12dz Chapter 14: Cave Dwelling
Chapter 14: Cave Dwelling
Li Wu sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a miraculous pill he had bought from Qi Shu Dan Zhai in his hand.
The elixir was pure white, with a few streaks of blood red.
Just as Li Wu was about to swallow the pill after circulating his cultivation technique, the lightning in his dantian suddenly became agitated and violent, as if it were rejecting him.
They rejected the pill in his hand.
"What's going on?"
Li Wu's expression changed, but there was no time to think about it now. The most urgent task was to regulate his breathing and suppress and calm the abnormal spiritual energy.
After a moment, the restless thunder in his dantian calmed down, and Li Wu breathed a sigh of relief before turning his attention to the wondrous spirit pill.
Li Wuneng was certain that the unusual movement of the thunderbolts originated from this pill.
"Could this pill be a 'Grand Pill'?"
The thought crossed Li Wu's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.
"Wait a minute, Qi Shu Dan Zhai is such a big shop, so many cultivators buy pills from him, how could he sell inferior pills?"
"What could be the reason?"
Li Wu was completely baffled, but he knew he couldn't take the Miraculous Elixir any longer.
"I wasted twenty spirit stones."
Li Wu's expression immediately turned somewhat ugly. After putting the pill back into his storage bag, he pushed open the door and left.
She didn't even bother to respond to Qi Yang's greeting.
After leaving Jianxiawu, Li Wu went directly back to Pukoufang Market.
Looking at the jade bottle on the stone table, Li Wu was somewhat angry.
I spent a huge sum of twenty spirit stones to buy this pill, and now you're telling me I can't take it?
Although Li Wu now owns two shops and earns more than ten spirit stones a month, he still feels bad about wasting twenty spirit stones at once.
Most importantly, Li Wu was very curious as to why this seemingly perfectly fine Miracle Pill couldn't be taken.
Aren't all the cultivators in Jianxiawu taking this kind of pill?
"Going directly to Qi Shu Dan Zhai to ask is probably not an option."
Li Wu tapped the table with his fingertips. Both the forces of the two realms strictly controlled the circulation of the various arts of cultivation.
Although Pukou Market is not as completely closed to outsiders as Jianxiawu, the only way to access the various arts and crafts is to become a disciple of a powerful organization.
Only in this way can one possibly get a glimpse of the basics, but the price is being at their beck and call for the rest of one's life.
Li Wu was naturally unwilling, therefore he knew nothing about alchemy.
"I wonder how Brother Lu is doing these days."
Li Wu thought of Lu Sui.
Lu Sui had been exposed to alchemy at the Zhao family a year ago. Although the Zhao family did not establish itself as a clan based on alchemy, it still had nearly ten kinds of pills and was quite famous in the market.
It's just unknown how far Lu Sui has progressed in the path of alchemy over the past year.
"Let's go take a look."
Li Wu decided to set off, but before he went there, he still needed to go to the market to prepare some gifts.
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Beneath the sea of clouds, atop the mountain peaks.
Li Wujia moved with the wind, surrounded by wisps of silvery-white electric arc fragments.
Gazing at the towering peaks and mirror-like blue waters, Li Wu traveled at a leisurely pace, pondering to himself:
"After breaking through to the Qi Refining stage, the journey is indeed much faster. What used to take four or five days by carriage can now be completed in one or two days to reach the Zhao family's valley."
"However, flying with lightning consumes too much energy, and I need to meditate to recover my spiritual energy every one or two hours."
Li Wu felt that his spiritual energy was running low, so he found a scenic mountain peak to land on.
With his feet on the dew-covered grass, Li Wu looked around, made a hand seal to suppress his aura, and then disappeared into the dense forest, finding a secluded corner to meditate and recover his spiritual energy.
Li Wu walked along the cliff face, intending to find a cave to meditate in.
After walking for a while, Li Wu suddenly sensed a fluctuation of spiritual energy on the cliff face not far ahead.
"How could there be spiritual energy fluctuations in this remote and desolate place? It doesn't seem like the activity of demonic beasts either."
A sense of curiosity arose in Li Wu's heart, so he slowly moved toward the direction of the spiritual energy fluctuations.
Passing through a thicket of bushes, a path suddenly appeared before us, leading to a cliff face with a crack that continuously spewed water out, forming a pool.
"Oh...oh oh oh!"
Several monkeys stood on the rocks in the pool, constantly throwing stones at the waterfall. The stones flew through the curtain of water and hit the cliff face, creating ripples.
"This is... an array?" Li Wu raised an eyebrow, not expecting that there would be an array in such a place.
"It seems there's a cave hidden behind this cliff, but I wonder if the owner is still there."
"I currently live in the residential area of the market, which is quite inconvenient. If the owner of this cave is not here, I can take it for myself."
Cave dwellings have always been built in places rich in spiritual energy.
Li Wu pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice:
"I'll give it a try. If I can't break it, I'll turn around and leave."
Having made up his mind, Li Wu wasted no more time. He took out his magic weapon, the Thunderstrike, and brandished the halberd in his hand. Spiritual power surged, and silvery-white arcs of electricity immediately wrapped around the halberd and gathered at a point on the blade.
Li Wu slowly flew into the air, his gaze sharpened, and he suddenly slashed out with his halberd.
The electric arcs danced wildly, like a swimming dragon.
Rumble!
The sudden cries of thunder startled the monkeys and the birds in the surrounding forest, causing them to flee in terror.
The silver-white halberd blade landed on a thin membrane as thin as a cicada's wing in the void, creating ripples. After a few breaths, a pale golden array appeared.
Like the afterglow of the setting sun shining on the water, shimmering like broken gold, a large amount of golden light shot out from the four corners, and the formation gradually dissipated after flashing for a few breaths.
"It seems this formation has been neglected for quite some time."
Seeing that the formation was broken so easily, Li Wu was overjoyed.
As the formation completely dissipated, a cave appeared out of thin air, emitting a faint light and gushing forth abundant spiritual energy, causing Li Wu to breathe deeply and feel radiant.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Li Wu, holding a long halberd, cautiously entered the cave.
At first, the passage was narrow, but after walking several dozen steps, it suddenly opened up into a bright and spacious area. The walls of the cave were inlaid with fluorite, and the concentration of spiritual energy was much higher than that of the courtyard where Li Wu lived in the market.
Li Wu entered the spacious hall, where there were chairs, stone beds, stone shelves, and futons. In the middle was a spring that was bubbling out spiritual energy.
Li Wu approached the stone shelf, touched the thick layer of dust accumulated on it, and looked at the empty hall, pondering to himself:
"This cave dwelling seems to have been abandoned for a long time."
Li Wu then went to check out the other stone chambers.
Almost everything was empty, except for one stone chamber with a stone platform on which sat a hexagonal jade plate engraved with array symbols, and several flags.
"Formation plates and flags?" Li Wu walked closer to take a look.
There are several cracks on this array plate, which look very new, obviously caused by his forceful breaking of the array earlier.
"It should still be repairable."
Having finally obtained a spiritual item, Li Wu naturally didn't want to let it go, so he carefully put it into his storage bag, planning to take it to the market to have it repaired after some time.
"This cave dwelling shouldn't be wasted; it can be used for cultivation later."
The cave dwelling is in a good location, not too far from Pukou Market, and in a remote place, making it difficult for ordinary cultivators to find.