In Li Changshou’s primordial world life, his first posterior-grade spirit treasure was a nameless small pagoda, gifted by Senior Yunzhongzi out of respect for the Grand Master, which Li Changshou used to protect his true body.

But his life’s first posterior merit spirit treasure turned out to be…

A Love-thinking Precious Tree from the Heavenly Court’s Marriage Palace!

Just when he thought he’d escaped the matchmaking business, he got slapped in the face by the Jade Emperor’s reward—who could he complain to about this?

In a small secret chamber wrapped in arrays beneath this Sea God Temple, Li Changshou’s paper avatar held that potted plant, sitting there caught between laughter and tears…

Speaking of which, in his previous life before graduating from university, a fortune teller who was a street hustler, using a divination app on his phone, grabbed him and cast divination, saying he would have a day when he would wear the big red wedding robes.

To break free from superstitious thinking, Li Changshou had planned in his previous life to custom order a pure black tuxedo for his wedding!

However, in the end, he never got to use it.

Unexpectedly, that day seemed like it would come, but he wouldn’t be a groom, but rather…

A candidate for Junior Matchmaker?

Tsk, that was quite interesting indeed.

Li Changshou looked at this Love-thinking Tree, slightly hesitant.

He couldn’t directly give this to his true body to use, and taking it wouldn’t be of much use.

Could it be that when facing enemies, he should deploy the Love-thinking Precious Tree, activate its branches one by one, and stab at the opponent repeatedly, making them fall head over heels and turn hostility into romance?

Uh, this method itself wasn’t bad.

After careful consideration, Li Changshou decided to place this object in Anshui City to stabilize his Sea God Sect’s fortune!

Though it was only a posterior merit spirit treasure, even a mosquito’s leg, though thin, was still…

Ahem, that’s not important!

Better than nothing—regardless of size, having something was better than having nothing.

Li Changshou controlled this paper avatar, using earth movement to head underground toward Anshui City.

After burrowing to within ten li of Anshui City’s main Sea God Temple, the paper avatar suddenly began taking constant detours, traversing a hidden path that could be called eighteen bends.

Before long, the paper avatar reached a certain spot in the underground rock layer, skillfully opening a series of restrictions. The paper avatar then changed from its old immortal appearance back to its thick paper person form, wearing a cloth bag across its shoulder, and jumped into a rock crevice.

Inside the crevice was another world entirely.

Within was a three-zhang square [courtyard], like a paper factory with strict procedures, wrapped in layers of elaborate arrays.

This was Li Changshou’s largest paper avatar repository established outside to date!

In two rows of small houses, thick paper people were stacked up, their total number impossible to count precisely. Every so often, paper avatars filled with immortal power would be sent to this place…

Besides these, there were many original versions of spirit technique paper people who had been given simple commands, sweeping the grounds, patrolling, preventing fires, and guarding against theft.

The original paper people were just decorations, putting on a show here to make this place seem more lively.

In the corner of the courtyard were two small houses filled with immortal beans, all carefully selected superior goods, even higher quality than the batch of beans he had previously given to the Heavenly Court.

—To avoid harming mortals, Li Changshou hadn’t placed any poisonous immortal beans here.

This was the final defensive force of the Sea God Sect’s main temple.

If anyone attacked the Sea God Sect, the paper avatars and immortal beans here could, in a short time, burst forth with combat power comparable to tens of thousands of elite heavenly soldiers and generals, protecting Anshui City and this Sea God Temple.

If these paper avatars and immortal beans were all exhausted, then Li Changshou…

Would only have running away left.

At this moment, the paper avatar carrying the cloth bag, walking with an uncompromising turtle step, went to the center of this courtyard, took out that ‘potted plant’ from the cloth bundle, and placed it in the middle of the courtyard.

This Love-thinking Precious Tree emitted a gleaming light, making the entire small courtyard shine brightly, and each paper person and paper avatar immediately gained some merit blessing.

Speaking of merit…

In Li Changshou’s heart, he opened up another small train of thought.

East Wood Minister had just said this small Love-thinking Tree was cultivated based on the original Love-thinking Tree.

Could he also use merit to cultivate this small Love-thinking Tree and spread its spirit roots?

His previously imagined combat technique could work completely—using the Love-thinking Precious Tree in combination with his consciousness poison pill heart fire, disturbing the opponent’s mental state at crucial moments…

Double effect, double power!

Although this combat routine was indeed somewhat dark-hearted, in a life-or-death battle, surviving was most important.

Not only that, this small Love-thinking Tree’s leaves and branches could probably be used to refine pills…

Add some grafting techniques, get some other spirit roots and spirit branches onto it, and produce some ‘love-thinking fruits’?

If Ginseng fruits were in the shape of infants, Love-thinking fruits could also be divided into male and female pairs…

If he had the chance to visit Five Elements Mountain in the future, he, as Daoist Changgeng, could bring Love-thinking fruits to pay respects to that Earthly Immortal Patriarch and say:

‘Senior, our fruits have fate together, why not exchange a few hundred pairs!’

Ahem, that was purely thinking about eating peaches.

“How can I maximize the use of this thing?”

Now that he had the item in hand, although it wasn’t the form-shaping spirit medicine he wanted, he couldn’t waste such a posterior spirit root and merit spirit treasure.

Who knew what effect the tree sap would have on paper avatars once this Love-thinking Tree was cultivated to full size…

Uh, was the [Love] character paper avatar project officially launching?

To be honest, he still needed to be steady.

Better to first store this here, borrowing some incense merit to cultivate it slowly, and deal with these matters later.

…

After settling the newly acquired Love-thinking Tree, Li Changshou’s consciousness returned to his true body to continue refining pills.

If he had known earlier that the Jade Emperor would bestow such a ‘treasure,’ he could have saved himself much trouble—just stab Wang Fugui a few… hundred times, and wouldn’t that have solved everything?

Thinking carefully, Li Changshou felt that he, this little disciple of the Transcendent Gate, had indeed become somewhat unworthy of his reputation.

When his fellow disciples were thinking about matters between peaks, he was floating up and down in the whirlpool of great sects.

When most of his fellow disciples were worried about their immortal tribulation, he already had to worry about the Golden Immortal tribulation, and how to steadily achieve longevity…

The affairs of the world were truly so wonderful.

One journey to the Northern Continent made his cultivation life no longer peaceful;

A South Sea God Sect that started as a ‘money-making group’ ended up involving so many karmic connections…

The dangers of the primordial world were countless, but its magnificent waves and colorful brilliance also made Shou feel gratified.

It truly wasn’t a waste to have made this journey.

Of course, a surging heroic spirit was impossible, and would never be possible in this life. Laughing loudly for a few sentences and showing some heroic spirit had no practical meaning at all.

Steady cultivation was the right path.

He was just a few trembles away from the Golden Immortal realm…

The more crucial the moment, the more he couldn’t shake his principles, and absolutely couldn’t mess up his foundation.

He must deeply implement the basic strategies of ‘keeping a low profile’ and ‘making money quietly,’ adhering to the guiding thought of ‘the scripture of stability’!

‘Should I find a way to share some insights and experiences with Upper Immortal Forgetting Emotions?’

Li Changshou pondered briefly but had no particularly secure method.

Currently, only two people in the sect knew his true cultivation level;

One was his own Empty Void Sect Master Ji Wuyou, but since [that night], the Sect Master seemed to deliberately avoid him, with no other instructions, as if nothing had happened;

Even Li Changshou’s subsequent deception and consolidation therapy sessions were excused!

The other was the newly promoted True Immortal of the Breaking Heaven Peak Master’s lineage, the chief senior disciple of his generation, who had temporarily sorted out their relationship and seemed, perhaps, possibly, to have a bit of good feeling toward him…

You Qin Xuanya.

She had also made comprehensive Great Dao oaths and, under normal circumstances, wouldn’t leak his true cultivation level.

Moreover, due to the inconsistency between internal and external intelligence, neither Sect Master Ji Wuyou nor the ‘this ice mountain isn’t too cold’ You Qin Xuanya knew about the major matters he was handling outside…

To be honest, Poisonous Junior Sister was truly beautiful, but sometimes a bit too straightforward, not good at flexible methods, not understand worldly affairs.

In other disciples’ eyes, she was that kind of standard otherworldly immortal maiden, unstained by worldly filth.

Li Changshou thought of this and just smiled slightly, not thinking much about other matters…

After twist after twist, cultivation days finally welcomed a relatively peaceful period.

Unfortunately, this peace didn’t last too long. In the twelfth year after Ao Yi’s grand wedding and the South Sea-East Sea war, the sea creatures once again erupted in large-scale rebellion.

This time, the sea creature rebels launched a fierce attack on the North Sea Dragon Palace. Although they were eventually repelled, the North Sea Dragon Palace suffered extremely heavy losses, even having their main gate torn down.

The Northern Continent was bitterly cold, and the North Sea was affected by association. There weren’t many sea creatures, and large patches of perennial ice floated on the sea surface. The North Sea Dragon Palace was thus the weakest…

This was the Dragon Clan’s first taste of defeat, and the atmosphere within the entire clan immediately became very delicate.

The war faction, change faction, and peace faction all had large numbers of dragons.

This was just the trouble on the surface; the real trouble was hidden under the solid ice.

According to another message from Wenjing Daoist, the Western Sect’s true target, this time was the West Sea Dragon Palace. The West Sea Dragon Palace had already been infiltrated by nearly half, and half of the immortal flood dragon soldiers had secretly rebelled.

A storm was quietly brewing in the West Sea, while at this time most of the Dragon Clan’s attention had been diverted…

Li Changshou thought continuously for half a month and finally settled on a three-character strategy.

[Steady];

[Steady];

[Steady].

This time, not being steady absolutely wouldn’t work.

After receiving Wenjing Daoist’s message, Li Changshou promptly reported this matter to His Majesty the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor attached great importance to this and, having the experience of showing might from last time, was [bolder] this time. He gathered and mobilized 100,000 elite heavenly soldiers from various places in the Heavenly Court, secretly training them, ready to descend from heaven at any time for righteous execution!

For the current Heavenly Court, this was already a precious fighting force. If there were large losses, His Majesty the Jade Emperor would feel extremely distressed.

At the same time, to reduce his workload, Li Changshou offered to the Heavenly Court the cultivation methods for the previous version—namely, the ice archers and great shield immortal soldiers that the Dragon Palace had used once.

It was said that the Heavenly Court had created a… Bean Planting Marshal for this!

Because the power of the ‘pea shooters’ was too strong, Li Changshou didn’t offer their cultivation method to the Heavenly Court, still personally planting them on Little Jade Peak.

Among the newly developed pea shooter varieties, he had also created power-upgraded versions and five elements fire fierce versions.

These 100,000 heavenly soldiers were each equipped with ten archer-type immortal beans, ten protective-type immortal beans, and five power-upgraded pea shooters.

When the time came, it would be either no movement or, once moved, heaven-shaking!

As the saying goes, things don’t happen more than three times.

If the Western Sect’s second major troublemaking attempt was thwarted, they would likely reassess the Dragon Clan matter.

At that time, the Western Sect would probably retreat in the face of difficulty, with a small probability of directly pressuring the Heavenly Court.

Therefore, Li Changshou particularly valued this ‘opportunity’—he must make the Dragon Clan develop yearning for the Heavenly Court, and even wait for the Dragon Clan to actively seek help from the Heavenly Court…

This was the crucial step in getting the Dragon Clan to ascend to heaven.

But to be honest, given that the Western Sect already knew about the Heavenly Court and Human Sect’s intervention in Dragon Clan matters, to succeed in outmaneuvering the Western Sect again and dismantling their plans a second time…

Was truly difficult.

And what made Li Changshou feel somewhat surprised was…

The Western Sect had become much more steady this time.

Having gained such great advantages in secret, they hadn’t hurried to move against the West Sea Dragon Palace, but instead used sea creature rebels and subsequently deployed demon tribes to constantly drain the Dragon Clan’s energy and patience.

Li Changshou could now only roughly estimate that the timing of their attack would be at minimum three years, at maximum a hundred years, and they would certainly have a decisive method.

‘What kind of method would this be?

Thinking carefully, they can only work with limited aspects like the Heavenly Court, Dragon Clan, South Sea God Sect, and so on.’

Recently, Li Changshou felt his mental energy was somewhat insufficient again, and even…

Lost two or three strands of hair!

After all, this was a battle for the South Sea God to make a name in the primordial world—what did it have to do with him, Li Changshou, disciple of the Transcendent Gate?

“Such a worrying fate.”

He had just wanted to continue burying himself in analyzing the Western Sect’s backup plans when he noticed Ling’e hurriedly flying over from Breaking Heaven Peak’s direction, rushing to the outside of the pill room’s great array.

He opened the junior sister’s special passage, allowing Ling’e to safely reach the pill room, while Li Changshou’s true body also emerged from the underground secret chamber.

“What’s the rush, what’s wrong?”

Ling’e hurriedly said: “Senior Brother, Master Ancestor is looking for you, seeming very urgent!”

“Did they say specifically what it was about?”

“It seems to be… about our Uncle Master Wanjiangyu’s reincarnation matter, there seem to be some problems on the Netherworld’s side.

Even the Sect Master was alarmed, he’s at Forgetting Emotions Residence right now!”

Even the Sect Master was alarmed?

Well, it wouldn’t be appropriate to send an avatar then, to avoid displeasing the Sect Master.

Li Changshou had Ling’e wait a moment while his true body flew out from a box in the corner of a bookshelf; the previous [true body] series paper avatar turned into a wisp of blue smoke and returned underground.

“This, this…”

Ling’e looked at the small hole under the meditation cushion, then looked at the Senior Brother before her, and asked somewhat pitifully:

“Senior Brother, when you pressed your hand near my face last time, was that also…”

Li Changshou calmly said: “That naturally wasn’t an avatar.”

“Oh,” Ling’e’s pretty face turned red, but she had improved compared to before, adapting a little bit.