Xiao Fan and Dugu Aotian exchanged glances. Their new junior sister was a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal? And an assassin?
Their master was too fierce, having accepted a disciple whose realm eclipsed that of all fellow disciples, and even their master’s.
“Since you have acknowledged me as your master, I cannot be without a gift. This Ginseng Fruit can prolong your life; consider it a present from your master.”
Lu Changsheng started looking for excuses to bestow treasures.
He wanted to see what treasures he could get in return for bestowing a Fourteenth Grade Ginseng Fruit.
“Ginseng Fruit?!”
Su Xiaoqi took the Ginseng Fruit handed by Lu Changsheng, incredulous.
Lu Changsheng didn’t punish her, and there was a reward?
This Ginseng Fruit wouldn’t be poisoned, would it?
As an Earth-Level assassin from the Eternal Night Pavilion, Su Xiaoqi’s first thought was that this was a poisoned fruit.
However, the fragrance emanating from the Ginseng Fruit seemed to open up her pores and whet her appetite, unlike that of poison.
Besides, Lu Changsheng wouldn’t need to go to such lengths to harm her.
The Green Ox King had been beaten to the point of not just physical destruction but spiritual dissolution by Lu Changsheng.
Su Xiaoqi had read about the Ginseng Fruit; it was said that if one were fated, just by smelling it, one could live three hundred and sixty years, and by eating one, forty-seven thousand years.
Ginseng Fruits were even rarer than Pan Peaches, and their effects could stack with the latter, making them extremely valuable.
Just after accepting her as his disciple, Lu Changsheng had bestowed such a treasure upon her.
What exactly was he trying to do?
Although Su Xiaoqi had faced life and death many times, she still could not discern Lu Changsheng’s intentions.
Even if Lu Changsheng tortured her, it would be more reasonable than bestowing a Ginseng Fruit upon her.
Noticing that Lu Changsheng seemed approachable, Su Xiaoqi tentatively asked, “My acupoints have been sealed. If I consume the Ginseng Fruit, I might be burst by its potency. Could you release some of my acupoints?”
“I can restore your Earth Immortal Realm cultivation.”
With strength comparable to a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal, an Earth Immortal Realm assassin posed no threat to Lu Changsheng.
[Ding, you have bestowed Ginseng Fruit upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi, earning the “Gift your Disciple, Receive a Hundredfold Return” reward: Ginseng Fruit Tree.]
[Ginseng Fruit Tree: One of the divine trees of the Immortal Realm, capable of bearing Ginseng Fruits.]
A second Ginseng Fruit Tree appeared in the Inner World within Lu Changsheng.
Lu Changsheng felt a rush of excitement.
Given enough time to obtain thousands of Ginseng Fruit Trees, he could mass-produce Ginseng Fruits and Pan Peaches in the future.
Ginseng Fruits and Pan Peaches were Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that could extend one’s lifespan, and Lu Changsheng could use this batch to enlist a group of cultivators or nurture the younger generation of disciples within his Sect.
Su Xiaoqi, after partially recovering her True Qi, pulled down the black cloth covering her face to reveal a stunningly beautiful visage, eyebrows like willow leaves, skin like creamy jade, yet with an aura cold as frost—the very image of a frosty beauty.
Xiao Fan and Dugu Aotian were taken aback.
They had imagined their junior sister to be a merciless Demon Chief, but instead, she was a frosty beauty.
Her icy temperament bore some resemblance to Xia Ningxue, prompting a twinge of nostalgia in Lu Changsheng.
However, Xia Ningxue was serenely detached and cool, while Su Xiaoqi’s coldness was tinged with killing intent.
Gnawing on the Ginseng Fruit, Su Xiaoqi still couldn’t believe it.
What exactly were Lu Changsheng’s intentions?
“This piece of Separation Fire Divine Light Stone, I bestow it upon you,” said Lu Changsheng as he took out a Fourteenth Grade refinement material.
The Separation Fire Divine Light Stone was a refining material returned from the bestowment of Yan Stone.
Lu Changsheng decided to test various possibilities.
“This is the rare Separation Fire Divine Light Stone, a scarce material used by Refinement Grandmasters to forge Holy Artifacts. You, what on earth are you planning?” Su Xiaoqi took the refining material, feeling as though Lu Changsheng was mentally torturing her.
Why would he give her the Separation Fire Divine Light Stone out of the blue?
“Stop talking nonsense and take it.”
Lu Changsheng was blunt with his tenth disciple, treating her merely as a tool.
[Ding, you have bestowed the “Separation Fire Divine Light Stone” upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi, and received a thousandfold return reward for teaching: fifteenth-grade refinement material “Sunflame Essence Gold”.]
[Sunflame Essence Gold: A top-grade refinement material produced from primordial ancient mines, commonly used for forging ultimate holy artifacts.]
Materials for forging ultimate holy artifacts?
Lu Changsheng obtained a piece of Sunflame Essence Gold that was only the size of a fist, but weighed hundreds of thousands of pounds and was incredibly hot.
Lu Changsheng had no doubt that without forging the Sunflame Essence Gold into a magical treasure, merely channeling True Qi into this piece of Sunflame Essence Gold would make it a throwing-type magical treasure, capable of killing a Heavenly Immortal with its impact.
As the saying goes, a brick flies with great force.
“I will impart to you a Body Refinement Method.”
Lu Changsheng had long since cultivated the sacred-tier top-grade Body Refinement Method, “Three Thousand Demon Gods Visualization”, to the Great Perfection Realm, and was finally able to transmit a sacred-tier top-grade cultivation technique.
“But I am not a martial cultivator…”
Su Xiaoqi was a sword cultivator, yet Lu Changsheng was intent on forcibly teaching her a body refinement method?
“As an assassin, practicing martial and cultivation dual practice can increase your success rate. Otherwise, if you encounter another formidable opponent like your master in the future, what will you do?”
“…”
Su Xiaoqi, feeling helpless, couldn’t deny the logic in Lu Changsheng’s words. If she could master this technique and enhance the strength of her physique, she might become a heavenly-level assassin in the future.
Lu Changsheng imparted the mnemonic verse, guiding Su Xiaoqi into the rudiments of the practice.
With Su Xiaoqi’s high talent, it took her less than a month to enter the threshold of the “Three Thousand Demon Gods Visualization”.
[Ding, you have bestowed the sacred-tier top-grade cultivation technique “Three Thousand Demon Gods Visualization” upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi, and received an eight hundredfold return reward: Quasi-Emperor tier body tempering technique “Transforming Dragon Art”.]
[“Transforming Dragon Art”: A Quasi-Emperor tier body tempering technique. When cultivated to the peak, the toughness of the body is comparable to that of a Great Accomplishment Daluo Golden Immortal True Dragon.]
Finally, a return reward of a Quasi-Emperor tier body tempering technique!
If he cultivated this technique to Great Perfection, Lu Changsheng’s physique could rival that of the True Dragon of the Dragon Clan with Great Accomplishment in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
The true Dragon Clan, once grown, becomes Daluo Golden Immortals with physiques surpassing top-grade ultimate treasures.
The Dragon Clan was not numerous, and so far, Lu Changsheng had only seen one true dragon, Ning Qianqian.
However, Ning Qianqian was not an ordinary member of the Dragon Clan; she was descended from the Dragon Emperor and possessed the Dragon Emperor Bloodline, which made her even stronger than an average True Dragon.
As someone with an Innate Taoist Body, Lu Changsheng could cultivate higher realm techniques earlier than others, and his cultivation speed was unusual among his peers.
If he could advance his cultivation of “Transforming Dragon Art” to the highest realm ahead of time, then Lu Changsheng would possess a physique comparable to that of a Demon Body of Great Accomplishment Daluo Golden Immortal True Dragon, ensuring he would not easily be injured even by attacks from top-grade ultimate treasures.
The “Transforming Dragon Art” required numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures to perform body tempering, in order to cultivate Heavenly Dragon Qi within the body and achieve perfect integration with the physique.
Lu Changsheng browsed “Transforming Dragon Art”, chanting to himself, and proceeded to take out a holy artifact-level alchemical furnace to refine body tempering elixirs.
Apart from the demon race’s Ning Qianqian, who had the Dragon Emperor Bloodline and could simply swallow various immortal pills and heavenly materials and earthly treasures for refinement, Xiao Fan’s War Heaven Tyrant Body, Lu Qinglian’s Martial King Divine Physique, Dugu Aotian’s Demonic Ancestor Body, and Su Xiaoqi’s Body of Nothingness all required elixirs for body tempering.
Su Xiaoqi received a Mutton Fat Jade Vial filled with astonishingly powerful body tempering elixir, which left her in disbelief.
Lu Changsheng had crafted the body tempering elixirs using rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures like the Ginseng King, Netherworld Grass, Xuan Yuan Purple Qi, and various immortal pills of extraordinary potency, which were extremely precious.
Moreover, Lu Changsheng had concocted different types of the body tempering elixirs according to each disciple’s constitution.
For Lu Qinglian and Xiao Fan, who had Fire Spirit Roots, the body tempering elixir formulated by Lu Changsheng contained Fire Spirit Blood Ganoderma, Jinyang Fire Pomegranate, Liuyang Curved Ginseng, and Phoenix Blood as the main ingredients.
For Dugu Aotian, who had the Demonic Ancestor Body, the body tempering elixir to be used contained Corpse Grass, Soul Breaking Flower, Ghost Face Fruit, Dragon Bone, and other rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures as primary ingredients.
Su Xiaoqi was astonished that Lu Changsheng could produce so many types of rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and was willing to let his disciples use them for body tempering.
What a strange man he was.
Su Xiaoqi’s interest in Lu Changsheng grew stronger.
“Just what is this guy’s background? He’s capable of killing the half-step Great Luo Golden Immortal Green Ox King at the Heavenly Immortal Realm, even I was outwitted by him. He also possesses all sorts of cultivation techniques, magical treasures, immortal pills, and is extraordinarily generous. Ah, if only I had known not to take on the task of assassinating him…”
Bathing in the medicinal pool, Su Xiaoqi’s skin was pure and flawless, three thousand strands of black hair floated on the water surface, as her Body of Nothingness continually absorbed the medicine’s potency.
“Come to your master later, I have a magical treasure for you.”
Lu Changsheng’s voice sounded in her ears, and she hastily submerged herself halfway into the medicinal pool, mistaking it for his arrival, but it was only a voice transmission.
“Understood.”
What exactly is he up to?
Su Xiaoqi was puzzled to hear that Lu Changsheng wanted to bestow upon her another magical treasure.
Her peculiar master was surprisingly strange, making her doubt her own life.