Chapter 741 - 218: Spies! Stealing Cultivation Skills, Returning to Earth Soul First Realm!

Chapter 741: Chapter 218: Spies! Stealing Cultivation Skills, Returning to Earth Soul First Realm!

However, he has always been cautious.

So, before proceeding, he’s starting to recall the chess pieces he had previously placed outside.

Originally, his plan included the "East Sea Immortal Realm," since as long as Gu Yaojue and the others reached the East Sea Immortal Realm, he could directly go there through the "Thousand-Mile in a Line," but this step failed.

Yet in the Barbarian Race, Zhenyan Xue, a chess piece "placed in a dead end to await rebirth," provided him with extremely valuable information, allowing him to understand the overall situation instantly despite being far away.

As for why he regarded Zhenyan Xue as a chess piece.

The reason is simple.

If family and friends are already in the game yet you ignore them, believing they are still in a "fairy-tale castle without deceit and harm," it will only lead to deadly consequences and helpless, perhaps comfort-seeking childish crying.

In the days that followed, Li Yuan spent a lot of time on the road, and during other times he would return to Yanyun Dao.

The "Nine Temporary Patrol Tokens" were incredibly useful.

Li Yuan had the chance and was keen to thank the "Dragon Vein" face to face, but unfortunately... the Dragon Vein clearly had issues.

Previously, it spoke endlessly of alliance, but in the blink of an eye, it didn’t recognize him anymore.

...

A few days later.

Li Yuan appeared in the Sea of Slumber.

Here, the wind and snow were calm, with no ice mounds, appearing quite unusual in this blizzard-ridden land of Eternal Night.

Li Yuan transformed into a tiny white insect resembling ice flakes, swiftly gliding forward.

With his ability to clearly distinguish the flow of Yin Yang Qi, he quickly detected movements.

He flew over, gazing from afar at the first movement.

What he saw was a three-headed giant wolf, over twenty feet tall and eighty to ninety feet long.

The giant wolf was in a deep sleep.

Even in slumber, Li Yuan could sense the overwhelming bloodthirstiness.

The data atop this giant wolf’s head was astonishing, ranging from "2885~10155," clearly indicating it was a Fourth Grade Demon Beast.

Li Yuan continued flying and soon felt a second movement.

This second movement happened not far from the first.

There was a burly man with many grim bone spikes growing from his back.

The man sat cross-legged, seemingly holding some reddish crystal stones in his hand.

Stuck into the snow beside him was a golden giant axe.

The snow flew incessantly...

The giant axe was covered with snow.

The man was "white-haired."

But whether it was the giant axe or the man, Li Yuan was not unfamiliar, because... this was his son — Zhenyan Huang.

At this moment, Zhenyan Huang appeared extremely terrifying, but the data above his head was only "4052~22800," slightly higher than when Li Yuan saw him three years ago. Yet... Li Yuan knew that this data did not include those "Grim Bone Spikes" on his back.

Those spikes, like his "Earth Soul Celestial Eye," were a strange, elusive form of soft power.

Speaking of which, Zhenyan Huang was just eighteen.

But he had already lived half of his life.

At this moment, he was desperately cultivating, with the aim to crush the fertile lands of the East, shattering the gradually unifying Yin and Yang, providing future generations of the Barbarian Race a place to live and thrive without fear of oppression.

He was the Barbarian King.

He shouldered the responsibility of the Nine Flames Clan.

Li Yuan did not go forward to reunite; he secretly hid at a vast distance, observing the flow of Yin Yang Qi within Zhenyan Huang.

He saw a tiny deep black sphere embedded within the deep red Yang Qi.

This scene was one he had seen before.

During his confrontation with Lü Xuanxian, it was the same scenario.

The Yin Qi was confined by the Yang Qi at a certain point, thereby becoming an independent "Ghost Artifact."

Li Yuan did not immediately make a judgment; he quietly observed his son and then began openly... stealing cultivation skills.

...

A few days later.

He saw a deep black stele under the frozen soil.

The stele was inscribed with some ancient characters.

A hunched old woman pointed at those ancient characters, explaining them to the Barbarian King bit by bit.

Li Yuan simply listened silently, without rashly observing the old woman, but a gut feeling arose within him.

This old woman was very likely the "Tomb Guardian."

Because the outside pressure was too intense, the "Divine Tomb" initiated an emergency plan, resulting in the emergence of these people.

In other words, whether it was the Tomb Guardian, the old man instructing Xiaozhao, or even his cunning daughter-in-law — Meng Xingxian, they could all possibly be Divine Spirits in a weakened state.

However, he wasn’t too sure about Meng Xingxian.

If Meng Xingxian was a Divine Spirit, then it was too much...

Marrying a younger junior and even bearing children, there was no one like this.

But thinking about it, if he lived for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, if he could still have descendants, wouldn’t he marry a young girl from tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years later?

’Xiaohuang is really fierce, possibly having a child with a Divine Spirit.’

Li Yuan secretly marveled.

Subsequently, as the old woman explained the stele, Li Yuan silently memorized it.

He was extremely cautious and, coupled with the fact that no one would assume that a "snowflake" on this ice field could be a person transformed, he remained undiscovered.

These days passed quickly for about half a month.

Li Yuan, piecing everything together, managed to understand the introductory method of the "Earth Soul System."

The Earth Soul is divided into five small realms:

The first small realm, borrowing Yin to create a Ghost Artifact in isolation, characterized by generating Evil Ghost Organs.

The second small realm, where the Evil Ghost Body hides the Vajra Heart, characterized by temporarily transforming into a "Single Ghost," achieving temporary immortality.

But a pure Single Ghost, at the Third Grade, is still terribly weak, mainly because the cultivator’s own power is still there, which barely allows for a fight.

Yet, even so, Earth Souls at this level are likely among the weakest entities within the three cultivation systems.