Path to Heaven Chapter 175-176

Chapter 175: Dual Cultivation Skill Technique

Besides, establishing a cavern abode was an absolute necessity.

After provoking major sects like East Victory, Star Convening Sect, Heaven's First Sect and others… constantly dwelling in the city's interior would make it easier for them to investigate clues pointing towards him.

Anyway, these major factions presided over the law. Others wouldn't dare to recklessly slay a cultivator in a city, but for them to murder a nameless Heavenly Circuit stage cultivator, it would be as easy as crushing an ant.

Without wanting to waste too much time, Wei Suo decided he had to prepare all the materials needed to construct an Earth Furnace room within a single day. Afterwards, he would choose a suitable location for his cavern abode. Proceeding from there, it would minimally require several days to fully construct his cavern abode, the Earth Furnace, and other defensive mechanisms. When that time came, Zhen Chongming should be roughly done with the Heaven Mending Pellets required for his cultivation technique to break through to the Mid-level Earth Rank. He would then receive them to his constructed cavern abode.

Thus, Wei Suo carefully inquired of the conditions and prerequisites of constructing an Earth Furnace from the Old Man.

Yet after clarifying everything, Wei Suo could already feel a throbbing heartache just from calculating the manufacturing costs of a single Earth Furnace.

Firstly, the qualifications to choose a mid grade Earth Furnace already required 20,000 low grade spiritual stones.

In addition to excavating the earth flame of an underground fire vein, and to procure particular formation arrays and artifacts necessary, it would minimally cost 30,000 low grade spiritual stones.

If one didn't need to frequently operate the Earth Furnace, other things wouldn't be necessary. However, for Wei Suo who desired to concoct Heaven Mending pellets and artifacts, repeatedly operating the furnace for long periods of time, one requires a formation array that could prevent the source flame from leaking out. Moreover, Cold Jade must be embedded around the furnace, otherwise clouds of red heat may form above the cavern abode; thereby attracting attention from others, revealing his cavern abode.

In addition to those, the Earth Furnace Wei Suo desired soared to a valuation of 70,000 low grade spiritual stones.

Therefore, please do not view sects like Heaven's First Sect as mere profiteers who monopolized transportation arrays. In fact, the investment they poured into nurturing disciples was also pretty remarkable.

After clarifying the essentials of constructing an Earth Furnace, Wei Suo then carefully inquired of methods to nurture and control the Immortal Exterminating Vine. After the Old Man expounded on the manifold aspects of constructing a cavern abode, the sky was already gradually brightening.

At present, there was still some time before most shops would open. Nevertheless, Wei Suo didn't choose to rest but immediately retrieved the jade talisman, the one that recorded Huang Tianya's Blackfiend Great Technique, to view.

After viewing for a short while, Wei Suo's expression became exceedingly queer.

The might of this skill technique could indeed attain the formidability of a Mid-level Heaven Rank skill technique.

Even the Heaven's First Sect or the Star Convening Sect may not possess a Heaven Rank skill technique. Once in the Heavenly Profound Continent, a cultivator surfaced who complemented an invincible Heaven Rank skill technique with a trash Profound Rank cultivation technique. During his reign, he was unrivalled throughout the land under heaven.

It is said that in entire Heavenly Profound Continent, the total number of Heaven Rank Skill technique did not even reach 50.

However, this Blackfiend Great Technique wasn't an ordinary technique, where comprehending it would allow a cultivator to unleash it with their true element energy. Instead, it was an exceptionally unique dual cultivation skill technique!

Looking at the introduction of the jade talisman, it actually detailed that only during an intimate session of making love, could one successfully cultivate this skill technique. That was the only way this skill technique could be unleashed against foes. The deeper the intimacy, the stronger would the Black Yin gas formed by true energy be. In other words, the more intimate sessions between a male and female cultivator, the greater the might of this skill technique.

Such a skill technique was analogous to the Dual Joy Meditation of the Greatjoy Palace. However, the Dual Joy Meditation requires both male and female cultivators to cultivate simultaneously. On the contrary, only a male cultivator can succeed in this Blackfiend Great Technique. Moreover, while the male cultivator's Blackfiend Great Technique will enhance with every dual cultivation session, the essence seeds ejaculated by the male would form into a Frost Dan-pearl in the female's body. That Frost Dan-pearl was hailed as the Blackmaiden Dan-pellet. Indeed, it was the same blue crystal pearl brimming with frosty aura that those two female cultivators back at Guhuai Manor possessed. According to the talisman, the Frost Dan-pearl would multiply in power in correlation to the amount of dual cultivation sessions. Eventually, its might may even surpass a Golden Dan-pellet formed a cultivator. This signified that if a female cultivator could attain the Golden Dan Stage, alongside cultivating a Frost Dan-Pearl with the same might, her prowess would vastly surmount an ordinary Golden Dan cultivator.

In spite of that, the cultivation speed of a Frost Dan-pearl in a female's body, held the same speed as a cultivator training in true energy cultivation technique.

Following that, the talisman also described that at the beginning, the might of the Blackfiend Yin gas may not even pickup a single flower vase. As for the Frost Dan-pearl, it may be even tinier than a grain of rice.

According to the talisman, to reach the level of Huang Tianya and those two females, Wei Suo reckoned would require over a thousand times of dual cultivation. This piece of news was simply unbearable to a virgin like Wei Suo!

Wei Suo howled with a complicated countenance. After carefully storing that ancient jade talisman, he produced the bottle of Skycloud Essence for a heart wrenching look.

Today, he had utterly witnessed the formidability of the Skycloud Essence. It was a pity he had used an excessive amount as he feared it wasn't enough. As such, he was only left with a tiny sliver of Skycloud Essence. Wei Suo estimated that he could only utilize it for one last time, moreover, only to entice demonic beasts within a 300 li radius.

Most crucially, the Skycloud Essence was truly an utmost rarity within the entire Heavenly Profound Continent. For the Old Man to fish up a bottle of it, it was already marvelous luck. Wishing to purchase another bottle would be simply impossible.

Sorely feeling his heartache as he observed it like the apple of his eye, Wei Suo finally stored the remaining Skycloud Essence. Then, he consumed a Heaven Mending Pellet, before shutting his eyes and regulating his breathing.

After many hours refining loads of Heaven Mending pellets, Wei Suo opened his eyes and stood up. After advising and handing a pouch of spiritual stones to Zhu Xiaochun, Wei Suo strolled out of Spirit Treasure Lane. He then headed towards the largest market of Moonfall City.

Noon the next day, at the transportation array nearest to the Cyan Wind Mound. A divine light flashed out, producing a pale-looking Wei Suo.

"Senior!" Noticing Wei Suo appearing from the transportation array, the two Heaven's First Sect disciples stationed here issued startled expressions, before offering their greetings.

Besides, although Wei Suo was masking a layer of cultivation with his Secret Concealment Art, he still exhibited a Heavenly Circuit stage level 2 cultivation; the spirit energy oppression seeping out of his body wasn't one that mere Divine Sea stage cultivators could handle.

After acknowledging the two disciples and surging out of the mountain belly, Wei Suo couldn't help but leak out a bleak smile.

Originally intending to stay over at Moonfall City for only a day, the difficulty of gathering Earth Furnace construction materials had exceeded his estimations.

According to the Old Man, the materials should be staple goods. Yet when Wei Suo got down to business, he discovered this was not the case. Probably due to the quantity of demonic beasts increasing within the Heavenly Dome over the years since 20,000 years ago, most cultivators earn spiritual stones through hunting demonic beasts. Cultivators that relied on forging artifacts or concocting pellets were relatively lesser as compared to 20,000 years ago. Moreover, many sects would provide facilities of Earth Furnace. As such, the materials required to construct an Earth Furnace room became more sparse as compared to the Old Man's recollection.

In the end, Wei Suo resorted to spending an additional 3,000 low grade spiritual stones to buy over construction materials that someone else had pre-booked. If he were to order a new batch of construction materials, it would minimally require more than a month. Following that, Wei Suo casually surveyed around, before discovering that even Seven Stars City may not possess the necessities needed to construct a new Earth Furnace.

Yet even with the added cost of 3,000 low grade spiritual stones, Wei Suo still overshot his estimations by half a day.

After exiting the transportation array, Wei Suo leisurely toured the Cyan Wind Mound and located a place to rest for half a day.

The reason for this was due to Wei Suo's apprehension over others tailing himself. Therefore, after passing through the long distance transportation array linking Moonfall City to Spirit Peak City, Wei Suo immediately shuttled through several other transportation arrays. Finally, he arrived here with extreme discomfort.

Moreover, from the maps, Wei Suo had determined the location of his cavern abode to be outside of the Heavenly Dome.

Once out of the Heavenly Dome, he could meet with high level demonic beasts at anytime. As such, maintaining his optimum state was essential.

Of the two maps detailing lands beyond the Heavenly Dome, one depicted Mount Mang that was 5,000 li south of the Heavenly Dome. Duanlong Cliff that Wei Suo wanted to explore was also included within that map. As for the other map, it inclined towards the east, stretching 3,000 li towards the White Bullock Wasteland.

For various unknown reasons, the maps were drafted by small squads of cultivators who ventured to Mount Mang and the White Bullock Wasteland. Although those squads of cultivators had travelled through such remarkably long distances, they didn't deviate too much from their routes or explored deeper into lateral sides. At most, they deviated for 100-200 li. As a result, both maps took on the appearance of a narrow and long strip, revealing that of an extended pathway.

Nevertheless, the maps offered great significance to Wei Suo. Firstly, it provided countless of warnings, and even drafted a relatively safer passageway right from the start; evading away from certain demonic beasts congregating spots. Perhaps, for cultivators interested in hunting demonic beasts, they could also decipher places to hunt demonic beasts from this map.

Moreover, the maps revealed a palpitating warning, that level 6 and even level 7 demonic beasts could be seen anywhere.

Initially, Wei Suo planned to locate this cavern abode along the journey to Duanlong Cliff. But after analyzing the two maps for half a day, he decided to do establish it at a place called Lil'Night Mountain; along the journey towards the White Bullock Wasteland.

The reason for that was because Wei Suo didn't wish to position his cavern abode too close to the Heavenly Dome. In this manner, it wouldn't be easily discovered by other cultivators. In the event of a major power desiring to deal with Wei Suo, it would be a nightmare in locating his cavern abode. Nevertheless, the distance similarly could not exceed 1,500 li. Otherwise, too much time would be wasted in rushing back here even with transportation arrays. It would be a true inconvenience in the case of an emergency.

Within the region of 800 li to 1,500 li on the Duanlong Cliff map, Wei Suo couldn't find any suitable spots. Mountains and forests that offered matchless concealment were also immeasurably dangerous. In contrast, the Lil'Night Mountain was only 900 li away from the Heavenly Dome. Not only was its terrain excellent, it was hailed as a congregating zone for a Mid-tier level 4 demonic beast known as Starry-eyes Lobster. In astronomical quantities, these demonic beasts posed immense deadliness even to other demonic beasts. As a result, the possibility of random other demonic beasts loitering the Lil'Night Mountain would be rather tiny. More importantly, these Starry-eyes Lobsters were similarly deaf and blind like the Scarlet-wing Flame Devil. They relied on sensing out one's aura. Thus, to Wei Suo who possessed the Cyan Emperor Gourd, infringing onto the Lil'Night Mountain would be extremely safe. It would only be slightly troublesome to receive others into his abode.

Chapter 176: Digging, Excavating

Nearing nightfall, Wei Suo piloted his White-jade Crane as he hovered above Lil'Night Mountain as indicated on his map.

Actually, with Wei Suo's flying speed, he would need at most a few hours to fly here. However, even Golden Dan stage cultivators could face deadly perils outside of the Heavenly Dome. Thus, Wei Suo cautiously followed the safest route in accordance to his map. Along the way, he wisely made several slow detours.

Yet even with his prudence, he still squared off with a High-tier level 4 Scarlet-flame Eagle that abruptly appeared. Following that, Wei Suo also employed his Golden Carp like artifact to smash a Low-tier level 3 Iron-claw Cloud Crow into smithereens, letting it know the consequences of ambushing a Heavenly Circuit stage level 3 cultivator.

As he surveyed the Lil'Night Mountain beneath, Wei Suo felt as though he was daydreaming.

On his map, the Lil'Night Mountain practically appeared like a miniature horn. Yet right before him, was a 600 plus metres wide mountain range, with 3-4 mountain peaks. It was a contrasting difference to his earlier imagination of a tiny hill.

After regaining his senses, Wei Suo toured a circle around the Lil'Night Mountain on his White-jade Crane.

A sight that caused Wei Suo to palpitate with sweat surfaced. Directly over Lil'Night Mountain, Wei Suo realized that the entire mountain was shaped like a chamber pot. One side was rounder and steeper, while the opposing two peaks were slightly shorter; appearing like the mouth of a chamber pot.

The precious Ghost Raising Jar in my bosom looks like a chamber pot. My cavern abode will also resemble a chamber pot. Granny, will I be hailed as a Chamber Pot Dao Master from now?

The speechlessly infuriated Wei Suo really wanted a change in location. Still, it was no longer early and Wei Suo could only speechlessly scan around this 'chamber pot' mountain.

After a brief examination, Wei Suo speechlessly activated his Cyan Emperor Gourd. A regiment of nature wood spirit aura encapsulated him as he drifted down towards this 'urinating pit'.

"Whatever, Chamber Pot Dao Master, then so be it."

After a short while, Wei Suo stood atop a precipitous mountain wall as he sighed while resigning to his fate.

Needless to say, this place was truly suitable for establishing a cavern abode.

Within this concave 'chamber pot mouth' where two mountain peaks joined up, the place Wei Suo had selected unexpectedly housed an elevated mirror-like lake around it. Naturally, the place was fumigated with mist.

With this lake, this urinating pit truly fit the name of a chamber pot. Nevertheless, even when walking along the mountain valley below or soaring past the Lil'Night Mountain, one may not notice this place. With the masquerading thin mist, it would be hard to discover the existence of an elevated mountain lake.

This mountainous cliff looked exceedingly solid and firm. But like any other mountain wall, it was riddled with crevices and holes. By randomly digging in, one may accidentally end up inside a demonic beast's cave.

Astonishingly, along this precipitous 300-metre mountain wall, an exquisite crevice that could roughly fit a human could be seen at the 65-metre mark. Upon squeezing 30 metres into this cavern, was the perfectly solid mountain body.

In this manner, establishing a cavern abode after squeezing through this crevice, one wouldn't be able to discover any traces of artificial construction on the exterior.

After gasping in relief, Wei Suo rode his White-jade Crane into the crevice before storing it. After creeping in towards where the crevice ended, Wei Suo reached out and retrieved that broadsword he acquired from Liu Sanbao.

Then, he begun chiselling with his broadsword.

Liu Sanbao's broadsword had been infused with Taiyi Essence metal, and when cleaving against the mountainous rocks now, it was essentially akin to chopping tofu; not even fearing that the broadsword would suffer damages to its durability. With every few hacks, half a human- sized rock chunk would be cleaved off.

Wei Suo wasn't in a hurry to tidy up, as he allowed the debris to accumulate within this mountain crevice. Also, he didn't care for marvelling at the scenic sight of his excavation. Besides, he could do all those after finishing his digging as he proceeded himself a momentum that could drill through the entire mountain.

Be it a large or tiny cave, it would be Wei Suo's paradise.

Moreover, in the few times he first encountered Nangong Yuqing and the few times he reaped a fortune, it was all in caverns. As such, Wei Suo was obviously abundantly experienced in digging through caves.

40 minutes later, Wei Suo had already excavated a 30-metre long tunnel that could roughly fit an individual.

Viewing the gradually darkening sky, Wei Suo strived harder, as he rapidly drilled into the mountain body. Scraping out another bend, and drilling for another 30 metres, Wei Suo finally ceased. He then flew out of the mountain crevice.

Near the bottom of this precipitous mountain cliff, at the ground vertically beneath the mountain crevice site, Wei Suo dug a deep pit. Then, he produced several level 3 demonic beast carcasses from a Treasure Receiving Pocket and buried them in the pit. After covering a layer over, Wei Suo carefully retrieved his Treasure Elemental Jade Case and activated his Cyan Emperor Gourd once again.

Afterwards, Wei Suo used his tiny silver dagger to hook up his Immortal Exterminating Vine seedling, and planted it atop the demonic beast carcasses.

Next, he fished out a tiny bottle of dark-red medicinal liquid and carefully irrigated the roots of the Immortal Exterminating Vine.

It looked as if the Immortal Exterminating Vine had consumed some wondrous herb, where it suddenly thrived with vigor. Its roots swiftly grew and spread out.

With a nervous countenance, Wei Suo dispersed the nature wood spirit aura of his Cyan Emperor Gourd. To his pleasant surprise, the sapling Immortal Exterminating Vine held no reactions towards him.

This signified that the medicinal liquid he concocted, taught by the old man the night before, was effective.

As for the Mother Heaven Sect who employed Immortal Exterminating Vines to guard their sect entrance. They utilized a wood element skill technique. Whenever they planted an Immortal Exterminating Vine, they would refine a Spirit Controlling Technique like talisman onto it. As such, not only would the Immortal Exterminating Vines automatically assault cultivators or demonic beasts, the disciples responsible for the Immortal Exterminating Vines could even control them like tamed demonic beasts; using them to cease or strengthen assaults.

For example, if Wei Suo were to arrive at the ancient Mother Heaven Sect, even if he activated his Cyan Emperor Gourd before their Immortal Exterminating Vines, the Mother Heaven Sect disciples can still control the vines to attack Wei Suo.

Sadly, the Old Man didn't know much of the skill technique the Mother Heaven Sect employed. He only knew of a method to cultivate plants to recognize one as master, a method that existed 20,000 years ago. During concoction of such a medicinal liquid, Wei Suo needed to add his own blood to allow the Immortal Exterminating Vine to identify his aura, thereby not assaulting him. Nevertheless, Wei Suo couldn't manipulate the vines to attack things it couldn't sense.

As for such a method of establishing sovereignty, it could only be used once. Concocting another batch with Nangong Yuqing or anyone else's blood, the Immortal Exterminating Vine still wouldn't recognize them. This was analogous to a fledgling demonic beast assuming the first life form it sees as its parent. However, even if other creatures offered milk to it, it wouldn't recognize them.

Hence, for Nangong Yuqing or anyone else to enter, they would have to rely on the Emperor Cyan Gourd. If Wei Suo desired to plant any new Immortal Exterminating Vine, he would have to concoct a new batch of that medicinal liquid. Actually, one batch only required 80 or so low grade spiritual stones, and Wei Suo had concocted 30 such batches the night before.

After planting the Immortal Exterminating Vine, Wei Suo returned to that mountain crevice. Upon entering the tunnel he excavated out, he blocked up the entrance with the rocky debris.

Following that, he retrieved 4 white colored little flags and installed it around this tunnel.

The 4 little flags emanated a white glow as Wei Suo's true energy channeled it. After the flags burrowed into the ground, they formed a medium-sized 4 layered white light screen barriers in this tunnel.

Next, Wei Suo retrieved 7-8 red colored jade talismans. After carefully testing their positions, Wei Suo embedded them into the ground.

After setting up his divine light screen defensive barrier, and a triggering Fire Inferno Array, his installations were completed.

The might of the two defensive measures were probably only Half-Spirit class formation arrays. For a cavern abode, it was truly too pathetically wretched. However, as it was tough to find any high grade defensive formation arrays for now, Wei Suo could only make do. Fortunately, that Four-spirit Formation Flags could offer divine light screen protection, preventing cultivators or demonic beasts from entering, it also possessed the efficacy of aura isolation.

After finishing these setups.

Wei Suo continued heaving Liu Sanbao's broadsword and chiselling away to expand his cavern abode.

Digging another 120 - 150 metres deeper later, Wei Suo finally ceased his excavation deeper. Then, he started carving the surroundings, and carved out a stone room.

"Lad, your enthusiasm is not bad eh." This stone room was extravagantly specious. It was 40 metres wide and twice the height of Wei Suo. It had taken him over 2 hours to do so, and with the darkening of the night, the old man surfaced once again.

Wei Suo devised this stone room to function as a grand hall. To guard against infiltration of demonic beasts, he would need a room with space for action to perform techniques.

After settling this stone room, Wei Suo rested a little before starting on another room to the right. After cutting through another tunnel, it designated the new area to be the second stone room.

This stone room was twice the size of the first room, which took almost half the night of his time.

Wei Suo was preparing to nurture his Mind Devouring Bug in this very stone room.

Wei Suo hadn't sold a single demonic beast carcass he obtained from Guhuai Manor, and thus brought everything in his Treasure Receiving pockets.

Such epic magnitude of demonic beast carcass, yet he could only slowly offload them. Moreover, and more crucially, Mind Devouring Bugs required feasting on the brain matter of demonic beasts to mature and advance.

Although Wei Suo hadn't browsed and clarified on the quantities of demonic beasts he had, he reckoned it to be at least 3,000 if not 2,000. For future trainings, Wei Suo planned to segregate a pile for the Mind Devour Bug to devour. Presently, Wei Suo was truly curious to know, after devouring such multitudes of demonic beasts, how far would his Mind Devouring Bug advance.

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