redvbooks Chapter 184: Everyone Flees When Disaster Strikes
Chapter 184: Everyone Flees When Disaster Strikes
Chapter 184: When Disaster Strikes, Everyone Flies Separately
Li Lan had known since he obtained the 《Azure Thunder Qi Absorption Art》 cultivation manual that
cultivators with extraordinary talent, when cultivating high-level techniques,
have a certain probability of comprehending配套術法 (配套術法) from them.
Therefore,
although Li Lan felt surprised at this moment,
after thinking about it carefully, it was also within reason.
The Foundation Establishment Stage chapter of that 《Azure Thunder Qi Absorption Art》
only needed twenty-five years to complete.
Just from this point alone,
that technique was completely incomparable to his own 《Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art》 in terms of grade.
The former contained配套術法 (配套術法),
so the latter, being of a higher grade, should also have it.
Now it seemed,
Li Lan's previous guess was correct.
The cultivation technique 《Mixed Origin Five Elements True Art》 was quite special,
at the Qi Refining Stage, there were no suitable配套術法 (配套術法) for it,
which was why he had not comprehended anything extra from it all this time.
His thoughts raced for a while,
Li Lan immediately spent five years of his lifespan to complete the 《Mixed Origin Rotation Art》.
The complete配套術法 (配套術法) chapter emerged in his mind,
the massive amount of information dazzling him.
But after Li Lan patiently read through it one by one,
his eyes shone with brilliance, frequently showing signs of astonishment.
For no other reason than,
this配套術法 (配套術法), as its name suggested, actually discussed the theory of the mutual transformation between the five elements.
Its novelty of argument and rigor of evidence
truly left Li Lan in awe.
According to what was stated in this配套術法 (術法), those who cultivated this technique to Great Accomplishment,
even if they only had a single Spirit Root, could transform the mana in their bodies into any other attribute at will, for their own use.
This meant that,
if Li Lan cultivated this art, even without a Water Spirit Root,
he could use water attribute spells at any time.
The profundity of this配套術法 (術法)
was simply unbelievable.
If one were to see this 《Mixed Origin Rotation Art》 in the market,
most cultivators would probably treat it as the delusional work of some powerful being who had gone mad,
they would absolutely not believe it, much less risk their wealth and lives to cultivate it.
But Li Lan was an exception,
no matter how outrageous what this配套術法 (術法) stated was, he was willing to believe it.
This art not only involved the five elements,
if cultivated to a profound realm,
even mutated attributes like ice, thunder, and wind could also be transformed and used.
Li Lan pondered for a moment,
and immediately sat down cross-legged again,
while stabilizing his own realm, he began to study this art.
Six months flowed by like water.
On this day,
Li Lan held a ball of mana in each hand, slowly pushing them together.
Looking closely, one could see that
one of the mana balls was cyan, while the other was reddish-orange.
The cyan mana mist ball emitted vibrant life force,
while the reddish-orange mana mist ball was filled with scorching destructive aura.
Although the power of the two attributes was not as incompatible as water and fire,
they were mutually reinforcing and restraining, and they also repelled each other severely.
As soon as they came into contact,
the fire attribute mana mist ball surged violently,
attempting to evaporate the other.
And although the wood attribute mana mist ball was naturally at a disadvantage, it also refused to be outdone and confronted it head-on.
This was already the case with the refined mana separated from Li Lan's dantian,
one could foresee what the scene would be like when two different attributes of spiritual energy in the world collided.
After six months,
Li Lan was already used to this situation.
He unhurriedly clapped the two mana mist balls together, and at the same time, according to the description in the 《Mixed Origin Rotation Art》, circulated a special route within his body.
Soon,
a miraculous scene occurred.
The mana mist balls that were originally fighting to the death, as if smoothed by the medicinal power of a Breakthrough Pill, suddenly quieted down.
Li Lan continuously injected mana into the two mana balls,
the wood and fire attributes slowly merged together over time, indistinguishable from each other.
Although during this process,
there would also be wood attribute being swallowed and fire attribute being extinguished,
with the abundant mana source in Li Lan's dantian as a backup, these two attributes gradually became stable.
After an unknown amount of time,
the two mana mist balls were no longer as clearly defined as before,
to the naked eye, it was no longer easy to distinguish their surface colors.
After some more time,
tiny electric arcs occasionally flashed within the mana mist balls.
Seeing this situation, Li Lan's eyes couldn't help but show joy,
he knew he had already succeeded halfway.
Li Lan did not stop there,
and continued to inject mana into it.
Soon,
the two mana mist balls completely merged, indistinguishable from each other,
and emitted a faint yellow halo.
After a long while again,
the wood and fire attributes completely disappeared,
replaced by extremely violent lightning arcs.
At this moment,
Li Lan held a palm-sized ball of electric light in his palm.
If Dou *Shixiong* were still alive and saw this scene,
he would probably be so shocked that his jaw would drop.
What Li Lan held in his hand was the thunder attribute mana he was most familiar with.
However,
unlike Dou *Shixiong*,
Li Lan's thunder attribute electric light ball was a dazzling golden yellow light.
As for this difference in color,
Li Lan did not delve into it.
He lightly patted his storage bag with his other hand and took out some simple straw paper from it.
What was recorded on it was the 《Palm Thunder》 spell that Dou *Shixiong* had comprehended himself.
This art could only be used by cultivators with a thunder Spirit Root.
Originally, it was like waste paper to Li Lan,
but now it just happened to be useful.
In the past six months,
he had already memorized and become proficient with the entire Palm Thunder, only lacking the thunder attribute mana to drive it.
Now that everything was ready,
casting this art was naturally a matter of course.
Li Lan chanted the incantation softly, then gently pushed forward with one hand.
He saw the golden yellow light fly out with lightning speed,
and in the blink of an eye, it had landed on the ground inside the cave dwelling.
Immediately, ore fragments scattered, and a scorched deep pit was blasted out on the spot, with waves of burnt smell permeating the surroundings.
Li Lan looked intently,
a satisfied look flashed in his eyes.
Not bad,
although converting mana attributes would cause a lot of mana to be lost for nothing,
after the conversion was successful,
the power of the thunder attribute spell cast was not inferior to that of a thunder Spirit Root in the slightest.
Soon,
Li Lan's thoughts further expanded.
He had only cultivated for a mere six months and achieved such results,
if he cultivated this art to Great Accomplishment,
then techniques of various elements that were originally unusable, such as riding clouds and spitting mist, and drawing lines on the ground to form rivers,
couldn't they be cast with just a wave of his hand?
Thinking of this,
Li Lan flipped his hand and took out the 《Thunder Light Evasion Art》 again.
He had seen Dou *Shixiong* use this art many times, and its speed was so fast that it was not an exaggeration to say it was the fastest among the five element evasion techniques.
Li Lan had long coveted this art,
but unfortunately, he didn't have a thunder attribute Spirit Root before, so he could only give up,
now it finally had a place to be used.
He had not expected before that he, a pseudo-Spirit Root, would have a day when he could grasp this thunder attribute mana.
At the same time,
Li Lan was also quite fortunate,
that this special配套術法 (術法) was not easy to sell, so he had kept it in his storage bag collecting dust.
Otherwise, if he had traded this art without keeping a copy,
he would have regretted it so much his intestines turned green.
Li Lan did not hesitate,
and immediately began to intensively study this profound evasion technique.
Although he had been in seclusion for nearly four years,
Li Lan seemed to not feel the passage of time, still happily immersed in his own world.
In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.
Just as Li Lan's conversion of the thunder attribute had become slightly proficient,
and the speed required for conversion had also become much faster,
he was about to initially try out the speed of this Thunder Light Evasion Art.
His cave dwelling suddenly experienced a violent roar,
dust fell from the ceiling, stirring up clouds of smoke.
Li Lan's brow furrowed slightly,
being suddenly interrupted from his original plan, anyone would probably feel dissatisfied.
But immediately,
he suppressed the unnecessary emotions,
and returned to calmness.
This Lin'an Stronghold had always been peaceful, without any incidents,
what was happening today?
To suddenly cause such a big commotion?
Could it be that something had happened?
Thinking of this,
Li Lan subconsciously drilled into the hidden mine tunnel, preparing to use Earth Evasion again to slip away underground.
But as soon as his body moved,
he quickly reacted.
He was now at the Foundation Establishment Stage,
with many trump cards in hand, even if he encountered a cultivator of the same level, while not necessarily guaranteed to win, escaping was not a problem.
There was no need to be as fearful and jumpy as he was during the Qi Refining Stage.
Thinking of this,
Li Lan calmed his mind,
and released his divine sense to probe outwards.
The divine sense of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator had already taken shape,
and the covered area was quite extensive.
Soon,
every rustle of leaves and blade of grass within a mile radius entered Li Lan's mind.
"Bad! Those rogue cultivator families from the Wang family have attacked!"
"All the Senior Brothers are not here at this time, what should we do?"
"How can we, these Lingqi Middle Stage and Late Stage cultivators, defend this Lin'an Stronghold?"
"When disaster strikes, everyone flies separately, why don't we divide the cultivation resources in this Spirit Vein and flee!"
"Don't panic, isn't there still a Senior Brother Li in seclusion in this Spirit Stone Mine? Let's go ask him for help."
"Heh, how long has that Senior Brother Li been in seclusion? Who knows if he's still in the cave, maybe he's already passed away inside. In my opinion, we should just divide the cultivation resources and leave as soon as possible."
Amidst the idle chatter,
Li Lan also figured out what was going on.
During the time he was in seclusion,
Wang Chi and others, along with those three elite disciples, had all gone out.
The Wang family and their rogue cultivator families,
like hyenas that smelled blood, chose to suddenly launch an attack at this moment.
Without a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator in charge, the outer disciples outside were demoralized,
everyone was saying things like avoiding their sharp edge, fleeing without a fight, and so on.
If this had happened four years ago,
Li Lan would have naturally fled without a second thought.
Even now that he had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, to be cautious,
Li Lan's first reaction was still that he didn't want to deal with this matter.
It was just a low-grade Spirit Vein of the Guangji Sect,
if it was lost, it was lost, what did it have to do with him, a registered disciple?
Even if he repelled these rogue cultivators,
and defended this Spirit Vein,
what could the sect's reward of a Foundation Establishment Pill do?
This pill now,
held very limited attraction for him.
Therefore,
Li Lan naturally did not want to take any risks for nothing.
But after thinking about it carefully,
he stopped his steps from leaving.
It really wouldn't be appropriate for him to just let this matter go.