Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses - Chapter 696 - 620: Schemes and a Lucky Star (Combined - )
Chapter 696: Chapter 620: Schemes and a Lucky Star (Combined Chapter)
Which cultivator came to Tianyuan not aiming to reach the Golden Core?
Who hasn’t come to collect as many Heaven and Earth Wonders as possible?
No matter how close Zhou Nan and the Trench Patrol Guest ’Hao’ are, at most he can receive some preferential treatment and be awarded some spiritual materials.
Such extremely precious items like Heaven and Earth Wonders still need to be fought for personally.
If I could obtain that wonder, I could break through to the Fifth Layer and compete for the Trench Patrol Guest position!
Thinking of this, Zhou Nan felt a surge of excitement in his heart.
’Golden Evil Child, Sun-devouring Demon Lady, aren’t you quite capable?
I’d like to see how you handle this time!’ Zhou Nan thought maliciously, a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes.
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On the other side, in the cave where Lin Xuan’s team resided.
Lou Yi was sitting cross-legged on a stone bed in a secret chamber, his eyes tightly closed.
In his mind, countless shining stars were moving, forming an overwhelming and intricate star map.
Until a certain moment when one of these stars was chosen and continuously magnified…
“In the south.” Lou Yi murmured, suddenly opening his eyes.
He had just divined Elder Bi’s location, but only obtained a very vague answer.
South?
Tianyuan is vast, and the south of Shisu District is a very broad concept.
It’s not possible to find Elder Bi based solely on this condition.
Lou Yi knew that getting an accurate location wouldn’t happen in one or two calculations, and he was prepared to engage in continuous and extensive divinations.
Fortunately, after his divination talent advanced to a proficient level, the cooldown time decreased significantly compared to the beginner level.
Often, after roughly half an hour, it could be reused, unlike before when he had to wait four or five hours.
Apart from Elder Bi’s location, Lou Yi also frequently divines to find key items required for important talent advancements, though the answers he gets are often vague.
However, possibly due to Lou Yi’s own location in the Shisu District and his considerable interaction with spiritual creatures, divining the whereabouts of spiritual creatures within the district was much easier.
After divining about ten times, he found the location of a spiritual creature lair.
“One hundred sixty-five miles southeast in the direction of thirty-six degrees from us,”
Based on the divined result, Lou Yi immediately went to that area.
Sure enough, he found an inconspicuous ground fissure, beneath which faint roars of spiritual creatures could be heard.
After returning, Lou Yi shared this good news with his teammates.
“Great!” Everyone cheered upon hearing it and hurriedly rushed to the spiritual creature lair Lou Yi had discovered.
Through layers of gray mist,
arriving at the scene, Elder Gui snapped his fingers, releasing a drifting green firefly into the fissure.
Simultaneously, a round water mirror appeared in midair, projecting the scene within the fissure.
What appeared before everyone’s eyes was a blazing red magma lake, amidst which numerous stone horses created from reddish-brown rock, each about four to five feet long, were swimming and frolicking, quite lively indeed.
Judging by their size and aura, most seemed to be at the level of initial-tier Demon Generals, with only a few reaching high-tier Demon General levels.
“Brothers, we’ve got some action!” Elder Gui excitedly waved his hand, as countless black-spiked vines tore through the void, drilling into the fissure.
Then within the magma lake, they wreaked havoc, causing the stone horses to flee in disarray.
Everyone attacked, easily killing the spiritual creatures fleeing the fissure.
While collecting the drifting white spiritual materials into specialized jade bottles to form spiritual liquid that cultivators could absorb.
Before long, all the spiritual creatures within this lair were completely eliminated by Lin Xuan’s team.
“Our shares go to Liu Shu.” When the spiritual liquids were being distributed, Ding Shiniang voluntarily stepped back to fulfill her previous promise.
During Lin Xuan’s breakthrough to the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Platform, the team relied on Lou Yi forcing his way forward to acquire the Gold Element Heaven and Earth Wonder, the Golden Gourd.
At that time, Ding Shiniang’s promise was that all spiritual material gains within three years, her and Lin Xuan’s shares would belong to Lou Yi.
Lou Yi listened and shook his head to refuse: “If it were before, that would be fine.
But the team has already helped me withstand danger twice, I cannot take advantage of this, let’s distribute according to the original proportions.”
In Lou Yi’s mind, integrity often outweighed gains.
Since he relied on the team to shelter him from the storm temporarily, naturally he should make his own contributions.
Otherwise, he could have absorbed this spiritual creature lair entirely on his own, without sharing it with the rest of the team.
After a bit of mutual concession, finally Elder Gui stepped out: “The place was discovered by Xiao Shu, he should take two shares, the rest of us take one each.”
The debate was thus resolved.
In the days to follow, every seven or eight days, Lou Yi could discover another spiritual creature lair.
Though most lairs didn’t house any big creatures, every little bit adds up, and the team’s strength continued to grow, with everyone receiving ample benefits.
Especially Ding Shiniang, whose cultivation was initially at the peak of the Third Level of the Spirit Platform.
Coupled with Lin Xuan occasionally giving his share of spiritual liquid to his mother, this brought Ding Shiniang’s cultivation ever closer to the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Platform, subtly showcasing the hope of a breakthrough.
“Seems like even without Heaven and Earth Wonders, I might have a chance to break through this year,” Ding Shiniang said with a smile.
“Liu Shu is truly the good fortune of our team.” Elder Gui sighed, “Since he joined, the leader broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Spirit Platform, and Shiniang, you are not far from the Fourth Layer as well.
Spiritual creature lairs have been found one after another…
If this continues, our team will sooner or later produce two Fourth Layer Spirit Platforms. By then, even the Trench Patrol Guest won’t dare to underestimate us.”
The reason Elder Gui dared to speak such words is because Ding Shiniang and Lin Xuan, as a mother and son duo, due to their blood bond, have practiced an extremely powerful combined attack technique.
If they join forces, they can exert strength far beyond their own realm.
At that time, even if they can’t defeat a Fifth Layer Spirit Platform, they can manage a defense.
This period, the whole team was in a thriving phase of rapid development, and everyone was filled with dreams for the future.
Of course, among everyone, Lou Yi received the most benefits.
Not only due to often obtaining the largest shares of spiritual liquid or occasionally hunting solitary spiritual creatures.
The greater harvest came from clearing demons.
Each demon’s cultivation determines its energy offering, at least five or six points, up to hundreds of points, allowing his energy total to exceed thirty thousand points once again.
Besides some mostly useless magic, energy currently has no other uses, so Lou Yi planned to save it for now.
If he encounters a key item, he can use it for talent and fundamental technique advancements.
If he doesn’t encounter any, he can accumulate up to one hundred fifty thousand energy points to forcibly deduce the Petrification Talent’s perfection level.
The current Petrification Talent already made Lou Yi’s body strength reach a level where it can withstand top-grade spiritual artifacts without any damage.
Ordinary perfect bloodlines, even after one or two bloodline transformations in demons, struggled to inflict fatal injuries on him.
Lou Yi was quite curious about what level he would achieve if the Petrification Talent could be deduced for advancement.
He vaguely felt it might result in a transformation.
Moreover, after a high-tier demon dies, there’s a certain chance it might produce a talent.
Due to demons’ inherent negative traits like uneasiness, resentment, and evil, their talents often belong to a single category, ultimately integrating into the Taunt Talent.
Each similar talent stacks and merges, ultimately advancing the Taunt Talent from beginner to proficient level.
And once the Taunt Talent reached proficiency level, its Attribute Panel description evolved:
Taunt: Can stimulate a target’s anger and other negative emotions, achieving a slight influence on their psyche and judgment… If the target is non-living, there’s also a certain chance to trigger an effect.
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