Chapter 11: The Stand-in Puppet
The so-called scattered immortals refer to those cultivators in the cultivation world who have lost their physical bodies due to battles or accidents, and only have only the primordial infant, after a series of means and methods, form a unique state that looks like ghosts and non-ghosts, like immortals and non-immortals, which is a unique way of cultivation. In addition, there are also some cultivators who are unsuccessful in the tribulation, who will give up their physical bodies before the arrival of the heavenly tribulation or during the tribulation, escape from the Yuanying and turn to the Scattered Immortals based on it.
Compared with ordinary cultivators, the cultivation process of scattered immortals is extremely dangerous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a life of nine deaths, and if you are not careful, you will be completely scattered and wiped out, and you will die so much that you can't die anymore. But once the cultivation is successful, the strength should not be underestimated, basically as long as the cultivation is a scattered immortal, he will immediately advance to the ranks of the top masters in the cultivation realm, and he can completely run rampant in the cultivation realm.
As a gathering place of scattered immortals, Xiaotian Outer Heaven has naturally lived countless scattered immortal cultivators for countless years, and some of the top masters among them have the strength of immortals.
Among them, there is no need to elaborate on all kinds of portable magic weapons, the things used by the scattered immortals will not be too bad in any case, they are definitely the best items of the same kind, and each one is worth a lot. And those caves are even more incredible, there are usually some immortal-level exercise cheats, magic pills, spirit stone materials and other treasures in them, no matter who gets them, they will bring great help to his cultivation.
Therefore, once this kind of cave mansion left over from the top scattered immortals sends out the signs of opening the birth, it will definitely attract countless people to compete for it. The reason why Lu Yan entered the Little Heaven Outer Heaven was because he heard the news: The latest person in the history of the Little Heaven Outer Heaven to survive the Thousand Thunder Immortal Tribulation, cultivate the Great Success, and successfully ascend to the Immortal Realm's Nine Tribulation Scattered Immortals - the Nebula True Person's Cave Mansion is about to open.
Although the strength of the scattered immortals is high, its cultivation process is not smooth sailing, but is accompanied by endless hardships. The once-in-a-millennium Scattered Immortal Tribulation is heavier and heavier every time, and those who can survive continue to cultivate, but those who can't survive it will be directly wiped out and die. If you are lucky enough to survive the nine heavenly tribulations in a row and cultivate the nine tribulations of the Scattered Immortals, you will have the opportunity to usher in the tenth Scattered Immortal Tribulation - Thousand Thunder Building Immortal Tribulations, and after successfully surviving them, you will immediately be extradited by the auspicious light that descended from the immortal realm to ascend, rebuild the immortal body, and directly possess the strength of the heavenly immortals.
It is precisely because of this kind of difficulty and danger that ordinary people can't imagine at all, although it is not rare for scattered immortals in the cultivation realm to be scattered, but those who have truly cultivated to the advanced realm are very rare, and in the end, they can successfully survive the immortal building tribulation, and the ascension to the immortal realm is even rarer, like the morning star. For millions of years, there have been only a handful of people who have been able to cultivate Scattered Immortals and ultimately succeed.
And Xingyun Zhenren is one of the few top scattered immortals in this million years, as soon as the news that the cultivation cave mansion he left behind was about to open, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire Xiaotian Outer Heaven and the cultivation realm, and countless scattered immortals and Mahayana masters who received the news put down their affairs on the spot and flocked to the location of the cave mansion. More cultivators in the Tribulation Period and Merge Period also rushed to Xiaotian Waitian when they heard the news, intending to get a little cheap.
After all, the Nine Tribulations Scattered Immortals who can successfully ascend to the Immortal Realm are no different from the immortals in the eyes of ordinary people, their cultivation techniques, cultivation experience, and the immortal magic weapons, the best elixirs, and the treasures of heaven and earth that they left behind are all top treasures that cannot be hoped for anyone, as long as they get one of them, it is enough for ordinary people to use for life. Compared with the ethereal immortal legends in the smaller outer heavens, this immortal mansion left by Xingyun Zhenren is a real great immortal fate, and everyone can't help but salivate!
Lu Yan, who heard the news, also had the mentality of bumping into chances, and came to Xiaotian Waitian with the flow of cultivation masters. Of course, he didn't come to Xiaotian Waitian as the main force of competition, although he was already a late stage of cultivation in the integration and was already a top master in the cultivation world, but in the Xiaotian Outer Heaven at that time, he was really scattered immortals everywhere, and there were as many Mahayana as dogs, and his small integration period cultivation was nothing at all, plus he was born in a casual cultivation, and he was alone, and his strength was weak, that is, he beat the side drum and joined in the fun.
After discovering that there were so many top masters in the cultivation realm gathered together, Lu Yan was also very self-aware and immediately dispelled the preparation to get involved, and made up his mind to just watch the excitement and not interfere. Therefore, along the way, he has been carefully walking at the back end of the crowd, far avoiding the center of the competition, only slowly wandering around the peripheral areas, completely holding the psychology of earning if there is a cheap and hiding if it is not cheap, everything is based on safety.
In this way, when Lu Yan approached the center of the battle, the development of the whole situation reached a new peak, and he also heard an explosive news: not only did the Nebula Zhenren's cave house retain a large number of elixirs, immortal magic weapons, and profound and mysterious cultivation techniques, but also an artifact-level treasure - a stand-in puppet!
The stand-in puppet is an incredible magic weapon, and it can almost be said to be the most famous treasure in the cultivation world! It is not an artifact, it is one of the most widely circulated legends in the cultivation world, and it is also a treasure that all cultivators dream of. The full name of this magic weapon is the Nine Tribulation Substitute Puppet, which is not an artifact magic weapon refined or left behind by gods, but for the super masters of the immortal and demon circles who are about to cross the tribulation, it is more precious than the artifact, because it can replace the user of the magic weapon at most to withstand the thunder attack of the Nine Tribulations.
This ability doesn't seem to be anything special at first glance, but in the eyes of those top masters who have crossed the Divine Tribulation, it can be called an existence against the sky. At the tense moment of the Divine Tribulation, every second counts, and the Ferry Tribulator is facing the danger of failing to cross the Tribulation and losing his soul at every moment, and must seize all available time to heal his injuries, recover his strength, replace the magic weapon, and prepare to deal with the next Tribulation.
However, in the continuous Thousand Thunder Cleansing Tribulations, many of the Tribulators couldn't even squeeze out this short respite, and were directly slashed by the continuous super powerful thunderstorms, and hundreds of millions of years of cultivation were all put into flowing water, completely turning into nothing.
In fact, it is not that they are not strong enough, or they are not prepared enough. The people who can survive the tribulation are all old monsters who have cultivated for an unknown number of years, and they have long stood at the top of the biological chain, and naturally there are countless resources for them to mobilize and use.
At this time, the role of the strange magic weapon of the Nine Tribulation Substitute Puppet is revealed, which can replace the user's function of bearing the Nine Tribulations, so that it can win the respite of the Nine Tribulations for the Tribulator. And with such a long opportunity to rectify, if a reasonable distribution is carried out, every bit of free time is used, and other aspects are fully prepared, not to mention that the Divine Tribulation is nine out of ten, but it is also more than half of the certainty.
It can be seen from this that the role of the stand-in puppet is huge, and the effect is so magical, it can be said to be one of the greatest inventions in the cultivation world after the war of the ancient gods, and its significance is really self-evident!
On the list of treasures in the five worlds of immortals, demons, demons, Buddhas, and humans, the stand-in puppet always occupies the top three positions, and its legend is also circulating among cultivators from all walks of life, even cultivators know a thing or two. Because the stand-in puppet is not only useful for the top masters of the Divine Tribulation, but also for ordinary cultivators and scattered immortals. Since this magic weapon has the ability to resist the Nine Divine Tribulation Tribulation Thunder, it can deal with the Immortal Tribulation, Demon Tribulation, Heavenly Tribulation and other Tribulation Thunder that is more than many times worse than the Divine Tribulation, not to mention it, almost every time you use it, you can safely survive a Heavenly Tribulation.
If a newly promoted Scattered Immortal has a brand-new stand-in puppet, as long as he works a little harder, he can survive the relatively simple one or two Scattered Immortal Heavenly Tribulations in the front and the seven or eight Heavenly Tribulations in the back, even if he no longer cultivates and waits for death, the door of the Immortal Realm will also slowly open to him.
With the help of this artifact-level magic weapon, it is no longer a difficult thing for him to ascend to immortal, even if it is not 100% guaranteed success, it can also ensure a success rate of more than nine out of nine, as long as there are no irresistible accidents, he will eventually be able to succeed in the tribulation, be reborn again, and be promoted to a real upper realm immortal.
Of course, this is only an ideal possibility, and such a precedent has never existed and cannot exist. Not to mention the rarity and preciousness of the methods and materials for refining stand-in puppets, and the arduous and complicated refining requirements, the stock of stand-in puppets is extremely small, and it is already a blessing to be born three or five times every 10 million years.
Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving, the terrain is kun, and the gentleman is virtuous. If everything is too much, things will be reversed, everything will be too much, and fate will be over. Heaven has sent down such a blessed fate, but it can't work hard and pursue the ultimate realm of cultivation, but instead violently destroys the heavens and wastes the opportunity, even if it doesn't die in the end, it will definitely die from other changes. After all, stand-in puppets can only be used to fight against the Heavenly Tribulation, but they have no effect on other dangers.
Seriously speaking, this stand-in puppet can be regarded as a rare rule confrontation magic weapon from all walks of life, which is only effective for the rules of the Heavenly Tribulation, and is an extremely professional magic weapon. Moreover, this stand-in puppet also has a very strange feature - only a complete stand-in puppet can fight against the Divine Tribulation, once damaged, it can only be used to fight against the Immortal Tribulation, Demon Tribulation, Cultivation Heavenly Tribulation and other low-level Heavenly Tribulations, and can no longer be used to deal with the Divine Tribulation.