Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 239: Merits of the Righteous Path
"Oh, how ridiculous! Your disciple killed my sect's true disciple, and you didn't say anything about that? We just have different positions, why are you pretending to be pitiful?" Upon hearing Xuan Tianhen's accusation, the cultivators of the Demon Sect immediately began to fight back.

Xuan Tianhen didn't care about this at all. He said this just to win the sympathy of the righteous side. Besides, it also wanted to lower the vigilance of the Demon Sect.

Let the Demon Sect firmly believe that their disciple is already a useless person and is not worth hunting down. If the Demon Sect continues to hunt down a useless person, the righteous side will probably not be able to stand it and will retaliate.

After all, this wave of sympathy is not small. Gu Mo's incarnation is the biggest contributor to helping the righteous path win the battle of the geniuses. If such a contributor becomes a disabled person and is hunted down by the Demon Sect, then this would be a slap in the face of the righteous path.

The Demon Sect can ignore Xuan Tianhen's accusations and fight back, but the righteous side obviously cannot ignore it. This time, Gu Mo's incarnation tried his best to help the righteous side win the battle of the geniuses.

If the righteous side does not make some statement, it will chill everyone's heart.

Soon, the symbol of righteousness appeared. It was a beautiful woman who exuded the fragrance of plants and wore a crown of thorns on her head.

"Meet the Master!"

The master of Shennong Valley was the first to react and quickly saluted.

"I've met His Holiness!"

Soon everyone realized that since the Lord of Shennong Valley could call her Master, the origin of this woman was self-evident.

"Humph!"

Reverend Qing glanced at the master of Shennong Valley and snorted coldly with some dissatisfaction. Obviously, Reverend Qing was dissatisfied that Shennong Valley did not promote Gu Mo to the rank of true disciple. If it were not for this battle of geniuses, wouldn't Shennong Valley have buried a top genius?

Seeing that his master was unhappy, the master of Shennong Valley was also confused, not knowing what he had done to make his master unhappy.

It is naturally not convenient to talk about family affairs outside. Reverend Qing simply glanced at the bewildered master of Shennong Valley and turned his gaze to the incarnation of Gu Mo.

The appearance of Reverend Qing was also something that Xuan Tianhen had not expected. His previous words were indeed meant to win sympathy, but the appearance of Reverend Qing made Xuan Tianhen feel nervous.

After all, he knew that his apprentice had 12 sword pills. Although he didn't know why the remaining 11 were missing, Xuan Tianhen thought that his apprentice must have used some method to hide them.

Now that the Venerable Huashen has appeared, Xuan Tianhen doesn't know whether he will see through his disciple's disguise.

But on second thought, Zun Qing is a righteous god, and even if his disciple's disguise is seen through, Zun Qing will not say it out.

That is, the effect of gaining sympathy by playing the victim may weaken.

“It was a good performance this time.”

Venerable Qing looked at Gu Mo's incarnation, and his voice as gentle as spring breeze sounded, "In addition to the treasures you obtained in the Tianjiao battle, you helped the righteous path win this Tianjiao battle and killed three demon sect disciples, one of whom was a Yuanying disciple. These will be counted as merits for the righteous path. This merit is universal for Taiqing Sect, Yinyang Sword Sect, and my Shennong Valley. You can go to any place at any time to exchange this merit for treasures."

Righteous Merit is a mechanism set up by the three top sects of the Righteous Path to deal with the Demon Sect. Anyone who makes outstanding contributions in the battle between the righteous and the demonic can obtain this Righteous Merit. It is different from the sect contribution that can only be used within the sect and the war merit that can only be used in the fixed reward pool.

This righteous merit is recognized by the three top sects of the righteous path. The holder can exchange it for various skills and treasures with the authority of the sect's inner disciples.

Not only the three righteous sects, but other righteous sects are also happy to accept these righteous merits, so these righteous merits can be said to be universal in the righteous alliance.

However, it is very difficult to obtain the merit of the righteous path, and great achievements are required. This time, Gu Mo incarnated as the righteous path and won the victory in the battle of the geniuses. This merit has indeed reached the standard.

However, killing the Demon Sect's true disciple is also counted as righteous merit. This can be regarded as the effect of Xuan Tianhen playing the victim. Otherwise, although there is a reward for killing the Demon Sect's true disciple, it still cannot reach the level of righteous merit.

"Well, little guy, you can now use your merits in the righteous way to let me help you condense the sword pill again." Reverend Qing said, this was obviously another extra reward.

She really didn't want to see a top genius become a useless person, as a Divine Transformation Venerable, especially a Divine Transformation Venerable who was good at auxiliary treatment.

Reverend Qing has the ability to help a Jindan cultivator condense the Jindan again, but this can only help the other party restore his cultivation. The Jindan condensed with the help of external forces cannot continue to break through.

In other words, through this method, this once top genius will become a relatively ordinary Jindan cultivator, and will never have the hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage in this lifetime.

But compared to becoming a useless person with all his cultivation lost, this is already the best outcome.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Excellency!"

Gu Mo's incarnation bowed deeply to Venerable Qing, but he declined Venerable Qing's proposal. "In my current situation, it is no longer meaningful to condense the golden elixir again. I want to use these righteous contributions to help the Dayan Sword Sect rise again, in order to repay the sect for its kindness in nurturing me."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Gu Mo's incarnation with respect in their eyes. The Dayan Sword Sect was so lucky to have such a top-level genius with both affection and righteousness. Unfortunately, such a top-level genius was like a meteor. After shining extremely brightly, it completely returned to darkness.

"Disciple!"

Xuan Tianhen was also deeply touched by Gu Mo's words, but he didn't say much. At this moment, Xuan Tianhen planned to speak less and say what he wanted to say after returning. He was afraid that if he spoke too much, Gu Mo's plan would be exposed.

At least as a disciple, I declined the proposal of the Venerable to reunite his golden elixir for him, so, as a disciple, I should have my own preparations.

"Hey!"

The answer from Gu Mo's incarnation made Venerable Qing feel a little regretful, but also a little admiring. Such a disciple is definitely what any sect desires.

It’s a pity that the other party is not a disciple of Shennong Valley, otherwise, Shennong Valley would not let him become a useless person no matter what.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

At this time, the falling rays of light attracted everyone's attention from Gu Mo's incarnation, which was the returning genius of the righteous path.

Without the interference of the geniuses of the Demon Sect, the geniuses of the righteous sect quickly looted the remaining treasure chests. During this time, everyone followed the principle that whoever found the treasure chest would own it. If there was something that everyone wanted, they would compete in a battle, but that would be to the end.

With the return of the righteous genius, this battle of geniuses officially came to an end.

The scenes of this battle between the geniuses had already been recorded by cultivators on jade slips. At this moment, these jade slips were being quickly transmitted to various places, and soon the world of immortal cultivators would know about the situation of this battle between the geniuses. After all, this battle between the geniuses attracted the attention of too many people.

But not everyone can come to watch the scene. Most of the cultivators can only learn about the news of this battle of the geniuses through the information transmitted. "Yo hou hou, weren't you shouting very loudly before? How come there is no sound now?" The leader of Taiqing Sect said to the three leaders of Demon Sect in a sarcastic tone.

"Humph!"

Listening to the ridicule of the Taiqing Sect leader, the three Demon Sect leaders were furious, but they did lose the Tianjiao battle this time, so they couldn't find a reason to get angry. They could only snort coldly, and then left with the equally dejected Demon Sect Tianjiao.

As for the Ten Thousand Blood Demon Lord in the sky, he left very early and did not even show up during the period. However, the Ten Thousand Blood Demon Lord knew that the victory or defeat in the battle of geniuses was only temporary and what would truly determine the victory or defeat between good and evil would be the future battles.

As the geniuses of the Demon Sect left, the geniuses of the Righteous Path also left with their respective gains.

Xuan Tianhen also took a step ahead and returned to Dayan Sword Sect with Gu Mo's incarnation. It was because Xuan Tianhen had too many doubts in his mind that needed answers.

"Master, don't worry. I have hidden the remaining 11 sword pills. When the storm is over, I will just find the sword pills again." Gu Mo's incarnation naturally knew what Xuan Tianhen wanted to ask most, and without waiting for Xuan Tianhen to speak, he took the initiative to explain.

"You almost scared me to death just now." Hearing this, Xuan Tianhen glared at Gu Mo's incarnation in annoyance.

But soon Xuan Tianhen frowned again, "Disciple, the sword pill cannot be away from the body for too long, otherwise there will be big problems."

Whether it is the sword pill of a sword cultivator or the golden pill of other cultivators, although they can leave the body for a short time, various problems will arise if they are away from the body for a long time.

The sword pill is very fragile without the protection of the physical body. Many external factors can cause the sword pill to be damaged and contaminated. Only the Nascent Soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator can be fearless of these.

However, after the Nascent Soul loses its physical body, it also needs to take over another body as soon as possible. It is also very dangerous to stay outside for a long time.

"Master, don't worry. I have already considered this." Gu Mo smiled and waved his hand. The sword pill was in his body and it would be fine no matter how long it was kept.

Even in extreme cases, if the incarnation dies, the sword pill in the incarnation can be directly inherited by the original body. When the original body condenses a new incarnation, the sword pill can be given to the new incarnation, which can save a lot of effort.

"That's good!"

Hearing this, Xuan Tianhen nodded. Although he was somewhat curious about how his disciple could keep the sword pill out of the body for a long time without any problems, Xuan Tianhen finally suppressed his curiosity.

His disciple is no longer the weak little guy he used to be, but a strong man who can kill the Nascent Soul Demon Lord. Such a strong man cannot be cultivated by the Dayan Sword Sect or Xuan Tianhen.

Therefore, Xuan Tianhen knew that his disciple must have obtained some great opportunity, and he thought that the method of allowing the sword pill to stay out of the body for a long time should also be a part of that opportunity.

"By the way, Master, take this." Gu Mo's incarnation suddenly thought of something and handed a jade bottle to Xuan Tianhen.

"Oh, this is what you got from the golden treasure chest when you defeated the 4th-level Demon King. What is it?" Xuan Tianhen took it curiously.

At that time, Gu Mo was too calm when he checked the jade bottle, so everyone thought that there were only ordinary pills in the jade bottle.

"Ningying Pill!"

When Xuan Tianhen opened the jade bottle, his eyes were filled with astonishment. He was not astonished at the Ningying Pill. The golden treasure chest even had a spiritual weapon-level alchemy furnace, so it was not strange to have another Ningying Pill.

What really surprised Xuan Tianhen was that Gu Mo gave him the Ningying Pill. For any cultivator in the Jindan realm, this was definitely the most precious treasure.

"Master, do you think this Nengying Pill will really be useful for my disciple?" Gu Mo's incarnation said with a smile, "Since my disciple is already a useless person, it is obvious that this Nengying Pill cannot be used. It is better to use this Nengying Pill to cultivate another Yuanying Sword Lord for the sect, and at the same time completely dispel the suspicion of the Demon Sect."

"My disciple still has merits in the righteous way, which are enough to exchange for a better Ningying Pill." Gu Mo's incarnation added, dispelling Xuan Tianhen's next words.

"Then I will accept it." Xuan Tianhen nodded. To be honest, in the current situation of Dayan Sword Sect, it is difficult to gather enough resources for Condensing Infant. Now that they have this Condensing Infant Pill, it will definitely greatly boost the morale of the sect.

The most important thing, of course, is to dispel the doubts of more people and make his disciple completely disappear from people's sight.

Shennong Valley.

Gu Mo returned to his courtyard, then closed his eyes and began to carefully observe the 11 sword pills surrounding his big golden pill in his body.

Although I am not a sword cultivator, my consciousness with my incarnation is the same, so I can naturally control the sword pill. And with the bonus of the sword pill, the power of my sword skills has skyrocketed, and it is even stronger than the sword cultivator incarnation.

Because at this moment, Gu Mo's body contains both the golden elixir that originally belonged to him and the sword elixir of the sword cultivator's incarnation. Apart from anything else, the total amount of spiritual power alone exceeds that of the sword cultivator's incarnation.

Even though the master was not practicing a technique exclusive to sword cultivators, he was powerful enough to make bricks fly. Moreover, the Shennong Herbal Classic that Gu Mo practiced was a top-level technique, and the quality of the spiritual power he cultivated was unmatched by other techniques.

While Gu Mo was enthusiastically experiencing the sword pill's enhancement to his combat power, the master of Shennong Valley was already sweating profusely.

After returning to the valley, Reverend Qing did not choose to retreat as usual, but found him, for which the master of Shennong Valley was very happy.

But the master of Shennong Valley did not remain happy for long, as he was scolded by Master Qing for not promoting Gu Mo to the rank of true disciple.

"Master, Master, this is the situation." The head of Shennong Valley quickly explained what happened, "Disciple, I am actually going to call the elders together right away to vote on Gu Mo's promotion to the True Transmission."

"Then get ready."

Reverend Qing waved his hand and did not exclude Gu Mo from the ranks of true disciples just because he joined halfway. After all, Gu Mo's performance in this battle of geniuses was enough to make an exception for him.

The main hall at the top of the 5th level ancient tree.

The elders from all the clans gathered together, but compared to before, there were two more seats for the elders this time. One of these seats was for Xiaohua, and the other was naturally for Qi Chunde.

Both of them are from Hou Chunyu's lineage, so everyone considers them to be a faction, and that this faction will soon give birth to a true successor.

The elders all knew the purpose of the Valley Master's gathering of everyone, which was about Gu Mo's advancement to the true realm.

Moreover, it was said that this matter was proposed by Reverend Qing himself, so the elders all knew that they came here only to vote in favor.

(End of this chapter)