Chapter 597: Chapter 302: Direct Descendants
"Brother Li, what you gave me is indeed useful!"
Yi Wei was very pleased, carrying two bottles of fine wine, and brought today’s spiritual meal: braised goose, roasted chicken, and roasted spiritual sheep — quite a feast.
In fact, for cultivators at or above the Nascent Soul stage, ordinary food is meaningless. Moreover, Li An was a Mahayana in essence, but appeared to be at the Harmonization Dao stage.
Eating and drinking were just habitual enjoyments of gourmet food, while the food and wine itself passed right through his system.
These spiritual meal ingredients were top-notch, but the main purpose of bringing them daily was to convey an attitude.
Li An was still a guest here!
"My brother said that the life essence contained within those corpses seems even purer than that of an Immortal... Thank you, thank you, let me toast to you!"
The two drank and chatted, and amidst the exchange of glasses, Li An learned more about the outside world.
After the Dao Sect’s defense line was broken, cultivators from various major forces in the Spirit Realm swarmed into the Mist Sea. The abundance of immortal materials indeed allowed many human cultivators to become Immortals; reportedly, there were nearly a hundred of them, more splendid and astonishing than the "Immortal Grand Ceremony" held by the Dao Sect back in the day.
"Hehe, they were fed with such fine fodder, how could they not grow fat?"
Yi Wei mocked and said, "Ever since the original Immortal Realm was destroyed, the vast amount of Immortal Dao Material left behind was collected by various major forces. But those things were practically useless, akin to waste material, now being used to fatten pigs!"
And the cultivators who achieved immortality were all led to the Exotic Realm.
These past few days, Yi Changfeng had been busy with this matter.
"The pigs that have become Immortal need to be categorized; some particularly fat ones can be slaughtered for making Life Blood Pills and spirit medicine, but I hear some others will be released back... I don’t know what’s going on."
Li An silently contemplated, uncertain of the Exotic Realm’s intentions for now.
"Will the Yi Clan’s upper echelons come over during the slaughter?"
Li An was quite concerned about this issue.
"Yes, they will conduct experiments here first, and once there are results, the upper echelons will come to inspect personally... The Spirit Realm is indeed a new pig-rearing site, and the clan leaders pay considerable attention to it."
"By the way, Brother Li, do you have more corpses like those? My brother said they’re really useful..."
Yi Wei asked with a hint of flattery.
Li An smiled and said, "Not at the moment, but my master should find more similar corpses later."
Of course, he wouldn’t give them more corpses, but he needed to keep them hopeful, so they wouldn’t become indifferent, thinking Li An was no longer of use.
...
Li An then fell into a long period of waiting.
Of course, he wasn’t doing nothing.
Firstly, he deduced the possible reactions his plan might incite. If those three corpses indeed attracted the attention of the Yi Clan’s upper echelons, someone might come to see him.
The people who came would most likely investigate the origins of the corpses.
Besides, the people coming would be diverse, so he was prepared to secretly communicate with Lady Yi’s direct descendants.
He considered the countermeasures one by one and prepared thoroughly.
Secondly, he constantly observed the environment around the courtyard, contemplating how to break through.
After all, if his plan failed and didn’t attract the attention of Yi Lingwei or the Yi Clan’s upper echelons, what could he do?
He would need to find a way to escape.
Based on his observations, there was an array set up in the courtyard, but it didn’t seem particularly strong. Any battle would cause significant fluctuations, drawing others’ attention.
This place was within the control of the Yi Clan!
"Kill Yi Wei and impersonate him—"
This was a rather reliable method Li An thought of for escape.
But unless absolutely necessary, he couldn’t easily resort to this method; otherwise, he’d make enemies with the Yi Clan, and if Shangguan Xiaoxiao hadn’t left the Yi Clan yet, she’d be in great trouble too.
During the long wait, Li An began to calm down and inspect his Life Nourishing Immortal Skill’s cultivation progress.
Although he broke through to the Mahayana Realm several years ago, his Life Seed continued absorbing Dao Power of years, but his cultivation speed was inevitably affected by the passage of time, allowing only a fixed amount of Dao Power to be absorbed daily, so progress wasn’t fast.
Currently, his Mahayana Carefree Travel distance remained about a hundred thousand miles.
But in reality, ordinary Mahayana cultivators at the initial Primordial Spirit-out-of-body stage could only travel two or three ten thousand miles, reaching such a level only at the later stages.
"To reach mid-stage Mahayana, it’ll likely take at least a thousand years..."
This is even with the faster absorption speed of the Life Seed post-Mahayana breakthrough.
However, Li An wasn’t worried; a thousand years was insignificant compared to his current lifespan that stretched over ten millennia...
"Too few protective measures!"
He was particularly concerned about this.
Beyond the Harmonization Dao level, ordinary talismans, arrays, and magical treasures became ineffective unless nurtured with the power of the Heaven and Earth Dao as ’Dao Treasures’ or ’Dao Talismans’, capable of causing harm.
Yet, over these years, Li An was too busy running around to invest enough effort in this area.
His Immortal Coffin rank was high, surpassing Dao Treasures, but it mainly served to store rather than attack.
At this stage, both arrays and talismans required constant comprehension of the Heaven and Earth Dao, each talisman and array often bearing the power of creation, so their construction was extremely challenging.
Creating a Dao Talisman or Dao Array capable of threatening Mahayana and Crossing the Tribulation practitioners could take at least a hundred years to nurture before possessing sufficient Dao Power, and the materials were even more luxurious, needing to be sourced from grotto heavens, paradises, or places of creation, naturally inclined to the Dao, to be made.
