Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 463

The scepter was not very long, with a golden-yellow base color.

A true dragon coiled around it, holding a dragon pearl in its mouth at the top of the staff.

This was the true “Human Emperor Authority” form of the Coiling Dragon Ring. No matter the time or place, it could display the might of a permission dog.

At the same time, it was also a special-form attack-type spirit treasure. Its usage method was rather unique and would not be elaborated for now.

At that moment.

Wang Yu fiercely stabbed the Coiling Dragon Scepter into the ground. An invisible fluctuation instantly swept across the entire Eastern Extreme Capital. Forty-nine pillars of light shot into the sky from various locations within the city.

Terrifyingly pure yin and evil qi turned the entire sky into a dark curtain. Amid rolling black clouds, thunder rumbled within the forty-nine vortices.

A majestic heavenly might suddenly descended.

However, with no cultivator undergoing tribulation, triggering heavenly might was truly an incomprehensible matter.

This sudden change also caused the numerous Nascent Souls hovering high in the sky outside the city to turn solemn. None of them knew what had happened, and they began speculating.

“Could it be… that the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord is breaking through during battle and has triggered a Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation? Otherwise, it’s hard to explain why heavenly might would descend.”

“But that seems far too bizarre. His opponent is a true Spirit Transformation Venerable. How could he possibly be given the chance to break through!”

“Fellow Daoist makes a valid point.”

“Besides a cultivator breaking through, if a calamity is about to descend upon a realm, it can also trigger heavenly might. If this place is inauspicious…”

The cultivators’ discussions were not without reason.

This place was indeed inauspicious.

First, the Human Emperor’s royal relatives were exterminated, then an entire city’s living beings were slaughtered and their lifeforce extracted by the second “Descended True Immortal” in an attempt to heal the root damage caused by heavenly punishment.

Resentment and karmic sin had been suppressed by the feng shui mystic formation.

After accumulating for over a hundred thousand years, the sudden eruption, combined with the power of the Yin-Yang Killing Formation, would affect far more than just Eastern Extreme Capital. Nearly half of Cloud Ridge Prefecture would be implicated.

Wang Yu’s move could be described as vicious and ruthless. He clearly had no intention of letting these people live.

After activating this shared-fate technique with the Coiling Dragon Scepter.

He put it away and fled Eastern Extreme Capital without looking back. He showed zero intention of staying to clean up the battlefield or collect any spoils.

He had already gained more than enough.

By stirring up the situation like this, the blame would most likely fall on Yellow Springs Monastery. Even if the Monastery Lord appeared to explain, it would be useless. People tended to believe what they saw with their own eyes rather than explanations from others.

Moreover.

Even if the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord was lucky enough to survive, he would be heavily injured. Before his injuries recovered or before he used the gains from the Longevity Medicine Vault to break through to Spirit Transformation, he most likely would not show himself.

He would hide for as long as possible, until the day he successfully broke through to Spirit Transformation.

Crimson Heaven was in a similar situation.

However, he should remain active for some time. Wang Yu assumed he would not die and would place him as one of his pursuit targets.

Therefore, time was urgent now. He needed to return to the Blood Reversal Sect’s mountain gate as quickly as possible to explain the situation to his close friends.

He also needed to hand over the Crimson Jade Longevity Peach he obtained from the Peach Blossom Immortal to the Blood-Eyed Demonic Flood Dragon.

Although he was already impatient to take over Old Dog Yu’s inheritance.

In his current situation where he could barely protect himself, having Yu Tangtang follow him for cultivation was not a good idea. Wang Yu also preferred to be alone.

Not long after the aurora covered in black lightning departed.

The entire Eastern Extreme Capital suddenly collapsed.

Both the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable and the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord were shocked. They tried to force their way into the sky, only to discover in horror that even though most of Eastern Extreme Capital had been destroyed, the damn no-flight restriction was still in effect.

This meant the core carrying the restriction was likely hidden in a spatial interlayer. Otherwise, it would not still maintain such a high restrictive effect.

They could not fly, and escape techniques were difficult to use.

With Eastern Extreme Capital’s scale, they could not escape in a short time. This meant they could only face the killing formation head-on. The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord gnashed his teeth in fury.

He knew exactly who had done this. After all, he had just been patiently teaching the other party! Yet the moment he received the inheritance of Yellow Springs Monastery’s divine abilities, the other party immediately turned hostile.

This was very much in line with demonic cultivator behavior, yet also incredibly audacious.

Very few people in the world dared to fool a peak faction leader like him, unless they were a reckless fool. But the other party clearly was not.

“Wang Yu! This Monastery Lord will fight you to the death!”

Crimson Heaven overheard this by chance and silently memorized the information. His Raging Blood Dharma Aspect activated once more, combining with the effect of the Crimson Heaven Demonic Light to pin the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord in place.

At the same time, he deployed various defensive measures.

There was a temporary formation formed by array flags, a defensive talisman formation formed by thousands of talismans, and a spiritual light shield released by an ancient relic treasure.

Of course, the strongest defense came from a secret art cast by the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable. In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a massive black-red boulder, along with a fifth-rank low-grade cauldron-shaped spirit treasure that inverted over his main body for protection.

His methods were both swift and comprehensive. The Raging Blood Dharma Aspect also disappeared.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord was being eroded by the demonic light.

His reactions were much slower than Crimson Heaven’s. Not only were his methods less complete and varied, but he also used far fewer layers of protection. He could only grit his teeth and use the monastery’s foundational spirit treasure to form an even stronger defense.

“Quality over quantity. It will definitely hold!”

At this critical moment, he could only comfort himself this way.

As time passed.

In less than three breaths, a dragon roar that could pierce clouds and split mountains erupted from the collapsing giant pit. It seemed to carry endless resentment.

A crimson sin dragon formed entirely from negative emotions and various negative energies suddenly soared up from the abyss. Its body exceeded a thousand zhang in length, extremely massive and spectacular.

The terrifying aura it radiated was enough to make early-rank Nascent Soul cultivators go weak in the legs and dare not meet its gaze, like rabbits encountering an eagle.

It was pure instinct from the depths of their bloodlines.

It drove them to stay far away from this horrifying existence!

“A crimson dragon-shaped being… no, this is an array spirit condensed by a formation. It has no life force, only endless karmic sin and a desire for slaughter.”

“What a terrifying formation. Even a Spirit Transformation Venerable would find it hard to survive, right?”

“Not necessarily. This formation has no controller, so the power it can display is fixed. If a heavenly formation master came, they might be able to break it.”

“Heh, you talk a good game. Why don’t you go in and try it yourself? Why are you standing so far away? Afraid the dragon will fly out and eat you?”

The crowd broke into arguments, while Wang Yu had already safely left Eastern Extreme Capital far behind. Hearing the resounding dragon roar, he could not help glancing back, only to freeze in place.

The sin dragon should have been a pitch-black creature born from resentment.

Mindless and soulless, it existed solely for slaughter the moment it appeared. It was the classic example of destruction for destruction’s sake, without any autonomy.

Yet this one was not only crimson, it was also condensed by an formation.

The overwhelming resentment mostly belonged to itself rather than being drawn from the ancient corpses of the citizens of Eastern Extreme Capital.

A certain thought quietly surfaced.

“This is not a sin dragon. It is the resentment of the Fire Essence Spirit that the descended Immortal from back then devoured.”

Heaven-and-earth spiritual veins could mutate into various attributes.

The most typical were the five elements spiritual veins, which also had the highest chance of forming. The so-called fire essence spirit was a fire spiritual vein that had gained intelligence and become one of the true living beings of heaven and earth.

Such heaven-and-earth spirits were favored by the will of heaven. They were natural world managers beneficial to the growth of the realm, and thus received the favor of heavenly will.

The immortal who devoured the fire essence to suppress demons had suffered heavenly punishment. The same fate had befallen another descended immortal at the end of the ancient era. Both were classic examples of falling due to reckless actions.

Wang Yu naturally took them as warnings and remembered them clearly.

But the fire vein essence’s resentment transforming into a crimson dragon was truly unexpected. This meant that the second-generation Human Emperor had very likely foreseen his own end.

Whether Crimson Heaven and the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord could withstand a contingency of this level was completely unknown.

Wang Yu felt there was an eighty percent chance they were doomed.

This situation forced him to increase his escape speed. He almost fled all the way to the edge of the area where the Eastern Extreme Capital ruins could no longer be seen.

Meanwhile, near Eastern Extreme Capital, the cultivators were filled with terror.

The more timid and cautious ones had already begun gathering everyone in front of them, ready to flee at any moment.

The sin dragon’s situation was abnormal and could not be judged by common sense.

They also had to account for the possibility that it would leave Eastern Extreme Capital and attack them. Retreating now was the smart move to prevent trouble before it happened.

Inside the city.

The first to suffer was Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable. Perhaps because his aura was more powerful, it drew the sin dragon’s attention even more.

With a wave of its dragon claws, it tore open three pitch-black spatial rifts. In an overbearing manner, it dismantled all of Crimson Heaven’s defensive measures.

Finally, one claw smashed the low-rank spirit treasure giant cauldron flat and forcibly broke through the blood stone secret art’s protective state.

With just one strike, it had turned him into a dead dog.

Its strength was too overwhelming to accurately judge, but it had definitely reached mid-stage Spirit Transformation or higher. Otherwise Crimson Heaven would not have been reduced to such a sorry state.

“Puff—”

Crimson Heaven spat out a large mouthful of blood and stared fixedly at the crimson sin dragon, his face full of disbelief.

“How could… such a contingency still be left behind…”

He muttered under his breath.

His heart was in turmoil.

“This makes no sense… it makes no sense at all! When the Immortal Dynasty fell, there is no reason they would not use such a trump card to resist unless everyone died in an instant.”

The sin dragon was filled with resentment and paid no attention to the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable at all.

With a twist of its body, its dragon tail this time came sweeping over wrapped in spatial waves, as if half the world itself was pressing down.

Crimson Heaven closed his eyes in despair.

Suddenly, a familiar voice filled with dignity rang in his ears. It was so pleasant to hear.

“Stand up. A majestic Demon Venerable being humiliated by a sin dragon that can only exist for a short moment. You truly disappoint this venerable.”

After his initial delight, Crimson Heaven felt deep shame.

“Sect Master Senior Brother, this matter was indeed due to Crimson Heaven’s carelessness. After this, I will definitely reflect deeply.”

“—Forget it.”

Just as the dragon tail came slamming down, an extremely young and handsome cultivator appeared standing there calmly. He did not move at all, simply stamping his foot lightly.

A pitch-black formation instantly unfolded and completely enveloped the crimson sin dragon. His lips parted.

“—Refine!”

Black flames suddenly surged upward. The terrifying sin dragon that had been invincible just moments ago now became nothing more than a small loach. No matter how it thrashed and bared its fangs and claws, it could not shake the formation in the slightest.

Some of the watching cultivators recognized the newcomer and cried out in shock.

“It’s the Heaven-Refining Demonic Formation. The Heaven-Refining Demon Venerable himself has arrived.”

“Is this the strength of a peak Spirit Transformation cultivator…? Truly unimaginable. Looks like Yellow Springs Monastery is in deep trouble now.”

The person who had pushed Crimson Heaven to this point was the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord. Now that the master of the demonic sect who refined demons, refined immortals, and even refined the heavens had come, it was naturally the other person’s turn to suffer.

The Yellow Springs Monastery cultivators among the onlookers immediately began fleeing without hesitation.

They abandoned their own Monastery Lord on the spot. Some were already preparing to return to the monastery, pack up their belongings, and defect directly.

In the eyes of many, this was a catastrophe.

Plotting to kill a Spirit Transformation Venerable of the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect would require some explanation no matter what. The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord hidden inside the Yellow Springs Treasure Vase felt heavy-hearted, yet he had not completely despaired.

The demonic path had its own way of doing things.

Moreover, this was a critical moment in the righteous-demonic war. If the five great demonic sects lost one, the balance of power between both sides might completely flip.

As long as they paid a sufficient price and shifted the blame onto the true culprit, there was still hope of survival.

While he was pondering a solution in his heart.

Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable suddenly spoke.

“Sect Master Senior Brother, there is still a little rat. Don’t let him escape. The current situation in Eastern Extreme Capital is also partly Wang Yu from the Blood Reversal Sect’s fault. He cannot shirk responsibility.”

This statement was clearly influenced by the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord’s earlier furious words. Part of it was also out of curiosity.

He really wanted to know what was so special about Wang Yu that he could obtain such high authority in Eastern Extreme Capital. It would not be an exaggeration to say it was like the Human Emperor himself had arrived.

“A little rat?”

The Heaven-Refining Demon Venerable frowned. His vast and condensed divine sense instantly locked onto the fleeing Wang Yu’s figure. Even though the distance was great, it was still within his divine sense range.

“Fourth-rank Nascent Soul? What a powerful physical body…”

With a single thought.

The area around Wang Yu suddenly changed, giving him the feeling that a great disaster was imminent.

A faint, distant yet seemingly right beside his ear voice rang out abruptly.

It was still so concise and efficient.

“Refine!”

Black demonic flames suddenly ignited Wang Yu. A domineering power invaded his body and began refining everything it touched: flesh, meridians, demonic essence, divine sense, bones… everything.

Whatever Wang Yu possessed was turned into fuel for the demonic flames, madly refining all of him.

Intense pain struck.

In an instant, Wang Yu was forcibly pulled out of his aurora state and returned to normal. He was also extremely decisive. He directly abandoned everything below his neck.

His Nascent Soul fled into his head and instantly activated the Yin Blood Core secret art from the Corpse Demon Secret Technique. While his body was recovering, Black Demon Thunder erupted and his speed soared to the limit!

He successfully resolved the crisis.

The Heaven-Refining Demon Venerable also let out a soft “Eh?”

“Interesting. The Heaven-Refining Demonic Flames are not so easily escaped.”

This was the refining trump card he had specially prepared for the ancient Demon “Life.” Its origin had already reached quasi-sixth rank. If not for the rules of the Ice Prison Realm restricting it.

Becoming true sixth-rank demonic flames would have been only natural.

Thus, he spoke to Crimson Heaven with full confidence.

“The Heaven-Refining Demonic Flames will bring his Nascent Soul back. No need to worry.”

“Since Sect Master Senior Brother has taken action, Crimson Heaven naturally trusts it. How should we deal with the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord?”

“Killing him is definitely necessary, but not right now. Let him die in the righteous-demonic war. Monastery Lord, what do you think?”

This condescending attitude.

Discussing the other party’s life right in front of him fully displayed the demonic cultivator side. Even though the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord felt stifled, he could only endure.

After all, surviving for now still gave him a chance for change.

Dying gloriously for honor was the ambition of heroes, but dying on the spot would achieve nothing. He could only remain silent to indicate his tacit acceptance.