Chapter 10

Her expression was complicated as she looked at these secret manuals. She had not expected this thick cultivation method to record, in meticulous detail, how to establish one’s foundation, how to draw in lightning tribulation during Foundation Establishment, how to borrow the energy of the lightning tribulation to temper one’s body and magical artifacts, and even what spiritual medicines should be used to recover the body after Foundation Establishment.

It even detailed what one should do if, after establishing one’s foundation, when one’s realm was still unstable, one encountered an ambush or attack from villains.

Before Foundation Establishment, how should one set up arrays to protect oneself?

She quickly opened the storage ring and saw the spiritual medicines, talismans, magical artifacts inside—and also a spiritual vein that continuously produced spirit stones.

As long as the spiritual vein did not run dry, even ordinary stones placed inside would, after a period of time, become spirit stones of varying grades: high, middle, or low.

How many spirit stones one could obtain depended on how large the spiritual vein was.

And the spiritual vein inside this storage ring was like a thick, long dragon. She estimated that relying on this spiritual vein alone, it could raise her directly from the Qi Refining stage to the Soul Transformation stage.

It could be said that the storage ring Xu Xianqing had given her could support two ordinary sects outside, and raising someone all the way to ascension would be easy as turning one’s hand.

Ye Ming’s expression was extremely complicated. [read the original at bailiantales.com]Xu Xianqing truly treated her disciples very well.

Even a “fool” was cared for in every possible aspect.

Inside the storage ring, aside from that extravagantly rich spiritual vein, there were also several chests of gold. Even if one day she went to the mortal world, she could live well using that gold.

Besides that, there were also some clothes. Some were ordinary garments, while others were magical robes that had been carefully refined.

What filled the ring in even greater numbers were puppet talismans—hundreds of thousands of them.

Puppet talismans could summon puppet dolls, and their level of strength depended on the cultivation of the person who had drawn the talismans. These puppet talismans were all roughly at the Nascent Soul stage, so… inside her storage ring existed hundreds of thousands of Nascent Soul-level mighty puppet experts.

How was this raising a disciple? This was practically worshiping an ancestor.

Ye Ming did not think she had been specially treated. She could tell that Xu Xianqing was working hard to treat all of her disciples equally, so the other disciples’ storage rings or storage pouches were probably in the same situation.

“…”

With a complicated mood, Ye Ming put the things away.

Originally, she had wanted to take the path of demonic cultivation. After all, this body of hers was a spiritual cultivator’s body right now, and she had no way to directly use the Demon Race’s methods to improve her cultivation. She could only borrow the path of a demonic cultivator.

But thinking about it now, being a spiritual cultivator was more suitable.

Xu Xianqing had prepared her cultivation method, magical artifacts, talismans, and spiritual medicines for her. If she did not use them, would that not be wasting these treasures?

If she used demonic cultivator methods to cultivate and improve herself, she would have to find resources on her own. Most of the things Xu Xianqing had given her would go unused.

Xu Xianqing had left Cang Mountain, and everyone else was busy with their own affairs. They only brought her food at set times every day. Ye Ming felt very free here.

So she decided to secretly cultivate and establish her foundation as early as possible. After Foundation Establishment, she would be able to practice fasting. Once she no longer needed food, she would not be disturbed three times every day.

The food here was indeed very delicious, but she was not someone who cared about satisfying her appetite. She wanted more to cultivate quietly and peacefully. Having someone push open her door three times a day while she had to pretend she was a fool was truly annoying.

She looked at the cultivation method Xu Xianqing had given her and very carefully confirmed that there was nothing wrong with its contents. Only then did she begin cultivating according to the instructions in the method.

In only seven days, spiritual power fluctuations suddenly appeared on Cang Mountain.

Ye Ming panicked in an instant. The talent of this body was truly too good. On top of that, the master and disciples of Cangyun Gate had previously raised this body with many medicinal pills. Now that she had cultivated even slightly, her meridians automatically expanded, and spiritual power immediately began circulating, causing her cultivation to grow rapidly.

In other words, she had already reached the edge of Foundation Establishment.

Xu Liang had delicate thoughts, and the medicinal field was very close to Little Sister’s house. After sensing that something unusual was happening, she immediately came over.

“Junior Sister Ming’er?” Xu Liang knocked on the door from outside. “Are you all right? I’m coming in, all right?”

She pushed the door open and saw Ye Ming with a bewildered, helpless, and slightly terrified expression. Xu Liang’s heart softened. She pulled her out of the little house.

“Junior Sister, don’t be afraid. You’re about to establish your foundation. In a moment, Senior Sister will set up an array for you. After you take the Foundation Establishment Pill, let the spiritual power travel through your body. Don’t resist it, all right?” Xu Liang was somewhat worried, afraid that Little Sister was too innocent and would not understand her words.

But Ye Ming nodded lightly.

Xu Liang set up the array with deep worry and fed her the Foundation Establishment Pill.

At this moment, Xu Shang and Zhao Suian also hurried over.

Xu Shang was especially happy. “Junior Sister is really amazing. You’re only eighteen and already about to establish your foundation.”

After Foundation Establishment, one’s body would be reborn and remade. Not only would one be able to fast, one’s appearance would also remain unchanged from its current state.

Ye Ming still looked very young right now, as though she had not yet fully grown into her features.

However, no one would make her suppress her realm, because she did not understand these things at all. Secondly, if her cultivation were a little higher, her survival in the spiritual cultivation world would be much better in the future.

They were all cultivators. Constantly improving their cultivation was something entirely natural to them. One should not deliberately stop one’s steps on the path of cultivation for the sake of appearance.

Of course, if one were too young, they would still wait a little, lest a dignified Nascent Soul mighty expert end up being a tiny bean sprout in the future and make people laugh during a battle.

Xu Shang took the initiative to act as her protector. She took out her bonded sword, Liuguang, and set up a sword array inside the small courtyard.

Ordinarily, this kind of situation was meant to prevent others from launching a sneak attack.

But Cang Mountain was truly far too safe. Even the great array outside was enough to ensure that any intruder came in but never returned, and that was only the first defensive array.

Behind it were a full eighty more arrays, including trapping arrays, killing arrays, illusion arrays, and so on.

Cang Mountain was like an iron barrel, without the slightest flaw.

However, in the past, it had always been her senior sisters protecting her. This was the first time it was Xu Shang’s turn to protect a junior sister. Even though no enemy would come, she still enthusiastically took out the attitude she would use to face a great foe.

The process of Foundation Establishment went so smoothly that it was as simple as eating and drinking water.

It was also during the process of Foundation Establishment that Ye Ming sensed the surrounding spiritual energy automatically flowing into her body. Only then did she notice what was special about this small courtyard.

Above the small courtyard was a spirit-gathering array suspended in the air. As long as someone in the courtyard wanted to draw spiritual energy into their body, the array would activate and operate, assisting the cultivator in their cultivation.

Ye Ming had never seen this kind of array before.

She had wandered the spiritual cultivation world for tens of thousands of years and understood many of the spiritual cultivators’ methods. Yet this kind of array was especially novel, and especially useful.

She thought it must have come from Xu Xianqing’s hand.

The number one spiritual cultivator was by no means undeserving of her reputation.

In her previous life, losing beneath Xu Xianqing’s sword had not been unjust.

But in this new life, she would learn all of Xu Xianqing’s abilities. Then, when Xu Xianqing felt proud and honored by this disciple of hers, Ye Ming would kill her to avenge the hatred of having been killed in her previous life.

Cang Mountain was peaceful and harmonious. The martial sisters got along very well.

Moreover, after Ye Ming established her foundation, she began showing signs of recovery. She did not want to continue being a fool forever.

Xu Liang and Zhao Suian were especially happy. They examined her many times, and after discovering that her lost-soul illness had truly recovered, they even sent a message to Xu Xianqing.

They just did not know whether Xu Xianqing had received it.

“Master will definitely be very happy when she finds out.” Xu Liang looked at Ye Ming. After Little Sister established her foundation, she began showing signs of recovery. Now, even her eyes had become much clearer.

A faint smile appeared on Ye Ming’s face, but her heart was filled with mockery. She truly wanted to see what Xu Xianqing would look like ​read the original at bailiantales.com​if she knew that the little disciple she cherished had long since been seized by the great demon she had killed with one sword strike.

At this moment, Xu Xianqing was at the Rogue Cultivators’ Alliance. Gu Jingjun had selected three more people to enter the Demon Domain with her.

This journey would involve ten people in total.

The sect leader of Lianhua Sect, the sect leader of Linghe Sect, the young sect leader of Wuding Sect, the sect leader of Qingfeng Sect, the great elder of the Rogue Cultivators’ Alliance, and the great general of Guangyang Kingdom. These six people would set up arrays outside, control the barrier, and serve as support.

The four people entering the Demon Domain were Gu Jingjun, alliance leader of the Rogue Cultivators’ Alliance; Xu Xianqing of Cangyun Gate; the second elder of Wuding Sect; and the valley master of Medicine King Valley.

At the border of the Demon Domain, the barrier had already loosened, and a crack had appeared that a small child could pass through.

After observing it for a while, Gu Jingjun was filled with worry. “Luckily, we discovered it early. If we had waited any longer, I’m afraid demon creatures would have been able to enter and leave here freely.”

The others agreed with lingering fear.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Gu Jingjun began arranging the detailed plan.

“Sect Leader Xu, Valley Master Leng, Elder Mo, and I. The four of us will ​Read on BaiLianTales​enter the Demon Domain together. When the time comes, the three of you will go forward. I will guard the barrier from the inside near the edge of the realm to prevent any unforeseen changes.”

The four lords of the four directions were respectively Xichen, Dongling, Nanyu, and Beifeng. Among them, one of the lords, Xichen, had betrayed the Demon Lord and become the evil god’s lackey, so the Demon Lord killed him with a single sword strike during the great war.

The Demon Lord possessed absolute control over all demons. As long as the Demon Lord lived, she could endlessly revive all demons. But if the Demon Lord deprived someone of the right to continue living, then a demon killed by the Demon Lord would never have any possibility of revival again.

And the Demon Lord was of the Heavenly Demon Race. As long as there was still a wisp of demonic breath in the human realm, the Heavenly Demon Race could use that opportunity to revive.

In ordinary times, the Demon Lord would scatter her demonic breath and use it to support all demons so they could be used by her. The Demon Race would continuously expand and develop demonic cultivators.

If the Demon Race ever faced a disaster of extermination, all demons would activate a self-destruction mode, rushing to the battlefield in suicidal fashion. Before death, they would return all of their demonic breath to the Demon Lord.

They appeared to have died, but in truth, there was still a sliver of life left. As long as the war ended and the Demon Lord scattered the demonic breath again, they could revive once more.

That was why very few people directly killed demons. Demons could not be killed cleanly, and even more so, they could not truly be killed.

They could only be sealed, suppressed, and also prevented from killing themselves, using this to slowly wear down the Demon Lord’s strength bit by bit.

Now, the Demon Race had only three lords. After Xichen died, the western territory of the Demon Domain was occupied by demon beasts. Demon beasts stayed only within the Demon Domain and rarely left it. Their threat to the spiritual cultivation world was also relatively small. Occasionally, demon beasts that mistakenly [unauthorized copy]entered the spiritual cultivation world would also quickly be suppressed and sealed away.

By comparison, those demons who had thoughts of their own and could continuously cultivate were extremely troublesome.

Gu Jingjun gave the three of them jade tablets. “After the seals are reinforced, crush the jade tablets. At that time, I will send out a road guide, and you must hurry to my side as quickly as possible.”

“In the Demon Domain, the most dangerous thing is not those demons, but the demonic breath. You must be careful. You absolutely must not allow demonic breath to invade you. If any accident occurs, withdraw immediately.”

Gu Jingjun gave them detailed instructions. The ten people gathered here today could be said to be the spiritual cultivation world’s absolutely powerful combat forces.

With the Demon Race’s left and right guardians roaming into the human cultivation world, absolutely nothing could happen to these seven people.

She then looked toward the other six. “The three of you must guard the barrier well. You absolutely cannot let anyone come and interfere.”

What they had to guard against were demonic cultivators, demons hidden within the spiritual cultivation world, and the left and right guardians who had escaped.

In the past, demons had been like wild beasts, acting according to instinct.

But later, after the Demon Race had dealt with humans far too much, they learned to use their brains. They even learned how to hide and remain silent, and even how to disguise themselves read the original at bailiantales.com and endure. Truly, they had become more and more terrifying.