Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 448 The Difficulty of Immortality, Sparrows Fill the Sky
Not long after they started flying, Li Wushou suddenly stopped.

His mind sank into the Three Immortals Pavilion, and he asked the old beggar:
"Zhu Liuli just asked Ninth Prince if he saw it? What exactly did you mean by 'saw'?"

The old beggar was burning incense, and Li Wushou was in no hurry, waiting to the side.

Unexpectedly, after offering incense, the old beggar sat cross-legged on the prayer mat and closed his eyes to regulate his breathing.

Thinking the old beggar hadn't heard, Li Wushou asked again.

The old beggar then replied rather irritably:
"Don't you already know? Why are you asking me?!"

Li Wushou was speechless. It's true that the older people get, the more stingy they become.

The two struggled for a while, and only after Li Wushou threatened to wake Chen Gou'er to bite people did the old beggar reply to Li Wushou:
"hope!"

Upon hearing this, Li Wushou rolled his eyes and immediately turned to walk towards the bed.

Seeing this, the old beggar quickly called out:

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's all about hope, hope of breaking free from the shackles of the Sealed Spirit Path!"

Li Wushou paused, muttering to himself:
"hope.?"

So, does this mean that the Sparrow Lord really did use the Green-Robed Man, the Yellow-Robed Man, and the Ninth Prince as test subjects?
As expected, a person like the Sparrow Master would not be deceived by a few words. He probably wouldn't have acted this way if the other party hadn't seen it!

Judging from the Ninth Prince's expression just now, the chances of success are extremely high!
Therefore, it's even less likely that the Sparrow Master would give up.

The war between the Central Domain and the Sealed Spirit Path suddenly seemed to have become something else entirely.

It is true that the Central Domain invaded, but wasn't Sparrow Lord also acting in accordance with the trend?

Li Wushou murmured absentmindedly:
"Could the magic of Mount Immortality really help the Sparrow Venerable achieve his goal? The magic of the Great Heavenly Venerable and the Earth Mother Venerable should be related to heaven and earth, right?"

Upon hearing this, the old beggar, who was sitting cross-legged under the incense table, scoffed and replied:

"Great Heavenly Venerable and Earth Mother Venerable? Who told you that their magic was cultivated by themselves?"

Li Wushou was somewhat taken aback upon hearing this.

"It wasn't repaired by yourself?"

Before Li Wushou could ask further, the old beggar continued his mocking remarks:

"I've seen plenty of arrogant juniors like Sparrow Master. They all think that their predecessors were incompetent and useless, and that if others can't do it, they definitely can!"

Even after being sold, he was still counting money for others.

I've seen plenty of scams back then!

Upon hearing this, Li Wushou raised an eyebrow and asked in return:
"But didn't Ninth Prince see it all?"

Upon hearing this, the old beggar suddenly became indignant.

"Just because Ninth Young Master saw it, does that mean it's true? Even if the Sparrow Master saw it, so what? Can she succeed? I had it all under my thumb back then!"

The old beggar grew angrier and angrier, suddenly standing up from his prayer mat, pointing at the three-legged square table as if about to unleash a torrent of curses, but then abruptly fell silent.

He sat back down on the cushion, sulking.

Li Wushou was puzzled by what he saw. What was wrong with this old man all of a sudden?
When asked anything further, the old beggar did not answer.

For a moment he had no other choice but to withdraw his attention and stop paying attention to it.

The old beggar's current state is clearly closely related to what happened back then.

Judging from the old beggar's tone, he had a greater chance of seeing the bird than the magistrate.

He even thought he had succeeded at one point!
But in the end, they were just a step behind and suffered a considerable loss, otherwise they wouldn't be so indignant!

Li Wushou's mind was in turmoil. The path to immortality was truly as difficult as ascending to heaven!

How exactly can one become an immortal?

Throughout history, so many outstanding people have emerged, yet not one of them has succeeded?
Looking down at the masses of people struggling to survive below, Li Wushou was momentarily lost in thought!
Because ordinary people are weak, they were completely unaware of the crisis at the northern border hundreds of miles away, and thus lived a relatively stable life.

Meanwhile, the powerful clans within the city were filled with anxiety and unease due to the decree issued by the Sparrow God Mountain.

If one does not pursue the path of immortality, being a farmer who dies within a hundred years of life seems not much worse than a great cultivator.
After a long while, Li Wushou shook his head, somewhat speechless.

Unfortunately, he had already entered the path of immortality, so he was destined to become an immortal!
Just as he was about to look away, Li Wushou suddenly had a thought.

There seems to be something amiss with the powerful clans in the town below.

His gaze swept outwards, quickly passing over the mansions of wealthy gentry and powerful figures. In such a vast region with millions of people, the highest-ranking cultivator Li Wushou discovered was only at the Foundation Establishment stage.
They don't even have Golden Core cultivators! Where have all these cultivators gone?

The story of Jiangbei Pass echoed in his mind, and Li Wushou suddenly had a flash of enlightenment.

"Strong walls clear the field!"

The same strategy Luanxuan used at Jiangbei Pass was applied here, or rather, the entire Fengling Dao likely employed the same strategy.

Silently descending from the void, Li Wushou, in the form of a golden bee spirit, reached out and grabbed a Foundation Establishment cultivator who was stationed in a town.

After stunning the cultivator, Li Wushou focused his attention and scanned the cultivator's entire body.

After a while, he fixed his gaze on the cultivator's heart.

Sure enough, he found Zhu Liuli's primordial spirit, Zi Que, still asleep there!

Li Wushou also confirmed through the cultivator's mental state that the other cultivators had been summoned to Zhongtian Pass by the Sparrow Antelope's decree.

Not only Golden Core cultivators, but also many Foundation Establishment cultivators were not spared!

Those who remained outside Zhongtian Pass were mostly people in the Foundation Establishment stage, with shallow cultivation and nearing the end of their lives.

The instructions given to them were simple: maintain the stability of the city.

This is consistent with the situation in northern Xinjiang and beyond the Great Wall!
After throwing the cultivator back to his residence, Li Wushou traveled to several other cities and regions.

A random check of cultivators and a large number of mortals revealed that, without exception, Zhu Liuli's primordial spirit, Zi Que, was dormant in the hearts of all of them.

The only difference is that some are sparrow eggs, while others have already hatched into baby sparrows.

In this vast territory, stretching from the Northern Pass to the Central Pass, covering an area of ​​over a thousand miles, as far as Li Wushou could see, the Primordial Spirit Sparrows filled the sky!

Even with Li Wushou's usually indifferent nature, he couldn't help but feel a chill.

This is not just the population of one city or one pool; the number of living beings that multiply within it is in the tens of millions.

"It seems that Zhu Liuli is indeed being given high hopes!"

However, this was quite in line with his own expectations, but Li Wushou had not expected that the Sparrow Lord would be so ruthless!
With his mind focused on the Three Immortals Pavilion, Li Wushou called out to the old beggar several times, but the old beggar ignored him each time.

Helpless, Li Wushou walked past the old beggar and squatted down in front of the incense table, where there was a row of memorial tablets made by the old beggar.

Skipping over the others, Li Wushou's gaze settled on the spirit tablet he had created by capturing the mind of the Zhu Liuli primordial spirit sparrow.

"The Son of the Sparrow Lord, the Glazed Sparrow God!"
Zhu Liuli is indeed different. She is clearly more valued by the Sparrow Lord than the Ninth Prince. This can be seen from the fact that the Sparrow Lord had already bestowed upon her a Dharma Body to return to Wufang City before she had even realized it.

Li Wushou originally thought Zhu Liuli was different:

He guessed that the Sparrow Lord had made Zhu Liuli the next puppet after the Ninth Prince.

But seeing the scale of Zhu Liuli's scattered primordial spirit sparrows, Li Wushou changed his mind.

Zhu Liuli is by no means a simple puppet; she is definitely the key to the Sparrow Lord's scheme!

Moreover, there's something wrong with the memorial tablet the old beggar made!
According to what the old beggar had said earlier, the Ninth Prince, a descendant of the Sparrow Lord, was hatched through a wisp of the Sparrow Lord's true spirit. Enslaving the Ninth Prince was equivalent to enslaving a wisp of the Sparrow Lord's true spirit.

So what's the story behind Zhu Liuli's spirit tablet?

The old beggar easily extracted Zhu Liuli's spiritual energy from the primordial spirit sparrow.

There's no reason why the Ninth Prince has a true spirit while the more valued Zhu Liuli doesn't.

This doesn't make sense!
Thinking about this, Li Wushou had a headache. Just now, seeing the old beggar's murderous look, he thought he was just bluffing. But now it seems that the old fox is indeed cunning!

After a moment's hesitation, Li Wushou held back and did not ask any questions at the moment.

Judging from the old beggar's demeanor, if you were to ask now, the price you'd have to pay would definitely be high!
Li Wushou placed an incense stick on the altar and sighed softly to the old beggar:

"Old man, it's always better to be more generous!"

The old beggar's face twitched upon hearing this. This brat's skin is almost as thick as mine.

Seeing Li Wushou's miserable expression, the old beggar couldn't help but chuckle to himself!
Seeing this, Li Wushou said nothing more.

He pulled himself out of his thoughts and left the Three Immortals Pavilion.

He wouldn't mind yielding to the old beggar, but Zhongtian Pass was approaching.

Let's get through first and then talk about it!

(End of this chapter)