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Chapter 735: 741: Map
Li Zhirui selected Spiritual Objects for everyone that were compatible with their own attributes and had no hidden dangers; after all, since they were to be used directly, the Wanxiang Sect wouldn’t recognize them even face to face.
Upon seeing the four four-grade Spiritual Objects, Jiang Fengwu’s expression was instantly overtaken by joy. Hers could be used to enhance her Life-bound Magic Treasure, while the remaining three could promote the growth of the Wind Roc Triple Spirit Beasts’ bloodline.
Although it wasn’t enough to boost them to a higher tier, it could at least advance them a small step and speed up their cultivation a little.
Seeing her reaction, Li Zhirui couldn’t help but smile and then called Xiaoqing over to hand him a wind-attribute Spiritual Object.
"Jiu, this is the loot from those Demon Cultivators that Feng Peng and I fought. Please take care of it for me," said Xiaoqing happily, as he took the Spiritual Object and then handed over a storage bag.
The reason he didn’t directly let the Li family handle it was that those Magic Artifacts were tainted with Demonic Qi and weren’t suitable for cultivators to use.
There was no such issue with Spiritual Objects, but most items collected by Demon Cultivators were things like flesh, corpses, bones, Yin Spirits, etc., which the Li family couldn’t utilize.
To destroy them outright seemed a waste, especially since there were quite a few of them, including several valuable items, so Xiaoqing thought of selling them to earn some Spirit Stones.
He troubled Li Zhirui with this task also because of Zhirui’s identity.
After all, Xiaoqing was still a Spirit Beast and it wasn’t very convenient for him to make a straightforward and public appearance in cultivators’ territories.
Nobody knew when a cultivator bent on slaying demons and eradicting evil might suddenly appear.
Of course, Wanxian Province was an exception because it was the Li family’s territory—they had the final say!
At the entrance to every Immortal City and Marketplace, a notice was posted forbidding any cultivator from laying hands on a Spirit Beast, even foreign Nascent Souls had to abide by the rules!
"Sure, I’ll sell these Spiritual Objects for you when I go to the Southern Edge Commerce Association," said Li Zhirui, agreeing to the task without hesitation as it wasn’t a big deal.
It might seem that the Southern Edge Commerce Association was an Immortal Tao force, but what large commerce association didn’t span both Immortal and Demonic paths? Purchasing Demonic Tao Spiritual Objects was nothing out of the ordinary.
After all, whether Immortal Tao or Demonic Tao, both belonged to the human race. The ongoing strife between the two was merely an internal conflict.
"You handle it as you see fit." Having said that, Xiaoqing left in a hurry, eager to consume and refine the Spiritual Objects.
Jiang Fengwu did the same; after distributing the Spiritual Objects to the three Spirit Beasts, she also entered a quiet chamber to begin her secluded cultivation.
Seeing this, Li Zhirui shook his head helplessly. He had originally wanted to capture a few strong individuals to help him examine those Jade Slips, but now everyone had entered seclusion, so he would have to read them slowly by himself.
The dozen or so Jade Slips brought to the auction by the Wanxiang Sect, he had briefly flipped through them before, picking out a Divine Power that interested him the most.
This Divine Ability Spell was called "Filling the Sea to Create Land," and its basic principle involved condensing the earth’s Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth through a particular transformation to create real soil.
With this Divine Ability Spell, if Wanxian Island ever ran out of space, there would be no need to painstakingly move islands with mana as before.
One should know that Wanxian Island is as large as it is now because it swallowed up countless islands over a thousand miles in diameter! 𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑝𝘶𝘣.𝑐𝘰𝘮
If it were not for the fact that the rock formations were too small and not solid enough, the Li family would have wished to even incorporate these rock formations into Wanxian Island.
In other words, if the Li family wanted to further expand the area of Wanxian Island, they would only be able to move islands from a thousand miles away, which was an extremely arduous task!
Only Nascent Souls like Li Zhirui and Jiang Fengwu, who could manage the whole process without substitution, were capable of this, and even then, the islands’ size couldn’t be too large, or they would need to replenish their mana along the way.
Furthermore, the seas a thousand miles away were no longer the Li family’s territory to the north and south; moving islands from other forces’ territories without permission could easily lead to conflicts.
And while the other Methods also had their value, aside from one set of alchemy insights, none caught Li Zhirui’s eye.
The remaining dozens of Jade Slips were likely the personal collection of the two Nascent Soul cultivators.
Li Zhirui scanned each Jade Slip with his Divine Sense. The majority of them contained cultivation insights from the two individuals. He set those aside, intending to review them in detail later.
Another’s insights may be the chisel that carves one’s own wisdom!
Li Zhirui, now trapped at a bottleneck, might gain some insights from these.
Among the remaining dozen or so Jade Slips were Divine Ability Spells, incomplete Cultivation Techniques, travel logs of mountains and rivers, and even a Treasure Map!
As for the Cultivation Techniques they practiced, it was impossible for those to be recorded.
Li Zhirui glanced over the Divine Powers and Cultivation Techniques and then put them back. None of the former interested him or were within his capability to cultivate, while the latter seemed to enable one to reach the Void Refinement Realm directly, but with the stages of the Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation Realms missing, it was nothing more than scraps of useless knowledge.
The travel logs of mountains and rivers were somewhat interesting. Having lived so many years, the authors were well-traveled and knowledgeable, making the logs a decent read to broaden one’s own knowledge.
However, at first, Li Zhirui didn’t take the Treasure Map seriously, as among such items, nine out of ten are usually fake, and the rare genuine one is probably a trap.
But the more he looked at it, the stranger his expression became, because the terrain depicted on the Treasure Map looked familiar; he felt as though he had seen it somewhere.
"Where have I seen it before?"
After much thought, he still couldn’t remember the specific location.
"Forget it. If I can’t recall, then so be it," he had to let go, planning to ask Jiang Fengwu and others after they came out of seclusion.
He copied all the Jade Slips and handed the copies over to the Li family, while destroying the originals.
Then he began to comprehend the Divine Ability Spell "Filling the Sea to Create Land." Although he didn’t have an Earth Spiritual Root, manipulating earth’s Spiritual Energy wasn’t difficult; it was the core of the Divine Ability that was challenging to grasp.
But Li Zhirui was mentally prepared; after all, this was a Divine Ability, and learning it wouldn’t come easily.
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"It’s time to go home."
Li Chengshuo, who had grown more mature after facing many trials and tribulations, murmured as he looked towards the east.
He had finally acquired the Spiritual Objects he needed for Howling Moon to evolve, allowing it to become a fourth-grade Spirit Beast, and he had also successfully broken through to the late Golden Core Stage.
Li Chengshuo had actually wanted to stay in the Central Region a bit longer, considering it was rare to visit such a prosperous and thriving place.
However, considering that he had been away for a long time and his parents were worried, plus having just broken through, he felt it unlikely to advance any further anytime soon. Staying would mean either practicing in seclusion or going out to hunt Devil Beasts, so he might as well return to the comfort and security of his family.
"I wonder if Sheng has broken through during these past dozen years."
His feelings about this were complicated; he hoped Li Chengsheng would have made his breakthrough, providing the family with another Nascent Soul Cultivator, yet he didn’t want to fall too far behind him.
Soon, Li Chengshuo set aside all these scattered thoughts and strode towards the city gates.
Along the way, he encountered some familiar Cultivators.
"Jin, are you heading out to hunt Devil Beasts again?"
"Indeed, can’t just sit around waiting for the provisions to run out," he replied.
After a brief and casual exchange, he once again set off on the journey home.
