Chapter 187: Chapter 187: Eighty Thousandfold Return, Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map! (Third Update)
“Disciple, come to your master’s cave abode.”
After returning to Qingyun Peak, Lu Changsheng immediately sent a message to Shen Xiaoyao.
“Master is looking for me, please go ahead and do as you wish.”
Upon receiving Lu Changsheng’s message, Shen Xiaoyao immediately stood up and headed to Lu Changsheng’s cave abode.
While wandering around Qingyun Peak, the princess of Yue Country, Wu Wan’er, noticed that the Demon God Physique Ji Xuan was meditating and cultivating, emanating demonic qi and gently swaying a fox tail, which surprised her even more.
How come Qingyun Peak even has disciples from the Demon Race?
Soon, Shen Xiaoyao arrived at the cave abode and sat on the disciple’s cushion.
“Today, your master will teach you Dao Arrays.”
Lu Changsheng had prepared five Formation Maps, namely high-grade Acquired Spirit Treasures “Thunder Gang Skyfire Formation Map,” “Formless Karma Fire Formation Map,” “Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation Map,” and low-grade Innate Spirit Treasures “Nine Nether Demon Fire Formation Map,” “Redflame Demon Beast Formation Map.”
Shen Xiaoyao’s cultivation had reached the second layer of Dao Palace, allowing him to be bestowed with low-grade Innate Spirit Treasures at most.
Lu Changsheng selected five Formation Map treasures that might be returned for the “Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map.”
Since Ji Xuan had a surplus of Formation Map treasures, Lu Changsheng decided to have another disciple refresh the Formation Map Immortal Artifacts.
“Yes.”
Shen Xiaoyao listened attentively.
In the Cultivation World, formations are a very important means of engaging enemies.
Lu Changsheng first bestowed the “Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation Map,” which would eventually need to be paired with a set of treasures — the Eight-Sided Separating Fire Banners.
When separate, the Separating Fire Banner is merely an Acquired Spirit Treasure, but when assembled into a set, the Eight-Sided Separating Fire Banners rank as low-grade Innate Spirit Treasures.
The head disciple of the Hidden Dragon Temple, Zhuge Changming, used this treasure in the Six Paths Conference battle against Li Changye.
When combined with the “Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation Map,” its power is no less than that of a medium-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.
Lu Changsheng merely intended for Shen Xiaoyao to use it as a transition, more importantly for Shen Xiaoyao to comprehend array setting, so that in the future, he could use higher-level Formation Map treasures.
[Ding, you have bestowed the disciple Shen Xiaoyao with a high-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure “Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation Map,” and received a six-hundredfold return reward: a medium-grade Innate Spirit Treasure “Great Tianyan Formation Map.”]
A six-hundredfold return?
Although not an Immortal Artifact, the returned Formation Map treasures are still acceptable.
Not useful now, but they can still be used for future teachings.
Lu Changsheng guided Shen Xiaoyao, interpreting the “Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation Map,” and taught him how to set up and activate the Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation.
The Separating Fire Heaven Burning Formation is a pure Fire Attribute formation. Next, Lu Changsheng taught the “Thunder Gang Skyfire Formation Map,” which is a formation with both Thunder and Fire attributes.
[Ding, you have bestowed the disciple Shen Xiaoyao with a high-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure “Thunder Gang Skyfire Formation Map,” and received an eightyfold return reward: a low-grade Innate Spirit Treasure “Nine Heavens Thunderfire Formation Map.”]
Still no Immortal Artifact.
After explaining the “Thunder Gang Skyfire Formation Map,” Lu Changsheng then bestowed the “Formless Karma Fire Formation Map.”
The first two Formation Maps summoned tangible fires, while this one uses intangible karma fire to harm enemies.
[Ding, you have bestowed the disciple Shen Xiaoyao with a high-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure “Formless Karma Fire Formation Map,” and received a thousandfold return reward: a high-grade Innate Spirit Treasure “Karma Fire Cause and Effect Formation Map.”]
This Formation Map seems more like something the masters from the Immeasurable Temple would use, with its rank already nearing that of an Immortal Artifact.
There are still two more teaching return opportunities today.
Lu Changsheng prepared two low-grade Innate Spirit Treasures — “Nine Nether Demon Fire Formation Map” and “Redflame Demon Beast Formation Map.”
Bestowing Innate Spirit Treasures increases the probability of returning Immortal Artifacts.
“The Nine Nether Demon Fire Formation Map is a formation map of the Demon Race. Although you can’t fully utilize its effect in your hands, understanding the formations of the Demon Race can also be considered as broadening your knowledge,”
Lu Changsheng explained the “Nine Nether Demon Fire Formation Map” to Shen Xiaoyao.
[Ding, you have rewarded your disciple Shen Xiaoyao with a lower-grade Innate Spirit Treasure “Nine Nether Demon Fire Formation Map,” and received a mentoring reward of 500 times in return: a high-grade Innate Spirit Treasure “Demon Dragon Black Flame Formation Map.”]
This was the second high-grade Innate Formation Map that Lu Changsheng had obtained today.
This artifact was even more suitable for his fifth disciple, Ji Xuan.
When Ji Xuan reached great accomplishment in the Dao Palace realm in the future, Lu Changsheng would then reward her with this Demon Race artifact.
Today, there was only one last mentoring reward opportunity left.
Lu Changsheng took out the Redflame Beast Formation Map. By arranging this formation, one could summon Redflame Beasts to attack enemies with mysterious fire.
Lu Changsheng continuously gave pointers to Shen Xiaoyao, analyzing five formations, with Shen Xiaoyao making rapid and sudden progress in his comprehension of the formations.
[Ding, you have rewarded your disciple Shen Xiaoyao with a lower-grade Innate Spirit Treasure “Redflame Beast Formation Map,” and received a mentoring reward of 80,000 times in return: a medium-grade Immortal Artifact “Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map.”]
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[Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map: A medium-grade Immortal Artifact, it requires the Mysterious Fire Mirror as the core of the formation, capable of summoning the Eight Desolation Fire Dragon to incinerate everything in the world.]
“Huh…”
Lu Changsheng took a long breath, his scalp tingling with excitement.
He hadn’t expected to draw out the medium-grade Immortal Artifact “Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map” so soon, which could be used in conjunction with the Mysterious Fire Mirror!
Lu Changsheng did not anticipate that he could obtain a medium-grade Immortal Artifact from just rewarding twenty-four fire formation treasures, but after not many instances of rewarding, he had already received back the “Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map.”
In the future, this would save him many instances of rewarding opportunities, which could be used to reward with elixir pills.
“The Mysterious Fire Mirror combined with the Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map will be my strongest attack method,” Lu Changsheng mused.
Lu Changsheng could not imagine the power of the medium-grade Immortal Artifact “Mysterious Fire Mirror” combined with the medium-grade Immortal Artifact “Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map,” because his cultivation level was not yet high enough to fully unleash the power of both Immortal Artifacts.
Even so, Lu Changsheng powering up the medium-grade Immortal Artifact with all his might was enough to eradicate enemies who were stronger than himself.
This trump card was known only to Lu Changsheng himself.
In the intelligence gathered by the four Great Demon Sects and the Demon Race of Huang State, Lu Changsheng’s strongest artifact was still the lower-grade Immortal Sword “Blazing Extermination.”
However, the power of the Mysterious Fire Mirror and the Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map was even greater than that of the lower-grade Immortal Sword.
This set of artifacts was exceptional, making it rank among the top even among medium-grade Immortal Artifacts.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, Lu Changsheng would not reveal his trump card.
“You may go down and cultivate.”
Having obtained the Eight Fiends Xuanhuo Formation Map, Lu Changsheng let Shen Xiaoyao go back to his cultivation.
Lu Changsheng himself also needed to work on elevating his cultivation level.
Medium-grade Immortal Artifacts, the eighth layer of the Primordial Sword Scripture, the ninth layer of the Taiqing Wuji Technique—all required a higher cultivation base; otherwise, their effects could not be unleashed.
The Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills also required consuming a vast amount of spiritual energy for body tempering.
“It’s time to let Lin Qingzhi, Lu Qinglian, and Mo Huazhi take turns returning to Qingyun Peak.”
Using a divine tracking skill, the “Soul Searching Skills,” Lu Changsheng informed these disciples that in their free time from slaying demons and exorcising evil on their pilgrimages, if they had refined the spiritual energy he had transmitted to them, to return to Qingyun Peak when possible for power-infusing initiation.
Among all the ways to elevate cultivation, the return from power-infusing initiation was the fastest.
“It’s time to go back for body refinement.”
Lu Qinglian stood on the corpse of a Great Demon; although her own cultivation was not as high as that of her eldest senior brother Lin Qing, like Lu Changsheng, she practiced dual cultivation of martial arts and spiritual practice, thus her consumption of spiritual energy was extra terrifying, several times that of an ordinary practitioner.
Through a transmission over thousands of miles, Lu Changsheng let Lu Qinglian know to take a break and return to Qingyun Peak to replenish her spiritual energy.