Chapter 59: New Formation Construction Plan

Beloved Miss Xi Qiu:

I am Bai Ya.

Since I escaped Mystifying Monster Island, I have written 17 letters to you.

I am very sorry, like the others, I have no way of sending this to you either.

Every time I write you a letter, I can feel my spirit calm.

Thank you!

During this time, as one of Priest Jia Sha’s murderers, I have always felt apprehensive. Sometimes, I even will have nightmares at night, where I dream about Priest Jai Sha demanding my life, or because of my crimes, I have sunken into hell to be subjected to torment.

You have always helped me.

Today, the pitiful and lamentable me has no choice but to seek your assistance.

I heard sad news today.

Heavens!

I don’t even know how I returned here.

My aptitude was not as good as I envisioned, in fact, it is very…terrible!

Every time I cultivate, my battle qi refinement efficiency is always very low, it doesn’t even look like mist, and can only be considered strands of smoke.

This is the aptitude of an ordinary person.

Many people can never become cultivators, because they are like this. Their battle qi production efficiency is too low, and unable to be stored, thus they cannot reach a qualitative change.

Mu Ban, Fei She, and others are like that.

So…am I.

My hope is nearly gone.

I feel my world has gone dark

But Senior Xu Ma gave me some light.

There is still the bloodline awakening.

I don’t know how much of this you will understand.

I shall tell you all that I know right now.

Thanks to the survivors keeping an eye on Bai Ya on the sly, he slept in a remote corner of the cabin.

The people around him were snoring, but through the starlight peering through the porthole, he was quietly writing on some paper.

The faint light was not bright enough to make his handwriting visible.

Bai Ya also wasn’t using a pencil, rather he was rubbing his finger on the paper.

His face was immersed in black shadows, the light glimmering off the tears on his eyes.

The Bloodline Purification Formation!

In the Deep Sea Monster Fish, Cang Xu and Zi Di were researching this incomparably miraculous alchemy formation together.

This magic formation had been developed by War Merchant.

At the time, his artificial magic beast project reached an impasse, thus he decided to no longer forcefully implant external bloodlines, instead he tested as much as possible on how much he could unearth the bloodlines accumulated within bodies.

The Bloodline Purification Formation used the Bloodcore as its center, and its objective was to raise the concentration of bloodlines.

Both Cang Xu and Zi Di had dimmed eyes, they were confused and disoriented.

This alchemy formation was too profound, and neither of the magicians’ had the minimal alchemy attainment required to decipher it.

“We need a true alchemy master.” Cang Xu sighed.

“Don’t worry, it’s difficult for outsiders to trust us.” Replied Zi Di, “We have a complete blueprint, and there is still a lot of data on how to use this alchemy formation. Just like how we built the Deceptive Disguise Formation and Anti-investigation and Prophecy formation, we can also construct this formation too!”

After Cang Xu nodded his approval, he said, “It will still be difficult.”

“We lack the resources. The precious materials we took from the island were all used to build the Deceptive Disguise Formation and Anti-investigation and Prophecy Formation. In fact, we needed to get some of the basic materials from Snake Rat Island.”

“Therefore, we have to collect these materials. To account for construction failures, we need to collect at least twice the materials.”

They had nearly failed when building the Anti-investigation and Prophecy Formation.

Fortunately, the tower spirit came to their aid, if not for it, they would have had disastrous losses.

“If the tower spirit could be restored, even if we only had one set of formation materials, it should be able to do it?” Zi Di speculated.

Cang Xu shook his head, “Restoring the tower spirit is unlike building formations.”

“In fact, even if we had the Bloodline Purification Formation, it still won’t be enough.”

“That’s right.” Replied Zi Di, “we also need to collect bloodline with the Bloodcore.”

“Before we collect bloodlines, we have to know the specifics of our objective.”

“Therefore, we have to analyze our bodies, and determine what bloodlines we have.”

A person might have many bloodlines within them.

But because of concentration, some bloodlines that appear, and others are hidden.

Could those like Mu Ban and Fei She have extraordinary bloodlines in them?

There was a high probability.

Their concentration was just too low, thus they could not become cultivators.

Zi Di was similar, she had a iron level bloodline, was it possible she had other extraordinary bloodlines too?

That was also possible.

Their concentrations were just low, and her iron level bloodline was dominate.

“Detecting bloodlines…” When that was mentioned, Cang Xu couldn’t help but show hesitation.

There were few ways of detecting bloodlines.

The most accurate methods were known by the Life God Church.

This church had special divine spells, like the Bloodline Level Detection Spell and the Bloodline Breed Detection Spell, among others.

By using this divine spell, one could detect the circumstances of the target’s bloodline.

It was obvious that the survivors did not enjoy such a pleasure. 

Their identities could not be exposed, and they had the Deceptive Disguise spell and the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell still on them.

The most widespread ways were battle qi techniques and meditation methods.

If a lifeform cultivated a battle qi technique or meditation method and had a special result, he, she, or it could usually determine their bloodline.

Of course, this way was not accurate.

This was because there were usually not just one or two battle qi techniques or meditation methods

Sometimes, because of opportunity, limited choices, or a variety of outside reasons, cultivators are unable to examine what cultivation method was most suitable for them.

Because of cultivation requirements, this kind of verification method was both costly and took a long time.

This was also why every organization and power realized that they should spread their battle qi techniques and meditation methods.

Many nobles also used this method to find their bastards.

Magicians of certain paths also used this to find apprentices that matched their own.

“Neither methods are suitable for us.” Said Zi Di, “I have already decided to use medicine to conduct testing.”

Cang Xu nodded, “This is indeed the best method for us. However, if we do this, we will need to refine a lot of medicine, and we lack the resources to do so.”

Zi Di helplessly laughed, “There are some remedial measures. For example, by combining ancestry data, along with the results of battle qi or meditation method cultivation results, we can filter out the possible options and mix the right testing medicine.”

“But there is still a problem.”

“My medicinal knowledge is insufficient for the task.”

“There are many bloodline detection medicines, and the workmanship of them is high, they exceed the limits of my abilities.”

Therefore, we can either find a wise pharmacist, purchase as many as we can from the market, or find another way of refinement.”

After the Deceptive Disguise Formation and the Anti-investigation and Prophecy Formation were built, the Bloodline Purification Formation was the survivors’ next project.

However, along with the precious materials from Mystifying Monster Island being used up, the Bloodline Purification Formation needed many other materials they lacked.

Furthermore, the Bloodline Purification Formation was more complex.

Simply just building this magic formation was not enough to complete their goal.

The survivors also needed many magic potions to accurately detect their bloodline types. After obtaining this information, they also needed to collect the corresponding bloodlines with the Bloodcore.

But regardless of the challenges, this project was imperative.

After the two people discussed the project with the other survivors, they quickly gained their approval.

Zi Di began to personally contact the Clam Cloth Merchant Alliance to try and gather bloodline detection magic medicine.

After she had “officially” become a member of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, it had freed up Cang Xu to a degree.

The Clam Cloth Merchant Alliance had the greatest maritime transportation abilities in all of the Sheng Ming Empire, and despite Snake Rat Island’s remote location, every so often, the Clam Cloth Merchant Alliance storefront would have their merchandise restocked. 

“Delighted to trade. I look forward to that intelligence potion.” Zi Di left the hall of the Clam Cloth Merchant Alliance store.

The merchant alliance’s silver magician sent her off.

Originally, she did not value the bronze level magician, Hong Teng, and was even somewhat resentful.

Previously, she had barely tolerated Cang Xu, the iron level that had been dispatched. But this time, a bronze level magician had been sent, were they looking down upon her? She was a silver level!

But after interacting with her several times, the magician adequately sensed how good Zi Di was at haggling, and how she never failed to get her way.

The magician began to understand the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ plan: it’s no wonder they had Zi Di as their delegate, to some degree, it was putting a person to good use.

Her negotiation abilities were so strong that the magician’s heart beat incessantly at it, and she had wanted to recruit Zi Di on the sly to make her the store’s manager.

Zi Di tactfully refused, and exploited her mentality to ruthlessly cut prices several times.

“My Lord, please look at this.” When no one was around, Zi Di took the dragonman youngster to the fighting cabin.

This was the room the dragonman youngster cultivated in.

The dragonman youngster immediately noticed that there was something new in the cultivate room.

“That is an iron level sandbag, it is filled with sand made from processed iron level materials. It is capable of absorbing external force and is able to rapidly disperse it through its every grain.” Zi Di presented.

“It suits my battle qi cultivation, thank you.” The dragonman youngster was pleasantly surprised.

Zi Di then said, “There is also the intelligence potion business, It is beginning to take shape.

The dragonman youngster looked forward to that even more.

“With the intelligence potion, perhaps the big guy will be able to cultivate battle qi.”

“You have my thanks for figuring out this method.”

Zi Di shook her head and denied the credit, “It is only a possible solution. This is a specially made potion, it is tailored for half giants. IF we hadn’t recently increased our trade with the Clam Cloth Merchant Alliance, they wouldn’t have agreed to trade us this custom-made potion.”

“What is the rate of progress with the Green Jade Gold Coffin search?”

“It has always been smooth, we have examined an estimated 80% of Snake Rat Island’s underground, many fringe regions have already been searched.”

“There hasn’t been a single hint of the Green Jade Gold Coffin.”

“If it is in a gold level magic beast’s territory, it will be quite troublesome.”

“A mere inconvenience.” The dragonman youngster was confident in his statement.

He had been living a fulfilling life these days.

Every day, he was tempering his battle qi, the growth of his strength could been seen by the naked eye.

He was increasingly sensing how amazing his legend level bloodline was.

Bursting Explosion battle qi was also very agreeable with the dragonman form, they complemented each other exquisitely.

The entire mercenary corps’ strength was also constantly increasing.

Through Snake Rat Island’s markets and blacksmiths, the mercenary corps’ equipment was replenished.

Zong Ge’s training was very efficient.

Not only did he do bombardment training, but he also led mercenaries into the underground to conduct live combat training. Although he hadn’t organized long range battle squads, the marksmen team’s performance was growing more satisfactory.

11 people made up the initial form of the Quick Knife squad, and was highly anticipated.

If the Green Jade Gold Coffin was hidden in some gold level magic beast’s territory, the young man was confident they could obtain it.

His confidence not only originated in his own Dragon Lion Mercenary group, but in others too.

“If we can’t take it on, they with the help of the Bloodcore transformations, I can lure the gold level magic beast up to the surface.”

“Lord Tan Qiu is a good lord!”