Chapter 56 (1/2)

To avoid too much trouble, after Li Changshou thanked her, he left a pile of gold and silver before he secretly left without saying goodbye while that young lady went to shout for someone.

He didn’t go far and executed the Earth Escape over 50 kilometers. He hid in the trunk of a large tree in the oceanside forest and used his immortal senses to scan all over this village.

As the saying went, “Each place has its own way of supporting its own inhabitants.”

‘Could this village’s water and soil have been mixed with strong medicine?’

As far as his immortal sense could see, a group of strong men and women were busy everywhere, and they weren’t just ordinary strong men and women. They had a kind of… indescribable, aristocratic strength.

As far as his immortal sense could see, there were men and women with prominent muscles all over their bodies. Each of them had arms nearly as thick as his junior sister’s waist, and dozens of kilograms of millstones were rolled around by a few children as toys.

Other than a small number of old people and children, most of the people in this village were about the same size as the young lady he had seen earlier.

‘I might be overthinking. This village probably pursues the beauty of muscles.’

Li Changshou smiled in his heart. When he was observing this village, he vaguely felt his immortal body and Primordial Spirit that had yet to fully recover.

The immortal sense was much better than the spiritual sense. Not only did it have a further detection range, but the images ‘seen’ were also clearer and more vivid.

Before the Tribulation Transcendence, Li Changshou’s spiritual sense could at most detect a range within a few dozens of kilometers. However, all he saw were blurred images, and he could only see clear images within 15 kilometers.

Now, it was different, as he could casually release his immortal sense and observe up to 1,000 kilometers away.

Just at that moment, even from 500 kilometers away, he could roughly distinguish the two figures wrestling on the forest meadow and their approximate fighting movements…

It seemed that they were not fighting there…

‘I don’t need to care about these details. Anyway, my detection skills have been greatly enhanced!’

Li Changshou returned his attention to the village 50 kilometers away.

The young lady, who had taken care of him for some time, hurriedly rushed into the wooden house, where he had been staying earlier, with a group of people and found a pile of gold and silver that he had left on his bed.

It had been more than nine months since he had left the Immortal Du Sect, and he could still stay outside for at most three or four years. After that, his master and the sectarian officers would go looking for him.

‘During this period, I should find an island and enter seclusion.’

There were still many things to do, and he must now think clearly and arrange his schedule one thing at a time.

Naturally, there was no need to mention about recuperating and stabilizing his cultivation realm.

He had to find a way to conceal his immortal power and immortal body, and simulate his original mortal Dao body.

Since he had chosen to conceal his cultivation level as a trump card in the beginning, he had to stick to that path to the end. If he was suddenly exposed, he would definitely be suspected by the Immortal Du Sect’s higher-ups.

The development of the third version of the Qi-Calming Turtle Breathing Mantra had to be on his schedule.

In addition, Li Changshou had to face an awkward fact.

Because after he had pa.s.sed the Heavenly Tribulation, his strength had taken a big step forward, and he had gained the rumored ‘ascension’.

This was naturally a good thing, but one-third of the defensive methods he relied on before were completely meaningless, and one-third of them had their effectiveness greatly diminished.

For example, the Soft Immortal Disperser and many poisonous pills had already been a bit useless.

When he wasn’t powerful enough, the incapacitating agents and poisonous pills were powerful weapons to protect himself.

Right now, the poisonous pills were no longer as effective as him making a move on his own.

Many poisonous pills, which he had refined to deal with Perfected Immortals, could only be stored for future uses. Otherwise, he could go to the border of the Middle Continent and trade them for treasured herbs in the marketplace.

The power of that bronze crossbow could be increased according to the user’s Dharma powers and immortal power.

This offensive weapon that consumed very little immortal power could be kept. Later on, he would use his immortal power to brandish it and develop its potential. Then, he could let the paper dolls use it.

The same went for the True Samadhi Flames. Their power increased with his strength, and he only needed to replenish his cultivation and condense the immortal fire.

The paper dolls’ mystical abilities needed to be comprehended again, and future paper dolls would have more wonderful uses and power than before.

The Five-Element Escape technique could also be used to enter a whole new realm.

The sword array Dharma treasure needed to be brandished again as well.

Some powerful talismans that had previously been impossible to draw could now be made.

The Heavenly Precious Umbrella could create some more powerful arrays.

“Wait, wait, wait, wait…”

After taking a closer look, Li Changshou had many things to do, and three or four years might not be enough.

It was a good idea to first pick the most important ones and upgrade the most commonly used escape techniques.

There were priorities, and his life came first.

So what even if he had ascended? What could he do after ascending to an immortal?

Through Immortal Ascension, he had become a stronger ant.

Ascension had given wings to this ant to fly to the sky. However, he was still a flying ant, only with clearer goals.

Age wasn’t counted in the Primordial World, and it had been countless years since then. Even though the Great Tribulation continued to descend, there were still too many surviving experts.

There were the Heavenly Dao, Dao Ancestors, and Six Saints above.

There were mighty ancient figures, the Three Schools’ elders, remnants of mages and demons, experts of the human race, and all kinds of superior beings reincarnating below.

Right now, he was not even a third-rate expert and was not even close to achieving that.

The important point was that he was especially poor.

His immortal sense captured noises in the distant village, and the st.u.r.dy young lady crouched there bawling as she hugged the pile of gold and silver that Li Changshou had left behind.

“I wasn’t the one who lost the immortal! I didn’t sell the immortal either!”

Upon seeing her squat on the ground and crying like a child, the group of ‘iron towers’ and ‘King Kongs’ around her were still ruthlessly blaming her.

“I told you to take care of the Sea G.o.d. How can you lose sight of such a big one?”

“Oh, did you have to run out and yell for someone? Couldn’t you just stand at the window and shout ‘the Sea G.o.d is awake, the Sea G.o.d is awake’? Why did you have to run around!”

“I told you that the Sea G.o.d is not an immortal!

“Xiong Lingli! Don’t listen to your father! You can’t offend the Sea G.o.d!

“Hurry. Take these gold and silver to the village chief’s house! Lest these things provoke the Sea G.o.d!”

Xiong…

The surname suited them—the posture of a true bear[1].

The group of adults scolded the young girl for a while before they then dispersed. They did not punish the young girl and began to search for their ‘Sea G.o.d’ inside and outside the village.