Cultivation: Being Immortal

Zhongzhou, a city outskirts.

"Boom!"

Lin Jiang’s figure shattered again, but not a single drop of blood was spilled. Yang Yunzheng looked at the broken body and felt upset.

"Stand-in"

"I will definitely kill those bastards who make stand-ins sooner or later."

Yang Yunzheng cursed loudly. He hated these stand-ins the most. Their auras could deceive anyone, making it impossible to tell if they were real or not. They had wasted his trip. And it was a Soul Melting Pill! It was gone just like that. If he had gotten hold of it, he wouldn’t have to work for the next ten or eight years.

Meanwhile, Lin Jiang had already arrived in Tianxian City. Lin Jiang went to find Gu Cheng again, this time privately. He wanted another Soul Melting Pill and also wanted to buy some auxiliary elixirs.

Gu Cheng no longer had any Soul Melting Pills, but he could find the ingredients. Almost all the high-level members of the Danxia Sect had their own independent Spiritual Herb Garden, filled with rare spiritual herbs. Gathering enough materials for a furnace of Soul Melting Pills was not a problem.

It took a whole year for Lin Jiang to obtain the third Soul Melting Pill. Only then did he hurry back to Bing State. Small Shadiao received Lin Jiang’s message in advance and rushed to meet him.

"They did. You’ve used up all the ore you gave me. Give me some more."

"When taking advantage of someone, don’t just target one sheep. I’ve fleeced you completely."

"Enough, you’ve been selling around the place yourself, don’t think I don’t know. The big shots from the Demon God Temple dare not enter the human territory, they don’t even know how much those ores are worth."

Lin Jiang rolled his eyes directly. The elders from the Demon God Temple don’t know the exact value of the ores, and the most important reason is that they dare not enter the human territory. So, Small Shadiao is the sneakiest one. He made a lot of money himself and secretly sold a lot. Lin Jiang doesn’t know what this guy did with the money, but he knows that he spent it lavishly.

"Alright, alright, I’ll give you another batch. But let’s make it clear, this top-grade ore can’t be sold randomly. Don’t bring the price down. I worked really hard to get it."

"How much effort did it take?"

"I sent over a hundred of my young relatives to mine the ore. What do you think?"

"Wow, aren’t your young relatives counted in tens of thousands?"

"You can believe they are my young relatives."

Small Shadiao confidently explained. The tribes of his several wives are quite large, and his father-in-law is still capable of having children. Aren’t they all his young relatives?

"Besides admiration, what else can I say?"

"Just be careful when selling ore, and I’ll be careful when buying Beast Spirit Pills. Let’s not mess up the market. Good for you, good for me, good for everyone."

Small Shadiao said, he also wanted to repay the Demon God Temple with Beast Spirit Pills. He bought them everywhere, the demand was high, and he thought the price of Beast Spirit Pills would rise.

"Alright, do me a favor. I’m going to find a place to break through, it might take a hundred or eighty years. Keep an eye on Wangxian Sect for me."

"That long?"

"The time is actually very short. If it weren’t for Yang Luo, I would need thousands of years."

Lin Jiang said, if he used the method of breaking through Nascent Soul, he would need to prepare for at least one or two thousand years. Now that he had three Soul Melting Pills, around a hundred and eighty years would be enough.

"Alright, just keep an eye on it. But don’t expect me to do a lot of things, I’m very busy."

Small Shadiao said, he was really busy. He had to go to the Demon God Temple to deceive the elders, and he had so many wives and concubines to take care of. He didn’t have time to take care of these little brats.

"I will make arrangements, you just need to supervise. Also, don’t even think about making a move on any female disciples of Wangxian Sect."

"What kind of person am I? Brother, you’ve disappointed me greatly. You actually think of me that way."

"You’re not even human, you deserve to die. I’m done talking to you, I’ll go take care of things."

Lin Jiang said. Small Shadiao doesn’t discriminate between good and evil. He wants both magical beings and humans. He can’t bear to see his female disciple being deceived by this guy.

Currently, besides Lin Jiang, the Wangxian Sect has one person at the golden core stage and over thirty people at the building foundation period. Their strength is mediocre. If Lin Jiang is not present, their strength will be almost non-existent.

Fortunately, the Wangxian Sect has a very low status in the Bing State and doesn’t have much territory. Otherwise, after Lin Jiang leaves for a hundred years, the Wangxian Sect would surely be swallowed up by others. Therefore, what they should do next is quietly accumulate wealth and develop in a sly manner.

Lin Jiang introduced Small Shadiao to the high-ranking members of the Wangxian Sect and informed them that Small Shadiao will be the vice sect leader from now on. When there are important matters in the sect that he cannot handle, they should let Small Shadiao make the decisions.

Lin Jiang entrusted the trading affairs with the Yun State completely to Small Shadiao. He handed over the list of resources to be traded to Small Shadiao and asked him to buy them from the Yun State, then distribute them little by little to the disciples of the Wangxian Sect.

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After handling the matters of the Wangxian Sect, Lin Jiang hastily went to the North State, where he partially replenished the first cave with precious elixirs. Then, he proceeded to the second cave to go into seclusion.

The medicine in the second cave has been growing for almost six hundred years. It’s doing really well, and in a few hundred more years, it can be harvested again. This is something that Lin Jiang can use himself.

"I hope that when the time comes, we’ll have double happiness."

Lin Jiang made over ten barrels of spirit liquid and soaked the Qing Gang Sword in it. He has been nurturing the Qing Gang Sword for over a thousand years, and he has used the spirit liquid from the Internal and External Refining Method dozens of times. It required a lot of effort, but the spirit power is getting stronger and stronger. Lin Jiang hopes that it can advance to become a spiritual treasure and give him a pleasant surprise.

After arranging his treasures, Lin Jiang began to cultivate in seclusion again. He has achieved perfection in the Nascent Soul stage for about ten years, but he still needs some more time to settle. Lin Jiang estimates that twenty years should be enough.

The immersive cultivation went by quickly. In the blink of an eye, twenty years had passed, and Lin Jiang began the formal breakthrough to the Soul Changing stage.

At the same time, in Zhongzhou, at the Holy Heavenly Sect, Yang Luo looked at the message in her hand and smirked.

"Wow, impressive! I can’t believe they actually got involved with the Demon God Temple of the demon clan."

Yang Luo sighed, after so many years, she had finally found Li Changsheng’s hiding place, which made her feel a mix of emotions.

"Yang Luo, if you know where Li Changsheng is hiding, what are we waiting for? Let’s go and capture him, break your Heart Demon."

"No rush, pass this news to Lin Ying and Cao Ying from Yun State, let them go and fight the Demon Clan first."

Yang Luo said. The Demon God Temple is not within the territory of the human race. She didn’t really plan anything and didn’t want to fight with the Demon Clan and end up with both sides getting hurt. She wants to see what the relationship is between Li Changsheng and the Lin family.

"This is too troublesome."

"It’s not troublesome. They can’t escape. I also want to see what Yun State’s trump cards are."

Yang Luo shook her head. She also had to take action against Yun State and take away their power. It’s a perfect chance to deal with two things at once.

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"Little Ying"

In Anhua City, Big Shadiao saw Cao Ying and asked softly.

"Sister Lin Yu"

Cao Ying asked softly, Cao Ying has a very good impression of Big Shadiao, her childhood was spent with Big Shadiao and Small Shadiao.

"Little Ying, are you looking for Big Sister Ten?"

"Yes, has she come out from seclusion?"

"Not yet."

"Let her come out from seclusion early, and go somewhere with me."

"Where are we going?"

"Wilderness."

"What are we going to do in the Wilderness?"

"There’s something important."

"What’s the matter?"

"····"

Cao Ying looked at Big Shadiao in surprise, is he so talkative?

Cao Ying ignored Big Shadiao and made a noise, waking up Lin Ying.

"Cao Ying, what’s the matter?"

"You didn’t receive Yang Luo’s message?"

"No, I’m in seclusion."

"Just search for the news and you’ll know."

"Alright."

Lin Ying nodded and then found Yang Luo’s Sound Passing Talisman among a pile of Sound Passing Talismans outside the cave.

"Lin Ying, my Taoist friend, I have a pet beast. While I was in the Wilderness, I accidentally learned that the true form of the fifth-level Demon King is an Aurora falcon. Its location is…"

After being prompted, Yang Luo’s voice came through, but Lin Ying immediately looked at Big Shadiao, who stared back with wide eyes.

"Sister, why are you looking at me like that? Do you think I look pretty today?"

"Yes, you look very pretty today, very pretty indeed."

Lin Ying couldn’t help but feel speechless. Both of them had beast pets, but why was there such a difference? Yang Luo’s beast pet easily obtained information from the Wilderness, while Big Shadiao… Despite sending him to the Wilderness many times over the years, after all those trades with the mysterious person, he never brought back anything.