Chapter 660: Chapter 442: Holding One’s Own Funeral, High-Quality Immortal Arts!_2
Xu Yang: “……”
He remained silent for a long time, then nodded, saying: “Indeed, we should get it done.”
No choice.
As a native of Wu City, he was all too familiar with the local customs and traditions.
Especially for the Hui ethnic group in Yu Town, Tongxin County, where Ma Long’s family came from, the starting rate for gift money is currently at 500 dollars and if the relationships among relatives and friends are slightly better, it’s 2,000, 3,000 or even 5,000 dollars.
It is said that for close relatives, the starting rate for gift money has reached 5,000 dollars, with frequent gifts of 10,000 and 20,000 dollars.
Xu Yang suggested: “I have some business to take care of tomorrow. I have to go to the Western Hell and can’t delay…So, shall we get it done as soon as possible?”
Ma Long said: “Alright, no problem…Old Xu, I’ll leave the things for the funeral to you…Mom, Dad, you inform the relatives and friends, I’ll go and reserve the restaurant.”
Watching this family of three start to get busy, Xu Yang felt something was not quite right…
He even got some ghosts to help Ma Long’s family.
By the next day.
Which was the twelfth day of the lunar new year.
At 9 o’clock in the morning.
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Ma Long’s funeral took place as scheduled.
Since he had dried up his own body with secret methods, Ma Long chose to cremate his remains. He personally held the ashes and threw paper money all the way. Many of Ma Long’s relatives and friends could not help laughing, but they dared not.
Originally, Ma Long’s family was the wealthiest among their relatives and friends.
But Ma Long himself was not ambitious.
Especially during those two years when he went to the mountains to herd sheep, he was often the topic of gossip. But now… no one dared to belittle Ma Long anymore!
In the beginning, it was because of Xu Yang!
They all knew that Ma Long was a friend of Xu Yang.
And now, it was because of Ma Long himself.
Upon learning that Ma Long had the chance to “become immortal” in the future, these relatives and friends wouldn’t mention how much they tried to flatter Ma Long… There was even an 80-year-old man who begged Ma Long to prolong his life in the morning.
Xu Yang couldn’t care less about these matters.
After completing the funeral.
Finished the banquet.
Xu Yang gave a red packet of 10,000 dollars. When he returned home, all of his women had packed up and everything at the Nine Ghost Markets was managed by the nine Ghost Generals, so Xu Yang didn’t have to worry about it.
Xu Yang flipped his hand and pulled out an immortal boat.
This immortal boat was not the “Qingyun Immortal Boat” that Xu Yang had borrowed from Sirius, but the war trophy he earned from killing the Netherworld Demons.
These Netherworld Demons were elite forces sent to the human world by the Demon Clan, and their weapons were remarkable.
Most of these weapons were comparable to immortal artifacts but differed from them because the Netherworld Laws contained within them were completely different from the laws of Immortal Daoist and couldn’t be used directly.
However, with Grandmaster Chengming around, this wasn’t a problem.
The old Taoist master had already “refined” these “demon weapons” and removed all the “Netherworld Laws” within them…This way, these “demon weapons” became empty shells.
He divided these empty shells, giving ten to Grandmaster Chengming and ten to Wang Hou. He also gave one to his father-in-law and threw three to Xishan Wanshou Palace as a treasure for the sect.
He also gave one to each of his wives and one to each of the nine Ghost Generals who guarded the Ghost Markets.
Don’t underestimate these “empty shells.” If Netherworld Laws were infused into them, they would become demon weapons. If Immortal Daoist laws were infused, they would become immortal artifacts.
Even if no laws were infused, they were stronger than most of the divine weapons and Taoist artifacts in the world!
This flying boat, after Xu Yang’s refining and nurturing, has already transformed into a “lower-grade immortal artifact,” which he named “Watcher”. The inspiration for this name came from a video game.
As soon as the flying boat was activated, it turned into more than thirty meters long.
On the boat, there were three floors of pavilions, with dragons and phoenixes carved everywhere. There are layers of formation inscriptions outside, making it look very luxurious.
“Ladies, please board the ship!”
The women boarded the ship, sat on the deck, took out snacks, drinks, and snacks to chat and laugh. Yun Mengxi even brought playing cards and asked Xu Yang to play poker with them.
Xu Yang said: “You guys play first, I’m going to cultivate for a while.”
Sitting on the deck of the ship’s bow, Xu Yang multitasked. While controlling the flying boat to the west, he thought and opened the system attribute panel.
[Age]: 23 years old
[Daoist Arts]: Divine Ascension Scripture
[Skills]: Fire Manipulation Skill (Heavenly Immortal), Water Manipulation Skill (Heavenly Immortal), Wulei Rules (Heavenly Immortal), Paper Cutting Skill (Heavenly Immortal), Earth Escape Skill (Heavenly Immortal), Dream Creation Skill, Land Spirit Skill (Heavenly Immortal).
[Martial Arts]: Land Flight Skill (Master), Soul Searching, Disguise Art, Eight Forms of Famous Sword Skills (Master), Great River Sword Manual (Master)
[Divine Power]: 36 Malevolent-Deity Skills, 72 Earth-Devil Skills.
[Immortality Skill]: Great Void Finger (Mid-grade)
[Level]: Early stage of Heavenly Immortal Realm
[Daoist Artifacts]: Supreme Purification Seal (immortal artifact), Jiao-slaying Sword (immortal artifact), Watcher (immortal artifact) and Great Iron Hammer (top-grade Daoist artifact).
[Merit Points]: 26 million.
[Storage Space]: 10,000 cubic yards.
The changes in the system panel were not significant.
Xu Yang earned a total of 26 million merits at the Taiwei Yuqing Palace by intimidating those flower fairies.
Xu Yang introspected.
In his body, enormous laws of Immortal Daoist were standing with more than 2500 strands of intertwined immortal light!
After the New Year, Dai Temple welcomed a new wave of “tourists”. Every day, these visitors could provide Xu Yang with a large amount of “power of faith in incense”, which allowed Xu Yang to condense three laws of Immortal Daoist without practicing in about two days!
This pace was very quick.
If other immortals found out, they would definitely be shocked!
After all, once reaching the “Heavenly Immortal” realm, it is very common to find it difficult to advance even after hundreds or thousands of years of cultivation.
However, Xu Yang felt that it was too slow!
Especially after learning the current situation of the Netherworld Blood Sea from Lord Cui, he felt an inexplicable sense of urgency!
Once the Emperor Oliver of the Netherworld Blood really broke free, he would inevitably sweep across the underworld again!
The catastrophe he would cause could even affect the entire three realms… And as the Crown Prince of the Underworld, who was still waiting for his ascendancy to the throne, he couldn’t just take over a mess, right?
“I have definitely slackened off during this period.”
“I have only accumulated 26 million merit points…”
“With my current cultivation, I can only condense one law of Immortal Daoist with about 5 million merit points. So, with 26 million merit points, I can only condense five laws of Immortal Daoist.”
Xu Yang pondered for a moment, made a decision, and said, “With my current level of cultivation, condensing five laws of Immortal Daoist doesn’t make much of a difference to me. I can use these 26 million merit points to improve the Great Void Finger.”
The Great Void Finger is a mid-grade Immortal Art.
Only top heavenly immortals or golden immortals can cultivate mid-grade Immortal Arts!
Right now, compared to average heavenly immortals, Xu Yang doesn’t have a big advantage. He just has more divine powers and his level of cultivation is about a hundred times stronger than others in the early “Heavenly Immortal Realm”. Even if he goes all out, he can only display the strength of the middle or late Heavenly Immortal Realm.
But if he could master the “Great Void Finger”, he could rival even those at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Immortal Realm!
“Maybe I should think of a way to learn a few more mid-grade or high-grade Immortal Arts!”
“High-grade Immortal Arts are almost impossible for average Heavenly Immortals and Golden Immortals to cultivate successfully. Only some top-ranking Golden Immortals can do it. But for me, as long as I have enough merit points, that’s all that matters!”
“If I can successfully cultivate a high-grade Immortal Art, then I would probably be invincible in the Heavenly Immortal Realm!”
“Ding!”
“Merit Points – 1 million.”
“Great Void Finger +1.”
“Ding!”
“Merit Points – 1 million.”
“Great Void Finger +1.”
“Ding…”
As system prompts kept sounding in his mind, Xu Yang covertly harbored the idea of cultivating “high-grade Immortal Arts”.
High-grade Immortal Arts are not only hard to cultivate, but they are also hard to find!
Should he go ask the Heavenly Emperor for it?
“No, no.”
Xu Yang quickly rejected the idea: “I’ve only met the Heavenly Emperor once. The reason he gave me the Jiuzhuan golden elixir was probably out of respect for my father, Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu… Asking him for a high-grade Immortal Art would be incredibly brazen of me!”
What about asking Lord Cui?
After consuming the remaining 26 million merit points all at once, Xu Yang finally managed to bring the “Great Void Finger” to the initial achievement level.
He took out Lord Cui’s decree.
He planned to ask Lord Cui for a “loan” of a high-grade Immortal Art for his cultivation.
After all, the entire Underworld Palace would be his in the future, asking Lord Cui for a “loan” of an Immortal Art is completely fair!