Hit Me with All You've Got

As soon as Luo Xuan returned to Shouyang Mountain, he saw several children playing and roughhousing on the outskirts.

One child held a wooden stick in his hand and babbled incoherently.

A smile tugged at the corner of Luo Xuan's mouth. He landed on the ground and walked over for a closer look.

"Little fellows, it's already so late. Why aren't you going home? Be careful, or a demon beast might catch and eat you."

Seeing that he was a human, the children immediately lowered their guard.

The child holding the stick said proudly, "We're not little kids anymore. Don't try to scare us with demon beasts."

"If a demon beast really comes, Master Xuan will definitely come save us."

Luo Xuan's ears twitched. Smiling, he said, "Master Xuan is thousands of miles away in Kunlun. How could he save you?"

The child stubbornly replied, "He can! My mother said Master Xuan came back not long ago! We were just acting out the story of how Master Xuan destroyed the wolf demon."

After saying that, the child said somewhat sheepishly, "But I didn't act very much like him."

Wasn't it the Three Ancestors who destroyed the wolf demon? When did it become me?

As he pondered this, Luo Xuan smiled and asked, "Then tell me, what part didn't look right?"

The child's eyes lit up. He gestured animatedly and said, "Legend says Master Xuan has an enormous mouth. With one opening, he can swallow countless members of the Demon Race!"

"That's right! He can also grow eight arms, with one mighty demon in each hand!" another child chimed in.

Luo Xuan: "???"

While they chattered over one another, several women approached from not far away.

"You little brats! It's so late, and you're still outside. Are you making up stories about Master Xuan again?"

Under the women's affectionate swats, the children left with long faces.

Luo Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. However, Shouyang Mountain was already right before him, and he didn't use his Divine Ability. He simply walked into Shouyang Mountain step by step.

"It's been so long since I left. The tribe has changed quite a lot."

Luo Xuan finally had time to relax. He looked around at the scenery until he saw the Three Ancestors.

"Luo Xuan, it's good that you're back." After finally seeing Luo Xuan again, Suiren Shi and the others looked somewhat excited.

Luo Xuan said, "Ancestor, as I was walking here, I noticed that quite a few members of the human race had broken through to the True Immortal Realm. Could it be because my master preached the Dao?"

As he walked over, Luo Xuan had not merely been admiring the scenery. He had released his divine sense to observe the current state of the human race.

Suiren Shi laughed twice and said, "It is indeed thanks to Senior Laozi."

"Now, with this golden elixir method, our human race has finally broken through the shackles that limited us to the Heavenly Immortal Realm in life and death. Our strength has increased greatly."

Luo Xuan cultivated the Primordial Pill Body, so when he heard about the golden elixir method, he felt an unusual sense of familiarity.

"Ancestor, may I take a look at this golden elixir method?"

The Three Ancestors exchanged glances. Suiren Shi smiled and said, "Of course!"

Soon, a group of men who looked to be no more than thirty sat neatly in the courtyard.

They were all geniuses of the human race selected by the Three Ancestors.

After watching them cultivate for a while, Luo Xuan roughly understood the golden elixir method.

Laozi truly was a mighty figure of the Primordial World, utterly obsessed with the Pill Dao.

This method refined the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill.

Once a golden pill was swallowed, one's fate belonged to oneself rather than Heaven.

However, Luo Xuan shook his head.

Seeing this, Suiren Shi asked curiously, "What is it? Is there something wrong with this method?"

Luo Xuan said, "The method is indeed good, but it violates Heaven's taboos. Every time one advances a realm, a lightning tribulation will descend. The slightest carelessness will result in death."

"Moreover, Master has overestimated the human race. This method has an even greater flaw: it cultivates only the inside and not the outside."

"Once a lightning tribulation is encountered, survival is practically impossible."

Hearing this, the Three Ancestors were immediately horrified.

Luo Xuan had hit the nail on the head. After observing for only a moment, he had described every flaw in the golden elixir method without missing a word.

Suiren Shi hurriedly said, "It is indeed as you say. Over the years, quite a few members of our human race have died beneath the heavenly tribulations."

Ziyi Clan also said, "We originally thought that something had gone wrong during cultivation. Luo Xuan, since you are Senior Laozi's disciple, do you have any solution?"

As he spoke, the Three Ancestors all turned their gazes toward Luo Xuan.

Luo Xuan pondered for a moment, then nodded under the Three Ancestors' hopeful gazes.

"I do have a method here."

Use All Your Strength to Hit Me

The stone house was somewhat dim.

A huge Five Directions Cauldron stood inside.

Although he had been away for many years, the furnishings in Luo Xuan's room remained exactly as they had been. Someone even came to clean it every day.

"Boom!"

The huge Five Directions Cauldron opened, and Luo Xuan walked out of it completely naked.

The moment his feet touched the ground, the sweat produced by his cultivation evaporated from his body.

Luo Xuan skillfully picked up the clothes beside him and put them on.

He let out a soft, comfortable groan.

When he had first cultivated the Primordial Pill Body, the tempering from the Alchemy Furnace had made him unbearably itchy and painful.

Now, however, he had begun to enjoy the sensation.

Luo Xuan pushed open the door and walked out, slowly stretching his limbs.

But as he raised his hand, it stopped in midair.

Everywhere he looked, heads surged like a sea.

The entire human race had gathered before Luo Xuan's stone house.

Damn, there are so many people?

In the courtyard, the Three Ancestors stood with several of the human race's outstanding geniuses whom he had met yesterday.

Seeing Luo Xuan, Suiren Shi smiled and asked, "Luo Xuan, are you ready?"

Only then did Luo Xuan remember that he had promised the ancestor yesterday that he would teach them a body-tempering method.

"Of course."

Luo Xuan coughed several times to ease his awkwardness.

As he left, the people beside him kept glancing at Luo Xuan from the corners of their eyes.

Every member of the human race looked at Luo Xuan with reverence.

Luo Xuan also saw the children he had met yesterday. Their mouths were hanging open so wide that they looked as if they could swallow two or three eggs.

Following the Three Ancestors, Luo Xuan finally arrived at the preaching platform that had been built for him overnight.

The platform had been erected outside Shouyang Mountain. Because it had been built in haste, it was not very large.

However, from its top, one could see an endless wilderness. The open space was large enough to accommodate the entire human race as they listened to the Dao.

Once everyone had taken their seats, Luo Xuan slowly began preaching.

What he taught was a simplified version of the Primordial Pill Body.

Unlike the original Primordial Pill Body, this method was specifically used to temper the physical body and make up for the shortcomings of the golden elixir method.

Because it was simplified, Luo Xuan finished explaining it very quickly.

Yet when he opened his eyes, everyone was staring at him blankly. Not a sound could be heard.

Did I make it too complicated?

"If you didn't understand, that's fine. I'll demonstrate it."

Luo Xuan pondered for a moment before deciding to demonstrate it himself. What one saw was always easier to understand than what one heard.

"Clang!"

As he spoke, Luo Xuan summoned the Five Directions Cauldron, which was taller than a person, and leaped inside.

The human race had not failed to understand him, of course. They simply found it somewhat unbelievable.

He's actually refining a person like a pill?

When they saw Luo Xuan's actions, they all cried out in alarm, "Master Xuan really jumped inside!"

Suiren Shi was also somewhat worried.

However, as flames rose beneath the Five Directions Cauldron, Luo Xuan began explaining at the same time.

Suiren Shi relaxed, but the other ancestors of the human race were dumbfounded.

"Master Xuan truly lives up to his name!"

As they watched with admiration and reverence, everyone was drawn in and listened attentively.

"Watch closely. The next step is the most important."

As he spoke, space twisted outside the Five Directions Cauldron, and a massive Black Tortoise crashed heavily onto the ground.

At the sight of the Black Tortoise's savage face, many people began to cry out in alarm.

But when they realized it was only a corpse, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterward, under Luo Xuan's control, the Black Tortoise was thrown into the Five Directions Cauldron.

The flames beneath it also grew more intense.

It was not until the sun stood directly above everyone's heads that the flames finally subsided.