Life is forfeit, and longevity is of no use then.
Lu Changsheng used the system’s battle simulation feature to simulate the effects of taking the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill.
The system simulated Feng Mu, the foremost prodigy of the Ancient Feng Family.
This simulated Feng Mu was at the sixth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm.
This was Feng Mu’s future self, possessing the Thunder God Emperor Body, capable of controlling the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
Feng Mu of the sixth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm could harness the Great Dao Gold Thunder.
A dozen streams of the Great Dao Gold Thunder, like golden pythons, twined around Feng Mu.
Having just stepped into the fifth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm, Lu Changsheng, without the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill, might defeat Feng Mu of the sixth tier, but it would only be a hard-fought victory.
Lu Changsheng did not choose to clash directly with the system-simulated Feng Mu, but instead ingested the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill to test its effects.
In the simulated battle, the elixir pills used were also simulated, so Lu Changsheng’s actual lifespan would not be depleted.
Lu Changsheng needed to test the effects of the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill so that he could decide when to use it should he face danger.
Lu Changsheng’s time spent cultivating was still very short, less than five hundred thousand years.
Theoretically, a powerhouse at the Immortal Emperor Realm could live more than ten million years, and if they were from the Demon Race, they could even live up to one hundred million years.
Lu Changsheng could at most afford to expend more than ten million years of his lifespan.
Once the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill entered his body, the demonic qi and the potency of the pill exploded as if igniting, filling Lu Changsheng’s meridians and internal organs.
Meridians and vital organs were scorched by Demonic Fire, turning his True Qi agitated and violent.
Lu Changsheng was overdrawing his life force.
This was the power of life burning.
Lu Changsheng continued to consume his lifespan, one million years, two million years, three million years, four million years…
Lu Changsheng felt his vitality rapidly waning, while his realm kept advancing.
Immortal Emperor sixth tier, Immortal Emperor seventh tier, Immortal Emperor eighth tier…
Ultimately, Lu Changsheng exhausted ten million years of his lifespan, and his realm steadied at the ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor.
The ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor, he now stood at the pinnacle of the Immortal Emperor Realm, just one step away from the Divine King Realm.
Lu Changsheng clenched his fists, feeling that a casual punch could level the surrounding mountains to the ground.
“Is this the state of the pinnacle of the Immortal Emperor? The power of the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill is indeed astonishing,” he thought.
Lu Changsheng experienced the power of the ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm ahead of time.
Now, when Lu Changsheng looked at the system’s simulated “future” Feng Mu, he was like observing an ant.
Lu Changsheng, having ascended to the ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm, could easily crush Feng Mu.
“Dragon-Elephant Limitless Fist!”
Lu Changsheng gathered his qi into a punch, taking the opportunity to test the strength of the ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm.
An enormous amount of True Qi gathered in his fist, forming the likeness of a True Dragon, its roar thundering and shaking the earth.
His punch burst forth, and the world went dark; space shattered.
Feng Mu and the mountains behind him were obliterated, reduced to dust.
“What incredible strength.”
Even Lu Changsheng was startled by his own power.
Lu Changsheng had only cultivated the first layer of the godly Body Tempering Skills, the Eternal Indestructible Art, yet combined with the ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm, his punching power was so formidable.
If he were to cultivate the Eternal Indestructible Art to the tenth layer and add the understanding of the ninth tier of the Immortal Emperor Realm, Lu Changsheng could even match a Divine King Realm powerhouse.
“End simulation.”
Lu Changsheng exited the simulation space.
It must be said, the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill truly defies the heavens.
The Great Explosive Qi Pill of fifteenth grade could, at most, allow Lu Changsheng to forcibly raise his realm to the sixth level of the Immortal Emperor at the cost of damaging his meridians.
But the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill is even more overbearing and can temporarily boost Lu Changsheng’s realm to the ninth level of the Immortal Emperor at its peak.
As a consequence, shortly after displaying the strength of a ninth level Immortal Emperor, Lu Changsheng would exhaust his lifespan and fall.
“From the description of the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill, this elixir was invented by a Demon Lord during ancient times. He crafted a large quantity of these pills and dispensed them to the powerhouses of the Demon Realm, allowing them to unleash their potential and withstand the Heavenly Court, but he ultimately failed. Presumably, many strong beings of the Demon Realm fell because of using the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill, leading to hefty losses for the realm.”
Lu Changsheng believed that the Demon Lord who had invented the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill was also a defiant individual.
This Demon Lord crafted an abundance of Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pills, attempting to defeat the Heavenly Court with this type of suicidal, daredevil method—indeed, it was truly defying the heavens.
The eventual outcome also showed that the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill could not save the Demon Army, and the Demon Realm ended up losing to the Ancient Heavenly Court.
Lu Changsheng had a slight understanding of the Demon Realm.
The hierarchy within the Demon Realm was strict, and in ancient times, the Demon Lord was the strongest in the realm, followed by the Demon Marshal, and beneath the Demon Marshal were several Demon Lords, then came the ten thousand Demon Generals and the hundred million Demon Soldiers.
The Demon Lord who created the heaven-defying Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill was certainly a madman.
“By consuming eight hundred thousand years of lifespan, I can temporarily ascend to the sixth level of the Immortal Emperor.”
“By consuming two million years of lifespan, I can temporarily ascend to the seventh level of the Immortal Emperor.”
“By consuming five million years of lifespan, I can temporarily ascend to the eighth level of the Immortal Emperor.”
“By consuming ten million years of lifespan, I can temporarily ascend to the ninth level of the Immortal Emperor.”
“Unless I have no other choice, I should not use the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill, even if it consumes eight hundred thousand years of my lifespan, it is a substantial loss for me.”
Lu Changsheng knew that lifespan was vitally important to cultivators.
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There had been those who were at the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm, on the verge of becoming Divine King realm powerhouses, but because they lacked a few hundred or a few thousand years, their lifespan ran out, and their efforts were wasted at the last moment.
With Lu Changsheng’s talent, he could not guarantee that he wouldn’t be stuck in the future, precisely lacking that little bit of lifespan.
Only in a life-threatening situation would Lu Changsheng use the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill.
He wondered if this pill would have any effect on powerhouses like the Elder Ancestors and Lin Xuantong, Liu Mufeng.
He did not know how much lifespan the two Ancestors had left.
Lu Changsheng took out the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill and asked Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan, “Senior, could this pill possibly change our situation?”
Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan and Jiang Family Ancestor were shocked to see the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill, “Kid, how did you come by such a demon pill?”
Lu Changsheng had already thought of an excuse, “This is a demon realm elixir pill I found on Dantai Meng.”
“No wonder.”
Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan and Jiang Family Ancestor did not doubt it.
It was not strange for Lu Changsheng to obtain such a pill from Dantai Meng, since the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill was originally an elixir created by a Demon Lord of the Demon Realm.
Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan said, “The Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill was invented by Cold Bone Demon Venerable of the demon sects during ancient times. This Demon Venerable’s talent in alchemy was not inferior to the Pill Saints of the Lianshan Holy Land. In order to defeat the Heavenly Court, he had thousands of demon sects’ experts take the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill to forcibly enhance their realms. His actions certainly caused many strong beings of the Heavenly Court to fall, but those in the Demon Realm who took the pill also quickly perished due to their depleted lifespans. Ultimately, it was a pyrrhic victory. I didn’t expect that the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable would be so ruthless to his daughter, Dantai Meng, to actually give her a Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill.”
If the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable had been present, he would have wanted nothing more than to slap Lu Changsheng to death.
When had he ever given Dantai Meng such an extreme Demon Pill like the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill?
The Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable was rather doting on his daughter, having gifted her the Dao Artifact “Eternal Dream Bell” for protection, even when she was just at the Preliminary Immortal Emperor realm. He also had strong beings of the Demon Realm protect her in secret, so Dantai Meng would never need to resort to such an extreme elixir.
Yet with Lu Changsheng’s claim, Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan now believed the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable to be a heartless man.
Although it was true that countless beings of the Immortal Realm had died at the hands of the Hallucinatory Dark Demon Venerable…
“The Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill is mainly used by practitioners of the Immortal Emperor realm and those of lower Divine King realm. With our realm and the lifespan left, even if we used it, the improvement would be minimal, and it would be inferior to other secret techniques that consume lifespan to enhance cultivation.”
Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan shook his head.
The Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill was a mass-produced demon sect elixir by Cold Bone Demon Venerable, designed to strengthen his demon soldiers and demon generals. For ancient practitioners like Elder Ancestor of Lin Clan and Jiang Family Ancestor, who had cultivated for hundreds of millions of years, its effects were negligible and certainly inferior to the secret techniques they commanded that could achieve similar results.
“It seems we must look for another solution.”
Lu Changsheng kept the Crazy Demon Defying Heaven Pill as a last resort and continued his teaching, seeking other elixir pills.