Be the Hardest Working Demon Cultivator!

Chapter 303: 182. Killing the mentor is the right way here

The somewhat overbearing "Method One" this time, however, had not succeeded in refining.

But it wasn’t considered a failure either.

After all, this method of refining an incarnation involves a very special approach, similar to continuously instilling various thoughts to gradually convince it that it is the caster’s incarnation.

Therefore, the current situation was — although the green-robed elder did not think he was Tan Shuchang’s incarnation, he believed he was part of the Blood Pool.

Originally, he was a whiff of air that floated above the Blood Pool before obtaining fortune and becoming the Qi of Wind and Green.

Thus, he regarded Tan Shuchang as his master.

Only, there were hardly any changes in the way they addressed each other.

"Fellow Daoist, you might not know this, but the wily old ghost actually didn’t transform into a Daoist by choice," said the green-robed elder as he revealed the secrets of the Purple-Gold Immortal. Although he was no longer an incarnation of the scholar, the past resentments still lingered.

It was after he had recovered his past memories that he, in turn, refined the consciousness left by the scholar.

"The wily old ghost chose to become a Daoist merely because he accepted a disciple he shouldn’t have," he added.

The green-robed elder revealed the truth behind that sacrificial act of righteousness in the past.

"Taking a disciple, as a master, you can gain the disciple’s fortunes, and the more extraordinary the disciple, the greater the benefits you receive. Having a very talented disciple who was exposed too early can sometimes be not a good thing. Conversely, if you yourself have mediocre cultivation but want to accept an exceptionally talented person as a disciple, there could be trouble," he explained.

"The experiences of the Purple-Gold Immortal are legendary, starting from insignificance, surviving through the final calamity, rising from being as lowly as a tiny plant, ascending to the Primordial Heavenly Realm, and even entering the Immortal Court to become one of the Three Great Sword Immortals. But could he have achieved this without an extraordinary background? There are others qualified to be titled as High Immortals, why did he alone receive the title?" he queried.

At this point, the green-robed elder scoffed.

Or else, reincarnating on the spot, and being born immediately as the Earth Fiend Orthodox Law Dao Fruit.

If Phase One is the beginning of longevity, then the Righteous True Immortal of Earthly Slaughter is the beginning of indestructibility. The higher the cultivation, the harder it is to kill.

"My friend, in this vast world, do you know what the dreams of those exceptional prodigies are?" the green-robed elder suddenly asked Tan Shuchang with a smile.

"Could it be patricide?" Tan Shuchang said, as it wasn’t hard to guess.

It was almost an answer laid out in plain sight.

"Exactly!" exclaimed the green-robed elder vigorously nodding, "To commit patricide, those prodigies have thought of countless ways. There’s even a legend that a True Immortal, to advance further, divided himself into countless incarnations and spread across the Mortal Realm just to find a way to kill his master."

Tan Shuchang also nodded, as he could empathize entirely.

In this universe, those prodigies, those True Immortals’ masters blocking their path, were blocking their way forward. And when he faced his mentor Heartless Old Man, the Heartless Old Man’s death was blocking his way to life!

Although these were two different paths, fundamentally, there wasn’t the slightest difference.

Both are cases where the older generation remains alive, and one cannot proceed further themselves.

Then, Tan Shuchang once again transformed into a puddle of blood, as he was about to sit upon the Lotus Platform again. This was because the green-robed elder had discovered a method known as the "Nine Suns Pill" from the scholar’s legacy, specifically for counteracting one’s own periods of decline.

This method is specifically used to counterbalance the periods of one’s own decline.

Upon completion, you could possess nine external pills.

However, it doesn’t mean consuming one external pill per period of decline; it might require several pills at once. And the cost of using one external pill is nine days of excruciating pain.