I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

But soon, Yu Linzi secretly shook his head, rejecting this possibility.

This is not because I believe in Chief Chai's character.

Rather, it is inextricably linked to the precarious situation that Chief Chai is currently in.

His attempt to seize the 'Divine Phoenix Pill' and offend the Ghost Phoenix Clan has severed any possibility of returning to the Spirit Realm.

If he dares to steal treasures and kill people again, or to attack a cultivator from the Heavenly Demon Realm... what power would dare to continue risking offending the Spirit Realm and the Heavenly Demon Realm to accept this cultivator?

At that time, even if they go to the sky or the earth, they will probably have little chance of survival.

Thinking of this, Yu Linzi no longer hesitated. He narrowed his eyes and nodded in agreement to the terms of the trade proposed by the old woman with snake scales.

……

the other side.

Wei Tu, who had finished his seclusion in the 'Lost Forest', did not return to the Heavenly Demon Palace, but waited in vain for Chief Chai to descend to the mortal realm.

He looked at the silver-white stone tablet he had obtained from the 'Hundred Tombs Underworld' and was manipulating it, and a look of eager anticipation appeared in his eyes.

During these hundred years, in his cave in the 'Lost Forest', besides engaging in secluded cultivation, he also spent the rest of his time exploring this interdimensional teleportation array with Granny Tu, who was parasitizing in the sea of ​​consciousness of 'Snow Feather', and Master Dao.

Currently, even with their combined strength, they are not capable of setting up an interdimensional teleportation array that leads directly to the spirit world.

However, setting up a teleportation channel to the 'Black Cloud Minor World' is undoubtedly somewhat feasible.

After all, the 'Black Cloud Minor Realm' is extremely close to the Heavenly Demon Realm, belonging to the lower realm of the 'Heavenly Demon Realm'.

Ordinary cultivators could easily travel directly to the Black Cloud Minor World by tearing open a 'spatial rift', let alone array masters like them who use arrays for location...

"However, the only difficulty is when using this teleportation array to cross realms... If the array's power is insufficient, then it is very likely that we will be trapped inside the 'spatial rift,' and at that time..." Granny Tu, inside Xue Qiongyu's body, said this with a troubled expression, trying to stop Wei Tu's risky attempt.

But upon hearing this, Wei Tu showed no fear and shook his head, refusing Granny Tu's kindness.

There's no other reason than that, back when he was on his journey to the Rebirth Realm, he had risked tearing open the void and traversing a 'spatial rift' once.

Now that he has made further progress in his body refinement, he naturally no longer harbors excessive fear of the danger he has already experienced.

Secondly, this is also an excellent opportunity for him to test the teleportation capabilities of this 'interdimensional teleportation array'.

Only with this experience can we better debug this 'silver-white stone tablet' and then teleport to other interfaces.

"What, mid-stage of the seventh level of Body Refinement?" The next moment, Granny Tu was shocked when she heard Wei Tu's explanation, and her gaze towards Wei Tu changed several times.

If she remembered correctly, it had been less than a thousand years since Wei Tu last broke through to the 'early stage of the seventh level' of body refinement.

Normally, most cultivators who break through a minor realm do so without thousands, or even tens of thousands, of years of arduous practice...

But Wei Tu seems to have broken this convention.

"This breakthrough speed is no less than that of the Mahayana Immortals within the three major clans..." Granny Tu clicked her tongue in amazement, her confidence in Wei Tu's future potential rising significantly.

After all, the Mahayana immortals of the three major clans had the support of their clans' resources when they were young, while Wei Tu, as a lone cultivator, would find it extremely difficult to have such favorable conditions.

"It seems that Yu'er will be able to break through to the Integration Realm soon..." Granny Tu glanced at Xue Qiongyu, who was encased in ice and immersed in cultivation inside Wei Tu's Qiankun Bag, and thought to herself.

Clearly, with his strength greatly increased, Wei Tu now has a considerable chance to obtain another opportunity to advance to the Fusion Realm.

As for the close people living in this cave...

Aside from the Bloodwinged Demon, only Xue Qiongyu remained.

Wei Tu was unaware of Granny Tu's ulterior motives.

As the silver runes emanating from the 'silver-white stone tablet' gradually formed a 'rune passage' leading to the void... he no longer hesitated, and in an instant, his figure vanished into the 'rune passage', teleporting towards the 'Black Cloud Minor World'.

Two days later.

Just as Granny Tu had predicted, as the teleportation was nearing its end, the 'rune passage' seemed to have exhausted all its power and could no longer proceed.

Ahead lay the 'spatial rift' that terrified countless cultivators.

Upon seeing this scene, Wei Tu, who was already prepared, immediately opened the 'Hun'e Evil Eye' between his brows and began to probe the surrounding void.

After thinking to himself, "Good luck," he immediately raised his hand and tore open a 'spatial rift,' using the teleportation power of the 'spatial rift' to travel further away.

Half an hour later, at the end of this 'spatial rift', Wei Tu once again sensed the extremely familiar aura of the 'Black Cloud Minor World'.

Moreover—fortunately enough, this location is not far from the Deer Mountain Dojo and the Liu Clan Immortal City. With his speed, he can easily reach them in just a few days.

"It should still be a long time before Chief Chai descends to the mortal realm, and Ruan Shui'er... is most likely still at the Deer Mountain Dojo..."

Several days later, Wei Tu, who had rushed to the Lushan Dojo, immediately sensed Ruan Shui'er and the middle-aged beauty who were cultivating there with his vast divine sense.

Seeing this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that he hadn't arrived too late.

"Just broke through to the late stage of the Golden Core realm?"

At this moment, Wei Tu, who had sensed Ruan Shui'er's specific realm, couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

It should be noted that, all things considered, this woman has only been at the Golden Core stage for two hundred years.

In just two hundred years, she leaped from a newly promoted Golden Core cultivator to a 'late-stage Golden Core' cultivator. Even in the upper realm, where spiritual energy is abundant and geniuses gather, this woman can be considered to have cultivated extremely quickly.

Of course, with the help of the 'Nine Serpents Liu Clan', it is understandable that this woman broke through so quickly.

"However, the fact that this woman has broken through so quickly also means that the day when the Liu family patriarch will possess her body is not far off." Wei Tu narrowed his eyes, flicked his sleeves and flew away from the 'Deer Mountain Dojo', patiently lying in wait nearby.

The late Golden Core stage and the early Nascent Soul stage are the best stages for seizing a 'reincarnated body'.

Since the old woman with snake scales is so obsessed with the matter of seizing a body, and even went so far as to ask Chief Chai for help, it is only natural that she will not waste too much time on this matter.

In a few years or even decades, this woman will inevitably be taken away by the old woman with snake scales and refined into a 'body to be possessed'.

For him, decades was a time that could be easily wasted.

Of course, Wei Tu did not completely waste time during this period. He only paused his cultivation and devoted his time to studying the immortal technique 'Owl Demon Yin Ghost'.

Predictably, this 'evil object' is a means he can use to reach the Mahayana realm.

……

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.

That year, Wei Tu, who had been patiently waiting nearby, finally saw the arrival of the 'Nine Serpents Liu Clan'.

This person was none other than his and Ruan Shui'er's nominal master, the Liu clan chief in charge of all affairs, both internal and external, of the 'Nine Serpents Liu Clan'.

After exchanging a few words with the middle-aged beauty, Ci Xiu happily took Ruan Shui'er and boarded the flying boat to 'Liu Clan Immortal City', leaving the Deer Mountain Dojo.

However, at that very moment, just as Wei Tu had a sudden thought and decided to follow,

Once again, cultivators flew in from above the Deer Mountain Dojo.

This cultivator was dressed in a black robe and wore a bamboo hat, obscuring his true appearance. After glancing at the Deer Mountain Dojo on the ground for a few moments, he raised his hand with a cold glint in his eyes.

The next moment, the magnificent and resplendent Deer Mountain Dojo was instantly crushed into ruins by this great power. Including the group of Feather Saint Sect cultivators who were cultivating there, their essence and blood were completely absorbed in that instant, turning into layers of white bones.

"Cut the weeds and eliminate the roots?" Upon seeing this scene, Wei Tu frowned deeply, a hint of coldness creeping onto his face.

This wasn't because he felt excessive pity for these 'fellow disciples' of the Deer Mountain Dojo, but rather because of the ruthlessness of the Nine Serpents Liu Clan, which could very well become a sharp weapon to assassinate him in the future.

After all, he, like the Feather Saint Sect disciples at the Deer Mountain Dojo, was someone who knew of Ruan Shui'er's existence.

This is a commonality between him and these Feather Saint Sect disciples, and it is also the most likely reason why the "Nine Serpents Liu Clan" wiped out these Feather Saint Sect disciples.

A hundred years ago, when he was cultivating at the Deer Mountain Dojo, the Nine Serpents Liu Clan spared no expense to "buy" him from the main sect of the Feather Saint Sect in order to prevent him from being found out by the awl-piercing bag and the main sect cultivators of the Feather Saint Sect. They made him become the disciple of the Liu Clan Chief.

Now, in order to erase Ruan Shui'er's existence and make this possession completely disappear, killing him, just like slaughtering these cultivators of the Deer Mountain Dojo, is not an unimaginable thing.

The potential he has shown is quite good.

However, compared to the safety and reputation of the combined ancestor, the Snake-Scaled Old Woman, it is not worth mentioning.

"But...it seems the Nine Serpents Liu Clan acted a little too quickly?" But the next moment, Wei Tu seemed to have thought of something, his eyes flashed slightly, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face.

It is reasonable for the 'Nine Serpents Liu Clan' to erase the 'Deer Mountain Dojo,' a training ground specifically established to cultivate Ruan Shui'er, and to eliminate historical evidence of wrongdoing.

but--

Generally speaking, there is no need to rush this matter.

Because the Deer Mountain Dojo was not completely closed off, its sudden destruction inevitably caused some scheming individuals within the 'Black Cloud Minor Realm' to speculate...

On the contrary, it would bring some instability to the old woman with snake scales' possession of his body.

Unless—someone else had the same idea as him, wanting to profit from the old woman's possession of his body!

And this, without a doubt, will give him an opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

"Possessing another's body is a 'bad deed' that only harms one's own reputation, but has no impact on other cultivators..."

“This cultivator’s actions suggest either a grudge against the Liu family patriarch, or, like me, a greedy person for the treasures here…” Wei Tu’s lips curled into a smile.

The enemy is in the open, while he is in the shadows.

The muddier the water, the more opportunities he has to make a move.

"The massacre of the Deer Mountain Dojo was more likely intended to provoke the Liu family patriarch... The next step is to see how the Liu family patriarch responds..." Wei Tu's eyes flickered slightly as he continued to wait patiently by the side, not in a hurry to leave.

as predicted.

Not long after, the 'Nine Serpents Liu Clan', having sensed the upheaval at the Deer Mountain Dojo, sent cultivators to investigate.

However, the old woman with snake scales, who was the main character, was unexpectedly a step too late, arriving several days later.

Moreover, besides Chief Liu, another young-looking, distinguished-looking Taoist in blue robes also arrived with the old woman with snake scales.

“Yu Linzi?” Wei Tu narrowed his eyes, recognizing the only two combined-stage ancestors of the 'Nine Serpents Liu Clan'.

"It seems that the day when the Liu family patriarch will possess another body is just around the corner," Wei Tu thought to himself.

Yu Linzi is no ordinary person in the Heavenly Demon Realm. He is considered by the major clans to be a Nascent Soul cultivator with the potential to attain the Great Ascension stage within the next ten thousand years...

Given his age and the length of his cultivation, it was destined that he would not stay in the 'Black Cloud Minor World' for very long this time.

It's impossible for him to waste time on anything other than the snake-scaled old woman possessing his body.

Soon, the old woman with snake scales, who had personally investigated the ruins of the Deer Mountain Dojo, seemed to have secretly guessed who had made the move, and a shadow fell over her face.

However, at this moment, he was very careful in his conversation with Yu Linzi, using divine sense to transmit his voice. Wei Tu, who was hiding his figure with the Earth Emperor Pearl in the distance, could not hear anything.

Half an hour later.

The two, having finished their conversation, did not linger in the Deer Mountain Dojo. After exchanging a glance, they immediately took flight and disappeared into the sky above the Deer Mountain Dojo.

Wei Tu, who witnessed this scene, was secretly delighted for a moment.

There was no other reason than that the direction these two fled in was clearly away from 'Liu Clan Immortal City'!

It seems that the old woman with snake scales has given up and decided to use the 'Liu Clan Immortal City' as her place of reincarnation.

Indeed! With other powerful cultivators at the Fusion Realm posing a threat, the fixed location of 'Liu Clan Immortal City' inevitably becomes quite dangerous.

Other 'places of reincarnation' may not have the protection of the 'Liu Clan Immortal City's' array, but they will undoubtedly be more hidden and harder to find.

And this, of course, is also very advantageous to him.

This is equivalent to removing the disadvantageous factor of the 'Clan Protection Formation'.

"But is this exactly what the mastermind behind it wanted? Or is it unexpected..." Wei Tu frowned slightly, wondering about this matter.

With the Earth Emperor Pearl, a spatial treasure, concealing his form, he was still able to barely track down Yu Linzi and the Snake Scale Old Woman and find their newly established reincarnation site.

But the black-robed cultivator, the 'mastermind' behind the scenes, was far from possessing this ability.

At least, he didn't believe that someone with his Mahayana skills would need to resort to such underhanded tactics against a mere ordinary, combined-level snake-scaled old woman.

“Unless he is an inside traitor, or his true intentions lie elsewhere…” Wei Tu’s eyes flickered, and he had a new guess about the identity of the 'black-robed cultivator'.

Previously, he believed the black-robed cultivator shared his desire to seize the treasure, but now it seems he was merely intimidating the snake-scaled old woman to prevent her from attempting to possess and reincarnate within the "Liu Clan Immortal City." (End of Chapter)