Dark clouds were gathering, lightning flashed, and bronze sky thunder flickered in the clouds, like dragons and snakes crawling behind the dark clouds, like gods and ghosts, and the power of the sky was as heavy as the mountains, making people tremble with fear.
The roar of thunder was like a drum beating in the ears, deafening.
The mighty sky thunder slanted down, turned into plasma, and surged towards the figure standing with hands behind his hands on the top of Ji Lei Mountain. The figure allowed the thunder to fall and remained motionless.
After the thunderstorm passed, Jiang Li looked at the sky expectantly.
However, the sky was only clear after the dark clouds dissipated, and there was no golden ladder to immortality that he expected.
"As expected, you can't ascend."
Jiang Li's lost self-talk was full of melancholy. This was the fifteenth time he had experienced the tribulation of becoming an immortal.
The ability to transcend tribulations and ascend is not a mythical legend, but there is clear evidence. There are still Immortal Taoism, Immortal Weapons, Immortal Techniques, and old antiques who have seen the Ladder to Immortality in the Kyushu Continent.
According to those old antiques, there were often great monks who became immortals in the Kyushu continent thousands of years ago. As long as they survived the catastrophe, the immortal world would descend the ladder to immortality to welcome the monks.
But for some unknown reason, the Immortal Realm no longer descends the ladder to immortality, cutting off the path to ascension, causing countless great monks to sigh and die in depression.
Jiang Li traveled to the Kyushu Continent five hundred years ago without any golden fingers. With hard work, wisdom and luck, he rose up at the end of his life, overcame various difficulties and obstacles, and finally cultivated to the highest level of the Kyushu Continent, the Mahayana stage, and became the contemporary human emperor.
He is the well-deserved number one person in the Kyushu Continent.
It's a pity that I can't ascend after traveling to the world of cultivating immortals.
Jiang Li also once thought that if he had a golden finger, such as a system or a mobile phone, he would be able to avoid some detours.
Then he was relieved. Why are you thinking about these things now? Didn't you have reached your current status if you had a golden finger or not? And looking back now, wasn't it a kind of fun to take those detours?
[Host information detected, counterattack system started.]
[Name: Jiang Li]
[Age: 518 years old]
[Identity: Contemporary Emperor]
[Cultivation: Mahayana period]
A mechanical sound sounded from Jiang Li's ears.
Jiang Li subconsciously opened his consciousness and acted vigilantly, but when he heard the voice clearly, he was stunned. He didn't know whether it was excitement or helplessness, and he laughed and cursed: "Isn't it too late for your system?
Got it!"
Laughing and scolding is a joke, but the system still needs to be opened.
[This system is a counterattack system, helping the host to defeat all those who look down on the host.]
[Please host to receive the novice gift package.]
Hearing the word "counterattack", Jiang Li felt deeply uneasy, but he still suppressed his uneasiness and said: "Accept it."
As soon as he finished speaking, a lot of things appeared out of thin air in front of Jiang Li.
He sat cross-legged and counted these things.
As soon as you open the small medicine bottle, you can smell a refreshing fragrance, which lifts your mood. This is the fragrance that can only be found in the best elixirs.
Twenty top-quality Qi Gathering Pills have a miraculous effect on the Qi training period.
A top-quality foundation-building pill can help achieve perfect foundation-building during the Qi training period.
Ten low-level talismans, including two talismans of strength, two talismans of speed, two talismans of concealment, and four talismans of tranquility.
One hundred and fifty low-level spiritual stones.
The incomplete Taoist book "Four Liang Moves a Thousand Catties" was thoughtfully marked on the side by the system.
["Four Liangs of Thousand Categories" is a secret that is not passed down by the Taoist sect. If you learn the residual copy, you will be invincible during the period of Qi training. You can spend one hundred thousand source points to complete it. 】
[Current source point: 0]
Jiang Li looked at this pile of things and remained silent.
Is this novice gift package a bit too novice?
Jiang Li examined these things carefully, and the most valuable among them was probably this Taoist book that looked tattered. It was not only tattered, but also a fragment.
"And "Four Liangs of Thousand Categories"..."
Jiang Li pondered for a moment and pulled out a brand new book from the storage ring. The name of the book was also called Four Liang Bo Qianjin.
This was copied by the head of the Dao Sect and given to Jiang Li. It also contains the experiences and comments of the seniors of the Dao Sect.
Generally, extremely powerful Taoist techniques have a threshold. For example, Houtu Sect's "Ding Zhen Zhongyuan" can only be activated by the golden elixir stage magic power. Another example is the Heart Demon Sect's "Butterfly Transforming Yin and Yang", which also requires golden elixir stage magic power.
To motivate.
The biggest advantage of "Four Liangs of Thousand Catties" is that it has no restrictions on spiritual energy. It emphasizes that the power follows the heart, and the weak defeats the strong. It is very suitable for reverse-level battles. It is a rare Taoist technique without threshold.
Jiang Li compared the two books carefully and after confirming that the contents were the same, he couldn't help but wonder: "They are indeed good things, but why are these things only for the Qi training period?"
"System, what is my cultivation level?"
A mechanical sound sounded.
【Mahayana period.】
"Did you give me the wrong gift package for beginners? It's not a gift package for beginners in the qi training period, but a gift package for newbies in the Mahayana period?"
【After inspection, there is no error.】
"What is my cultivation level?"
【Mahayana period.】
"What level of people is the novice gift package you gave us suitable for?"
【Qi training period.】
"Did you give it to the wrong person?"
【After inspection, there is no error.】
"My level..."
【Mahayana, no mistakes.】
"Okay." Jiang Li was speechless, "I'll answer it quickly."
Jiang Li didn't know whether to call this system rigid or intelligent.
[Publish a novice task, this task cannot be refused or avoided. 】
[Failure penalty: Unable to enable the remaining functions of the system.]
[The functions of the system include: store, spiritual energy infusion, avoiding inner demons, space movement...]
[Novice mission: Jiang Yixing, relying on his identity as the patriarch’s son, has repeatedly bullied you. Please defeat Jiang Yixing. 】
Jiang Li's mind was filled with questions.
Jiang Yixing, such a familiar name, who is it?
Turning back his memory to the beginning of time travel, Jiang Li remembered who Jiang Yixing was.
Jiang Li's father was the patriarch of the previous generation. After his father died, he left only an orphan and a widowed mother. His mother died of a serious illness, so Jiang Li was left without a father or mother.
After the death of his parents, Jiang Yixing relied on the fact that his father was the son of the contemporary clan leader and bullied others everywhere. Among them, the one he liked to bully most was Jiang Li. This gave him an inexplicable sense of accomplishment, and Jiang Yixing was the leader of the entire clan.
No one can say anything about the most talented person. Jiang Li was also a failure. After being bullied, he did nothing and complained every day. In the end, he died of anger.
He traveled through time at that time.
After traveling through time, Jiang Li judged that staying in this family would be harmful rather than beneficial, so he ran away from home.
This happened five hundred years ago.
From the current point of view, Jiang Yixing's so-called talent is the best in the whole family. The most he can do in his life is to build a foundation, and then he will work hard to get to the late stage of foundation building. The probability of achieving a golden elixir is very slim.
The lifespan of the Foundation Stage is the same as that of ordinary people, which is one hundred and forty years. The lifespan of the Golden Elixir Stage varies from person to person, ranging from two hundred to three hundred years.
Regardless of whether Jiang Yixing builds a foundation or a golden elixir in the end, he is too dead to die now!
And the most important thing is that this novice task is not completed by me now!
"System, what era is it now?"
【Year 4300.】
"It's the 4800th year of the Yan Calendar!"
Jiang Li finally understood where his uneasiness and sense of disobedience came from. This broken system started five hundred years late!
[Please refer to the time recognized by the system.]
Jiang Li was trembling with anger.
"I request a change of assignment."
【The task cannot be changed.】
"Jiang Yixing is dead!"
[Please refer to the time recognized by the system.]
"I am currently in the Mahayana stage. Is it appropriate to fight Jiang Yixing, who is not sure whether he is practicing Qi or building a foundation? This is called a counterattack?!"
【Please complete the novice task.】
"Restart the system."
【Please complete the novice task.】
"Uninstall the system."
【Please complete the novice task.】
Jiang Li almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.
He should have guessed it when he first saw the word "counterattack". Damn the counterattack system. As the contemporary emperor and the strongest person in Kyushu, who will he counterattack?
"What a broken system, what use do you have!"
Jiang Li made up his mind not to care about this system anymore. He started up his computer five hundred years late and asked himself to defeat a dead man. How to defeat it? Is there any way to win spiritually?!
…
At the foot of Ji Lei Mountain, there are countless powerful practitioners waiting for the Emperor to overcome the tribulation. These people may be the helmsmen of great religions, the heads of dynasties, or old monsters who have lived for thousands of years.
The cultivation of these ancestors is earth-shattering. If the immortal world had not been revealed now, they would have retreated and meditated long ago in order to overcome the tribulation and ascend. There are even a few people who have survived the tribulation of immortality, but they are far from the number of tribulations that Jiang Li has overcome.
Compare.
They came here not to see if Jiang Li could survive the tribulation, but to see if it was possible to ascend after overcoming the tribulation.
It's just that this time the Tribulation is destined to disappoint them. There is no legendary ladder to become an Immortal after the Tribulation of Immortality.
Becoming an immortal was out of reach, and this thought inevitably appeared in the mind of the Patriarch.
Although I had expected it, it still cast a slight haze in my heart.
Jiang Li flew down from the top of the mountain. Even people who are not good at observing words and emotions can see the loss in Jiang Li's heart.
Jiang Li would not be too disappointed if he failed to ascend after just one tribulation. Instead, a system suddenly came into play, which made him think that he had some kind of golden finger that could help him ascend, but he never thought that it was a useless finger.
The patriarchs could naturally see Jiang Li's abnormal state of mind, but they still put on a happy expression and congratulated Jiang Li.
"Congratulations to Jiang Renhuang for surviving another catastrophe."
"Where, where."
"Just watching from the sidelines makes people scared, but Jiang Renhuang got through it safely. He must have improved his cultivation!"
"It's just a fluke, it's just a fluke."
"If Jiang Renhuang can ascend, he will also be the overlord in the fairy world!"
"The road to ascension is long and difficult, and we still need to work together."
"Jiang Renhuang must come to my sect and open a forum for the incompetent juniors to explain their cultivation experience. Jiang Renhuang must give me face."
"Whatever Senior Zhang said, Jiang will bear in mind your teachings to Jiang. After some time, Jiang will exchange some spiritual practice experiences with Senior Zhang and let the juniors listen."
"It's a pity that the immortal world is too far away from us, its location is uncertain, and the boundary wall is too thick. Otherwise, with Jiang Renhuang's cultivation, it would be possible to break through the boundary wall with force!"
"Who doesn't know that your Xumi Mountain lineage is best at the art of space? If you want to say who can locate the fairy world, it must be you!"
Jiang Li was very polite to these masters, thanked them one by one, and promised to go to various sects to open forums and teach his experience in the future, which made these masters very happy.
After bidding farewell to the masters, Jiang Li called up the system again. The words of the old Buddha of Mount Xumi gave him inspiration.
"System, can you send me to the fairy world?"
[The system will open the space teleportation function in the future, which can take the host to the fairy world.]
"Can you send me there now?" Jiang Li was overjoyed. This system is quite useful. It is indeed a golden finger.
[Please host complete the novice mission first.]
Jiang Li patiently explained to the system: "You send me to the fairy world first. Through the fairy world, you can reach the underworld. I will find Jiang Yixing in the underworld and defeat him. This way I can complete the mission."
[Please host complete the novice mission first.]
"Can you please be accommodating? Can we do it on credit? You can't let me beat someone to death."
[Please host to complete the novice mission first.]
"Break the system!"
Jiang Li felt that this was not a golden finger, but God giving him a middle finger.
While he scolded the system as useless, he thought about how to complete the system's tasks.
For example, find someone named Jiang Yixing and beat him up, or find someone to force him to call him Jiang Yixing and beat him up, or dance on Jiang Yixing's grave...
Of course, these are all alternatives. The first option is to go to his hometown to see if Jiang Yixing is still alive. Maybe he can get a life-extending pill. Oh, one is not enough. He needs a dozen. Then he can
Barely surviving to this day, or receiving enlightenment from an expert, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, with a life span of about 500 years in the Nascent Soul stage, just enough to survive until now...
In short, qualifications are not the only determining factor. For example, Jiang Li is a good example. Without his hard training and a little help from the Tianling Root and the Infinite Dao Body, he would not have been able to reach the Mahayana stage.