Sovereign to Immortality

A giant, multicolored tiger let out a long hiss in midair, and a huge tiger claw seemed to want to tear apart the space around it.    

"Hehe, without that brat Little Fishy, I, Old Xiong, am not afraid of you!"    

A giant bear opened its mouth and let out an innocent sound. A palm as thick as a tiger's paw swept out, slicing apart the tiger's claw in mid-air.    

"Old Bear, you've been tricked!"    

The tiger demon sneered. Then, its iron-whip-like tiger tail sliced through the air, and with a sharp cry, it swung towards the giant bear.    

"I've been prepared for this move of yours!"    

The giant bear was also full of subtlety. Both its arms moved forward and actually sealed the whip in the tiger's tail.    

With a crisp "pa" sound, the giant bear took in a breath of cold air while swinging its arms. It was obvious that it was not lightly whipped by the whip, but the giant tiger also staggered back a few steps before asking.    

"Alright, alright, even if today's battle is a draw, you little tiger demon are really too shocking. You are only at the peak of the first stage of the True Demon Realm and you can fight me, Old Bear, to this extent. If you were to advance to the second stage, then I, Old Bear, would probably not be your match."    

The giant bear continued to shrink, gradually turning into a burly, burly man. When he spoke, he revealed a trace of helplessness on his face.    

"You don't need to comfort me, you still have a demon artifact long spear, otherwise, I wouldn't be your match. Moreover, that strike just now seemed to be a tie, but strength was your strong point, so the first to recover would definitely be you. Even without the demon artifact, the longer you have, the greater your advantage becomes."    

Xiong Zhuang said helplessly, "No matter how you look at it, it sounds like a blow to me. My cultivation is stronger than yours, and you still have a Undead Ghost by your side. Otherwise, I wouldn't be a match for you two even if I used my full strength."    

Ever since Tigress and Bao Yu'er had banded together to expel the bear and bear from the south end of the town and occupied his territory, the two of them had sparred against each other from time to time. From the beginning, they had been hostile towards each other and sparred with each other.    

Tigress slapped her waist and a jar of wine appeared in her hand.    

When Xiong Zhuang saw the jar of wine in the girl's hand, he was almost drooling from the desire. He quickly asked, "What is this wine? Is it the sweet wine I told you about last time?"    

The tiger-girl rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're such a big and tough guy, shouldn't you drink strong alcohol? How can you drink sweet fruit wine that only women like?"    

Xiong Zhuang couldn't wait any longer and snatched the jar of wine from her hands. He crushed the seal with a single slap and a strong fragrance of sweet wine wafted out.    

Xiong Zhuang narrowed his eyes and sniffed with his big nose, then said with an intoxicated expression, "What do you know? Although strong liquor is good, it's not as good as sweet fruit wine. In fact, there's a type of honey wine that's better than sweet fruit wine, but unfortunately, I haven't tasted it since I came to this world. Little Tiger Demon, you actually managed to get such a good wine from a human being.    

The tigress completely ignored Xiong Zhui's probing words and only asked, "Old Xiong, how do you think I should quickly increase my strength?"    

Xiong Zhuang had yet to recover from the sweet fruit wine in his hand, but when he heard this, he did not even look up and said, "Your strength is already quite good. Our Old Xiong is far from being your match when he's at your level, not to mention seeing your current cultivation, you are not far from breaking through to the second stage. When that time comes, I'm afraid that we will not even be able to fight you."    

The tigress shook her head, "Old bear, I want a handy piece of magic equipment. Do you have any ideas?"    

"Demonic item?" Xiong Zhuang was stunned for a moment, then he nodded his head and said, "That's true, the fastest way to increase one's own strength is to obtain a suitable weapon. Our demon clan's life demon equipment is mostly forged from a part of our original body over a long period of time, but Tigress, you are too young, I'm afraid you are still far from having a proper life demon weapon. However, there might be a chance recently."    

"A trade fair organized by the Demonic Cultivator of Qu Wu Mountain?"    

The news he got from Tigress reached Yang Junshan very quickly, and he began to make up his mind.    

Bao Yu'er spoke up from the side, "According to the information gathered from that bear demon, this trade fair should be set up specifically for the newly arrived Demonic cultivators, as well as to let them understand this world more quickly. However, I heard that this trade fair has already spread out before it even starts, and many alien cultivators from other races from all over Jade Province have come to take a look.    

Not to mention Tigress, even Yang Junshan was tempted.    

Yang Junshan nodded and said, "I already know about this. If there is a chance, you and Tigress can go have a look. Right, how's the situation in Hu Yao County recently?"    

Bao Yu'er shook her head and said, "It's still the same. In the past, the Spirit Opening Sect had sent a small group of disciples to Hu Yao County, but now, there is no longer any activity. Tigress also heard some news about a cultivator from the Spirit Opening Sect dying from serious injuries."    

Yang Junshan nodded, "I know all of this, go back and tell Tigress, tell her to pay close attention to the Demon Cultivator's Exchange and news about the Opening Spirit Sect. There is still some time before the West Mountain's spiritual vein will merge into a spiritual river, and maybe then there will be a chance for you two to advance to the second level."    

"Really?"    

Bao Yu's eyes lit up, then he thought of something. "Hehe," he said. "Oh yeah, Tigress wants me to tell you something else. She wants a big name. She doesn't want to be called Tigress forever."    

Yang Junshan patted his head and said, "Tigress told me about this more than once. She told me that she is Yang Junshan's adopted sister, so naturally, I will follow my eldest brother's surname, Yang Junxiu!"    

After returning from the Buried Heavens Ruins, Yang Junshan originally thought that he would face a large scale battle with the alien cultivators. However, he didn't expect that because both sides were heavily injured in the Ruins, they both chose to give up and rest.    

In the blink of an eye, a year had passed. During this year, Yang Junshan focused his attention on raising the West Mountain's spiritual vein and upgrading it to the Spirit River.    

There were already eight spiritual veins on the West Mountain, and now with the Origin Returning Stone in his hand, Yang Junshan only needed to gather two more spiritual veins before he could quickly integrate them into one. In a short time, they would transform into a spiritual river, and could cause the Yang family to experience explosive growth in their cultivation.    

Merging a spirit vein would require a hundred naturally formed Jade Marrow Coins, but with the Origin Returning Stone in hand, it could completely replace the natural Jade Marrow Coins' dense Qi. Therefore, the Yang family only needed to prepare two hundred ordinary Jade Marrow Coins.    

With the Yang family's current stock, they naturally had more than two million jade coins. But the key point was that how could they take out so many jade coins all of a sudden, even though the Yang family was thriving, as the Yang family was growing, the annual consumption was equally shocking. It was not easy to raise such a large amount of jade coins.    

In fact, over the past year, Yang Junshan had secretly processed a large amount of accumulated cultivation resources through the dark market. Among them, there was no lack of magic tools, spirit materials, ores, and so on, and even cut down on the daily supplies provided by the family members.    

Yang Junshan had long completed the formation of the auxiliary spirit river. What was left was to wait for three months, and then the Yang family would welcome the first formed spirit river, and the reaction from the Origin Returning Stone would also cause the Yang family to experience a leap in their cultivation.    

After sending off Yu'er, Yang Junshan first made a trip to the peak of the western mountain. After fusing the strand of lightning in the Ruins of Buried Heavens into the Amethyst Thunder Crystal Stone, this huge lightning stone seemed to have become unstable during this period of time. Although it didn't affect the entire village protecting array, the sudden increase in lightning strikes from the sky still caused the entire western mountain village to feel a bit worried.    

During this time, Yang Junshan came to the top of the mountain every day to observe the changes of the Thunder Stones. He could already feel that the Thunder Stones had gradually stabilized, and there were even some inexplicable changes in them.    

Furthermore, thanks to the increase in the power of the lightning source, the power of the lightning array had also increased. Yang Junshan even considered whether or not he should expand the village protection array after the formation of the Spirit River.    

On the way back to the secret chamber in the mountain, Yang Junshan was fiddling with a message jade talisman in his hand. Inside the jade talisman was a message inviting him to Yu City.    

In Yang Junshan's secret chamber, a piece of wooden board that had been split into several pieces was reassembled. The top was densely packed with complex array patterns, and if any cultivator who didn't know the array saw it, they would immediately feel dizzy and vomit.    

During the past year, Yang Junshan spent most of his time analyzing the runes on the ship's wall. Although there were some enlightenments and harvests, but overall, the progress was not great.    

In front of this board, there was a chessboard placed on the ground. The chessboard was messy like how Yang Junshan felt when he saw it. Compared to the formation patterns on the wall and Yang Junshan's current mastery of formation techniques, this set of middle-grade magic chess board was not very useful.    

After all, Lin Canghai had promised a set of spirit rank array chess. Although he might offend the Zhuge Family who had lost this set of array chess, compared to a set of spirit rank array chess, this risk was worth a try. Moreover, there was also the possibility of the Heaven-Shaking Peak gaining.    

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Later on, there was another chapter!