Heart Mansion Formula

On the East China Sea, on a small fishing boat that Li Qi had casually conjured up, the two men looked at each other in bewilderment.

Li Qi never expected that when he went fishing, the person he caught was actually the old man Shen Yijun who had taught him how to fish.

Well...

Those who fish for others will always be fished for by others.

Shen Yijun has had a really tough time these past few years. After the Hell Incident and Li Qi's escape, things are probably not over yet.

The dragon-slaying team must have been captured by Ao Guangxiao. It seems that Ao Guangxiao did not let them go, but instead skinned them alive and removed all the things related to the true dragon from their bodies.

Although they weren't killed, it was no different from killing them. I wonder what price Reason Way paid to keep them alive.

Reason Way must have made a move, otherwise Ao Guangxiao would never have let them go.

After that, they were probably imprisoned thousands of miles deep in the ocean? Until this time, when Li Qi threw his fishing hook, it probably landed nearby and happened to rescue him.

Thinking of this, a bunch of ideas rushed into Li Qi's mind, but he suppressed them, walked over, sat down, and said to Shen Yijun, "Old man, it's really fate to meet at this time. What happened? Tell me the whole story."

Shen Yijun sighed, "Alas, it really is fate. What is it? Cause and effect. I killed the true dragon and got this result, but I never thought that spending two days with you on the ship would lead to this result. It really is... the world is unpredictable."

"So, how did I manage to catch you?" Li Qi asked curiously.

"That's a long story. Do you have any wine?" Shen Yijun leaned back.

"I don't drink much, so I didn't prepare any good wine, but I can brew some ordinary wine on the spot," Li Qi said with a smile, then took out a bunch of spiritual herbs from his Mustard Seed Bag.

The reason why wine can intoxicate people is because of the aroma of yeast and gluten.

As the saying goes, when the yeast and gluten dissipate, they all turn into water, thus becoming wine. Li Qi squeezed these spiritual herbs to dry them slightly, mixed them with yeast and gluten, and began to use Technique Method to catalyze the process.

This certainly can't compare to the divine wine brewed by master brewers, but it's still a fine product used in Shaman rituals, and the ingredients used are not bad either.

Shen Yijun, however, observed Li Qi's technique and said, "The sorghum and rice must be of equal quality, the yeast and glutinous rice must be of the right time, the cooking oil must be clean, the water must be fragrant, the pottery must be of good quality, and the fire must be just right. When all six are perfect, you can make vinegar. You didn't say you could brew wine when you were fishing."

"Shaman, well, most people know a little bit about it; it's their livelihood," Li Qi explained while manipulating the spiritual herbs.

Li Qi knew how to brew wine because many sacrificial rituals required wine, and new wine was preferred over aged wine. Therefore, Li Qi had to be brewed on the spot.

Shen Yijun didn't respond. He seemed a little tired, leaning against the mast and snoring, as if he had fallen asleep.

Li Qi did not urge him.

We are all immortals, so we don't lack a little more time.

Li Qi slowly brewed the wine, mixing the spiritual herbs, beans, yeast, and knotweed together, pounding them into a paste, fermenting it for a day, and then using Technique Method to accelerate the brewing process, employing the method of the human body as a microcosm of the four seasons to speed up the fermentation. In less than half a day, it was ready.

Li Qi then set out the wine cups and opened the jar.

He always carries a wine cup with him; the Witchcraft Silkworm was still with him from back then.

As the aroma of the wine wafted out after the jar was opened, Shen Yijun sniffed, waking up from his sleep. Without any hesitation, he grabbed a wine cup, took a sip, and drank heartily. He drank thirty-nine cups in a row, feeling his Qi and Blood flowing smoothly, as if all his ailments had been cured and his body was light and healthy. He repeatedly praised, "Excellent, good wine, excellent wine!"

He then asked, "Alright, now that we have wine to accompany it, it's just that the taste is a bit lacking. Is there any meat?"

Li Qi laughed and said, "There's no meat, but there are two fish."

After speaking, he threw out the huge fish that he had been eating for over forty days and still hadn't finished, and even took out the 800-mile-long, seventh-grade Savage Beast from the fish basket as well.

Seeing this, Shen Yijun laughed heartily, leaped forward, and jumped onto the giant fish. Although it was eight hundred miles long, he swallowed the entire fish whole with a single suck.

Then look at the big fish that Li Qi had already grilled. His body suddenly swelled up, turning into a giant. He grabbed it, bit it, and ate it in two or three bites. Then his body shrank back to normal.

With food and drink, his Martial Dao Inner Qi was greatly replenished, and his complexion became much rosier. He kept exclaiming, "Good, good, good!"

"Thank you so much, brother. I'll remember your kindness. By the way, what were you going to ask just now?"

"Oh, I just wanted to ask what the old man has been through all these years, how did he end up like this?" Li Qi asked.

"Now that we've had our fill of food and drink, it's fine to talk. Actually, after you left, we were all arrested, and then you saw that bastard Ao Guangxiao— "

Shen Yijun began to grumble and curse as he recounted his experiences over the past few decades.

It's pretty much the same as what Li Qi guessed.

Shen Yijun's dragon-slaying squad was eventually forced to confront Ao Guangxiao. With the help of Reason Way, most of them escaped, but in the end, Ao Guangxiao suddenly inhaled, and Shen Yijun blocked the attack for his brothers, and the true dragon part in his body was quickly stripped away.

Ao Guangxiao then used his Divine Ability to bind him to the bottom of the sea, saying, "You like fishing, then wait for someone to catch you! Let's see if you have the luck!"

It turns out that the Divine Ability Ao Guangxiao used was actually Curse technique of Shaman Path.

However, this is quite normal. As perfect beings, true dragons are almost free from the struggle for Dao. It is said that their inner world can be reshaped at will, and they can do whatever they want. Therefore, they can cultivate all kinds of Technique Method. Although they cannot master the true Dao, they are unparalleled in simulating Technique Method. As a result, true dragons have countless forms and specialties. Each true dragon is highly customized. Some have wings, some do not have wings, and some even look like sea turtles.

The descriptions of a dragon as having "antlers like a deer, head like a cow, eyes like a shrimp, mouth like a donkey, belly like a snake, scales like a fish, feet like a phoenix, whiskers like a human, and ears like an elephant" are actually manifestations of the dragon's abilities in this aspect.

However, the result of this is also visible to the naked eye: the inner world of a true dragon can be embedded into the body of a cultivator as equipment without any rejection reaction. This is what Master Shen Yijun likes to do.

There's nothing particularly special about a true dragon mastering the art of Curse.

Shen Yijun was Curse and imprisoned in the sea. The way to break the Curse was to be fished out by someone.

How vast is the East Sea? He was severely injured and sealed, unable to move freely, so he was stuck in the water waiting for a fishhook. If he was unlucky, it was not impossible for him to wait for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

It was buried in the water for over seventy years.

However, he was lucky. It wasn't until today, when Li Qi cast his line, that he finally found a fishhook, desperately broke the seal, gripped the hook tightly, and was caught.

However, the backlash from the Curse was also the source of his miserable state. His cultivation collapsed directly, and he was knocked down by a passing Heavenly Patrol Officer, losing a first-rank cultivation level, before things calmed down.

After saying this, Shen Yijun reached out and splashed his hand in the sea.

A hidden force shot downwards, striking a sea beast on its spine. The beast floated to the surface, belly up.

He caught the sea monster and devoured it, consuming hundreds of tons of meat without his stomach showing any sign of hunger. While eating, he took out some wine and drank it down in large gulps. Although he was an old man, his eating manners were extremely elegant.

This is the Dao Lineage of martial artists. They truly rely on food to cultivate their Martial Dao Inner Qi. Not to mention flesh and blood, they can even consume Technique Method. As long as it is the energy they need, they can digest it easily.

I've heard that many unscrupulous martial artists... will eat other cultivators, a practice jokingly called "cannibalism," where they directly devour the cultivation of others and use it for their own purposes.

However, while this kind of behavior leads to rapid improvement, it also places correspondingly high demands on the martial artist's heart. After all, cultivation requires the support of the Dao heart; if the Dao heart is unstable, cultivation will only self-destruct.

Li Qi looked at Shen Yijun and fell into deep thought.

This old man clearly has a background in the Spirit Way Heavenly Court and may be a descendant of an Orthodox God of the Heavenly Court.

Um...

"Old man, now that you're out of trouble, is there any way out?" Li Qi asked.

Shen Yijun took a sip of wine, gulped it down, and casually replied, "There's definitely no place for me in the world anymore. I've been hanging around in the East China Sea before, and my base is there too. Now that the True Dragon has its eye on me, I definitely can't stay here. I plan to try my luck in the outer regions."

"That's quite a coincidence, old man. I also have some businesses overseas," Li Qi said with a smile.

"What? You want me to work for you? Can you afford to pay me?" Shen Yijun put down his food and joked.

"I definitely can't afford to pay you wages. You might even have to bring your own food and do all the work for free. But if you help me out, Zhenlong might just turn a blind eye," Li Qi said with a smile.

"Do you have a powerful background?" Shen Yijun scoffed.

Li Qi didn't say much, but simply flipped his hand outward, and a talisman appeared in his palm. It was slightly curved and engraved with some small characters that told Li Qi's identity and mission.

Shen Yijun's expression changed. He examined the talisman carefully, even reaching out to touch it, but ultimately withdrew his hand and didn't dare to touch it.

He recognized it; it was the Wushen Mountain Talisman. If it was genuine, the amount of information contained within it was immense.

This kind of thing is absolutely impossible for anyone who isn't a direct descendant of the legitimate lineage to obtain.

"The real thing?" He looked at Li Qi seriously and asked.

"How could it be fake?" Li Qi said.

Shen Yijun nodded. "Alright, it's a good thing to go to the outer realms to avoid trouble. If I come back in ten thousand years, the younger generation of true dragons will probably not remember me anymore."

After saying that, he sighed and said, "Brother, you saved me from danger and saved my life. Now you're even helping me lay low. I have nothing to offer right now, so I really can't repay you for the time being. I can only say that I'll do my best for you in the outer realms and conquer a few more world groups. I'm quite confident in my killing power."

Li Qi waved his hand. "Why bother with all this, old man? It's not necessary. My businesses outside the region aren't some kind of fighting organization. Sending you there is just to help you relax. If anything happens, just keep an eye out. Peace is the priority; we won't resort to plunder."

Shen Yijun nodded slightly. "That's true. Judging from your character, you're not someone who enjoys killing. I'll go and recuperate for a while and help you look after the business. I'll just be your enforcer and won't interfere with the operations."

Then he continued, "By the way, look at this talisman, the place you're in charge of, brother, is the Heart Mansion, right?"

"It's near the Heart Mansion, what's wrong?" Li Qi asked curiously.

"Isn't this a coincidence? The sixteen world clusters near the Heart Mansion are all nurtured by the divine fire of nature. There is an extraterrestrial wonder here called the Great Fire. Have you heard of it, brother?" Shen Yijun asked.

Li Qi had certainly heard of the Great Fire; it was an important area on the star map.

After dusk in autumn, the Great Fire moves westward, which is called "flowing fire". The "fire" in the so-called "July flowing fire" refers to the Great Fire. This place is said to be the core foundation of a High Antiquity Star Official, and it is a wonder that can be named even in the outer realms.

The Great Fire is said to be the heart of the Azure Dragon.

The Azure Dragon, one of the Four Symbols, has its heart located in the Heart Mansion. The great star Heart Mansion Antares is the Great Fire Star. When the High Antiquity Star Official set up the star map of the heavens, they placed the Great Fire here, which shows its importance.

"I have a Method Formula here, which I obtained through a fortuitous encounter in the past. However, I am, after all, a martial artist, and I am not very familiar with these things. At the time, I only memorized it, but I was unable to use it myself."

"This Method Formula is said to have originated from the Great Fire, and it can extract a trace of the Great Fire's True Intention essence. I haven't tried its specific effects, and I'm too rough to learn it anyway. Since you're going to the Heart Mansion soon, why don't you give it a try? If you have a fortuitous encounter, it will be a token of my appreciation," Shen Yijun said.

This did pique Li Qi's interest.

If it can truly be linked to the Great Fire, then it can also be linked to the Star Official, one of the top Dao Lineage of the Divine Path.

Similar to the Hundred Schools of Human Path, the Three Lineages of Shaman Path, and the Three Islands of Daoism, the Divine Way also has its own internal Dao Lineage.

Several groups occupy a dominant position. The first, of course, is the Ziwei Heavenly Court, headed by the Heavenly Emperor and composed of the ancient Innate Spirits gods who were born at the time of the world's creation.

The second is the High Antiquity Star Official, namely the well-known Four Symbols, Five Dou, Nine Luminaries, Twelve Yuan Chen, and Twenty-Eight Mansions.

But whichever of them it is, they both have a good relationship with the Shaman Path, after all, even the Four Symbols are actually allies of the Shaman Path.

The situation is different for Human Path. Human Path has a good relationship with the Star Official and often relies on their power.

However, the Human Path and the Heavenly Court were truly at odds. In the past, the Ziwei Heavenly Court once wanted to chop off the Human Emperor and devour the entire Human Path. The human Human Path was no less formidable, having done things like "Shoot Heaven" and "killing gods."

The Human Emperor once made a puppet, calling it a celestial god. He played a game with it, having someone act as its puppet. The celestial god lost, so the Emperor humiliated it. He made a leather bag, filled it with blood, and shot it with it, naming it "Shoot Heaven."

Therefore, for Li Qi, if the advance arrangements of the Heart Mansion could gain some advantage on the foundation of the Star Official Great Fire, or even influence the Star Official's stance in the Human-Shaman War, it would be a huge gain!

Therefore, Li Qi naturally couldn't refuse, and instead cupped his hands in thanks, saying, "Thank you, brother. I'll accept your thanks."