Forgetting

If he consumed the Nine Treasures Wine and the Longevity Fruit, Zhang Xuezhou felt that breaking through to the Sole Self Realm would be both carefree and enjoyable.

Drinking wine while simultaneously advancing one's spiritual cultivation is a practice recorded in ancient texts as a method of enlightenment attained by great immortals and deities.

But in his hasty escape from the Kunlun Sacred Land, Zhang Xuezhou had no time to take anything he had prepared; he simply didn't have the means to do so.

Zhang Xuezhou was confident he could make a comeback with his Technique Method, but he knew very well that opportunities could not be repeated. He could no longer obtain such a large amount of Nine Treasures Wine materials, and all that remained was a perilous gamble.

The arduous journey of cultivating towards the Sole Self Realm selflessness has become fraught with peril.

Suoyang is indeed not a good medicine for breaking through realms. Even though Zhang Xuezhou is good at refining after fusing the Yin-Yang School's Realm Technique, he still felt that his acupoints and meridians were stretched uncomfortably.

As he advanced from the early to the middle stage of the Divine Ability Realm, his body had swelled up.

In the mid-to-late stages, Zhang Xuezhou's physique may very well reach a height of ten feet.

This was not only because his meridians and acupoints could not support it, but Zhang Xuezhou's abdomen also had to expand in order to accommodate swallowing more Cistanche deserticola.

"Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill and Nine-Turn Great Rejuvenation Pill?"

Only when the Jade Emperor's reminder came did Zhang Xuezhou remember the special pills in his Lesser Heaven and Earth Bag.

To be honest, Zhang Xuezhou had just given Wu Chao a longevity pill. He hadn't forgotten these pills he took from the Tushita Palace, but Zhang Xuezhou hadn't been able to identify their medicinal properties.

This was, after all, a pill taken from the Tushita Palace, refined by a top cultivator like Laojun. He already had enough troubles; Zhang Xuezhou didn't want to experiment on the pill and cause himself harm.

He planned to test the medicine's effects on some prisoners after returning to Chang'an City, but unexpectedly, the Jade Emperor directly described the elixir's efficacy.

"Laojun only refines the best pills; he never makes useless or harmful ones!"

The Jade Emperor murmured.

If there were any Alchemy Chamber in the world that could be taken indiscriminately, the Tushita Palace would definitely be one of them.

Laojun was ruthless in his youth, but his temper improved with age. The elixirs he used to consume also changed from a variety of different kinds to those that enhanced physical fitness and prolonged life, making it difficult to harm one's health.

Of course, ever since Zhang Xuezhou took this batch of pills, Laojun has been in a bad mood, and he's been recklessly burning furnaces and refining pills every day. We need to avoid contact with the recent finished products.

"I told you to take two, why are you stuffing so many in your mouth? Are you eating them like beans?"

When the Jade Emperor turned his gaze away from the direction of the Tushita Palace, he saw that half of the thirty-six Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pills and twenty-four Nine-Turn Great Rejuvenation Pills that Zhang Xuezhou had taken out were gone.

This made him gasp, realizing that Zhang Xuezhou wouldn't know the meaning of death if he didn't do something drastic.

Even the best medicines have their own medicinal properties. Even if the medicinal properties are too mild, they can become too hot and dry, thus causing illness.

He glanced at Laojun's Tushita Palace a few more times, and Zhang Xuezhou had already consumed half of the pills he had taken out.

"I said it's non-toxic and beneficial, but I didn't tell you to eat this much!"

The Jade Emperor reached out and took the imperial edict.

He felt it was necessary to add more clauses, so that if Zhang Xuezhou failed to break through his cultivation realm, became seriously ill, or died suddenly due to taking medicine indiscriminately, he could not be blamed, since he couldn't control Zhang Xuezhou's mouth.

"This is utterly outrageous!"

The Jade Emperor stared intently at the imperial edict, as each word on it appeared one by one.

"Come on, let's put aside the cultivation for a moment and sign and seal this document again!"

The Jade Emperor shook the decree, and it flew out again, hovering beside Zhang Xuezhou's hand.

However, this edict was soon removed from the hand area.

"Hey!"

With a soft shout, Zhang Xuezhou's body had already grown to a height of ten feet, far exceeding his original height.

Upon the second light shout, his body grew again, adding another ten feet to his height.

By the third soft shout, his three-zhang-tall body had already appeared.

"Four zhang, five zhang, six zhang, seven zhang... He actually cultivated a physical body from his Technique Method body, which is almost a physical sainthood! The cultivation system in the Heavenly Court is truly unsystematic. They used demonic arts to create a disconnect between magic and martial arts, a haphazard approach where neither skill can reach great heights!"

Amidst the continuous shouts, Zhang Xuezhou's size continued to grow larger.

The appearance of its colossal seven-zhang-tall body made everything else seem small, and its body directly disappeared into the floating auspicious clouds.

Previously, the mountain of Cynomorium was only the size of a rice bowl in front of the seven-zhang-tall body, while the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill and the Nine-Turn Great Rejuvenation Pill were only the size of sesame seeds.

The Jade Emperor frowned and muttered a complaint. Zhang Xuezhou reached down into the clouds and grabbed a piece of Cynomorium songaricum, which he then put directly into his mouth. After taking a breath, a large quantity of Cynomorium songaricum and more than thirty pills also entered his mouth.

The massive dosage corresponds to the drug's violent and rapid effects, which is also a way for cultivators to break through the threshold of their cultivation realm. By using large doses of drugs to propel them, they can violently pry open the threshold of their cultivation realm and thus Tongtian.

The advantage of this approach is that it can be launched with full force, but the disadvantage is that if the initial momentum fails, the attack will be completely crushed. The consequences of a failed attempt are extremely serious, and there are even cases of death, with no way back.

The Jade Emperor had been presiding over the Lingxiao Palace for many years, and he rarely saw a cultivator like Zhang Xuezhou who was so reckless. Especially after a cultivator's status and position rose, few would choose high-risk cultivation, preferring to endure hardship rather than take risks.

Situations like Zhang Xuezhou's are more common during wartime, where cultivators, either to protect or to gain advantages, will risk their lives to narrow the gap in strength.

Many immortals in the Immortal Court have lost the courage they had when they overthrew the Heavenly Court. They are worldly and pleasure-seeking, and they often descend to the mortal realm to marry, have children, and raise offspring. Their worthless descendants are even more unbearable to look at.

The Jade Emperor was both struck by the rarity of cultivators like Zhang Xuezhou and lamented the lack of such cultivators in the Immortal Court.

If the immortals of the Immortal Court are capable enough to maintain their ancestral prestige through generations, why would he need to back down?

The current Immortal Court is a hopeless mess. If any clash of forces occurs, the only capable one is the madman Nezha, and only Yuanshi Tianzun is in charge of the rear. The other cultivators are almost negligible.

"The Heavenly Court has been holed up in Kunlun for thousands of years, holding back their anger. I'm afraid everyone there is like that!"

The Jade Emperor compared the two and couldn't help but shake his head again.

He was waiting for the Emperor to come to the Immortal Court so he could go into seclusion and avoid the limelight. He hoped that once the Immortal Court's immortals suffered losses and changed their ways, and a new group of talented people were brought in, perhaps then things would look new.

"Please, Your Majesty, perform the magic!"

When the loud shouts rang out, the Jade Emperor couldn't help but look up.

Zhang Xuezhou's risky gamble clearly indicates that he has entered the late stage of the Divine Ability Realm, preparing to evolve his Technique Method into Divine Ability, thereby attempting to break through to the Sole Self Realm.

"To be honest, he was only a cultivator at the Divine Ability Realm before participating in the grand event!"

The Jade Emperor sighed inwardly.

He summoned wind and clouds that enveloped the heavens, and the Great Heavenly Evolution Immeasurable Array began to cycle and propel itself.

As soon as it opened its mouth, a beam of colorful light joined the formation and swiftly coiled around Zhang Xuezhou.