Demonic Demoness Training Project

The thought of beheading and electrocution sent chills down Lu Li's spine.

To avoid having his identity deduced by the higher-ups of the White Moon Palace, Lu Li was determined not to sit idly by and wait for his doom, so he took the initiative to contact them.

Before long, the other party pulled him into a space, and the scene changed, and Lu Li found himself in front of a palace.

As long as one has enough divine sense, one can construct any form within the Small Disparity Heaven. However, the things constructed by divine sense are often just empty forms without any practical function. Nevertheless, some cultivators are still obsessed with them and enjoy it immensely.

Lu Li looked up and saw a silver moon hanging high in the sky, with an ethereal aura and magnificent palaces, making him wonder if he was in a fairyland.

A woman floated down from the palace; she was slender and beautiful. Upon seeing Lu Li, she greeted him warmly:

"Come in, your sister is waiting for you inside."

elder sister?

Lu Li looked the person in front of him up and down. The person's appearance was eight parts similar to Xie Lingyin's. At first, he thought it was Xie Lingyin herself, but when he noticed the address "sister," he suddenly realized—

Wait, could this guy be Xie Xiao?

Lu Li looked the man up and down again. He found it hard to connect him with the tall and mighty puppet in reality. Even the man's speech had become more fluent.

He had previously heard that Xie Xiao's soul had been fixed to a puppet due to an accident. Now that he thought about it, this might be her original appearance, which made him sigh.

Coming to his senses, Lu Li bowed and followed the other person up the steps, glancing around as he went.

From afar, it felt like being in a fairyland, but upon closer inspection, it turned out... indeed.

Seeing this, Lu Li couldn't help but ask:

How long will it take to build this palace?

"As for the construction, I'm not sure. My sister bought it directly. It cost her more than twenty spirit stones. After buying it, she made some minor adjustments herself, so it didn't take much effort."

"Oh……"

Lu Li nodded slightly. Although the palace was just a physical structure, it was undeniably pleasing to the eye.

After all, cultivators also care about their reputation. If they invite fellow cultivators to discuss important matters in the Heaven of Disparity, they must also observe proper hospitality. If the surroundings are empty and there is nothing there, it would be unacceptable to them.

Twenty spirit stones isn't expensive, it's only equivalent to six or seven kidneys... Oh no, when did I become so extravagant?

Lu Li smiled bitterly to himself. Back then, he was controlled by thirty-six spirit stones for an entire afternoon. Now, he could easily have thousands of spirit stones, which didn't seem like much anymore.

Lost in thought, Lu Li soon arrived at the palace, where he saw Xie Lingyin sitting at her desk, organizing documents.

"Fellow Daoist, please have a seat."

“Your Holiness, you mentioned that demonic cultivator. I do seem to have seen someone similar before. I wonder if it is her.”

"Oh? When? Where? Tell me in detail."

"It was probably the day before the immeasurable calamity erupted. I was gathering resources on the outskirts, and my wooden crow was there too, so it can testify."

"The day before the immeasurable calamity erupted..."

Recalling the situation at the time, Xie Lingyin could roughly guess that the demonic cultivator wanted by Baiyue Palace was the rogue cultivator Mo Wan she had encountered earlier. Because she did not want to be enemies with him, she refused Wan Hanshan's invitation to join forces and left the scene in advance.

As expected, Wan Hanshan was killed by her, but this time it was different. She killed him with her own strength, not by the possession of her elder.

The bounty had been posted for some time. According to the information she had gathered in the past few days, the puppet of Wanhan Mountain self-destructed, and all the cultivators fled. They were never seen again afterward. However, according to this refined hermit, he was the first person to witness the other party afterward.

"When I saw her, she was already seriously injured. I remember she had a blue face and fangs, and was three zhang tall."

"Hmm, green face and fangs, three zhang tall... three zhang? Is it that big? Ah, I mean, are you sure you're not mistaken? How do you know it's her?"

Xie Lingyin recalled the situation at the time. She originally thought that Sister Mo Wan was very small. Since she could fit into Xie Xiao's body, she shouldn't be too big.

Click~

At that moment, Xie Lingyin felt her illusions shattered.

"I didn't know at first either. When I saw her, she was originally a woman, holding a severed arm and gnawing on it. That thing glared at me and started growing back as soon as it was exposed to the wind. I was so scared that I turned around and ran away. Luckily, she was injured at the time, and I just happened to escape with my life. Since she is a demonic cultivator from the Boundless Calamity Source, I figured it must be her."

Based on the rumors he had heard, Lu Li embellished them, ultimately portraying himself as a man-eating monster, leaving Xie Lingyin stunned.

"Okay, I've noted it down. Here are your three hundred spirit stones. You can collect them outside later, or I can transfer them directly to your jade register."

"Hey, there are even spirit stones to be won, that's great."

"Yes, the clues provided by you are very valuable."

Lu Li twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling unworthy of the honor.

Shortly after Lu Li left, Xie Lingyin organized the information and entered it all into a jade slip. Xie Xiao suddenly spoke up:

"Shouldn't we verify what this last person said?"

"No need. I was just going through the motions. The elder asked me to organize the information to help him with his calculations. Tell me, did I do something wrong?"

"Sister, just do what you want."

Xie Lingyin was torn between the sect that had nurtured her and Mo Wan, who had saved her life.

Not wanting Mo Wan to be caught, this was all she could do to help her. Over the past few days, many people had provided her with information, but the information they provided was unreliable, and many of them were just trying to scam people out of the bounty.

But so what? Xie Lingyin didn't care about any of that.

As the saying goes, if there is not enough evidence, false evidence will suffice. On this basis, Xie Lingyin mixed in some false evidence, fearing that the sect would find Mo Wan.

Gazing at the hazy, ethereal moonlight outside the window, Xie Lingyin slightly raised her hand, and the jade slip vanished in a flash, as if merging into another space.

"Consider it repaying your favor. This is all I can do for you."

Do you like her?

"I already said no, no!"

Recalling Lu Li's description of Mo Wan, Xie Lingyin felt extremely guilty—was it possible that she was actually forced to fall into the demonic path because she was affected by the immeasurable calamity in order to save me, and used the immeasurable calamity to open the source, ultimately turning into that ghostly appearance?

Xie Lingyin thought about it more and more and it seemed very possible. She had experienced something similar before, like her younger sister.

"I really am a... troublemaker."

Chapter 144 Fertilizing the Deer, Old Duan Steals Pears

After leaving Xie Lingyin's residence in the Heavenly Realm, Lu Li returned to reality and prepared to leave the Heavenly Pavilion. Before leaving, Lu Li did not forget to pick up a Pure Heart Pear from the table in the private room and take all the remaining spiritual fruits with him.

He then immediately found a secluded corner, and, posing as Mo Wan, called Su Xiaoya out to coordinate their statements in order to prevent her from verifying them.

After finishing these tasks, Lu Li returned to his cave and continued to deduce the outline of the Thousand Blades Demon Whip.

Completing the deduction and refining of a second-stage automaton within a month seems like a pipe dream to others, but firstly, Lu Li has the diagram of the Qi-Harmony Cauldron as a reference, and secondly, he has the Great Dream Profound Pivot for deduction and trial production, so his efficiency is naturally much higher than that of ordinary people.

Among cultivators of the same realm, there are not many who have installed the Xuan Shu, and those who can accelerate thinking, such as the Great Dream Xuan Shu, are even rarer. Looking at the entire White Moon Palace, there are very few people who can produce a top-of-the-line third-stage Spirit Core.

All of the above factors combined have led to the current enormous advantage.

Now, his deduction speed in dreams has reached seven times that of ordinary cultivators. What seems like a month is actually equivalent to half a year if you calculate his sleep time in between as seven times.

Even at this speed, Lu Li still felt it was too slow.

"It took me more than twenty days to refine the Furnace, ten days to prepare for the assessment, and about another month to refine the Hundred Blades of the Demon Whip. I have four months left to refine the Glazed Bone and Jade Foot."

"I am not familiar with the refining processes of these two, so the refining difficulty is much higher than that of the chemical furnace, and it takes much longer. In the meantime, we also have to deal with the rear section and the bundle section."

Lu Li has never been this busy since he embarked on the path of cultivation.

"Ultimately, it all comes down to the fact that we were forced to take out a loan in the Boundless Realm back then, without any time to prepare in advance. Plus, the open-source assessment takes up a lot of time. We didn't have a chance to prepare for this round of loans, and the pressure for the next round of loans will only be greater... Ugh, our future is completely ruined."

There is an even more important point that Lu Li did not mention, and that is the influence of Elder Duan.

Previously, when crafting mechanical artifacts, Elder Duan would provide guidance, but now he has to deduce them himself based on the finished products, which takes much longer than before.

Recently, Old Duan has been silent, and no one knows what mischief he's up to.

Just as I was thinking this, Old Duan suddenly spoke.

"Now you're living beyond your means, aren't you? So many cultivators take out loans to cultivate immortality, only to fall into this quagmire step by step. I told you long ago, let your master take over the body, and all the problems will be solved."

"Get lost! You old geezer."

"Fine, fine, you'll see what happens later! Humph!"

Lu Li cursed and swore as he activated the Great Dream Pivot, then broke free from the dream. When he returned to reality, he had just stood up from the bathtub.

Even while sleeping, his mind was focused on deducing the mechanical artifact, and his body was used for medicinal baths; he was never idle for a moment.

It was said to be for helping him refine the immeasurable calamity. Lu Li looked down at the wild beast cub—had this little rascal gotten smaller again?

The changes weren't very noticeable, and Lu Li suspected it was just psychological. He had also been taking the Nine Dragon Pill recently.

"My disciple, this medicinal bath is highly poisonous. Your sister is trying to harm you!"

"Hmph, you old fool, you're trying to trick me again, aren't you!"

"You'll regret not listening to your teacher. You'll regret it."

Duan Lao chuckled inwardly. As the saying goes, "once bitten, twice shy," she gradually figured out Lu Li's temperament.

That wicked disciple simply doesn't believe her.

The recipe for the medicinal bath was provided by Lu Ling. Even though Lu Li had some doubts, she gave him a push, and he immediately rebelled. The more she told him not to take the bath, the more he wanted to.

The remarkable thing about this medicinal bath is that it can reduce swelling and clear up acne without altering the body's yin and yang energies.

The swelling will go down every day, a little bit at a time. Today it goes down by five millimeters, tomorrow by ten millimeters. Over time, by the time he realizes it, it's too late.

At the same time, Lu Li's attention was not on the medicinal bath, but on worrying about the speed of the deduction.

The potential of the Spirit Core is far greater than this; to fully unleash its potential, one needs to further improve their spiritual realm.

However, he has neither the time nor the means to perfect the Great Dream Profound Pivot in the short term. If he wants to improve it without spending time, the only way is probably to spend money to buy pills.

Lu Li went to the Inner Sect Mission Hall, glanced at the exchange list, and found a pill called the Heart Nourishing Pill.

Moreover, it is quite expensive, costing three spirit stones per piece. Just one piece is equivalent to a kidney.

"This kind of pill is quite complicated to refine, much more complicated than the Nine Dragons Pill. You need to swallow it first and then circulate it through your body. Usually, it takes a cultivator two to three days to refine one Heart Nourishing Pill..."

"However, there is no need for that!"

Lu Li grabbed the Heart Nourishing Pill and swallowed it. It would only take the time it takes to brew a cup of tea to refine it!

He used the Qi-regulating cauldron and the energy-absorbing furnace to quickly absorb the medicinal power. Once the states of the two were set, the circulation and absorption were completely automated, without taking up any of his time for medicinal baths or sleep. It was quite convenient.

In response, Lu Li couldn't help but sigh:

"In this way, I can simultaneously refine my body, nourish my spirit, and deduce. With the nourishment of the spirit, the deduction will also become faster. The influence of the Yan Dao on cultivators is truly immeasurable. No wonder it can lead the other three thousand Great Daos and become the strongest lineage in this world."

While they were talking, the first wisp of medicinal power had already been refined in the digestive furnace and rushed straight to the sea of ​​consciousness along the meridians.

To Lu Li's surprise, this power, absorbed by his sea of ​​consciousness, actually affected the pear saplings within it. The pear saplings that absorbed this medicinal power grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

These pear saplings are very special, as they are rooted in the sea of ​​consciousness. The method of applying manure as fertilizer is ineffective against them, and besides, it is impossible for Lu Li to stuff manure into his own sea of ​​consciousness.

On the contrary, the process of absorbing the heart-nourishing pill is equivalent to fertilizing the pear tree in disguise.

"Great! Soon we'll have pears to eat, hee hee hee~"

The smile wouldn't disappear, it would just shift. Seeing Lu Li's jubilant expression, Duan Xuanyuan, hiding in the shadows, suddenly turned gloomy, his old, sullen face drooping.

This won't do. Her injuries only healed last month, and she has just broken through to the lower grade of Grade B. Lu Li's spiritual sense realm has also advanced to the middle grade of Grade B, and with the help of the Soul-Returning Pear, his advancement is only a matter of time.

At this rate, when will her plan to possess another body be realized?

"No, I have to trip her up a bit."

After pondering for a moment, Duan Xuanyuan suddenly spread his hands, and an insect materialized in his palm. At this moment, Lu Li went to deduce the mechanical device, and Duan Xuanyuan took advantage of his unpreparedness to place the insect on the pear sapling.

"I'm using my own divine sense to condense this soul worm to gnaw on your pear tree and slow down its growth. Even when it's ripe, I'll still steal your pears. Hmph, let's see how you advance."

Chapter 145 Multi-core Parallelism! A Thousand Refinements!

Several days later, in Lu Li's sea of ​​consciousness.

The caterpillar lay on the pear leaf, pupated its plump body, and the leaf beneath it was gnawed into pieces.

It may seem like it's just eating leaves, but in reality, it's consuming the essence of the sea of ​​consciousness, thus slowing down the pear tree's growth.

Lu Li quickly discovered this. He picked one up, brought it close to his eyes to examine it closely, and looked puzzled.

"Holy crap, how come there are bugs in my sea of ​​consciousness?"

Looking at the empty sea of ​​consciousness, Lu Li's first thought was of Elder Duan.