Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

Seeing the frustrated look on Hui Cheng’s face as he was questioned and constrained, Xu Lei couldn’t help but feel a secret satisfaction.

He couldn’t kill Hui Cheng right now, so all he could do was stir up some trouble to annoy him.

Another half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

One day, Hui Cheng announced he was leaving to wander the world.

No one at Guangyuan Temple stopped him.

No one from the Head Temple came to stop him, either.

After all, the report Xu Lei had submitted was just his side of the story.

Hui Cheng’s freedom wasn’t restricted.

Since he could no longer scheme against his fellow disciples, he probably figured he would wander the world to see if he could find any Demon Spirits.

Watching Hui Cheng’s figure descend the mountain, Xu Lei didn’t follow from a distance as he had before.

After all, for all he knew, there could be experts from the Head Temple tailing Hui Cheng.

’Fine, let him go.’

Xu Lei thought, ’I can’t kill the old bastard right now anyway.

’Let him go wherever he wants. He’ll come back eventually.

’I should just focus on my own Cultivation.’

「Three years later.」

Xu Lei was now twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old.

Of course, thanks to his initial success in his Cultivation, he still looked like a young man in his early twenties.

After three years of arduous Cultivation, on this very day, Xu Lei finally broke through to a new Realm while sitting cross-legged in Guangyuan Temple.

"The Lotus Leaf Realm!"

Xu Lei opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath.

Now, using Introspection, Xu Lei could see that the Original Fire Lotus Platform inside his body was still the size of an adult man’s fist.

But now, a single Lotus Leaf had sprouted from its edge!

This was the next Realm of the Bodhisattva Dao.

The Magical Power attached to the Original Lotus Platform had become so thin that only a small layer remained.

In truth, the capacity of his Lower Dantian had already grown to the size of a soccer ball from Earth.

It was just that Xu Lei hadn’t yet cultivated his Magical Power to Perfection.

That would require him to continue his arduous Cultivation.

His original Magical Power had been condensed into Origin during his breakthrough to the Lotus Leaf Realm, and was thus nearly depleted.

Of course, the quality of his Magical Power had now improved.

"Lotus Treasure Fragments, spin!"

With a mere thought from Xu Lei, a single Lotus Treasure Fragment flew out of his Qiankun Cloth Bag, spinning rapidly before him with a WHIZ! WHIZ! WHIZ!

Using the same amount of Magical Power, he could make the Lotus Treasure Fragment spin faster and more ferociously!

This was one of the benefits of his Realm advancement.

"From the Dao Seed Realm, to the Dao Origin Realm, the Lotus Embryo Realm, the Lotus Platform Realm, and now the Lotus Leaf Realm... it hasn’t been easy."

Xu Lei lamented, "And this was only because I was lucky enough to have the help of several Demon Essence Cores that I refined!

But the aging process only begins to slow starting from the Lotus Embryo Realm.

So my lifespan has really only increased by thirty or forty years compared to what it was originally!

It’s still not enough!

The legendary Immortals and Buddhas are said to live for millions upon millions of years!"

Of course, Xu Lei quickly cast aside these distracting thoughts.

With a flick of his other hand, he also retrieved the black alms bowl from the Qiankun Cloth Bag.

HUMMM!

As Xu Lei channeled the small portion of Magical Power he had left—everything besides his Origin—the entire black alms bowl immediately began to glow.

From within the alms bowl, golden threads shot out once more, wrapping around and slicing at the two large Centipedes still suppressed inside.

"Cut them down!"

Then, Xu Lei’s Lotus Treasure Fragment flew over and shot directly into the black alms bowl.

It helped the golden threads from the black alms bowl slice through the Centipede Demon’s scales.

PSSH!

Xu Lei broke right through the defenses of the female Centipede.

It was then quickly slain, and its Demon Core fell into Xu Lei’s hands.

However, when Xu Lei tried to press his advantage and slay the final, strongest male Centipede, he found he couldn’t do it.

He could, but it would require non-stop cutting to wear down its energy, and that would reduce what he would obtain from it later.

So he gave up for now.

"Withdraw!"

Xu Lei’s Lotus Treasure Fragment flew out of the black alms bowl and returned to his Qiankun Cloth Bag.

HISSS!

The male Centipede in the black alms bowl roared and struggled.

Seeing that the female Centipede had also died, it actually wanted to kill itself.

It knew that if it continued to resist, it would ultimately just be refined by Xu Lei.

But Xu Lei would naturally not let it succeed.

The black alms bowl was an extraordinary Magical Artifact, designed specifically for dealing with Spirit Monsters.

HUMMM!

Thus, when Xu Lei channeled his Magical Power, the black alms bowl glowed, and the strongest large Centipede within was once again suppressed at the bottom of the bowl, unable to move a muscle.

After that, Xu Lei paid it no mind.

He immediately began to refine the Demon Core he had just obtained.

He refined its energy, bit by bit, into his own Magical Power.

Subsequently, the Magical Power within Xu Lei’s body was steadily replenished.

「Three months later.」

Under Introspection, his fist-sized Original Lotus Platform and its attached Magical Power now appeared to be the size of a soccer ball from Earth.

"Lotus Leaf, condense again!"

Afterward, Xu Lei’s Dharma Seals shifted rapidly as he condensed all the Magical Power in his body, forming another small Lotus Leaf which he fused into the Origin Lotus Embryo.

Instantly, the number of Lotus Leaves on the Lotus Platform went from one to two.

"Lotus Leaf Realm Second Stage!"

Of course, the Inner Core was not yet completely refined.

"Excellent!"

Xu Lei continued to refine it.

「Another month passed.」

Xu Lei finished refining everything.

The Origin Fire Lotus Embryo in his body, along with its attached Magical Power, recovered to the size of a bowling ball.

But it wasn’t enough to be able to condense another new Lotus Leaf.