Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 441

Seconds?

No!

If the Extreme Yin Dragon King truly possessed such power, it should not have used the Eroding Yin Python to test the waters first. Or had the previous probe allowed it to discover some weakness in Yin Gui?

Just as Wang Yu’s mind raced with possibilities, the Extreme Yin Dragon King turned its head and fixed its gaze squarely on him. In its eyes, Yin Gui was already dead.

Naturally, it turned its target toward Wang Yu, who appeared the weaker of the two.

Wang Yu’s figure blurred. Using the Aurora Escape Technique, he split into dozens of phantom bodies, each one possessing a solid, real physical form. After condensing the three thousand illusory methods, distinguishing truth from falsehood became even more difficult.

He did this solely to buy time. Yin Gui was most likely faking death.

Just like how he had faked weakness earlier, Yin Gui’s scheming and acting skills were truly first-rate.

Never mind that his brains had splattered everywhere.

Such injuries were not fatal to Nascent Soul cultivators. Their foundation lay in the Nascent Soul within their Qi sea. As long as the physical body was not damaged beyond sixty percent, it could still be saved.

He had probably been scared witless by the Extreme Yin Dragon King that Wang Yu had mentioned earlier.

As Wang Yu personally experienced the intensity of the Extreme Yin Dragon King’s attacks.

He grew even more certain of his guess.

“Fellow Daoist, faking it again?”

Aurora streaks flickered unsteadily. In this narrow passage they moved like instant teleportation. The Extreme Yin Dragon King’s intelligence was never high to begin with. Being toyed with like this, it instantly flew into a rage.

Wang Yu glanced sideways at Yin Gui.

Without hesitation he charged forward. The Yellow Springs Great Hand Seal conveniently seized the “corpse” and hurled it straight back at the Extreme Yin Dragon King.

The corpse awkwardly stirred awake. Yin Gui Demon Lord flicked his sleeve and sent out a patch of yin thunder to temporarily trap the Extreme Yin Dragon King. Only then did he wipe away the brain matter oozing from his forehead, tilt his head back to swallow a pill, and watch the wound rapidly close.

“Fellow Daoist could even see through that. Your observational skills are truly impressive.”

Faced with such shameless praise.

Wang Yu was rendered speechless. Counting the earlier incident outside, this Yin Gui Demon Lord had been fooling him twice in a short time. Who exactly was he trying to deceive?

Boom!

A sudden explosion rang out. The small Dragon King was glued into a ball by the yin thunder. Its scales exploded upward in unison as its body began to swell like it was being inflated.

In the blink of an eye, just its dragon head already filled the entire passage.

There was no more room to dodge.

The Extreme Yin Dragon King charged headlong, forcibly widening the passage considerably. Wang Yu stamped his foot. Combining the feng shui compass with feng shui secret arts.

One gang step and he instantly escaped the water passage, returning to the underground palace.

[T/N:- Gang Step (a Daoist ritual stepping technique tied to celestial constellations / Big Dipper pacing)]

The atmosphere suddenly turned deathly still.

More than thirty cultivators of all sizes turned to look at once. There were four or five Nascent Souls among them. Wang Yu kept his expression calm as he cupped his hands toward the crowd.

“This lord is Yin Gui. Greetings, fellow Daoists.”

Someone in the crowd wore a strange expression. As far as he knew, Yin Gui did not look like this, but he quickly understood why.

He saw Wang Yu spin on the spot. His figure vanished for an instant.

Like a skipped frame, when he reappeared it was the bewildered Yin Gui Demon Lord.

Heaven have mercy.

Earlier, when the Extreme Yin Dragon King had charged out of the water passage, he had realized Wang Yu had left without taking him and deeply regretted playing mind games with this feng shui earth master.

But suddenly appearing and flinging him out of the water passage—what was the meaning of this?

Who were all these glaring people?

How could one underground palace hold so many people?

Countless questions swirled in his mind. Yin Gui Demon Lord was just about to cup his hands and exchange pleasantries when someone in the group spoke up.

“He really is the Yin Gui Demon Lord. The yin thunder divine ability outside is his life-bound technique. His reputation is quite well-known.”

“Very good.”

A Nascent Soul cultivator stepped forward.

“Yin Gui, hand over everything you obtained inside the underground palace. We can spare your life.”

“What kind of rubbish are you spouting?”

Yin Gui Demon Lord was furious. Facing more than thirty cultivators alone, he showed not the slightest fear and even took the initiative to attack.

Gui Water Yin Thunder spread like sticky asphalt, instantly flooding the entire underground palace. The Nascent Soul cultivators were shocked and enraged, all moving to protect their teammates. Some unlucky ones without Nascent Soul companions could only regretfully leave the stage.

This large-scale assault reduced the thirty-plus people to twenty-plus. When the yin thunder finally dissipated, Yin Gui Demon Lord had already vanished without a trace.

Hit and run, perfectly grasping the essence of single combat!

“Chase!”

“Si Water Heavenly Yin Formation! Go to the water passage and catch him!”

The feng shui earth masters burned with rage. They all twisted their feng shui compass and plunged deep into the formation. In the blink of an eye the underground palace was empty once more.

A short while later.

Wang Yu stepped out from behind a shark-lamp stone pillar and quickly hurried toward the spot where the Eroding Yin Python had first attacked.

This entire wave had been pure deception.

He had jumped left and right to drag Yin Gui Demon Lord out, making him the target of everyone’s fury, then helped fling him back into the water passage. The enraged crowd had indeed chased after him.

In this way, the Extreme Yin Dragon King would be held back by the group.

Taking this golden opportunity, he headed to the location where the yin thunder had erupted when he first entered the underground palace to search for the Heavenly Yin Water Pool. All four water passages had already been checked and he had yet to find the tomb or the yin pool.

He suspected the three Core Formation cultivators had already entered the Heavenly Yin Water Pool, which was why he could not locate it.

In summary, the position was most likely inside the underground palace.

As for how to convince Yin Gui Demon Lord to cooperate, at that time in the water passage he had nearly been swallowed by the Extreme Yin Dragon King. There was simply no way to handle this creature with conventional methods.

Its strength was also greater than expected. If he had to describe it, the Extreme Yin Dragon King possessed late-stage Nascent Soul level physical power, but its techniques were not varied enough.

This was also the limitation of its innate intelligence. To some extent this creature was a half-living entity, somewhat similar to a heaven-and-earth spirit, and also akin to rocks, grass, trees, or puppets.

Yet it could not birth sufficient spiritual wisdom, possessing only ordinary beast-level intelligence.

This point was crucial.

Wang Yu even suspected it was the key component in forming the Si Water Heavenly Yin Formation.

There was no need to overthink it right now.

Treasures like the Heavenly Yin Divine Pearls were all secondary. For the Water Token, one of the four ancestral tokens of feng shui earth masters, he was determined to obtain it!

He immediately activated his escape light and charged straight toward the depths of the underground palace.

At the same time.

Inside the Heavenly Yin Water Pool, three peak Core Formation cultivators wearing yin-yang daoist robes had a pale blue token floating above their heads. It was precisely the Ancestral Water Token.

The pale blue light spots drifting down from it formed a brilliant light shield like the Milky Way, protecting them from harm by the extremely yin and extremely cold Heavenly Yin Divine Water.

This pool had resided deep underground for countless years, nourished by the feng shui layout and accumulating for tens of thousands of years. The amount of Heavenly Yin Divine Water had long since filled the pool, even naturally settling into crystal forms.

In the bottomless pool, clusters of crystal-like objects. Some would nurture a precious pearl inside. This was the Heavenly Yin Divine Pearl!

A supreme cultivation treasure for water and yin attribute cultivators.

Not only could it break through realm bottlenecks, it could also be refined into spirit pills to increase cultivation. This thing was suitable for Wang Yu as well.

Using the protection of the Ancestral Water Token, the three had already dived deep into the pool once. At this moment the leading cultivator held a cluster of crystals in his arms.

In the center a perfectly round precious pearl could vaguely be seen.

He said excitedly: “Without entering the tiger’s den, how can one obtain the tiger cub? Luckily we found Yin Gui. Among Nascent Soul experts, this guy’s intelligence is considered relatively low.

“Right now he is probably still fighting those later-arriving feng shui earth masters, and he even dragged the Extreme Yin Dragon King into the mess as well.”

The two brothers beside him also congratulated:

“Congratulations, Big Brother! After all your painstaking research, you finally see the light of day. With these Heavenly Yin Divine Pearls and the feng shui Core Formation secret art, Big Brother’s Nascent Soul is within reach.”

“Congratulations, Big Brother!”

The leading cultivator nodded with reserved pride.

“You two younger brothers need not worry. We will dive again right now to continue searching. Since I cultivate a water attribute technique, after breaking through I will use my Nascent Soul cultivation to exchange more Heavenly Yin Divine Pearls with the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect for Nascent Soul Condensing Pills.

“You two worthy younger brothers will also reach Nascent Soul, not falling too far behind me.”

The three looked at each other and burst into loud laughter.

Especially rampant, especially unrestrained!

Then with a swing they dived back into the Heavenly Yin Water Pool to search for more treasures underwater.

As for Wang Yu, he had only spent the time for half a cup of tea before discovering the true form of the Heavenly Yin Water Pool.

At this moment he stood with a strange expression beside a water channel at the corner of the underground palace. The black liquid flowing inside was precisely Heavenly Yin Divine Water.

Leaving everything else aside. Just this spiritual water alone was worth countless spirit stones.

It can be used to strengthen the extreme cold power of the Glazed Iceheart Pagoda and demonic essence, refining spirit pills… and so on, all top-tier materials. At the very least fourth-rank.

The essence within could even reach fourth-rank high grade.

Extremely precious.

The reason he was dazed was not because of this spiritual water, but because a square pool the size of a fingernail was floating in the water channel. The conversation of the three little figures inside had been clearly heard by him.

Legend said that Void Refinement cultivators possessed spatial abilities, commanding the five elements and unifying all paths. When this ability was cultivated to the extreme and paired with spatial divine abilities.

One could achieve Sumeru hiding a mustard seed[1], opening up a space out of thin air. This space would not be too large, but hiding a water pool was more than enough.

This Heavenly Yin Water Pool had perhaps used a shortcut. After all, in the Ancient Era immortals had not yet departed, so borrowing some of their power was not impossible.

Moreover, it was constantly absorbing the power of Heavenly Yin Divine Water to maintain itself. The existence of the water channel made the pool constantly moving.

The underground palace in the outer city area was only a temporary docking place.

It should be drifting around the entire Eastern Extreme Capital, absorbing the continuously born spiritual energy and Yin Qi, ultimately condensing to today’s scale.

“Indeed a great opportunity.”

Wang Yu tried to enter but found it failed. This water pool space was especially repelling his entry. This had nothing to do with the space’s carrying capacity.

It should be a method left by the ancestor of earth masters. The reason those three could enter was eighty percent because they had borrowed the wondrous effect of the Ancestral Water Token.

After realizing this, Wang Yu felt that Yin Gui Demon Lord had truly been pitied miserably. He lost his wife and soldiers. If he remembered correctly, this Water Token was a treasure of their Gui Yin Demon Palace.

Too tragic!

People with low intelligence really do not deserve to mix in the Crimson Kite. These few Core Formation ants were also audacious to the extreme.

As for being unable to enter, in Wang Yu’s eyes it was not a big problem.

He saw the feng shui compass activate. Wang Yu flung out several blank formation flags. Using the lineage methods of the ancestor of earth masters, he temporarily severed the connection between the Si Water Heavenly Yin Formation and the water pool space with feng shui arts.

Then, it was time for brute force!

Void Secret Technique · Lock of Heaven fully activated. Because the idle slots were constantly helping absorb spatial power, the silver-patterned chains had already surged to the three-thousand-meter limit.

To deal with spatial divine abilities, unless one had completely crushing power or a countering object, one could only use spatial methods to respond.

The Lock of Heaven, besides being able to solidify space and make spacial shifting techniques ineffective, also possessed its proper function as a chain-type artifact.

In the next instant.

Countless chains shot out from behind Wang Yu, heading toward the Heavenly Yin Water Pool. The closer the Lock of Heaven got to the water pool, the farther the distance between them became, as if the distance was infinitely extending.

This was the real-world manifestation of the space attribute.

The distance visible to the naked eye was quite short, yet in reality it far exceeded the actual distance. Only when the three-thousand-meter silver chains had nearly reached their limit did they truly touch the main body of the Heavenly Yin Water Pool.

Wang Yu felt rather emotional. Looking at the spot he could reach simply by squatting down and extending his hand, he erupted with Silver Blood Divine Strength, grabbed the Lock of Heaven, and pulled the entire Heavenly Yin Water Pool with brute force.

The violent shaking caused the entire water pool space to tremble nonstop.

The three Core Formation cultivators suddenly rushed out from the water pool, floating above the surface. They stared in horror at the endlessly shaking small space, their expressions turning extremely ugly.

"An old Nascent Soul ancestor proficient in spatial methods has arrived!"

"Big Brother, what do we do? If this person takes it away, we won't be able to escape at all."

"Don't panic, I have a way."

Although he still could not figure out how a feng shui earth master could also be proficient in spatial methods and catch up so quickly.

Where was the Extreme Yin Dragon King?

Where was the Yin Gui Demon Lord?

Were they all dead?

"Gather around me!"

There was no time to think too much right now. The Ancestral Water Token was activated by secret art, releasing a shocking swallowing and suction force. The Heavenly Yin Divine Water surged upward like a dragon sucking water.

It was completely devoured by the Water Token. The water patterns on its surface grew brighter and brighter, then suddenly expanded into a water-ripple spiritual shield filled with spatial ripples.

"Use that ancient talisman, quick!"

As feng shui earth masters, they excelled most at exploring ruins, dangerous lands, or ancestral tombs to obtain treasures. They naturally carried all kinds of strange and bizarre items.

Some were very useful, while others had unclear effects.

This ancient talisman was a powerful trump card with spatial relocation effects, prepared as their escape route.

"We've already collected enough Heavenly Yin Divine Pearls. For us, this trip is already not a loss."

The leading cultivator silently chanted in his heart, praying that no more variables would appear. Unfortunately, what people fear most often comes true.

Above the three men, strands of divine sense that had been continuously closing the distance smoothly invaded and, using the Ancient Soul Art secret technique, recondensed into a soul body.

It was precisely the "Ancient Soul", the embryonic form of the second Nascent Soul that Wang Yu had cultivated. Compared to its original function of only taking damage in place of the divine soul, it could now be used as a temporary divine sense incarnation.

It did not possess demonic essence itself, but it carried the peak mid-stage Nascent Soul divine sense essence of Wang Yu, with extraordinarily high quality. Just a tiny portion was enough to crush three Core Formation ants.

Wang Yu's Ancient Soul incarnation took form.

Looking down at the ants from above.

"Put down this lord's belongings, and then die!"

The three men turned deathly pale with terror. They desperately activated the relocation ancient talisman, only to discover it was completely useless.

This was because the water pool space had been thoroughly wrapped by the Lock of Heaven. Normal movement was fine, but attempting to tear open space was no different from a mortal trying to rip apart steel with bare hands.

It was simply impossible.

Despair descended. Just as the leading cultivator was about to take out some bargaining chips to negotiate with Wang Yu, a gray light beam filled with deathly silence swept over.

The three let out muffled groans and directly fell back into the water pool. They were frozen into ice blocks by the extreme yin and extreme cold power. If one examined their Qi seas with divine sense, they would discover that their Golden Cores had already dimmed completely. Although their physical bodies still retained some vitality, their souls had been eternally extinguished, with no possibility of revival.

Wang Yu collected the Ancestral Water Token, the three corpses, and their storage rings all at once, then dispersed once more into strands of divine sense and vanished into the air.

[1]:- "Sumeru hiding a mustard seed" refers to a profound Buddhist paradox, often phrased as "Mount Sumeru is contained within a mustard seed, and a mustard seed contains Mount Sumeru". It represents the idea that the entire universe (Sumeru, the cosmic mountain) can fit inside the smallest thing (a mustard seed)