Seeking Immortality in a Bizarre World-Chapter 717 - 711 Green Lotus Ferrying, Substitute One Thing for Another_1
Jia Ren’s body had gone from utter collapse to full recovery in a mere breath’s time.
Such a speed of recovery could only be described as abnormal.
Xu Qiyuan’s palm erupted with the force of a falling Immortal, striking again on the Xuanwu Turtle Shell.
This Immortal Path Divine Power’s might was no match for the Green Lotus Movement of the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body. It couldn’t stop Jia Ren’s healing momentum.
A snake head shot out from the turtle’s body like lightning, aiming a bite at Xu Qiyuan.
The snake head had always been hidden on the turtle’s body. Its sneak attack was completely unexpected.
Xu Qiyuan’s reaction was swift. At the moment of danger, he instinctively threw out a punch.
His fist shone with flowing fire and sparked electric brilliance, striking later but arriving first to block the sneak attack.
BANG!
The Xuan Snake shattered upon contact, and large amounts of Xuanming Yin Water fell on Xu Qiyuan. The black water’s lethal power was no less than that of the Southern Ming Separation Fire.
One was fire, the other water.
The Xuanming Yin Water could corrode even Immortal Artifacts and contained soul-destroying poison. It was extremely sinister.
Drops of Xuanming Yin Water fell on him, extinguishing the gray mist around Xu Qiyuan’s body, but he sneered, utterly fearless.
The Green Lotus patterns came to life once more, swiftly absorbing the Xuanming Yin Water within.
Lotus patterns continued to emerge, transforming into two blossoming blue lotuses.
"Second form, Green Lotus Ferrying!"
The gray mist and Green Lotus surrounding Xu Qiyuan vanished without a trace. In the next instant, Jia Ren felt an inexplicable force rise within him. A massive amount of gray mist wreaked havoc inside, with a Twin Lotus looming.
The Green Lotus caused destruction from the inside out.
This type of destruction was considered indefensible. Few could cope with it.
The second form?
Xu Qiyuan had claimed there was only one form, Green Lotus Swing. This must have been a ruse to lull me into a false sense of security.
In Jia Ren’s body, the Divine Illumination Sun Wheel rose, unleashing hidden gray flames.
This was a fusion of Phoenix Flame, Southern Ming Separation Fire, and Golden Crow Fire, extremely potent, incinerating the gray mist and burning the Twin Lotus to ashes.
Although the Green Lotus remained in the body for only a short time and his reaction was swift, it still caused considerable damage to his body.
If Jia Ren’s physique had not been so formidable, facing such internal destruction, he would already be bones and ashes.
The Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body was terrifying indeed!
Eh, he actually blocked Green Lotus Ferrying?!
Impossible!
The Green Lotus Ferrying was the strongest technique currently accessible to the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body at the same realm, nearly unsolvable for Immortals of the same level.
Unexpectedly, Jia Ren had resolved it so easily.
This was while he had not long ascended to the Immortal Realm, and his strength was still suppressed by it.
The tales of Ascenders with astonishing talents were not false, as he now realized.
If even Green Lotus Ferrying couldn’t defeat him, the Withered Azure Lotus was beyond my ability to wield. It required a higher realm within the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body to execute.
Having miscalculated Jia Ren’s strength, Xu Qiyuan found himself in a perilous position.
"Fire, come forth!"
The Xuanwu that Jia Ren had transformed into opened its massive mouth and suddenly expelled a gray fireball.
The ball of flame, like a cannonball leaving its barrel, surged forth.
The gray flames seemed to have originated from Chaos itself, incinerating everything, and the surrounding gray mist around Xu Qiyuan ignited before the flames even reached him.
Xu Qiyuan felt an unparalleled danger. An innate sense told him... he could not withstand this attack.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Green Lotuses appeared beneath his feet with each step he took, as if spawning with every move.
An invisible pressure bore down upon him, making Xu Qiyuan’s actions as slow as a crawling turtle.
He watched helplessly as the gray flames rapidly enlarged in front of him.
BOOM!
The gray flames exploded upon his body, enveloping him like a wildfire out of control.
Xu Qiyuan pushed the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body to its limits, trying to neutralize the gray flames.
Two Green Lotus blooms emerged, but not even half a petal of a third showed signs of unfolding.
The reason being, it was a power beyond what my current realm could wield...
Under the fierce burning of the gray flames, one by one, the lotus patterns crumbled, leaving him unprotected and thoroughly engulfed by the flames.
"You cannot kill me!"
"I am an Immortal of the Heavenly Immortal View!"
"You’ve signed a contract with the Heavenly Immortal View; you must not kill a person of the Heavenly Immortal View!"
"If you kill me, you will suffer from the backlash of the contract!"
"Once the Immortals of the Heavenly Immortal View learn of my demise, they will surely send someone to hunt you down!"
"Can a newly ascended person withstand a Golden Immortal? Or even deal with a Taiyi Jade Immortal?!"
Xu Qiyuan’s body, comparable to an Immortal Artifact, rapidly shriveled. Within ten breaths, he would surely be reduced to ashes.
He transmitted his thoughts frantically, fearing even a moment’s delay would cost him the chance to persuade Jia Ren.
"Just spare me, and this will all have been a spar. I will prepare the Immortal Elixirs and Spiritual Medicine you need..."
Killing Xu Qiyuan would bring endless troubles and attract pursuit from the Heavenly Immortal View. I have not yet dealt with the Mortal Dust Aura and lack the power to confront them.
In contrast, it seemed the best choice might be to release Xu Qiyuan.
However, having suffered such a loss, would Xu Qiyuan let the matter rest?
What if he returned with his master in tow—what would I use to fend them off?
As Jia Ren pondered, Xu Qiyuan’s body carbonized to the point of near disfigurement, and a few more moments would see him reduced to ashes and smoke.
"I cannot trust you!"
"You were right about one thing; I won’t kill you just yet!"
Jia Ren had somehow regained his human form and appeared before Xu Qiyuan as if by Instantaneous Movement.
His fingers, radiating a black light as if from an abyss, pierced through the gray flame unaffected. They stabbed directly into Xu Qiyuan’s Dantian.
The charred Dantian, burnt by the gray flame, split open, and Spiritual Power rapidly dissipated as black marks formed inside the Dantian.
"Five Abyss Spirit-Binding Formation!"
Jia Ren felt the restriction forming within Xu Qiyuan’s body and finally retracted the gray flames.
Xu Qiyuan’s body was critically damaged. With his Dantian destroyed and Spiritual Power continuously leaking, he retained barely one-tenth of his strength.
His eyes, filled with resentment, glaring at Jia Ren, he roared furiously, "Someone will avenge me!"
"Heavenly Immortal View will never let you off!"
"All the miners and overseers in the mine are witnesses; do you dare to kill them all?"
However, his voice was blocked and could not escape.
Jia Ren looked towards the probing divine senses with a smile on his face and helped Xu Qiyuan to his feet. "Is it just because you lost a sparring match? Why so angry?!"
"I’ll give you an Elixir to heal your injuries."
Without giving Xu Qiyuan a chance to resist, the Pill was already in his stomach.
"I’ll send you back!"
A sparring match?
Jia Ren had sparred with Xu Qiyuan several times before, but the commotion had never been this large.
Many people saw that nothing was amiss with Xu Qiyuan and thus paid no further attention.
Xu Qiyuan, hearing Jia Ren’s shameless words, was so angry that he vomited blood. He opened his mouth to explain, only to find that no sound could come out.
Not only that, but his consciousness grew foggy, and he fell asleep.
Jia Ren took Xu Qiyuan to his residence, took his Na Xian Bag for himself, and extracted a White Compass. Within it, he sealed the unconscious Xu Qiyuan.
His appearance shifted, and he had taken on the guise of Xu Qiyuan.
Only the two of them, as Immortals, were present at that location. The other Cultivators, at most of the Mahayana Realm, could not see through his disguise.
In the following time, all he needed to do was to live a quiet life for a hundred years disguised as Xu Qiyuan.
As long as he didn’t renew his contract with Heavenly Immortal View, there would be no binding force.
By then, he could leave the Yuanling Mine Cave, find a place to kill Xu Qiyuan, and obtain Divine Skills with the Corpse-Eating Fiend Pill.
Even if Xu Qiyuan’s Na Xian Bag did not contain the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body and the Method Gate to utilize the Mysterious Heavenly Spiritual Treasure, he could still master Immortal Techniques and secret techniques.
Jia Ren did not think he could simply deceive everyone with the sparring incident. One negligible mistake could lead to a total loss.
The Heaven and Earth Spirit Treasure Law condensed the Tongming Treasury Mirror, erasing the related memories of the overseers and Cultivators in the mine.
With the highest Cultivation Level in the Yuanling Mine Cave being of the Mahayana Realm, they could not resist Jia Ren’s Demon’s Palm. Only when all memories of those in the know were completely erased did he finally feel at ease.
Jia Ren returned to Xu Qiyuan’s Cave. After claiming the Na Xian Bag, he finally had the energy to inventory his gains.
In the Na Xian Bag were three Immortal Elixirs he had seen before, five Immortal Artifacts, and over thirty high-quality Spiritual Medicines of considerable age.
Seven Immortal Talismans, five vials of Immortal Pills.
In addition, there were cultivation and comprehension notes for the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body, but the cultivation method for the Chaotic Green Lotus Celestial Body was nowhere to be found.
Jia Ren was unconcerned and began opening vials of Immortal Pills one by one.
The effects of the Immortal Pills in four Jade Vases were unknown to him, and it would be unwise to consume them rashly. The only familiar one was the Ascension Pill.
Xu Qiyuan carried four Ascension Pills prepared in advance by Heavenly Immortal View, but the quantity was only sufficient for five hundred years of use.
Not planning to give the remaining Ascension Pills? Using those to control me?
Or to prevent me from harming the disciples of Heavenly Immortal View, a method to stop desertion?
Altogether, five Ascension Pills could alleviate half of the Red Dust Tribulation Qi for a typical Ascender. However, it was not enough to solve the problem entirely.
Such a small number of Ascension Pills were merely a drop in the ocean for Jia Ren and wouldn’t suffice to solve his issues.
Back to square one, I would have to concoct Elixirs myself!
Return to Heavenly Immortal View to search for Immortal Elixirs personally?
With the Taiyi Jade Immortal in Heavenly Immortal View, my disguise would be inadequate. Getting discovered would be as good as seeking death.
The alternative was to wait peacefully for a hundred years and then leave the Yuanling Mine Cave to find another solution.
By using five Ascension Pills to ease a portion of the Red Dust Tribulation Qi, he could leverage more of his strength.
It’s best to act cautiously after all!
Impersonating Xu Qiyuan would bring extraordinary returns but also attract trouble.
It was better to prioritize stability and not to create unnecessary complications.
Jia Ren kept a low profile. Using four Ascension Pills to alleviate the Red Dust Tribulation Qi reduced the suppression from the heavens and earth, allowing his strength to double once again.
Combining Mimic Bizarre with the Wish Bizarre Wheel, he made a wish to obtain materials for Ascension Pills, enhancing his ability to concoct Ascension Pills.
Immortal Elixirs were hard to come by in the quantities he required.
He had no option but to make up for quantity with quality. A single Pill with the effectiveness of several, even ten times that of a normal Ascension Pill, was needed to meet the demand for nearly a hundred Ascension Pills. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
「Time swiftly passed, and seventy years had gone in the blink of an eye.」
The Steward of Yuanling Mine Cave had long become accustomed to Xu Qiyuan being a hands-off manager, sparring with the guests once every twenty years without causing any trouble.
With the contract about to end, he could finally leave Yuanling Mine Cave.
But at that moment, the Formation of Xu Qiyuan’s Cave was triggered, spreading like ripples in water.
Has my disguise been seen through?!
Was the prohibition of the Cave forcefully broken?!
Jia Ren’s expression turned ugly. He thought he was about to successfully deceive everyone, but it seemed that ultimately, there was still...
"Senior brother, aren’t you happy to see me?!"
"Green Ivy has been thinking of you all this time."
Like the chime of small bells, the voice rang out, and a woman in green clothes suddenly threw herself into Jia Ren’s arms.
