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.

“Which of the four Righteous True Immortals of the Immortal Court is he a descendant of?” Tan Shuchang understood the green-robed elder’s implication and thus asked.

“Purple-Gold Immortal, born of Jie Ming True Immortal Lord and Righteous True Immortal of Earthly Slaughter Yu Qingluo, a pure-blooded True Immortal lineage. It’s just that the old ghost was greedy for his fortunate birthright and lost his mind. He really thought he had found a treasure. At that time, although Purple-Gold Immortal reached the level of Righteous True Immortal of Earthly Slaughter with his fortune being constrained, he could go no further since the old ghost was only at the Earth Fiend Orthodox Law Dao Fruit stage…”

A disciple cannot surpass the master’s cultivation — this isn’t about filial piety or humility, but one of the great rules of this universe.

Even a superbly talented, pure-blooded True Immortal like the Purple-Gold Immortal could only reach the level of Righteous True Immortal of Earthly Slaughter before his master’s Daoist transformation.

And if one’s qualifications and lineage were inferior to the Purple-Gold Immortal’s, they could only stop at the third certification stage.

There are many cultivators like this in the Land of the Four Pillars.

Many who have cultivated the Three Certifications acknowledged in the path of immortality for thousands of years came to be this way. It’s not that they weren’t capable, but that their masters were all at the level of Righteous True Immortal of Earthly Slaughter.

Thus, the most lethal method to deal with an unmatched prodigy is to find him a master at the level of Earthly Fiend Orthodox Realm.

Why not at the third certification level?

This is out of fear that one at the second certification, seizing the opportunity to reach the peak, will directly betray and annihilate their master!

The Named Immortal of the Third Certification and the Earth Fiend Orthodox Law ultimately lie between the immortal and the mortal. The former is still mortal, while the latter, in the usual sense, cannot even be described by life and death anymore.

A Righteous True Immortal of Earthly Slaughter, as long as he does not undergo Daoist transformation, can return even if slain on the spot or refined by some divine artifact and divine skills.

Either using lotus roots as a body, walking the mortal realm again,

Or using bamboo and wood as a body, manifesting in the present world,

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.

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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.

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