Old Devil Li's Direct Disciple, Tian Yuan

Several days later.

Jing Province, Heaven River County.

Deep within a cave teeming with Spiritual Qi, a middle-aged man sat cross-legged, his eyes closed and each hand holding a black crystal.

The man had a huge, centipede-like Dao Ba on his face, stretching from his left eye to his right chin.

After several hours, the middle-aged man's aura suddenly surged, rising from the strength of the Qi Training Ninth Layer to the strength of the Qi Training Completion.

Once his breathing had calmed down, he opened his eyes, a look of joy on his face.

"I've finally broken through to the Qi Training Completion stage."

"I am already fifty-six years old this year, and there are only four years left before I reach the optimal age for Foundation Establishment. When my master was alive, it was fine, as I could rely on his power to find Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object."

"But now that my master is dead, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to find an ordinary Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object within four years on my own."

Upon realizing this, the Dao Ba man's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and his resentment was extremely intense.

"It's all the fault of the Five Great Clans of Huai River County. If they hadn't launched the Demon-Slaying Turmoil to massacre my master's lineage and obstruct my Dao Path..."

"Otherwise, I would definitely have been able to rely on my master to obtain a large number of blood pills made from the Qi Refining and blood of Qi Refining cultivators, and thus break through to the Qi Training Completion stage, or even the Foundation Establishment, much earlier."

"Under these circumstances, the only option left for me is to rely on my sect's legacy and use the flesh and blood of tens of thousands of mortals and cultivators to refine Blood Origin Pill."

Blood Origin Pill is a demonic spiritual item that can assist cultivators in breaking through to the Foundation Establishment.

Even the worst-grade Blood Origin Pill can increase a cultivator's chances of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment.

However, using this Blood Origin Pill to assist in Foundation Establishment will cause cultivators to be entangled with countless strands of Blood Qi, making it much more difficult to break through to a higher realm.

If one does not break free from the Blood Qi within their body for a long time, there is an eight or nine out of ten chance that they will suffer a qi deviation and ultimately perish.

If refining Blood Origin Pill weren't the only path left, the Dao Ba man wouldn't have chosen the dangerous Blood Origin Pill as his way to break through to the Foundation Establishment.

The middle-aged man with the Dao Ba sighed helplessly, took out the mother token from the Mother-Child Token from his pocket, and crushed it.

He then closed his eyes again to regulate his breathing.

Several days later, more than ten cultivators of different appearances gathered outside the cave where the Dao Ba man was.

Once everyone had arrived, three of the dozen or so cultivators, who were older and had reached the Qi Training Late Stage, entered the cave, while the other dozen or so cultivators at the early and middle stages of Qi Refining waited outside the cave.

Inside the cave.

The three older cultivators who entered the cave quickly walked up to the Dao Ba man who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, meditating with his eyes closed.

The Dao Ba man opened his eyes at that moment.

He glanced at the three elderly cultivators in front of him, and then used his Divine Sense to investigate the dozen or so cultivators waiting outside the cave.

"You three junior disciples have certainly had some skill in the last ten years or so, managing to take in such a large number of followers," the Dao Ba man said meaningfully.

"It is all thanks to your protection, Uncle Tian. Without your protection, how would we dare to recruit disciples in Heaven River County, Jing Province? But we don't know if you have something important to tell us, Uncle Tian, that you have summoned us and our disciples before the year-end tribute season?"

Among the three elderly cultivators, the one with the highest cultivation level, whose aura had reached the Qi Training Eighth Layer, narrowed his eyes slightly, immediately cupped his hands in a gesture of flattery to the Dao Ba middle-aged cultivator, and then asked a question.

The Dao Ba man surnamed Tian was named Tian Yuan, and he was one of the disciples of the infamous Old Devil Li from Huai River County.

The three elderly cultivators were disciples of Old Devil Li- disciple generation, and were taken in by Tian Yuan and his fellow disciples.

Tian Yuan, along with the three elderly cultivators, were survivors of the Demonbane Market launched by the five Foundation Establishment Cultivator of Huai River County.

After surviving, the four knew that even Old Devil Li himself was in danger, so they banded together and fled to Heaven River County, which was 30,000 to 40,000 miles away from Huai River County. They changed their names and lived as Evil Cultivator, making a living by intercepting and killing cultivators.

"My cultivation has reached the Qi Training Completion, and I can hardly find ordinary Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object on my own."

"The reason I have summoned you here is to ask for your help in killing countless mortals and cultivators, and to use their flesh and blood to refine Blood Origin Pill."

Upon hearing the question, Tian Yuan spread his Qi Training Completion aura around him and then said in a deep voice.

The three Old Devil cultivators present reacted differently upon sensing the powerful aura emanating from Tian Yuan.

No one answered.

"Uncle Tian, even the lowest quality Blood Origin Pill requires at least 30,000 mortal flesh and blood and 36 Qi Training Middle Stage or above cultivator flesh and blood as materials to be refined using the Blood Origin Great Method."

"Leaving aside whether we can refine the Blood Origin Pill Blood Origin Pill, just the flesh and blood of the thirty thousand mortals and the corpses of the thirty-six cultivators above the Qi Training Middle Stage Refining needed to refine it will probably require targeting the Foundation Establishment Family. However, the strength of the Foundation Establishment Family Non-Self Qi Refining cultivators can afford to provoke," the Qi Training Eighth Layer elder said, mustering his courage.

"Under normal circumstances, I would not dare to have such thoughts, but now we are in a time of Demon Beast Uprising. At such times, each Foundation Establishment Family must send one Foundation Establishment Cultivator and thirty Qi Refining cultivators from their family to the front line of West Yang Market Town to guard the city."

"At this moment, it can be said that the major Foundation Establishment Family are at their weakest."

"Especially in Huai River County Jing Province, Ice Flood Dragon County and Water Source County of Jiao Province, those Foundation Establishment Family that have been established for a short time and have a weak foundation, at this time, there are probably only a few families with Foundation Establishment Cultivator in charge of the Lineage."

"The other families each only have a group of Qi Refining cultivators stationed within their Lineage."

"Under these circumstances, the four of us, plus the dozen or so disciples in the early and mid-stages of Qi Refining outside the cave, have a good chance of finding enough corpses of mortals and cultivators to refine Blood Origin Pill."

"Of course, you will not be treated unfairly in this matter. Refining the Blood Origin Pill only requires flesh and blood, not souls. The souls of at least 30,000 mortals and 36 cultivators above the Qi Training Middle Stage Refining that we need to kill this time can all belong to you."

"Although most of these souls are mortal souls, it is not a problem to refine a dozen or Higher Vehicle First-Tier Superior-Grade Hundred Ghost Banner."

"With the help of these ten or so Hundred Ghost Banner, I don't need to elaborate on how much your disciples' strength will improve."

"Furthermore, the number of Qi Refining cultivators we kill on this trip will certainly not be limited to thirty-six. The corpses of the extra cultivators will all belong to you."

"In the past ten years or so since the end of the Demon-Slaying Turmoil, you have come to understand how difficult it is to recover the Essence Blood consumed during the Demon Extermination Rebellion in Huai River County without the blood pills refined by Qi Refining cultivators."

"If you can help me this time, and if any of you three can reach the Qi Training Completion stage before the age of sixty, I will definitely help you to Foundation Establishment."

Tian Yuan offered another generous gift, tempting him.

Even though he possessed the Qi Training Completion and was extremely confident in his own strength, he was still not sure he could take on a Foundation Establishment Family on his own.

After all, even those Foundation Establishment Family with weak foundations have a considerable number of Qi Refining cultivators. If they all rushed down at once, Tian Yuan would be no match for them.

Upon hearing this, the three Old Devil cultivators were all somewhat tempted.

They didn't value the dozen or Higher Vehicle Hundred Ghost Banner much, nor did they take the words about assisting in Foundation Establishment to heart, since these were all too far off.

What truly tempted them was the opportunity to obtain a share of a Qi Refining cultivator's corpse and refine blood pills.

They looked old, but were actually only in their forties or fifties. Their current appearance was due to the fact that more than ten years ago, during the Demon-Slaying Turmoil, they used a demonic escape technique to escape from the hands of the Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the five major Foundation Establishment Family, which consumed too much of their Essence Blood.

With enough Blood Pills, the three of them could fully recover their Essence Blood in a short time.

Once their Essence Blood are restored, their cultivation progress will return to normal, and they can then attempt to reach a higher realm.

After some consideration, the three agreed to help Tian Yuan raise the Blood Origin Pill.

"Uncle Tian, we have another concern. We don't know which Foundation Establishment Family you plan to start with to collect the flesh and blood of mortals and cultivators needed to refine the Blood Origin Pill?" Under the prompting of the other two Old Devil cultivators, it was the Devil Cultivator at the Qi Training Eighth Layer who spoke up again.

" In Huai River County, there are two families, the Azure Bamboo Wang Clan and the Cloud Mist Wen Clan. Both families only have one Foundation Establishment cultivator, and they have both been sent to guard West Yang Market Town. There are no Foundation Establishment Cultivator in the clans."

"As for those Foundation Establishment Family in Jiao Province that, like the Wen Clan and Wang Clan, currently have no Foundation Establishment Cultivator stationed there, they are located relatively close to the Hundred Spirits Sect's territory in dealing with the Serpent Dragon Lake, the front line of West Yang Market Town, and there may be a large number of Demon Beast lurking there."

"If it's difficult to gather that batch of flesh and blood in the territories of the Wang Clan and Wen Clan families, we can make another trip to the territories of those Lineage in Jiao Province as an alternative," Tian Yuan said, in a good mood, and offered his answer to the three of them.

Upon hearing this, the three Old Devil cultivators standing nearby felt greatly relieved.

They were afraid that Tian Yuan was in a hurry to refine the Blood Origin Pill and would lead them to provoke Lineage with a Foundation Establishment Cultivator in charge.

Afterwards, Tian Yuan discussed the division of profits with the three Old Devil cultivators.

After their chat, the four of them immediately led their dozen or so Qi Refining to Huai River County.

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