The Ji Family's Pride

Chapter 180: Eighteen Years in Heaven

Time passes slowly.

After Ji Xiaoshan returned from the Bajing Palace of the Three Pure Ones, he began to practice in seclusion again.

After all, he benefited a lot from the guidance of the Three Pure Ones, and had a clearer understanding of the Luowang style of cause and effect swordsmanship.

The God of Heaven, who was also studying Taoism in the heavens, was also very excited. Ji Xiaoshan had signed a contract with him and truly became his spiritual beast. Like Ji Xiaoshan, he was also lingering among the countless methods and secret arts of the Wandao Palace.

"This amount of good deeds is too cheap. The slightly more advanced techniques of Wandao Palace require a lot of good deeds. This fourth-level technique is already considered advanced, but the fourth-level technique requires ten thousand good deeds... Even if as the eldest brother's spirit beast, I have some preferential treatment, it still needs to spend eight thousand good deeds. And there is only a quota of one million good deeds every thousand years, and they will be used up directly after exchanging for some techniques." Wangtian Shenhou was helpless.

One million good deeds sounds like a lot, and can even be exchanged for one or two immortal-level magic weapons. However, it takes eight thousand good deeds to exchange for one method of magic with the God of Heaven on the fourth floor of the Wandao Palace. Even challenging a puppet requires half a level of good deeds to exchange for a book.

Without good deeds, it would be difficult to make any progress in Taoism.

"There is no other way! It seems that I can only go to the Hall of Good Deeds to find some odd jobs to earn good deeds, and then slowly improve my strength." Wangtian Shenhou sighed. After all, joining the Taoist sect is the dream of countless cultivators. Now that he has this opportunity, he naturally has to grasp it well.

“If I am strong enough… After all, spending half a layer of merit to challenge the puppet is much more cost-effective than foolishly exchanging merit for magic skills. But that fourth-level puppet is too powerful… If I lose, this half layer of merit will be considered a direct waste.”

……

There is no time to practice.

As the top force that has stood in the Three Realms for endless years, Taoism naturally has a set of effective methods for training disciples.

In the entire Eastern Heaven, almost every month there would be a celestial god or immortal who would take turns to preach in his own cave. Any disciple of the Taoist sect only needed to spend one hundred good deeds to go and listen to the preaching of these cultivators who were considered powerful in the entire Three Realms.

And every year, powerful people at the level of Daozu would take turns to preach in his own cave, but listening to the Daozu's preaching also required a considerable amount of good deeds.

In the entire Dao sect, good deeds are the foundation. Whenever the Daoist ancestors preach, countless Daoist cultivators will not miss this opportunity. This is only true in the Dao sect. In the outside world, let alone the Daoist ancestors preaching, it is not easy for non-direct disciples to even see a Daoist ancestor.

As cultivators with weak strength and having just joined the Taoist sect, Ji Xiaoshan and Wangtian Shenhou lost in almost every battle.

With the guidance of the Three Pure Ones every six months, the annual sermons by the Taoist Master, and the monthly sermons by the gods and immortals, Ji Xiaoshan naturally made rapid progress.

Cold and hot seasons alternate, year after year passes.

Until the eighteenth year.

……

In front of the Wandao Palace, countless gods, demons, monsters, and human cultivators gathered outside a formation.

Inside, a cultivator was fighting with a puppet.

"Fellow Daoist, the puppet in the formation must be a ninth-level puppet, right? What kind of person can actually fight against a ninth-level puppet, and even seem to have the upper hand?" A man in a robe flew over and asked when he saw the excitement here.

There are many Taoist disciples, but it is rare to see immortal cultivators fighting against ninth-level puppets. After all, the secret techniques of the ninth level of the Wandao Palace are not so easy to obtain.

"This? You don't even recognize this person? This is the new disciple that the Three Pure Ones Taoist Patriarch accepted in the past few decades!" A demon turned his head and laughed, "This Uncle Master Qingping has been practicing for less than a hundred years, and now he can directly challenge a ninth-level puppet. He is really evil!"

"How can he not be a monster? He is the disciple of the Three Pure Ones!" A cultivator mentioned the Three Pure Ones with even more respect on his face.

……

In the formation, a young man in green was seen fighting with a puppet.

The puppet was white jade all over, like a fairy jade sculpture, and there were nine rings on its right arm.

The first-level puppet had a ring on its arm, and the ninth-level puppet naturally had nine rings on its arm. The invisible aura emanating from the ninth-level puppet was even more majestic.

"Boy, I know you!" the white jade puppet said, "You have challenged Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba in succession over the past decade, but I am not as weak as them!"

The puppet held a long sword with a broad mouth like a door panel in its hand. When the sword was swung, it was like huge mountains and ridges pressing down on it.

"The intelligence of this ninth-level puppet is really extraordinary." Ji Xiaoshan frowned slightly, his expression becoming a little solemn.

boom!
The ninth-rank puppet suddenly emitted a powerful aura, "Just lie down!"

"Cause and Effect Sword Technique - Net Style!" Ji Xiaoshan's mind moved, and the long sword in his hand stabbed out immediately.

Wow!
He stabbed out with the two purple-green divine swords in his hands. Countless sword lights were like layers of silk threads, interweaving into a net in an instant. The white jade puppet was immediately trapped in a quagmire, and the broadsword in his hand slowed down several times.

The net of heaven is vast and wide, and nothing can escape it. This Luowang sword style has been honed for nearly twenty years, and it is even more sophisticated when performed by Ji Xiaoshan.

The broadsword was swung with great momentum, but its power weakened as soon as the Luowang Sword Style was performed.

With a "bang", Ji Xiaoshan easily blocked the sword.

"Hmm! This sword technique is quite interesting!" said the white jade puppet, "Then I will play with you!"

call!
The white jade puppet swung the broadsword again, cutting through the sky, and the sword moves in his hand also changed. The broadsword in the puppet's hand surged like a surging river.

There was a hint of opposing force in those swords, just like the undercurrent surging under the rushing river. The inexplicable force strangled him and he suddenly broke free from the net.

"This ninth-level puppet is much more difficult to deal with than the eighth-level puppet." Ji Xiaoshan's mind moved, and he immediately displayed his most powerful wooden ruler sword technique.

"The eighth move of Mu Chi swordsmanship - the sky and the earth are dark!" Under two extremely bright sword lights, two huge and blurry beasts that covered the sky and the sun and whose shapes could not be seen clearly suddenly pounced on the white jade puppet.

boom!
boom! boom!
In the flash of dazzling sword light, everything was settled.

……

"The ninth-level puppet actually lost!"

"It lost! The puppet's neck was cut twice, so it naturally lost!"

"Master uncle's comprehension is really strong! He is worthy of being a disciple of the Three Pure Ones." A human cultivator said, "I still remember that when Master uncle came here more than ten years ago, he could only fight against the sixth-level puppets. Now his swordsmanship... can even defeat the ninth-level puppets directly."

"Yes! When I first became Master's disciple and fought against the puppets of the Wandao Palace, I could only barely defeat a fourth-order puppet. Now, after thousands of years of training, I can only barely defeat a sixth-order puppet."

"This Great-Uncle Qingping is only at the level of a Taoist Primordial Spirit, but his starting point has surpassed me, who has spent thousands of years practicing. It's really..."

"That's right. I even had a hard time beating an eighth-level puppet. I managed to defeat it once, but I never won again."

……

Inside the formation, the white jade puppet sensed the two extra wounds on its body, and in the blink of an eye, the wounds healed and disappeared.

"Boy, you win!" said the white jade puppet.

Tianhua God immediately pushed aside the countless immortal cultivators who were surrounding him and walked in. With a wave of his hand, he put away the white jade puppet.

Ji Xiaoshan also put away the Wind and Thunder Sword in his hand.

Tianhua Tianshen looked at Ji Xiaoshan and said, "Uncle Qingping, now that you have defeated this ninth-level puppet, you can go to the ninth floor of Wandao Palace to choose a secret technique!"

"Okay." Ji Xiaoshan nodded, with a hint of a smile on his face.

After so many years of hard work, I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

"Uncle Master, please follow me!" said Tianhua God.

……

All the Taoist disciples who witnessed this scene were silent, and then they exclaimed in amazement as if a volcano erupted.

"This is incredible! We won already?"

"The swordplay that Grandmaster Qingping just displayed was truly terrifying, whether it was the swordplay that was like a net that dragged the heavens and the earth or the swordplay at the end..."

"You humans are really smart. If we gods and demons had such intelligence..."

"You have to lose something to gain something. How dare you think that! You gods and demons don't have to worry about the three disasters and nine calamities. You are extremely powerful when you are born. If your understanding is even stronger..."

……

Ji Xiaoshan and Tianhua God walked along the way and climbed up the stairs.

"Master uncle is indeed a genius who was chosen by our master. He has only been a disciple for 20 years and has already defeated a ninth-level puppet. He is truly amazing!" Tianhua Tianshen said with a smile. "I practiced for 500 years to reach Master uncle's level."

“Five hundred years?” Ji Xiaoshan said with a smile, “I’m sorry to make you laugh, even if you practice for five thousand years, at least you have survived the divine tribulation!”

Ji Xiaoshan knew clearly that if he didn't survive the catastrophe, no matter how strong he was, he couldn't match the True God Daozu. Moreover, even if the True God Daozu was under the catastrophe of the Three Realms, he would most likely turn into ashes.

He knew that in the future, the Three Realms would not only face conspiracies from the Wujian Sect, but also strong men from outside would be eyeing them covetously. In the Three Realms themselves, there was a spiritual general who had been secretly operating in the body of Elder Yuan since ancient times...

"For cultivators, the heavenly tribulation is indeed a hurdle." Tianhua Tianshen was silent. "Although we, Daozu's disciples, enjoy abundant cultivation resources and can get guidance from Daozu, the heavenly tribulation will also become more terrifying. At the beginning, I was just a little bit away from falling under the thunder tribulation..."

"Yeah." Ji Xiaoshan nodded.

Tianhua Tianshen directly skipped over this matter and asked, "Uncle Master should be practicing the Chiming Jiutiantu! The body of a god or devil is so perfect and perfect, and his aura can be compared with that of a general god or devil in the early stage of returning to the void. Only a few god or devil body refining methods can achieve such an effect."

"Yes. I have now cultivated to the fifteenth level of the Red Bright Nine Heavens Diagram." Ji Xiaoshan nodded and smiled, "It is precisely because I am about to break through to the Return to Void level that I just remembered the matter of the Heavenly Divine Tribulation."

The Yuan Qi of heaven and earth is extremely rich. Ji Xiaoshan turned to practice the Qi training method bestowed by the Three Pure Ones, the "Three Caverns Taoist Sutra", which is already extremely mysterious. He did not even use Yuan Ye to practice his Qi training realm, and naturally practiced to the late stage of Yuanshen Taoist.

However, the God and Demon Body Refining Chi Ming Jiu Tian Tu had not fallen behind at all, and had already reached the perfection of the Yuan Shen, with an extremely majestic aura, enough to rival the general gods and demons in the early stage of returning to the void. It was precisely because of this that he was noticed by the Tianhua God just now.

"It is indeed time to start preparing. Grandmaster is one of the most powerful leaders in the Three Realms. If my uncle becomes Grandmaster's disciple, the heavenly tribulation he will face will be stronger than that of ordinary disciples of Daozu. Naturally, we should prepare early!" Tianhua God nodded and smiled.

The two walked and chatted along the way, and in a moment they arrived at the ninth floor of Wandao Palace.

Ji Xiaoshan walked to the bookshelf where the sword techniques were stored and looked through them carefully. The ninth level of the secret techniques were all written by Daozu, and they were all the best in the Three Realms. He also saw the "Litian" sword technique by Daozu Litian and the "Nine Swords of Zhenwu" by Emperor Xuanwu...

Ji Xiaoshan picked up the swordplay manual and looked at Tianhua Tianshen and said, "Junior Brother Tianhua, I will choose the Nine Swords of Zhenwu!"

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(End of this chapter)