Chapter 274: Fusang Light and Shadow, Formation of the Spiritual Mind Master

Li Weiyi performed the Fusang Divine Tree Meditation Technique. His mind was peaceful, and he used his will to channel spiritual light from his spiritual realm, continuously directing it towards the Blazing Star Stone.

The difficulty of condensing spiritual light into a liquid mind-power star was immense. Many Grand Mind Masters spent several years in arduous cultivation to achieve this step.

The Mind Altar Blazing Star Stone contained miraculous power; not only was its own spiritual light dense, but it could also continuously absorb and refine spiritual light from the mind master's spiritual realm.

Time passed, second by second.

The spiritual light in Li Weiyi's spiritual realm gradually thinned. Yet, the Mind Altar Blazing Star Stone became increasingly brilliant, its released spiritual light intensity constantly rising, seemingly threatening to tear the spiritual realm apart.

This continued into the second day.

The Mind Altar Blazing Star Stone completely absorbed the spiritual light, and under the influence of its internal energy, its surface began to show signs of melting.

Li Weiyi knew clearly that the critical moment had arrived. He had to keep the internal spiritual light condensed while the Mind Altar Blazing Star Stone melted, or all his efforts would be in vain.

As the Mind Altar Blazing Star Stone melted, the spiritual light it released became even more intense, constantly expanding the one-chi-square spiritual realm before rapidly contracting it. It was extremely unstable.

The third day arrived.

Li Weiyi's energy was severely depleted, and he was extremely fatigued, but he still tried to maintain the liquefied state of the spiritual light in his spiritual realm.

"Persevere! I must succeed. Only by succeeding can I possibly awaken the other power of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish."

Li Weiyi took out a Starlight Day Pill, swallowed it, and replenished the spiritual light in his spiritual realm. He continued to condense.

Several more hours passed.

"Boom!"

Li Weiyi's glabella vibrated violently. Spatial energy and spiritual light transformed into ripples that overflowed, illuminating the surrounding underground world.

It turned out that after three days and three nights of drifting, the jade boat had carried him to a section of the river that was extremely wide, with gentle currents and a very high ceiling, appearing to be dozens of zhang tall.

The spiritual realm in his glabella, originally one chi square, expanded a thousandfold, reaching the size of one zhang square. A pea-sized, liquid mind-power star hovered at the center of his spiritual realm, releasing strands of spiritual light like a neural network, distributed in a mysterious pattern.

He had officially entered the Spirit Mind Master realm!

Li Weiyi could feel that the spiritual light in his spiritual realm had undergone a qualitative change; its condensed state and intensity were several times that of the Calamity Fire Realm. More crucially, the mind-power threads extending from the mind-power star seemed to possess life, capable of extending outside his body.

Like neural tentacles, they could extend with his will to ten zhang, twenty zhang, thirty zhang... all the way to fifty zhang before his perception became blurred and a boundary effect appeared. Even with soil and stones obstructing, the neural tentacles could probe partially through.

"This must be the Heaven and Earth Nerves that Master Lingwei spoke of!"

"The Heaven Nerve extends into the air. The Earth Nerve delves deep into the ground."

Martial cultivators in the Dao Seed Realm could, of course, perceive the outside world through their Dao Heart Outer Manifestation and anticipate danger, but their perception wouldn't be overly precise. Furthermore, first-tier Dao Seed Realm cultivators could only perceive within ten zhang, reaching a maximum of twenty zhang. This couldn't compare to a Spirit Mind Master. However, figures like Shi Jiuzhai, listed in the *Jiazi Scroll*, whose Dao Heart Outer Manifestation could extend up to three li away, were naturally beyond comparison for Li Weiyi, a one-star Spirit Mind Master.

Over the past three days, Qin Qian's injuries had recovered significantly. She propped herself up, sitting in the coffin, looking towards the bow of the boat, then raising her head to look upwards, her eyes filled with immense surprise.

She saw:

Li Weiyi meditating with his back to her. The entire jade boat was enveloped in a rain of light, within which two intertwined mulberry trees appeared. Both were ten zhang tall, with gnarled trunks and dense foliage, seeming to burn entirely. It was incredibly miraculous; the two mulberry trees seemed to be breathing, flickering on and off.

"He... he actually became a Spirit Mind Master... How old is he?"

From childhood, Lu Cangsheng had been the first prodigy she encountered, the sect's second-ranked person lagging far behind, making her greatly admire him. But Li Weiyi, this fellow, was even more extraordinary. It was one thing for his martial path to allow him to defeat prodigies like phoenix and kirin offspring across realms, but after his martial path was crippled, he surprisingly quickly cultivated to the level of a Spirit Mind Master.

Qin Qian shook her head hard, dimming the light in her eyes... She shouldn't think too highly of him; this guy had character issues.

After his mind-power star stabilized, Li Weiyi immediately wanted to activate the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish. However, he noticed the gaze from the coffin behind him and instantly stopped, contemplating knocking her unconscious before testing.

"How long did it take me to break through?" Li Weiyi walked over and asked.

Qin Qian replied with no polite tone, "This is underground; how would I know how much time has passed? Probably three or four days!"

The bruises and bloodstains on her face had disappeared. Her face was slender, her features three-dimensional and delicate, and her eyebrows and eyes distinct.

"It's been that long."

Li Weiyi secretly considered whether to go to Qifeng Ancient Commandery City. Time was already tight. If he didn't go, he always felt as if Tang Wanzhou had gotten the better of him again, which was very uncomfortable.

Having successfully advanced to a Spirit Mind Master, Li Weiyi felt great. If he could quickly cultivate a second mind-power star, then a third... With just mind-power attacks, he could cause significant trouble for martial cultivators in the second and third tiers of the Dao Seed Realm.

He must find more fragments of the Mind Altar Blazing Star Stone. Entering the underground immortal mansion with Tang Wanzhou, a top-tier expert, would definitely be safer than going by himself. More importantly, the Dharma Qi in Li Weiyi's Wind Palace had been fully tempered, and now could only be slowly expanded and improved.

It was all Zen Sea Gazing Fog's fault for taking away Master Coffin; there had been no news for three months since he left. Li Weiyi really wanted to try imbuing the Dao Fruit into his Wind Palace himself, but he felt it was too dangerous and dared not act rashly.

"Your meditation technique seems quite extraordinary, with those two divine tree apparitions. If this were on the surface, a vast area of sunlight would surely be absorbed by you."

Qin Qian's voice startled Li Weiyi from his thoughts.

Li Weiyi looked at her, "You want to return to the surface? How are your injuries recovering?"

"I can only mobilize the Dharma power from five springs, so my recovery is very slow. Li Weiyi, set my bones," she then said coldly, "and make the price a bit cheaper."

Seeing that she was willing to pay, Li Weiyi's interest was immediately piqued. "How much wealth do you have? What if you can't even produce a hundred thousand Spring Coins? Then I'd be working for nothing! Are you as rich as Lu Wensheng?"

Li Weiyi could never forget his first major client from the arena competition.

Qin Qian was exasperated. "Rich? You almost drove him to his death! Not only does he owe a lot of money in Qianli Mountain, but he's also nearly bankrupted Senior Brother!"

Li Weiyi froze, at a loss for words for a moment.

Qin Qian said, "Don't worry. My Qin family is a prominent clan with a name in the Eastern Territory. My old ancestor is the foremost expert below the Transcendents of the Thundercloud Sect. A mere hundred thousand Spring Coins, or even a bit more, is certainly something we can afford."

"Then why haggle over the price? Ten thousand Spring Coins per bone."

Li Weiyi had time to wear her down. Even if she returned to the surface, with multiple broken and dislocated bones, she wouldn't get far.

"Fine, fine, very fine. I'll remember this. A dignified Divine Hermit of the Nine Li Hidden Gate, taking advantage of someone's misfortune! I thought we were in the same boat; I even pitied you for being crippled earlier... Never mind, ten thousand it is." Qin Qian gritted her teeth.

"Miss Qin, quickly lie down. I'll help you heal."

Li Weiyi cheerfully walked over, his expression serious and meticulous. He first helped her realign and reset her dislocated arm bones. Then, using wooden splints fashioned from a coffin lid, he bandaged and secured them.

"Here's ten thousand Spring Coins!"

Next was her right collarbone. Her collarbone was shattered, broken into several pieces. For a martial cultivator of her realm, simply realigning and resetting the bone externally, then using Dharma Qi to fix it, would allow it to slowly heal and recover completely.

"You have quite a few broken bones here. How about I just unseal all your meridians first?" Li Weiyi said, feeling the task was tricky.

Qin Qian knew what this meant. She considered the possibility of having Li Weiyi take her to a Thundercloud Sect martial cultivator. Finally, she closed her eyes and nodded, "Martial practitioners don't stand on ceremony. What happens today, we keep absolutely silent about. Once we're back on the surface, you must not utter a single word about it to anyone, or I will fight you to the death."

"You'd better watch your mouth," Li Weiyi retorted. "It's just unsealing; nothing happened. But with you saying things like that, it instantly becomes unclear. My fiancée is Zuoqiu Hongting, famous throughout the land, and I'm a person who values my reputation. Yang Qingxi already scammed me terribly; don't you try to scam me too!"

Li Weiyi closed his eyes, unfastened her Dharma weapon-infused martial attire, and extended his fingers towards her chest, searching for the location of her lung lobes.

Qin Qian's breathing was initially rapid, and her body trembled. Gradually, she held her breath completely.

After unsealing the five Qi Seas within the five lung lobes one by one, Li Weiyi's finger slid down and suddenly pressed against the Tanzhong Spring Acupoint on her chest, shattering the seal.

Qin Qian let out a soft groan of pain.

Li Weiyi was about to unseal the Ancestral Field below her navel when he suddenly heard the sound of rushing water. Sensing an unusual aura rapidly approaching, he immediately opened his eyes.

"Clang!"

The Yellow Dragon Sword was drawn. He turned, standing upright on the jade boat, and looked behind him.

The underground blood river, dozens of zhang wide, had towering waves relentlessly approaching the jade boat, accompanied by a low, resonant dragon's roar.

"Haha, this was originally a gift for Wang Shu of the Twin Rice Sect, but I didn't expect you, Li Weiyi, to get a taste first. No matter, today I, Long, will send you two disgraceful people on your way. Then, I'll inform Lu Cangsheng of today's sordid affair."

Long Ting pursued, riding the wind and waves, with a massive azure dragon apparition beneath his feet. His laughter echoed through the underground space. Compared to the battle intent he possessed in the Five Seas Realm, the azure dragon apparition, which had transformed into a Dao Heart Outer Manifestation, was tens of zhang long and incredibly solid, like a real dragon. Long Ting's Dao Heart Outer Manifestation could extend forty zhang away, and his aura was far more powerful than Zuo Shi, who was in the second tier of the Dao Seed Realm.

"I'm warning you, you'd better not speak nonsense, or I'll kill you." Dharma Qi mist surged from Li Weiyi's feet, activating the jade boat, which instantly accelerated, fleeing downstream.

Li Weiyi certainly wanted to kill Long Ting, to eliminate this enemy who had become incredibly deranged due to hatred. However, he clearly knew that the opponent's cultivation was already unfathomable, and there was no need to fight him to the death at the moment.

What puzzled Li Weiyi even more was how Long Ting had precisely caught up, despite them having already escaped two or three hundred li and drifted for another several hundred li over three days. This was underground!

Li Weiyi turned to look at Qin Qian. After she could mobilize the Dharma Qi from her five Qi Seas, she stood up from the coffin, re-tied her belt, and looked with tension and fear at Long Ting pursuing them. Involuntarily, she grabbed Li Weiyi's arm, trying to remain calm. "Take me and escape, no matter the cost."

Clearly, in her eyes, Long Ting was as terrifying as a fiend. What filled her heart with despair and gloom was that Li Weiyi's Ancestral Field had been crippled, and his combat power as a one-star Spirit Mind Master was simply insufficient against the now terrifyingly powerful Long Ting. So she added, "If we can't escape, you must... kill me with one sword..."