"Thunderbolt Pearl!" Zhao Di immediately recognized the origin of this pearl. This was a similar one-time surname attack method to his "Fantasy Fire Pearl", with extremely powerful might.

  Although the price of Thunderbolt Pearl is slightly lower than that of Mirage Fire Pearl, its power is only above that of Mirage Fire Pearl.

  This is because Huǒ Huànzhū has the ability to create illusions, making it difficult for enemies to distinguish between reality and illusion in a short period of time, and thus cannot be avoided. On the other hand, Pī Lì Zhū does not have such divine abilities, except for its extremely fast speed, it is known for its strong destructive power with pure lightning attribute attacks.

  Just casting this pearl in such a close range would surely bury that bookworm along with the fishes in the pool!

  As expected, Shu Sheng exerted his full strength to execute the last step of his mysterious footwork, leaving behind a residual shadow as he retreated over ten zhangs away. This way, even if he was affected by the explosion of the Thunderbolt Pearl, he would only suffer minor injuries and not be seriously harmed.

  A deafening crash, a blinding flash of white light, and countless electrical arcs flashed and jumped around. Zhao Di was instantly blown into a bloody shadow, while the nearby puppets were also affected by the explosion. Although they were protected by high-quality defensive spiritual tools, two or three of them were completely destroyed.

  At the last moment, the scholar was overjoyed by the sudden reversal of fortune and opened his mouth to let out a hearty laugh, but before he could make a sound, there was a sudden ripple in the air beside him, and Zhao Di's figure emerged with a faint smile.

  This smile, in the eyes of a bookworm, is like a ghostly apparition, chilling to the bone!

  Zhao Di made a slight gesture and lightly swung the purple sword in his hand, causing the scholar's legs to go weak. He opened his mouth wanting to beg for mercy, but was too shocked at the moment and couldn't make a sound.

  He used the Blood Spirit Pill and launched a residual shadow flash, Zhao Di narrowly escaped disaster. Facing the bookworm who had completely lost his ability to resist, he did not rush to kill him, but instead threw out a purple gas at the bookworm, who immediately fainted unconscious.

  In a grand hall hundreds of miles away, a young cultivator in the Qi Foundation stage of the Qianyun Sect sat upright on a futon. In front of him, several meters away, on a sandalwood table, was placed a row of lamp holders, with seven or eight oil lamps flickering with bean-sized flames. These were the life lanterns of several elders of the Qianyun Sect, which would not extinguish as long as the person was alive, and even if the master died thousands of miles away, the life lantern would immediately extinguish without cause. This was also one of the ways for the Qianyun Sect to know the safety status of important members within the sect.

  "Huh", the young man in charge of guarding these Yuan soul lamps suddenly found that the lamp fire in the middle seemed to have dimmed a bit, he let out a low cry and stared at this lamp carefully.

  However, except for the slightly weaker light, there was no other change. "Probably the Great Elder is practicing some kind of profound and mysterious art!" The young man muttered to himself, continuing to focus on the Yuanshen lamp.

  The earth-shaking fight in the great hall, however, was completely hidden from the outside world by the Concealment Formation, and not a single disciple of Qianyun Sect noticed anything out of the ordinary.

  "Set up the Soul-Searching Array, this is a late-stage cultivator of the Congealing Dan Realm. Without this array, I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to search for souls!" Zhao Di instructed through his divine sense to You Lan and You Ruo.

  "Yes, master!" Yulan and You Ruo appeared in their true forms, each silently reciting incantations and casting spells. Suddenly, dark winds howled and a grayish-black aura burst forth.

  In the dark and mysterious formation, Zhao Di sat cross-legged, his palms placed on the forehead of the bookworm, his facial expression sometimes solemn, sometimes furious.

  Half an hour has passed just like this.

  "It's indeed the case. For one's own desires, countless ordinary people have been harmed, tens of thousands of them!" Zhao Di shook his head and sighed indignantly.

  It was learned from the Soul Search that the Grand Elder of the Qianyun Sect, in order to reveal the text of a "Wordless Heavenly Book", did not hesitate to use the blood jade grinding disc to grind ten million mortals into a strand of refined blood, all for the sake of containing a hint of book fragrance. Then, using the accumulated book fragrance, the text within the "Wordless Heavenly Book" was revealed.

  The other party was, after all, a late-stage Jindan cultivator who had lived for hundreds of years, and the information in his divine sense was vast and complex. Zhao Di couldn't possibly investigate every detail one by one, he roughly scanned through it, and only when he found something interesting would he investigate further, but even so, it was still quite taxing on his divine sense.

  Zhao Di unceremoniously removed the storage bracelet from the scholar's wrist, injected a small amount of spiritual energy, and shook out all the items onto the ground.

  A few pieces of magical equipment, various bottles and jars, several jade boxes and wooden boxes, a pile of various spirit stones, more than ten jade slips, as for magic treasures and talismans, they were basically all destroyed in the big battle just now.

  "Unexpectedly, he still had two pieces of high-grade spirit stones! He's quite wealthy." On the side, You Ruo suddenly discovered two green wooden family names on the ground, high-grade spirit stones, and picked them up.

  "Zhao ordered: 'Youlan, check what's inside these jars and boxes. If there's anything specially forbidden, be careful or leave it for me.'"

  Then he himself picked up an ancient jade slip and began to explore it with his divine consciousness.

  "Qixie Sword Manual", a renowned Confucian main cultivation method, with the surname Mu, has methods from the first layer to the tenth layer, and can be cultivated from the foundation period all the way to the legendary Transcendence realm! This is the content explained in the beginning of the Jade Scroll. Zhao Di roughly flipped through the back part and found that the incantations for the last three layers were blurry and unrecognizable. Zhao Di understood that this was because his cultivation level was too low, and presumably when he further advanced his cultivation, he would be able to obtain more information from the Jade Scroll.

  He carefully put the jade slip into his storage ring and picked up another one, roughly scanning the graphic information on it.

  Not long after, he put this jade slip into the storage ring as well, and then picked up the next one.

  In this way, after half a time unit, Zhao Di had swept through all of the more than ten jade slips.

  Most of them are various Confucian cultivation methods and secret techniques, as well as some confidential information about the Qianyun Sect.

  There is a jade slip that specifically mentions how to extract the Book of Breath from ordinary people, and this old man must have come up with this vicious idea because of it.

  There was also a jade slip, which aroused Zhao Di's great interest.

  "The Sword Art", this jade slip records the specialized cultivation and use of sword-type artifacts, unleashing some unique divine abilities of sword cultivators. For example, the initial-level "Sword Tip Technique" that some Qi-refining stage cultivators can master, as well as the "Sword Shadow Technique" and "Giant Sword Technique" demonstrated by the scholar in the previous battle. In addition to these, this Sword Art also mentions many incredible and enormous divine abilities. However, to grasp these divine abilities, one must not only cultivate this Sword Art but also nurture their sword-type artifact for many years, reaching a state of spiritual resonance, before they can be unleashed.

  This jade slip is very useful for Zhao Di. To mention a few, several easier-to-master sword-type divine abilities can be practiced immediately, and his innate treasure is also a sword-type. After adding these divine abilities, he can exert greater power when facing the enemy.

  "Master, I've found a Huaiyuan Dan!" Youlan held out an open wooden box in her hand, inside which lay a shallow red transparent dan bead the size of an inch, emitting a sweet medicinal fragrance.

  "Infant Transformation Pill!" Zhao Di was overjoyed upon hearing this, and he hastily scanned the scholar's divine sense at that time, but hadn't discovered this information, probably because it had been overlooked by him.

  Zhao Di took the wooden box from You Lan's hand, nodded and said: "It is indeed the legendary Huā Yīng Dān, exactly as recorded in the classics. I wonder where this person got it from!"

  "What a pity that there is only one Huaying Dan. If there were also Ningying Dan and Yu Ying Dan, the master would have at least 20% more chances of successfully condensing his Yuan Ying!" Youlan said with some regret.

  Zhao Di smiled slightly: "Having one Huāyīng Dān is already extremely difficult to come by! These three types of elixirs are said to be the most beneficial for condensing the Yuányīng, and both their refining methods and materials have been lost for thousands of years, making it fundamentally impossible to gather them all! Having just one Huāyīng Dān is enough to increase the success rate by a small margin, which is already astonishing! If this elixir were to be taken out and auctioned off, I'm afraid those late-stage cultivators who have formed their elixirs would fight tooth and nail for it!"

  "Except for this jade box filled with forbidden symbols and the Huaiyuan Dan, everything else is just raw materials and some medicinal pellets that are useful to cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage or below. These things don't have much significance to Master. I've already helped Master sort them out neatly! As for this jade box, please let Master open it personally!"

  Zhao Di opened the jade box and said in a low voice: "It's being kept with such caution, it must be that wordless heavenly book inside!"

  He took a deep breath, his palm was wrapped in a thick layer of purple gas, and then gently pressed on the jade box, using this purple gas to entwine with the spiritual power contained in the talisman.

  The power of these forbidden talismans was not trivial, but still could not compare to the mixed yuan one gas released by the condensation period cultivators. Before long, the power of these talismans was exhausted and they fell off one after another.

  Zhao Di opened this exquisite jade box and saw a seemingly ordinary thread-bound book lying quietly inside, with a light yellow cover but no words.

  Zhao Di carefully took out the book, using his fingers to gently touch it, feeling that its material was neither silk nor paper, and seemed not to be any kind of demon beast skin either. It felt extremely thin, soft to the extreme, but surprisingly tough and resilient.

  The book had not been opened yet, but Zhao Di could already strongly feel a powerful Confucian aura rushing towards him.

  "You two, retreat a bit further. The heavenly book contains immense power, and you are after all ghostly bodies, I fear that you cannot withstand the supreme righteous energy within." Zhao Di said with his hands pressed on the book, his expression serious.

  Apart from Buddhist Dharma methods, Confucianism has some magical powers that are also very effective in controlling ghosts and evil spirits.

  As soon as the book was taken out of the jade box, the two women felt a huge intangible pressure, and they also heard Zhao Di say so, and with a flash of their bodies, they rushed into Zhao Di's body.

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