Chapter 169: [Observing from the shadows, a mutual pursuit] (Second update, begging for votes)

Seeing Lu Runping's indifferent demeanor, the Xuefo Xiedi could not help but feel a trace of fear rise in his heart; all five evil masters were deeply terrified to the marrow by the strength of this zombie supreme.

But at this moment, thinking that the opponent was merely a remnant soul, his expression turned ferocious.

"What are you still acting arrogant for? You are just a remnant soul; do you still think you are that Rending Heaven Corpse King!?"

The next moment, his pupils shook violently, because he saw another Rending Heaven Corpse King suddenly appear, who then annihilated the remnant soul and put away the dharma treasure.

"To be an evil master, I granted you a favor, yet you actually dared to snatch my treasure. It seems you cannot be left alive!"

The Xuefo Xiedi said in horror:

"This, impossible, you, you weren't beaten to smithereens by so many Land Immortals, how could you, how could you still be alive!?"

Lu Runping ignored him, directly using the 【Soul-Bewildering Soul-Seizing】 supernatural power to blast his primordial spirit out of his body, and then used the 【Taiyin True Water】 great supernatural power to directly freeze and shatter his consciousness.

This guy's physical body was a blood sarira, having usurped the body of the original sarira owner, that Buddhist cultivator at the Land Immortal realm, eventually forming the current Blood Buddha True Body.

His potential was still quite great; entering the demonic path through Buddhism, being an evil master, yet able to cast Buddhist dharma.

It was just a pity that his comprehension was too poor, and he fundamentally failed to bring out the strengths of this origin.

This was a good item, which could be used as a sustenance object for an incarnation's transformation; one could walk the evil path, or enter the Buddhist gate.

Even if not used as a sustenance object, it was itself a very good dharma treasure; directly fusing it into one's physical body could increase combat power significantly.

He had obtained another Land Immortal realm Dao fruit.

After this battle, the two great Evil Emperors and three great Demon Monarchs of the Chaotic Demon Sea were taken down by him in one fell swoop; he, Lu Runping, was indeed the true light of the righteous path!

The cost was merely an incarnation; by consuming a bit of primordial spirit power, he could condense another one through his supernatural power.

Next, it was time to wait for these Land Immortals of the Beizheng Sizhou to ascend.

With the arrangements here finished, Lu Runping immediately headed to the next destination.

Nanshan Yuzhou and Xiyuan Luzhou.

In the former, the Immortal Dynasty and sects were in opposition, while in the latter, the Buddhist gate was the sole dominant power; neither was easy to bewitch all the Land Immortal realm existences.

Lu Runping first spent three years scouting both places separately, and after gaining a deep understanding, he found an entry point.

His first target was Nanshan Yuzhou.

The four great Immortal Dynasties and seven great Immortal Sects were already full of contradictions; as long as he framed something as a target for contention, both sides would take the initiative to acquire it, and he wouldn't need to disguise himself as Xuanjizi to swindle people.

In the southwest of Nanshan Yuzhou, there was a secret realm named the 'Xianfu Mijie', which only cultivators with a cultivation base at the Dao Harmonizing realm perfection or above could enter to participate in the trials of the Immortal Mansion Spirit.

It was rumored that by passing the final trial, one could obtain the Immortal Mansion inheritance, which contained the inheritance of a True Immortal.

And even if one didn't pass the final trial, just by passing a few levels of tests, one could obtain decent rewards.

This Xianfu Mijie was nominally guarded by the two surrounding top forces, the 'Xuanlong Immortal Dynasty' and the 'Heavenly Blade Immortal Sect'; in reality, people from the four great Immortal Dynasties and seven great Immortal Sects all had people stationed there, and without permission, it was almost impossible for even a Land Immortal to force their way in.

After all, it involved a True Immortal realm secret treasure.

The people of the four dynasties and seven sects once had an agreement that no matter which family obtained the final inheritance, they had to take out half of the items inside and share them with the other ten forces.

Of course, whether they would actually do so when the time came was unknown.

But that didn't matter; Lu Runping thought about it carefully and decided to be this selfless person.

He also wanted the Immortal Mansion inheritance.

It was one thing when he didn't know, but now that he did, he could just happen to obtain some news about True Immortals through this method.

News about True Immortals in the lower realm was too scarce, and a True Immortal realm Dao fruit was an even more ethereal thing; he didn't know when he would be able to obtain one, so this news before his eyes was clearly more certain.

Lu Runping first released an incarnation and, using the 【Standing Upright Without Shadow】 supernatural power, easily snuck into the entrance of the secret realm.

This entrance was simple; it was just a cave opening, and behind the white light curtain was another space, similar to the existence of the secret realm space where the Tianyu Immortal Sect stored the corpse of the Ice Phoenix Demon Monarch.

But compared to that secret realm space, the specifications of this Immortal Mansion space were much larger.

This point could be discovered from the spatial pressure felt during the entry process.

Just that light gate alone—without a cultivation base at the Dao Harmonizing realm perfection, one simply couldn't withstand the Immortal Dao pressure; the outcome of forcing one's way in would be the collapse of the primordial spirit and the disintegration of the physical body.

After entering, what he saw was a vast grassland; in the middle of the grassland, there was a snow mountain, and on the snow mountain, there was water flowing, gathering into a river that flowed in all directions.

The Spirit Qi here was very dense; it could be called a blessed land.

Lu Runping flew toward the direction of the snow mountain and discovered that the flight restriction here was very strong; ordinary flying and levitation techniques couldn't even lift him a hundred meters off the ground.

But when he used the 【Earth-Vertical Golden Light】, this restrictive power had no obstruction to him.

From this, it could be seen that Lu Runping's supernatural power specifications were very high, at least above the restrictive spells of this rumored Immortal Mansion inheritance.

Arriving at the snow mountain, he saw a high tower towering into the clouds; entering from the first floor, a floating figure appeared before his eyes, with crane-like hair and a youthful face, possessing an immortal air.

"This poor Daoist is Xuantongzi, the artifact spirit of this Xuan Tong Treasure Tower, and also the guardian of this Immortal Mansion space. As long as you pass the final trial, you can obtain the inheritance rights of the Immortal Mansion and obtain the secret treasure of a True Immortal."

Lu Runping saw at a glance that this thing, which looked like an artifact spirit, was actually a divided divine sense.

To be able to produce such a divided divine sense, it must be a true spirit with active consciousness.

This Immortal Mansion didn't seem as simple as it looked.

He would play along; anyway, it was just an incarnation, and at worst, he would self-destruct.

He would just act; who could out-act him?

"I will definitely obtain the Immortal Mansion inheritance!"

Lu Runping revealed a determined expression, just like those greedy cultivators who wanted to obtain the secret treasure.

"Go in; every floor is a trial, twenty-seven floors in total; pass them all, and you can obtain the final reward. Work hard; whether the Immortal fate can fall into your hands depends on your own fortune."

Xuantongzi said a word, and then directly disappeared.

Lu Runping entered the first floor of the trial.

This trial project was very simple: defeat a phantom demonic beast at the level of a First-Turn Heavenly Monarch.

Of course, for a cultivator who had just reached the Dao Harmonizing realm perfection but hadn't completed their first tribulation, this was still quite challenging.

Then came the second level, the third level, all the way to the twelfth level.

Lu Runping discovered that the trials here were very simple; the simplicity he spoke of wasn't that they were easy to pass, but that the patterns were very simple.

They were basically divided into three major categories: one type was combat, fighting against phantom demonic beasts; the second type was oppression, passing through a corridor formed by physical pressure or the pressure of Immortal Spirit power; the third type was primordial spirit impact, which was testing the strength of the primordial spirit.

It was just that as the number of floors increased, the difficulty of the testing also increased accordingly.

Entering the twentieth floor, only a Land Immortal could pass the test.

At this time, if one didn't use power at the Land Immortal level, one simply couldn't continue to challenge upward.

Synthesizing the previous trial standards, Lu Runping discovered that the process of this trial tended to first check physical strength, then test the primordial spirit level, and finally see what combat means one had.

It made you show your abilities step by step from various aspects.

When you had no more abilities, you failed.

Lu Runping's incarnation also had a physical body at the Spirit Treasure Dao Body level, and his primordial spirit power belonged to the weaker type; after all, this was an incarnation.

And his combat style was also simple; generally, it was physical resistance, and at most, he would use the Cold Ice True Intent to release a few rays of Ice Soul Divine Light.

Their combat style was simple: generally, they relied on their physical bodies to take hits head-on, or at most, they would use their Cold Ice True Intent to release a few beams of Ice Soul Divine Light.

The power was immense, yet it was less than one percent of the combat strength Lu Runping could unleash when going all out.

At the highest level of the Profound Connection Pagoda, a humanoid primordial spirit watched Lu Runping's performance and test results through a mirror, a satisfied expression appearing on its face.

"Not bad, not bad! The quality of the physical body is very high; it is actually a Spirit Treasure Dao Body. This is the first time I have seen a Spirit Treasure Dao Body in the lower realm.

The primordial spirit is very weak, which is quite good. He must have focused solely on cultivating his physical body while neglecting the cultivation of his primordial spirit—it suits my intentions perfectly.

However, this Cold Ice True Intent is cultivated to a very formidable level; a direct head-on conflict might cause me some harm.

I need to use some strategy."

While he was watching the mirror, inside a restaurant somewhere outside the secret realm, Lu Runping was also watching a mirror.

The mirror was just an ordinary bronze mirror, only it had been imbued with the 【Round Light Manifestation】 supernatural power.

This supernatural power was extremely overbearing; as long as he was given the precise space and time, he could view images of the past from any location.

Nowadays, he could view scenes from as far back as a blink of an eye ago, which was almost equivalent to a live broadcast.

After his external incarnation entered the Profound Connection Pagoda, Lu Runping obtained accurate spatial information and then began to view the scenes inside the pagoda level by level.

Finally, when his incarnation was undergoing the selection at the third level, he discovered this primordial spirit located at the top of the twenty-seventh level.

Just as he had guessed from the beginning, there was indeed something fishy about this immortal mansion inheritance.

Analyzing the words this fellow muttered to himself, he should be looking for someone from the lower realm to possess.

This primordial spirit might truly have been a True Immortal originally, so to carry its own primordial spirit, an ordinary person from the lower realm would not suffice; the physical body must be sufficiently powerful.

At the same time, it was probing the examiner's primordial spirit strength and hidden trump cards to judge whether it could successfully perform the possession.

The True Immortal primordial spirit was observing his incarnation, and Lu Runping was also observing it.

If there were no accidents, the incarnation would successfully reach the twenty-seventh level; at that time, he would first let the incarnation test just how strong this True Immortal primordial spirit really was.

If necessary, he would let the incarnation stage a performance of the art of explosion, and then he would personally take action to capture this True Immortal primordial spirit.

Its memory should contain quite a bit of information regarding the upper realm.

The True Immortal primordial spirit was plotting against Lu Runping's incarnation, and Lu Runping was also very interested in it.

A mutual pursuit—it really was a wonderful thing!