Among the three rewards, only the Nine-Orifice Stone Human Blood truly suited Wang Yu’s preferences. It was also the most valuable item, a treasure that permanently enhanced prehension.
Aside from the Exquisite Inner Core, he had never seen anything parable.
Due to the activation rules of the Idle Slot, its effect on him would be even greater. Exchanging the Young Sect Master for this was absolutely worth it.
Moreover, this was only the tangible reward. The hidden benefits were even greater.
Once the Sect Master regained his sanity, how could he fail to acknowledge this favor?
Blood Spring Demon Lord had truly bled heavily this time. The Spirituality Dust given by Blood Origin Demon Lord was slightly inferior, but its main effect should be improving divine sense cultivation. The boost to prehension was merely a side benefit.
It might even help push his divine sense to the peak of mid fourth-rank. Its value was still considerable and could not be called stingy.
Ironically, the one who had been the most generous to him before, Blood Axe, had only given a formula for the Heavenly Wisdom Treasure Pill. Its main ingredient, the Bodhi Fruit, was a spiritual item unique to the Buddhist sects and had already gone extinct in this era.
It could only be found in ruins or secret realms.
If it could be refined successfully, its effect should not be inferior to the Nine-Orifice Stone Human Blood.
These three treasures, plus a personal favor from the Sect Master after his recovery, meant that the Young Sect Master’s value had been squeezed to the absolute limit in Wang Yu’s hands.
Seeing that the Three Blood Nether Demons had no intention of explaining anything further, Wang Yu tactfully took his leave.
“Why didn’t you tell him?”
After he left, Blood Axe muttered in a muffled voice, sounding half like plaint and half like casual talk.
“After the Blood Abyss trial, he had already guessed many things. This time, he even condensed a demonic Nascent Soul. He clearly went to the Frozen Demon Sealing Ground. He is qualified to know more secrets.”
Blood Origin nodded in agreement, but still shook his head.
“Different matters must be handled separately. The Sect Master’s situation involves secret techniques from the Heaven Refining Demonic Sect. If it is feasible, we will also need to prepare a Blood Demon Body…”
With their cultivation, only the Spirit Transformation realm was truly worth pursuing.
And everyone knew that the Heaven Refining Demonic Sect was the only Crimson Kite hegemon that had avoided the drawbacks of Ancient Demon inheritance. They were planning something deeper in this righteous-demonic war.
He vaguely understood it, but could not speak of it to outsiders.
Although Wang Yu had entered the circle of the Exalted Sect’s ancestors, his strength was still too weak. For now, he was inferior even to the Nine Peaks Lords. He was not yet suitable for contact with secrets of this level.
“Let’s test it first. If it works, then we’ll think about cultivating an acquired Blood Demon Body. Zhuo Shouyun has the protection of the Zhuo Clan. As long as he doesn’t leave the ancestral land, nothing can be done to him.”
Blood Spring’s final sentence brought the discussion to an end.
Hearing that they might have to act against their own people, Blood Axe showed no hesitation. Although he had a pure heart, that did not mean he was kind.
Anyone who had climbed to this position possessed ruthless decisiveness.
Plunder was not only the essence of the Demonic Dao.
It was also the essence of cultivation.
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After leaving Blood Nether Peak, Wang Yu prepared to enter seclusion for a while to digest everything he had obtained. He had a strong feeling that the corpse of Nine Evils would bring him an unexpected surprise.
He had long been eager for it.
Now, with both Spirituality Dust and Nine-Orifice Stone Human Blood, once he used them all, not only would his divine sense surge dramatically, his prehension would also increase enough to greatly shorten the time required by the Idle Slot.
It would drastically boost his speed in prehending various divine abilities. bined with the Celestial Enlightenment Dao Platform, the efficiency of stacking these effects was unimaginable.
Thus, after returning to Cold Blood Peak, his new cave residence was successfully relocated. Several more buildings had been added, and serving disciples were stationed outside, ready to be summoned at any time.
The location was to the rear-right of the Peak Lord’s Cultivation Field, sharing the fourth-rank high-grade spirit vein beneath Cold Blood Peak.
He buried depleted supreme-grade spirit stones beneath the new cave residence. In ten years, he would harvest a batch of fully recharged stones.
His cultivation speed was fast, and his consumption of supreme-grade spirit stones was equally high.
Fortunately, he had accumulated quite a few earlier. Otherwise, even the most basic ten-year cycle would have collapsed.
At first, due to his Innate Demonic Embryo Physique, he estimated that he would need at least fifty supreme-grade spirit stones to form a stable cultivation cycle. Now, even one hundred was not enough.
A happy trouble indeed.
The Supreme Law Cultivation Field.
Ignoring the munication jade talismans that kept vibrating, Wang Yu directly tossed them into the viewing pool to “cool down.” Once one became famous, this was the downside. Everyone wanted to build connections.
He hung up the seclusion plaque and was about to begin cultivating.
Then he saw two figures, one large and one small, drifting lightly toward him.
The former possessed vast and generous curves, with full, fruitful contours.
A smooth, delicate forehead and a pair of narrow, seductive phoenix eyes were revealed. The lower half of her face was covered by a light veil, slightly restraining her overflowing charm.
Her bare feet stepped on crystal-clear ice shoes that resembled high heels.
Wang Yu’s gaze was instantly drawn to her. His eyes traced along her long legs and sank deeply into a dark, alluring abyss.
“Little Chan’er… Tangtang, why are you here?”
Noticing his gaze, Tantai Chan deliberately stretched her legs and stamped lightly on the ground, producing crisp tapping sounds. She answered with an unrelated question.
“The Joyous Union Demonic Sect recently developed these walking artifacts. They are especially suitable for women. Do they look nice?”
“They are quite good, but…”
Before he could finish, Yu Tangtang swung her arms backward and charged forward like a little wild boar, crashing straight into Wang Yu’s chest. She grinned and said cheerfully, “Big Big Big Big Sister Chan'er! I heard you came back and rushed over right away—I'm here to learn alchemy from you!”
“You really are such a little troublemaker.”
Ruffling Yu Tangtang’s hair, Wang Yu chuckled and turned his gaze to Tantai Chan. Her eyes were soft and alluring, still carrying a hint of shy, girlish affection.
“After you left last time, I followed the instructions in your letter and sought refuge with Miss Tangtang. She accepted me.”
This time, she was no longer bound by any slave contract. Over this period, her confidence had grown considerably. Moreover, Tantai Chan had already reached Core Formation.
With her aptitude, that was hardly surprising.
Condensing a Nascent Soul was the true insurmountable barrier.
Yu Tangtang still looked like a tiny bean sprout. No one knew what special secret art she cultivated, but she never seemed to grow up, and her mentality remained that of a little girl.
Her cultivation speed, however, was as astonishing as ever.
She had already reached late-stage Core Formation. To touch the peak would require at least another sixty years. For now, even Snowjade was still inferior to her.
Wang Yu led the two into his new cave residence. Since it had been directly relocated from his old residence, there were not many changes. The layout still retained its original atmosphere.
As soon as Yu Tangtang entered, she found Snowjade in a familiar spot. She plopped her little bottom down on her and started playing happily.
Only Tantai Chan and Wang Yu remained in the front hall.
“You want to learn alchemy again?”
“Mhm.”
“It is still noon.”
“You are not satisfied even at noon? Then let’s study until nightfall.”
Tantai Chan lightly bit her red lips. At some point, her veil had already disappeared. The sheer palace ribbons had fallen naturally, her tied-up hair had loosened without notice, and three thousand strands of black hair slid down over her fragrant shoulders.
Wang Yu pulled her into his arms and whispered softly into her ear.
“You are getting quite the advantage.”
“Shameless.”
“The alchemy chamber is over there. Let this lord check whether Chan’er has been studying diligently lately.”
“Mhm…”
“As the saying goes, stones from other mountains can polish jade. This is how you use alchemy flames. I call this move ‘Intense Fire Reduction.’”
“This one is the secret technique for the final stage of nurturing the pill. Shape it, knead it. Mm… this move is called ‘Full Support.’ Follow it with ‘Spring Returns in Gratitude,’ and finally ‘Tears of Thankfulness.’ Pill plete!”
Time passed at astonishing speed. Tantai Chan felt that she had barely learned any truly substantial content before night had already fallen.
As the stone door of the alchemy chamber opened,
Tantai Chan, her cheeks flushed red from the heat of the pill flames and slightly dehydrated, leaned lightly against the doorframe. She felt a deep sense of satisfaction, like parched land finally meeting sweet rain.
The fulfillment of receiving guidance from a senior was enough to make her alchemy skills advance by leaps and bounds. That was a good thing.
Not far away, Snowjade was being ridden like a wooden horse, wearing an utterly hopeless expression. Seeing Yu Tangtang, Tantai Chan finally remembered the true purpose of her visit.
“Oh right. Senior Yu asked me to ask you, are you refining pills recently?”
“No. Unless the Hound King or the Word King makes a request.”
“Understood.”
That was all for official business. Before leaving, Tantai Chan whispered furtively,
“When will you be free next time?”
“Anytime. I will not be entering closed-door seclusion in the near future.”
After being thoroughly exhausted for an entire afternoon, Wang Yu, still brimming with energy, entered the cultivation chamber to prepare for seclusion. This time, his main purpose was to refine various treasures. It would not be deep closed-door cultivation.
His first target was naturally the corpse of the Nine Evil Sword Lord.
Preserved through ice-path techniques, it was still remarkably fresh. Taking a deep breath, Wang Yu slowly closed his eyes.
In less than a moment, sinister, demonic, and eerie curse inscriptions began spreading rapidly throughout his body, centered on his Qi sea. More precisely, they originated from his Nascent Soul.
Wang Yu’s demonic-path Nascent Soul was not merely a Frost Demon Nascent Soul.
It was also a Mysterious Origin Demonic Embryo.
Generally speaking, a normal cultivator’s spiritual roots resided within the physical body. Aside from certain special secret arts, cultivators could not directly touch them, and outsiders found it extremely difficult to steal them.
When a Nascent Soul cultivator lost their physical body and seized a new one, their spiritual roots would also change. They would no longer possess their original innate aptitude.
Wang Yu, however, was different.
After all five of his elemental spiritual roots had fully transformed into Heavenly Spiritual Roots, they pletely fused with the Mysterious Origin Demonic Embryo. After condensing his Nascent Soul, he had even transcended his physical body.
With Heavenly Demon malevolent intent as the foundation, fused with the demonic infant nascent soul nurtured within his Core Formation, even if his physical body were destroyed and he seized a new body, it would gradually be remodeled into an Innate Demonic Embryo Physique. That body would bee the most patible vessel for him. This was also one manifestation of the effects of the “Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations.”
The corpse of Nine Evil had stirred his desire to devour it, not to make up for any deficiencies, but to activate the unique talent of the demonic embryo physique.
The power of Myriad Transformations.
Placing his palm over the corpse’s chest, the innate curse inscriptions of the demonic embryo physique began transferring onto Nine Evil’s remains, rapidly dissolving it into a pool of pure black liquid.
As the inscriptions retracted, they merged back into Wang Yu’s body.
Having previously undergone the nurturing of the Dragon Blood Tree Heart, the tree-spirit form he had accidentally obtained was activated once again. With the Myriad Transformations talent taking effect, his aptitude in the wood-element path surged dramatically.
The demonic essence within his body was pletely converted into demonic beast essence. This was entirely different from his earlier superficial imitation techniques. It was as if he had truly mastered this bloodline power.
At the very root, he had changed.
In this state, calling himself a tree spirit had no flaws whatsoever.
“So strong.”
Like someone who had just taken a massive tonic, Wang Yu felt the life essence throughout his body almost boiling. He then reverted to his normal form, and all the changes from before were pletely reversed.
As if nothing had ever happened.
After a brief test, he immediately thought of several ways to utilize this ability. Its practicality was extremely high. It could even be called the strongest disguise technique.
After all, it truly transformed.
It was not superficial camouflage. If he were hunted down in the future, he could switch races on the spot, and no one would detect any abnormalities.
The Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations talent of the Innate Demonic Embryo Physique was truly marvelous.
As for how to increase the number of transformation forms, it required devouring half of the target’s bloodline power. In other words, by absorbing half of their vital blood qi, he could obtain a new transformation.
At present, the maximum number of forms Wang Yu could maintain was three.
Forms like the tree spirit, which offered little bat benefit, could be voluntarily discarded without any side effects.
As for the second application.
Everyone knew that demonic beasts carried inheritances within their bloodlines. Those with sufficiently powerful bloodlines would nurture treasure bones, which even cultivators of other races could learn from.
The memories within bloodline inheritances were also among the hidden secrets one could probe.
Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations could help him learn demonic beast secret arts and master their hidden knowledge. Setting aside bat, this functional utility alone was an irreplaceable supreme-grade asset.
Devouring Nine Evil’s corpse allowed him to pletely grasp the innate abilities of the Innate Demonic Embryo Physique. As long as he cultivated steadily and continued absorbing Heavenly Demon malevolent intent, the upper limit of his transformations would continue to rise.
Through this “awakening,” Wang Yu finally realized that absorbing Heavenly Demon malevolent intent, like prehending divine intent, could strengthen his Nascent Soul.
This was inseparable from the fact that he had fused the two.
Heavenly Demon malevolent intent was like a steady stream, slowly and reliably strengthening his Nascent Soul. Divine ability intent, on the other hand, was like a potent medicine, capable of rapidly boosting its strength.
However, it was a one-time gain. Unless he raised the level of his intent, he could not reproduce that explosive growth. Each had its own advantages.
Using them together was the most suitable approach.
After finishing this, Wang Yu began refining the Spirituality Dust, using the fourth-rank Ancient Soul Art to rapidly digest this resource.
It was worth mentioning that due to the shift in his cultivation focus, the Ancient Soul Art had not yet been perfected. Wang Yu deliberately left it slightly inplete, using it as a potential breakthrough opportunity. It was only a tiny step away from pletion.
After digesting the spiritual dust, he might be able to touch upon the divine sense domain of late-stage Nascent Soul.
Like the Taiyin Demonic Essence Pill, this item was extremely difficult to refine. Thus, while refining it, Wang Yu also split off part of his mind to refine that drop of Nine-Orifice Stone Human Blood.
With such a rare treasure, using it as soon as possible brought peace of mind.
Moreover, he needed stronger prehension ability to accelerate all kinds of deductions in his Idle Slots. Although the Guanghan Twelve Phases had advanced to a fourth-rank divine ability along with his Nascent Soul breakthrough, it was still not perfected. Dozens more years of effort were required. As for prehending Guanghan divine intent, that was even further away. Even with several Idle Slots working together, progress was still slow.
He could only rely on such external resources to strengthen his foundation.
From aptitude to prehension, his cultivation journey seemed to revolve around improving every aspect of his core conditions. Spiritual Body aptitude was one of his major gains.
After refining the Nine-Orifice Stone Human Blood, his prehension ability would at least reach top-tier Grade A. No matter how he calculated it, it was a profit.
Thus, six months passed in the blink of an eye.
Wang Yu’s personal cultivation calendar flipped to a brand-new page.
Day 180 of his Ancestor Career: Extraordinary prehension!
At the same time, an invitation to a high-level war mobilization meeting was delivered to his cultivation field.
This meant the Blood Reversal Sect was about to get serious.
All Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect would be dispatched to establish advantages across various battlefields. Such a major event occurring shortly after his return was not targeted at him.
Rather, it was because he had brought back the Young Sect Master.
This was an important turning point.
Six months indicated that the Sect Master’s problem had been initially resolved, or even pletely resolved. Naturally, the horn of counterattack would now be sounded.
“Much faster than expected. Still no confidence in breaking through to Spirit Transformation…”
He muttered to himself.
Then Wang Yu began to conclude his cultivation.
The next day, he emerged from seclusion.
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