Ancient Law Techniques

Qi Yun swiftly, quickly throwing all three hundred Blood Fuluo into the altar for tempering.

After consuming a massive amount of precious medicinal essence, his cultivation level soared like a rocket.

Within the Dantian and Purple Mansion, the strands of pure True Essence had already permeated and altered nearly one-fifth of the area.

The light shone with nitrogen and argon, and its aura was several times more powerful than before.

Seeing that the Xue Fu Luo he had worked so hard to collect was quickly depleted, with only about a hundred left, Qi Yun stopped continuing to temper, and couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion in his heart.

"No wonder the sect set the basic threshold for entering the Inner Mansion at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, rather than the later seventh level."

The meticulous process of "Condensing Qi into Essence" requires an immense amount of accumulation.

If not for this extraordinary encounter, and if cultivation had been carried out step by step, only those direct descendants of True Person, with their massive resources, would have been able to achieve the ten-year deadline.

Ordinary disciples probably wouldn't even be able to pass.

Resources are always the biggest barrier on the path of spiritual practice.

Calming his mind, Qi Yun was no longer satisfied with collecting things piecemeal.

With a flick of his sleeve, he activated hundreds of drawn [Thousand Cranes Talisman] simultaneously, transforming them into countless nimble and silent paper cranes that quietly scattered in all directions.

Fuluo Prefecture, it's impossible that the serpent had only one lair.

Searching for Blood Fuluo one by one is too inefficient.

Having tasted the benefits of wiping out the entire operation, Qi Yun immediately thought of this method again.

As hundreds of Thousand Cranes radiated outwards from Qi Yun, everything within a radius of a hundred miles—mountains and rivers, tracks of Demon Beast —was fed back to Qi Yun's Sea of Consciousness in real time through mental connection.

This forms an extremely detailed dynamic map.

However, the area within a hundred li was still not large, and no signs of a large-scale gathering of demonic snakes were found.

Qi Yun didn't seem to care too much; the serpent's lair couldn't possibly be appearing so frequently anyway.

He rose, mounted the white bone and skull cushion, and began to move deeper into Fuluo Prefecture.

At the same time, the hundreds of Thousand Cranes maintained their reconnaissance formation and moved with him.

Like a gigantic scanning circle, with Qi Yun at its center, it continuously explores the unknown areas ahead.

As we ventured deeper into the heart of Fuluo Prefecture, the surrounding environment began to change.

The air, which had been damp and stuffy, turned chilly.

The rain falling from the sky was no longer clear, but carried an eerie turbidity.

Viscous and cold.

"Hmm?" Qi Yun keenly sensed something was wrong. He reached out and caught a few drops of rain.

The moment my palm touched the rain, I felt a slight but distinct stinging and numbing sensation.

Faint red marks also appeared on the surface of the skin.

"Is this rain poisonous?"

With a thought, the Sunken Abyss Iron Sand rapidly gathered above his head, transforming into an impenetrable black dome that completely blocked the pouring poisonous rain.

Continuing onward, the ground below had long been completely submerged by muddy rainwater, forming a vast shallow beach.

The tree was half-submerged in water, its branches and leaves displaying an eerie purplish-black hue.

Not long after, surrounded by marshes and broken trees, a vast, collapsed ruin appeared at the edge of Qi Yun's field of vision.

They rode the prayer mat to its approach.

All that could be seen were ruins and broken walls, from which one could still vaguely discern the outlines of what once was.

On the only remaining broken mountain gate, covered with thick moss and vines, two faint but ancient seal characters can be discerned:

[Medicinal Herb Garden]

There seemed to be some writing at the beginning, but it had been completely weathered away and was no longer legible.

"It seems this was once the exclusive medicinal garden of some ancient sect," Qi Yun sighed softly as his gaze swept over the desolate ruins.

"It can serve as a secluded garden for cultivating herbs."

Although the size and strength of this sect back then could not compare to the current Wuji Sacred Sect.

It's probably not far off.

Silently raising his guard, the skull-shaped prayer mat slowly descended, entering the ruins of this medicinal garden abandoned over the long years.

What came into view was an extremely dilapidated scene.

The once neat and orderly medicinal fields have long been covered by weeds and silt, and can only be glimpsed from the occasional broken stone slabs with array patterns carved on them.

Many of the jade seedbeds were crooked and broken.

Some remaining shelves lay overturned on the ground, on which one could vaguely see the dried, rotten remains of plants that had long since lost their vitality.

Further away, several side halls, clearly used for processing medicinal herbs, have completely collapsed, leaving only the foundations and some huge stone pillars standing stubbornly.

The air was filled with the smell of decaying earth and a faint, lingering odor of spoiled medicine; a desolate stillness permeated the air.

Following the stone path overgrown with weeds, Qi Yun arrived at the core area of the medicinal herb garden.

Several giant medicine furnaces, each over ten meters tall and covered with thick moss and weeds, stood silently there.

These medicine censers have an ancient and simple design. Even after years of weathering, you can still feel the extraordinary quality of their materials. Some faint flame and herbal patterns can be seen on them.

"What kind of pills are made in such a huge furnace?" Qi Yun's eyes flickered with curiosity.

They did not approach these ancient artifacts rashly, as they might harbor unknown risks.

Instead, he took out a dozen more Thousand Cranes Talisman, transformed them into new reconnaissance Thousand Cranes with a wave of his hand, and ordered them to delve into every corner of the ruins for a more detailed search.

Not long after, one of the Thousand Cranes showed unusual mental fluctuations.

Qi Yun immediately focused his consciousness in that direction.

It was a small, relatively well-preserved temple located deep within the medicinal garden.

Its entrance was blocked by collapsed boulders, but there was a broken window gap in one of the walls.

Through the gap, Thousand Cranes vaguely caught a glimpse of a faint, unusual, shimmering light flashing through the darkness of the hall.

There's something there!

Sensing that there might be something valuable inside the buried shrine, Qi Yun immediately flew over on his skull-shaped prayer mat.

A moment later.

Looking at the palace gate, which was firmly blocked by a large number of collapsed boulders and broken bricks, Qi Yun scanned the area and made a Method Formula seal.

The Sunken Abyss Iron Sand quickly coalesced into two enormous and agile black hands.

They began carefully and forcefully clearing and removing the obstacles blocking the door one by one.

Gravel tumbled down, dust flew everywhere.

Before long, a door, though covered in dust and scratches, was restored.

However, the ancient and simple palace gate, whose overall structure is still intact, is revealed.

Qi Yun silently stepped back a short distance.

Immediately, with a thought, the giant hand formed from the Sunken Abyss Iron Sand grasped the door knocker, slowly exerted force, and pushed open the palace door that had been closed for countless years.

The door hinges emitted an ear-piercing creaking sound.

A wisp of air, mixed with stale dust and a faint medicinal smell, wafted out.

Instead of entering personally, a paper crane was allowed to gracefully fly in.

Through Thousand Cranes's perspective, Qi Yun saw that the interior of the palace was extremely dimly lit, covered in dust, and littered with various debris and collapsed shelves.

Following instructions, Thousand Cranes flapped her wings and flew towards the approximate location where the strange light had been glimpsed earlier.

"This is--"

When Thousand Cranes's gaze focused on that area, Qi Yun's eyebrows twitched slightly.

Beneath a pile of overturned objects, clearly small Pill Furnace or medicine furnaces, a scroll was faintly visible.

Thousand Cranes moved closer and saw that it was a Jade Slip throughout.

The surface of the Jade Slip was covered with fine cracks, like cracked porcelain, but the overall shape was still relatively intact and had not completely shattered.

It was half-hidden in thick dust, with only one corner, not completely covered, faintly reflecting a dim luster.

That situation suggests that the cultivators in this herb garden inadvertently left it behind when they hastily fled.

The giant hand formed from the Sunken Abyss Iron Sand moved again, forcefully moving aside the empty, abandoned Pill Furnace.

Then he carefully picked up the Jade Slip slip, which was almost covered in dust.

"Jade Slip?" Qi Yun took the Jade Slip in his hand, brushed away the dust on its surface, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"So, this medicinal garden ruin dates back at least three thousand years?"

This judgment is based on the fact that the current cultivation world generally uses "transmission jade talismans," which are more convenient and have a larger information storage capacity.

The standardized product, the "Transmission Jade Talisman," was first proposed and popularized by the "Heavenly Dream Three Thousand Sect" three thousand years ago.

Since even older Jade Slip have been found here, one can imagine how ancient they are.

Trying to unfold the Jade Slip, one sees several lines of small characters engraved on it in an ancient and complex script.

The first few large characters have a unique structure, quite different from the characters he is familiar with.

"Is this the ' Wood Phase Command Method '?" Qi Yun barely recognized the name at the beginning of the Jade Slip, relying on a few scattered records he had accidentally seen in a corner of an ancient book.

"Siming Seal Script - an ancient script commonly used by practitioners of cultivation three thousand years ago."

He had only a very superficial understanding of it; being able to recognize the names was the limit.

To fully read and understand the Law Technique contents recorded within, another method will be needed.

"Judging from the name, it should be a Law Technique with a wood element attribute."

Qi Yun stroked the cool Jade Slip, his mind starting to work.

"Three thousand years ago belonged to the 'Ancient Magic Era,' during which Law Technique was said to be generally incredibly powerful, far surpassing modern magic."

However, almost all of them are accompanied by various bizarre, troublesome, and even life-threatening side effects.

It is precisely for this reason that it was gradually improved upon and even eliminated by later generations.

However, this characteristic, which is a fatal flaw to others, may be a huge opportunity for Qi Yun!

He has Law Technique Panel at his disposal.

The problem of the powerful effects but significant side effects of traditional methods might be solved through "version updates".

If successful, he will gain a powerful Law Technique that has had its side effects removed, retaining only its ancient and ferocious power.

"However, translating this Siming Seal Script is a major problem—"

Qi Yun carefully put the Jade Slip slip away, already having made up his mind.

"I'm afraid we'll have to trouble the old True Person with this matter."

The ancient script of Siming Seal Script is probably only something that a seasoned Foundation Establishment expert with profound knowledge and experience, like Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin, could possibly learn.

It seems that after leaving Fuluo Prefecture, there's another important matter to attend to when visiting the old True Person. Qi Yun thought to himself.