Chapter 100: Chapter 90: Broken Slips
★☆[Volume 3: The First Banquet of Shenxiao]☆★ Shenxiao Mountain
Outside Shenxiao Mountain.
Although he had heard countless myths, legends, and stories about this mountain and also knew the saying "The Shenxiao Sect came first, and then there was the Great Han Kingdom," when Liu Suiyun saw Shenxiao Mountain, he was still deeply shocked.
This is truly a fairy mountain among the sea of clouds!
Looking at the lofty fairy peaks standing one after another, surrounded by clouds and mist, watching a flock of white cranes flying back and forth, and the faintly visible pavilions and towers in the distance, Liu Suiyun had even more expectations for the Shenxiao Sect!
His decision to join the Shenxiao Sect was absolutely correct!
Although there was still half a month until the initiation ceremony, and Liu Suiyun and Guo Huijun had rushed over non-stop, in the end, they almost couldn't stay in the inn operated by the main sect of the Shenxiao Sect. Through the relationship of Wang Qinian, they managed to stay in.
Like any state-run industry, the rooms hadn't been renovated for at least several decades, and the attitude of the servants was very poor. There were even occasional stray cats and dogs. But this was indeed a place with fair prices and the most informed news.
The cultivators staying in this inn were almost all here for this initiation ceremony. After hearing the news of the ceremony, they all rushed to Shenxiao Mountain as soon as possible, striving to occupy a good position in the Shenxiao Sect and leave a good impression in front of the masters.
You should know that in the entire Celestial Realm, the Shenxiao Sect can be considered a first-class sect. Although it can't compare to the Taibai Sword Sect which can pull out more than a dozen Primordial Spirit cultivators, it is one step ahead of the Tianhong Sect and the Linghua Sect. Moreover, the Shenxiao Sect has always been very humane, willing to put in effort to cultivate its disciples, and the welfare in the sect is also very good.
Not to mention that in the Great Han Kingdom, the Shenxiao Realm is almost an supreme existence. As the education Liu Suiyun received since childhood, only the most outstanding or even perfect people can enter the Shenxiao Sect. For this reason, many people in the Great Han Kingdom directly gave up better sects and only love the Shenxiao Sect.
Therefore, the entire inn was filled with a competitive atmosphere. All the cultivators looked at everyone with suspicious eyes. No one knew who their strongest opponent in this initiation ceremony would be.
Liu Suiyun hid in his room and didn't have time to consider his competitors for the time being. Guo Huijun had already gone out wearing a silver armor to attend a gathering organized by a group of female cultivators and incidentally gather some information for him. Liu Suiyun believed that she would definitely bring back some very crucial news. You should know that the way for women to keep secrets is to unite with more women to keep this secret.
Liu Suiyun's complexion was now a little pale, which was the result of traveling together during this period. Perhaps because they were about to part soon, Guo Huijun had always wanted more pleasures, so much so that both of them found it difficult to control their desires. Liu Suiyun had to satisfy Guo Huijun and her Wuyue Spiritual Talisman again and again, and even his cultivation level dropped to the eighth level of Qi Condensation and returned to the mid-stage of Qi Condensation.
Liu Suiyun didn't care about this. The most difficult thing is the first breakthrough. Cultivating back the dropped cultivation level is naturally an easy task for him now. What he cultivates is such a quick-result cultivation technique as the "Extreme Yuanhuang Thunder Forging Divine Record". As long as given some time, he can return to the tenth level of Qi Condensation.
Just this little bit of paleness made Liu Suiyun even more handsome and extraordinary. The saying "Commander Xing is unparalleled in appearance" is indeed well-deserved. Liu Suiyun took a look in the mirror and could only shake his head. "Now is not the time to rely on looks to make a living. Liu Suiyun, if you want to give happiness to two women, you have to work hard from now on!"
Although his cultivation level has dropped to the eighth level of Qi Condensation, Liu Suiyun doesn't think his actual strength has decreased much. After a few days of rest, he will soon be able to return to the late stage of Qi Condensation. Moreover, he has learned an inside information. Perhaps this initiation ceremony has little to do with the cultivator's cultivation level. Not to mention that he now has an additional trump card, so Liu Suiyun can be so calm.
"Have to work hard..."
Liu Suiyun didn't rush to operate the "Extreme Yuanhuang Thunder Forging Divine Record" but carefully opened the "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" and that fragment of bamboo slip obtained from Chen Zhaonan's corpse. During this period, he was only focused on indulging with Guo Huijun and occasionally missing Gu Yinghua. He didn't have time to check these two spoils of war.
These two things were the family heirlooms of Xu Zhaori. After passing through Chen Zhaonan's hands, they finally fell into Liu Suiyun's hands. Now Liu Suiyun is wondering if this "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" can really achieve foundation establishment without Foundation Establishment Pills.
It's really too difficult for a Qi Condensation cultivator to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill. The market price of a Foundation Establishment Pill is at least more than two thousand five hundred spirit stones. The astonishing degree of this number can be imagined from the fact that An Zhiyu, after a hundred years of running around, has only accumulated eight or nine hundred spirit stones.
If one can successfully establish the foundation by using ordinary pills like the Golden Spirit Nourishing Qi Pill and the "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" instead of Foundation Establishment Pills, it would be like a pie falling from the sky, which is extremely meaningful for Liu Suiyun.
However, after flipping through a few pages of the "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic", Liu Suiyun shook his head repeatedly. "Misleading disciples! Misleading disciples! Truly misleading disciples!"
According to his experience in cultivating the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman, as long as there is enough essence of blood and qi or the essence of medicinal power, one can cultivate the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman to a mature state in a very short time. Although this way consumes an astonishing amount of pills, if combined with the "Extreme Yuanhuang Thunder Forging Divine Record" that Liu Suiyun is currently cultivating, there will be astonishing gains.
However, the author of this "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" seems to have no higher cultivation and knowledge than Liu Suiyun. According to Liu Suiyun's estimation, this author is at most at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. Maybe he is just a quasi-Foundation Establishment cultivator.
This "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" has countless speculations. These speculations may be right or wrong. At any rate, they can give Liu Suiyun a lot of inspiration. But on the most crucial issue of cultivating spiritual talismans, he made a fatal mistake. After discovering that the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman has astonishing devouring ability, this senior didn't think about how to satisfy this nature of the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman. Instead, he did the opposite and tried to reduce the spiritual energy supplied to the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman as much as possible.
As a result, the entire Xu family spent three generations' efforts and a hundred years to barely keep this spiritual talisman at a half-starved and half-full level. According to Liu Suiyun's estimation, if there are enough pills and blood, qi, and souls, he can cultivate the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman to the same level in three to five months.
One wrong step leads to a complete failure. Liu Suiyun couldn't help sighing. The more he read, the more he found the omissions of this senior. This senior really knew too little about the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman and could only deduce some parts based on his own knowledge.
Although he gained a lot, Liu Suiyun soon encountered a problem. No matter what the possibility of foundation establishment without Foundation Establishment Pills is for the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman, as soon as Liu Suiyun took a look at its production materials, he felt that it was unlikely that he could successfully establish the foundation relying on the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman.
The Wuyue Spiritual Talisman actually requires so many rare materials, such as Golden Firm Paper, Thousand Lotus Liquid, Red Lotus Golden Grass Leaf...
Liu Suiyun had never heard of many materials. Even if he had heard of the names, it would be very difficult for Liu Suiyun to afford them. They are all rare goods worth three to five hundred spirit stones casually. No wonder this Wuyue Spiritual Talisman is like a skill without practical use. No wonder this Wuyue Spiritual Talisman could lead to the decline of the Xu family.
Liu Suiyun estimated that so many rare materials are worth far more than a Foundation Establishment Pill. It may take five to six thousand spirit stones to buy all these materials. That is to say, if one wants to establish the foundation without Foundation Establishment Pills by relying on the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman, Liu Suiyun must spend at least the equivalent of two Foundation Establishment Pills in spirit stones.
But what amazed Liu Suiyun even more was that according to this unknown senior, this is the result of simplifying as much as possible based on the original recipe of the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman. At least it can retain 30% of the power of the original Wuyue Spiritual Talisman.
This is too astonishing, right? Liu Suiyun had seen Guo Huijun operate the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman with all her strength. It was really a feeling close to overwhelming. Liu Suiyun didn't even dare to let Guo Huijun get close. Otherwise, with just a slight collision, Liu Suiyun would be sent flying at least five or six steps by the power of the three mountains and five peaks.
But this is only 30% of the power of the Wuyue Spiritual Talisman. So is the original Wuyue Spiritual Talisman at a level where a female warrior can confront a Golden Core cultivator?
Liu Suiyun had to shift his gaze to the fragment of bamboo slip in his other hand. This fragment of bamboo slip was only less than one-third of the whole bamboo slip. Although it was broken, the surface was extremely smooth and shone with a jade-like luster, making people feel comfortable at once.
Hopefully this fragment of bamboo slip won't be like the ice thunder secretly sent by the silver-haired loli and his own treasure. It can only be looked at but one doesn't know how to use it. But as soon as Liu Suiyun's spiritual sense passed through the surface of the bamboo slip, the front became glorious.
Just as the senior who wrote the "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" said in the book, he wrote this "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" by referring to the records on this fragment of bamboo slip. Liu Suiyun soon found that the speed of spiritual sense consumption was astonishingly fast.
The reason is very simple. Different from the "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" which only has words, although there is only a fragmentary volume in this fragment of bamboo slip, and this fragmentary volume not only lacks the most crucial part at the front, but also many pages are already damaged pages or even directly missing pages. The last part of the fragmentary volume is also missing a considerable part. Reading such a fragmented fragmentary volume can be said to be extremely exhausting.
Fortunately, this fragmentary volume is a colorful volume. Not only does it have both pictures and texts, but many pages also have extremely clear colorful pictures that are lifelike and no different from real objects. Some pages even have simple colorful images. Of course, all this also represents astonishing spiritual sense consumption.
After looking at part of the fragmentary volume, Liu Suiyun quickly withdrew his spiritual sense from the fragment of bamboo slip and then took a long breath. The disrespect he had for that unknown senior at first had all disappeared. He quickly grabbed the "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic" and read it again.
This time when he read it, Liu Suiyun had countless insights in his heart. At first, he thought that the senior had completely gone in the wrong direction. Now, it is not without reason. It also has some inspiration for him. Although some places are wrong, there are also many essential points.
The more insights he had, the more Liu Suiyun had a feeling. This "Wuyue Spiritual Talisman Classic", no, it should be the part of the content retained in this fragment of bamboo slip. It's probably extraordinary!
This is definitely not an ordinary Golden Core cultivation technique!