Zixiao Palace.
Hongjun suddenly opened his eyes, a flicker of confusion passing through them. What had just happened? The entire Zixiao Palace had shaken, and it suddenly felt much lighter.
Something was wrong!
Hongjun immediately began deducing. Soon, the Creation Jade Plate projected the results. A blurry, illusory figure whose features could not be seen appeared in the image, sneaking furtively outside Zixiao Palace.
He walked up to Treasure Distribution Cliff and circled it once.
Then, he suddenly hoisted Treasure Distribution Cliff onto his shoulder and vanished in an instant.
The projected image ended there.
Hongjun was speechless.
That sneaky figure thought he could conceal his aura and body, but he had forgotten the sword intent surrounding him.
"Tongtian!! That brat..."
Hongjun did not even know what to say. Tongtian had actually stolen Treasure Distribution Cliff. It had originally been used to suppress Zixiao Palace, keeping it from drifting away in the chaos.
Yet Tongtian had uprooted it. No wonder Zixiao Palace felt so much lighter.
"Why did that fellow steal Treasure Distribution Cliff? Could it be for his Interception Sect lately? And how did he know Treasure Distribution Cliff was a rare treasure?
Something is wrong. Why does the prehistoric world feel a little different lately?" Hongjun muttered, raising a hand to begin his deductions.
After a moment, he gave up, because he could not see anything unusual.
It was probably because the previous change had already been readjusted by the Heavenly Dao, so he continued refining the laws of the Creation Jade Plate.
Within the chaos.
Sect Master Tongtian was currently racing through the chaos. Even now, his heart was still pounding rapidly, and he could only cry out inwardly at how thrilling it was.
He had truly never expected to succeed, and he had also discovered that the body-concealment array disc Li Er had given him was incredibly useful.
The array discs could actually stack upon one another again, directly layering his body into an illusory state.
This state was nearly suspended between existence and nonexistence. If his body had not reached its limit, he could have continued stacking them.
However, Sect Master Tongtian had forgotten to conceal his aura. His body was hidden, but his aura was not.
That was why Hongjun still discovered him.
"I should have run far enough. I can circle back now.
Since I'm already here, I might as well see whether the chaos has anything else, like Star Stones.
I'll pick some up and bring them back as gifts for Li Er. This array disc is so useful—next time, I can use it to sneak into the Chaos Forbidden Zone and steal something." Sect Master Tongtian stopped, stroking his chin as he spoke.
But he quickly gave up, because it was too far away. He was afraid something might happen to Li Er, so he casually took a few stars, refined them, and headed back.
A hidden realm on Mount Buzhou.
Sect Master Tongtian quietly returned and swept his gaze around. Everything was normal.
That kid Zhao Gongming actually had this sort of hobby? Not steady enough. How could he write things down?
Let me see what exactly you wrote.
Sect Master Tongtian beckoned and took the notebook Zhao Gongming had left on the table.
Zhao Gongming's Notebook.
Day One After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"I, Zhao Gongming—oh right, I'm Fat Zhao now, the little fatty Little Master talks about.
After arriving here, I was knocked unconscious by an array and nearly had my manhood crippled by it. Boohoo..."
Day Two After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"I learned the first scripture of the core division's rules: the Steadiness Sutra. Oh right, the core division is called Daoism, and we call ourselves Dao Masters. What an overbearing title—I like it.
The Steadiness Sutra is too terrifying. After learning it, I feel that the only reason I survived until now was because I was lucky..."
Day Three After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"Boohoo... the Steadiness Sutra is so hard to understand. And the arrays I learned before are complete trash. Stack, stack... I'm trash too—I only managed to stack them ten times..."
Day Ten After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"I feel like I can beat ten of my former selves... Boohoo... Is tempering the physical body into sainthood really that perverse? I should keep learning stacked arrays—"
One Month After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"I kind of miss the Interception Sect. The pressure here is enormous. These five years of practice and three years of exams—boohoo... it's too hard.
That question about sparing an enemy's child... why was the answer so perverse? Hehehe... we meet again—"
Three Months After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"I was preparing to break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, but Little Master beat me up and said I did not understand the need to keep building my foundation... Then he put several array discs on me. Boohoo... even walking is difficult... Little Master beat me up again.
Sect Master, when are you coming back?!"
Four Months After Leaving the Interception Sect.
"Today, I went fishing with Little Master... I curiously asked one extra question: Little Master, are you feeding the spirit fish?"
After Sect Master Tongtian finished reading, the corner of his mouth twitched. He had been worried that Li Er would not know how to teach, but after reading Zhao Gongming's notes, he suddenly felt a little sorry for his disciple.
"This little fatty is rather interesting, but he is not steady enough. How could he record this sort of thing?
This time, he provoked Li Er. Right now, there are only two things Li Er cannot do well. First, his cultivation through Golden Cores will not increase. Second, fishing." Sect Master Tongtian muttered, a trace of amusement flashing through his eyes.
With a raised hand, he cast a spell and activated the other two array discs hidden within.
In the distance, Zhao Gongming was absentmindedly dealing with attacks from beautiful women inside the array. He was no longer as flustered as before, but it seemed he had offended Little Master.
The last time they had gone fishing together, he had simply asked one extra question.
As a result, Little Master had not appeared for an entire month. Without his beatings, Zhao Gongming was somewhat unaccustomed to it.
"Ah! This is bad... Why did it become one hundred opponents?! Little Master!! Save me!!" Zhao Gongming was terrified. He had no trouble dealing with attacks from fifty beautiful women.
But one hundred appearing at once was far too frightening!
Li Er appeared immediately, waved a hand, and stopped the array. Looking toward the void, he said unhappily, "You even told me not to play him to death.
But the moment you came back, you went straight for the jugular."
Recently, he had been researching alchemy, determined to create a pill-based bait. He refused to believe he could not catch a fish!
Sect Master Tongtian walked out of the void and said indifferently, "This little fatty deserves to be trained like this. Look at the things he wrote down."
Zhao Gongming emerged from the array. When he saw Sect Master Tongtian return, his eyes lit up as though he had seen a savior. But then he saw him hand that notebook to Little Master.
He felt as though the sky had fallen. Silently, he restarted the array and walked back in.
If he behaved himself, he would not be tormented too badly later.
"I already knew. I was originally going to give him something big to help him remember his lesson.
Who knew you would pull it out?
You came back so quickly from this trip. What did you gain?" Li Er said carelessly, taking the jade slip and tossing it back onto Zhao Gongming's table in his room.
"Here, I brought back a rock for you to forge into a supreme treasure that can suppress fortune.
And this Kunlun Gold, stars... and some other resources are here." Sect Master Tongtian directly tossed Treasure Distribution Cliff onto the ground.
Then he took out the things he had harvested from the chaos and placed them on the ground as well, before handing over Primal Celestial Lord's golden storage pouch.
"Oh, right. Can you refine some pills for me? Especially the kind you mentioned last time, the kind that is unified with the Primordial Chaos."
In Sect Master Tongtian's eyes, Li Er was nearly omnipotent. Refining pills should be effortless for him as well.
Of course, aside from fishing and advancing his cultivation realm.
"Pills? What kind do you want? Explosive ones? Ones that increase cultivation? Poisonous ones? Or ones that induce lust..." Li Er took the golden storage pouch Sect Master Tongtian handed over, his eyes already fixed on the materials laid out below.
He began listing the kinds of pills he could refine for Sect Master Tongtian, completely failing to notice the change in Sect Master Tongtian's expression.
"It's fine. Just give me a little of whatever."
Li Er frowned tightly at that. Taking out a storage pouch, he handed it to Sect Master Tongtian and said, "A little? Then you'll probably have to wait a while, and there aren't enough materials.
Take these tens of millions for now. I labeled the use of every bottle..."
Sect Master Tongtian: ...
After handing the storage pouch to Sect Master Tongtian, Li Er walked over to Treasure Distribution Cliff and began circling it, his eyes shining brighter and brighter.
This large rock was far from ordinary. It seemed to possess tremendous endurance, and it contained a treasure aura, as well as some of that high-grade energy he usually absorbed during cultivation.
He reached out and forcefully snapped off a small piece.
Sect Master Tongtian's mouth twitched. Was Li Er's physical strength not a little too heaven-defying? He had casually broken off a piece of Treasure Distribution Cliff?
"Third Brother, train the little fatty for a while. This is the curriculum I planned out—take a look first.
I'll refine this thing first." Without even looking up, Li Er tossed out a storage pouch containing the curriculum he had compiled, entirely based on the things one needed to watch out for in fantasy worlds that he had seen online in his previous life.
"How do you plan to refine it? How much do you understand the Dao of flames? Do you need my help? What shape of treasure do you plan to forge it into?" Sect Master Tongtian asked curiously. Treasure Distribution Cliff would not be easy to melt.
"This kind of stone only needs this kind of flame. I'll make a cauldron." Li Er spread open his palm, and a blue-gray flame rose from it. The piece of Treasure Distribution Cliff he had just broken off instantly melted.
Sect Master Tongtian nearly cried out. This was Primordial Chaos Flame!!
"Mm, then go refine it in the cave abode. I'll test the little fatty first."
"Fine. Don't kill him playing around. He's not bad, but he is too loyal and too upright.
That won't do. Twist him a little." Li Er spoke, waved a hand to put everything away, then carried Treasure Distribution Cliff toward the cave abode.
Sect Master Tongtian did not bother with Zhao Gongming. Instead, he began reading the curriculum Li Er had left behind. After finishing it, cold sweat trickled down his back. The training methods inside were simply horrifying.
But in summary, there was only one point: use every possible means to stay alive. Still, it did have one rule: teach according to aptitude.
"Let me try one of the pills he refined first." Sect Master Tongtian took out a bottle. Written on it were the words Explosive Pill.
This sort of pill could also help one improve one's cultivation realm, provided one could withstand its explosion first.
Explosive Pill: Explosively delicious.
Sect Master Tongtian directly tossed one into his mouth. In an instant, the pill melted in his mouth, creating an incomparably delicious sensation.
Immediately, the pill shot into his dantian like an uncontrollable explosive dragon, stirring up a storm of blood and carnage within it. Finally, its energy exploded, spreading through his dantian to all the meridians in his body.
"It really is delicious! If I were not at the Saint realm, this pill would likely seriously injure an ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Still, it's a good pill for desperate situations.
It seems it can also explode when thrown out? Let's try it." Sect Master Tongtian silently evaluated it before taking out another and throwing it outside the hidden realm.
"Not good!"
Sect Master Tongtian immediately waved a hand and erased all of the explosive power, relief appearing on his face.
Good thing he had reacted quickly. That explosion possessed the power of a desperate full-force strike from a late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal.
"It truly is good stuff. I can use it to get good things from Eldest Brother!"
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