Chapter 242 – The Family and Descendants of the Previous Life (Long Chapter)
Chapter 242 – Previous Life’s Family and Descendants (Long Chapter)
Li’s Talisman.
The familiar door plaque made Li An realize that this store should be his original family’s property!
Wasn’t his last life’s family in the Ning Kingdom, hundreds of thousands of miles away from here? The Li family of Tianye County in Ning Country, although it had a small reputation in Ning Country, but in the entire Thousand Water Rhythm Continent, it was unknown, when did the industry actually manage to open up to the capital of Ji Country?
With curiosity, Li An decided to take a look.
He didn’t rush, but circled around the city several times to make sure no one was following him, and then quickly changed his appearance in an alleyway that no one had noticed, before walking out and casually entering Li’s Talisman Shop.
There were only two people at the front desk in the store, a male junior and a young girl who looked as if she was the owner of this place, she was dressed in a long pale yellow dress, and was holding her head down and calculating something with her accounts.
Li An Nourishing Life Casting Immortal Skill gently moved, perceiving this young girl s life qi, immediately surprised, this woman …… actually seems to be his direct descendant?
Just don t know how many generations ……
He secretly frowned in his heart, he was the patriarch and ancestor of the immortal cultivation family back then, his direct descendant, how to say should not be separated from the family core, this young girl, how could she run to such a faraway place to look after a small store?
Moreover, this young girl’s spiritual root looks pretty good, yellow rank upper grade water spiritual root, conjugation is expected, in the family how to say should not be bad right?
“What does mister want to see?”
The young girl raised her eyes and asked.
Li An said, “Are there any fourth-order talismans for sale?”
The young girl’s eyes flashed a flash of surprise, but immediately shook her head, “No, the highest talisman in our store is only of the third order.”
“However, if you want it, sir, you can pay a deposit and we’ll deliver it from the family side.”
Li An couldn’t help but be surprised, as far as he knew, the Tian Ye Li Clan, had never given birth to a Yuan Ying level cultivator, even Li An was only in the late True Dan stage, and now he was actually able to produce fourth order talismans?
This meant that there was already a YuanYing cultivator on the family side, as well as a fourth-order talisman master?
He instantly understood that it seemed that in the years after his death, the Tianye Li Clan, must have had some kind of strange encounter!
YuanYing chance, fourth rank talisman inheritance …… These were all difficult for the Tianye Li Clan to obtain in the past.
Li An said, “Well, in addition, I also want a fourth order talisman pen and paper, you may provide?”
He tentatively asked.
The young girl’s attitude became more and more enthusiastic, she realized that the person in front of her might be a “big customer”, and immediately introduced herself enthusiastically, “If you want, I can immediately contact the family side of …… although it might take some time. Although it may take some time, it can be made!”
“Moreover, our price here, must be cheaper than other places.”
The status of Li’s talismans was far inferior to the New Dao Alliance Treasure Pavilion and the like, so the prices in the market had to be pushed down a bit.
Li An said, “How exactly do we sell them?”
The young girl said, “How about your guest invites you to catch up in the inner hall?”
Li An nodded and entered the inner hall, the young girl personally served Li An tea and then introduced the talisman pen and other things.
A fourth-order talisman pen, four thousand top-grade spirit stones.
A box of fourth rank spirit ink, two thousand upper grade spirit stones.
A fourth rank talisman paper with basic five elemental attributes, ten upper grade spirit stones a sheet, while special attributes were more expensive, fifteen spirit stones a sheet.
This price, indeed, was a bit lower than the New Dao Alliance Treasure Pavilion’s side.
Li An nodded, “A fourth-order talisman pen, two boxes of spirit ink, basic five-element attribute talisman paper, the same comes to one hundred sheets, in addition, prepare me another one hundred sheets each of talisman paper for the lightning, ice, and wind attributes.”
The young girl was instantly overjoyed, saying, “Well thank you senior, thank you senior!”
She hurriedly fetched a jade deed and ordered with Li An on the spot, the jade deed was in duplicate and could not be duplicated, in addition, they had to agree on a secret language with each other, so that it would be convenient to pick up the goods.
“How much is the deposit?”
“A total of seventeen thousand five hundred spirit stones, this way, for you to erase the zero, only seventeen thousand can be used, the deposit of fifty percent …… no, forty percent, forty percent can be done!”
The young girl was obviously a little excited, she was suppressed from within the family, sent to this kind of place far away from the family’s sphere of influence, and also carried an almost impossible performance task, she had been sad and miserable, but, this order from Li An was enough to make her worry-free for a year!
So, she used the highest authority of the store owner and the deposit was reduced by 10%.
Li An nodded and immediately paid 6,800 top grade spirit stones, and said, “When can I pick up the goods?”
The young girl said, “Four months, a maximum of four months will definitely be possible!”
Li An got up and prepared to leave, and as he was leaving, he suddenly added, “What is the store owner’s name?”
The young girl could not help but face slightly red, mainly because she realized her own demeanor, actually from beginning to end did not take the initiative to introduce themselves, as a shopkeeper, really too rude and too shouldn’t be, hastily said, “Under Li Shuangshang, how do you call the senior?”
“Yun Li.”
Li An blandly: “Shopkeeper Li, regarding this matter, please keep it a secret for me.”
Li Shuangshang said, “Please feel free to rest assured, senior!”
Li An left the talisman store and hid himself from the sea of people, quickly exiting Wind Spirit City.
He met his descendants by chance, but Li An was not prepared to recognize them, everything was in the past.
Although the family was developing well nowadays, even YuanYing cultivators had been born, Li An’s return might have some benefits, but there would be more trouble.
In his previous life it was these things in the mundane world that involved too much of his mind, causing him to delay his cultivation to a greater or lesser extent, and naturally he couldn’t repeat the same mistake in this life.
What’s more, if he really went to recognize each other, then I’m afraid that he would immediately be noticed by someone who has the intention to do so, an old ancestor who came back from the dead would definitely have a lot of secrets.
There is no need.
Even if the Li Clan was being exterminated right now, Li An wouldn’t necessarily care much about anything.
He bought Li’s stuff for nothing more than a cheap price and then wanted to test the underlying strength of the family side.
……
Back to the Evil Spirit Lake.
Li An began to bury his head in making a fourth-order spell formation!
Although he still hadn’t broken his YuanYing, crafting fourth-order spell formations wasn’t difficult for him anymore, and even, his current attainments in formations were higher than some proficient fourth-order formation masters.
Because this formation was to protect his cultivation place, Li An did it with great care.
“The outer layer of warning, leading defense, the lake halfway, then need to provide good conditions for the evil spirits to fight, with the need for part of the maze, the lake island area is the most important, both defense and attack should be given equal importance.”
Just this formation alone, Li An had pondered over it for half a month, and then on making it, it took another month!
Finally, the formation was completely finished, blending perfectly with the terrain of the Evil Spirit Lake, covering a range of five hundred miles around!
In fact, a fourth-order formation could casually cover a territory of two to three thousand miles, but Li An was deeply versed in formations, and if he pursued a wide coverage, then it would become weak everywhere, and the protective effect would deteriorate as well.
It would be better to focus on guarding his cultivation place!
With this formation, even if a YuanYing cultivator came, it would be difficult to threaten Li An.
In this life, his cultivation path had ups and downs and stumbled, Xuan Yang Sect, White Tiger City, Tian Yang City, Royal Beast Jiang Family, Tian Fury Mountain Range, Dao Sect …… could be said to have been running away all the time, and there were few times when he was truly able to settle down, and it was only until now that he could be considered to truly have his own place to stand. Moreover, it was no longer like before when they were facing huge external pressure.
The only drawback is that he is still …… relatively poor at present.
When a casual cultivator, without the support of clan forces, relying on oneself to earn spirit stones alone was really a bit difficult.
The fourth-order spirit vein can support the basic cultivation of a YuanYing cultivator, but the speed is not fast enough, whether Li An or the Green Flame Divine Sparrow, every month extra all still need spirit stones to replenish.
Li An was fine at the moment, one extreme spirit stone per month was almost enough, but the Green Flame Divine Sparrow was already at the fourth rank, so it would need about ten extreme spirit stones per month to be enough.
The maintenance of the fourth rank grand formation would also have to consume two extreme spirit stones per month!
This didn’t even count the expenses he spent on purchasing various materials and supplies.
“We have to find a spirit mine, and if it’s really not possible, creating a city of scattered cultivators and collecting taxes can also be done ……”
After reaching YuanYing, casual cultivation became more and more difficult and extremely consuming, relying on oneself to earn money to support one’s cultivation was very, very difficult.
Starting today, he began to keep spirit mines!
Spirit mines and spirit veins are not the same, spirit veins definitely also contain spirit stones inside, but spirit veins are a composite product that also contains heaven and earth creations, enough to help cultivators realize the Dao and breakthroughs, while spirit mines are not, they are the product of spiritual qi enrichment, and may not have the Great Dao qi, heaven and earth dao yun, and so on.
Spirit mines could be mined, but spirit veins were generally not tapped, it would be a waste.
A spiritual vein can support countless generations.
Luckily, according to the news Li An had gotten, due to the influence of the power of heaven and earth in the Spirit World, many places in the New Continent were currently autonomously generating some small spirit mines.
If Li An wanted to find a few, he expected that it wouldn’t be too difficult.
This was also the reason why many cultivators from the Dao Continent, Van Continent, and other places were heading to the New Continent!
This was a blue ocean, rich in resources, unlike places like Dao Continent, where the limited resources had already been divided up by vested interests, and it was difficult for ordinary people to get a bite of the soup.
However, Li An Xin has always had a suspense, the new continent, the Dao Sect, the Brahma Sect and so on the super power, why has been slow to do it?
Just established the Taoist temple and so on, maintain the existence, but did not directly carry out a strong rule!
Adopted a laissez-faire attitude.
Is it because they feel that the current level of the new continent is not qualified for them to harvest, or is it because they have ulterior motives?
Li An always felt that so many great powers had joined forces to create a new continent in the Spirit World, and the plans were definitely not small.
I am afraid that there will be a monstrous storm behind it ……
However, it could not think that far ahead, and the most important thing at the moment was to catch up on his own cultivation!
He once again went out, this time, he wandered around the Evil Spirit Lake, scouting thousands of miles around, and sure enough, in a valley more than a thousand miles away from the Evil Spirit Lake, he found a small spirit mine that was taking shape!
After careful exploration, this small spirit mine was currently producing mainly medium grade spirit stones, as well as a small amount of top grade spirit stones.
Li An estimated that it should be able to produce around half a million medium grade spirit stones and eight thousand top grade spirit stones per year!
When converted into top grade spirit stones, the annual production would be around one hundred and thirty pieces.
Not too much, but not too little either!
Just the current production alone, more than enough to support the cultivation of the Green Flame Divine Sparrow, as well as the operation of his fourth-order grand formation, was barely enough.
It was able to relieve him of a great deal of pressure!
Moreover, this spirit mine was still growing, and the production should be able to increase in the future as well.
Li An couldn’t help but sigh with emotion, no wonder the Spirit Realm is inflationary, everything is a bit more expensive than when it was originally in the Di Yuan Realm, the water rises as the boat rises well …… Spirit Stones aren’t as barren as they are in the lower realms.
If in the lower realm, such a mine is enough to trigger a bloody battle between the YuanYing families!
Li An immediately placed a third-order spell formation around this spirit mine for protection, and had a third-order spirit panther from the lake island come with a few second-order spirit beasts to guard it.
From then on, this place belonged to him! Unfortunately, there were no more good spirit mines like this in a thousand-mile radius, and there were two other places, but they were too low-grade, mainly producing low-grade spirit stones, and very few medium-grade spirit stones, which basically weren’t of much use to him.
However, with the attitude of not wasting it, Li An still set up two second-order formations for protection and sent two Foundation Establishment Stage spirit beasts to guard it.
Compared to people, Li An felt that spirit beasts could be managed much better.
Especially, the Imperial Beast Art itself was largely dependent on divine sense and soul control, and the Devil Sect’s Indestructible Heavenly Demon Technique, the Ultimate Bliss Sect’s My Lord’s Decision, the Ten Thousand Souls Sect’s Soul Controlling Method, and even the Sorcery Technique were more or less the best in this regard, and after he had fused them multiple times, he had also already taken the original Jiang’s Imperial Beast Art and elevated it to a whole new level.
The Spirit World was vast, and Li An had, on the bright side, already died in the Dao Sect, so Li An wasn’t worried about exposing the Imperial Beast Technique and so on.
As long as he didn’t show which secret arts in front of people, there would be no problem at all.
“Just guarding won’t work, we still need to mine ……”
Li An pondered that he still had to find some miners to follow up, he still needed to find some subordinates.
……
Finishing the matter of the spirit mine, another half a month passed.
There were still two months to go before the time agreed upon with Li Shuangshang.
However, Li An decided to go now!
There was no other reason, for safety.
After all, this order is not too big to say big, but not too small to say small, and he is worried about whether a fourth order array master and a fourth order talisman master suddenly appeared in the capital of the Ji Kingdom, and whether it will attract the attention of people who are interested in it …… That would not be good.
If there are really people who want to target him, then they will definitely lay a net around Li’s spirit talisman in advance to keep watch.
Then Li An will go over now and wait around, if there is any movement, he will be able to find out right away, so that he can be safe.
Once again entering the capital of the Seasonal Kingdom, Li An casually found a place to stay, and every day when he had nothing to do, he went out to stroll around, learning about the recent happenings in the Immortal Cultivation World and so on ……
During this period, he spent 4,000 to 5,000 spirit stones to buy a fourth-grade and several third-grade soul nourishing spirit medicines. There was no other reason to do so, after the battle in the Yellow Spring Valley, Shangguan Xiaoxiao’s Yuan Spirit had suffered a great loss, and although Li An’s Life Seed power was able to nourish it, the speed was very slow.
Li An was going to calm down in a few days and refine some pills for her to replenish.
In fact, in a sense, Shangguan Xiaoxiao had been a great benefactor to Li An for many times, but before breaking through to YuanYing, Li An never dared to be completely at ease with her.
……
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
On this day, Li An, disguised as a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, was strolling through a few vendors on the street when he suddenly noticed two True Dan cultivators, entering Li’s Spirit Symbol Shop!
The delivery guy came?
Li’s is really generous now, casually allowing two True Dan cultivators to escort the magic treasures ……
He paid close attention, and suddenly, he noticed another True Dan cultivator, this person was wearing a straw raincoat and a bucket hat, and he found the wonton stall not far from Li’s Spirit Rune Shop and sat down.
Li An secretly operated the Life Nurturing and Casting Immortal Technique, and immediately felt that this person’s life breath was slightly similar to Li An.
It should be someone from Li’s side branch!
Could it be that the Li Clan had really gotten up to bad intentions and was preparing to lay siege to Li An? This wasn’t right either, Li An had purchased fourth rank talisman pens and the like, he was clearly a fourth rank talisman master, if Li Clan wanted to deal with him, they would have to send out at least YuanYing level experts.
Li An waited to see what would happen.
Those two True Dan cultivators who escorted the treasures, entered the Spirit Talisman Shop for a while and then left, Li An then saw Li Shuangshang walk out and close the door of the Spirit Talisman Shop immediately afterward, it seemed that the store was going to be closed for the next few days.
“The fourth rank talisman pen is waiting in the store, but those two True Dan cultivators have already left, and Li Frost is worried that it’s not safe, so she closed the store?”
Li An pondered, this was very possible.
After all, it was a fourth-order talisman etc., it should have left at least one True Dan cultivator to guard it and wait until Li An arrived and the two sides finished the delivery before leaving ah.
Li’s actions were bizarre in every way.
Fortunately, Li An was cautious enough to remain vigilant towards his descendants as well, otherwise, if something really happened, maybe he, an old fox who had fought with Shangguan Shengxian, Xun Dongfang and even the Dao Sect, would be stranded here if he wasn’t careful.
That would be truly hilarious.
He had been guarding the surrounding area for half a month, Li’s Spirit Symbol Shop had remained closed for half a month, and, although the cultivator in the raincoat on the periphery had changed his appearance several times, he had never left.
Late at night on this day.
Li An noticed that the True Dan cultivator suddenly moved.
In the middle of the night, he headed towards Li’s Spiritual Symbol Shop, Li An quietly followed, and found that this True Dan cultivator, first, around the Spiritual Symbol Shop, laid down a formation that isolated the fluctuation of spiritual energy, and then suddenly, directly broke through the Spiritual Symbol Shop’s formation, and forcibly entered inside!
Li An Dun was shocked, was this staging a robbery of Li’s store by Li’s people?
……
At this moment.
“You’re not allowed to go out for a few days, wait for a while first, I always feel uneasy.”
Even though it was late at night, Li Shuangshang had not yet slept, she summoned a few Xiao Si from the store, as well as two Foundation Establishment cultivators, explaining about everyone’s vigil.
Half a month ago, the family had sent the fourth-order talisman pens and the like ahead of time, and she had wanted to ask one of the experts to sit in on the watch, but the other party had left on the pretext that he had other important matters.
This made Li Shuangshang a bit wary, and she acutely sensed a hint of something wrong, so she decisively closed the store, and didn’t leave even for a step to stand guard inside the store.
“Shop owner, aren’t you a bit overly nervous, who dares to come ……”
A youth from the Foundation Establishment realm smiled and spoke.
But her words just fell.
Boom!
A loud bang suddenly came, and the surrounding formation fluctuations spread out, but instead of being activated, they were destroyed!
“Not good!”
The crowd’s faces changed drastically, and they hurriedly turned around, only to see that a man in black had appeared, and without saying a word, he directly lifted his hand, and a ray of light erupted out, shooting over towards the crowd.
“Bold!”
Two Foundation Establishment cultivators stepped forward to resist, but the light directly penetrated them!
The two men fell to the ground on the spot, not knowing if they were alive or dead.
The other Xiaos were even more defenseless, and were killed, Li Shuangshang’s face changed greatly, turned around and wanted to escape, but she was only at the Foundation stage, how could her speed be faster than this True Dan cultivator?
The man in black has landed behind her, grabbed her shoulders, backhanded her to the ground, his foot directly on Li Shuangfang’s face, issued a hoarse voice: “I ordered the fourth-order talisman pen? Where is the fourth rank talisman paper?”
“Take it out!”
Li Shuangshang gritted her teeth, “Where is the jade contract? Where’s the secret language?”
“I told you to bring it out!”
“You are not that honorable guest …… you at all, you are surnamed Li, right?!”
In Li Shuangshang’s eyes, it seems to carry a deep despair, saying, “Only someone from the Li Clan would know so much about the formations in this place …… Clan, is it really necessary to be so desperate?”
“Looking for death–“
The black-robed man’s face was cold and icy, and with a wave of his hand, his spiritual energy had already become a sword, about to chop off Li Shuangshang’s head –
But just at this moment, he suddenly felt an inexplicable coldness coming from behind him, and turned around violently, only to see that at an unknown time, another black shadow had already appeared, grabbing towards him with a large hand.
The black-clothed man’s face changed greatly, spiritual power into a shield want to block, but the person who came to attack, actually directly strong will his spiritual power shield to shatter, a stranglehold on his throat, at the same time the middle finger of his hand blue color flashed.
This black man’s eyes flashed a flash of panic, want to say something, but a stiff numbness, has spread throughout the body, he realized …… that he has been poisoned.
Li An lifted him as if he was lifting a dead dog, then looked at Li Shuangshang and said in a deep voice, “The mountain is high and the moon is small, take the things with you and follow me.”
Li Shuangshang climbed up, shocked, and when she heard this, it suddenly dawned on her that the person …… in front of her was the one who had really ordered the fourth order talisman pen.
She hurriedly ran to the garden, jumped into the water well, not much time to come up dripping wet, in her hand has more than one silt stained locking spirit box, said, “I put the things into the locking spirit box and hid it in the silt …… Sir, after paying the final payment, you can leave.”
At this time, she even seems to be unwilling to leave, to stick to it!
Li An glanced at her, a slight frown, suddenly shot out, a finger point out, Li Shuangshang couldn’t react in time, had fainted, Li An a handful of hands, at the same time two spiritual power has chopped out, the other side of the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators who fell to the ground completely extinguished!
Li An had already seen that the man in black had not completely killed the two Foundation Establishment cultivators, but had left them breathing.
After doing this, Li An ransacked the entire Li’s Spirit Symbol Shop, taking away all the talisman paper and talisman pens, and temporarily threw the two people into his Nascent Sacred Ring – his Nascent Sacred Ring wasn’t a high-level Nascent Sacred Ring that could hold living beings, but in just one day’s time, these two people wouldn’t be able to die either.
Leaving the spirit talisman store.
Outside the Spirit Symbol Shop, the formation laid down by that True Dan cultivator was still in operation, isolating the fluctuations of this place, so the Wind Spirit City’s City Protector Formation did not sense it.
Li An changed his appearance and breath, and quietly returned to the inn where he was staying.
The next morning, Li An directly left the city.
He left a long time later, that hidden fluctuating breath of the formation uncontrolled, the spirit stone exhausted finally dissipated, Li’s Spirit Symbol Shop of everything, before finally being discovered ……
……
Not long after.
Li An returned to the Evil Spirit Lake.
Li Fanshuang was still unconscious, Li An threw her aside, then released the True Dan cultivator and injected spiritual energy to wake him up.
“What exactly are you …… you? How dare, how dare you grab me ……”
The fear in this True Dan cultivator’s eyes was great.
He couldn’t even pass a single move in front of Li An!
Therefore, he felt that this person in front of him was afraid …… to be a YuanYing old monster?
“You impersonate me, what do you intend to do?”
Li An spoke coldly.
This True Dan cultivator was instantly stunned, this person, was the fourth rank talisman master who ordered talisman pens and talisman paper for Li Shuangshang?
Didn’t he and Li Shuangshang agree to pick up the goods in four months? There is still a full month before the delivery time ……
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(End of chapter)