Chapter 1411: Heavenly Secrets Spread Teachings in the Sinful Land, Greedy God Refines Pills to Sacrifice to the Two Masters

In the southern region of Nan Yu, specifically Ban Yue Wan.

All sorts of people wandered through this sinful land. There were one-eyed drifters carrying swords and blades, hunters who made their living by tracking spiritual beasts, and shifty pickpockets with beady eyes... Some set up stalls right on the spot, selling freshly acquired spiritual artifacts and organs from spiritual beings, taken straight from their victims. Others openly trafficked young men and women locked in cages. Still more gathered in groups, parading through the streets and handing out flyers to everyone around...

"Tian Ji Men secret techniques—check them out, fair prices, honest deals for all ages."

"A genuine invisibility spell, just as good as the one from Sheng Nu Shou Ye, perfect for slipping away unnoticed—exclusive secret method, one of a kind."

"Mastering heavenly mechanisms, harmonizing all laws... Brother, interested in joining our Tian Ji Shen Jiao?"

"Shocking! Sheng Nu Shou Ye hammers Rao Shi Sheng Di in the Si Xiang Secret Realm of Zhong Yu—just one Ling Jing crystal, and Xu Rao will spill all the love and hate for you..."

Thanks to the rules of this place, Ban Sheng couldn't intervene in Ban Yue Wan. As a result, it became a haven for numerous wanted criminals, a mix of all sorts where the wicked far outnumbered the righteous.

Ba Zun Yan was being dragged along by Shuo Shu Ren, who clung to his arm and chattered nonstop:

"Brother, are you really okay? Even if Ye Xiao Tian has become a Sheng, he's just an Ou Yi Ban Sheng—how could he take on a Sheng Di?"

"Brother, why did you send Xuan Wu Ji over there? He could stay by your side to protect you, and since his host body isn't that strong, he could enter Ban Yue Wan too."

"Brother, your two sisters miss you—they insist you go to Hua Cao Ge this time, and then meet Zang Ren."

"Brother, isn't Bai Zhou Gong Zhu hard to invite?"

"Brother..."

"Enough." Ba Zun Yan grabbed a flyer that read "Master Tian Ji Techniques from Beginner to Expert in Just Three Months, Guaranteed Success" and stuffed it into Shuo Shu Ren's mouth, sighing helplessly, "If we can't win head-on, at least we can run. That's why I sent... Ye Xiao Tian over there."

"This time, even if Xu Xiao Shou's potential was underestimated on Xu Kong Island, we're factoring it in no matter what."

"Pah, I still think Xu Xiao Shou is so pitiful..." Shuo Shu Ren spat out the flyer and hawked a loogie; who knew how many hands it had passed through—it was filthy.

"He's surfaced now, so he needs to grow fast. In a month, he could reincarnate three times, a full cycle every ten days." Ba Zun Yan's expression remained impassive.

"This sister..." The man passing out flyers, dressed as a Tian Ji sorcerer with drooping eyelids that made him look exhausted, stopped in his tracks.

"No thanks, not signing." Shuo Shu Ren didn't even turn his head.

"Uh." The Tian Ji sorcerer glanced at the saliva-soaked flyer in Shuo Shu Ren's hand, hesitated, but didn't take it back.

His gaze lingered on the red high-slit long skirt for a moment, a strange glint in his eyes. "This brother, you're Shuo Shu Ren, right?"

He then turned to the person in the red skirt whom Shuo Shu Ren was holding, tilted his head, counted eight fingers, and immediately gave a thumbs-up, genuinely impressed: "Brother, you've gone all out with these high-quality fakes!"

"Get lost."

"Sign something for me—your autographs must be worth a fortune."

"Aren't you supposed to be spreading the faith?"

"Earning a little extra... How about you join Tian Ji Shen Jiao? I'll only take two autographs, no extra fees. Deal?"

Today, while proselytizing, he'd handed out flyers to thirty-two Shuo Shu Ren, ignoring those who ignored him. As for Ba Zun Yan, he'd only encountered thirteen, and ones with eight fingers? Just two.

The Ba-Shuo combo? First time seeing it—extremely rare.

Shuo Shu Ren furrowed her brows, no longer wanting to talk, and flipped an ancient book from her fingertips.

"Whoa!" The Tian Ji sorcerer's eyes lit up. "Even the Yin Yang Sheng Si Bu? And there's spatial fluctuations... Just give me an autograph, I'll buy it!"

"You're asking for a beating!" Before Shuo Shu Ren could move, Ba Zun Yan stopped him and turned to the Tian Ji sorcerer: "Traveling through Nan Yu, your Tian Ji Shen Jiao has spread pretty fast—people everywhere, even infiltrating Ban Yue Wan. Who's your boss?"

The proselytizing Tian Ji sorcerer stared calmly at Ba Zun Yan, as if waiting for something. His lips moved slightly, but in the end, he said nothing.

Ba Zun Yan tossed over a few Ling Jing crystals.

Clang...

The crystals hit the ground, and the Tian Ji sorcerer didn't pick them up; instead, his eyes showed even more expectation.

Ba Zun Yan's mouth twitched, and he sighed: "Give me some face—I'm Ba Zun Yan."

"Hey!" The Tian Ji sorcerer's face lit up completely, clearly thrilled. "Today, I have to give you, Ba Zun Yan, that face!"

He reached out to pull the fake Ba Zun Yan closer, but the fake Shuo Shu Ren glared at him, making him pull back just in time.

Still got principles... he muttered to himself before chuckling awkwardly: "What do you mean 'infiltrating'? That sounds so harsh."

"Our Tian Ji Shen Jiao has a history of over a thousand years—half of Nan Yu's Tian Ji sorcerers are with us, okay?"

"Hah." Shuo Shu Ren snorted coldly. "Half of Nan Yu? Are you saying all the heretical Tian Ji techniques from various sects and schools came from your group?"

"You bet!" The Tian Ji sorcerer was full of pride.

"Who's your boss?" Ba Zun Yan asked.

The Tian Ji sorcerer paused, lips pursed, cheeks puffing up with a subtle smile, looking at him quietly with an expectant expression.

This guy's got issues.

Ba Zun Yan's mouth twitched again. He turned and walked away.

"Hey, wait! Don't go!"

"Say one line, and I'll answer you—no charge, and you don't even have to join Tian Ji Shen Jiao..."

The Tian Ji sorcerer watched their retreating figures, his eyes filling with resentment.

The commotion quickly drew the attention of passersby, who turned to look, compared to their memories, and suddenly recalled something.

"Damn, it's Shuo Shu Ren—a high-quality fake."

"Hell! Ba Zun Yan! That dejected look has its own charm—I kinda wanna... go for it!"

The proselytizing, exhausted Tian Ji sorcerer wasn't ready to give up and shouted at their backs: "Not that line? Say something else—I'm generous, just say whatever to make me happy."

Ba Zun Yan kept walking, unfazed, and turned the corner with a smile.

"Tch, boring."

"Not fun at all. What's the point of these fakes?"

"Ah, so unsatisfying. I'm itching all over—just one line, would it kill him? Damn it, I feel like killing them..."

"Too bad."

"Hell!"

The Tian Ji sorcerer on the street watched the crowd surround the Ba-Shuo duo only to disperse without incident, and he smiled.

That's how Nan Yu is.

Everyone's got blood on their hands, ready to draw a knife at the drop of a hat, but they're all more cautious than the next—or why else run to Ban Yue Wan for refuge?

If they can talk their way out, they'd rather lose half their life than fight.

Of course, if the power gap is too big, that's different.

"Nan Gong You Shu!"

The proselytizing group had noticed someone missing and called out from afar.

"Coming..."

The Tian Ji sorcerer responded, glancing at the Ba-Shuo duo disappearing into the nameless street, his eyes flickering with dim, ancient script.

He bent down, picked up the crumpled flyer, unfolded it, and could still make out the twisted characters: "Mastering heavenly mechanisms, harmonizing all laws."

"Absolving sins, altering fate, Tian Ji seals the divine!"

It still had traces of the fake Shuo Shu Ren's saliva on it.

"So tiring."

"This isn't a job for humans."

He stuffed the wrinkled flyer into his pocket, chopped off his hand to store it away, grabbed a fresh flyer, and shouted as he ran: "Come one, come all! Tian Ji Shen Jiao—join for just three Ling Jing crystals!"

"Learn Tian Ji and gain eternal life. One Tian Ji manual, mastered in three months—family, isn't that tempting?"

"Received fear, passive value: 9999."

"Received awe, passive value: 9999."

"Received..."

The battlefield had quieted down.

But the info panel kept popping up notifications.

This world-shaking battle had finally drawn to a close.

"Hah..."

The colossal giant in the clouds exhaled a puff of steam, its eyes losing all their glow as its back began to hunch.

Its jaw, opened to swallow the soul-based sacred medicine, couldn't close anymore.

After Xu Xiao Shou's punch obliterated Bei Huai's remnant soul and crushed any chances of revival or possession, his mind felt utterly clear, achieving a sense of ultimate fulfillment.

Ling Yuan, sword dao, ancient martial arts, divine soul...

All paths of the great dao had, after this battle, stepped through that gateway.

It wasn't about reaching the peak, but all the earlier flaws—those vulnerabilities enemies could exploit—had been mended.

As long as no Sheng Di showed up, Xu Xiao Shou was confident he could annihilate any Ban Sheng using the right or countering abilities!

Buzz...

His qi sea was fluctuating.

Even though not a drop of Ling Yuan remained, it still gave off an overwhelming sense like a tidal wave.

The qi sea was rising.

Though the tide was gone, still...

He could break through!

Ling Yuan was no longer the barrier holding Xu Xiao Shou back from advancing from Dao Jing to Zhan Dao.

After "Breathing Method" reached Sheng Di Lv.0, if he released his control a few more times and absorbed more spiritual energy, with "Conversion" assisting, his Wang Zuo Dao Jing realm would be complete.

In that moment, Xu Xiao Shou clearly felt that with a single thought, he could achieve Zhan Dao.

But such a breakthrough would be imperfect.

Wang Zuo Dao Jing was a process of refining the foundational dao.

People like Yu Ling Di, Ye Xiao Tian, Shui Gui...

Who hadn't spent years, even decades, in this realm before breaking through in a surge?

Rumble...

The sacred tribulation was still descending.

He couldn't see the surroundings with his eyes.

But his "perception" could see Ye Xiao Tian still undergoing his tribulation.

Xu Xiao Shou remembered—if he wasn't mistaken—the dean was a classic example!

Stuck on Ou Yi for half a lifetime, once it was perfected, he went straight through Zhan Dao, Jiu Si Lei Jie, Tai Xu, Ban Sheng...

All in just one or two months.

"Now that's a genius."

Unlike other spirit refiners, Xu Xiao Shou's Ou Yi could be fully manifested through cultivation.

That meant he didn't need much time to train; he could track his progress like a progress bar, knowing exactly how far he was from perfection.

The only effort required was earning passive values and spending them all!

If one Ou Yi was too weak, then two.

If two weren't enough, then ten. If ten fell short, then a hundred!

"This is way too extravagant..."

Xu Xiao Shou felt he didn't need to cultivate a hundred Ou Yi.

No one in Sheng Shen Continent required that many to defeat— not even Ba Zun Yan.

As for buying the massive passive values needed for cultivation...

Xu Xiao Shou didn't want to laugh, but glancing at his stock, his soul was blooming, and his thoughts were celebrating.

"Passive value: 76,225,012."

Worth it!

This battle was worth it!

Though it exhausted him, wore out his junior sister, exposed Lei Jia Tong, and revealed a spatial Ou Yi Ban Sheng's trump card...

The fallout would undoubtedly bring all sorts of major troubles.

Sheng Di Dao Shi, Sheng Di Bei Shi, plus the earlier offended Sheng Di Rao Shi...

Three of the five great Sheng Di families provoked.

Looking down, Zhong Yu nearly wrecked two realms, one Qi Lin dead, Si Xiang Secret Realm blown apart by a quarter, and the rest rotting away...

Oh, and there's Ran Ming site.

"Tired."

"Don't want to think. Just want to sleep."

Xu Xiao Shou's mind was truly fried.

He desperately needed to sleep, then wake up and tally the gains from this battle.

He believed that after adding points, whether he broke through or not, fighting Sheng Di would be less grueling.

But before closing his eyes, he had a few things to arrange.

"Xiao Fei Mao, remember what I said before—keep controlling me without stopping, until I wake up."

"Meow!"

"Long Xing Qian Bei, help me adjust Apricot Realm's time flow. I need to go back and rest, but wake up as quickly as possible. Also, hide our divine soul fluctuations—you and I can't let him find us again..."

"Okay."

"Dean!"

Xu Xiao Shou turned to Ye Xiao Tian, who was still enduring the rumbling tribulation.

Though right in front of him, the tribulation's range had engulfed half of the giant's shoulder, yet it didn't affect him at all.

An Ou Yi Ban Sheng was truly powerful!

Ye Xiao Tian could undergo tribulation while ensuring it didn't impact Xu Xiao Shou—as if they were worlds apart.

"What's up?"

Ye Xiao Tian took his tribulation seriously but could still respond through transmission.

Between him and the giant, there were countless realms.

His tribulation was the supreme void tribulation—thunder in a distorted, illusory form, the highest sacred tribulation of the spatial path!

Xu Xiao Shou just glanced at it and felt exhausted, weakly saying: "I'll leave the rest to you, elder."

"And handling this spatial passage—sorry to trouble you."

"If anything unexpected happens, I'll have to bother you one more ti—"

"Pah! Don't jinx it!" Ye Xiao Tian spat, his white hair flying.

Xu Xiao Shou had shattered the Sheng Di's remnant soul and will.

But after Bei Huai's soul sacrifice, the three-day soul transfer had left a spatial passage gaping open, collapsing on its own without a master.

Ye Xiao Tian had been focused on the tribulation, only mindful of preventing the passage's collapse from affecting the world below and causing mass casualties.

But he was deathly afraid of Xu Xiao Shou's jinxing mouth!

He feared that as soon as Xu Xiao Shou finished, a Sheng Di would crawl out!

Ye Xiao Tian quickly waved a hand.

With a boom, the shattered spatial passage was drawn into his tribulation range, its Sheng Di power gradually erased.

"All set."

Xu Xiao Shou wasn't used to leaving everything to others, so his last words went to his second true body.

"Hey, boss, I'm listening."

"If anything goes wrong, switch wills—you take control of me, and you can use my treasures, but prioritize my safety in all actions."

"Heh heh..." Jin Ren laughed blearily; he'd been looking forward to this for ages—the power difference between his main body and second true body was like night and day.

"Don't get carried away."

With that, Xu Xiao Shou couldn't hold on anymore.

As he flashed into Apricot Realm, he closed his eyes and deactivated the Extreme Giant, Shen Min Moment, Hungry Ghost Path, and Human Path.

The world spun wildly, a bizarre spectacle.

His soul and will sank like into a ten-thousand-zhang depth, or soaked in a vat of incompatible colors, endlessly drifting.

"Received suffocation, passive value: 1."

"Meow."

Tan Shen gazed at his naked, pale master and activated San Yan Tong Mu, seeing a light circle form under his feet.

Soon, his master smelled incredibly enticing, making one want to bite.

"Meow?"

Tan Shen suddenly remembered something and spat out his fully unconscious female master, tossing her beside him.

Suck together!

Quick! It's fragrant...

The silver-haired Lei Xi Er had her eyes tightly shut, wrinkling her nose at the scent, and instinctively bit— but caught only air.

"Meow!"

Tan Shen pawed the ground, a mix of frustration and excitement in his eyes.

He kept San Yan Tong Mu active, spat out many fresh spiritual medicines from his mouth, summoned a dan ding with his claw, and tossed both master and female master inside with a plop.

"Hmm?"

In Shen Nong Drug Garden, Long Xing's spirit was no longer calm.

This kid's companions were all a bit off...

"Meow!"

Tan Shen jumped, turning to see the dragon, and understood what it meant: What are you doing?

"Meow meow"

Refining pills.

"Hmm?"

What pills?

"Meow meow"

Fragrant ones.

"Hmm?"

Don't mess around.

"Meow meow"

I'll share one with you.

"Hmm."

Alright then.

Under the watchful eyes of all, the colossal giant suddenly vanished, like a victorious warrior bidding farewell to the world and striding away with flair.

So dashing, so carefree.

This scene reached Gui Zhe Sheng Shan and Sheng Huan Dian.

Click.

Tian Ji Si Nan trembled with a golden light.

Eighteen copper plates on the table all faced up.

A quick divination, and dao light shone brightly, every sign auspicious.

Dao Qiong Cang suddenly stood up, his eyes bursting with unprecedented brilliance.

"Finally..."

"It's here!"

Thanks to the immortal Yu Shen Mu for the ten-thousand reward to Mu Zi Xi—Mu Zi Xi, come out and thank them.

Mu Zi Xi: "Let her do it."

Lei Xi Er: "Me? Thanks."

Thanks to Ku Xing for the ten-thousand reward to Tan Shen—why do you have one too, little white cat?

Tan Shen: "Meow meow meow!"

Thanks to book friend 20230220225627212 for the ten-thousand reward to Mosquito—you too... wait, Mosquito?!

Mosquito: "Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz..."

Just in time to let the plot settle, buffer a bit, then bring on the big stuff.