The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 524 underestimated the importance of the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill.

Li Jingxiao didn't argue with these guys from the Chan Sect about whether greatly reducing the weight of the Golden Cudgel was a plus.

In these kinds of situations, both sides have their own reasons.

The argument will not yield any results.

But in a real fight, Li Jingxiao naturally believed that the heavier the weapon, the greater its power.

But not everyone in this world is like Li Jingxiao, who can make things weighing tens of thousands of kilograms seem like nothing in his hands simply by relying on his physical strength.

Of course, if one were to use supernatural powers, one could easily wield weapons weighing tens of thousands of kilograms.

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms, or even millions of kilograms, are not difficult to obtain.

No matter how powerful a weapon is, it is still useless when it encounters a powerful magic weapon.

That's why Li Jingxiao didn't argue; he had already gained the experience he was entitled to.

The Soul-Slaying Bell was also successfully replicated and forged.

After being enhanced to +9, the power of the immortal artifact is already much stronger than the original Soul-Slaying Bell.

Having achieved his main objectives, Li Jingxiao forged a second, much weaker replica of the Soul-Slaying Bell.

Therefore, in this contest of forging magical artifacts, Li Jingxiao deliberately held back, and Li Jingxiao directly conceded defeat.

However, the members of the Chan Sect were not as happy as Li Jingxiao had imagined.

Guang Chengzi and his fourteen fellow disciples weren't fools.

Even Huanglong Zhenren, who has the lowest cultivation level, is only lacking in talent, not in intelligence.

Those chosen as personal disciples by the Primordial Celestial Venerable are all exceptional individuals.
Even if some individuals aren't particularly bright, it's just that they lack IQ, not intelligence.

Yuanshi Tianzun was not like Tongtian Jiaozhu; his strictness in selecting disciples was exceptionally high.

On the other hand, the Tongtian Sect Leader accepts anyone who wants to become his disciple, regardless of whether they are human, demon, or monster.

However, despite having over ten thousand disciples, the Jie Sect actually only had four direct disciples.

In some ways, the Jie Sect was even stricter than the Chan Sect in its selection of direct disciples.
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Therefore, how could the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect not see that the Soul-Slaying Bell that Li Jingxiao took out was far inferior to the previously imitated twin swords?

Therefore, in the eyes of the Chan Sect members, it was highly likely that Li Jingxiao deliberately lost a match.

The purpose was simply that they didn't want to offend the Chan Sect too much.

After all, their teacher was a saint, so by extension, he also saved face for these second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect.

Li Jingxiao's leniency left the members of the Chan Sect unsure whether to laugh or curse.

We, the disciples of the Confucian sect, actually need outsiders to show mercy in order to save face for the Chan sect.

How can I avoid making people angry and frustrated?

I just want to get angry, but I don't know whether to scold myself for being incompetent.

Or should we criticize Li Jingxiao for being overly cautious?

The principle of self-preservation is something everyone understands, since we're not children anymore.

That explains Li Jingxiao's actions.

Her goodwill towards Li Jingxiao suddenly surged again.

So, while waiting for the alchemy competition, the members of the Chan Sect discussed it and realized that none of them had achieved great success in alchemy anyway.

On the other hand, Li Jingxiao was determined to win.

If we lose two games in a row, it won't sound good to outsiders.

After all, even someone with Li Jingxiao's cultivation and strength has his pride.

So what Li Jingxiao didn't expect was that he had made thorough preparations.

He took out the +9 immortal artifact, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and deliberately wasted time.

It took forty-nine days to refine a single Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill.

The Chan Sect only managed to refine one batch of 'Jade Purity Creation Pill'.

When Li Jingxiao was in the Tushita Palace, he accompanied Laozi in refining elixirs, and each batch contained at least a dozen elixirs.

When refining pills at Chentang Pass, the number of pills produced was deliberately reduced, with only nine pills produced per batch.

The fact that only one pill is being refined now is simply a deliberate attempt to lower the success rate, making the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill seem even more difficult to refine and thus more precious.

But he didn't expect that the people of the Chan Sect might have deliberately lost this round.

Li Jingxiao only needed to glance at the 'Jade Purity Creation Pill' and smell it to understand that it was a kind of pill that imitated the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.

Perhaps it was the Jade Purity Immortal Pill that Yuanshi Tianzun obtained from Laozi after asking for the elixir formula, and that he improved upon it himself.

Or perhaps they were too embarrassed to ask for the elixir formula, but instead relied on their long-standing brotherly relationship with Laozi.

After getting to know more about it, he figured out how to make a replica of the elixir on his own.

However, the imitation was not successful.

Extending one's lifespan by a thousand years and increasing one's cultivation by a thousand years would indeed be considered an elixir for ordinary people.

But for a sage, it can only be considered a failure.

Of course, if it was personally refined by Yuanshi Tianzun, its medicinal effects would likely be even stronger.

But for the second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect, whose minimum rank is Golden Immortal, this is a different story.

The efficacy and quality of this elixir were also somewhat disappointing.

If you do the math, it's about the same as the Six-Turn Golden Elixir that can extend lifespan by a thousand years and instantly restore 60% of health and mana.

Li Jingxiao forgot that the other person wasn't cheating; being able to refine something that could increase lifespan by a thousand years was already quite remarkable.

Upon seeing the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill, the members of the Chan Sect immediately understood that they had lost this battle without any reason to argue.

So they simply admitted defeat.

Unsurprisingly, everyone then focused their attention on the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill.

Even disciples of sages are not without their flaws.

If things go wrong, one can still die and perish.

Especially in the primordial era before the Investiture of the Gods, many Great Luo Golden Immortals died.

Back then, there were as many as three thousand gods and demons listening to the Daoist Ancestor preach in Zixiao Palace.

By this time, the number of gods and demons still alive and occasionally showing themselves would be less than one-tenth.

Of course, most of them hid away to focus on cultivating the Tao.

Or perhaps they live a carefree life, ignoring worldly affairs.

But many of the three thousand gods and demons from that time did indeed die.

Even these innate gods and demons cannot guarantee their immortality.

These second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect dared not guarantee that they could live a long and healthy life, free from illness and disaster, and live forever.

The Taoist Ran Deng was very clever.

Despite being a fellow guest of the Three Pure Ones in the Zixiao Palace and considered a classmate, he shamelessly took the initiative to visit them and became a disciple of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

However, this guy did indeed live to this day, and in the future, he will continue to change course, eventually becoming the Buddha of the Western religion.

Even the grave crime of apostasy was escaped unscathed by him.

One has to admire how he always makes the choices that are most advantageous to himself.
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The Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods was a disaster caused by the killings of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect.

The so-called calamity of slaughter is not a disaster caused by the disciples of the Chan Sect killing too many people.

To put it bluntly, these guys just can't sever the three corpses.

Emotions such as greed, desire, and impulse.

All sorts of outrageous and erroneous decisions were caused by the Three Corpse Gods.

Therefore, if immortals and gods want to achieve a higher realm, they must first get rid of the influence of the Three Corpses.

This is the legendary "severing of the three corpses".

But how easy is it to sever the three corpses?

Moreover, even those who have severed their three corpses cannot truly forget their various desires and impulses.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been the story of Yunxiao coming out of the mountains to help Zhao Gongming avenge himself.

It's also unlikely that Yuanshi Tianzun would have taken on the task of bestowing titles upon gods with such effort in order to protect his twelve direct disciples. He was a sage, and the bestowal of titles was simply to fill the many vacant positions of immortals and gods in the Heavenly Court.

Why should we help the Jade Emperor solve his problems?

Moreover, why is it said that the twelve direct disciples caused the killing, but not the Antarctic Immortal and Yun Zhongzi?
That's because they've already reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

The Three Corpses can stir up negative emotions in the hearts of immortals, but if they are in a good mood, although these things are still there, their influence is very small.

The Old Man of the South Pole and Master Yunzhong have long lost the qualities of the Twelve Golden Immortals and have been unable to make progress for countless years.

Unable to break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, he felt depressed and helpless, and accumulated various negative emotions over the years.

It attracted inner demons.

Even the Primordial Celestial Venerable couldn't help his disciples dispel the negative emotions in their hearts with this thing.

Faced with the threat of annihilation, the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect were actually quite panicked.

Otherwise, Taiyi Zhenren wouldn't have been involved several years ago.

That is, more than ten years before the Investiture of the Gods, they used Nezha as an opportunity and a henchman to plot against Lady Shiji.

It was clearly Nezha's playfulness and ignorance that led him to shoot and kill Biyun Tongzi with the Zhentian Bow from Chentang Pass.

He beat Yunxia to the point of being unconscious, and even after Shiji caught him red-handed, he still refused to admit it.

They are even more unrepentant.

That's why Shi Ji chased him so far that he had no choice but to flee and seek help from Taiyi Zhenren.

When Shiji argued with Taiyi Zhenren, Taiyi couldn't win the argument and knew in his heart that the truth was on Shiji's side.

In the end, they used the excuse that "all the disciples of the Jie Sect are bad people and should be on the Investiture of the Gods" to put Shi Ji on the Investiture of the Gods.

Such shamelessness actually allowed Master Taiyi to escape the calamity.

Perhaps because Taiyi Zhenren set this precedent, from then on, everyone in the Chan Sect thought about how to kill a few disciples of the Jie Sect to save themselves from disaster.
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When the members of the Chan Sect saw that Li Jingxiao could refine the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill, their gazes towards him changed.

Even a fool could see what he was thinking.

But Li Jingxiao pretended not to see it and put away the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill.

He asked with a smile, "Fellow Daoists, it seems I have won this round?"

The members of the Chan Sect looked at each other.

They quickly nodded to each other in tacit agreement.

He cupped his hands and said to Li Jingxiao, "Master, your Taoist arts are profound and your methods are divine. We are willing to concede defeat in this third round of the formation competition."

Upon hearing this, Li Jingxiao was taken aback at first, and then a notification popped into his mind that he had gained 680 million experience points.

That's when my worries turned into joy.

Once you have the experience, everything becomes much easier.

Moreover, the fourteen second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect voluntarily bowed and admitted defeat.

This certainly gave Li Jingxiao a great sense of accomplishment.

These guys are weak in cultivation, but they are all arrogant and proud. When have you ever seen them take the initiative to submit to someone?
Therefore, Li Jingxiao was indeed feeling very pleased at this moment.

Moreover, in his heart, he felt that competing with the second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect in formations was actually bullying them.

Although the Chan Sect does indeed have a lineage of formation techniques, the Primordial Celestial Venerable himself was not skilled in this art.

Or rather, knowing that they weren't as talented as the Tongtian Sect Master in formations, they simply decided not to waste time on them.

Back then, the Three Pure Ones were as close as family, and the three brothers had not yet separated, even before they became saints.

Although the three were formidable figures, most people wouldn't dare to provoke them.

Before they became saints, there were quite a few people whose cultivation and strength were no weaker than theirs.

There are others who are even more capable than them.

So the three brothers were not only very close back then, but they also huddled together for warmth.

In this situation, since Laozi was skilled in alchemy, the second brother, Yuanshi Tianzun, and the third brother, Tongtian Jiaozhu, would naturally not focus their attention on alchemy.

The second brother was good at crafting weapons, so the eldest and third brothers didn't focus their attention on that either.

To put it simply, it would be most beneficial for everyone to specialize in one of the three areas: alchemy, weapon crafting, and formations.

But after becoming a saint, there were no more external enemies.

Furthermore, the doctrines of Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu were indeed completely opposite.

The disciples of the Jie Sect were numerous, of varying quality, and quite a few of them were prone to causing trouble.

This naturally provoked dissatisfaction among the disciples of the Chan Sect.

Now the internal conflicts could no longer be contained.

Left with no other choice, Laozi had to take the initiative to suggest dividing the family property.

He left Kunlun Mountain to Yuanshi Tianzun, and Laozi went to Shouyang Mountain to cultivate in seclusion.

The Tongtian Sect Leader had no choice but to lead his many disciples overseas to find immortal mountains and establish a sect.

By this time, even if Yuanshi Tianzun wanted to study alchemy and formations, he could not catch up with Laozi and Tongtian Jiaozhu.

In this situation, it's better not to waste the time and energy.

Therefore, the Chan Sect is indeed far inferior to the Jie Sect in terms of formations.

In addition, Li Jingxiao far surpassed his fourteen fellow disciples in alchemy.

In terms of weapon crafting, they are likely more skilled than them.

Given this premise, the members of the Chan Sect secretly felt that Li Jingxiao might be more skilled than them in the art of formations.

Of course, under normal circumstances, one should not admit defeat.

Instead, they should focus on winning this third match to save face for themselves and the Chan Sect.

But who made Li Jingxiao able to refine the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill?

Who wouldn't want such a super elixir that can even revive gods?
Even if Li Jingxiao can only refine one Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill in one batch, as long as the materials are sufficient.

If Li Jingxiao is also willing to help.

Even if it takes one pill to refine per year, it will only take fourteen years for everyone to have one on hand as a life-saving medicine.

But Li Jingxiao doesn't need to refine one pill every year.

Even though Li Jingxiao deliberately delayed while refining the pills, it only took him forty-nine days.

Over the course of a year, at least six or seven can be refined.

Even if Li Jingxiao was unwilling to spend all his time on alchemy, he could still refine three to five pills.

Of course, for the people of the Chan Sect to make him refine three to five pills every year, the price would be absolutely not small.

In reality, Li Jingxiao only needs one day to complete one batch of alchemy in the game's alchemy room.

Moreover, it is common for a single batch to produce more than a dozen pieces.

Back in the day, Li Jingxiao frequently refined Nine-Turn Golden Elixir in the game Journey to the West.

Li Jingxiao himself didn't count exactly how many there were.

Anyway, if I put it in my inventory, no one can steal it.

Moreover, these Nine-Turn Golden Pills, as well as the Fifth-Turn, Sixth-Turn, Seventh-Turn, and Eighth-Turn ones, were all stored in the Purple-Gold Red Gourd.

Li Jingxiao still had five or six gourds filled with various kinds of elixirs.

If that's not enough, then another dozen or so a day.

However, things are valued for their rarity; the more precious and rare something is, the higher its value.

The harder it is to obtain.

Or, things that are obtained only after paying a sufficient price are cherished even more.

Otherwise, if the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill becomes commonplace, it will not benefit Li Jingxiao.

They might even get caught by Laozi and given a severe beating.

After all, whether it's Laozi in Journey to the West or Laozi in Investiture of the Gods, they are both famous for refining elixirs.

Taking away someone's livelihood is something that will make them resentful.

(End of this chapter)