No hope for eternal life

Chapter 469 Before the Tribulation

"Just tell me how I can get you to take action." The Emperor Changsheng said impatiently.

"People die for money, birds die for food." The Black Demon smiled slightly: "Of course you can ask me for help. Senior has long known that I am very interested in the body refining secret art. It is mainly because my research on the soul has reached a bottleneck, so I want to switch to the study of the body. I have coveted the Nine Transformations of the Physical Body for a long time, so I teamed up with the demon clan to do such a thing in the Tianshuang Realm. But compared to the Nine Transformations of the Physical Body, what I really covet is your own body refining secret art. Ten thousand years ago, I proposed to exchange my clone secret art for your body refining secret art, but you have always refused to agree."

"Okay, when it's done, I will give you my body refining secret technique, so you don't have to exchange it for your clone secret technique. Besides, I have no interest in your clone secret technique at all." The Emperor Changsheng readily agreed to give his body refining secret technique as a reward for the Black Demon's attack.

When the Black Demon heard that the Great Emperor Changsheng had agreed to his conditions, he still asked calmly: "Then I need to ask you, Senior, what does it mean to be 'successful'?"

“Within ten years, no matter what method you use, as long as two of the human race’s ninth-level cultivators can die, your mission will be accomplished. In addition, if you have the ability to kill You Wushuang, your mission will be accomplished if You Wushuang dies alone.” The Great Emperor Changsheng gave his standard. In his eyes, the “value” of an eighth-level You Wushuang is slightly greater than that of two ninth-level cultivators.

"Let's forget about You Wushuang." The Black Demon shook his head repeatedly. He had dealt with You Wuye many times before, so naturally he couldn't avoid dealing with You Wushuang as well. He knew how powerful You Wushuang was.

“As for the death of two ninth-level cultivators, it’s not impossible.” The Black Demon murmured, narrowing his eyes slightly, and had already begun to weigh the pros and cons in his mind.

After a long time, the Black Demon agreed: "I have accepted your ten-year agreement, but I have another question. What if I work hard and successfully help you kill two ninth-level monks, and you turn against me and refuse to pay me? Please don't tell me about the inner demon oath. We are demons, so what inner demon can we be afraid of?"

"I didn't intend to swear any oath to the inner demon." The Great Emperor Changsheng said with his arms crossed, as if everything was under his control: "Don't forget, the two sects and three clans together have far more than two ninth-level cultivators. We have this first cooperation, and there will be a second cooperation. Before the second cooperation, I will naturally teach you the secret technique of body refining."

"Senior, what you said seems to make sense." Black Demon looked convinced, but then he said: "However, to be on the safe side, we should both take a step back. I don't want the complete version of the secret technique directly. You can remove the most important part of the secret technique related to the ninth level of body refining, and give me the remaining less important parts first. In this way, even if you deny it later, I won't lose everything. We are all in the same boat, so we should understand each other."

"What a kindred spirit, what a mutual understanding." The Great Emperor Changsheng sneered, "After all this talk, you haven't done anything yet, and you're just thinking about getting the benefits. Now I'm beginning to doubt you. Are you planning to just take the benefits and run away, without any intention of doing anything?"

"Senior, you misunderstood me." The Black Demon pretended to be aggrieved and said, "You and I are both demon leaders, and the pressure is very great. If the two sects and three clans can lose two ninth-level cultivators, I will naturally be more than happy to do so. How can I deny it?"

The Emperor Changsheng then softened his tone and said slowly: "In this case, don't just think about my secret technique. Make a plan first. After I look at the plan and confirm that it is feasible, I can give you some of the secret techniques as you said."

"You are sincere in what you said, so this cooperation will surely go smoothly." Black Demon said with a smile: "I just happened to have thought of a plan, you may want to listen to it and see if you are satisfied."

Hearing that the Black Demon had already made a plan, the Great Emperor Changsheng could not help but said in surprise: "Tell me about it."

"Senior, you attacked the Ji clan twice, and your intentions were too obvious. You have already fallen behind, so you must change your target for the third time. Besides, since you have to do it, you might as well do something big and get rid of it once and for all..." The Black Demon spoke out the speech he had prepared long ago.

The Great Emperor Changsheng listened silently to the entire plan of the Black Demon, his eyes flickering. In his opinion, such a detailed and thorough plan could hardly be thought of in such a short period of time.

"So you have been waiting for me here." The Great Emperor Changsheng looked at the Black Demon meaningfully and said, which made him feel that he had not misjudged the Black Demon before. If it were not for the fact that his life was coming to an end and he had no other choice, he really did not want to cooperate with someone like the Black Demon and let the other party gain benefits and become stronger.

"None of this matters." The Black Demon smiled and said, "What matters is whether you are satisfied with my plan, Senior?"

"Very good, very satisfied."

As he spoke, the Great Emperor Changsheng threw out another jade slip. The information in the jade slip was naturally part of the Great Emperor Changsheng's secret body-refining techniques.

Black Demon took the jade slip and smiled again: "Senior, didn't you prepare the jade slip a long time ago and wait for me here?"

……

Spring went and autumn came, two winters and summers passed, and in the blink of an eye, two years had passed. Ever since the demon clan was defeated in the Sub-Saint Realm, they have been silent and the world has been peaceful for the past two years.

Mu Changsheng's black-clothed clone, with the help of the cleansing power of the branch of the Sub-Saint Realm, had already successfully broken through to the Divine Sea Realm.

After the breakthrough, the black-clothed clone has been staying in the Sub-Saint Realm to hunt for treasures. Relying on the secret treasure-hunting technique, the black-clothed clone has made a fortune in the past few years and accumulated tens of millions of top-grade spirit stones!

With the help of this top-grade spirit stone, Mu Changsheng once again bought a large number of spiritual objects to help him refine his strength, so his black-clothed clone also began to retreat and refine his strength in preparation for breaking through the spiritual tribulation of supernatural powers.

Almost at the same time when the black-clothed clone was in seclusion, Mu Changsheng's white-clothed clone finally came out officially. Because of two years of hard training, the white-clothed clone's power training level finally reached the level of three thousand dragon elephant power!

In other words, Mu Changsheng is now qualified to overcome the eighth level of spiritual tribulation.

For this reason, Mu Changsheng deliberately left the Sub-Saint Realm and headed for the Heavenly Spirit Realm, because it was best to overcome the spiritual tribulation in a place with rich spiritual energy, and the place with the richest spiritual energy in the Nine Realms was none other than the First Spiritual Mountain where the Heavenly Spirit Sect was located. Overcoming the spiritual tribulation there would not only be more effective, but would also help him save a considerable amount of money on top-grade spirit stones.

When he arrived at the Tianling Sect, Mu Changsheng directly stated his purpose and was immediately arranged to stay in a cave on the top of a mountain. The spiritual energy inside and outside the cave was dense and extremely rich. It was a place specially provided for the sect's disciples to overcome spiritual tribulations.