Invincible Dad-Chapter 493 Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill_1
No. This wasn’t a mountain.
It was an incomparably huge... incense stick!
The golden mountain wasn’t a range of undulating peaks, but a massive cylinder, radiating an aura all too familiar to Feng Xuzi.
This was Incense Wish Power!
Feng Xuzi craned his neck, looking up so far he felt it would spin a full 360 degrees, but he was unable to gauge its true length. He only knew that it was long. Very, very, very long.
"Is this... your incense?" Feng Xuzi murmured.
"Mhm."
"How long is it?"
"Not long. Just under ten thousand kilometers, I suppose."
"..."
Feng Xuzi fell silent. He thought of his own finger-length incense, the fruit of a thousand years of painstaking cultivation that barely reached fifteen or sixteen centimeters. Suddenly, the world felt surreal, almost dreamlike.
Am I dreaming? Feng Xuzi wondered. He slapped himself hard on the right cheek.
SLAP!
It hurt. It wasn’t a dream.
Maybe I didn’t hit myself the right way.
Feng Xuzi slapped his left cheek. His face began to swell and redden with pain, but he still didn’t wake up.
So, this was real.
When Feng Xuzi looked at Xu Lai again, the killing intent in his eyes was gone, replaced by pure terror and an indescribable sense of grievance.
"Senior, a great power like you... what are you doing in a small place like mine? I... I..." Feng Xuzi trailed off, so terrified he started to cry.
No wonder this man could summon a heavenly tribulation. Let alone whether this nearly ten-thousand-kilometer incense was real or not, the sheer fact that it stretched from Sakura Country into the cosmos was horrifying.
A cultivator in the Divinity Transformation Realm could manage thirty meters of incense at most. Those who reached the Divine Bridge stage could manage three hundred meters. A Venerable could command thirty kilometers, and a Celestial Venerable, three hundred kilometers. To deduce the boundary of the man before him based on this... it was simply...
"WAAH!"
Feng Xuzi cried even harder.
"Shut up."
Xu Lai frowned slightly. A white-haired old man sitting on the ground blubbering was a pathetic sight, like a common scam artist.
"..."
Feng Xuzi instantly choked back his sobs, looking pitifully at Xu Lai.
Xu Lai said flatly, "I’m going to obliterate that corpse. Any objections?"
"No objections! Obliterate it, Senior! As you please!" Feng Xuzi said hurriedly. "Wait, Senior, don’t dirty your hands. Let me do it."
As he formed the hand seals, he didn’t forget to distance himself from the matter. "Senior, great one, although the corpse in the abyss and I are technically the same person, I never helped him kill a single soul. I’m actually a good person, you must believe me. This..."
"Shut up."
"Mhm, mhm, mhm." Feng Xuzi nodded his head rapidly like a pecking chicken.
Xu Lai didn’t wait for Feng Xuzi to ’destroy his kin for the sake of justice’. He simply waved his hand.
The tribulation clouds in the sky unleashed a myriad of lightning bolts, which crashed down into the abyss. Each one felt like a blow to Feng Xuzi’s own heart. Yet, he dared not show the slightest dissatisfaction. Instead, he clapped and cheered, "Senior, your act of punishing the wicked is truly an inspiration to us all!"
Xu Lai shot him a cold look, and Feng Xuzi fell silent in terror.
Only then did Xu Lai ask, "You cultivators from other stars, what are you doing on Earth?"
"Searching for a key."
Feng Xuzi dared not hide a single detail. He rushed to explain, "A mysterious figure issued a bounty four thousand years ago. Anyone who finds the Quasi-Emperor’s Tomb on Earth and retrieves the key will be awarded a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill!"
"A Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill?"
Xu Lai was surprised. That was quite a reward.
Be it cultivation, alchemy, or artifact refining, all were divided into ten grades. A tenth-grade elixir was a Quasi-Emperor Elixir, something only a Quasi-Emperor Realm master of the Alchemy Dao could refine. It was essentially the pinnacle of alchemy. After all, Emperor Realm experts were those who had broken through at the very end of the path of heaven-defiance.
The Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill transcended the ten grades. It was a true Emperor’s Elixir, which not even a Quasi-Emperor could refine. Only a genuine Emperor Realm cultivator could create one. If a mortal consumed one, they could instantly become an Immortal Venerable and have their lifespan extended by a hundred thousand years. It was an incomparably precious treasure.
Even Xu Lai, whose skill in the Alchemy Dao was among the best in the current Immortal Domain, possessed only a single Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill. He had only managed to forge it when he achieved the Emperor Realm, and only by using the ninety-nine layers of the Hundun life-ending heavenly tribulation.
A Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill was a treasure that could tempt even Xu Lai, yet some mysterious person was offering it as a bounty?
"Yes," Feng Xuzi said cautiously. "Senior, besides the key, that mysterious person is also looking for a sword. The reward is half a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill."
Xu Lai gave a self-deprecating laugh. He suddenly understood why Ji Jie had been so willing to betray Jing Ke for a mere sword. It was worth half a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill. A profitable trade indeed. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"Where is the Quasi-Emperor’s Tomb?" Xu Lai asked.
"..."
Feng Xuzi said awkwardly, "Senior, I truly don’t know. Although I’ve been on Earth for a thousand years, I’ve spent the entire time in closed-door cultivation."
"How many of the Sea Demons in Earth’s Sea City are from your Mercury?" Xu Lai asked.
"I don’t know the exact number, but there are quite a few." As Feng Xuzi said this, he quickly added, "But they’ve all been well-behaved, staying within Sea City."
"Then what do you know about Jing Ke?" Xu Lai asked.
"Senior, who... is Jing Ke?" Feng Xuzi asked cautiously.
Xu Lai immediately lost any desire to remain.
***
At the foot of Mount Haitang.
"That mausoleum isn’t the Quasi-Emperor’s Tomb," Xu Lai said softly. "Have your people continue their search."
"Hmm?" Ji Jie was taken aback. "How do you know it isn’t?"
"I’ve already been there. It was a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Cultivator. I casually obliterated it."
"..."
You obliterated a Nascent Soul Realm Corpse Cultivator from thousands of kilometers away? Casually?
Ji Jie curled her lip.
Heh. It seems that men from both the Moon and Earth love to boast.
Although Ji Jie knew Xu Lai was powerful, he was exaggerating. Not even a terrifying existence at the peak of the Divinity Transformation Realm could take an enemy’s head from thousands of kilometers away.
Ji Jie smiled. "Xu Lai, you don’t have to brag to get my attention. I’ve always been willing to be your woman."
She blinked, radiating an infinite charm.
Xu Lai instinctively glanced toward Haitang Court. He couldn’t shake the feeling that a pair of eyes was watching him.
Was it Ruan Tang? No, no, no. She should be asleep right now.
So Xu Lai reached out and caressed Ji Jie’s face. She froze for a second, then her smile widened. She leaned into his palm and whispered, her breath as fragrant as an orchid, "Finally come around?"
But what awaited her were not sweet nothings.
PAT. PAT.
Xu Lai gently patted her cheek twice and said earnestly, "Don’t overthink it. Just do your job."
Ji Jie fell silent.
She watched Xu Lai turn and walk away from the foot of the mountain. Her expression showed no anger or humiliation. Instead, her smile grew even more brilliant.
Another one to fall for.
Ji Jie plucked a Haitang blossom and tucked it behind her ear like a young maiden.
She smiled. Should I make him into a timeless specimen, or should I peel off his skin to make clothes I can wear at any time?
Ji Jie departed with graceful steps. In the sunlight, her red palace dress glowed a more vivid scarlet. When the wind caught it, the fabric billowed like a pool of flowing blood, a vision of deadly beauty.
