I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

Chapter 601 Bai Zhi takes over the body, [Red Spirit Wing] reappears (5k1 subscription required)
According to his estimation, in three years at most, the Sky-Splitting Eagle would be able to complete this transformation and become a pure-blooded descendant of the "Lüqiu Clan".

By then, the potential of the Sky-Splitting Eagle will be greatly increased, and will be no weaker than Luqiu Jinyuan in his past.

After checking the Sky-Splitting Eagle, Wei Tu waved his sleeves and came to a secret room in the cave that looked like a dungeon.

Inside this secret room, there was a cold jade bed, on which lay a beautiful girl, about twenty years old.

However, at this moment, the girl was like a dead body and rarely showed any signs of life.

This woman was none other than Wei Tu, who selected a cauldron for Bai Zhi to possess after they arrived at Yuanjun Island.

He respected Bai Zhi, his "soul servant", or the choice of his good friend during his practice - to let her take over another's body and be reborn.

However, he was not as cruel as the demon cultivators who forcibly abducted passers-by to become cauldrons.

His method was very clever and also very aboveboard. He simply issued a bounty to the lower-level monks, allowing them to sign up themselves and decide for themselves whether or not to become the cauldron for possessing another's body.

——In the world of immortal cultivation, there are always some cultivators who are seriously ill, short of money, and willing to sacrifice themselves for others.

Today, the female cultivator lying on the cold jade bed belongs to this category.

This girl's name was "Xu Yuqi". She was born with the poison of fire and could hardly live past the age of thirty.

Now, he is already 28 years old. In about half a year, he will be completely burned to death by the fire poison.

Xu Yuqi has a sister with pretty good aptitude. After learning that Wei Tu, a fourth-rank alchemist from Manyuanjun Island, needed a body-snatching furnace, he volunteered to sign up, hoping to sacrifice himself in exchange for a good future for his sister's cultivation.

There are many monks like Xu Yuqi.

However, because this girl was good-looking and of the right age, Wei Tu selected her from the crowd to be Bai Zhi's body.

As for the fire poison in this woman's body, it can be cured in a matter of days by Wei Tu, the Nascent Soul Patriarch.

"Friend Bai, have you made up your mind?"

"After this possession, you can only last for thirty years at most, before your soul disintegrates and you die."

Wei Tu released Bai Zhi's soul and spoke in a concentrated voice.

Unlike the normal souls that take over other cultivators' bodies, Bai Zhi, who switched to practicing ghost arts, was already at the end of her life span, so even if she continued to practice after taking over another cultivator's body, it would be difficult to increase her life span by even a little bit.

His life span depends on the age of his soul.

Simply put, Bai Zhi's aging soul will be the biggest shortcoming of her body after she takes over another body.

The life span of a cultivator is determined by this shortcoming.

"I have made up my mind." Bai Zhi nodded and looked at Xu Yuqi lying on the cold jade bed. She walked over, gently stroked her skin, feeling the vitality of the living person.

She knew why Wei Tu said this at this moment. He wanted to persuade her to choose another path and find another way to prolong her life instead of becoming a short-lived ghost after being possessed by another body.

"Thirty years is not a short time. Many mortals can hardly live to be thirty years old."

Bai Zhi smiled slightly.

Hearing this, Wei Tu stopped persuading her. He made hand gestures with one hand and began to help Bai Zhi complete the task of taking over the body.

a few days later.

"Xu Yuqi" on the cold jade bed woke up. She stood up, bowed to Wei Tu, and said, "Friend Wei."

Obviously, the possession of the body has been successful.

However, Wei Tu discovered that in addition to Bai Zhi's soul, "Xu Yuqi" still had the soul of the original owner in his body.

"I am a person whose life is about to end. How can I let this female cultivator die with me?"

Bai Zhi's face showed a gentle expression.

Seeing this, Wei Tu couldn't help but be surprised. Others didn't know Bai Zhi's origins, but as the master who subdued Bai Zhi, how could he not know this woman's previous identity and temperament.

This woman was born in the Tiannv Sect, one of the five sects of the devil.

She was not a good guy. There were at least eight hundred monks who died at the hands of this woman.

Now, you are suddenly kind to the person whose body was possessed?

"Some thoughts of kindness before death?"

After thinking for a moment, Wei Tu could only come up with this explanation.

Although it seems quite abnormal for a person to make a decision that goes against his previous temperament before he dies, it is also within the scope of understanding. After all, he is also a living person, and his behavior throughout his life cannot be restricted by the word temperament alone.

"Now Fellow Daoist Bai has successfully returned to life, but for safety reasons, it is best for you to stay in Wei's cave and try not to go out."

Wei Tu reminded.

The word "safety" he mentioned not only refers to Bai Zhi's safety, but also his safety.

As a soul servant, Bai Zhi knew too many of his secrets, so there was no way he could let her go.

Rescue Baizhi, let her "revive" in the Yuanyang treasure land, and help her return to life... This is his kindness to Baizhi and his remembrance of their old friendship.

But he will never forget that it was he who destroyed Bai Zhi's physical body and forced her to become his soul servant.

In other words, the relationship between him and this woman is not just a simple friendship, and he must remain vigilant.

"I know."

Bai Zhi nodded slightly. She didn't know anyone in the overseas cultivation world. Staying in the Weitu Cave Mansion and traveling abroad did not make much difference to her current short lifespan.

Just now, the reason why she kept Xu Yuqi's soul was not only because of her benevolent thoughts before her death, but also because she wanted this girl to talk to her and make her less lonely.

She had long expected that Wei Tu would not let her leave easily and out of his sight.

……

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed.

Bai Zhi gradually became familiar with the body she had taken over, and Xu Yuqi, as her "second soul", also gradually got to know Bai Zhi, and learned about her relationship and past with the fourth-level alchemist Wei Tu.

"Although Friend Wei is decisive in his actions, he is also very principled. After I pass away, you can continue to be his soul servant on my behalf, and you can continue to live..."

"This can be considered an opportunity for you."

Bai Zhi was sitting in Wei Tu's cave medicine garden. As she sniffed the fragrance of the flowers, her beautiful eyes glanced at the secret room where Wei Tu was in seclusion, and she smiled and said to Xu Yuqi in her sea of ​​consciousness.

Soul servant, this identity is very humiliating.

But it also depends on whose soul servant it is.

Before Xu Yuqi, she was just a female Qi-cultivating cultivator from a small foundation-building family on Yuanjun Island. Not to mention being a servant of a Nascent Soul powerhouse like Wei Tu, even being a servant of an ordinary Jindan Zhenjun would be a great honor for her.

After all, no matter which world of immortal cultivation, there is no shortage of low-level cultivators.

And Wei Tu is already a top-notch expert in the Guixu Sea's cultivation world.

If this soul servant position were released, there would probably be tens of thousands of low-level cultivators rushing here, vying to become Wei Tu's servants.

"Alchemy Master Wei..."

Hearing this, Xu Yuqi's beautiful eyes moved in Baizhi's sea of ​​consciousness, and the figure of Wei Tu emerged in her mind.

She did not feel the slightest hatred or aversion towards Wei Tu, the man who took her life. Instead, her heart was filled with deep gratitude.

After all, she was suffering from the fire poison and her life was coming to an end. It was a great fortune that she could sacrifice herself to help her loved ones before she died.

Now, not only is she not dead, but she also has the hope of becoming the servant of Wei Tu, a fourth-rank alchemist, in the future. How can she not be extremely happy and express her heartfelt gratitude to Wei Tu and Bai Zhi?

But just when Xu Yuqi was about to reply, she suddenly discovered that Bai Zhi seemed to be stunned.

She controlled her soul, and with the help of some control over her body, she also looked out.

But at this moment, a large eagle with a white crown and green body suddenly appeared in the medicine garden. The eagle was about ten feet tall, and when its wings were spread, they were several feet long.

The next moment, as the white-crowned, green-bodied eagle flapped its wings, a flash of red light appeared, and it suddenly appeared in front of her, as if it had traveled through space.

"Space escape technique?" Bai Zhi was extremely shocked. She didn't expect that the Sky-Splitting Eagle, who had been her companion in the past, had mastered such a powerful escape technique.

As a former high-ranking member of the Tiannv Sect, she had some understanding of space escape techniques. She knew that it was an advanced technique that could only be mastered by those above the Nascent Soul Stage, and it was almost impossible to see it in the lower realm of immortal cultivation.

And this was only two hundred years ago.

In two hundred years, the Sky-Splitting Eagle leaped from the same Jindan realm as her to the Yuanying realm, and mastered such a terrifying escape technique.

This made Baizhi extremely surprised and envious.

It was not difficult for her to guess that this was an opportunity that the Sky-Splitting Eagle obtained from Wei Tu. After all, the Sky-Splitting Eagle's bloodline was not that strong. When it broke through to the third level, its potential had been exhausted.

If she had not been possessed by the evil spirit and lost the two hundred years of time for cultivation, she would probably be like the Sky-Splitting Eagle today, with a promising future in the path of immortality.

"Fellow Daoist Wei."

At this time, Bai Zhi also noticed Wei Tu coming out of the secluded secret room. She quickly stood up and saluted. "Fellow Daoist Bai."

Wei Tu nodded slightly, returned the salute, then raised his right hand and called the Sky-Splitting Eagle over.

He touched the Sky-Splitting Eagle's head and asked it to use the same escape technique once again.

"Crikey!" The Sky-Splitting Eagle cried a few times, flapped its wings, and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

When it appeared, it was already a hundred feet away.

"Red Spirit Wing, it's Red Spirit Wing!"

Wei Tu looked happy.

[Red Spirit Wings] is Luqiu Jinyuan's signature skill. When he, Cao Mi, the Second Mountain Master and others surrounded and killed this man, he had witnessed the domineering nature of this space escape technique with his own eyes.

If he had not had a stronger foundation and set up an ambush, he would probably not have been able to stop Luqiu Jinyuan in that battle.

After killing Luqiu Jinyuan, seizing the purple-blue tree branch, and exchanging blood for the Sky-Splitting Eagle, he had an expectation that the Sky-Splitting Eagle would also be able to possess this magical power in the future.

Fortunately, his expectations were not disappointed.

After the bloodline of the Sky-Splitting Eagle was upgraded and he became a "pure-blood descendant" of the Luqiu clan, this space escape technique was indeed born.

"Friend Bai, you stay here and enjoy the scenery. I, Wei, have something important to do." Wei Tu called back the Sky-Splitting Eagle. After greeting Bai Zhi, he went back into the secret retreat room.

See this scene.

Bai Zhi sighed softly, feeling a little regretful about the decision she made in Yuanyang more than 20 years ago.

The path to immortality is free and unfettered, and you can’t give it up easily.

……

Seven years passed in a flash.

Soon, it was the day when the Luqiu clan went to Neixu Sea to pay homage to the "Venerable God of Transformation".

"There are a total of six Transformation Gods in the Neixu Sea. Among them, there are two Transformation Gods who have a close relationship with my Luqiu clan..."

Inside the hall, the king "Lüqiu Yeming" who was sitting on the main throne glanced around at the envoys standing in the hall and spoke slowly with an extremely solemn look.

There is no trivial matter in foreign affairs.

What's more, these two gods are the background of their Luqiu clan and are protected by their Luqiu clan.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Luqiu clan is extremely prominent, but in fact, only the "talking heads" like Luqiu Yeming who truly hold power know how weak the Luqiu clan is without the protection of the Divine Transformation Master.

With just one word from the Venerable Huashen, their Luqiu clan would be uprooted immediately, and their country would be destroyed and their clan would be wiped out.

Of course, the chances of this happening are not high.

After all, the relationship between the Luqiu clan and the two divine masters is not so weak. They have a certain blood relationship and master-disciple relationship.

As long as the Luqiu clan does not touch their reverse scale, they will be safe even if they offend them.

"Qingfeng, as the chief envoy, you are responsible for everything. Please remember to act with caution."

Luqiu Yeming instructed patiently.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Luqiu Qingfeng, who was in the hall, was wearing a golden phoenix robe and had a bright smile on her pretty face. She nodded and agreed.

This time, the Luqiu clan took her as the "chief envoy" for this mission, or "visiting the ruins to pay homage", which was to tell the two gods in the Neixu Sea that she was the next crown prince to succeed the throne of the Luqiu Yeming Kingdom.

After this, even if another Luqiu Jinyuan appears in the future and challenges her position as crown prince, her position will be as stable as a rock and unbreakable.

There is no other reason. The recognition of the Venerable Huashen is more valuable than anything else. In the Luqiu clan, it means absolute majesty.

After explaining the precautions for pilgrimage to the ruins, Luqiu Yeming turned his gaze and looked at Wei Tu, who was standing behind Luqiu Qingfeng in the delegation.

The envoys on this mission were either princes and princesses of the Luqiu clan or loyal subjects of the Donghua Demon Kingdom. A "newcomer" like Wei Tu, who had not accomplished anything, undoubtedly stood out here.

However, Luqiu Yeming did not disagree that Wei Tu was not qualified to be on the mission. After all, according to his understanding, Wei Tu's attainments in alchemy were second only to Master Le Dan of the Gongfeng Hall. In a few hundred years, he would hopefully surpass Master Le Dan and become number one.

For this reason alone, the Luqiu clan needs to do a lot to win over Wei Tu. The importance of elixirs is known to all cultivators in the world of immortality.

"Master Wei Dan, when you return from this mission, if you find a princess you like, our lord can grant you a marriage."

Luqiu Yeming smiled slightly and said this.

The words fell.

The ministers in the hall were in an uproar, and their eyes looking at Wei Tu were filled with envy.

The princesses of the Luqiu clan are all beautiful and graceful, with fairy-like looks, and have the bloodline of a true spirit family... No matter who they marry, it will be a good opportunity for a happy marriage and advancement of status.

only--

While feeling envious, the ministers couldn't help feeling confused.

If it was King Luqiu Yeming who unilaterally arranged the marriage, he could have directly indicated which unmarried princess. Why would he have to say that Wei Tu had a favorite princess and then arranged the marriage for her?

These words sounded more like - Wei Tu already had an affair with a certain princess, but due to the princess's noble status, he did not dare to propose marriage hastily.

"Which princess?"

"Could it be the Ninth Princess?"

The ministers were secretly complaining and looked back and forth between Wei Tu and Luqiu Qingfeng.

As far as they knew, among all the princesses, Wei Tu and Luqiu Qingfeng had the closest relationship. After all, Luqiu Qingfeng was Wei Tu's "benefactor" and it was she who invited Wei Tu to the worship hall.

Like all the ministers,
Wei Tu also had this doubt in his heart.

Although he thought he had a good relationship with Luqiu Qingfeng, he could clearly see that Luqiu Qingfeng had no feelings for him in that regard. Otherwise, she would not have deliberately introduced the Seventeenth Princess to him.

However, this was not the time for him to think about the reason. He walked out of the delegation, bowed to Luqiu Yeming who was sitting on the main seat, and expressed his gratitude first.

"Your Highness, I, Wei Tu, thank you for your appreciation."

Anyway, this "arranged marriage" was not a forced marriage for him, but after he took a fancy to a princess, he would "propose" to the king Luqiu Yeming.

It's good for him and no harm.

After expressing his gratitude, Wei Tu returned to the delegation. He used his spiritual sense to carefully observe the expressions of the monks present, trying to find out the reason why Luqiu Yeming had granted him the marriage.

"Is it her?" Wei Tu soon saw that Luqiu Qing, who was standing behind Luqiu Qingfeng, had a rare look of disappointment on her face.

"It's Lu Qiuqing."

At this time, Wei Tu also heard Lvqiu Qingfeng's words, which were full of chill, "I just received information... A few days ago, the only princess who met the king was Lvqiu Qing. I guess she wanted the king to grant you a marriage directly, but for some reason, the king changed this marriage granting to a marriage request..."

Hearing this, Wei Tu was immediately relieved, and also vaguely guessed some of Lu Qiuqing's thoughts.

Luqiu Qing didn't know about his cooperative relationship with Luqiu Qingfeng, but this woman could certainly see that his position in Luqiu Qingfeng's heart was definitely extraordinary.

After all, if it was an ordinary offering, no matter how hard Luqiu Qingfeng tried to win him over, he would not go through the trouble of training a legitimate sister and arrange marriage with her to consolidate the relationship between them.

But after he explicitly rejected Lu Qiuqing, the woman suddenly lost the opportunity to "rise up" and would naturally not be willing to accept it.

This move was the woman's counterattack against her and Luqiu Qingfeng.

After all, on the surface, it was more than enough for one of the princesses to marry him, an ordinary priest.

As long as no one knows that it was he who begged King Luqiu Yeming to grant him marriage, and they fell in love with each other over time, he would become the biggest help in this woman's "leap" in status.

But unfortunately, King Luqiu Yeming did not follow the woman's idea, and only made a "promise of marriage" which was more flexible.

"This woman is very scheming, but unfortunately, her methods are too immature. She is not even as good as Luqiu Qingfeng..."

Wei Tu secretly shook his head.

If Luqiu Jinyuan's ability is excellent and Luqiu Qingfeng's ability is mediocre... then Luqiu Qing's ability is "poor".

He has the strength of a Nascent Soul, but lacks its basic qualities.

"Don't worry, Princess. I won't feel resentful towards the Luqiu clan because of this. The king's move can be regarded as a sign of his appreciation for me."

Wei Tu smiled faintly and replied.

Theoretically, this promise of King Luqiu Yeming allows him to marry any princess of the Luqiu clan, including Luqiu Qingfeng, who is about to become the king.

This is a way of respecting him.

Although he was not ecstatic about this, he was still happy.

After all, he initially joined the Luqiu clan and became a priest not only to clear his identity as the "suspect" who killed Luqiu Jinyuan, but also to use the Luqiu clan as a stepping stone to reach the realm of incarnation.

——The Luqiu clan is an important link in the Guixu Sea's immortal cultivation world, allowing him to come into contact with the God-Transforming Venerable.

(End of this chapter)