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Chapter 229 Seeking the Evil Dragon Coil, Testing the Sword Again on Lotus Peak
After visiting his two senior brothers and sisters, Yu Que returned to Mopan Peak and rested for half a month.

During the past two weeks, he had his warriors build a spirit pool on the mountain and properly housed the group of mermaids there. He also instructed his maids to collect the tears from the mermaids' eyes regularly.

Forcing mermaids to weep with such spiritual water in a short time would only cost them their lives, which is tantamount to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Therefore, it is best to collect it slowly so that it can be collected gradually and sustainably.

As for the spiritual liquid sent by Senior Brother Qinglu, after he tested it, he had the strongmen and maids try it out, and finally tasted it himself. He found that it was indeed a top-quality nourishing spiritual liquid, just as Senior Brother Qinglu had said.

So, based on his own situation, he divided the spiritual liquid into three parts, which would ensure that he could recover immediately at least three times when his magical power was exhausted or his physical body was damaged.

After dealing with these two gains, he secluded himself in his cave to cultivate while waiting for an opportunity.

This opportunity is crucial to his plan to condense evil spirits.

………………

This day.

Yu Que sat cross-legged above the Netherworld Spring, slowly refining his Yin Spirit and training the two divine generals, Sword Ghost and Ding Jia, in his hands.

Lately, the thought of feeding the two guardian deities, Ding and Jia, directly to his sword demon has been constantly popping into his mind.

He discovered that, compared to his own sword demon, the guardian deity in his hands was far less agile and easier to handle.

After all, the Sword Demon is a force derived from the "Taiyin Sword Manual," and it is positioned as a protector, which is related to Yu Que's life.

Compared to them, the guardian deities are like outsiders, like troops dispatched from elsewhere.

In particular, the magical power of the two guardian deities far surpasses that of Yu Que. Even though Yu Que has the lineage of Yama and is skilled at commanding troops, it is still a case of "using the small to bully the big," which is quite a hindrance.

"If these two divine generals were fed directly to the Sword Demon."

"The Sword Demon has been upgraded to a sixth-rank ghost god, at which point I can control them more easily. However, this means that two guardian deities will become just one Sword Demon, which seems like a very bad deal."

Yu Que was quite hesitant.

Moreover, his master gifted the divine generals to him, hoping that he would use them for protection and that if he had the opportunity in the future, he could generate two or three more divine generals from one, thus expanding the sect's influence.

If he were to simply let the sword demon devour them, it would seem petty and a waste of his master's good intentions.

Besides, Yu Que could also slowly plot and wait for the right opportunity on the Refinement Peak to collect sixth-grade useless ghosts and use them to raise the sword ghost in his hand.

In this way, he will most likely have a sixth-rank sword demon and two sixth-rank guardian generals.

With three malevolent spirits protecting him, even if he were to face a powerful immortal after leaving the mountain, he should be able to withstand an attack and escape.

On the secluded Yellow Spring.

Yu Que slowly opened his eyes. He stared at the two guardian generals, a strange light flickering in his eyes, and sighed softly:
"Reason tells me that keeping you two is the safest course of action, and using you to feed the sword demon is the worst possible move."

But for some reason, my sword energy tells me that although I can rely on external objects, all external objects must be brought under my sword's control..."

In short.

For some reason, he genuinely wanted to feed the two guardian deities to the sword ghost. Even if he didn't feed the sword ghost, he wanted to refine the two generals, Ding and Jia, with the Taiyin Sword Technique and transform them into sword ghosts.

While he was pondering, a sound transmission talisman suddenly flew in from outside the cave and slowly landed in front of Yu Que.

Yu Que snapped out of his daze, unfolded the communication talisman, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

He immediately got up, tidied his clothes, and sent the three ghosts back to their sword embryos and into the ancestral temple. Then he flew away from Millstone Peak and headed towards Lotus Peak.

He was lucky; after only a month, the items containing the condensed evil spirits in the Dao Palace had been replaced, and the things he wanted most were now available.

Not long after.

Yu Que arrived at Lotus Peak. After pressing down, he leaped up from the bottom of the peak, and soon the small Huangshan Taoist temple came into view.

After bowing to the small Taoist temple, Yu Que immediately turned around and walked towards a palace on the side.

As a true disciple of the Huangshan Taoist Palace, although the palace does not directly provide evil energy for disciples to condense evil energy and build a foundation, the items that assist in condensing evil energy are guaranteed.

Even if you are not a true disciple, as long as your cultivation is close to the sixth rank, the Dao Palace will provide you with some assistance.

However, non-true disciples will be divided into three levels—superior, middle, and inferior—based on their age, potential, and the quality of their true energy, and will receive different levels of assistance accordingly.

Among them are elixirs, incantations, talismans, and various magical implements.

For example, the most classic example is the Foundation Building Pill.

This item can ensure that immortals will not be burned to death by evil energy when they are condensing evil energy to build their foundation, and it will also increase the chances of success in condensing evil energy. The quality of this item alone is divided into three grades: superior, medium and inferior.

The lower-grade Foundation Establishment Pills can only guarantee that immortals will not die if they fail to establish their foundation. They can only increase the success rate by a maximum of 10%, and after failure, they will never have any hope of condensing their evil energy to establish their foundation again.

A medium-grade Foundation Building Pill increases the success rate by 20%. Failure will reduce potential, but there is still a chance to try.

The highest quality Foundation Establishment Pills contain about 30% of the required amount, and even if the attempt fails, they will still retain potential.

However, Yu Que did not take any of the above three grades of Foundation Establishment Pills seriously.

He is a true disciple of the Dao Palace and a disciple of the Heavenly Temple Dao Seed.

Any true disciple or celestial temple of any Daoist sect that uses Foundation Building Pills to condense evil spirits is tantamount to damaging their own path to immortality and lowering their status.

This is because the Foundation Establishment Pill is ultimately an external thing.

Immortals can use external aids at any time, but it is best not to use them when breaking through realms, especially at such a crucial juncture where one must move from the lower three ranks to the middle three ranks.

Otherwise, the foundation established after the initial foundation building will always be inferior to that of a celestial being who establishes their own foundation.

Even if the difference is slight, it will be magnified hundreds or thousands of times when the immortals refine their qi or, as rumored, condense their primordial spirit in the future, forming an insurmountable chasm that will leave people with deep regret.

In particular, compared to the Foundation Establishment Pill, he had the green liquid given to him by his senior brother, whose effect of nourishing his body and soul far surpassed that of the Foundation Establishment Pill mentioned by the people in the palace.

Therefore, the item Yu Que sought to condense evil spirits upon ascending Lotus Peak was neither a pill nor any other formation, talisman, or secret technique that could assist in foundation building and condensing evil spirits.

His sole purpose for this trip was to obtain the Dragon-Seeking Fiend Plate, an object in the palace used exclusively by true disciples to condense evil spirits.

This item is a magical artifact, but it has no killing power. Its only ability is to find evil energy within a radius of thousands or tens of thousands of miles.

Especially the dragon-shaped ghosts refined within the dragon's coil.

It can absorb the true energy of immortals and distinguish the most suitable types of malevolent energy within a vast distance. This effect will continuously strengthen as the immortals nurture it. If one can wear it for ten years, even a fourth-rank, half-step Nascent Soul immortal might not have as discerning eyes as it.

Although Yu Que had some clues about the evil energy he needed, there was a great deal of evil energy in the world today, and it was not something he could obtain at will.

Even if he did, he might not be able to find it.

Therefore, if he can obtain the help of the Dragon-Seeking Aura Plate, his search for aura after leaving the mountain will not be like a headless fly, but will be much more efficient. Moreover, the aura he seeks will likely be better than what he has imagined.

With these thoughts in mind, Yu Que entered the hall and found that there were quite a few people inside, and each of them had a profound aura. They were either sixth-rank evil spirit immortals or disciples who were on the verge of reaching the sixth rank.

Yu Que was not anxious about this situation; on the contrary, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"The Dragon-Seeking Disc is in the hands of an old immortal who refines Qi, and it is not placed among ordinary Qi-condensing items."

Only when the old immortal emerges from seclusion and takes up his post on Lotus Peak can one possibly borrow it from him.

With so many people here today, and all the deities on duty in the hall present without a single vacancy, it seems that the old deity is most likely in the hall today.

Yu Que didn't delay any longer. He glanced at the inner disciples queuing in front of him, skipped them, and stood at the very front.

Just as the inner disciples in line were glaring at him angrily, about to reprimand him, he shook his true inheritance luck, asked the immortal on duty for a question, and then walked towards the depths of the hall.

The remaining inner disciples who were still in line were stunned, their eyes filled with envy as they watched his departing figure.

However, many inner disciples who noticed this scene showed strange looks in their eyes and kept glancing in the direction Yu Que left, as if they were looking forward to a good show.

Yu Que stepped into the depths of the main hall. He looked inside and his eyebrows immediately twitched slightly.

At this moment, deep inside the hall, there was not only one person, nor was there no one at all. Instead, there were three obtrusive figures standing in the hall, resting with their eyes closed.

Yu Que's entry also attracted the attention of the three people.

When they looked up and saw that the person who came was Yu Que, their eyes all turned ugly.

These three were none other than the three true disciples of the palace, named Bai Jiangliu, Shan Zuo, and Shi Lanzhi.

Yu Que looked at the three guys in surprise. He didn't expect to run into them in the palace again. What a coincidence.

But he quickly realized that these three guys were probably here to find the Evil Dragon Coil as well.

These three entered the palace no later than Yu Que, a period of three years.

Last time on the Refinement Peak, two of them had cultivation levels far exceeding Yu Que's at that time, and they were already preparing to condense their evil aura.

But as luck would have it, Yu Que managed to steal the spiritual items from those two.

Therefore, it is highly likely that the other party's cultivation level is higher than Yu Que's, but after a delay of two or three years, he has become at the same level as Yu Que in terms of Qi Condensation Time.

"Yu Que, what are you doing here!"

Of the three true disciples, Bai Jiangliu and Shi Lanzhi were practically spitting fire in their eyes.

They stared at Yu Que, their tone extremely unfriendly:
"You surnamed Yu, why haven't you returned my spirit item?!"

Faced with the questioning, Yu Que was speechless. Could he say that when he was in seclusion at the foot of the Refinement Peak, he was so eager that his spiritual addiction kicked in, and he simply used all the spiritual items that the other two had prepared?
Otherwise, even if the environment at the bottom of the furnace at the Refinement Peak is "favorable" and the Refinement Peak Master is generous, he would still find it difficult to fully cultivate Yin Spirit, Sword Qi, and Sword Embryo within just three years.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Bai Jiangliu and Shi Lanzhi were truly good people to him!
Faced with their angry rebukes, Yu Que remained unperturbed and politely cupped his hands in greeting.
"I have met you three fellow Daoists. After the summit, I immediately went into seclusion at the Refinement Peak to observe the fire, and I really had no chance to come out of seclusion."

Upon hearing this, Bai Jiangliu and Shi Lanzhi immediately shouted in unison:

"Then return my spirit object now?"

Yu Que chuckled, then ignored the two and found a spot to wait deep inside the main hall.

Seeing that he ignored them, Bai Jiangliu and Shi Lanzhi were even more furious, and their eyes showed a troublesome look.

Yu Que's appearance here clearly indicates that he has also come to demand the item that condenses evil energy.

There are very few items that truly reflect their status as true inheritors; the best of them all is the Dragon-Seeking Compass.

In other words, they now have one more competitor to the Dragon Plate.

Deep within the main hall, the true disciple, Shan Zuo, who had remained silent, looked at the scene with a strange expression.

Compared to Bai Shi and the other two, this person, although also unfriendly to Yu Que, did not hate him; in fact, his eyes revealed a gloating expression.

"With this person coming to cause trouble, the possibility of the dragon's throne falling into my hands is even greater," Yamazu thought to himself in the hall.

He also discovered that he seemed to have something to thank Yu Que.

If Yu Que hadn't taken away Bai Shi and his companion's spiritual items, causing them to waste a lot of time, the Dragon Plate would have been borrowed by one of them long ago, and Shan Zuo wouldn't even have been qualified to compete for it.

Buzz!

The four of them are now all at the upper level of the seventh rank, especially Bai Shi and the other two, whose auras are much more profound than they were three years ago.

Their consciousnesses collided wildly in the air, causing the air itself to tremble slightly.

Fortunately, the stalemate between the four did not last long before a hoarse cough sounded.

An old Taoist priest, swaying unsteadily, carrying a broom, slowly walked to the depths of the main hall. The moment he appeared, the energy deep within the hall instantly stabilized.

Yu Que and the others also felt as if a mountain was pressing down on their hearts, and a suffocating feeling arose in their chests.

The old Taoist priest sweeping the floor chuckled and said, "The disciples in the palace are getting more and more mischievous. This year is especially lively."

Under the watchful eyes of Yu Que and his companions, the other person slowly walked to the center, propped himself up with a broom, and asked:
"Stop standing there like idiots, tell me, what do you want to borrow?"

Without hesitation, Yu Que and the other three withstood the opponent's oppressive aura and uttered four words in unison:

"Seeking the Evil Dragon Coil!"

The old Taoist priest's eyes revealed a knowing look. He put his hand into his sleeve pocket and pulled out an object that looked like a broken pottery plate. It was shallow and dark.

He held the object in his hand, coughed, and said:
"There's only one of these things. But you four have it. Think carefully, who can take it?"

As soon as the old Taoist finished speaking, *clang!*

Yu Que was decisive. Without thinking or saying a word, he immediately opened his mouth and let out a roar, unleashing sword energy that slashed at the three people around him.

The Dragon Coil of Seeking Evil is right before your eyes. This object is related to the condensation of evil spirits and even the attainment of immortality. You must not hide your abilities and remain an observer!
(End of this chapter)