CHAPTER 187: CHAPTER 187 FOUNDATION ESTABLISHMENT LEVEL 2

[Doorway Affairs: Caravans passing through Yue Girl Mountain are often extorted by a group of desolate loose cultivators for valuables. Please dispatch disciples to teach these cultivation realm scoundrels a lesson.]

[Quantity: 9]

[Combat Power: Third-Layer Qi Cultivation to Fifth-Layer Qi Cultivation]

[Status: Wandering around Yue Girl Mountain for nearly a year]

[Completion Rewards: Reputation 530, Magical Artifact Purple Thunder Frost Sword]

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[Doorway Affairs: In the deep blue sea of Qingli Sea, a small number of Deep Sea Spirit Turtles have gathered. You can try capturing them.]

[Quantity: 11]

[Combat Power: Eighth-Layer Qi Cultivation to Ninth-Layer Qi Cultivation]

[Status: Breeding in the deep blue sea for nearly three years, will leave after three years]

[Completion Rewards: Reputation 410, Spirit Turtle Shield refining method ×1]

The first four Doorway Affairs are easy to complete, with low difficulty, similar to clearing small instances, and can be accomplished by dispatching disciples.

The last task of capturing Deep Sea Spirit Turtles, Lu Ping looked at it for a while and found it quite challenging.

The Deep Sea Spirit Turtle is a Tier Two Demon Beast that dwells in the deep sea all year round. It is aggressive, loves to fight, and feeds on deep-sea fish, with a size comparable to a whale.

The turtle shell on their bodies can be used to refine Tier Three Spiritual Artifacts, Spirit Turtle Shields, which are rare refining materials.

In places like Qinghe Market, Lu Ping has never seen a Spirit Turtle Shield, with two main reasons.

One is that such a Magical Artifact mainly circulates within the cultivation realm of regions like the Qingli Sea and rarely reaches the mainland cultivation realm.

The second reason is that the deep sea is full of dangers, with many High-Tier Demon Beasts lurking within it.

Among them are Crystallization and Golden Core level Great Demon Beasts, making the risk of venturing into the deep sea to capture Deep Sea Spirit Turtles too high. Few cultivators are willing to take the risk.

"How can the Cyan Mountain Sect, whose strongest combat power is merely at the Foundation Establishment Stage, have the confidence to venture into the perilous deep sea?"

"Even if I reach the Golden Core Stage, I won’t easily venture into the deep sea..."

Lu Ping asked himself, and for now, this task of capturing Deep Sea Spirit Turtles is something he can only observe, without taking action yet.

It’s not worth having Lu Yuanshan and others risk their lives for a few Tier Three Defensive Spiritual Artifacts.

Or perhaps, this particular Doorway Affair can be ignored for now.

Lu Ping decided to temporarily disregard the task involving Deep Sea Spirit Turtles and communicated with Lu Yuanshan, carefully instructing him on the other four Doorway Affairs, urging their completion soon.

Lu Yuanshan memorized them one by one and proceeded to the Merit Hall after leaving, releasing the four Doorway Affairs as sect missions.

Next, it was just waiting for the disciples to accept these four tasks in the Merit Hall, proceed to complete them, and then Lu Ping could collect the Reputation Points.

The Merit Hall was bustling once again.

Matters of dealing with Cat Demons causing harm at the Jingyang Array Liu Family in Yue Girl Mountain were quickly accepted by disciples.

On the same day, She Qingqing found Lu Yuanshan with a face full of joy.

After a period of refining studies, she successfully refined a batch of Jade Bee Pills.

Jade Bee Pill is a Tier Two Middle Grade Elixir.

Consuming the Jade Bee Pill can enhance the magical power and qi blood purity of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, making their Divine Soul and Divine Sense stronger.

Moreover, it significantly enhances the power of magic when casting spells in battle, increasing combat endurance.

The appearance of the Jade Bee Pill can boost Lu Yuanshan’s strength somewhat.

Although She Qingqing’s first refinement yielded only six Jade Bee Pills, their quantity was not much, but it was timely enough for Lu Yuanshan to consume these Tier Two Treasure Pills before his expedition to Qingli Sea.

That day, Lu Yuanshan consumed the Jade Bee Pills and went into secluded cultivation for several days, honing his skills, trying to enhance his strength.

The seclusion lasted for three days, and on the evening of the third day, spiritual qi fluctuations emerged from Lu Yuanshan’s Seclusion Chamber.

After consuming six Jade Bee Pills and building upon his previous cultivation accumulation, Lu Yuanshan surprisingly broke through the bottleneck and stepped into the Second-Layer Foundation Establishment!

This provided a few more chances of success for the impending expedition to Qingli Sea.

After enhancing his strength, considering the timing, the centennial period of the Lost Vortex approached, and with Lu Yuanshan’s attention, reports from Qingli Sea started arriving successively.

This time, the Celestial Fire Palace followed past precedents, sending out invitations to the various regions of the sea, including the Lingxi State Cultivation Realm.

Inviting cultivators and forces from all sides to visit the Celestial Fire Palace together to eliminate the Outer Realm Demons soon to escape the seal.

This invitation was actually sent out a year ago and had spread throughout the Qingli Sea and various regions of Lingxi State.

There was a full year for interested participants to prepare adequately.

The first to respond was the Shenxiao Palace. After receiving the invitation, they immediately responded and arranged personnel to manage the matter.

The so-called centennial period is not precise; it is not that every hundred years, at this exact time point, new Outer Realm Demons will appear.

It occurs around a general time, roughly a hundred years, determined by Celestial Fire Palace according to the robustness of the sealing array beneath the Lost Vortex.

The impact of the Outer Realm Demons on the sealing barrier is becoming increasingly intense.

The Outer Realm Demons in Qingli Sea aren’t always completely eradicated, with some always slipping through the cracks, hiding throughout the sea.

This includes some Human Race Cultivators who were bewitched by the Outer Realm Demons, assisting the demons in hiding and lurking among humans.

In earlier years, Shenxiao Palace dispatched disciples, Liang Zhennan and Gu Daoist Wu Xiangwen, who were both bewitched by the hidden Outer Realm Demons in the Qingli Sea, thus losing their vast righteous qi and falling into the Evil Dao.

Celestial Fire Palace, while dealing with the centennial attacks of the Outer World Demons, also frequently purges the Outer Realm Demons hidden within the sea, never lowering their vigilance.

On one side, they broadly invited cultivators and forces from various regions to visit the Celestial Saint Palace to assist in eliminating Outer Realm Demons.

On the other side, Celestial Fire Palace had already sent disciples to stationed at the Lost Vortex, ready to strike at any moment.

In response to the Celestial Fire Palace’s call, within the Chu Kingdom, Lu Yuanshan received the news that Shenxiao Palace was first, followed by the Heaven-Facing Sect, Hengyue Sect, Tang Family, Zhang Family, and other cultivation clans.

Within the Qi Kingdom, the Celestial Saint Palace also participated, having sent elders to lead disciples to Qingli Sea long ago.

In this year, across various markets in the Chu Kingdom, the prices of Magical Treasures, Elixirs, and other resources saw an increase.

Many Foundation Establishment Level cultivators, upon learning of the centennial Outer Realm Demon disturbance, developed an interest in the Celestial Fire Purple Gold Copper and signed up to participate.

For a time, including Qinghe Market, West River Market, and other major markets, Tier Two, Tier Three Spiritual Artifacts, Elixirs, Talismans, etc., all experienced a shortage in supply.

Although the prices increased by about thirty to forty percent compared to before, people still pinched their noses and bought them, displeased but still willing to exchange for Spirit Stones.

As for Tier One Spiritual Artifacts and Elixirs, among other items, these grade materials’ prices were also affected, with rapidly increasing prices, faster than Tier Two and Tier Three resources.

After all, the foe to be dealt with are Outer Realm Demons, and Qi Cultivators are far from having the strength of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, with risks being high.

Where strength is lacking, equipment makes up for it.

As a result, recently, there have been numerous cultivators leaving the Chu Kingdom, renting various flying ships to head to the Qingli Sea.

Occasionally, large flying ships pass overhead, attracting some mortals to stand by and watch, noticing the sky becoming increasingly lively, always seeing the silhouettes of cultivators traversing.