Lu Changsheng obtained a total of one thousand six hundred and seventy-three Demon Blood Stones from the Treasure Pavilion, which the Treasure Pavilion Elder had exchanged for treasures with other Holy Lands and Sects.
For other Holy Lands and Sects, Demon Blood Stones were of little use. Their value was at best equivalent to twelfth-grade or thirteenth-grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, not as good as exchanging them with Mount Taihua’s Holy Land and thereby owing them a favor.
After Lu Changsheng became number one on the Qilin Ranking, Mount Taihua’s Holy Land’s reputation soared, and all major Holy Lands and Sects wanted to forge ties with it.
The current number one on the Qilin Ranking, if nothing unexpected happened, would become one of the strongest cultivators in the Immortal Realm in a million years.
With over a thousand Demon Blood Stones, Lu Changsheng had enough to reward his disciple for some time.
Lu Changsheng summoned his ninth disciple, Dugu Aotian, and rewarded him with several Demon Blood Stones.
[Ding, you rewarded your disciple Dugu Aotian with the Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure “Demon Blood Stone,” and obtained an 8 million times return reward: sixteenth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure “Demon Marshal’s Blood.”]
[Ding, you rewarded your disciple Dugu Aotian with the Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure “Demon Marshal’s Blood,” and the return reward failed.]
[Ding, you rewarded your disciple Dugu Aotian with the Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure “Demon Marshal’s Blood,” and the return reward failed.]
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“It really is strange.”
If it weren’t for Lu Changsheng’s experience of rewarding the disciple with a three-thousand-year Ginseng Fruit Tree before finally obtaining the Ginseng Fruit Ancestral Tree, he would have seriously doubted that rewarding the Demon Marshal’s Blood would yield any reward.
Although Lu Changsheng temporarily did not get any rewards, Dugu Aotian’s improvement was substantial.
Having refined the Demon Marshal’s Blood and devoured the fragments of the Demonic Dao’s origin within it, Dugu Aotian’s Demonic Cultivation Skills became even stronger.
After becoming a Quasi-Emperor, Dugu Aotian decided to amass his strength and aim to break through to the Immortal Emperor Realm.
“Well, I shouldn’t be in a rush. This is just the beginning. I still have more than a thousand Demon Blood Stones to use, which means I have over a thousand more chances. Let’s leave it to fate.”
Lu Changsheng did not continue to reward the Demon Blood Stones. Instead, he took out a Demon Sword and gave it to Dugu Aotian, “This Demon Sword ‘Demon Shadow’ is a lower-grade Emperor Soldier. Although you already possess the ancient Demon Soldier ‘Yuan Tu,’ this Demon Sword can produce wondrous effects when attacking the Primordial Spirit of an opponent, serving as your backup magical weapon.”
“Thank you, Master.”
Dugu Aotian received the Demon Sword bestowed by Lu Changsheng.
Although Dugu Aotian had already received many treasures from Lu Changsheng, no one ever scoffed at having too many treasures.
[Ding, you rewarded your disciple Dugu Aotian with the lower-grade Emperor Soldier “Demon Shadow,” and obtained a 100,000 times return reward: Dao Artifact Fragment ×1.]
A Dao Artifact Fragment?
Lu Changsheng felt secretly pleased.
He did not yet possess a Dao Artifact, but with enough Dao Artifact Fragments returned by the Disciple Apprenticeship Simulator, he would be able to assemble a complete Dao Artifact.
Lu Changsheng had witnessed the power of a Dao Artifact that could claim one’s Dao. Dantai Meng, the daughter of Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable, used just one Dao Artifact to severely injure the Nameless Corpse in the Nine Nether Forbidden Land and almost captured Lu Changsheng alive.
If it hadn’t been for Lu Changsheng possessing the even more dominant Taiyin Goddess Talisman, he would have fallen into Dantai Meng’s hands.
Lin Qinghan, after obtaining the “Wanhua Divine Umbrella” in the Goddess Daoxu, which the Mount Taihua Goddess used to claim her Dao, also possessed a Dao Artifact.
Only Lu Changsheng was still without a Dao Artifact.
In truth, if one’s status wasn’t special or if they didn’t have a unique opportunity, normal Immortal Emperors wouldn’t own Dao Artifacts, which were the level of Sect-Defending Treasures.
Dao Artifacts, even when placed in great Holy Lands, are treasures that guard the place.
Unlike Ultimate Treasures, Holy Artifacts, and Emperor Soldiers, which are divided into upper, middle, and lower grades, Dao Artifacts are categorized into nine grades.
Ninth-grade Dao Artifacts are the lowest.
Followed by eighth-grade and seventh-grade Dao Artifacts.
And a first-grade Dao Artifact rarely appears before the eyes of the common people.
However, even just a ninth-grade Dao Artifact, its power is already shocking, and a Great Accomplishment Immortal Emperor would not be able to utilize its full power. Preliminary Immortal Emperors would find it even more difficult to activate a Dao Artifact.
Lu Changsheng was unaware of the specific grade of Dantai Meng’s Eternal Dream Bell, but he knew that she had not even unleashed one-tenth of the bell’s power.
After returning from the Nine Nether Forbidden Land, Lu Changsheng, to avoid Dantai Meng’s retaliation, stayed at Mount Taihua for thirty thousand years, cultivating. During this time, he rewarded magical treasures and accumulated quite a few Dao Artifact Fragments.
Including the Dao Artifact Fragment returned this time, Lu Changsheng had saved up seventeen pieces.
Since Lu Changsheng’s cultivation time was still short, he wasn’t in a hurry; he calmly saved them up, possibly assembling a Dao-claiming treasure someday.
“Xu Jing, my twelfth disciple, should also be back by now.”
Lu Changsheng calculated that the time for Xu Jing, who went down the mountain for experience, to return to Yuntai Peak of Mount Taihua for a Power-infusing Initiation had come.
There were many disciples under Lu Changsheng, and each of them was prodigious.
They would occasionally descend the mountain for experience, accumulate merits, and only return to the Sect when they needed to undergo Power-infusing Initiation or had doubts about cultivation.
Because he had too many disciples coming and going, Lu Changsheng could always find a disciple to bestow treasures upon. Thus, his impact from the disciples’ excursions for experience was negligible.
The newly accepted disciple Xu Jing had the Yinming Eye and was also a cultivation prodigy. Moreover, Xu Jing’s method of cultivation was quite unique. Apart from accepting Power-infusing Initiation from Lu Changsheng, Xu Jing could also refine the Yins ha Qi between heaven and earth.
For ordinary cultivators, Yins ha Qi could damage their meridians and Primordial Spirit. To Xu Jing, however, it was an excellent supplement.
In thirty thousand years, Xu Jing had already become a Daluo Golden Immortal.
According to the rules of Lu Changsheng’s disciples, it was also time for Xu Jing to descend the mountain for experience.