Chapter 224: Metamorphosis into a Species of Longevity

Li Yu pinched the reward from the "Toad God" in his hand, his expression complex.

There was a red, swollen lump on his forehead, raised quite high, and it refused to fade for a long time.

The good news was that he had obtained a very insidious and useful treasure; the bad news was that the price of this treasure was not small.

Not to mention the cost of using it!

Just from being struck by this "Bad Luck Copper Coin," Li Yu had been injured, and with his monster-like body that could be called abnormal, he was unable to make the swelling subside for a while.

However, Li Yu soon smiled again; it was reasonable for there to be a price and side effects.

After all, such a rare item capable of affecting an enemy's fortune was truly scarce.

"Whether it is in the present world, those terrifying and horrific strange realms, or the boundless and endless Spirit Realm."

"Fortune is extremely important."

"Even the most powerful existence can die suddenly due to bad luck."

"For example, that old pervert 【Double Happiness King】 was powerful enough, very good at scheming, and decisive in his actions; as soon as he sensed something wrong within the Immortal Qin Strange Realm, he flipped the table, sacrificing half his life to exchange for a portion of the Forbidden God's limbs to descend."

"It's just a pity he was a bit unlucky; his opponent happened to be me. The Forbidden God felt I was delicious enough to savor slowly, and I reversed the outcome in the final breath."

"If his luck had been better, the winner would certainly have been him."

Thinking of this, Li Yu paused.

Li Li Xuanji, as if he had thought of many ways to use it, an insidious smile appeared on his face.

"If this thing were in the hands of an ordinary cultivator, its effect would be average."

"But falling into my hands, or the hands of a 'True Myriad-Change God-Chosen,' its effect would be great."

"After a scheme at a critical moment, casting a curse to destroy the opponent's fortune... the backlash afterward doesn't matter; after all, the dust has settled, and even if their fortune is a bit worse, it won't be enough to cause serious injury."

"Wonderful."

"Many thanks, Toad God."

Having figured it out, Li Yu immediately put the Bad Luck Copper Coin into his pocket.

It was a good treasure that seemed like a chicken rib but was actually useful; the fact that it was soaked in the Toad God's excrement was not a problem.

After being born into this world, he had encountered things ten times more disgusting.

At the same time, while Li Yu lamented that "the Toad God is truly a pure-hearted god who loves to watch the fun," he directly prayed to respond to the conditions It had proposed.

Li Yu agreed.

He had hesitated before because he was worried the Toad God had a huge appetite.

If It insisted he complete some impossible fun, such as tricking the Lord of Myriad Changes a second time, Li Yu felt that was unlikely.

But now it seemed the Toad God's criteria for judgment were not ridiculously high.

His experience in the Immortal Qin Strange Realm was enough to pass.

He could even get more rewards.

Since there was a "standard case," Li Yu had a sense of it in his heart and agreed with peace of mind.

The moment he chose to agree to the transaction, the void above his head cracked again.

Accompanied by waves of extremely intense, strange fragrance, a pair of delicate and exquisite "flesh horns," looking like glazed meat jelly, floated lightly into Li Yu's hands.

This pair of flesh horns was the Toad Ganoderma.

From the moment it descended from the Divine Kingdom to the present world, a wisp of visible fragrance permeated the air; a mortal who smelled it would immediately prolong their life.

Of course, there was a price.

"Eternal Toad Ganoderma, a top-tier immortality medicine, its essence is a pair of essence flesh horns left behind after the molting of the Toad God's direct offspring."

"A mortal who smells the fragrance can prolong their life by several months; the price of the medicinal poison is alienation into a Toad Person and developing a fanatical worship of the Toad God."

"Cultivators who consume it also cannot be exempted from these side effects; the medicinal poison and medicinal effect are thoroughly intertwined and fused... however, the Spirit Venerable path is an exception, otherwise it would not be used as a secret medicine formula."

"The medicinal poison of the Lunar Marrow is turning into an ice corpse, dying instantly upon seeing sunlight, and developing infinite worship for the Spirit-Responding Primordial Monarch."

"The medicinal poison of the Agada Medicine is the smallest, nourishing Buddha-nature and purifying the six senses."

"After refining the three medicines, I can achieve immortality."

When Li Yu finished thinking, the swelling on his forehead also disappeared due to the fragrance of the Toad Ganoderma.

Along with it, the slight bad luck attached to it was also eliminated.

Immediately, Li Yu took out the Lunar Marrow and Agada Medicine he had harvested earlier.

No one would have thought that the three top-tier immortality medicines would be gathered so easily by Li Yu.

Even he himself was sighing at this moment:

"Although the Agada Medicine and Eternal Toad Ganoderma both have some costs and tasks, they are not very serious."

"And the Lunar Marrow is almost a free gift."

"This is the benefit of pulling strings; all three top-tier immortality medicines can almost be considered obtained by me pulling strings."

"Compared to my predecessors, my fortune is indeed a bit heaven-defying."

What made Li Yu have such thoughts was when he communicated across space with predecessors like Lu Sheng earlier.

He caught a glimpse of how the predecessors of the Warring States period ascended to become "Immortality Daoists."

Almost without exception, it was very difficult.

Even for ordinary pseudo-immortality medicines, Black Tai Sui and Merman Meat, obtaining them was not easy.

Predecessor Lu Sheng, who ascended at the top level, almost died in a desperate place to obtain the first medicine, the "Immortality Tree."

By comparison, he, Li Yu, was simply countless times more relaxed.

It can only be said that it is a matter of time and fate.

With the three top-tier immortality medicines, the other auxiliary medicines were naturally not a problem; he just mixed them into the supplies and asked the City Lord's Mansion to send them over.

He was now not only one of the nine God-Chosen pioneer team members but also the high-profile Calamity Star Order Master. In the eyes of the City Lord's Mansion, he was already the "number one seed of rare goods."

It could be said that they were responsive to every request, not hesitating to issue a restriction order to the Double Happiness King.

For mere supplies, Li Yu no longer needed to embezzle them himself.

"Start refining!"

Li Yu suppressed his distracting thoughts and suddenly spoke.

About several hours later, the dilapidated Immortal Fortress was facing a situation of adding frost to snow.

Outside the core cabin, Hong Dou's pair of fox eyes had red light surging as she constantly scanned and deduced. At her feet, the small robot walked back and forth like a real sweeping robot, followed by the jumping Heavenly Fire Essence, and a mechanical voice full of anxiety kept sounding.

"Danger, great danger, the fortress is accelerating its aging."

"Emergency situation, an emergency situation not recorded in the 'Operation Manual'..."

The reason the small robot was so panicked.

Was precisely because of the terrible power constantly sweeping out from the core cabin at this moment.

It seemed to be a kind of "invisible radiation," and wherever it passed, whether it was living beings or dead objects, it was as if they had been pressed with an "accelerated aging key," and in an instant, it seemed like ten years had passed.

After roaming the Spirit Realm for many years, the Immortal Fortress was already a bit rusty.

Being ravaged like this, it seemed like it was about to fall apart at any moment.

From the outside, the fortress made of scrap metal hanging in the air was constantly making creaking sounds, tottering.

Fortunately, this radiation seemed to be a kind of tidal form; sweeping out was time acceleration, and sweeping back returned the stolen time.

Regarding this magical and strange situation, Hong Dou was not anxious at all; obviously, all her focus was only on her master, Li Yu.

"Master is in the process of ascending... the target is the Spirit Venerable path sequence five 【Immortality Daoist】... secret medicine has been consumed... progress 50%..."

"Invisible radiation involving time detected, presumed to be Qi of Immortality... progress 70%."

Just as Hong Dou was performing deductions, inside the cabin.

Li Yu was also in a critical special state; his whole person was being pulled by three terrible forces.

The void he was in had also been stirred into a paste-like vortex by the three forces.

At the center point, which was inside Li Yu's body.

One could vaguely see a moon of Lunar essence that had remained unchanged since ancient times, a Toad God that had been crouching for ten thousand years, and a phantom of a Buddha with eternal Buddha light... they rotated, entangled, and fused with each other, and the radiation generated in the process caused Li Yu's body to undergo extremely violent and terrifying changes.

One second he was as old as a corpse, and the next second he turned into a newborn baby.

Such violent changes involving the body naturally could not be without any feeling.

Extremely intense pain was ravaging and torturing Li Yu.

Solving it was also very simple.

As long as Li Yu at this moment shifted slightly toward one side, the other two radiations filled with divinity would be immediately dispelled.

The price of doing so was not high.

Although the ascension would fail, he would also transform toward the side he leaned into, and at worst, he could switch paths.

For example, if he leaned toward the "Eternal Toad Ganoderma," he would turn into a Toad Person capable of living for thousands or ten thousand years on the spot, and at the same time, he would immediately leap to become a Toad God's God-Chosen.

In this way, the medicinal poison would no longer be considered medicinal poison.

Only when he cultivated to this step did Li Yu vaguely understand.

Why the Spirit Venerable path was gradually dying out.

Besides the fact that the Spirit Venerable had likely already perished, there was also the reason that this path's sequence had too many pitfalls.

Especially the "Immortality Daoist," not to mention that it required a long time to eliminate the medicinal poison and complete the ascension ceremony later.

In the medicine-taking stage, there was already a big pitfall.

The three immortality medicines could provide different lengths of lifespan, which easily caused the cultivator to unconsciously lean toward the longer-lived side when taking the secret medicine.

The three types of immortality elixirs grant varying lengths of lifespan, which easily leads practitioners to unconsciously favor the one offering greater longevity when consuming the secret elixirs.

In this way, it would naturally fall short of success.

One fewer Longevity Daoist, one more practitioner of a different path.

Since there is a trap with the Longevity Daoist, it is hard to say whether the next sequence, the Bait True Monarch, might have one as well.

However, none of these are problems for Li Yu.

He is completely immune to soul-mind temptations!

As for physical torture, he can also endure it head-on.

One must know that his demon body, which has undergone multiple modifications and is blessed by Sister Yi Ge, possesses a terrifying strength that rivals that of a true Longevity Daoist.

Another half an hour passed!

As the vortex slowly closed, three strands of longevity radiation were fused into one furnace.

An extremely horrifying scene occurred the next moment.

Li Yu's demon body first turned into rotting, withered bones in an instant, and then began to revive the very next moment.

This was not merely the commonly spoken of "bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh on bones," but a fundamental transformation from the inside out.

In the blink of an eye, a human body that appeared to be cast from "jade," which could be called flawless, appeared within the cabin.

Anyone who took a single look would know that this body could hardly be worn down by the passage of time.

The human race, with an average lifespan of several decades, is truly a short-lived species.

But at this moment, Li Yu has already become a long-lived species.

Not only did he easily break through the limit of a hundred-year lifespan, but he also reached the goal in one step, directly approaching a thousand-year lifespan.

When he slowly opened his eyes, an indescribable sense of vicissitudes surged forth, as if he had already witnessed all the changes of time flowing through this world.

PS: There will be a third update, it will just be a bit later.

(End of this chapter)