Chapter 125: Mortal Body, Shoulder to Shoulder with the Gods!

The improvement of Exorcist Mage Yunkong got things off to a good start.

Su Ping looked at his fishing warehouse.

Aside from the Second-tier Fishing Spot fish catches reserved for exchanging for a Fishing Compass, the fish he had accumulated during this period could still be exchanged for 1,200 Fishing Coins.

After some thought, Su Ping decided to just do another twenty draws.

After all, he still needed to reserve funds for exchanging for Spirit Herbs and for any expenses should good items appear in the Travel Shop.

And so, another ten-pull was initiated!

This time, two Teleportation Talismans appeared in one go.

At least it counted as a double purple, which meant his luck today was indeed not bad.

Su Ping took a deep breath, had Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden Sakura brew him a cup of hot tea again, and had her add a blessing for him.

After silently chanting a prayer for the Fox God's protection.

Su Ping initiated the final ten-pull of the day!

Swish!

This time, the long-awaited Golden Light finally appeared.

Su Ping thanked the Fox God first, then looked at the purple light that had come along with the Golden Light:

【Ancient Demon Sealing Tower, special building, quality: Rare, exclusive to Pot Heaven, placement can slightly increase the output of Spirit Qi in the Cave Heaven, upgradable】

"A special building that can increase Spirit Qi output? And since it's a Demon Sealing Tower, it can keep the Floating Vanity Dream Temple company."

Seeing that he had drawn a special building, Su Ping materialized it on top of the second floating mountain.

The Spirit Qi concentration in the Pot Heaven happily gained another +10!

Suddenly, a diamond-shaped stone tower about seventy or eighty meters tall with nine levels appeared there.

At the four cardinal directions of the stone tower stood twelve-meter-tall stone carvings of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird.

Each level of the stone tower was also surrounded by a ring of reliefs depicting various demon-subduing divine beasts.

It was just that Su Ping could feel that the stone tower itself did not contain any imprisoned demons.

Besides, its upgradability was somewhat interesting.

It didn't require drawing the same building to merge them; instead, it required providing demons to the Demon Sealing Tower to charge the Four Saint Beast stone carvings.

A fully charged Demon Sealing Tower could provide one random Saint Beast blessing.

The effect was currently unknown, but considering how complex it was, the effect likely wouldn't be too bad.

It was just these demons... he didn't know if the Demon Beasts or Heavenly Demons he brought from the Cultivation World would work.

That was likely a bit difficult, as bringing intelligent life into the Pot Heaven required the other party to accept an Invitation Letter!

Furthermore, he couldn't confirm how much danger would arise after imprisoning them.

Su Ping scanned Da Hei Yu Chiwen, as well as Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui, but ultimately decided not to use them as test subjects, planning instead to temporarily conjure up a few Spirit Beasts to experiment with when he had time.

After all, he had developed some feelings for them after raising them for so long.

Setting the Demon Sealing Tower aside for now, Su Ping turned his gaze to the Golden Light.

His heart skipped a beat, and he sighed to himself that a Rare quality partner had finally arrived!

【Apprentice Fire Knight, partner, quality: Rare, exclusive to Pot Heaven, upgradable】

【Rare description: The Fire Knight possesses an Indomitable Will; with a mortal body, he stands shoulder to shoulder with the gods】

Fiery red flowing long hair, fiery red form-fitting knight armor, and fiery red steel combat boots.

His left hand, clad in an iron gauntlet, rested on a man-tall greatsword of refined iron.

Added to that was a face that was even a bit more handsome and a bit more arrogant than Louis Koo's when he was young.

And a somewhat mysterious yet polite smile that always hung on his face.

After this Apprentice Fire Knight appeared, he exuded an extremely high level of mysterious charisma, which not only made Su Ping sigh in his heart.

It also made Exorcist Mage Yunkong and Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden Sakura look over with curiosity, and they bowed slightly to greet him.

"Master of the Cave Heaven, Apprentice Fire Knight Alwin reports to you!"

This Fire Knight clenched his fist and struck his chest toward Su Ping in a salute.

Then, Su Ping asked him quite directly what he liked.

Upon hearing that it was fine wine.

White Crane Boy brought over some of the various famous wines that had been piled up in the storeroom from the Registered Disciple's side.

The Fire Knight was very happy, picked up a few bottles of high-proof liquor, and chugged them down.

Faster than Su Ping drank water.

Su Ping felt happy as he watched the other party's favorability rise rapidly.

Compared to cultivating favorability in the original game, this was much easier.

After all, as for gifts, whether from Water Blue Star or the Cultivation World, as long as it was something they liked, he could just give, give, and give.

Even if the quality wasn't great, he could make up for it with quantity.

Once the Fire Knight finished drinking the wine.

Su Ping had him demonstrate his abilities.

As an Apprentice Knight, Fire Knight Alwin was proficient in horsemanship and various weapons.

However, he was most skilled with the two-handed greatsword.

His strength was immense, his speed was not slow, and he possessed terrifying combat intuition.

At the same time, he could manipulate fire elemental power to imbue his greatsword, thereby adding Bright Flame.

This flame was similar to the Shrine Maiden's thunder and the Exorcist Mage's ice formation, both having enhancements that countered Heavenly Demons and heretical paths.

Plus, with the addition of Indomitable Will, he could ignore the vast majority of mental attacks.

Su Ping felt that the rare-quality Fire Knight Alwin simply had one more combat-related Spirit Body enhancement than other rare partners.

Moreover, the trial had proven this point.

After Exorcist Mage Yunkong began fighting Fire Knight Alwin, despite both being at the Qi Refining Late Stage—and Yunkong having even leveled up once—Exorcist Mage Yunkong was still completely defeated after ten moves.

Even when Su Ping used Memory Illusion with the aid of his Divine Sense, he could only barely fight to a draw against the opponent at the same cultivation level.

This gave Su Ping a new understanding of combat intuition.

And this was only at the apprentice level; there could be new passive or active skill bonuses later on!

The potential is huge!

However, if not for such powerful potential, how could it be worthy of that saying: "A mortal body, standing shoulder to shoulder with gods"?

He had originally intended to save Experience Books to let Exorcist Mage Yunkong break through to Foundation Establishment.

But now it seemed that letting the Fire Knight reach Foundation Establishment combat power first might be better?

Su Ping was very satisfied, and after arranging a room for Fire Knight Alwin.

He also diligently practiced in the Pot Heaven.

When the cooldown for the Return to City Talisman was over.

Su Ping then returned to the Cultivation World, and afterwards went straight back to the Jiuye Mountain Market.

In the guise of a Foundation Establishment master, Su Ping began to inquire about various professional knowledge.

And by offering a few local specialties, he befriended several small local cultivation families.

Afterwards, he successfully obtained the consent of one small cultivation family, the Yu Family, and was allowed to enter their library.

The other party even thoughtfully summoned two old cultivators who managed it year-round to await Su Ping's instructions.

Su Ping naturally made the best use of this.

After all, he was truly just here to read and learn, not to cause destruction or incidentally take away someone's rare books or discover some treasure.

With the help of the old cultivators.

After learning that information regarding unlocking Storage Spirit Tools or other Spirit Tools was either only held by large cultivation families, or perhaps could be found in unreliable methods within books on the Side-Door Path.

Su Ping found the bookshelf in the Yu Family's collection that contained records of the Side-Door Path.

With the help of his Divine Sense, after one morning had passed.

He found the knowledge he needed.

It was from a peerless genius of a certain large sect who, after becoming a Golden Core, ran into problems during a breakthrough and simply poured his passion into various Side-Door Path techniques, seemingly wanting to explore a different path.

It was just that he didn't manage to find a new path, but he did manage to come up with hundreds of strange and peculiar Side-Door Path Secret Techniques.

Among them was the method for how to unlock a Spirit Tool's Divine Sense.

Su Ping looked through it roughly and discovered that this method seemed to have the same effect as the Great Golden Light Temple's Subdue-Demon Vajra Array!

Both utilized the power of strong, directed belief to wear down the Spirit Tool's original Divine Sense.

Thereby achieving the effect of washing away the original owner's traces.

It was just that while this method looked feasible, in reality, it was not very practical in the Cultivation World.

Those large families above Foundation Establishment had better ways to handle Spirit Tools if they obtained them.

And for families not qualified enough, on one hand, the probability of obtaining a Spirit Tool was truly very small.

On the other hand, even if they obtained a Spirit Tool by chance, doing this would create too much of a disturbance, essentially turning themselves into a firefly in the dark.

Because a Spirit Tool's Divine Sense is not like Mysterious Remains; it will also resist, thereby generating a certain kind of fluctuation.

Some of these fluctuations are vibrations that can only be sensed by Divine Sense, while others might be some kind of strange celestial phenomenon.

And regardless of the type, it was extremely likely to attract the original owner or the powerful figures behind them who had a connection to the original owner to rush over and reclaim the item.

Don't ask why they don't suppress the resistance; those who have the ability and know-how to suppress it already have better ways to wear down a Spirit Tool's Divine Sense and don't need so many crooked, evil methods...

Su Ping looked at other Secret Techniques as well.

He felt they were all somewhat interesting, yet all had many flaws.

It was no wonder these Side-Door Paths could only be considered side paths and could not enter the mainstream!

For example, Su Ping also saw the complete chapters involving the Qi Refining stage of the Paper Person Technique here.

This Paper Person Technique could control paper people; its power was not bad in the beginning, but the further one went, the more one would become paper-like themselves, eventually turning into a paper person.

That aside, looking at the annotations from predecessors, the paper people after the Qi Refining Late Stage were actually monsters rather than the original body.

The vast majority of cultivators at that point had long since had their Divine Soul dissipated, leaving only a paper puppet that thought it was itself, constantly repeating its original actions.

As for those who practiced the Paper Person Technique and broke through to Foundation Establishment...

The person who left the annotations stated that they had yet to see a single one.

"The flaws are big, but the barrier to entry is low, and it consumes few resources; I might as well memorize it all. Who knows when it might be useful as waste utilization?"

With a direction in his heart, a high-spirited Su Ping left the library satisfied.

Afterwards, he naturally did not refuse the Yu Family's invitation to a banquet, and saw the dozen or so young boys and girls the small family had proactively introduced.

Su Ping swept his gaze over these Yu Family descendants, who ranged from eleven or twelve to six or seven years old but were already well-mannered, and understood what they were thinking.

Clearly, they hoped that after he established his own sect, he could take in one or two of them who had aptitude.

Thereby making the relationship between the two parties more solid.

Su Ping skillfully painted a big picture, indicating that once his Foundation Establishment cultivation had stabilized for a few years and he truly intended to take on disciples, he would definitely prioritize the Yu Family.

And after the two parties exchanged pleasantries and parted ways.

Su Ping had his evening banquet at another small cultivation family's place.

While similarly painting a big picture, he also looked at the other family's library and discovered quite a few books on the Side-Door Path that had different annotations but consistent content.

After finalizing the plan for how to unlock the Spirit Tool's Divine Sense.

Su Ping chose to head to Water Blue Star.

Preparing to open the two Spirit Tools left behind by the female cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage there!

I have things to do during the day tomorrow, so I expect I will still have to combine two chapters into one at night.