Chapter 239: Chapter 138: Cyan Pine True Monarch

The Giant Ape didn’t notice that as the two Tier Three Early Stage wolf demons seemed to charge fiercely, the Purple Silver-Backed Wolf was already leaving a shadowy figure in its original spot,

and in the next moment, it appeared behind the Vermilion Bird Grass.

“Roar~” The Giant Ape, watching the two charging wolf demons, roared again and was about to lift the giant log to smash down.

However, it only just realized that its entire body was gradually losing strength.

Looking again at its left hand, still pierced with countless golden needles, the whole hand and even half its body were turning golden.

And the golden hue was still spreading.

Li Jizhou narrowed his eyes slightly at this scene.

The Golden-haired Beast was too extraordinary; not only did it have the divine ability of creating clones, it also possessed venom powerful enough to affect a Tier Three Late Stage physical demon beast!

The two wolf demons bit down on the Giant Ape’s legs from either side.

The Giant Ape desperately tried to lift its arms, but in the end, lost power halfway, and could only let them fall weakly.

The two wolf demons, despite the Giant Ape’s fists pounding on them, remained unfazed, tenaciously biting its legs to prevent it from moving.

Suddenly realizing something, the Giant Ape turned around and indeed saw the Purple Silver-Backed Wolf approaching the Vermilion Bird Grass.

“Roar~” A weak roar; the Giant Ape tried to move its legs, but was being pulled by the two wolves, making it extremely slow.

Glancing at the Golden-haired Beast, which had inflicted the most significant injury on it, the Golden-haired Beast was struggling to rise, blood foaming from its mouth.

It was clear that the Golden-haired Beast excelled in divine abilities, not physical prowess.

The intense blows from the Giant Ape had severely injured its abdomen.

The Golden-haired Beast also saw the wolf king about to succeed, and its form wavered, only managing a helpless whimper.

The Wolf King, leaving a shadow at its original spot and nearing the Vermilion Bird Grass by now, was entirely focused, without any distraction.

Now, with the essence of the Vermilion Bird Grass mostly emerging, the timing was perfect and seamless.

“Awoo~” Seeing that only three more breaths were needed for the essence to coalesce, the Wolf King only had to slightly bow its head to swallow it.

At this moment, the Golden-haired Beast was too far away; even unharmed, it would have been too late.

The Giant Ape was being held by the two wolf demons, unable to get there in time.

The Wolf King couldn’t help but let out a long howl to the sky.

The next moment, the essence coalesced, and the Wolf King lowered its head…

“Buzz~” Suddenly, it felt as if time and space were frozen,

with the Wolf King’s mouth just a fist’s distance from the Vermilion Bird Grass, yet it was forcibly stopped.

“Pfft~” Before the other four beasts could react, a sharp spike suddenly pierced out of the Wolf King’s mouth.

Then, a shadowy figure dressed in black emerged from the shadow behind the Wolf King.

The spike protruding from the Wolf King’s body was a sharp, tapered spiritual artifact from the left arm of the figure.

A single strike to kill!

“Roar~” At this moment, the presence of the Ghost Shadow was finally perceived by the four beasts.

The Tier Three Peak, nearing Tier Four, aura struck fear into the two wolf demons, causing them to immediately release the Giant Ape’s legs and flee without hesitation.

The Golden-haired Beast’s eyes were wide with shock; then, without pausing, it split into two, one heading south and one north, quickly fleeing.

Only the Giant Ape, after reacting, remained furious. If not for the venom from the Golden-haired Beast, it would have fought desperately to the end.

It resentfully took one last look at the Vermilion Bird Grass, which had completely formed its essence, then trudged away with effort.

“Gua gua~” At this moment, Gua Gua emerged from underground, looking at the pierced Wolf King, croaking wildly.

Finally, revenge!

Then, under Li Jizhou’s direction, Gua Gua carefully took out the Jade Purification Bottle to first collect the drop of Vermilion Bird Grass essence, then dug up the entire Vermilion Bird Grass roots and all.

“An unexpected joy!” After Gua Gua handed over both the Vermilion Bird Grass and its essence, Li Jizhou studied it closely for a moment, delighted.

The divine medicine for fetal nourishment only required refining the Vermilion Bird Grass into a divine pill, but this drop of essence contained at least two hundred years’ accumulation of the divine medicine, equivalent to a hundred years’ worth of effort.

Without the Heaven and Earth Cage, this drop of divine medicine essence alone could increase Li Jizhou’s chance of Nascent Soul formation by at least ten percent.

Safely sealing the divine medicine essence, Li Jizhou then transplanted the Vermilion Bird Grass near the Profound Crystal Fruit and Seven-Colored Profound Tree.

Only then did Li Jizhou take out the demon pill of the Purple Silver-Backed Wolf Demon.

Unexpectedly, this demon pill also had faint streaks of golden Dao Charm flowing within, surpassing Gua Gua’s half-step Golden Core in quality by several degrees.

It was almost a Golden Core condensate.

Besides Gua Gua, this was the first time Li Jizhou had seen such a high-quality demon pill.

Even the Tier Three Peak half-serpent giant python only had an upper True Core-level demon pill.

Originally planning to save materials by crafting a Tier Three Advanced Level puppet to merge this demon pill, Li Jizhou now decided, despite difficulties, to create a quasi-Tier Four puppet like the Ghost Shadow!

Having made the decision, Li Jizhou recalled the two Great Demons.

The Giant Ape wasn’t very appealing, as its main physical power couldn’t enhance the puppet.

However, that golden-haired Demon Beast was extraordinarily marvelous.

Especially its ability to create clones, truly a divine skill.

Unfortunately, that creature fled quickly, splitting into two paths, making it difficult to eliminate.

“Oh well, contentment brings happiness. As long as the wolf demon’s swift divine abilities can be highly integrated, it’s already very good!” Li Jizhou smiled and shook his head, no longer dwelling on it.

He then instructed Guagua to continue taking Ghost Shadow to patrol outside, also to explore various heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Now, Ghost Shadow easily killed the Wolf King, while the Giant Ape and Golden-haired Beast fled far away, making this mountain range within a thousand miles radius Guagua’s territory. Especially the places previously occupied by the Giant Ape and Golden-haired Beast are sparsely populated, there must be many high-tier materials. Gathering enough materials for a quasi-fourth tier puppet should be hopeful.

Li Jizhou himself continued cultivating and crafting puppets.

Now having the essence of divine medicine, along with the whole Vermilion Bird Grass, plus the Fetus Nourishing Pill materials collected before leaving Liuyun City, resources from Core Formation to Nascent Soul are basically not lacking, cultivating peacefully to the Peak of Core Formation is not a problem.

The only worry is his reserve of fifty thousand middle grade Spirit Stones being consumed too quickly, increasing Spiritual Qi concentration with Spirit Stones is still somewhat extravagant for him.

Two years later,

on this day, Li Jizhou looked at the scene before him through the puppet, a slight smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

Two years ago, Yu Ziyu led the righteous army to intervene in the battle between the commerce alliance and the Wuxiang Sect.

Although the three Nascent Soul experts in the righteous army didn’t fully exhibit their skills, only showing Late Stage of Core Formation power, mainly targeting demon cultivators, the commerce alliance, after struggling for two years, finally couldn’t hold on today, retreating completely.

Watching the commerce alliance’s large troop fleeing eastward in embarrassment, Li Jizhou knew the time was near for him to regain a stable place.

“Alliance Leader Yu, Wuxiang Sect expresses heartfelt gratitude for your great kindness, being mindful of the lives of the people, righteous and dignified, you should be hailed as a great hero and mighty figure!”

Just as the commerce alliance left, the large troops of Wuxiang Sect pursued and merged with the righteous army.

An elderly man with white hair floated over, admiringly addressing Yu Ziyu loudly.

His voice resonated through the heavens and earth, as if to let the whole world hear.

Yu Ziyu saw the person arriving, a smile sparkled in his eyes, understanding his words immediately.

“Could it be the Sect Leader of Wuxiang Sect?”

The old man laughed heartily: “This old man is the Sect Leader of Wuxiang Sect, Dao name Cyan Pine, paying respects to Alliance Leader Yu and all fellow righteous warriors!”

“Greetings, Cyan Pine True Monarch!” The people behind Yu Ziyu immediately clasped their fists.

Yan Kingdom has three tier-four Spirit Veins, over ten quasi-fourth tier Spirit Veins, ostensibly thirteen Nascent Soul True Monarchs. In the vast cultivation world of Yan Kingdom, which is ten times bigger than Qi Kingdom’s, the chance for an average cultivator to meet a Nascent Soul True Monarch is very small.

At this moment, apart from disciples of major sects with Nascent Soul Ancestors as guardians, all other cultivators felt deeply honored.

The Nascent Soul True Monarch greeted them personally!

“This is the renowned Sect Leader of Wuxiang Sect!”

“For so many years, under the propaganda of the commerce alliance, I always thought the Sect Leader of Wuxiang Sect was a fierce beast, with a violent temperament. To think, as a Nascent Soul True Monarch, he is so gentle and warm.”

“Just from the event of Wuxiang Sect annihilating the Demon Sect’s Corpse Nourishment in the Southern Domain, we know for sure they are not an Evil Cult!”

“Hmph, the commerce alliance has reversed how much black and white!”

…

Amidst the passionate crowd of righteous warriors, the puppet substitute Master Han’s expression subtly changed, discreetly retreating, hoping to distance himself from Cyan Pine True Monarch.

Not only because of the identity as a Nascent Soul True Monarch, but more so, due to the lifespan sensory indicating Cyan Pine True Monarch’s lifespan limit at eighteen hundred years.

As everyone knows, an ordinary Core Formation cultivator has a lifespan of five hundred years, a Nascent Soul True Monarch a thousand years, a Divinity Transformation Dao Sovereign over two thousand years…

Yet, before him, Cyan Pine True Monarch’s lifespan has reached eighteen hundred years,

In theory, a Nascent Soul True Monarch, even after advancing to Nascent Soul Peak, can only add two to three hundred years to their lifespan, exceeding twelve hundred years is the limit.

Even if he was also a High-tier Pill Master and obtained many Longevity Fruits.

However, without Li Jizhou cultivating the Evergreen Skill’s annual ring special effect, without the annual ring’s sense of time, it would be difficult for a Lifespan Extension Pill to reach Top-Grade,

After all, the Lifespan Extension Pill is different from other pills, involving the power of time, not something Pill Skill can determine.

All below Top-Grade have resistance, the effect of taking Lifespan Enhancement Pills becomes increasingly lower.

Even if Tier One and Tier Two Lifespan Extension Pills have been taken to the limit of resistance, such an increase is unattainable.

Cyan Pine True Monarch brought a sense of inexplicable fear to Li Jizhou.

However, even before Master Han could withdraw from Cyan Pine True Monarch’s sight,

Yu Ziyu, exchanged a few words with Cyan Pine True Monarch, suddenly pointed towards Master Han mingling into the crowd.

“In addition to me, Dao Friend Zhou and Dao Friend Ye, there is also that Master Han!”

“…” Master Han’s expression subtly froze, smiling while looking at Cyan Pine True Monarch.

Cyan Pine True Monarch appeared benevolent, slowly looking over.

“Hmm?” Suddenly, Cyan Pine True Monarch’s face slightly changed, a surge of inexplicable aura in his eyes.

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