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Chapter 3247 Revenge is still swift

For cultivators of the Yin-Yang School's Nine Heavens Sect, swallowing pills is as natural as eating and drinking.

Zhang Xuezhou's philosophy also recognizes that spiritual practice is a way of progress that requires replenishing energy.

These energies may be acquired through gradual spiritual practice and refinement, or obtained through direct and corresponding supply.

Once the method is found, the elixir can save you from the arduous process of accumulation.

Unlike diligent study and practice, the motivation brought about by ingesting elixirs is more violent. If one is not able to use it or has to adapt to it over the years, it is easy for the energy to exceed one's own capacity and become uncontrollable.

However, there are also potential problems such as the body's adaptation to the elixirs, drug resistance, and the accumulation of drug toxicity.

While it may seem like simply taking pills to quickly master the techniques, reaching Zhang Xuezhou's standards is not easy.

In Zhang Xuezhou's current knowledge, only Zhenyuan Shenjun possesses similar physical conditions to him.

"The physical techniques at the level of the Sovereign Realm are quite interesting!"

Qi and blood, as well as magical power, vary, and the effects of physical body refinement techniques also differ.

Brother Tathagata's physical body is exceptionally powerful, capable of uprooting trees several meters long and sweeping them across. Zhang Xuezhou's physical body cannot normally achieve this level, but Zhang Xuezhou feels that his physical body's ability to resist the erosion of magic might be superior.

He stared at his body and saw a purple halo occasionally floating across his skin.

If his body were struck by some kind of magic, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the power of the magic would inevitably be resisted or even eliminated, making it difficult for it to erode his body.

This ability overlaps with the abilities of avoidance techniques such as the Water Avoidance Technique and the Fire Avoidance Technique, but it also enhances the ability to resist magic. Zhang Xuezhou is quite satisfied with this.

"A total of 113 low-grade mana creation pills, 42 mid-grade creation pills, and 3 top-grade life-creation pills were consumed. If the physical body technique is to be advanced to the True Self Realm level, it may be necessary to consume thousands of pills, or even higher-standard pills!"

Zhang Xuezhou had only just advanced his physical body technique to the realm of selflessness, and he hadn't deliberately accumulated the pills needed for the true self realm.

For him, Zhang Xuezhou was already very satisfied that he had reached the current level of cultivation in just over a year.

He used up a lot of pills, but he didn't deliberately try to take the new emperor's share. After all, he was enjoying himself, while the new emperor was going to lead a group of people to rise up.

"It's a rare opportunity to use a furnace like Qin Furnace No. 8, which allows for rapid mass production, to nurture elixirs. It's time to take them out of the furnace and return to Chang'an!"

After practicing in the alchemy room, Zhang Xuezhou looked at the embers under the alchemy furnace, which had turned to white ash, and realized that he had exceeded the time limit for practicing the physical body technique.

Normally, he should have already returned to reality by now, and then attempted to take Chang Kong Yinghao and the others through the distortion.

He couldn't immediately determine how many days he had spent practicing the Body Transformation Technique, but it shouldn't have reached the maximum time required to delay the Transcendental Period.

"A top-tier item!"

Although he didn't perform any more shamanistic rituals, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but silently recite the mantra before slowly opening the furnace.

He gasped as he saw the grayish-white powder.

But as the stretching continued, and the loose pills came into view, Zhang Xuezhou felt there was still hope, and his heart even held a glimmer of expectation.

"One?"

As the pills were continuously pulled towards the central area, Zhang Xuezhou saw piles of pills collapsing loosely.

At the very center, a dull, grayish-white pill sat at its core.

"So many pills were broken down and became low-grade?"

The forms of top-grade, high-grade, medium-grade, and low-grade pills are all different. The pill in the very center of the alchemy furnace undoubtedly meets the characteristics of a low-grade pill. Zhang Xuezhou felt that the greater his expectations, the greater his disappointment.

He reached out and grabbed the worthless pill, intending to stuff it into the porcelain bottle, only to find that the pill he held was two parts heavier than other similar pills.

This made him take a closer look.

"Even after eating and drinking my fill, I still didn't manage to make a top-grade pill. This was quite a waste of medicinal herbs. But it's always difficult to make pills by piecing things together, so failure isn't hard to understand!"

Having successfully produced six batches of Mana Creation Pills, Zhang Xuezhou wasn't overly concerned about the seventh batch of pills he cobbled together. He casually packed up, intending to wait a few days in peace before piloting the Sky Shuttle to accompany the new emperor to Mount Tai for a sacrificial ceremony, thus legitimizing his cultivation of magical arts.

After opening the locked door to the alchemy room, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but stretch.

But his expression quickly changed.

"He's there!"

A low, familiar voice came, and Zhang Xuezhou felt a gust of wind sweep in. Nine Spirits Primordial Saint stepped out from the gust of wind and then reached out to grab him.

With a slight tilt of his body, Zhang Xuezhou felt waves rising beneath his feet.

The distance of more than ten zhang flashed by beneath his feet, and Zhang Xuezhou then heard the sound of the side hall door breaking.

"Kid, don't run away, Ninth Master needs to talk to you!"

Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng muttered something, and Zhang Xuezhou glanced around before spotting Hong Ku, whose expression was complicated, on Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng's back.

We were able to find this place so accurately thanks to Hongku's guidance.

Zhang Xuezhou pointed downwards at Hongku, who opened his mouth but remained silent for a moment.

"Come to Chang'an if you dare!"

With the Cloud Leap Technique at his disposal, and by employing both fast and slow abilities, Zhang Xuezhou effortlessly and naturally evaded the Nine-Headed Lion's grasp.

He looked at the Nine Spirits Primordial Saint, whose body was still ten feet tall, and did not engage in a direct fight with him, nor did he bother with the Imperial Guards of Lin Yuan who had not yet grown up.

With a flash, Zhang Xuezhou stepped into the air, dozens of meters high. He waved to the Nine-Headed Lion, signaling that if the other party was capable, he could come over and let him use the Demon-Revealing Mirror to examine him.

"Lu Ya has already gone to Chang'an City. You dare to fly there and try!"

Nine-Headed Lion shouted, and Zhang Xuezhou, unable to discern the truth, did not dare to rush towards Chang'an City for a moment.

He leaped into the air, then continued to ascend higher and higher.

Daojun's retaliation came much faster than Zhang Xuezhou had imagined. Even after making many assumptions, Zhang Xuezhou had not expected it to be so swift.

Hongku didn't take long to return with the five hundred pills, and Zhang Xuezhou even began to doubt his assessment of Daojun's injuries.

"Kid, Ninth Master isn't that capable. Chasing you won't be a problem; I could chase you to the ends of the earth!"

Zhang Xuezhou attempted to fly higher and increase the distance, thereby causing the Nine-Headed Lion to lose sight of him and become difficult to track.

But his idea was clearly seen through.

The Nine-Headed Lion, known as the King of Beasts, was also skilled at flying, and his agility was quite impressive. He hung effortlessly behind Zhang Xuezhou.

"I heard from Feiyu that your flying skills are comparable to his. You can't get rid of me at that level. If it weren't for carrying this poor guy who was pointing the way, I would have caught you by now!"

Seemingly prepared, Nine-Headed Lion kept relaying messages.

Zhang Xuezhou was about to show the Nine-Headed Lion Saint his true flying skills, but ultimately he forced himself to suppress the thought.

His body swayed, and then he tumbled down.

Not far below, Yangling came into view.

He didn't want to get entangled with the Nine-Headed Lion Saint any longer, so he chose to enter a filthy place.

Yangling wasn't exactly Zhang Xuezhou's home turf, but few cultivators were willing to be tainted by its malevolent aura. Even the Venerable One only entered using an avatar and disliked the place, avoiding Yangling like the plague.

Nine-Headed Lion was willing to cooperate with Daoist Lord to stand up for him, but Zhang Xuezhou didn't believe that the other party was so loyal as to follow him into the latrine.

He was familiar with the traps and mechanisms of Yangling, and he used many of his abilities to enter its depths. Even if the Nine-Headed Lion Saint had the ability to sneak in, Zhang Xuezhou would still have a chance to make him suffer a loss.

Once he weakens the Nine-Headed Lion, it will be easy for him to get rid of his opponent.