The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 548 Want to leave? Not that easy
In the Tushita Palace of Journey to the West, Li Jingxiao, who had accompanied Laozi in refining elixirs for twenty years, was now refining elixirs with great ease.

Moreover, this guy went all out this time and didn't intend to spend 49 days at all.

However, after thinking it over, Li Jingxiao decided to keep a backup plan.

To avoid the pill being completed in a single day, the speed might even surpass the speed at which the two Laozi in Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods refined the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.

That wouldn't be showing off your skills, it would be showing you're brainless.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao did not intend to refine more than a dozen in one batch.

Even though Li Jingxiao still held back, Laozi observed his mastery of both gentle and vigorous fire during the alchemy process.

I was also somewhat surprised by the temperature of the alchemy furnace and the level of medicinal extraction.

Fortunately, after the initial surprise came a pleasant one.

Regardless of which Laozi from the two worlds it was, he was truly dedicated to alchemy.

Therefore, even though the Laozi in front of Li Jingxiao was a sage of this world, he was still somewhat obsessed with his achievements in alchemy.

As long as a person does what they love and does it successfully, they can succeed.

One can't help but feel smug.

When you encounter a talented young person, you can't help but admire and like them more.

Seeing Li Jingxiao's exceptional talent and skill in alchemy, the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.

Seven days later, Li Jingxiao opened his mouth and sucked all the five-colored flames and the Six Ding Divine Fire from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and even swallowed them directly into his stomach.

This immediately made Laozi's eyes light up again, while the Grand Master Xuandu, who had been watching, twitched at the corner of his mouth.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Li Jingxiao's five-colored flames and six Ding divine fire seem less famous than the Samadhi True Fire.

However, Xuandu was no ordinary cultivator. Moreover, he had personally witnessed Li Jingxiao refining pills and thus experienced firsthand the power of the Five-Colored Flames and the Six Ding Divine Fire.

In Li Jingxiao's view, swallowing both flames directly demonstrated his junior brother's achievements and strength in fire magic.

He's far superior to his senior brother.

He was even more powerful than his fellow disciples in the Jie Sect who were skilled in fire magic.

Fire-based Taoist magic is traditionally associated with killing and warfare, meaning that Li Jingxiao's combat strength is even stronger than expected.

Xuan Du immediately reminded himself in his heart that he should never compete with this junior brother in martial arts in the future.

Otherwise, you'll most likely be the one who loses face.

At the same time, Xuandu truly believed that Li Jingxiao alone had defeated Yun Zhongzi, Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, and the seven immortal attendants of the Jie Sect, leaving them speechless.

Li Jingxiao had no time to care what Xuandu was thinking, but Xuandu's desire to avoid fighting Li Jingxiao meant that he couldn't escape it.

A victory against an opponent at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal grants at least 700,000 experience points.

Li Jingxiao would never give up unless he dragged Xuandu into a fight every day, as long as he had free time.

Of course, if there were other ways for him to gain experience, Li Jingxiao wouldn't necessarily have to fight Xuandu.

After absorbing the civil and military flames, Li Jingxiao opened the alchemy furnace directly, and three Nine-Turn Golden Pills automatically floated out.

With a wave of his hand, three golden pills flew into his palm.

After examining it closely and smelling it, Li Jingxiao finally smiled.

Although alchemy is mostly done automatically in the alchemy room in the game.

However, his alchemy skills did not deteriorate due to the long period of inactivity.

Moreover, the elixir that Li Jingxiao refined this time is not the complete Nine-Turn Golden Elixir from Journey to the West, which cures all diseases.

Instead, it is a simplified version of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, which can only "prolong life, achieve immortality, and enhance cultivation and magical power, ultimately leading to ascension in broad daylight."

As for the Golden Elixir with the effects of 'healing injuries, strengthening the body, and reviving,' that is the Nine-Turn Resurrection Elixir.

In this respect, Laozi in Investiture of the Gods is indeed inferior to Laozi in Journey to the West.

The Investiture of the Gods clearly states that the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Elixir are two different kinds of pills with two different effects.

So even if Li Jingxiao had a trick up his sleeve, it wouldn't matter to Laozi now.

Li Jingxiao's alchemy skills were so high that even his master felt there was nothing more to teach him.

He couldn't help but secretly envy and admire the fellow Daoist who passed on Li Jingxiao's alchemy methods and the Dao of Taiqing.

Or rather, this person is actually another version of themselves from another world.

If I were to express envy, it would be because any master would be secretly pleased to have a disciple with such talent and ability as Li Jingxiao.

As for admiration, it's because that fellow Daoist taught Li Jingxiao so well.

To the point that he didn't even know what to teach Li Jingxiao.

After frowning and thinking for a moment, his brows suddenly relaxed.

Since the master-disciple relationship is already established, the less he has to teach her, the more he benefits from this arrangement.

However, Laozi thought this way, but he knew in his heart that if he did not properly teach Li Jingxiao and pass on his powerful Taoist techniques and supernatural abilities, he would be in serious trouble.

In the future, the bond between master and disciple will inevitably not be as strong.

Therefore, Laozi quickly made up his mind to teach Li Jingxiao the Dao of Taiqing more often in the future.

Moreover, the higher the level of the technique, the more difficult it is to learn, and the more time and energy it takes to be taught by the master.

At worst, I'll preach to Li Jingxiao every month and work my way up the kid's level in the Dao of Taiqing.

In this way, the kid has gained a great benefit and a great favor.

They will naturally feel grateful to themselves for being good teachers.

If Li Jingxiao knew what Laozi was thinking at this moment, he would be overjoyed.

Moreover, the more time and effort Lao Jun puts in, the more Li Jingxiao will naturally receive in return in the future.

To put it bluntly, in Li Jingxiao's mind, he treated the master-disciple relationship as a business transaction.

But he still has his bottom line: if you treat me well, then I will sincerely treat you as my master.

Otherwise, it's a complete transaction.

If he is needed in the future, or even in times of crisis, Li Jingxiao will naturally not step forward.

Of course, no matter how great the favor, if there is a real danger to his life, Li Jingxiao will run away without hesitation.

No matter how close the relationship between a master and his apprentice is, it can't compare to the relationship between a father and son or a mother and son.

There's absolutely no way you'd expect someone like Lee Kyung-hyo to risk his life for anyone.

Perhaps in his heart, the only people he truly revered were his parents.

Even his children, most of the time, had to come after his wife.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so indifferent to her children back in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber.

After entering the world of Investiture of the Gods, even though he could have returned to the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, he did not take any action to visit his children for many years.
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After Laozi confirmed Li Jingxiao's alchemy skills, he was naturally extremely satisfied with this disciple.

He instructed Li Jingxiao to come to the Bajing Palace to listen to lectures every month thereafter.

He then instructed Grand Master Xuandu to take Li Jingxiao to select a good location on Shouyang Mountain to build a cave dwelling.

As the location of a sage's sacred site, Shouyang Mountain possesses spiritual energy that, while not comparable to the area around Kunlun Mountain's Jade Void Palace, is in no way inferior to that of Jin'ao Island.

Compared to other blessed lands, it is naturally one or two levels better.

However, for cultivators at Li Jingxiao's level, the density of immortal spiritual energy is no longer that important.

Moreover, no matter how good Shouyang Mountain is, it still can't compare to the Thirty-Three Heavens of Heaven in Journey to the West.

Back in the Journey to the West world, Li Jingxiao didn't really like staying in the Heavenly Court.

It's clear that the amount of celestial energy has little effect on him. He'd rather stay home, play cards with his wives, sing operas, and fool around.

The higher the level, the more powerful the magical items you can obtain.

Their combat power is naturally higher.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao would drink monkey spirit wine every time he cultivated.

The ingredients for brewing Monkey Spirit Wine are, firstly, monkey wine, and secondly, the spiritual energy left behind after the Purple Gold Red Gourd refined the flower demon.

The flower fairies I encounter every day have changed from ordinary flower fairies in the level 20 map to flower fairies and thousand-year-old ginseng dolls with their own fairy aura in the level 110 map.

Monkey Spirit Wine is a spirit wine brewed by tens of thousands of monkeys and their offspring from Flower Fruit Mountain.

When Li Jingxiao went to Flower Fruit Mountain, he took away all of Sun Wukong's tens of thousands of catties of treasure.

Every year thereafter, Sun Wukong would instruct his monkey followers to send him ten or twenty thousand catties of spirit wine under the guise of gifts during festivals.

To avoid having to go drinking with Li Jingxiao too often, I felt embarrassed to go too frequently.

In the Journey to the West world, Flower Fruit Mountain is a true paradise.

The mountains and fields are covered with peach trees and other spiritual fruits, so there is no shortage of raw materials for brewing monkey wine.

It could be said that the current Monkey Spirit Wine should actually be called Monkey Immortal Wine.

It's just that they're used to calling him Li Jingxiao, so they haven't changed their way of addressing him.

With the abundant spiritual energy provided by the spirit wine, Li Jingxiao naturally didn't need to worry about the density of spiritual energy in his cave.

However, although Li Jingxiao did not want to stay on Shouyang Mountain all day, he was very concerned about choosing a good place near Bajing Palace to build a cave dwelling.

Anyway, you don't need to spend your own money, materials, or manpower.

Naturally, it should be built as luxuriously as possible.

Li Jingxiao didn't know why, but he just had a preference for cliffs with waterfalls.

Perhaps it is only by standing high that one can see far.

However, Xuandu repeatedly advised Li Jingxiao not to choose a mountaintop location for his cave dwelling.

To avoid it becoming taller than the Eight Views Palace.

Li Jingxiao could only choose a cliff halfway up the mountain, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres, for the Yellow Turban warriors to build the manor.

When Xuan Du saw the manor blueprints that Li Jingxiao had used his magic to display in mid-air, his expression became somewhat surprised.

Although the abodes of immortals are not all caves.

Many of the cave dwellings built by people are actually similar to the residences of sects.

Some people have low spiritual cultivation, but they have quite a grand entourage.

However, Li Jingxiao was definitely the first person in Xuandu to build a cave dwelling entirely according to the layout of a residential house.

Fortunately, Li Jingxiao has only been practicing Taoism for over thirty years, and his age is probably only around fifty.

Therefore, it seems reasonable for Xuandu to think that Li Jingxiao's fondness for extravagance, fine clothes, wine, and beautiful women is justifiable.

This did not stop Li Jingxiao from selecting all sorts of exquisite and luxurious items from the storeroom of Bajing Palace to build houses.

With Yellow Turban warriors as construction workers, a manor covering more than ten acres was built in less than a day.

Moreover, as one of the young masters in the Eight Views Palace, he has many Yellow Turban Warriors with good cultivation who are willing to serve him as servants and attendants.

Despite their identity as Yellow Turban Warriors, Li Jingxiao saw at least several of them who were at least at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level.

Xuandu even said that Laozi had a powerful warrior at the Great Luo Realm serving him by his side.

If Xuan Du is not talking nonsense, then Laozi is probably the most capable one when it comes to teaching disciples.

However, the old man had always kept a low profile and felt that having too many apprentices would inevitably attract trouble and disputes.

That's why he only accepted Xuandu as a disciple.

Li Jingxiao failed to notice that there were people of the Great Luo Realm around Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu who were willing to serve as servants.

Even the Yellow Turban Warriors were essentially just menial laborers.

Of course, once someone reaches the Great Luo Realm, no one will truly treat them as a servant.

With the cave dwelling completed, Li Jingxiao inevitably hosted a banquet.

Moreover, besides Xuandu, there were dozens of attendants and Yellow Turban warriors who had reached the Golden Immortal level among those who took the seat.

These children and Yellow Turban warriors naturally dared not take their seats at first.

But Li Jingxiao didn't care about any of that.

Dozens of Golden Immortals and four or five Taiyi Golden Immortal level experience babies appeared in front of him, and Li Jingxiao was not about to let them go.

Moreover, the very first move he made was "Immortal's Intoxication".

Just by looking at the name of this wine, you can tell that even an immortal would collapse after drinking it.

Xuandu and dozens of boys and Yellow Turban warriors, under Li Jingxiao's repeated urging to drink,

They were all so drunk that their eyes were glazed over, and their speech was slurred.

Moreover, among everyone present, Xuan Du's status and position were higher than Li Jingxiao's.

Therefore, none of these boys or Yellow Turban warriors dared to refuse Li Jingxiao's offer of wine.

Even Xuandu, the senior brother, got drunk and became dazed in order to save face for Li Jingxiao.

When he really couldn't drink anymore, he used his magic to shake his body, which helped him sober up.

A notification sound appeared in Li Jingxiao's mind indicating +75 experience points.

This immediately surprised Li Jingxiao.

The Dark Path Grand Master Xuandu truly lives up to his reputation as a disciple of the third generation of the Xuanmen sect.

His strength truly befits his status as the senior disciple.

Yun Zhongzi has 62, Antarctic Immortal has 69, and Jade Cauldron Immortal has 63.

Zhao Gongming 65, Yunxiao 67, Wuyunxian 63.

As for the four disciples of the Jie Sect, including Duobao Daoren, Li Jingxiao had no chance to spar or drink with them.

So it's unknown how many experience points the four of them can provide.

However, Li Jingxiao guessed that Duobao and Jinling Shengmu might have exceeded 70.

Of course, true combat power depends not only on one's own cultivation level but also on the enhancement provided by magical treasures.

In fact, one could argue that as long as the magic weapon is powerful enough, cultivation level isn't that important.

Guang Chengzi, a Taiyi Golden Immortal, was able to embarrass Duobao Daoist and Guiling Shengmu with just the Fantian Seal.
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Seeing that Xuandu could provide 75 experience points, Li Jingxiao's eyes lit up when he looked at this senior brother.

Seeing that Xuandu had sobered up, he was about to get up and take his leave, but Li Jingxiao was unwilling to let him go.

Moreover, the dozens of Golden Immortals, the four or five Taiyi Golden Immortal attendants, and the Golden Warriors also provided more than ten million experience points.

Li Jingxiao became even more unwilling to let Xuandu go.

Otherwise, once this guy leaves, the other attendants and Yellow Turban warriors won't be able to stay any longer.

Li Jingxiao simply pulled Xuandu aside and said that he had not served or listened to Laozi's lectures for many years.

There are many things I don't understand and don't understand, and I hope that he, as my senior brother, can enlighten me.

Incidentally, I also want to get closer to and have more exchanges with my fellow disciples present.

(End of this chapter)