Chapter One Hundred: Lotus Flower

  The space inside the Golden Ark expanded a hundredfold and more. Bai Qi simply refined a palace within it.

  Palaces are not suitable for ordinary people to live in, with a square and regular layout, implying the rules of heaven and earth. All kinds of ordinary people have conflicts with this palace. Moreover, palaces waste space greatly, if all buildings in a city were palaces, there would be no room for people to live.

  In the palace, Bai Qi and Na Zhanbu sat on the ground with Zhu Guo. The remaining four cultivators controlled the flying boats outside.

  After Bai Qi's refinement, the Golden Ark of Transcendence was activated with less consumption of spiritual power. Without the help of Bai Qi and others, the remaining four alchemists were able to cope with the help of the Returning Breath Pill.

  "What's your origin, White Brother?" Zhang Bu couldn't help but ask directly. White Qi's swordsmanship might not be as refined as his, but it was clearly much higher level, and that sword aura seemed to be of the Dao soldier class.

  How could such a person be a loose cultivator?

  Zhan Bu is a true loose cultivator. His Daoist techniques and equipment were all exchanged for with his life. For people who have a sect or a background, he is naturally distrustful.

  "My origins? If you knew, you'd never be able to escape, even if you tried to sell me out. So I don't plan on telling you. You're a decent person, worth getting along with." Bai Qi smiled strangely, looking at Zhu Guo.

  Zhu Guo finally felt embarrassed for the first time and lowered his head.

  She originally nonsense, Bai Qi did not believe at all.

  "Are you serious?" Zhang Bu was taken aback and asked back.

  Bai nodded and said: "If it were three to five Golden Dan cultivators, I wouldn't mind now, but you still want me to go to Shen State to make arrangements. You say, isn't that a lot of trouble?"

  Zhan Bu smiled wryly and said: "I also caused a disaster, it seems that everyone has the same fate."

  "Zhan brother, Zhu Guo, since it's like this, we might as well make long-term plans. In the Divine State, it's not necessarily safer than in the Central State." Bai Qi had made up his mind to have a long-term relationship with these two people, but it wasn't about fighting together.

  Zhu Guo, however, was delighted for reasons related to his sect and reacted faster than Zhang Bu: "Good! Good!"

  Zhu Guo said, "Brother Bai wants to exchange Dao techniques with us."

  Zhan Bu's face changed suddenly, and Bai Qi laughed and said: "Yes, Zhan brother, your way of quietly approaching people, I want to learn. Zhu Guo's method of controlling the monster, I also want to learn."

  Zhu Guo was also stunned for a moment. She had originally thought that Bai Qi wanted to learn alchemy, but she didn't know that as long as Bai Qi had the Inverse Scale Spear, he didn't need any elixirs at all.

  She didn't know, however, that Bai Qi deeply understood human nature. Everyone had truly become friends and there was still time to learn other things later on. Moreover, the leader of Danyang Gate was only at the Golden Dan stage and was also the strongest cultivator in the sect. His alchemy skills were stuck at the Return to Void boundary. He didn't want to learn this kind of alchemy either.

  "Thank you, Brother Bai, for your guidance." Zhang Bu stood up and respectfully bowed to Bai Qi. He also knew that what Bai Qi valued more in their exchange of Daoist techniques was his experience outside. For someone as intelligent as Bai Qi, even if he had less experience, there wouldn't be much risk. However, for himself who wanted to learn higher-level Daoist techniques, it was like seeking knowledge with no door to enter.

  Zhu Guo also bowed to Bai Qi, and the two people unknowingly treated Bai Qi as the master of this place.

  Bai Qi didn't care that these two people didn't have a good reputation, because when it comes to friendship, what matters is quality. Zhu Guo was arrogant, but not overbearing, and had some oily smoothness to him, yet his nature wasn't bad. When the cultivator's body was bitten off by the demonic beast, the first thing he did was ask Zhu Guo if he could save him, the second thing he did was end the cultivator's suffering, and only thirdly did he think of protecting himself.

  Three people started exchanging Taoist skills in the Golden Ark, and the speed of crossing the Golden Ark increased a lot. However, it is estimated that there will still be about a year's time before reaching the Divine State. Fortunately, this time estimate was relatively generous, and several troubles were also expected to occur along the way.

  Bai Qi got what he wanted and learned the method of hiding his aura. Originally, if he had cultivated to a higher level later on, he could have mastered this ability, which is thousands or tens of thousands of times more advanced than Zhan Bu's method - the power of Qing Di Yi, an extension skill of Chong Feng Zhishu.

  However, for now, going to Shen Zhou, Bai Qi urgently needs is the power that can be used immediately.

  He valued the Moon Wheel Sword Pill, and that was the reason. Even if the Eternal Night Sword Pill was stronger, or the Six Yang Thunder Sword was even more advanced, in his hands they could only wait to be refined into a Golden Elixir before there would be any hope.

  Originating from Beihai, ending at Qingyuan.

  One must strive and struggle in the vast ocean to gain one's own strength, only then can one soar to the heights of the nine heavens. The Taoist name my mother gave herself is not just a phrase from a book.

  Zhu Guo's technique of raising demonic creatures is quite valuable, the Dan Yang Gate has a special elixir that can cultivate spiritual awareness in demonic creatures, allowing for direct communication, no need to brand their souls like most Qi Refiners do, in order to command them.

  The golden-backed centipede raised by Zhū Guǒ can be said to be her strongest attack. This kind of demon, which has been raised since childhood and regards Zhū Guǒ as its parent, will never betray her. Only such a demon is likely to become immortal, and it also provides the greatest help to Qi-refining masters.

  Zhu Guo didn't hesitate and gave Bai Qi the recipe for refining the Tian Yao Bu Shen Dan.

  This set of Dan Fang has a total of 108 pieces. That is, there are 108 small squares, and the elixir refined from each square is equivalent to one symbol seed. If all can be refined, it can cultivate a Xian Ling level demon.

  This Fangzi is also a fundamental part of the Danyangmen school, but Zhu Guo resents her master and doesn't want to keep it a secret.

  Bai Qi was also delighted, and divided half of the earth fire with Zhu Guo. He even gave the furnace to Zhu Guo, and cautioned him that if anyone saw it, it would be a matter of life and death.

  Bai Qi's cautious blessing was because he feared that this stove had a demonic characteristic that would bring deadly disaster to Zhu Guo.

  He could know that Zhu Guo was not a human being, but like Pi Luo Tong Zi, he was a monster born from plants and trees. It was Pi Luo Tong Zi who reminded him, and he only knew then that although Zhan Bu Ming had known that Zhu Guo was strange, he couldn't see through or guess it.

  Plants and trees becoming demons are not rare, but transforming into a human form is extremely difficult. Bai Qi didn't want to kill the Píluó Tóngzǐ, not because he was useful, but because the Píluó Tóngzǐ were rare.

  Ascetics, when it comes to such rare things, mostly adopt the approach of preserving a lineage. Because if something as precious is extinct, it's equivalent to a kind of Tao being cut off in this world.

  When Shenmu disappeared, the immortal realm also disappeared, causing countless Qi cultivators to feel heartbroken and sorrowful.

  Protecting these endangered demons is protecting oneself. The more Tao in this world, the greater the possibility of survival after countless calamities in the future.

  The demonic path is severed, because the people in the demonic path do not care about this. Occasionally, there are those who are willing to do so, but most of them follow their hearts' desires. When a demonic cultivator fights, no matter if it's a mountain, a river, or a city, even the extinction of an entire species, they will not take it to heart.

  At least that's what the Righteous Qi Practitioners think, that the Demonic Cultivators have severed their own life force.

  Bai Qi also pitied Zhu Guo, such a demonic clan, almost got refined by her master. Such a master, it's better to get rid of him. Bai Qi was grateful that he randomly found a master who took care of him like Zǐ Méi Zhēn Rén did.

  After leaving Yunmeng Zong, Bai Qi only knew how precious those Purple Yang Refining Pills were.

  Ten thousand Reverted Qi Pills couldn't be exchanged for a single Purple Yang Refining Spirit Pill, but that one Reverted Qi Pill was like taking his life when he swallowed it.

  Because I don't want to give it up.

  No wonder that ghost king collected his own elixir and took a huge risk to let himself and his master sister mix out, leaving the underworld. The power of that ghost king is only at this level, and there are no elixirs for sale in the underworld.

  Bai Qi thought of the half gourd of elixir he still had, as well as the twelve jade vials, which also contained elixirs. Any one of these would be enough for him to live a comfortable life in Shen Zhou for some time and make friends with some Qi Refining Masters.

  Originally thought I had lost my sect, but still so wealthy!

  In the following time, the three people each cultivated in their newly opened up spaces. If there was any danger, Zhan Bu would be the first to know.

  He obtained the White Qi transmission of the Moon Night Rain Sword's swordsmanship, and only needed to refine a set of law-abiding soldiers similar to the Moon Wheel Sword Pill. His strength would immediately surge up. As for Zhu Guo, she had begun to desperately refine Dan. She stole not only her master's wealth but also the treasury of the Dan Yang Gate. This little demon was ruthless enough, and with one move, she probably wouldn't be able to consume it all in a hundred years.

  Bai Qi himself was about to start refining the Buddha's golden body of that toothless godly monk in advance.

  This Bodhisattva's golden body is equivalent to the power of a false immortal, but without the realm of a false immortal. Fortunately, Bai Qi doesn't need any realm, he just wants to use this thing to guarantee his own safety.

  The golden body of the Bodhisattva was stored in his green lotus, an old monk with no teeth sat smilingly in the thirty-six petals of the green lotus, and the six paths of demonic fire repeatedly burned on the Bodhisattva's golden body.

  Robbery fire, karma fire, true fire, pure fire, heavenly fire, thunder fire. Each one is extremely pure, but lacks power.

  Bai Qi was not in a hurry, this Qing Lian had its own wonderful use. After continuously using the demon fire to refine it for 49 days, the toothless godly monk suddenly opened his eyes, sighed and said: "You little brat, don't know how to cherish things. Forget it, do as you please."

  After saying this, Wu Chi's eyes drooped again and he stopped breathing.

  Bai Qi was shocked, it turned out that this old monk still had something left inside the Golden Body, if he could find it, he could control the Golden Body to fight, equivalent to having a bodyguard with almost infinite power close to a false immortal.

  He had managed to refine the golden body, and finally forced out the things left behind by the old monk. The mysterious aura disappeared without a trace, and the golden body melted immediately. Inside the Qinglian, another pure golden lotus flower bloomed.

  Bai Qi threw in over a thousand inverted scale crystals, causing the golden lotus to grow to an enormous size. The golden lotus bloomed rapidly and then withered away at an even faster rate. In the brief moment between its birth and death, Bai Qi saw a faint golden swastika. This swastika was different, containing the Buddhist mantra for gathering divine messengers.

  The toothless monk was ultimately afraid of owing too much to Bai Qi, so he left behind this precious wealth.

  After crossing countless kalpas, waiting for the flowers on the other shore to bloom!

  Baiqi recited the true words from his mouth, and his heart was filled with joy. The golden lotus flower produced 360 pure golden lotus seeds for him.