Demonic Demoness Training Project

This was exactly what Lu Li wanted to hear, because he was planning how to break away from the group and eat alone.

The disciples who were originally under Lu Li's command all tried to dissuade him, hoping that he would join them, but Lu Li still resolutely left alone.

She only left everyone with her back turned, aloof and proud.

Halfway there, the girl suddenly turned back.

"Has Your Excellency changed your mind?"

"Oh no, I'm coming back to get an oxcart."

Then, Her Highness the Holy Maiden drove the sect's mechanical oxcart and set off again.

She left everyone with her back turned again, aloof and proud.

……

Driving the oxcart at full speed, after about a day's journey, Lu Li bypassed the core area and arrived at the inheritance site located in the northwest corner of the Boundless Realm.

"According to the jade slip, the owner of this place distributed more than one jade slip, so I should not be the only one who came here. I just don't know if someone else has gotten there first."

Lu Li found a secluded spot in the dense forest, sat down cross-legged, and habitually took out a Bixie Pill and put it in his mouth. Then he activated the Qi-Harmony Cauldron to enter the Returning Origin state, thereby concealing his aura.

Then, he took out the disaster-preventing puppet and prepared to send the little thing to scout ahead.

After a moment's thought, Lu Li felt it was inappropriate for a single puppet to go alone, so he took out a Demon Whip Hundred Blades and handed it to it.

This Demon Whip Hundred Blades was a prototype forged by Lu Li when he was deducing the Yan Tu. It was almost identical to the final product, but he had never used it because he had the superior alternative, the Qi-Gathering Cauldron.

Giving this item to Mo Wan for self-defense is just right for dealing with some minor troubles.

Following the map, Lu Li manipulated Mo Wan to walk forward and, according to the map's instructions, found a cave dwelling.

The barrier outside the cave is well preserved and shows no signs of being forcibly removed. However, this barrier is not difficult to break. It can block demonic beasts, and any cultivator with some knowledge of array formations can easily break it.

It's as if a crack in the door was deliberately left for those who come later?

Mo Wan continued walking in, and when she reached the end, she suddenly saw someone. She was so startled that she took a half step back, while holding the Demon Whip Hundred Blades and pointing it forward.

Brush and pull!

The flying blades scattered, and Mo Wan looked closely and realized that what was in front of her was actually a skeleton. The person was sitting cross-legged on the spot, like an old monk in meditation, motionless. The skin and flesh on his body had not yet rotted, and looked like a tattered cloth hanging on his body, emitting a faint green light, which looked quite eerie.

"I received the jade slip and have come to visit without prior notice. Please forgive me, senior."

"..."

Mo Wan bowed respectfully, but the corpse did not respond. The conditions inside the cave were poor, with scattered mechanical components everywhere.

The so-called inheritance was far more rudimentary than she had imagined.

At this moment, Elder Duan could also see the scene before her in Lu Li's sea of ​​consciousness, and she could see through the opponent's true strength at a glance.

"Just a mere cultivator at the Open Source Realm, oh, and a self-taught one at that, that's rather interesting?"

"Open source from unorthodox methods?"

"Some sects acknowledge that those who take the sect's Open Source Pill are orthodox Open Source Realm cultivators. Demonic cultivators who advance through unorthodox methods, such as the Boundless Tribulation in this secret realm, are different."

Which of these two is more powerful?

"In terms of open source alone, although the demonic path has a high upper limit, it has a low lower limit. In the ancient times, the human race had not yet figured out the method to advance to open source. At that time, the open source realm was not called the open source realm, but the foundation building realm."

"At that time, the method used to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage was the ancient method. The ancient method was not only bizarre and varied, but it was also often against the will of Heaven, and was accompanied by great risks, such as being struck by lightning."

"The so-called demonic path is to use these ancient methods to advance. It was only later, when the Yan Dao gradually flourished, that a great being deduced the Open Source Pill, and people had a fixed path to advancement."

"Now, the refining method and core spiritual materials of the Open Source Pill are all in the hands of various sects. Only when you are recognized by a sect can you advance to the Open Source Realm."

"Does it require sect approval? There's no way there's an assessment involved, is there?"

"That's right, it's an assessment. My disciple, why don't you guess where the word 'open source' comes from?"

Lu Li fell into deep thought. He had read many novels in his previous life, and whether it was about opening up new sources, absorbing energy, opening the mind, or refining qi, they were all essentially the same thing—

"Could it be guiding Qi into the body?"

"I'll guide you my foot! You can install a spiritual source at the Puppet Master Realm to assist your spiritual root cultivation and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Why would you need to wait until the Open Source Realm to draw energy into your body?"

"What does that mean?"

"This so-called open source means that you deduced the diagram and then donate it to the sect for free. That's what open source means. Then, if the sect thinks that you, as a junior disciple, have performed well, they will reward you with an open source pill to help you advance to the open source realm."

"Huh? If I deduce the Hundred Blades of the Demon Whip, can I also use it to advance my Open Source skill?"

"That won't work. You need to go through the proper procedures; you have to refine your stock portfolio first."

Upon hearing the words "stock trading," Lu Li's face turned pale. He had a psychological aversion to these two words, as he had unpleasant memories of all kinds of stocks.

Does this mean that to advance to the Open Source Realm, one has to sell hooks to the sect?

"Why are you doing stock trading again? Is this the proper kind of stock trading, or the shady kind?"

"What are you thinking about? The stock refining I'm talking about is divided into four parts—the initial part, the middle part, the later part, and the final part."

"Oh, so that's how you refine stocks."

"What else do you think? Don't rush, let your teacher explain it to you in detail."

"To 'start a project' means to report the type of puppet you want to develop to the sect's stewards and make them feel that your puppet is feasible and that the cost does not exceed the budget allocated by the sect. Of course, you can also pay extra if you wish."

"The middle part is to let the sect's deacon see your progress in the deduction. At this time, your puppet should have taken shape. It would be best if you could produce a prototype."

"The next step is to have the sect elders review it personally. This is the most difficult step. Although it is a blind review and the elders do not know who designed the diagram, there is still a lot of room for maneuver for the scions of aristocratic families."

"Shu Gu, you must submit the Yan Tu to the sect and write a detailed four-part essay. It must be checked for plagiarism in the library and must not be the same as the Yan Tu in the sect's library, especially not the Yan Tu of your senior brothers and sisters."

"What the hell is this four-legged essay?"

Lu Li couldn't help but swear. After hearing Elder Duan's words, his fantasy about immortals was completely shattered.

At this moment, Lu Li could no longer look directly at those sect deacons. In his imagination, the cultivators of the Open Source Sect, if not highly respected, were at least all extraordinary, having achieved the Dao Foundation despite the heavenly tribulation.

Who would have thought that they were just a bunch of lousy writers, a bunch of scheming lackeys of a sect!

The birth of each open-source realm means that the sect will obtain a Yan Tu (a type of magical artifact). Although these Yan Tu are often only one turn and have limited practicality, after hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation, the depth of the sect's library is simply unimaginable.

"Ancient methods of opening up new sources are only used by demonic cultivators without sect backgrounds. Orthodox methods of opening up new sources require taking Open Source Pills."

"So, beyond the Open Source Realm, breaking through to the Spirit Pivot Realm and the Creation Realm, does that also require sect recognition?"

"No, there is no universal method for breaking through the Spirit Pivot and Creation Realms. Everyone has to rely on their own methods. There is a saying that as long as you break through to the Open Source Realm, you will have the capital to establish your own business. In the future, you will be able to do whatever you want."

"Most demonic cultivators, even if they harbor rebellious intentions, will wait until they break through to open the source before leaving their sect and eventually embarking on the demonic path. On the contrary, the one in front of you opened the source using ancient methods right away and succeeded, which is quite rare."

“You can laugh at his low level of cultivation, laugh at his mere opening source, but you must never laugh at his incompetence. To be able to reach this point with ancient methods, his methods are far more terrifying than those so-called sect prodigies.”

At the same time, Mo Wan walked up to the corpse and looked around, trying to see if there was anything of value nearby. However, when she accidentally touched the corpse, she suddenly pulled her hand back and took dozens of steps back.

This corpse is actually warm!?

The next moment, an old woman's voice suddenly rang out.

"After so many years, someone has finally come again. You... which dynasty's scholar are you?"

Chapter 106 That old geezer... no, Master, save me!

"It's come back to life! The corpse is warm and it's even talking?"

This was Mo Wan's first reaction. She took several steps back. When she calmed down, she looked again at the glowing green light on the corpse not far away, as if she had thought of something.

The body remained warm after death, entirely due to drinking uranium-containing water. It's unclear whether the person possessed some special method or was simply gifted with exceptional physical abilities.

So this is how the open source method for "The Untamed" works; I've really learned something new.

Thinking of this, Mo Wan only regretted that she was too ignorant and could not compose a poem to express her shock.

Just as I was thinking this, the corpse happened to be reciting a poem:

"As the saying goes, the poor cultivators borrow tribulations to shed their mortal bones, while the nobles rely on powerful artifacts to tread the path to immortality. Young man, tell me, what dynasty is this?"

"dynasty?"

Since being born into this world, Mo Wan had never heard of the word "dynasty." It seemed that only sects ruled this land, and she had never heard of any dynasty.

"It seems there is no such thing. It must have been a long time ago. Nowadays, it seems that we only have sects here."

"So, Datong has already been destroyed? Good, good! Well done, hahahaha."

The corpse suddenly burst into laughter, appearing mad, laughing so hard it seemed it would fall apart at any moment. The corpse swayed twice, and its tattered Taoist robe slid off, allowing Lu Li to see clearly that it appeared to be a female corpse.

"By the way, what about the Daoist tradition in Datong? Is their lineage still intact?"

"How would I know..."

"I have a set of diagrams here that I can teach you..."

"I won't learn, I won't learn."

"You, you, you! This is what I've learned my whole life!"

"Then you absolutely cannot learn that."

The corpse immediately became anxious and exclaimed:

"You have no idea how long I've waited for this day. I've waited so long! Why don't you learn? If you don't want to learn, why are you here with me?"

"I thought you were dead, senior... no, you had passed away peacefully. I came here to pick up some treasures, no, to help you collect your remains."

As she spoke, Mo Wan moved her feet, intending to back away.

"Come back here! Whether you learn or not is not up to you."

Upon hearing this, Mo Wan actually stopped in her tracks. The other person's words carried a strange and intense fluctuation of divine sense.

This divine sense was unlike any Lu Li had ever seen before. Its strength was only at the mid-level of grade C, but it was so pure that it had no impurities whatsoever, and it was extremely sharp.

It was this divine thought that severed his connection with Mo Wan in a short time, causing Mo Wan's movements to freeze for a moment.

It was this moment of stiffness that gave the corpse an opportunity. Dragging her broken body, she pounced on Mo Wan, grabbed her collar, and spat out two beams of white light from her eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the body was out of control.

The corpse, having lost control of its spirit, tumbled to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Lu Li sensed something was wrong and was glad that he had sent a clone to gather information instead of risking his own body. Mo Wan, who had been possessed, moved her body and frowned slightly before realizing that something was amiss.

"A puppet? Interesting. You are quite an interesting junior. Today you have to learn whether you like it or not."

Having said that, Mo Wan reached out and pulled an ancient-looking storage bag from her original skeleton. She shook it a couple of times, found it was still usable, and continued:

"Stop hiding, I mean no harm, come out."

"No! You want me to learn? You can only do so if you leave the inheritance there and then commit suicide."

"No, no, my lineage is quite complex. You absolutely cannot learn it just by looking at the diagram I drew. You must come here in your true form so that I can personally guide you and teach you completely before I am at ease."

"Nobody would believe that!"

"Alright, alright, since that's the case, then don't blame me... I hope that thing still works."

After saying that, Mo Wan took out a square wooden box. The box looked quite old, and its workmanship was very different from that of modern mechanical devices. Even Duan Xuanyuan frowned when he saw it, unable to tell what was inside.

Lu Li dared not be careless and turned to run, but the wooden box opened first, and a powerful spiritual wave swept across a radius of a thousand feet.

This is a third-stage Soul Path artifact—the [Square and Round Soul Box].

At that moment, Lu Li experienced a double image before his eyes, with the two scenes from reality and his sea of ​​consciousness overlapping. When Lu Li turned his head, he saw a graceful figure riding the wind.

She was a woman entirely in white, her body half-real and half-ethereal, devoid of any color, only pure white.

"Oh no, the effect of her puppet is to connect your sea of ​​consciousness with hers. She wants to fight you directly with her soul."

"You're only telling me now? I already knew."

"Much younger than I imagined, truly a promising young man... Hmm, how come it's a boy? I thought it was a girl."

Without saying a word, Lu Li manipulated his divine soul avatar to rush towards the opponent. His divine sense was of the upper grade of grade C, which was theoretically a small realm stronger than the opponent's.

The scene in his mind was like a dream. With a thought, Lu Li condensed his divine sense into a hundred-bladed demonic whip, which appeared out of thin air in his hand.

"It turns out this place is just like a dream. I can also create puppets here on my own, but I don't know how much of their power they will have in reality."

"Let me see what you juniors are capable of."

After saying that, the two small figures formed from divine senses collided. Lu Li was holding a whip blade, while the other side was fighting him with bare hands.