Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone-Chapter 663 - 593: 500 Years, Half-Step Peak of Void Refining_2

On the second floor of the cafeteria, as soon as the young man sat down, a Purple Mansion Cultivator immediately approached and asked, "Daoist friend, what delicacies would you like? Here's the menu. For rice, we have seven different types: White Sun Rice, Jade Spring Rice, Jade Emperor Rice, Dragon Tooth Rice, Phoenix Rice, Qilin Rice, and Immortal Rice."

"As for the dishes, we have steamed dragon meat, stir-fried wind liver, Golden Crow roasted wings, Black Tortoise soup, Hundred Spirits soup..."

As the shop assistant, the Purple Mansion Cultivator introduced the dishes and continually made recommendations.

Cultivating immortality is no easy feat, the Cultivator sighed.

Once, thousands of years ago, the Lu Family only had one Purple Mansion Cultivator. Back then, the Purple Mansion Cultivator was called Ancestor, standing at the pinnacle of the Lu Family; but today, thousands of years later, the Lu Family is continuously developing, with increasing internal competition, and competition for all kinds of positions intensifying, even Purple Mansion Cultivators are only able to serve as wait staff in restaurants.

Once upon a time, they even used Secret Technique Puppets to replace Cultivators as wait staff.

But soon, they were reported, and eventually, they gave up on it.

It reverted to Cultivators again, with Cultivators competing for the roles.

The young man flipped through the menu and said, "Two bowls of Dragon Tooth Rice, two bowls of Phoenix Rice, ten thousand Qilin Rice, and two bowls of Immortal Rice, plus a 'Golden Package' which includes about eighteen dishes; and a gourd each of Blood Essence Wine, Soul-Cleansing Wine, and Immortal Wine; also, three Five Elements Fruits, and three Creation Fruits as after-meal fruits."

"Please wait a moment, make the payment first, and then the dishes will be served!" the server filled out the order with a smile and said, "The price is one thousand upper-grade Spirit Stones. Would you like to use a card or pay in Spirit Stones?"

"I'll use the card!"

The young man nodded, directly taking out his Spirit Stone card to make the payment.

The Spirit Stone card is an innovation of the Lu Family, a card that can substitute Spirit Stones for transactions and offer a certain degree of borrowing services.

Initially, the Spirit Stone card was only used within the Lu Family, but gradually it was implemented in Chu Country, and even extended to Wu Country, Yue Country, and northward to Jin Country and Qi Country.

After a short while, various dishes were served consecutively.

The young man tasted the food directly; the portions were large, and the flavor was delicious, eating with voracious appetite.

The food was quickly devoured.

After about ten minutes, all the food had been consumed.

Burping contentedly, the young man sat comfortably on the chair, not wanting to move an inch.

"The Lu Family is great, much better than the Joyful Union Demon Sect..."

The young man mused, vaguely recalling past times.

The young man was precisely the Six Desires Demon Venerable.

In the blink of an eye, he had already stayed in the Lu Family for five hundred years. During these five hundred years, he continuously completed various missions for the Lu Family, exchanging for cultivation resources.

Then, his cultivation speed increased rapidly.

In just a hundred years, he became a Golden Core Cultivator; another three hundred years later, he became a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and now he had reached the Nascent Soul Third Layer.

The Nascent Soul Third Layer was considered the middle-upper tier in the Lu Family.

With the revival of Spiritual Qi, the number of Cultivators was increasing, but Nascent Soul Cultivators were still as rare as a phoenix's feather, still few in number.

He stayed in the Lu Family for five hundred years, something he had not expected…In his mind, he thought he would only stay temporarily in the Lu Family before being driven away by Lu Xuanji or Qinglian. But the result was unexpected, as neither Lu Xuanji nor Qinglian paid attention to him. They neither gave him good treatment nor oppressed him.

They treated him as an ordinary Guest Minister, with appropriate treatment.

And the treatment in the Lu Family far exceeded his expectations.

In the Joyful Union Demon Sect, there is killing everywhere, constant plots from brothers, Dao companions, and between master and disciple, deceiving and harming each other, with no talk of virtue or morality.

But the Lu Family was surprising; everything was in order, no killings or treasure snatching, providing mutual assistance. If there was a problem, they helped each other. A few with bad intentions or poor morals were suppressed by the Lu Family's rules and had to become good people.

In Confucianism, even if one is bad, even a big villain has to pretend to be a good person to survive.

But after being a bad person for decades or hundreds of years, pretending to be a good person for so long, is he still a bad person?

The Lu Family's atmosphere of mutual support and assistance, harmonious and friendly, made the previously cold and selfish Six Desires Demon Venerable feel a slight change.

I am no longer myself.

The former Demon Venerable, once a demonic tyrant, seemed to have the feeling of abandoning evil for goodness.

"Demonic Cultivators uphold the doctrine that human nature is inherently evil. As infants, parents nurture them, and when the children grow, they resent. When grown children do not provide adequately, parents grow angry and rebuke. Even the closest of parent and child relations are like that, let alone between ordinary people, between people? The so-called trust is nothing more than interest. Catastrophe isn't in the heavens, but within the human heart!"

"But Lu Xuanji didn't think so. He believed that human nature is neither inherently good nor evil. He thought people become bad not because they are inherently evil, but because they are forced to become evil to survive. However, under institutional constraints and cultural atmosphere, bad people can become good."

"A bad system turns good people into bad ones; a good system turns bad people into good ones!"

Six Desires Demon Venerable recalled the past five hundred years in the Lu Family, feeling an unsuppressable emotion.

In a certain sense, the Lu Family changed everything about him, transforming him from bad to good.

In the past, when he did bad deeds, he never felt he was doing anything wrong; he felt it was only natural, oblivious to his wickedness. But in all these years with the Lu Family, he had softened; when considering doing evil again, he'd hesitate, weigh options, feeling reluctant in his heart.

Just then, as the Six Desires Demon Venerable's mind was fluctuating, he suddenly sensed a terrifying aura emanating from afar.

It lasted no more than three seconds before it was suppressed by the Array, but the sensation lingered momentarily.

"He has reached the half-step peak of Void Refining..."

The Six Desires Demon Venerable instinctively clenched his fists.

...

Within the Cave Mansion, a terrifying aura emanated out, resembling a mountain-sea.

Soon after, the aura was withdrawn, returning to a state of calmness.

In the Cave Mansion, Lu Xuanji opened his eyes; his gaze was like the Aifosi stars, a terrifying aura suppressing the void, projecting a destructive Qi Force.

His eyes dimmed with divine light, returning to a normal appearance.

Crack!

Crack!

Lu Xuanji stood up, stretching his muscles, magical power surging intensely.

The aura was like a mountain-sea, tides and waves, one after another.

Half-Step Void Refining Peak.

This time, after five hundred years of closed cultivation, he had finally reached this realm.

At this moment, the aura was robust. Lu Xuanji had a feeling that he could break through at any time, triggering the Celestial Tribulation, Human Tribulation, and Life Tribulation, and then breakthrough into the Void Refining Realm.

But at the moment of breakthrough, he felt a bad premonition, a feeling of oppression that breaking through would mean total demise.

Breakthrough means death.

"Void Order, without the aura of the Void Order to conceal and prove oneself... breaking through will lead to an attack from some powerful entity, and then getting captured and devoured!" Lu Xuanji sighed, "A Void Refining Cultivator is a supreme tonic too; consuming it would bring great benefit!"

With unresolved discontent, he used his mobile device to deduce, and the result indicated that without the Void Order, a breakthrough would surely mean death.

He used the "Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure" to deduce again, and still, without the Void Order, a breakthrough would mean inevitable death.

"At most in eighteen hundred years, that Great World will attack the Purple Mansion Realm. At that time, the Purple Mansion Realm will be in crisis. To cope with the crisis, those top figures should unleash restrictions, allowing many Cultivators to reach the Void Refining Realm, providing more cannon fodder during the Great Catastrophe!"

"But they did not!"

Lu Xuanji contemplated, a tinge of unwillingness flashed by, deducing again, yet the world blockade remained, danger persisted, and the so-called unsealing of 'Void Refining Imprisonment' still did not disappear.

He guessed wrong again.

Even facing a major crisis, those top figures still did not relax the suppression on middle and higher-level Cultivators. Breaking into Void Refining still requires the Void Order.