I Am Evergreen In the World of Cultivating Immortals

Two years later.

In the underground secret room, the black-gray medicinal pool was evaporated dry by invisible heat, leaving behind dried solid dirt.

A giant with a body made of dark copper, with golden discs swimming like fish scales, surrounded by a dark mist of hot water, exuding a terrifying pressure of Qi and blood, enough to make Danjie Overhaul move.

"290 years old, late stage third level body refining!"

Lu Changan felt that his physical strength was unprecedentedly powerful, as if if he was not careful, the cave he was in would collapse.

Of course, the cave is protected by formation restrictions and will not collapse so easily.

After a long time, the abnormality on Lu Changan's body disappeared, the fish-scale gold pieces disappeared, and his body slowly shrank to normal size.

Lu Changan's "Jin Luo Hegemony" has been grinding away at the bottleneck of the mid-third level peak for several years, and it was not until today that it broke through.

Not only in Dharma cultivation, but also in physical training, there are realm bottlenecks.

Also in the later stage of breakthrough, body training is more difficult than legal training.

In the way of body refining, the further you get to the later stages, the more difficult it becomes to advance.

Talent, energy, will, and resources are all indispensable.

The reason why it is difficult is that today's world environment and the human bloodline are not as friendly to physical cultivation as they were in ancient times and cannot become mainstream.

After being promoted through body training, Lu Changan's self-protection ability has improved significantly.

Not limited to strong physical defense.

The Qi, Blood and Essence are strong, so the load and consumption of "Red Yang Blood Escape" will be reduced accordingly.

The body refining in the late third level allows Lu Changan to cross the level to perform the fourth level "Red Sun Blood Escape" at a lower cost and longer duration.

After all, the fourth level of Blood Escape corresponds to the early stage of Nascent Soul, and can easily take away more than ten years of life.

One year after the body refining realm was consolidated.

According to the established plan, Lu Changan began to plan the inheritance of the puppet core of Qianji Sect.

The inherited branch of the Qianji Sect in the outer sect alliance is called "Xuanji Tower". It is a power organization built by defectors from the sect.

Xuanji Building mainly deals in puppet-related industrial businesses.

The largest base is in the nearby Gutian Fairy City.

The Peacock Saint attacked head-on, but did not gain any advantage and suffered a defeat, even though there was an element of acting.

At least, her strength at that time did not force the quasi-fourth-level puppets and the puppet army out of the Xuanji Tower.

"Behind the scenes of Xuanji Tower, there is an old Yuanying monster who is secretly supporting you. You cannot act rashly."

Lu Changan's plan was not accomplished overnight.

The first step is to test the truth and get more information.

The second step is to try to trade peacefully, it is best not to take action.

In the third step, if the transaction fails, the core puppet inheritance can only be obtained through abnormal means.

At this stage, only the first two steps can be implemented.

If you want to steal it by abnormal means, it is best to wait until you reach the late stage of Jindan and upgrade your divination skills to the top level of the third level.

The top-level third-level divination, although it also belongs to the third-level high-grade, has reached the third-level limit. In the surrounding Feng Yuan Kingdom, except for the Heavenly Master, no one is better than him.

Once he is promoted to the late stage of Jindan, Lu Changan will still have the means to threaten and circumvent him even when he faces True Monarch Nascent Soul.

…

Half a month later.

Gutian Fairy City is thousands of miles away.

A vague humanoid phantom flew rapidly from the direction of the fairy city.

There was a "pop" sound.

The vague humanoid phantom turned into a traveling Taoist priest wearing a bamboo hat, and his figure got into the sand cave.

The wind and sand roared, its breath was gathered away, and the traces were covered up.

After a while.

A powerful spiritual pressure from the late stage of pill formation was approaching quickly, causing the surrounding wind and sand to stop.

The person who came was a puppet master with a dull face and mechanical arms.

It was the puppet-armed city lord who fought against the Peacock Saint back then.

Although this ancient city lord is the supreme ruler of Gutian Fairy City, he specializes in puppetry skills all year round and rarely negotiates with outsiders, so his sense of presence is low.

"Your Excellency Dao Xiao, come out and see me. Gu knows you are nearby."

With a pair of dark blue eyes, accompanied by the consciousness at the peak of pill formation, the ancient city master of Puppet Arm scanned the area nearby, and finally settled on a piece of sand.

"He is worthy of being the number one puppet genius in Xuanji Tower."

The wandering Taoist priest carrying a box and cage emerged from the sand and heard a vigorous voice.

"Are you a puppet or a human monk?"

The ancient city lord's eyes flickered as he looked at the mysterious Taoist merchant in front of him, feeling surprised.

As a puppet master, he noticed that the body of the person in front of him looked more like a puppet.

But its intelligence, soul fluctuations, spells, and talismans are more like those of a human monk.

"It doesn't matter whether Pindao is a human or a puppet."

The mysterious traveling businessman said slowly:

"On the other hand, the ancient city lord, why are you pursuing him so hard? Pindao was just doing normal activities and trading in the city, and he didn't do anything harmful to nature."

At this time, Lu Changan, who was controlling the puppet remotely, couldn't help but be surprised.

To be on the safe side, he sent a puppet clone to Gutian Fairy City to explore the reality of the Xuanji Building and learned a lot of intelligence clues.

The secret base of Xuanji Tower is underground in Gutian Fairy City.

There is a hidden castle beneath the ground.

According to his calculations, it is possible to obtain the core puppets and inheritance of Xuanji Tower in that underground castle.

Lu Changan is only investigating and has not taken any further action.

As a result, he was suddenly sensed by the ancient city lord and killed him so suddenly that he had no time to hide.

Fortunately, at night, Lu Changan escaped from Gutian Fairy City by using the speed and concealment of the third-order late stage puppet clone.

In order to avoid being surrounded, the puppet clone used several clever spells, including the third-level high-grade forbidden talisman.

At this moment, the Lord of Gutian City chased him for a thousand miles and refused to let go.

Lu Changan used the same method as before to stop the puppet's spiritual stone stimulation and enter a dormant state, trying to avoid the opponent's secret technique of sensing the puppet.

As a result, the general area was locked by the ancient city lord with powerful spiritual consciousness, and the hiding location was eventually exposed.

"Your Excellency, Dao Xiao, there is no need to hide it. You are sneaking around in Gutian Fairy City, trying to find out the secret information of Xuanji Tower. What are your intentions?"

The puppet-armed ancient city master spoke unkindly and patted the storage bag.

In an instant, several third-level puppets appeared.

Well!

The blue cold wind howled for tens of feet, and one of the blue dragon puppets, which was more than ten feet long, hovered above the head of the traveling merchant Taoist.

"Third level top puppet! Incorporating the skills of the supernatural puppet, its strength is better than ordinary pill formation overhaul..."

Lu Changan secretly envied that the quality of the blue dragon puppet was even better than when he fought against the Peacock Saint several decades ago.

His puppet clone, who had just entered the late third level, was no match at all.

Moreover, the Puppet Arm City Lord himself is also a late-stage overhaul, and has many third-level high-quality puppets, which are enough to exert their full power.

"If Pindao wants to leave, the ancient city lord can't keep him."

Taoist Youshang remained calm and did not panic at all.

Boom!

Within a radius of ten miles, flying sand and rocks were blowing, and strong winds were blowing, forming an overwhelming sandstorm and natural disaster.

The ancient city lord lived in the desert for a long time and realized that this was not a natural disaster.

It's a late-level third-level sand spell.

The soles of his feet felt cold, and he felt an invisible, sinister chill.

The unknown existence hidden deep in the sand gave him a sense of threat.

Not only that.

In the sand behind Taoist Youshang, the phantom of a female cultivator emerged, emitting fluctuations of consciousness comparable to those at the peak of pill formation.

The isolation between the wind and sand and the spiritual consciousness made it impossible for the ancient city lord to find out.

Uh-huh!

The vision was distorted, and the dust storm scene disappeared.

It was replaced by a blue-black ancient palace.

Deep in the palace, there is a throne with the head of a green dragon, but there is no one on it.

The traveling merchant Taoist and the phantom female cultivator stand under the blue dragon throne.

"Lord of the ancient city, people in the Ming Dynasty don't speak secretly. We are organizing a branch to trade you for the core inheritance of the Thousand Machine Sect, including the supernatural puppets and puppet array skills."

The female cultivator's phantom voice is sometimes cold, sometimes gentle, sometimes distant and sometimes near.

"The core puppet inheritance of Xuanji Tower is not for sale."

The ancient city master calmly looked at the fantasy scene in front of him. The blue dragon throne at the deep end of the hall gave people an ancient and mysterious feeling.

The empty Azure Dragon Throne made his imagination wander, wondering if it was a scene in reality.

"There is nothing in this world that is not for sale, and there is no loyalty that cannot be betrayed."

There was an old laugh coming from the traveling Taoist in a bamboo hat.

The Ancient City Lord's face darkened. The Xuanji Building on the Outer Sect Alliance's side was a defector's identity to the Qianji Sect.

"It's not impossible to trade! Unless your organization can come up with the Infant Transformation Pill, the fourth-level soul-nurturing wood, and the lost... soul-growing puppet technique."

The ancient city lord's tone was arrogant, and the lion opened his mouth.

"Gee, the inheritance stolen by the betrayer can be used as a rare item. You are not the only monk in the Outer Sect Alliance and Xuanji Pavilion who has the core inheritance."

The phantom female cultivator's laughter resounded through the dark and strange Qinglong Hall.

What else did the ancient city lord want to say? The illusory scene in the main hall in front of him disappeared.

Uh-huh!

In reality, the thicker yellow sand storm has already covered up the traces of the traveling Taoist monk and the phantom female cultivator.

The ancient city lord was afraid and did not dare to follow him anymore.

The wandering merchant Taoist and the female cultivator Phantom both have late-stage methods for forming pills, and there is a mysterious organization behind them.

The situation in the Xuanji Tower in the Outer Sect Alliance is not as good as imagined.

In the past, there was rejection from the locals of Feng Yuan Kingdom, and in the back, there was no way to go back to the boundary between the two religions.

…

The ancient city lord put away the puppet and returned to Gutian Fairy City.

Due to the cover of the natural disaster of wind and sand, the scene of the confrontation did not alarm the outside monks.

The ancient city lord didn't stop for a moment and entered the underground castle below the fairy city.

Finally, we arrived at one of the restricted palaces.

The ancient city lord opened a green wood and copper coffin, made seals with his hands, recited incantations, and performed the secret technique of puppetry.

After counting the interest.

Inside the green wood and copper coffin, sat a man in green armor who looked like a zombie. His body was mostly made of puppet material.

"How long has it been?"

The blue-armored puppet man had two green ghost flames dancing in his eyes, which was eerie and strange.

"Lord, it has been seventy or eighty years since you last woke up."

The puppet-armed ancient city lord spoke with respect.

"It's been so long? This ghost-infused consciousness is getting weaker and weaker. We must find the soul treasure as soon as possible. If we succeed, within a few hundred years, this building is expected to give birth to an autonomous fourth-level puppet that can completely rival the Nascent Soul. True Lord."

"Yes, Master." The ancient city master's dull face rarely showed excitement.

The puppet in front of him, who was neither human nor ghost, was a fourth-level puppet master during his lifetime.

Creating a fourth-level puppet is also his lifelong goal.

"Wake me up, what do you want?"

"Back to the original poster... I have a suspicion that the traveling Taoist priest is from the mysterious 'Qinglong Society'."

The ancient city lord stated his previous experiences and his speculations.

"Qinglonghui?"

"That is top-secret information obtained by Huangsha Intelligence. Only Scale Claw is known, and few people in the world know about it."

The ancient city lord replied.

"I have never heard of the Qinglong Society. However, the image of the traveling merchant Taoist is a bit like the legendary [Taoist Tianshu]."

The green-armored puppet man said thoughtfully.

"Taoist Tianshu? You mean the mysterious figure in Tianyan Continent's "Yunei Qiren Series"."

The ancient city lord recalled the records in ancient books and said in surprise.

Taoist Tianshu is a traveling businessman who is absolutely neutral. He travels across the continent and trades items with those who are destined to do so.

If you meet him, you will definitely be able to trade the items you need, which is a big chance.

According to the ancient records of Qianji Sect, Taoist Tianshu may be the originator of puppets in this world.

It may be a puppet in a special form, and its intelligence exceeds that of most human monks.

…

Fragrant grass oasis, Xuanyin Pavilion cave.

"It was a bad start, and we almost lost our only third-level late-stage puppet!"

Lu Changan breathed a sigh of relief.

Xuanji Pavilion's puppet methods exceeded his expectations, and the puppet clone's actions were actually exposed.

Having already alerted the enemy, in order to keep the late third-level puppet, he could only confuse the situation and bring out the non-existent Blue Dragon Society.

Fortunately, this time, we managed to alert the enemy, negotiated with the ancient city lord, and got enough information, so we could avoid many detours.

These information media will help Lu Changan calculate and find a breakthrough point in the future.

"Gutian Fairy City is already on alert and it is not appropriate to take any further action in the short term."

Lu Changan decided to hibernate for another ten years and practice to the late stage of Golden Elixir in one go.

At the same time, the quality of late-stage third-level puppets will be improved.

…

Five years later, Lu Changan's age reached 296, approaching the 300-year-old mark.

On this day, while he was meditating in seclusion, he felt a faint feeling.

Lu Changan opened his eyes, counted with his fingers, and sighed softly.

He looked back at Liang Guo in the distance, in the direction of Wuye Town.

Over there, Master Shixianzi has reached the end of his life and spent the last day of his life.

Lu Changan did not go back to see Master Xianzi for the last time.

Through the information known in previous years and even calculations, Lu Changan learned that Master Shixianzi was accompanied by someone during the last ten or twenty years of his life.

Jiang Yechen, his teacher Xiaochuan, and his teacher Manrong, a family of three, were enjoying themselves and it was very warm.

Perhaps Shi Xianzi made a trade-off in order to have a good entrustment for her adopted son.

Or perhaps, he was really moved by Jiang Yechen and was sincerely moved.

With her face aging, Shi Xianzi was indeed together with Jiang Yechen in the last twenty years of her life.

This is the reason why Lu Changan didn't go back.

Looking back on Master Xianzi's life, Lu Changan felt strange.

Meeting unkind people when he was young, having romantic relationships after divorce, and indulging himself.

Finally, when I got older, tired of playing, and tired of my heart, I found an "honest person" to finally belong to.

If Shi Xianzi is alone all his life, Lu Changan will feel a little bit psychologically unlucky.

Even though both parties had known for a long time that it was just a casual relationship, they were honest and clear about it.

The happy and heartwarming ending made Lu Changan feel gratified.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang..."

Lu Changan was very impressed and secretly thanked him.

…

Time flies for Lu Changan who is practicing quietly.

His golden elixir cultivation has steadily advanced and is gradually approaching the peak of the middle golden elixir.

Unknowingly, Lu Changan's age reached the 300-year mark.

At this moment, Xuan Shui Turtle, who was looking after Xuan Teng, felt happy and joyful.

"Has Xuanteng changed?"

Lu Changan immediately rushed to the deepest underground chamber beneath the cave.

I saw that the mysterious vine, full of green, winding and three feet long, exuded a trace of mysterious original life energy.

On a certain branch of the black vine, a tiny bud sprouted.

It's easy to miss it if you don't look carefully.

"Three hundred years old in this life, the mysterious vine will sprout!"

Lu Changan felt excited. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. This was a good sign.

The buds produced by the mysterious vines gave him the intuition that they were a qualitative change, pregnant with the infinite mysteries of the world.

Lu Changan is over three hundred years old, but he awakened from his previous life at the age of eighteen.

In terms of his cultivation career in this life, it is less than three hundred years.

Some time followed.

Lu Changan observed the subtle changes in Xuanteng's career, and made many calculations from Yuanying's perspective.

After all, the once dead Xuantian relics brought great opportunities to the two spiritual pets.

The Xuanshui Turtle has even mutated, becoming at least a Tianpin bloodline.

After observation and calculation, Lu Changan discovered the benefits, or intangible gains, brought about by the sprouting of the Xuan Teng.

That's luck!

As a third-level divination master, Lu Changan has a keener insight into Qi numbers.

After the mysterious vine sprouted, the spiritual mountain gate where it was located was gathering the luck of heaven and earth very slowly.

It is difficult for other high-level monks to notice.

Only through long-term observation can Lu Changan feel the slight changes.

It is normal for major sects in the world of immortality to have their fortunes rise and fall over hundreds or thousands of years.

For example, Xuanyin Pavilion has been developing smoothly in recent years, and its luck has been slowly increasing.

Therefore, even if high-level monks discover this phenomenon of increasing Qi, they will become accustomed to it.

"It's a pity that this gathering of luck does not belong to an individual, but to the spiritual mountains where it is rooted! It belongs to the overall luck of a certain power group!"

Lu Changan regretted that if this happened to him alone, he would probably become a child of luck over many years.

As the owner of Xuanteng, he did not enjoy any privileges and treated everyone equally.

The monks who belong to this spiritual force enjoy the indirect gains brought by the collective luck to individuals. Compared with the whole, they are insignificant and difficult to detect.

Still, better than nothing.

From now on, Lu Changan will have a clear conscience if he runs away from any force!

Because, not only does he not bring disaster to the sect he joins, he can also bring weak luck blessings.