Chapter 104 : Zesnake Kan-Kill
Chapter 104: Zesnake Kan-Kill
Chen Beiwu paused in his steps, picked up the jade bottles one by one to check, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes. “The quality of this queen bee honey isn’t bad. How many Spirit Yuan per jin?”
“Two jin for three hundred and eighty Spirit Yuan. Fellow Daoist, what do you think?” the young man said with heartache.
This batch of queen bee honey was his bottom-of-the-chest stock.
If not for the fear that the other party would report him to the Law Enforcement Bureau and ruin his shop’s business, he would never have taken out such quality treasures.
“Alright. Do you have more queen bee honey?” Chen Beiwu asked.
“I only have these on me.” The young man shook his head.
Hearing this, Chen Beiwu directly paid with his phone, then took two bottles of queen bee honey and left.
Watching Chen Beiwu’s figure disappear, the young man cursed in his heart, ‘Damn it, such bad luck today!’
He quickly reacted, hurriedly circulated his magic power, and spat out the jade bottle he had just swallowed.
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Back home, Chen Beiwu took out the queen bee honey and inspected it carefully again.
‘Sure enough, private trades can’t compare with the reliability of the Immortal Alliance Official Website.’ Chen Beiwu thought inwardly.
Normally, he would choose to trade on the Immortal Alliance Official Website.
Unfortunately, buying queen bee honey there required an appointment and waiting for delivery, so he had gone on the Ten Thousand Spirits app marketplace to compare goods and chose a same-city trade.
This time, however, he had run into a trap!
If it weren’t for his divine sense far exceeding ordinary Qi Refining cultivators, and for doing thorough research before purchasing, he might have been deceived by this so-called “Natural Beekeeping Farm.”
With such a comparison, it was no wonder that resources sold by the Immortal Alliance Official Website were two to three tenths more expensive than the second-hand market. That price difference was selling authenticity and the brand credibility of the Immortal Alliance.
‘A pity the Immortal Alliance has no law for “tenfold compensation for counterfeits.”’ Chen Beiwu extinguished his stray thoughts and went downstairs.
The Immortal Alliance logistics was extremely fast. The items he had purchased that morning had already all arrived.
After receiving the delivery, Chen Beiwu went upstairs and immediately took out the Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking cultivation method jade slip and handed it to Iron Egg.
“Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking allows you to devour the Qi of the rising Great Sun and nourish your body’s three meridians. If you cultivate it well, you might be able to regrow your hind legs in the future.” He rubbed Iron Egg’s head.
To cure Iron Egg’s congenital paralysis, Chen Beiwu had researched many records.
He discovered that Exotic Beasts could temper themselves through the One-Nine Lightning Tribulation, and if they succeeded in passing, they could seize a trace of creation’s power to heal internal hidden injuries and repair physical defects.
This treatment was innate completion of life itself, far superior to relying on pills. That was why he had been feeding Iron Egg Dragon Head Dendrobium recently, to enhance its sensitivity to fire-element spiritual energy.
Once Iron Egg managed to grasp the basics of Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking, he would be able to buy various cultivation resources to aid in practicing it.
Iron Egg bit down on the jade slip, his eyes full of eager anticipation.
“Don’t rush. This cultivation room can’t withstand your tossing around.”
After speaking, Chen Beiwu stored both Iron Egg and Gold Egg into his spirit beast pouch, activated the Gate of Ten Directions, and headed for the Southern Wastes.
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Baji Island, Qingshuang Valley.
To avoid exposing himself, Chen Beiwu deliberately went deep into Qingshuang Valley in search of Frostjade Bee swarms. He even extended his divine sense to probe into the hive’s queen bee honey, which enraged the Frostjade Queen Bee.
But Chen Beiwu had already prepared the Gate of Ten Directions in advance. Before the queen bee could send the swarm surging out, he slipped away, teleporting to a cave at the valley’s edge to cultivate.
At dawn the next day, Iron Egg gazed at the brilliance of the rising Great Sun, wholeheartedly comprehending the Sun-Swallowing Breath-Drinking method, while Chen Beiwu read the jade slip of Six Spirits of Formations.
【Formation】: Zesnake Kan-Kill Formation
【Rank】: Second-Tier, Lower-Grade Earth Formation
【Effect】: By injecting magic power, this formation could borrow the force of heaven and earth to awaken the soul of the spirit snake, producing nine indistinguishable phantom-serpents along the Nine-Palaces path to viciously slay early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.
【Method of Inscribing Formation Patterns】: Use the Kan position of the Eight Trigrams as the pivot, merge with the variations of water force within the Nine Palaces, and supplement with an ice-attribute snake soul, reverse-engraving the true south Li position…
Spending one night studying the Five Elements principles and the Three Laws of the formation disk, Chen Beiwu was quite surprised.
Contrary to his expectations of great difficulty, with just one divine sense deduction he easily simulated the inscription method and crucial nodes of this Second-Tier spirit formation, even devising two alternate deployment methods.
One was to arrange the Zesnake Kan-Kill Formation in the Kan and Zhen positions according to the Eight Trigrams, allowing water and thunder to interweave, transforming the killing formation into a binding one that paralyzed both magic power and body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
The other was to reverse the Nine Palaces, connecting Kan and Qian, not only disguising the array’s eye but also doubling the serpents into eighteen indistinguishable phantom-serpents.
The more Chen Beiwu pondered, the more feasible it seemed. Growing interested, he took out a formation disk from his storage pouch and began inscribing the Zesnake Kan-Kill Formation.
“Buzz!”
As time passed, Chen Beiwu had already carved eleven radiant formation patterns onto the disk. Only seven more remained to complete the inscription of the Zesnake Kan-Kill Formation.
Yet the next second, under his gaze, the finely-forged formation disk let out a mournful wail.
‘This disk has reached its limit, hasn’t it!’ Chen Beiwu sighed inwardly, stopped forcing it, and threw the disk outside the cave.
“Crack!”
Losing the support of his magic power, fractures spread across the disk until it exploded midair, scattering fragments in all directions.
“Woof!”
Noticing something wrong, Iron Egg immediately stopped comprehending his technique and spat fire to melt the shards flying toward Chen Beiwu.
“No harm done.”
Chen Beiwu circulated his magic power, clenched his palm, and all the broken shards froze midair before falling to the ground with crisp clinks.
With his current divine sense and magic power, even a thought could easily extinguish the arts of any late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, let alone these fragments which could at best injure an early-stage Qi Refining one.
“Gulu?”
Gold Egg, the slowest to react, only stopped cultivating the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree after everything was over, staring wide-eyed.
“It’s nothing. We should return to the sect and hand in our task.” Chen Beiwu chuckled.
The reason he had failed wasn’t misunderstanding, but rather that the quality of the finely-forged disk was average, barely able to bear a First-Tier upper-grade formation.
Moreover, inscribing a Second-Tier Earth Formation like the Zesnake Kan-Kill required all sorts of spiritual materials and the soul of a Second Realm spirit snake as the main spirit of the disk.
With such conditions lacking, managing to engrave eleven patterns already showed he had mastered about seventy to eighty percent of the formation.
‘A pity my magic power isn’t refined enough. Even if I gathered the materials, I couldn’t inscribe the main formation disk of the Zesnake Kan-Kill in one go.’ Chen Beiwu thought.
Inscribing formation disks was different from refining pills.
Array inscription required vast amounts of divine sense and magic power, completed in one breath, demanding a cultivator’s high realm. But alchemy could be broken into steps, nurturing the pill, requiring less of a cultivator’s cultivation level.
That was why ninety-nine percent of Immortal Alliance-certified Second-Tier Array Masters were Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Second-Tier Alchemists could still sometimes be talented Qi Refining ones.