A month after entering the new World.
"Collect!"
Li Chuan formed a hand seal with his fingers, collecting the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, which had been completely refined, into his dantian.
The treasure refining method of Xiao Zhu Mountain, known as the "Yi Yin Nine Rushing Minor Vehicle Treasure Art," is a high-level Taoist treasure refining method.
Initially, because Li Chuan didn't have much true essence in his body and was not proficient in spells, the speed at which he refined the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl was extremely slow.
But later, as time passed, his true essence increased, and his spells became more proficient, so the refining speed also picked up.
By today, he had finally completely refined Li Qingfeng's magic treasure, the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, into his own magic treasure.
"Go!"
Forming another hand seal, Li Chuan pointed at the stone table in the small courtyard. The Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl immediately flew out of his dantian, transforming into a streak of extremely fast red light that crashed into the stone table.
"Boom!"
The stone table, upon being struck by the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, instantly turned into dust that scattered all over the ground.
"Burn!"
With a twist of the hand seal, the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl quickly flew above the lotus pond, releasing blazing flames. In less than a moment, all the water in the entire lotus pond was evaporated.
"Not bad. Let's test the flying speed."
After briefly testing the power of the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, Li Chuan nodded with satisfaction. Then, using Apparition, he disappeared from the courtyard.
He wasn't particularly looking forward to the power of the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl. According to Li Qingfeng's memory, even if Daoist Qingzhu, a cultivator at the Core Formation Realm, used it personally, its power would be about the same as the Ten Rings in his hand.
What he was truly looking forward to was the flying ability that the magic treasure provided.
Even cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage, as long as they had their own magic treasure, could use it to fly, and the speed wasn't slow.
Currently, he didn't know any flying magic. To fly, he either had to rely on the Ten Rings, but the flying speed of the Ten Rings was very slow, not even as fast as him running on the ground.
Or he could rely on his Patronus to carry him, which was a bit faster than the Ten Rings, but still not ideal.
By an uninhabited river outside the city, Li Chuan's figure appeared. Then, he once again formed a hand seal and summoned the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl. However, this time the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl didn't emit fire; instead, it instantly enlarged dozens of times.
Li Chuan jumped onto the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl and activated the spell to control the magic treasure for flight. The Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl immediately carried him away, transforming into a streak of red light.
"This speed... it's breaking the sound barrier."
Sitting cross-legged on the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, he quickly calculated the maximum flying speed of the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl.
After the test, Li Chuan put the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl back into his dantian, planning to use Apparition to return to the mansion in the city to continue refining the magic cultivator's two magic treasures and cultivate to accumulate true essence in his body.
However, before he could even chant the spell, an evil laugh suddenly came from afar:
"This Elder has waited for five days, and you, little Taoist, have finally come out!"
Li Chuan frowned and looked towards the source of the sound. He saw a luxurious sedan chair being carried by eight burly men in black armor, rushing from a distance as if flying through the air.
The evil voice had just come from that luxurious sedan chair.
"Who are you? I don't seem to know you."
Seeing the sedan chair stop in front of him, Li Chuan's heart stirred, and he roughly guessed the other party's identity.
He didn't know who the other party was, but he estimated that they were related to the magic cultivator who escaped a month ago.
"This Elder is Elder Nan Tong of the Xuan Yin Sect. Although you don't know me, you must know my poor disciple whose magic treasure was stolen by you."
As the black curtain in front of the sedan chair opened, revealing two bare-chested men, both with fair skin and very handsome appearances. The one who spoke was taller, while the other was shorter.
Li Chuan didn't recognize the taller one, and he wasn't in Li Qingfeng's memory either, but the shorter one was as he expected: it was the magic cultivator who had escaped a month ago.
"Master, it's him! He's the one who stole my magic treasure. You must seek justice for me. I can still sense my Blood Fiend Banner and Bloody Nail are with him."
The shorter magic cultivator, upon seeing Li Chuan, first gritted his teeth, then acted coquettishly with a face full of shyness, which made Li Chuan instantly get goosebumps all over.
"It seems this fellow Taoist first killed my relatives in the mortal World, and then killed me once. Isn't it reasonable for me to take his magic treasures?"
The Xuan Yin Sect, originally named the Heavenly Yin Sect, had cultivators who specialized in the art of harvesting and supplementing, regardless of gender, and were proficient in various evil arts. It was once one of the strongest sects in the demonic path.
Later, because its ancestor, the Hundred Desires Divine Demon Yan Shi, angered the head of the Emei Sect, Whitebrow True Person, he was pursued to the mountain gate and killed on the spot. Most of the disciples also died at the hands of Emei Sword Cultivators.
A small number of surviving disciples fled to the Golden Star Gorge in the South Sea and changed their name to the Xuan Yin Sect.
Information about the Xuan Yin Sect flashed through Li Chuan's mind. He knew that anyone who could be called an Elder was at least a cultivator at the Core Formation stage, like Daoist Qingzhu.
So he thought that if possible, it would be best to avoid conflict.
"If you are willing to let this go, then I can return the two magic treasures of that fellow Taoist."
"No! Master, not only do I want my magic treasures back, I also want his magic treasures. I want to use his flesh, blood, and cultivation to fill my Blood Fiend Banner."
The shorter magic cultivator thought Li Chuan was scared and immediately started shouting.
One must know that this time he returned to the South Sea to invite his master, he also paid a considerable price, both physically and in terms of cultivation. If he only got back his two magic treasures, it would be too much of a loss.
"Look, my dear disciple is unwilling, and you also made me waste five days outside the city. Unless you are willing to join the Xuan Yin Sect and become my disciple, serving me for ten years.
Otherwise, not only will I take back my disciple's magic treasures, but I will also refine you into a magic treasure and give you to him."
The taller magic cultivator revealed a trace of an evil smile, clearly considering Li Chuan as fish on a chopping board.
And indeed, in his opinion, Li Chuan was just a mere cultivator at the Foundation Establishment realm. How could he possibly defeat him, a Core Formation Realm old demon who had cultivated for four hundred years?
If it weren't for the fact that the other party had been hiding in the mortal city before, he would have taken him down five days ago.
Although magic cultivators are rampant, sometimes some low-level magic cultivators will secretly slaughter villages to refine magic treasures and cultivate magic arts, but they generally don't dare to act in large towns.
It's not because they fear the mortal court.
Rather, if they are too ostentatious, it is easy to provoke the righteous path cultivators to launch a group attack.
The ancestor of the Xuan Yin Sect, the Earth Immortal realm Hundred Desires Divine Demon Yan Shi, was chased and killed by Whitebrow True Person for seven days and seven nights because he used a mortal town for blood sacrifice, resulting in his complete annihilation, with no chance of even dispersing his soul and reincarnating.
Moreover, many mortals in towns are actually related by blood to some righteous path, unorthodox, or even magic cultivators.
Most towns may also have cultivators from various sects disguised as mortals for experience. It's possible that there are cultivators at the Core Formation and Nascent Soul Realms there.
Therefore, in the cultivation World, not fighting fiercely within mortal towns is also an unwritten rule implicitly agreed upon by righteous path, unorthodox, and magic cultivators.
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