"The Path of the Soul?"
"No, this is the Dao of Transformation, which is also effective for cultivators in the Creation Realm. Hmm? What do you want to do?"
"You know perfectly well what I'm asking. Didn't you wake me up earlier?"
"Don't blame me for not warning you then. If you consume another uranium pill, and your yin and yang become unbalanced, it won't be something that one or two Bixie pills can solve, hehehe..."
Duan Xuanyuan had made up her mind. After this experience, even if Lu Li found that the Yin energy in his body had increased significantly, she could blame it on the Uranium Pill and use that as an excuse to trick Lu Li into eating more Bi'an Pills.
As for the Reversing Heavenly Dipper Instrument? What is that? She'd never heard of it before. Does such a thing even exist?
What are you laughing at?
"It's nothing, cough, well... oh right, I suddenly realized where you got that three-turn, nine-type spirit core from."
Chapter 79 Granted Me the Mysterious Pivot, Enlightened Me
On Ironwood Mountain, there is a branch of the Tongxian Sect.
This is a large hall, with candlelight flickering on the walls. Occasionally, moths fly in through holes in the paper windows and plunge into the candlelight.
Outside the window, a torrential downpour was falling, but inside the house was eerily quiet; you could hear a pin drop.
In the center of the hall, dozens of believers formed a circle, with the Venerable One standing in the middle of the crowd, and kneeling in front of him was a cultivator at the Open Source Realm.
This was a middle-aged man around forty years old. He knelt on a prayer mat, half of his clothes off. His body was stiff like a sculpture, but his expressions were very rich, showing unease, tension, excitement... one after another flashing across his face.
“Your Excellency, I am ready.”
"Okay, let's begin then."
The man puffed out his cheeks and swore an oath on the spot, based on scripture.
"With Heaven and Earth as witness and the profound Dao as proof, I, He Guizhou, am willing to uphold the teachings, relinquish worldly wealth, and donate to my religion. If I break this vow, may Heaven and Earth condemn me and my soul perish!"
"I earnestly request the Venerable One to enlighten me and bestow upon me the profound truth."
"I earnestly request the Venerable One to enlighten me and bestow upon me the profound truth."
"I humbly beseech Your Excellency to enlighten me and bestow upon me the profound truth!"
He Guizhou recited the last two lines three times in succession, each time louder than the last. Finally, the Venerable One nodded slightly and uttered only one word:
"good."
With the Venerable One's permission, one of his followers stepped forward, holding a mechanical wooden ruler. The ruler was thick and flat at the top and thin and round at the bottom, with extremely small blades at the top.
The believer held the lower end of the wooden ruler and poured spiritual energy into it. The ruler began to hum, and the tiny blades at the top vibrated in an orderly fashion.
The wooden ruler was brought close to He Guizhou's head. With just a slight touch, hair fell down in clumps. Before long, He Guizhou's hair was shaved off, leaving only a bald scalp.
Among the crowd, someone transmitted their thoughts through divine power.
"Senior, why does the Venerable One shave the head of the person every time he enlightens them? He did the same when I first came here. Is there some reason for this?"
"Are you stupid? How can you install the [Great Harmony Mystic Pivot] if you don't shave your head?"
"That's right!"
The so-called Great Harmony Mystic Pivot is a second-stage Soul Dao artifact. If a Venerable One recognizes a believer, he will bestow this item upon him. It is said that only by installing the Great Harmony Mystic Pivot can one be considered a formal believer of the Tongxian Sect.
After a cultivator is implanted with this artifact, their spiritual cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds. They will be able to autonomously block out pain sensations and transmit their voices to other believers within a twenty-mile radius without the need for a sound transmission stone.
He Guizhou took out a bamboo tube he had prepared beforehand, put it in his mouth, and the Venerable One raised his sleeve, condensing spiritual power into a blade, which he then slashed at the man's head.
The blade sliced through the scalp, pierced the flesh, cut open the skull, and with a twist on the top of his head, created a round hole the size of a walnut in the back of the man's head.
The opportunity to have the Venerable One personally implant the artifact was rare, so everyone held their breath and dared not make a sound. Some couldn't help but step forward, afraid of missing any detail.
Whoosh!
With a flick of his finger, the Venerable One sent a round device the size of a walnut shooting out from his palm, hitting the man's head precisely in the round hole at the back of his head.
The man cried out in pain, his body instinctively trying to struggle, but he was held down by the believer standing by with six mechanical arms.
At this moment, though the Venerable One's lips did not move, his voice resounded in everyone's minds:
"To achieve the Great Dao, one must endure hardship and suffering before one can truly master the Dao."
According to the rules of the Tongxian Sect, the use of anesthetic powder is not allowed in this process.
Brush brush!
Under the control of divine thought, dozens of spiritual energy blades of varying sizes condensed and took shape. They fluttered like butterflies, implanting spiritual copper tubes into the man's sea of consciousness and quickly stitching up the back of his head.
The whole process took no more than two breaths. The crowd was dazzled by what they saw. By the time they came to their senses, the man's scalp had been stitched back up, with only a little blood seeping out.
After the Datong Xuan Shu was installed, the man tried to activate it and shut down all the pain sensations in his body.
"Thank you for your generous gift, Venerable One."
"Yes, you have come a long way, enduring hardships, yet remaining loyal to my teachings. This is the blessing you deserve... Hmm?"
The Venerable One seemed to sense something, and suddenly frowned, staring sharply out the window.
Someone is approaching from the southwest. The other party is also a cultivator at the Creation Realm. Who could it be?
Having detected the other party's presence, the Venerable One proclaimed:
"Fellow Daoist, who are you? What brings you to my Tongxian Sect branch in the dead of night?"
The newcomer remained silent. At that moment, everyone present felt a chill rise from the bottom of their hearts, from head to toe, as if it would freeze their souls in an instant.
The Venerable One clasped his hands together and immediately sighed.
"Alas, yet another pitiful person blinded by obsession."
As soon as he finished speaking, an ice lotus appeared from afar and exploded outside the house with a bang, forming a chilling vortex that effortlessly ripped off the roof, sending countless bricks and tiles flying everywhere.
The cultivators were terrified, but fortunately, the Venerable One formed a barrier with his divine sense to protect them, thus saving them from death. However, the pervasive chill still managed to penetrate the barrier, causing them to shiver with cold.
Outside the wall, a fierce wind howled, and torrential rain condensed into countless icicles that clattered and pounded on the ground.
The crowd finally saw the newcomer's appearance. She was a petite girl with a head of silver hair that danced wildly in the wind. Even though her face was shrouded in mist, making it impossible for anyone to see her features clearly, they could still sense her extraordinary and aloof temperament.
Seeing that the other party was coming with great force and refused to reveal their name, the Venerable One calmly said:
“Your Excellency is too bloodthirsty. If you have a grudge against me, then come at me directly. Why involve these innocent believers?”
Seeing the Venerable One's compassionate demeanor, Lu Li felt a slight wavering in her heart. Just then, the mysterious artifact spirit residing in the Great Dream Pivot reminded her:
"Host, be careful, that is a soul-path supernatural power."
"Ok?"
Lu Li was immediately shocked. She did indeed feel a faint divine thought quietly surging into her mind. She activated the Great Dream Pivot, and the pear orchard in her sea of consciousness swayed gently. An invisible divine thought spread out and shattered the Venerable's divine thought.
"Be careful, disciple. This old man is very cunning. He talks a lot about benevolence and morality, but he actually has a deadly plan."
"You don't need to tell me, you're not much better."
"Tsk tsk tsk... Why don't you hand over your body to me, and I'll let you experience the true power of this body?"
"Get lost! Don't bother me!"
Lu Li calmly analyzed that both of them were at the Creation Realm, and her entire body was made of mechanical artifacts. What she lacked was the ability to control these mechanical artifacts.
With a flick of his sleeve, the Venerable One took out a jet-black mirror, which was the same three-turn artifact he had used before—Water Moon Mirror!
"I'm sorry, fellow Daoist."
As soon as he finished speaking, a white blade shot out from the mirror. It was made of the purest divine sense, hundreds of times more powerful than the soul-path divine power he had used in the square earlier. Its speed was as fast as lightning, and it disappeared into Lu Li's brow in the blink of an eye.
The next moment, Lu Li's body froze on the spot, her eyes becoming empty and lifeless, like a puppet that had lost its soul.
Chapter 80 The Five Elements Generate Each Other, the Five Organs are One
Seeing that their venerable master had subdued the opponent in a single move, the many believers present were filled with admiration. He Guizhou couldn't help but ask:
"Your Excellency, what was that move called? It was incredibly powerful."
The Venerable One smiled faintly and simply waved his hand.
"Ah, but it's just a fancy trick, nothing to brag about."
At this moment, a follower of the Venerable One from the Spiritual Pivot Realm who had followed him for many years explained:
"That move just now was called the Water Moon Soul Sealing Curse. It was a soul-path divine power that the Venerable used with the Water Moon Mirror. As long as the opponent's divine sense is weaker than his own, he can seal their soul and make them lose control of their physical body."
"hiss--"
Upon hearing this, everyone gasped in shock. They all knew that their Venerable One specialized in the Soul Path, and his divine sense strength had long since reached Grade A. There were very few Creation Realm cultivators who could surpass him in divine sense.
As long as one's divine power is stronger than a human's, one can render the other immobile. There is such a domineering divine power in the world.
"Qin Xiao, He Guizhou, tie her up and send her to my cave later. This woman is too bloodthirsty and needs to be disciplined."
Having said that, the Venerable One turned and left, leaving behind a black shackle. The two people he had chosen took the shackle and stepped forward.
But just as the two reached the girl and curiously examined her face, He Guizhou transmitted his thoughts to Qin Xiao:
"Wonderful, wonderful! At first I thought it was because it was too dark and the wind and frost were obstructing my view that I couldn't see her face clearly. Who would have thought that even though I'm so close, I still can't see her clearly."
"Perhaps he has some other magical artifact on him. Don't just stand there like an idiot, come and help him."
"Oh, here it comes."
Qin Xiao dragged one end of the shackles while He Guizhou lifted the other end. The weight of the shackles far exceeded the latter's expectations. Both of them had strength cultivation, and even they found it difficult to lift them together.
"By the way, Brother Qin, what is this mechanical device?"
"This item is a three-stage artifact that can simultaneously imprison a cultivator's spiritual power, divine sense, and physical strength. Its name is: [Triple Shackles Seven-Phase Lock]."
"That looks amazing."
This wasn't Qin Xiao's first time doing this. He skillfully infused his spiritual power, and with a few soft sounds, the seven iron locks opened one after another.
"This thing can work on all cultivators at or below the Creation Realm. Its only drawback is that the opponent cannot resist before it is fully activated. Even a puppeteer can break free if it is not fully activated, so it is generally used to restrain prisoners."
At that moment, a clear, ethereal female voice suddenly rang out.
"Oh, I see. I understand now."
"Wait a minute? How can she hear us?"
Upon hearing the sound, the two were both terrified. Just as they were about to turn around to look behind them, they were suddenly shocked to find that they could not move their necks. Two ice flowers had quietly bloomed on the back of their necks without them noticing.
The frost spread rapidly, freezing the two into ice sculptures in an instant. Lu Li lightly tapped their shoulders, and they turned to dust.
In fact, the reason why that Venerable One had such a strong divine sense was due to the Three-Turn Nine-Type Void Spirit Core in the Water Moon Mirror.
The one in Lu Li's head is the same one as the other person's, but it comes from that vague, possibly existing future, so it's a little older.
In addition, Lu Li has another advantage: there is a powerful and mysterious artifact spirit in her sea of consciousness. With the blessing of this artifact spirit, her divine sense is even stronger than that of her opponent.
The moment the opponent entered her sea of consciousness, Lu Li forcibly broke through it with her Spirit Core. The reason she stood still was to lure the opponent into a trap and kill them in one fell swoop. However, the opponent did not get close at all, but instead sent two Open Source Realm cultivators to their deaths.
Upon seeing this, the crowd erupted in uproar. The Venerable One suddenly turned around and glared at Lu Li.
The transformation time is limited, and Lu Li cannot delay. The two who died earlier communicated using divine sense, and only five breaths have passed in total.
From the start of the battle until now, she immediately activated the artifact within her body, condensing several ice lotuses, which she then relentlessly hurled at the Venerable One.
Anyway, she only has so much time, so saving her spiritual energy would be a waste.
Behind these ice lotus divine powers lies the third-stage artifact—the [Permafrost Machine].
All of Lu Li's previous ice-based magical abilities were performed with this puppet as the core. It corresponds to the kidneys of this body. For Qing Ling, this puppet is also the core of the five internal organs.
"The kidneys belong to water, supplemented by the Taiyin, which condenses water into white ice that will not melt for a hundred days. But I have never seen such a configuration of your permafrost machine before. A three-stage nine-type ice spirit core, a two-stage six-type Taiyin spirit core, a three-stage eight-type water spirit core... It actually has a full three spirit cores embedded inside."
"It sounds like it's worth a lot of money."
Lu Li never expected that her kidneys, which were clearly only worth three spirit stones, would be replaced with this thing, increasing the price by countless times.
Boom boom boom!
Within ten breaths, hundreds of ice flowers had already exploded, but the Venerable One's divine sense barrier remained unmoved.
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