Two Worlds: Demonic Cultivator with His Zombie Materials

Chapter 319 - 170: Merging Apertures, Qin Family (2)

These independent practitioner talisman masters also wouldn’t offend the Daluo Alliance. After all, given the current scale of the alliance, which mainly focuses on commerce and trade associations, it’s a great channel for craftsmen to form connections.

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Upon refining the Golden Holy Beetle again, Zheng Yi’s speed was significantly faster than the first time.

After all, having the experience from the first time, when refining again, with a cultivator’s comprehension and operational ability, he would quickly become quite adept.

Zheng Yi sat cross-legged, emitting a hazy brilliance from his body, while seventy-two acupoints opened on his body, simultaneously bursting with strong light.

Except for an acupoint that merged with an ’Invisibility Talisman’ Golden Holy Beetle, the white light from the other seventy-one acupoints all fell on the three Golden Holy Beetles floating in front of him, each with a different rune.

As if mutually attracting, three of the acupoints suddenly burst into radiant brilliance, engulfing the three Golden Holy Beetles like a tide, transforming into three golden streams of light, diving into three other acupoints in the body.

The radiance retreated swiftly as the ’Original Treasure Qi’ refined the three Golden Holy Beetles, coordinating with the Blood Qi Energy, eventually merging the runes and acupoints into one, imprinting and penetrating the contents of the runes carved into the independent worlds within the acupoints.

This session of cultivation took nearly a day. Zheng Yi opened his eyes, feeling he had gained new insights into the Dao of Runes.

At this time, Zheng Yi hurried back to the Doomsday World, bringing forty to fifty newly advanced Golden Holy Beetles at once.

All of these Golden Holy Beetles were handed over to Qi Lin.

Seeing such a large number of mysterious golden beetles, even Qi Lin, the chief steward of the Daluo Alliance, was a little shocked.

Originally unaware of what the Golden Holy Beetle was, he quietly inquired and learned about them from the Xin Family. Only then did he understand that these Holy Beetles that passed through his hands daily were such a precious existence.

Moreover, the quantity that Zheng Yi presented at once was extraordinary.

In just over a month, the nearly hundred individual mature Golden Holy Beetles already exceeded the total accumulation of the Xin Family over hundreds of years.

He had no idea what methods Zheng Yi used or how he acquired them.

However, feeling Zheng Yi’s trust, he dared not be careless and was determined to put in all his efforts to fulfill the task entrusted by his master.

Zheng Yi specifically instructed Qi Lin that these talisman masters would be of great use in the future. For the alliance’s development, craftsmen skilled in the Hundred Skills of Cultivation should all be treated with respect.

Even though an elimination system is being implemented now, it’s only to find the most suitable talisman masters. Subsequently, other independent practitioner talisman masters could collaborate fully, expanding the Daluo Alliance’s influence.

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The night moon hung high.

A figure quietly slipped through the Soul Catching Sect’s massive sect array without alerting anyone, not touching a single thread of vigilance.

Like a ghost, he silently left the Daluo Alliance’s residence and ventured deep into a relatively uninhabited primal jungle.

Zheng Yi walked in the dense jungle depths. Overhead, sparrows, fist-sized, hawks preying on small birds, and eagles in the darkness, were flying back and forth. At this moment, these birds of prey, natural enemies, coexisted harmoniously and clustered around Zheng Yi tightly.

Naturally, this was the effect of the Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Skill Rune "Bird-Training Talisman", akin to hundreds of birds paying homage to the phoenix. By activating this rune in the body’s acupoints, ordinary birds or low-level spiritual birds completely became his eyes and ears, subject to his command.

Corresponding to this is another rune named "Gathering Beast", also part of the Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Skill Rune, similar to the Bird-Training Talisman, but one acts on birds, the other on various beasts.

For these recent days, Zheng Yi was developing these never-before-used runes, conducting trial uses.

Even for a cultivator, it’s not feasible to work behind closed doors.

Therefore, he planned to both refine more Talisman Beetles and hone the abilities of the runes he already mastered so that he could fully unleash the envisioned power of the runes with great skill when used later.

Within the acupoints in his body, these Golden Holy Beetles inscribed with runes actually, after being refined by Original Treasure Qi, counted as a kind of living Magical Artifact. This was also the origin of Zheng Yi’s development of the ’Talisman Armor System’.

Now, relying on several Talisman Beetles he already mastered, Zheng Yi could proficiently unleash the power of the Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Skills, whose auxiliary effects satisfied him greatly.

Before, using manipulation was like a normal attack; now it’s like exchanging a shotgun for a cannon, directly unleashing a ’power move’.

More importantly, these power moves don’t require cooldown time after release but can be consecutively deployed. When used well, they do possess the wonder of surprise tactics.

However, these Seventy-two Earthly Fiend Runes are still incomplete, and reaching the state of Rune Body Refining still requires a process. Zheng Yi is merely familiarizing himself with these rune abilities and effects, with further experiments and derivations ongoing.

At this time, Zheng Yi received a Flying Sword Message from Qi Lin. The information he received made his eyes light up, as the Daluo Alliance and Qin Family’s war had suddenly broken out.

"The matter of the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, finally some clue? Better head back and see how things have developed?!"

The news just arrived, and Zheng Yi could only set aside his current pursuits to focus on dealing with the Daluo Alliance’s predicament.

Because matters related to the Qin Family not only involve his concubine Xin Lingxian but also concern the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, a resource he’s keenly interested in. No matter which aspect, they require his personal handling.

In fact, Zheng Yi already had a plan, deciding to engage personally.

Swiftly resolving issues, making a move in the name of standing up for his concubine Xin Lingxian, extinguishing the Qin Family’s active forces is justifiable and beyond reproach.

Of course, Zheng Yi’s real motive is not to avenge the Xin Family. He merely has his eyes set on the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine resource.

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Due to the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, Xin Lingxian’s Xin Family was annihilated by the more powerful Qin Family. With the desperate resistance led by the previous generation patriarch and a group of elders, Xin Lingxian and a group of young people finally succeeded in escaping the Qin Family, wandering into the region controlled by the Daluo Alliance, and eventually joining the Daluo Alliance.

Additionally, Xin Family’s Young Clan Leader, Xin Lingxian, brought the Xin Family as a dowry, becoming the concubine of the Daluo Alliance’s Alliance Leader, Zheng Yi.

This matter, with the Daluo Alliance secretly fanning the flames, had already become widely known.

And this, precisely, is the legitimate pretext for Zheng Yi to make a move.

The Daluo Alliance, under the banner of avenging the Xin Family, can legitimately extend its reach into the Qin Family’s sphere of influence, providing the strongest justification for vying for the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, truly justified by the action.

Even if other powers have reservations, they can only swallow their complaints.

The only concern, really, is the Golden Palace Sect.

The Qin Family Ancestor himself was an Inner Sect Disciple of the Golden Palace Sect. After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he didn’t remain within the sect but founded the Qin Family.

But the relationship continued from then on, always attached under the Golden Palace Sect’s banner, considered one of the sect’s peripheral forces, always having backed on a great mountain, doing things somewhat overbearingly.

Over time, as the Qin Family’s strength gradually increased, without the pressure of strong enemies, backed by the powerful Golden Palace Sect, they gradually annexed the surrounding small forces and families.

Ultimately, developing over hundreds of years into a formidable family, it’s said there are no fewer than ten Foundation Establishment Cultivators within the family.

More critically, the highest-ranking seventh-generation ancestor of the Qin Family is already at the Foundation Establishment Perfection stage, reportedly only a step away from the Purple Mansion.

Unfortunately, this time the Qin Family misjudged their opponent. It’s not theft you fear, but being remembered by a thief. Now, caught under Zheng Yi’s attention, a substantial loss is inevitable.

Otherwise, crashing into the great boulder that is the Daluo Alliance is sure to end up with bruises and battered.

Now, under Zheng Yi’s covert direction, both sides were like a lit powder keg, ready to explode upon contact.

At the forefront of the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, both sides’ Foundation Establishment cultivators have already begun intense combat, the war about to erupt.

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