C12 Back to the cave

In a cave in the mountain range north of Ascending Stone City, Li Ming sat cross-legged inside a cave. At this time, it had already been nearly eight hours since he had left the Zhu Mansion.

Last night, after killing Zhu Quan, Wu Xia and the others, he left the Ascending Stone City and went straight to the mountain cave in the mountains, and started to refine the true energy and digest Zhu Quan's memories.

Unfortunately, because Zhu Quan had expended too much energy during the battle, the true energy that he absorbed was only equivalent to a normal early stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, and did not make Li Ming's Innate Qi progress.

However, this also let Li Ming know, that it was not the amount of resources that could be absorbed by the person with a higher cultivation. If the person was to consume too much energy during battle, the cultivation level that he had would be equivalent to the cultivation of the person at the early stages of the realm: "Seems like I need to quickly defeat them."

From Zhu Quan's memories, he knew that those disciples that were at the Foundation Establishment stage or above would be able to obtain a few long-ranged weapon attack techniques from the sect. As for Zhu Quan, he was not a sect disciple, so he simply would not use any weapon long-ranged attack techniques. So, strictly speaking, Zhu Quan was just a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but did not have the means of the Foundation Cultivator to deal with his enemies. Only those Foundation Cultivator who could use weapons to attack from afar were the truly difficult existences to deal with.

"I was thinking, why is Zhu Quan's attack method like a warrior, it turns out he's only a fake Foundation Cultivator! I even thought that the cultivators of this world were just attacking from afar. "It's a good thing that I got this information. Otherwise, I would be at a huge disadvantage when I face these cultivators in the future." It had to be said that this information was quite useful to Li Ming. At least, it could give him a reminder in the future battles!

However, that was a matter for the future. Right now, what was placed in front of Li Ming was still the Zhu Family Patriarch's storage bag!

"As expected of the Patriarch! Things are different. But now these things belong to me. " Looking at the items inside Zhu Quan's storage bag, Li Ming exclaimed.

Amongst Zhu Quan's storage bag, Li Ming discovered a few Medial Grade Spirit Stone, as well as a few hundred Low level spirit stones, some pellets, a book on alchemy, and a few hundred more. He had also found the Gale Sword Technique manual that he had used in his battle with Zhu Quan last night.

Li Ming took out the book on pill knowledge from the storage bag. This book was originally owned by a Qi Cultivator, but it was killed by Zhu Quan, so the book ended up in Zhu Quan's hands. In Zhu Quan's hands, there was also the Pill Cauldron. Now that Li Ming had killed Zhu Quan, the book and the Pill Cauldron had fallen into his hands.

However, this book on pills only contained some simple knowledge on pills.

From this book, Li Ming knew that on this continent, as long as one was a cultivator, they could concoct pills. But the ones that could concoct Intermediate pills and above, were the cultivators with Inherent Skills in the sects who were the true alchemists.

The book also introduced the name of the pills and how to differentiate them. It also recorded down some common medicinal herbs and the different medicinal herbs. Other than these, there was nothing else.

"I don't know if I can refine the pills on this continent, but it doesn't matter if I can't. I can at least refine the pills of the warriors from my previous life." Li Ming slowly said after reading the book in his hand.

Li Ming did not really care about the pills in Immortal Cultivation World! After all, he was a martial artist, and immortal pills might not be of any use to him.

However, Li Ming still cared a lot about the pills that warriors could use in his previous life. As for the Great Revitalizing Pellet and the Small Revitalizing Pellet, these two were the two most famous pellets amongst the martial artists in his previous life.

Unfortunately, the materials needed to refine each Great Recovery Pill were very rare, moreover, they all required at least five hundred years of age. However, on this Immortal Cultivation Continent, it was very difficult to find elixirs that were a thousand years old, but there were many elixirs that were more than five hundred years old.

At least from the memories of Zhu Quan, they could tell that someone had already discovered a medicinal pellet that was over five hundred years old in the mountain range Li Ming was currently in. This memory made Li Ming very excited.

Because this way, Li Ming could refine the Great Recovery Pill. A Great Recovery Pill could at least help Li Ming's true qi to reach the middle of the third level of the taiji method. However, for a pill like the Great Recovery Pill, only the first three times in one's life would have an effect, and only the first time would allow a martial artist to increase the amount of true qi by one sixty-year cycle. The second time could increase the strength by at most half a sixty-year cycle.

Of course, the pills later on weren't useless either. If one expended too much of his zhenqi during a battle, a Great Recovery Pill would definitely be sufficient to keep him alive. Moreover, on this continent, there were some pills that could directly increase one's cultivation, but their value was extremely high.

Thinking about it, Li Ming suddenly felt that he had found a business opportunity, and that was to continuously refine the Great Revitalizing Pellet, and then exchange it for spirit stones to help him cultivate. However, all of this could only be done after Li Ming was able to refine it.

As for the Small Revitalizing Pellet, it wasn't a pellet that could help a martial artist increase their cultivation, but a very quick healing pellet. Moreover, the medicinal ingredients needed weren't very old, they only needed 200 years. In the Longevity Continent, pills at the age of two hundred were very easy to obtain.

However, the idea of using the Small Revitalizing Pellet to exchange for spirit stones was not feasible. In Immortal Cultivation World, there were a lot of healing panaceas and their prices varied depending on the situation.

Of course, refining pills was not something that the current Li Ming should consider. At the very least, he would have to wait until he found those elixirs.

Right now, Li Ming would first take a look at the pellets he had obtained from Zhu Quan's storage bag.

Taking out a few of the storage bag's pellets, from the knowledge contained within the books, as well as Zhu Quan's memories, he learned that the pellets in his hands were all Foundation Building Pill s, obtained from Zhu Quan; there were also a dozen or so healing pellets — — Spirit Recovery Pills; and three pellets which could increase one's cultivation — Spirit Boosting Pellets.

Taking out a Spirit-Enhancing Pill, Li Ming was extremely conflicted.

Li Ming really wanted to try and see if this Spirit Strengthening Pill could have any effects on him, but he was afraid that not only did it have no effects, it would also have side effects.

After being conflicted for a moment, Li Ming decided to give it a try. This was because he was confident in his own strength. He believed that even if a Spirit-Strengthening Pill didn't have any effect on him, it wouldn't have much of a side effect on him.

Doing as he pleased had always been Li Ming's good character.

After making his decision, Li Ming quickly swallowed the pill in his hand, and the pill immediately turned into a wave of true energy that rushed towards his Dantian. When Li Ming felt it, he was overjoyed. He thought that the Spirit Increasing Pill would have an effect on him, but he only saw that the spirit force that the Spirit Increasing Pill had turned into suddenly went berserk, exploding in his meridians.

Sensing the situation, Li Ming immediately activated her Taiji Zhen Qi to envelop the spirit force. Just as the Taiji Zhen Qi was about to surround the spirit force formed by the Spirit Increasing Pills, the spirit force seemed to have received a shock, and suddenly exploded in his blood channels, causing Li Ming who was heavily injured to cough out a mouthful of blood, and immediately fainted.

Because he was too confident in his own strength, Li Ming tried to use the Spirit-Strengthening Pill he found within the storage bag s of Zhu Quan.

Due to the damage caused by the Spirit Increasing Pill exploding in Li Ming's meridians, he was heavily injured and even fainted, only waking up on the second day!

The next day, after Li Ming woke up, he felt the situation in his body, a wave of pain and depression. Two of his main meridians had been injured but not broken; the rest of his meridians had been blown up as well. In this kind of situation, if it was a normal person, then there was a high chance that they would be crippled. However, Li Ming was not an ordinary person.

Li Ming who had an ethereal body possessed a strong self-recovery ability. In this way, other than the two main meridians in his body, the other parts of his meridians were mostly restored from the moment he fainted.

Right now, Li Ming was continuously channeling his taiji method to slowly repair his own body. He then took out the Ghost Panther's beast core and absorbed the demonic elemental energy inside it, converting it into true qi to cultivate his own injuries.

As he was recovering, time passed by quickly.

It had been almost five hours since Li Ming started to repair his body, and he had finally healed most of the injuries within this period of time.

Sensing that his body had recovered, Li Ming said with lingering fear: "Seems like I cannot take Longevity Continent's pills."

After knowing that his body had recovered, Li Ming once again opened the storage bag he had obtained from Zhu Quan. He took out a jade cylinder. This was the Gale Sword Technique's sword technique, something that Zhu Quan had accidentally obtained while he was travelling around.

Li Ming thought back to the method of opening jade cylinder from Zhu Quan's memories. Li Ming injected a bit of his own Innate Qi into it, and just like the storage bag, Li Ming opened the jade cylinder.

Originally, in Zhu Quan's memories, a jade cylinder must be opened by using a true energy as a guide before it could be opened. However, Li Ming had opened it with his Innate Qi.

At this time, the jade cylinder in Li Ming's hand released a jade light from the instant it imbued Innate Qi into it. Slowly, a paragraph of text appeared.

Even though had obtained the moves of the Gale Sword Technique from his memory, there were some changes to it. The Gale Sword Technique he was looking at now did not change at all.

There were a total of four types of Gale Sword Technique recorded on the jade cylinder. They were: All of the falling flowers of the Gale Sword Technique; the falling leaves and wind from the Gale Sword Technique; the rolling of the clouds in the wind from the Gale Sword Technique; and the Feng Xiao Yun San. The first three could be mastered at the Foundation Establishment stage and could still be displayed.

It had to be said that this Gale Sword Technique was a pretty good sword technique. It was created by a rogue cultivator who did not know how to use a long ranged weapon to attack.

Now, Li Ming looked at the sword movements of the Gale Sword Technique, and slowly muttered to himself, before he started to practice the circulation route of the Gale Sword Technique.

Li Ming didn't know if the cultivation methods in this world were the same as his previous life, so when he looked at them, it was extremely slow. It took him nearly four hours to successfully cultivate the Gale Sword Technique's circulation route. Then, he began to practice his sword arts in his mind.

When he thought back to last night and the battle when Zhu Quan was using the Gale Sword Technique, he started to think about the details inside.

Following Li Ming's cultivation, the dark night once again slowly enveloped the land, and the entire mountain range instantly became pitch black.