No hope for eternal life

Chapter 174 Golden elixir peak

The whole process was very similar to the time when Feng Ze helped Mu Changsheng break through in the past, but Feng Ze's time ended very quickly, while the effect of the golden-patterned fruit was much milder. This would be a process in which the golden elixir slowly absorbed the medicinal power of the golden-patterned fruit.

Seven days later, Mu Changsheng finally absorbed the medicinal power of the first golden-patterned fruit. Another pattern appeared on the golden elixir, indicating that Mu Changsheng had broken through to the late stage of golden elixir.

After the breakthrough, Mu Changsheng did not rush to take the second golden-patterned fruit, but continued to retreat to consolidate his cultivation.

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After another thirteen days, Mu Changsheng had absorbed the medicinal power of the second golden-patterned fruit and completed the consolidation of his cultivation to the peak of the golden elixir, thus ending his retreat.

Seeing that it was still early, Mu Changsheng did not go to find Yang Wuque immediately, but continued to conquer the third-grade formation plate that he had not been able to conquer before.

Mu Changsheng had a hunch that now that his cultivation had broken through to the peak of the Golden Core realm in one go, it would definitely be easier to refine a third-grade formation plate.

As expected, after two failures, Mu Changsheng succeeded the third time and the third-grade formation was completed!

However, what Mu Changsheng has completed now is only the simplest of the three-grade formations, the initial stage of the third-grade spirit gathering formation. If he wants to improve his strength through formations, he still has a long way to go.

In the evening of that day, Mu Changsheng was about to look for Yang Wuque. When passing by the sword-making shop, he learned from Mu Qunxian that Mu Xun had left the town after using the golden-patterned fruit.

"Mu Xun is really hardworking. I can't fall behind." Mu Changsheng said in his heart. The two of them seemed to have become objects of mutual learning.

After arriving at Yang Wuque's house, they fought for another night. Mu Changsheng's cultivation had made breakthroughs one after another, so he was a little uncomfortable and was severely beaten.

At noon the next day, Mu Changsheng woke up slowly in the medicine barrel and reported to Yang Wuque: "The student's formation has broken through to the third level."

“Well, since you have already made a breakthrough, you can put aside the matter of formation for now.” Yang Wuque instructed, “In two months, the Tianjiao Conference of the Divine Guardian Nation will begin. In a month and a half, we will set out together to participate in the Tianjiao Conference.”

Mu Changsheng was very excited when he first heard about the Tianjiao Gathering, because Lingshan Sect and Xuansha Sect never held similar events, so the Tianjiao Gathering held by Shenhu Kingdom could be said to be the largest gathering of young cultivators in the Tianshuang Realm. When that time came, countless geniuses from all over the world would collide with each other, which would definitely produce wonderful sparks.

But when Mu Changsheng heard that Yang Wuque was also going to attend the Tianjiao Meeting, he asked worriedly: "Sir, with your injuries, it is not convenient for you to fight with others, right?"

“Don’t worry. Although my cultivation is ruined, my physical body is still there. It may not be realistic to win the first place among the geniuses in the God Transformation Realm, but it is enough to deal with ordinary cultivators in the God Transformation Realm.” Yang Wuque smiled faintly, “And I want to use this genius meeting to visit the Scripture Pavilion of the Divine Protection Country. The secret techniques there may serve as a reference for my own secret techniques.”

Mu Changsheng was still worried. He felt that it would be better for Yang Wuque not to take action. Moreover, he thought of another way and said, "In terms of the richness of the collection of secret arts, the collection of the Demon Clan is definitely better than that of the Godly Protectorate. Perhaps we can ask that person for help."

The person Mu Changsheng was referring to was naturally the Demon Clan leader Yi Qianhuan, who now used the alias Mu Qunxian and lived next door to his house.

Yang Wuque shook his head slightly and asked, "Do you still remember the four words I gave you when you became my disciple?"

"Don't ask for help from others. I will never forget it." Mu Changsheng lowered his head and said. He knew that Yang Wuque was unwilling to ask for help, but he still argued: "No matter how good the reason is, it depends on the situation..."

Before Mu Changsheng finished speaking, Yang Wuque interrupted and said, "Don't mention this matter again."

Mu Changsheng was helpless, but such a gentleman was more worthy of his respect, so he could only respect Yang Wuque's choice.

Yang Wuque talked about Mu Changsheng: "It won't be very helpful to continue practicing the Dao of Formation for a month and a half. You should concentrate on the practice of your physical body and talismans."

"Student understands." Mu Changsheng said respectfully.

After the medicinal power in the medicine barrel was completely absorbed, Mu Changsheng went to Qihua County to purchase spiritual materials for refining talismans. For Mu Changsheng, who was at the peak of the Golden Core stage, talismans below the fourth grade would be of little help to him, so he wanted to refine a fourth-grade talisman!

Not long after Mu Changsheng left, an uninvited guest suddenly appeared in Yang Wuque's courtyard.

Yang Wuque was a little surprised by the visitor, but he still bowed respectfully and said, "Hello, senior."

It turned out that the person who came was Mu Qunxian. Yang Wuque felt ashamed when he thought that he once called Mu Qunxian "brother".

Mu Qunxian looked calm and said calmly: "I have a question that I can't figure out, so I came to ask, why don't you want to ask me for help?"

Yang Wuque was silent for a moment, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and bowed solemnly before speaking: "It's not that I don't want to, but if possible, I would like to give this opportunity to Mu Changsheng for help. I beg you to help him when he is in trouble in the future."

Yang Wuque knew very well that even if all the secret techniques of the Nine Realms were placed in front of him for his reference, his hope of creating a secret technique to change his destiny would still be extremely slim, so he might as well give the opportunity to Mu Changsheng.

Mu Qunxian was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then his figure instantly disappeared from the spot, but his voice remained in the air: "Okay."

Yang Wuque's face lit up with joy, and he thanked her at the same time: "Thank you, senior."

On the other side, it only took Mu Changsheng half an hour to go back and forth. After returning home, he began to refine talismans. The first one he wanted to refine was the fourth-grade primary level ghost talisman.

This is a rather peculiar talisman. After it is activated and used, a strange monster will appear to help the owner fight. It is somewhat similar to the frost talisman that Mu Changsheng had encountered before, which could transform into a frost giant to fight.

Mu Changsheng had also been "ravaged" by the Ice and Frost Talisman, so he had a special liking for this type of talisman and specially bought 500 sets of materials for the Monster Talisman.

Like most of his previous first times, Mu Changsheng's first attempt to refine the ghost talisman also ended in failure.

However, the good news is that Mu Changsheng did not feel any sluggishness in his magic power when drawing the talisman, which means that the success rate would not drop sharply due to a huge gap in cultivation.

"It should be related to my ninth-grade golden elixir." Mu Changsheng guessed secretly. With his cultivation at the peak of the golden elixir, plus the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, the gap with the Nascent Soul Realm has been narrowed, so the difficulty of refining the monster talisman will also be reduced.

In addition, the backlash of the failure in refining the monster talisman was also very interesting. It was not the explosion of an ordinary talisman, but it turned into a ball of talisman water and splashed on Mu Changsheng's body. The talisman water was quite corrosive and wanted to corrode Mu Changsheng's flesh and blood.

But Mu Changsheng happened to be a body cultivator, and he was not afraid of this kind of physical attack. This kind of corrosive backlash was like a medicinal bath to Mu Changsheng, and it could also temper his body. It was like killing two birds with one stone. This was one of the important reasons why Mu Changsheng chose to refine the Wuling Talisman.

After the backlash, Mu Changsheng continued to refine the ghost talisman. As the number of failures increased, Mu Changsheng continued to accumulate experience.

Finally, Mu Changsheng succeeded on the seventeenth time.

After obtaining the first 100 sets of materials for the monster talismans, Mu Changsheng succeeded nine times.

Mu Changsheng succeeded sixteen times in obtaining the second hundred pieces of materials for the monster talismans, and during this time he went to Yang Wuque to teach him a lesson.

Mu Changsheng succeeded twenty-one times in obtaining the third hundred sets of materials for the monster talismans.

Mu Changsheng succeeded twenty-eight times in obtaining the fourth hundred sets of materials for the monster talismans.

By the time he reached the last 100 pieces of materials for the monster talismans, Mu Changsheng had succeeded 42 times, with a success rate of 40%!