There are now two paths before me. The first is to return to being an unaffiliated cultivator and travel far away to another place, finding a new place to cultivate. The second path is to return to the Haoyuan Sect. However, Wei Shen's death is inextricably linked to him. If the sect investigates, it will also be troublesome. After all, this person's strength reached the False Core realm, and the sect must have paid some attention to him. Three months passed in the blink of an eye. Zhang Ling felt that the baleful aura in his body was increasingly affecting his cultivation. His cultivation could be said to be progressing slowly. He also decided to return to the Haoyuan Sect first. Although Wei Shen is dead, on the surface, he is this person's disciple. As long as he insists that he doesn't know about this matter, the sect can't do anything to him. After all, his current identity is also a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Haoyuan Sect, which is not comparable to Qi Refining disciples. There are only a little over a hundred Foundation Establishment disciples in the Haoyuan Sect. Although a few people advance to the Foundation Establishment stage every ten years or so, some Foundation Establishment cultivators also pass away. For thousands of years, the Haoyuan Sect's Foundation Establishment disciples have only slightly exceeded two hundred at their strongest. The Foundation Establishment stage is the main force of the sect. Without conclusive evidence, the sect cannot do anything to him.

After all, compared to a dead False Core cultivator, although regrettable, a living Foundation Establishment cultivator can better play a role. After understanding this, Zhang Ling did not rush to leave. During this time, he went to the underground rift valley every once in a while, hunting the demon beasts and corpse monsters within. These were all done by him commanding the Corpse Bear, which indirectly improved the Corpse Bear's strength. The other thing was for that Ghost Willow tree. This kind of Yin attribute spiritual wood is rare. Moreover, it is a Third-Grade spiritual wood, and he doesn't want to let go of its considerable value. Although only the roots and stems are left, he experimented with the mysterious bead once. The mysterious little bead did not disappoint him. The Ghost Willow, which only had roots and stems left, grew a small seedling again. In the past six months, he used the thin ice of the mysterious little bead on the Ghost Willow. The regrown Ghost Willow is now also ten feet tall, with some foot-long willow branches hanging on it. Counting the years, it is also a thousand-year-old spiritual wood, but it is not as good as the previous Ghost Willow. He guessed that the previous Ghost Willow had been in this place for at least two thousand years. Wei Shen was lucky to find this hidden place. Several months later, when the Ghost Willow grew to two zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length, approx. meters) tall, he dug out the Ghost Willow with its roots. Like ordinary willows, a twig can regrow into a Ghost Willow. However, the difference is that Ghost Willows only grow in places with dense Yin energy and are difficult to transplant to the outside world. But Zhang Ling didn't have this concern. With these complete Ghost Willows, he could continuously force the growth of. This kind of Yin wood is mostly used to refine demonic path magical artifacts, and even just selling Ghost Willow wood can earn a lot of spirit stones. Ghost Willows are rare. Looking at the empty ground, Zhang Ling's mind moved, and then he tore off a small willow twig from the Ghost Willow and inserted it into the original position. The Yin energy here is dense. As long as hundreds of years pass, a Ghost Willow will grow here again. He had no other intention in this move, just not wanting this spiritual wood to cut off the root. As for whether any cultivators can discover this place, it is not his concern. After that, he headed towards the direction of the Haoyuan Sect. ... A month later, Zhang Ling returned to the Haoyuan Sect safely. As soon as he returned, he was summoned by Sect Leader Wang Chengfeng the next day. He was asked about Wei Shen's matter. Naturally, he had already thought of an excuse. After some explanation, he only said that after he and his master left the sect, they went to the Yuanwu Kingdom, and then he had been waiting for his master in a a market place for cultivators.

After waiting and waiting, he never saw his master return, so he hurriedly returned to the sect. Sect Leader Wang asked some other questions and then let him leave. After that, no one ever asked about Wei Shen's matter again, and Wei Old Ghost's previous cave dwelling was occupied by a Foundation Establishment late stage cultivator surnamed Chen a few months later. The cultivation world is a jungle where the strong prey on the weak. No matter how strong you are, in the end, you will die and disappear, and few people will remember you. This kind of thing is very common in the cultivation world. Zhang Ling couldn't help but sigh at this, which made him realize the cruelty of the cultivation world even more. ... In the following dozens of days, Zhang Ling was constantly busy. He would often go to the Library Pavilion to browse classic texts. Searching for classic texts related to baleful aura, the information recorded on it was basically the same as in Wei Shen's notes. To solve baleful aura, there are generally two methods. One is to cultivate cultivation methods that eliminate baleful aura. This kind of cultivation methods is rare. He did not find it in the Library Pavilion. For this reason, he entered the third floor of the Library Pavilion again, but there were no cultivation methods there either. It is only said that Buddhist cultivation methods have a good solution to this kind of baleful aura, but there is no such inheritance in the Northern Yuan cultivation world. As for other cultivation methods that eliminate baleful aura, it is unknown whether the Haoyuan Sect does not have this kind of collection, or it is not on this third floor. The second is to cultivate cultivation methods that control baleful aura. These kinds of cultivation methods are mostly demonic path cultivation methods. This kind of cultivation methods actually cannot completely eliminate baleful aura damage, but only controls baleful aura with special methods. It is said that demonic path cultivators who cultivate baleful aura are more or less affected in their temperament. However, some profound demonic path cultivation methods have special methods for cultivating baleful aura. In the end, baleful aura is also a special kind of spiritual power, which is more powerful than ordinary spells when used for attack. But where can a small Foundation Establishment cultivator find these profound cultivation methods? Therefore, he can only rely on that "Profound Soul Demon Refining Technique" to solve the baleful aura. This is a demon cultivation cultivation methods, but the strange vines is already parasitic in his body, and he has imperceptibly passed the first step of fusing demon beast material. He only needs to refine the vines completely according to the records of this spell to succeed. Then, by sealing the blood talisman that produces baleful aura on the vines, he can cleverly solve the damage of baleful aura to the body. This is much easier than him finding other cultivation methods. After all, he now has ready-made ones in hand, and they are very suitable for him. After making up his mind, Zhang Ling began to plan his next cultivation plan. The first step is naturally to cultivate the Profound Soul Demon Refining Technique, but after studying this secret technique, although he has passed the danger of fusing demon beast material, the subsequent cultivation will also take a lot of time. According to his guess, it will take at least several years. At the same time, cultivating this thing will also consume a lot of aura power to assimilate demon beast material. This step is also similar to the vines absorbing his vital energy power, but this time it is him actively doing it, no longer passively. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare a large number of pills that restore vital energy and cultivate the origin. Without the assistance of these pills, cultivating this technique is tantamount to harming oneself. After all, the injuries to his body have not fully recovered, and these pills also need to be prepared. He doesn't want to leave any hidden injuries that will affect his later cultivation. ... He first found a secluded place near his cave dwelling, opened up a mu, a unit of area, approx. square meters of spiritual field, and then scattered the seeds of spiritual herbs. Inside, there are exotic flowers and rare herbs seeds that he has collected from the beginning of his cultivation until now. Most of them are the spiritual medicines needed for later cultivation. In the following few days, Zhang Ling also found some harder gray rocks and used them to cut out stone tables, stone chairs, and other utensils, and renovated the cave dwelling. Although his cave dwelling is only equivalent to a low-grade spiritual vein, it is also his place of cultivation for the next period of time, and it must have the appearance of a cave dwelling.

In this way, the cave dwelling can be considered to be initially built. However, it is obvious that this cave dwelling does not have a trace of defensive ability. This is absolutely not acceptable. It is really impossible for him to settle down and cultivate. After all, Wei Shen forced his way in before. This is fatal. He doesn't want other cultivators to enter and exit his cave dwelling at will. According to his idea, there must be a not weak formation restriction, otherwise, if there is an invasion of foreign enemies during cultivation, wouldn't it be terrible. This requires the use of formation. In the next period of time, he forced the growth of a few second-grade spiritual herbs. The protective formation of the cave dwelling will depend on these spiritual herbs. He is going to buy a formation to guard the cave dwelling. ...