Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 471

In an instant.

From the moment this person was born and his ears could hear sound, whether he himself remembered it or not, Wang Yu could peer into every single thing he had ever perceived in his short life.

The farce on this street had both a simple and complicated cause.

It was simple because this person had been carrying out orders from the upper echelons of the Azure Cloud Sect. He was to kidnap another batch of ordinary mortals from the common people, control them with evil arts, and frame demonic cultivators to further perfect the chain of evidence.

It was complicated because this mere Qi Refining ant was actually a spy for the Joyous Union Demon Sect. In secret, he selected promising mortal girls from Taihu and sent them all to the Joyous Union Demon Sect to satisfy their massive cauldron consumption.

One must know that the Joyous Union Demon Sect not only required cauldrons for cultivation; their enormous flesh-trade business operated in nearly every city across the Crimson Kite.

The consumption in this regard was also enormous. A young maiden who was a cultivator could last a while, but a mortal girl could endure at most three years before she could no longer hold on.

The Crimson Kite only had a population of several billion, and the various demonic sects kept a tight watch. If they truly wanted to select large numbers of high-quality “seedlings,” Taihu was indeed the perfect place.

Over several decades, using the name of the Azure Cloud Sect to traffic people, this Qi Refining little cultivator had truly played the game to perfection.

Now, with his soul being searched by the Soul-Gouging Evil Boat, Wang Yu’s divine sense had already taken complete control of this cultivator.

According to his personality, he actually did not want to involve himself in such matters.

But the little girl was like the stray cat he had once fed. He had already saved her once, yet now they were harming her right in front of him. It felt a little like they were not giving Wang Yu any face.

The follow-up handling was quite simple.

He directly used divine sense to control the cultivator, making him first explain that he had grabbed the wrong person, then drive away the surrounding crowd. When the man finally walked in front of the father and daughter.

The cultivator naturally stopped breathing.

He died very peacefully.

Wang Yu did not mind the corpse and directly tossed it into the Thunder Fiend Coffin. The man’s skin might still be useful, so he temporarily preserved the body.

One thing was now certain.

There was a hidden stronghold of the Joyous Union Demon Sect inside Water Cloud Immortal Capital.

Although this little cultivator did not know its location, he had a Foundation Establishment superior who was specifically responsible for transferring the suitable-age mortals he captured and issuing him rewards.

Wang Yu felt that this might prove useful in the future.

He walked closer.

The father and daughter were curled up motionless. Wang Yu’s brows suddenly furrowed. Because of the earlier situation, the little girl had been tightly held in her father’s arms.

Those people had tried to snatch the child away.

After all, once labeled as human traffickers, everyone believed the little girl was a victim who had been abducted. At this moment, the father’s arms were twisted, his entire body covered in bruises.

His eyes were wide open, as if filled with endless resentment.

He was dead, yet his body was still warm.

The little girl was held so tightly by those large hands that her neck, arms, and legs all showed traces of soft-tissue contusions. She too had lost all signs of life.

She had literally been pulled until her breath was cut off.

Wang Yu’s expression remained emotionless, his eyes narrowed. Yet inside his chest, it was not as calm as it appeared on the surface. He remembered the half year when he had become a spirit slave.

That arm had also been as fragile as a mortal’s life.

The deaths of the father and daughter completely erased the friendly, commoner-like aura Wang Yu had cultivated while mingling in the mortal world. In its place rose only malice and killing intent.

He had acted as fast as he could.

“Such is fate… this is what it means for ants to have cheap lives!”

One event after another made Wang Yu’s impression of the Azure Cloud Sect extremely poor, and his view of Taihu also leaned heavily negative. Thinking back now, being sold to the Crimson Kite back then might actually have been a blessing.

With his personality, even if he had normally joined a righteous sect.

He would most likely have ended up on the path of breaking ties and betraying the sect.

Sigh…

With a deep sigh in his heart, Wang Yu buried the father and daughter’s remains in a scenic spot outside the city.

From this day onward, the wine shop in the outer city closed its doors.

The kind-hearted Ninth Brother no longer existed.

Wang Yu no longer spent time experiencing the mortal world. He poured all his time into cultivation. His main body refined the remaining Longevity Blood Nascent Pills while the Idle Slots comprehended various divine abilities and secret arts.

He had only placed the Return-to-the-Void Concealing Heaven Incantation at entry level. Wang Yu decided to use the Celestial Enlightenment Dao Platform to comprehend it himself. The same went for the Lock of Heaven secret art. This technique was difficult to start.

It had blocked most cultivators, but once one reached entry level and deepened their understanding, continued cultivation was not hard. He extended the spatial chains to ten thousand meters before temporarily pausing its practice.

While it continued to increase his demonic essence, he began to hammer away at Immortal Spiri Body and Ice Prison Demonic Seal!

And so… twenty full years of bitter closed-door cultivation passed.

Ancestor Phase, Year 43, Month 7.

Time flowed on, years passing like a shuttle.

In the secret cave dwelling three thousand zhang underground, Wang Yu, who had been sitting motionless for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes. Inside his body came the sound of surging waves crashing against the shore.

Twenty years had passed. Just refining the remaining five Blood Nascent Pills had caused Wang Yu’s demonic essence to skyrocket by 21,000 drops. His cultivation smoothly broke through to the fifth layer of Nascent Soul.

The Idle Slots added another 3,600 drops. Together with the original 16,080 drops, his total demonic essence now reached 40,680 drops. If not for the spiritual vein environment.

Wang Yu rarely drew on supreme-grade spirit stones for cultivation, so the total increase could have been another thousand drops or so.

He was already very close to the sixth layer of Nascent Soul. Just the Idle Slots alone could let him break through to the sixth layer in another forty-odd years. His efficiency far surpassed that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

Correspondingly, since breaking through to Nascent Soul, Wang Yu had exhausted every single Nascent Soul material he had accumulated. All of them had been converted into his cultivation.

Now he could normally absorb supreme-grade spirit stones and cultivate slowly. His cultivation resources had almost all been used up. Unless he opened the furnace to refine pills again.

The fourth-rank spiritual materials in his hands were incomplete sets. He would need to participate in some Nascent Soul-level treasure-exchange meetings to trade for the spiritual items he lacked.

In terms of other divine abilities, the Ice Prison Demonic Seal had successfully reached entry level.

It became Wang Yu’s only fifth-rank divine ability trump card. If he could truly unleash it smoothly, he would have no problem clashing head-on with late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivators.

The Immortal Spirit Body was one of the realm characteristics of fifth-rank Body Refinement.

Cultivating it in advance meant he had already locked onto the path of breakthrough. Overlapping gains could further enhance the power of the realm characteristic. However, the difficulty of cultivating this physical body divine ability was far greater than he had imagined.

Over the full twenty years, Wang Yu’s progress had been extremely slow.

It gave him the same feeling he had when cultivating the Prajna Heart Sutra back then. The slowness was downright infuriating.

Of course.

This was also related to Wang Yu’s deficient physical essence. In a sense, essence represented life force. He had been entangled with the Heaven-Refining Demonic Flame for far too long.

Although he had gained corresponding tempering benefits from it.

The missing life force had never been replenished. That was why his Body Refinement cultivation advanced slowly. Over the past twenty years, two main methods had continuously brought growth.

The first was the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art placed in the Idle Slots.

The second was the Extreme Yin Dragon body state, which allowed him to absorb Heavenly Yin Divine Water to constantly strengthen his physical body. This temporarily eased his demand for life force.

After twenty years, his cultivation had advanced slightly higher than his main realm, reaching the peak of mid fourth-rank Body Refinement.

As long as he stepped into the entry level of the “Immortal Spirit Body.” He could seize the opportunity of the Indestructible Spiritual Bone fusing into one and smoothly break through to late fourth-rank Body Refinement. Progress in this area had been even more remarkable.

It would also bring even greater gains.

“So the urgent task right now is to replenish life force,” Wang Yu muttered.

A deficiency in life force was not a major issue. As long as it did not damage the foundation, it would not affect his lifespan. It would only cause a significant drop in his physical body’s recovery speed.

There were many ways to replenish it. The simplest was spirit pills rich in life force, but the demonic path had a more direct method.

That was to extract the life force of others!

This was a specialty of the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect, but Wang Yu’s Demonic Embryo Mysterious Origin Curse could achieve the same thing. After obtaining the Innate Demonic Embryo Physique, this technique had derived quite a few new uses.

The demonic seed method had long ignored bloodline requirements.

He could plant a seed in anyone. It was both a heavenly demon secret art that controlled another person’s life and death and a devouring secret art that could swallow and absorb everything from the target in a single thought.

Back in the day, when he devoured the Bai Clan’s Great Elder in Jade Spirit City, he had discovered that the lifespan consumed during his spirit slave period had been fully replenished in that one devouring.

This proved that the demonic seed secret art could also fill the gap in his life force. The only restriction was breaking through the target’s mind.

And his minor-accomplishment stage of Asura Dao intent.

Paired with the divine ability Blood Slaughter Heart Sword, it was enough to instantly crush the minds of mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and below. Perfectly, there were some scum in the recent Water Cloud Immortal Capital that he wanted to slaughter.

“I’ll use your worthless lives to pave the path for this lord’s Immortal Spirit Body!”

With that thought, Wang Yu suddenly burst out of the cave abode.

For him, the seclusion phase had already ended. This hidden cave abode was now useless. Everything that needed to be taken had been taken, and the little fox was sleeping and transforming inside the spirit pet bag.

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Water Cloud Immortal Capital, City Lord’s Mansion.

After the cold current disaster twenty years ago, this place had been turned into a private territory of the Azure Cloud Sect’s Crimson Cloud lineage. The flawed scapegoat strategy they used back then had actually failed to fool the sect.

But the higher-ups had tacitly accepted the outcome, giving face to the Crimson Cloud lineage and choosing to suppress the Ice River Valley war commander who had intended to cause trouble.

The Azure Cloud Sect had seven colored cloud lineages, ranked red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. The first four lineages all had great perfection Nascent Soul lineage lords.

The Crimson Cloud lineage had once been the sect leader’s lineage in the early years.

It later declined, and the position of sect leader was renamed “Miscellaneous Affairs Sect Leader,” now held by the Cyan Cloud lineage. It was a pure thankless job that required balancing the interests of all lineages. There was a lot of work and it was easy to offend people.

From then on, the righteous path’s sect leaders were no longer the strongest in combat power, but those skilled in management and balance.

However, the Crimson Cloud lineage rose again later. Within a thousand years, six Nascent Souls were born one after another, one of whom also reached great perfection.

They attempted to restore the sect’s ancient system and abolish the Miscellaneous Affairs Sect Leader position. The dispute arose from this.

So even though the Crimson Kite side fought internally every day with countless casualties.

The situation on the Taihu side was not much better. There was simply no completely united overlord faction. After all, they had long passed the hard struggle phase of “conquering the world.”

The goal of these latecomers was now to fight over the power to “enjoy.”

Although the situation the Azure Cloud Sect presented during the cold current disaster was laughable, there were reasons ordinary people could not know. The struggles and compromises behind it were somewhat false and unrealistic.

Only the naked number of mortal casualties was the most real.

At that moment inside the City Lord’s Mansion.

City Lord Yuan Tianyu was drinking with an old daoist-dressed cultivator. The former said, “Martial Uncle Red Sea, the situation at Black Mountain Pass is not optimistic.

“Zehu Prefecture has completely fallen. The Sword Sect’s Lingxi Prefecture has been turned almost into a white land. To weaken the cultivators’ endurance, even the spiritual veins were relocated by the demonic path.

“Only the Thunderfire Temple’s Tianling Prefecture is still holding on, but they are also facing a pincer attack from the Joyous Union Demon Sect. According to the current deduction, the first clash of this righteous-demonic war will end in a great defeat within three years at most!”

Old Daoist Red Sea shook his head.

“Martial nephew, war is different from small-scale rogue cultivators skirmishes. Our vision does not need to be so far-reaching. Let’s take care of our own one-acre-three-fen plot first.”

Red Sea pointed at the Azure Cloud Sect’s map and said.

“From north to south, the four prefectures under the sect’s rule are Ice Plains Prefecture, Water Cloud Prefecture, Feng Prefecture, and Zehu Prefecture.

“Ice Plains Prefecture borders Ice River Pass and has long been occupied by cultivators from the Blazing Sun Sect and a large number of our own sect’s experts. As long as they have not been defeated, we have no worries behind us.

“Now that Zehu Prefecture has fallen, what we need to consider is whether the demonic heads of the Blood Reversal Sect will choose to attack Water Cloud Prefecture or Feng Prefecture. The defensive forces at the prefecture borders need to be strengthened.

“These key roads need card-changing setups, and these roads need hidden sentries placed.”

Old Daoist Red Sea spoke eloquently, explaining the situation and the subsequent arrangements clearly. This left City Lord Yuan quite convinced. He praised:

“Martial Uncle is truly martial Uncle. With these words, this martial nephew feels completely at ease.”

Unexpectedly, Red Sea shook his head.

“One matter at a time. Do you still remember the mysterious great perfection Nascent Soul who suddenly appeared in Water Cloud Immortal Capital more than twenty years ago?”

“I remember. He seemed to have some old connection with the Western Mountain Dou Family?”

“Correct.”

“That person once ran a wine shop in the outer city and often did good deeds. He might be a senior of the righteous path, but we cannot be so careless.”

City Lord Yuan raised an eyebrow.

When it came to the word “careless,” he actually had something to say. Back then, the two of them had tacitly agreed not to test the nature of his spiritual mana precisely because they were afraid of encountering a demonic giant.

Now that the person was gone, he was speaking so grandly.

However.

City Lord Yuan was no fool either. Everything had been arranged by Old Daoist Red Sea. If anything went wrong, he would only bear secondary responsibility. The one who loved “pointing fingers” — Red Sea, would bear the main responsibility.

They were all old foxes!

“As for the Western Mountain Dou Family, this is a critical period. We should not offend them rashly. First invite one person over for questioning to see if they can contact that great perfection cultivator.”

“Everything will be done according to Martial Uncle’s instructions. The ancients often said that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure. Truly, I have not been deceived! Martial Uncle’s talent and learning already span ancient and modern times!”

Old Daoist Red Sea nodded with reserved pride.

Looking at his rosy complexion, after a few flattering words from City Lord Yuan’s little mouth, he was almost coaxed into an embryo!

The older one got, the more one valued face. Old Daoist Red Sea’s potential was limited. In the remaining few hundred years, it would be very difficult for his cultivation to improve greatly.

Therefore, he very much enjoyed showing off in front of juniors.

Or pointing fingers. One reason he had become the inspector of Water Cloud Immortal Capital was that the Red Cloud lineage cultivators stationed in the sect could no longer stand his mouth.

The City Lord’s orders were quickly carried out.

The person who came to accept the questioning was none other than Young Miss Dou Zhao, who had refused to return to Western Mountain for bitter cultivation. The City Lord’s Mansion knew she had the most contact with Wang Yu.

They specifically named her. The Dou Family had no other choice.

They could only have her father Dou Ying and several Core Formation uncles wait outside the City Lord’s Mansion. They clearly remembered that the City Lord’s son had once coveted Dou Zhao’s beauty.

They absolutely did not dare let another conflict break out.

What a coincidence.

At that very moment, a certain fiend with impatience written all over his face and violent killing intent building within him, was rushing straight toward the City Lord’s Mansion of Water Cloud Immortal Capital.