Chapter 202: Chapter 202: Billionfold Payback, Demon Race Treasured Fragment! (3rd update)
“Xuan’er, come over here to your master.”
After Ji Xuan entered the Dao Palace territory, Lu Changsheng called her in, having prepared the Demon Race Skills for her.
Lu Changsheng planned to cultivate a Demon God to replace the Demon Lord, ruling over the myriad tribes of Huang State.
Ji Xuan came to the cave dwelling, and Lu Changsheng took out the Heaven Rank high-grade cultivation technique “Celestial Fox Nine Transformations.”
As Ji Xuan possessed the Demon God Physique, she was doubly effective when cultivating Demon Race Skills. With Lu Changsheng’s brief guidance, Ji Xuan quickly got the hang of it.
“Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Ji Xuan the Heaven Rank high-grade cultivation technique ‘Celestial Fox Nine Transformations,’ earning a 100x reward for teaching your disciple: The Immortal Rank low-grade cultivation technique ‘Immortal Demon Canon.’
The Immortal Rank low-grade Demon Race cultivation technique could only be practiced by members of the Demon Race and was of no use to Lu Changsheng.
Lu Changsheng didn’t mind, as it could be used to cultivate Ji Xuan in the future.
Lu Changsheng then bestowed a new magical treasure upon Ji Xuan, replacing her previous item.
Lu Changsheng subsequenty taught Ji Xuan a Flying Sword and a set of swordsmanship.
As Mount Shu was mainly populated by Sword Cultivators, Lu Changsheng, at a minimum, taught each disciple a set of swordsmanship for self-defense.
“Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Ji Xuan the superior Acquired Spirit Treasure ‘Mysterious Fox Sword,’ earning a 800x reward for teaching your disciple: The medium-grade Innate Spirit Treasure ‘Fire Fox Demon Sword.’
“Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Ji Xuan the Heaven Rank low-grade swordsmanship ‘City-Overthrowing Sword Technique,’ earning a 400x reward for teaching your disciple: The Heaven Rank high-grade swordsmanship ‘Dance of the Enchanting City.’
The returned Innate Spirit Treasure Flying Sword could be incorporated into Lu Changsheng’s Grand Thousand Sword Formation.
As for the Heaven Rank high-grade swordsmanship “Dance of the Enchanting City,” it was not particularly suitable for Lu Changsheng to practice.
Ji Xuan took some time, but soon grasped the “City-Overthrowing Sword Technique.”
Wielding the Mysterious Fox Sword, Ji Xuan’s figure was graceful, like a willow in the breeze, her movements as majestic as a startled swan or a meandering dragon, captivating the onlooker, causing their spirits to quiver.
The “City-Overthrowing Sword Technique” itself came with a charm effect, distracting the opponent at crucial moments to deliver a fatal blow.
Ji Xuan’s Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Bloodline, teeming with charm within its Demonic Qi, harmonized with the “City-Overthrowing Sword Technique.”
Fortunately, Lu Changsheng had an Innate Taoist Body and was unaffected.
Otherwise, as her master, it would have been quite embarrassing to be charmed by his disciple.
Lu Changsheng then bestowed upon Ji Xuan the spirit attack-type magical treasure “Soul Devouring Bead,” to increase her range of attacks.
“Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Ji Xuan the medium-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure ‘Soul Devouring Bead,’ earning a 100x reward for teaching your disciple: The low-grade Innate Spirit Treasure ‘Demon King Bead.’
“Demon King Bead: A Demon Race magical treasure forged from the souls of Great Demons in the Void Refinement Realm.”
The Innate Spirit Treasure level Demon Bead still had no use for Lu Changsheng.
“I forgot there’s an even more suitable treasure for you, to replace the Soul Devouring Bead,” said Lu Changsheng.
Lu Changsheng directly bestowed this returned treasure upon Ji Xuan.
“Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Ji Xuan the low-grade Innate Spirit Treasure ‘Demon King Bead,’ earning a billionx teaching reward: A fragment of the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure.”
“Today’s gift-giving count -1, the remaining number of gifts you can give today is 0.”
A billion, a billionx return?!
Lu Changsheng was stunned.
This was the highest return multiple he had ever triggered since he began teaching his disciples!
Previously, the highest return multiple had been a ten millionx return, with the third-grade elixir “Soul-Returning Pill” earning a return of the ninth-grade elixir “Gathering Soul Pill.”
However, this time it was a billionx return!
Lu Changsheng introspected and saw a metallic shard inside his body, about the size of a fingertip, colored in Chaotic Primordial Yellow. It did not emit an astonishing pressure like other immortal artifacts, but remained inconspicuous.
The more it seemed this way, the more Lu Changsheng believed this object was extraordinary.
The system displayed the information about the treasure.
[Demon Race Treasured Fragment: A fragment of unknown origin.]
“…”
This description is really simple.
Lu Changsheng read the treasure description but still was clueless.
“Could it be that collecting all the fragments will allow for the formation of the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure?”
His intuition told Lu Changsheng that this must be correct.
However, giving his disciple a low-grade Innate Spirit Treasure and triggering a billion-fold return had only resulted in one fragment.
If he wanted to form the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure, he didn’t know how many fragments would be needed, and the return probability was frighteningly low.
“Since it’s a fragment of the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure, it’s very likely that rewarding my disciple with Demon Race magical artifacts will result in an extremely low probability of return. I need to reward my fifth disciple with more Demon Race magical artifacts in the future.”
Lu Changsheng was curious about what ultimate treasure the Demon Race Treasured Fragments could form.
Considering the extremely low probability of returning the Treasured Fragments, Lu Changsheng dared not hope to collect them all at once; he could only slowly mentor his disciples and collect these kinds of fragments.
As Ji Xuan’s cultivation improved, the highest grade of magical artifacts he could reward her with would increase, naturally raising the probability of returning Demon Race fragments.
In short, the higher the disciple’s cultivation, the higher the quality of the returned treasures.
In order to collect fragments of the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure, Lu Changsheng had to properly cultivate Ji Xuan, his demon disciple.
After using up the five chances to reward, Lu Changsheng initiated a power-infusing initiation for Ji Xuan.
The overwhelming spiritual energy passed from the Heavenly Spirit into Ji Xuan’s body, and Lu Changsheng could feel the terrifying demonic qi within her.
The purity of Ji Xuan’s demonic qi was even greater than that of the Demon Lord, and her future potential exceeded that of the Demon Lord; all she needed was time for cultivation.
Ji Xuan’s face flushed with the infusion of the overwhelming spiritual energy, becoming even more enchanting.
[Ding, you have transmitted 100 days of cultivation to your disciple Ji Xuan, who actually received 20 days of cultivation. You have received the mentorship hundred-fold return reward: 2000 days of cultivation.]
With his cultivation at the sixth layer of the Void Refinement Realm, Lu Changsheng, sending a portion of his power to Ji Xuan, who was at the first layer of the Dao Palace realm, had already given her enough to practice for a while.
“Go down and cultivate. As soon as you refine the spiritual energy your master has transmitted, come and find your master at once to replenish it.”
Now that Lu Changsheng knew rewarding Ji Xuan with Demon Race magical artifacts could result in the return of a fragment of the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure, he started to look more favorably upon this disciple.
If he managed to collect all Demon Race Treasured Fragments, he might be able to form a high-grade Immortal Artifact, or even a magical artifact more powerful than a high-grade one.
“Mm.”
Ji Xuan realized that her cultivation techniques couldn’t enchant her master at all, internally sighing that her cultivation level still wasn’t exquisite enough.
In ancient times, when the bloodline of the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox reached great accomplishment, they could enchant even the strong members of their own race, yet she couldn’t shake her master in the slightest.
Ji Xuan went down to cultivate, while Lu Changsheng took out the Demon Race Treasured Fragment, pondering if the fragment had any current use.
The fragment of Chaotic Primordial Yellow metal was extremely heavy; despite being the size of a fingernail, it weighed ten thousand pounds, and it was unclear what kind of refining material it was.
Lu Changsheng tried infusing it with True Qi to see any reaction.
The Taiqing Wuji Technique operated, and purple True Qi entered the fragment.
However, the Demon Race Treasured Fragment didn’t react at all. After the purple True Qi entered, it flowed back into Lu Changsheng’s Dantian Qi Sea without leaving any mark.
Apart from being heavy, it was like an utterly ordinary metal fragment.
“This is going to be tough.”
If the system had not identified it as a fragment of the Demon Race’s ultimate treasure, Lu Changsheng might have indeed thrown it aside as a mundane item to collect dust.
Lu Changsheng placed the fragment within the Chaotic Heaven and Earth inside his body, letting it hover within the chaos.