Don't let Yu Ding take on any more disciples.

Chapter 358 Longji Version: The Key Lies in Talent
Inside the Three Immortals Cave.

"What? Yu Ding has re-entered the Golden Immortal realm?"

After they returned from delivering the jade cauldron, Yunxiao raised her hand and wrote down the events in the void.

Bixiao and Qiongxiao were shocked again.

If the jade tripod were compared to a house, then the jade tripod would have completely collapsed, not just been damaged.

Otherwise, even if it's damaged, you can still recover your original state by taking some elixirs.

However, the Jade Cauldron was completely destroyed and could not be repaired. The only option was to rebuild the foundation and construct a new building.

The scene of Yu Ding visiting Biyou Palace is still vivid in their minds, but now they are being told that it has actually been restored?
"Big sister, could you... be mistaken?"

Bixiao tentatively asked, "When we came here, Yu Ding was carried by his disciple."

Fortunately, she took extra care of Yu Ding, considering his weakness, along the way.

"Listen?" Yunxiao asked with a profound smile.

"I didn't hear it with my own ears... but his actions and words hinted at it."

Bixiao, recalling their conversation, retorted indignantly, "Besides, I got him drunk..."

She looked at Yunxiao defiantly, only to see him still looking at her with a confident smile.

“Little sister, we may not be able to find out, but don’t forget how much more skilled our elder sister is than us,” Qiongxiao chimed in.

Bixiao's momentum and voice suddenly weakened. She suddenly remembered her words of reprimand to Yang Jian and felt a burning pain on her face.

Qiongxiao squinted at the distance and smiled gently, "I underestimated this Fellow Daoist Yuding before. He is so unassuming."

A renowned pioneer of swordsmanship in the primordial world, with Yang Jian and Long Ji, two rising stars who once wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, as his disciples. He also recognized the Bewitching Flower, which she cultivated exclusively. And when he asked her about the way of formations, he gradually turned into giving them advice...

This demonstrates the depth of his understanding of formations.

The key point is that he even re-entered the Golden Immortal Realm within just a few years.

Moreover, these abilities were only revealed by Yu Ding on his own initiative, and no one knows whether these are all of Yu Ding's abilities or just the tip of the iceberg.

Yunxiao smiled quietly, a deep look flashing in her eyes. In fact, she was also pondering how much more the jade cauldron might be hiding.

"Ahhh, Yu Ding, I've been treating you like a buddy."

Enraged, Bixiao shouted, "You lied to me! I'm not done with you!"

Of course, what made her least embarrassed was that she had just finished reminding Yang Jian of his seniority.

The clown on the stage became herself.

Bixiao stormed out of the Three Immortals Cave.

A glint flashed in Qiongxiao's narrowed eyes. She raised her hand and pointed, sending a beam of crimson light flying out and landing on Bixiao, instantly immobilizing her.

"Little sister, where are you going again?" Qiongxiao asked with a smile.

Bixiao angrily said, "Of course I'm going to settle accounts with Yuding. Second sister, you accidentally froze me. Let me go quickly, I'll be right back."

Qiongxiao walked over and smiled meaningfully, "Is it a short trip and a return trip, or... a one-way trip?"

Bixiao coughed and said, "I will definitely be back soon, Second Sister, you have to believe me, I... I guarantee it with my immortal qualities."

Do you still have any rare delicacies here with my older sister and me?

Qiongxiao smiled and said, "I've been trying to settle your mind, you restless rabbit. You've been running wild outside for so long, it's time to come back and settle down."

"Big sister!" Bixiao looked at Yunxiao pitifully.

Yunxiao smiled and turned to head towards the inner cave.

"Big sister, big sister..." Seeing no hope of help, Bixiao looked at Qiongxiao: "Second sister, please let me go. I'll come back as soon as I've finished cleaning up the jade cauldron."

"With the master and apprentice working together, it's hard to say who will take care of whom if you go looking for them."

Qiongxiao smiled and walked out of the cave: "I don't know how many times I've frozen you with my unique immobilization technique. You'd better stay put."

"Second sister, second sister..."

Bixiao cried pitifully, and after feeling that she had gone far away, she laughed triumphantly: "Because of your immobilization spell, I can basically break it whenever I want now."

She focused her mind and channeled her inner energy, causing small streaks of red light to emerge from the major acupoints all over her body.

Soon she felt relaxed, glanced furtively to her left and right, and stealthily left the Three Immortals Cave.

……

Above the clouds over the vast East China Sea.

Yang Jian whispered, "Master, do you think Yunxiao went to plot a great calamity?"

"Probably not!" Yu Ding slowly shook his head. In the original Investiture of the Gods, the Three Immortals had no intention of interfering in the Investiture of the Gods calamity.

In fact, if it weren't for Zhao Gongming's death, the Three Immortals wouldn't have made a move at all.

"But... we can't rule out that possibility."

Yu Ding pondered for a moment and said, "I will take this matter into consideration."

The original text of Investiture of the Gods is like a reference answer; it allows one to have foresight and seize opportunities, but it cannot be completely trusted.

After all, this is the primordial world at the point of the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, not the world of the Investiture of the Gods.

Some things are quite different.

First of all, there are no four continents in the original Investiture of the Gods, and the world doesn't seem to be particularly large. Yang Jian's three-pointed double-edged sword is not transformed from a three-headed dragon...

There are so many different things!
Yu Ding looked around and saw a vast ocean stretching for countless miles, and the four continents were also very large.

He felt that the size of Jambudvipa alone was much larger than the world described in the original Investiture of the Gods.

In the Investiture of the Gods, Tu Xingsun's Earth-Walking Technique allows him to travel a thousand miles a day, while Nezha's Wind-Fire Wheels allow him to travel three thousand miles a day. They can go to see their master without even breaking a sweat.

But here...

Yu Ding glanced into the distance. At the speed they used in the Investiture of the Gods, they would be exhausted on the way home just to visit their parents.

Fortunately, the speed of this Primordial Earth Travel Technique is not as slow as traveling a thousand miles a day; it is described as being more than ten times faster than in the Investiture of the Gods.

Yang Jian nodded.

"Our trip to the Three Immortal Islands was quite successful."

Yu Ding smiled with satisfaction, then asked casually, "By the way, is Zhang Youren settling in well with you?"

He was also secretly watching Yang Jian's expression.

He said this to test whether Yang Jian had discovered Zhang Youren's identity.

"Didn't Master send Longji to pick him up?" Yang Jian said calmly.

"My emotions aren't fluctuating much, so I should be safe..." Yu Ding pretended to forget and patted his head: "Oh, really? Oh, I forgot."

After careful consideration, he concluded that Longji's house was safer than Yang Jian's.

The disciple will just quietly watch Master pretend... Yang Jian thought to himself, "Well, Master did entrust Brother Zhang to me after all, so I refused Long Ji when she came."

"Uh... really?" Yu Ding asked calmly. "And then?"

His apprentice is probably not someone who doesn't know his place.

If Zhang Youren had been killed, the Heavenly Emperor would have been forced to end his vacation early and return to Heaven long ago.

“I fought Longji to a draw, and because of our agreement, Zhang will stay in our respective places for a while.” Yang Jian said meaningfully, “Master, rest assured, I will definitely discipline Brother Zhang strictly, teach him Taoist arts, and help him attain enlightenment as soon as possible.”

He emphasized the word "strict" several times.

"Well... that's fine too!" Yu Ding coughed dryly.

It seems that Zhang Youren, that little rascal, is about to get his hands dirty and suffer a bit.

“Speaking of which, Master, if I may ask, which great god is Brother Zhang reincarnated from?” Yang Jian asked, staring at the jade cauldron.

Oh no, this kid seems to have discovered something... Yu Ding keenly sensed something was wrong and said calmly, "This is a secret that cannot be revealed for the time being. Oh right, I have some urgent business to attend to, so I'll take my leave first."

Watching the jade cauldron depart in a hurry, Yang Jian chuckled lightly, "Alright, it's a sure thing."

"correct!"

Suddenly his expression changed and he said, "Master, where is the Celestial Hound? You...you're so fast!"

He shouted loudly and chased after them for thousands of miles, passing through a cloud, but then all was silent and there was no one else around.
Yang Jian gave a wry smile, and slowly, his gaze deepened.

He suddenly had an idea. According to the usual practice of reincarnation and tribulation, Zhang Youren would die after experiencing a mortal life.

At that time, his memories of one lifetime will become a small ripple in the long river of the Heavenly Emperor's memories.

It won't cause any ripples!
But if the reincarnated prodigy of the Heavenly Emperor cultivates to become an immortal and remains unaware for a long time, wouldn't Old Yuan's plan have a greater chance of success?

As a renowned professor, and with Zhang Youren possessing excellent natural talent, he could easily replicate his own success.

He has this confidence.

Yang Jian left, and at that moment, he was on the ground tens of thousands of miles away.

"Luckily, this kid didn't use his Heavenly Eye to track him."

Yu Ding let out a long breath. How could he, the Flash of the Primordial Era, Flash, be a name without merit?
Then he frowned and looked towards Mount Wuyi in the Southern Continent.

They've been discovered... When he and Longji were digging—oops, I mean digging up the treasure trove left by his father, Emperor Cao Bao and Xiao Sheng were the ones who came to their aid.

It has to be said that this is fate, because these two will possess the most overpowered treasure in the Investiture of the Gods—the Treasure-Dropping Coin.

Therefore, after they separated, he left a mark on both of them.

But when he was in the back mountain of Sanxian Island, he clearly felt that his mark had been erased.

Moreover, the other party seemed to want to trace back to the source, but he decisively severed the connection.

"Is it the lamp?" Yu Ding's eyes flickered.

He analyzed that when Randeng was chased by Zhao Gongming to the point of having nowhere to go, he went to Wuyi Mountain instead of going anywhere else.

However, these two happened to possess the Treasure-Falling Coin, which could counter Zhao Gongming's magic weapon.

Therefore, Yu Ding was quite certain that he had known Randeng and the two of them for a long time, and was aware of the existence of that treasure, or that he had been keeping an eye on the two of them for some time...

99%!
Being targeted by Randeng would be troublesome... Yu Ding frowned. Randeng was definitely a veteran Grand Luo Golden Immortal, and his on-the-spot reaction in battle was particularly fast.

If the one coming this time is Randeng, then Wuyishan has most likely already been targeted.

But Randeng should still be managing Yuxu Palace, unless he also used a clone technique to run around outside.

"There's no rush to go to Wuyishan. Hmm, the communication methods in this ancient world are still quite backward."

Yu Ding shook his head and transformed into a bolt of lightning, heading towards Zhongnan Mountain: "It's a good opportunity to check on Junior Brother Yun's research progress."

Although this prehistoric world is not backward, Yu Ding still has to say something.
The path to immortality greatly restricts the scientific research and development of mortals.

……

At this moment, on Phoenix Mountain, amidst the battle of the Azure Phoenix.

Zhang Youren was sitting cross-legged in the courtyard, holding several ancient books with flamboyant calligraphy in his hands. Judging from his expression, his thoughts were somewhat scattered.

Longji sat cross-legged on the futon opposite him with his eyes closed: "It's been several days since I taught you to read and write and study astronomy. How much of the text in these celestial books have you memorized?"

“I already know them all,” Zhang Youren said, coming back to his senses.

"what?"

Longji suddenly opened his eyes in shock, and with a look of disbelief, he took the book to test it.

As a result, Zhang Youren was not only able to write it down, but also to pronounce it.

"How...how did you do that?" Longji exclaimed in astonishment.

Although I don't know why, I knew how to read it after just one glance... Zhang Youren said guiltily, "I learned it after the fairy nun read it to me a few times."

"You'll get it after listening a few times?"

Longji stared at Zhang Youren in shock, then suddenly overjoyed: "Could it be that you also have the ability to remember everything you see?"

"I'm good at recognizing things after just one glance..." Zhang Youren looked bewildered: "I don't know either."

"Okay! Okay! Okay!"

Longji patted Zhang Youren's shoulder and squeezed it a few times, overjoyed, and said, "You are indeed a once-in-a-million talent for cultivating immortality. Don't worry, I will definitely teach you to become an immortal like me who can fly and escape the heavens."

She herself had been taught by a renowned teacher, so seeing this beautiful jade naturally made her extremely eager to possess it.

With such talent, even if she can't teach this kid to become a Golden Immortal, he should at least become a Celestial Immortal, right?
She still has the confidence to say it.

But I don't want to cultivate immortality, so why does no one respect my thoughts... Zhang Youren felt sad but still showed gratitude on his face as he thanked them.

He wanted to go fishing with Erlang Shen.

"It's a pity I don't have the Eight or Nine Arcane Arts here..." Long Ji sighed inwardly as he rummaged through his treasure bag. This was the most powerful arcane art of their Jade Void lineage.

Unfortunately, since her foundation was already established, it was not advisable for her to abandon it and start over.

"Come, now that you recognize these dragon and phoenix scripts, I will bestow this magic formula upon you."

Longji pulled out a scroll of heavenly books: "Believe me, I can definitely teach you to become an extraordinary immortal."

"I believe you, I believe you..." Zhang You nodded perfunctorily, took the incantation, glanced at the name, and was stunned: "Pure Yang True Incantation?"

"Is there a problem?" Longji asked.

This means I'm destined to be without women... Zhang Youren cautiously asked, "It doesn't feel very good, can we find someone else?"

This fairy maiden, though young, is quite fierce and not nearly as easy to talk to as Erlang Shen.

Longji said with disdain, "This is too much trouble. How about... the Limitless Celestial Immortal Technique?"

Zhang Youren carefully examined the cultivation requirements and, finding no major pitfalls, cautiously said, "I... I can give it a try."

Longji said, "Alright, then you can study and comprehend it on your own!"

He then closed his eyes.

"what?"

Zhang Youren stared in disbelief: "Hey, Fairy, aren't you going to explain the tricks and secrets?"

"Does something so simple really need to be explained?"

As Longji spoke, he seemed to remember something and said, "Oh right, I just remembered a key secret, which is also the true essence of cultivation."

Zhang Youren eagerly awaited, holding his breath in anticipation.

Longji looked at him inscrutable and said, "It mainly depends on... talent."

(End of this chapter)