strictlysupreme #236 - The center of the Chaos Sea, Tianchan Island
#236 - The center of the Chaos Sea, Tianchan Island
The red light dissipated.
A small figure emerged.
It was certainly not some demon or monster.
But a half-sized Taoist child wearing a Taoist robe and holding a horsetail whisk.
With a delicate face and a jade crown on his head.
Although still small, he already possessed an extraordinary temperament.
The little Taoist child took light steps, with a faint glow around him, appearing quite refined in this dim environment.
He looked around, finally gazing at Xu Chengxian, a hint of a smile flashing in his clear, watery eyes.
Walking up to the black sheep, he flicked the horsetail whisk in his hand, draped it over his arm, and, with a single palm raised and index finger bent, bowed slightly.
His voice was crisp and melodious as he said, "Greetings, fellow Daoist!"
"This humble Taoist is traveling, may I ask how you are called?"
"Haha! Xu Chengxian, what tricks are you playing?" The big black sheep stood up, throwing the little red man on its head to the ground.
"Your mind has long been on this avatar, do you think I can't see it?" It placed its front hooves on its hips and loudly exposed Xu Chengxian's deception.
"Don't think that by dressing up as a Taoist child and performing a standard Xuanmen greeting between fellow disciples, you can fool me."
Other monsters might find it difficult to learn these things.
After all, Xuanmen people rarely greet each other in this way within the demon race.
Instead, most would simply clasp their hands in a fist salute, or simply imitate the Buddhist monks with a single palm salute.
But Xu Chengxian was different.
He had a younger brother whose name was based on a Taoist title.
That white snake not only cultivated orthodox Xuanmen techniques, but even his demeanor and actions were those of a Taoist practitioner.
Clearly, he was a monster who yearned for Xuanmen.
As his elder brother, the flower snake, influenced by what he saw and heard, could naturally learn some things.
"I really don't know why your three Bishui snakes are all so strange," the big black sheep said, "A family of snakes, yet they have embarked on three different paths of cultivation."
"Not three, but four," the little Taoist child, who was Xu Chengxian, smiled, "My mother, Xiao Cui, cultivates the Dragon Transformation method."
"Good heavens!" the big black sheep exclaimed, "Amazing, you are actually a complete family of monsters!"
"Not quite," Xu Chengxian waved his hand, "We don't know where our father is."
"What 'our father'? He's your father!" The big black sheep refused to be taken advantage of in this way, circling around him and laughing, "Aside from that, I can't see anything wrong with your appearance."
Cultivators who cultivate external avatars often use themselves as the standard.
The demon race has more choices.
They can follow their own body, or a human form, or even a half-human, half-demon form.
Otherwise, it would either end in failure, or the cultivated avatar would inevitably have some strange aspects that would need to be refined again.
Xu Chengxian's Dharma body, however, was interesting.
It couldn't see even a trace of flaws.
The big black sheep looked at the Taoist child from head to toe, and then from toe to head, clicking its tongue twice, and said, "If he were to grow up like this, even I wouldn't be able to tell the truth."
The 'truth' here refers to the details.
It means that this avatar does not have the slightest bit of demonic energy.
He is completely a human cultivator.
However, Xu Chengxian cultivates blood energy, not demonic power, so he has never had demonic energy on him.
"Boy, how much blood energy did you use to feed this avatar?" Thinking of blood energy, the big black sheep asked again.
Just looking at this perfectly formed flesh and blood body, one could tell that it must have cost a lot of blood energy.
If not a million, then it must have been hundreds of thousands.
"I didn't use much blood energy, I'm not lying to you," Xu Chengxian chuckled, flicked his sleeves, and kicked his legs, very satisfied with this avatar.
He really wasn't lying to the big black sheep.
Although this avatar was fed with blood energy, it really didn't cost too much.
Only a million.
The most important thing was that he used a drop of original essence blood.
When he was refining this avatar, the system was generous again, helping him, like last time, to consume 1000 essence blood energy to refine a drop of original essence blood, which was used to fuse the four flesh spirit seeds.
The benefit of doing this was that his avatar, like a real person, had the eight extraordinary meridians, acupoints, and dantian.
The refining process also imitated the process of pregnancy and childbirth.
"Can it cultivate techniques?" The big black sheep finally noticed something and widened its eyes, "He! You! You cultivated orthodox Xuanmen techniques?"
Moreover, he had already cultivated to the third level of Qi refining?
"How old is this Dharma body of yours now?" it asked.
"Seven years old," Xu Chengxian smiled triumphantly.
"... Damn it," the big black sheep exclaimed.
The avatar has no divine soul, so the age refers to bone age.
Having a bone age means that it can develop and grow normally.
To achieve 'normal' is not easy.
"Since it imitates the innate Dao body, does it have roots?" it asked again.
"Five elements body, wood spirit root," Xu Chengxian put on the previous single-handed salute again, "I wonder what you think, fellow Daoist?"
"I don't think anything," the big black sheep shook its head, "I advise you, if you see human cultivators in the future, it's best not to salute like this."
"Why?" Xu Chengxian asked, puzzled.
"I'm worried that you will make enemies with people without even knowing it."
Raising the index finger while saluting with a single palm is something that only those who are in the orthodox Xuanmen and have some cultivation are qualified to do.
It is a means of showing identity and position.
And most of the Taoist people who mix in the demon realm have abandoned this way of showing courtesy, and the reason for this is self-evident.
"I see," Xu Chengxian nodded.
Then, he looked at Xu Xiaobai, who was staring at him with big eyes but not saying a word.
He couldn't help but smile and said, "Xiaobai, what are you looking at?"
"Daddy? You've become smaller," Xu Xiaobai walked over, with her hands behind her back, looking him up and down, "Daddy, this you looks so good!"
"Handsome, right?"
"Handsome!"
"Haha!" Xu Chengxian nodded, "Xiaobai, you have good taste!"
This avatar is eighty or ninety percent similar to his original appearance.
So Xu Xiaobai's complimenting him on his good looks was like scratching an itch.
"Daddy, I praised you, why don't you return the favor?" Xu Xiaobai pursed her little mouth and stretched out a round, chubby little hand to him.
"Xiaobai, your plan is a bit short, isn't it? You're revealing your true colors so quickly?" Xu Chengxian smiled helplessly and still took out a small ball of blood energy to give her.
"I praised you too," next to the little chubby hand, a black sheep hoof appeared.
"Haha! Here you go!" Xu Chengxian waved his hand generously.
A few hundred blood energy was not a few million.
It was worth it to buy some happiness!
His happiness was of course not just because of the insincere praise from these two guys.
But because, after his mind sank into the avatar, he heard the system prompt in his ears.
【Blood energy + 1+1… … + 1+1… …】
What does this mean?
This shows that his guess was correct.
As long as the main body is asleep, blood energy will continue to increase.
The divine soul does not need to be in deep sleep as well.
Whether the mind is on the little red man or on the avatar, it does not affect it.
This means that his blood energy will change from only increasing when he falls asleep to increasing at all times.
In the meantime, he can also do other things.
Both can be done without delay!
"Haha!" Xu Chengxian couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Xu Xiaobai and the big black sheep were also very happy to take his blood energy, and giggled twice along with him.
However, his blood energy was not taken for nothing.
"After you finish eating, go to work!" Xu Chengxian waved his hand.
"What about you?" the big black sheep asked.
"I'm cultivating," Xu Chengxian said.
As he spoke, he flicked the horsetail whisk in his hand, and a blood energy futon appeared beside his feet.
Then he sat cross-legged on it.
… …
"Look, is that an island?"
Half a month later, Xu Chengxian and the others saw a huge island.
An island that was thousands of feet away and looked like a toad.
"Is this the center of the Chaos Sea?" he asked the big black sheep.
"That's right, it's here!" The big black sheep looked at it and nodded.