Chapter 56 (2/2)
Li Changshou continued to observe in secret.
This village was somewhat strange, which was also the only reason why Li Changshou would stay 50 kilometers away and didn’t leave.
There were always demons when things were abnormal, and it was also possible that there was a hidden treasure.
Thousands of people in the village relied on fis.h.i.+ng and hunting to make a living and lived a full life. The place was in good weather with no natural disasters.
As for man-made disasters, a few thousand regular troops from the mortal kingdom tribe would not be able to take down this village, let alone those small gangs of bandits and sea pirates.
However, the vast majority of the people in this village did not cultivate and were all mortals, yet they were all as st.u.r.dy as young girls, which was somewhat unjustifiable.
First of all, their nutrition was definitely not up to par.
The people didn’t train their muscles deliberately either.
Of the several possibilities Li Changshou could think of, the most probable one was that there were special water veins or ingredients, and they were large in quant.i.ty.
Often, the kind of magical objects that mortals didn’t care about would be a treasure for alchemy, blacksmithing, array formation set-up, and cultivation.
Together with the fact that there were no traces of any foreign cultivators in this place, the few cultivators, who were at the Soul Formation Stage, in the village should be cultivating some sort of defective techniques, which were not uncommon within the human race in the mortal world.
Only then did Li Changshou become slightly more interested and decided to stay 50 kilometers away to do some observation.
The group of strong people searched the village to no avail.
After searching with their utmost best for half a day, an old man cried out in desperation, “The Sea G.o.d has returned to the big sea!”
Therefore, this group of villagers, most of whom had the surname Xiong, returned to the village and began a lively bonfire a.s.sembly to celebrate the Sea G.o.d’s return to the sea.
After Li Changshou observed for three days, he went to secretly check the water source of the place, investigated the food commonly eaten in this village, and searched the nearby 50 kilometers, but did not find any abnormalities.
Could it be that they really had an inherited body type?
Li Changshou didn’t want to spend too much time here and decided to leave since he couldn’t find the reason for the abnormality of this place.
In the middle of the night, Li Changshou squeezed out from the trunk of the large tree, transformed into a medium-sized fish, and plunged into the warm seawater to find the next place for seclusion.
This place was in the southwestern part of the South Continent and the scope under the influence of the Southern Ocean Dragon Palace.
Because the Southern Ocean Dragon Palace was too far from land and not as active as the Eastern Ocean Dragon Palace, this sea was unusually quiet and peaceful. Li Changshou soon found a small deserted island where he entered seclusion.
Three months later, Li Changshou’s Dao injuries had completely healed, and his Water Escape and Earth Escape had also greatly improved. He had cultivated the True Samadhi Flames once again and condensed the immortal fire.
Five months later, the immortal light around Li Changshou, who was sitting in a lotus position in the reef cave, had completely dwindled. His breathing was no longer clear, he had no threatening gaze, and his body’s faint fragrance had disappeared.
Standing up, he lowered his head and sized up for a while, and his own aura no longer fluctuated in the slightest bit.
Walking to the reef’s side, Li Changshou stood quietly and observed the creatures’ reactions in the seawater.
Previously, because of the immortals’ existence, the fish and shrimps in the sea would dodge.
Now that he was standing here, the fish and shrimps in the sea were only alarmed for a little while before they played as usual.
After thinking about it, Li Changshou first simulated the aura of the Seventh Stage of the Void Return Realm. He hid part of it before revealing the aura of the Third Stage of the Void Return Realm.
The Third Version of the Qi-Calming Turtle Breathing Mantra was a phenomenal success.
‘I’ll pa.s.s the second version to Ling’e when I go back.’
Exhaling lightly, Li Changshou was in quite a good mood and did not want to waste any more time. He was about to return to the rock cave where he was hiding before to continue his cultivation.
He was just about to turn around when a ray of seven-colored precious light suddenly appeared in the northern sky.
Li Changshou’s immortal sense immediately scanned and discovered that the source of that precious light was the village that the young lady, Xiong Lingli, was from.
There was indeed good stuff in that village!
However, making such a big commotion would most likely attract the attention of other cultivators, and he might easily fall into danger if he rashly went over there.
After some deliberation, Li Changshou took out a paper doll from his sleeve and blew at it.
The paper doll shook a few times and slowly came to life. It stretched its small arms and legs and jumped up in Li Changshou’s hands before landing on the sea surface.
The little paper doll took two steps on the seawater and transformed into the figure of a middle-aged Daoist. It caught the three storage sacks thrown by Li Changshou, turned around, and disappeared into the seawater.
Li Changshou returned to the rock cave and closed his eyes while he put his mind on the paper doll.
He put his mind in a very relaxed state.
He would pick up treasures if he could. If he had to do more than a ‘pick up’, then he would let the paper doll do it.
After all, as his cultivation realm rose, the more advanced the paper doll was, the more laborious it would be to produce it.
Since this was the mortal world, it was unlikely that there would be any powerful Dharma treasures.
…
At the border of the South Ocean and the East Ocean, the corner of the island that resembled a large turtle.
“Fellow Daoists, I’m speaking the truth.
“On the way back last time, I came across a man who had survived the Nine Heavens G.o.dfiend Tribulation. I said that he couldn’t go through it, but he did!
“The Heavenly Punishment even struck this man after his Tribulation Transcendence, and I felt again that he definitely would not make it, but…
“Fellow Daoists, guess what happened next.”
Next to the precious pond, an old Daoist priest was chatting with more than a dozen cultivators of similar Dao cultivations in a lively manner.
In the corner under the pond, Ao Yi regained his original azure dragon form and entrenched at the bottom of the pond without moving.
The Primordial World was truly terrifying.
The nightmare still hadn’t subsided, but Ao Yi took the initiative to request his mother this time to send himself back to the territory of the immortals from the Jie School.
That was because Ao Yi knew that there were some human tribes among the Jie School, so he could observe them and learn from them what the dragon race lacked, especially their craftiness and schemes.
The topic of the cultivators at the side of the pond was unwittingly changed to the little dragon at the bottom of the pond.
One of them said with a sigh, “The gap at the bottom of the pond has been set up with a restriction. I don’t know what exactly this Dragon Prince finds so bad about our Golden Turtle Island that he actually escaped.”
“It’s not unusual for a child not to want to listen to an old man.”
The old Daoist priest, who was telling the story of encountering the Tribulation Transcendence just now, laughed and stroked his beard as he said, “Don’t worry. As long as we treat this Dragon Palace’s prince well, he will appreciate our kindness and cultivate at ease here.”
The cultivators nodded their heads in unison.
Ao Yi, who was in the pond, moved his dragon head but ignored them.
[1] Xiong can also mean bear.
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