, picking out two genuine ones from among the thunder pearls and sending them flying.
Boom! Boom!
Terrifying explosions erupted all around. The remaining thunder pearls struck the Five Elements Shield Armor, only exploding into dissipating dust. They were all fakes!
Under his powerful Divine Consciousness, Song Qing's little tricks were completely useless and instead exposed his own weakness.
"Primordial Demon Thorn!"
Fang Xi's brow furrowed, and the remaining two dark, small thorns flew out.
Song Qing let out a muffled groan. The surface of a jade pendant on his neck suddenly showed cracks, and his movement to turn and flee immediately slowed down.
Immediately after, he was struck horizontally by a several-zhang-long Martial God arm, slapped into the ground with one palm.
"Go!"
Fang Xi pointed at the Green Reaping Sword. The Geng Metal spirit runes on the sword's body flared with brilliant light, transforming into a stream of azure-golden light that sent the Purple Essence Bracelet flying.
Chirp! Chirp!
From within the Vermilion Bird Ring, a radiant divine bird of blazing flames flew out, commanding endless fire, and flew towards Song Qing.
Song Qing had no choice but to throw out a small, jet-black shield, which surprisingly was also a superior-grade spirit artifact. It barely managed to entangle with the Vermilion Bird Ring and soon became riddled with holes.
"Secret Technique: Primordial Limitless!"
Rumble!
Behind Fang Xi, his Martial God True Body appeared, countless arms, like a thousand-armed Guanyin, fell like dense raindrops, smashing onto Song Qing's shield.
Crack!
Accompanied by a bone-jarring cracking sound, Song Qing's protective spiritual barrier instantly shattered.
“Ah! ”
Song Qing had just let out a scream when Fang Xi pressed his head down and shoved a demonic tree seed into his mouth.
...
For a major force, true secret treasures are not even carried on one's person. For example, within top-tier cultivation methods, some crucial insights are not explicitly written down but are passed down orally to ensure absolute secrecy.
As the Young Master of the Song Clan, a power that had dominated the State of Yue for hundreds of years, how many secrets did Song Qing know?
The relationships between those high-level cultivators, their cultivation methods and secret arts, resource points. . .
These were the true wealth of the Song Clan!
They might not even be recorded in jade slips.
Therefore, Fang Xi chose to turn Song Qing into a human puppet, to thoroughly probe the various secrets of the State of Yue!
A moment later, the azure light in Fang Xi's eyes faded.
He manipulated Song Qing to take off the blue ring on his hand and give it to him. Then he retrieved the Purple Essence Bracelet and the jade pendant from his neck, before putting Song Qing into his storage bag, cleaning up the traces of the battlefield, and leisurely departing.
...
Night fell.
Inside a temporarily opened cave dwelling.
The luminous pearls embedded in the wall radiated brilliant light.
Fang Xi abruptly opened his eyes, a glint flashing in his pupils: "So that's it. . . This Song Qing actually wanted to provoke a great war between the cultivation worlds of the two countries. What audacity! If he had succeeded, how many cultivators would have died?"
Song Qing's memory fragments were very chaotic, and Fang Xi only managed to sort out some matters after organizing them.
The ring he took from Song Qing's hand was a storage ring, named 'Boundless Sea Ring', with a vast internal space.
After refining it, he gently tipped it over, and a pile of colorful spirit stones appeared.
Among them, low-grade spirit stones were the least valuable, with just over a thousand pieces. Then there were mid-grade spirit stones, useful even for Foundation Establishment cultivators, with over fifty pieces. Finally, there was even a superior-grade spirit stone radiating spiritual light!
"Nearly twenty thousand in spirit stones alone? Good heavens, what a haul."
Fang Xi carefully put away the superior-grade spirit stone, feeling that coming to ambush Song Qing this time was truly an extremely correct decision.
"Even if it cost nearly ten years of lifespan, it was worth it!"
Although he wasn't significantly injured in killing Song Qing, activating the 'Lesser Demonic Disintegration Art' and 'Blood Ignition Escape Art' were both severely vitality-draining matters. Even though physical injuries could be quickly healed by using the Martial God True Body to perform the Return to Origin Secret Art and spiritual pills, the consumed lifespan was hard to recover.
Fortunately, his lifespan was long enough, and he could cultivate trees to extend his life in the future, so he didn't feel much about it.
Fang Xi's Divine Consciousness entered the Boundless Sea Ring, examining item after item: spiritual items, spirit artifacts, jade slips. . . He couldn't help but gasp: "Truly rich. . . As expected of the Young Master of the Song Clan. . ."
He recalled the opponent's aged and haggard appearance, and the small sword talisman treasure with not much spiritual power left, and pondered: "This Song Qing had engaged in successive battles before, consuming a lot of the talisman treasure's power, as well as talismans, one-time artifacts, and his own blood essence. . . Otherwise, he could have performed several times better today. What a pity. . . a rat running across the street ends up like this."
Fang Xi swept his Divine Consciousness, and then took out a jade slip from his storage bag.
This jade slip, astonishingly, recorded the 'Longevity Art', and according to Song Qing's memory, it was even the original text of the Longevity Art!
He carefully examined it once, finding it identical to what he had learned, and couldn't help but let out a long breath.
As for the other jade slips, a third-order 'Heavenly Wolf Howling at the Moon' formation inheritance, and a top-tier cultivation method were the most valuable.
This top-tier cultivation method was named 'Molten Gold Art', a cultivation method suitable for those with Metal and Fire spirit roots. It was divided into ten levels of Qi Refinement, three levels of Foundation Establishment, three levels of Core Formation, and also a method for Nascent Soul Condensation, allowing one to cultivate all the way to the Nascent Soul realm!
"Unfortunately, it doesn't match my attributes. . ."
Among the other spiritual items, the more valuable artifacts included the extraordinary treasure 'Purple Essence Bracelet', which Fang Xi had already taken and which, as an extraordinary treasure, was quite easy to refine.
This treasure integrated offense and defense, and its power even surpassed a superior-grade spirit artifact, making Fang Xi quite fond of it, feeling that he could just discard his Five Elements Shield Armor.
The rest included a jade pendant riddled with cracks, suspected to have the effect of protecting the Sea of Consciousness.
As for that superior-grade spirit artifact shield? It had already been destroyed by the Vermilion Bird Ring talisman treasure. . .
"Besides that, the most important spiritual materials. . ."
Fang Xi tilted the blue storage ring, taking out a jet-black wooden box from it, with several talismans affixed to its surface.
After tearing them off one by one, he saw a spiritual wood root section sealed inside the wooden box. This root section was slightly charred and carried a peculiar fragrance.
"A fourth-order spiritual wood — a section of the Phoenix Perching Parasol Tree's root!"
"The Song Clan's Old Ancestor was truly a peerless genius!"
Recalling a certain memory fragment from Song Qing, Fang Xi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
When the Song Clan first obtained the 'Longevity Art', their Old Ancestor, having a biased Fire spirit root, simply couldn't cultivate it.
However, this person actually found another path, comprehending an auxiliary Core Formation method from the 'Longevity Art'!
That was to circumvent the restriction of needing wood-attribute cultivation methods through demonic arts, reverse-cultivate the 'Longevity Art', accumulate Yi Wood Qi, and finally use wood to generate fire, transforming it into resources to enhance the 'Molten Gold Art'.
According to the Song Clan's Old Ancestor, the 'Wood Spirit Body' would take a thousand years to achieve, which naturally wouldn't work.
But if one could cultivate diligently for a hundred years, refine the 'Azure Wood Spirit Body', and then transform the Azure Wood Spirit Body into pure Yi Wood spiritual energy to ignite the 'Molten Gold Art', using wood to aid fire, it would at least increase the chance of Core Formation by ten to twenty percent!
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