"How dare you!"


    Xuan Yu snorted coldly and waved her hand, casting dozens of fireballs.


    The clone talisman was simr to an illusion technique, which couldn''t withstand a real person''s spell. In an instant, they were all sted to pieces.


    "All fakes?"


    Xuan Yu''s brows furrowed slightly as her divine sense swept across a hundred zhang radius in an instant. From her sleeve flew a golden light which, upon meeting the wind, turned into a golden and enveloped the ground forty or fifty zhang to the east.


    The golden seemed formless and insubstantial as it vanished into the ground in a blink and wrapped around a figure in ck armor, pulling it up from beneath the surface.


    "Senior, spare my life."


    Zhou Yi''s face was pale, and his legs shook like chaff.


    Xuan Yu''s face was cold as ice as she waved her hand and summoned the magic artifact, the Golden Spirit Net, back, reprimanding him.


    "I kindly called out to you, yet you dared to defy..."


    Boom, boom, boom, boom!


    A series of explosions sounded, and the Golden Spirit Net instantly tore open, spewing forth underground fire that surged toward Xuan Yu.


    "An insect''s trick!"


    Xuan Yu''s expression remained calm, as she had anticipated this. She was not some ''good girl'' cultivated in a sect, during the years she had been in Tianyang Abyss, she had killed so many Chu State''s evil cultivators that their heads rolled.


    The Daoist crown on her head sent down protective divine light, and the golden hairpin in her hair turned into a flying sword, shing towards Zhou Yi.


    Moo!


    Zhou Yi''s eyes turned blood-red as he howled to the sky. His already robust figure swelled rapidly, growing over three zhang tall.


    Two giant golden horns grew on his head, and his thick arms, like pir courts, reached for the flying sword in one hand and threw a punch directly at Xuan Yu''s face with the other.


    With a loud crash


    The protective divine light shattered instantly, and the divine power of ten thousand jin struck Xuan Yu''s head, sending her tumbling to the ground like a broken kite.


    Zhou Yi showed no sign of joy on his face. Amon real person suffering such a sneak attack might have been seriously injured, but Xuan Yu was a direct disciple of the Pill Cauldron Sect, with who knows how many protective treasures.


    He sprinted for several hundred zhang, activated the Earth-Traveler Pearl, and burrowed his way underground towards Linyuan City.


    A few breathster.


    Xuan Yu rose into the air from the ground, her hair disheveled, her eyebrows inverted, and a purple-red fist mark on her left cheek.


    "You demon dare to do this!"


    She steered her flying light around for inspection, her divine sense scanning in all directions, but she couldn''t find Zhou Yi''s trace.


    Xuan Yu flew back to the original spot andnded in front of the Chen family, questioning Chen Yang.


    "Do you know the identity of that demon?"


    "Replying to the real person, I know, but I won''t say!"


    Chen Yang red to stop his descendants from speaking and stood stiffly in front of the Foundation Establishment real person, with no attempt to hide the stubbornness in his tone.


    Xuan Yu coldly said, "Communicating with demon races, harming human cultivators, I can force a soul search!"


    "Chen family''s ancestors were known as Xuan Yang, and not even his corpse was returned after his death, only saying he perished together with a great demon."


    Chen Yang stepped forward two paces and said, "Today, the real person can search our souls and see if this old man has had any dealings with the demon race. It''s better to search everyone to ensure today''s events don''t spread!"


    "You suspect me of colluding with evil cultivators?"


    Xuan Yu said, "Senior Xuan Yang died for the sect in battle and is deserving of admiration. The pill scriptures he left behind are valuable, but not tempting enough for me to covet."


    "Since that''s the case."


    Chen Yang''s eyes gleamed cunningly, and his upright figure bent slightly as he respectfully said, "Replying to the real person, this old man had long suspected an attack by evil cultivators, and Senior Niu was the helper we invited."


    "There''s no need for such pretense. I may be angry, but I wouldn''t take it out on the descendants of the loyal and good."


    Xuan Yu saw through Chen Yang''s ruse, but she could not exin to Chen Yang that the secretive messages from the sect elder were seeking to recover the scattered legacies, especially those rted to the Foundation Establishment Pill forms.


    If this news got out, the Loose Cultivators of Cloud Continent would be thrown into chaos!


    Xuan Yu was indifferent to her sect''s methods, taking it as a mission failed, and flicked her wrist to release a Jade Stone Token.


    "Should the family face a tribtion in the future, you may seek aid at the Righteous Sun Abyss!"


    The lingering voice faded away as he turned into a streak of fleeing light and departed.


    Chen Yang let out a long sigh of relief, slumped to the ground, and muttered, "Having survived this ordeal, our Chen family can be considered to havee back to life."


    The eldest son said, "Father, that true immortal was truly benevolent to leave behind a messaging jade token."


    Chen Yang nced at his eldest son, admonishing him.


    "Remember, our family has only one benefactor, and that is Senior Niu. The rest didn''t even treat us as humans!"


    ...


    Linyuan City.


    Zhou Yi hid underground for several days, seeing no pursuers, he immediately escaped to the north.


    Not daring to show his head, let alone fly, he relied on the technique of subterranean travel to make haste.


    Several monthster, after crossing the border of Chu State, Zhou Yi finally surfaced from the ground and disguised himself as a young nobleman to blend into the city life of Great Qi''s Southern Frontier.


    "Thank goodness I had always considered Foundation Establishment cultivators as hypothetical enemies, otherwise I would have been in danger this time!"


    Zhou Yi found a ce of pleasures to rx his tense nerves and began to sort out his spoils of war.


    "Magic artifacts are all damaged. If I find a marketce and sell them, I can exchange them for three to four thousand spirit stones. Superior thunder charms, Heavenly Thunder Pearls, Earth Fire Pearls, clone charms -- this battle has cost me at least four to five thousand spirit stones!"


    "If it weren''t for the Jade Dew Art, it would have been a bankrupting fight!"


    Zhou Yi picked out two protective magic artifacts, refined them for his own use, and kept the rest in his storage bag. He then began inspecting the jade slips.


    The first one.


    "A cultivation diary? Who in their right mind keeps a diary... Hmm? It seems I have written one too, no harm, no harm!"


    He continued reading.


    "Tsk tsk! This Daoist friend even wrote a novel, with the female protagonist being... True Immortal Xuan Yu, a tribute to the seniors!"


    To cultivators, jade slips were simr to convenient and quick ess books, used to record insights or experiences for easy review and reflection atter times.


    After inspecting each one, he destroyed those of a personal or private nature, while carefully preserving those containing insights and experiences.


    "Soul Soothing Intoxication, a spiritual wine form!"


    Zhou Yi frowned slightly; this wine was quite renowned in Tianyang City, being one of the very few spiritual objects that could enhance the soul.


    The only person in the marketce capable of brewing such wine was Zhao Zhi, who was well-acquainted with Zhou Yi!


    "So, when Zhao Daoist friend mentioned the Li family in the East City, he was actually referring to the Chen family in the South City. Perhaps it was an intentional concealment, maybe he unwittingly fooled me as well, and ultimately, fate is unpredictable, he died by my hand!"


    Zhou Yi closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then put Zhao Zhi out of his mind.


    The form for Soul Soothing Intoxication was invaluable, finally giving Zhou Yi a taste of the exhrating feeling of sudden wealth through killing and plundering.


    "However, all thesebined do notpare to even a tenth of the Mysterious Sun Pill Scripture!"


    Zhou Yi took out the jade slip, pondered over every sentence of the Pill Scripture, and because he had read quite a few notes from Pill Masters, it was not as difficult to understand as the Introduction to Array Paths.


    The "Mysterious Sun Pill Scripture" included refining spiritual medicine, the Art of Fire Control, and Pill Concoction Techniques, constituting a veryplete lineage of pill cultivation.


    The truly valuable part was thest dozen or so pill forms, which included not onlymonly seen pills like the Nurturing Origin Pill and the Yellow Dragon Pill in the market, but also at the end, the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill.


    "The Pill Cauldron Sect has a tight grip on the Foundation Establishment Pill, and I''ve never heard of the form being leaked. Could this be why True Immortal Xuan Yu intervened?"


    Zhou Yi then shook his head. How could the Pill Cauldron Sect''s true legacyck pill recipes? And even with the recipes circting, few could sessfully concoct a Foundation Establishment Pill.


    The main ingredient, thousand-year-old Spirit Ginseng!


    The Foundation Establishment Pill ensures that even if one fails to break through the realm, the meridians and the Dantian are not damaged, thanks to the protective properties of the thousand-year-old Spirit Ginseng.


    Zhou Yi patted his chest, "You little guy, you have such divine effects?"


    Huu huu huu—


    The Spirit Ginseng child shrank to half a foot in size andy sleeping in Zhou Yi''s arms. He ignored the call, twisted his body, and continued his deep slumber.


    This method slowed the dissipation of spiritual energy and could survive in the mundane world for over a hundred years.


    If too much time passed and the spiritual energy within suffered significant loss, the intelligence-granting spirit would also fade. Even if he could return to the Cultivation World and regather the spiritter, it would no longer be the same Spirit Ginseng child.