Chapter 174 Other People's Companions
After the banquet, Li Yu felt a little tipsy.
The two paths of good and evil not only have different skills, but also a huge gap in corporate culture. The Yuanying Patriarch actually toasted at the banquet, which made Li Yu feel like he was dreaming of his past life.
After those Nascent Soul ancestors came, some geniuses from the Demonic Path also came forward to greet Li Yu. Of course, some of them came for the witch. Her popularity in the Demonic Path was much higher than that in the Orthodox Path.
"Young Master, I have long admired you."
"Ms. Nangong, long time no see."
"If you are free, you may come to visit my Soul Refining Sect."
"You two are a perfect match."
"I wish you a son soon..."
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Although they had different positions, these people from the demonic sect were all very polite to him. Even the geniuses from the Puppet Sect and the Five Poisons Sect, whose disciples had been killed by Li Yu, came over to toast him with a smile and said some strange things.
People who don't know the truth might really think that this is some great master of the magic world.
Even those geniuses in the demonic world feel that Li Yu is one of their own.
Of course, they have dealt with those geniuses of the righteous path a lot in their cultivation careers. The disciples of the ten major sects of the righteous path, especially the disciples of the Tiandao Sect, have a condescending attitude towards the disciples of the evil path.
They practiced in a blessed place with abundant spiritual energy. In their eyes, the devil's way was undoubtedly a remote and poor place.
But this young master of Kunlun, who holds a high position in the righteous path, has no prejudice or contempt towards those in the evil path, and gives people a warm and friendly feeling. It is said that he has even saved disciples of the evil path. No wonder he has such a good reputation in the evil path as well.
Nangong Chan leaned against a pillar in the hall, watching Li Yu and the geniuses of the demonic path chatting and laughing, and a strange feeling arose in her heart.
It seemed like he was supposed to belong here.
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Early the next morning.
Li Yu woke up in a bed with a familiar fragrance. It was called a bed, but it was actually the witch's throne. When he opened his eyes, the witch was leaning against him and looking at him.
Nangong Chan glanced at him and said calmly, "You are already in the Golden Core stage, but your vigilance is still so weak. Aren't you afraid that someone will take your Golden Core while you are asleep?"
Li Yu sat up, stretched his body, and said lazily: "With you here, what am I afraid of?"
He expanded his network of contacts in the demon world last night and drank a lot of spiritual wine. Although he could get rid of the drunkenness by using his magic power, the path to immortality was boring, and having a nap after getting drunk was a kind of enjoyment.
Of course, sleeping doesn't mean being defenseless.
Even when he is sleeping, his spiritual sense is scattered and can sense danger. Even if someone can avoid his spiritual sense, they cannot escape the energy perception of the Qiankun Furnace.
I slept until noon, and the fight for the Nine Nether List had already begun.
The Demonic Path Ceremony was not like the Immortal Path Conference. There was no exchange of elixirs, formations, talismans, refining equipment, and the like. These things were monopolized by the righteous path, and the demonic path was not good at them. The ten major sects combined could not even find a third-grade alchemist.
When Li Yu and Nangong Chan left Lingchan Peak and arrived at a certain mountain, there were already crowds of people around the peak.
The competition for the Nine Netherworld List does not take place in a fantasy world.
It’s not that the demons don’t want to save trouble, but the conditions don’t allow it.
In the righteous way, basically all trials, and even the competition for the list of geniuses, are carried out in illusions. This is both convenient and safe, but the prerequisite is that the conditions for producing illusions must be present, that is, a replica of the magic weapon "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" by Emei.
If one wants to create this kind of magic weapon, one must use the Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map. Apart from Emei, even Qingcheng, which is famous for refining weapons, cannot refine it.
By relying on the relationships among the righteous sects and paying a certain price, it can be purchased from Emei, but the sale of this kind of magic weapon is prohibited to the evil sects.
However, even without the magic weapon of illusion, the various sects of the devil have come up with ways to save trouble.
Li Yu looked at the mountain in front of him. There was a long stone staircase leading from the foot of the mountain to the top. At this moment, there were many figures climbing the stone steps. Some had even climbed to the mountainside with a look of effort on their faces.
Climbing a mountain is certainly not a difficult task for immortal cultivators. Under normal circumstances, even an immortal cultivator at the second or third level of Qi Refining can climb to the top of the mountain at great speed without even taking a breath.
Among those who looked exhausted, there were many in the Jindan stage.
Li Yu activated the Qi-gazing technique and sensed several Nascent Soul-level auras at the top of the mountain.
These auras formed a kind of pressure that enveloped the entire mountain . This pressure was inversely proportional to the distance. The farther away from the top of the mountain, the smaller the pressure felt, and the closer to the top of the mountain, the stronger the pressure felt.
The stronger a person is, the more pressure he can withstand, and naturally he can get closer to the top of the mountain.
At that time, the list can be easily ranked according to everyone's position, without having to hold competitions one after another, which not only wastes time but also may result in injuries.
Before coming here, Li Yu had already heard the rules from the witch.
The position on the stone steps is the initial ranking on the Jiuyou List. In the end, those who are ranked in the top 20 on the list will have another chance to challenge those ranked higher up and change their ranking.
This set of rules is relatively reasonable.
Generally speaking, the stronger a person is, the stronger the pressure they can withstand, but actual combat is another matter. Even if Tian Lingmai only has the magic power of the fifth golden elixir, if they really fight, even if they have the magic power of the seventh or eighth golden elixir, they may not be able to defeat them.
The Jiuyou List, on the other hand, places more emphasis on combat power.
Li Yu glanced at the stone steps that extended to the top of the mountain. At this time, some people had already climbed to the middle of the mountain. Without exception, they were all in the Jindan stage.
The competition for each Nine Nether List only has an age limit, and there are no strict restrictions on the number of people sent by each faction, especially the host sect. Some low-level disciples may also come to join in the fun. A large number of Qi-refining and foundation-building disciples of the Xuanyin Sect gathered on the steps at the foot of the mountain.
From the mountainside upwards, you can no longer see people below the foundation building stage.
A large number of figures gathered on a dozen stone steps on the mountainside. They were all Jindan-stage disciples from various sects. They had one thing in common, that is, their cultivation level was Jindan, and it was the first level of Jindan.
Although the various sects of the evil way do not have as many resources as the righteous way, it is not difficult for them to promote some talented disciples in the sect to the Golden Core stage within fifty years.
But after the Jindan stage, it becomes very difficult for these disciples to obtain the extremely precious demon elixir resources, so most people’s cultivation stagnates there.
There was no one on the higher steps yet.
Li Yu turned his head and looked. The demon woman beside him was not in a hurry at all. The second-generation immortals who had reached the sixth level of the golden elixir and above that he met last night also did not show up. It seemed that they were waiting for someone to lose patience first.
Soon, there was a cry of surprise from the crowd.
"Those two guys are so fast."
"They are already a dozen steps above everyone else."
"They seem to be disciples of the Soul Refining Sect and the Joyous Union Sect."
"Judging from the speed at which they climbed the stairs, they are at least at the second stage of the Golden Core Stage..."
Li Yu also noticed Xu Yi and Tian Qi. Although both of them were at the first level of the Golden Core, they were both dual-system Golden Cores. Their mana was twice that of a single-veined Golden Core, so of course they could travel a longer distance.
Xu Yi has already mastered the thunder method, and Tian Qi has also mastered the wind attribute. If it comes to actual combat, even a second-level golden elixir with a single spiritual vein would not be their opponent.
Some disciples of the Soul Refining Sect and the Joyous Union Sect looked at the two figures climbing up the stairs, their eyes red with jealousy.
They had just established their foundation a few days ago.
But now, they have left those geniuses of the sect far behind.
In just a few days, he advanced directly from the foundation-building stage to the core-forming stage and became the object of envy of the low-level disciples of various sects.
Even those geniuses who had already reached the Jindan stage felt very uncomfortable.
Thinking back on his own experience in forming a pill, although he had the support of resources from the sect, he still endured till he was fifty years old. However, those two people, just because they knew how to cook and do makeup, they achieved their current level of cultivation. It really made him angry and hateful.
The extra magic power allowed Xu Yi and Tian Qi to climb nearly twenty steps higher than those disciples from various sects who had reached the first level of the Golden Elixir Realm.
For a long time afterwards, no one surpassed them.
It was not until a quarter of an hour later that the crowd cheered again.
I saw a figure going upstream at an extremely fast speed, and soon he surpassed those Jindan disciples, as well as Xu Yi and Tian Qi, and stopped nearly a hundred steps ahead of them.
"He is the young master of the Xueyin Sect. He is forty-nine years old this year and is said to have reached the sixth stage of the Golden Core."
"The rumors are indeed true. He is much stronger than those two from the Soul Refining Sect and the Joyous Union Sect."
"Perhaps he will be among the top ten of the Nine Netherworld Ranking this time."
"It is certain that Xue Yin will be in the top fifteen, but it is not certain that he will be in the top ten. There are more than one person in each sect who has reached the sixth level of the Golden Core."
In the magic world, there are still many people who can achieve the Golden Core before the age of fifty, but those who can achieve more than two levels of Golden Core before the age of fifty are generally far more than two levels.
The resources of each sect are extremely concentrated in these people.
Li Yu's gaze also lingered on that person for a moment.
It is very difficult to achieve the sixth level of the golden elixir at the age of fifty through practice alone, with the Heavenly Spiritual Vein. At this age and with this level of practice, perhaps even Kunlun does not have it.
Although the evil sect is poor, the resources that its most core disciples can enjoy far exceed those of the righteous sect.
When he was in the Qi Refining Stage, Li Yu always heard those foundation-building elders say that after the Golden Core stage, there were no shortcuts in cultivation. In fact, it was only them who had no shortcuts. For some people, shortcuts were everywhere in cultivation.
Although the Xueyin Sect is one of the ten sects of the demonic path, it is the weakest among the ten sects.
After Xue Yin climbed the stairs, several figures flew out one after another, and they also flew up hundreds of steps with ease, and stopped at the same position as Xue Yin. Their cultivation level was also the sixth level of Golden Core.
These people came from the Tiansha Palace, the Xuanming Sect, the Moyan Sect, the Five Poisons Sect, the Yuchong Sect, and the Hehuan Sect. Li Yu could call out the names of each of them. Without exception, they were either the descendants or disciples of the powerful gods who had reached the level of each sect.
The sixth transformation of the golden elixir seems to be a watershed.
It is not a watershed for these geniuses, but a watershed for the evil sects.
The Xuanyin Sect, the Soul Refining Sect, the Puppet Sect, and the Demonic Sect, except for these three giants, seem to be able to only train the most core disciples to the sixth level of the Golden Core before the age of fifty.
To go from the sixth to the seventh golden elixir, at least five sixth-turn golden elixirs of the same attributes are required. No matter whether it is a cultivator or a monster, they already have strength close to the late golden elixir stage. Beings of this strength are easy to kill, but difficult to keep the golden elixir.
For the next hour, no one surpassed them.
However, Xu Yi and Tian Qi were surpassed by several other people one after another. They were other geniuses from various sects. Although their strength was far inferior to those of the direct descendants of the God Transformation Realm, they had also reached the third level, and occasionally the fourth or even fifth level. However, these people all came from the Xuanyin Sect, the Puppet Sect and the Soul Refining Sect.
At a certain moment, a girl in a green dress appeared in everyone's sight.
She climbed the stairs very quickly and surpassed most people in an instant. She stopped nearly twenty steps away from Xue Yin, becoming the first person among the second generation Jindan sixth-turn immortals.
This shows that her strength is at least the fifth level of the Golden Core.
But no one knew her.
Those who were able to participate in the competition for the Nine Nether List and whose strength was at the fifth level of the Golden Core Realm should have already become famous in the demon world, but almost no one present knew them , and confusion immediately spread among the crowd.
"Who is this girl?"
"Your cultivation is so high, I don't even know you..."
"Not only is she so powerful, but she also has the secret to maintaining her youthful appearance. She looks like a girl under 20 years old..."
A disciple of Xuanyin Sect recognized Qing'er and said in astonishment: "She doesn't just look like her, she is less than 20 years old. She is Qing'er, the personal maid of the Saint..."
"Isn't Qing'er just in the Qi Refining Stage? How come she has reached the Dan Formation Stage so quickly?"
"It's still the fifth level of the Golden Core!"
"It should be just a Five Spiritual Veins Golden Pill, but the mana is about the same as a Golden Pill of the fifth transformation..."
"Where did she get so many pills?"
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The Yuanying ancestors of the Xuanyin Sect looked at the little girl who was far ahead of most people on the stone steps. They all knew where her elixir came from, but they couldn't say anything.
They knew very well that when Li Yu made pills for them, there would definitely be extra materials.
But this is normal. Compared with other alchemists, he is already the conscience of the alchemy world.
In the entire world of cultivating immortals, there is no alchemist more conscientious than him.
Whom to give the extra pills to is his business.
What's more, these extra pills were also used on the disciples of Xuanyin Sect.
As the crowd was discussing, a Xuanyin Sect disciple said, "What's so strange about this? It can only be said that she followed the right person. She didn't care who was next to the Saint..."
The people around him then realized that the little girl was the maid of the Xuanyin Sect Saint, and the Xuanyin Sect Saint's Taoist partner was the Young Master of Kunlun. Anyone who knew what a personal maid did would know...
In a sense, she can be considered as half of Li Yu's Taoist partner.
Li Yu is so generous to his friends , let alone his fellow Taoist priests.
For female cultivators, he is probably the most ideal Taoist partner.
Look at other people’s companions, then look at your own.
At this moment, the male disciples of the Demonic Path could not help but feel the strong resentment coming from all around them.
"Look at them, then look at you..."
"To be your Taoist partner is really unlucky."
"I shouldn't have agreed to you in the first place."
"Hey, I wonder if the Saint is still short of maids. I can do anything..."
