Chapter 226: Involuntarily
Li Yu looked at the girl acting coquettishly in his arms, and found it hard to connect her with the Ling'er in his memory.
The last time I saw her, she was still so small, and in the blink of an eye, she has grown so big...
Although she had changed her form, her habitual movements had not changed, and her aura was the same as before, so Li Yu was able to recognize her at the first sight.
According to real time, it has only been a year since he and Ling'er separated.
But she did not appear in the illusion. To Li Yu, it was as if they had been separated for thousands of years.
At this time, Hu Wei and his sister came in from outside. Hu Rou looked at the girl curled up in Li Yu's arms and said to Li Yu, "She has just transformed and is not used to the changes in her body. She will be fine after a while..."
It usually takes hundreds of years for ordinary monsters to transform.
During these hundred years, when they were practicing in animal form, there were transformed monsters around them. After dozens or hundreds of years of being influenced by them, they were able to quickly adapt to human form after transforming and learned the human language in a very short time.
Although Ling'er's Dan formation was a few years slower than Zhou Zixuan and others, it was still very fast among the demon race.
This also resulted in her intelligence after her transformation being only equivalent to that of a human child, and she still retained all of her previous habits.
Li Yu put her down, and she jumped on Li Yu again, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs tightly around his waist.
Although Li Yu could separate them forcibly, he had to let her stay like that when he saw the strong sense of closeness revealed in her innocent big eyes. No one had the heart to reject these innocent eyes.
After Ling'er successfully transformed, Li Yu stayed in the demon tribe for another half a month.
Firstly, it was to collect demon pills, and secondly, he also wanted to teach Ling'er, who had just transformed, some human living habits and completely change her thinking.
Fortunately, Li Yu never stopped letting her take the Kailing Pill. Her IQ is not low, but she is not yet adapted to living as a human being.
Li Yu originally thought that after Ling'er transformed, she would be a babbling little girl, after all, she was so small before, but the result was beyond his expectations.
Later, Hu Rou told him that in order to repay him for saving their lives, the demon clan attached great importance to Ling'er's transformation. The specifications of her transformation were the same as those of the royal family. Even a drop of blood from a female tiger clan member was added to the transformation pool. That's why her transformation was so perfect, even a little too perfect.
Li Yu and Zhou Zixuan originally raised her as their daughter.
Now I can only be a younger sister.
"Li, Ling, er..."
The girl wrote three crooked words on the paper. Li Yu touched her head in appreciation. After all, she had the cultivation level of the Golden Core Stage. She just lacked experience and could learn things very quickly.
In just half a month, she not only learned simple language, but could even write.
The girl grabbed Li Yu's hand, put it on her face, and rubbed it gently, with a comfortable expression on her little face.
However, she soon frowned and felt a little uncomfortable.
She shook her shoulders lightly, and the fairy clothes on her body slipped off. Li Yu grabbed them in time and forced them to be put on her.
After helping her put on her clothes, Li Yu tapped her forehead and said, "I've told you so many times. Now is different than before. You are a girl. You can't run around without clothes..."
After Ling'er transformed, everything else was fine except that she didn't like wearing clothes, which gave Li Yu a headache.
She always took off her clothes when Li Yu wasn't paying attention and ran around him naked. For this reason, Li Yu even set up a formation outside to prevent anyone from suddenly breaking in.
Before taking her away, Li Yu had to let her change her habits before she transformed.
The girl looked at the clothes on her body, then looked at Li Yu, and said puzzledly: "You, sister, don't wear..."
Li Yu was speechless for a moment. In the past, when he was in the courtyard of Ziyun Peak, the little guy saw many things he shouldn't have seen because of the limited space. Li Yu could only cough lightly and said, "That's different..."
"Why?"
"Don't ask so many questions, kid!"
…
It took Li Yu a long time to finally make her understand that she couldn't go naked like before.
You can't jump on the grass without shoes.
You can’t chase rabbits and foxes everywhere…
After several days of training, Li Yu finally realized that it was too tiring for one person to teach her. The best way should be to let her learn by observation in the real environment. In this way, she would not need him to teach her at all and she would be able to learn many things naturally.
It's time to take her back to Kunlun.
Who can not like such a lovely Ling'er?
By then, all their attention will be on Ling'er, and he can withdraw from that matter.
Li Yu looked at her and asked with a smile: "Do you want to go back to see your sisters?"
The girl showed her two little canine teeth and said happily: "I want to!"
…
One day later.
Kunlun.
Yuxu Palace.
Li Yu first asked Ling'er to return to Yuxuan Peak, while he went to Yuxu Peak to inform his master of the news that the baby had been formed.
"Good, good, good!" Wang Daoxuan patted Li Yu's shoulder happily and said three good words in a row.
Before the age of thirty, he formed a Five Elements Nascent Soul. He was the first person to do so since the founding of Kunlun Sect, and also the first person in the current world of immortal cultivation. As his master, he was also proud of it.
The Five Spiritual Veins Nascent Soul, in the early stage of the Nascent Soul, has strength comparable to that of the late stage of the Nascent Soul, and his potential is even more unlimited. Within a few hundred years, becoming a spirit is not a luxury. He is the second person in Kunlun after Keren who has a great chance of stepping into the realm of breaking through the void.
Of course, more importantly, he can completely pass the position of the headmaster to him, and then concentrate on seclusion and strive to achieve the state of spiritual transformation.
Li Yu handed Wang Daoxuan a piece of paper and said, "This is the recipe for the Nine Revolutions Pill. With the Golden Pill or Demon Pill as a guide, you can refine a pill that can improve your Golden Pill cultivation."
He knew very well that the Nascent Soul at this age could not be explained by talent, so he had made up an excuse long ago and spread the news that a large number of ancient elixirs were found in the mysterious cave of Piaomiao Xianzong. He also entered the cave several times in front of many people.
If he didn't do this, his cultivation level would improve so much in such a short period of time that it would be hard for others not to suspect that he was relying on devouring large amounts of other people's golden elixirs to quickly improve his cultivation level.
The Tiandao Sect often finds elixirs in secret realms, so this reason is highly credible.
Wang Daoxuan took the recipe and looked at it, then said, "This kind of elixir can save half of the golden elixir power compared to directly refining the golden elixir. However, in order to ensure the success rate, I'm afraid I have to ask the sect's fifth-level alchemist to help."
Li Yu said: "Don't bother with that. This kind of elixir can be refined by my disciples."
Wang Daoxuan looked at him and said with a smile: "I forgot that you have already reached the Nascent Soul stage. I'm afraid you are already the best among the fifth-rank alchemists..."
Li Yu just smiled and didn't say anything. After learning the method of refining elixirs using himself as a furnace, in the entire world of immortal cultivation, his attainments in alchemy were probably second only to that of the Kunlun Patriarch.
Wang Daoxuan said: "In that case, I'm afraid you will have to work hard next. The sect does have some golden elixir elders who donated their golden elixir to the sect before returning to the abyss..."
Li Yu smiled and said, "It's not hard..."
Normally, if a cultivator who has reached the first level of the Golden Core Realm wants to break through directly, he needs to refine five Golden Cores of the same level, at least two of which must be at the peak of the first level. There is also a certain possibility that he cannot advance and will need more Golden Cores.
Among them, most of the power of the golden elixir was wasted in the refining process.
By adding spiritual herbs and medicines to the golden elixir and refining it into the Nine-Turn Pill, about half of the golden elixir's power can be saved, allowing the two golden elixirs to be promoted to the first level with a 100% success rate of promotion.
The fastest shortcut to advance in cultivation is always to plunder the achievements of others' cultivation, but this kind of plunder cannot achieve 100% transfer of energy. Even if it is refined into the Nine Revolutions Pill, about 60% of the golden elixir power will be wasted, and the Qiankun Furnace cannot absorb the wasted power.
Unlike refining other elixirs, Li Yu’s profit from refining the Nine Revolutions Pill is extremely meager.
It is impossible for him to take nine out of ten materials or six out of seven materials as he did before. The price he offered was too outrageous, so others might as well choose to refine it themselves.
In the past, directly refining fifteen golden elixirs of the same level could allow three golden elixir-stage cultivators to advance one level.
Li Yu can use fifteen golden pills to make six Nine Revolution Pills. He can give four to others and keep two for himself at most, making a little over 30%. If he keeps one, he can only make about 16%, which is only a few tenths of the previous profit.
In the past, he wouldn't even look at such a meager profit.
But now it's different.
In the past, he only had Zhou Zixuan, and apart from his own practice, it was easy for him to support her.
But now, he has two formal Taoist partners, three prospective Taoist partners, and he and Senior Sister Qin have had a relationship for nearly four thousand years, which he cannot let go of. If he takes care of Senior Sister Qin, he naturally cannot leave behind the witch.
That makes seven of us.
Now that Ling'er has transformed, can he just leave her alone?
Obviously not.
In addition to them, he also couldn't let go of Senior Sister Xu and Senior Sister Bai.
Strictly speaking, Li Yu is not responsible for them.
After all, the things in the illusion were just Li Yu’s unilateral imagination and had no direct relationship with them.
But can he really just ignore it?
Thousands of years of life and death are so vague that it is hard to forget even if you don’t think about it.
Even after leaving the Mountain and River Map, Li Yu still felt inexplicable pain in his heart every time he thought of the scene of them closing their eyes in his arms. That memory was the most profound one in his illusionary memories.
Including them, there are ten of them.
He had to work very hard and not miss any opportunity to ensure that no one he cared about was left behind on the path of cultivation. He could not give up even the smallest profit.
When he is alone, he just needs to take care of himself.
But with concern, comes naturally more responsibility.
Therefore, he asked his master to let Kunlun tell the immortal cultivation world that he could refine the Nine-turn Golden Pill and the Infant Pregnancy Pill. No matter if they were from the righteous or the evil ways, they could ask him to refine these two kinds of pills. Two Nine-turn Golden Pills could be exchanged for one Infant Pregnancy Pill, and fifteen Golden Pills of the same level could be exchanged for four pills that could directly increase one turn of cultivation...
…
Yuxuan Peak.
"Is this Ling'er?"
"so cute!"
"Ling'er, be good. Call me Sister Xin'er and I'll give you some candy..."
…
Four months later, Li Yu returned to Kunlun again, but was ignored by the women. Just as he expected, after seeing the lovely Ling'er, he was ignored by all of them.
When he came back from Yuxu Peak, no one even looked at him.
Their attention was successfully diverted to Ling'er, and Li Yu was also happy to be free, enjoying the breeze alone in the viewing pavilion at the top of the mountain.
After waiting for four months, Li Yu finally came back. Nangong Chan wanted to find him as soon as possible, but she stopped in the air halfway through her flight.
There were already two people standing outside the pavilion.
Xu Qingxin and Bai Qingying were originally just nodding acquaintances, but in the past few months, they quickly became close friends who could talk about anything.
The memory of that illusion did not make them unable to distinguish reality, but it also invisibly changed some things.
The two looked at each other and asked, "Who goes first?"
In the past few months, the two have reached a consensus that this matter must be discussed clearly, so as to help Li Yu come out of the illusion as soon as possible, and their future interactions will not be awkward.
Bai Qingying glanced at Xu Qingxin and said, "You go first. After all, in the illusion, you are his first love..."
Xu Qingxin glared at her angrily and said, "You are his first Taoist partner, and his first time was also..."
"Didn't we agree not to mention it?"
…
After a while of "giving way to each other", Xu Qingxin was the first to walk into the pavilion.
Li Yu peeled a grape and threw it into his mouth, then smiled at her and said nonchalantly, "Qing... Bah, Senior Sister Xu, is there something wrong?"
Xu Qingxin sat opposite her, with a stone table between them.
Before entering the Map of Mountains and Rivers, in Li Yu's mind, Senior Sister Xu was really just a senior sister who taught him knowledge, without any ambiguous thoughts at all. But after coming out of the Map of Mountains and Rivers, he really couldn't look at her with the same mentality as before.
It was better not to see her. The two of them were so close. Deep in Li Yu's mind, the illusion memory that had been silent for four months began to show signs of activity again.
But he was not as active as when he was with Senior Sister Qin, and he could still control it.
Xu Qingxin looked at Li Yu with a complicated expression on her face, but she quickly came to her senses, coughed lightly, and said, "I know everything that happened in the illusion..."
Li Yu sighed inwardly, thinking that what is coming will come sooner or later.
He also calmed down, looked at her, and said, "Senior Sister, this..."
Xu Qingxin said: "I know, this is not your fault. You cannot control what happens in the illusion. I just want to tell you that you don't need to worry about it. It's just an illusion..."
Li Yu looked at her, his eyes lost in memories.
Qingxin was still as considerate and understanding as ever. At this moment, the figure sitting opposite him overlapped for a moment with the figure in the illusion.
The memory of the illusion was completely out of control, and the scenes of the two of them getting along in the illusion flashed quickly through his mind. His memory finally froze at the moment when she died in his arms.
However, the next moment, her appearance in her best years appeared in front of Li Yu again.
A tear fell from the corner of his eye.
Li Yu held her hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Qin Xin..."
Xu Qingxin tried to break free from his hand. The moment she looked up, she saw the pain and longing in his eyes. Her heart trembled violently. The memories in the illusion took over for a moment. She held Li Yu's hand tightly and said in a trembling voice, "I'm here. I've always been here..."
Although she came to her senses in a short time, she still didn't let go of her hands when she saw those affectionate eyes.
Outside the pavilion, Bai Qingying, who had been paying attention to this place, widened her eyes in surprise.
Didn’t you go there to explain? Why are you holding hands?
Nangong Chan, who was hiding behind a tree in the distance and peeping, kicked the giant tree beside her angrily and anxiously, causing the ground to shake...
