Terrible, terrifying!
"Bang!"
Xiao Qingling finally reacted. She looked at the sky. All the meteorites had been shattered. It seemed that powerful forbidden spells had appeared outside the world, and there was a confrontation between rules!
But she could no longer concern herself with so much. Her instincts as an archaeologist compelled her to immediately understand everything!
"Everything in this heritage site, including their lineage, has not been severed! These powerful beings who existed in the historical gaps of human civilization, it's even possible that they still exist!"
"Master… awakening… Wu Tribe…"
"They knew the predecessor of the Mystic Civilization, they even fought against the Wu Tribe and triumphed. What exactly did they experience?"
"Right, classic texts, stone tablets!"
Xiao Qingling went mad, rushing back to re-examine everything. She realized that she seemed to have uncovered a terrifying history, the truth of the civilization gap!
As Xiao Qingling searched, a look of confusion flashed across her face.
"Wu Tribe, friends? That doesn't seem right."
...
In the room.
Li Wei put on his headphones, wanting nothing to do with anyone.
He vigorously rubbed his face, "What am I afraid of? A nobody like me has nothing to lose. If we win, I don't need to run; if we lose, I can't run away anyway. Playing games in peace is the only truth."
Alright, no more sleeping.
Li Wei stared intently at the game screen, his expression solemn, "Strive to develop, my children! If your old ancestor me doesn't become stronger, I'll be captured by the Mystic Civilization!"
[Year 162]
In the game, the family was still developing. Li Wei briefly looked at the current situation of the Li Family. It was roughly the same as before. Many descendants of the Li family were in seclusion, and Li Tianyue had already led Li Kuangren and Li Kuanghua, the two siblings, as well as experts sent by many affiliated forces of the Li family, to the garrison at the border of Azure Cloud region.
The forces of the Azure Cloud region were advancing steadily and surely, and the Li family delegation also followed the instructions of their elders, contributing effort but not fully exerting themselves. Although various factions often grumbled inwardly, they could do nothing about the Li family. After all, the Li family really did contribute effort, and the people they sent were also quite well-behaved. Especially that Azure Flood dragon formed of steel, its strength had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage!
As for the other members of the Li family…
Their collective traits 'Wu Tribe Killer' and 'Despicable Plunderer' were very conspicuous.
Especially in the event log.
[The Li Family Faction, Dawn, has been eyeing Ghost Division for many years. Your descendant Li Dalong, along with his wife Xu Cuihua, during the great battle between Ghost Division, Beast Division, and Azure Cloud region, broke into the Ghost Division Forbidden Ground, seized the spirit object 'Heavenly Ghost Evil Spirit Pearl' that the Wu Tribe was guarding in the forbidden ground, and left triumphantly!]
Nowadays, many things are hard to catch the eye of the Li family, and it's also difficult for anything to greatly help the experts of the Li family. However, when Li Wei saw this 'Heavenly Ghost Evil Spirit Pearl,' his eyes still lit up.
"With this, Dalong's strength will increase again."
[Heavenly Ghost Evil Spirit Pearl (Sixth-Grade Spirit Object)]
[Efficacy: Using this item, one can collect cultivators' resentment and souls. The deeper the cultivator's resentment, the stronger the ghost entity that can be cultivated. For those beyond the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements, using this item can have miraculous effects.]
At this moment, Li Wei saw within the Heaven-Piercing Coffin, the little Lolita Xuan Tianzi lying in the coffin, with a black orb in her mouth, ghost energy was flowing into her body!
Within this Heavenly Ghost Evil Spirit Pearl, it is unknown just how much ghost energy is contained. Moreover, Heavenly Zombies are inherently beyond the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements. Now with the Heavenly Ghost Evil Spirit Pearl, she is becoming stronger every moment and undergoing a special transformation!
Besides this, the other descendants have also gained a lot.
[Your descendant Li Yaoqing, while refining medicine, heard that the Wu Tribe has a Wood Division. This Wu Tribe excels in using the medicine, therefore she dispatched demonic cultivators to infiltrate Wood Division. To avoid alarming them, she plans to proceed gradually, abducting one Wu Tribe apothecary each day.]
[For as long as three months, Wood Division finally sensed something was amiss. Your descendant Li Yaoqing had no choice but to give up. In one night, she abducted two hundred apothecaries, and with the help of the Blood Demon Lord, snatched away a medicine storage of Wood Division that had been accumulated for hundreds of years, and ceased her visits.]
At this moment.
Inside Merit City, over three hundred Wu Tribe apothecaries were standing blankly in the outer city, looking at the common people lining up in front of them, these common people did not treat them like outsiders at all.
"Esteemed one, I have cultivated for many years, and always feel that my meridians are not smooth. Could you please take a look at me, and tell me what kind of spirit medicine is needed to solve this problem?"
"Two years ago, this old man fought against your people and was afflicted with a ghost curse. I wonder if this sir can help this old man resolve it?"
"I am willing to spend five hundred spirit stones, to request a prescription for a spirit medicine that increases the chances of Foundation Establishment!"
"....."
While taking pulses for these Merit City common people, writing prescriptions, performing acupuncture, or even conducting altar rituals… a hint of confusion flashed in the eyes of these Wood Division apothecaries. If they hadn't remembered that Li Yaoqing had previously used medicine to bewilder them and borrowed all their prescriptions, they would have almost forgotten that they were captives.
"You really dare to think and dare to act." Li Wei in front of the screen scratched his head, his face full of question marks.
Only to see under the Primordial Blood Tree, Li Yaoqing was lying prone on the tree trunk, throwing down prescriptions one by one, muttering, "Useless, useless. There aren't even many seventh-grade prescriptions, let alone sixth-grade prescriptions. These prescriptions can't improve my medicine refining level at all."
Then there were various spirit medicines.
"Ninth-grade, eighth-grade, all useless. Humph, 'hundreds of years of accumulation,' turns out at most enough to refine just over ten portions of seventh-grade potions, and only two sixth-grade spirit medicines."
Seeing Li Yaoqing's disdainful look, Li Wei was speechless.
If this were the past, these things would have been enough to burst the Li family, but now it really is different.
The Li family has many experts, what they need are seventh-grade and sixth-grade spirit medicines. But seventh-grade is already hard to find, easily requiring medicinal materials that are hundreds of years old. As for sixth-grade? Those must be over a thousand years old, and their growth conditions are harsh!
It's also because materials are hard to find that it's extremely difficult for Nascent Soul stage cultivators to accelerate their cultivation. They often can only rely on formations to absorb a bit more Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, comprehend a few rules, and thereby enhance their strength. Therefore, within the Azure Cloud region, many Nascent Soul Ancestors are only at the early stage; without being around for a thousand years, it's difficult to reach the mid-stage. Any Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak stage is a shockingly talented and brilliant individual.
These medicinal materials, wanting them to grow to be a thousand years old? For hundred-year-old medicinal materials, cultivators are already fighting tooth and nail for them.
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