Chapter 396 Going down the mountain
Under the huge shield of ash, Zhao Guanshan’s brows were still furrowed. After thinking for a long time, he took out the karma hourglass and measured himself.

Fortunately, his current karmic debt is still zero.

This is really important.

It’s even to the point of being shocking.

The essence of spiritual practice becomes paying off debts.

“Alas, it is said that the heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs. In fact, all living things do not take the heaven and earth seriously. The weak ones are fine. They have the heart and courage, but they don’t have the ability. The slightly stronger ones always shout that they are going against the heaven, destroying the heaven, overturning the heaven, hanging the heaven, cutting the heaven, breaking the heaven, and shaking the heaven. They are happy, but they leave a lot of bad debts behind.”

“Or maybe it’s because they discovered that the essence of spiritual practice is to repay debts that they want to break it all? Those are just slogans of rebellion?”

“If that’s the case, destroying the avenue or shattering the void is not as heavy as paying back a debt. It’s only natural and right.”

Thinking of this, Zhao Guanshan no longer hesitated. While Yu Yue was still seriously injured and unconscious, he secretly took an Eight Desolate Spirit Fire that was floating on the hill. In the past, he would have worried whether he would incur karmic debt because of this, but now that he had figured it out, he didn’t have to worry anymore.

These are all the assets laundered by the Lihuo Immortal. It would be a waste if you don’t take them. The debt you owe her does not mean you owe a debt to the heaven and earth, so it is not considered karma.

Of course, this premise is that the Lihuo Immortal is dead and his debts are settled.

“But then again, if we really want to talk about debts being paid off after death, then the hill formed by her corpse should also be considered a karmic debt to be collected and settled, right? Why is it not restricted?”

After a little thought, Zhao Guanshan realized that the key to the problem should lie with a certain fallen immortal. Whoever killed the Lihuo Immortal in the first place is the potential scapegoat. The fallen immortal might not have guessed this at the time, but now, it is time for the fallen immortal to jump up and down and curse in anger.

So he immediately thought of Wang Xuan who was crushed.

Could it be the fallen immortal who supported Wang Xuan?

The immortal hidden in the Floating Cloud Taoist Palace?
Now that’s great, I’ve really become a fallen immortal for ten thousand years.

“So the first thing to do when you get ashore is to kill the person you love first. There is really no other way. If you don’t find a buyer or a backup to help you pay the debt, who can jump out of this debt trap?”

Next, Zhao Guanshan no longer paid attention to the outside world, but tried his best to refine and fuse the Eight Desolate Spirit Fire, and together with the Li Fire, transformed it into the origin of two different systems of mechanical Taoist talismans.

Among them, the system with Lihuo as the origin is mainly auxiliary. The magical powers such as dispel, forget, mislead, fire escape, etc. were all rewritten by him with mechanical Taoist talismans to complete the deductive evolution.

Simply put, it is the mechanization of supernatural powers.

Although this system still has major flaws, it has basically formed combat effectiveness.

For example, the method Zhao Guanshan used to deceive Yu Yue before can be classified as mechanical misleading.

However, due to limited materials, even with the help of a semi-biological mode, he has currently only created three types of fire-related mechanical creations.

One of them is the mechanical clone that Zhao Guanshan created for himself, which is made of 12% biological body + 12% mechanical body, and 76% energy body.

When not in use, this mechanical clone can shrink into a fist-sized mechanical sphere.

When needed, he can exchange with his original body in a matter of thoughts, with the maximum exchange distance of thirty miles. After being activated alone, it can be deployed up to three thousand miles away, which is also the maximum distance that his soul can support.

Apart from that, this mechanical clone has no flaws inside or outside from any angle. In terms of combat effectiveness, it is slightly inferior, only one-fifth of its original body.

There is no other way around it. After all, his mechanical clone is still far from the great power of external incarnation cultivated by high-level cultivators. In the absence of sufficient resources, it is already very good to be able to achieve this.

Finally, the most outstanding advantage of this mechanical clone, and the one that most satisfies Zhao Guanshan, is that it is not afraid of being destroyed. After being killed by the enemy, what is lost is only a small amount of biological form and a small amount of energy form. It can also automatically recover within ten seconds, and its durability is 100, which means it can be resurrected 100 times in a row.

It is the best way to mislead the enemy and trick them into using their ultimate moves.

The second type of mechanical creation is a mechanical flying eagle, which uses 6% of biological structure, 6% of mechanical structure, and the rest is energy structure.

It is still not used for combat, but for long-range deployment. For example, Zhao Guanshan’s mechanical clone does not have the ability to be quickly deployed to a certain location, so a mechanical flying eagle is needed for rapid deployment.

The core origin of the mechanical flying eagle is derived from the Lihuo Escape Technique. Its fastest escape speed has now reached 500 miles at a time, and it can fly 20 times in a row, which means it can escape a distance of 10,000 miles within 20 seconds.

How to describe this level? It is already very strong, but let alone immortal cultivators, any ninth-level Qi Refiner can beat it.

But the problem is that the mechanical eagle’s flight has a super stealth effect. As for the auxiliary, Zhao Guanshan has already mastered the super forgetfulness rune that was once cast by the Lihuo Immortal in his youth.

Stealth deployment has great advantages.

The third type of mechanical creation is also a mechanical flying eagle. It has no combat capability and does not have long-range delivery capability, but because it has a Lihuo-level spirit supply tower installed inside, its greatest function is to charge in the air and provide the basis for sustainable combat.

The above are the three mechanical creations that Zhao Guanshan carefully selected based on the Lihuo system. For this reason, he even temporarily abandoned the mechanical mosquitoes with extremely strong assassination output that can kill Yuanying realm cultivators in seconds, the mechanical locusts with long-range fixed-point blasting capabilities, the scimitar hunter mechanical mantis, as well as the mechanical sparrows and mechanical crows, which are quite mature versions. The reason is not that he can’t win, but that everything must start from zero debt and no karma.

Killing the target is not the purpose. In fact, killing is always the easiest thing.

But how to deal with the aftermath?
This requires great wisdom to solve.

In the next few years, Zhao Guanshan has been studying how to use the Eight Desolate Spirit Fire, apply it to mechanical Taoist talismans, and create a suitable mechanical creation system.

During this period, Yu Yue gradually recovered from her serious injuries and near-death state, and took in several pieces of heavenly fire floating on the hill for her own use, making her even more powerful.

In a sense, this is also what Zhao Guanshan is happy to see.

In fact, neither of them wants to see the arrival of the fifth reincarnation.

Another ten years passed, and in the world of immortal cultivation outside the hill, Fan Qingyan died mysteriously in the Tower of Babel he had built. His residual soul, like Wang Xuan’s residual soul, appeared at the foot of the hill, crying miserably, trying to repeat his old trick.

But this time Zhao Guanshan didn’t need to pay any attention, because the furious Yu Yue rushed out directly, and as soon as he activated his ultimate move, the Eight Desolate Spirit Fire fell down, burning the remaining soul of Fan Qingyan cleanly and neatly, and the mastermind behind the scenes didn’t even have a chance to come out and shout.

But when Yu Yue returned to the hill again, Zhao Guanshan was surprised to see that her body was covered with a faint layer of blood light.

Oh no, she is tainted with karmic debt, this is a trap!
For a moment, Zhao Guanshan felt complicated. The Fairy Lihuo had worked so hard to plan a big chess game, and it seemed that it was about to succeed and he was about to get away with it, but at this point, he failed.

Since Yu Yue is infected with karmic debt, even if she eventually grows to the level of the Lihuo Immortal in her previous life, she still cannot avoid falling into a vicious circle.

But in fact she could not grow to the level of Lihuo Immortal.

One day, she will regret it. With her arrogant and conceited personality, she will probably get angry and give up on herself, and will completely destroy everything, just like an out-of-control sky fire that will turn into a devil fire abyss again…

“We must be prepared to leave. This hill is not a place to stay for long.”

“But where can I go?”

“How about ascending? I have no karmic debts and have already met the conditions to jump out of the ring of destiny. What I lack now is the strength level…”

“I’m sorry, Liyue, please forgive me for stealing your spot. I’ll be the one to strike you with the first sword after landing.”

After Zhao Guanshan made the decision, he exposed a part of the first tomb. As expected, Yu Yue, after sensing it, immediately absorbed this part of the inheritance and became even more powerful. She immediately tried to trigger a new round of heavenly fire.

This time she obviously had experience and a certain degree of skill, but she still underestimated the gift of fate. As her fourth life, she was bound to die and had a mortal constitution. Therefore, the heavenly fire that should have been successfully ignited suddenly encountered a small accident, which directly knocked her to the brink of death again.

If Zhao Guanshan had not decisively helped her block the impact of the last heavenly fire, she would have died.

“Shit! Immortal Lihuo has a backup plan!”

Zhao Guanshan was terrified, and he realized that there was no time to delay any longer. Yu Yue had to grow up faster and inherit the legacy of the Lihuo Immortal, instead of dying in order.

So this time, he no longer hid it and directly gave up all the space in the first tomb and the second tomb as well.

As for the nine cubic meters of mysterious substance that had formed in the third tomb, he endured it several times, but finally chose to give up.

Although he was very sure that as long as he absorbed it, or even used it to strengthen the Spirit Ash Shield, it could be strengthened by at least two levels.

However, he must be careful of the Lihuo Immortal’s back-up plan.

Relatively speaking, the heavenly fire ignited by Yu Yue is the safest.

So this time, he absorbed two small Li Fires and one small Eight Desolate Spirit Fire.

It’s not that you can’t take more, but if you take too much you can’t integrate it and will only be exposed.

Then, without waiting for Yu Yue to wake up, he decisively went down the mountain.

They can’t stay here any longer, because after Yu Yue absorbed and fused the mysterious substances in the three tombs, she will be a de facto quasi-fire immortal, and the entire hill will be completely under her control.

Then at that time, the spirit ash shield could not protect Zhao Guanshan.

He would be found and crushed to death.

(End of this chapter)