97: What are those two wicked kids up to?

[Ding! Host meticulously taught Disciple Gongsun Yan, triggering a hundred-thousand-fold critical hit return!]

[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Major Achievement insights of the Immortal Rank Cultivation Technique "Shennong Hundred Herbs Classic"!]

[Ding! Detected Host's Disciple Gongsun Yan has broken through to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection! Triggering a small amount of cultivation base infusion!]

A surge of pure Medicine Dao principles and a gentle warm current of cultivation flowed into Chu Xuanjin's body.

His Earth Immortal Middle Stage cultivation took another small step toward the Earth Immortal Late Stage.

"Hmm, not bad, not bad."

Chu Xuanjin lay back on the rocking chair in the small courtyard of Qinghe City, swaying comfortably.

The two lagging Disciples have finally gotten on the right track.

One went to write, and the other went to practice medicine.

The rest depends on their own luck.

He began to feel idle again.

"System, open the detailed Sect panel."

Since he was free, he might as well review his "assets" from this period.

[Myriad Dao Divine Sect]

[Sect Master: Chu Xuanjin]

[Realm: Earth Immortal Middle Stage]

[Physique: Myriad Medicine Dao Body]

[Cultivation Technique: "Dao"]

[Divine Ability: Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye, Law-Following Speech, including everything of the Disciples...]

[Personal Disciple: 7]

1. Ye Chenfeng

[Realm: Void Refining Initial Stage]

[Physique: Chaos Sword Body]

[Cultivation Technique: "Chaos Sword Scripture" (Major Achievement)]

[Divine Ability: Void Realm Sword Qi, One Sword to Open the Heavens]

2. Su Linger

[Realm: Early Soul Transformation Stage]

[Physique: Spiritual Frost Dao Body (Reincarnation of Empress Lingshuang)]

[Cultivation Technique: "Supreme Ice Soul Divine Canon" (Major Achievement)]

[Divine Ability: Ice Sealed for Three Thousand Miles, Ice Age]

3. Wang Duojin

[Realm: Early Soul Transformation Stage]

[Physique: Innate Formation Body]

[Cultivation Technique: "Celestial Bodies Array Scripture" (Minor Achievement)]

[Divine Ability: Heaven and Earth Position Borrowing]

4. Zhao Wuyou

[Realm: Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Transformation Stage]

[Physique: Archaic Dragon God Body]

[Cultivation Technique: "Archaic Dragon God Scripture" (Minor Achievement)]

[Divine Ability: Dragon God Transformation, Vast Dragon Might]

5. Gongsun Yan

[Realm: Foundation Establishment Great Perfection]

[Physique: Pill Dao Saint Body]

[Cultivation Technique: "Shennong Hundred Herbs Classic" (Proficient)]

[Divine Ability: Miraculous Hands Restore Spring]

6. Ye Wushang

[Realm: Nascent Soul Early Stage]

[Physique: Umbra Demon Physique]

[Cultivation Technique: "Ten Thousand Demon Suppressing Hell Canon" (Minor Achievement)]

[Divine Ability: Shadowless Devil, Shadow Sting, Shadow Stealth]

7. Bai Jinnian

[Realm: Foundation Establishment Middle Stage]

[Physique: Sacred Word Dao Body]

[Cultivation Technique: "Word Spirit: Book of All Things" (Proficient)]

[Divine Ability: Spirit in the Pen]

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[Sect Elders: Mo Yuan (Body Integration Middle Stage), Enforcement Elder (Void Refining Great Perfection)... and 22 others.]

[Sect Disciples: 360 Inner Sect Disciples, 4,206 Outer Sect Disciples, 15,133 Utility Disciples.]

[Sect Industries: Myriad Dao Merchant Guild, Myriad Dao Express Delivery, Qingyun Branch, Tianlang Branch, Wanghai City...]

[Sect Reputation: Famous in the Central Continent]

Chu Xuanjin looked at this incredibly luxurious panel and nodded with satisfaction.

Not bad, the Sect's development momentum is good, and the Disciples are all growing healthily.

Ye Chenfeng, Su Linger, and Wang Duojin are doing very well in the Central Continent, and their cultivation has broken through to Void Refining and Soul Transformation.

Even the newly joined Bai Jinnian and the slightly less talented Gongsun Yan are following along and slowly rising.

Wait.

Chu Xuanjin's gaze fell on the names of Zhao Wuyou and Ye Wushang.

He frowned, noticing a crucial point.

Zhao Wuyou, Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Transformation Stage.

Ye Wushang, Nascent Soul Early Stage.

Why hasn't the cultivation of these two moved at all?

Are these two little brats out there sightseeing and slacking off?

Has their cultivation gone to the dogs?

Chu Xuanjin felt a bit displeased.

As their Revered Master, he had painstakingly laid out plans, giving them both Cultivation Techniques and Divine Artifacts, yet they went on vacation?

This return on investment isn't right!

"Let me see what on earth you two wicked Disciples are doing."

With a thought, Chu Xuanjin activated his Earth Immortal level Divine Thought.

His vision instantly pierced through endless space, crossed ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, and accurately locked onto a Forbidden Ground in the Central Continent called "Demon Hiding Valley"... Demon Hiding Valley.

Inside the valley, Demonic Qi soared, forming a dark green miasma visible to the naked eye, corroding rocks and severing life.

Deep at the bottom of the valley was a massive circular valley.

In the center of the valley, a giant beast as large as a mountain was crouching on the ground.

It looked like a flood dragon but had nine hideous heads, each covered in dark gold scales, emitting the terrifying pressure of the Late Void Refinement Stage.

This was the overlord of Demon Hiding Valley, the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon.

At this moment, the eighteen eyes on the nine heads of this infamous overlord were staring fixedly ahead.

A hundred meters in front of it, a figure stood proudly, holding the dragon emperor halberd.

It was Zhao Wuyou.

His robes were already tattered and stained with golden blood and dust.

His handsome face carried a hint of fatigue, but his golden pupils burned with unquenchable Battle Intent.

He had been here confronting this Nine-Headed Demon Dragon for several months.

"Roar!"

One of the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon's heads suddenly opened its bloody maw, and a breath of Demonic Qi containing poisonous and destructive power shot toward Zhao Wuyou like black lightning, tearing through the air.

Zhao Wuyou did not dodge, holding the dragon emperor halberd horizontally in front of him.

"Dragon God Transformation, First Stage!"

Golden light erupted from his body, and the phantom of the Primordial Dragon God appeared behind him. An even purer and more ancient Dragon might burst forth!

"Boom!"

The Demonic Qi breath crashed into the dragon emperor halberd and exploded, the violent energy plowing a trench dozens of meters deep into the ground.

Zhao Wuyou's figure retreated dozens of steps, each step leaving a deep footprint on the hard rock.

He forcibly suppressed his churning blood, and a trace of golden blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

"Still not enough..."

A flash of unwillingness crossed Zhao Wuyou's eyes.

This Nine-Headed Demon Dragon also had a thin trace of Dragon Clan Bloodline in its body, and its cultivation was a whole major Realm higher than his.

His Dragon might could suppress the opponent but could not completely crush it.

His attacks could wound the opponent but could not break through its core defense.

He was stuck.

Stuck at the last threshold from Great Perfection of Nascent Soul Transformation Stage to the Void Refinement Stage.

He needed an opportunity.

An opportunity that would allow his Archaic Dragon God Bloodline to transform again!

Just as he was about to rush forward again, trading injury for injury to seek that slim chance of survival.

A lazy voice sounded directly in his Sea of Consciousness.

"I say, are you stupid?"

Zhao Wuyou trembled all over, his face showing wild joy.

"Revered Master?!"

"Nonsense." Chu Xuanjin's voice carried a hint of disdain.

"What's in your body is the Archaic Dragon God Bloodline, the ancestor of ten thousand dragons. That bit of mixed flood dragon blood in front of you is just a grandson."

"You're going head-to-head with it; isn't that like using gold to smash rocks? How stupid."

Zhao Wuyou was stunned.

"But... but Revered Master, I..."

"No 'buts'." Chu Xuanjin interrupted him.

"A true Dragon God relies not on brute force but on 'momentum'. It is the 'momentum' where all things in heaven and earth are for my use."

"Look at the mountains, the water, the wind, the clouds... they can all become your power."

"Close your eyes and feel with your heart."

"Use your Bloodline to command them!"

Chu Xuanjin's voice was like a morning bell and evening drum, exploding in Zhao Wuyou's Sea of Consciousness.

Zhao Wuyou subconsciously closed his eyes.

He put down the dragon emperor halberd, let go of the Battle Intent in his heart, and immersed his entire mind in the world.

He felt the flow of the wind, the pulse of the rocks, and the breath of the water vapor.

The Archaic Dragon God Bloodline in his body seemed to come alive at this moment.

An invisible wave centered on him and spread throughout the valley.

The wind stopped.

The miasma dispersed.

For the first time, a look of fear appeared in the eighteen eyes of the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon opposite him.

It felt like the entire Demon Hiding Valley, this territory where it had lived for thousands of years, had betrayed it at this moment!

The rocks were rejecting it, the air was squeezing it, and even the Spiritual Veins underground were fearing it!

It had become a solitary soul.

And the tiny human opposite it seemed to have become the Dominator of this world.

"So... that's how it is."

Zhao Wuyou opened his eyes.

The gold in his pupils became deeper and more majestic.

He slowly raised his hand and made a gentle clenching motion toward the shivering Nine-Headed Demon Dragon.

"Command: Mountain, come!"

"Rumble!"

The entire Demon Hiding Valley shook violently.

The ground beneath the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon suddenly rose, turning into two massive stone mountains, like two invisible giant hands, slamming shut toward the middle!

"Roar!"

The Nine-Headed Demon Dragon let out a terrified roar, its nine heads frantically spitting out Demonic Qi, trying to break free.

But those stone mountains seemed to be infused with the might of heaven and earth; no matter how it struggled, it couldn't budge them an inch.

"Suppress!"

Zhao Wuyou spat out a single word.

The two stone mountains slammed together!

"Bang!"

A dull thud to the extreme.

Dust and smoke soared into the sky.

When the dust cleared, the once-unbeatable Nine-Headed Demon Dragon had been completely crushed into a pile of meat.

The aura on Zhao Wuyou's body erupted.

The Bottleneck broke!

Void Refining Initial Stage!

"Thank you for your guidance, Revered Master!"

Zhao Wuyou bowed respectfully toward the void.

Chu Xuanjin's voice sounded again.

"A teachable student. Keep its demon core and essence blood; they will be useful to you."

"Yes!"

...Chu Xuanjin withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.

"Hmm, this one is quite diligent."

His gaze shifted again, casting toward another Forbidden Ground—the Myriad Demon Cave.

The Myriad Demon Cave was not a cave.

It was a massive basin shrouded in endless Devilish Qi.

In the center of the basin was a huge throne made of piled-up white bones.

On the throne, a black figure sat quietly.

It was Ye Wushang.

His eyes were tightly closed, and his face was as pale as paper.

Countless streams of pure Devilish Qi, like black rivulets, converged from all directions of the basin and poured into his body.

His aura still remained at the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

But his body was like a bottomless black hole, frantically devouring all the Devilish Qi of this world.

In his Sea of Consciousness, an even more dangerous war was taking place.

A phantom of a Demon God, ten thousand zhang tall with an indistinguishable face, was constantly roaring, trying to corrode his Divine Soul.

"Ant! Submit to me! Become my walker in the human world!"

"You shall obtain supreme power! Eternal life!"

The Demon God's voice was full of temptation.

Ye Wushang's Divine Soul turned into a pitch-black devil saber, suspended in the center of his Sea of Consciousness, constantly slashing at the Demon God phantom.

Every strike made his Divine Soul dim a bit more.

He had been fighting this unknown ancient Demon God's remnant soul here for an unknown amount of time.

What he wanted to do was not to escape, nor to expel it.

But to devour!

To devour this ancient Demon God, along with the Origin Devilish Qi of this entire Myriad Demon Cave, and make it his own!

This was an idea crazy to the extreme.

A slight mistake would result in the destruction of his Divine Soul and eternal damnation.

"Interesting."

Chu Xuanjin watched this scene, a curve appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"This kid is even greedier than I thought."

"But, I like it."

Seeing Ye Wushang's Divine Soul about to give way, he decided to add more fuel to the fire.

"Kid, wake up."

His voice sounded directly in Ye Wushang's Sea of Consciousness.

Ye Wushang, who was struggling against the Demon God phantom, trembled violently.

"Revered Master?"

"Who passed that 'Ten Thousand Demon Suppressing Hell Canon' to you?" Chu Xuanjin asked.

Ye Wushang was stunned, then replied: "It... it was you, Revered Master."

"Then do you think I would give you a Cultivation Technique that can't even suppress a mere remnant soul?"

Chu Xuanjin's voice carried a hint of mockery.

"You only know how to suppress, but you don't know what 'Hell' is."

"The Myriad Demon Cave is your prison."

"This Demon God remnant soul is your 'fuel'."

"Using the Demon God as fuel and the Devil Cave as a furnace, refine your devil body and forge your devil soul! This is the true meaning of the 'Ten Thousand Demon Suppressing Hell Canon'!"

"Keep your eyes wide open and watch closely!"

As Chu Xuanjin's voice fell, a golden rune containing supreme Dao charm appeared out of thin air in Ye Wushang's Sea of Consciousness.

That rune was the character for "Dao".

Once the "Dao" character appeared, all laws submitted!

That once-unbeatable Demon God phantom let out a scream of extreme terror, as if it had seen its natural enemy, and turned to run.

"Suppress!"

Chu Xuanjin's voice was like a heavenly decree.

The "Dao" character erupted with golden light, instantly pinning the Demon God phantom in place.

"Refine!"

The golden light turned into fire, enveloping the Demon God phantom.

The phantom began to be refined into the purest Origin Devilish Qi at a visible speed.

Watching this, Ye Wushang had an Epiphany.

He immediately operated the "Ten Thousand Demon Suppressing Hell Canon", and the devil saber in his Sea of Consciousness turned into a massive vortex, frantically absorbing the refined Origin Devilish Qi.

His Divine Soul began to surge at a terrifying speed!

Outside, the aura on his body also began to climb steadily!

Nascent Soul Middle Stage!

Nascent Soul Late Stage!

Nascent Soul Great Perfection!

Early Soul Transformation Stage!

Finally, it stopped steadily at the threshold of the Mid-stage Soul Transformation!

"Boom!"

The entire Myriad Demon Cave shook violently.

The Devilish Qi that had permeated for ages found its king at this moment.

They cheered, leaped, and submitted.

Ye Wushang slowly opened his eyes.

In those originally cold eyes, there was now a hint of overbearing dominance that looked down on the world.

He stood up and knelt on one knee toward the void.

"This Disciple thanks the Revered Master!"

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The rating came out yesterday afternoon. For the first time, it's 6.2.

I was wondering why so many people came in the last two days; it turns out some kind-hearted Yanzus and Yifeis helped me promote the book. I checked the Book Drought Plaza yesterday and saw several promoting me, and I even made it to third on the Book Friends' Hot Reading List.

Since I can't finish scrolling through the Book Drought Plaza, I won't list all the names, but I'm very grateful. I can only say I'll try my best to write better to make your reading more enjoyable. (Here's a "cake" for you to eat).

The rating is too low, and fewer people are coming. The bookstore's recommendation volume has been halved again, sob sob.

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