Chapter 74: Chapter 74: Swallowing the Python Gold Pill Whole
“Master, you’ve returned?”
Lian was sparring with Xia Ningxue when she saw Lu Changsheng return and eagerly greeted him.
“Did you cause any trouble today?”
“Your disciple wouldn’t be causing trouble all the time.”
“Here are three elixir pills for you to use,”
Lu Changsheng presented Lian with three small jade bottles, which contained the Python Gold Pill, Blood Lotus Pill, and Enlightenment Pill.
The Python Gold Pill, a fifth-grade elixir, strengthens the physique.
The Blood Lotus Pill, a fifth-grade elixir, enhances vitality and blood.
The little Enlightenment Pill, a fifth-grade elixir, increases the chances of sudden insights, suitable for those in the Nascent Soul Realm.
“Thank you, Master.”
Lian accepted the three elixir pills and opened one of the jade bottles, releasing a scorching aura and a vast demonic power that instantly filled the entire palace.
“What impressive medicinal power, it seems like it would be tasty.”
Lian wiped her drool, the Python Gold Pill being of the Fire Attribute, which perfectly matched her Fire Spirit Root.
This was an elixir made from the Golden Core of the Red-Trained Python that had cultivated into human form for eight hundred years, a great supplement for the physically robust Huang Tribe.
“Master, can I directly ingest it?”
“Mhm.”
Lu Changsheng thought there was nothing inappropriate.
Ordinary cultivators who directly swallowed a Python Gold Pill would probably explode and die, but Lian had the Martial King Divine Physique, which was vastly different.
With the overbearing nature of the Martial King Divine Physique, even if she directly swallowed the Python Gold Pill, the demonic power within the pill would not burst her body but instead would be absorbed by the Martial King Divine Physique.
After swallowing the Python Gold Pill, Lian sat down on the spot to meditate and began refining the mighty demonic power of the Python Gold Pill, tempering her body.
Inside Lian’s body, a thread of crimson True Qi appeared, extremely burning hot.
Xia Ningxue was inwardly astonished.
It was her first time seeing someone in the Nascent Soul Realm swallow a Python Gold Pill whole.
The normal procedure was to slowly absorb the demonic power of the Python Gold Pill from the outside, then gradually introduce it into the body for refining, not direct ingestion, which typically continued for several days.
It can only be said that extraordinary people do extraordinary things.
[Ding, you have rewarded your disciple “Lian” with a fifth-grade elixir “Python Gold Pill” and have received a thousandfold return reward from teaching: an eighth-grade elixir “Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill.”]
[Ding, you have rewarded your disciple “Lian” with a fifth-grade elixir “Blood Lotus Pill” and have received a five hundredfold return reward from teaching: a seventh-grade elixir “Fire Lotus Elixir.”]
[Ding, you have rewarded your disciple “Lian” with a fifth-grade elixir “little Enlightenment Pill” and have received a thousandfold return reward from teaching: a seventh-grade elixir “Enlightenment Pill.”]
Lu Changsheng has used up today’s three chances to reward.
Another eighth-grade elixir!
The system consecutively announced two seventh-grade elixirs and one eighth-grade elixir, bringing joy to Lu Changsheng’s heart.
Today must be an auspicious day, which is why he was so lucky.
Lian will need some time to refine the demonic power of the Python Gold Pill, with Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue acting as protectors for her.
“Fairy Xia, your cultivation has advanced these days, could it be that one of the Supreme Elders has performed the Power-infusing Initiation on you?”
During the lull, Lu Changsheng struck up a casual conversation with Xia Ningxue.
“Mhm.”
Xia Ningxue admitted it but did not elaborate, as it was an internal affair of the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion.
As expected, with her innate talent and the power-infusing initiation by the Supreme Elders of the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion, Xia Ningxue’s cultivation was advancing by leaps and bounds.
However, the Supreme Elders of the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion were sacrificing their own cultivation to swiftly nurture an exceptional talent for the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion, which was in stark contrast to Lu Changsheng’s rewardbearing initiations.
The Supreme Elders who spared no effort to sacrifice their own cultivation for the benefit of their disciples, although unable to overcome their Heavenly Tribulation, could still be regarded as half a Saint.
The demonic power of the Python Gold Pill alarmed the Second Princess as well as the Imperial Guard of the palace.
“Your disciple directly swallowed the Python Gold Pill whole? Absolutely not, doing so will cause an explosion of their body and death!”
The Second Princess hurried over and discovered that Lu Changsheng had allowed his disciple to take the Python Gold Pill, her mouth agape with shock.
The Python Gold Pill is not meant to be used this way…
But aside from their face turning red, Lu Changsheng’s disciple exhibited no other abnormalities, nor did they explode and die, which somewhat reassured the Second Princess and the crowd of Imperial Guards.
By the side, Xia Ningxue explained, “Elder Lu’s disciple has a special physique, unafraid of the Python’s demonic power, no need for concern.”
“I see.”
The Second Princess felt relieved, yet she still found it hard to believe that a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Realm could swallow a Python Gold Pill and remain unharmed.
“Nascent Soul Realm, second layer,”
Half a day later, Lian opened her eyes, her aura completely rejuvenated. Her Martial King Divine Physique had fully absorbed the demonic power of the Python Gold Pill, transforming it into True Qi. The Martial King Divine Physique grew even more formidable, and due to digesting the vast demonic power of the Python Gold Pill, Lian’s cultivation level also broke through to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Realm in one fell swoop.
“She broke through directly?”
The Second Princess was even more astonished.
In these days, she had witnessed more strange occurrences than all the ones she had ever seen before combined.
“Master, isn’t Lian amazing?”
“Very good,”
Lu Changsheng was content. His eldest disciple had broken through to the first layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and his second disciple had broken through to the second layer. Sooner or later, they would be able to step into the Dao Palace Realm, and by then, Lu Changsheng would be able to grant them even higher- level treasures.
“I have ordered a banquet to be prepared, and we hope Daoist Lu, the Holy Maiden, and the various esteemed guests will not find it wanting.”
The Second Princess was even more respectful, Lu Changsheng, Lu Qinglian, Xia Ningxue, these were the favored children of heaven, with futures beyond measure. While they had not yet become unreachable, it was a chance to forge a connection with immortals.
The Second Princess had arranged a banquet, and princes, dukes, generals, and Great Confucians from the Xia Kingdom all attended.
With prodigies from Mount Shu and Inquiry Immortal Pavilion present, these worldly dynastic nobles also sought to ingratiate themselves.
“There is no need for excessive flattery; Daoist Lu does not like such manners,”
The Second Princess sent a message to everyone, to prevent the nobles from being too obsequious and thus incurring the displeasure of cultivators like Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue.
Anything in excess is counterproductive.
After the banquet and deep into the night, with the surroundings silent, Lu Changsheng took out the eighth-grade Divine Pill “Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill” returned by the system.
The Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill, just like the Red Emperor Dragon Strength Pill, was stored in a Purple Gold Bagua Gourd to prevent the leakage of its medicinal power.
[Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill: An eighth-grade Divine Pill made from a shape- shifted Red Flood Dragon’s Golden Core that has cultivated for eight thousand years. It contains the immense demonic power of the Red Flood Dragon, which can strengthen the body and enhance cultivation progress.]
An eight-thousand-year-old dragon?
Lu Changsheng had read in Mount Shu’s records that in this world, after ten thousand years, a Jiao can transform into a dragon.
An eight-thousand-year-old Jiao was already nearing its transformation into a dragon.
Its Golden Core, one can only imagine, was full of immense demonic power.
“This will be key to my breakthrough into the Dao Palace Realm and stepping into the Void Refinement Realm,”
Lu Changsheng understood that going from the ninth layer of the Dao Palace Realm to the Void Refinement Realm was a bottleneck.
As someone who practiced both martial and cultivation dual practice, and possessing an Innate Taoist Body, he would require an exceptionally vast amount of nature’s spiritual energy. And the eighth-grade Divine Pill “Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill” could perfectly compensate for this substantial shortfall.
Obviously, the preciousness of the eighth-grade Divine Pill was imaginable.
Lu Changsheng opened the Purple Gold Bagua Gourd, wanting to catch a glimpse of the true form of the Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill.
Suddenly, an extremely terrifying wave of demonic power burst forth. In an instant, all cultivators in the imperial city were alarmed!
This is not good.
Lu Changsheng’s expression subtly changed, the demonic power of the eight- thousand-year-old Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill was unimaginably vast; it might cause the cultivators of the imperial city to think a peerless Great Demon was attacking the city.
This would be a huge misunderstanding.