After the Dao of Alchemy outer layer exploration was completed, Wulin Marketplace was peaceful for ten days.
The Outpost side is still continuing to build, with more monks coming and going than before, and there are people on the main street of Fangshi almost from morning to night. Over Spirit Field, the first batch of low-level Spirit Herb are beginning to mature, and the shops and supply stalls are also busy, and the profits are still climbing.
Li Yuan did not travel frequently during this period. He spent most of his time in the city practicing and patrolling, while slowly digesting the things he brought back from Ruins.
He was not in a hurry to practice the Second-Order Body Tempering Method technique that he got from Grey Jade Slip. He just straightened out the operation context and tempering route. What really started was the two newly acquired ordinary spells.
One is Pulse-Probing Technique and the other is Dust-Drawing Technique.
The former is for exploration, and is mainly used to identify the underground spiritual power and the direction of Earth Vein. The latter is not used for fighting, but for carefully attracting tiny dust, debris, and residual traces. It is not very useful in daily life, but it is very convenient in scenes such as Ruins, Mineral Vein Dao, and tracking.
Li Yuan The reason for replacing these two doors was not a temporary move.
Pulse-Probing Technique is useful for the abnormal Backflow underground, and Dust-Drawing Technique is suitable for detailed investigation. More importantly, the newly acquired Body Tempering Method technique is inherently linked to the number of spells. The more spells you have in hand, the faster subsequent practice. In this case, it is not a loss to add a few more suitable small spells.
The level of the two spells is not high, and Li Yuan's foundation is low.
Within a few days, it was pushed to Entry Level.
What really concerns Li Yuan is that the trend in the city has changed.
The three people caught last time had demonic aura, and Demon-Probing Array could stop them directly. However, none of the new ones showing up now have any Devil Cultivator aura.
Demon-Probing Array is operating as usual, and the four entrance and exit nodes record fluctuations in Array Eye every day. However, after half a month in a row, no target similar to the last time has been swept out.
If you only look at Demon-Probing Array, the market is simply too clean.
But here's the problem.
Li Yuan was just paying attention at first, but later he retrieved all the records of Management Office, inspection and Demon-Probing Array.
Management Office has registration and temporary rental records for foreign monks.
The inspecting monks reported the flow of people, conflicts, and nighttime comings and goings seen during daily inspections.
Demon-Probing Array Although Devil Cultivator cannot be scanned now, it can still record who enters and exits from which entrance, when they stay, and the number of abnormal returns.
Coupled with the market transaction records, many traces can be matched, including who bought something from which store, how much they bought, and which way they went after buying.
Li Yuan spread these things out and sorted them for half a day.
What someone bought was not Medicinal Pill, but blank Jade Slip and Spirit-Sealing Box.
Some people don't ask about Monster Material, but only ask where they can get old Formation Materials, damaged Law Artifact and mechanical components that can be easily disassembled.
There are two people who are the most obvious. They came three times, each time they only stayed for one night, but each time they went to a different shop to leave something, and another person came to pick it up the next day.
Li Yuan sorted out the names and whereabouts of the dozens of people screened out, and sent a message to Chen Yi that night.
Chen Yi replied quickly.
"Keep watching, don't catch me first."
In the afternoon of the next day, Chen Yi people arrived.
The two still met on the second floor of Management Office. Li Yuan pushed several volumes of records over, while Chen Yi looked up and asked a few questions from time to time.
"This person selling Spirit-Sealing Box, are you sure he only comes into contact with two of them every time?"
"Confirm."
"Those three at the north gate live in different places, but they all went to the same junk shop?"
"I've been there, and I'm not buying finished products. I'm asking about old Array Disk fragments and dismantled prohibited materials."
Chen Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Don't rush to collect it yet. Clear another layer in Fangshi and dig out the whole chain. I want to know who is the transfer and who is the home."
In the next few days, the market continued to operate as usual.
Secretly, Yuanyang Sect has already put people's hands in.
Li Yuan himself is not idle either.
During this period of time, in addition to checking clues, he also dedicated his contribution to exchange for several old scriptures related to the golden elixir.
It is not the Golden Core Formation method, but some basic classics and practice experiences before and after Golden Core Formation.
After seeing that old book in Ruins last time, he had already decided on a path in his mind. Now reading the sect's classics is nothing more than clarifying the path.
The explanations in the classics are more scattered than those in the old Ruins book, and they do not directly address the balance as in the latter, but the meaning is similar.
Spiritual power must be pure, stable, and able to withstand pressure.
The physical body cannot be weak, otherwise it will not be able to withstand the erosion of the spiritual power when the pill is condensed, nor can it suppress the changes after Golden Core Formation.
The soul must be condensed and stable enough, otherwise the mind will be confused at the critical step and all the previous accumulation will be in vain.
But they didn't say anything about the level of the golden elixir.
Li Yuan read several classics and did not make a long summary. He only reorganized his own path.
After another four days, Fangshi finally reached the key node.
Chen Yi finally made a decision after reading the newly sent records.
"It's ready to be collected."
This time the net was closed harder and faster than the previous two times.
"It's ready to be collected."
This time the net was closed harder and faster than the previous two times.
Because the target was not Devil Cultivator, Yuanyang Sect simply did not use Demon-Probing Array to get the card. Instead, we started at the same time according to the transaction time, connecting route and hiding place. Several shops in Fang City, a temporary stone house in the south, an abandoned shack outside the north gate, and a section of old road outside Outpost were all opened overnight.
The transfer monks were not slow to react, and two of them even tried to burn the secret letter and Jade Slip in their hands, but unfortunately they didn't have time.
People were captured, but most of the things were left behind.
In the stone room at the rear of Management Office, pieces of seized items were quickly placed on the table.
Fragmented Map has two more pieces than last time. Although it is still incomplete, it can be partially matched with the piece that was handed over from Devil Cultivator before.
There are also half a Key Seal fragment, several secret maps marking the route, a batch of small Formation Materials used to break the ban and test Earth Vein, a few secret letters passed back and forth, and a few old jade tablets engraved with special patterns.
Li Yuan stood at the table and did not look at each one. He only listened to Chen Yi and the person next to him, Yuanyang Sect Disciple, take it apart piece by piece.
"These pictures are the outer routes to Ruins Middle Layer."
"This letter mentioned that "Middle Layer has not been opened, and is still waiting for Key Seal"."
"This one says "Earth Vein channel is not yet stable and needs to be tested."
"And this..."
When the disciple opened the last secret letter, he frowned.
"A word was mentioned here."
"What word?" Chen Yi asked.
"Large Spirit Vein Core."
Li Yuan's eyes moved slightly, but he said nothing, waiting for the monk to continue speaking.
Chen Yi put the secret message back on the table, pondered for a moment, and then said:
"The other peripheral points are almost confirmed."
Li Yuan glanced at Fragmented Map on the table.
"Ghost Mist Forest peripheral?"
"Yes." Chen Yi nodded, "It's not a big stronghold, it's just a small place where people, pictures, and materials are hidden. You can't see it at ordinary times, but if you really want to break the ban or send news, you will rely on these places for turnover."
Having said this, his expression slowly calmed down.
"Now that we know where their peripheral chains are, there is no need to continue to wait passively."
Li Yuan looks up.
Chen Yi stretched out his hand to count the dots on the Fragmented Map and the road map on the table, and his tone was more direct than before.
"It's better to remove the outer strongholds first and regain the rhythm."