Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 666 - 556: Wealth God True Lord_2

After the gift-giving ended, Qi Xiu watched as Huang Yan rode the clouds and departed, the corners of his mouth slowly curling up. He turned towards the golden skyscraper in front of him, softly murmuring:

"The cultivation world isn't all about fighting and killing, it's about human relationships..."

Buzz—

Pushing open the massive golden door before him, which weighed tens of thousands of pounds, Qi Xiu felt as if he had stepped into a realm of gold as the golden light showered upon him.

Beneath his feet were layers upon layers of thick, sprawling golden copper coins. Trees swayed in the wind, their branches laden with gold ingots forming a dense forest, countless in number. In the distance, mountains of gold and silver stretched into a range, replacing the sun and radiating a dazzling brilliance.

A roaring jade river flowed tumultuously, its splashing droplets solidifying into flawless, translucent jade upon hitting the ground.

"The Wealth God True Lord, truly lives up to his name."

Gazing at the scene before him, which was like a golden Great World, Qi Xiu couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Hahaha, Daoist Qi, you've finally arrived."

As Qi Xiu was appreciating this rare golden land, a hearty and bold laugh echoed from afar.

Shen Wansan appeared with a round face, clad in a golden Daoist robe, ten rings of various gemstones on his hands, smiling as he sat on a golden treasure carriage, instantly arriving nearby.

Assisted by two graceful and charming maids, Shen Wansan stepped down from the treasure carriage.

"Greetings, True Venerable."

Slightly bowing with cupped hands, Qi Xiu showed utmost respect to this Wealth God True Lord.

"No need for such formalities, we are not meeting for the first time, and you are also a major client of Shen's Myriad Goods Pavilion."

With a sweep of his wide sleeves, a refined and sturdy table and chairs appeared, Shen Wansan lightly waved his right hand, and the two maids immediately began brewing Spiritual Tea, its fragrance transforming into Dao Charm.

"Daoist Qi, you've come this time to retrieve the set of [Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls] Zhao Baye lost to you, correct?"

Rubbing the large gemstone on his thumb, Shen Wansan cut straight to the matter at hand.

"Yes, before Sect Master left, I was instructed to retrieve this treasure as soon as I returned to the Primordial Heaven Home Realm to avoid troubling the True Venerables."

With a humble expression, Qi Xiu spoke softly, yet his words alluded to drawing strength from Dongfang Qing's prestige.

Glancing lightly at the young Daoist before him, whose fair appearance and graceful demeanor carried an unignorable edge, Shen Wansan chuckled:

"What are you saying, you and your old man made a bet with Zhao Baye and asked us to witness it, providing us with quite an amusing spectacle.

By the way, you gained a lot from your trip to the Blood Lotus Great World, right? It's a well-known treasure trove of the Dao Alliance."

"True Venerable jests, Zhao Baye had been entrenched in the Blood Lotus Great World for many years, and his numerous arrangements there cost me dearly.

Returning with even a single life was sheer luck.

If Zhao Baye hadn't defected, I might not have completed the gamble and found all the Primordial Heavenly Commands."

With a lowered gaze, Qi Xiu replied one word at a time, conveying the difficulty of his journey through the Blood Lotus Great World, yet omitting any specific details.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Shen Wansan unobtrusively touched a greenish ring on his left hand, and suddenly, an ancient and mysterious power, intangible and elusive, was set to enter Qi Xiu's Ancestral Aperture to probe his memory.

Qi Xiu, however, remained completely oblivious.

In the face of a Primordial Spirit True Honor's intentional investigation, a True Monarch of the Dao Body couldn't even detect it, let alone resist.

Yet just as the green light was about to penetrate Qi Xiu's forehead, a gentle clear light appeared instantly, shattering the archaic and eerie power.

Crack—

Almost at the same moment, the ring on Shen Wansan's finger suddenly developed a hair-thin crack, causing this Primordial Spirit True Honor to reveal a hint of surprise.

This kid... has Primordial Spirit level protection on him?

"Be careful, kid. That fat guy just tried to probe your mind and memory, but I blocked him. This guy doesn't seem trustworthy; guard against him."

Elder Xu's voice rang in Qi Xiu's ear.

It was thanks to his Great Dao Divine Artifact that Qi Xiu's memory wasn't read by Shen Wansan.

"Understood, thank you, Elder Xu."

Hearing Xu Zhitian's warning, Qi Xiu became more serious, recalling the earlier advice from Daoist Qingya not to come to the Dao Alliance alone.

Now it seems, this advice was absolutely correct.

Primordial Spirit True Honors are the pinnacle existences; no matter what methods I have as a Dao Expert, I'm on a completely different level in front of them.

Sneak attacks might happen without awareness, and I am utterly incapable of detecting them.

A case in point being right now.

If not for the intervention of Xu Zhitian from the Flying Immortal Pot today, all his secrets might have already been fully exposed.

"True Sovereign..."

"By the way, there's one thing I want to ask you. On this trip to the Blood Lotus Great World, did your Sect Master instruct you to find something?"

Covering the cracked ring, Shen Wansan threw another question at Qi Xiu.

"True Sovereign means..."

"Stop pretending, I just tested you slightly and discovered that there's a primordial spirit level power guarding you."

Raising his head slightly, Shen Wansan's eyes gleamed with sharp light, gazing down at Qi Xiu with a faint aura of a Primordial Spirit True Sovereign's majesty and oppression.

"The Flying Immortal Pot... should be in your possession."

Feeling the pressure from Shen Wansan, Qi Xiu's gaze flickered slightly, but he remained silent.

"Hehehe, the Flying Immortal Pot must be with you."

Keenly noticing the subtle change in Qi Xiu's expression, Shen Wansan chuckled, confident that Qi Xiu had taken the Great Dao Divine Artifact.

"True Sovereign, may I..."

"Let's not rush other matters. First, hand over the Flying Immortal Pot..."

"True Sovereign..."

"The rumored Great Dao Divine Artifact, I've heard of it long ago..."

"True Sovereign!"

A loud shout caused Shen Wansan, who had been smiling, to pause, and the raised corners of his mouth gradually fell. He looked at Qi Xiu in front of him with a serious expression.

"Are you really planning to keep dragging this on with evasions?" Qi Xiu asked calmly, looking at Shen Wansan word by word.

"Good kid."

Raising a thumb at Qi Xiu, Shen Wansan's smile returned to his face:

"I won't say much about other things, but your courage in the Dao Body Realm should be unmatched.

Yelling at me?

Aren't you afraid that I might kill you with one palm!" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Before his words were fully spoken, Qi Xiu suddenly felt an overwhelming pressure crashing down, as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was shattering. The previously smiling Shen Wansan had transformed into an unparalleled being towering over a million zhang, spanning heaven and earth, riding a dragon and a tiger, with eyes like the sun of Haotian.

Thunder echoed endlessly, as if the thunder of heaven and earth itself.

Just this one shout almost shattered Qi Xiu's physical body and scattered his soul!

Yet at that moment, Qi Xiu flicked his sleeve, and a Purple-Gold Command Token soared into the air. The terrifying thunder light transformed into a slowly rotating mysterious black vortex.

At the deepest point of this vortex, a figure mastering the thunder magic of heaven and earth, holding a sword seal, awakening with an aura of dominance across time, emerged. The aura was even more intense and fierce than Shen Wansan's, as if the next moment this figure would step out and reappear in the world.

"Nine Heavens Shenxiao Imperial Thunder Command?"

Recognizing that the Purple-Gold Command Token Qi Xiu had summoned was one of the foundational treasures of the Shenxiao Sect, Shen Wansan's gaze shifted, and he immediately dissipated the imposing pressure of his form, reverting to his smiling, fat daoist appearance, waving and chuckling:

"Daoist Qi, don't act impulsively. I was just joking with you."

Retracting the [Nine Heavens Shenxiao Imperial Thunder Command], Qi Xiu breathed a slight sigh of relief in his heart.

Though this Treasure Order could summon an incarnation of the patriarch's thought.

Each use meant waiting a thousand years before it could be used again.

Earlier, he had only barely revived a trace of the patriarch's aura and could not possibly summon him again.

Although Shen Wansan was a Primordial Spirit True Sovereign, in terms of actual combat ability, he was far from comparable to someone like Gao Tianxiong, who had fought his way up and practiced various combat and killing techniques.

Therefore, when facing one of the ten supreme beings of the Human Race, he decisively chose to yield.

After all, even if he used all his trump cards and relied on the advantage of the Dao Alliance's territory to kill Qi Xiu.

What then?

Killing Qi Xiu, who was Dongfang Qing's cherished one, would result in him and his Shen's Myriad Goods Pavilion facing the boundless wrath of the Nine Heavens Primordial True Sovereign.

That would indeed be a fight to the death!

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