Still no Talismans that Lu Changsheng wanted.
Luckily, Su Xiaoqi was a Daluo Golden Immortal, who could bestow Talismans up to the fifteenth grade.
Lu Changsheng granted the Sunflame Puppet Talisman to Su Xiaoqi.
[Ding, you have granted your disciple Su Xiaoqi the “Sunflame Puppet Talisman,” reward for teaching returned: failed.]
Huh?
Grants like these Talismans didn’t come with a return reward?
Lu Changsheng couldn’t help feeling dejected.
Could it be that even the system didn’t have higher-grade puppet-type Talismans?
Lu Changsheng, unwilling to give up, granted another one.
[Ding, you have granted your disciple Su Xiaoqi the “Sunflame Puppet Talisman,” reward for teaching returned: failed.]
It was a failure again.
Lu Changsheng frowned.
He refused to believe that the system, which return rewards even for the eighteenth-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures like “Gathering Spirit Colorful Lotus,” would stop with just fifteenth-grade puppet Talismans.
Lu Changsheng granted seventeen “Sunflame Puppet Talismans,” all failed.
“This is the last time I grant a Sunflame Puppet Talisman.”
Lu Changsheng couldn’t continue with the consecutive failures. Your next chapter awaits on empire
If the eighteenth Sunflame Puppet Talisman also failed, it would mean that the system likely couldn’t return any higher-grade Talismans.
[Ding, you have granted your disciple Su Xiaoqi the “Sunflame Puppet Talisman,” reward for teaching returned a thousand-fold: “Golden Immortal Puppet Talisman.”]
[Golden Immortal Puppet Talisman: Seventeen-grade Talisman, containing a Daluo Golden Immortal puppet (second level of Daluo Golden Immortal).]
As expected, the grant of puppet Talismans wasn’t limited to the fifteenth grade.
Lu Changsheng received a golden Talisman, his eyes burning with eagerness.
This Talisman actually contained a Daluo Golden Immortal puppet!
In essence, Lu Changsheng had acquired a second-level Daluo Golden Immortal enforcer.
After Su Xiaoqi obtained hundreds of puppet Talismans, his master finally stopped granting him such Talismans and started bestowing other treasures.
Another hundred years passed.
“This sword is called ‘Youmeng’.”
Lu Changsheng awarded Su Xiaoqi a purple Immortal Sword as thin as a cicada’s wing, which emitted an astonishing pressure.
Su Xiaoqi excitedly took the Immortal Sword.
This was a lower-grade Holy Artifact!
[Ding, you have granted your disciple Su Xiaoqi the lower-grade Holy Artifact “Youmeng,” reward for teaching returned three-hundred-fold: mid-grade Holy Artifact “Bixiao Celestial Sword.”]
Nine Heavens Sword Formation, Lu Changsheng obtained three Immortal Swords.
Lu Changsheng looked with satisfaction at the Bixiao Celestial Sword that appeared in him.
[Bixiao Celestial Sword: Mid-grade Holy Artifact, forged by an ancient power with a slight touch of Hongmeng Green Qi and a variety of rare forging materials, the second sword of the “Nine Heavens Sword Formation.”]
The Bixiao Celestial Sword, along with the Qingxiao Immortal Sword and Zixiao Immortal Sword, was forged using the Qi of Hongmeng, but each embodied different aspects of Hongmeng Qi: Green, Blue, and Purple.
Lu Changsheng tried to control the three mid-grade Holy Artifacts at the same time.
Lu Changsheng not only had to expend three times the True Qi, but also had to split his Divine Sense into three strands.
“Controlling the Bixiao Celestial Sword, Qingxiao Immortal Sword, and Zixiao Immortal Sword at the same time is already my limit, and I can only maintain it for the time it takes to burn three incense sticks. I still need to improve my own cultivation.”
Lu Changsheng tried to control the three Immortal Swords simultaneously, and the swords voraciously devoured his True Qi.
Maintaining mid-grade Holy Artifacts required an immense amount of True Qi; even as a third-level Daluo Golden Immortal, Lu Changsheng was somewhat overwhelmed.
While Lu Changsheng was testing his limits, Su Xiaoqi refined the lower-grade Holy Artifact “Youmeng.”
…
Two hundred years later, Dugu Aotian was still being pursued by Xuan Yang Old Ancestor.
Xuan Yang Old Ancestor couldn’t believe that he, a Great Demon Head at the half-step Great Luo level, was actually being toyed with by a Heavenly Immortal, so he relentlessly chased after him.
An old, dilapidated temple, this place had long been desolate, and wild grass overgrew inside the temple.
A woman dressed in white, her face veiled, sat alone in the courtyard, with an ancient zither placed in front of her. Her slender, delicate hands played the instrument effortlessly, attracting many Spirit Birds and Immortal Deer to her side, embodying a tranquil and peaceful time.
Nature’s spiritual energy seemed to be naturally attracted, continually flowing into the woman’s body.
Suddenly, a mass of Demonic Qi traveled from afar and settled within the dilapidated temple.
The Spirit Birds and Immortal Deers, startled by the Demonic Qi, scrambled away in all directions.
The woman with the veiled face took a clear look at the handsome face within the Demonic Qi and gasped in surprise, “It’s you?”
“You?”
Dugu Aotian was also surprised.
In order to escape pursuit from Xuan Yang Old Ancestor, he had exhausted all means, but Xuan Yang Old Ancestor always found a way to roughly locate Dugu Aotian’s whereabouts.
Dugu Aotian had inadvertently entered this abandoned temple, only to encounter Liu Yiyi, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, whom he had met back in Unparalleled City.
Now both of them were surprised and embarrassed, to the point where they were at a loss for words.
“Father deduced that I would have an encounter here, which is why he let me come down the mountain alone. Why would I run into him? Could the encounter Father spoke of be this person? Impossible, he is a Great Demon Head…”
Liu Yiyi struggled internally. As Dugu Aotian was the only outsider who had seen her face and shoulders, and her father had deemed it an encounter, Liu Yiyi’s pretty face blushed.
Dugu Aotian approached Liu Yiyi step by step.
Liu Yiyi couldn’t help but feel nervous, “You, why are you here? What do you want to do? Are you not afraid that I’ll kill you?”
Dugu Aotian was puzzled too; he had wanted to ask why Liu Yiyi was in this place.
However, Xuan Yang Old Ancestor could catch up at any time. Now was not the time to dwell on past issues with Liu Yiyi, “Miss, a powerful enemy is chasing after me from behind. You should leave quickly to avoid being implicated.”
“You must have done something wrong, hence why you are being pursued by the Orthodox Sects. I am different from you, I do not fear the Orthodox Sects.”
Liu Yiyi pouted, still perceiving Dugu Aotian as a Demon Sect individual.
And it was no wonder, for Dugu Aotian, after all, possessed the Demonic Ancestor Body. He was one of the most gifted among all Great Demons, with extremely pure Demonic Cultivation Skills, appearing in every aspect as one from the Demon Sects.
“You won’t escape.”
Several more masses of Demonic Qi arrived at the decrepit temple. Xuan Yang Old Ancestor arrived with a few Demon Sect Elders, surrounding Dugu Aotian and Liu Yiyi.
Dugu Aotian’s expression turned grave; he knew that another fierce battle was imminent.
Xuan Yang Old Ancestor was too powerful, and Dugu Aotian was no match for him alone.
He glanced at Liu Yiyi from the corner of his eye.
Since their parting from Unparalleled City, Liu Yiyi had progressed from the ninth layer of the Earth Immortal Realm to the fifth layer of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, almost as fast as his own advancement.
Upon seeing this, her identity must be far from ordinary.
Although Dugu Aotian was unaware that Liu Yiyi was the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, he just knew her origins were extraordinary.
As the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, the resources available to Liu Yiyi for cultivation were incomparable to an ordinary cultivator.
More importantly, Liu Yiyi’s Immortal Spirit Holy Body was absorbing nature’s spiritual energy every second and refining it into her own True Qi at an astonishingly fast pace.
Every special physique had its unique benefits, and the greatest advantage of the Immortal Spirit Holy Body was its extremely fast cultivation speed.
This was also the reason Liu Yiyi had become the Holy Maiden of the Sacred Land of Yaochi.
Dugu Aotian was unaware of these details but knew that if he joined forces with Liu Yiyi, they might have a chance to defeat Xuan Yang Old Ancestor.
Xuan Yang Old Ancestor glanced at the unfamiliar Liu Yiyi, who was merely a Heavenly Immortal, “I didn’t expect you to have an ally, but since you killed my son, I must kill both of you.”
“Xuan Yang Old Ancestor?”
Liu Yiyi recognized the Demon Chief who was chasing Dugu Aotian.
Xuan Yang Old Ancestor, a modestly notorious Demon Chief, took pleasure in consuming Golden Cores of weaker cultivators.
With the Demon Sect Hall of Senluo behind him, the various Immortal Sects had trouble eliminating Xuan Yang Old Ancestor.
But Xuan Yang Old Ancestor, who committed all sorts of evil, why would he pursue Dugu Aotian?
Could it be an inside job?
It seemed Xuan Yang Old Ancestor mistook her as an accomplice of Dugu Aotian, and now she had no choice but to join forces with him.
She could not possibly reveal her identity to Xuan Yang Old Ancestor.
Xuan Yang Old Ancestor did not have the right to know her identity.
Liu Yiyi put away her zither, drew her longsword, and backed up against Dugu Aotian, ready to face Xuan Yang Old Ancestor and the four Demon Sect Elders, “Last time you helped me, so this time I will help you. But the righteous and the evil are not on the same path, after this, we shall part ways.”
“Agreed.”
Dugu Aotian, often mistaken for a Demon Chief, no longer cared about it and decided to focus on overcoming the current predicament.
Although both were only at the fifth layer of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, Xuan Yang Old Ancestor was not quite as strong as the Green Ox King. Among those a half-step away from being a Daluo Golden Immortal, he was average. With the two peerless geniuses joining forces, they would definitely have the strength to fight.