When the Tide Turned

Using the Poison Dragon King's body, Li Fan approached the black, gelatinous substance, tried scraping off a little with his fingernail, tasted it, and swallowed it... Then he spat out a mouthful of blood! His body simply couldn't handle it!

So he quickly tried to save himself, plunging his hand into his abdomen and scooping out half of his stomach and the gelatinous substance, then discarding it. The flesh mixed with the black glue twisted and deformed, turning into a bizarre, fleshy alien that hissed and leaped up, actually mutating and evolving into a new Tai Su demon, growing bones and claws, looking just like an alien.

Li Fan shattered the evil entity with a single palm strike, his brows furrowing.

The concentration of these colloidal evil energies was far too high for this Divine Transformation level Dragon King's body to withstand. It's likely that this Dragon King, who usually hides in deep mountain pools and grows up over thousands of years, is simply unable to adapt to the new weather conditions. He is completely unable to control the evil energies and is likely to undergo evil transformation and demonization.

Of course, the monsters, lacking common sense, might have thought that Moon Worship's use of demonic energy to shape his body was a form of enhancement. However, they didn't realize that this was actually a form of possession, where the physical body transformed into a Non-Thing demon god, which then devoured the original spirit and memories of the original body. In the end, the Demon Race, from the inside out, was devoured and replaced by the Celestial Devil, forming a new existence like the Chi.

"Brother Run! What happened to you? Are you alright?!"

Li Fan was still lost in thought when suddenly a huge monster wearing a bikini chainmail pounced on him. It looked like a dancer performing the whirling dance in a restaurant, and looked at the Poison Dragon King's wounds with a worried expression.

Your son is dead...

Li Fan recognized it immediately. Although this monster was dressed in a flamboyant and revealing manner, it was actually a man-eater. The Hu woman's appearance was also a human skin, probably because it knew that this would make it easier to lure men to eat it.

Get out of my way!

Li Fan was too lazy to bother with such mediocre people.

"Meng Run! You heartless bastard! You actually yelled at me for that vixen!"

The bikini-clad monster was furious and reached out to pull at it.

"Get the hell out of my way!!"

Li Fan was overwhelmed with work and feeling annoyed. He had no time to deal with the Poison Dragon King's lover. With a roar, he smashed the monster's head with a backhand punch!

Caught off guard, the monster was punched so hard that its skull was blown off, its brains splattered, and it died instantly. It lost its magic power, and its human skin rotted away on the spot, revealing its true form as a white rhinoceros.

Goodness, these dragons really can use anything...

"Wan--mei--!! Ahhh! I want you dead!!"

Then a pig-headed monster rushed out, stared at the rhinoceros with its brains splattered on the ground, screamed in agony, and bared its tusks as it charged at Li Fan!

Damn, even tanks of this size have bodyguards...

Li Fan couldn't help but roll his eyes, then grabbed the boar's head, and with a tug-of-war, flipped the wild boar demon over, snapped its neck, and smashed its skull, turning them into a pair of star-crossed lovers...

"Ah~~ Pig~~~!! No--!!"

Then a... this weasel, right? Yes, a weasel, grabbed an iron bar and charged at us, fighting like mad.

Li Fan casually flicked the iron rod away, slapping it away with his hand. "... Wait a minute, it sounds like you're male, right?"

"You demonic dragon, you'll never understand love!" the weasel shrieked, drew its dagger, and committed suicide out of love.

... Damn, what kind of side quests are these...?

Li Fan was speechless for a moment, then looked around, "... Are there others who want to commit suicide together?"

Everyone around him, whether human or transvestite, looked at him with the eyes of someone looking at a monster or scum.

Li Fan shrugged, took a closer look, and found that the three demons—the white rhinoceros, the wild boar, and the weasel—were all at the Perfected Realm Nascent Soul Stage, and their fur was quite good. So he casually skinned them, extracted their cores, and took the beef and pork back to feed Qiongqi.

This Poison Dragon King's physical body is also inadequate. Although the body of Transformation Stage demonic dragon is domineering, and it can gain boundless strength with just a little adjustment, and its dragon breath and scales seem to be accompanied by poisonous attacks, this monster is too old. Its bones and muscles are already set, and it has no adaptability or plasticity to the Primordial Evil Qi. It is essentially ruined by its training.

Li Fan didn't have the leisure to pick up all the trash accounts and start cultivating the Tai Su Dao again. So he opened his mouth and nose, and white dust and dan sha surged out from the Poison Dragon King's body, regrouping into nine white crows that landed on Qiongqi's shoulder. The Poison Dragon King's skin rolled on the ground and transformed into a huge black dragon, which lay dead on the ground with its tongue sticking out.

Qiongqi was overjoyed. With a roar, it revealed its true form and pounced on the pile of demon corpses, devouring them until its belly swelled up.

"No, I don't know who this Crimson Crow Demon God is..."

Zhang Yanzhi cautiously asked the nine-headed white crow.

"Zhang Yanzhi, I see that since the fate of this Divine Sect is not yet over, there may still be room for us to fight for it. Therefore, we have decided that you will be the Saintess of the Divine Sect, and we will try to carry out some mutually beneficial cooperation with the Divine Sect."

The cult's strength is too great; a direct confrontation is unlikely to succeed. To solve this major problem, Li Fan has to change his approach. The fact that Fei Wu had just Door Opening and rescued the Saintess Non-Thing Zhuoma given Li Fan a new idea.

Since the company, the legion, the Thousand-Faced Immortal, and all sorts of other miscellaneous entities have planted agents in this world to secretly usurp the Three Great Sects for their own use, Li Fan can no longer stand by and passively take the beating. It's time to directly participate in this game and try to place his pieces on the chessboard.

"You mean...?"

"We are the Celestial Immortals Group, and our leader in this realm is the Grand Master of Mount Mo. Qiongqi and I are his familiars. Our organization plans to recruit you as an apostle of the Celestial Immortals, representing our group to control the Divine Sect from behind the scenes and compete for the three destined Daoist Tradition of the future Tai Su Realm!"

"Celestial Immortal! Grand Master! The Three Great Daoist Tradition of the Tai Su Realm!"

Zhang Yanzhi hardened; he didn't understand but felt a sense of awe!

Li Fan stared at her with all eighteen eyes. "Of course, you can choose to refuse. In that case, the Divine Cult will become our number one enemy, and we must wipe them out completely, without leaving a trace."

"That Zhuoma just entrusted the Sacred Heart to you, so the future path of the religion is yours to choose."

Fine beads of cold sweat appeared on Zhang Yanzhi's forehead. She wasn't stupid. In fact, after the God Lord ascended, the Divine Cult had long been infiltrated by various forces. Which powerful Sect Leader or Dharma King didn't have a large number of powerful families and demon gods supporting him? Now, it's just that the behind-the-scenes forces have changed to the more bizarre Outer Heaven Demon, the Tai Su Dao Ancestor, and the Legion System.

"Yanzhi voluntarily joined the Grand Master's ranks and offered sacrifices to the Crimson Crow!"

Zhang Yanzhi's greatest strength is his quick thinking and clear understanding. Is he being consulted? No, this is a notification. Since the higher-ups have made a decision, those below should simply follow it. Don't whine or you'll only be courting death.

"Alright, don't panic. Qiongqi and I will assist you and teach you how to cultivate the Sacred Heart. But first, wait until I disintegrate. Find me a human body, not a living one, but a young man with outstanding aptitude before the Seven Sacrifices."

So the white crow shrank its nine heads into one, landed on Zhang Yanzhi's shoulder, and stopped talking, as if it were just an ordinary bird.

At this moment, Sergeant Ali from the legion arrived and Zhang Yanzhi, who was still processing the information, and Qiongqi, whose mouth was covered in blood, to apologize.

"It was all my fault for poor communication, which frightened the Saintess. Your survival of this ordeal and becoming True Saintess is truly a great fortune for our religion!"

But now that the main altar has been destroyed, and it will take some time for the venerable masters to suppress the demonic sect, it would be better to move to other branch altars and wait..."

"No need for such trouble!" Zhang Yanzhi reacted quickly, raising the Sacred Heart in her hand. "Now I am the True Saintess! I am also the Supreme Being of the Divine Sect, the Ten Ultimate Venerables! Now that the Sect Leader and the Dharma Kings are not here, you all must obey my orders! From today onwards, my Dharma Protector Qiongqi will be the Altar Master of the Qingyang Altar!"

Ali was taken aback for a moment, then thought about it and realized it made sense. It was only natural for a leader to promote his trusted driver to a higher position. He naturally had no objections, so he immediately knelt down, hands on his chest, and bowed, "Greetings, True Saintess! Greetings, Qingyang Altar Master!"

Seeing someone take the lead, a group of protectors soon arrived, a sea of blood-red light and shadow rushing to pay their respects, "Greetings, True Saintess!"

Bai Ya rolled her eyes, whispered something to Zhang Yanzhi, and then immediately gave the order.

"This calamity that has befallen us will be handled by the Qingyang Altar Master! All Dharma Protectors, stand guard outside; no outsiders are allowed to enter! And those beasts who came to harm me with the candidate Saintess Zhuoma! All of you, get over here and apologize! If you don't come, you'll be expelled from my sect!"

So a group of demons and great monsters had no choice but to come over, kowtow, apologize, offer their true names and contracts, and promise to be the new Saintess's slaves and dogs. They didn't seem unwilling or resentful at all.

After all, the status of the Saintess is quite high in the Divine Cult. Because their primordial Saintess is specially protected by the Holy Maiden, even if they are killed, their souls cannot be searched. Therefore, the Saintess Maiden often takes charge of the cult's secrets in place of the Venerable Master, and is at the top of the cult's hierarchy, even surpassing some less senior Enforcement Venerable. They are in the highest order of protection, and basically, other believers cannot attack them unless it is a battle between Saintess.

Now that Zhang Yanzhi has been promoted from a candidate Saintess in the north to True Saintess of the Divine Sect, she immediately received a group of protectors, and those demons protecting the sect naturally dared not harm her.

Li Fan, too lazy to watch her handle academic affairs, leaned down onto Qiongqi and flew to the black glue lake to begin calculating a new cultivation method using the <Tai Xuan Scripture>.

These evil substances, to put it bluntly, are rare and Heavenly Treasure from the Tai Su era. With Qiongqi's physique and the <Tai Xuan Scripture> system, it should be able to absorb these substances and, incidentally, rapidly improve Qiongqi's cultivation level.

After all, Qiongqi is still following the classical immortal Divine Transformation to become a deity. At this stage, there are no higher-level cultivation methods, so he can only use the clumsy method of demon cultivation, consuming Heavenly Treasure and Heavenly Treasure little by little, relying on his age to absorb and transform them into his own cultivation.

However, the old site of the Qingyang Sect probably contains even more advanced cultivation methods of the Four Fiends Qiongqi, which may also be able to be transformed into the Great Dao, just like the True Yang Technique.

It seems we can't rush to take the pot yet. There's no rush. The Moon Soul hasn't been cooked yet. Let's wait and make our move when the Qingyang Sect arrives.

However, although the storyline involving the pot cannot be completed, there are still other cult factions whose storylines can be concluded.

While Qiongqi was cultivating at the Divine Sect's headquarters, Guiche followed the Saintess to complete the initiation procedures for the Qingyang Altar Master. Guiche then received a God Lord Jade bestowed upon Qiongqi and obtained a Divine Lord Blood Register exclusively for Qiongqi. Guiche even directly watched as the Sergeant logged Qiongqi's permissions into the Legion's reward and punishment system for supporting the Divine Sect.

This is equivalent to Qiongqi having an official identity from the cult and an account for a local legion branch, allowing it to directly store and withdraw rewards from the cult's secret treasury.

Thus, thousands of miles away, Li Fan's true form, imitating Qiongqi's Blood Talisman, altered the permissions of several Blood Jade pieces in his hand, finally successfully breaking the God Lord Jade and retrieving a bundle of Wanyu Silk.

"This! This... this... could this be...?"

"It's that legendary..."

"No, no way... How can there be so much! Goodness, it must weigh at least ten pounds!"

"... Ten catties to be handed over to the sect! The mountain lord is too generous!"

Li Fan was surprised to find that all the old men from Lou Guan were in Lou Guan City, and that they reacted so strongly to the life-or-death situation. He was quite taken aback.

"I was fortunate enough to receive a helping hand from the sect a few days ago, and the people of Mo Mountain also received much care. By chance, I obtained some Heavenly Treasure to offer to the sect as a token of my appreciation."

The abbot was also quite shocked, and couldn't help but do some calculations, "It actually came from the treasury of the Divine Cult... Could it be the Blood Demon's private stash? Qingyue, these things are extremely precious, you should keep them for yourself."

Li Fan blushed with embarrassment. "Ah, yes, yes, this is exactly what I found after defeating the Blood Demon and seizing his body. My cultivation is shallow, and I don't want to waste these raw silks, so I'll donate them to the sect. Of course, I've kept a little for myself. Abbot, you don't need to be so polite."

Well, only about 100,000 jin were intercepted...

The abbot hesitated for a while, but ultimately the Wanyu Silk was too crucial! Think about it, a single talisman only weighs a few grams; roughly speaking, ten kilograms could make at least a hundred top-grade cloud seal talismans!

Wouldn't 100,000 catties of immortal silk be equivalent to one million Zhang Yunzhuan scrolls?!

Of course, it's not actually that exaggerated. Even without considering the yield and losses during the production process, the preparation of cloud seal script is not an easy task.

Not only does it require the finest materials like immortal silk, but it also requires many talisman masters and array masters to set up ritual formations and inscribe talismanic seals. Each one takes a month or two to prepare, and it's not something that can be mass-produced on an assembly line.

Therefore, Li Fan estimated that this bundle of immortal silk would be enough for Ink Bamboo Mountain to use for a while. Taking out more might actually cause trouble.

Sure enough, at this moment, the way Lou Guan and his group of old Daoists looked at Li Fan changed.

Good heavens, this generation's lord is incredibly wealthy! This isn't the lord of Mount Mo, he's clearly the lord of Mount Jin! Is he married? How many disciples does he have? Does he need Dao Companion? Is my physique still up to par?...

"Alright, I'll remember this contribution." The abbot pondered for a moment. "Perfect timing. Qingyue, you killed the Blood Demon and helped me win the crucial battle against Hengshan. Now, Nangong has lost tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and the great battle against Hengshan is about to begin. They have already ceded eight hundred li of land to me for flood control and are unable to invade the border again. Meanwhile, the fate of the Divine Sect has also changed dramatically. Now the time is on our side."

"There's no risk of war Li Country the north for the foreseeable future, and now I, Lou Guan, can finally free up my resources."

Li Fan was taken aback. "You mean..."

The abbot nodded, stood up, and his holy voice, like a resounding bell, echoed throughout the entire city from the Lou Guandao Pagoda!

"Disciples, listen to my command! We, the Lou Guan, will march south today to sweep through the Ten-thousand-mountains!"

Slay demons on sight! Cut down monsters when you encounter them! Expand your territory and open up new paths! Destroy mountains and destroy temples!

"Respect the decree!"