Chapter 110: Intelligence on the Foundation Establishment Volume of the Soul Locking Concealment Technique! Soul Seed Refined!

"Only by establishing the strongest foundation can one go further!"

Hearing Wu Su's words, Qin Wang's eyes showed a thoughtful expression.

He knew that reaching the ninth level of the Qi Refining stage meant he could attempt to establish his foundation.

At this point, the probability of success was relatively high.

However, future achievements would not be significant.

Conversely, if one waits until the tenth, eleventh, or even twelfth level of Qi Refining to establish the foundation, the foundation would be solid, the starting point high, and future achievements boundless!

"Thank you for the reminder, Miss Wu."

Qin Wang nodded, withdrawing his consciousness from the Soul Lock Jade.

"No wonder a Foundation Establishment stage soul takes longer to refine into a soul seed compared to ordinary ones."

Qin Wang looked at the constantly howling soul of Zixia Zhenren in the soul pot space and sighed.

Refining Zixia Zhenren's soul into a soul seed to control his crippled body was the most fitting.

He estimated that at this rate, it would take at least half a month to complete the soul seed.

"I still need to find a puppet technique; Zixia Zhenren's body has only one hand, one foot, and one eye. At the very least, I need to make a puppet foot for him."

"This morning, I should check out the Wanfa Tower!"

Qin Wang's divine sense scanned Zixia Zhenren's body in his storage bag, his eyes thoughtful.

With one missing foot, Zixia Zhenren's strength would be significantly reduced. A puppet technique to craft a foot for balance was essential.

Currently at the ninth level of Qi Refining, having a Foundation Establishment puppet fighter would be a crucial trump card.

With this in mind, Qin Wang continued refining the soul seed while consuming pills purified by the precious bowl to enhance his cultivation proficiency.

As dawn broke, Qin Wang prepared to leave for the Tang family's branch of Wanfa Tower in East City when he heard footsteps and voices outside, including Gao Yuan's.

"Clearing all vacant immortal residences in East City?"

Qin Wang listened at the door and understood that East City was inspecting all registered immortal residences and reclaiming vacant ones for re-rental.

However, he knew that the Situ family, after being exposed by him, likely used this as an excuse to search for the one who leaked the information.

This time, the Situ family publicly executed Situ Chengang to salvage their reputation and offered a 15% discount on all pills at the Lingdan Pavilion, a significant loss.

There was no doubt that the Situ family was anxious to capture the mysterious informant.

Qin Wang left and headed to Wanfa Tower after handling the situation.

Wanfa Tower, a property of the Tang family, one of the four major Golden Core families in Qingyun Immortal City, specialized in selling various techniques, spells, formations, talismans, alchemy texts, and more, with branches in the main city and four sub-cities.

"The puppet technique for a first-level puppet is so expensive!"

Half an hour later, Qin Wang exited Wanfa Tower, noting the high cost of the Tang family's puppet techniques. Not only were they expensive, but buyers also had to swear not to pass them on to others, allegedly to protect Wanfa Tower's business.

The restrictions were too many.

Using the excuse of being short on spirit stones, Qin Wang left. Despite having over 5,000 spirit stones, he was unwilling to spend them.

These spirit stones were obtained over the past few days by using the Face Changing Technique, sometimes disguised as a dark-skinned male cultivator, sometimes as an ordinary-looking man or an elder, selling the remaining demonic beast corpses from his six and a half storage bags, two at a time.

"I'll have to make do with this for now."

After some thought, Qin Wang decided to bind the puppet of Zixia Zhenren's body to Zhao Hunyi, using Zhao Hunyi as his leg.

Currently, lacking spirit stones, he needed to save them for cultivation proficiency.

"Generating beast tides to earn spirit stones is effective but requires extreme caution."

Qin Wang pondered, aware that frequent beast tides would draw attention. Qingyun Immortal City had Golden Core cultivators, and the Manyong Mountain Range housed fifth-level demon kings comparable to Golden Core cultivators. Caution was paramount.

Situ Family.

Council Hall.

"Elders, have you found any news about the mysterious person?"

The white-robed, white-haired Grand Elder Situ Yunfeng sat at the head of the table, looking at the elders below with a grim expression.

"Grand Elder, we've set up numerous night patrols and used the excuse of clearing vacant immortal residences to investigate all rogue cultivators. We've caught over thirty suspicious individuals, but none are the mysterious person!"

"This person must still be hiding within our Situ family! Otherwise, how could they know so much about us?"

"The mysterious person is sure to appear again! We just need to be patient and set a trap! We'll find and exterminate them, and their entire family!"

"Exactly, this person is a major threat! The Situ family won't rest easy until they're found!"

"..."

The hall was filled with the voices of over a dozen elders and stewards.

"This person is as cunning as a fox, truly detestable!"

"Continue the surveillance. We won't rest until we catch them!"

Situ Yunfeng slammed the table, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.

Because of the mysterious person's exposure, the Lingdan Pavilion's reputation had plummeted.

To salvage their reputation, the Lingdan Pavilion had offered a 15% discount!

A loss of 1.5 million spirit stones on a 10 million stone turnover was like cutting flesh!

Additionally, the exposure had reduced business by 30%, resulting in a total loss of 45% of their revenue!

He had suspected Situ Chengang's enemies, subordinates, and associates but found nothing after investigating them.

He also checked the rogue cultivators in the immortal residences but found no leads.

Half a month later.

Early morning, just as dawn broke.

168 Immortal Residence Courtyard.

"Zixia Zhenren's soul is finally refined into a perfect soul seed."

Qin Wang sat in the house, looking at the phantom figure before him, sighing with relief.

He had been refining Zixia Zhenren's soul in the soul pot space, controlling the ghostly fire to burn slowly. After over half a month of burning, he had stripped away Zixia Zhenren's memories, retaining only his instincts. Once the soul seed was integrated with his crippled body, it could exert Foundation Establishment stage strength!

Qin Wang had relied on the special and terrifying ghostly fire in the soul pot to achieve this.

Without it, his ninth-level Qi Refining cultivation wouldn't suffice.

Of course, Zixia Zhenren's body was crippled, unable to maintain peak combat power, but it was still sufficient.

"Later, I'll go outside the city to merge the Foundation Establishment body and the soul seed and test its power."

Qin Wang put the soul seed away in the soul pot, planning.

Intelligence Update:

1) You exposed Situ Chengang's ambush on rogue cultivators, obtaining intelligence that the Situ family's Lingdan Pavilion's reputation suffered greatly. Despite publicly executing Situ Chengang, their pill business still declined by 30%. The Hundred Herbs Hall and Immortal Pill Workshop benefitted. Grand Elder Situ Yunfeng convened the family elders, vowing to capture the mysterious exposer and annihilate their entire clan.

2) You exposed Jiang Ping draining and killing Ouyang Qing, obtaining intelligence that the Jiang family refused to hand over Jiang Ping, leading to a conflict with the Ouyang family. Two Jiang family Foundation Establishment cultivators died, and Jiang Ping was severely injured. Jiang Rui was furious, also searching for the exposer, vowing to torture them to death.

3) You performed the Soul Locking Concealment Technique, obtaining intelligence that the Hundred Herbs Hall in Qingyun Immortal City might have information on the Foundation Establishment volume of the Soul Locking Concealment Technique.

4) You exposed Jiang Ping, obtaining intelligence that the Jiang family's Tianbao Pavilion is actually a branch of the Tianxu Holy Land. The Jiang family's ancestor established Tianbao Pavilion in Qingyun Immortal City with a grand scheme.

5) You touched the pouch Qin Xuemei sewed for you to store mysterious fragments, obtaining intelligence that Qin Xuemei was taken to the upper sect Wanhuaxianzong by her master Mu Qianxue and will enter the Wanhuaxianzong's Holy Flower Pool for body cleansing and foundation building.

"Both the Situ and Jiang families are looking for me. I can't expose any more information like this."

Qin Wang looked at the intelligence panel, eyes thoughtful.

With two Foundation Establishment deaths in the Jiang family and a 30% business decline in the Situ family, not to mention a 15% discount, they wouldn't rest until they found him.

He couldn't expose any more information for now.

Even if he had to, he needed a foolproof plan.

"First, go outside the city to merge the soul seed with Zixia Zhenren's body, then return to obtain the Foundation Establishment volume of the Soul Locking Concealment Technique from the Hundred Herbs Hall!"

Having made up his mind, Qin Wang packed up and left.