Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 438

The free-floating thunder qi in the air of Thunder Amassing Mountain had nearly condensed into solid form. When any living being passed through it, their scalp would tingle and their hair would show signs of standing upright.

Crackling sounds accompanied every movement of walking, sitting, or lying down, actually producing visible electric sparks.

The Wind-Thunder secret art that Wang Yu frequently used before was especially active in this place. This secret art originally came from the Bai Clan of Jade Spirit City and was one of the spoils from destroying that clan.

It was inherently a damaged third-rank method. The damage referred to the incomplete inheritance of the full technique, but this particular secret art itself had no issues. The Wind-Thunder Secret Art paired best with Body Refinement cultivation.

However, with no empty slots in the Idle Slots, and his Body Refinement cultivation having stagnated for a very long time, Wang Yu had inevitably neglected this aspect quite a bit.

Now that he had arrived at this special terrain of Thunder Amassing Mountain, Wang Yu once again discovered a major advantage of Body Refiners. The tempering one could obtain from the external world was not limited solely to heaven-earth baleful qi. Any special environment or extreme climate could provide excellent training effects.

More importantly, his survivability, bolstered by the dual reinforcement of Indestructible Bone and Silver Blood Divine Marrow, made it extremely difficult for external forces to affect him. The benefits were comprehensive in every aspect.

Ordinary cultivators who came to Thunder Amassing Mountain had to maintain their protective spiritual shields at all times throughout the twelve hours of the day. If too much of this free-floating thunder qi accumulated, it could easily attract lightning strikes.

A single moment of carelessness would result in serious injury on the spot.

Judging from the intensity of the thunder, Core Formation and below cultivators would find it very difficult to withstand. This was new information he had personally experienced and noticed.

As time flowed by, Wang Yu continued heading west. The closer he got to the location recorded on the Thunderfire Remnant Map, the more the surrounding mountain rocks had nearly vitrified into glass. The lightning here was so dense that it felt as if a thunderstorm was happening at every moment.

White lightning continuously struck the mountain peaks, filling the environment with the dry heat of thunder and electricity.

“Truly spectacular…”

Wang Yu clicked his tongue in amazement. The rare sight of a thunderstorm cleansing the mountains was hard to encounter anywhere. The intensity of the thunder here could directly kill Foundation Establishment cultivators and severely injure Core Formation ones.

Any ordinary Core Formation cultivator who endured more than three lightning strikes would undoubtedly die.

This was perhaps the third reason why no one had occupied Thunder Amassing Mountain.

“According to the records on the Thunderfire Remnant Map, the special thunder nurtured by heaven and earth should be right here.”

Wang Yu muttered to himself in his heart.

However, no matter how he used his divine sense to probe, the lightning here was simply ordinary white thunder without any special features. There was not even any heavenly might.

It was just a bit denser and more powerful.

It seemed… completely ordinary?

“No. Since such a phenomenon exists, there must be a special reason behind it. It is impossible for this kind of environment to form without cause.”

Thoughts raced through his mind.

When encountering difficulties, Wang Yu would not lightly give up.

A moment later, he focused his attention on the thunderclouds where the lightning was falling. After approaching to investigate, he still found nothing. He then shifted his attention underground, but the result was the same.

Nothing in the sky or underground.

That left only… the lightning itself.

Even if it seemed ordinary, that was precisely the biggest anomaly of this special environment.

Wang Yu attempted to circulate the Thunder Swallowing Lightning Spewing Secret Art and directly devour the power of the thunderstorm. This secret art came from Violet Lightning and should be one of the secret techniques of Thunderfire Temple.

It allowed one to swallow thunder nurtured by nature, granting the physical body a Thunder Spiritual Root. From then on, cultivating thunder path cultivation methods and divine abilities would yield twice the result with half the effort.

The power when using thunder path divine abilities would also be stronger than if the attribute did not match.

How strong the nurtured Thunder Spiritual Root would be depended entirely on how domineering the thunder swallowed by the cultivator was. With Wang Yu’s current Nascent Soul foundation, his upper limit of endurance was extremely high.

As long as the thunder power swallowed was appropriate, it would not be strange to birth a Heavenly Spiritual Root grade Thunder Spiritual Root. That was quite ordinary.

After all, he possessed the Innate Demonic Embryo Physique.

As the secret art operated, strands of white lightning continuously curved and gathered toward him, gradually forming a giant white cocoon flickering with electric light. The dark clouds in the sky seemed to be pulled lower.

Layer upon layer of white lightning fell even more rapidly and densely.

The power of the thunderstorm was continuously being devoured by Wang Yu, then repeatedly compressed and refined. The “Dragon Spine” cultivated from the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Technique played a good role.

The Silver Blood Divine Marrow inside it was stronger than thunder and could assist in compressing the power of lightning. This caused a black spiritual root resembling tendons and meridians to begin emerging.

Undoubtedly, this was the thunder spiritual root cultivated through the Thunder Swallowing Lightning Spitting Secret Art. Its shape was slightly different from what Wang Yu had imagined, but its compatibility with the dragon spine was extremely high.

The white thunderstorm from the outside world surged madly into Wang Yu’s body as if it could not wait any longer. This caused the black thunder spiritual root to continuously extend and grow. The situation was excellent.

At the same time.

Eastern border of Liuju Prefecture, at the foot of Thunder Amassing Mountain.

Thunder-Gazing City.

A Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect Nascent Soul cultivator stationed in the border city to guard against powerful experts entering the territory was looking toward the interior of Thunder Amassing Mountain with a strange expression.

Although he could not know exactly what had happened, his powerful divine sense at the Nascent Soul stage still allowed him to detect that the strange thunderstorm in that area had been triggered.

Based on his many years of experience watching over this place, a thunderstorm of that scale was manageable at the edges, but if one were at the center of it, even a Nascent Soul cultivator would suffer greatly.

Other than cultivators who specialized in the thunder path entering Thunder Amassing Mountain to train, very few cultivators from other places would deliberately venture inside.

Those who occasionally did so would often die unexpectedly due to their unfamiliarity with the environment here.

The old man known as Withered Prosperity Elder felt his heart stir slightly.

He immediately left Thunder-Gazing City, preparing to enter the mountain to collect corpses. Normally produced corpses from Thunder Amassing Mountain were very popular among corpse path cultivators and were frequently sold to various places.

Among them, the Blood Reversal Sect had the highest purchase volume.

Due to the righteous-demonic war, the number of rogue cultivators had plummeted, causing a sharp decline in Thunder-Gazing City’s specialty product “thunder-struck corpses.”

This affected many aspects. While the overall economy of the Crimson Kite Domain was declining, individual strength and personal wealth were growing at high speed. Countless people had become rich overnight.

The eight-hundred-mile Thunder Amassing Mountain was a natural resource ground.

It was most suitable for Nascent Soul cultivators to enter and pick up “trash.” After all, there was no life-threatening danger, and one could even play out some black-eat-black scenarios.

For Withered Prosperity Elder, this was also a nice source of wealth. Over time, it added up to quite a sum. Usually, he only needed to spare some time to come occasionally, without delaying any important matters.

Thus, this time he did the same as usual.

He prepared to enter Thunder Amassing Mountain to see which lucky fellow had traveled thousands of miles to deliver his lifelong savings.

“Heh heh heh haha~”

Humming a little tune, Withered Prosperity Elder stepped into the air.

Clouds parted to both sides, leaving behind a brilliant path of clouds. He was as carefree and elegant as always.

Thunderstorm Zone.

After absorbing for more than half an hour, the massive white thunderstorm that covered a huge area had shrunk by more than half. Wang Yu’s expression looked somewhat ferocious. Red vein-like patterns, resembling blood vessels and tree roots, covered his entire body.

With every breath, countless bolts of lightning spewed out, and thunder rumbled continuously in his abdomen.

If at the very beginning when he tried this, he had only held the mentality of giving it a try, even if this white thunderstorm was not the heaven-and-earth thunder recorded in the Thunderfire Remnant Map and his guess was wrong, it would not matter.

After all, he had approached it with an attitude of it being optional.

If it existed, it would be the icing on the cake. If not, he could accept it.

Thunder Amassing Mountain was far too ancient. If there truly was some special heaven-and-earth nurtured thunder here, it might have been taken away long ago.

But… the result was.

His luck and fortune were quite good.

This white thunderstorm was indeed some kind of dispersed strange thunder. For some unknown reason, its power was scattered and contained no special force, making it look no different from ordinary white lightning.

However, after being swallowed and refined by the Thunder Swallowing Secret Art, the special black thunder spiritual root inside his dragon spine continued to grow. A peculiar type of black lightning gradually filled his fleshly body.

The physique cultivated from the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art interacted deeply with the black thunder. The yin nether qi and blood fused with it, giving birth to strands of dark black electric light.

The “special effects” were taken to another level. Moreover, this lightning had an enhancing effect on the fleshly body. It was like having a cultivation cheat device that constantly trained his body for him at all times.

This feeling was very familiar to him. It was like having an additional Idle Slot that could only hold the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art.

“What excellent thunder!”

The white thunder cocoon shattered. Wang Yu suddenly leaped out from within. His eyes shone brightly as he opened his mouth and took a fierce breath. The thunderstorm filling the sky was like small fish and seawater being swallowed by a whale.

All of it was sucked into Wang Yu’s stomach in one breath.

His fourth-rank Body Refinement early-stage physique was like the sturdiest cage in the world. No matter how ferocious the thunderstorm was, it could not break free from his control.

Wang Yu sat cross-legged in the void, his white hair dancing wildly as he circulated the Thunder Swallowing Secret Art at full power.

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Withered Prosperity Elder arrived late.

From afar, he spotted Wang Yu’s presence. His eyes were filled with shock and disbelief. He truly had not expected that the white thunderstorm zone that had raged for many years would one day be completely devoured by someone.

“What astonishing attainment in the thunder path.”

While frowning in thought, other than the Thunder Howl Lord who had long been famous across the Crimson Kite, he could not think of any other fellow Daoist with such profound skill in the thunder path.

“Could it be a mountain wild rogue cultivator… or someone from Taihu?”

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Withered Prosperity Elder watched from a distance, having no intention of approaching. Getting too close at a time like this could easily be seen as having ill intentions.

According to the rules of the Crimson Kite cultivation world, even just watching from afar was already impolite. It would be perfectly normal for the other party to beat him up.

Another half an hour later, the lightning around Wang Yu gradually calmed down, and all the strange phenomena returned to normal.

A black lightning vertical mark had appeared between his brows. Its edges were relatively soft, resembling a stretched “S”. The special thunder of this place had only been temporarily stored inside his body.

To completely refine it would require at least a month of closed-door cultivation.

Clearly, now was not the right time.

Slowly standing up, Wang Yu gazed at the old man in the distance.

“Fellow Daoist, since you have come, why not come over for a chat?”

“Heh heh.”

The old man was not afraid either.

In just a few steps, he was only three paces away from Wang Yu.

“This old man is Withered Prosperity, ancestor of Thunder-Gazing City and one of the Nascent Souls of the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect. How should I address you, fellow Daoist?”

Wang Yu raised his brows and relaxed his fist.

“Blood Reversal Sect, Cold Blood Peak ancestor, Supreme Law.”

“Cold Blood Peak? Supreme Law?”

Withered Prosperity Elder’s eyes widened slightly. He truly had not expected Wang Yu to be an ice path cultivator. Moreover, the name Supreme Law sounded vaguely familiar.

If it had been Profound Pill, he would have recognized him immediately.

Wang Yu’s reputation in the Crimson Kite was not low. His portrait had long been circulated among the upper echelons of all major powers.

“Fellow Daoist approached. Do you have something to say?”

Seeing Wang Yu ask again.

Withered Prosperity Elder pondered for a moment. His original intention to make Wang Yu compensate had faded significantly. As fellow members of the Five Great Demonic Sects, even though the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect was the leader, they still had to give the Blood Reversal Sect some face.

Moreover, after the Black Mountain Pass battle, many Nascent Souls had been transferred there. Lingxi Prefecture of Taihu had already been occupied. Based on past experience, they would occupy at most three prefectures before the Seven Righteous Sects would react. This was definitely not a force that the Blood Reversal Sect alone could possess.

Currently, both sides were in a honeymoon period of cooperation.

Thus, after a quick mental calculation.

Withered Prosperity Elder bloomed into a smile as bright as a chrysanthemum flower.

“Fellow Daoist Supreme Law has misunderstood. Since this old man is the ancestor of Thunder-Gazing City, it is my duty to keep watch over the surroundings. When an anomaly occurs in Thunder Amassing Mountain, it is only right and proper for me to come and investigate.”

“So that’s how it is. This lord is not an unreasonable person either. Since that is the case, fellow Daoist may return. I will be cultivating in Thunder Amassing Mountain for some time.”

Hearing this, Withered Prosperity Elder spoke again.

“Since Fellow Daoist Supreme Law intends to cultivate here, this old man shall give you a piece of information as compensation for the disturbance.”

“Oh? Fellow Daoist, please speak freely.”

“This place is very close to Cloud Ridge Prefecture. About three days ago, an anomaly occurred in the ancient ruins of Eastern Extreme Capital in Cloud Ridge Prefecture. Strange phenomena spread for thousands of miles, and it is said that the entire underground cavity collapsed.

“The Eastern Extreme Capital of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty has reappeared in the world. Countless fellow Daoists have rushed there. If this old man did not have heavy responsibilities, I would definitely go explore it as well. What a pity… what a pity!”

Upon hearing the name Eastern Extreme Capital, Wang Yu’s brows rose. He did indeed plan to explore this place a second time.

The last time, it was because two Spirit Transformation inheritances had appeared. Due to the distance, only the Blood Reversal Sect, Yellow Springs Monastery, and a few rogue cultivator factions competed for them.

Not long after, it fell completely silent again.

Now that it had fully emerged, the commotion it caused would definitely be no less than the ancient Heavenly Soul Sect ruins in the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest. Back then, just the four Blood Demon Medicine Kings alone were great supplements that Nascent Souls desperately sought.

From his current perspective, the taste of refining pills with medicine kings… tsk tsk, just thinking about it made one’s mouth water.

He wondered if he would have the chance in the future to exchange military merits with the Sect Master for one.

After obtaining the information from Withered Prosperity Elder, Wang Yu had already decided to go take a look. As for whether some force had done something behind the full emergence of Eastern Extreme Capital, he originally did not care.

But his intuition told him that this matter was related to Yellow Springs Monastery. Back then, the Dizang lineage of Yellow Springs had been stirring up trouble everywhere. The holy offering in Jade Spirit City had been robbed, and that city was very close to Eastern Extreme Capital.

Moreover, after being ravaged by the righteous-demonic war, that entire area had become the territory of Yellow Springs Monastery. The frontlines were constantly being pushed toward the Blood Reversal Sect, resulting in continuous retreats.

Since they had occupied the land, whatever they did was perfectly normal.

“Could this matter be related to the Burial Pit Secret Realm?”

This thought suddenly emerged in Wang Yu’s mind.

Back when he had explored the Burial Pit Secret Realm, he had encountered a demonic charm puppet that was being suppressed by Yellow Springs Demonic Bones. He had always felt that the Dizang lineage had an inseparable connection with it.

What exactly it was, however, remained unknown.

After snapping out of his thoughts, Wang Yu cupped his hands toward Withered Prosperity Elder.

“Thank you for informing me, fellow Daoist. Until we meet again.”

“No need for thanks.”

With that said, Wang Yu transformed into a streak of flowing light and disappeared into the horizon. Only then did Withered Prosperity Elder finally remember.

“Supreme Law… Profound Pill… Supreme Law Profound Pill Demonic Lord. So he is Wang Yu. Interesting! This old man shall wait and see whether Yellow Springs Monastery or you are stronger.”