Zhao Gongming watched his sect leader leave, raised a hand to defeat the beauty opposite him, tore open the formation, and walked out. He glanced at Little Master's cave abode.
"This won't do. I'm about to lose control and break through. Am I supposed to cripple my own cultivation?
Then I'll get beaten again? No, that's too miserable. I can't withstand Little Master's perverse spells.
I wonder if I can use a stacking method to stack the mana inside my body? Also, this Nine-Nine Primordial Body Refinement Art seems capable of consuming a huge amount of mana?
Am I going to follow the Witch Clan's path of achieving sainthood through the physical body?" Zhao Gongming muttered to himself. He had to make the most of his time, or with Little Master's perverse demands—
He would be in for a miserable time.
"I really miss my days in the Interception Sect. Sometimes cultivation doesn't need this much effort. I was wrong before; I shouldn't have pursued higher cultivation... boohoo—
Hurry up and cultivate. If I fail the exam, I'll get hammered again."
Zhao Gongming wailed inwardly, then turned and headed to the tool room. It contained all kinds of formation disks and cultivation pills; he only needed to record whatever he took.
At that moment, Zhao Gongming spotted some new pills. The ones stored here before had all been Nine Revolution Golden Pills, yet so many new varieties had appeared this time.
Huh? What kind of pill was this?
What a strange name. Explosion Pill? So delicious it exploded?
Forget it, I'll take two bottles.
Passion-Fueled Pill? The clear-headed type, for seven days and seven nights of fierce battle? It should be a pill that accelerated cultivation.
Take two bottles.
I Love a Rod Pill?? Passion surging!
Take two bottles...
At that moment, Li Er, who was refining artifacts in the cave abode, suddenly stopped and scratched his head. He seemed to have forgotten to explain something to Fat Zhao.
He soon put it out of his mind. It was nothing important anyway, and Third Brother Pan was teaching him now.
Wait? Third Brother Pan had run off again! He was far too unreliable.
"Forget it. I still need to refine a supreme treasure to suppress fortune. Relying on a single sword simply won't do.
First, I'll use transformation formation patterns to shape it, storage formation patterns... Hmm, stack a few hundred million more..." Li Er cast divine patterns while controlling his flames.
Outside the cave abode, Zhao Gongming tossed a Passion Pill, infused with primordial unity, into his mouth. Then he set up a formation and stepped inside.
In an instant, a heaven-shaking scream erupted from within the formation.
"Ah! I'm going to burn up!!! Little Master, save me!"
Unfortunately, afraid of disturbing Li Er's artifact refinement, he had set up a soundproofing formation. Thus, Zhao Gongming stared with bloodshot eyes at the beauty flying toward him...
Rip... Every stitch of clothing on his body was torn apart!
"Caw caw—come on!"
Shouyang Mountain.
Tongtian straightened his expression and entered the cave abode with a grief-stricken face, as though he had suffered an immense injustice.
After entering, he did not disturb his eldest brother, Grand Pure Saint, who was refining pills. Instead, he walked to a nearby table, took out a jug of wine, poured himself a cup after cup, and began drinking.
As though someone had utterly broken his heart.
Grand Pure Saint: ???
He stopped what he was doing. After all, he had no idea why his younger brother wore such an expression. For a dignified Saint to make that face was rather beneath him.
"Speak. What pills do you want from me this time? I'll give them to you.
Don't put on such a pose." Grand Pure Saint spoke helplessly, walked over, sat across from Tongtian, took the wine from his hand, and poured himself a cup.
He also had the feeling that ever since his third brother founded the Interception Sect, the changes over these less than three hundred years had been truly enormous.
Could his teachings really be that impressive?
Especially the sect rules he had established. They could now be said to have spread throughout the entire Primordial World, and the merit from those teachings came in every day.
If he had not used Lingbao Tianzun to forge the One Qi Transforming into Three Purities Golden Body and absorb that merit, he would probably still be receiving merit from those teachings now.
"So this is the kind of person I am in Eldest Brother's heart. Fine, fine.
Sigh~ My poor good corpse, fellow Daoist Lingbao Tianzun, had his path severed after being forcibly forged into a golden body.
How am I supposed to merge with him in the future? How can I unite the three corpses into one and rectify the Great Dao of Taiji Primordial Unity?" The sorrow on Tongtian's face deepened, while inwardly he saw that this really worked.
Li Er had been right. A crying child got milk. Back then, those two shameless men from the West had obtained the positions of Saints in just this manner.
You never knew until you used it; after using it, all he could say was that it was truly wonderful.
"You still have the nerve to say that? You have no idea what a colossal disaster you caused.
That merit, along with your teachings, conflicts with the Heavenly Dao. The stronger you become, the more the Heavenly Dao will surely—"
Before Grand Pure Saint could finish, Tongtian took out the formation disk he had shown off before Yuanshi Tianzun, then casually poured out several dozen pills refined by Li Er.
The primordial aura on the pills immediately drew Grand Pure Saint's attention.
"I have plenty of pills, and I also have a way to gather up that merit. Look, this formation disk is my method.
It's just that you and Second Brother don't believe I can solve it.
Even now, you still speak of me this way. You truly disappoint and hurt me." The sorrow on Tongtian's face turned into a trace of anger, making him look exactly like a child who could not be understood.
The stubbornness in his eyes was exposed, making Grand Pure Saint unable to meet his gaze directly.
Of course, Grand Pure Saint had created the Supreme Emotionless Scripture, so Tongtian could not fool him that easily. Besides, he was not a little-brother-crazy fanatic like Yuanshi Tianzun.
After all, he had two younger brothers. He had to treat them fairly and could not favor only one.
But the pills before him had caught his attention.
These pills had no pill patterns. Instead, they were a unified whole of primordial energy, and the fragrance they emitted confirmed to him that these pills were anything but ordinary.
Moreover, the formation disk was equally extraordinary. The formation patterns engraved upon it were also a unified whole of primordial energy, emitting an aura of fusion.
Seeing that even this could not fool his eldest brother, Tongtian knew that would not do. He had to show some real skill.
He then used One Qi Transforming into Three Purities. Three identical figures immediately appeared behind him, and those three split again into nine.
"Furthermore, Eldest Brother, your One Qi Transforming into Three Purities was simply cultivated incorrectly.
As the saying goes, the Dao produced One, One produced Two, Two produced Three, and Three produced all things.
How could a clone possibly be limited to only three?" After saying that, Tongtian raised a hand, collected the pills from the table, turned around, and prepared to leave.
"Stop. Leave the pills, the formation disk, and the One Qi Transforming into Myriad Methods behind. The materials are over there; take whatever you want."
"What! You're trying to fob me off with that junk?" Tongtian immediately bristled, his eyes full of disbelief.
However, his nine clones showed no such courtesy. They hurriedly went to gather up the materials in the back.
"Junk? Take it or leave it. If your Interception Sect runs into trouble later, don't come looking for me." Grand Pure Saint was angered as well. You called my things junk, yet your clones had already picked them clean.
"Haha~ Eldest Brother, listen to yourself.
These pills of mine use up a bit too much material when refined, so you need to give me more. My Interception Sect has a large household and many expenses; we're severely short on materials." Tongtian immediately draped an arm warmly around Grand Pure Saint's shoulders, showing none of the sorrow he had displayed moments ago.
He also put down the formation disk and several dozen pills he had taken out earlier. Without the cultivation method, he refused to believe Grand Pure Saint would not be interested in these things.
When fishing, how could one possibly not lay out bait first?
"Take your hand off me. Stop!! Let go of my pill furnace!!
You!!" Grand Pure Saint was immediately stunned.
Before he could finish speaking, Tongtian stuffed three Explosion Pills directly into his mouth.
Then Tongtian turned and ran.
"You bastard—huh! They taste rather good. Oh no!! How could the medicinal effect be like this!"
A muffled boom sounded from within Grand Pure Saint's dantian, followed by him exhaling a stream of flame-like breath.
"Impossible, how could this pill have such an effect?
Let me study it. Huh? The pill patterns form a primordial whole, intertwined with each other and mutually reinforcing? Was it really this simple?
Genius! The various medicinal effects were layered together like a formation, then slowly revolved around a single point.
But how was it done?
I'll try another one." Grand Pure Saint picked up a pill and tossed it into his mouth, attempting to sense the mystery of it dissolving.
He did not notice at all that he had eaten a Passion Pill. Naturally, Tongtian had not explained the pill's effects to him either.
"Huh? What's going on? Why do I feel a little hot?"
A secret realm on Kunlun Mountain.
Li Er stared in disbelief at the thing he had refined. Such an excellent top-grade material, along with so many other materials—
Had produced this thing?
He had overlooked one fact: in this world, objects could become spiritual beings and transform into living creatures.
But why had this thing transformed into a black dog?
Bang—
"Li Er, look what I brought back! Huh? When did you catch a dog?
Something's wrong! What's going on with this black dog?" Tongtian kicked open the door and walked in, only to find Li Er staring blankly at a black dog.
When the black dog saw him enter, it immediately pounced over to lick his leg and circled around his feet.
Most crucially, he could not tell at all how the black dog had jumped over.
He was a Saint, after all.
"Why does this dog feel a little familiar? Why does its aura resemble Treasure Distribution Cliff..."
"It is Treasure Distribution Cliff..."
"What!!"
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