strictlysupreme 161. Chapter 161 Everything Is Under Control! (Two In One For Subscription)
161. Chapter 161 Everything Is Under Control! (Two In One For Subscription)
Chapter 161: Everything is Under Control! (Two-in-One Subscription Request)
Su Ping understood the whole situation.
After giving Da Hei a reward, he put it back into the Grotto-Heaven's Spirit Light Fish Pond.
After supplementing it with new fake dragon blood, he gave it time to slowly digest the accumulation in the place with abundant Spiritual Qi.
Then, Su Ping arrived at the Granweave Sea.
Floating in the air above the sea, Su Ping looked at the boundless ocean.
He contacted the young Xuan Gui who had been lying in the volcano fishing all day.
The young Xuan Gui felt the call of its master and quickly became spirited. Its body instantly grew from the size of a palm to the size of a humpback whale and quickly floated up.
In the blink of an eye, the sea was forcibly separated, and a large turtle comparable to a whale emerged.
"This gluttonous creature has grown in size without increasing its Cultivation Base?"
Su Ping looked at the Xuan Gui, which had grown even larger, and didn't expect there to be such benefits from staying in the Water Blue Star.
With a thought, the young Xuan Gui spat out two ice crystal stones.
"This is... an ancient cold crystal!"
"This is a rare treasure in the Immortal World that has made it onto the list of rare treasures of heaven and earth!"
"I remember that many large formations can use this material!"
"I didn't expect there to be such a rare item in the Arctic Circle, and it's not even a unique one!"
Su Ping murmured softly, recalling relevant information in his mind and feeling relieved.
This ancient cold crystal was formed under the great power of nature, through a fortuitous combination of circumstances over a long period of time, and is unrelated to the Spiritual Qi environment.
It was unexpected but also reasonable for the Water Blue Star to have such a thing.
After all, the Water Blue Star does not have practitioners and does not collect these rare treasures of heaven and earth.
The reason why these things are extremely rare and precious in the Immortal World is mainly due to the long-term search and mining efforts of cultivators.
Since there was no Foundation Establishment Demonic Beasts meat, Su Ping simply let the Xuan Gui sink back into the sea to continue growing.
The Xuan Gui seemed lazy and only knew how to lie in the volcano and fish, so there shouldn't be any major problems.
But this ancient cold crystal... it's worth spending some time to trace its origins!
With this in mind, Su Ping's figure disappeared directly above the sea.
Granweave Sea.
On a small island named Hope.
The United States and Europe have a joint scientific research base here.
The Red Jacket expert and his miserable team members, after experiencing a plane crash, falling into the water, and praying for rescue, were finally rescued by rescue personnel and brought to this base.
Once they arrived at the base and had a simple hot meal, they were taken for a physical examination.
Then they were separated for questioning.
This questioning went on for more than two hours, leaving the Red Jacket expert exhausted.
In his heart, there was also a sense of resentment.
However, he soon learned about the news of the sinking of the American large cruiser by a sea monster.
For some reason, he thought that the high probability of him and others being saved was thanks to that sea monster.
The expert in the red jacket instinctively felt that there must have been something wrong on the American side, which angered the sea monster and led to its punishment.
And from the subsequent information he received,
only the large cruiser was attacked, while the smaller boats around it were unharmed.
The expert in the red jacket became even more convinced of this idea, feeling that the sea monster actually had no ill intentions towards humans, and might even like humans.
Otherwise, with the methods displayed by that sea monster, not to mention the large cruiser, the entire fleet would have sunk into the sea!
When he was finally able to move freely, it was already late at night in the base.
The expert in the red jacket now only wanted to take a hot bath.
He returned to the single room that was assigned to him as an expert, and was just about to change into a bathrobe.
The light in the room suddenly flickered.
"Who is it!"
The expert in the red jacket was startled, and when he turned his head to look, he found that a man with red hair wearing red armor was standing in front of him, seemingly appearing out of nowhere.
The temperament and appearance of this man perfectly matched the expert in the red jacket's aesthetic image of the perfect knight in his heart.
While feeling ashamed of himself, the expert in the red jacket, who had read information about Transcendents from other regions, immediately realized that this was a Transcendent who appeared beyond the available data, and had found him!
He didn't shout loudly or sound the alarm.
Instead, he bowed to the red-haired knight according to the ancient etiquette he had read in books.
Only then, with a trembling voice, he said,
"To this esteemed being whose name I do not yet know, I wonder... how can I be of assistance to you?"
Su Ping controlled the Fire Knight Elvin and looked at the expert in the red jacket's performance with a faint smile.
"No need to be nervous. I come from the Dawn City of the Order side, and I won't bully you unless necessary."
Upon hearing this, the expert in the red jacket lowered his head and couldn't help but start to speculate in his mind:
If there is an Order side, does that mean there is also a side of Chaos?
Does "unless necessary" mean that they can still take action against us when necessary?
But it makes sense, this is what it means to be a Transcendent who possesses great power within oneself!
The expert in the red jacket also somewhat guessed the intentions of the other party.
After all, they had been robbed by sea monsters twice.
In addition, he had never encountered a mysterious Transcendent for most of his life, but after digging up the ice crystal stone, he encountered them continuously.
Even a pig could guess the intentions of the other party, otherwise how could it be so coincidental?
Could it be that there was actually no mysterious power on the Blue Star for the first half of his life?
The expert in the red jacket was able to speak without reservation, and he gave Su Ping all the information he had been asked by his superiors.
Su Ping nodded slightly and rewarded the expert for his honesty.
After taking a Qi and Blood Pill, Divine Sense entered the expert's body, allowing him to quickly absorb the medicinal power while protecting his meridians.
Then, Su Ping took out a Blood Qi technique from an unconventional source and gave it to the expert to use after cultivating his Qi and Blood.
The Fire Knight, Elvin, grabbed the expert in the red jacket, activated a stealth symbol, and quickly flew away with him.
Once they left the camp,
the expert noticed that the entire base was already on high alert.
It was clear that they had discovered an intruder.
However, by the time the Fire Knight, Elvin, took the expert away over the sea,
the security personnel in the base still couldn't understand how their surveillance equipment had malfunctioned.
So, whether there were intruders and what their purpose was remained unknown.
Security was strengthened, and all armed drones took off.
More than ten minutes later, these people finally realized that the expert in the red jacket had disappeared.
Unfortunately, due to the surveillance failure, they couldn't gather any more information about the situation.
Helpless, under the Foundation Establishment Divine Sense, various surveillance devices, as technological products, were still too fragile.
Moreover, with a sweep of Divine Sense, no matter where or how well-hidden the surveillance devices were, they couldn't escape being discovered and destroyed.
After flying with the expert in the red jacket for a while, Su Ping released a high-quality Magical Item in the shape of a flat boat, which came from the ancestral master of the Song family.
After infusing it with magic power, this high-quality Magical Item immediately moved on water and automatically absorbed the surrounding water power to form a water shield. It not only blocked the rushing wind but also maintained a stable environment inside the boat.
The expert in the red jacket was amazed and felt that the speed had already surpassed that of a transport plane, yet he didn't feel any discomfort.
Soon, the Fire Knight, Elvin, arrived at an iceberg with the expert in the red jacket.
Through the expert's recollection and identification, they found two excavation sites, one in front and one behind.
"This place is an anomaly in the geographical environment on the Water Blue Star."
"In the Immortal World, it is a natural key node of the heaven and earth array."
"No wonder it can form ancient cold crystals!"
The Fire Knight, Elvin, raised his right hand.
Flames condensed in mid-air, forming a fiery greatsword.
Then, with both hands gripping the sword hilt, the Fire Knight inserted the greatsword into the icy ground.
Boom!
In an instant, the entire ground began to tremble slightly.
The expert in the red jacket widened his eyes and saw that a spiderweb appeared where the greatsword was inserted into the ground. As time passed, more and more cracks appeared, spreading wider and wider...
Soon, cracks even appeared under his feet, causing him to involuntarily step back in fear.
Several tens of seconds later,
the ground where the Fire Knight stood suddenly shattered!
And then, a bottomless sinkhole unexpectedly formed below!
The expert in the red jacket sat on the cold ground, frightened, watching the disappearing Fire Knight.
After hesitating, he chose to do nothing and waited in place.
Although the appearance of this sinkhole was unexpected, it seemed that the other party, who brought him here overnight and performed these unimaginable actions, had planned all these changes, according to the expert in the red jacket.
Deep inside the sinkhole.
Su Ping found more than ten ancient cold crystals of various sizes from the shattered layers of underground soil.
And in the deeper underground, he saw a pool of heavy ice water formed naturally under this natural formation.
If these heavy waters were discovered by a Water Blue Star expert, they would probably just think it was water with excessive radiation of rare elements.
But in the eyes of an Immortal World cultivator, these heavy ice waters were priceless treasures.
They could be used to make precious spirit bottles for storing precious spiritual objects, as well as for making offensive and defensive spiritual weapons.
Various ice-based spirit pills could also use this first-stage water as the main material.
Even those who cultivated the Cold Ice Supernatural Power would spend thousands of spirit stones just to obtain a drop as a catalyst.
And this heavy ice water here was probably accumulated over hundreds of millions of years.
There were at least tens of thousands of drops!
In terms of quality, it was also among the top-grade!
"These are all mine!"
Even Su Ping couldn't help but feel greedy when he saw so much heavy ice water.
He quickly took a deep breath and calmed down.
Su Ping took out a blue porcelain calabash from his storage bag and, after reciting an incantation, began to absorb the heavy ice water.
After collecting the last drop of heavy ice water, Su Ping remembered the expert in the red jacket above and controlled the Fire Knight, Elvin, to fly back to the surface.
Then, in a good mood, Su Ping sent the expert in the red jacket to a research station near the Arctic Circle and quickly left.
And so.
The bureaucrats at the Hope Island base, upon receiving the news, finally learned that they had encountered a mythical story from legends.
To have an expert disappear from their own base overnight and run to a research station thousands of miles away.
While they were amazed at how a Transcendent could enter their base as if it were unoccupied, they had no choice but to send a transport plane to pick him up.
But they soon learned that a blizzard had occurred at the research station.
Although technology had advanced somewhat in the past twenty years, the transport plane was still not advanced enough to ignore blizzards, especially those in the Arctic Circle.
Fortunately, the research station had sufficient resources, and the researchers were very polite after seeing the expert in the red jacket lift hundreds of pounds on his own.
On the American side, they could only wait for the blizzard to end before picking him up and figuring out what had happened.
The expert in the red jacket was also sensible and didn't say much except for informing them that he had been taken away by a Transcendent to the Arctic.
As for that sinkhole, the expert had made up his mind to keep it a secret for the rest of his life.
After receiving the Transcendent gift,
this expert in the red jacket has realized
that his previous pursuits were too mundane,
too unbearable in their mundanity!
From now on, what he seeks is to have himself or his descendants be called the dogs of the Transcendent!
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Grotto-Heaven in a teapot.
After obtaining the Cold Ice Heavy Water,
although it cannot be cashed in temporarily,
the feeling of having a large sum of money in the bank still makes Su Ping feel good.
And those ancient cold crystals can still be sold or used to forge artifacts with the help of others.
Su Ping, as a formation master with unparalleled knowledge,
is well aware of this.
If the artifacts made from these ancient cold crystals are soaked in the Cold Ice Heavy Water
and assisted by an awakening formation,
it is possible to create a formation spirit hundreds or even thousands of years ahead of time!
With the appearance of the formation spirit, not only will the power of the formation be greatly enhanced,
but many trivial matters will no longer need to be personally attended to.
"There are also many purified sealed magical items during this time."
"I should indeed visit other large markets or even immortal cities."
After counting his own wealth,
and taking a night to rest after taking a Magic Power Enhancement Medicine Pill,
the next morning,
Su Ping first returned to the Jiuye Mountain Market.
He looked at the messages left by various people
and found an invitation letter sent by Xiaomu Zhenren.
It was from the Yunshan Market, where a friend of Xiaomu Zhenren had broken through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
So after coming out of seclusion, he immediately invited fellow cultivators to congratulate him and exchange breakthrough experiences.
"Breaking through from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the middle stage?"
"Should this experience be useful to me?"
"Relying on continuously taking Medicine Pills, coupled with purifying spiritual medicines to eliminate side effects, my magic power growth is still quite fast."
"I estimate that within half a year, I should be able to attempt to break through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment."
Su Ping thought to himself and looked at the time before setting off for the Yunshan Market.
But this time, he did not go to the mountaintop, but to the guest residence area halfway up the mountain.
There were not many guests who came, just enough to fill a table.
On the table, besides spirit wine, there were various delicacies made from various spirit grains.
It was not that they couldn't afford demonic beast meat.
But since everyone was at the Foundation Establishment stage, they naturally knew some secrets of the Immortal World.
Without being able to guarantee that the meat of those demonic beasts would not have certain things, it was safest not to eat it.
At the banquet, Su Ping saw many female cultivators performing on stage.
And inadvertently, he recognized someone.
In a certain performance, there was a female cultivator who appeared in the corner, serving as a background.
It seemed... to be Luo Xianzi, the one that Junior Brother Yunjiu was infatuated with?
Unfortunately, this fairy who even borrowed money to buy magical items was just an insignificant extra in this banquet...
Su Ping silently drank his wine and occasionally responded.
Xiaomu Zhenren's good friend, the host of this banquet, Zhan Zhenren, was in high spirits.
There was no concealment of joy and pride on his face.
This Zhan Zhenren was also an inner disciple of the Qixin Sect.
With his high-grade spiritual roots, his cultivation had always been quite difficult.
Although he had Qi Refining Returned to Origin several years earlier than Xiaomu Zhenren, it took him more than ten years longer to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
But this time, he broke through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment in just twenty years, finally catching up to Xiaomu Zhenren and proving that his talent was not inferior.
He was only 123 years old this year.
Without any accidents, there was a high probability that he could reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment before the age of 200, obtain longevity spiritual objects, and live another seventy to eighty years to serve the sect.
And if he could have a slight breakthrough in Gold Core during the Foundation Establishment stage,
he would receive even more resources from the sect and perhaps live even longer!
Compared to the high spirits of this host, Su Ping noticed that several Foundation Establishment cultivators, especially those guest Foundation Establishment cultivators, had somewhat unnatural expressions.
These Foundation Establishment cultivators were all at the early stage, just like him.
However... they clearly relied on non-top-grade Medicine Pills to advance.
Even if their spiritual roots were not inferior to Zhan Zhenren's.
Most of their potential had already been exhausted, and unless they had some great opportunity, they would probably be stuck at the early stage of Foundation Establishment for their entire lives.
As for longevity spiritual objects, just thinking about it, one could tell that they would be allocated according to contributions to the cultivation base.
And under the same conditions, the sect would definitely prioritize those who were born and raised in the sect.
As the meal came to an end and the female cultivator performances ended and left the venue reluctantly,
Xiaomu Zhenren began the main topic.
He asked Zhan Zhenren to share his cultivation experience.
Su Ping perked up his ears and listened attentively.
This was also the reason why he came to give gifts.
Zhan Zhenren spoke in great detail, especially vividly describing the process of his breakthrough.
But halfway through his speech...
Su Ping also realized the purpose of the other party's invitation.
"The path of cultivation is difficult. One wrong step leads to a series of mistakes!"
"The recent changes in the Yunshan market indicate that the external environment has undergone drastic changes, far beyond our imagination!"
"We are all cultivating in the vicinity of Yunshan, at the Foundation Establishment stage."
"We should help and support each other!"
As Master Zhang finished speaking, Little Mu also agreed.
It was like revealing their true intentions.
Their goal was to form a small team within the Foundation Establishment stage.
Upon hearing that there were no mandatory requirements, the Foundation Establishment cultivators present nodded and agreed.
Su Ping naturally wouldn't stand out. After all, he was just a recently established Rogue Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage, and he had legitimate reasons to avoid trouble in recent years.
As for a few years later, that would be a different story.
Seeing that their goal was achieved, Little Mu was in a good mood and asked Master Zhang to share more insights on cultivation.
He even revealed some insights from the Inner Sect of the Qi Xin Sect.
This caused the faces of the guest Foundation Establishment cultivators to change, and they all expressed their gratitude.
Su Ping also expressed his gratitude.
However, after comparing them, he felt that the insights from the Inner Sect of the Qi Xin Sect were not as good as the Northern Dipper Divine Art!
After that, Su Ping declined Little Mu's invitation to have a dance troupe entertain him, using the excuse that he was moved and needed to go into closed-door training.
After leaving the Yunshan market, he transformed into the Demon Hunter Yun Kong and headed towards the direction of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Actually, Su Ping was not planning to hunt Foundation Establishment Demonic Beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Instead, he was preparing to go to the Red Kite Immortal Gate to guard the Immortal City there.
In that place, there were many branches of various major forces, including the Great Golden Light Temple.
There was a merit monument where he could exchange for purification seals for magical items.
There was also the Wanfa Pavilion, one of the top sects, which undertook various commissions for refining Spiritual Weapons and even Spiritual Treasures.
Su Ping wanted to use the ancient cold crystal to make an array tool.
Only by going to such a big place could he minimize conflicts and disputes.
As for whether he would be targeted after obtaining it and leaving the city, Su Ping believed that he could still fight back below the Gold Core stage.
As for above the Gold Core stage, he could simply teleport away and let the other party waste their efforts.
But from a logical point of view, a second-grade array tool shouldn't be worth a Gold Core cultivator's shamelessness to the point of trying to snatch it, right?
Moreover, that place was the frontline for humans to resist Demonic Beasts.
Gold Core cultivators who could go there... should at least have some face and legitimacy, right?
Following the map, Su Ping chose to travel on the official road.
He didn't plan to rush day and night to exhaust himself.
Instead, he planned to visit various markets along the way, buy some local specialties, and taste the local delicacies.
If he could collect new books, he could also do it conveniently.
And so, three days later, Su Ping arrived at a large market near the border of the Earth Domain in the Golden Domain.
As a registered Foundation Establishment cultivator, Su Ping easily entered the formation protection range of this market.
He noticed that it was similar to his own place.
The mortals also gathered within the protection range of the formation.
However, the quality of life here couldn't compare to the Nine Leaf Mountain.
Especially in the lower levels, life was difficult and the management was chaotic.
The basic order was maintained by Rogue Cultivators and Practitioners.
However, these Rogue Cultivators and Practitioners themselves also created chaos and evil.
With a sweep of his Divine Sense, Su Ping frowned slightly.
He had already discovered that in the residential areas, there were certain areas where evil energy was gathering.
This evil energy was not caused by Demonic Cultivators or evil creatures.
Instead, it was the resentment of the common people, the subconscious curses they emitted towards the heavens and all things while they slept.
Su Ping had never noticed these thoughts before.
But after coming into contact with the Netherworld Ghost Body and performing multiple summonings with incense and prayers, Su Ping had become sensitive to these weak and easily overlooked powers.
Su Ping found the Foundation Establishment cultivator in charge of guarding the market and told him about this matter. He found that this Foundation Establishment cultivator also had some understanding of such things.
However, he didn't know what trouble those lowly mortals could cause.
After all, this was not an ordinary mortal town, but a well-protected large market.
This Foundation Establishment cultivator even thought that Su Ping was too young and didn't understand the intricacies of the situation.
So what if there was an outbreak of evil energy?
With the help of the formation, the evil spirits generated by the mortals in the residential areas were nothing but easy achievements.
Moreover, if casualties occurred due to the outbreak of evil energy, it would shock the other surviving mortals and make them more obedient. They would be more devout when purifying and praying.
After all, this was about protecting their own lives!
In this way, it was much better than preaching and giving rewards!
After analyzing this, Su Ping had to admit that he was shallow...
After buying some supplies, he declined the offer to stay and quickly left, even though there was a 99% chance that there wouldn't be any problems, as the Foundation Establishment cultivator had said. Everything was under control!
(End of this chapter)