Chapter 270: Advancing to Sequence Four at Full Capacity

Wanfu City, Ancient God encampment.

Inside the dilapidated and patched-up Immortal Fortress, two figures tumbled out of the void almost simultaneously.

Clearly, this master and servant had the same thought.

Both had obtained quite a few merit points, but neither had time to exchange them for rewards, choosing instead to return and reunite first.

The two looked at each other, both seeing the intense joy in the other's eyes.

It was a nightmare-level terrifying strange domain expedition; the master and servant should have both died inside, but through their cooperation, they had forcibly carved out a sliver of survival.

At first, it was Li Yu sparing no cost to save Hongdou.

Later, it was the other way around, with Hongdou willing to sacrifice all her gains just to bring her master, Li Yu, back to the present world safely.

"Hongdou, you...?"

Li Yu had just adjusted to his weak body and intended to ask about Hongdou's gains from this trip, and to discuss with her how to resolve the terrifying new predicament.

But before he could finish his sentence, a change he had completely failed to anticipate occurred suddenly.

Boom!

He felt his entire heart and soul tremble.

Immediately, he felt himself frozen in place as a massive amount of "gains"—existing only at the level of heart-soul perception and realm enlightenment—surged toward him like a tide from the void.

Not only did it heal his severely injured body, which had lost a great deal of lifespan, in an instant.

It also began to carry him upward; his heart-soul realm leaped forward every second, and all sorts of marvelous epiphanies were forcibly stuffed into him.

Li Yu's cultivation base!

At this moment, it began to skyrocket.

The Spirit Venerable path, Sequence 5 Longevity Daoist, required no further cultivation and entered the perfection realm directly.

All kinds of beneficial transformations and mutations occurred simultaneously within his body and heart-soul.

This marvelous feedback!

Li Yu had actually experienced it once before.

That time was when he helped the Buddha spread the Mahayana Dharma and permanently altered the history of the 【Savage Tribe】 in the forbidden land.

The reward obtained for that was truly bountiful.

And now, a similar experience had returned, and it was even more massive.

The most intuitive manifestation: the "points" Li Yu could use to add attributes were rising every second.

He even suspected:

"If I had already formulated the secret medicine for 【Food-Eating True Monarch】 at this moment and begun the formal advancement."

"Then these feedbacks and gains would directly help me reach great completion in Sequence 4."

"My divine abilities and cultivation base would rival those of the old senior 'Lu Sheng' from back in the day."

"The results and combat power he spent years cultivating would be surpassed by me in a very short time."

"Why?"

"Where do these feedbacks and gains come from?"

As Li Yu asked himself this in his heart, the answer surfaced immediately.

Although it was somewhat incredible, after eliminating all incorrect answers, no matter how unbelievable it seemed, it had to be true.

Especially with the logic and ironclad evidence from Hongdou:

"Detected that the master is receiving a certain type of destiny feedback... cultivation reward... the severely damaged body has been healed and has begun infinite transformations; the levels of both body and heart-soul have transcended the Sequence 5 level and are entering Sequence 4."

"To better digest the gift, please, Master, formulate and consume the Spirit Venerable path Sequence 4 【Food-Eating True Monarch】 secret medicine as soon as possible."

"Connected to the network... full city invasion complete... began deducing the reason for the master receiving the gift, success."

"The plans arranged by the master before entering the strange domain, such as 【Historical Artifact Forgery】 and 【Inciting Internal Strife in Wanfu City】... have all been declared successful, and they are unexpectedly huge successes."

"According to information gathered in this second: although the master has been gone for seven days, the hoax has not been exposed; on the contrary, it has snowballed and has been accepted as absolute fact. The Three Kingdoms and Six Sects have all begun to increase their military investment in Wanfu City, and there is a 60% probability that a large-scale war sweeping the present world will break out."

"Inside Wanfu City, in order to fight for the Destiny Tablet, numerous conflicts and an arms race have also broken out."

"Currently gathering relevant processes for the master... afterwards, the master may be able to use them to seek rewards from the Evil God 【Toad God】."

"What, the hoax wasn't exposed?"

"How is that possible?"

This time, it was Li Yu's turn to lose his composure.

It was simply one wave after another!

Before his eyes, Hongdou had already completed the invasion of 【Flesh Satellites】, 【Mechanical Creations】, 【Supernatural Surveillance】, and other things in an instant.

She then began to analyze everything that had happened over the past seven days, and naturally, projection images followed during the process.

Caught off guard, Li Yu encountered a situation he had never anticipated.

He had originally thought his "hoax" was very simple and crude; it could indeed deceive people initially and cause a huge impact.

This was Li Yu's goal from the start; he wanted to thoroughly digest the Longevity Daoist secret medicine and planned to start plotting his advancement to Sequence 4 after returning from the strange domain.

It was achieved!

And it was achieved on a super-massive scale.

Judging from the scenes provided by Hongdou:

"The entire Wanfu City has gone crazy because of the 【Destiny Tablet】... all major forces have fallen into a fanatical arms race... the rare descent of Evil Gods has become as common as eating and drinking in the past seven days."

"Great conflicts bring great casualties, and also bring greater hatred, causing the gods to be coerced by their believers, and their investments are becoming larger and larger."

"What's more fatal is that the situation in Wanfu City, like pouring oil on a fire, seems to have attracted all the attention and hatred of the Three Kingdoms and Six Sects."

"War, it is 100% going to break out."

"And it looks like there will be an unprecedented war in which divine entities will participate."

"The beginning of all this, was caused by me?"

As Li Yu asked himself this in disbelief, the feedback and gains within his body became even more intense.

Every second, he was transforming.

He even had a feeling!

The change he had inadvertently triggered this time would cause a terrifying impact and create a brand-new history.

It was even more terrifying than the consequences caused by Senior Lu Sheng and the others when they conspired to frame the Master of Immortal Qin.

He could formulate the Sequence 4 secret medicine now, drink it on the spot, and advance immediately.

Normally, having such huge gains upon returning,

Li Yu should be ecstatic.

But not only was he not happy, his brows were tightly furrowed, and the look of worry already present in his eyes and on his face intensified several times over.

Li Yu did not need any evidence; high inspiration combined with the current epiphany feedback was enough for him to see through all illusions and cover-ups and reach a chilling conclusion:

"This is bad!"

"This time, I've caused a huge disaster; I'm afraid I've poked a massive hornet's nest."

"But I am also a victim; my hoax was just a trigger, and it was utilized by the forces behind it."

"That hoax, under normal circumstances, would definitely have been exposed."

"Not being exposed but instead being confirmed... there must be more than one Evil God involved, and all major forces are fanning the flames behind the scenes."

"What exactly do they want to do?"

"Does it have anything to do with the Ancient Sages' inexplicable grand plan?"

"What role did the City Lord's Mansion play in this?"

As he spoke, Li Yu's face turned bitter.

Even though he had been back in the present world for less than a few seconds, he could already feel a terrifying web spreading in the void, containing endless dangers, about to envelop the entire world.

Even he felt restless and wanted to escape because of this. He had already felt a strong sense of crisis because he had killed Brother Brother Shang Yang and triggered the "Ancient Sage silencing" event.

Now that he discovered his prank-like hoax was being fanned by people behind the scenes and was suspected of triggering a new world war... not collapsing on the spot was the result of his extreme mental fortitude.

How big of a mess can one person make?

As the person involved, Li Yu understood completely.

But at the same time, his curiosity and desire to pry were incomparably strong.

No other reason!

His buffs in this area were also fully stacked.

He cultivated the Spirit Venerable path, known as the "shit-stirrer of the divine realm"... born with high inspiration... deeply appreciated by the two fun-loving gods, the Lord of Myriad Changes and the Toad God... most importantly, he possessed a Truth Soul Body, and the Truth Bubble needed such super secrets to charge and reach perfection.

As a fun-loving person and a secret-prying fanatic, he didn't need much of a hint to sense how big and explosive the secrets hidden behind it were, and he wanted to know very much.

Fortunately, Li Yu himself knew that every second was precious now.

Not a single error, not a single omission, not a single moment of content to be missed!

If he didn't want to waste this "great gift" that had come inexplicably, this incredible windfall.

It was best to start formulating the secret medicine immediately and consume it as quickly as possible.

Although it was very rushed, Li Yu made a decisive decision:

"Hongdou!"

"Continue to gather data and information, and figure out what the current situation is."

As his voice fell, Li Yu still hadn't had time to ask what gains Hongdou had made.

In his mind, he directly summoned the Demon Star Order:

"Demon Star, how many merit points are required to exchange for the secret medicine formula and advancement ritual for the Sequence 4 of the Spirit Venerable path?"

"Reporting to the Order Master!"

"The two combined require a total of two hundred thousand merit points."

Hearing the answer, Li Yu did not feel surprised.

Even though this inflation of prices was extremely severe.

Li Yu had obtained the Sequence 5 formula and ritual directly from his predecessors, for free.

But for Sequence 6, he had exchanged for it, costing a total of only over ten thousand points.

Skipping one sequence, it inflated to two hundred thousand.

However, just thinking about the difference in combat power between these two sequences, such a small inflation was nothing.

Furthermore, he had them.

Not only did he have them, Hong Dou had even more.

Although this unlucky maid was captured by the "Seed Nest Machine Mother" the moment she was born, in a sense, she had also descended directly into a treasure mountain.

The truth about the Modifiers clan ravaging the Demi-Human Star Domain and modifying everything, the extraordinary characteristics within the demi-humans... all were within her reach.

For the three major main quests, her completion rate was even higher than Li Yu's, netting her four or five hundred thousand merit points.

What is called a Child of Heaven's Choice?

This was it.

If Hong Dou were not his own maid, Li Yu would not have been able to control his jealousy.

Now, the number of merit points possessed by master and servant, if added together, could barely allow them to inquire about some great secrets involving gods.

For example, is the Spirit Venerable actually dead or not?

Or, how did they die?

Of course, if one were to actually go and ask, it would be too much of a waste.

Li Yu could not care about anything else now; his primary task was to advance to Sequence 4.

The reason he was so anxious!

Besides not wanting to waste a single bit of the gift, he had also developed a prophetic intuition: "As the Longevity Daoist, I will die in the coming crisis... but if I am the Food-Eating True Monarch, there is still a glimmer of survival to be found."

"Exchange."

"Deducted!"

Accompanied by the prompt, as always, two large masses of extremely complex extraordinary secrets exploded in Li Yu's mind, pouring in violently.

The power and authority of the Demon Star Order were displayed to the fullest.

"Spirit Venerable path Sequence 4: 【Food-Eating True Monarch】."

"Secret medicine formula: Must collect three types of extraordinary materials possessing 'Devouring Divinity'; the higher the grade, the better the effect of the configured secret medicine...."

"The following examples can allow a practitioner to achieve top-tier advancement: Tooth of the Forbidden God, Blood Age Spore, Immaculate Heavenly Maiden... and so on."

"After collecting all the materials, the practitioner must swallow them all, using their own stomach as a 【Cinnabar Fire Furnace】 to refine them. During the process, the Cinnabar Fire must not burn inside the furnace, but only wrap around the stomach as a defensive measure for survival. The practitioner must personally resist the divine pollution within the materials."

"Until the secret medicine is refined."

"Hmm? This perverted?"

Because he had the previous experience of top-tier advancement to Longevity Daoist, Li Yu already had an idea of the difficulty of top-tier advancement.

Plus, this time, it was still Sequence 4.

How powerful the Food-Eating True Monarch sequence was, the predecessor Lu Sheng had already demonstrated for Li Yu.

But when the secret medicine formula and refining method were poured in, Li Yu was still shocked.

The desire to complain in his heart could not be suppressed at all:

"No wonder the Spirit Venerable died; it was likely beaten to death by a group of gods, right?"

"This is no longer a troublemaker; this is clearly an aspirant to being an Evil God."

"This is only mere Sequence 4, yet to achieve top-tier advancement, one must go pull the teeth of a 【Forbidden God】, go steal the spores of the 【Blood Age Star Lord】, go rob the daughter of the 【Immaculate Buddha Mother】... Predecessor Lu Sheng was a top-tier advanced Longevity Daoist, but his Food-Eating True Monarch was likely not advanced to the top tier."

"Because even if one were lucky enough to collect these terrifying materials, how could one possibly refine them?"

"The Cinnabar Fire cannot participate, meaning that to refine them, one must rely on the practitioner's own digestive ability."

"May I ask?"

"Which practitioner's stomach could be perverted enough to digest materials from an Evil God? It would be more likely the other way around."

"I...?"

Li Yu originally wanted to say that even he could not do it.

But at this moment, as the feedback from creating history surged fiercely, Li Yu's already perverted body's degree of mutation and evolution continued to deepen, and he silently swallowed his words back.

In his heart, some thoughts began to sprout that would make people think he was crazy if they were leaked.

Continuing to look down, even more explosive follow-up information appeared:

"After the secret medicine is refined, it will take root in the practitioner's body and cannot be removed; the advancement process will be irreversible."

"This saves the swallowing process, and while it carries great danger, it also brings great benefits."

"The practitioner's body will gradually develop some 【Mutations】 driven by divinity, permanently stealing some of the abilities of divine entities."

"For example, the mouth may, due to the Tooth of the Forbidden God, become an organ capable of biting through and devouring all things, and may even be able to eat some powerful flesh-and-blood creatures from a distance."

"Or perhaps gain the ability to gestate and scatter 'spores'; these spores will possess parasitic, devouring, and other divine properties, and can feed back everything they devour to the practitioner."

"The above permanent thefts all have a price."

"That is, if one cannot pass the advancement ritual to eliminate the divine pollution within, the practitioner will, while becoming unlimitedly powerful, also mutate toward a 'Divine Abomination'."

(End of chapter)