Chapter 434: Divine Ability Talisman Golden Elixir

Huogong Toutuo went to Wolf Valley again, not to kill the wolf pack, but to loot the corpses.

He had refined the True Person Xuelang into a Great Vajra Protector, and from his thoughts, he learned that there was a stone carving left by predecessors in Wolf Valley, which was the Daoist soldier method used by the grassland tribes back then to train "Wolf Cavalry".

Although some secret medicine formulas were lost, the grassland wolves raised and domesticated from a young age could grow into giant wolves the size of steeds. He also used demonic secret arts to refine them into "Blood Wolves".

Combined with the two Earthly Fiend Minor Arts of Taming Animals and Controlling Beasts taught to him by the First Bandit, he could also replicate the style of the wolf cavalry of the past.

He thought to himself: The Master probably doesn't look down on this stuff, but I can't just leave it be. I have no hope of achieving it in this lifetime, but finding a woman with good aptitude in the Da Mo, passing on some techniques, having a bunch of children, establishing a family here, and becoming an outer sect force of the Moonlight Spring Glazed Blessed Land would be quite nice.

After all, the foot speed of a Qi Refiner is limited; training "Wolf Cavalry" to serve as mounts for guests coming and going to the Blessed Land would clearly be a good business.

He completely ignored the fact that wolves eat meat; the first choice for a mount in the Da Mo has always been the camel, and there is a force in the Da Mo called "White Camel Mountain Villa".

This villa raises a Heaven and Earth Spirit Beast, which is the Western Desert Earth Element Essence, a natural spirit.

It is just like how Sun Wukong was tainted with the aura of a monkey, so he transformed into a monkey.

This Western Desert Earth Element Essence was precisely tainted with the aura of a camel, so it transformed into a camel.

This camel was subdued by the first-generation master of White Camel Mountain Villa, and later, its essence was taken and crossbred with wild camel demons of the Da Mo, producing a unique breed of camel.

This camel is known in the desert to be able to travel a hundred miles in a single hour; don't look at it as if the speed isn't fast, but it has sufficient endurance, the camel is stable, and it can carry heavy objects.

At the very least, merchant caravans love to use this kind of Spirit Camel; the price is cheap, they just need to eat some forage, and if it really comes down to it, they can be killed for meat.

After obtaining the inheritance of True Person Xuelang, Huogong Toutuo took two Vajra Protectors and quickly went to find several more bandits.

They were all ranked after the top thirty, each with some skills; some knew how to concoct Western Region exotic poisons that could knock out even cultivators. Some knew how to distinguish Feng Shui and astrology, and understood some array techniques of the strange gates and hidden paths.

But none of them could keep their own heads.

By the time Huogong Toutuo had a string of twelve Great Vajra Beads hanging on him, he was already covered in treasures; he had seven or eight flying swords, seven of his ten fingers had rings on them, he wore four or five bracelets and bangles on his hands, and he wore seven or eight layers of dharma robes, red, yellow, and green, stacked on top of each other.

When he arrived at Xu Jia's place, the expression on Xu Jia's face was already quite disdainful.

He just felt like he was a nouveau riche, and he didn't care about the bad luck of these bandits.

"Master, don't say, these bandits, don't look at their loud names, their family wealth is actually poorer than the next."

"He has already gone to be a big bandit, did he still expect to have some industry or livelihood?"

Xu Jia saw that his mentality had changed; as the saying goes, a person doesn't get rich without windfall, and a horse doesn't get fat without night grass. Having obtained such benefits, with himself backing him, and by revealing just a little bit of advantage, he had killed more than a dozen of these forty-seven bandits whose names used to make people walk around them.

Now he truly felt that he was a somebody, having changed from an ant into a slightly larger ant.

"Are there any secret arts or techniques?"

"Yes, yes!" Huogong Toutuo hurriedly offered them up.

Xu Jia glanced at them and had already memorized them all; with another turn of his thoughts, he had already analyzed them one hundred percent, and after thinking about them a little more, he had already pushed through the old to bring forth the new.

"These all have arts but no Dao; studying these, although one can cultivate some Dharma Power and become proficient in a certain path, it is hard to have a chance at Longevity, and these Earthly Fiend Seventy-two Arts seem to be missing something."

"Master, I have already learned from their Primordial Spirits that these seventy-two Earthly Fiend Minor Arts were all taught to them by the First Bandit. This First Bandit, however, is not a person from the Central Plains; he is a Persian, his eyes are green, he wears a black robe, it is hard to tell if he is male or female, he founded the Western Region Sacred Fire Sect, has the cultivation of an Earth Immortal, and seems to be cultivating some kind of 'Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit'."

"My cultivation is limited, I'm afraid it will be hard to subdue him."

Xu Jia saw his "take it while it's good" attitude and only said: "You killed these forty-seven bandits; although he may not come to find you personally, he will definitely send the top-ranked bandits. Although the Wind Fire Sand and the Desert Three Demons were lost in the Golden Buddha Kingdom before, the other bandits are not easy to deal with either. If you are thinking of hiding behind me when the time comes, then you are thinking wrong. You kill him, he kills you; this is Cause and Effect and destiny, and Divine Ability cannot escape it."

Xu Jia gave a cold, eerie smile, revealing the bearing of a side-door practitioner: "If you don't become stronger, just wait to be killed. If you can't even handle these few bandits, how can you follow me to the Central Plains, and how can you obtain the orthodoxy of the Dutian Liehuo Zushi? Since you are useless to me, I would find it dirty to kill you myself, so I can only borrow the hands of others. Don't worry, after you die, I will also refine you into a Great Vajra Protector, and in the future, when I meet a suitable youngster, I will give it to him to use."

"If you cannot advance courageously, what kind of Dao are you cultivating?"

The bit of pride Huogong Toutuo had just felt vanished instantly; he only felt his brow being pressed by a sword, the hair on his back stood up, and he was truly startled by these words—useless people can only be killed.

Xu Jia absorbed these Earthly Fiend Minor Arts, and more Talisman Seeds appeared in his mind. These seeds are planted into the human body, and that person will immediately comprehend them and cultivate them to a minor success. The cultivated Dharma Power will slowly fill this Talisman Seed, perfecting it, just like a seed sprouting, taking root, flowering, bearing fruit, and maturing, eventually resulting in the great success of the magic art, turning into a grain of Divine Ability Dao Fruit.

Precisely because he saw this, Xu Jia became interested in the First Bandit. This Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit has something to it; it might be like the "Gengzi Mituo Golden Light Nature", belonging to a system of metal nature, using arts to reach the Dharma, and using the Dharma to trace back to the Dao.

"Master, I know I was wrong. I will definitely eradicate this First Bandit, but... with my meager strength, even if I refine the Great Vajra Protector, I'm afraid it will be hard to resist an Earth Immortal."

"Then why don't you achieve the Earth Immortal realm?" Xu Jia said: "You also have the strength of the late stage of Innate True Qi, don't you?"

"Me?"

Xu Jia said: "I don't know if you have heard of the Outer Elixir Dao of the Dante Sect, or the technique of Moving Furnace and Changing Cauldron."

"These people all cultivate one or several Earthly Fiend Minor Arts, and have Divine Ability seeds in their bodies, and some have even flowered and borne fruit."

"I can pluck them out and refine them into a Golden Elixir. In this way, you can directly use all of their Dharma Power and magic arts. It doesn't matter whether you are an Earth Immortal in terms of realm, but in terms of aura, you will indeed belong to the Earth Immortal class, and it will not affect your own cultivation. As long as you don't become addicted to it, there is still a possibility of forming your own elixir."

"Good, good, good!" Huogong Toutuo also knew that this was Xu Jia conducting an evil "human experiment", and he himself was a white mouse. He only spoke of the benefits but didn't say what the disadvantages were. These people had all been refined by him into Great Vajra Protectors, and their Dharma Power had also been transformed into Buddhist Vajra Dharma Power. If he integrated them, the Dutian Liehuo Zhenqi he had worked so hard to cultivate would also likely be assimilated, turning him into a true Buddhist toutuo, but for a moment, he had no other choice.

Xu Jia also thought of this method based on the Buddha Treasure Sarira in the sky.

He immediately extracted the Earthly Fiend Minor Arts Talisman Seeds from the bodies of the Great Vajra Protectors, and also extracted the several Register methods taught from Huogong Toutuo's body, including the Lingbao Daoist Citizen Register, the Human Immortal Register, the True Fire Talisman, and so on.

The Lingbao Register Method is much more advanced than these Earthly Fiend Talismans, and it quickly brought them under control. It's just that the Earthly Fiend Minor Arts here are not complete, and Xu Jia cannot fill them in, but they have already been recorded and will be one of his own Lingbao inheritances in the future.

This so-called Western Region Sacred Fire Sect can also be directly annexed and become his own force. Xu Jia remembers that the Sacred Fire Sect later developed into the Ming Sect, and it had millions of believers.

If this First Bandit is worth cultivating, Xu Jia will also learn from the Buddhist school and take him in as a dog; if he is not worth educating, then he can only send him to see the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable.

Xu Jia was weaving the Talisman; in fact, the train of thought was the eternal "Talisman Golden Elixir" approach. This is the top-tier way of eating people and practicing skills in Xianxia, and using it to cultivate some side-door evildoers is simply as convenient as it gets.

Once this Talisman Golden Elixir was formed, it immediately extracted the True Qi from the bodies of these Vajra Protectors. The twelve bandits had already died once, and after being refined into Vajra Protectors, their internal True Qi was only eighty percent. Fortunately, they were all in the realm of Innate True Qi; twelve people pooled together, compressed, and were sealed into this Talisman Golden Elixir.

Finally, it flashed with golden light, golden and round, and it was somewhat similar to the Buddha Treasure Sarira hanging in the sky, equally evil, but it looked so grand and upright, and it seemed to have infinite benefits.

After refining it, Xu Jia directly struck it into Huogong Toutuo's body, but it also sucked up all of Huogong Toutuo's Dharma Power, which immediately scared Huogong Toutuo to death. Fortunately, after the sucking was finished, this Sarira began to feed back, and his cultivation increased rather than decreased, and it was even more pure. At the same time, those twelve Vajra Protectors and Huogong Toutuo also developed a kind of "intimacy", feeling as if it were another extension of the body.

Moreover, this True Qi Dharma Power fed back by the Golden Elixir seemed to have no characteristics, and could simulate and transform into any kind of True Qi from before through the Golden Elixir.

It could be Dutian Liehuo Zhenqi, or it could be the light True Qi of Zhang Yuan, the Blood Wolf True Qi of True Person Xuelang...

Immediately after, his thoughts moved, and the Vajra Protectors operated according to his thoughts.

He commanded: "Cross your legs and cultivate the Dutian Liehuo Zhenqi."

Instantly, the twelve Vajra Protectors all sat cross-legged; although the cultivation speed was slow, they were truly cultivating automatically, and this True Qi could be transferred to himself through this Outer Elixir.

Then he had another thought, and the Dharma Power and True Qi within the Golden Elixir each returned to the bodies of the Great Vajra Protectors, and his own cultivation strength also rapidly declined, returning to its previous level.

"This, this, this..."

Huogong Toutuo didn't know how to describe it.

It was as if the previous decades had all been lived in vain, and only today was he the "protagonist".

He had a clearer understanding of Xu Jia once more. Previously, at the Innate True Qi realm, he only felt that Xu Jia was formidable, but that was merely a frog in a well looking at the moon. Just now, as his own aura broke through to the Earth Immortal realm, he saw that Xu Jia remained the same as when he was at the Innate True Qi realm—vast as an abyss, deep as the sea. Compared to himself, it was like a mayfly looking at the blue sky, or a firefly compared to the sun and moon.

He thought to himself: That the Master could take a fancy to me and let me be the Master's dog is actually my good fortune, not my Calamity.

Xu Jia said, "I have already performed a secret technique to graft and transfer a portion of the twelve great bandits' fortune to you, to match the destiny of your Golden Core Dharma Power; otherwise, your own fortune could not suppress it."

"This is, after all, a Magic path technique. You need to digest and utilize it well, otherwise it will eventually fade away. The best way is to become famous."

"Go, go and slay the other forty-seven great bandits, strip them of their Earthly Fiend Minor Arts Talismans, and refine them into this Golden Elixir. The more Divine Abilities and Daoism you have within the Talisman Golden Elixir, the more powerful you will become. There are only a dozen or so now; when you have thirty-six, you will be comparable to a mid-stage Earth Immortal, and when all seventy-two are complete, you will be comparable to a late-stage Earth Immortal... If you collect a few more Great Divine Abilities, it is not impossible to contend with some God Immortals."

Xu Jia painted a tempting picture: "Moreover, eliminating the forty-seven great bandits is your best way to become famous, which will stabilize your fortune. By Borrowing the False to Cultivate the True, you may hope to truly break through to Earth Immortal in the future; that will be what is truly your own."

These words made Huogong Toutuo flush with excitement.

"Furthermore, I have calculated that you are not the descendant with the most fortune from the Dutian Liehuo Zushi's inheritance. In the future, when you go to the Central Plains, if you want to suppress others, you must achieve the status of a true Earth Immortal and cultivate the two arts of Sitting in Fire and Spitting Flames from the Earthly Fiend Seventy-two Minor Arts to great success."

"Master, I will certainly not let you down. These mere forty-seven great bandits, being able to make you, Master, notice them slightly, means their Calamity has arrived. They have committed many evils; my killing them fulfills the heavenly number and is also your Merit, Master."

He really kowtowed heavily several times, kowtowing with genuine feeling, kowtowing with complete submission.

With this kowtow, he immediately fed a portion of fortune back to Xu Jia.

It was just a pity that Xu Jia had no intention of taking him into his sect, not even as an Outer Disciple; he was purely being used as a tool.

Yet, because he kowtowed like this, Xu Jia found it difficult to ignore him and let him meet a bad end in the future. He said nothing to his face, but his expression softened, losing the intimidating look of a side-door sect leader from just before.

Lazily holding his Ruyi, he pointed it at him: "Come here, I will draw a mark on your palm. If you encounter someone powerful, or if the remaining great bandits gather together and you cannot defeat them in a group fight, unleash this, and it won't be hard to save your wretched life."

After drawing it, Xu Jia shooed him away to work: "Go, go!"

Huogong Toutuo received the mark in his hand, which was a sword scar that severed his palm lines. He could not tell its depth, but it was certainly a good thing. He gripped it tightly and then rode the Dutian Liehuo Sword out.

Over the next few days, on the Da Mo, people saw earth-shattering battles. Golden Core powerhouses and Earth Immortal True Persons, who were previously never seen, now appeared frequently.

Some even discovered that those being killed were basically the forty-seven great bandits who had plagued the Da Mo for a century.

These forty-seven great bandits had been suppressed by other righteous paths before, but they were always groups of disciples and Elders. Moreover, they could not hurt the forty-seven great bandits' foundation. Once wiped out this time, the next time it would still be the forty-seven great bandits acting. They would develop members and even reserve members during the interim; they could grow up in a dozen years or so, and it was perfectly fine for them to replace the low-ranking bandits.

Moreover, the true core secrets were still held by the First Great Bandit, this Persian cultivator who founded the Western Region Sacred Fire Sect.

With Xu Jia's Golden Elixir and the Diamond Protector, Huogong Toutuo actually picked the soft persimmons first, killing several more Innate True Qi realm bandits, refining them into Diamond Protectors, and obtaining a few more Earthly Fiend Minor Arts Talisman Seeds.

It was just that the First Great Bandit had sensed it long ago. These low-level bandits died every year, and he usually didn't care, but within a short time, so many had died that he became concerned.

He was currently cultivating a divine art, a superior Great Dharma that combined the Sacred Fire techniques of the Persian Sacred Fire Sect and the Tibetan Secret Wheel techniques. Once cultivated, he believed he could become a Grandmaster of a generation and march into the Central Plains to preach, rather than cowering in the Western Region.

So he dispatched the four Envoys of the Western Region Sacred Fire Sect to contact the other great bandits and ascertain the cause.

The four Envoys were the "Huiyue Shi", "Miaofeng Envoy", "Liuyun Envoy", and "Xichen Envoy".

The Sacred Fire Sect took the "Great Sun" as the source of the Sacred Fire, so naturally, there was no Sun Envoy.

The four Envoys were all Persians who had followed the Sacred Fire Sect Leader to the Central Plains. They cultivated the Persian Sacred Fire Sect's techniques, and after arriving in the Western Region, they accepted Western Region techniques and even Central Plains techniques. Their cultivation could not be described by the Central Plains' "Golden Core, Primordial Spirit".

To be precise, it should be calculated according to the Western "Legendary", "Saint-Chosen", and "Demigod" realms.

They combined the best of both East and West, walking the path of "cultivating immortality but becoming a god". Relying on the Sacred Fire Sect was also to ignite the divine fire and accumulate Divine Nature.

This Divine Nature was born from within, relying on the treasure of Essence Qi to polish the Primordial Spirit, born in meditation, and perceiving the rules of heaven, earth, and nature.

Therefore, their Primordial Spirits were powerful, and they could cast various spells. Their physical bodies were not weak either. Although their True Qi had not condensed into a Golden Core, they had methods similar to the Three Veins Seven Wheels, cultivating the "Life Wheel", "Qi Wheel", and "Intent Wheel" in their bodies.

Cultivating the Life Wheel could grant them long lifespans; some could even live to about a thousand years, comparable to the legendary ancient Greek Demigods.

Cultivating the Qi Wheel gave them the foundation for cultivating immortality, allowing them to cast various Divine Abilities and spells.

Cultivating the "Intent Wheel" could give them powerful soul strength, increase wisdom, and allow them to comprehend the Great Dao, similar to a "Witch" or "Mage".

This, in Central Plains cultivation, was actually the three treasures of "Essence, Qi, and Spirit".

It was just that they had to wait until they "became gods" to unify the three treasures, unlike Eastern cultivation, where one had to start attempting to unify the three treasures at the Golden Core realm.

Among these four, the Huiyue Shi mainly cultivated the Intent Wheel, with the soul turning from yin to yang, similar to a Ghost Immortal who had already passed two Calamities. The Xichen Envoy cultivated the Life Wheel, possessing extremely powerful and resilient vitality, with some external arts perfected, having the appearance of Diamond Indestructible.

The Liuyun Envoy and Miaofeng Envoy cultivated the Qi Wheel, with True Qi incomparably powerful. If compared to the Qi Refining stage, they were comparable to the hundredth layer of Qi Refining; in terms of total True Qi, they were comparable to Golden Core Earth Immortal cultivators.

The four Envoys were separate, and each was ordinary, only having some characteristics, but together, they had an extremely powerful combined attack technique. At least in this Western Region, apart from those mysterious and powerful Protector Lamas near the Great Snow Mountain, they basically encountered no rivals.

(End of this chapter)