Becoming evil makes you ten times stronger, but becoming a demon gives you hundredfold strength

Branded items, compared to those unbranded, are worlds apart in terms of price.

The brand competition within the Immortal Sect is extremely intense, so intense that the Wood Element had to bind its five branches together to fight against others.

Peach Blossom, Peony, Pear Blossom, Orchid, and Mei Hua—these five branches selected an unmarried Golden Core Master to inherit the title, enjoy the benefits it brought, and manage the reputation well to bring more advantages to their lineage.

Once part of the group, they could not have a lover, as finding one meant handing over the title to the next Golden Core Master, ensuring the legacy of the Immortal Sect's Five Flowers continued to grow and flourish, with numerous restrictions in daily life.

The sect trained you, so you ought to seek benefits for the sect, and now, a great opportunity lay before both you as an individual and the sect.

For instance, the lineage of Master Lihua had received the inheritance of the Son of the Heavenly Way plan, which would ensure their prominence over everyone else for hundreds, even thousands of years, thoroughly casting off their former humiliations.

Therefore, Master Taohua couldn't care less about what outsiders said, even as envious and frenzied sisters came advising one after the other about the ease with which trouble could be invited, to meet Meng Yu voluntarily.

"This is a Spirit Talisman drawn by our ancestor, capable of withstanding a full-force attack from a mid-tier Golden Core," said Master Taohua politely as she brought out the gift, and Meng Yu happily accepted it.

"The Peach Blossom branch will fully support you, whether it's weapon purchases or personnel support," she offered.

When Meng Yu proposed purchasing the Blood Sea Great Formation or fifty thousand Divine Thunders, the interested parties sensed that their chance had come.

Many companies, if not in great trouble, would absolutely not relinquish even a fraction of their equity shares, and only when you could offer them help would you have the chance to pry open a gap and enter a certain circle.

"Regarding weaponry, I am quite fond of this type of Spirit Talisman. Go ask the elder, I'd like to trade with Superior Spirit Stones, see how we can make the exchange. As for personnel support..."

Meng Yu fell silent.

After a long while, Meng Yu's fingers tapped on the table.

"Bai Qianqian can come over, and certainly, others can go as well. However, there's a reason Bai Qianqian could come here. Take a look at this mental method," said Meng Yu as he took out a mental method created by Bai Qianqian to show the two masters.

"I can only bring inanimate objects with me. The only reason Qianqian could come is that she entered a state of suspended animation indistinguishable from death. So, if you want to go over, you first have to cultivate the mental method or the Eternal Cycle Divine Technique to reach a state that can mimic death convincingly. That's the first condition."

Is it hard? Difficult for others, but not so much for the Wood Element's Golden Elixir demon when cultivating these two mental methods.

"Second, once you enter the state of suspended animation, I'll place you inside a Storage Bag. Your life and death will be entirely in my hands. Are you prepared for this?"

This was a sharp question, and the two continued to listen.

"Thirdly, this is my concern."

Meng Yu scoffed, eyeing the two beautiful Golden Elixir Big Sisters before him.

"Why should I allow you to share my opportunity? Have you read some transmigration novels? I'd learn the knowledge here, and once I go back, anything I do would thrive. I could pick any track and excel easily, and be revered as a genius, receiving attention from everywhere.

"Even if the Moon-Watching Sect fell, as long as I'm alive, I could make a comeback at any moment. But if I took a Golden Core, or even a Nascent Soul with me, and they stabbed me in the back as soon as we arrived, wouldn't that be incredibly unfair?"

"Everyone needs you to lead them back, how could that happen?"

"Why come back? If one can achieve the Nascent Soul or even Divinity Transformation over there, let me ask you, who could resist such temptation? Come back for what? That's right, you both don't even have husbands or children, entirely free of encumbrances!"

The two beautiful Big Sisters didn't know what to say.

Meng Yu's point was sharp. He could trust Bai Qianqian, but others going over could easily usurp his place or backstab him, and even if they were amiable at the moment, what about the future?

"I know you two sisters wish to help me, and your characters are trustworthy, but let me make this clear."

Meng Yu looked around and added another layer to the Protective Formation, while the two fairy-like figures also became alert, checking themselves over once more.

Then, with certainty, Meng Yu spoke.

"If I am willing to take you with me, you can achieve the Nascent Soul because over there lies a truly great opportunity!"

The pupils of the two fairy-like figures instantly dilated.

"But how can I trust you? Over there, although I have Golden Core support, if you turned and fled upon arrival, what could I do about you?" Meng Yu asked calmly.

"How many can achieve the Nascent Soul? How many?"

The voice of Master Lihua suddenly became a bit hoarse, while something seemed to emerge in the eyes of Master Taohua.

If only one person could, would they have to compete with each other?

"Several, dozens, even hundreds," said Meng Yu, his eyes filled with sincerity.

"Superior Spirit Stones are the currency of trade in the Western Wastes. The Central Plains have Top-Grade Spirit Stones, Grade Five Divine Beasts, boundless lands, and all sorts of treasures. Although it's not a place where Golden Cores are worthless or Nascent Souls wander everywhere, there are many Nascent Souls and Divinity Transformations as well.

"The barbarians of those wildlands can achieve Nascent Souls, but what about you two, who since childhood have had their hair washed by marrow, their veins touched by divine energy, celestial bones and jade-like skin, extraordinary Spirit Roots, receiving the strictest and most elite education, steadily progressing to where you are now, with a hundredfold more knowledge, the best weapons and equipment? And now you ask me, can you achieve the Nascent Soul once there?"@@novelbin@@

Meng Yu scoffed coldly.

"The Immortal Sect has flourished for ten thousand years, constantly thriving and evolving so greatly that a millennium here could rival a million years elsewhere. Many geniuses have simply lacked resources and thus wasted their lives.

At the Old Immortal Gate, they possess varieties of resources, treating our spirit stones, as precious as gold to them, as common as dirt.

And now you have the chance, the opportunity to utilize the resources of both worlds, yet you doubt your ability to achieve the Nascent Soul. I'll ask you this, have you lived so long that your life has gone to the dogs!"

Meng Yu said with absolute conviction.

"You two are people I deeply trust, but still, I'm helpless because the interests at stake are so immense. If you go with me and we come to a falling-out, achieving Nascent Soul, even Divinity Transformation, would be at your fingertips, with the sole cost being my betrayal. Then tell me, with what shall I trust you?"

Meng Yu's question was sharp, but the two Golden Core Masters understood that for him to speak in such a way was already a tremendous favor.

The real opportunities of the Immortal Sect, let alone strangers, were not to be revealed even among disciples, brothers, fathers and sons. Meng Yu had provided a solution for them; it was up to them to figure it out.

"You two, reflect on this carefully… opportunities are not always forthcoming," he said.

He lacked the means to control others and did not possess them, but this did not mean that the two Golden Core ladies were unaware or unable to.

That day, his talk of the Blood Sea Great Formation was no deceit, but a true necessity.

So, without the Blood Sea Great Formation, were there any other means?

This was a transaction, and they would need to pay a sufficient price.

Or rather, if the two of them aspired to achieve Nascent Soul, they would surely fight tooth and nail to protect themselves, and to protect Bai Qianqian.

Meng Yu was very curious to see what they would do next.

...

After speaking with them, he entered the Quiet Room, activated the Protective Formation, and took out a sword.

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It was a deep yellow broad and thick sword with nicks all along the blade as if formed by countless grains of sand.

This was the Central Thick Earth Sword, used specifically for practicing swordsmanship.

Then, Meng Yu began to perform the Golden Sand Divine Sword technique.

The golden light of the sword, like countless grains of sand, spread throughout the Quiet Room, turning it into a vast and boundless sea of sand, with the dunes (sword edges) slowly yet unstoppably pulverizing everything until all was buried beneath them.

The movement was upright and balanced, heavy, and solid.

He had been practicing this set of swordsmanship for ten years now.

It was at this very moment that a lotus seed landed atop his Golden Sand Divine Sword.

Multiplied tenfold.

In the next instant, Meng Yu suddenly found himself in an immense desert.

On this desolate, uninhabited land, within this wilderness of utter despair, he began his career in martial practice, over and over, again and again, he became one with the earth, with the sand, with the land itself!

As days passed, he became one with the land, arid and calm yet conserving every ounce of energy, like a camel in the desert.

Fear the desert, enter the desert, and then become the desert.

Until one day, Meng Yu suddenly opened his eyes.

The desert that had been tranquil for ninety-nine years suddenly whipped up a Gale, as countless grains of golden sand danced in the sky, as if the ninety-nine years of calm were all for the sake of today's fury!

An eternal sea stretching miles, the boundless wind!

In the Gale, Meng Yu's figure was repeatedly lashed, polished and even destroyed by the countless golden sands, yet his Divine Soul became all the more radiant.

And at this moment, he saw an unforgettable scene, a Rising Sun was slowly setting.

He had mastered the Dawn's Might of the Heavenly Dao, but at this moment, on this land that defied all reason, hope turned into despair, morning turned into afternoon, and dawn turned into sunset; everything was inverted!

Yet there was a unique charm to it!

Last time, he realized the Sword Intent of Water, with the vision 'Long River Sets with the Round Sun,' but today, as he saw the dawn turn into sunset and stood in the eye of the tornado, he thought of another line of poetry.

The boundless solitude of the desert smoke!

Smoke could also be a tornado, straight yet destroying everything with the Golden Sand Divine Sword!

He was the man in the midst of the sweeping golden sands, his form becoming a tornado, and then he thrust out with his sword.

This thrust was from above, piercing into the earth.

Inverted!

The next moment, he woke up, surrounded by endless Earth Element Spirit Qi, having mastered the Sword Intent of Earth.

Not flourishing, not growing, but withering.

The Four Great Sword Intents of Earth, Fire, Water, Wind had all been realized at this moment!