A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 173 The Humanoid Treasure Trove

Master Xuan Gu, whose real name is Xiao Cha.

He was a Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivator in the Chaotic Star Sea during his lifetime.

He founded Xuan Yin Island and cultivated the Xuan Yin Scripture.

Previously, I had entered the Void Heaven Palace twice, and gained something each time.

Six hundred years ago, he entered the Void Heaven Palace for the second time and won a Heaven-Mending Pill.

Upon his return, he was betrayed by his most trusted and favored disciples, Ji Yin and Ji Xuan. The two plotted against him, destroying his physical body and severely damaging his nascent soul.

After sealing the remnant soul and corpse of this ancient cultivator in the ruins, the two disciples began to fight amongst themselves again.

Junior Brother Ji Xuan stole the Heaven-Mending Pill and then fled with severe injuries. He eventually died at an ancient teleportation array on the other side of Tiannan. Hundreds of years after his death, his resentful corpse floated a foot in the air.

Senior Brother was extremely cunning. He obtained Xiao Cha's storage bag and, with his immense wealth, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

More than three hundred years ago, he successfully became an infant.

Embark on a triumphant journey to the Nascent Soul stage.

Even after condensing his nascent soul, Ji Yin didn't dare break the great formation's seal to come in and pay respects to his master.

Not only did they not dare to come in to fulfill their filial duties, but they also became even more terrified of Xiao Cha from his younger days. They simply arranged for their capable subordinates at the Core Formation stage to guard this place year-round, and repeatedly reinforced the seal here. Unbeknownst to them, the array outside had been piled up seven or eight times. As a result, the original six-person exploration team spent more than three months working themselves to the bone to break through the layers of arrays.

"The extreme Yin has meticulously arranged this; it must have included early warning mechanisms..."

"Xuan Gu probably knows this too."

In other words, Ji Yin, that treacherous disciple who betrayed his master, could arrive at any moment to send his master off on his final journey.

In this situation.

The time given to Xuan Gu to make a decision... is not much.

Xuan Gu really couldn't afford to delay in getting rid of the shadow of his own disciple.

"One breath."

"Two breaths."

"three…"

Just as Han Li silently counted to three breaths, and the moment his Fiend Core clone stepped to the edge of the pool, something moved almost imperceptibly.

As the great cultivator's divine sense swept over the body, the white jade-like fingers of the skeleton that had been lying on the ground trembled slightly.

This movement was extremely subtle.

If it were a different cultivator, whose cultivation level was only at the early stage of Core Formation, and who had focused almost all their attention on the so-called Seven-Colored Lotus in the pool, then the subtle movements the skeleton had just made would most likely have been overlooked.

It will most likely go unnoticed.

Unbeknownst to them, a strange figure with a body coiled around a giant black python was moving along the underground patterns within a stone pillar inside the house, heading towards the Sha Dan clone.

It had even reached the feet of the Demon Core clone.

Go in.

He went in.

Upon seeing this, Han Li's eyes lit up, but his face remained expressionless.

It was at this moment that a sudden change occurred.

Inside the pool, the demonic serpent disguised as the Seven-Colored Lotus seemed to have received some order. It stopped disguising itself and transformed back into its true form as a demonic serpent, charging towards Han Li.

At the same time, the small green arrow on the top of the skeleton's head detached from its forehead and shot out with golden lightning.

Then, countless ghostly creatures suddenly emerged from the surrounding walls, baring their fangs and claws as they attacked. These ghostly creatures, both old and young, screamed incessantly as they pounced, causing great annoyance.

As for the Demonic Core clone?

For some reason, it remained frozen in place, motionless.

A subtle distortion appeared on his face, as if he were trying to pull out an abstract smile.

In short, it became extremely strange.

Han Li was not annoyed at this; on the contrary, he was overjoyed.
The fish finally took the bait.

Then a soft shout:
"Back."

Seeing that the strange black shadow had already burrowed into the body of the Demonic Core clone from the ground and was about to possess the eunuch's body, how could he let the split soul linger?

He wouldn't settle for Xuan Gu's possession.

The divided soul, which had been waiting to return to its original body, immediately emerged from the nostrils of the Fiend Core clone and then completely disappeared into the center of the original body's brow.

"You want that eunuch's body so badly? Here you go."

Don't rush.

I'll give you everything.

The aura emanating from his body was no longer restrained, but rather released freely.

The violent wave of magical power that rippled out at close range blasted away the Demon Crown Serpent, the Golden Thunder Bamboo Arrow, the Demon Core clone, and all sorts of ghostly creatures that sprang out from the wall.

Many of the ghosts collapsed on the spot.

The area within a radius of several miles centered on the cave was affected by this magical energy wave, causing the earth to shake, mountains to crack, and sand and stones to fly everywhere.

The tremors were felt even at seaside locations thousands of miles away.

"Boom..."

As the demonic serpent flew backward and crashed into the wall, a thrown magic spear struck it with lightning speed and pinned it to the wall.

The Golden Thunder Bamboo Arrow wanted to return to the Xuan Gu Shangren, who had possessed the Sha Dan clone, but Han Li easily grasped it with his powerful magic, and it struggled for a long time without being able to break free. It was as simple and easy as the Ancient Demon of Fallen Demon Valley handling the two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords of its original form.

And so, the Fiend Core clone, which had been trying to put on a smug smile just a second ago—or rather, the Fiend Core clone that had been quietly possessed by the Profound Bone—was embedded in a wall, and the smile on its face had long since vanished.

Where is there even a trace of pride left?

"Nascent Soul stage? Are you extremely dazzling or extremely yin?"

Han Li did not answer.

The Thunder Boots on their feet crackled and sparked with electricity.

The next moment, the person appeared in front of the former Demon Core clone.

Xuan Gu wanted to hide.

However, he was unable to move due to the overwhelming divine sense that could freely manifest its form and the heavy Nascent Soul level magic power.

"Are you extremely dazzling or extremely sinister?"

Which traitor is it?

Han Li ignored the other party and activated the many powerful restrictions he had previously placed on the Demon Core clone with a hand seal.

Some of these restrictions are specifically designed to deal with ghost cultivators.

These restrictions do not limit the possession of flesh and blood bodies by ghost cultivators, but they will tightly bind the main soul of the ghost cultivator who has completed the possession to the possessed body.

The main source of this knowledge was the foundation of the Thousand Bamboo Sect.

Although the Thousand Bamboo Sect has rarely produced Nascent Soul cultivators since the Great Evolution Divine Lord, it does not mean that there has not been a single Nascent Soul cultivator in the past ten thousand years.

In the past ten thousand years, a total of four have appeared.

Among the four, one of them had even reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Since these Nascent Soul cultivators were all direct descendants of the Great Evolution Divine Lord, and not usurpers like the Great Master Jin, they followed the will of their ancestors and did not disturb the cenotaph left by the Great Evolution Divine Lord in his early years.

Therefore, they did not discover that there was something else going on inside.

Of these four, two had studied ghost cultivation, and one of them even left behind a restriction technique to prevent ghost cultivation from possessing bodies.

When he seized control of the Thousand Bamboo Sect and discovered this unexpected joy, he was delighted for quite some time.

"It seems to work quite well."

Han Li patted the face of the Sha Dan clone.

Xuan Gu was both shocked and furious when he was hit.

He clearly had many other methods at his disposal, such as the Profound Soul Yin Fire. However, the numerous restrictions within his body were in effect, rendering him unable to move.

By this point, how could he not understand that he had become fish on a chopping board?

It's obvious now: this clone with hidden flaws in its cultivation technique is nothing more than bait thrown out by the other side. It was prepared to lure him into a trap.

Thinking about this made me even angrier.

At first, he thought it was some ignorant little brat who had brought a clone of the Demon Core to rescue him from this cage.

He was also excited and proud of the backdoor he had left in the secret technique of the Fiend Core clone, which allowed him to possess the body of the Fiend Core clone.

unexpectedly.

This was just a trap someone set for him.

This tone is exactly the same as when those two traitors betrayed and plotted against me back then.
I've been tricked again.

Who is this person?

"No, you're neither Extreme Brilliance nor Extreme Yin, right?"

Xuan Gu looked at it again.

The voice suddenly became much calmer.

Han Li, having caught the blade bare-handed, silenced the still trembling and resisting Golden Thunder Bamboo Arrow. Hearing Xuan Gu's words, he smiled.
"Fellow Daoist Xiao, have you finally realized what's happening?"

"really."

Falling into the hands of a Nascent Soul cultivator means I'm doomed this time.

He also saw a hand placed on the forehead of the body he had possessed.

“Fellow Daoist Xiao, I have learned something from you: never underestimate any cultivator. We must always have a sense of awe when facing cultivators of any level, even if their cultivation level is much lower than ours.”

"Look at you, you've already experienced the betrayal of two Core Formation stage disciples, yet you still instinctively remain arrogant in front of Core Formation stage disciples."

Just now, this person, using his Nascent Soul level divine sense to probe him, discovered that he, who had concealed his aura and had not fought with anyone, was only at the early stage of Core Formation.

At that time, I definitely underestimated him subconsciously.

Before invading the Demon Core clone, it didn't even bother to carefully examine the internal condition of the Demon Core clone before hastily attempting to seize its body.

This is not exactly the same mentality as when we underestimated Ji Yin and Xuan, who were both at the Core Formation stage. It's more like we're about the same.

If this guy had just tested the Demon Core clone, he wouldn't be in this predicament. Xuan Gu wanted to say something more.

Han Li pressed it down.

"Alright, we can talk about it later."

No more nonsense.

He decisively... performed a soul search.

With a more powerful divine sense, he conducted a more detailed memory exploration of this former Nascent Soul stage demonic spirit.

This sight is truly heartbreaking.

Xiao Cha, as a Nascent Soul cultivator in the demonic path, is indeed quite unconventional.

Other powerful demonic cultivators would place various restrictions on their disciples, capable of killing them with a single thought, thus preventing betrayal.

Some treat their disciples as consumables, essentially candidates for possession. After all, they share the same cultivation techniques and spiritual roots, so possession doesn't have many side effects and won't delay their recovery and recuperation.

Some treat their disciples like servants, ordering them around and killing them at will if they displease them.

Others use their disciples and their own bloodline offspring as materials for corpse refining, or as targets for remote possession spells.

Others treated female disciples as vessels for sexual intercourse, or as concubines, etc.

However, Xiao Cha did not treat Ji Yin Xuan with the same harshness that other demonic old monsters showed to their disciples. This one was more like how a Nascent Soul cultivator from the righteous path treats his disciples.

For example, in the case of Jixuan, they simply gained the recognition of sovereignty from the Blood Jade Spider.

It should be noted that the Blood Jade Spider is widely recognized as the most helpful spirit beast for obtaining the Void Heaven Cauldron.

Xiao Cha still entrusted the Blood Jade Spider to Ji Xuan with peace of mind.

It even led to the two early spiderlings signing a blood pact with Jixuan.

Replace it with another old monster from the demonic path.

Don't even think about touching the Blood Jade Spider.

Perhaps, the existence of the Blood Jade Spider will not even be revealed to Ji Xuan Ji Yin.

Xiao Cha's trust in Ji Xuan was obvious to everyone.

He also taught the Profound Yin Technique, which leads directly to the Nascent Soul stage, to those who are extremely Yin.

Even if both of their techniques had hidden loopholes and were incomplete, wasn't that precisely to prevent "the disciple from starving the master"?

It's only natural to keep something in reserve.

however.

They already trusted each other to that extent.

Not only did he not leave any deadly restrictions on his two disciples, but he also entrusted them with the important spirit beast, the Blood Jade Spider. Even so, Xiao Cha was betrayed. A truly fatal betrayal.

"He who walks the demonic path uses righteous methods."

They learn the right way from others, but they don't learn the method of combining kindness and severity; they only blindly bestow kindness.

Moreover, Xuan Yin Island was newly built at that time, and its foundation was still shallow. Huairou was no match for Gao Yan.

Ok?
This is somehow similar to my situation when I was in the Thousand Bamboo Sect.
"No, there are differences too..."

"At least I placed restrictions on those in the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation stages."

A single thought within a certain range can trigger those restrictions, which can be quite deadly. Moreover, if the distance between them is too great, those restrictions will be triggered even after a hundred years.

If it weren't for the intervention of a great cultivator, an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't be able to unravel it.

Even if a powerful cultivator were to intervene, unraveling this would be a troublesome matter.

I doubt any great cultivator would be so bored as to kindly remove the divine control restrictions from hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators one by one.

Of course, although he comforted himself in this way, he was still reflecting on it in his heart.

He himself had absolutely no experience in commanding tens of thousands of cultivators, so it would be best to have a professional do it for him. Perhaps, he only needed to control the person doing the work?
Just like how the original body controlled Liu Yu...

Unconsciously, the hand he used to search the soul tightened slightly.

“Xiao Cha, as a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in the Demonic Path, only showed kindness and not authority when managing his subordinates. It’s perfectly normal that he raised an ingrate like Ji Yin Xuan.”

"And I, even with my bedmate, still maintain a degree of wariness..."

On the long road to immortality, both internally and externally, one must never let down one's guard.

Take this example of Xiao Cha very seriously.

Search for souls.

He located the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng.

In the first level of the Void Heaven Palace, he also found the hiding place of a remnant soul of a newly promoted Nascent Soul stage old monster whose physical body had been destroyed and whose Nascent Soul had been severely damaged, who had no choice but to choose the path of ghost cultivation.

Search for souls.

He found the back door to the Mysterious Yin Scripture.

After that, dealing with extreme Yin became much easier.

Search for souls.

He found some secrets of the inner palace of the Void Heaven Palace, such as the layout of the lower four floors of the inner palace tower.

"Huh? The third floor of the inner sanctum really does have the Tree of Spiritual Eyes! And its location is exactly the same as the one I set in my abandoned draft!"

Six hundred years ago, Xiao Cha had only been a Nascent Soul cultivator for two hundred years, and his foundation was still relatively shallow. He entered the Void Heaven Palace to seize treasures, and thanks to the extraordinary contributions of two peak-level third-tier Blood Jade Spiders, he obtained a Heaven-Mending Pill. Afterwards, he was hunted down and robbed by various factions. He fled all the way from the fifth floor of the inner palace to the third floor.

It's not that I don't want to escape into the room on the fourth floor and then use the mechanism of the Void Palace to escape from the Void Palace in advance.

However, the restrictions in the fourth-floor room were too dangerous, and given his severely injured state at the time, he was not strong enough to break through the layers of restrictions and retrieve the treasure.

Therefore, they fled to the third floor.

I thought that the restrictions in any room on the third floor would not be enough to stop a true Nascent Soul cultivator.

But Xiao was wrong.

There was a stone house containing a spiritual spring, a spiritual eye tree, and an ancient device for collecting millennia-old spiritual liquid and pure liquid. Xiao Cha tried several times and discovered that the protective seal on the spiritual tree could only be broken by those at least in the mid-Nascent Soul stage. Or rather, one needed a burst of power at the mid-Nascent Soul stage to break the seal and obtain the treasure.

If it were this guy in his prime, he would probably be fine. Although Xuan Gu Shangren Xiao Cha is only a Nascent Soul cultivator at the early stage, his demonic arts are extremely powerful, and he can be compared with a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator.

For example, his divine sense is at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, which is much stronger than the current Extreme Yin.

Unfortunately, he was seriously injured at the time.

One-tenth of his original strength has been lost.

Forcing a power surge will not only result in insufficient power but will also cause additional damage.

Helpless, Xiao Cha had no choice but to give up on the treasure hunt and abandon the Spirit Eye Tree, which was at least 60,000 to 70,000 years old! He then quietly recuperated and waited for the time to come, after which he was automatically teleported out of the Void Heaven Palace by the Void Heaven Remnant Map he was carrying.

And then.

He had just been teleported out of the Void Heaven Palace when he was extremely unlucky and was targeted by two veteran Nascent Soul cultivators. He was chased all the way and his physical body was damaged in many places.

The injury, which had been improving, deteriorated rapidly, making matters worse.

He thought that the injuries he sustained inside the palace would only require ten or twenty years of recuperation to recover, but the injuries he sustained outside the palace only exacerbated his condition, making it even worse.

It was also a time when he was very weak.

Extremely dazzling and extremely yin had a plan.

Jixuan changed his mind because the Blood Jade Spider broke through to level four and gained the ability to reproduce. He began to worry about losing his usefulness and changed his mind.

Extreme Yin is even more direct; it's simply ambition at play.

The severely injured Master Xuangu was completely unprepared for his two beloved disciples and ultimately met his demise unexpectedly.

A legendary figure in the world of demonic cultivation has become a joke.

It is embarrassing.

Incidentally, this also greatly strengthened the control the Chaotic Star Sea Demonic Path had over its disciples.

The demonic path in the Chaotic Star Sea is far more demonic than that in the Southern Heaven, and this might be one of the reasons.

"In previous years, I used the first batch of Mingqing Spiritual Water I concocted to cleanse my eyes multiple times. Later, I refined new Mingqing Spiritual Liquid twice more, but the effect was always minimal. The reason for this is most likely that there was a problem with the liquid."

The essence left by the three Spirit Eye Trees on Biling Island was not properly collected and preserved by humans, and there are signs of its spirituality being lost.

It's fine for cultivating Blood Jade Spiders.

It can be used to refine Ming and Qing spiritual water, but the effect is far inferior.

"We still need to enter the Void Heaven Palace and use the pure liquid produced by the Spirit Eye Tree inside to re-mix the spiritual water. We should try it a few more times."

Otherwise, he would not be reconciled.

If he couldn't master the Bright and Clear Spirit Eye, how could he dare to venture into the Fallen Demon Valley?

Naturally, it's difficult to obtain the crafting method for the Seven Flames Fan, as well as the Spirit Candle Fruit, and so on.

The subsequent consequences are far too great.

Now that he has the information about the Void Heaven Palace provided by Xuan Gu, he has even more reason to make some plans.

"Speaking of which, Xuan Gu once even searched the soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Star Palace..."

That's why they know so many secrets.

So, he's also trying his best...

Search for souls.

The complete Xuan Yin Treasure Manual.

Search for souls.

Numerous battles involving Nascent Soul level cultivators...

This Nascent Soul stage cultivator has been fought by at least a dozen, if not twenty, making him a veritable walking experience point.

Search for souls.

Insights on various aspects of alchemy, formation, and weapon crafting.

The sheer volume of valuable information made Han Li's eyes grow brighter and brighter.

This guy is practically a human treasure trove.

And because he had fallen from his previous level, he could manipulate things with almost any ease.

Search the soul, search the soul...!
(End of this chapter)