Chapter 636: The beast tide is rioting, Panlong Blood Fang Rice!

Evening.

Afterwards.

Lu Changsheng and Honglian talked about Xu Ruoyin, asking about her plans.

“Since the girl Xu is determined to go out and train, seeking an opportunity to form her core, let her go and explore first.”

“If she encounters danger or fails to find an opportunity for a long time, I will lend her a hand then.”

Honglian said softly.

In her previous life as a Nascent Soul True Monarch, she had seen too many geniuses and prodigies charge forward bravely in the early stages, only to encounter setbacks and crises in the later stages, leading to their downfall and demise.

Therefore, she always believed that with sufficient lifespan, there was no need to rush breakthroughs. It was better to consolidate one’s cultivation realm as much as possible and gain more experience.

Xu Ruoyin was only in her nineties and was not in a hurry to form her core.

After all, as one’s realm breaks through, the opponents and dangers encountered in the future will also increase accordingly.

If one’s early experience is insufficient, they will easily suffer losses later on.

Just like when she guided the Lu family disciples in cultivation in earlier years.

For disciples with good talent, she always preferred to slow down their cultivation speed, allowing them to appropriately spend time and energy on their mindset, combat skills, and various arts, finding what they are good at and tempering their character.

“I still have a Core Condensing Pill in my hand. If needed, I can give her one.”

Lu Changsheng knew that Honglian still wanted to help Xu Ruoyin.

With Honglian’s methods, as long as she was willing to spend some time and effort, she should be able to obtain a Core Condensing Pill.

It was just that in these years, she had been stationed in the immortal city, dedicating all her time to cultivation.

However, her cultivation speed could be called divine speed. She was currently at the peak of the fifth layer of Core Formation and would likely break through to the sixth layer soon.

If she continued cultivating like this, she might even catch up to Lu Changsheng.

“Thank you, husband.”

Honglian knew that Lu Changsheng was helping her repay a favor, but she still said softly, “The girl Xu cultivates the Beast Arts. It’s not a good time for her to attempt Core Formation now. Her spirit beasts also need time to grow.”

Although the Beast Arts allow the cultivator and their spirit beasts to complement each other, enhancing both the cultivator’s talent and foundation and the spirit beasts’ growth speed, there are still limits.

Xu Ruoyin’s cultivation had broken through to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, but her three spirit beasts were still far behind.

In Honglian’s opinion, giving Xu Ruoyin a Core Condensing Pill at this time was too rushed. She should accumulate more. When the time comes, she could use the potential of her spirit beasts to break through in one go and condense a high-grade Golden Core!

Afterwards, she could use the origin power of the Golden Core to help her spirit beasts grow and activate their bloodline talents.

“Alright, just arrange these as you see fit.”

Lu Changsheng nodded slightly, indicating that she could just tell him if she needed resources.

Currently, Lu Changsheng rarely inquired about the revenue of Great Dream Immortal City. It was all arranged and managed by Ling Zixiao and Honglian.

If Honglian wanted to spend resources to cultivate Xu Ruoyin, he would have no objections.

A few days later, Lu Changsheng helped Ling Zixiao upgrade her paired magic treasure.

Honglian, on the other hand, guided Xu Ruoyin in cultivation, taking her to Great Dream Marsh to hunt demonic beasts and test the results of her cultivation over the years.

“Husband is actually quite soft-hearted. You don’t need to be too restrained when facing him.”

“He not only prepared cultivation resources for you but also made preparations for Core Formation resources, which I temporarily declined.”

Honglian could see that Xu Ruoyin was uncomfortable in front of Lu Changsheng, acting completely different from her usual self, and spoke up to guide her.

“Senior Honglian, I know.”

A warmth flowed in Xu Ruoyin’s heart, and she said softly.

From the situation with her son Lu Chensha, she knew that Lu Changsheng didn’t hold grudges, but she herself found it difficult to change and adapt her mindset.

“Your personality is the same as mine in my early years, too strong-willed…”

Honglian knew that this kind of thing couldn’t be changed in a short time.

Back then, Xu Ruoyin was imprisoned for eight years. After forming her foundation and returning to the Xu family, Honglian wasn’t by her side, making her mindset easily become extreme and lacking trust in others.

She didn’t try to persuade her further but instead guided Xu Ruoyin in spell techniques, combat skills, combined attack techniques, and so on.

Unfortunately, Great Dream Marsh is an endless water domain, which Xu Ruoyin wasn’t very adapted to, and the attributes of the demonic beasts didn’t match those of Xu Ruoyin’s spirit beasts.

Otherwise, they could have used this opportunity to cultivate her three spirit beasts.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, over a month had passed.

Lu Changsheng upgraded Ling Zixiao’s [All-Heaven Fiendgod Diagram] to a mid-grade magic treasure and also upgraded his own [Yin-Yang Diagram] to a top-grade magic treasure.

He had gathered the materials before, but top-grade magic treasures consumed more magic power, so he hadn’t upgraded it.

“Sigh, I’m poor.”

Looking at his again deflated Qiankun Shadow Binding Belt, Lu Changsheng sighed in his heart, took the Golden-Winged Heavenly Roc out, and headed towards the depths of Great Dream Marsh.

He found five demon kings to offer blood, then went to explore their cave dwellings and nests. After gaining some opportunities, he returned to the immortal city, found some useful heaven and earth spiritual materials from the treasury, and began secluded cultivation, preparing to quickly achieve minor completion in the Brahma Demon True Body.

Back then, he had planned to pick up his daughter Nangong Yaoyao. But by the time he reached Jin State, his daughter had already grown up and her personality had taken shape.

If this continued to drag on, his son would also reach adulthood.

If he were to grow up to be a member of the Demonic Path, Lu Changsheng wouldn’t quite know how to teach him.

Meanwhile.

Jin State, Five Poisons Sect, Heavenly Spider Peak.

Inside a magnificent palace.

“Minghuang, what do you think of this cultivation technique?”

Nangong Miaoli looked at the young boy in front of her, dressed in a purple-gold brocade robe, with a youthful and tender appearance, as handsome as a white fox.

“It’s about the same as the previous one.”

Although Lu Minghuang was only ten years old and his appearance was as handsome as a demon, his pair of golden eyes gave off an innate sense of majesty and presence.

“Alright then, choose one of these cultivation techniques yourself. Mother will think of something later.”

Nangong Miaoli said somewhat helplessly.

Her son Lu Minghuang had his foundation tempered with heavenly materials and earthly treasures since childhood and could now begin cultivating at the age of ten.

However, her son was resistant to the cultivation techniques of the Five Poisons Sect, or rather, the Demonic Path and poison/蛊 aspects. Cultivating such techniques completely mismatched his first-grade spiritual root and naturally divine talent.

Facing this situation, she could only find a few righteous path cultivation techniques for her son to practice.

But she didn’t know which one her son was compatible with, so she let him try them himself.

“This one then.”

Lu Minghuang pondered for a moment with his small face, then pointed at a cultivation technique.

“Blazing Sun Melting Gold Art”

“It seems Minghuang is suited for Metal and Fire attribute cultivation techniques.”

Nangong Miaoli’s phoenix eyes narrowed, and she wasn’t too surprised.

Through her observations over the years, she knew that her son was more compatible with fire attribute heavenly materials and earthly treasures, so she guessed it would be the same for cultivation techniques.

“Alright, then cultivate this one first.”

Nangong Miaoli smiled gently, but in her heart, she couldn’t help but wonder when that dog of a man, Lu Changsheng, would come to see her and their son.

Although she had been in a state of freedom over the years and could enter and leave the Five Poisons Sect at any time, the Five Poisons Sect Master had sent people to constantly monitor her.

If the two of them left the Five Poisons Sect, it would attract inquiries from the Sect Master.

One didn’t even need to think to know that the Sect Master was waiting for True Master Yangming to come.

Although the Sect Master claimed there wasn’t much enmity between him and True Master Yangming, as the Heavenly Spider Envoy of the Five Poisons Sect, she knew from her previous soul-bewitching that things were not simple.

“Given that dog of a man’s personality, he probably won’t come easily. Back then, he only came to visit Yaoyao after his combat strength reached the late stage of Core Formation.”

“Now, I’m afraid he’ll have to wait until he breaks through to Nascent Soul…”

Although Nangong Miaoli felt it was quite normal for Lu Changsheng not to come.

But thinking that he would only come after reaching Nascent Soul, she couldn’t help but feel annoyed.

Moreover, her son had started cultivating. It was fine for now at the Qi Refining stage.

If there wasn’t a suitable top-tier cultivation technique, and he had to switch later during Foundation Establishment, it would inevitably cause some impact.

“Damn that dog of a man!”

Nangong Miaoli couldn’t help but curse inwardly again.

Just then, an old woman came forward, cupped her hands towards Nangong Miaoli, and said, “Heavenly Spider Envoy, the Sect Master asks you to come over.”

Half a year later.

On this day, Lu Changsheng, who was in secluded cultivation, received a message from Ling Zixiao and walked out of his cave dwelling.

“Zixiao, what’s wrong?”

Lu Changsheng was a bit surprised.

Normally, all matters, big and small, in the immortal city were handled by Ling Zixiao or Honglian, and they rarely came to him for things.

“Husband, the situation in Great Dream Marsh has been a bit off lately.”

Ling Zixiao said with a somewhat solemn expression.

“Oh?”

Lu Changsheng raised an eyebrow.

“Recently, various spiritual fish, spiritual shrimp, or demonic beasts have been swimming outwards, and many rogue cultivator hunting teams have had harvests…”

“Furthermore, quite a few peak second-tier demonic beasts have appeared in the depths.”

Ling Zixiao continued, “According to the historical records of the immortal city, such a situation indicates one of two things: either a top-tier demon king is fighting for territory, affecting the ecosystem, or a demon king is deliberately driving the demonic beasts outwards…”

“You mean, a beast tide?”

Upon hearing this, Lu Changsheng instantly guessed what was happening.

The cultivation world has always experienced beast tides. For example, the Spirit Taming Sect and Azure Luan Immortal City near the Myriad Beast Mountain Range have both suffered from beast tide impacts.

Great Dream Marsh, with its vast water domain, is relatively stable, but beast tides can still occur.

Once a beast tide occurs, although Great Dream Immortal City is not directly in its path, it will still be greatly impacted.

Moreover, one of the responsibilities Heavenly Sword Sect requires of Great Dream Immortal City is suppressing beast tides.

“Great Dream Marsh hasn’t had a beast tide in over a hundred years. Why would one suddenly appear?”

Lu Changsheng furrowed his brow slightly, feeling that something was off.

Usually, when a beast tide occurs, it’s because a top-tier demon king has appeared.

But the Tier 4 demon king of Great Dream Marsh, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, had already been taken away by Meng Wuchen and his wife.

“I’m not sure either.”

Ling Zixiao shook her head, not very clear about the situation.

However, thinking of one of her husband’s sources of income, she ventured a guess: “Could it be that my lord’s hunting of demons in the depths of Great Dream Marsh over the years has caused the demon kings to riot?”

“???”

Lu Changsheng was taken aback by her words and felt that it was indeed possible.

Back then, when he went to hunt demons in the Myriad Beast Mountain Range, he nearly provoked a riot among the demon kings there.

After Chu Qingyi learned of this, she specifically instructed him to do it as little as possible.

After taking charge of Great Dream Immortal City, although he had restrained himself a lot and rarely hunted demon kings except for the Spirit Roaming Whale and the Void Kun,

Recently, in order to cultivate the Brahma Demon True Body, he had drawn blood from many demon kings. Three years ago, when he sent Lu Quanzhen to and from the Star Constellation Sea, he had drawn blood from the Golden-Winged Heaven Roc and also hunted two demon kings.

Under these circumstances, if it triggered a joint riot of the demon kings, it seemed normal, didn’t it?

“I’ll go take a look.”

Lu Changsheng said immediately.

He was confident he could defend against and repel a Tier 3 beast tide.

But it wouldn’t be good if his actions caused widespread suffering.

Even though many rogue cultivators looked forward to the beast tide coming so they could kill a few more Tier 2 demonic beasts and accumulate cultivation resources, for the low-level cultivators and mortals, it would be a complete tragedy!

“Whoosh!”

Lu Changsheng rode the Golden-Winged Heaven Roc and flew towards the deep sea of Great Dream Marsh. Along the way, he indeed saw a large number of Tier 1 demonic beasts swimming outward towards the Immortal City.

He continued to go deeper and could see more and more Tier 2 demonic beasts.

At this rate, a terrifying beast tide would form in at most a month.

“I hope it’s just a riot of Tier 3 demon kings. If a Tier 4 demon king comes from the Star Constellation Sea, it’ll be troublesome.”

Lu Changsheng’s expression was solemn, and he signaled the Golden-Winged Heaven Roc to continue deeper.

“Roar, roar, roar—”

Not long after, he heard a deep roar of a demonic beast, forming terrifying waves of pressure. Demonic beasts within a hundred miles were driven outwards under this aura.

The demon king seemed to sense something, immediately stopped roaring, and fled towards the deep sea.

“Boom!”

However, Lu Changsheng and the Golden-Winged Heaven Roc directly rushed into the water, and the Great Yin-Yang Qi Grasp tightly held the demon king.

“Human, you’ve gone too far in bullying demons!”

This huge demon king was held by the large handprint, unable to move, and roared angrily at Lu Changsheng.

“Are you guys starting a beast tide?”

Lu Changsheng recognized this demon king; it had offered him vital blood before.

“You wantonly plunder our vital blood and wealth, you’re simply going too far in bullying demons!”

Tier 3 demon kings already possessed some intelligence and roared to express their anger.

“Indeed, I’ve been doing too much recently.”

Lu Changsheng wasn’t annoyed.

After all, thinking carefully, he had indeed been asking demon kings for blood quite frequently over the years.

It was very normal for the demon kings of Great Dream Marsh to have an opinion about this situation.

“Let’s put an end to this matter, and I can let you go.”

Although he could use this opportunity to kill all the demon kings in Great Dream Marsh, doing so would be like draining the pond to catch the fish, severely damaging the ecosystem.

Immediately, Lu Changsheng went to the sleeping place of the Rifting Sea Black Whale, woke it up, and used the Rifting Sea Black Whale’s might to patrol Great Dream Marsh, suppressing all the demon kings who stubbornly resisted.

This beast tide was thus invisibly resolved by Lu Changsheng.

However, this beast tide still served as a reminder to him: unless absolutely necessary, he should let them recover, and not ask too many demon kings for blood at once.

“Looking at it this way, opening up new territories still yields higher profits.”

Lu Changsheng mused inwardly, thinking of Jiang State’s previous development of the Myriad Beast Mountain Range.

If Great Dream Marsh wanted to wage a war of expansion, it would be very troublesome, as ordinary cultivators couldn’t enter the deep sea or the seabed at all.

After nipping the beast tide in the bud, Lu Changsheng returned to the Immortal City, briefly explained the situation to Ling Zixiao, and asked her to pay more attention to this matter.

Immediately after helping Honglian and Ling Zixiao cultivate for a few days, Lu Changsheng continued his seclusion.

Previously, three demon kings had stubbornly resisted and acted very aggressively, so Lu Changsheng could only kill them.

Considering he would be going to Jin State later, Lu Changsheng gave one to the Golden-Winged Heaven Roc, and then used the demon king essence to continue refining the Brahma Demon True Body.

A year and a half later.

In the cave dwelling, Lu Changsheng slowly opened his eyes. The three-headed, six-armed phantom behind him, except for its still blurry face, now showed a dark golden body covered in what looked like dragon scales, flowing with intricate Sanskrit script and interwoven demonic patterns.

With the help of numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and demon king essence, Lu Changsheng finally cultivated the Brahma Demon True Body to minor completion in the fastest possible time.

Next would be refining the illusory bones, meridians, and flesh, eventually connecting a hundred apertures through one, cultivating the True Body to great completion!

This process could also use various heavenly materials and earthly treasures as bones, meridians, and flesh.

Lu Changsheng had been using [Mysterious Yellow Essence] for years and was preparing to use it to refine the bones of the Brahma Demon True Body.

However, he didn’t know how long it would take to finish refining. Now that the Brahma Demon True Body was at minor completion, he had the confidence to go to Jin State.

After all, his trip wasn’t to fight the Five Poisons Cult Master to the death, but to visit Nangong Mili and his son Nangong Minghuang. He would avoid fighting if possible.

“System, lottery.”

Lu Changsheng muttered inwardly.

During his cultivation, a Tier 2 winemaker appeared in his family, and the number of Lu family descendants reached five thousand, earning him two lottery chances.

However, Lu Changsheng was gradually becoming indifferent to ordinary lottery draws now.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a Six-Eyed Bodhi Seed!]

[Reward has been distributed to the system space, host can view it at any time]

“Six-Eyed Bodhi Seed?”

Lu Changsheng remembered that his son Lu Quanzhen had a Bodhi seed, which his maternal uncle Qu Changge gave him in his early years for cultivating techniques.

It was not unrelated that his son Lu Quanzhen was able to cultivate the “Kunpeng Devouring Heaven Demonic God Technique” and gain insights from the Profound Heaven Spiritual Vine, as well as the Bodhi seed in his hand.

“But Quanzhen’s Bodhi seed seems to be nine-eyed?”

Lu Changsheng had seen Lu Quanzhen’s Bodhi seed, but he hadn’t carefully examined it.

After all, he didn’t need to use a Bodhi seed to gain insights or cultivate techniques.

[Six-Eyed Bodhi Seed]

[Grade: Tier 3]

[Description: Can help one awaken their true self, calm the mind and focus the spirit, empty the mind, and have a multiplier effect on cultivation and comprehending techniques. There is a chance to enter a state of profound enlightenment.]

“Enlightenment? Looking at it this way, the effect of this Bodhi seed is quite good. It can be kept at home for the descendants to borrow when cultivating techniques.”

Lu Changsheng looked at the Six-Eyed Bodhi Seed and nodded slightly.

Immediately, he continued the lottery draw.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a bag of Coiled Dragon Blood Tooth Rice!]

[Reward has been distributed to the system space, host can view it at any time]

“Spiritual rice?”

Lu Changsheng didn’t expect the system to be able to draw spiritual rice, and for a moment, he didn’t know how to evaluate it.

But he also wanted to see the quality of the spiritual rice produced by the system.

Like the spiritual rice from Green Lake Mountain, the highest was only Tier 2 high-grade.

There was indeed Tier 3 spiritual rice here in Great Dream Immortal City.

But Tier 3 spiritual rice wasn’t of much help to him.

If he replaced all the Tier 2 spiritual rice in his family with Tier 3 spiritual rice, it would lead to excessive expenses.

[Coiled Dragon Blood Tooth Rice]

[Grade: Tier 3]

[Description: A top-tier Tier 3 spiritual rice cultivated by the Coiled Dragon Sect, nurtured by watering with dragon blood. Long-term consumption can not only cleanse the physical body and enhance vital energy and blood but also nourish magic power and spiritual sense.]

“Top-tier Tier 3 spiritual rice.”

Lu Changsheng was surprised.

One should know that the highest grade of spiritual rice here in Great Dream Immortal City was only Tier 3 mid-grade, and the quantity wasn’t large.

On one hand, there weren’t that many excellent spiritual fields.

On the other hand, spiritual rice of this level had to be carefully watered and cultivated by top-tier spiritual plant masters.

Even though Great Dream Immortal City had many talents, there were still not many Tier 3 spiritual plant masters.

Lu Changsheng glanced at the system; one bag of spiritual rice contained a total of five hundred catties.

“Five hundred catties. If the effect is good, it’s probably better than a bottle of Tier 3 medicinal pills.”

Lu Changsheng thought of the [Purple Mansion Pill] he obtained from a lottery draw in his early years, which had the effect of cleansing the spirit and purifying the physical body.

However, judging by the description of the Coiled Dragon Blood Tooth Rice, its main effect was to enhance physical body and vital energy.

Not paying too much attention, Lu Changsheng walked out of the cave dwelling, preparing to ask Ling Zixiao if anything had happened in the Immortal City or Jiang State during his seclusion.

If there was nothing major, after returning to Green Lake Mountain, he would prepare to go to Jin State.