Chapter 274: Chapter 271: Teleportation Array and Taixu Jade Liquid Golden Pill Skill

He landed in the Spirit Medicine Garden.

Li Ping carefully gathered all the Spirit Medicines.

Although he had the Ash Island to accelerate the growth of Spirit Medicines, it was currently being used mainly to cultivate the Radiant Star Wood so he could refine his Lifebound Magical Treasure sooner.

Thus, he really had no spare capacity to cultivate other Spirit Medicines. Obtaining so many thousand-year-old Spirit Medicines was a considerable gain.

As he collected the Spirit Medicines from the Medicine Garden, he couldn’t help but feel it was a pity.

On such a large island, its owner had only cultivated a hundred-mu Spirit Medicine Garden, leaving the rest of the land for ornamental flowers and plants. What a complete waste.

He couldn’t help but think, ’If only the owner of this immortal cave had torn down all the buildings before leaving, converted the land into Spirit Medicine Gardens, and planted them all with high-tier Spirit Medicines.’

...

After dealing with the Spirit Medicines, Li Ping’s gaze fell upon the bronze palace at the center of the island and the houses built around it.

Thanks to a solidifying Magic cast on the main structures, the buildings remained intact despite the passage of countless years.

SWOOSH!...

With a wave of his hand, Li Ping summoned five puppets before him.

After successfully cultivating the Ten Thousand Spirits Divine Communication Skill to the Third Level, he could now control up to twenty-seven puppets simultaneously. Controlling a mere five was, naturally, a simple matter.

Then, he hovered in the air, looking down from above.

Li Ping directed the puppets to enter the various houses and begin a thorough search.

To his disappointment, the search revealed that the houses below were mostly empty, containing only some ordinary furniture.

Clearly, the inhabitants of the immortal cave had taken all their personal belongings when they left.

As for the Spirit Medicines, they were likely not yet mature enough to be of use, which was why they hadn’t been harvested.

Although Li Ping was somewhat disappointed, he had still obtained dozens of thousand-year-old Spirit Medicines, so it wasn’t a total loss.

For someone like him who possessed a time-accelerating Spirit Island, dozens of thousand-year-old Spirit Medicines weren’t a huge deal; they merely saved him several decades of time.

However, this didn’t negate the value of thousand-year-old Spirit Medicines.

If he didn’t have the time-accelerating Spirit Island, obtaining dozens of thousand-year-old Spirit Medicines would have been enough to make him ecstatic.

His current disappointment was simply a matter of human greed.

...

Though various thoughts flashed through his mind, Li Ping didn’t stop directing the puppets in their exploration.

The five puppets finished searching the outer residences of the immortal cave, finding nothing.

Finally, his gaze landed on the great bronze hall at the very center. The five puppets pushed open the hall’s doors in unison and flew inside to conduct a careful search.

The bronze hall was also deathly quiet and empty, with nothing left behind.

It seemed his only harvest for the day would be those dozens of Spirit Medicines.

Shaking his head, Li Ping was about to recall the puppets and search for a way in and out of this Array.

Suddenly—

His expression shifted, a look of surprise appearing in his eyes.

Just a moment ago, information transmitted from the puppets’ perspective revealed that he had discovered something unusual in the great hall.

Without much hesitation, he transformed into a streak of light and shot through the open doors of the bronze hall.

His feet landed on the floor of the hall with a dull thud. The sound echoed far into the chamber, kicking up thick clouds of dust from the ground.

The dome of the bronze hall was adorned with exquisite murals: human Cultivators battling an Alien Race, an old man preaching from high upon the clouds, a Cultivator laughing heartily while facing a Thunder Tribulation...

The many images seemed to narrate a certain period of history.

But as exquisite as these murals were, they were ordinary items and held little value for Li Ping.

So he didn’t linger in the main hall, instead heading directly toward the back.

A short while later, Li Ping arrived in an elegantly decorated courtyard. His gaze was involuntarily drawn to a massive stone stele.

The stele was about three zhang tall and one zhang wide. Its surroundings were bare, without any decoration, but its center was engraved with densely packed text.

The characters looked as if they had been directly carved by a Cultivator with a Sword-shaped Spiritual Artifact. Each stroke was powerful and vigorous, truly befitting the description ’silver hooks and iron strokes’.

Unfortunately, the text on the stele was not in any script Li Ping recognized; he couldn’t understand a single word of what was written.

Shaking his head, he walked around to the back of the stele, which was inscribed with a map.

Beside the map was a section of explanatory text.

Li Ping couldn’t understand this text either.

But the map itself felt vaguely familiar to him.

After careful study and observation, seeing the clear demarcation between the plains and the mountain range, Li Ping finally realized it was clearly a map of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.

On the map, a specific location within the Cloud Mist Mountain Range was marked for emphasis.

Li Ping made a rough estimate. If the map was accurate, the marked location was only about ten thousand li from Fenglan Immortal City.

He shook his head and murmured softly, "I just can’t read the script, so I don’t know what this location represents."

Although Li Ping didn’t recognize the script, he was fortunate to have his own personal ’old grandpa’.

He copied the text from the front of the stele and the map from the back into a Jade Scroll. After confirming there were no errors or omissions in the copied text and that the stele itself had no special properties, he casually flicked his sleeve. The Devouring Essence Sword flew out and hacked away at the stele, and in moments, only a pile of dust remained.

After casually copying a dozen or so different characters from the stele, Li Ping unhurriedly walked out of the hall.

As he walked, he took out the Jiezi Heaven, along with Gao Ji Taoist who was inside it.

Before Gao Ji Taoist could survey his surroundings, he heard Li Ping’s calm voice. "Senior, I wonder if you recognize this script?"

"Script?" Gao Ji Taoist was taken aback by the question.

His Divine Sense extended from the Jiezi Heaven to look at the dozen or so neatly written characters on the paper in Li Ping’s hand.

Li Ping released the Earth Spirit Rat from his Storage Bag, letting it search for Treasure within the immortal cave, while he himself stood before the hall, unhurriedly awaiting Gao Ji Taoist’s response.

And indeed, Gao Ji Taoist did not disappoint Li Ping.

He examined the dozen or so characters for a while before speaking, his tone slightly uncertain. "Fellow Daoist Li, if this old man is not mistaken, this script should be a type of writing called Profound Text, which was common in the Cultivation Realm during Ancient Times. For some unknown reason, however, this script gradually disappeared. This old man only happened to learn it from an ancient book."

"That’s wonderful," Li Ping said, greatly pleased. "Senior, I must ask you to teach me Profound Text."

Hearing Li Ping’s request, Gao Ji Taoist readily agreed. "It is a small matter. Since Fellow Daoist Li wishes to learn, this old man will teach it to you. Please wait a moment, Fellow Daoist."

"Alright." Li Ping nodded slightly.

...

A moment later, the Earth Spirit Rat landed before Li Ping with a look of disappointment, putting on a human-like display of sighing sorrowfully.

Clearly, it had failed to find any Treasure in the immortal cave.

Li Ping thought nothing of it and, with a wave of his hand, returned it to his Spirit Beast Pouch.

Just then, Gao Ji Taoist’s voice sounded in Li Ping’s ear. "Fellow Daoist Li, this old man has already compiled a comparison of the meanings between Profound Text and the modern script. I will give it to you now."

As his voice fell, a Jade Scroll flew out from the Jiezi Heaven and hovered before Li Ping.

Li Ping took the Jade Scroll and inspected its contents, then nodded with a smile. "Many thanks, Senior."

After "locking Gao Ji Taoist back in his little black room," he began searching the immortal cave for the Array’s normal entrance and exit while also starting to learn Profound Text.

Unfortunately, with his shallow understanding of Arrays, finding the entrance and exit of a Tier Three Grand Array was clearly not easy. His search yielded no results.

But while he was helpless against the Array, Li Ping made great progress in learning Profound Text.

Relying on the terrifying Divine Sense of a Core Formation Cultivator and his photographic memory, memorizing a new script was naturally a simple matter.

It took only a few moments for Li Ping to go from a complete beginner to mastering the reading and writing of Profound Text.

Not in a hurry to leave, he found a clean spot on the ground and sat down cross-legged. He took out the Jade Scroll containing the copied text and patterns from the stele, immersed his Divine Sense into it, and began to read carefully.

After a long time, he lowered the Jade Scroll, a thoughtful expression appearing in his eyes.

Just now, he had figured out the meaning of the text on the front of the stele and the contents of the map on the back.

The text on the map was not extensive, and being purely descriptive, Li Ping easily understood its meaning.

It turned out that the map actually recorded information about a Teleportation Array. The specially marked spot was its precise location.

According to the map’s description, the other end of this Teleportation Array led to the sacred land of cultivation in this world: Great Zhou.

In other words, with this Teleportation Array, Li Ping would no longer have to arduously cross the territory of the Demon Dao and the boundless Vast Sea. He could simply use the Teleportation Array to instantly arrive in the Great Zhou Cultivation Realm.

For him, this was undoubtedly a great boon.

Even setting aside the danger of crossing the territory of the four great sects of the Demon Dao, he could at least save several years of travel time.

Moreover, with the Teleportation Array in place, even if he went to Great Zhou and accidentally offended some powerful figure he couldn’t afford to provoke, he could use the array to escape back to the Western Wilderness.

This way, he would have an escape route, making him much safer.

As he contemplated the many uses of the Teleportation Array, a smile couldn’t help but appear on Li Ping’s face.

A moment later, he set aside his thoughts about the Teleportation Array and turned his attention to the text from the front of the stele.

As he pondered, his expression grew solemn.

A Teleportation Array that led directly to Great Zhou was naturally priceless, but compared to the contents recorded in this text, the Teleportation Array was actually nothing special.

Originally, Li Ping had assumed the text on the front was a message or explanation from the immortal cave’s owner. But to his surprise, the text was actually an incredibly profound Secret Technique.

Its name was the Taixu Jade Liquid Golden Pill Skill.

The "Taixu" in the name referred to the pure, unadulterated Origin qi from the beginning of the world.

Thinking of this Secret Technique, the Taixu Jade Liquid Golden Pill Skill, a glimmer of excitement appeared in Li Ping’s eyes.

Because according to the Secret Technique’s description, the Taixu Jade Liquid Golden Pill Skill was clearly a heaven-defying Divine Ability and Secret Technique that allowed one to cultivate a Second Golden Core.

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