Chapter 94
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Chapter 94: The Challenge of the Treasure Cabinet
The words from the embroidered ball struck Li Hui like a thunderbolt: “This is the returning light reflecting? It’s no longer possible to activate the spirit patterns again? Can you tell how many months of life I have left?”
“There are still six months of vitality. Once that time is up, aging will set in, just like an elderly person about to die. If you can defy fate and activate the sixth spirit pattern within these six months, and cross the threshold between the six-pattern and seven-pattern stages, you might live until the peach tree demon is born.”
Li Hui nodded in gratitude: “Thank you. This aligns with the judgment of the elder from Tianlai City. No matter how difficult it is in six months, I will activate the sixth and seventh spirit patterns. There should be a way to store water and increase my potential.”
The embroidered ball scoffed: “How naïve. Your life source is nearly dried up. Where are you going to store water? Relying on the golden beads on your arm?”
“Oh? You know about this golden bead?”
“I don’t know, but it has to do with the Buddhist body-refining beads, the karma beads, and the refuge beads. You have helped deliver so many evil ghosts and souls, reducing a lot of resentment in the world, which has made it stronger.” The embroidered ball made her judgment, which Li Hui couldn’t quite grasp; he was merely curious and didn’t take it to heart.
He was racking his brain to find methods to enhance his potential, and thanks to the various miscellaneous books in his mind, he indeed listed out several fragments of text.
“Practicing demonic skills by devouring cultivators to enhance potential? Which rogue from the Jade Symbol Sect wrote this? The madness is beyond belief. How could this kind of book even find its way to the scripture hall, and be included?”
“Every spring and autumn, swallowing the Qinyuan precious pill continuously for eighteen years can double one’s potential. Pff, how shameless! Swallowing such Duobao pills only doubles one’s potential, and they say there are side effects.”
“Thousands of years ginseng, thousands of years snow lotus, thousands of years he shou wu, thousands of years dodder… Can it be any more exaggerated? Is this a pill formula or am I supposed to count out thousands of years? Also, a success rate of less than 50%? What the heck?”
With each fragment he read, Li Hui’s heart sank further. The embroidered ball was right; it was too difficult to store water. Cultivating the Ideal Body was like building a thick stone wall in front of himself, and every time he fused an exotic treasure, it would cause damage, that was mentioned in his cultivation methods as well.
He swept away those unreliable texts and eliminated the aspects he could not reach, when the last passage leaped into view: “Borrow the unrivaled cave’s spiritual energy to condense the Spiritual Seed, allowing it to grow into a treasure cabinet. This treasure cabinet serves as a spiritual altar, requiring various types of spiritual energy and Miao Jade as incense, offerings for sacrifice. I have combined talismans to develop a cost-effective method…”
“Eh? A treasure cabinet? Isn’t this the secret that Elder Chen Mengde painstakingly sought on the Nine-Mystic Continent?” Li Hui was astonished and quickly traced the source, digging out a notebook from the pile of old documents.
This notebook only had nineteen pages, filled with many chaotic and disordered speculations. If he hadn’t read Elder Chen Mengde’s travel notes, he would have thought the elder was rambling nonsense, unable to connect words like treasure cabinet, spiritual altar, and offerings.
In a flash, Li Hui realized that this notebook also came from Elder Chen Mengde, but it merely contained the introduction; he hurriedly indexed other texts to seek explanations, expanding those nineteen pages to over two hundred, listing annotations to at least make it understandable, not shrouded in clouds and mist.
“Borrowing unmatched spiritual energy to condense the seed; such a spiritual seed can only be obtained in the Great Thousand Cave and possesses the ability to attract all sorts of spiritual energy from the world.”
“The Wutu Continent is barren; even if there are blessed lands, they are in the hands of the top sects of powerful dynasties. The Jade Symbol Sect could never reach them.”
“In this case, I can only take another path. I have developed a tyrannical acupuncture technique combining acupuncture research, enabling the insertion of talismans into all acupuncture points. You see, the human body has eighty-one major acupoints and three hundred sixty-five hidden acupoints, making it completely possible to set up a talisman formation, using the Dantian acupoint as the focal point to replace the unrivaled spiritual energy’s functions, perhaps even attracting diverse spiritual energies from all around to nourish the body, thicken the foundation, and improve quality…”
“Nine turns return to true with eighty-one; the Dantian in the middle can serve as earth. The hidden points throughout the universe total three hundred sixty-five, corresponding to the stars to represent heaven. Therefore, in my conception, this is not one set of talisman formations, but two sets.”
“As for the talisman formations, the Earthly Array should be based on tracking talismans, Spirit Sense talismans, spirit lure talismans, Qi Prospecting talismans, and guiding Qi talismans. The Heavenly Array should be based on Cloud-Brush Transforming Talismans, Universal Rain Talismans, Storm and Thunder Talismans, so that one can swallow clouds and exhale mist, ingest energy and transform it into essence, attracting all kinds of exotic spiritual energy for the nourishment of the body, thickening the foundation and improving quality.”
“The treasure cabinet can accommodate various spiritual energies, requiring a certain number of Miao Jade for the arrangement. The quality of the Miao Jade doesn’t matter; it can be gradually optimized later, as long as the quantity is sufficient. Our Daling Dynasty has a specialty, Xumi Bamboo, which may be used to wait patiently with this bamboo, starting with just a few Miao Jades and gradually adding more…”
As Li Hui read to this point, he was filled with shock. Although Chen Mengde was influenced by the silver snake and could not verify various speculations, the techniques he designed were absolutely brilliant. Additionally, the acupuncture technique combined with his research seemed to mirror the method using the Golden Threshold Thirty-Six Symbols.
“It seems that after Elder Chen Mengde, the disciples of the Jade Symbol Sect did not study the treasure cabinet, but instead, learned his method of acupuncture talisman embedding, applying it to overstimulate potential. In fact, the method is exactly the reverse; the treasure cabinet nourishes the body with the exotic spiritual energy of heaven and earth, continuously thickening the foundation and enhancing potential, definitely not overstimulating.”
“The process of improving quality is like injecting fresh water into a river that is drying up; it’s far better than slowly raising the foundation on one’s own. Even when encountering bottlenecks in cultivation, breakthroughs can happen more quickly, which is the key to how the cultivators of the Nine-Mystic Continent can move mountains and fill the seas and dominate in all directions.”
“There are many difficulties in this. For my part, I have already embedded thirty-six symbols, of which nine points have also been layered with the Myriad Form Purple Absolute God Symbol.”
“Secondly, talisman formations are usually cyclical, interlinked, and progress in chains. One move affects the entire body; this is something Elder Chen Mengde hasn’t considered, only providing a rough concept.”
“Moreover, I am not yet in the Concentrating Spirit stage! Even if I can determine the specific locations of the eighty-one major acupoints and three hundred sixty-five hidden acupoints, who can help me perform acupuncture and embed the talismans?”
Li Hui dressed neatly, this time not disguising himself as a monk. He donned a set of purple brocade clothes, stepped into embroidered golden boots, and tied jade tokens to his belt, fixing his hair up into a square bun, taking a long sword to sheath at his waist.
What a handsome young gentleman! Anyone who still dared to say he was a monk would need their eyesight checked!
Just as he was about to try activating the Ideal Body, a talisman paper swiftly flew to the window, from which came Gao Yuhu’s voice: “Junior brother, hurry to Pearl Street and look for Master Ma at the Beast Tamers Guild. Have him arrange a blue-billed emu for you, and head straight to Linggui City. Be careful on the way; the true disciples of the Iron Zither Sect, Lan Pipa, have already arrived and set up Heaven’s Net. Her twelve inner sect disciples are exceptionally outstanding. Remember, don’t act recklessly in Linggui City, especially avoid buying talisman paper again; Mo Xinghe and Bai Yulian will contact you…”
“The Beast Tamers Guild?” Li Hui shook his head. He would have to find a ship for a long voyage only once he reached Linggui City; he was definitely going, but the blue-billed emu was too slow, and flying through the air wasn’t safe. Right now, there were better options in Giant Shell City.
