Chapter 100: Cloud Mountain Shocking Change!

Daci Dabe Temple.

After a period of time, the fervor of the Dharma Assembly gradually ceased to attract the attention of the world.

Only Grandmaster Yuan Ci knew that the temple's side rooms had gained a few dozen Daoist guests of no low standing as long-term residents.

Furthermore, the Association above had inquired several times, but all were brushed off by Grandmaster Yuan Ci playing the riddle-maker.

In any case, the content of the scriptures and the official broadcasts had long been collected; they were all about encouraging people toward kindness and warding off evil.

There was no harmful guidance.

And most importantly, Daci Dabe Temple had not used the influence of this Dharma Assembly to start raising funds or forming mysterious organizations.

For the believers, it was just one more heart that needed to be sincere and willing to contribute to warding off evil.

Therefore, when Su Ping came over quietly at night.

Under the cover of night, Daci Dabe Temple still looked like an ordinary, incense-flourishing mortal temple.

Even so, Su Ping would still not risk it personally, instead standing in the distance and sending out Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui to lead the rats in taking the vanguard.

From the current look of things, the danger was not great; at the very least, the rear halls of the temple and many other places had not yet installed new surveillance.

Clearly, those above had sensed that Daci Dabe Temple seemed somewhat abnormal, but there were so many abnormalities lately that they did not attach much importance to it before something major happened, and they wouldn't go to great lengths just to find some non-existent trace of the extraordinary.

Su Ping did not intend to go find Grandmaster Yuan Ci this time.

He came quietly, letting Xiaobai and Xiaohui take away the successfully purified Sealed Dharma Artifacts, and then put new Sealed Dharma Artifacts in.

The entire process was then considered complete.

"Not bad!"

"One Dharma Assembly, plus the accumulation over this period, has purified the evil remains in thirty Sealed Dharma Artifacts."

"Is this the advantage of having many people?"

"Jinque City has had more time, and until now, not a single one has been completely purified... of course, this is also because they are too scattered, with each sacrificial site having only a few thousand to over ten thousand people participating, and most of them being the same group of people."

"This result has also exceeded my initial expectations!"

Su Ping read the news; during this period, Grandmaster Yuan Ci had received over a hundred teams that came specifically to worship.

Individual visitors and believers who came by reputation were countless.

This Vajra Subduing Demon Array had at least withstood the faith of millions of different believers.

And among them were many devout believers, who played a role of one acting as a hundred.

After observing the abilities of these High Monks like Grandmaster Yuan Ci, even though they were all mortal flesh and blood, Su Ping did not doubt their ability to guide believers to be devout in a short period of time.

"A large Dharma Assembly every three years and a small one every year is still too slow."

"A Dharma Assembly that can earn merit should be held whenever there is an opportunity."

"For the sake of merit, I still have to put in some effort."

Su Ping thought for a moment, and through Spirit Mouse Xiaobai, saw that Grandmaster Yuan Ci had not yet fallen asleep, but was meditating and chanting scriptures.

In the dark night, the Ghost Messenger, having had an Invisibility Spell cast on it, floated to the cliff behind the temple and flew to Grandmaster Yuan Ci's room, familiar with the path.

Thump! Thump-thump!

Grandmaster Yuan Ci, who was meditating, suddenly heard a knocking sound on the wall.

After a slight jolt, Grandmaster Yuan Ci realized that a Fo-affinity had arrived, and hurriedly stood up to look at the decorative wall and said: Please enter.

However, what happened next left Grandmaster Yuan Ci stunned.

The Ghost Messenger did not come through the wall, but arrived at the room's entrance and pushed the door open.

From Grandmaster Yuan Ci's perspective, the main door opened without wind, and accompanied by a cold night breeze, a gloomy voice sounded in the empty space ahead.

If Grandmaster Yuan Ci had not also been to Floating Vanity Dream Temple and seen the Ghost Messenger, he would have thought he had encountered an evil ghost demanding his life!

The Ghost Messenger was also helpless; it could pass through walls, but the small box it was helping to carry could not, so it had to fly to the main entrance and enter through the threshold.

Fortunately, Grandmaster Yuan Ci did not mind these things; upon hearing the Ghost Messenger's voice, he was ecstatic to learn that the Venerables were satisfied with this Dharma Assembly.

And they hoped that similar Dharma Assemblies could be held more often in the future.

Grandmaster Yuan Ci naturally expressed his agreement immediately.

And he indicated that he had actually already discussed it with those fellow Daoists, and in one month, still at Daci Dabe Temple, a larger Dharma Assembly would be held!

This time, many teams that had not come before would be coming.

Those devout believers were already looking forward to it.

Many of the devout had long been extremely envious of the believers who were able to come last time.

Su Ping was quite satisfied to hear this answer.

The Ghost Messenger then used the excuse of a reward from the Venerables to give Grandmaster Yuan Ci a small box of body-strengthening Pills, and at the same time, gave him a Martial Dao Cultivation Method.

A night passed.

Those fellow Daoists staying at Daci Dabe Temple were surprised to find that Grandmaster Yuan Ci's Essence and Spirit seemed to have become ten years younger after just one day!

And when making eye contact with him, they would feel ashamed because of his sharp and radiant gaze.

"Hiss!"

"Well done, Yuan Ci, and you said you didn't know true Dharma!"

These fellow Daoists were excited; if it weren't for the inappropriate location, they probably would have stripped off their shirts and begged for the Dharma.

By this time, Su Ping had already returned to Nierbo, and similarly took back the successfully purified Sealed Dharma Artifacts.

However, Su Ping had no intention of giving any benefits to those mages.

This also conformed to these mages' consistent understanding of Ghost Gods.

Capricious, stingy and ungrateful—not killing the innocent indiscriminately was already a good Ghost God.

What's more, Su Ping already understood in his heart that the granddaughter of Mage Tapu was the biggest carrot.

Wait until Shanawati achieves Small Success and returns home.

This will ensure these mages will be full of motivation to give their all for the great cause of exorcism for half their lives.

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Boom!

The front courtyard of Zhaoyue Tingfeng Pavilion.

Su Ping threw a punch, which collided with the Ice Crystal Giant Sword summoned by Exorcist Mage Yunkong.

The moment the Fist Intent and the ice sword exploded simultaneously.

More than ten Ice Crystal Long Swords appeared around Yunkong, stabbing toward Su Ping with a swish-swish-swish sound, just like Sword Control Art.

Su Ping swung his fists, a wisp of white Qi coiling and flashing across them from time to time, each time capable of annihilating one of the opponent's long swords.

In the end, Su Ping and his opponent fought until their strength was exhausted, only then separating in a draw.

"There's progress; this time, without relying on the blessing of the Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden, I was still able to fight Yunkong to a standstill."

"Sure enough, blind bitter cultivation is not enough; one needs constant real combat to accelerate the consumption of medicinal power and increase the growth of cultivation!"

After finishing this real combat, Su Ping felt that the medicinal power of the Peishen Pill he took yesterday had almost turned into a warm current and been absorbed by his cellular tissues.

This method is indeed very good; real combat combined with bitter cultivation can be considered a balance of work and rest, though only Su Ping, who has Life Spirit Medicine and no worries, is in a position to do this.

Otherwise, how would normal cultivators go around fighting head-on with cultivators of the same realm just for the sake of training?

Many times, sparring in the drill grounds is just done in moderation.

It emphasizes a "you are good, I am good, everyone is good" approach.

Otherwise, if one gets injured or damages their foundation, the loss would outweigh the gain!

Feeling extremely comfortable all over after the fight, Su Ping suddenly had a flash of inspiration and hurriedly took Purification Spirit Medicine to break the pill toxins accumulated during this period.

Instantly!

As if the shackles that had been there all along were undone, Su Ping had the illusion of feeling as light as a swallow.

His Dharma Power surged by thirty percent, but that was not the main point.

More importantly, his Divine Sense had increased once again.

By now, his Divine Sense could already spread out to have complete control within a radius of twenty meters.

It could extend to a maximum of one hundred and fifty meters and still have a faint sense.

Su Ping did not know if a cultivator who had just reached Foundation Establishment had such strong Divine Sense.

After all, most of his understanding of Foundation Establishment came from storytellers and novels.

The Foundation Establishment mentioned in them is mostly a radius of one hundred meters, but it is unknown if that is complete control or just having a certain ability to sense.

In this regard, Su Ping could feel that the difference was still huge after having Divine Sense!

Fortunately, after Body Tempering entered the eighth layer, he had now also entered the eighth layer of Qi Refining!

It is truly a joyous and congratulatory occasion!

Su Ping performed a ten-consecutive draw to celebrate.

This ten-consecutive draw finally brought an identical Partner Card: Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden.

Thus, the apprentice Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden Sakura, who was on the attic eating fried tofu in a leisurely manner while watching two cultivators fight to pass the time, became the second beneficiary after this battle.

Accompanied by purple light emerging from her body.

Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden Sakura discovered that she had become an official Shrine Maiden.

Under the comprehensive improvement, although her cultivation as a support still remained in the late stage of Qi Refining without much improvement.

The buff brought by the blessing skill became stronger, especially the attached thunder pattern attack which received an extraordinary boost, improving by a major realm to reach the Qi Refining Perfection realm.

She leaped to become another trump card for Su Ping when facing enemies.

Good things come in pairs; after returning to the Cultivation World, Su Ping also rarely gave himself a holiday, relaxing for a day without worrying about anything related to cultivation.

The next morning, he woke up, adjusted his mindset, and continued to work hard for the Great Freedom of Immortal cultivation and longevity!

Cultivation, fishing, cultivation.

From time to time, he would take action to maintain the stability of Jinque City.

After the monks from Small Golden Light Temple came to collect a batch of Sealed Dharma Artifacts.

Su Ping also completed another round of fishing at Xuangui Island and the other two fishing spots.

Making his fishing level close to the edge of upgrading again.

【Current Fishing Level: Level 4 (1630/2000)】

This time going to Xuangui Island, Su Ping tried riding the Da Hei Yu Chiwen.

He discovered that once it entered the ocean, it truly lived up to the saying "like a dragon entering the sea."

Even in the Overseas Islands where Spirit Qi is insufficient, its aura could surge, and its strength could reach the sixth layer of Qi Refining.

It was a pity that it immediately wilted after leaving the seawater, recovering to become the small black dragon fish at the fourth layer of Qi Refining.

However, this surprise also made Su Ping decide to prioritize providing the Dragon Blood from the two Flowing Pattern False Dragon Fish to it.

Hoping that this Da Hei Yu could enter the late stage of Qi Refining soon and become another great help to him!

"Small Golden Light Temple has already started collecting the successfully purified Sealed Dharma Artifacts."

"Then the large Markets with Merit Steles should also have people starting to go and exchange for merit."

"If I go over at this time, I shouldn't attract too much attention, right?"

Su Ping felt somewhat moved in his heart.

During this period, when he went to the reservoir on Water Blue Star to fish, he also stopped by to recover Sealed Dharma Artifacts.

The number of purified Dharma Artifacts currently in his hands has reached fifty.

He did not know how the merit for this number of Sealed Dharma Artifacts was calculated, and he did not want to be skimmed by Small Golden Light Temple.

So he planned to make another trip to Jinyun Mountain Market, to calculate how much more merit he needed to save while also restocking some goods.

Besides, I should also make a trip to the mountain gate soon to continue exchanging for pills.

After Su Ping discovered that actual combat could accelerate absorption, even with frugal use, the Medium Pill and waste pills from the last exchange were down to just one left!

At Jinyun Mountain Market, Su Ping used the identity of that White Crane Boy from last time.

First, he purchased sufficient materials needed within the Market.

Only then did he find the station of the Great Golden Light Temple, under the somewhat surprised gaze of the guest-welcoming monk.

Su Ping handed over one Sealed Dharma Artifact after another to the Merit Stele.

After a moment of calculation, a copper slip flew out from the Merit Stele.

A line of numbers was engraved on the copper slip:

【Merit: 13,050】

Su Ping looked at this merit, then recalled the prices of those items in the Merit Stele.

It seems... he actually has quite a lot of merit?

Furthermore, the merit exchanged for each Sealed Dharma Artifact is not the same; it should be related to the original strength of the sealed Evil Spirit.

The most expensive items in the Merit Stele are all over several million merit, but those are already Spirit Treasure-level treasures.

Su Ping cannot use them even if he exchanges for them now.

As for the divine ability Su Ping is most concerned about, the price of the Thousand Hands Ten Thousand Arms Great Freedom Primordial Spirit Dharma Image divine ability is only 80,000 merit.

Referring to the experience at the Great Mercy Temple, if he comes across a few more merit fields, this merit should be relatively easy to gather.

As for this current merit.

Su Ping does not intend to save it either; it was not easy for him to come out once.

As he reached out to press the Merit Stele to perform the exchange.

Soon, the Merit Stele emitted a series of Golden Light.

Four-to-five-hundred-year-old medicinal herbs, rare Spirit Rice seeds, and auxiliary crafting materials that are difficult for small sects to obtain were exchanged out.

Especially a Bronze Pill Furnace worth 5,000 merit, which is rumored to be a donation from the Danding Sect and is the best-to-use pill furnace for Qi Refining stage Cultivators.

This Bronze Pill Furnace can even fully withstand Foundation Establishment stage pill formulas.

After putting the items into his Storage Bag, Su Ping left the Market at a fast pace.

Unlike last time.

This time, Su Ping could be considered to be carrying a huge fortune.

Because of this, not long after leaving Jinyun Mountain Market, Su Ping sensed someone following closely behind him as they flew out.

It was just that Su Ping did not intend to play the pig to eat the tiger; he immediately quickened his pace and disappeared into the dense forest in the blink of an eye.

This caused the several small teams with ulterior motives who rushed out to be stunned one after another.

They hurriedly followed into the dense forest.

They immediately realized that the other party's speed was truly too fast.

Within a few breaths, they were pulled a great distance away.

And they soon lost the other party's trail!

How were they supposed to rob him halfway now!

Some people were terrified after coming to their senses, feeling that if they really confronted the other party, they would have absolutely no power to fight back.

Others unwillingly chose to report this news immediately.

The portrait of the White Crane Boy subsequently appeared on the desks of many Qi Refining Great Perfection Cultivators.

Regarding cultivation, it was written that the other party was suspected to be at Body Tempering Great Perfection!

"A Body Tempering Great Perfection Cultivator!"

Several local cultivation families immediately issued search orders, but not to rob him of his wealth.

Instead, they hoped to spend a large price to befriend such a heaven-gifted talent.

After all, in the current Cultivation World, those who need a large amount of medicine to strengthen their physique and can still reach Body Tempering Great Perfection are already quite rare.

Such a Cultivator most likely possesses a Spirit Body related to Body Cultivator.

Not to mention that there is hope for Foundation Establishment in the future, the path after successfully reaching Foundation Establishment will also be much higher than many of their peers.

Such a Cultivator is already worth some Foundation Establishment Cultivators lowering their status to befriend.

Relying on his sufficient speed, Su Ping avoided unknown trouble.

And halfway through, he restored his original body to visit a large city to experience the joys of civilian life, while waiting for the Memory Scepter's cooldown time to finish.

Only then did he change back into the image of the white-haired youth, Exorcist Mage Yunkong.

He prepared to head to the Merit Hall to exchange for pills.

But!

Just as he arrived at the area where Yunshan Market is located.

Su Ping was stunned to discover that a fierce battle was actually taking place ahead!

In the sky, hundreds of Immortal Boats of the same style but different models were fiercely battling each other in the air.

A great fire had started inside Yunshan Market!

Above the flames, someone shouted to incite others:

"Brothers and sisters, the Array has been broken!"

"Immortal Fate is right before our eyes! First come, first served!"