Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 436

After dealing with the Curse Ghost Demon Lord, Wang Yu paid no attention whatsoever to the battle between the Daoist Jin Yan and Thunder Corpse. His target was crystal clear—he headed straight for Jin Lin.

“It’s you…”

Even while wearing the Demonic Dragon Armor, Jin Lin could still recognize Wang Yu’s true appearance. After all, he had targeted him far too many times and thoroughly investigated his background.

Moreover, Wang Yu’s current fame was simply too great.

Just moments ago, he had effortlessly taken down the Curse Ghost in three moves, which was truly shocking. It meant that, compared to the rumors, Wang Yu’s strength had been advancing at a terrifying pace.

This was not how cultivation was supposed to work. Which genius could keep breaking through like a hot knife through butter after reaching Nascent Soul? It made no sense at all.

If facing Jin Miaoshan, he still had the confidence to curse back at her, but in front of Wang Yu, he could only put on a tough front while inwardly trembling.

“Wang Yu, I know you. If you kill me, Golden Abundance Tower will never let you off. Don’t forget that you once caused enormous reputational damage to the Tower.

“You were already being watched. This time, you’ve actively handed the perfect excuse right into my faction’s hands. If I die… you won’t have it easy either!”

Black solid ice spread through the air, quickly covering Jin Lin’s body and freezing him into a massive ice block.

“A mere ninth-layer Core Formation cultivator who has repeatedly tried to kill me and block my path—even if I get blacklisted by Golden Abundance Tower, so what? Once you’re dead, Jin Miaoshan will naturally help me smooth things over.”

Taking advantage of others was always mutual.

The harder Jin Lin talked, the more undignified he appeared, looking like a clown in comparison.

“—Explode!”

With a soft shout from Wang Yu, the black ice covering Jin Lin instantly shattered. Countless black ice spears rapidly condensed, ready to follow up at any moment.

The ice explosion technique was fatal to ordinary people, but Jin Lin definitely had life-saving measures. That was beyond doubt.

After the fine ice shards dispersed, a turtle-shell spiritual shield wrapped around him in a spherical shape. Jin Lin’s face was filled with shock and fury.

“You’re finished. You’ve thoroughly offended Golden Abundance Tower.”

“Ridiculous.

“You can try to kill me, but I can’t kill you? Jin Lin, since you’ve mixed with the Crimson Kite for so long, you should know the temperament of demonic cultivators. Crushing you is as easy as crushing an ant.”

Reversing heaven and overturning order!

These are my lines! Jin Lin’s face turned pale from the verbal slap, unsure how to retort.

As he spoke, countless black ice spears shot forward.

The first four or five were perfectly blocked by the turtle-shell spiritual shield, but with the terrifying momentum of the sixth, seventh, and eighth spears, the shield completely shattered.

A withered turtle-shell magic treasure fell from Jin Lin’s chest and exploded into fragments on the spot.

He said incredulously, “How is that possible? This is a protective treasure refined from ten-thousand-year Mystic Turtle Shell. Even an ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul would need some time to break it. You…”

He would never know that Wang Yu had infused every spear with the Force Domain of Silver Blood Divine Strength. Each ice spear carried a drill-shaped domain, plus the enhancement from his life-bound true treasure.

Few early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were a match for Wang Yu.

At that moment.

Jin Miaoshan flashed out from the void, standing behind the Yellow Springs Earth Resentment Puppet. Her exquisitely beautiful face was filled with delight.

Yellow Springs Great Hand Seal!

Her timing was perfect. Jin Lin instinctively sacrificed a bead-shaped magic treasure, but his expression changed drastically.

“—No!”

Too late.

All of Yellow Springs Monastery’s divine abilities were utter garbage—whoever used them would suffer misfortune. He never imagined a mere puppet could execute them, and at Nascent Soul level power no less.

The hundreds-of-meters-tall murky yellow hand seal grabbed the bead and refined it in an instant.

The now-dim spiritual light fell into Jin Miaoshan’s hand. Extreme cold assaulted Jin Lin from behind once more. Black solid ice, following the same pattern, froze him again.

“Now!”

Jin Miaoshan’s eyes shone brightly. She immediately flung out a talisman onto Jin Lin’s head. This was the Sealing Talisman, capable of cutting off the connection between a Heaven-Earth Ring and its owner.

Extremely suitable for dealing with filthy rich targets.

Immediately after, the fifth-rank Spirit Transformation spiritual treasure—the Asura Divine Sword appeared in her hand. With a flash of her figure, she pierced through the ice layer and stabbed straight into Jin Lin’s skull, emerging from the back of his head.

Suffering such a grievous wound, even Jin Lin was undoubtedly doomed.

The murderous intent accumulated in the Asura Divine Sword for countless years erupted instantly.

A perfectly round Golden Core shattered silently.

As the Sealing Talisman lost effect, three fourth-rank talismans flew out from Jin Lin’s Heaven-Earth Ring. One was a fourth-rank Great Teleportation Talisman, which was suppressed by the Lock of Heaven and had lost its target, so it failed to activate for a long time.

The second was a Divine Descent Talisman carrying a wisp of Jin Lin’s father’s divine sense. Unfortunately, it arrived too late.

His father was a renowned great cultivator of Golden Abundance Tower.

Known as—[Golden Jade Dragon Lord]!

Legend had it that he had obtained the inheritance of the Heavenly Sea Ancient Sect in the Chaotic Ancient Sea, possessing profound transformation arts that could simulate a fraction of a true dragon’s might.

This part was likely true, but how much actual charm it held was unknown.

Once this talisman activated, a familiar face appeared high in the sky. Although the features were different, the effect was the same.

As soon as Golden Jade Dragon Lord appeared, he subconsciously said, “Give me some face and spare…”

However, Before he could finish, he noticed Jin Lin inside the black ice block, completely devoid of life force. His ever-changing eyes instantly locked onto Jin Miaoshan as he spoke sinisterly, “Niece Miaoshan, why go this far?!!”

Jin Miaoshan showed no fear whatsoever and replied righteously, “You should ask what that beast has done. This Miaoshan was in seclusion. If he hadn’t taken the initiative to attack and tried to interrupt my Mind Nirvana, he wouldn’t have thoroughly enraged me!”

Golden Jade Dragon Lord’s divine sense avatar took a deep breath.

“He is, after all, this lord’s most outstanding descendant.”

With that.

He seized the third talisman. The late-stage Nascent Soul divine sense pressure descended. Wang Yu could withstand it, but Jin Miaoshan struggled somewhat and could only lean against him for support.

On Thunder Corpse’s side, he was also affected and was sent flying by the Daoist Jin Yan’s peacock-like sword flurry. He hurriedly arrived before Golden Jade Dragon Lord, his face filled with grief.

“Dragon Lord, this subordinate failed to protect him properly. I never expected Young Master… to already be dead.”

“We’ll talk about this matter after we return. Lend me your body for a moment.”

“Yes.”

Wang Yu’s expression changed. He transmitted to Jin Miaoshan, “Use the puppet to protect yourself. Watch as I slay this divine sense.”

Dealing with a great cultivator, he currently had no confidence.

But dealing with a great cultivator’s divine sense avatar was right up his alley. With his fourth-rank mid-stage peak divine sense, he was not much inferior.

Coupled with his fourth-rank divine ability specialized in attacking divine sense— Soul-Extinguishing Death Light!

He specialized in fighting great cultivators.

As the third talisman burned, its effect was revealed. It was actually a Fusion Spirit Talisman, a niche among niches, only needed by possession bodies to harmonize the physical body with the Nascent Soul.

Using it on a divine sense avatar to control a “cultivator mecha” was perfectly complementary and would definitely allow it to display even greater power.

While Golden Jade Dragon Lord was taking over the body, Wang Yu had no intention of waiting passively.

The gray death light had already shot out.

His slightly inferior divine sense power was still enough to shake the compatibility of the body control. That small gap was fatal.

Moreover, with Jin Lin already dead, the other party was refusing to let the matter rest.

All they wanted was revenge. Wang Yu believed Jin Miaoshan was the opponent’s primary target, so he had already made mental preparations and contingency plans.

Struck by the Soul-Extinguishing Death Light, the Fusion Spirit Talisman instantly failed.

Jin Yan’s face twisted ferociously. Countless feather-like golden fine swords rapidly gathered, forming a brilliant golden sword qi feather dragon.

The dragon roar shook the heavens, and sword qi pierced the Big Dipper!

It charged straight toward Wang Yu with a whoosh. Golden Jade Dragon Lord could openly make a move against Jin Miaoshan by using Jin Lin’s tragic death as an opportunity. If he missed this chance…

Golden Abundance Tower would never allow him to act against a proper, orthodox genius junior. At most, he would receive light punishment. After all, the grudge between them could be traced back more than two hundred years.

It would be impossible to clearly sort out who was right and who was wrong.

Now that one had died, everything became perfectly justified.

Facing the whistling sword dragon, Wang Yu flew backward. Silver Blood Divine Strength caused his body to flicker with a layer of silver light. The immortal spiritual essence stacked with the Force Domain.

He tried to restrain the sword dragon’s momentum, but although Daoist Jin Yan was at third-layer Nascent Soul, the same realm as him—the person controlling the body from behind was completely different.

Dao intent, experience, divine abilities… every aspect had been greatly enhanced, especially the Dao intent.

The feeling of frontal clash was mysterious and intangible, yet it could perfectly break the suppression of his Force Domain.

The pressure it gave him was even greater than that of the Heavenly Capital Thunder Lord.

“It should be some kind of Dao intent related to breaking techniques…”

Squinting his eyes, Wang Yu reached out with a casual grasp.

The Blood and Flesh Demonic Sword shot out from his Qi sea. The Ice Chi Pill Flame coiled around the blade and suddenly burst forth. Halfway through its flight, it transformed into a long ice-flame dragon that collided once more with the sword-qi feather dragon.

—Ice Dragon Technique!

After the two dragons clashed head-on, the ice dragon instantly scattered into countless blue flames, blooming like fireworks. The sword dragon also disintegrated into a golden rain of light.

A fourth-rank high-grade magic treasure + fourth-rank spiritual flame, plus the numerous enhancements from the demonic essence supplied by Wang Yu, forcefully smashed apart the already-worn-down Dao intent sword dragon.

From this single move alone, Wang Yu had faintly earned the qualifications to exchange blows with a late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivator.

Of course.

It was merely qualifications. If they truly fought, he was definitely not the opponent. What stood before him now was nothing more than a shell occupied by a divine-sense avatar.

The fiercer the battle intensity, the shorter the time Golden Jade Dragon Lord could persist. The Soul-Extinguishing Death Light he had unleashed earlier while the opponent controlled the Daoist Jin Yan’s body had not been for show.

Amid the brilliant spiritual light, Wang Yu’s figure moved once again.

The Aurora Escape Technique manifested three thousand illusory phantom bodies. Combined with the Ice Mirror and Lock of Heaven secret arts, they once more formed an ice sphere that blocked everything, giving the opponent no chance to ambush Jin Miaoshan.

“Jin Yan” manifested at the edge of the giant hollow ice sphere.

Looking at those silver chains, the gloom on his face was completely unconcealed.

“Void Dao Compendium… a secret technique from the Taihu side.”

“This lord has truly underestimated you.”

“Likewise.”

Whoosh!

Since a sneak attack was impossible, he might as well have a proper fight with Wang Yu. As an old, well-established Nascent Soul who had been famous for a long time, he still possessed this much decisiveness.

In the next instant.

Daoist Jin Yan’s life-bound magic treasure the Heaven Traveling Fan Feather Sword—suddenly unfurled. This sword artifact resembled a fan, or rather, it was a fan. The fan ribs were composed of feather swords, twelve in total.

Under the enhancement of Dao intent, the feather swords transformed into dragons.

They abruptly formed twelve golden dragons, arranged in a sword formation that created a disk, which was swung straight down toward Wang Yu’s head. The dense, rapid rotation twisted even space itself, resembling a circular saw.

Combined with the three thousand phantom bodies and the Ice Mirror, Wang Yu’s true body was constantly shifting. Unfortunately, the grade of the Aurora Escape Technique was still a little lacking.

Without Aurora Dao intent or Rainbow Feather Strange Stone, it was merely a third-rank extreme-speed escape technique. In normal Nascent Soul battles, it still had some fighting power.

But now, it was somewhat dragging him down.

The twelve-dragon sword formation disk came slicing over, precisely locking onto his true body. Wang Yu once again swung the Blood and Flesh Demonic Sword and executed the great-accomplishment Blood Slaughter Heart-Butchering Sword using Asura Dao intent!

Brilliant blood light surged toward the sky and collided violently with the sword-dragon disk. Beneath the intense scene was the simplest and most direct contest of pure power.

Just at that moment.

Thunder Corpse quietly approached “Jin Yan” and opened his mouth to unleash a corpse roar. This was originally the Soul-Suppressing Roar divine ability awakened by the Lunar Yin Fiend Corpse. Since the fiend corpse had been abandoned by Wang Yu, these rare corpse-path divine abilities had also been partially dissected by him. He had found ways to instill some of the profundities into Thunder Corpse’s small brain. The power was inferior to the original fiend corpse, but fused with the shocking sound of thunder, its might was still considerable.

Especially since the target had already been struck once by the Soul-Extinguishing Death Light. Under the Thunder Roar Soul Suppression, one could see the Jin Yan body stiffen. A transparent divine-sense soul body struggled to reveal its upper half.

At the same time.

The power of the twelve sword-dragon formation disk suddenly weakened considerably. The blood-colored sword light fiercely shattered it. Blood lines swept across Daoist Jin Yan’s body, and his struggling movements instantly stiffened.

Wang Yu seized the opportunity. The second Soul-Extinguishing Death Light shot out once more, directly blasting Golden Jade Dragon Lord out of Jin Yan’s physical body.

He glared furiously at Wang Yu, opening his mouth as if wanting to say something.

But he directly dissipated under the power of the death light.

This was Wang Yu’s second time slaying a great cultivator’s divine-sense avatar. He didn’t know why, but these people always liked to leave divine sense behind for their juniors to protect their lives.

Could it be that using someone else’s body felt really good?

Shaking his head to dispel the thought, Daoist Jin Yan, whose body had been sliced into two halves by sword light—barely used his Nascent Soul power to glue his body back together, struggling to resist the terrifying murderous-intent erosion.

At this moment, his face was full of disbelief.

“Impossible, impossible…

“The Dragon Lord’s divine-sense avatar, even when using my body, should not be something you can deal with. Even an ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul shouldn’t be a match.”

Exactly what had gone wrong!

“The mistake isn’t with you, but with Jin Lin.”

Wang Yu seemed to see through his thoughts. With a single step, he instantly appeared beside the Daoist Jin Yan.

“Having such a master who likes to stir up trouble, even if it wasn’t me today, there would be other guys regarded as ants coming to find you in the future.

“This tribulation is the price you all pay for acting arrogantly in the Crimson Kite. You don’t lose out at all.”

Willing to risk everything, even an emperor can be pulled off his horse.

The most numerous people in the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain are iron-headed brats. You can look down on me, humiliate me, but you shouldn’t repeatedly try to harm me. Besides this type of life, the people of Crimson Kite really don’t have much else.

This kind of logic came from Wang Yu’s observations of demonic cultivators.

This group more or less has some mental issues in their hearts. This is determined by the overall environment. Unless there is a complete reshuffle from top to bottom, no one can change it.

Daoist Jin Yan was heavily injured, and his body was also empty inside.

The mess left behind by Golden Jade Dragon Lord left him with no way out. He gave a miserable smile.

His Nascent Soul fled from the shell and made one final attempt at a teleportation technique. After discovering he was still trapped by the Lock of Heaven, he closed his eyes in despair.

Subsequently, he was frozen by Wang Yu and collected into the Glazed Pagoda for suppression. At the bottom level of his life-bound magic treasure, four Nascent Souls were already suppressed. These were all cultivation resources for him and had to be properly stored.

Daoist Jin Yan’s corpse was, as usual, tossed into the Thunder Fiend Coffin, to be used later to nurture Thunder Corpse. It could be considered making the best use of everything.

The battle ended and the Ice Mirror field dissipated. Jin Miaoshan rushed in with a face full of vigilance, her back pressing against Wang Yu as she asked cautiously, “Where is he? Are you injured?”

Hearing this, Wang Yu irritably bumped her with his butt.

“Why don’t you use your divine sense to sense it?”

Jin Miaoshan smiled awkwardly.

“You saw through it.”

“Your acting was too fake. Tone it down a bit. How is the situation on the treasure transport team side?”

“The Peach Blossom Immortal hasn’t sent a message yet. They probably haven’t arrived. Once Senior Jin Xiyuan gets results on her side, we’ll go together.”

“Sounds good.”