A Desperate Gamble, Li Wei's Training Plan
Strength, that's what Li Wei desperately needs right now.
Who could know the pressure Li Wei had endured over such a long time? If he couldn't reach at least the 'Star King' level before the Main God Mordor regained his strength, Li Wei knew very well that everyone connected to him would be killed by Mordor. Under such pressure, even if there was danger, Li Wei would ignore it as long as it could make him stronger. However, he wasn't foolish enough to force his way into the Hundred Wolf Cave, which would be suicide. So even if he were to go, he would have to have a foolproof plan.
Sitting on his bed, Li Wei was restless and agitated, countless thoughts flashing through his mind, only to be quickly dismissed by himself. Then, it suddenly occurred to Li Wei that he still had nearly five months left. Why not think of a way to improve his strength during those five months?
However, without advanced cultivation techniques and enhanced skills, the possibility of relying on existing martial arts to reach a level that can rival an S-rank Wolf King is close to zero.
But regardless, this is a way out. Taking out the 'Nine Yin Transformation Scripture', Li Wei planned to study it carefully, after all, it was the highest-level cultivation technique he could currently obtain.
The Nine Yin Transformation Scripture is a supreme evil martial art, best suited for unintelligent wild beasts to cultivate. It also records some practical combat techniques, such as the 'Great Strength Divine Demon Art' and the 'Demon Sound Soul-Seizure Art'.
The so-called Nine Yin is a general term; in reality, it refers to nine kinds of Yin energy. "Ten is full, and fullness must lead to deficiency. Therefore, Daoism believes that nine is the ultimate. This Nine Yin Spirit Transformation is an evil technique, yet it has deeply grasped the essence of Daoism..." Li Wei nodded as he pondered. Through studying this technique, Li Wei finally understood the true meaning of the so-called Nine Yin Spirit Transformation.
The foundational technique of the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation — the Qi Transformation Manual —is a method that absorbs turbid qi into the body and transforms it into spiritual qi. Within the dantian, a maximum of nine strands of spiritual qi can be stored.
After accumulating nine strands of spiritual energy, one can begin cultivating the second technique of the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation, the "Yin Transformation Chapter." This stage can also be called "Nine Spirits Transform Yin," which involves refining nine strands of spiritual energy into one strand of Yin energy.
Similarly, once nine streams of Yin energy have been stored, one can cultivate the most profound "Deity Transformation Chapter" technique.
This is the essence of the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation. It is said that once one successfully transforms into a divine being, one will obtain a 'divine essence'. According to the description in the manual, possessing a divine essence means being able to ascend to heaven and traverse the earth, becoming omnipotent. However, unfortunately, the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation manual in Li Wei's hands is only the first part, which only records the techniques for transforming into spirit and transforming into yin, while the technique for transforming into a divine being is in the second part.
"If I can find the next chapter of the cultivation technique, and refine a divine essence, I should have a 90% chance of defeating the Wolf King!" Li Wei clenched his fist, a glimmer of hope rising in his heart.
Although a glimmer of hope has appeared, two difficulties still lie ahead. One is the lack of the Nine Yin Deity Transformation, Part Two Technique, and the other is how to cultivate nine strands of Yin Qi within a few months.
Overcoming either of these two difficulties would be incredibly difficult, but Li Wei was not discouraged. Instead, he continued to study the Nine Yin Transformation Scripture. However, his focus shifted from cultivation techniques to some secret arts.
Some secret techniques require spiritual energy to operate, while others require yin energy to perform. Li Wei opened the secret techniques driven by spiritual energy and began to look at them one by one.
Suddenly, Li Wei's eyes lit up as he discovered two secret techniques that thrilled him.
"Spirit Seizing Art: This technique steals the spiritual energy of others for one's own use. The user's own spiritual energy must be greater than that of the target..."
"The Yin Seizing Art allows one to steal the Yin energy refined by another for their own use; however, the user's own Yin energy must be greater than the target's..."
Upon seeing these two secret techniques, Li Wei jumped down from the bed and rushed out of the room, running towards the Fortune Comes Inn. With these two techniques, Li Wei had already devised a plan in his mind, and this plan had a very high success rate. If successful, the hidden mission of killing the Wolf King might be accomplished.
... Outside Liu Family Village, there are deep mountains and Jungle.
Li Wei walked alone on the quiet forest path, not disturbing the hunters who were hunting nearby. Nearly two days had passed since he captured the wolf demon Xiao Zuanfeng. During this time, Li Wei had refined another strand of spiritual energy. Now, with the support of three strands of spiritual energy in his body, Li Wei was very fast. He didn't stop on the branches of the trees in the forest. With a single leap, he could fly more than ten meters and soon arrived at a valley.
The ancient temple still stands in the valley.
That's right, this is the place where Li Wei obtained the Nine Yin Transformation Scripture that night, and his purpose in coming here is to find clues about the Nine Yin Deity Transformation, Part Two.
Li Wei already had solutions for those two hurdles. Firstly, regarding the nine strands of Yin Qi required for the Nascent Soul stage, because of the existence of the 'Spirit Seizing Art' and 'Yin Seizing Art,' Li Wei devised a method. That was to have Zheng Yutong, An Hei, and everyone else cultivate the Qi Transformation Manual. Not only that, Li Wei also taught the Qi Transformation Manual's incantation to Nina and the others, asking them to present it as a precious manual to their respective sects. In this way, almost everyone in the major sects of Qingzhou Prefecture, including the Hunyuan Sect, the Iron Sword Gang, and the Divine Might Escort Agency —from sect leaders and core disciples to peripheral disciples—possessed the Qi Transformation Manual's incantation.
Li Wei wasn't being merciful, nor was he insane. His goal was clear: to make all the martial artists in Qingzhou Prefecture capable of cultivating the Qi Transformation Manual cultivate it. His plan was to capture the unfortunate souls who had "successfully cultivated" and seize their spiritual energy for his own use.
It seemed domineering and wicked, but it was the only method Li Wei could think of. Besides, Li Wei was only taking the spiritual energy they had cultivated for a few months, while he had passed on the Qi Transformation Manual's incantation to them. Therefore, that spiritual energy could be considered a small amount of interest that he deserved.
After all, what good is it to get such a high-level cultivation technique like the Qi Transformation Manual for nothing?
If around 80 people can cultivate a single strand of spiritual energy, then by seizing their spiritual energy, Li Wei can refine it into nine strands of Yin energy, thereby transforming Yin into God. Once the divine essence is unleashed, he will be invincible.
Even the An Hei were amazed by this plan and full of praise.
Even with so much spiritual energy, Li Wei still needed the incantation and cultivation method of the Deity Transformation Chapter. Therefore, the prerequisite was to find the next chapter of the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation.
That's why Li Wei came to this ancient temple to try his luck.
It was nearly dusk, and the lush green leaves in the forest were bathed in the golden light of the setting sun. Reflected by the clouds on the horizon, they looked exceptionally beautiful. Judging from this scene alone, it was definitely a beautiful sight.
But Li Wei had no interest in appreciating it; his attention was entirely focused on the ancient temple.
He had just sneaked in to investigate, but found no clues. The collapsed statues were still there, but the two female fox demons had vanished without a trace. As for the giant cricket that had cultivated the divine scriptures, it was nowhere to be found. At this moment, the ancient temple was deserted, like a ghost town.
"Could it be that this is only the first part of the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation?" Li Wei was anxious, but there was nothing he could do. He could only wait until dark to see if he could find anything.
Soon, the setting sun gradually disappeared into the endless sea of clouds, and the surroundings began to fall into night. After hiding in a secluded corner for about half an hour, Li Wei finally couldn't resist coming out again and sneaking towards the ancient temple.
The valley now resembled a completely different place compared to the beautiful scenery that had previously resembled a trap. If it was a picturesque forest scene before, it was now Nether Ghost underworld. However, for Li Wei, who now possessed three strands of spiritual energy, even if there were ghosts or demons, he could handle them. Even if he couldn't defeat them, escaping wouldn't be a problem.
After entering the ancient temple, Li Wei returned to the dilapidated statue and examined it carefully. Just like during the day, nothing had changed, except that the stone head on the ground looked much more eerie under the moonlight. Finding no clues, Li Wei smiled bitterly, thinking to himself that it would probably be difficult to find the Nine Yin Deity Transformation, Part Two Transformation technique here.
Just as Li Wei was about to leave, he heard faint sounds coming from outside the courtyard. Li Wei listened carefully and found that they were very light footsteps.
"Someone's here?" Li Wei didn't believe a normal person would come to this desolate mountain temple in the middle of the night. Anything unusual was suspicious, so he became even more cautious. However, he forgot that he himself had come here in the middle of the night.
The footsteps outside the courtyard rang for a moment before falling silent, but Li Wei's hair stood on end. The silence wasn't because the person who made the sound had left, but because he had entered.
Through the stone pillar, Li Wei could vaguely see a dark figure leap in from the more than three-meter-high wall.
After the dark figure landed, it only made a slight footstep sound, and then rustled through the grass and entered the main hall. Li Wei held his breath and saw the person clearly.
Li Wei's initial assessment was wrong. He thought the thing that came in was some kind of demon, or at the very least a vengeful ghost. Who knew that it would turn out to be a person dressed in black clothes and black pants.
Yes, it's just one person.
Li Wei was certain of this; the man was dressed in black and masked, clearly possessing exceptional lightness skills. As soon as he entered the main hall, he began searching, presumably looking for something.
Hiding behind the stone pillar, Li Wei suddenly had a thought: Could this person be here to find the first part of the Nine Yin Spirit Transformation manual?
Li Wei himself didn't know why he thought that way; it was just a thought that popped into his head.
When the man in black saw the stone head on the ground, he was startled at first, then squatted down. However, Li Wei knew that the stone head was already empty. Sure enough, after a moment, the man in black cursed under his breath, then got up and walked out of the hall, using his lightness skill to leave.
Li Wei, who was behind the stone pillar, quietly followed, leaping up as well to keep up at a distance.
Li Wei had his reasons for following him. Since he couldn't find the clues he wanted in this ancient temple, he might as well follow this guy; perhaps he'd make a new discovery. This man in black wouldn't come here in the middle of the night for no reason; he must have something in mind. Li Wei thought the most likely culprit was the Nine Yin Transformation Scripture.
The man in black walked and stopped intermittently in the Jungle, and Li Wei followed closely behind, maintaining a certain distance to avoid being discovered. The two ran like this for more than half an hour before the man in black finally turned out of the Jungle and headed towards a dirt road.
Li Wei had long since lost track of where he was; he simply followed the man in front of him. After walking for another ten minutes or so, he finally saw several houses nestled at the foot of the mountain. The man in black jogged to the tallest house and then knocked on the door.
The door opened and someone entered. A burly man with a fierce face poked his head out from inside, looked around, and then closed the door.
"Something's fishy!" Li Wei didn't think the man in black and the man from before were good people. Would a good person look so fierce? And a good person wouldn't sneak into that ancient temple in the middle of the night.
Clearly, Li Wei had forgotten that he had just done the same thing.
"Maybe this time I'll catch eleven big fish!" With that thought, Li Wei took advantage of the darkness and headed towards the house.
Xu Wanshan paced anxiously around the room, clutching a string of Buddhist prayer beads and muttering incantations. He was truly terrified; the scene that had filled him with horror a few days ago was still vivid in his memory.
The story begins three days ago. A strange-looking man suddenly barged into Xu Wanshan's residence. Xu Wanshan was a prominent figure in the area, employing several down-on-their-luck martial artists as guards. Normally, even ordinary bandits and outlaws dared not cause trouble. However, this strange man was exceptionally powerful. With a mere flick of his finger, Xu Wanshan's most skilled guard collapsed with a scream. A bloody hole had been pierced in the guard's arm, and seeing the blood gushing out and hearing the guard's pig-like howls, Xu Wanshan cowered. However, the strange man didn't continue his attack, instead saying he would stay at Xu Wanshan's house for a few days.
Even if it were a short stay, Xu Wanshan wouldn't dare say no. This man could easily stab someone with a single finger; who would dare provoke him? Thus, everyone in the mansion, including Xu Wanshan, lived in constant fear these past few days, with many maids and servants already running home in terror.
In this remote mountain area, a trip to the government office takes a whole day. Xu Wanshan wanted to report it to the authorities, but he was also worried that they might do something even more terrible in their anger, so he held back. Didn't that strange man say he would only stay for a few days? As long as he could get through these few days, everything would be fine after the strange man left.
The ideal was beautiful, but unexpectedly, just a few hours ago, that strange man asked Xu Wanshan to send someone to find something. That thing was an ancient book, hidden in an ancient temple in a valley dozens of miles away from here. He also said that if you saw a strangely shaped statue, you could find the ancient book in the head of that statue.
At this point, Xu Wanshan dared not refuse the other party's request, so he had no choice but to send one of his guards to the task. This guard was a down-on-his-luck martial artist who was skilled in light-footed techniques before coming to the Xu residence, making him the most suitable candidate for this mission.
Now, an hour had passed since the guard left, and Xu Wanshan was starting to feel uneasy. He worried that if he couldn't find the ancient book the strange man had mentioned, the strange man might kill him in a fit of rage.
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In this state of panic, Xu Wanshan heard a knock on the door.
"Master, I'm back!" A slightly hoarse voice rang out, and Xu Wanshan trembled upon hearing it, hurriedly going to open the door.
"Thank goodness, you... you're back! Come in quickly!" Xu Wanshan felt a weight lifted from his heart upon seeing the man he had sent out return, and hurriedly pulled him into the house.
"How's it going? Did you get the stuff?" This was what Xu Wanshan was most concerned about. If he hadn't, that strange man might fly into a rage.
The guard looked helpless and told the truth.
"What? You're saying that thing was taken by someone else first?" Xu Wanshan's heart sank, realizing that things were in trouble. If that strange man found out about this, it would definitely cause a huge mess.
Just as they feared, a strange laugh came from outside the door. Upon hearing this laughter, everyone, including Xu Wanshan and the guard, paled.
The two men walked out trembling, only to be horrified to see the strange man standing in the courtyard, his hands still stained with fresh blood. On the ground, the burly man who had brought the man in black was already dead. Five bloody holes on his forehead were gushing blood and brain matter, and his entire body looked as if he had been doused with a bucket of blood, making him unrecognizable.
Upon seeing this, Xu Wanshan nearly wet his pants. He forced a smile, his voice trembling, "Hero, what... what are you doing?"
The strange man opposite him snorted coldly, pointed to the corpse lying on the ground, and said, "I came to find you, and this man tried to stop me, so I killed him!"
For just this one reason, a life was lost.
"He's just a servant, yet he dared to obstruct a hero. He deserves to die!" Although he felt sorry for him, Xu Wanshan still spoke up.
The strange man, however, seemed unimpressed and instead asked, "How's the matter I asked you to handle going?"
Xu Wanshan's heart skipped a beat. He dared not tell the truth, otherwise, what if this strange man got angry and killed him?
So Xu Wanshan made up an excuse, saying that the men he sent out had not yet returned. Fortunately, the guards who had just returned had changed out of their night clothes, otherwise they would not have been able to fool them.
The strange man gave a low snort, said "be quick," and turned to leave.
Just then, a gust of cold wind blew by, and Xu Wanshan realized that he was completely soaked. But no matter what, his life was temporarily spared.
"This won't do, I have to run, or I'll surely die!" Xu Wanshan knew that he could lose his life at any moment in front of that strange man. He glanced at the guard behind him, who was also pale-faced, made up his mind, and then the two of them returned to their room together.
However, soon after, there was another knock on the door.
Xu Wanshan was packing up his valuables when he heard the voice. He was startled at first, then his face darkened with annoyance. He knew it couldn't be that strange person; after all, the other person didn't know what knocking meant. If it wasn't a strange person, then who could it be?
He slowly walked over, opened the door, and saw a young man he had never seen before standing there.