The world that tao rules.., p.12
The World that Tao Rules, Volume 4, page 12
I have to say, Li Changlin's move was really right!
Xiao Zheng was not good at making friends, and his relationship with his disciples was average. Now with Li Changlin secretly slandering him, he has lost even more people's support.
This can be seen from the attitude of the disciples from the Heavenly Pill City who willingly followed Guo Si's orders to attack Jiang Yun, and also from how the disciples of the sect deliberately made things difficult for Jiang Yun even after he showed Xiao Zheng's Token.
The actions of these two disciples have achieved some results.
However, they did not expect that Jiang Yun would suddenly appear, and Mei Bugu, who always remained aloof, would also show up. Mei Bugu quickly resolved the situation with just a few words.
Once the Law Enforcement Hall proves that Jiang Yun is not guilty of killing Liu Hao, the efforts of these two disciples over the past six months may go to waste.
How could they accept this humiliation!
"I must obtain this Medicine God Inheritance!" Yang Zhizhong said angrily, stomping his foot and leaving the valley.
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After settling Jiang Yun in the valley and reminding him not to leave, Xiao Zheng left first to prepare for the big competition he was also going to participate in.
As for Jiang Yun, he didn't need to prepare anything. He left the medicine hut, casually glanced at the valley, and then walked to the lake, where he sat down with his legs crossed.
Looking at the clear lake water, Jiang Yun suddenly noticed that there was nothing in the lake except water.
There were no water plants, no fish, not even a single pebble.
This made Jiang Yun curious. He couldn't resist reaching out to scoop up some water, but as his hand touched the lake water, the calm surface of the lake suddenly rippled slightly!
At the same time, whether it was Master Hui in the Law Enforcement Hall, the sect master of the Grand Medicine Sect, or several elders, they all suddenly looked up in the direction of the Medicine God Land of Inheritance!
Chapter 263: The Black Sun
Following that, one by one, the powerful members of the Grand Medicine Sect vanished from where they were standing and appeared at the foot of the mountain that resembled an alchemical furnace.
Everyone looked up, gazing at the invisible mountaintop.
"This shaking..." Master Hui mumbled to himself, "Ever since Mei'er went inside last time and caused a tremor, bringing out a pool of water, this Land of Inheritance has never experienced such a situation. What could be happening?"
An elderly man with white hair and a mark of an alchemical furnace on his forehead said, "Could it be because the Calamity of the Mountain-Sea World is about to arrive, and our ancestors, sensing it, are causing these vibrations to tell us something?"
A middle-aged beautiful woman, with a hoarse voice despite her good looks, said, "Regardless, these vibrations are unusual. The opening of the Medicine God Land of Inheritance this time might bring us some surprises!"
Although these powerful individuals all felt the vibrations coming from the Land of Inheritance, they believed it was spontaneous and paid no attention to it, except for Jiang Yun sitting by the pool of water.
The ripples in the water were so subtle that even Jiang Yun's divine sense did not detect them, nor did he notice the countless scars on his body tremble slightly.
After staring at the water in his palm for a while, Jiang Yun didn't notice anything strange. He even stuck out his tongue and licked it, but it had no taste.
Shaking his head, Jiang Yun poured the water back into the lake and ignored it, instead taking out a formation stone, crushing it gently into snowflakes to wrap around his body.
This was a isolation formation stone made by Jiang Yun himself. Though not very powerful, it was very convenient to use.
Although Xiao Zheng said this valley was a forbidden place of the Grand Medicine Sect and no one would disturb it, Jiang Yun remained cautious and still set up a simple formation.
He kept staring at the lake, lost in thought.
Now he was thinking about the Drug Competition in three days, but he had no idea how to prepare.
Everything he learned about medicine was deeply engraved in his mind like a mark.
He was just wondering if it was possible that even if he defeated all the disciples of the Grand Medicine Sect in the end, no one could still make an antidote.
After all, he had researched the power of the poison in Third Martial Brother's body countless times, and the more he researched, the more alarmed he became!
Because the components of this poison were extremely complex.
Most importantly, there were some things in it that he could never understand.
These things were not specific herbs or spirit qi, but more like intangible substances that were invisible and untouchable!
If Jiang Yun's senses were not extremely keen, he might not even feel the existence of these things.
Because of these things, he couldn't fully figure out what the poison was made of, couldn't create an antidote, and couldn't cure Third Martial Brother from the poison.
Lost in thought, Jiang Yun suddenly whispered to himself, "If even the Grand Medicine Sect can't make an antidote, then there's only one last way!"
"I will need to take the poison myself, then observe how it changes inside me to figure out the antidote!"
Although his voice was gentle, there was a firm determination in his tone!
Jiang Yun had tried poisoning himself before.
Back in Mang Mountains, when someone from Jiang village was poisoned and couldn't be saved, his grandfather would bravely test the poison on himself. As Jiang Yun grew older and understood the danger of this practice, he volunteered to test the poisons.
Even though this was extremely risky, Jiang Yun had a knack for turning bad luck into good. He also managed to create antidotes every time.
However, he knew deep down that Third Martial Brother's poison was much more severe than any he had encountered before.
The consequences of testing poisons on himself could likely lead to his own death from poisoning.
However, even so, if he really has no other way, he will still do it without any hesitation.
"This matter is not urgent, let's decide after the Drug Competition! Now that there is finally time, let's check our own cultivation level!"
Since he condensed the first Blessed Land and stepped into the Blessed Land realm, up to now, although more than four months have passed, he has not carefully examined his current cultivation level.
Jiang Yun saw with his divine sense that there are two Blessed Lands in his dantian, one is the spirit qi Blessed Land, and the other is the Hun Tian Blessed Land.
The spirit qi Blessed Land includes Li Firesnow cliff and Beast Forest, which Jiang Yun condensed by himself, and he has already considered the shape of the Blessed Land at the seventh level, so there is no need to look again.
His attention is mainly focused on the Hun Tian Blessed Land, which is the small black hole.
This black hole has now appeared above Li Firesnow cliff, looking like a black sun hanging in the sky.
However, it does not emit light, but releases black substances connected to the demonic energy in the twelfth meridian.
Just like the spirit qi and Li Firesnow cliff in the previous nine meridians, they form a cycle.
Originally, he felt like the black hole was a door, and the current situation naturally confirmed his guess further.
This door connected the dark world and his body together!
Though this surprised Jiang Yun a bit, it also brought him a sense of joy in his heart.
Because Hun Tian Blessed Land was not formed by himself, he never knew how to elevate its realm.
But now seeing this situation, he felt that the black substance surging from within the Hun Tian Blessed Land could help strengthen the demonic energy and thus elevate its realm on its own!
With a thought, Jiang Yun placed his Hun Tian Dao Body on top of this black hole as well.
As a result, the black substance surging within it split into two parts, with one flowing into the twelfth meridian and the other into the Hun Tian Dao Body.
Feeling the influx of the black substance, the aura of the Hun Tian Dao Body noticeably strengthened, and only then did Jiang Yun satisfactorily withdraw his divine sense.
"Now all that's left are two more Blessed Lands, namely, the Thunder Blessed Land and the Physical Body Blessed Land."
"It's easy to handle the body's Blessed Land. Since I have fully integrated the Petrification Talent into my body, I can vaguely feel that it won't be long before the Blessed Land can condense. As for the shape of the Blessed Land, I have already figured it out!"
"For the Thunder Blessed Land, if I can attract another Dan Disaster and absorb the power of thunder inside it, it should be enough to successfully condense it!"
Once both the thunder and body successfully condense the Blessed Land, Jiang Yun's strength will also take another big leap.
Apart from the Blessed Land, Jiang Yun currently has three types of demon race talents inside him, namely the Snow clan's snow transformation, the Fire clan's fireworks, and an unknown talent from the Sea clan.
During these four months, there has been no more backlash from the Sea clan talent, which has made Jiang Yun temporarily relieved, thinking that he might have been too worried before.
Just as Jiang Yun was about to withdraw his divine sense from his body, Bai Ze's voice suddenly sounded, saying, "Kid, you forgot something!"
"What is it?"
Chapter 264: Fire of Life
"Mutant demon beast egg!"
After Bai Ze reminded him, Jiang Yun remembered that he had once stolen a mutated demon beast egg in the Unreal-Beast Map.
This mutated demon beast egg had been with Jiang Yun for over a year, just like the Cold Dark-winged Bat, but it hadn't hatched because Jiang Yun hadn't created the Blessed Land yet.
Even though Bai Ze said it was a treasure, Jiang Yun didn't know what exactly would hatch from it.
Now that he had the Blessed Land, Jiang Yun took out the egg, hesitated for a moment, and then placed it on the snow cliff, right above his head, facing the black substance emanating from the Hun Tian Blessed Land.
Oddly enough, as soon as the demon beast egg was placed down, the black substance seemed to react immediately and surrounded it, moving towards it continuously.
It looked like the demon beast egg was absorbing the black substance.
This made Jiang Yun a bit worried and he asked, "Will this black substance harm it?"
Bai Ze immediately responded, "This is the Blessed Land condensed for you by the Taoist Demon, with his identity, he wouldn't harm you! Don't worry, it will definitely bring benefits, not harm!"
Jiang Yun also thought there wouldn't be any harm, and he suddenly had a strange idea, "Can I let the bats enter my Blessed Land too?"
"Living creatures don't work! But they can be used as storage tools!"
So next, Jiang Yun started to count all the items on his body, especially the spoils of war from the North Mountain expedition.
Of course, it was the storage tools filled with thousands of demon race treasures collected by the Cold Dark-winged Bat in the ice cave.
However, most of the spiritual stones inside had already been used by Jiang Yun in the teleportation array, so there weren't many left.
Even without the spiritual stones, the things inside still added up to a considerable wealth.
What interested Jiang Yun the most were the medicinal pills.
Unfortunately, the demon race themselves were only at the Blessed Land level, so the medicinal pills they carried weren't very advanced, and Jiang Yun wasn't impressed at all.
However, one medicinal pill did catch Jiang Yun's attention - it was a Dao-building Pill!
The Dao-building Pill is a fifth-grade medicinal pill used for breaking through to the Dao Spirit realm in the later stages of the Sky Reaching Realm!
In the beginning, the shopkeeper Xia Zhongxing from DuoYao Pharmacy in South Star City had a special Dao-building Pill in his possession.
In pursuit of this Dao-building Pill, Du Guirong from Hundred Herbs Valley ultimately met his end at the hands of Jiang Yun.
Jiang Yun suspected that this Dao-building Pill originally belonged to a spirit demon from a secret realm who was killed by the Cold Dark-winged Bat, and now it unexpectedly fell into his hands.
Even though Jiang Yun currently couldn't make use of this Dao-building Pill, and its quality was only at the lowest Dust-Level, he still wanted to give it a try.
Jiang Yun wanted to identify the materials within the pill, discover the recipe for making Dao-building Pills, and try to craft them himself.
Apart from the pills, the items in these storage artifacts were also diverse.
After carefully examining everything, Jiang Yun categorized and stored them in the Blessed Land because many of these items, such as materials, might come in handy someday.
Finally, a lamp appeared in Jiang Yun's hand - the very lamp he had snatched from the young master of the Ten Thousand Demons Cave. Unfortunately, it contained a powerful divine sense.
In order to claim the lamp as his own, Jiang Yun needed to erase this divine sense first, but currently, he was unable to do so and, hence, couldn't use the lamp.
Just as he was about to put away the lamp, Bai Ze's voice rang out again, saying, "Wait, this lamp seems a bit strange!"
"What makes it strange?"
"This lamp seems to be a Flameless Puppet Lantern, with a life fire puppet burning into a flame!"
Jiang Yun asked in confusion, "What is a life fire?"
"Life fire is the flame of life that every living being possesses. Normally, it can't be seen at all, only those with incredibly strong divine sense can detect it. The Fire clan themselves are made of fire, so they are not limited."
"With life fire, there is life. Without life fire, there is death!"
Upon hearing this, a cold light flickered in Jiang Yun's eyes.
He remembered that Huo Duming would always exhale when using this lamp, and then a flame would appear inside the lamp.
Clearly, that flame was the life fire!
Originally, this lamp needs to store life fire inside it, and then when it is used, the life fire can be called out to combine with its own fire-controlling power to unleash various attacks.
So, in this lamp, there are hidden many strands of life fire, and each strand of life fire represents a life!
"You are thinking too simply. Although everything has spirit, not all kinds of life fire from different spirits can be used. The stronger the spirit, the stronger the life fire."
Jiang Yun raised his hand and said, "This lamp is too cruel, it's of no use to me. Destroy it!"
"Don't destroy it!" Bai Ze urgently said, "This lamp is a rare treasure with great power. It's just that the Fire clan demon doesn't know the true way to use it."
Jiang Yun lowered his hand and said, "No matter how powerful it is, it still requires a cost in lives!"
Bai Ze almost shouted, "Can you let me finish speaking?"
"Although it does require a cost in lives, why not use the life fire of bad people instead? You can store the life fire of the Fire clan demon and those bad people you dislike inside it!"
"On the path of cultivation, it is all built upon countless killings. If you don't kill, others will come to kill you."
"Instead of killing those people for no reason, it's better to kill them and send their life fire into this lantern."
"There are also some unjustly deceased people, whose life fire can also be sent into this lantern!"
"The power of this lantern is proportional to the number of life fires inside. I estimate there are at most a few hundred life fires inside now. If you can store tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of life fires, when this lantern is activated, it will make you untouchable!"
After Bai Ze explained this, Jiang Yun's hand that had been about to fall finally stopped in mid-air. He was really tempted.
Because Bai Ze was right.
Although this Flameless Puppet Lantern needs life fire, but for people like Du Guirong, who you would kill if you see them anyway, killing them and then taking their life fire to put into the lantern is indeed a win-win situation.
