Chapter 57 (1/2)

What was going on?

As his immortal sense was disturbed by the precious light from the north, Li Changshou and other paper doll clones approached the village and hid in the treetop of a large tree. Only then could they see the situation inside the village.

Hundreds of villagers were gathered around the village gate, where a stage had been set up with several figures dressed in Daoist robes jumping on it. Someone was preaching there.

He saw that the source of the precious light was actually a clay statue behind those ‘preachers’.

Li Changshou smiled in his heart, and the paper dolls transformed into middle-aged men before they jumped off the treetop and left right away.

He thought that some kind of treasure was born and thought of going over and picking it up.

Nowadays, where could there be so many treasures for him to pick up?

If such preaching happened outside the South Continent, it was 80% a propaganda activity conducted by some great sects to recruit disciples.

However, if something happened within the South Continent, it would either be money swindling or collecting incense offerings and merit.

This was commonly seen.

The cultivation level displayed by those preachers were all at the Third or Fourth Stages of the Soul Formation Realm.

The old Daoist, who was guarding that three-foot-tall clay statue, displayed a cultivation level at the peak of the Void Return Realm and was close to the Dao Requital Realm.

In short, it was something that had nothing to do with Li Changshou.

The paper dolls conjured hand seals, hid behind a tree, and began to execute the Earth Escape.

The sound of a chanting sutra came with the wind and reached the paper dolls’ ears and Li Changshou’s heart. He heard the sutra being chanted.

“With great aspirations to validate the supreme Dao, it is the enlightenment of the West…”

‘The Western school?’

The paper dolls conjured hand seals a little faster. As soon as a few ripples appeared on the ground in front of them, the paper dolls couldn’t wait to get into it.

They ran even faster than before.

At the same time, Li Changshou’s original body on the deserted island also stood up and cast an Illusion Spell to transform into a fish, which headed straight towards the east.

The Western school caused great karma, so what was he waiting for if he wasn’t going to leave this place?

Unexpectedly, this was still the southwestern part of the South Continent, which was very far away from the AparaG.o.dānīya Continent. Yet, the Western school had already come here to collect incense offerings.

However, as Li Changshou was about to retreat, his immortal sense suddenly captured something strange in the seawater in the southeast direction.

About 80 kilometers away, there was a dense cloud of demonic aura that was now swimming in the direction of the precious s.h.i.+ning light.

Li Changshou immediately stopped and fell into the bottom of the sea, doing his best to conceal his tracks.

He stopped the paper dolls, which were still traveling underground as well, and they stayed still.

‘Was a sea demon attracted to the precious light of the village? This is not a good thing.’

After carefully observing it, the cultivation level of the great demon in the sea was equivalent to a cultivator at the early-stage Perfected Immortal Realm. The body wrapped in the demonic aura was a big, odd-looking fish, which was somewhat similar to a manta ray. However, its body was larger and more than 1,000 feet in length and width.

If he considered that the other party was concealing its cultivation level, it was probably around the late-stage Perfected Immortal Realm.

Under the rich demonic aura, this demon’s body was also wrapped around a wisp of sanguine glow, which was like flames.

This was a sign that this creature was vicious, and its karmic hindrance had taken shape due to its sins.

Li Changshou’s heart was pounding.

Of course, it wasn’t that he had any special preference for such a strange, bizarre object. It was purely because he was attracted to the power of the negative karma on this great demon.

Removing such a thick negative karma would earn him a lot of merits!

‘Should I kill this great demon at the same time?’

Li Changshou’s heart was racing with thoughts.

After Immortal Ascension, his foundation was too weak, and he didn’t have many treasures.

Merits were a good thing, and quite rare.

If he locked himself in the sect to cultivate and did not do good deeds that contributed to Heaven and Earth’s stability, he would not get a single one for hundreds of years.

If he was a ruthless person who was dedicated to validating the Dao with power, he would have to avoid being blessed with merit, thus ensuring that the later stages would not be influenced by the Heavenly Dao.

However, Li Changshou didn’t have such lofty aspirations, and the problem he was considering was practical.

If there were more merits to protect him, he would be safer as well.

If he could obtain great merits in the future, he wouldn’t follow the elders’ example of cultivating Dharma treasures. Instead, he would first create a Golden Body of Merit!

A Golden Body of Merit was equivalent to having a gold token for a death penalty exemption. There was no need to be too afraid no matter what calamities he would encounter.

At that time, even if a Saint were to forcefully hit him, he would have to hesitate whether to lose several times the merit power of the Golden Body of Merit.

Of course, the Golden Body of Merit was extremely difficult to obtain, and it required a ma.s.sive amount of merit power.

To this day, the Heavenly Dao was becoming more perfect. There weren’t many chances for him to obtain great merits.

Going to the Heavenly Courts would be a better chance to earn merits. Li Changshou had also previously considered related matters.

Let’s talk about matters on hand first.

Killing this great demon would certainly give a huge amount of merits.

As the saying went, “Sand acc.u.mulates into mountains, and water drips into oceans.” Everything had to have a beginning.

It went as far as to get karma from the demon race.

The human race and the demon race were archenemies. Even if Li Changshou was polite to the demon race, if he fell into the hands of a demon race expert one day, he would only be thrown into the deep-fryer.

He did not need to be polite towards the demon race.

However, if he considered that the other party might have hidden their cultivation level, Li Changshou would also have to take a slight risk.

This was the South Ocean and not a place for demons to gather. There was only this great demon’s demonic aura within a radius of 1,000 kilometers, and there was an island with just random little demons.

Now that Li Changshou had succeeded in evolving the Water Escape and Earth Escape, it was no problem traveling 50,000 kilometers in a day. After he killed that thing, Li Changshou would immediately run away and hide in the mortal world. He did not need to be afraid of other demons taking revenge on him.

Moreover, he had the ability to stop it while ensuring his own safety. However, watching this big fish demon kill the people from his fellow race was a bit unreasonable.

After all, he had gone through two lifetimes.

Despite Li Changshou wondering whether the people from the Xiong Village were from the same race as him, he held reservations.

…

With the mindset of giving it a try, Li Changshou cast the Water Escape and was ten times faster than that great demon. He quietly rushed to a sea region 50 kilometers from the sh.o.r.e.

Except for the Three Schools’ Immortal Sects, most of the escape techniques in the Primordial World were quite hard to find.

Nowadays, valuing treasures over spells was prevalent in the cultivator community, causing many to belittle the escape technique’s role.

After predicting the great demon’s route, Li Changshou’s robe sleeves shook, and six paper dolls flew out from his sleeves, transforming into men and women with different looks, figures, and aura.

The six paper dolls immediately got busy at the bottom of the sea and began to quietly set up a trapping array suitable for casting in the water.

The Precious Umbrella was useless for the time being and hadn’t been upgraded yet.

Li Changshou retreated towards the sh.o.r.e, met up with the paper dolls hidden underground, put the paper dolls away, and then found a forest by the sea to hide.

He closed his eyes and put his heart into the rustling of leaves in the wind within a radius of 50 kilometers.

A moment later, huge waves surged on the sea 50 kilometers away!

A circular array appeared on the surface of the sea, trapping this giant wave directly!

The hundred-meter-long demon didn’t notice the ambush and crashed into the temporary trapping array. Then, it noticed that something was wrong and immediately started jerking!

The six paper dolls had appeared from all over and rushed to the demon’s surroundings, each sprinkling several bottles of poisonous powder and using their immortal powers to adhere to the great demon’s body.

In a split second, the seawater around the demon became turbid. The demon’s body was corroded, and its soul was severely damaged!

“Who! are… you guys…”

This time, Li Changshou had sacrificed the last two bottles of transcendent-grade Soft Immortal Disperser.

Although this great demon had a higher Dao cultivation realm, it was significantly less resistant to medicine than the Second Prince of the Eastern Ocean Dragon Palace that he had encountered previously, and his actions immediately became incomparably slower.