Chapter 101: Cultivating Immortals Can Be Done This Way
In the Thousand Poison Cave, Li Yu finally had time to respond to the witch's call.
Just as he established the soul connection, the anxious and concerned voice of the demon girl rang in his mind: "What's going on? Are you being hunted by someone above the foundation-building stage?"
Li Yu said: "I'm in the Thousand Poison Cave and I just encountered an emergency."
The demon girl asked, "Did you go after Zhou Tian?"
Li Yu said: "Yes."
The demon girl became even more confused and asked, "The Thousand Poison Cave is only a first-level secret realm. With your strength, there shouldn't be anything there that can threaten you."
Li Yu was also curious about this and asked the demon girl, "Can souls above the foundation-building stage enter the first-level secret realm?"
Without even thinking, the demon girl said with certainty: "Whether it is a person whose magic power has reached the foundation-building stage or a soul in the foundation-building stage, it is impossible for him to appear in the first-level secret realm. He will be repelled by the space, unless he has some secret treasure to conceal his aura, but it is impossible for him to exert the strength of the foundation-building stage in the first-level secret realm..."
Li Yu was stunned when he heard this. Could it be that he had been cheated just now?
Could it be that Zhou Tian is just a facade?
However, he still did not return. Although the sixty Tongmai Pills were important, they were not as important as his own life. That guy was too evil, so it was better not to deal with him.
Li Yu told the witch what had just happened. She was knowledgeable and experienced, so she must know more about this kind of thing than Li Yu.
The demon girl was obviously surprised as well, and murmured, "There is another soul in Zhou Tian's body..."
Li Yu said: "That soul is very powerful. My intuition tells me that I am no match for him. Has he been possessed by someone else?"
The demon girl asked, "What is possession?"
Li Yu explained: "It's the soul taking over another person's body for its own use. Haven't you heard of it?"
The demon girl was speechless and said, "Where did you hear these weird things? A body can only fit one soul. The original soul dissipated, and only a corpse remained. No one else could occupy it. If it was really like what you said, and you could change bodies at will, then all the geniuses in the world of immortal cultivation would have been possessed by others long ago..."
Li Yu was slightly surprised.
There is no possession of body here.
It seems that the cultivation of immortals in this world is very different from the cultivation of immortals he saw in novels.
Come to think of it, if one could possess another's body at will, it would mean that one's talent for cultivation would no longer be fixed. Even if one could only possess another's body once, the geniuses in the world of cultivation, especially those with heavenly spiritual veins, would become the targets of possession by stronger beings.
After all, the role of talent will be fully demonstrated after the Jindan stage. Even if one starts practicing from scratch after taking over another's body, one can quickly catch up with one's original level of cultivation. If there are enough elixirs, a 300-year-old Jindan stage cultivator with no hope of forming a Nascent Soul can take over the body of a Qi Refining stage cultivator with his Tianlingmai. Even if one starts practicing from scratch, one will surely form a Nascent Soul in the remaining lifespan.
That's the truth, but what's wrong with him?
Before Li Yu could figure it out, the demon girl continued, "Although I can't take over someone else's body like you said, I remember that the ancient Soul Refining Sect seemed to have a secret technique that could merge with someone else's soul and allow the two souls to coexist, which is very similar to what you said. However, this secret technique can only be performed after the soul is formed in the Spiritual Transformation Stage. Moreover, once the fusion is completed, there is no way back. Once the former dies, the soul of the powerful Spiritual Transformation master will also dissipate."
The demon girl continued, "To be able to cultivate to the Spiritualization Stage, even if one does not have a Heavenly Spiritual Vein, one must be a top-level genius below the Heavenly Spiritual Vein. Only with talent and opportunity can one cultivate to that level. Why would one need to seize another's body to cultivate again? That kind of secret technique is a helpless act when one is seriously injured, the body is destroyed, and the soul is severely damaged. No normal Spiritualization expert would be willing to do that."
Li Yu was shocked and said, "Miss, are you saying that there is a powerful spirit in Zhou Tian's body?"
The demon girl said: "It's just a possibility, but it stands to reason that a soul in the Spiritualization Stage cannot enter the first-order secret realm, unless it is a soul that has broken through the void, but how is that possible... I don't know what's going on with Zhou Tian, you'd better stay away from him to avoid any accidents."
After hearing what the witch said, Li Yu completely gave up the idea of going back.
There are countless opportunities in the world of cultivating immortals, and other people's opportunities may not be worse than those of a time traveler like him. It is better to keep a distance from such an evil guy. It's a pity that he made this trip in vain.
After breaking contact with the witch, Li Yu returned to the place where he had just met the disciples from various sects.
Fearing that Zhou Tian would return and attack them, he drove at full speed all the way.
Seeing the rolling fog, everyone's heart tightened again, ready to fight at any time, until they saw that it was Li Yu walking out of the fog, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhao Pan'er walked over quickly and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Li Yu was fine.
Zhao Xiner nervously grabbed his arm and asked, "Senior Brother Li, where is that demon monster?"
Li Yu said: "I was worried that he would come back and attack you, so I didn't dare to chase him any further, and he ran away."
Upon hearing this, the disciples from various sects were all moved.
While they were waiting, they also learned a lot of information about this junior brother from the two Kunlun disciples. They knew that he was an extremely talented alchemist and ranked second on the trial list, but his most outstanding character was his character. In Kunlun, he was known as a clear stream in the world of immortal cultivation.
Seeing it today, I find it really lives up to its reputation.
The four geniuses of the Tiandao Sect fought with the demon for a while, then abandoned them and ran away.
This junior fellow from Kunlun Sect, who could clearly kill the demon, actually gave up the temptation of dozens of Tongmai Pills and returned to protect them, just because he was worried that the demon would attack them...
What kind of sentiment is this?
Comparing the two, the difference is obvious.
"Thank you, Junior Brother Li!"
"Thank goodness you rescued us, otherwise, we would have died at the hands of that demon today."
"I will never forget your life-saving grace!"
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Li Yu clasped his fists to everyone and said, "My senior brothers and sisters, you are too polite. All of my righteous disciples are allowed to kill these evil demons. That evil demon is still here. It's dangerous to stay here. I will send you out first..."
Seeing that Li Yu did not chase after the evildoer who was heavily rewarded by the Tiandao Sect, but instead sent them out first, everyone was even more moved. Under Li Yu's escort, they rushed to the entrance of the Thousand Poison Cave.
Looking at Li Yu who was surrounded by the crowd, the three Zhao sisters also had smiles on their faces.
Senior Brother Li is still the same as when they first met, always so enthusiastic and gentle.
At the entrance of the Thousand Poison Cave, the Foundation Establishment Elders from various sects were waiting anxiously and worriedly.
Ever since they learned what happened in the Thousand Poison Cave, they were extremely anxious and immediately sent a message to the sect to send more disciples. If they were not unable to pass through the space entrance, they would have wanted to go in themselves...
Many of those who enter the Thousand Poison Cave are geniuses from the sect, who come here for the purpose of training.
The loss of even one person would be a major dereliction of duty on their part.
Just when everyone was extremely anxious, there was suddenly a noise coming from the crack in space.
Everyone looked in that direction.
Dozens of figures were seen flying out from the crack in space.
"Pan'er, Lian'er, Xin'er, are you all right?"
"God bless you, nephew, you finally got out. If anything happened to you, your master would have torn me into pieces..."
"From now on, you should stay in the sect and don't come out!"
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Only when they saw the disciples from their own sect coming out did the foundation-building elders feel relieved. They immediately flew forward and greeted them with concern.
Among the crowd, some disciples of the Demonic Path also clasped their fists to Li Yu with complicated expressions, said "thank you", and then flew to their elders.
When Li Yu was leading everyone to retreat just now, he brought along everyone he met along the way, no matter if they were disciples of the righteous path, disciples of the evil path, or independent cultivators. They acted alone, and if they encountered Zhou Tian, they would be killed indiscriminately, and they could also become ghosts to increase the opponent's strength.
Moreover, the disciples of the Demonic Path are also human beings. If he helps them this time, they will remember his kindness next time. In case he falls into the Demonic Path one day, he can also establish some friendship with the various sects of the Demonic Path.
When these disciples came out of the Thousand Poison Cave, everyone was very happy, except for the four people from the Tiandao Sect.
They looked in astonishment at some of the disciples from various sects in the crowd, and were extremely shocked.
How can it be!
How could they get out alive?
With the demon's strength, he should be able to break their formation easily. Could something have happened after they left?
Not only the four people from the Tiandao Sect were curious, but the elders from various sects also asked their disciples about what happened in the Thousand Poison Cave.
"That demon is too strong, he is not even at the fourth or fifth level of Qi Refining!"
"He can also command many powerful ghost spirits. Even the four people from the Tiandao Sect who joined forces were no match for him and were beaten and fled in panic."
"Thanks to Junior Brother Li from Kunlun Sect. If he hadn't helped us, we would have died there today."
"Yes, I have to thank Junior Brother Li very much..."
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The foundation-building elders of each sect were stunned when they heard this. What these disciples said seemed to be a little different from what the disciples of Tiandao Sect said.
According to the disciples of Tiandao Sect, they were the ones who seriously injured Zhou Tian and protected the disciples of various sects. However, according to the disciples, they were defeated by the demon and decisively abandoned everyone and escaped...
It is understandable that one runs away for his life when he is not strong enough, but it is too shameless to claim that he is a hero after escaping.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but look in the direction of the Tiandao Sect, only to find that several people from the Tiandao Sect had disappeared along with their spirit boat.
When they look at the real hero of this incident.
"You're welcome. This is what I should do."
"Emei and Kunlun are one family, you are welcome, senior."
"It is our duty as a disciple of the righteous path to eliminate evil and defend the righteous path..."
"You're welcome, I'll definitely visit your sect when I have time..."
The young and handsome disciple of Kunlun was humbly dealing with the elders of various sects. He was elegant and graceful, showing the demeanor of a disciple of a major sect.
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As the elders and disciples of various sects returned to their sects, what happened in the Thousand Poison Cave soon caused a stir in the entire world of immortal cultivation.
A demon disciple who had not yet established his foundation would not have attracted so much attention, but who made him go on a killing spree in the Thousand Poison Cave? Talented disciples from both the righteous and evil paths fell at his hands, making him completely famous in the world of immortal cultivation.
Although the Soul Refining Sect is one of the three giants of the evil world, in terms of strength, it is not afraid of any sect except the Tiandao Sect. However, this time, both the righteous and evil sects have talented disciples who died in the Thousand Poison Cave. Even the Soul Refining Sect cannot withstand the wrath of both the righteous and evil sects.
As soon as the incident happened, the Soul Refining Sect issued a statement to the immortal cultivation world.
Zhou Tian had long been expelled from the Soul Refining Sect because he had violated the sect's ban and used a large number of mortal souls to refine the Ten Thousand Souls Formation. He was no longer a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect. Zhou Tian's position did not represent that of the Soul Refining Sect, and anything he did had nothing to do with the Soul Refining Sect.
Several disciples of the Soul Refining Sect who were cleaning up the sect were also killed by him. In this incident, the Soul Refining Sect, like other sects, was a victim.
After such a statement was issued, neither the righteous nor the evil could blame the Soul Refining Sect anymore.
After all, a large sect cannot control all its disciples. As a major sect of the evil way, the Soul Refining Sect has such an upright attitude that people of the righteous way cannot find fault with it.
Instead, it was the Tiandao Sect that received a lot of complaints. If it weren't for the reward of fifty Tongmai Pills, their disciples would have to be crazy to travel thousands of miles to the Thousand Poison Cave to hunt Zhou Tian.
However, due to the powerful strength of the Tiandao Sect, no one dared to say it openly.
The incident with the Thousand Poison Cave also caused the Tiandao Sect to lose all face.
Those four Tiandao Sect disciples must have thought that those righteous disciples would not be able to walk out of the Thousand Poison Cave alive. They were obviously easily defeated by Zhou Tian, and they abandoned the disciples of various sects and fled in panic. However, they had the audacity to say that they had seriously injured Zhou Tian. Later, they were exposed by other disciples and left in disgrace on the spot, which was a complete disgrace to the Tiandao Sect.
In order to save face, the Tiandao Sect immediately dispatched five Jindan-stage cultivators and dozens of foundation-building cultivators to block the entrance to the Thousand Poison Cave. They also dispatched a hundred disciples at the peak of Qi Refining, including some geniuses who had cultivated the Five Spiritual Veins, to enter the Thousand Poison Cave again and conduct a carpet search, vowing to tear Zhou Tian into pieces...
However, these disciples of the Tiandao Sect searched the Thousand Poison Cave several times but found no trace of Zhou Tian.
No one knew whether he had exhausted his magical powers, died in some poisonous swamp due to the poisonous gas and smoke entering his body, or was eaten by monsters. In short, there was no trace of him in the Thousand Poison Cave.
Kunlun Cave.
It had been several days since Li Yu returned to the sect. He reported his experience in the Thousand Poison Cave to the sect and then returned to Ziyun Peak.
Whether Zhou Tian had a split personality or his soul was merged by a powerful god was not something he needed to worry about. The sect would conduct a follow-up investigation.
Li Yu didn't lose anything on this trip to the Thousand Poison Cave, at most it was a wasted trip.
In fact, it was not a wasted trip. At least the growth of his soul power was real. Not only the range of his spiritual sense was longer, but he was also more adept at refining pills.
Moreover, the alchemy furnace absorbed a lot of soul power, and some tiny cracks on the furnace body are no longer visible. Although it is still far from being completely repaired, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If we repair it slowly, it will be completely repaired one day.
Not only that, after this repair, he developed a new function for the furnace.
Li Yu took out a super-quality Qi-recovering pill with four danwen, placed it in the palm of his hand, and a force in his body surged towards the pill. After a moment, some grey impurities slowly precipitated out of the Qi-recovering pill, and the four danwen on the pill body turned into five at some point.
Generally speaking, after a pill is formed, its grade will be fixed and cannot be changed. It cannot be purified or re-melted. This ability to improve the grade of pills is simply incredible.
However, at present, it can only upgrade the original elixir by one level, such as upgrading the top grade to the super grade, and the super grade to the best grade. The low-grade Tongmai Pill that Li Yu had refined before, after purification, became a medium-grade one, and could barely be taken.
This also means that if he has the materials, he can now refine the Tongmai Pill that can be taken.
The problem is that there are many alchemists in Kunlun who can refine Tongmai Pills, but what they lack is the materials.
Now, 331 acupuncture points in Li Yu's body have been opened. He only needs less than 30 Tongmai Pills to reach the perfection of Qi Refining. However, all the Tongmai Pills that the sect could provide have been taken by him. In the short term, he can only buy them every month.
When Li Yu was playing with Ling'er, the doorbell of the villa rang.
He walked out of the courtyard and saw an unexpected person.
Li Yu stepped forward, clasped his fists, and said, "Brother Shangguan, why are you here?"
The person who came was Shangguan Hao, one of the Seven Swordsmen of Shushan. Last time, Li Yu returned the bodies of two Shushan disciples. This senior brother Shangguan had come to Kunlun once and gave him a mid-grade flying sword, which Li Yu is still using now .
Shangguan Hao smiled and said, "I came to thank Junior Brother Li this time. Thank you Junior Brother Li for saving two Shushan disciples in the Thousand Poison Cave. Here are five Tongmai Pills, please accept them."
He took out a jade box and handed it to Li Yu.
Li Yu waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, no, disciples of different sects should help each other when they are away from home. I cannot accept this gift..."
The two pushed and shoved it back and forth for two or three rounds before Li Yu reluctantly accepted it and said, "I'm so sorry..."
This time, Shangguan Hao didn't have any urgent business, so Li Yu took him to Zixiao Peak. The two of them drank spiritual wine and chatted in Piaoxiang Pavilion. Taking this opportunity, Li Yu also asked him about swordsmanship.
The reason why Shushan is able to surpass other sects and stand on equal footing with Kunlun and Emei and become one of the top sects in the righteous path is because of its swordsmanship.
Shushan swordsmanship and mortal swordsmanship are two different things, and are also areas that Li Yu has never touched before. After chatting for an hour, Li Yu gained a lot.
More than an hour later, Li Yu saw Shangguan Hao off and returned to Ziyun Peak, where he found the yard bustling with activity.
Zhao Pan'er was talking to Zhou Zixuan, Zhao Lian'er and Zhao Xin'er were swinging on the swing with Ling'er in their arms, Bai Qingying handed Li Yu a jade box and said, "This is what the headmaster asked me to give you. Thank you for saving several junior sisters in the Thousand Poison Cave."
Li Yu and Bai Qingying were very familiar with each other, so there was no need to be polite and he accepted the five Tongmai Pills.
Today he got another ten Tongmai Pills. He only needs nineteen to complete the Qi Refining.
Li Yu had just returned home and hadn't even sat down yet when the doorbell of the villa rang again.
He walked outside and saw a Kunlun elder, accompanied by an old man with a pagoda mark on his chest. The old man smiled at Li Yu and said, "Thank you, nephew, for saving the Qingcheng disciples in the Thousand Poison Cave. This is a small gift, not a token of respect..."
This old man is the foundation-building elder of the Qingcheng Sect. He came to Kunlun this time to pay a visit and express gratitude. In order to thank Li Yu, the Qingcheng Sect gave him two Tongmai Pills and a protective magic weapon.
It was a bell-shaped magic weapon named "Tiangang Bell". It was usually only the size of a palm, but once it was activated by magic power, it would quickly grow larger. It could be used to trap the enemy or for protection. The Qingcheng Sect's weapon refining dominated the world of immortal cultivation. This Tiangang Bell could withstand a full-force attack from the late stage of foundation building for more than a quarter of an hour. Like the flying sword that Shushan gave him, it was also a mid-grade magic weapon.
After seeing off the Qingcheng elder, Li Yu sat down and played cards with some old neighbors. Before a round of cards was over, another figure landed on Ziyun Peak.
After a while, Li Yu put away a second-level talisman and two Tongmai pills, waved to the Maoshan Sect elder, and said with a smile: "Goodbye..."
After the elders of Maoshan Sect left, Li Yu welcomed several waves of guests one after another.
They are from Huashan, Tianji Sect, Tianyin Sect, and Yushou Sect...
In half a day's work, Li Yu received gifts from all eight of the ten major righteous sects, except the Tiandao Sect and Kunlun where Li Yu was, as a token of gratitude for his protection of their disciples in the Thousand Poison Cave.
Among them, Shushan and Emei each gave him five Tongmai Pills, Maoshan and Qingcheng gave him magic weapons and talismans, plus two Tongmai Pills, and the other four sects, as if they had discussed it in advance, and it seemed to be a common practice in the world of immortal cultivation, gave him two Tongmai Pills as a thank-you gift.
After all, they are not Kunlun. They don't have many alchemists and their resources are not as abundant as those of Tiandao Sect and Kunlun Shushan Emei. It is already very .
During this half day, not counting other things, Li Yu received twenty-two Tongmai Pills alone.
There are only seven pills left to complete Qi Refining.
Li Yu had just sat back in his seat and had not yet drawn two cards when a Kunlun deacon disciple came over and said to him, "Brother Li, there are two people from the Soul Refining Sect outside the sect. They said they want to thank you for your help and have a gift for you. Do you want to meet them?"
Li Yu stood up and said, "Yes, why not..."
In his eyes, the distinction between the righteous and evil paths is not that clear. Not all righteous people are good, and not all evil people are bad. Besides, they are giving him gifts, so why shouldn't he accept them?
Beside the card table, three elders in the foundation-building stage looked at Li Yu’s leaving back in silence for a long time.
They have lived for more than two hundred years and have seen people who practice cultivation through hard work, those who practice cultivation through background, those who practice cultivation through chance, and those who practice cultivation through a Taoist partner. However, they have never seen anyone like Li Yu...
In Kunlun Sect, Patriarch Xuanzhen and the head master favor him very much, and the sect's top genius is his childhood sweetheart. That would be fine, but now even people from other righteous sects are coming to him one after another to give him elixirs.
Not only the righteous path, but also the evil path...
He had only been a disciple for a year, and was not a prodigy that the sect had vigorously cultivated. He did not have any resources allocated to him. However, within this year, he was able to cultivate all five spirit veins to perfection. This was definitely the first person in the history of the immortal cultivation world.
It has to be said that Li Yu, by his own efforts, changed their perception of cultivating immortals.
It turns out that cultivating immortality can be done this way.
