260: Chapter 259 Money really can make the devil turn the millstone!

The smugness on the faces of Old Ancestor Cang Ming and his two companions outside the net froze instantly.

"Mahayana Stage? No... that's not right! This definitely isn't just an ordinary Body Integration Stage! It's even more profound than the Mahayana Stage!"

"You... did you really reach the Mahayana Stage?!"

Old Ancestor Cang Ming pointed at Su Lin, his finger trembling violently, his voice cracking and shrill.

"This is impossible! The Immortal Mansion suppresses the Law; how could you possibly break through to the Mahayana Stage inside without being wiped out by the Heavenly Dao?!"

"Heavenly Dao?"

A wild, arrogant sneer curled the corners of Su Lin's mouth.

"I just chopped up a heavenly dao incarnation inside; do you think it would dare to mess with me?"

These words were like a thunderbolt from the blue!

Old Ancestor Cang Ming and his companions were struck dumb, their minds going blank.

Chopped up a heavenly dao incarnation?!

Is this guy telling fairy tales?!

But the very real, terrifying Aura that surpassed their Tribulation Transcendence Stage was ruthlessly telling them that the man before them was a monster they could not afford to provoke!

What made them even more desperate was yet to come.

"Revered Master, why waste breath on these idiots?" Luo Ximei sneered, the God-Binding long whip in her hand slithering through the Void Realm like a dark red poisonous dragon, emitting a heart-stopping sound as it tore through the air.

"Since they delivered themselves to our doorstep, let's just keep them all here to serve as fertilizer for this Black Sea."

"Arrogant!"

Old Ancestor Cang Ming outside the net finally snapped out of his extreme shock.

After all, he was an old fox who had lived for thousands of years. Seeing Su Lin's Aura as deep as an abyss and as vast as the sea, although he was afraid, the arrow was already on the bow and had to be fired.

"Regardless of whether you are in the Mahayana Stage or not! You are currently inside my Tai Xu Absolute Net!"

"This net is woven from Nine Heavens Mysterious Gold and Void Realm Secret Silver, specially designed to absorb people's spiritual power and Law!"

"Even if you have heaven-reaching abilities, you can only be a lamb waiting to be slaughtered in this net!"

"Two Fellow Daoist, do not be bluffed by him! Unleash the full power of the Formation and drain him dry!"

Old Ancestor Cang Ming shouted sharply, his hands violently changing hand seals.

The bandaged freak and the Old Man in animal skins beside him also gritted their teeth, pouring their terrifying Tribulation Transcendence Stage spiritual power into the transparent giant net without reservation.

"Hum!!!"

The Tai Xu Absolute Net tightened instantly, erupting with blinding white light.

A terrifying suction force, comparable to a black hole, frantically squeezed and sucked from all directions towards Su Lin and his six Disciples in the center of the net!

"Oh my, such strong suction."

Chu Weiwei stood beside Su Lin, not only unafraid but instead reaching out a finger with great interest, watching the Spiritual Qi at her fingertips being stripped away bit by bit.

"It's just that the technique is too crude; it's far worse than my Spirit-Dissolving Powder."

"Revered Master, do you want me to poison them to death?"

"No need."

Su Lin stood with his hands behind his back. He lifted his eyelids slightly, looking at the three ferocious old monsters outside the net who were doing their best to drive the Formation, a trace of pity in his eyes.

"You want spiritual power?"

Su Lin's voice was calm, yet under the blessing of the Law, it exploded in the ears of the three men.

"Alright."

"Revered Master will give it to you."

The moment his voice fell.

The golden star point between Su Lin's eyebrows suddenly shone brightly!

A force even superior to Spiritual Qi, an Immortal power, surged wildly into the Formation veins of the giant net, following the suction of the Tai Xu Absolute Net!

"What?!"

The sinister grin on Old Ancestor Cang Ming's face froze instantly.

The Tai Xu Absolute Net, the moment it bore this Chaos Origin, had its Formation patterns overloaded, turning a blinding crimson red.

Countless crisp snapping sounds echoed in the Void Realm one after another.

"No... this is impossible! Stop! Stop quickly! The Formation is about to collapse!"

Old Ancestor Cang Ming screamed in terror. He wanted to cut off his connection with the Formation but found that the terrifying power had already followed the Formation and stuck tightly to his Divine Soul!

"Bang!!!"

A heaven-shaking roar.

The Tai Xu Absolute Net exploded.

Like a glass ball that had been blown up, it shattered into crystalline fragments that swept frantically in all directions.

"Pfft!!!"

Under the backlash of the Formation, the three Tribulation Transcendence Stage powerhouses—Old Ancestor Cang Ming, the bandaged freak, and the Old Man in animal skins—all suffered heavy blows simultaneously, spewing out large mouthfuls of blood.

"Old dogs, you think you can just run away?!"

Amidst the fragments of the Formation flying across the sky, a red figure rushed out like lightning tearing through the night.

Su Hongling had been holding back a belly full of fire, and now she had finally found an outlet to vent it!

Her red eyes locked onto the Old Man in animal skins, her terrifying Mahayana Stage Physical Body directly crushing the air.

"Take this lady's windmill strike!!"

The great sword no edge was swung in a full circle, carrying absolute power sufficient to split a continent in two, smashing fiercely towards the Old Man in animal skins.

"Junior, don't be rampant!"

The Old Man in animal skins was, after all, in the Tribulation Transcendence Stage. In this life-or-death moment, he roared, his muscles bulging, transforming into an ancient demonic ape phantom a thousand feet tall, crossing his arms to forcefully withstand the blow.

"Crack!"

The moment the demonic ape phantom's arms made contact with the great sword, they snapped directly!

"Frozen."

Before the Old Man in animal skins could scream, a cold voice sounded behind him.

Mu Qingxue appeared in white, like a ghost.

The cold air at her fingertips instantly invaded the body of the Old Man in animal skins, whose defense had just been smashed, freezing him directly from the inside out into a crystalline ice sculpture.

"Shatter."

Su Hongling unceremoniously swung her sword backhanded.

"Bang!" The ice sculpture shattered, and a Tribulation Transcendence Stage old monster, without even his Primordial Spirit escaping, turned into ice dregs filling the sky.

Instant kill!

On the other side.

The Corpse Cultivator freak wrapped in bandages saw that the situation was bad and immediately bit the tip of his tongue, transforming into thousands of black corpse beetles, trying to scatter and escape.

"Playing with Gu in front of me? Showing off your meager skills!"

Chu Weiwei smiled and threw out a purple medicine bottle.

The bottle exploded in mid-air, turning into a brilliant, colorful poisonous cloud that instantly enveloped the thousands of corpse beetles.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."

Those corpse beetles, which didn't even fear true fire, let out shrill screams the moment they touched the poisonous cloud, like snowflakes falling into magma, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a pool of foul-smelling green water.

"My natal corpse Gu!!!"

The freak's true body fell out of a pool of green water, rolling on the ground in pain.

"Go, turn him into flower fertilizer."

Ye You snapped her fingers lazily, and countless bloodthirsty vines covered in barbs burst out of the ground, piercing the freak through and greedily sucking his Tribulation Transcendence Stage essence and blood.

In less than three breaths.

The three Tribulation Transcendence Stage powerhouses were gone, leaving only Old Ancestor Cang Ming as a lone commander.

Old Ancestor Cang Ming was now scared out of his wits.

Monsters!

These women were all monsters! They clearly hadn't undergone tribulation, so why was their combat power countless times more terrifying than the Tribulation Transcendence Stage?!

"Su... Fellow Daoist Su! It's a misunderstanding! It was those two who forced me!"

Old Ancestor Cang Ming fell onto the sea surface, looking at Su Lin walking slowly toward him, no longer having the high-and-mighty composure he had before, like an old dog begging for mercy.

"This old one is willing to hand over all treasures! I am willing to be your beast of burden! Please spare my life!"

Su Lin walked up to him, looking down at him from above, without a trace of pity in his eyes.

"Beast of burden?"

Luo Ximei walked out from behind Su Lin, her white-gold right eye full of disgust.

"With your old bones, you are fit to pull the cart for my Revered Master? Who would pay if you dirtied the carriage shafts?"

She unfurled the myriad soul banner in her hand, and the black and white Devilish Qi turned into a giant ghost claw, directly gripping Old Ancestor Cang Ming's crown.

"Revered Master, his Divine Soul is very nourishing; why not let this Disciple extract it?"

"Leave his corpse intact."

Su Lin left a faint sentence and turned away, no longer looking at him.

"As you command~"

A cruel smile curled the corners of Luo Ximei's mouth, and her five fingers exerted force suddenly.

"No!!!"

Accompanied by a scream that reached the extreme, a generation of Black Market giants, the Tribulation Transcendence Stage powerhouse Old Ancestor Cang Ming, had his Divine Soul extracted alive, and his Physical Body fell softly onto the cold sea surface.

A lethal trap aimed at Su Lin was thus wiped out by the Revered Master and his Disciples with the momentum of sweeping away fallen leaves.

"Poor ghost, he actually has quite a lot of good things on him."

Su Hongling skillfully stripped all the Storage Rings off the three Tribulation Transcendence Stage old monsters, weighed them, and her face blossomed with joy.

"Old Man, we really made a fortune this time! Just the Top-Grade Spirit Stones alone are probably enough to form a mountain!"

"Take these things back and give them to Qiuyue."

Su Lin stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze cast toward the distant south, the direction of the Daochu Sect.

Coming out this time, experiencing the Void Black Market, the otherworldly bloody battle, and reshaping his Foundation inside the Immortal Mansion, although the time wasn't long, too many things had happened.

"Been out for so long, it's time to go home."

He waved his sleeve, and the hidden dragon flying boat broke through the air.

"Going home!"

Several Female Demon Lords cheered and jumped onto the flying boat one after another.

Cold Moon stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the endless Black Sea below, a trace of emotion flashing in her eyes, which was then replaced by firmness.

As long as Revered Master is there, everywhere is home.

"Set sail!"

Accompanied by a dragon roar, the hidden dragon turned into a stream of light, tearing through the Void Realm and galloping toward the direction of the Nanyu Divine Dynasty.

...

Two days later, Daochu Sect.

When the hidden dragon broke through the clouds and hovered over the Daochu Sect, everyone on the flying boat was stunned.

"This... did we go to the wrong place?"

Su Hongling rubbed her eyes, full of disbelief.

I saw that the mountain gate below, which originally looked a bit dilapidated due to the great war, had already changed its appearance completely.

Twelve white jade sword Peaks, ten thousand feet high, rose from the ground, surrounding the main Peak to form an extremely mysterious sect-protecting Formation.

In front of the mountain gate was a square paved with Top-Grade Spirit Stones. In the center of the square stood a statue of Su Lin, a hundred feet high, made of unknown immortal gold.

And on the main Peak, there were continuous palaces, resplendent with gold and jade, with auspicious energy and dancing immortal cranes.

That kind of luxury, that kind of style, even if the number one sect of the Central Province came, they would have to lower their heads in shame.

The air was filled with the Aura of an upstart who was shouting, "I'm rich, I'm extremely rich."

"Revered Master!"

Just as everyone was still stunned, a golden stream of light soared from the main Peak hall and arrived on the deck of the flying boat in the blink of an eye.

The person arriving wore a luxurious purple-gold long dress, covered from head to toe in various Top-Grade Magic Treasures, and the iconic pure gold abacus at her waist was shining even more brightly.

But at this moment, Gu Qiuyue's Aura had undergone a world-shaking change.

It was no longer the Soul Transformation Peak cultivation of the past.

That terrifying Aura, as vast as an abyss and resonating with the Laws of heaven and earth, was actually the Mahayana Stage!!

"Sixth Junior Sister, you... you broke through to the Mahayana Stage?!"

Luo Ximei widened her white-gold right eye, full of disbelief.

"You... how can you be so fast?!"

This money-grubbing girl was calculating accounts at home every day, and she just reached the Mahayana Stage?!

"Hehe..."

Gu Qiuyue proudly flicked the gold abacus at her waist, making a crisp sound.

She directly ignored her shocked Senior Sisters, pounced in front of Su Lin like a happy little bird, and hugged Su Lin's arm, rubbing against it.

"Revered Master! You're finally back! Qiuyue missed you so much!"

She looked up, her originally pitch-black eyes now faintly shimmering with the copper smell of money... ahem, golden light.

"Revered Master, during the time you were away, I redecorated the Daochu Sect. Are you satisfied?"

Su Lin looked at the pure gold statue below that was blinding to the eyes, and the corners of his eyes twitched violently.

"Satisfied, I am satisfied... but your cultivation, what's going on?"

Although Gu Qiuyue had been in seclusion before, going from Soul Transformation to Mahayana required experiencing a nine-death-one-life Heavenly Tribulation.

How did she look as relaxed as if she had just taken a hot spring bath?

"Oh, this is all thanks to the reputation Revered Master left behind!"

Gu Qiuyue smiled with her eyes curved, like a little fox that had stolen a chicken.

"I borrowed your name to integrate the top ten chambers of commerce in the cultivation world, and I made a huge profit!"

She stretched out a finger and drew a circle in mid-air.

"Then, I used five Top-Grade Spiritual Veins, three ancient Immortal Pills, plus a level-nine defensive Formation to force my Heavenly Tribulation to be... bribed!"

"Bribed?!"

The whole scene was dead silent.

Even Su Lin was dumbfounded.

Heavenly Tribulation can also be bribed?!

"Yes!"

Gu Qiuyue stood up straight with justification, "I entered the world with the Dao of Commerce; money can communicate with gods!"

"I burned all those Top-Grade Spirit Stones and Magic Treasures, turning them into the purest Origin Qi to feed back to the Lightning Tribulation. The Lightning Tribulation ate my food and got soft-mouthed, so it just struck me with two small thunders as a gesture, and then let me pass the test!"

"..."

Can it be played like this?!

Su Hongling, Luo Ximei, and others looked at each other, only feeling that their worldview had been severely impacted.

The cultivation they had exchanged for life and death, fighting in blood.

This girl actually smashed it out with money?!

"Money, it really can make the devil push the millstone..." Su Hongling muttered sourly.

"Revered Master!"

Gu Qiuyue didn't care about that; she hugged Su Lin's arm tightly, looking for praise.

"Qiuyue is now also in the Mahayana Stage! In the future, I can also protect Revered Master!"

"Besides, I have plenty of money now!"

She waved her hand domineeringly, pointing to the resplendent palace below.

"Whatever Revered Master wants, Qiuyue will buy it for you!"

"If it can't be bought, Qiuyue will buy it!"

Looking at this wealthy disciple who was imposing and grand, and then looking at the Female Demon Lords behind him who were ready to fight for his favor and destroy the world at any time.

Su Lin suddenly felt that his future life in the Mahayana Stage might be even more difficult than before.

"Revered Master, what are you thinking about?"

Luo Ximei leaned over, her white-gold heterochromatic eyes full of dangerous signals,

"Are you thinking about which Mahayana Stage disciple you should let welcome you tonight?"

"Revered Master is definitely mine tonight!" Su Hongling raised her great sword.

"Why should it be yours? Revered Master needs a medicinal bath to recuperate!" Chu Weiwei took out a poison needle.

"This is my territory!" Cold Moon the Empress opened her Aura to the full.

"I offer one million Top-Grade Spirit Stones! I buy the ownership of Revered Master tonight!" Gu Qiuyue slapped down the Spirit Stones with her wealth.