Family Cultivation: I Become a Mirror

Chapter 444 367 Tujun Kuiguang

The Li Family's group quickly rode the wind away, and Li Yuanjiao's complexion was slightly pale. He took an elixir to remove the cold poison and regulate his True Yuan, and his complexion looked much better. Beside him, Li Qinghong, who had consumed a great deal, also took medicine to recuperate.

Although he had suffered some minor injuries, a smile still hung on Li Yuanjiao's face. The Storage Bag in his hand emitted a light, covered in Talisman Script, clearly no ordinary item, and he laughed, saying,

"This Devil Cultivator seems extraordinary, surely at the level of Zhang Huaide and Qiu Ji, a core figure, unlike those minor Devil Cultivators. This time, there are probably some good gains to be had."

As he said this, Li Yuanjiao did not open the Storage Bag casually, but rather fiddled with it in his hand. Li Xuanxuan, somewhat worried, asked,

"Yuanjiao, how are your injuries?"

"Don't worry, just let Guiluan treat me for a couple of days and I should be able to stabilize my cultivation level for a few months before breaking through to the Ninth Layer."

He meant the Talisman Pill by his words, but, as the old monkey was flying behind them, he did not mention it aloud. The three men and a monkey flew silently for a while when suddenly Li Yuanjiao stopped and said softly,

"Found them!"

Below was a small Fetal Breathing Cultivator clan, where Devil Cultivators were enjoying a slaughter. Li Yuanjiao rode the wind down and, with a swing of his sword, began to strike.

After a while, he brought back a Fetal Breathing Devil Cultivator with all four limbs severed, a lone and smooth body, eyes bulging and begging for mercy.

Li Yuanjiao's gaze was penetrating, unmoved, and he simply threw him to the ground, then tossed the Qi Cultivation Demon Cultivator's Storage Bag onto his face, ordering,

"Open it with your Spiritual Sense."

The Devil Cultivator obediently did as instructed. The Storage Bag loosened slightly at the opening, and a myriad of items poured out, showing no signs of any tracking spells being triggered, and seemingly without any tricks.

Not interested if the Devil Cultivator was marked for revenge, Li Yuanjiao casually crushed his head with a foot amidst his pleas for mercy, then used a Fire Technique to cleanly incinerate him and collected the Storage Bag and many Spiritual Objects.

All of this took only a few tens of breaths, resolving the matter swiftly and decisively. Li Qinghong, holding a spear, recuperated as if she had heard nothing, but Li Xuanxuan frowned slightly and interjected,

"There's no need to whittle him down to a human stick... It would be better to end him with a single sword strike rather than doing this, creating bloodshed everywhere."

"It's less trouble this way, no need to guard against him using any Talismans."

Laughing, Li Yuanjiao replied, and then they rode the wind once more, with Li Yuanjiao flipping through the Storage Bag to inspect the loot. They soon crossed several Noble Families' territories and arrived at the edge of Yu Family's boundary in Secret Forest County.

The Yu Family's Secret Forest County was in chaos, with battle scars everywhere, light and spells clashing against each other, and smoke billowing endlessly.

Li Xuanxuan paused to look for a while, murmuring,

"From Yu Yufeng to Yu Yingyi in just four generations, it has already declined to such an extent, the damage is deep and irreversible!"

"Isn't that the truth?"

Li Qinghong, holding her spear, stared at the violently flickering flames in the county and responded,

"Noble Families rise from obscurity because their ancestors either had exceptional talent and shrewdness or were magnanimous and good at utilizing others, or were cautious and vicious, which enabled them to stand out."

"One generation sets up the business, the next struggles to maintain it, often falling far short of their predecessors."

"Descendants indulge in leisure or immerse themselves in cultivation, not understanding the ways of the world. Achieving Foundation Establishment and reaching Zifu can help suppress and control the clan, but if not, they sow the seeds of disaster!"

Li Yuanjiao, sword in hand, watched and commented in a muted voice,

"From our clan's great-grandfather to now, it has been four generations. Xiyue represents the fifth."

Turning around, he suddenly asked,

"Among the descendants, is there anyone who can compare to the great-grandfather and the great-great-grandfather's generation?"

Caught off guard by the sudden weightiness of the topic, Li Qinghong hastily replied with a smile,

"Brother is joking. Each generation faces different circumstances; there's no need for comparison."

Li Xuanxuan, who had been listening in silence throughout the journey, didn't utter a word, and on arriving at Lijing Town, went up to the peak to draw Talismans. Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong descended to the Central Hall together with Li Yuanping to divide up the numerous spoils of war.

They had ten Storage Bags from the Fetal Breathing Cultivators, which, when they filled their storehouse with the Spiritual Objects and Magic Artifacts, left only a little over forty Spirit Stones to be added to the clan's treasury, finally making up for the shortfall left by the Spirit Stones given to the Yu Mountain line of Li Qingxiao.

Then they poured out the savings of the Qi Cultivation Demon Cultivator, which amounted to as many as twenty Spirit Stones. Li Yuanjiao was about to hand them over to Yuanping when he saw him frown and say,

"Brother and Sister must take some! Continually handing everything to the clan, where will you get personal provisions for your own cultivation? Brother, you are on the verge of Foundation Establishment, think about yourself more."

Li Yuanjiao and his sister exchanged glances, each taking half, and took a few bottles of usable elixirs. The rest was mostly Demonic Skills. Li Yuanjiao sifted through them, examining each one until his eyes lit up and he laughed,

"There's a Fourth Grade Spell here."

Spells widely spread throughout Wu and Yue are mostly First or Second Grade, or even inferior ones; Third and Fourth Grade are often closely guarded secrets of the Noble Families, and anything higher belongs exclusively to the Immortal Sects and Immortal Gates. Hearing this, everyone gathered around instantly. Li Yuanjiao read it carefully and answered,

"How rare! It's a Fourth Grade Spell from a small Sect in Wu Country called the Tu Jun Sect, named 'Tujun Kuiguang.' It requires different forms of cold qi and cold water for cultivation. To start, one needs nine strands of cold qi or three strands of cold water, and for major success, a massive eighty-one strands!"

"On normal days, these cold qi and cold waters are refined into the left index finger, and during battle, one releases the 'Tujun Kuiguang,' hindering the enemy's mana flow. If cultivated to a high level, a mere encounter can turn a Qi Cultivator into ice water."

After Li Yuanjiao finished speaking, Li Qinghong took it over and read carefully, sighing regretfully in a low voice,

"It's of no use to me, my attribute is thunder and fire, the very antithesis of yin and cold, never mind refining it into my index finger."

Li Yuanjiao nodded; the legacy of his own cultivation techniques, such as the 'River Qi Decision' and the 'Cold Pine Dew Snow Technique,' were quite compatible with this spell. 'Cold Pine Dew Qi,' an energy collecting aspect of the 'Cold Pine Dew Snow Technique,' could even be used as one of the strands of cold qi to refine the spell.