I'm a demon cultivator

Chapter 157: Invincible in the World, Enemies from the Sky

Tan Shuchang walked into Shangqing Temple openly and, greeted by all the disciples, visited the world-famous Lotus Pagoda of Shangqing Temple and released all the prisoners inside.

Then, Tan Shuchang looked through the ancient book collection of Shangqing Temple. Just as the head of Shangqing Temple had guaranteed, the number of its treasures was not inferior to that of Luojia Mountain.

There are also many ancient books that actually describe the scenes outside the A5 realm.

Some are separated by bridges; some have boundless waters and build boats to cultivate immortality; and some have walking skeletons that look like living people. I read to the end and found a sentence without a beginning or an end - the immortal world may feed on mortals.

"Who wrote this book?" Tan Shuchang took the book to ask.

"The person who recorded it is the founder of our Shangqing Temple." The head of Shangqing Temple replied quickly.

"The founder of your sect?" Tan Shuchang was a little surprised.

"This is a little hard to believe, but it is true. After all, if it wasn't left by the founder, this book wouldn't have been kept so carefully in the temple." The head of Shangqing Temple said, "The things recorded in this book are basically things that cannot be proven. As for the last sentence, we have actually been curious about it for a long time, so after much investigation and speculation, we feel that there should be another sentence before this sentence, but the founder didn't write it down for some reason."

"Do you have a rough guess about the previous sentence?" asked Tan Shuchang.

"It is hard to explain, but I am sure that there are many speculations in this regard. However, most of the ancestors in the past did not dare to write down their true thoughts, so in the end they only thought that there was another sentence before it. If we look at it from my point of view, then the previous sentence, I think, is - seeing many strange things."

Tan Shuchang nodded upon hearing this.

He could understand that, too.

People start learning to speak at the age of three, but for decades afterwards, they are actually learning to shut up. And those who can go a long way on the path of cultivating immortals must be good at keeping their mouths shut.

The ancestors of Shangqing Temple did not dare to speak out. Firstly, they were worried that their own cultivation was not enough and what they said would not convince the public; secondly, this was, after all, criticizing the founder, which was unreasonable and against the rules.

Tan Shuchang felt a little regretful, so he continued to read the ancient books.

However, there will never be another ancient book like this one. It seems that as the headmaster of Shangqing Temple said, if this ancient book was not recorded by the founder of Shangqing Temple, I am afraid that this book would not have been put away.

Then, Tan Shuchang expressed his desire to meet the two sons of destiny.

The headmaster of Shangqing Temple did not hesitate to hear this and directly asked people to invite Ning Shuqi and Jun Zimo over. He was at the mercy of others, and even the ancestor could not do anything to Tan Shuchang. He could only treat this so-called conspiracy between the two factions as nothing.

Soon, Ning Shuqi and Jun Zimo arrived.

"Greetings, Demon Lord!" Whether it was the young, arrogant and sensitive Ning Shuqi, or the arrogant and indifferent Jun Zimo, when they saw Tan Shuchang at this time, they all bowed without exception.

Because they have also reached the stage of practicing Taoism for a hundred years. Long Zhangyuan, the son of destiny whose heaven's favor has mostly dissipated, can reach this level, let alone these two who are still favored by heaven?

And only by stepping into this realm can one deeply realize how terrifying Tan Shuchang, who has attained immortality at this moment, is!
"There's no need to be so polite, my two fellow Taoists. It's just that I've made a breakthrough in my cultivation recently, so I wanted to see what the destiny of the Son of Destiny is like." Tan Shuchang simply returned the salute.

"Demon Lord, what is my luck like?" Upon hearing this, Ning Shuqi, who had dealt with Tan Shuchang several times, plucked up the courage to ask.

"It is purple-gold in color, and its luck is like a pillar, seemingly reaching straight to the sky. However, it becomes dim in the middle, as if it has run out of steam. When it reaches the clouds, it disappears into thin air." Tan Shuchang gave a detailed description.

After saying this, Tan Shuchang clasped his fists, indicating that he was leaving, and then as the five-colored cloud light dissipated, he left in an instant.

After all, since we have come to Shangqing Temple, there is no reason not to visit Xitu Mountain.

We should not be partial to one person over another.

Xitu Mountain was not at all surprised by Tan Shuchang's arrival, and they prepared ancient books and spiritual treasures from Xitu Mountain for Tan Shuchang.

Because Tan Shuchang took away all the spiritual treasures in the Shangqing Temple, but there were not many. Even if the Lotus Pagoda was counted, there were only three spiritual treasures.

Like Shangqing Temple, Longguan in Xituo Mountain is also a spiritual treasure.

However, these spiritual treasures were extremely disapproving of Tan Shuchang. After all, even the disciples of Shangqing Temple and Xitu Mountain needed to obtain the approval of these spiritual treasures before they could activate them.

But Tan Shuchang didn't care. With the "experience" of obtaining the Chaos Life Pearls, Tan Shuchang directly sank these spiritual treasures into the blood pool.

He planned to suppress it for five hundred years first.

Although the ancient books in Xituo Mountain covered a wide range of subjects, they were of little help to Tan Shuchang. However, before leaving, Tan Shuchang did get a useful piece of information.

It is about "Contemplating the Sutra of Transmutation and Freedom and Obtaining the Second Dharma Door".

Originally this item was in Xituo Mountain, but a long time ago, it was exchanged with an immortal sect and taken away by the other party.

As for which immortal sect it was with, no cultivator from Mount Xituo could tell.

It was as if the existence of this immortal sect had been erased completely.

Fortunately, thieves have always been cunning, so some records about this method were left at that time. The disciples of Xituo Mountain had not practiced other methods of the "Comprehension of Other Transformations and Freedom Sutra", so they could not understand it, but Tan Shuchang understood it at a glance.

This "Practice and Understanding the Sutra of Transmutation and Freedom, and Obtaining the Second Method" is also a method of cultivating an external incarnation. But unlike the first method, which uses the spirit of the fire spirit and other spirits of heaven and earth as materials, this second method is suspected to use the son of destiny as materials!

"It's hard to say which sect Xituoshan belongs to, but it happened to be able to exchange with Xituoshan, and Xituoshan didn't dare to keep the original version, and only dared to copy a small part..."

Tan Shuchang thought about it and suddenly had a suitable goal in mind.

Sword Temple!

Three hundred years ago, this immortal gate was the number one immortal gate in this world.

Its power is far beyond what he has now.

Only such a force could make Xituo Mountain, a top-level immortal sect, be so humble.

"No wonder, for the sake of a son of destiny, the people of the Sword Temple are willing to go to such a big fuss..." The five Sword Temple ancestors sent down their clones in advance, and Dugu Jianyin even went so far as to use the Ether Sword to win him over. All of this has a suitable answer.

The son of destiny in the Sword Temple is probably already in the shape of the founder of the Sword Temple!
Then, Tan Shuchang went to the Earth Immortal Cave and Taisu Immortal Gate again.

After all, almost all the other top immortal gates have already made the trip, and the only two left who haven't made the trip will make them seem somewhat out of place.

This is not conducive to the friendship and unity among these top immortal sects!
However, this trip did bring Tan Shuchang an unexpected gain. That was that these two people had met their respective ancestors on Luojia Mountain before, so they were now very terrified of Tan Shuchang.

After seeing Tan Shuchang coming, he thought that this devil had come to cause trouble, so he not only told him the whole story, but also took the initiative to offer all the treasures in the sect.

Of course, Tan Shuchang would not refuse such a good thing that was presented to him.

This is called "If you don't take what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences."

He, Tan, doesn't want to be blamed by God for this.

After this trip, although Tan Shuchang still didn't understand the matter of luck, through constant reading of various ancient books, his knowledge continued to grow, and he was able to draw inferences from one instance to another, and many insights emerged in his mind.

His cultivation level increased by a whole decade as a result!
“So this is also a form of cultivation.”

Tan Shuchang understood.

His level of Taoism broke through three hundred in one fell swoop.

Three hundred years of cultivation is considered very rare even in the Four Heavenly Pillars. The cultivation and skill are generally measured in years, but it is not true that one year of cultivation can gain one year of cultivation.

Taoism is related to one’s own immortal nature.

The stronger the immortal nature, the more one can improve his own Taoism, and vice versa.

"Three hundred and five years of cultivation."

"In this A5 world, I should be invincible." Tan Shuchang stood on the top of a mountain with his hands behind his back, overlooking the blue sea waves below, as if he saw the eight top immortal gates bowing their heads.

Then, Tan Shuchang began to comprehend the solar terms again.

This time, when Tan Shuchang broke free from the state of being one with the heaven and earth, all he saw was a scene covered in snow.

But he knew that this time he had not only been meditating for four months, because he had learned a magical power from the solar terms.

It is exactly the opposite of the magical power of melting stone and flowing gold. Tan Shu often calls it - continuous heavy snow.

"There are not enough Yin Gods, five of them are missing, and the Nine-Aperture Martial Demon hasn't come yet..." After sighing at the low efficiency of the Nine-Aperture Martial Demon, Tan Shuchang had to try to communicate with the Law of Greed.

Thank God, this time there was no feeling of something blocking my way.

However, when Tan Shuchang chose to enter the Snake Desire Realm, he suddenly saw the sky and the earth go dark, and he was directly separated from the Snake Desire Realm.

Then he saw King Jianhei and King Dimie in the same situation.

Perhaps Tan Shuchang's astonishment was too obvious, so he saw the Black King take the initiative to comfort him: "The Ghost Heavenly Dao has always wanted to let Weird Game return, but Weird Game is unwilling, so the current situation is inevitable."

"Weird Game, why don't you want to come back?" Tan Shuchang was a little surprised when he heard this. He always thought that it was the Ghost Heavenly Dao that wanted to divide up the power of the Weird Game, which was why the Weird Game, which was once a branch of the Ghost Heavenly Dao, was hiding everywhere.

Who would have thought that the power of the Heavenly Dao of Ghosts was actually here to help with this weird game?

"How should we know this? King Tanzun learned this from a ghost immortal under the control of the Rotten Ghost Heaven when he was preaching the way of ghost immortals." King Hei said.

"The weird game summoned me before, but did anything happen?"

"It's not a big deal. It's just that the invited players are more powerful than each other, especially those with swords. As soon as they entered the adaptation period, they killed the evil spirits who were training with them."

"Then why did you run away this time?" asked Tan Shuchang.

"I accidentally ran back to the previous world and collided directly with the ghost power there. Oh, by the way, King Langshou, several players who followed you before took the opportunity to come to the strange game world again, but they were unwilling to leave. They all chose to cut off their bodies in the Langshou Ghost City, and now they have become evil ghosts in the city."

At this moment, the feeling of darkness in the world was disappearing. Tan Shuchang sensed it and saw that there were several familiar evil spirits in the Langshou Ghost City.

In this regard, Tan Shuchang, seeing that he had been recruited by Yinshen Scholar, said nothing and did nothing.

Then he went to the Snake Desire Hall, but found that there were only two Yin Gods in the hall, but there were quite a few in the Snake Desire Realm, so Tan Shuchang found the Yin God of Death.

He wanted to ask what was going on.

As a result, as soon as the dead ghost saw Tan Shuchang, he started to complain.

Tan Shuchang then realized that after leaving the "Li Yu" city, the strange game had discontinued its 50-50 profit-sharing plan with Tan Shuchang, and as a result, the number of Yin Gods cultivated in the Snake Desire Realm suddenly increased.

But if there are too many, it will be difficult to manage.

Especially when these Yin Gods saw that Tan Shuchang was not there, they no longer obeyed the Yin God of Death. Not only did they not go to the Snake Desire Palace, they also established themselves as kings. This caused those who were originally in the Snake Desire Palace to start escaping.

After understanding the whole story, Tan Shuchang first appeased the Yin Shen, and then his figure suddenly faded away.

At this moment, Tan Shuchang's figure appeared in the dead silence.

This is a common scene in the Snake Desire Realm.

There are dozens of figures here. They are evil spirits that escaped from the Snake Desire Palace. They gathered dozens of evil spirits and ruled here.

Tan Shuchang's sudden appearance startled the Yin God here, so he asked in a deep voice: "Who are you? Are you the Langshou King?"

"Exactly."

Tan Shuchang nodded, then smiled and said, "Please come with me."

"King Langshou, please ask someone else. I am used to being free and lazy, and I cannot stand being restricted." The Yin God refused without hesitation, and at the same time, his Yin God space also appeared. The sky was filled with red rays of light, descending like mist.

"My friend, you misunderstood. My invitation is just to be polite to you."

After saying this, Tan Shuchang flicked his sleeves, and the lazy Yin God suddenly shrank uncontrollably, and then flew into Tan Shuchang's sleeves. As for the Yin God space that appeared, in front of three hundred years of Taoism, Tan Shuchang's casual attack could not withstand it.

For a moment, all the evil spirits were terrified.

"Don't be afraid, just go away!" Tan Shuchang naturally would not make things difficult for these evil spirits. He politely let them leave.

The evil spirits were so surprised that some ran away directly, while others thanked him before running away. But no matter the former or the latter, Tan Shuchang's reputation among the evil spirits began to improve.

At this moment, more than a dozen blood-shadow clones walked out from under Tan Shuchang's feet.

These clones each walked to one place.

However, although he was walking, he traveled through the void in just a few steps.

Soon, these blood shadow clones came back again, and each blood shadow clone brought back two Yin spirits.

Including the one in Tan Shuchang's sleeves, there are a total of thirty-five Yin Spirits here.

Except for the two Yin Gods who remained in the Snake Desire Palace, all the other Yin Gods were packed up and taken away.

Then, Tan Shuchang left the strange game world.

After all, he was only here to replenish his cultivation resources.

Then, upon returning to the Jiawu Realm, Tan Shuchang transformed into an immortal blood form and summoned a pool of blood.

Then, in this enclosed little world, the Yin Gods fell into the blood pool one by one like dumplings. The blood waves surged, following Tan Shuchang's will, and swept all the Yin Gods down. These Yin Gods naturally struggled constantly, but at this time Tan Shuchang didn't need to make a move, just his mind turned, and this boundless blood pool continued to stir up blood waves, refining these Yin Gods one by one.

The twelve Yin Gods then flew out and transformed into the power to lift the lotus.

The roots beneath the lotus platform began to emit golden light, causing the lotus platform to float slightly.

After a while, Tan Shuchang made another breakthrough in his cultivation.

With these twelve Yin Gods carrying the lotus, Tan Shuchang's cultivation level increased to five hundred years in one fell swoop!

Unfortunately, at this point, all the insights accumulated in the previous seasons have been completely exhausted.

However, these five hundred years of practice finally allowed Tan Shuchang to reach an opportunity to attain a higher level of enlightenment.

Two proofs of unity!

This harmony with the Tao is not the harmony with the Tao of heaven and earth, but the Tao that one cultivates with one's body.

This is why the Peach Immortal was able to ascend to heaven with the Peach Blossom Path that he cultivated. And why the Dream Immortal was able to leave behind the Dream Immortal Path that he cultivated when he ascended to heaven.

If it were in other realms, Tan Shuchang would definitely be able to break through the barriers and achieve the second level of unity at this time. But in this A5 realm, under the suppression of heaven and earth, it was impossible.

The nine hundred years of practice and cultivation skills were only allowed to be proven by Tan Shuchang.

However, five hundred years of cultivation is not the limit for one certificate. It can even be said that in terms of the accumulation of cultivation, as long as one's own immortal nature is strong enough, one can continue to increase it.

"After five hundred years of cultivation, I'm afraid that even those ancestors who achieved the three certificates of immortality are no more than this, right?" Tan Shuchang couldn't help but think so. After all, he was able to achieve such an achievement thanks to the immortal fate of the A5 realm and his own peculiarities.

Although those ancestors who achieved the three certificates and ascended to heaven three hundred years ago, they might not have been able to improve as fast as I have in three hundred years!

So, Tan Shuchang walked out of the closed little world where he practiced.

As soon as he left, his own aura suddenly appeared between heaven and earth. Previously, Tan Shu often used his body to merge with heaven and earth to comprehend the "Twenty Four Seasons", went to the strange game world, and practiced hard to upgrade, which made his own aura completely disappear from this Jiawu world.

Therefore, a figure suddenly appeared from nothingness to reality, like a cat following the scent of fish, crossing the void and appearing in Tan Shuchang's sight.

This is a monk wearing a cassock, with long eyebrows and a face that looks to be in his thirties or forties. He looked at Tan Shuchang, clasped his hands together and said, "Namo Amitabha, I guess this must be the current leader of the Demon Sect in the Jiawu Realm, Tan Shuchang, right? It's true that the young are to be feared! With the power of one person, he suppressed the righteousness of the entire Jiawu Realm. All the seven major immortal sects bowed to him. Such glory and honor, no one in the Demon Sect could do it in the past. I guess you must have been proud of this for a long time, right, little friend Tan?"

(End of this chapter)