In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 474: The Episode That Tests Friendship the Most! (3.4K views, please subscribe!)

For a time, public condemnation of Su Yuan, the "Old Demon Su," was rampant.

The various strongholds of the Yuan Sect were often besieged and attacked by many righteous people. Fortunately, the Nascent Soul demon cultivators under Su Yuan's command returned to their aid in time, thus preventing any major incidents.

Amidst this chaotic situation, Su Yuan and the Reincarnation Heavenly Lord abandoned everything behind them and headed towards the Purple Gold Dragon Domain.

Besides the two of them, Su Yuan also brought along many reliable companions.

Among them are Zhu Qingqing, Xuan Haoran, Yin Qiyue, as well as the Demon Refining True Lord and Zhu Tianqing.

Just as they were about to arrive at the Purple Gold Dragon Domain, Su Yuan encountered Tai Baiji and Fairy Ling Li, who were waiting for them on the road.

"Teacher, this trip is fraught with danger, are you sure you don't want to stay with your wife a few more days?"

Looking at his teacher joining the group hand in hand with Fairy Lingli, Su Yuan asked half-jokingly.

To Su Yuan's surprise, it wasn't Tai Baiji who answered the question, but the silver-haired fairy beside him.

She looked at Su Yuan with gentle eyes and smiled:

“I’ve already heard everything from your teacher. Although we can’t be together forever, it seems like a good choice to fall together on the battlefield to save all living beings.”

Su Yuan nodded slightly, secretly thinking that his master's wife was also a Nascent Soul seed.

If she hadn't been born so late, encountering the Immortal Tribulation shortly after entering the Nascent Soul stage, she would certainly have been a strong contender for the title of New God.

Since his master's wife has already come to this realization, there is naturally no need for him to say anything more.

The group continued on their way and arrived at the Dragon King's Palace of the Purple Gold Dragon Lord.

Here, the Purple-Gold Dragon Lord, the Star River Heavenly Lord, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyue had been waiting for a long time.

However, their expressions were not good at the moment, and their eyes were filled with suppressed anger.

Clearly, they had struggled internally while slaying the Nascent Soul cultivator projections within their own territory, and their anger towards the fake Chu Jiang had reached its peak.

"Our Taixu Chu-fighting team has been assembled. Now there's only one problem left—finding the whereabouts of the fake Chu Jiang's remaining consciousness."

Su Yuan glanced at the team members and said in a deep voice.

Before he could finish speaking, Chu Lanxi's voice suddenly rang in his mind.

"Oh? Su Yuan, you truly are my good brother. You haven't disappointed me at all, managing to unite so many of our own people in such a short time."

“Not bad, not bad. Are you ready to set off now? Do you need me to send you the exact location of the Hunyuan Dao branch? My shadow and I are there too.”

"it is good."

Su Yuan responded in his mind.

The next second, a location in a remote corner of the Star River Domain appeared in Su Yuan's mind.

As expected, the fake Chu Jiang deliberately placed the Hunyuan Dao branch at the farthest point from himself, in an attempt to buy time.

In this way, he could transmit the information by contacting the nearby Nascent Soul projections that were corrupted by the Shadow of the Abyss.

Unfortunately, this guy misjudged his own development speed.

Even a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator like the Purple-Gold Dragon Venerable took nearly a month to project his true form's will; the Abyss Shadows would only take even longer.

With Guiyuan's divine assistance, those Nascent Soul projections were wiped out before they even began to act.

Suppressing these unnecessary thoughts, Su Yuan then addressed the team members:

"The location is already taken."

The team members: "???"

Weren't we just discussing how to find the final boss's lair?
We haven't even done anything yet, and the final decryption and mitigation are already over?

As expected, you found a bug in the Void World and cheated by opening the entire map!
Although they thought so in their hearts, no one said anything. A quick victory was a good thing.

Before setting off, Su Yuan took one last look at the core members of his team.

The Purple-Gold Dragon Lord possesses unparalleled combat experience and a physical body comparable to that of immortals and gods.

The Star River Heavenly Lord's abilities come from a physical body brought from reality and a Daoist technique even more vast than the starry sky.

The Heavenly Lord of Reincarnation possesses the abilities of reincarnation and bringing death to others.

Tai Baiji and Ling Li Sword Immortal: Their ability is a two-person version of the Ten Thousand Swords Return to One.

Chen Nuoyi's ability is a near-limitless loan amount; she can forcibly borrow money from even enemies with magical treasures for a period of time.

Qi Hanyue, um... the most resilient girl? Pink-haired brat! Your abilities are the most useless!
Su Yuan glanced at the other team members, who were not described in detail. Each of them possessed unique skills and was an extraordinary talent.

"In short, let's set off to fight the Chu army!"

Su Yuan took a step forward, a firm and powerful step.

An hour later, Su Yuan and his group stopped in a desolate mountain range. Once there, Su Yuan could sense the aura of the Hunyuan Dao branch in the dark.

Following this feeling, he quickly found a cave that was poorly concealed by a trick, from which the aura of the Primordial Dao continuously flowed.

"This is where the fake Chu Jiang is hiding?"

Su Yuan stood at the entrance of the cave where the illusion had been broken, frowning as he stared into the bottomless darkness inside.

Judging from the level of the illusion setup, it was at most the level of a mediocre Golden Core cultivator. Why would a dignified Abyss Shadow at the Nascent Soul level use such a clumsy method to conceal himself?

"This cave smells terrible, it has a rusty smell and a very fishy smell."

Qi Hanyue peered around for a while, but seemed to be choked by the stench that suddenly wafted from the cave. She quickly pinched her nose and fanned away the stench.

"This is the final boss's lair? It doesn't look like a demon king's castle at all; it looks more like a goblin's den!"

The pink-haired girl kept complaining. Just then, Xinghe Tianjun, who was standing to the side, seemed to realize something and said in surprise:
“I remember Chu Jiang telling me before that in the early stages of the spiritual energy revival, he was captured by an old demon who had survived from ancient times and was imprisoned in a dark and sunless cave where he suffered a lot.”

"Could this cave be the place where he suffered back then?"

Before the words had even finished, Chu Lanxi's slightly teasing voice rang out from the void:

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to be so clever, Qi Anong. You're right, this cave is a reflection of the shadow in my heart."

"My shadow is indeed my shadow, using such despicable means to trap me. You all need to go inside and rescue me quickly."

"However, only one outsider can enter the cave at a time, and once inside, only if that person dies or successfully completes the challenge can the next person enter. You should think carefully about who to choose."

After hearing Chu Lanxi's slightly sarcastic suggestion, Xinghe Tianjun curled his lip in displeasure.

Su Yuan couldn't help but ask:
"Do we really have to send them in one by one like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather? I have three Nascent Soul cultivators here, can't we just destroy this cave?"

Chu Lanxi said quietly:

"You want me dead, don't you? I'm a hostage! You're blowing up the building while a hostage is still trapped inside? What kind of Russian rescue method is this?"

Su Yuan sighed regretfully.

The fake Chu Jiang is quite shrewd; he knows how to use hostages as a shield to keep himself and the three Nascent Soul cultivators out at minimal cost.

But is he really going to use these little tricks to stall for months or even a year?

That would be underestimating them.

You want to outsmart me? Well then, I'll show you!

“Su Yuan, your safety is the most important thing in this battle. Since we have to choose someone to go in and try to pass the test, we should choose one of us to scout ahead for you.”

Zhu Tianqing spoke softly:
"So, let me..."

But before she could finish speaking, Su Yuan waved his hand:
"There's no need for scouting; I'll just go down directly."

"Didn't Chu Lanxi just say that those who enter the cave cannot return the way they came? There are only two paths: death or passing through."

"This means that it is meaningless to scout ahead for me. In fact, we might be defeated one by one by the fake Chu Jiang. It would be better for me to take action personally in the first battle, and for everyone else to conserve their strength and wait for the real battle."

After listening to Su Yuan's analysis, although everyone was worried about Su Yuan's safety, they also understood that what he said was indeed correct.

Su Yuan didn't give anyone time to stop him. He casually took a step forward and lightly jumped into the cave.

Of course, Su Yuan's decision to go down personally was not reckless, because he had the trump card of 'speeding through demonic cultivation'.

No matter what kind of trials the fake Chu Jiang set up in the cave, they were all obvious to him, so he wasn't afraid at all.

After falling for several breaths, Su Yuan suddenly felt a blur before his eyes.

When my vision returned to normal, an unfamiliar scene appeared before me.

This is the interior of a gloomy and eerie cave. The floor is pitted and uneven, with rough marks everywhere. Rows of stalactites hang overhead, and the light source is very weak.

All I can say is that this dilapidated place has the feel of a primitive cave.

Su Yuan looked around again and found that he was surrounded by boys and girls aged twelve or thirteen to seventeen or eighteen. Judging from their clothes, they seemed to be people from ancient times more than three hundred years ago.

This is the style of dress on the eve of the spiritual revival of Blue Star.

Su Yuan looked at his hands again and found that they had become small and thin, making him look as if he had suddenly become seven or eight years younger.

Just then, there was a small puddle next to him, so he quickly leaned his face into the puddle to see his current appearance.

Although the face in the puddle was clearly malnourished, it was unmistakably a beautiful woman whose gender was indistinguishable. Su Yuan was all too familiar with that face.

Who else could it be but Chu Lanxi?
"Huh? I've become your best buddy?"

Su Yuan muttered to himself and secretly tried to bring up the system panel.

He breathed a sigh of relief when the system panel immediately appeared in front of him.

Fortunately, he was probably not transmigrated again, but had simply fallen into a new illusion, an illusion based on Chu Lanxi's unpleasant memories.

If nothing unexpected happens, in the illusion, he will need to solve the predicament as Chu Lanxi and achieve a good ending.

"It feels like a pretty classic role-playing game."

Su Yuan made a comment.

Just then, an old and eerie voice rang out from in front of him and the group of children.

"I have successfully refined the elixir!"

Su Yuan looked up and saw a huge alchemy furnace standing not far ahead, next to which was a short, slovenly old Taoist priest.

At this moment, the old Taoist priest was holding a pill the size of an infant's fist in his dirty hands.

This pill is pitted and uneven, its surface resembling the expression of a living person wailing; it's clearly not a good thing.

This must be the old devil who kidnapped Chu Lanxi for experiments. I wonder what kind of horrific experiments he did to these poor children.

Su Yuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he pondered how to deal with this demon.

Just then, the old Taoist priest stared at the group of children and cackled:
"This Yin-Yang Reversal Pill is extraordinary; it can fundamentally change a person's gender."

"Hehehe, which of you is dissatisfied with your gender? Come up and try my immortal pill!"

Su Yuan: "..."

He finally understood why Qi Anong and Su Youli said that Chu Jiang had gender identity disorder. It turned out that with the help of this old man's magical pill, he really did become a girl for a period of time!
Tsk, is the requirement to pass the test to help my good brother keep his manhood?

This...this is a bit of a test of friendship, isn't it?

(End of this chapter)