Ye Mo thought that the few Jindan cultivators that he had chased away would come back to look for trouble, as those people had been hanging around Dan City for a long time. What he didn’t expect was that he waited for almost a week, but no one came over.
Within this time, Ye Mo upgraded the small courtyard’s defence formation to level five, but did not dare to arrange a spirit gathering formation. There were already two spirit-attracting trees here. If he set up another spirit gathering formation, it might cause resentment from the cultivators living around.
In the following days, Ye Mo cultivated on his own while teaching Jin Zhi Chang to refine pills, and modified all her succeeding techniques.
When he didn’t wait for Jing Yingli, Ye Mo didn’t go out of the city at will to wander around. His current strength was still too low, so if he met that Mo Youshen, he might not even be able to leave Dan City.
Two months pa*sed by, and Jin could already refine simple mortal pills on her own. With Ye Mo’s modified cultivation techniques and a large amount of pills and stones, she managed to advance to the eighth level of foundation building.
In two months’ time, Ye Mo, who was already at the peak of the fourth level of YuanYing, had also successfully advanced to the fifth level of YuanYing with the help of the ‘Infant Yuan Dan’ and the ‘Bitter Bamboo’.
When the Dan King Competition was still a month away, Ye Mo received a message from Jing Yingli, who had arrived at Dan City.
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When Jing Yingli arrived at Houzhi’s residence, Ye Mo introduced Houzhi to Jing Yingli and told her that she was his new disciple.
In her opinion, Jing Yingli was valued by her master and was obviously not an ordinary female cultivator. She might even be a confidante of her master’s. But Jing Yingli’s looks were too good to be true, and were far inferior to her own.
Jin Zhi Chang knew that she was at best not ugly, and that she was not even close to the female cultivators who greeted the customers at the pavilions in Dan City.
Jing Yingli was also surprised that Jin Zhi Hou was so uncommonly qualified that she was able to win Ye Mo’s favour. She knew a lot about Ye Mo’s abilities, not only was he a formation master, but he was also a Dan King, if such a person were to take on disciples. It could be said that even the geniuses of the Luo Yue Continent would be eager to join under Ye Mo’s tutelage.
What’s more, cultivators in general value their heritage very highly, and even if they want to take on a disciple, they will look and choose again and again. But Ye Mo had taken in a disciple with average looks and qualifications, which made her wonder. If Ye Mo were to accept her as his disciple, she would have been willing to follow him.
Although she couldn’t figure it out, Jing Yingli could only secretly praise Jin Zhihou’s luck, cultivators do need luck. Some talented cultivators did not have a good master. In the end, they were just as extinct as everyone else.
However, Ye Mo did not think as much as Jing Yingli, he felt that Hou Zhi Zhi was suitable to be his disciple. There was another one who missed Yi Mo a bit and took him on casually, but did not examine the heritage or anything.
Jing Yingli was incredibly smart, Ye Mo didn’t hide from him and told him about his enmity with Mo Youshen, he wanted to ask Jing Yingli what he thought.
“What, you also offended Mo Youshen, the disciple of the Changshun Dan King?” When Jing Yingli heard that Ye Mo had offended Changshun Dan King’s personal disciple as soon as he arrived and hadn’t done anything yet, she couldn’t help but be speechless.
This guy was really a troublemaker. Not only had he offended the Thundercloud Sect and the Wuji Sect, but now he had offended the Dan King elders of Dan City.
It was a good thing that these opponents of his didn’t know that he had done those things right now, otherwise, even if he was more rebellious, he wouldn’t be able to step over this hurdle.
“What I mean is that if there is really no way to participate in the Dan King Competition, I will take Zhi Chang back to Mo Yue with me.” Ye Mo saw that Jing Yingli also did not speak for a long time. He took the initiative to say.
Jing Yingli pondered for a while and said, “I know that Mo Youshen, he is the personal disciple of Dan City’s second elder, King Changshun. I heard that he has only been in Dan City for less than four or five years, and his qualifications are not bad, but I don’t think that’s surprising. Even if his qualifications are good. It wouldn’t be better than me, even I don’t have the means to reach the ninth level of Golden Dan in four or five years.”
Ye Mo nodded, of course he knew that Mo Youshen had clearly been transformed by a heaven-defying medicinal herb within four or five years at the ninth level of the Golden Dan.
“And ……” Jing Yingli continued after a pause, “There are many people in South An Continent who are more qualified than Mo Youshen, that is, their cultivation speed is not as fast as that Mo Youshen.”
“Why does Mo Youshen cultivate so fast, Sister Yingli?” Zhi Chang asked, puzzled.
Jing Yingli said in a deep voice, “Because he simply didn’t care about his root problem, or he had other ways to solve the problem of unstable root. Mo Youshen was not young when he cultivated, he must have built his foundation forcibly because of some kind of counter-intuitive medicinal herbs and then forcibly formed a dan. Although this is fast, without a foundation, there is simply no higher future.”
Ye Mo understood what Jing Yingli was saying, the reason he was so elated and desperate about getting the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ was because of his unstable foundation and state of mind. He was now trying to advance as fast as he could, while cultivation was the opposite of what he wanted.
But with ‘Bitter Bamboo’, one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, it was different. Even if he cultivated as fast as he could, his mind was as stable as a rock underneath the Bitter Bamboo. Earlier, he was moved by what Hou Jin Zhi Zhi said about the ‘Pill King Spiritual Vein’ of the Great Casting Mountain, also for the ‘Bitter Bamboo’.
Ye Mo believed Jing Ying Li’s words that his own cultivation was not much affected by his quickness, as he had the ‘Bitter Bamboo’ to ensure his state of mind was in question. However, he did not believe that Mo Youshen also had the ‘Bitter Bamboo’, so Mo Youshen must not have a solution to the problem of an unstable foundation. Don’t look at the fact that he was already at the ninth level of Jindan, but if Mo Youshen wanted to advance to a higher level, he would have to wait a hundred years before he could form an infant. Otherwise, even if he forced himself to form an infant, his future would still be in doubt.
After Jing Yingli reminded him, Ye Mo was also a bit puzzled, the Changshun Dan King would definitely understand this issue, and since he did, why did he still think so highly of Mo Youshen? He even allowed him to forcefully cultivate to the ninth level of the Golden Dan?
The reason why he didn’t believe Mo Youshen had ‘Bitter Bamboo’ that was because ‘Bitter Bamboo’ was one of the ten spiritual roots, which was only legendary in the cultivation world, although Ye Mo didn’t know if there was one in the immortal world, but according to his guess, this kind of heaven defying thing was probably not available even in the immortal world The What’s more, it was rumoured that there was only one of each of the ten spiritual roots, and since he had obtained the ‘Bitter Bamboo’, there would not be a second one.
Ye Mo and Jing Yingli understood the issue of roots, but Jin Zhi Chang did not.
Jin Zhi Chang was still at Foundation Establishment cultivation and did not know much about roots. Jing Ying Li did not know if it was because she did not understand or because she was Ye Mo’s disciple, but she explained again, “This kind of spirit medicine that forcibly raises cultivation is very precious, and even nine-star sects are extremely rare. A nine-star or eight-star sect, as long as they are willing to give their core disciples this kind of herbs, then any of them can also advance to YuanYing in a short time. But none of the sects did so, just because they were afraid that their disciples’ foundation would be unstable.”
Ye Mo already vaguely understood why Jing Yingli wanted to mention the problem of Mo Youshen’s unstable foundation, and probably still wanted to let himself compete.
After coming over and explaining, Jing Yingli said to Ye Mo, “Brother Ye, that Mo Youshen is just an outsider, although his qualifications are good, but since the Changshun Dan King has accepted him as his personal disciple, why would he give him such heaven defying medicinal materials? Could it be that the Changshun Dan King, as a fourth-grade Dan King, would not know about the unstable foundation? The only explanation is only two, one Mo Youshen and the Changshun Dan King have a great relationship, and the Changshun Dan King even has a way to stabilize his foundation. The second ……”
Jing Yingli didn’t go on, but Ye Mo already understood that the second one was that the Changshun Dan King must have had another plan by forcibly raising Mo Youshen’s cultivation level.
Jing Yingli seemed to know that Ye Mo understood what he meant, and said even more without explanation, “Since this is the case, it means that Mo Youshen is only so famous in Dan City because of the name of the Dan King of Changshun. The rest of the Dan Kings and City Lords and Deacons don’t necessarily think much of Mo Youshen, and the Dan King Competition in Dan City, the Changshun Dan King is only a judge at best. Even in Dan City, there are nearly ten Dan Kings who have more power to speak than the Dan King of Changshun.”
Ye Mo nodded, thoroughly understanding what Jing Yingli meant, in Dan City the other Dan Kings didn’t think very highly of Mo Youshen. Moreover, if he went to the Grand Competition, even if Mo Youshen recognized him, it was not something he could interfere with. Perhaps even Dan King Changshun might not be able to interfere with his participation in the competition, let alone Mo Youshen.
Of course there was another point that Jing Yingli did not say, and that was that he, Ye Mo, had to get a ranking, otherwise, going to participate would be a disservice to him instead. But Ye Mo also understood this.
“Good, thanks to Senior Sister Ying Li, it has enlightened me.” Ye Mo was the one in authority, and with Jing Yingli, who was familiar with Dan City, analyzing the situation, he immediately understood the key issue.
Jing Yingli said with a faint smile, “Moreover, Mo Youshen is not in Dan City yet, when I came to Dan City I heard people say that Dan King Changshun accompanied Mo Youshen to the eight-star sect Golden Sword Sect, it seems that he wanted to propose a marriage to Xiao Shiyin of the Golden Sword Sect.”
Ye Mo fell silent, not because Mo Youshen wanted to propose marriage to Xiao Shiyin silent, in fact Ye Mo only knew that Xiao Shiyin was just the fifth most beautiful woman in the Nan’an Ten Beauties ranking, he was not familiar with Xiao Shiyin. He was because of the importance that King Changshun Dan attached to Mo Youshen, and even accompanied Mo Youshen to the Golden Sword Sect, so it was clear that King Changshun Dan really loved and cared for Mo Youshen.
However, he quickly stood up and said to Jing Yingli, “Senior sister Yingli, then please take me to register.”
Jing Yingli nodded, Mo Youshen was not in Dan City, so it would be best if she and Ye Mo went to register. Although she could help Ye Mo, if Mo Youshen knew about it, it would still be easy for him to make a move on the registration.
Jing Yingli also stood up and said, “Dan King registration however is not a simple matter, you should not have the Dan King title yet, now I will take you to meet someone first, it is one of my seniors.”
