Cultivation starts from devouring the Dao fruits

"Brother Yu!"

As soon as Zhao Yu arrived at the mansion's entrance, Ling Qianxue approached him with a surprised and delighted expression from not far away.

Upon seeing Su Bingyun next to Zhao Yu, Ling Qianxue's gaze flickered slightly before she smiled sweetly and performed a courteous gesture, saying, "I'm grateful to Senior Su for taking care of my Brother Yu. Should Senior Su require anything in the future, I will do everything within my power."

Su Bingyun, with a sharp gaze and calm voice, said, "Since when did Zhao Yu become yours? Ling Qianxue, has Zhao Yu married into your family, or have you perhaps married him as your husband?"

Ling Qianxue's gaze slightly narrowed.

Naturally, Zhao Yu could not possibly marry into the Ling family. And if Ling Qianxue were to marry Zhao Yu, then she could never become the head of the Ling family.

At this time, the strongest cultivator in the Ling family was Ling Qianxue, who was also the only member with a hope of reaching the Foundation Establishment.

Should she marry Zhao Yu and he were to leave later, she would follow, and the entire Ling family would face the verge of collapse and destruction, for without a powerful cultivator, the Ling family could not defend Linghe Lake and the Nine Depths Mountain Market.

Even though the Cang Ling Sect acknowledged the Ling family's ownership of Linghe Lake and the Nine Depths Mountain Market, if a powerful rogue cultivator were to annihilate the Ling family, other cultivator clans could naturally find a way to obtain recognition from the Cang Ling Sect.

With a playful smile, Ling Qianxue retorted, "Although familial duties prevent me from marrying Brother Yu, I do like him! Senior Su, by targeting me this way, could it be that you also have feelings for my Brother Yu? If Senior Su likes Brother Yu as well, I am willing to share him with you."

Ling Qianxue accurately counterattacked, knowing well that Su Bingyun, being the pampered daughter of heaven, was proud and sensitive.

"You, you are shameless! I, I—Zhao Yu is my best friend. I, I! I'm leaving first! In one month, I will host an exchange meeting at Mount Wolf Ridge!!"

Su Bingyun's face flushed a shade of red, and with gritted teeth, she channeled her mana and transformed into an escape light, flying away into the distance.

"Let's go!"

Zhao Yu smiled lightly, and together with Ling Qianxue, they gathered some cultivators recruited by the Ling family before leaving Mount Wolf Ridge and returning to Ling Lotus Lake.

In the quiet room, Zhao Yu counted his spoils of war.

In the battle that annihilated the Wang family, Zhao Yu didn't kill many Wang family cultivators, but after destroying that Second-Order Intermediate Evil Ghost, he found quite a few bodies inside the Wang family compound, ending up with substantial gains.

Zhao Yu altogether obtained three hundred fifty-seven intermediate-grade spirit stones, thirteen thousand seven hundred thirty-two low-grade spirit stones, a large number of talismans, and various kinds of spiritual medicines, magic artifacts, alchemy materials, talisman-drawing materials, artifact-refining materials, and cultivation manuals.

The magical technique manuals possessed by the loose cultivators were inconsequential, but the Wang family, being the premier Foundation Establishment family, provided Zhao Yu with a set of Formation Path inheritances that could be cultivated to Third-Order high-grade, a set of Talisman Path inheritances that could be cultivated to Third-Order high-grade, as well as a set of Alchemy Dao inheritances and a set of artifact refining inheritances that could be cultivated to Second-Order high-grade.

In the Wang family, there were also a dozen sets of cultivation techniques that could be practiced up to the later stages of Foundation Establishment, including the Five Elements Cultivation Technique, along with the Primordial Technique that could be cultivated by cultivators with any attribute spirit root.

However, the Wang family had only one cultivation technique that could reach the Golden Core Stage, and that technique was the "Mountain Sutra."

"This 'Mountain Sutra' is a top-tier cultivation technique, facilitating dual cultivation of law and body, and it even has effects that extend one's lifespan. Normally, a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage has a lifespan of about two hundred years, but those who cultivate the 'Mountain Sutra' could exceed four hundred years, effectively doubling their lifespan."

"Besides, cultivators practicing the 'Mountain Sutra' could even absorb the power of earth veins to accelerate the growth of various spiritual medicines, gradually enhancing the quality of spirit veins, possessing various unimaginable earth attribute divine skills."

"Unfortunately, the requirements are too high! It requires an Earth Attribute Heavenly Spirit Root and also a body possessing the Earth Yuan Body spiritual body. Not to mention the northern desolates, even the Cultivation World's sacred Great Qian Empire might not find such a cultivation genius."

Zhao Yu felt a tinge of regret as he held the "Mountain Sutra."

Golden Core Techniques are incredibly precious; the entire Wang family had only one set of "Mountain Sutra," besides which there were no other techniques capable of reaching the Golden Core Stage, not losing to any sect-protecting cultivation texts.

The more exceptional the cultivation technique, the more difficult it is to practice, requiring stricter conditions, which is why so many ordinary cultivation techniques have been created by cultivators, with only those suitable for one's self being the best.

"However, the 'Mountain Sutra' does record the method to cultivate the Earth Yuan Body.

To cultivate the Earth Yuan Body, one needs to use Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of at least third order, then lock oneself inside a spiritual land using a grand array, absorbing the spiritual energy of that place for a long time, using the third order or higher earth attribute Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to change one's physique to possess an Earth Yuan Body."

"Once the Earth Yuan Body is cultivated, one can practice any earth attribute spell or cultivation technique with twice the effect. However, achieving the Earth Yuan Body does not extend life; only after achieving the Earth Yuan Body and then practicing the 'Mountain Sutra' is there a possibility to extend lifespan, which is extremely difficult!"

"But the 'Mountain Sutra' is definitely a scripture that surpasses top-tier cultivation techniques, yet the difficulty of cultivation is also too great!"

Zhao Yu, intensely studying the "Mountain Sutra," realized that among the text, only the secret technique of the Earth Yuan Body was possibly within his reach, as he was powerless with the fundamental techniques within it.

After Zhao Yu inventoried the loot, he immediately took out the stele of the second-order middle-grade Evil Ghost Relic and drew a breath, easily refining the surging Yin energy and chose to enhance the quality of the White Ghost Emperor.

"White Ghost Emperor: Quality Low-grade (20/1000)."

Zhao Yu slightly smiled, "A second-order middle-grade Evil Ghost Relic can enhance the quality by twenty points. That means fifty pieces of second-order middle-grade Evil Ghost Relics are needed to evolve the White Ghost Emperor into a middle-grade Ghost. Although it's a bit difficult, it's not without hope!"

For the Yin Ghost Sect, even low-grade Ghosts are rare treasures, not to mention middle-grade Ghosts.

In the following days, Zhao Yu continued his alchemy, practiced the Wood Yuan Gong, and devoured the relics of Evil Ghosts to enhance the quality and cultivation level of the White Ghost Emperor.

As for the Vajra Dragon Elephant Art, after weighing his options, Zhao Yu decided to give up further deduction and practice. After all, who would continue practicing martial arts when they could cultivate immortality?

Initially, Zhao Yu practiced Vajra Dragon Elephant Art because his aptitude for cultivation was too poor.

In order to obtain a method of self-protection, now with his Foundation Establishment Level body cultivation strength, high-grade Wood Spirit Root, and possessing the White Ghost Emperor, the king of hundreds of ghosts, as a low-grade Ghost, ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators might not even be a match for the White Ghost Emperor.

Continuing to practice the Vajra Dragon Elephant Art no longer held much significance.

The cultivation level and quality of the White Ghost Emperor continued to rise until Zhao Yu had exhausted all the Evil Ghost Relics he possessed.