Chapter 1
Xiahou Aotian seemed to have known he was coming. He leaned back lazily in his chair, crossed his legs, and pointed to the small refrigerator in the corner. "Xiao Yuan, get the president an ice-cold Coke. You're always so clueless. How am I supposed to cultivate you in the future!"

This guy really takes an inch and wants a mile... Zhang Yuanqing silently retorted, walked to the refrigerator, took out two bottles of Coke, and sarcastically said, "I thought the president would be drinking Cognac preserved from the time of Yi IV, or the 082 Lafite that never runs out in movies and TV series. At the very least, you'd be drinking a bottle of Feitian. Tsk tsk, Fatty's happy water doesn't deserve your current status."

Xiahou Aotian searched his mind for Cognac before remembering it was white wine. He snorted, "Then why are you drinking Coke? Does it deserve your current status?"

"I'm just a pig who can't appreciate fine bran," Zhang Yuanqing said.

Xiahou Aotian crossed his legs. "Scholars are in a profession that uses their brains, and sugar is a weapon for the brain to combat fatigue."

He twisted open the Coke, took a swig, and stopped beating around the bush, lifting his chin. "Then let's continue our last discussion. Ancient cultivators could improve themselves by plundering spiritual power, but Lingjing Xingzhe cannot. Because Lingjing Xingzhe have character card restrictions."

"But just now, I suddenly thought of a way to bypass the character card, that is, to plunder other people's spiritual power when clearing a dungeon."

"Plunder other people's spiritual power when clearing a dungeon?" This was a path Zhang Yuanqing had never considered. He pondered, "Are you confident?"

"It's still in the theoretical stage. But I think I'm very confident." Xiahou Aotian took a sip of the sweet and delicious happy water. The tension and pressure brought by the dungeon slowly decomposed in the sugar.

He said, "When passing through the dungeon, the function of the character card's infusion will be activated, pouring spiritual power into the Lingjing Xingzhe. At this time, if you use your Devouring God Art in time, the external spiritual power will follow the spiritual power infused by the character card, muddling the waters into your body..."

"Wait..." Zhang Yuanqing interrupted in time. "We discussed before that Lingjing Xingzhe cannot devour other people's spiritual power because the character card has to calculate our experience points, and devouring other people's spiritual power will cause the character card to misjudge the experience points, resulting in bugs when matching dungeons."

"For example, when you clear a dungeon, your character card gives you 10% of the experience points. Before it gives it, or at the moment it gives it, this value is recorded in the Lingjing."

"Unless you are an administrator who can modify the values ​​inside the Lingjing through the supreme authority, even if you devour other people's spiritual power while infusing spiritual power, the experience points recorded in the Lingjing will not change."

Xiahou Aotian shook his finger, "Wrong, wrong, you don't understand what I mean."

Zhang Yuanqing struck a listening pose.

Xiahou Aotian said, "We don't need to modify the experience points recorded by the character card. What we want to do is bypass the character card to improve your level, or rather, your realm! The realm in the mouths of ancient cultivators! Although Lingjing Xingzhe cannot increase their cultivation base by devouring spiritual power, they can imitate ancient cultivators by entering gang dungeons and slowly cultivating to increase experience points... This is the only way most Sovereigns improve themselves."

"In other words, the character card restricts cheating, but it does not restrict Lingjing Xingzhe from cultivating little by little. Cultivating and accumulating spiritual power is slow, within the range that the character card can withstand, it will not cause matching dungeon bugs. When can Lingjing Xingzhe be allowed to cheat and increase their strength explosively?"

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up. He understood a little.

"I understand what you mean."

Xiahou Aotian nodded slightly:

"A promising student!"

Lingjing Xingzhe are only allowed to cheat and explosively increase their strength when the character card infuses spiritual power after clearing a dungeon. You have to seize this time to devour the spiritual power of other Lingjing Xingzhe, just like exploiting a Lingjing bug. In this way, although the character card records your experience points as 0%, your actual strength has reached 2%. Experience points are just useless data. In reality, real combat power is the standard."

"Good idea, good idea!" Zhang Yuanqing applauded inwardly.

Xiahou Aotian continued:

"However, this shortcut cannot improve your level. The talent skills rewarded for each level up cannot be obtained by devouring spiritual power."

"That's enough!" Zhang Yuanqing said with delight.

If his real combat power is higher than the value recorded by the experience points, then when he goes to dungeons alone, he can enter level seven mid-stage dungeons with level seven late-stage strength. The difficulty of the dungeon is greatly reduced, and all low-level A-grade dungeons become a place for him to eat experience points.

If he cooperates with a few plundering actions during this period, he may be able to advance to level nine in less than half a year, thereby having the qualifications to compete for the position of Sun Lord.

His uncle said that the minimum requirement to become a demigod is to advance to level nine, whether it is the early stage or the peak stage of level nine.

Just like the requirement to enter the Slaughter Dungeon is level 6, it doesn't matter whether the experience value is 1% or 99%.

It's just that the difference in strength between the two is too great, so no early-stage Lingjing Xingzhe is willing to enter the dungeon to die, rather than not being qualified enough.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately took out paper and pen and wrote down the pill formula he obtained from the spirit of the Yao Guang statue and gave it to Xiahou Aotian.

"This is the Three Talents Pill formula created by a Dan master at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has been improved by several generations." Zhang Yuanqing handed the paper full of runes and text to Xiahou Aotian, "See if you can control it."

Xiahou Aotian was taken aback: "Where did you get this?"

"I found it in the spirit of the Yao Guang statue," Zhang Yuanqing said, "The former Shushan sect leader, Ming Zhenghao, happened to master this evil technique."

"Well, ancient cultivators at that level have read a lot of books and should have dabbled in most spells and magical powers."

"What a coincidence?" Xiahou Aotian muttered, concentrating on looking at the Three Talents Pill formula. His brows furrowed from time to time, then relaxed, sometimes excited, sometimes annoyed.

A full half an hour later, he said, "I deduced it, and there is no problem with the theory of the pill formula. According to the steps, the Three Talents Pill should be able to be refined. You take the Three Talents Pill into the dungeon. As long as you take it during the spiritual power infusion, you can quickly improve your realm."

"But there are no steps to purify spiritual pollution in this pill formula. And the target you want to devour must be a Night Wanderer. The spiritual power of the Night Wanderer is strong. Rashly devouring it may cause you to set yourself on fire."

"You don't want to become a madman by taking medicine, do you? The remnant spirit of the Yao Guang statue almost drove you crazy, let alone fresh and complete spiritual power. The Dan master who created the Three Talents Pill will definitely lose control and die in the end. This is not a cheat, this is a poisonous formula that leads you into the abyss."

Zhang Yuanqing frowned little by little. Indeed, if he advanced with this evil technique, and took the Three Talents Pill more than twice, he would probably become crazy and demonic.

"What suggestions do you have?" He asked for advice.

"Ask a professional for professional matters." Xiahou Aotian shrugged, "How would I know? I'm a professional in alchemy, but I'm an amateur in purifying souls."

"It seems there is no shortcut to cultivation. Any shortcut will inevitably pay a heavy price."

At this time, the spiritual wave of a Qin Dynasty alchemist came from Xiahou Aotian's ring: "Find a Night Wanderer and a Scholar dual-professional person like me. Let me say in advance, I am mainly an alchemist, and I only learned some superficial Night Wanderer spells before reaching the Golden Crow realm, so I can't change this pill formula."

Xiahou Aotian scoffed: "What's the use of you!"

Night Wanderer and Scholar dual-professional... Zhang Yuanqing murmured for a moment, and suddenly had an epiphany. He thought of his beloved, dearest, and most beautiful and talented master.

Ancient cultivators cultivated slowly and had long lifespans.

They learned a variety of things and would dabble in various skills. They would basically have some knowledge of alchemy.

The introduction to the Lady in the Three Daos Mountain Lady Temple mentioned that she was proficient in alchemy and often provided free consultations and treatment for the surrounding people. The old hag is also a peak Night Wanderer, just right to modify the pill formula.

However, the old hag has a strong and unyielding personality and will definitely not agree. Not to mention that I am her closed disciple, even if I am her husband, she probably wouldn't agree.

Difficult!

Zhang Yuanqing left Xiahou Aotian's office and returned to his grandmother's house, still unable to come up with a way to persuade the old hag.

In the secret room, the Great Protector lowered his head, examining a thick stack of school registration information. His voice was hoarse, "The leader has already ordered us not to investigate the real identity of Yuan Shi Tianzun again."

The Pure Yang Sect Leader, whose eyebrows and eyes were filled with madness but also extremely restrained, sneered, "You are a protector of the Dark Night Rose, I am not! I will do whatever I want. If Yuan Shi Tianzun doesn't die, I will have difficulty sleeping and eating. I want to kill Yuan Shi Tianzun, strip him of his spiritual essence, and let me return to my peak."

"At that time, that evil disciple hiding in the Lingjing will have difficulty sleeping and eating." The Pure Yang Sect Leader transferred his hatred for the evil disciple to Yuan Shi Tianzun.

Of course, Yuan Shi Tianzun and him already had a deep grudge.

As a paranoid madman, as long as he doesn't die, he will keep staring at Yuan Shi Tianzun.

The Great Protector stopped talking, looked through the school registration information a few times, and questioned, "The official means have long erased all information about Yuan Shi Tianzun. It is impossible for the school's Security Department and other units to have it, whether it is electronic data or paper materials."

"There will be no Yuan Shi Tianzun in the school registration information you gave me. And if you take his photo and visit and investigate, you will fall into a cycle. It is unsolvable!"

"Stupid!" The Pure Yang Sect Leader said coldly, "How did you advance to Night Wanderer with your wisdom!"

"I don't know the official means and abilities, but Yuan Shi Tianzun is a native of Songhai, and Kangyang District Middle School only accepts students from this district. That is to say, those playmates who grew up with Yuan Shi Tianzun will enter this middle school. Yuan Shi Tianzun became a Lingjing Xingzhe with transcendent abilities last April. At that time, he would not have expected that he would become an unparalleled figure in just one year. Then, after obtaining transcendent abilities, he would definitely show his special abilities in front of his close playmates, either by helping or showing off, both are possible."

"I can't directly inquire about Yuan Shi Tianzun's identity, this will enter backtracking, but I can ask those students who graduated from Kangyang Middle School, which familiar classmates or friends have changed greatly in the past year, as if they have been reborn."

"The person who suddenly became different is likely to be Yuan Shi Tianzun. As long as I find out such a person, I don't even need to ask his name, just a family address is enough."

The eyes under the Great Protector's cloak lit up.

The Pure Yang Sect Leader stared at the Great Protector and opened his mouth, "I want to borrow the Dark Night Rose's network to check with the Security Department among these people, whether there are people who have suddenly become rich, or suddenly obtained huge resources. If there are, then they must have received Yuan Shi Tianzun's favor."

"The reason why I didn't check at Songhai University is because the students at Songhai University are likely to have been brainwashed, but those middle school students are scattered all over the world after they grow up. It is impossible for the official to brainwash everyone Yuan Shi Tianzun has known in his life."

The Great Protector was silent for a few seconds, and shook his head: "Like that mysterious power, the bug is a good method, but you shouldn't look for me, I will not violate the leader's order. You are not a member of the Dark Night Rose, the leader cannot force you, if you want to check, go check it yourself, don't drag me into the water."

The madness and killing intent in the Pure Yang Sect Leader's eyes skyrocketed, but he forced himself to endure it by relying on the Illusionist's control over emotions, and smiled: "Not enough to conspire with!"

He transformed into a ray of starlight and left the Great Protector's hiding place.

The Great Protector sat upright behind the desk, motionless for a long time, the gaze under the cloak was dark and deep.

Rays of starlight flickered one after another, and the Pure Yang Sect Leader rushed towards the airport in this northwestern city.

After checking the school registration information, he took the first flight to find the Great Protector, and it was already late at night when he arrived in the northwest.

At three o'clock in the morning,

The Pure Yang Sect Leader took a flight back to Songhai.

As soon as he returned to his rented house in Songhai, his phone "dinged."

A text message prompted. Yuan Chunyang, the Sect Leader, took out his mobile phone to check the information: "Contact this number! He will help you solve the official resources. Read and destroy immediately!"

The Pure Yang Sect Leader memorized the phone number in his mind, deleted the text message, and laughed: "Isn't it impossible to violate the leader's orders?"

"Every time you mention Yuan Shi Tianzun, your emotions are always apprehension and worry, wishing you could get rid of him quickly."

Intuition told him that the Great Protector of the Dark Night Rose had a relationship with Yuan Shi Tianzun, an unknown relationship.

I'm afraid even the leader of the Dark Night Rose doesn't know it, otherwise, the Great Protector wouldn't be acting against the orders in secret.

Of course, the Pure Yang Sect Leader would not expose this matter. In the attitude towards Yuan Shi Tianzun, they were consistent, and with the same goal, they were friends.