Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 71 – Stolen

The Dao of Formation originally had both offense and defense, but because the array formation was limited in time and space, it was mostly used as a guardian.

Regardless of whether they were cultivators, clans, or sects, they all had to use the Dao of array formations. Because of this, the status of array masters in the world of martial arts was extremely high, and these array masters were highly respected by others, so they naturally didn’t lack cultivation resources. This made almost every array master think that they were superior to others, and proudly bragged that they were superior!

After the great change of the heaven and earth, a calamity had occurred everywhere, and the entire cultivation world was in a state of turmoil. After the great change of the heaven and earth, a disaster occurred everywhere, and the entire cultivation world was in a state of turmoil.

The so-called ‘theft’ naturally referred to those who were proficient in the art of array formations. They used their attainments in array formations to either unravel or evade the barriers of the array formation and infiltrated the residences of cultivators, clans, and sects to steal things.

However, the level of the array formation in Shi Village Head’s home was obviously too low. If the other array masters were to find out about Yang Junshan’s actions, they would probably be scolded as scum among the array masters and be shamed as one!

From what Yang Junshan saw in his previous life, the formations and the protective methods set by the talismans were extremely rough. Which is to say, the formation masters of the current cultivation world thought themselves to be high levelled, if not, Yang Junshan could imagine that most of the cultivation world’s cave residences were actually requested by their own backyard.

However, if that was the case, then in less than three years time, all of the formation masters in the cultivation world would fall from their divine altars and become street rats.

There weren’t any good items hidden within the courtyard house in the Stone Village Head that Yang Junshan was interested in, but the reason why Yang Junshan snuck into his house this time round was only to annoy him, so it would naturally be best if he found out about it.

However, even Yang Junshan did not expect to discover sucleasant surprise so quickly. After searching the hall and bedroom of the house and finding nothing, Yang Junshan quickly found a secret room at the back of the bedroom.

Once again borrowing the spirit energy emitted by a crushed Jade Coins, Yang Junshan easily used the Finger Technique to break through the illusion in front of him. In the middle of this secret room was a stone praying mat used for cultivation, and on the west side of the room waow of bookshelves with a deck chair underneath them.

On top of the bookshelf were a few cultivation notes, travel notes, detailed explanation of magic techniques, and the like. These things weren’t useless for cultivation, but most of them were flashy and unrealistic things.

In front of the reclining chair, there was also a five feet long desk. On top of it, there were a few pieces of talisman paper, including two completed talismans, and on top of the talisman paper, there waiece of paperweight carved with Frigid Mountain Stone onto the Leopard. Most of the talismans were already finished, and on the pen rack beside it, there was a talisman brush made from Spirit Bamboo and Night Wind Wolf’s Bristles.

The Frigid Mountain Stone’s paperweight, the Spirit Channeling Bamboo’s talisman brush, and the Cyan Jade Stone Ink Platform were all priceless items. Although they could not be compared to the magic tools specially refined for the drawing of talismans, they were still good items that could be used by beginners in talismans.

Beneath the desk was a wastepaper basket, inside which were eight or nine crumpled up talismans. It was obviously the work of Shi Village Head, who failed when he was drawing the talismans.

He held two completed talismans in his hands, one was a Rolling Stone Talisman and the other was a Stone Armour Talisman, which just so happened to be an offensive talisman, these were genuine martial arts realm talismans, the might of each talisman after being activated exceeded the limits of the strength of the Mortal Realm cultivators, and was much stronger than the talismans drawn by the two cultivators with Mortal Realm cultivations in Yang Junshan’s hands.

After walking around in the center of the cultivation room for a while and discovering nothing else, Yang Junshan was about to leave when his gaze suddenly fell on a praying mat in the middle of the room.

There was no doubt that the cultivation chamber’s first priority was to gather spirit energy. In fact, there were many runes that had the effect of gathering spirit on the ground and walls of Shi Jiutong’s cultivation chamber. Although it still formed a Spirit Convergence Array, it was still extremely effective for gathering spirit energy.

As cultivators, they would often come in contact with cultivators the most during their cultivation and would usually be highly valued by cultivators. Even if they couldn’t geigh quality Spirit Gathering Praying Mat, they would still need to prepare a praying mat that contained spiritual energy or had excellent effects.

As a cultivator with the second level of martial arts realm and the head of the village, Shi Jiutong was naturally rich. Everything in the cultivation room seemed extremely refined, so why did he makraying mat out of ordinary bluestone?

Flipping over the stone praying mat in the middle of the secret room, Yang Junshan saw a ball of light congregating at the very bottom. Yang Junshan secretly cursed, and immediately activated the stone armor talisman he had just obtained, causing a black brown stone armor to instantly wear on Yang Junshan’s body, protecting him within it.

With a loud bang, after Yang Junshan was sent flying into the wall of the secret room, the stone armor on his body immediately shattered, and turned into specks of light that dispersed into the distance.

Yang Junshan coughed loudly as he stood up, rubbing his chest that was feeling stuffy, he secretly thought that he was too careless, he did not expect that there would bidden move beneath this stone praying mat. If not for the Stone Armour Rune in his hand, that technique just now would be enough to take his name, then Shi Jiutong would be sitting on the praying mat and cultivating all year long without a care.

Although the huge explosion just now had occurred in the secret room, it was definitely not weak. Maybe someone had already noticed and wanted to come over to check, or even report to Shi Jiutong, he had to leave quickly.

Yang Junshan walked over to the stone praying mat that had fallen to the ground. Naturally, this praying mat wouldn’t be in any more danger right now. Yang Junshan turned the praying mat around, and his expression immediately changed, as he couldn’t help but let out a “Ah” sound.

He did not expect that the Village Head of the Earth Stone Village would have such luck. He did not know where he got the inheritance of spiritual arts, but this inheritance was engraved on the stone tablet on the back of the stone praying mat.

The cultivators of Mortal Realm were actually able to use their magic tools when they had reached the fourth layer of the Immortal Foundation. When they reached the fifth layer of the Immortal Arts, they would be able to use magic techniques out of thin air;

However, in the real world, cultivation techniques were harder to come by than high-grade Mortal Realm cultivators, magic tools were harder to come by, spirit arts were harder to come by, and spirit artifacts were even harder to come by!

There were a few cultivators in the Wasteland Town who had reached the third stage of martial arts realm, but how did Yang Tiangang manage to become one of the top five experts in the Wasteland Town with his second stage of martial arts realm?

It was not only because of the High quality magical equipment in his hands, but also because as the descendant of the Bluestone Town Yang family, he had successfully cultivated the only spiritual art inheritance that the Yang family had.

The current situation in the cultivation world was that only cultivators with martial arts realm would have a chance to own a spirit artifact, and not only was the quality of the spirit artifacts in Yang Tiangang’s hands more superior than most Martial Realm Cultivator, he had also successfully cultivated a legacy of spirit arts, which allowed him to completely challenge cultivators with the third stage of the martial arts realm. In fact, even though Qian Chunlai’s cultivation was at the third stage of the martial arts realm, he was always at a disadvantage when it came to fighting with Yang Tiangang, and that was the reason.

It was just that he did not know if Shi Jiutong had already mastered this spirit art. If he succeeded, without his own father to suppress the array, then there waigh chance that the Tuqiu Village would be at a disadvantage in today’s battle between the two villages.

Without saying a word, Yang Junshan wrapped up a foot of square stone tablet on his back. After exiting the secret room and noticing that there was no one outside the house, he immediately climbed over the courtyard wall, covered his entire body witain cape and hastily walked out of the village. After exiting the Earth Stone Village, Yang Junshan did not immediately return to the Tuqiu Village, but instead, braved the heavy rain and walked towards the Western Mountain.

Just as Yang Junshan was doing whatever he wanted in the courtyard house of Village Head, the situation between the two villages that were facing each other at the upstream of Qinshui River also became more and more tense.

Although Blacksmith Zhang had smashed apart the Boundary Stone with a single strike and was not at a disadvantage even when fighting with the Stone Village’s Village Head, his cultivation had only just broken through to the second stage. Although the turbid aura in his body was still alive, it was far from being comparable to a cultivator like Shi Jiutong who had advanced to the second stage for many years.

Han Xiumei stood out from the crowd and questioned loudly: “What does Village Head Shi mean by this? Are you trying to forcefully steal my Tuqiu Village’s Ling Tian?”

Shi Jiutong’s huge body trembled, and said with a deep voice: “The two villages’ farmlands have always been unclear, but this time, the flood of mountains drowned out all of the fields, and I took this chance to clarify the two villages’ farmlands, so as to avoid more trouble in the future!”

Blacksmith Zhang was furious when he heard this: “Fatty Shi, don’t tell me your body is full of fat? Last year, you and I set up a land contract and the land of the two villages have already been cleared up. What do you mean by this?”

Shi Jiutong coldly snorted, and said: “You don’t have the qualifications to speak to this Village Head, so come out!”

Han Xiumei sneered: “I’m afraid that Village Head Shi wouldn’t only have the guts to come when our boss isn’t around. Could it be that he forgot that last year, when we cleared out the farmland, Tian Qi came in triplicate. You, our boss and the rest of the people in the town have signed and staked everything.

“Hehe.” A chuckle suddenly came from behind Shi Jiutong, causing Qian Chunlai to jump out, laughing towards the crowd: “I’m sorry, I’m here to notify the Village Head of the two villages on behalf of the town. Due to the continuous rain and leaking of the many houses guarding the village, the two villages managed to clarify the situation last year.

At this time, Shi Jiutong also laughed embarrassedly: “Hehe, the land deed that we stored in this village was also accidentally soaked!”