C8 Duskfall Mountains

The harvest from the Five Unique's Immortal's cave was of great benefit to Ox King in the future.

But after all, that was just the future. Although his anticipation was enough to make him tremble with excitement, at this time, he was still a small rogue cultivator at the 2nd level of the Qi Refinement Stage. It took him nearly five years to cultivate from level one to level two Qi Refinement. If nothing changed, in the next five years, even Ox King did not know whether he could reach Level 3 of Qi Refinement or not.

"Unfortunately, the first rank of the Controlling Beast is definitely not refining pills. Otherwise, if I had the help of the pill, my cultivation speed would have increased by a lot."

After Ox King got excited, he thought about his current situation and sighed. He had longed for the cultivation grounds other than the North Wilderness that this old man had described ever since he was young. However, because the North Wilderness was not connected to the Lingwu by land, unless he had flying Spirit Beast s or reached the level of Middle Stage of Qi Refinement where he could fly, he would never be able to leave the Five Fingers Lake which was a thousand miles wide which surrounded the entire area of the North Wilderness.

Of course, since it was a lake, one could also use boats to cross it. However, what was strange was that countless cultivators wanted to use boats to traverse this thousand li of the lake, but in the end, there would always be some similar reasons.

There weren't many Demonic Beast in the Five Fingers Lake, but it was impossible to use a boat to cross them. This was an iron-clad rule that had been undisputed for the past thousands of years in the North Wilderness.

It was because of this reason that most of the cultivators in the North Wilderness were at the early stage of Qi Refining. Cultivators who had reached the intermediate stage had long ago relied on their own abilities and ran to the other resource-rich areas of Lingwu to continue cultivating. However, there was no way they would linger in such a barren land like North Wilderness.

And only those who felt that they were already old and unable to advance their cultivation, or who carried the hopes of having no tigers in the mountain, would continue to stay at the North Wilderness side.

It wasn't that Ox King didn't want to leave North Wilderness, it was just that old man could also fly on his artifact in the past. However, Middle Stage of Qi Refinement could only fly by itself, and as for bringing people, that was only because of Late Qi Refining Stage. Ever since he was young, Ox King had been hoping for the old man to reach the late stage quickly so that he could leave the North Wilderness. However, the helpless thing was that when the old man was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, he ended Ox King's dream.

Of course, there was another method, and that was to bring a few sects, led by the Controlling Beast s, to North Wilderness to recruit disciples.

However, for other sects to accept disciples, they either required them to reach the Level 3 of Qi Refinement before the age of twelve, or to reach the Middle Stage of Qi Refinement before the age of sixteen. Just this one rule alone, had already removed more than ninety-nine percent of the North Wilderness cultivators. Unless one truly had outstanding talent and potential, how could an ordinary cultivator have the qualifications to do so? Therefore, this path was just a dream for Ox King. There was basically no way to realize it.

Although he was currently only fifteen years old, he only had one year left. To him, raising the level from the second level of Qi Refining to the Level 4 of Qi Refinement was basically impossible.

Thus, even now, he could only remain within the North Wilderness and continue to cultivate like a tortoise. He hoped that one day, he would be able to enter the Middle Stage of Qi Refinement and control the flying magic tools with ease. Although he had learned the Soul Attaching Skill some time ago and was also able to initially fly using an flying magic tool, he could only maintain it for a short period of time, which was why he was able to cross a distance of a thousand miles in such a short amount of time. Thus, thinking back and forth seemed to be the same as walking down the same path as the ancient Huashan Mountains.

"Get to the Middle Stage of Qi Refinement as soon as possible!" Ox King clenched his fist and adjusted his condition. Then, he walked out of the cave.

At this time, he had already thought of a way to cultivate, and that would be to do his best to earn Spirit Stone s. After which, he would go to the North Wilderness Market's only market place, the Multi Treasure Pavilion, and exchange for those few pill s that would help with his cultivation.

Even the lowest grade Qi Condensation Pills in the Pavilion were priced at ten Spirit Stone s per pellet.

There was no other way, so this was the only way.

After exiting the cave, Ox King took a look at all the resources on his body: the scattered Spirit Stone s added up to about one-third, the total number of Spirit Stone s added up to twenty-four, two Fireball Talismans, and four Wooden Vine Talismans. Yuan Li scattered two bags, then stopped bleeding and scattered the nine bags. As for the rest, they were to change their clothes and other items that had nothing to do with the battle.

If one were to say that he was at the second level of Qi Refinement and had all these things on him, Ox King could definitely be called a rich man among North Wilderness cultivators. This was because normally cultivators, other than some Blood-Stopping Powder, or two Spirit Stone s, and those with more money, would only have one bag of Returning Essence Powder, rarely had other items related to cultivation. Ox King's fortune was so plentiful. Firstly, the old man had left behind some inheritance when he died, and secondly, he had been quite thrifty over the past five years.

As for the number of Spirit Stone, there was a total of zero, which was naturally taken from Wei Feiyan, who was the one who activated the formation.

Two hundred and twenty minus one hundred and ninety-six was exactly twenty-four pieces.

In other words, Ox King's accumulation of the past five years could not even produce half a Spirit Stone. Needless to say, if it wasn't for the old man's legacy and Wei Feiyan's scam, he would definitely be a impoverished cultivator that couldn't wait to be taken for a pair of underwear.

It was a good thing that Ox King was quite well-off with the addition of these two things. Furthermore, they were all battle-related cultivation items. Hence, the thought of earning Spirit Stone s in exchange for pill, in order to quicken his pace of cultivation, he resolutely decided to head to the most dangerous place within the North Wilderness, the Luoying Mountain.

Although Luoying Mountain were only the names obtained by North Wilderness cultivators, there were no mountains in this entire area that could be seen through so easily without end. But at least this place had a circumference of three to four thousand kilometers. Not only did it have a large number of Demonic Beast, some of the lucky ones were even able to obtain some spirit medicines. Although Demonic Beast s were usually only at the first or middle level of Lower Grade, and were rarely seen in the upper levels, and was extremely rare to see even the second level, the variety was rather complicated, and the price was also quite a bit higher than in the North Wilderness swamp.

As for spiritual medicines, those of high level naturally wouldn't dare to say, but for hemostasis grass, most cultivators would be able to gather some after half a month. With better luck, it was not impossible to gather one or two stalks of Blue Star Grass that could be used to create the Return of Essence Powder. As for higher level herbs, unless one was extremely lucky, it was basically impossible to find them among the majority of cultivators. Ox King had stayed in North Wilderness for fifteen years, and combined, he had only heard of stories of harvesting spirit medicine that would help in cultivation, but only heard about it about seven or eight times.

This Luoying Mountain was already the place with the richest resources within the boundaries of the North Wilderness. From this, it could be seen how lacking the cultivation environment was.

Fortunately, Ox King had grown up here and had gotten used to it. Instead of feeling discouraged, he tidied up his belongings before striding in the direction of Luoying Mountain.

After the tenth day, Ox King had already arrived at the market place at the Luoying Mountain entrance.

Even though this place was called a market, it was actually only two rows of houses with less than thirty houses in total. Furthermore, there was only one store that sold cultivation items. On the other hand, there were quite a lot of cultivators who had come back from Luoying Mountain who set up stalls to sell ingredients and herbs. In addition, near the area where the stalls were set up, even more cultivators were gathered, shouting non-stop, and gathering into groups of cultivators ready to explore the Luoying Mountain.

After all, the North Wilderness were cultivators at the early stage of Qi Refining. Occasionally, there would be a group of first level Lower Grade Demonic Beast s or even a first level high Demonic Beast.

Ox King didn't have the intention to form a team, because not long ago, he had already experienced it once by himself.

It was during that desperate struggle that he advanced to the second level of Qi Refining, thus he welcomed a series of good fortune. It was safe to form a team, but first, they would split the profits. Second, they wouldn't benefit him much, so there was no need to consider this point.

There were obviously many others who had the same thoughts as Ox King. When he entered the Luoying Mountain from the entrance, he saw no less than twenty single body cultivators.

Of course, this was all a side issue, so there was no need to delay the topic. Ox King's goal this time was to be at least two thousand five hundred kilometers deep in, to be able to enter the depths of the Luoying Mountain to the best of his ability, in order to obtain even richer resources.

A thousand kilometers before Luoying Mountain, because of the cultivators within the North Wilderness who were extremely thirsty for resources, even the soil had been plowed several times. Now, even a first level Lower Grade Spirit Beast was rare, let alone some middle and upper level Spirit Beast. As for spiritual medicines, even hemostasis grass and seedlings were hard to come by. After fifteen hundred kilometers, he would finally be able to find some things.

After two thousand five hundred kilometers, Level One Intermediate Demonic Beast would not be too hard to find.

Although a level one middle stage Demonic Beast was equivalent to the existence of Middle Stage of Qi Refinement, it was still not an absolute existence. Because there were always some innate experts like the rabbit or sheep that were relatively weak, their strength was not necessarily stronger than the second or third layer Qi Refining cultivators. The more dangerous ones were the aggressive Demonic Beast. Of course, the more valuable parts of the Demon Seller were basically those that required killing this kind of Demonic Beast in order to obtain it.

The reason why Ox King dared to set his target at 2500 Li was because of the Soul Attaching Skill.

Even if he could only control the fifteen minutes' worth of tools, he was very confident in the strength of the Middle Grade Magic Tool. He believed that if he did not encounter a group of Demonic Beast, he should be able to obtain a good harvest.

"..."

After 21 days, Ox King had already penetrated 2500 miles deep.

In the previous seven days, he had traveled as fast as he could. In just seven days, he had traversed 1500 kilometers. As for the remaining one thousand five hundred kilometers, it took him nearly half a month because Demonic Beast had already appeared one thousand five hundred kilometers later, so he had no choice but to carefully move forward. The other point was that searching for spiritual medicines everywhere had taken up a lot of time.

But because of this, he had already killed six first level Lower Grade Demonic Beast and a first level middle stage Stone Ox. As for the herbs, although there were only six Hemostatic Grass, they were not bad for him. Counting the price, even if he sold them to the buyer, he would still be able to sell six Spirit Stone s. If he sold them one by one, he would probably be able to sell him with nine.

Although there was a price to pay for it, in order to kill these Demonic Beast, the price of three doses of Hemostasis Powder was nothing.

What made him even more satisfied was that when he had just entered the 2500 mile area yesterday, he had accidentally discovered the traces of a golden-eyed tiger. This was a genuine [Level 1] middle stage offensive Demonic Beast. If that was the case, this beast would definitely be able to profit up to five [Spirit Stone].

Ox King was naturally tempted by such a temptation. That was why he had been tracking the Gold-Eyed Tiger since the end of the day.

After a day and night of hard work, Ox King finally caught up to this fifty to sixty feet long guy. At this moment, he was sprawled in a bush, motionless. He was staring at the huge creature crawling on the ground, seemingly ready to take a break. He was ready to explode and launch a fatal blow at any moment!

After around two incense sticks worth of time, the Golden-eyed Tiger seemed to be sleepy and its eyes were narrowed.

Now!

Ox King shook the Flying Knife that was already prepared and was about to attack. But before he could move, he heard a clear and familiar cold shout coming from the other side …

"Ice Blade Technique!"