Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 536 - 429: She must be half-hearted_1

Chapter 536: Chapter 429: She must be half-hearted_1

"The Extinguishing God Needle of the fourth stage of the Great Five Elements Yin-Yang, it will take some time for me to create. It is estimated to be two months. Before that, I will equip your Fumo Vajra with two of the third stage ones. They are an enhanced version that I modified myself. They have a powerful lethality even on heavenly level beings..."

Leng Yurou got here and finally felt the danger of Li Xuan.

At this moment, Li Xuan had come to within three feet of her, looking at her slender jade neck with greedy eyes.

"What do you want to do?" The throat of Leng Yurou made a ’gulp’ sound, and she swallowed, her heart inexplicably panicked.

She instinctively took two steps back, and then her Organ Puppet ’Qianji’ stepped forward several steps.

Two Qianjin Crossbows flipped out from its shoulder and pointed at Li Xuan—this was modified by Leng Yurou. Although the power was only comparable to the second-order Peacock Secret Method, the sheer quantity, a total of two thousand, could bombard and kill most of the beings of The Fourth Gate.

"I warn you, if you come any closer, I’ll let it fire!"

Li Xuan didn’t care, he advanced nearer with hot breaths. His Henglian Golden Body now was not afraid of this kind of thing, even if it was hurt, Lv Qiluo would help him recover.

But just when he approached Leng Yurou to a distance of less than a foot, he found that his waist knife was stopped by two objects.

Li Xuan looked down and saw that it was the needle tube of two third-order ’Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Miejue Needles’.

Leng Yurou’s face was blushing like blood, her eyes full of shy anger: "Don’t move! If you dare to do anything, I’ll ruin it, I’m serious."

Li Xuan felt cold secretly, then raised his hands high to show surrender.

Although he was now overcome by desires, he still had basic discernment. Leng Yurou in front of him was not a little white rabbit like Qianqian who would let him bully her.

Leng Yurou also didn’t dare to stay here alone anymore, she followed Xue Yunrou and they ran out in a fiasco.

Li Xuan could only watch the little white rabbit that had reached his mouth slip away. When Leng Yurou’s figure was far away, he sat down in the temple of Immortal Master Shuide with nothing to love.

After a long while, Li Xuan finally suppressed his desire, gathered his mood, and turned his attention to the business at hand.

His only hope to resolve the flame inside his body now was to find Xue Yunrou at night. But he couldn’t just sit there getting horny before that, could he?

And now their most pressing task is to quell the flood.

As Xiangyue was sealed, the water in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River would gradually return to normal. Li Xuan had already felt that the water level of the Yangtze River beside the temple of Immortal Master Shuide had dropped by at least seventeen feet. The dense water vapor in the world was also far less than before.

But in case of any emergencies, they had to stay on guard here for a few days to deter the demons.

Li Xuan first sent out more than a dozen letters, consulting the local organizations of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples and the Liudao Division about the situation, and then looked back at Lv Qiluo: "Lady Lv, can you explain for me? Why accept this jade pendant? As far as I know, the power of faith and incense has certain benefits for cultivators, but it also has a lot of harm. Otherwise, why would so many cultivators in ancient times resist Divine Enthronement?"

This divine power can indeed greatly enhance his combat capability, and even accelerate his cultivation speed. But the more you use this thing, the more it clouds your state of mind, hindering the path to the pinnacle.

After all, what cultivators seek is ’purity’, while in the power of faith and incense, there are too many secular thoughts.

If divine power was completely beneficial, then the legendary Divine Enthronement wouldn’t have occurred. Wasn’t that staggering battle caused by the disciples of the two major sects who were unwilling to cut off their path and convert to cultivating divinity?

At this time, the face of Lv Qiluo was very strange, and she even had some difficulty facing Li Xuan directly.

- Just half an hour ago, Lv Qiluo was forced to witness a fierce battle, so her mood was inevitably complicated.

However, Lv Qiluo settled her mind and explained: "Divinity is indeed harmful to you, but the power of faith and incense can help you resist the ’Qianqiu Brush’ of Jinque Palace. I just sensed that the accumulation of divine power in this jade pendant is very thick. It seems that your believers are indeed not few.

The divine power here is the condensation of the intentions of at least hundreds of thousands of people. And divine power is the power of wish at the end of the day. Therefore, even a divine treasure like the ’Qianqiu Brush’ would find it hard to suppress it. That Shaosiming must have meant you well to have made this for you."

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly, carefully looking at the jade pendant in his hand. He thought that this act of kindness was really big.

It seems that not all in Jinque Palace are his enemies.

"If you want to be free from trouble, then don’t use this power of faith and incense. But they are greatly beneficial for your Wenshan Seal, and the Jiutian Xirang and innate gourd vine seeds in your Shenpo. I can teach you a way to purify these wishes to a pure form, turning them into nutrients for their growth."

Lv Qiluo continued: "Also, don’t apply the concept of the Divine Enthronement battle to now, the cultivators of today have already mastered the method of using divine power without its harm. Just like Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, she is a god respected by all beings, but she is also a high-ranking bodhisattva. This doesn’t hinder her at all. Besides, don’t the three sages of Taoism and the three Buddhas of Buddhism also receive incense from the mortal realm?"

After hearing this, Li Xuan thought, did a Divine Enthronement battle really occur in this world?

The Divine Enthronement he knew came from the "Investiture of the Gods" in his world.

In all the Taoist books Li Xuan has seen in this world, there is no clear record of the Divine Enthronement. There are some related records occasionally but they are verbose.

But Li Xuan thought, since there are fragments of the ’Investiture of the Gods’ in that ’Book of Jinque’ and ’Qianqiu Brush’, then a similar conflict of Taoism might have occurred in this world.

"Listen carefully," Lv Qiluo’s expression became slightly serious. "This secret technique for refining divine power is called the ’Supreme Zhou Tiantian Shen Yuan Jing’, it is said to be passed down by the Sage Master Taiqing—"

This technique consists of about seven hundred characters, but after Li Xuan listened to it, he felt a swell within his primordial spirit.

That’s because Lv Qiluo didn’t simply describe it in words, but projected each character directly into Li Xuan’s Primordial Spirit.

These are ancient Dao characters, each word contains endless principles. Each one can elaborate upon a scripture.

This method refines and purifies divine power by harnessing the power of the stars and constellations. It sounds simple, but it is actually very complicated to implement.

Li Xuan found out that there is a limit to this secret method. After all, there is a limit to the power of the stars and constellations a person can use. It’s enough to refine the willpower of three to five million believers. But if his number of believers exceed this limit in the future, the ’Supreme Zhou Tiantian Shen Yuan Jing’ will not be enough.

However, this secret method is more than sufficient for him as he is not a real god. His number of believers would never reach this level.

Since it was during the day and not the time when the power of the stars and constellations was most abundant, Li Xuan did not attempt to practice it immediately.

Next, he exhaled a stream of silver-white, extremely sharp and harsh energy from his lungs.

"May I ask senior, how can this problem be resolved?"

This bundle of Qi of Gengjin had been present when he merged the innate gourd vine seed and Jiutian Xirang.

At first, Li Xuan did not pay attention to it, but in just a short period of two days, this Qi of Gengjin became significantly stronger to the point it caused pain in his lungs.

"This is innate Gengjin Qi. It’s exceedingly precious."

Lv Qiluo glanced at it, "The cold fire technique you practice, as well as the presence of the innate gourd vine seed and Jiutian Xirang in your body, are all superior innate techniques. They together form four elements within you: water, fire, earth, and wood. With the permutation of five elements, you naturally formed innate Gengjin qi.

Even though they’re common innate Gengjin Qi, what is rare is that they’re formed within your own body, inexhaustible, and never-ending. It’s simple to handle this, practice a method that condenses innate sword qi or innate blade qi, your Liudao Division possesses many such techniques.

Alternatively, you can refine them into your Henglian Golden Body, which can make your golden body more dominating."

In the end, Li Xuan chose to integrate this Qi of Gengjin into his Henglian Golden Body.

Mainly because he had to go to Liudao Division to exchange for the technique that condenses innate knife qi, but he could practice the Henglian Golden Body right away.

Speaking of the Henglian Golden Body, there was another delightful change this time.

Perhaps it was because of the battle with Xiangyue, his golden body was destroyed countless times. During the countless times of recovery, his flesh spontaneously completed itself, patching up any flaws. The strength of this Golden Body had strengthened by at least 30% compared to before the battle, getting closer to a truly ’perfect harmony of hardness and softness’ state.

What’s crucial was that he had unknowingly managed to forcibly refine Hao Qi into his Golden Body under the pressure from Xiangyue.

--This was intriguing. If Li Xuan obtains Hao Qi in the future, that would mean having a double defense.

Others who wanted to break his Golden Body would have to first break his Hao Qi. Yet Li Xuan’s Hao Qi had already, in terms of purity, neared the state of ’flawless crystal’.

To put it another way, it was as if he had integrated his ’approaching God Realm’ martial intent into his Henglian Golden Body.

The entire afternoon then was spent by Li Xuan in distracted cultivation.

At first, he was able to focus his mind and conscientiously practice his Golden Body, but as time passed and the sky darkened outside, he began to get restless, hardly focusing.

Finally, at sunset, Li Xuan’s face showed delight and he slipped out of the temple doors like a fleeting shadow, then he hopped onto his Jade Qilin and galloped towards Shangqing Temple, thirty miles south of Yichang City.

That was a Taoist temple under the jurisdiction of Longhu Mountain, Li Xuan sensed that Xue Yunrou was there.

However, halfway there, Li Xuan received a signal from Xue Yunrou.

There was only one sentence inside — Don’t come, go back!

Li Xuan found this puzzling. Usually, Xue Yunrou preferred to use her ’Huoyun Phoenix’ to send him messages as long as they were within a five-hundred-mile range. This time she, for some reason, had used a signal.

But Li Xuan didn’t think much about it and urged his horse forward with delight. According to his judgement, Yunrou was just being shy, playing hard-to-get with him.

It was only when he had transformed into a plume of smoke and sneaked into the Shangqing Temple, then snuck into Xue Yunrou’s room that he was taken aback.

Xue Yunrou was sitting on a stool, her face flushed, across from her was Yu Hongshan with whom she was playing Go. Jiang Hanyun and Luo Yan were also playing Go at a side, with Yue Qianqian sitting by watching the game.

Just as Li Xuan tiptoed in through the window, all the girls turned to look at him.