Chapter 30

Although the Immortal Spirit Enclosure is said to be a place where young cultivators hunt Immortal Spirits based on their own abilities, if Yang Junshan were to truly bring out so many Immortal Spirits, he would undoubtedly be openly or secretly robbed by the mountain-guarding cultivators, and he would have no way to appeal, even if he invoked his status as a direct descendant of the Yang family of Chenyu County.

The appearance of high-grade Immortal Spirits in the third round of hunting was fundamentally a mistake by the mountain-guarding cultivators. At that time, it wouldn't just be that the reputation of the Yang family of Chenyu County would be ineffective; even if Yang Junshan were killed on the spot and then arbitrarily given some charge, it would be easy to do so.

Given this, Yang Junshan still set his hunting goal as a high-grade Immortal Spirit, naturally because he had a means to conceal the fact that he had obtained a high-grade Immortal Spirit. This method was quite simple: to advance to the second stage of the Mortal Realm, the Summoning of Immortal Spirits, within the remaining five days.

Originally, the cultivation method for Summoning Immortal Spirits was largely the same for everyone, requiring a process of gradual refinement. Even with the help of Immortal Spirits, it was far from possible to succeed in just five days. Moreover, during the cultivation process, the Immortal Spirit itself was gradually refined outside the body of the cultivator. This meant that after the Baique Mountain Enclosure closed, Yang Junshan would have no way to hide the five Immortal Spirits he had obtained.

However, Yang Junshan knew a secret technique that could refine the Immortal Spirit inside the body, not only greatly reducing the time needed to advance to Summoning Immortal Spirits but also temporarily concealing his cultivation level until the Immortal Spirit was fully refined and his cultivation reached the second stage of the Mortal Realm. Only then would his cultivation truly exhibit the characteristics of the second stage of the Mortal Realm.

This secret technique naturally came from his past life's memories. In the decades after the great change in the world, human cultivators had to create many secret techniques and powers to shorten the time needed to improve their cultivation as much as possible. The "Blood Refinement Summoning Spirit Technique" that Yang Junshan was now using was an extremely effective secret technique with almost no side effects, capable of significantly shortening the time needed to advance to Summoning Immortal Spirits.

Even with this secret technique, Yang Junshan could not cultivate to the second stage of the Mortal Realm in just five days, but the important thing was that once he used this secret technique, the Immortal Spirit he used to awaken his spirit acupoint could be hidden inside his body without being detected.

Pulling out an iron-feathered arrow from his quiver with his right hand, Yang Junshan, following the gap between the vertebrae he felt with his left hand, gritted his teeth and forcefully drove the arrow into the gap.

Sss—, sss—

Yang Junshan drew in cold breaths, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, but he still hesitated not a moment and pulled the arrow out of the bone gap. Blood immediately gushed from the wound.

The intense pain did not make Yang Junshan's subsequent actions any less determined or deformed. With his left hand, he probed the edges of the wound and suddenly pulled them apart. Taking advantage of the open wound, his right hand, which had discarded the iron-feathered arrow, pressed the high-grade Immortal Spirit tiger tooth directly into the wound.

The tiger tooth Immortal Spirit, about three inches long and slightly curved, was pressed into the straight wound, causing a second tear inside the wound. The excruciating pain made Yang Junshan's whole body tremble, but he gritted his teeth and held on, only the muffled groans echoing in the cave.

Finding a blood-stopping and bruise-healing patch from his waist pouch, he carefully applied it to the wound on his back. Because he couldn't see behind him, he inevitably touched the wound again, causing him to wince in pain.

Yang Junshan had two Immortal Spirit acupoints in his body, one in his gallbladder and the other on his vertebrae. This was why he was determined to obtain the tiger bone Immortal Spirit, which was particularly suitable for the Immortal Spirit acupoint on his vertebrae.

The appearance of the ground bear was completely unexpected, but the high-grade bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit he obtained was a pleasant surprise.

After being removed from its mother body, the Immortal Spirit's contained spiritual energy rapidly contracted and solidified into a crystal-like essence. The high-grade bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit in Yang Junshan's hand had contracted and solidified into a small, elongated, black ink-like solid.

After tending to the wound on his back, Yang Junshan picked up the discarded iron-feathered arrow, wiped it clean, and sighed. The high-grade bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit was certainly a pleasant surprise, but now Yang Junshan had to endure another self-inflicted injury.

Breaking the arrow shaft, he bit it in his mouth and confirmed the approximate location of his gallbladder on his abdomen. With great determination, he gathered his courage and made a one-inch-long incision. However, this time he did not place the bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit into the wound but instead used the arrowhead to pierce the Immortal Spirit essence.

With a light "pop," the surface of the Immortal Spirit essence shattered, and a pale golden, viscous liquid began to drip into the wound.

This viscous liquid was the true essence of the bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit. Generally, if the viscous essence that flowed out after the bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit was broken was yellowish-green, it was the lowest-grade Immortal Spirit. If it was black, it was a mid-grade Immortal Spirit. If it had a golden hue, it was a high-grade Immortal Spirit, with a deeper golden hue indicating a higher grade. There were even legends that if the bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit turned completely golden, it would be an extremely rare supreme-grade Immortal Spirit.

The essence of the bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit in Yang Junshan's hand had only a faint golden hue, barely reaching the threshold of a high-grade Immortal Spirit. Among high-grade Immortal Spirits, it was only mid-to-lower grade. However, each drop of liquid that dripped into the wound made Yang Junshan's face contort in pain, and his whole body trembled.

When all the essence from the bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit had dripped into the wound, a golden spiritual light seeped out and mixed with his blood, flowing along the wound. After a moment, the wound solidified and scabbed over, but Yang Junshan quickly applied another patch to it.

After losing a lot of blood, Yang Junshan's face was abnormally pale. The strength he had accumulated in his body seemed to have been completely drained, and the two self-inflicted secret techniques had pushed his body to the brink of collapse. Each time an Immortal Spirit was inserted near his Immortal Spirit acupoints, it devoured the threads of earth elemental spirit energy he had painstakingly cultivated, leaving him limp on the ground like a piece of dough.

At this moment, if anyone found this cave, Yang Junshan would have no choice but to surrender and be at their mercy.

Yang Junshan couldn't help but laugh bitterly. He had been too careless. Originally, he thought his body could withstand the "Blood Refinement Summoning Spirit Technique" once, and his plan was only to hunt the mountain tiger to obtain the tiger bone Immortal Spirit.

However, the unexpected appearance of the ground bear and the acquisition of the high-grade bear gallbladder Immortal Spirit forced him to change his original plan. To avoid delays, he had to冒险在体内同时施展两次“血炼唤灵术”，一下子将他的身体推到了崩溃的边缘。

这也是没有办法的事情，如果说中品仙灵杨君山还有可能瞒过撼天宗的守山修士的话，那么上品仙灵的气息在武人境修士的眼中便有如黑夜中的烛光一般耀眼。

为了能够将两枚上品仙灵尽数收为己有，杨君山便不得不冒这个风险，只有五天的时间，但愿还能够来得及，哪怕到时候只是恢复到了勉强行走的程度。

斜靠在石壁上的杨君山正在努力运转《戊土灵诀》，试图将空气中弥漫的微弱灵气吸入体内，以完成功法的第一个周天运转。

然而每当勉强吸入体内的灵力在《戊土灵诀》的支撑下运转到两枚仙灵窍附近时，杨君山便感觉有两座大山凭空落下，使得原本就运转不易的灵力在体内更显晦涩。杨君山在地上足足躺了两个时辰，《戊土灵诀》居然连一个周天都没有搬运成功。

就在杨君山无比气馁之时，试图调整身体姿态的他无意中仰起头来，一眼瞥到了头顶石壁上的八幅山君图。

杨君山心头猛然狠狠跳了两下，急忙极力仰起头来仔细观摩这八幅神态各异的山君壁画，一幅接着一幅看过之后，他的目光最终盯在了以猛虎上山图为首的那一列四幅壁画中的第三幅上。

这是一幅卧虎图，原本应当虎啸山林，号令群兽的百兽之王此时却是卧在树下草中，神态之间甚至带上了一丝安逸与平静。

杨君山仔细盯着这幅壁画，体内的《戊土灵诀》依旧不停的努力运转，不过这一次他却刻意在运转的过程中出现了疏漏，原本从石壁上弥漫而出的淡淡妖气居然被灵诀吸入了体内，混入了杨君山一再精益求精所凝聚的点滴精纯的灵力之中。

轰！

杨君山的脑袋仿佛被重重砸了一锤一般猛然向后一抛，原本在他眼中的壁画上的卧虎猛然间活转了过来一般，一道道的光芒开始在卧虎的体内流转，同时也像一道道印记深深地刻在了杨君山的脑海之中。

最终，卧虎体内流转的光芒形成了一个完整的循环体系，而杨君山的脑海之中也躲了一道完整的炼体招式。

杨君山竭尽全力将身躯按照壁画中卧虎的神态摆放，原本止血的伤口又重新渗出血迹，但他依旧不管不顾，在摆放好身姿之后，便开始将吸入体内的灵力按照脑海当中记录下来的路线开始在体内流转。原本渗血的伤口突然开始了微不可查的颤抖，两侧的肌肉开始向着中间挤压，虽然伤口没有结痂，但血迹也没有再渗出。

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However, every time the barely absorbed spiritual energy, supported by the "Earth Spirit Technique," circulated near the two Immortal Spirit acupoints, Yang Junshan felt as if two mountains had suddenly fallen, making the already difficult circulation of spiritual energy even more sluggish. Yang Junshan lay on the ground for two hours, but the "Earth Spirit Technique" failed to complete even one full cycle.

Just as Yang Junshan was feeling extremely discouraged, he inadvertently raised his head and caught a glimpse of the eight mountain lord paintings on the stone wall above him.

Yang Junshan's heart suddenly raced, and he quickly raised his head to carefully observe the eight paintings of the mountain lord with different expressions. After examining each one, his gaze finally settled on the third painting in the series of four, which began with the "Tiger Ascending the Mountain" painting.

This was a painting of a reclining tiger. The king of the beasts, which should have been roaring in the mountains and commanding the animals, was now lying under a tree, with an expression of ease and tranquility.

Yang Junshan stared intently at this painting, and the "Earth Spirit Technique" in his body continued to operate with effort. However, this time he deliberately allowed a flaw in the circulation process, and the faint demonic aura emanating from the stone wall was absorbed into his body, mixing with the pure spiritual energy he had painstakingly refined.

Boom!

Yang Junshan's head was thrown back as if struck by a heavy blow. The reclining tiger in the painting seemed to come to life, with streams of light flowing within its body and deeply etching themselves into Yang Junshan's mind.

In the end, the flowing light within the reclining tiger formed a complete circulation system, and a complete physical cultivation technique was imprinted in Yang Junshan's mind.

Yang Junshan did his best to position his body according to the posture of the reclining tiger in the painting. The wounds that had stopped bleeding began to seep blood again, but he ignored it. After positioning himself, he began to circulate the spiritual energy in his body according to the route recorded in his mind. The wounds, which had been seeping blood, began to tremble imperceptibly, and the muscles on both sides started to press inward. Although the wounds did not scab over, the bleeding stopped.

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