Five Senses Soul-Fixing Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)
Cultivation Method: Take the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and tongue of five people, combine them with your own heart's blood, and inscribe the Five Senses Incantation to refine the five divine senses and obtain Five Senses Essence Qi.
Innate Spell: Five Senses Divine Connection. The eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and tongue are a hundred times more sensitive than those of ordinary people.
Price: You cannot see color, smell fragrance, taste anything fishy, hear music, or eat meat.
Green Blood Blue Sky Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)
Cultivation Method: Mix your own heart's blood with Green Blood Grass and Blue Sky Fruit. Inscribe the Green Blood Blue Sky Incantation on your heart to temper your heart and blood and obtain Green Blood Essence Qi.
Innate Spell: Green Blood Righteous Qi. Once activated, it repels the power of all evil and unorthodox paths.
Price: You must follow the righteous path and cannot take the evil path.
Metal Baleful Body Refining Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)
Cultivation Method: Gather the five metals—gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin—and grind them into powder. Then mix them with your essence blood. Under the sun, inscribe the Metal Baleful Incantation to refine your body and obtain Metal Body Essence Qi.
Innate Spell: Metal Baleful Weapon Body. You are impervious to blades and spears, and unharmed by water or fire. You can withstand all kinds of spells.
Price: You must wear weapons and armor for the rest of your life; they cannot leave your body. Otherwise, your essence qi will rebound and cause aberration.
Yin Yang Water Fire Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)
Cultivation Method: Gather dew from dawn and the dead of night, simmer it over gentle and fierce flames, then let it cool and add your essence blood. Near a Red Dragon or White Tiger, inscribe the Yin Yang Water Fire Essence Refining Incantation to obtain Yin Yang Essence Qi.
Innate Spell: Yin Yang Soul-Bewildering Smoke. No living being can escape its bewitchment; they become trapped in their desires and cannot break free.
Price: You must carouse every night without fail.
Five Qi Five Viscera Art...
Comprehensive All-Under-Heaven Humanity Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)
Cultivation Method:
Step One: Simmer nine kinds of hundred-year-old spirit herbs, nine kinds of spirit jade, nine kinds of metal essence, nine kinds of water sources, and nine kinds of flames into a juice. In accordance with the number of the five elements, mix in your essence blood and inscribe the complete <Humanity's Fleshly Body Incantation of Ten Thousand Laws>. Temper your five viscera and six bowels, sinews and bones, skin and membranes, flesh and head, and marrow and brain to form Myriad Method Essence Qi. This art encompasses all methods and can merge them all, achieving a perfect state.
Step Two: Heavenly Cycle Circulation Diagram (imperfect)
(Note: The first step of the Way of Ten Thousand Laws is to complete the Fleshly Body Incantation. The second step is the Heavenly Cycle Circulation Method. Together, they form the Extreme Realm of Foundation Establishment.)
Innate Spells
1. Life-Death Calamity Fire: Once touched, calamity descends, and life or death is decided in an instant.
2. Five Elements Yin Yang Escape Technique: You can escape through anything under heaven and earth.
3. True Body of Ten Thousand Laws: Resists all spells and all weapons, can transform in myriad ways, has inexhaustible essence qi, and an unbreakable true body.
4. Gods and Devils Heaven-Earth Observation Heart: The heart transforms into gods and devils to observe heaven and earth. External demons cannot invade, and Heart Demons cannot arise.
5. Heart Demon Profound Qi: This qi stirs all seven emotions and six desires, eventually causing the spirit to collapse and die.
Price: None
Looking at the new information, Li Qing's eyes showed a trace of surprise.
"This time, the changes require nine kinds of hundred-year-old spirit herbs, nine kinds of spirit jade, nine kinds of metal essence, nine kinds of water sources, and nine kinds of flames to simmer them all together."
"So it's about gathering the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth."
"This world seems to have the theory of the five elements, too. They seem to represent the composition of all things under heaven and earth."
"Originally, there were all sorts of supplementary cultivation materials. Does this mean these five attributes are meant to replace the other cultivation materials?"
He drew a deep breath, a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"Spirit herbs, metal, water, and spirit jade. Spirit herbs will be the hardest; the rest should be simple enough."
"There are methods for producing the nine kinds of flames, too. I have enough to complete all my cultivation."
"This cultivation art actually specifies that it has two steps."
"I can cultivate the first step now, then continue to the second."
At that moment, he couldn't help thinking of Wang Kuohai of the All-Under-Heaven Escort Agency.
He had spent his entire fortune to buy a cultivation secret manual, yet before he could even practice it, he was caught up in this storm. His whole family had probably been wiped out.
A heavy look crossed his face, and he sighed softly.
"This world is far too dangerous."
"One small mistake, and you're headed for ruin."
He drew a deep breath, his expression grave.
After obtaining the cultivation art, Li Qing went to Elder Huang's Archives Hall.
Elder Huang saw him and smiled, but quickly noticed the worry on his face.
"Did something happen?"
Li Qing nodded. "That's right. I did run into some trouble."
"You know I'm staying at the All-Under-Heaven Escort Agency, right?"
"I do. The All-Under-Heaven Escort Agency is quite well-known, even if the branch in Jade City is only a subsidiary."
"But it brings in considerable profits, and it's quite famous around Jade City."
Li Qing nodded. "There was that Blood Demon Sect purge at South Gate last night, wasn't there?"
Elder Huang nodded. "What does that have to do with it?"
"I was startled by the commotion, so I came to the Demon Extermination Hall. But on the way here, countless waves of blood essence qi rose from the All-Under-Heaven Escort Agency."
"They were attacked. I think it might have had something to do with me."
"Because I was the first to discover the Blood Demon Sect's presence in the Refugee Camp."
"Then I told Wen Taiquan, and he reported it up the chain. That led to what happened last night."
Hearing this, Elder Huang's eyes narrowed. He seemed to realize something.
"You mean there's a mole."
"I didn't say that," Li Qing denied at once.
Elder Huang smiled. "So what do you plan to do now?"
"I don't dare go outside. Who knows if someone's watching me?"
"There's something else I'm wondering about. Why did they try to kill me?"
"If they already knew what was going on, why did things turn out the way they did last night?"
"They could have easily avoided it."
"Unless they did it on purpose."
Elder Huang's expression grew grave, and a thoughtful look passed through his eyes.
After a moment, he said, "I'll go to the Mission Hall and post a task for someone to help me organize the case files."
"I'll set it as a Grade C task, with the duration counted in seven-day periods."
"When the time comes, you can accept it and stay in the Demon Extermination Hall."
"Then no one will be able to touch you."
Li Qing's expression turned solemn. "Thank you for your help, Elder Huang."
Elder Huang waved a hand. "It's no trouble. The Pear Blossom Brew you give me every day isn't for nothing."
"Besides, I hope you'll keep investigating this."
"If you discover anything, you can tell me directly."
"Don't let my being just a clerk fool you. I know plenty of people."
Li Qing understood. A smile appeared on his face. "All right!"
Elder Huang soon went to post the task in secret. He had barely finished posting it when Li Qing accepted it.
Apart from the people in the Mission Hall, no one knew what had happened.
From that day on, Li Qing became a member of the Clerk Hall. He began organizing all sorts of case clues and files alongside Elder Huang, eventually compiling them into missions.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
The previous incident seemed to have died down, and news of the massacre at the All-Under-Heaven Escort Agency broke the very next day.
Not a single one of the agency's hundred-plus members had escaped.
They had only heard that Wang Kuohai had disappeared, and might have had ties to the Blood Demon Sect.
Li Qing was also quite surprised when he heard the news.
"Wang Kuohai actually survived? He must be one lucky bastard."
"Though it's possible he was captured."