Chapter 325: Silver Tadpole Script, King Xuan Ye of the Great Jin Dynasty
After feeling the aura of this blue peacock, Ye Changsheng was certain in his heart that this was indeed the Mulan sacred bird with whom he had an agreement that day.
"I finally succeeded in meeting Fellow Daoist Ye. Thank you for your help to the Mulan tribe!" Shengqin's eyes turned slightly, and after looking at Ye Changsheng, he said.
"Congratulations, fellow Taoist, on your successful arrival!" Ye Changsheng said with a smile on his face and bowed.
"I have been planning for this day for thousands of years, and finally succeeded. It was really not easy!" Mulan Shengqin seemed to say with some emotion.
Rays of light flashed across its eyes, and it seemed to remember something, and was silent for a moment.
After a while, he said, "This incarnation is very important to me. Fellow Daoist Ye has helped me so much. If you want to know anything from me next, please feel free to ask!"
Ye Changsheng pondered for a moment and said, "What I want to know from you is nothing more than those few things, space nodes, the method of refining Danling roots, and some common sense of the upper realm!"
Hearing his words, Mulan Shengqin immediately said, "That's no problem. As for the common sense of the upper realm, as long as you want to know, I will tell you everything I know."
"As for the method of refining Danlinggen, it is also something that is easy to obtain in the upper realm. I will record a copy in the jade slip later!"
"But to be honest, regarding the space nodes, my understanding of this world is still stuck in the ancient times, so the number of space nodes I can give you is limited!"
"And I don't know how many of these nodes can survive to the present day. It's better not to have too high hope, fellow Daoist!" Mulan Shengqin said slowly.
Hearing this, Ye Changsheng felt a little disappointed. He sighed and said, "Forget it. Just give me as much as you know. I will try to explore each of these nodes to see if they are useful!"
Mulan Shengqin said apologetically after hearing this: "Thank you very much for your understanding, Brother Ye!"
"By the way, there is one more thing. Have you mastered the silver tadpole script?" Ye Changsheng asked.
Hearing his words, Mulan Shengqin's eyes immediately showed a look of surprise, and asked: "Daoyou, a cultivator in the human world, actually knows about silver tadpole characters?"
"I've heard of it occasionally, and I'm very interested in this kind of writing!" Ye Changsheng said.
"I didn't expect that there is a legend about silver tadpole script in the human world. It really opens my eyes!" Mulan Shengqin said with some emotion.
After a moment, it slowly said: "Silver Tadpole Script is a common writing system for all races in the Spirit World. All races in the Spirit World, no matter what language or writing they use, can certainly communicate in Silver Tadpole Script!"
"In fact, silver tadpole script is not only widely circulated in the spiritual world, but also in other realms at the same level as the spiritual world!" Mulan Shengqin said with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"In addition to the silver tadpole script, there is also a higher-level script called the gold seal script. Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Ye wants to learn the silver tadpole script instead of the gold seal script. If it was the gold seal script, even I wouldn't be able to learn it!"
"In the entire spiritual world, there may not be many people who can write golden seal characters!"
Ye Changsheng heaved a sigh of relief when he heard what it said, and said, "Since fellow Daoist knows silver tadpole script, it seems that I can avoid a lot of trouble!"
"Oh, if I don't know Yintadpole script, what is Brother Ye's plan?" Mulan Shengqin asked curiously.
"Haha, then of course we have to cooperate with the Tuwu tribe, the enemy of the Mulan tribe. I heard that they also worship a sacred beast. Perhaps this sacred beast masters the silver tadpole script!" Ye Changsheng said without any hesitation.
Hearing his words, Mulan Shengqin was stunned at first, then laughed out loud, and said: "Daoyou Ye is really outspoken. Yes, if I were Daoyou, I would do the same!"
"It seems that I am really grateful that I can write silver tadpole characters, otherwise Fellow Daoist Ye would probably think that I am not of much value!" Mulan Shengqin said lightly.
"My cooperation with fellow Daoist is based on helping each other. If fellow Daoist cannot help me, then this cooperation will naturally not be able to continue!" Ye Changsheng said lightly, making the cooperative relationship between the two clear.
Upon hearing this, Mulan Shengqin smiled faintly and didn't say much.
Its eyes turned, and it slowly said: "This silver tadpole script and gold seal script are also called true spirit script. It is said that they are immortal runes passed down from the true immortal world. Each word has incredible effects. If you carve them on an ordinary jade slip, it will definitely explode and be destroyed."
"And the method of communicating with the mind cannot be taught. I can only use the most stupid method, teaching you word by word. This will take a lot of time, at least several months!"
"After all, given the complexity of Silver Tadpole Script, it is not easy to understand every word!" Mulan Shengqin said softly.
"I don't care about this. I can still afford to spend a few months!" Ye Changsheng said indifferently.
"My fellow Daoist can wait, but I can't!" Mulan Shengqin said with a wry smile.
"Well, what do you mean, fellow Daoist?" Ye Changsheng's eyes narrowed when he heard the words, and he looked at him carefully.
"I believe that Fellow Daoist Ye has also noticed that although my consciousness has descended, it is not yet very compatible with this world. I have to sleep for at least ten years to adapt to the rules of this world. Before that, I can only communicate with Fellow Daoist Ye during the two or three days of wakefulness!" Mulan Shengqin said with a trace of helplessness in his eyes.
"Is that so? That's fine. I'll come back to see you in ten years!" Ye Changsheng said immediately after a little thought.
"I hope that Fellow Daoist Ye can understand. Next, I will record the method of refining Dan Linggen and the location of the space node on a jade slip and give it to you!"
As the Mulan Holy Bird spoke, it flapped its wings and two jade slips appeared in front of it. A green light emerged from its body and enveloped the jade slips, and it began to record information into them.
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A few days later, Ye Changsheng left the Mulan tribe with two jade slips and headed south towards Dajin.
"This Mulan Holy Bird actually controls dozens of spatial nodes. This is really beyond my expectations!"
"However, how many of these space nodes are still usable is a problem. They are scattered all over the human world, and I don't have time to search for them slowly!"
"We can only go to Dajin and leave it to Xiang Zhili and the others, and let them explore these nodes one by one!" Ye Changsheng's eyes looked into the distance, as if he saw the vast territory of Dajin.
"I have also obtained the method of refining the elixir spirit root. Now I have a water-attributed level 10 demon elixir. I will go to Kunwu Mountain to get the earth-attributed one. As for the fire-attributed one, if I cannot find a level 10 demon elixir, I will use the one from the fire toad in the Fallen Demon Valley instead!"
“After I have cultivated my magic power to the peak, I will start to complete my spiritual roots and begin to practice the Yuanci magic to break through to the God Transformation Stage!” Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
This time, we have to go to Dajin, and Kunwu Mountain will probably be opened soon.
The last time, he reached Dajin effortlessly through the Star Palace’s teleportation array, but this time, Ye Changsheng had to cross the Mulan grassland.
Half of the journey was through the territory of the Tuwu people. Ye Changsheng did not hide it at all and just flew over in a swagger.
After seeing him, those strangers seemed to recognize his identity. They all had fear on their faces and did not dare to contact him at all.
The Tianlan Temple also received a report quickly and learned that Ye Changsheng appeared in their Tuwu people's territory.
They immediately became worried, but when they heard that Ye Changsheng did not stay with them but went all the way to Dajin, they finally felt relieved.
I felt relieved.
"We must let the holy beast come as soon as possible!" said the great elder Tuwu to Saint Tianlan.
"All preparations have been almost completed, and we will be able to carry out the summoning ceremony soon!" Saint Tianlan said confidently.
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While Ye Changsheng was crossing the grassland and entering the territory of Dajin, in Guanning Prefecture of Dajin, Han Li, who had to seal his cultivation due to the backlash of evil spirits and turned into a Qi Refining cultivator, was also trying to find Buddhist techniques.
Looking at the weak magic power in his body, Han Li smiled bitterly.
Not long ago, he was a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, but now he has become a Qi Refining disciple. This gap really makes people feel uncomfortable.
It’s a long story how he became what he is now.
In his previous practice, Han Li had never thought that the evil spirit could bring him any trouble.
It was not until he met Lord Dayan that Han Li realized that evil spirit could be so harmful to someone like him who had not practiced any special skills to control it!
Ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators would never encounter the problem of evil spirits, but he was different. He had killed too many cultivators of the same level.
Back in the Chaos Star Sea, in order to kill monsters and obtain elixirs, he killed countless elixir-forming monsters.
This made the evil spirit in his body reach an extremely alarming level. If it weren't for the Great Lord Yan pointing it out, he might not have noticed it at all.
Recalling these things, Han Li felt a little scared. If he had not listened to Lord Dayan's words in time and taken some measures to curb the evil spirit, he might have fallen into madness due to the outbreak of evil spirit and his path to the Tao would have been completely ruined.
The good mood that Han Li had originally had due to entering the middle stage of the Nascent Soul was completely lost in the face of the evil spirit. Now he was somewhat speechless.
The path to becoming an immortal is truly filled with many difficulties!
According to Lord Dayan, if one wants to completely eradicate this evil spirit, one must seek out advanced Confucian or Buddhist techniques.
Han Li gave up immediately upon hearing about Confucianism. He did not have such thing as righteousness, so practicing Confucianism would be a waste of time and effort.
It seems that the only option left is to seek advanced Buddhist techniques.
However, Tiannan and Luanxinghai do not have any Buddhist heritage, so if one wants to find this kind of skills, one can only go to Dajin.
Among the ten major orthodox sects of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are four Buddhist sects. It is certain that we can find suitable techniques to eliminate evil spirits from these sects.
Han Li originally thought that with his cultivation level of the middle Nascent Soul stage, it should be easy for him to find a technique from these sects that could eliminate evil spirits.
However, when he came to Dajin with this thought in mind, his evil spirit broke out halfway.
This caught Han Li off guard, and he had to quickly use the Five Ghosts Soul-Devouring Technique taught by Lord Dayan to seal up the evil spirit.
But doing so also caused his cultivation level to drop directly to the Qi Refining Stage. With this level of cultivation level, it was really wishful thinking for him to obtain top-notch skills from Buddhism.
Therefore, Han Li was extremely distressed during the second half of the journey to Dajin.
Fortunately, there is always a way out. On the border between Dajin and the grassland, he rescued a direct descendant of the Feng family of Guanning Prefecture in Dajin.
This was a dying man, but Han Li exchanged some elixirs from him and obtained the key to a secret cave in the Feng family of Guanning.
The ancestors of the Guanning Feng family used to be disciples of Buddhism. Han Li could only hope that he could find what he wanted in this family’s secret cave.
"If the things left behind by the heir of the Feng family are real, then I have to go to the Snow Ridge Mountains. I heard that there are many old demons with profound cultivation here. I hope nothing goes wrong!" Han Li thought secretly in his heart.
A few days later, with a hint of caution, he set out towards the Snow Ridge Mountains.
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Ye Changsheng left the grassland and stepped into the Guanning Mansion of Dajin.
Guanning Prefecture is a less prosperous prefecture located on the border of Dajin close to the grassland.
The territory of the Great Jin Empire was divided into provinces and prefectures, and its area was so large that it was hard for ordinary people to imagine.
In front of such an empire, Tiannan is indeed like a remote corner.
For cultivators in the human world, Dajin is a holy place for cultivating immortals. Although this is not the first time Ye Changsheng has come to Dajin, he is still very unfamiliar with it.
As soon as he stepped into Guanning Prefecture, he immediately saw the vast Snow Ridge Mountain Range outside Guanning Prefecture.
"If I remember correctly, there is an ancient corpse king lurking in this mountain range. The heavenly corpse beads on the body of this thousand-year-old corpse king have miraculous effects on body refining!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
He looked at the tall mountain in front of him, touched his chin, and couldn't help but think of the ten-thousand-year-old corpse king in the mountain.
Flying forward, Ye Changsheng had just reached the edge of the Snow Ridge Mountains when he immediately felt a violent fluctuation of spiritual energy coming from the front.
Then a deafening roar sounded in the mountains, and the entire mountain range was buzzing with vibrations, as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was splitting apart.
"Is anyone fighting? And judging from the noise, they are almost great monks in the late Nascent Soul stage!" Ye Changsheng narrowed his eyes and looked forward.
“It should be the ancient corpse king. Although he is only in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, he is equivalent to a great monk in his own tomb!”
“Go and take a look!”
Ye Changsheng released his spiritual sense and moved quickly forward.
The range that his spiritual sense could detect now was as wide as eight hundred miles. After releasing his spiritual sense, he quickly detected the situation over there.
"Haha! Brother Xuanye, it's too late to leave now!"
A wild laugh was heard, and a big man in a yellow robe with a thick beard on his chin, holding a gourd that spewed out yellow sand, was chasing a monk who was wearing an emperor's tall crown, had a pale face and was hidden in the gray corpse aura.
"Such a strong corpse aura, it should be the ancient corpse king known as King Xuan Ye, right?" Ye Changsheng thought to himself after seeing this scene with his spiritual sense.
King Xuanye was an ancient emperor who ruled the entire Dajin tens of thousands of years ago.
His cultivation level was not very high during his lifetime, but he made many arrangements before his death. He used the resources under his control to allow his consciousness to be reborn in his corpse, and became a ten-thousand-year-old corpse king.
This person practiced the Styx Corpse Art, was good at earth escape techniques, and was extremely powerful.
This entire Snow Ridge Mountain Range is his territory. Because he needs the souls of cultivators to break through the bottleneck, he adopted the suggestion of an old Nascent Soul monster named Tianfeng Zhenjun and planned to secretly control the Guanning Prefecture's families, using these families to help him collect souls.
There are four great immortal cultivation families in Guanning Prefecture, namely Feng, Kong, Dong, and Zhao. The Feng family was exterminated by King Xuanye decades ago.
The heir of the Feng family that Han Li met was the last member of this family. After his death, Han Li obtained the Feng family's treasured secret cave.
Speaking of which, Han Li has to thank King Xuan Ye. Without this person, he might not have been able to find the Buddhist skills in the Feng family cave so easily.
Among the other three major families in Guanning Prefecture, the ancestor of the Kong family was secretly killed by King Xuanye, and then he sent a Yuanying-level general under his command to impersonate the ancestor of the Kong family and secretly control the Kong family.
This time, King Xuanye originally wanted to go out and kill the remaining Dong and Zhao families together, and control the entire Guanning Mansion family.
But he didn't expect that the idea given to him by True Lord Tianfeng was actually not a good one. Everything he did was to plot against his Heavenly Corpse Pearl.
This person has the same idea as Ye Changsheng.
However, True Lord Tianfeng did not have the strength of Ye Changsheng, so he could only make plans in secret and spent several decades to trick King Xuanye into the trap.
When knowing that King Xuanye was going to take action against the Dong and Zhao families, True Lord Tianfeng secretly informed them and leaked the news.
This immediately shocked the Dong and Zhao families, and they immediately reported the matter to their backers.
So, Mr. Song, a great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage from the Taiyang Sect, the Confucian sect that supported the Dong and Zhao families, personally ambushed King Xuanye and injured him with the Zhiyang Ruler.
King Xuan Ye hurriedly wanted to escape back to his own tomb in the Snow Ridge Mountains, but True Lord Tianfeng had been prepared. He had set up an ambush formation in advance and joined forces with two Nascent Soul cultivators to try to kill King Xuan Ye there.
When Ye Changsheng just came over, he saw the ancient emperor trapped in a large formation.
However, in this large formation called the Yellow Sand Formation, not only King Xuan Ye was trapped, but also a young man with ordinary looks and an extremely ugly complexion.
This person is Han Li!
He had just come out of the Feng family's secret cave and obtained the Ming Wang Jue, and discovered that this was the demon clan's inherited martial arts, the beginning part of the Three Brahma Sacred Jue.
Now he has collected the complete set of the Three Brahma Sacred Secrets, including the Mingwang Secret at the beginning, the Tuotian Magic Art in the middle, and the demon clan's copper piece at the last part.
This Ming Wang Jue is not only the starting part of the Brahma True Demon Art, but also happens to be a method that can solve Han Li's evil spirit problem.
Han Li was overjoyed, but then he suffered this unexpected disaster.
Now he is just a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage. It can be said that he is extremely unlucky to have fallen into this trap set to murder a corpse king in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Stage.
Outside the yellow sand formation, three Nascent Soul cultivators appeared, one of whom was the big man in a yellow robe with a thick beard on his chin who was holding the gourd just now.
The other one is a demon monk hidden in the magic cloud, and the last one is Zhenren Tianfeng who deceived King Xuanye.
The three of them surrounded King Xuanye with excited smiles on their faces.
This corpse king is no simple person. In addition to the precious treasure such as the Heavenly Corpse Pearl on his body, there are also thousands of corpse soldiers in his tomb. Each of those corpse soldiers has the strength of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
If we could kill this man and refine those thousands of corpse soldiers, what a powerful force that would be!
It was precisely because of their covetousness for King Xuan Ye's treasure that the big man in yellow robe and the old monster in the magic cloud accepted the invitation of Master Tian Feng and joined forces to ambush King Xuan Ye.
The big man in the yellow robe looked at King Xuan Ye in the formation, chuckled, and made a hand gesture. Amid the loud noises from all directions, dark yellow sand fog rolled up at the same time, and then the sand fog covered the sky and the sun, with flags flashing from time to time.
King Xuan Ye, who was hiding in the corpse gas, was startled and looked down hurriedly. He saw the same yellow mist in the low sky. The sand fog actually covered an area of several miles.
"Brother Xuanye, you have already been hit by Mr. Song's Zhiyang Ruler. Your Heavenly Corpse Body, which has not yet reached its full potential, is probably seriously injured. Now you are surrounded by the three of us. Why do you have to resist so stubbornly?"
“As long as you spit out the Heavenly Corpse Pearl honestly and let us plant the restriction, it is not impossible to spare your life. After all, Brother Xuanye has been friends with me for some years. If he dies like this, I, Huang, will really not have the heart to do so.” The big man in the yellow robe said indifferently.
"Master Kuangsha, I knew it was you. From the moment I left the ancient tomb, I felt a little uneasy. It seems that you have been targeting me since then. You must have been planning this trap to lure me out for a long time."
"Hehe, Master Tianfeng, you hypocrite, I must have been blind to believe your words!"
"You are really patient. You have been monitoring me for decades. It is not unfair for me to fall into this trap."
"But do you really think that you can trap me with just a small yellow sand array?" King Xuan Ye was still unusually calm at this time, without any panic on his face, and said coldly.
"It seems that what Huang said before was in vain. Fellow Daoist Xuanye, please don't blame Huang's men for being ruthless. However, I really didn't expect that you would carry such an important Heavenly Corpse Pearl with you. Otherwise, I would never have let you run here."
"Also, I forgot to tell you, fellow Daoist, that in order to ensure the perfect success of this plan, I have specially borrowed a small half gourd of Grandma Tianshi's blue crystal magic sand, and have mixed it with the surrounding soul-falling sand. If you hope to escape by using the earth escape technique, it is simply wishful thinking." The big man in the yellow robe said with a chuckle.
"Blue crystal magic sand! Grandma Tianshi regards this magic sand as her life. Would she lend you half a gourd? You are bragging too much." King Xuanye's face changed at first, but then he remembered something and said sarcastically with a look of disbelief.
