Chapter 168: The Demonic Friend
Although the Nine Revolutions Demon Pill is precious.
But it is certainly impossible for Li Yu to quit Kunlun and join the Xuanyin Sect just for one or a few demon pills.
His fellow Taoists, friends, and all his achievements were obtained from the righteous path. As long as he waits for the death or transformation of the leader, he will be able to successfully become a righteous person and take charge of the second largest sect in the righteous path. There is no way he can give up these.
Marrying a demon woman is something you could consider.
You don't even have to marry her for real, just pretend to do it.
After the Demonic Ceremony, it would be reasonable to make the divorce public.
No matter how sweet a couple is, there is a possibility of a relationship breaking down.
Li Yu couldn't help but look at the witch.
Nangong Chan looked at Li Yu's eyes, her heart skipped a beat, and she blurted out subconsciously: "Hey, don't even think about hitting on me. I don't want to share my Taoist partner with others, unless..."
Li Yu looked at her and said, "What are you thinking? What I mean is, if you lend me Qing'er, we can pretend to be Taoist couples. After all, those are a few Nine Revolutions Demon Pills. It would be a waste if we don't..."
Qing'er is her personal maid. A month ago, her cultivation was also advanced to the Golden Core Stage.
With the girl's cultivation level, she can also be included in the Jiuyou List. She is considered a core disciple among the core disciples of the Xuanyin Sect. She is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate to form a couple with Li Yu.
As for pretending to be a Taoist couple with the demon girl, Li Yu didn't care. She would definitely not agree, so he simply didn't mention it.
Nangong Chan was stunned: "Qing'er?"
She thought Li Yu wanted to be with her... She glanced at Li Yu and said, "You may be willing, but Qing'er may not be. She has high standards. How can she get married in the future if she pretends to be a Taoist couple with you?"
As if she had thought of something, she raised her eyebrows, looked at Li Yu and asked, "A few Nine Revolution Demon Pills..., what do you mean, do you think you can beat me?"
The five demon pills are only available to the number one on the Nine Nether List. From what he said just now, it seems that as long as he is allowed to participate, these nine-transformation demon pills will be in his pocket.
This shows that he doesn't take her seriously at all.
Li Yu was only thinking about the five magic pills and subconsciously ignored the magic girl.
In her eyes, he should have just formed his Dan not long ago. Little did she know that with the cultivation of the entire Xuanyin Sect, he could already fight either her or Senior Sister Qin alone.
In another two or three months, he would be able to handle it with ease even if both of them came together.
In order to protect her self-esteem, Li Yu explained: "What I mean is that if we join forces, we can take down all the Nine Revolutions Demon Pills. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a bargain for others?"
Nangong Chan glanced at him and said, "It's not that easy for you to be the second on the Nine Netherworld Rankings. Although the Demonic Path is not as good as your righteous path, each sect has concentrated its resources and has produced several powerful figures. The Soul Refining Sect and the Puppet Sect have people who have reached the ninth level of the Golden Core with a single spiritual vein. With your current strength, you are not their opponent. If you are lucky, you can barely make it into the top ten. If you are unlucky, it may be difficult for you to even make it into the top ten."
As if she felt that this sentence was too depressing for Li Yu, she comforted him: "However, those people are twice as old as you, and most of their cultivation is improved by demon pills or other people's golden pills. It won't be long before you can surpass them..."
Li Yu didn't say anything else.
He didn't know much about the magic path. He just dealt with some low-level disciples in the Qi Refining Stage when he was in the Thousand Poison Cave. Now he has reached the Dan stage, but he still doesn't know many of the real geniuses of the magic path.
The overall strength of the evil path is not as good as that of the righteous path, but the talents of the core disciples may not be much weaker. If resources are concentrated, a few strong people can be produced.
The two fished for two hours. After returning to Lingchan Peak, Li Yu made fish balls with the silver fish he caught, but the witch only ate one bowl.
She really likes to eat the silverfish balls made by Li Yu, and usually can eat three big bowls of them.
Li Yu looked at the disinterested demon girl and asked, "Why, is the food not tasty today?"
Nangong Chan shook her head and said, "The taste is still the same as before, but I'm a little tired of eating it every day..."
Li Yu glanced at her and said calmly, "You're tired of it now. Why didn't you say you were tired of it when you pestered me to do it for you?"
What a woman who gets bored easily. Li Yu ignored her and went on making the elixir.
A few days ago, she said she wanted him to cook for her for the rest of her life, but she got tired of him after just a few days. This is what women are like...
However, it is normal to get tired of the same food after eating it for a long time.
But Li Yu only learned how to make silverfish balls from Xu Yi.
This is his best dish and the only one that requires some technical skills.
After Li Yu left, Nangong Chan looked at Qing'er who was holding the jade bowl and eating heartily, and asked, "Is it delicious?"
The girl raised her head and said happily, "It's delicious..."
In the past, all the dishes prepared by the young master were eaten up by the saint, but today they are all hers.
Nangong Chan looked at her, thinking of what Li Yu had just said, and suddenly asked: "Qing'er, if I asked you to marry Li Yu, would you be willing?"
The girl raised her head and said blankly, "Saint, don't you want Qing'er to serve you?"
Nangong Chan looked at her reluctant expression. Qing'er had been with her for so many years, and she was actually reluctant to see her go.
She patted her head and said, "Don't worry, I'm just talking..."
Before she finished speaking, the girl shyly pinched the corner of her clothes and said, "I will do whatever the Saint asks me to do. Don't worry, Saint, even if I go to Kunlun, I will come back to see you often..."
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Nangong Chan was silent for a moment, then pinched her face and said angrily, "I've been so good to you, but you actually wanted to run away with Li Yu. You've only known him for less than three months..."
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After Li Yu finished refining several batches of pills, he saw that the demon girl was practicing, so he did not disturb her.
He was wandering around the Xuanyin Sect alone. Because of the Demonic Ceremony, the ten major sects of the Demonic Path had gathered together. The entire Xuanyin Mountains were filled with flying figures, many of whom had the aura of a Golden Core or above.
On a mountain that was cut off from the mountainside, disciples from the Soul Refining Sect, the Puppet Sect, the Joyous Union Sect, the Demon Flame Sect... gathered together and exchanged their treasured spiritual medicines and herbs for the elixirs needed for their practice.
In the market of Xuanyin Sect, spiritual medicines can be exchanged for elixirs. As soon as the news spread, disciples from various sects of the Demonic Path who came to participate in the Demonic Path Ceremony quickly rushed here.
In their sect, they can also exchange elixirs for pills, but the quality of the sect's pills is extremely average, and in short supply, so they are rarely available. Although the pills in Xuanyin Jiaofang City are a bit more expensive, they are of extremely high quality and are all above super grade. Naturally, they prefer to exchange them here.
Li Yu passed by here and flew down to look around.
The Xuanyin Sect was quite good at doing business. They used the pills refined by Li Yu to collect the spiritual medicines from the hands of these evil disciples and then gave them to him to refine. As a result, the inventory of spiritual medicines increased.
They accept all kinds of spiritual medicines, but will not sell them to other sects for breakthrough elixirs. They can only be used to exchange for consumables such as Qi-recovering elixirs.
But these things will eventually be handed over to him.
Li Yu released his spiritual sense, originally wanting to see if he could find any good stuff, but the result was not satisfactory. The secret caves controlled by the Demonic Path were few and very barren, and what was traded here were all low-level spiritual medicines.
Suddenly, Li Yu's expression changed.
He sensed a slightly familiar aura from the crowd.
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Xu Yi was walking in the market town of Xuanyin Sect. He had just used the spiritual medicines he had accumulated over the past few years to exchange for a few Qi-regenerating pills.
Although the people from Xuanyin Sect relied on the high quality of the elixir and asked for a very high price, he still reluctantly exchanged it.
In the past few years, he has been in danger several times. If he had not had enough elixirs, he would have become someone else's corpse or ghost. Therefore, he knows the importance of elixirs.
With a light sigh, he couldn't help but miss someone again.
He used to be so high-spirited and made a fortune through the elixir trade with Li Yu. He was the most popular disciple in the Qi Refining Stage of the Soul Refining Sect and had countless followers around him.
But that was once upon a time.
Now, with the help of Li Yu's two foundation-building pills, he has successfully built his foundation and surpassed most of the disciples of the same age. However, as he has come into contact with higher circles, he has lost his former glory.
Without any background, he is now just the lowest level among the foundation-building disciples.
In the past few years, even though he was in the Demonic Path, he often heard news about Li Yu, such as how he shined at the Immortal Path Conference and became the Acting Headmaster of Kunlun. Later, he successfully formed a pill and became one of the top geniuses in the world of immortal cultivation...
In the past, he could still have some interactions with Li Yu, but now, he has become an unattainable existence for people like them.
Although they are in different camps of good and evil, he sincerely regards Li Yu as a friend.
Whether Li Yu still remembers him or not, he will always remember Li Yu's kindness.
Beside Xu Yi, a woman of good looks asked in confusion: "The Xuanyin Sect's alchemy skills should not be much better than ours. How come they have so many high-quality elixirs? Could it be that they have found a secret cave of an ancient alchemy sect?"
Another young man said, "How is it possible? If they found this secret cave, how could the Xuanyin Sect protect it? The Tiandao Sect came here just by smelling the ancient elixir..."
As soon as the young man opened his mouth, he ruled out the possibility of what the woman said.
Indeed, ordinary secret caves are fine, but the Tiandao Sect has never allowed other sects to get involved in this kind of ancient caves that have not yet been discovered and may contain valuable treasures.
At this time, another disciple of the Soul Refining Sect said, "I heard from the disciples of the Xuanyin Sect that these pills seemed to be made for them by the alchemists of Kunlun. This is a deal between the Xuanyin Sect and Kunlun..."
Everyone was envious when they heard this.
Kunlun is a holy land of alchemy in the world of immortal cultivation. It is said that the elixirs in Kunlun are more than half the price of those in other places in the world of immortal cultivation, and the quality is even higher. The benefits that Kunlun disciples can enjoy are beyond their dreams.
At this time, the woman suddenly looked at Xu Yi and asked, "I heard that Senior Brother Xu knows the young master of Kunlun. I wonder if he can get us some cheap pills..."
The young man who spoke first curled his lips and said, "He is now one of the Seventh Son of Kunlun, a third-grade alchemist, and the future headmaster. You may have forgotten who he is. Besides, you believed him when he said he knew the young headmaster of Kunlun. I also said that I knew the head of Tiandao Sect..."
Faced with this man's ridicule, Xu Yi forced a smile.
The other party was the direct descendant of a Yuanying-stage elder of the sect. He had never gotten along well with him during the Qi Refining stage. Under the care of the elder, he had established his foundation earlier than him and was now at about the tenth level of Tuomai, while he was only at the second level.
If it weren't for the Foundation Establishment Pill that Li Yu gave him, he would probably still be stuck at the peak of Qi Refining.
"Brother Xu, it really is you..."
Just when Xu Yi was about to return to his residence alone, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.
Although Xu Yi hadn't heard this voice for a long time, it was already engraved deep in his memory.
He turned around and saw the figure approaching from not far away, and asked in surprise: "Brother Li, why are you here?"
He never thought that he would meet Li Yu here.
Li Yu didn't explain too much and asked, "Are you here to attend the Demonic Ceremony?"
Xu Yi said embarrassedly: "I just came here to see the world and help the sect elders run errands and pass messages..."
After not seeing each other for several years, Xu Yi has successfully established his foundation, but he has only expanded his meridians to the second level, so he should have just established his foundation. Li Yu smiled and said, "Long time no see. Are you free now? Let's go for a drink?"
Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, and said repeatedly: "Yes, I'm free!"
He was a little flattered. He thought that with Li Yu's current identity and status, he would have forgotten about him long ago. Unexpectedly, he was still as easy-going as before, as if he hadn't changed at all.
Li Yu patted his shoulder and said, "It's too noisy here, let's go to a quiet place. Is this your friend? Do you want to join us?"
Xu Yi shook his head and said, "They are just fellow disciples. They have other things to do."
After a while, the other disciples of the Soul Refining Sect stood still as they watched Xu Yi and the handsome young man leave. The young man who had just mocked Xu Yi asked in confusion, "Who is that person? Does Xu Yi have friends in the Xuanyin Sect?"
The female cultivator blushed, placed her hands on her chest, and said excitedly: "That is the Young Master of Kunlun. I have seen his portrait in the Tianjiao List. In the latest issue of Xiaoyao Sect's Tianjiao List, his talent ranking is only below Qin Keren and Nangong Chan, and his overall ranking is above them. He is even more handsome in person than in the portrait..."
Then, she said with great regret: "Senior Brother Xu is really something, we don't have anything to do..."
The other Soul Refining Sect disciples, while envious of Xu Yi for actually knowing that genius, also felt a little emotional. The future headmaster of Kunlun was indeed different from the other righteous disciples. Even though he had such a noble status, he still remembered the past friendship with an ordinary disciple of the Demonic Path. How many people in the world of immortal cultivation could do this?
At this time, Lingchan Peak.
In the viewing pavilion at the top of the mountain, Li Yu had several small dishes in front of him. He personally poured two cups of spirit wine, raised his glass and clinked it with Xu Yi's, and said, "This cup of wine is to congratulate Brother Xu on building his foundation..."
Xu Yi carefully touched the body of Li Yu's cup with the rim of his own cup and said gratefully, "It's all thanks to Brother Li's foundation-building pill."
Li Yu tasted the dishes in front of him and praised: "I haven't seen you for a few years. Brother Xu's cooking skills are even better than before."
These dishes were all made by Xu Yi himself, using the small kitchen that Li Yu used to cook for the demon girl. Li Yu couldn't help but sigh that although Xu Yi's talent for cultivation was not bad, compared with his cooking skills, that talent was not worth mentioning at all.
There is actually a large freezer in his storage space, where fresh dishes are always ready.
After receiving Li Yu's praise, Xu Yi blushed a little and said, "As long as it suits Brother Li's taste."
Before Li Yu and Xu Yi could catch up on the past, a figure flew over from a distance and landed behind him. After looking at the situation in front of him, Nangong Chan tapped Li Yu on the head and said in dissatisfaction, "How dare you take advantage of my practice to eat delicious food behind my back?"
Li Yu had no choice but to add a pair of chopsticks to the demon girl. Nangong Chan first glanced at Xu Yi and asked, "Who is he?"
Li Yu said: "His name is Xu Yi, he is a friend of mine in the Soul Refining Sect."
Nangong Chan was notorious in the demon world. Xu Yi recognized the woman in front of him at first sight. He looked at Li Yu, then at Nangong Chan, with a look of shock on his face. He murmured, "Brother Li, have you become a Taoist couple with the Saintess of the Xuanyin Sect?"
Nangong Chan dropped the piece of fish she had picked up. She glared at Xu Yi and said, "What are you looking at? Do we look like a Taoist couple?"
Xu Yi lowered his head.
Why not?
Both their expressions and actions looked like a couple in love.
But why would Brother Li fall for her?
He felt that although the Saintess of Xuanyin Sect was beautiful and extremely talented, she was too fierce and not suitable for Brother Li. Someone like Brother Li should find a gentle Taoist partner, such as Miss Qin from Kunlun...
No matter from which aspect, isn't she a hundred times better than this evil witch?
He felt sorry for Brother Li.
Nangong Chan took a bite of the fish, and her beautiful eyes suddenly lit up. She tasted a few other dishes, and her eyes lit up even more. She looked at Li Yu and asked, "Did you make these?"
Li Yu shook his head. "I don't have that ability. These dishes are all made by Brother Xu."
Nangong Chan looked at Xu Yi in surprise, and then said: "You are from the Soul Refining Sect, right? Why don't you not go back to the Soul Refining Sect and cook at Lingchan Peak in the future. We will not treat you unfairly..."
Xu Yi remained silent.
If he was not a match for the evil woman from Xuanyin Sect, and if Li Yu had not been so kind to him, he would have turned against her by now.
Even if she was the Holy Maiden of the Xuanyin Sect, she would not insult others like this.
He was willing to cook for Brother Li because Brother Li had been very kind to him.
Not everyone can make him cook for her, even if she is the Holy Maiden of Xuanyin Sect, but in Xu Yi's heart, she is not even as important as a hair of Brother Li.
Li Yu saw Xu Yi's embarrassment. Even if he could not compare with her, at least he had established his foundation in his twenties. In the future he would surely achieve the Golden Elixir stage, or even become a talented cultivator with the hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage. It was really insulting to let him stay in Lingchan Peak as a cook. Not turning hostile on the spot was giving him face.
I just spoil her.
Li Yu looked at Xu Yi and said, "I'm sorry, Brother Xu. Chanchan was actually praising your cooking. It was just a joke. Don't take it seriously."
Xu Yi forced a smile and said, "How could it be..."
Li Yu took out a jade bottle with a few Tuomai Pills in it. He handed it to Xu Yi and said, "You have been busy today for so long. Brother Xu, you have worked hard. This is just a small gift. It is not a sign of respect..."
Xu Yi looked at the translucent jade bottle and his throat moved involuntarily.
Could this be the legendary Tuomai Pill?
One pill is equivalent to half a year’s practice.
It has five elixir patterns. If you take it on the spot, you will break through on the spot. There is no need to refine the elixir poison , and there are no side effects.
He looked at the jade bottle, then at Li Yu, and his expression suddenly became serious. He said, "It's not hard, not hard at all. In fact, in the past few years, I have integrated dozens of cuisines from the Sixteen Kingdoms and created a few dishes of my own. I would like to trouble Brother Li and the Saint to help me taste them..."
