Ch 189: Nine Tribulation Yin-Yang Refining Spirit Formation

According to Zhao Xiangzi’s previous introduction, cities like Jinghai City have roughly the same layout as Baimei City on Baimei Star. Bai Jintong, Lin Yu, and Hua Kong found a carriage and quickly arrived at the street where merchant shops gathered.

After wandering around, the group was surprised to find that not only did the Bai Family have its own Bai Mei Commerce, but there were also other commercial firms. The top-ranked Ten Thousand Worlds Commerce, Guangyao Commerce, Guangming Commerce, and Datongji Commerce in the World of Light all had branches here.

Zhao Mingyi is a high-level cultivator after all, and he actually felt comfortable letting a large number of outsiders enter his Light Boat Small World. Lin Yu, Hua Kong, and Bai Jintong didn’t have such courage.

No wonder the group felt that this imitation “Jinghai City” was quite lively. Unlike their small worlds, only their own familiar and smaller-scale commercial firms existed. However, the group didn’t have time to study these things. Their purpose was to obtain the Creation Avatar Formation.

The three of them inquired at each commercial firm, and this kind of formation was indeed relatively rare. Only Datongji Commerce had a 《Nine Tribulation Yin-Yang Refining Spirit Formation》, and it was very expensive, priced at twenty million Light Stones. The three of them bargained for a while, and the shopkeeper finally agreed to sell it for eighteen million Light Stones.

Hua Kong had indeed obtained a lot of benefits from mining Golden Light Stones over the years, but after deducting the expenses of the family and the Tian Yuan Sect, he had only accumulated more than 50 million Light Stones. This expenditure of one-third of his wealth really made him feel a little heartache.

But this matter concerned whether the three of them could successfully create the Realm Lord Avatar, so this sum of Light Stones had to be spent.

Bai Jintong and Lin Yu knew that although the formation was purchased by Hua Kong, the two of them would inevitably need to use it as well, so they offered to bear a portion of the Light Stones. However, Hua Kong refused. He could still bear the current expenses of these Light Stones. If he really couldn’t bear it in the future, he would naturally speak up, after all, this formation was going into his own pocket.

In the end, Hua Kong spent these eighteen million Light Stones and put this formation into his pocket. The group then rushed back to the manor where they were staying and began to study this formation.

Although the specific work of deducing and inscribing the formation was done by Hua Kong, the materials required for this formation were bound to be quite expensive, exceeding the range that Hua Kong could bear. It could only be borne by the three of them together.

The three of them studied the formation for a while and finally gained a simple understanding of it.

This formation was a secret technique created by the ancient “Xuanming Dao Lord”. It used Yin and Yang Qi as the foundation and the Chaos Law as the guide to separate the cultivator’s soul and refine an external avatar. A large number of expensive materials needed to be invested in the avatar to prevent it from collapsing during the Heavenly Tribulation.

The formation inscription required Yin and Yang carriers, ten pounds of Chaos Star Sand collected from the Guixu storm eye, three drops of Realm Lord’s essence blood, and innate spiritual objects such as Spirit Jade.

The formation base construction required nine Realm Lord-level demon beast skulls as formation eyes, with the 《Taiyi Soul Crossing Curse》 inscribed on the top of the skull, and “Yin-Yang Twin Stones” laid on the ground, with the stone patterns naturally forming a Tai Chi fish pattern, and the life lamps of the main body and the avatar placed at the fish eyes.

The energy medium required the avatar’s body to be soaked in Guixu water so that the avatar could withstand the power of Chaos. The Devouring Master Vine was used to entangle the formation base and was controlled by the main body to prevent backlash.

The three of them took out the quotation Jade Slip they had obtained from the Datongji shopkeeper and simply calculated the cost. These materials would cost no less than 200 million Light Stones, which really exceeded the three of their ability to bear!

It wasn’t that the three of them couldn’t scrape together this sum of Light Stones, but which cultivator at their level didn’t have huge expenses? Just their own women and descendants alone would consume a lot of resources. Once they stopped supplying Light Stones, the internal operations of the family would immediately stop.

After some calculations, the three of them could only scrape together a total of 100 million Light Stones while ensuring the internal operations of the family were maintained. This was still more than half the materials needed to purchase the formation materials.

The three of them racked their brains for a while, but couldn’t think of a way to earn a large number of Light Stones in the short term. Bai Jintong suddenly opened his mouth somewhat awkwardly.

“Why don’t we borrow some from Little Bamboo Sister?”, Bai Jintong said.

“Ah!?”, Hua Kong was stunned. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of Bai Jinzhu. He had even thought of Hong Muxin, but he was still a little thin-skinned and felt a little embarrassed to ask a woman.

“Is Xiao Kong embarrassed?”, Lin Yu knew Hua Kong very well and immediately noticed Hua Kong’s thoughts.

“Ask women for resources?”, Hua Kong said somewhat helplessly.

“So what? Haven’t you given them a lot of resources? Can’t you think of a way with Hong Jie?”, Lin Yu knew that many of the things Hua Kong made were sold by Hong Muxin.

“Maybe! Light Boats should still be very profitable!”, Hua Kong said.

“Then ask her. We are only engaged to Xiangzi and Jinzhu now, so it’s still a little inappropriate to ask for resources now!”, Lin Yu said.

“Okay! I’ll ask!”, Hua Kong thought for a while. Currently, he could only obtain resources from Hong Muxin, but because of the matter of marrying Bai Jinzhu, he was a little afraid to face Hong Muxin.

What surprised Hua Kong was that when Hua Kong said he needed Light Stones, Hong Muxin didn’t ask where they would be used and gave Hua Kong 150 million Light Stones, which made Hua Kong a little surprised and a little touched.

“Smelly Little Thief, what are you doing sneaking around? Now that I’ve decided to follow you, how could I care about these resources!”

Hong Muxin’s words made Hua Kong feel very guilty. He was using such a great price to create an avatar to deal with the women who had been following him all along.

But Hua Kong didn’t have a better way. Currently, he could only rely on the Bai Family, so the matter of creating an avatar had to be done. Otherwise, he would only neglect the women even more.

Moreover, having a powerful avatar was also an important means of self-preservation for Realm Lord-level cultivators. Otherwise, if they did everything themselves, wouldn’t they be easily targeted?

So the matter of creating an avatar had to be done. In the end, Hua Kong could only put aside the various thoughts in his heart and focus on deducing and inscribing the formation.

When he returned from his Light Boat Small World, he didn’t expect that Lin Yu and Bai Jintong had disappeared. He waited for a while before the two of them appeared.

After the two of them appeared, they also brought good news. It turned out that Lin Yu had also obtained some Light Stones from Purple Flame Fairy, as many as 50 million, and Bai Jintong had also obtained 30 million Light Stones from the Bai Family Commerce.

With these resources, the matter of the three of them creating avatars was almost settled. The three of them took advantage of the early hour and went to the commercial firm in the city to purchase the spiritual materials needed to inscribe the formation. Of course, this batch of spiritual materials was relatively rare and would require a period of time to arrive.

In order to facilitate communication with Datongji Commerce, Lin Yu, Hua Kong, and Bai Jintong agreed to the shopkeeper’s request to open a Datongji branch in their Light Boat Small World.

Because Datongji would inevitably have to build a teleportation formation in the small world in order to facilitate the purchase and sale of goods, this of course brought risks, but after the three of them calculated for a while, they felt that the benefits outweighed the disadvantages, so they agreed.

In the future, the family members in the small world could also easily contact the outside world without having to go in and out through themselves.

In fact, they also knew that with the power of Datongji, they didn’t care about the small amount of profit in the three of their Light Boat Small Worlds. It was purely because of the Bai Family and Zhao Family’s reputation that they decided to open a branch, which was considered to be maintaining a good relationship with them, after all, building a teleportation formation and opening a branch in the small world were not small expenses.

So the three of them brought the shopkeeper of Datongji into their small world and gave them very high authority, allowing them to choose a location to open a branch.

In the remaining few days, Bai Jintong, Lin Yu, and Hua Kong were busy deducing the formation diagram of the Nine Tribulation Yin-Yang Refining Spirit Formation. Zhao Xiangzi and Bai Jinzhu went out early and returned late, accompanying Zhao Mingyi’s women to play and chat. Judging from their reactions, they actually had quite a good impression of Zhao Mingyi’s women this time.

It turned out that Zhao Xiangzi didn’t think much of these women from humble backgrounds and was unwilling to associate with them. This time, because of Zhao Mingyi’s favor, she patiently interacted with them and found that these women, apart from serving others with their beauty and having average cultivation, were actually quite good people. The two of them no longer rejected them and spent a few days together happily.

The journey to Ten Thousand Shadows Mountain was not far. After only five days, Zhao Mingyi appeared in his Light Boat Small World and notified the group that they had entered the territory of Ten Thousand Shadows Peak. After selecting a camp, they could leave the small world.

On this morning, Zhao Mingyi sent someone to notify the group that they had set up a camp in the territory of Ten Thousand Shadows Peak and could move in. The group then left the small world and came to the camp outside Ten Thousand Shadows Peak.

Zhao Mingyi placed the camp in a valley dozens of miles away from Ten Thousand Shadows Peak. A flat area had been cleared in the valley, and there were no roads leading to the outside world in other places, but from the camp, one could see the towering giant peak in the distance.

This place was relatively far away from other cultivators, which could quickly reach Ten Thousand Shadows Peak and avoid gathering with other cultivators, ensuring safety and tranquility.

As soon as they arrived at the camp, Zhao Xiangzi and Bai Jinzhu hurriedly ate breakfast, pulled everyone along, and rushed towards Ten Thousand Shadows Peak. The group drove a Light Boat and quickly arrived at the foot of Ten Thousand Shadows Peak.

Legend has it that walking up the steps from the foot of the mountain step by step, fully expressing respect for the laws of Heaven and Earth, would make it easier to gain enlightenment.

Zhao Xiangzi, Lin Yu, Bai Jinzhu, Hua Kong, and Bai Jintong didn’t believe these things, but since everyone else was gaining insights in this way, they naturally wouldn’t be mavericks.

But because the group arrived relatively late, the positions near the top of the mountain had already been occupied by other cultivators. They could only use the “Cultivation Pavilion” that was relatively far from the top of the mountain.

But Zhao Xiangzi and Bai Jinzhu didn’t care. They weren’t enthusiastic about this kind of luck-based, one-in-a-million thing. They were just here to have fun and broaden their horizons.

When the group led the guards to the ancient steps, there were no spiritual power fluctuations around, because other cultivators had already rushed over and occupied the best positions on the top of the mountain.

Just as the group was about to walk up the mountain, strange phenomena suddenly occurred around them. After a wave of strange space-time energy, several humanoid blue streamer-like shadows passed over the group’s heads and disappeared after a few breaths.

“What was that!”, Zhao Mingyi asked the Shadow Clan guide beside him.

“Ten Thousand Shadows Peak! Ten Thousand Shadows Peak! Shadows!”, the guide said helplessly. Human Race people who came here for the first time were usually quite shocked.

“This is the origin of the name Ten Thousand Shadows Peak!”, Zhao Xiangzi murmured.

“Yes!”, the guide replied.

“Let’s go up!”, Zhao Mingyi said, calming himself. In fact, apart from the plants and the Human Race territory being somewhat different, and some inexplicable space-time energy surging, everything else was no different from ordinary mountain peaks.

“Okay!”, Zhao Xiangzi and the others responded. As the shock just now subsided, everyone realized that this mountain peak was not actually that special.

The group followed Zhao Mingyi and slowly climbed upwards. Apart from the occasional inexplicable shadows, the other scenery was not very special.

At the beginning, everyone would stop to watch for a while, trying to find some clues from the shadows, but this was purely futile. These shadows would only appear for a few breaths before quickly disappearing.

The energy contained in these shadows was very weak, and even their clothing would not be very clear, let alone their faces and physical characteristics. Therefore, after watching for a while, the group couldn’t even detect any differences between these shadows.

Moreover, other shadows never appeared here, only the shadows of cultivators, so it was difficult to find any useful clues.