Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 478

He had taken two heavy, crushing blows from great cultivators head-on.

Even with Wang Yu’s powerful physique and the enhanced defense from the Demonic Dragon Armor, he was not completely unscathed. After forcefully killing the mid-stage Nascent Soul Blue Light amid surging qi and blood, he inevitably needed time to regulate his breathing.

In that brief instant, the two great cultivators from the Orange Cloud lineage seized the opportunity and summoned their life-bound magic treasures.

The young, handsome cultivator with a face like jade used an extremely rare treasure called the [Yin-Yang Two Qi Scissors]. It had been refined from the most yin and yang cloud qi.

Its fourth-rank high-grade power made its attacks unparalleled.

The Yin-Yang Two Qi transformed into one black and one white cloud dragon that viciously coiled toward Wang Yu. It was clear they were going all out to kill him.

Wang Yu could not dodge. For the first time, he used the Glazed Pagoda for defense. The pagoda spun, and Ice Soul Divine Light bloomed outward. The extreme cold caused the two Yin-Yang cloud dragons to continuously shed chunks of condensed ice.

Although it could not completely wear them down, it greatly weakened their power. By the time the Yin-Yang cloud dragons slammed into the Glazed Pagoda, the first lethal strike had been blocked.

However, the other man was no fool.

Anyone who could cultivate to late-stage Nascent Soul had experienced countless battles. Their combat ability would not be low.

The moment Wang Yu caught his breath, a sharp pain suddenly stabbed into his back.

The other cultivator, who looked old and withered, held a dagger-shaped magic treasure. It turned into a streak of flowing light and stabbed straight into Wang Yu’s lower back, sinking all the way to the wrist.

The defense of the Evil Demonic Dragon Armor seemed nonexistent.

While Wang Yu endured the pain, the muscles around the wound clenched violently, trapping the man’s wrist. The Force Domain instantly locked it in place, preventing it from pulling out or pushing deeper.

This old man was titled Black Wind Profound Lord. His life-bound magic treasure, the [Black Wind Spike], focused on attacking a single point with extreme speed. Its assassination ability was even stronger than the Shadowless Dark Lord from Golden Abundance Tower, who specialized in killing.

But assassins like this feared nothing more than being restrained.

Wang Yu had endured two waves of attacks. The boiling qi and blood and demonic essence inside him had been completely suppressed. He twisted his head 180 degrees and revealed a ferocious smile.

His empty left hand shot up in an elbow strike. Peerless divine strength erupted. Black Wind Profound Lord’s temple took a heavy blow while his right hand was still trapped inside Wang Yu’s body.

In the instant the two forces tore at each other, the old man decisively severed his own right arm below the elbow.

The impact from Wang Yu’s elbow strike sent him flying. He spat out a mouthful of blood and several teeth before crashing into the distant ground like a meteor, his mind dazed and unclear.

In just a few moves, the danger had been extreme. One wrong step meant eternal doom. At that moment, the two mid-stage Nascent Souls from the second echelon were about to reach the battlefield.

The jade-faced cultivator once again activated the Yin-Yang Two Qi Scissors, layering it with his life-bound divine ability [Yin-Yang Blood Transformation Divine Light]. The two cloud dragons instantly filled with a strange, blood-colored power.

Linking with Black Wind Profound Lord’s previous attack, they surged toward Wang Yu again.

Wave after wave of offense left Wang Yu no chance to fight back. If he chose to defend, the two incoming mid-stage Nascent Souls would definitely join the fray.

At that point, Wang Yu would have no choice but to flee.

Otherwise, the situation would turn extremely dangerous.

In this critical moment, Wang Yu activated the Corpse Demon Secret Technique to fully unleash the Copper Skin Iron Bone trait. At the same time, he switched to the Extreme Yin Dragon body state to ensure his safety for that instant.

Frost Moon Across the Sky!

His life-bound divine ability, the Twelve Phases of Guanghan, activated at full power. At the perfected realm, the Twelve Phases manifested their strange scenes.

Once again, he held the Sacred Bow in his hand.

But the arrow he shot was not a jade rabbit. Using the Zhoutian Stars Arrow Condensation Art, he gathered every ounce of power from the Guanghan Twelve Phases into a single arrow.

The dome of the sky also dropped a solid pillar of moonlight, adding another thirty percent of power to this killing move. Wang Yu split his mind into separate thoughts while his body acted on instinct, layering the Force Domain onto the arrow as well.

It emptied the air along the arrow’s path, creating a near-vacuum channel for the arrow.

He drew the bow to full moon.

Twang!

The target was none other than Black Wind Profound Lord, who had been sent flying. Although Wang Yu’s complex operations seemed lengthy, everything had happened simultaneously.

He had been given only an instant to react.

When the Guanghan Arrow was released, Black Wind Profound Lord was still in mid-air, in a dazed state. Having taken a heavy blow to the head from a same-rank Body Refiner, even the strongest Niwan Palace would be momentarily stunned.

Therefore.

The instant the Yin-Yang Two Qi Scissors carrying the Blood Transformation Divine Light struck Wang Yu, Black Wind Profound Lord was also pierced by the Guanghan Arrow. Under the burst of blinding white light.

A giant white egg seemed to sprout from the ground.

The sound of chains clinking echoed in the void.

Void Secret Technique · Lock of Heaven. From within the exploding moonlight, it bound the unconscious Black Wind Nascent Soul and swiftly suppressed it inside the Glazed Pagoda.

At this point… Wang Yu had already obtained one late-stage, one mid-stage, and three early-stage Nascent Soul materials, for a total of five.

The bottom level of the Glazed Pagoda was almost completely filled.

Having been struck head-on by the full-power attack of a Great Cultivator, Wang Yu did not emerge unscathed.

The Evil Demonic Dragon Armor on his body had become tattered and was covered in rust-like corrosion marks.

More than half of his flesh had melted away. However, the spiritual light emitted by his Indestructible Spiritual Bones remained intact and had not been breached.

As long as his Immortal Spiritual Body stayed undamaged, this level of injury was still within acceptable limits. Once he activated the Yin Blood Pill secret technique, his flesh rapidly regenerated at a visible speed.

The Great Cultivator’s expression darkened. The killing intent in his eyes surged to its peak, yet he still could do nothing to Wang Yu.

This man’s body was simply too tough.

And far too difficult to kill.

His fighting style amounted to trading injuries for the opponent’s life. He was completely insane.

But the Great Cultivator was not.

After being suppressed by Black Wind Profound Lord, no matter how unwilling he felt, a strong urge to retreat had already arisen in his heart.

This rising prodigy of the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain was far too powerful.

Being shaken in a single battle was nothing to be ashamed of.

After briefly weighing the gains and losses, he chose to flee.

This decision was exactly what Wang Yu had hoped for.

What he feared most was that the opponent would press the advantage and continue attacking. His own condition was far from ideal.

Yet the enemy had already lost the will to fight.

Thinking about it carefully, it was understandable.

Wang Yu’s performance in this battle had been far too insane.

The earlier Nascent Soul cultivators had been suppressed by the difference in cultivation and quickly killed. That alone was shocking enough.

But the instant kill of Black Wind Profound Lord with a single strike had directly shaken his Dao heart.

Anyone could die.

Even Great Cultivators were no exception.

After a brief pause, Wang Yu transformed into an aurora and merged with the Glazed Iceheart Pagoda. The third divine ability engraved within his life-bound treasure was precisely the Aurora Escape Technique.

In the midst of intense combat, this brief fusion allowed Wang Yu to grasp a trace of the profundity of Aurora Dao Intent.

A nascent form of Aurora Dao Intent appeared on his body.

In an instant, his escape speed skyrocketed.

Just as the fleeing Great Cultivator crossed paths with two mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators rushing in from the second echelon to reinforce him, Wang Yu hurled his demonic aura-wreathed three-pointed, double-edged spear with the stance of shooting a halberd from the command gate.

The black-red streak of light arrived in an instant.

The Great Cultivator was forced to deploy a fourth-rank high-grade defensive magic treasure—a constantly shifting mass of five-colored clouds.

This was one of the signature treasures of Azure Cloud Sect.

Its ultimate form, the Seven-Colored Cloud Qi, was said to rank among the top three defensive treasures among spirit treasures.

Yet under the brute force throw enhanced by dual Dao Intent, it was still violently driven into the ground, pinning him in place.

As for the two mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators rushing to reinforce, they had never expected the situation to change so quickly.

From the moment the spatial annihilation wind erupted, the three war spirit ships had been scattered.

After discovering that one ship lacked a Great Cultivator overseeing it, they immediately left its protection to provide support.

However, the dangerous environment of the spatial annihilation wind greatly reduced their escape speed.

They did not dare transform into full escape light.

And yet, only a dozen breaths had passed.

The situation had already collapsed completely.

They could not understand what had happened, nor react in time.

After pinning down the Great Cultivator, Wang Yu’s demonic essence surged wildly through his meridians and erupted outward.

Behind him, a terrifying phenomenon of mountains of corpses and seas of blood manifested.

An Eight-Armed Asura crawled out from the blood sea.

Ten-Direction Frozen Demonic Fist!

This was Wang Yu’s strongest technique beneath the Guanghan Twelve Phases, and it perfectly unleashed the unparalleled physical strength of a Body Refiner.

Both mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were enveloped within its range.

A scene of utter despair unfolded for the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators.

Under the suppression of Asura Dao Intent, their minds and bodies froze, unable to move.

Like ants, they were effortlessly obliterated.

The Thunder Fiend Coffin devoured their Nascent Soul-level flesh essence greedily.

After this battle, having absorbed such high-quality nourishment, once Wang Yu set up a corpse-nurturing formation and let it mature for some time, advancing to mid fourth-rank would be well within reach.

The Lock of Heaven bound two despairing Nascent Souls and suppressed them into the Glazed Iceheart Pagoda.

Without hesitation, Wang Yu rushed into the massive crater created by his spear.

After a few breaths of recovery, his organs, muscle fibers, and parts of his skin had already regenerated.

The power of Blood Transformation Divine Light had also been expelled by the Evil Demon Dragon Armor.

His body gradually returned to completeness.

Only his face remained horrifying.

Half of his gums were exposed, carrying a frenzied killing intent and madness that filled all who saw him with fear.

The third phase of battle had begun.

And this was the true final cleanup.

Snowjade was no longer spectating.

Like a war goddess, she targeted the two slowest early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators of the third echelon.

These two unfortunate individuals had already lost half their courage.

They could not even display sixty percent of their strength.

Under mental shock and the ever-changing transformations of Snowjade’s life-bound demonic treasure, they were completely overwhelmed.

Even while taking her divine abilities head-on, they fled blindly from the battlefield.

Farther away, the two remaining war spirit ships each still had an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator controlling them.

At this moment, they no longer cared about the Great Cultivator.

They turned the ships around and activated the escape formations at full power.

This decision was merely to give the six thousand elite disciples aboard a chance to survive.

As for themselves, they abandoned the ships and fled using their own escape techniques.

They were utterly terrified.

Wang Yu saw this from afar and could only sigh in regret.

The desperate strength of the Great Cultivator had prevented him from finishing the battle within a few breaths.

These four early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were destined to escape.

His own condition was worse.

His demonic essence was heavily depleted, and his blood vitality was weakened.

He could only choose to keep this Great Cultivator.

The final battle lasted the longest.

A full quarter of an hour passed before Wang Yu finally subdued him, preserving a relatively intact corpse and storing it in the Thunder Fiend Coffin.

Snowjade ran over excitedly.

Although she had not killed anyone, she had gained confidence and pride.

“Master, should we chase them? These guys are complete trash. I could suppress two of them alone. I’m amazing.”

Wang Yu’s face darkened.

“Chase what? A quarter of an hour is more than enough for Nascent Soul cultivators to escape. Those war spirit ships can reach a nearby city and rely on formations.”

“If more Azure Cloud Sect experts arrive, will you deal with them?”

Snowjade immediately fell silent, pouting pitifully.

“I didn’t mean it like that… I’ll listen to Master.”

Wang Yu shook his head helplessly.

“Let’s go. Now it’s our turn to run. We’re heading straight into the Northern Severed Boundary Mountains. Next, I will borrow land from the northern demon clans to cultivate.”

“Understood.”

Snowjade transformed back into her original form, allowing Wang Yu to rest and recover.

After swallowing a large number of recovery pills, he refined them while moving away from Feng Prefecture, heading toward the mountain ranges.

At the same time, he began deducing how the situation would develop.

To put it bluntly, after this battle, the backbone of Azure Cloud Sect had been shattered.

Their reputation was completely ruined.

Once news spread, the world would be shocked by Wang Yu’s strength and ridicule Azure Cloud Sect’s weakness.

Three fourth-rank war spirit ships.

Twelve Nascent Soul cultivators.

Including two Great Cultivators.

And yet eight were killed by a single man.

Only four early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators fled in terror.

Who would believe such a result?

Wang Yu had benefited from an information gap.

His opponents did not understand his methods or his combat style.

After this battle, he would undoubtedly be placed on Taihu’s kill list.

Experts skilled in analysis would begin compiling intelligence on him.

This righteous-demonic war had lasted over a 60 years, nearly a century.

Yet such a terrifying record had been achieved by Wang Yu alone.

One man.

Would become a new legend of this era.

According to his plan, he would no longer appear in the war.

He would hide within demon territory and cultivate in seclusion, digesting the results of this life-and-death battle.

When he emerged again, it would likely be time to enter the Endless Ice Plains.

As for Azure Cloud Sect, they would pursue him with madness.

Without this powerful reinforcement force, the situations in Water Cloud Prefecture and Feng Prefecture would become extremely dire.

Whether the Sword Sect would intervene remained uncertain.

If they did not, Azure Cloud Sect would have to choose between Ice River Pass and the two states.

Trying to defend both would likely result in losing everything.

Wang Yu believed Ice River Pass was more important.

It was a major breach point for demonic invasion and also the location of Azure Cloud Sect’s mountain gate.

It could not be lost.

As for Sword Sect support, the chances were fifty-fifty.

It depended on their relationship and whether Taihu’s goal of population reduction had been achieved.

After sorting through everything, Wang Yu stopped thinking about it.

He focused on circulating his cultivation technique and recovering his condition.

As time passed, the news of Wang Yu single-handedly annihilating a Azure Cloud Sect force spread rapidly.

It shocked countless cultivators across both Taihu and the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain.

The title Supreme Law Demonic Lord resounded throughout the Ice Prison Realm.

It even overshadowed many long-established Great Cultivators.

His name spread across the world.

At the same time, within the Azure Cloud Sect mountain gate, the atmosphere in the council hall was oppressively grim.

No one dared to speak.