Using a Wok to Reorganize Life and Fly to Immortality Chapter 49 (Part 2)
TLed by Serena Love
Edited by Liya
Chapter 49 (2): Ghost-Faced Monkey
[Trigger Warning: Slight gore and bloody scene]
Many disciples came and went at Huoling Peak of the Tiansheng Academy. It was lively and full of vitality.
Mei Zhen'er smiled and listened to the elders' reports in her peak master's seat, but suddenly, one of them spat out blood.
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Mei Zhen'er stiffened and frowned.
"Old Chen, did your old injury relapse?"
Eight years ago, she rescued this Nascent Soul old man, who was known as the first cultivator with no sect. He was so grateful to her that he simply entered her Huoling Peak and promised to serve her for a hundred years.
But now, in less than eight years, would he die?
The surrounding elders all looked heavy. "Elder Chen severely injured an old inspector in Nanxun and was chased and attacked by several Nanxun elders. He escaped and was seriously injured until he was cured by the fifth-grade medicinal pill that Miss Mei purchased."
Mei Zhen'er froze slightly, but her face remained calm. "Elder Chen and Nanxun's grievances had been written off with the Longevity Pill. Don't mention it again."
Elder Chen was grateful. After a moment, he covered his chest and suddenly another spurt of blood came out, and he fell backward.
"No, Old Chen's Nascent Soul has signs of being broken again! I'm afraid... time is running out."
Mei Zhen'er was taken aback.
When she rescued him back then, it was Elder Liu in her bead string who said that he was full of ill-will and could offset some of the backlash caused by her strong fortune.
She fed him a fifth-grade life-saving elixir back then, but he only lasted for eight years?
Mei Zhen'er closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she had a holy and sad expression.
"Elders, when will the elites of all sects come to my Tiansheng Academy's Huoling Peak?"
"My blessings are heavy. If there is no one who can share it with me, people like Elder Chen, who has a serious illness, I am afraid that he can't stand the strong luck and can't continue to stay in Huoling Peak. He will suffer instead."
The elders suddenly looked solemn. "Don't worry, miss. We will set off now. This time we will definitely bring people back!"
"The Holy Maiden Sect has ended their competition. Their list of disciples has been given to me."
"The Qilin Gate has reached the final round of elite selection."
"Miss, many elites in Nanxun have ideas to join our Tiansheng Sect. They pray for a breakthrough in cultivation and gain longevity. They just communicated with the head yesterday..."
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Mei Zhen'er smiled. "My father has always made friends with talented people all over the world. It hurts him to miss even one. Our Tiansheng Academy recently discovered a secret palace this year, so we don't worry about lack of spiritual energy to support genius cultivators."
"Since they have negotiated with my father, you will go to Nanxun to pick them up as soon as possible."
The chessboard old man smiled and nodded.
Mei Zhen'er lifted her pure-looking face and raised her eyebrows. "Also, have they sent the list of third-class peaks and the third-ranked disciples of each peak?"
"Don't worry, miss. I'll leave now and I'll get it myself!"
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Nanxun's Competition Tower was more lively than usual today.
There were countless flying swords and flying magic weapons everywhere. The seats below were almost full, so they could only watch in the air.
On the viewing seat, the twelve red-clothed elders of the Precepts Hall had already arrived.
Today, two arenas were set up in the north and south positions of the competition tower.
"Linran Peak is against Yuqiong Peak. Qian Qingqiu is in danger. Chen Shuxin has entered the Nascent Soul level."
"Today's victory has been decided. Linran Peak will win and there is no play at Zhiqiong Peak. Zhou Zhang of Baiyu Peak is a person who has three beasts. Two are at the peak of Golden Core, and one is at the late stage of Golden Core. How to challenge him?"
"We don't know what Zhiqiong Peak is thinking. Do they want to act for the sky and extinguish Zhou Zhang's arrogance for all of us?"
"You dare to say this? Look at the third floor of the competition tower!"
On the third floor of the competition tower, they could clearly see the people from Baiyu Peak leaning on the rail.
In the arena at this moment, Zhou Zhang was fighting against a second-class Golden Core disciple from the seventh-place peak.
"Challenge my Baiyu Peak?" Zhou Zhang sneered. "If you can beat me, I will pay you fifty thousand spirit stones?"
"But it's up to my General Taotao - whether he agrees or not!"
As soon as Zhou Zhang finished speaking, a ferocious, sharp-toothed ghost-faced monkey behind him suddenly jumped out and rushed towards the Golden Core disciple opposite him.
After just a moment, the Golden Core disciple bowed his head and looked at the hole in his abdomen. His face turned pale.
The ghost-faced monkey let out a shrill laugh. In his monkey's palm was a golden core covered with blood.
The disciples and elders were all dumbfounded.
"Stop! Competition with the same sect must not hurt life!" The master judge of the Competition Tower turned pale in shock.
Zhou Zhang raised his head, licked his lower lip and grinned. "As long as you admit defeat, I will return it to you."
"Do you admit defeat?"
After he said that, he looked away from the disciple who had lost his golden core and fell to the ground. Instead, he looked at Su Yu, who was in front of the Competition Tower. His eyes were dyed with blood-colored interest.
"If you don't admit defeat, I will crush your golden core and you will just become a waste."
"You won't die..."
Su Yu was standing on Hang Wan'er's red silk ribbons. When she met his gaze, she frowned in disgust.
Zhou Zhang laughed and asked the ghost-faced monkey to throw the Golden Core back to the fallen cultivator.
The judging elder was busy giving that cultivator first-aid.
"Second Senior Sister, he is threatening us!"
Hang Wan'er squeezed her fists.
"He was deliberate."
"Zhou Zhang is so cruel to his classmates. It is really disgusting." Lu Yizhou looked solemn.
Su Yu turned around, too lazy to look at the scumbag. "Go to our seats."
Zhiqiong Peak's disciple immediately obeyed.
In the arena, Zhou Zhang laughed.
Immediately he flew out, followed by the disciples of Baiyu Peak.
"Whoever wants to challenge my Baiyu Peak, let me check whether his golden core is tough enough!"
"Or, you surrender faster than my General Taotao. It's not impossible, hahaha!"
His arrogant laughter was full of warning.
Only a few Golden Core disciples among the onlookers dared to look directly at him.
Foundation Building and Qi Refining disciples only dared to be angry but dared not speak, so they could only whisper about the injustice.
"Do the elders not care?"
"Zhou Zhang is getting more and more outrageous. Why is he allowed to bully his fellow students arbitrarily?"
"Hey, Baiyu Peak's master's lifespan is almost exhausted. Zhou Zhang is the only disciple in Nanxun who can control a third-grade beast."
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"You're a late starter. Haven't you heard? Two hundred years ago, the Buddhist Sect predicted that in the future, whether human cultivators will be able to resist the genocide by the beast tide lies in the control of demon beasts. Whoever can control beasts is our ray of hope in a desperate situation in the future."
"Because of this prophecy, Nanxun also gritted our teeth and opened up Baiyu Peak. We just hope that in the future, when we face the desperate situation, we can also control beasts and save Nanxun as the prophecy said."
"Control... easier said than done!"
The onlookers and disciples talked a lot.
Su Yu was already sitting in the position of the peak master and opened her encyclopaedia of beasts.
'A master chef's control of the ingredients lies in understanding the ingredients.' She thought when she heard noises around her.
"Nanxun will be finished sooner or later if those old men are waiting for such a disciple to save us." Elder Zhang looked at Zhou Zhang and snorted, "Then I might as well find a piece of tofu and kill them."
A guardian elder of the secret realm next to him also looked quite solemn.
"Yu Qingzi of Baiyu Peak studied how to control beasts in his early years. All three of his direct disciples died at the mouths of beasts. His only great-grandson was also disabled. That old man is about to pass and Zhou Zhang is his youngest disciple. After all, he was sad and concerned. It is normal that Zhou Zhang was spoiled and indulged."
Speaking of passing, Elder Zhang's forehead twitched and he couldn't help but look at Su Yu.
The elder of the secret realm sighed, "Wait until that old man goes. If Zhou Zhang is still so violent and lacks self-control, the Precepts Hall will definitely take action. Destroying people's golden core means destroying people's path to immortality. It's really vicious."
Elder Zhang raised his eyebrows with a strange expression.
'Destroying people's golden core is equal to destroying their path to immortality?'
He couldn't help but once again look at Su Yu, who was looking at the encyclopaedia of beasts in the distance. He then moved his gaze to her guarding junior, Wei Zhao, who was not far behind her.
After a brief glance, he closed his eyes.
It was almost impossible for him to look at that kid directly.
One more look and his old eye tingled.
Golden core... how could it be like this?
"Zhiqiong Peak challenges Baiyu Peak."
"Linran Peak challenges Yuqiong Peak."
"The rules of this round are one-on-one until there are no more disciples at the peak."
Hong Yun, the elder in a red robe, got up and announced in a deep voice.
Immediately, the four peaks stood up.
Zhou Zhang arrogantly flew to the ring in a flash, smiling at Zhiqiong Peak.
Wei Zhao glanced at him and respectfully asked Su Yu.
"Second Senior Sister, let me go to the first battle. I will lead the way for the junior brothers and sisters!"
Su Yu finally looked away from her encyclopaedia, smiled and nodded.
"Okay, let's try your new golden core."
Wei Zhao's eyes lit up immediately. "Yes!"
He immediately jumped into the ring.
Zhou Zhang was taken aback.
The disciples watching the battle were also shocked.
Chen Shuxin in the ring next door couldn't help turning his head to look.
"Wei Zhao's injury healed?"
"Ah, I was just disgusted by Zhou Zhang's ghost-faced monkey... I almost didn't notice. Wei Zhao stood up today. He didn't come in a wheelchair?"
There were a lot of discussions.
In the ring, Zhou Zhang looked at Wei Zhao and sneered quickly, "I was thinking, what gave your Zhiqiong Peak the courage to challenge our Baiyu Peak? Did you not know if the sky is high and the earth is low? It turned out to be your broken and dirty entry-level golden core..."
Wei Zhao did not speak. A surging spiritual aura burst out from his black suit.
The copper sword behind him suddenly soared into the sky and flew into his palm.
Wei Zhao closed his eyes and felt the cold touch after not holding his copper sword for a long time. His mood could not be calm for a long time.
He only opened his eyes halfway, hiding his excitement. "Please."
Zhou Zhang sneered. When the judging elders were burning the incense, a ghost-faced monkey flew toward Wei Zhao like a whirlwind.
The ghost-faced monkey came and went like the wind. It was the most terrifying third-grade sneak attack beast in the secret realm.
Chen Ying's ghostly body method was said to be mimicking a ghost-faced monkey's behavior.
Cultivators with a low cultivation base could not capture their figures at all.
These monkeys were blood-devouring and brutal by nature. Not only did they like to steal cultivators' instruments and storage bags, but also often smashed cultivators' dantian when they were unprepared.
A cultivator below the middle stage of Golden Core had not yet cultivated the strength to withstand it.
There was a Nascent Soul who entered the secret realm and encountered a cave inhabited by a third-grade ghost-faced monkey. Hundreds of cultivators' golden cores were found in it, as well as countless blood-stained storage bags, magical artifacts and elixirs. The monkey kept it all as treasures.
Therefore, a ghost-faced monkey was a beast in the secret realm that any cultivators below the Nascent Soul did not wish to encounter.
For many years, it had been ranked in the top ten tasks of killing beasts released by various sects.
"Brother Wei, what do you want to do?" Zhou Zhang leisurely wrapped his hands around his chest in the ring.
As soon as he said this, the ghost-faced monkey's palm was like the wind, touching Wei Zhao's abdomen.
In an instant, blood rushed out from Wei Zhao's lower abdomen.
Zhou Zhang chuckled, "I hope Junior Brother Wei still has a second pill to repair your golden core. I have never seen someone's golden core break so quickly. Are you trying to make me laugh—"
But his laughter died out for a moment.
Wei Zhou's dantian was broken and the palm of the ghost-faced monkey popped out, but it was empty.
From Wei Zhao's belly, there was a golden light.
They could not see a complete Golden Core from his wound, only a golden halo.
It was like the tip of an iceberg.
The ghost-faced monkey sneered and inserted its paws again but couldn't get anything out.
Zhou Zhang: ...
The watching disciples: ...
"What's going on?"
"The ghost-faced monkey missed?"
"No... it's too big."
A group of Golden Core and Nascent Soul were dumbfounded. Their consciousness gathered and looked into Wei Zhao's abdomen. They saw a golden core almost as thick as Wei Zhao's waist!
"Is this a Golden Core?"
"This Golden Core... is too big! Is this a mistake in his cultivation?"
His golden core was so big that the ghost-faced monkey couldn't even use its two monkey paws to get it out!
It was too big to steal.
At that moment, a shrill scream resounded tragically in the ring.
The hot red copper sword slashed down when the monkey touched Wei Zhao's belly again.
Zhou Zhang's laughter froze.
The figure of the ghost-faced monkey gradually appeared.
Its face was ghostly and painted with a savage expression, but it showed a hint of panic.
The red copper sword, like a wave of flames, slashed down majestically. The ghost-faced monkey's body was exposed in the firelight and instantly turned to ashes.
Even its beast's inner core was split in half and fell on the ring.
The audience was shocked.
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Zhou Zhang's sea of consciousness was in severe pain. His spiritual consciousness that imprisoned the ghost-faced monkey was broken. It was like breaking his arm.
"You actually killed my contract beast!" Zhou Zhang's face was pale, but his eyes were spitting fire.
Wei Zhao stretched out his hand and pressed his abdominal wound.
His golden core was still running and a trace of spiritual power poured in frantically, instantly forming a body-protection aura. Instantly, the blood flowing out from the wound stopped.
"The ghost-faced monkey has done countless evils." Wei Zhao said without changing his expression. "It deserves to be punished."
There were riots under the ring.
"He is so strong! A ghost-faced monkey is equivalent to the middle stage of Golden Core! It's gone in one stroke..."
"Wei Zhao deliberately let the monkey hurt his abdomen so that he could capture its hiding spot."
"He's too daring... um, but he's stronger."
"So what's going on with his golden core! What kind of elixir did he take? I think it looks like dough!"
The elders of the Precepts Hall were all surprised.
Even Yi Ge of Linran Peak turned his attention from the confrontation between his disciple, Chen Shuxin, and Yuqiong Peak's chief disciple.
There was a hint of envy on his face.
As someone who had cultivated into the Nascent Soul, he knew better what an excellent golden core meant.
This was the beginning of nourishing the soul.
The golden core was the Nascent Soul's implantation site in a cultivator's body. The strength and qualification of a Nascent Soul in the future would all depend on the quality of this golden core.
If a golden core could absorb more spiritual energy from heaven and earth, the path to Nascent Soul would be smooth and promising.
"What can make his golden core so big?"
The elders of the Precepts Hall were very curious.
"This disciple once shattered his golden core. Could it be that he realized something?"
As soon as one said that, the other elders also fell into contemplation.
Cultivators had experienced many life and death. There were many examples of potential growth.
A handsome elder who looked like a young man, sitting on the Precepts Hall's first seat, smiled.
"Indeed. There is an interdependence of good and bad. The meaning of this disciple's experience is good."
Hong Yun's face twitched.
'What kind of "misfortune and good fortune depend on each other"? It was something he had eaten!'
But in the end, he moved his hand between his sleeves and didn't say a word.
Such a golden core was unprecedented. He didn't know if it was Nanxun's disaster or blessing.
'If blessing...'
'If all their disciples' golden cores are as thick as a waist...'
Elder Hong felt a chill on the back of his neck and did not want to think about it.
"But his golden core is so huge." An elder beside him pondered, "When facing the enemy, the key point is very obvious. It is easy to become a target."
With this said, many elders also stroked their beards and nodded.
"The spiritual power of a cultivator is limited. If a golden core is so huge but fragile... eh." An elder lamented.
Elder Hong looked complicated.
Halfway through the discussion, they heard an angry roar from Zhou Zhang in the ring.
"Wei Zhao, you killed my contract beast and made my ten years of hard work to ashes!"
"Today, I didn't want to kill at all. You forced me!"
Immediately he summoned a third-grade crow with a rotten smell.
Su Yu immediately frowned.
She turned over a few pages of the encyclopaedia and looked up.
She shook her head quickly. This thing only ate carrion. It was an animal that Master Su would not cook.
Immediately, the carrion crow's wings turned into spikes and needles, and it soared towards Wei Zhao.
"Attack his wound! Pierce his golden core for me!" Zhou Zhang roared, "Big? I'll let you know what's the use of size!"
The elders of the Precepts Hall all had ugly expressions.
"The wings of a carrion crow are comparable to a third-grade flying needle. When it pierces the body, it breaks the dantian. When piercing the meridian..."
They were about to stop it.
But they froze for a moment.
They saw steel needle-like flying feathers stabbing at the corner of Wei Zhao's golden core exposed in the wound. Instead of the feathers penetrating the golden core, they heard a ding—
The black-colored flying feathers shone with cold light and they were broken into two pieces on the spot.
Zhou Zhang: "!"
Elders: ...
The onlooking disciples became sluggish.
At this time, they heard a voice of a female disciple speaking from Zhiqiong Peak's seat.
"Third Senior Brother, that's enough!"
"Second Senior Sister said that your experiment of this super-hard and enlarged version of the golden core pagoda with round dome sky... is too bloody. She doesn't want to see it. You hurry up and stop disgusting Second Senior Sister."
Everyone was stunned, with a look of surprise on their faces.
'What?'
'Wei Zhao is experimenting?'
'Experimenting with his golden core?'
'Is that the name of the pill? The super-hard and enlarged version of the golden core pagoda with round dome sky... Why is the name so long?!'
They looked at Wei Zhao suspiciously but saw that Wei Zhao was looking at the slender yellow figure under the stage with shame.
"My golden core is now hardened and enlarged, and the effect is very good. I was eager to let Second Senior Sister know more about it."
"It was me who was confused. Wei Zhao is willing to be punished for letting Second Senior Sister see such a bloody and ugly monster."
Everyone: ...
As soon as he finished talking, Wei Zhao's copper knife flew out. The flames suddenly had a cold breath, burning the carrion crow's flying feathers cleanly!
The flame caught the crow and burned it to ashes.
Wei Zhao was in the early stage of the Golden Core, but it was like the strength of someone at the peak of the Golden Core!
'How?'
'Is it possible that if a golden core is many times bigger than others, then the cultivation base is also many times stronger?!'
Everyone was shocked.
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