The Mortal's Path to Immortality

"Oh? We'll have to wait and see, then," Cao Rui said softly.

If Sun Daoyi can really come up with enough chips to make Cao Rui's heart beat, then Cao Rui will naturally choose to start a shocking battle with Ji Shun without hesitation.

As for the outcome of this battle, it is not crucial to Cao Rui.

However, if the chips provided by Sun Daoyi cannot move Cao Rui's heartstrings, then he would rather stay in this west corner peacefully for decades.

After all, the west corner is relatively stable, it just takes a longer time to accumulate secrets.

As long as he is given enough time, he is fully confident that he can gather the required number of secrets.

For Sun Daoyi and the many monks from the central area, gathering some secrets to bet on whether they can end the century-long brutal rule of the Blue-robed Star Thief Group in advance is undoubtedly an adventure worth trying.

Even if they ultimately failed to succeed, the price they paid was relatively small.

Sun Dao nodded, indicating that he understood what Cao Rui meant, and then said loudly: "Be fully prepared and wait patiently for my news. I will give you a reward that you cannot refuse, Patriarch Cloak!"

Before he finished speaking, he was seen flashing, rising into the air and leaving the dark blue spirit ship, speeding towards the direction of the major organizations in the central area.

In the blink of an eye, his figure disappeared into the void.

Cao Rui stood quietly, watching Sun Daoyi gradually go away until his figure completely disappeared.

Then, he slowly turned around and walked towards his training room expressionlessly.

He didn't pay too much attention to this matter. At this moment, all he could think about was to return to the training room as soon as possible and continue to refine the secrets in his hands to improve his own cultivation strength.

The days after Sun Daoyi left were uneventful.

But soon, in a void in the west corner, the Sea of ​​Secrets began to brew.

This sea of ​​​​tianji broke the tranquility in the west corner, and boiling energy came from the void.

Cao Rui, who was in the training room, keenly captured this familiar and powerful wave almost immediately.

Compared with last time, he seemed calm and relaxed at the moment. After all, he had already experienced such a scene once and accumulated enough experience.

He stood up calmly, quickly activated the dark blue spirit ship, and galloped towards the birthplace of Tianji Sea.

After arriving at the destination, Cao Rui skillfully sealed off the place to ensure that no one could approach this area full of mysterious power.

Soon, under Cao Rui's command, an order was issued to draw a radius of one hundred thousand feet with the Deep Blue Spirit Ship as the center, and no one was allowed to enter.

The Deep Blue Organization controlled by Cao Rui plundered the Tianji Sea for the second time. After finding out Cao Rui's temper, there were far fewer Xijiao monks watching.

After doing this, Cao Rui began to control the Deep Blue Spirit Ship in an orderly manner and began to arrange a formation to intercept the heavenly secrets.

As his mana poured into the center of the spirit ship, rays of light shot out from the spirit ship and intertwined into a light shield, gradually covering the entire space where the Tianji Sea was located.

At the same time, Cao Rui's consciousness spread around like a tide, carefully sensing the energy of the Tianji Sea.

Relying on the experience accumulated from many times of contact with the Tianji Sea, he was able to roughly estimate how much Tianji the Sea of ​​Tianji would produce this time based on this energy change.

After some careful exploration, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed: "The scale of Tianjihai this time is much smaller than last time! It seems that there won't be too many accounts this time..."

Despite this, Cao Rui still did not dare to take it lightly and concentrated on perfecting the formation to intercept Tianji.

After the array arrangement was completed, less than half an hour passed. However, at this moment, drastic changes began to occur within the Tianji Sea. The energy that was originally relatively stable suddenly became restless, like a pot of boiling water, rolling and surging crazily. Obviously, Tianji is about to be born.

Secrets begin to appear.

Sure enough, just as he expected, this time the Tianji Sea can only be regarded as a small to medium-sized one, far less than the majestic energy and violent churning contained in the last medium-to-large Tianji Sea.

Cao Rui led the three core members to control the magic hand to seal and plunder the secret.

Not long after, all the secrets were plundered by Cao Rui and Zhan Chen.

The originally choppy and gleaming Tianji Sea gradually calmed down and returned to its calm appearance in the past.

After the brewing of the Tianji Sea was over, everyone began to carefully calculate the harvest brought by this Tianji plunder.

The result did not exceed Cao Rui's expectations. They obtained a total of 30,000 top-grade secrets and 200,000 high-grade secrets.

However, compared with last time, this number is really far behind.

Cao Rui thought for a moment and quickly calculated: Except for those extremely precious top-grade secrets, most of the top-grade secrets need to be used to pay various expenses.

The first is the 100,000 high-grade secrets that the Blue Robe Star Thieves must turn in every year; secondly, the total of 90,000 high-grade secrets that must be distributed to the nineteen peripheral members as their due rewards.

In addition, in order to ensure that the Deep Blue Spirit Ship can operate normally and maintain sufficient formation capabilities, a full 10,000 Tianji must be reserved as its energy reserve.

In this way, the 200,000 high-grade secrets that were just obtained were completely consumed.

Only 30,000 top-grade secrets can be allocated to Cao Rui and the three core members.

After some distribution, Cao Rui finally took possession of 12,000 top-grade secrets alone.

The other three core members each received 6,000 top-grade secrets. Even though there were only 6,000, if these top-grade secrets were converted into high-grade secrets according to a certain ratio, there would be as many as 30,000!

Everyone knew very well that Tianjihai's output this time was indeed not ideal, so no one complained or complained too much.

Some peripheral members even took the initiative to propose that their remuneration be postponed for a period of time before being paid.

However, Cao Rui paid all peripheral members in advance.

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Cao Rui could only wait for the extra reward for the six monks in the Frost Realm for the time being, and wait until there is enough secrets next time.

As the Tianji Sea dissipated and all the peripheral members returned to the spirit ship, the dark blue spirit ship cut through the void like a blue lightning and quickly rushed towards the center point of the west corner.

After this relatively sparse output from Tianjihai, Cao Rui took Sun Daoyi's suggestion seriously.

If he could successfully drive away the Blue-robed Star Thieves, there would be no need to hand over those hundred thousand secrets, and he would not be in such a tight predicament now.

Thinking of this, Cao Rui couldn't help but feel a little hope in his heart, hoping that Sun Daoyi could successfully gather enough secrets and ask him to help.

You must know that what you encountered this time was just a small and medium-sized Tianji Sea. If you encounter several smaller or even mini-sized Tianji Seas in the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to even pay the rewards that your members deserve. .

Thinking of this, Cao Rui once again had the idea of ​​driving away the blue-robed star bandits.

"Hmph! As long as the reward is not too low, how about a fight with Na Ji?" Cao Rui secretly made this decision in his heart.

And at this time.

Sun Daoyizheng selected several important targets for discussion and was on his way in the air.

On this day, after a long journey in the void, Sun Daoyi finally arrived at the first destination of this negotiation - the prestigious and powerful organization that controls the hegemony of Dongjiao Tianji: Dongsheng.

This organization is called Dongsheng, and it has shone brightly in the past few decades of the Red Cloud Whirlpool.

Once upon a time, it was the well-deserved number one organization. It had long been at the top of all major organizations and ranked first in overall strength.

However, as time went by, the situation gradually changed.

When Deep Blue rose rapidly like a bright new star, Dongsheng had to give up the top spot and settle for second place.

But even so, Dongsheng still firmly controls the Dongjiao area, showing unparalleled dominance.

Previously, when the Blue Robed Star Thieves moved into the central corner and caused a series of turbulence, Dongsheng was not overwhelmed by this sudden change.

On the contrary, with their keen and decisive decision-making ability, they quickly followed the example of Deep Blue, recruited talents, and recruited many peripheral members to join their camp.

In this way, Dongsheng successfully stabilized its position and further consolidated its dominant position in Dongjiao.

Today, Dongsheng's hegemony on this land is as solid as a rock and difficult to shake.

Now Dongsheng has five core members, including the leader, and twenty peripheral members!

The leader of this powerful organization is also the monk Lu Xudong with outstanding combat power.

This person is extremely powerful, with an astonishing combat power of up to 2900.

I think back then, when Cao Rui had not yet emerged and Sun Daoyi was still alone at the top of the combat power list, Lu Xudong had always been firmly in the second place, second only to Sun Daoyi.

However, since Cao Rui suddenly emerged and became the two heroes in the combat rankings alongside Sun Daoyi, Lu Xudong has been relegated to third place, but his reputation remains the same as before.

Sun Daoyi and Lu Xudong have been old friends for many years and are quite familiar with each other.

This time when Sun Daoyi went to find Lu Xudong in Dongsheng's area, he did not encounter many obstacles.

When Sun Daoyi finally saw Lu Xudong, he only heard the latter say jokingly: "Sun Daoyi, why did you come to Dongjiao? Look at it like this, how have you spent the past year?" It’s not going well! I’ve told you to set up your own organization and don’t always go it alone, but you don’t have a place to live now, do you?”

At this time, Lu Xudong was surrounded and protected by the members of his team, and these team members usually performed activities and practiced on a spread out carpet-like spiritual treasure.

Hearing Lu Xudong's words, Sun Daoyi just sighed softly, and then slowly said: "Lu Xudong, I came to you today because I have something important to discuss with you."

Lu Xudong saw Sun Daoyi's solemn face, and his originally relaxed expression suddenly became serious, and he hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

Sun Daoyi looked at Lu Xudong firmly, and said earnestly: "I want to ask the Cloak Ancestor to come out of the mountain and let him fight Ji Zhan. As long as Ji Zhan can be defeated, the Red Cloud Vortex will be able to return to its normal state. In this way, you don't have to pay the so-called tribute to the blue robe star pirates."

Sun Daoyi knew that the tribute to the heavenly secrets on the East Corner was even more exaggerated than that on the West Corner, reaching 150,000 high-grade heavenly secrets!

As soon as the voice fell, Lu Xudong couldn't help but frowned slightly and asked: "Have you seen the Cloak Ancestor? I wonder what his real strength is? Isn't he just a name for nothing?"

Sun Daoyi stared at Lu Xudong with his eyes and said slowly: "Of course, I wouldn't make up nonsense. I have not only seen this person, but also had a very deep impression of him. If he was just a name for nothing, why would I come to you to discuss this matter? To tell you the truth, when I saw him, the breath and momentum he exuded were exactly the same as that of Ji Zhan. In my judgment, he definitely has the potential to defeat Ji Zhan!"

When Lu Xudong heard this, his brows frowned slightly, and he asked with a suspicious face: "Are you really so sure? This is not a trivial matter."

Sun Daoyi held his head high and chest out, full of confidence He nodded and answered decisively: "Of course I am sure of it! My intuition has always been extremely sharp and has never been wrong."

Speaking of this, Sun Daoyi couldn't help but sighed lightly, with a look of regret on his face: "It's a pity that the purple cloud has been subdued by the Cloak Ancestor. The means of detecting combat power are blocked and enjoyed by the Cloak Ancestor alone. Otherwise, we can buy accurate information about their strength from them, and we can also understand more clearly how much combat power the Cloak Ancestor really has."

After a pause, Sun Daoyi continued to analyze: "But in my opinion, even without detailed combat power information, based on my observations and feelings, I dare to assert that the Cloak Ancestor's strength must be above Ji Zhan!"

Lu Xudong listened to Sun Daoyi's words quietly, thinking secretly in his heart.

He knew Sun Daoyi's character very well. The two had been together in this red cloud vortex for nearly a hundred years. Lu Xudong believed in Sun Daoyi's strength and his vision of judging people.

"As you said, is the Cloak Ancestor willing to help?" Lu Xudong asked softly.

Sun Daoyi's eyes narrowed slightly, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said: "The problem lies here!"

Then, Sun Daoyi sighed softly and continued to explain: "The Cloak Ancestor is not a good person. He is a man who will not do anything without profit. Now he has occupied the hegemony of the Western Corner Tianji Sea, and the resources and benefits he obtains from there every day are enough to meet his own cultivation needs. Therefore, it is not an easy task to ask him to help defeat Ji Zhan."

At this point, Sun Daoyi paused, glanced at Lu Xudong, and then continued: "If we can take If we offer him enough benefits to make him interested, there may be a glimmer of hope to convince him to help. For example..."

Sun Daoyi thought for a moment and then made a suggestion: "How about we, the cultivators on the Red Cloud Whirlpool, gather together tens of millions of top-grade secrets and use them as a reward to ask him to help us this time. What do you think?"

Lu Xudong frowned slightly when he heard this. He estimated the number of responses from the major organizations after the news came out, and finally said: "Tens of millions of top-grade secrets are probably difficult to gather, but if it is two or three million top-grade secrets, let's take a gamble!"

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