Chapter 97: Green Ox
After Patriarch Hongyun left, Zhen Yuanzi and Guanyin also left on their clouds.
Li Anran returned to heaven and reported to Yang Jian what happened in Hulu Mountain.
When Yang Jian heard that Patriarch Hongyun wanted to take Li Anran as his disciple, he was shocked for a moment. He was relieved when he heard Li Anran refuse. He expressed his affirmation and approval of Li Anran's choice.
Although Yang Jian did not know about the existence of Li Anran's Book of Punishment, he shared the same opinion as Li Anran on this matter. Becoming a disciple of Patriarch Hongyun had both advantages and disadvantages, and the disadvantages outweighed the advantages.
However, the disadvantage that Yang Jian thought was not that Patriarch Hongyun had two mortal enemies, the demon master Kunpeng and Patriarch Minghe, but that ray of primordial purple energy!
Yang Jian did not believe what Zhen Yuanzi said, "Ancestor Hongyun threw the Hongmeng Purple Qi into the chaos, and its whereabouts are unknown."
To be more precise, he believed that what Zhen Yuanzi said was only the truth that Zhen Yuanzi himself believed, and not the fact.
"Hongmeng Purple Qi is related to the matter of proving the Dao, and is the foundation of the Dao. Ancestor Hongyun was ambushed by the demon master Kunpeng because of the Hongmeng Purple Qi, and his soul was almost torn apart. When he was later rescued by Zhenyuan Daxian, he might have doubted Zhenyuan Daxian's intentions and was wary of Zhenyuan Daxian."
"Whether he threw that ray of primordial purple energy into the chaos, and whether he knows the whereabouts of that ray of primordial purple energy, it is hard to say! It is best that you did not take him as your master!"
Speaking of this, Yang Jian couldn't help but sigh, feeling a little regretful.
He had previously mentioned Li Anran to Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, wanting Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun to accept Li Anran as his disciple.
However, after this incident, it would be a bad idea to mention the matter of becoming a disciple in the short term, so as not to offend Patriarch Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi.
Then, he talked about the treasure bag given by Ancestor Hongyun.
"Uncle Taiyi originally didn't take the matter of Patriarch Hongyun very seriously. Since he wants to use this treasure bag to settle the cause and effect with our Chan Sect, it has fulfilled our wish."
Yang Jian did not take the treasure bag handed over by Li Anran. He pointed to the two thick piles of case files on the table and said with a wry smile: "Brother Li, I am so busy every day that I really don't have time to study this treasure bag."
"Take it first and add some traps to the prison. If you need anything, go find Boss Kang. If I need it in the future, I'll ask you to return it."
Yang Jian's speaking level is much higher than that of Patriarch Hongyun.
Although both of them were gifted a magic weapon, Patriarch Hongyun had an attitude of superiority and said, "I'm going to pay you back for the goods."
Yang Jian found a reason that had no problems either in public or private terms, and made it seem as if Li Anran was helping him by accepting the treasure.
Yang Jian did not give Li Anran a chance to refuse. After explaining the matter, he led the Meishan brothers and hurriedly descended to the mortal world.
Now, the monsters in Xiniuhezhou are fighting each other, causing many weaker monsters to escape to Dongsheng Shenzhou and Nanzhanbuzhou, causing a lot of trouble.
These things need to be solved by Yang Jian.
"Forget it! I already owe so many favors, this one won't make a difference! At worst I can find a way to pay them back later!"
Li Anran stopped being pretentious and took the treasure bag back to the Heavenly Prison to start practicing.
When Patriarch Hongyun gave him the treasure bag, he had already erased the mark of his spiritual consciousness in the treasure bag.
Li Anran's ritual process went very smoothly.
In just three days, he completed the initial ritual, and countless pieces of information merged into his mind, allowing him to instantly have a general understanding of the treasure bag.
Just as he had expected, this treasure bag was an innate spiritual treasure that was born when the world was first created.
The whole body is black and inlaid with various colored jades. There is a Yuanbao pattern embroidered on each side of the brocade bag, and the blank space in the middle will reveal the identity of the owner of the magic weapon.
When in the hands of the green snake, the pattern is a small green snake.
When in Hongyun's hand, the pattern was a red cloud.
Now that it has fallen into Li Anran's hands, the pattern has turned into a Bi'an, corresponding to his identity as the prison god.
The effect of the treasure bag is very simple and crude.
It is a bit like a universal refining tool that can be operated with a fool-like operation.
You just need to infuse your own energy and spirit into it, and the magic weapon you want will automatically be generated in the treasure bag.
Among them, "essence" determines the durability of the magic weapon, while "qi" and "spirit" determine its power.
Theoretically speaking, as long as there is enough energy, this treasure bag can even generate a magic weapon with power comparable to that of an innate magic weapon!
Of course, this is only in theory!
How it actually works will only become clear after testing.
However, Li Anran was not in a hurry to try it out.
After he received the information from the treasure bag, the first thing he thought of was the Book of Punishment.
Li Anran has always felt that his Book of Punishment was a system cheat that time travelers have built in. It was unscientific but very reasonable.
Now, a thought suddenly occurred to me——
Could it be that his Book of Punishment for Evil is also an innate magic weapon?
It's just more special!
No!
wrong!
Li Anran thought that the appearance and pattern of the Treasure Bag would change depending on the owner, so would the same be true for the Book of Punishment?
His book of punishing evil is actually not special, what is special is that he, a time traveler!
Is it because of him that the Book of Punishment for Evil exists in the form of a system?
If this is true, then this system cheat code is not only reasonable, but also very scientific. No, it is very mythical!
Li Anran wasn't very sure, but he didn't worry too much about it.
Whether the cat is black or white, a cat that can catch mice is a good cat!
No matter whether the Book of Punishment is the system's golden finger or an innate magic weapon, it is the foundation and trump card for him to survive in this world!
That's enough!
Li Anran opened the property panel page of the Book of Punishment.
[Name: Li Anran]
[Cultivation: Xuanxian (first level)]
[Kung Fu: Nine-transformation Yuan Gong (level 7), Yimu Jue (level 4), Hehuan (level 5)]
[Spells: Soul Confinement and General Dispatching (Level 6), Great Heaven Divine Thunder (Level 5), Purple Heaven Divine Thunder (Level 5), Samadhi True Fire (Level 5), Samadhi Divine Wind (Level 5)...]
[Available experience points: 3,697,820,000]
After his cultivation broke through to the Xuanxian realm, the experience points required to advance to each smaller realm directly became 100 billion!
This made the 3.6 billion experience points that Li Anran had accumulated during this period of time suddenly not enough!
However, he could first max out his skills.
"Increase the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong to level 8."
"Upgrade Hehuan to level 7."
The available experience points instantly decreased by 1.11 billion.
Both the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong and Hehuan have been upgraded to their respective highest levels.
In an instant, countless contents about the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong and Hehuan flooded into his mind.
It not only includes the understanding of the technique itself, but also includes various inside stories about how the technique was created.
Li Anran's mastery of these two skills is no longer limited to that of a practitioner, but is close to that of the founder, knowing every detail of their origins and development.
It was not until this time that Li Anran finally understood why the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong was only an eighth-level martial art!
In the ancient times, the twelve ancestors of the witch clan created the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation and the most powerful body-building technique since the beginning of the world, the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art", by observing the phantom of Pangu that remained in their blood.
Qingqiu's "Hehuan" is to make the fox clan gradually become closer to the nine-tailed fox ancestor.
The "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" of the Wu Clan allows the Wu Clan to gradually become closer to Pangu.
The great god Pangu was the one with the strongest physical body in the prehistoric world, so naturally, "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" became the recognized strongest body-building technique.
However, it is different from "Hehuan" which can return to its ancestral form as the Nine-Tailed Fox after being practiced to the extreme.
The Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art was not created by Pangu, but by the twelve ancestor witches who observed Pangu's shadow. Even if one cultivates to the point of achieving the Nine Revolutions, one can only break through to the ancestor witch realm.
If you want your physical body to reach the level of the great god Pangu, you need to break through the limit of the Nine Revolutions.
But how to break through the limit of the Nine Revolutions? There is no such thing in the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches themselves have no idea at all.
But, even so, the advent of "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" still greatly increased the strength of the Witch Clan. From being defeated by the Demon Clan in the beginning, they gradually turned the situation around and formed a stalemate with the Demon Clan where "the demons control the sky, the witches control the earth."
The powerful combat capability of "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" attracted the attention of the saints of Xuanmen.
Thus, the two magical skills of protecting the law, Jiuzhuan Yuan Gong (36 changes of Tiangang) and Bajiu Xuan Gong (72 changes of Disha), were born.
These two skills have gotten rid of the limitation that only the witch clan can practice the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, but the threshold is still extremely high, and only a very small number of people with extraordinary talents can practice it.
There are also slight differences between the two.
The Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong focuses more on improving the strength of the physical body, which can be understood in one word: "big".
The Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts focuses more on the control of the physical body, emphasizing the word "skill" and being flexible and changeable.
The saints of Xuanmen have a much better understanding of the Tao and saints than the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
This makes the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong and Eight-Nine Mysterious Art not inferior to the original Nine Revolutions Xuan Gong in any way, and even slightly better.
When the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art is practiced to its extreme, it reaches the realm of the Ancestral Witch. When the Nine Revolutions Yuan Art and the Eight-Nine Yuan Art are practiced to their extreme, the physical body can possess some of the power of a saint, reaching the level of a pseudo-saint.
However, this is the limit of what the saints of Xuanmen can do.
After all, Pangu, who took the path of proving the truth through force, died in the process of opening up the world and proving the truth, and the others could not even see the shadow of success in proving the truth through force.
Therefore, the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong is only an eighth-level martial art, and not a ninth-level martial art that can directly lead to the great Dao!
"If only I could have gotten the Treasure Bag earlier! What a waste of ten chances to refresh my status!"
Li Anran looked at the word "Xuanxian" in the cultivation column and felt a little greedy.
In reality, if he improves his cultivation through practice or other means, it will be reflected on the system panel in the form of increased experience points.
Previously in Hulu Mountain, his experience increased rapidly, and both the reality and the system panel reached the Xuanxian realm.
And because he wasn't injured, the chance to recover to full condition after ten times of improvement was simply wasted.
If he had obtained the Treasure Bag earlier, he could have infused all his energy into it before his cultivation level improved, and he could have gotten a powerful magic weapon for free!
However, it was precisely because of this that his trump card was not exposed to Patriarch Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi.
This also reminded Li Anran.
In the future, you must pay attention to the increase in experience points, so as not to accidentally expose your trump card.
That would be a big loss!
Li Anran picked up the treasure bag and silently chanted in his heart: "One, two, three, four, five, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, change!"
Buzz!
Rays of light surged, and a Ruyi flew out of the treasure bag.
The whole thing is golden, with an emerald green gem inlaid in the middle, exactly the same as the one owned by Ancestor Hongyun!
"Huh!" Li Anran blew a breath towards Ruyi.
A cold wind blew past, instantly freezing the brazier in front of him into ice.
However, the flame of the brazier went out during this process.
"Copycats are really just copycats!"
Li Anran was not surprised.
He only infused one percent of his energy into the treasure bag.
If this could create an innate magic weapon like Ruyi, that would be crazy!
He blew a few more breaths towards Ruyi, and gusts of cold wind blew over, freezing many things in the quiet room.
When he blew the sixth puff.
Cracks appeared on the Ruyi, and it shattered with a "bang", turning into specks of light and disappearing.
Li Anran recited the spell silently again, and infused it with one percent of his energy. A fake ivory gun flew out of the treasure bag.
Li Anran felt the strength of the fake ivory gun, then took out the genuine one and used both hands to collide with them.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Snap!
After three impacts, the fake could not and broke into two pieces.
Then, there are the Soul-Shocking Pearl and the Body-Protecting Jade Pendant...
Li Anran tried out more than a dozen magic weapons that he was familiar with.
The energy and spirit that was infused into it also kept changing, from one percent at the beginning to one thousandth.
During this process, he also gained a general understanding of the durable power of the magic weapon generated by the Treasure Bag.
He practiced the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong, and his spirit, energy and vitality were more than ten times stronger than those of the Xuanxian at the same level.
However, even with the amount of his energy, if he wanted to create a magic weapon with the same power as the ivory gun that could last for hundreds of rounds, he would need to consume at least two-thirds of his energy.
If you want to create a magic weapon with similar power to the Soul-Shocking Pearl that can be used more than ten times, you will probably have to consume all your energy.
It sounds like the treasure bag is a bit useless.
But you have to know that the ivory spear is made of the ivory of an old yellow-tusked elephant and pure bamboo, and the Soul-Shocking Pearl is a magic weapon refined by Duobao Taoist, the predecessor of Tathagata.
He doesn't need to know any knowledge about refining equipment at all, he can refine it as long as he consumes his energy.
Even though this magic weapon is limited in durability, it is still very terrifying!
And this is not the correct way to use the Treasure Box!
The real beauty of the Treasure Bag lies in being able to adapt to changing circumstances and take the initiative to defeat the enemy. As long as you can do this, turning the tables in desperate situations and defeating the strong with the weak will be no problem!
That’s right, the consumption is really too high!
Using the Treasure Bag consumes not only magic power, but also "essence" and "spirit".
Their recovery is far more difficult than mana.
This breath consumed one-fifth of his energy and vitality. If it were an ordinary cultivator, it would already be a serious loss of vitality, and it would take at least several months of breathing and rest to recover.
Li Anran practiced the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong, which made him much better, but it still took two or three days to recover.
This is actually the biggest drawback of the Treasure Bag!
Li Anran put away the treasure bag.
He consumed too little energy, and the resulting magic weapon was of little use to him.
Consuming too much energy will affect the improvement of your cultivation.
Li Anran planned to wait until he was about to break through the second level of Xuanxian before taking out this treasure bag, consuming all his energy to create a killer move, and then using the system to restore his condition.
Before that, he was not planning to use this treasure bag again.
For the next year, the Heavenly Palace was surprisingly peaceful.
Li Anran practiced martial arts and accumulated experience in the Heavenly Prison every day. Only occasionally, when Yang Jian and the Meishan brothers had free time, he would drink, chat, and compete with them in martial arts.
However, he could clearly feel that the interval between the two gatherings was getting longer and longer.
It seems like there is endless official business to deal with in the Three Realms. Yang Jian and the Meishan brothers are so busy every day, but they still can't finish it.
One day, Li Anran was practicing in the Heavenly Prison when a Heavenly Soldier came to report that Boss Kang was escorting a criminal immortal to the gate of the Heavenly Prison.
When I went out to take a look, I saw that it was a little Taoist boy.
Kang Lao Da said, "He is Lao Jun's cowherd boy. Because he was too playful, he let Lao Jun's blue cow go. Second Master asked me to send him to you to lock him up for two days, and then send him down to the mortal world to go through trials and rebuild."
