I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

If he truly comes here with 'malice,' this jade slip will become a protective talisman for the Jiao siblings and the other cultivators from the 'Twelve Caves.'

"This deal may not help me right now, but it will be very beneficial in the long run," Wei Tu thought to himself.

His most worrying 'enemy' in the Spirit Realm is the Feathered Dragon Clan... Although, according to his calculations, once he breaks through to the Mahayana Realm, he can turn this 'enemy' into a friend and restore their previous relationship.

But this is ultimately just an estimate.

Now that Jiao Changyi is mediating and has helped to resolve the 'crime of deceiving the immortals' that led to the deception of Zi Chi Jun, the chances of success in this matter are undoubtedly much higher.

In other words, once he breaks through to the Mahayana realm, at least in the 'external environment' of the spirit world, there is no need to worry too much.

"Your father is deeply devoted to his son and has profound wisdom. He is willing to make this deal with me. In that case, I... will not let you suffer a loss."

Wei Tu flipped his hand, putting the jade slip into his pocket. He then looked at Jiao Yan'er in front of him, and after sizing her up, he stroked his chin and said.

The nearly forty years of sealing life, although necessary sacrifices for Jiao Yan'er, Jiao Changyi and others... Now that he and Jiao Changyi have 'turned enemies into friends', for the sake of their long-term relationship, this 'sacrifice' must be re-evaluated.

This can be seen as a statement to the descendants of the Purple Dragon Realm represented by the 'Feathered Dragon Clan' and 'Purple Dragon Lord'.

After speaking, Wei Tu did not hesitate. He casually patted the storage bag at his waist, took out more than a dozen colorful pill bottles, and handed them to Jiao Yan'er in front of him with his magic.

"Your father is a Nascent Soul expert, so your niece should not lack cultivation resources... However, as a seventh-level alchemist, every single pill I refine is a top-quality product of its respective realm, several times better than those on the market..."

Upon hearing this, Jiao Yan'er's face lit up with surprise. After accepting the pill bottles, she quickly curtsied and sincerely thanked Wei Tu.

Just as Wei Tu said.

As the biological daughter of a powerful cultivator at the Integration Realm, she was not lacking in cultivation resources, but... precisely because of this, she understood how precious these 'fine pills' refined by a seventh-rank alchemist were.

It is almost impossible to find on the market; it is a treasure that only descendants of great clans are qualified to enjoy.

After delivering the pills, Wei Tu continued to use his divine sense to guide the storage bag.

A moment later, Wei Tu took out a slender golden chain with the words "Xuan Ling" engraved on it from his storage bag and handed it to Jiao Yan'er.

"You know my origins, and you should also know that within the human race of the Spirit Realm, there exists a Mahayana immortal named Fairy Xuanling, and this [Xuanling Golden Chain] is what I obtained from Fairy Xuanling back then... Now, I have long since achieved the Integration Stage, and this treasure has been kept hidden away. Today, I am giving it to you, and I hope my virtuous niece will cherish it..."

Wei Tu's eyes flickered slightly, and he smiled faintly.

The Purple Palace Realm is not a closed interface.

Hundreds of years ago, even the Heavenly Crane Ancestor and the Flame Spirit King dared to venture into this realm, so there's no reason why the Purple Dragon Lord wouldn't have the strength to do so.

There are two reasons why he did not come to this world to guide the cultivators of the 'Twelve Caves' to escape the sea of ​​suffering after he advanced to Mahayana.

Firstly, information was scarce. As a young Mahayana immortal who had only recently ascended to the Mahayana realm, Zi Chi Jun's knowledge of this cross-realm journey to the Zi Chen Realm was not necessarily much better than that of Tian He Lao Zu, one of the 'Eight Fiends'.

Secondly, it is to avoid suspicion or to avoid doing so.

There is no contradiction between treating the survivors of the Zichen Realm kindly and not saving them from their suffering.

The Purple Dragon Lord is now more often referred to as the Purple Dragon Lord of the Feathered Dragon Clan, rather than the Purple Dragon Lord of the Purple Palace Realm.

Furthermore, the 'Twelve Caves' are not a single family or clan, nor are they a few or a few hundred people. Rather, they constitute an extremely large spiritual cultivation force, and it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to bring them all to the spirit realm.

Secondly, the so-called "remnants of the Purple Palace Realm" is more of an identity recognition than an emotional connection.

However, this was not the case for Jiao Changyi.

His two children are still in the Purple Palace Realm.

If the time is right, there is a good chance that he will return to the Purple Palace Realm.

At that time, his 'plan' may also produce some unexpected effects and benefits.

"A successor of the Mahayana lineage?" Upon hearing this, even though Jiao Yan'er was prepared for this, she couldn't help but secretly gasp in surprise.

She only knew that Wei Tu was wanted by Madam Wan Miao across realms, but she never imagined that there was such a 'Great Vehicle Immortal' standing behind Wei Tu.

But soon, she realized to herself, 'That makes sense.'

How could a powerful Fusion Realm expert like Wei Tu not possess the Mahayana inheritance and have the backing of a Mahayana Immortal?

"Yan'er thanks Uncle."

Jiao Yan'er then changed her form of address and bowed to Wei Tu again to express her gratitude.

However, this ceremony will end later.

Then she saw that Wei Tu, who had been standing in front of her just moments before, had turned into a phantom and slowly vanished into nothingness under the blinding sunlight of the pavilion.

"Demon Lord Kou? Alchemist Kou? Human Wei Tu?"

"I wonder what level of strength this cultivator will reach when I see him again? Will he be like Lord Zi Chi, who broke through to the Mahayana stage after only ten thousand years of cultivation?"

Jiao Yan'er looked up at the outside of the pavilion, her eyes glazed over, and murmured to herself.

She was indeed 'imprisoned' by Wei Tu's side for a period of time, along with Jiao Qi and others, and she also witnessed Wei Tu facing Tianhe Ancestor and other experts of the same realm without fear.

Now, hundreds of years later, Wei Tu's strength has grown to the point that the Ancient Demon God Clan is hard to kill even when they are wanted by him, and the Heavenly Crane Ancestor has to retreat for his own safety...

This is only the change over the past few hundred years.

Then, a thousand years later, ten thousand years later... how could its strength not undergo a tremendous change?
……

On the other hand, after leaving the hiding place of the 'Twelve Caves Family', Wei Tu did not readily believe Jiao Yan'er's words.

After following the clues and learning from the ancient demon that Jiao Changyi, Tianhe Ancestor, and others had indeed brazenly broken into the 'spiritual cultivation ruins' of the Zichen Realm decades ago, they finally believed the fact that Tianhe Ancestor had left the Zichen Realm.

"But in the jade slip, Jiao Changyi only mentioned that Ancestor Tianhe escaped from the 'Treasured Sun Divine Tower' with the help of the [Divine Divination Chopsticks], without mentioning my 'storage artifact'... not even a single word about it..."

"Could it be that during the three hundred years that Ancestor Tianhe and the others were trapped in this 'Treasured Sun Divine Tower,' they did not discover the storage artifact I had hidden?"

At the same moment, Wei Tu, having gathered the information, glanced at the direction where the 'Bao Ri Divine Tower' was located.

Before he faked his death and escaped, in order to prevent the treasures carried by the 'Blood Ghost Soul Split' from being taken by others, he secretly buried the storage artifact on the fourth floor of the 'Treasure Sun Divine Tower'.

This storage artifact didn't contain many treasures.

But there are two things he finds extremely difficult to give up.

Firstly, there is the [Boundary-Severing Stone] that was snatched from Lou Boyang. Although the Lou Boyang cave that this treasure leads to is dangerous... its value is beyond doubt.

These two are An Liangcai's remnant soul and body.

Although he had already squeezed almost all of the value out of this great demon lord, his Daoist partner, the Weeping River Demon Lord, had now grown into a newly promoted demon ancestor.

Carrying this demon on your person is almost equivalent to carrying the weakness of the Weeping River Demon Ancestor.

“That’s true. Ancestor Tianhe isn’t a mind reader, so how could he possibly guess my idea of ​​‘faking my death to escape’? This fiend probably still sees me as an avatar or ally of ‘Thousand Cloud Demon Ancestor’…thinking that I have already escaped from ‘Precious Sun Divine Tower’…” Wei Tu thought for a moment and then gradually felt relieved.

Putting himself in his shoes, if he were the Heavenly Crane Ancestor, he probably wouldn't waste his time exploring the fourth level of the 'Precious Sun Divine Tower,' a trivial matter.

Compared to this, breaking out of the blockade as soon as possible to ensure one's own safety is far more important!

Thinking of this, Wei Tu no longer hesitated and, with a flash of light, immediately headed towards the "Chaotic Forbidden Land" of the Zi Chen Realm where the "Precious Sun Divine Tower" was located.

This desolate place is no different from hundreds of years ago; it remains an endless black desert. At the far end of the desert, chaotic 'lawful light' flickers, and a long zone of chaotic laws exists.

"Hiss! These 'law lights' are truly terrifying. Even with my 'mid-stage seventh-order' body refiner' physique... I find it difficult to resist and am quite exhausted..." Wei Tu, who had flashed into this 'chaotic law zone', also felt the difficulty that Jiao Changyi and others had faced when they entered this place back then.

The 'lawful light' that permeates the entire void attacks every part of his physical body indiscriminately.

That terrifying power gave him a horrifying feeling that his physical body was about to collapse the moment he came into contact with it.

Back then, he controlled An Liangcai's immortal demonic body with the 'Blood Demon Soul Split,' which is why he didn't take these laws and spiritual lights seriously... But now, as he personally confronts them with his physical body, he truly understands how difficult it is to move an inch in this place.

Fortunately, he had been to this "forbidden land" once before and knew the exact location of the "Precious Sun Divine Tower".

After enduring for an hour or two, they finally made it safely to the front of the 'Bao Ri Divine Tower'.

"Release." Wei Tu formed hand seals and, based on the memories of 'Thousand Cloud Demon Ancestor' that he had previously retrieved, cast several spells into the layers of spiritual restrictions in front of him, thus releasing the profound spiritual restrictions that had trapped Ancestor Tianhe and the others for hundreds of years.

After entering the 'Treasured Sun Divine Tower', Wei Tu did not hesitate at all and immediately climbed to the fourth floor of the tower, arriving at the 'White Bone Wasteland Mountain' on the fourth floor, the deep pool filled with thick miasma that buried his storage bag.

"The storage bag is still here." Reaching out, Wei Tu felt a surge of joy upon sensing the familiar aura of magic power within the deep pool.

Soon, the 'magical hand' he had gathered tightened, directly scooping out the 'storage bag' that had been hidden in this deep pool hundreds of years ago.

However, Wei Tu did not rush to check the treasures in the storage bag. Instead, he quickly made a hand seal and released the magical restriction on the 'red jade box' inside the storage bag!
In an instant, the magical restriction that was destroying the 'red jade box' stopped abruptly, and the 'dark laws' contained within it also vanished in that instant.

That's right! This restriction is precisely the 'self-destruct mechanism' he set up to prevent the storage bag from being 'seized' by Ancestor Tianhe and others.

What he destroyed was not something else, but the remnant soul of An Liangcai that he had sealed away.

He didn't mind if Jiao Changyi, Tianhe Laozu, and others took the treasures in the storage bag, but he was worried that An Liangcai would use it to reveal too many of his secrets.

Therefore, if he did not personally untie the seal, the moment the storage bag was opened, the remnant soul of An Liangcai inside would be completely destroyed by the 'dark law' he left behind, resulting in his death and annihilation.

An Liangcai's remnant soul, sealed away for hundreds of years, was naturally unaware of Wei Tu's insidious scheme.

Upon realizing that the 'red jade box' that sealed him had been opened by Wei Tu once again after hundreds of years, his voice couldn't help but contain a hint of excitement and vicissitude.

An Liangcai would never be loyal to Wei Tu, a spiritual cultivator who damaged his remnant soul and seized his demonic body.

But he also knew how high the price would be for him to 're-confirm his faith'.

In contrast, although it is humiliating to be here in Weitu, safety is guaranteed.

“Fellow Daoist Wei, more than three hundred years have passed... and you have finally returned here…” An Liangcai said wearily.

Without the nourishment of the 'Undying Demon Body', his remnant soul inevitably weakened considerably over the long period of more than three hundred years.

“Fellow Daoist An…” But at this moment, Wei Tu, looking at the red jade box in his hand, had a half-smile.

There was no other reason than that during his journey to the Rebirth Realm, he obtained a shocking mystery from the mouth of the 'Pitying Centipede Demon Lord'.

—The oath of the Heavenly Demon is ineffective against the cultivation of the 'rebellious demon'.

In other words, An Liangcai had already lied to him from the very beginning when he submitted to him.

It is highly likely that the magical restriction that he offered to bind the 'Weeping River Demon Ancestor' was just a lie.

However, after a slight flicker in his eyes, Wei Tu still did not reveal the matter. After pondering for a moment, he asked An Liangcai how to restore the 'Undying Demon Body' as soon as possible.

Indeed, in the battle of the 'Sun-Bearing Divine Tower' hundreds of years ago, he only burned his 'Blood Demon Soul' and a portion of his immortal demonic body...

The remaining 'undying demonic body' is still there, and at this moment, it is slowly growing and recovering inside the storage bag.

Unfortunately, this process is far too slow. Even after three hundred years, only some of the injuries have been repaired, and it is still a long way from restoring the body to its previous full form.

"A naturally born demonic body, immortal and indestructible... Even a grand formation set up by immortals would take a very long time to destroy it..."

"However, correspondingly, after the burning of the demonic body ends, the price to pay to restore the 'demonic body' is also considerable..."

"And the simplest way to recover is to devour the flesh and blood of a spiritual cultivator of the same realm, using the 'blood sacrifice method' to restore the 'undying demonic body'." After hearing this, An Liang paused for a moment before uttering this sentence without hesitation.

"A blood sacrifice technique that devours the flesh and blood of spiritual cultivators?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Tu couldn't help but frown slightly.

By now, he was quite accustomed to such 'demonic and evil arts,' and had even used them himself...

However, sacrificing a fellow cultivator of the same realm for the sake of an 'undying demonic body' is still rather cruel and troublesome.

It should be understood that this 'Undying Demon Body' is the physical body of the Great Demon Lord An Liangcai. Its spiritual cultivation and flesh are undoubtedly at the level of a Great Master of the Integration Realm, or even a half-step Great Ascension Realm cultivator...

Killing such a powerful being to restore this 'immortal demonic body'—regardless of the difficulty, this act alone is bound to smack of 'buying the box and returning the pearl'.

“If Fellow Daoist Wei does not intend to use this method, other methods are also acceptable, but... compared to this method, other methods of restoring the immortal demon body are inevitably more difficult.”

“The simplest method after this one is to find the ‘Demon Ancestor’s Blood Crystal’… But this method is beyond Fellow Daoist Wei’s ability to complete…” An Liangcai sighed softly, indicating to Wei Tu to give up this idea as soon as possible, either obediently give up repairing the ‘Undying Demon Body’ or adopt what he said, using the flesh and blood of a spiritual cultivator of the same realm as a blood sacrifice.

"What, Demon Ancestor Blood Crystal?" Upon hearing this method, Wei Tu's heart stirred and he was overjoyed.

The reason is simple: he happened to possess a 'Demon Ancestor Blood Crystal' obtained after slaying the Thousand Cloud Demon Ancestor! (End of Chapter)