Seeking the Tao in the Mortal World

Chapter 75: Kunpeng

Qin Yi and Ye Ling stayed in the stone house for 2 days. One day for refining elixirs and one day for disgesting elixirs.

When they walked out of the stone house, facing the radiance of the morning sun, the faint blood-colored scales on Ye Ling’s body flickered slightly. That was the result of the complete fusion of Blood Scaled Dragon’s bloodline. She already possessed some scaled dragon characteristics.

She was already very stable at level 8 of the Morph Stage. Whether it was beastkin body or beastkin power, the various bloodlines mixed in her body had also been blended into one, becoming the unique “Ye Ling’s bloodline”.

Beastkin’s Spirit Initiation Stage and Human’s Piano Heart Stage were all in the rookie stage in Liu Su’s eyes. It didn’t even bother to break them down and casually gave them an evaluation of roughly the early and late stages. In fact, any realm had 9 levels. Training to Level 9 was perfection, and one could try breaking through the next realm. There would be no peak of the later stage.

At the time, Ming He was rated as “almost perfection of the Piano Heart Stage” by Liu Su, which was actually level 8 of the Piano Heart Stage.

In other words, Ye Ling’s cultivation level was already on the same level as Ming He who was able to instant kill her before. Although she had never learned anything, her beastkin body was very tenacious and her talent was very unique. In actual combat, she might not necessarily lose.

Qin Yi had also made great progress.

He only ate 2 pills of Fundamental Elixirs and reached level 3 of the Phoenix Initiation Stage. In the past, a lightning net could drain his spiritual force, but now he could cast it at will…

The reason for this leap in progression was simply that Fundamental Elixir was a grade 7 elixir. This level of elixir was actually used by many big sects as inner sect supplies. It even had a good cultivating effect on the Piano Heart Stage. Using it on a Phoenix Initiation Stage level 1 rookie like him, it was already lucky that he didn’t explode from the sudden surge of energy…

“Although this kind of forced improvement through external force is fast, don’t indulge in it. It is just a last resort since you are going into a dangerous place.” Liu Su warned, “Although the way of external elixir can be regarded as a great way, it will be detrimental for your future cultivation if you rely too much on external things. Intelligent people generally only use elixirs as an aid to break through to the next realm. Although there are a few people who become immortals by taking elixirs, they are not so reliable after all.”

Qin Yi understood it very well.

<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e>Chang’e became an immortal by taking an elixir, who could she beat… She would even be ‘shot’ to death if she met her husband who hadn’t even become an immortal.

Cultivate myself is the hard foundation.

So even though there were still several pills left, he kept them for the time being.

Time waits for no one. He cared about Li Qingjun, and he really didn’t have the patience to cultivate slowly in seclusion.

“Let’s go to Beastkin City.” Qin Yi took Ye Ling’s hand and walked down the mountain.

As soon as they reached the halfway point of the mountain, they were stunned for a moment.

The beastkin corpses all over the mountain, including the Blood Scaled Dragon, were all cleaned up. Not a drop of blood was left in the blood pool.

“…” Qin Yi was sure that no one had ever approached the array he had arranged outside the house. How big of a project would it be to move all the countless corpses, but no one stopped by the top of the mountain to take a look?

Ye Ling hesitated and asked, “Could it be that the uncle eagle knew that we were inside and didn’t bother us?”

“It is most likely that the beastkins from the White Kingdom cleaned up this place, which means they do still have good intentions toward us.” Qin Yi pondered, “But this… is getting weirder and weirder. Couldn’t they guess we have the beastkin blood essence?”

Ye Ling said, “I think that uncle eagle is pretty good, not weird.”

Qin Yi lectured, “You have to be more mindful about everything. Brother can’t always stay with you. If you are still so dumb, you will be sold in Beastkin City and you will still work for them happily!”

Ye Ling flattened her mouth and muttered, “Then just stay with me and don’t leave…”

Qin Yi didn’t hear clearly for a moment. Before he could ask, Ye Ling had already run down the mountain, “Let’s see which one of us is faster!”

…………

“The human and the little snake are back.”

“Oh my gosh, he stinks even more. How many days has it been since he took a shower…”

“Even if you let me eat such a human for free, I won’t eat it. I’m a flower bathing in dew.”

“Yes, you also often bathe in our poop.”

A fight soon broke out near the tree.

Qin Yi’s face was filled with shame, but he couldn’t help but feel a little amused.

In fact, these beastkins are quite fun. If all White Kingdom beastkins have this kind of character, it will be quite suitable for Ye Ling.

A bird on another tree said, “Actually, I think that little snake really wants to eat him.”

“How do you know?”

“It keeps looking at him secretly. What else does it want to do if it doesn’t want to eat him?”

Ah? Really? Ye Ling scratched her head in confusion. I don’t feel that I have been looking at Brother. Besides, he really stinks, so he definitely doesn’t taste good…

Liu Su said, “And you said you aren’t thinking about your son’s Flying Serpent bloodline…”

Qin Yi was so angry that he almost got a stroke, “It’s she looking at me!”

Another bird said, “Isn’t that human also secretly looking at the little snake? Does he also want to eat the little snake too?”

Qin Yi, “……”

Ye Ling blushed secretly, lowered her head, and said, “If it’s Brother, it’s okay to take a bite, but be gentle, otherwise it will hurt…”

Qin Yi, “… We’d better leave this place now. These birds are giving me a headache.”

“Oh.” Ye Ling whispered, “But Brother really stinks.”

Qin Yi burst into tears. Can I be blamed for this? Since I left the South Li Kingdom, I haven’t taken a shower. I also fought several battles and rolled among the bones. How can I still smell good…

But it’s really strange. Ye Ling also had the same experience as me, and she went into the blood pool several times. How could she be tender and have a faint fragrance?

I heard that snake venom has a refreshing fragrance, right? Well, that must be the reason. Qin Yi was very unconvinced.

Amid the chirping of plants, trees, flowers and birds, the two walked forward in silence. After walking less than 10 miles, Ye Ling suddenly stopped with widened eyes.

Qin Yi also took a breath in shock. He was no longer in the mood to joke.

This is Beastkin City?

At the end of the front was an endless brown city wall. As far as the eyes could see, they couldn’t see where the left and right ends were. Judging from the length alone, it might be as big as several Li Fire Cities.

People say that the Rift Valley is so wide that no bird can fly across it. I think that this city should be almost as wide as the Rift Valley…

As they got closer, the city wall was at least 60 meters tall like a high-rise building with more than 20 floors!

This was the first time Qin Yi had seen such a high city wall. Is this still a city wall?

The city wall wasn’t made of bricks and stones at all. It seemed to be formed by giant feathers stacked on top of each other. Each feather was a dozen meters wide. The hair on it was as thick as a human being.

The beastkins who walked in through the city gate were like ants crawling into a hole in the wall…

Just the faint beastkin aura emanating from this city wall could completely suppress Qin Yi’s spiritual force. The terrifying suppressive power was like from a different dimension.

“What the hell… is this…”

He looked at Ye Ling and saw that she was staring at the city wall in a daze. Obviously, her mind was greatly shocked.

Liu Su suddenly said, “This is <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_(mythology)>Kunpeng‘s body turned into a city. Its feathers turned into a city wall and its flesh and blood turned into the land.”

“Kunpeng!”

“En… its beastkin power is still protecting this place. Perhaps this is the reason why this city can stand at the bottom of the valley and gather thousands of beastkin without being disturbed by the human cultivators.”

Qin Yi swallowed. Indeed, with Ming He’s attitude toward beastkins, her elders had clearly traveled here, but they didn’t take action, and they didn’t call for any reinforcement to take action… maybe this was the reason.

It had been dead for so long, but it is still so powerful. If this Kunpeng were alive, it could kill countless human cultivators just by sneezing.

What is it hiding from?

Qin Yi looked at Mace.

“I killed it.” Liu Su said calmly, “Maybe it still fears my presence.”

Qin Yi, “……”

“But… I’m not proud.” Liu Su’s tone sounded a little down as it murmured, “Compared with it… it seems like it is immortal, but I have actually been dead for tens of thousands of years.”

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