Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 482

For Wang Yu, the most urgent task was to digest the resources in his hands and raise his strength, especially with only a hundred years left until the Heavenly Palace secret realm opened.

At the very least, he needed to push his foundational cultivation to late-stage Nascent Soul.

Only by standing on the same stage as all the other competitors would he have the upper hand.

He had no intention of digging deeper into the rumors surrounding the Heavenly Palace secret realm since the demon race had not mentioned them. When the time came, those who were meant to appear would naturally surface.

He also had to guard against the Venerables from the Sword Sect and the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect.

After all, in terms of scale, the Heavenly Palace secret realm was one of the top opportunities in the entire Ice Prison Realm. Wang Yu felt that his own chance at Spirit Transformation lay right here.

If nothing came of it, he could still search for the locations of the Four Capital Cities after coming out, or collect the four Fengshui Ancestral Tokens refined by the ancestor of earth masters. That was another viable method.

Plans could not keep up with changes. Many things were constantly shifting, so Wang Yu’s arrangements were generally not set too far in advance—only plans spanning the next hundred years.

By then, the struggle for the Heavenly Palace would most likely involve four camps: the Ice Clan, the Southern Demon Race, the Northern Demon Race, and scattered human cultivators. He could choose to mix in with the Northern Demon Race or the scattered cultivators depending on the situation.

At the same time, Yan Ling had once said that her existence was the key to opening the Holy Lord Heavenly Palace. She was not referring to the Holy Token, but rather that she herself possessed some special condition.

What exactly that condition was remained unknown.

In any case, a hundred years was not too long. After entrusting everything to Dou Zhao and giving her a complete panoramic map of both the Crimson Kite and Taihu, Wang Yu prepared to let his little disciple go free-range.

He would wait for the day when he could finally reap the rewards.

Regarding technique inheritance, Wang Yu handed over all the cultivation methods and divine ability secret arts that matched her Heavenly Fire Spiritual Root.

Because he had killed too many Nascent Souls, several unlucky ones had carried complete sets of inheritance techniques. The highest-ranked one was called the [Flame Dragon Nine Revolutions Art]!

He could no longer remember exactly who had dropped it. In any case, they had all been gathering dust inside his Seaheart Ring. Selling them would have been profitable, but it risked exposing himself.

Therefore, he had basically never sold any of the inheritance techniques he had obtained. But now that he no longer feared ninety-nine percent of the cultivators in the Ice Prison Realm, he could gradually sell them off and collect a wave of supreme-grade spirit stones.

These could replace spiritual veins to supplement his daily cultivation consumption.

After arranging everything for Dou Zhao and having the Heavenly Roc clansmen escort her out of the demon lands, Snowjade stayed by Wang Yu’s side without leaving even half a step. Whenever there was time, the two of them would dual-cultivate the Human Desire Art, continuously raising the derivation progress.

This little fox girl grew more and more enchantingly beautiful with each passing day.

She was like a water-made cake—so moist and smooth, soul-stirring and bone-melting. If Wang Yu were two hundred years younger, he might have died on Snowjade’s belly. Perhaps this was the true charm of a fox spirit.

Once the demon race’s pill-refining trade arrangements were settled.

The emissary sent by the Azure Cloud Sect, the Soul Spirit Origin Lord, also returned empty-handed. After pestering the Old Monkey for two full years, he had not even managed to meet the Five-Colors Holy Lord.

Only then did he realize that the Northern Demon Race was dead set on protecting Wang Yu.

With no other options, he could only return to the sect first and report the situation. These past two years had been extremely difficult for the Azure Cloud Sect. They had become the target of public criticism, and the situation was far from optimistic.

After losing Zehu Prefecture, it had become a bridgehead for the demonic path’s invasion of Feng Prefecture and Water Cloud Prefecture. Countless mortals and cultivators had either died miserably or fled because of the war.

A thousand li of uninhabited land, white bones scattered everywhere.

It had become a living hell on earth. The demonic cultivators had stirred the people into utter misery.

The vanguard army formed by the Blood Reversal Sect and Yellow Springs Monastery grew stronger with every battle. Coupled with the carefully selected Nascent Soul experts from the Heaven-Refining Demon Sect, they were attacking on multiple fronts at once.

If not for the timely reinforcements from the Sword Sect’s forces, Water Cloud Prefecture would already have fallen. Even so, the defensive line was collapsing step by step.

Wang Yu’s ambush two years ago had caused the Azure Cloud Sect far too heavy losses.

Every department was now severely short on manpower.

Even the defensive battle at Ice River Pass had fallen into a disadvantage. Every so often they had to pull people back to reinforce the southern front, causing Ice River Pass to be almost entirely dominated by the Fire Crow Army of the Blazing Sun Sect.

Under these circumstances, Wang Yu, who had maintained good relations with the Northern Demon Race.

Made a second trip north to Kuangmei Mountain to meet the Ice Soul Fairy.

He once again took the extremely stable “express route” through the Northern Severed Boundary Mountain Range. Worth noting was that in these two years, aside from refining pills, Wang Yu had completely mastered the embryonic Aurora Dao Intent he had comprehended during the ambush battle.

His Nascent Soul strength had suddenly surged by an entire level.

In addition to the red-gray airflow of Asura Dao Intent circling his Nascent Soul, a new multicolored airflow now alternated around it.

This pushed Wang Yu’s Nascent Soul strength beyond the standard of ordinary late-stage great cultivators. One of the major bottlenecks for breaking through had been completely resolved, with surplus to spare.

Most importantly!

The Rainbow Feather Strange Stone combined with Aurora Dao Intent had brought the Aurora Escape Technique into its final stage. It had successfully advanced to a fifth-rank escape technique—and at the perfected level.

It now surpassed the Ice Prison Demonic Seal. Although it had not brought any offensive breakthroughs, when it came to pure speed, as long as his demonic essence could sustain the consumption, neither the Heavenly Roc King nor the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable—could match him.

This meant his life had gained a new layer of insurance. He was naturally extremely satisfied. At the same time, he moved the refinement of demonic-essence-recovery spirit pills to the top of his priority list.

Endurance had become the next problem he needed to solve.

He also planned to cultivate a third Dao intent: Yellow Springs!

With the Yellow Springs Earth Resentment Puppet acting as his “teacher.”

He possessed an innate advantage in practicing Yellow Springs divine abilities. Moreover, he had obtained the advancement and cultivation methods for many Yellow Springs techniques directly from the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord. It would be far too much of a waste not to put in the effort.

Moreover, he was known as the Supreme Law Demons Lord and possessed the Idle Slots—an auxiliary “divine artifact” for cultivation. If he did not comprehend several more Dao intents, he would feel unworthy of his own title.

And so.

The half-month journey was shortened by him to a single day. He traveled directly from the Northern Demon Race’s core territory to Kuangmei Mountain, which lay even farther north and very close to the Endless Ice Plains!

Even then, he had only used sixty percent of the Aurora Escape Technique’s full speed. After all, he needed to conserve demonic essence for recovery and could not maintain maximum velocity the entire way.

Inside the familiar luxurious camp tent, Wang Yu tidied his clothes within a spatial interlayer before withdrawing from the protection of the Return to Void Concealing Heaven Incantation. He calmly appeared before the Ice Soul Fairy.

This time she was fully dressed, sitting cross-legged on the bed in meditation. Her face was slightly pale, as if she had been injured.

Wang Yu was quite surprised.

“You are injured? Did the Blazing Sun Sect’s Golden Flame do this?”

The Ice Soul Fairy’s willow brows twitched slightly. She spoke coldly,

“Next time you appear like this, I will definitely let you taste the power of fourth-rank supreme-grade Ice Soul Divine Light.”

Demonic cultivators placed extreme importance on privacy—or rather, on their own secrets.

Wang Yu’s sudden appearances were highly impolite. The Ice Soul Fairy had not voiced her displeasure last time, but now he had pushed his luck.

Her words were perfectly normal. As for whether she meant them… Wang Yu naturally believed her.

He immediately admitted defeat and apologized, promising it would not happen again.

At the same time, he repeated his earlier question. This made the Ice Soul Fairy even more irritated.

“Isn’t this all your doing? In the Azure Cloud Sect battle, eight Nascent Souls were lost, including two great cultivators. You broke their spine.

“The Yellow Heaven Ancestor who remained at Ice River Pass cooperated with Golden Flame. Half a year ago, he used the Yellow Cloud Secret Art to injure me.”

With that, the Ice Soul Fairy pulled open the collar of her robe.

On her snow-white collarbone lay a hideous yellow centipede-like pattern, bulging like a fleshy tumor and rising and falling as if it were alive and breathing.

Wang Yu pondered for a moment and quickly recalled the relevant information.

“Yellow Cloud Heavenly Centipede Poison—a secret art formed from cultivated venom. Each use requires re-accumulating the poison. It can be neutralized with thousand-year resin from the Treasure Pagoda Pine.”

“I knows that, but Treasure Pagoda Pines only grow on Yellow Cloud Peak of the Azure Cloud Sect. Did any of the storage rings from the eight Nascent Souls you killed contain any?”

“None.”

Wang Yu spread his hands and explained,

“I came this time mainly to discuss two matters. The Ice Clan of the Endless Ice Plains has recently… the Heavenly Roc King wants Cold Blood Peak to investigate the matter of the Ice God’s Child.

“They may join the war, so it would be best to share this intelligence with the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect side and have them contribute as well.”

The Ice Soul Fairy’s brows furrowed even tighter.

“You are overthinking it. The Crimson Kite’s main force has already deviated from the offensive route set by the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect. Although they gave the excuse that the Azure Cloud Sect is weak, that side is not easy to deal with.

“Whether it is the Northern Suppression Tower or the Ice Clan matter, as long as it has not affected the overall war situation, the Heaven-Refining Demonic Sect’s cultivators will not intervene.”

“—It doesn’t matter!”

Wang Yu remained completely calm.

“Their joining is actually a good thing. Chaos is the ladder for those below to rise.

“The Blood Demon Hall Master, the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord, and all the forces ruled by the two major sects all hope a new Spirit Transformation cultivator will emerge to change the current structure.

“The more chaotic it is, the greater the opportunities. I am simply fulfilling the transaction with the Heavenly Roc King. If you are unwilling to go, this lord will go find the Heavenly Frost Demon Lord instead. Cold Blood Peak can just send any Core Formation cultivator.”

After all, no one had said a result was required.

The Five-Colors Holy Lord and the Heavenly Roc King only hoped Wang Yu would pass the message along so the Crimson Kite demonic path’s powerhouses would be mentally prepared.

They needed to guard against the possibility of the snipe and clam fighting while the fisherman reaped the benefits.

“Speak your second purpose.”

At this topic, Wang Yu’s interest immediately rose.

He pulled over a chair and sat down. A jade box of ancient style appeared in his hand as he introduced it confidently.

“This is the Flood Dragon Luan Treasure Pill, fifth-rank low-grade.

“Nascent Soul cultivators can also use it. After consumption, dual cultivation with a suitable partner will greatly increase both physical body and demonic essence. I wonder if the Ice Soul Fairy is interested?”

The Ice Soul Fairy suddenly stood up, her eyes widening.

“You want to dual cultivate with me?”

“Naturally.”

Wang Yu nodded without hesitation.

“The fairy is like the stars of the world. Wang Yu’s heart has long yearned for you!”

“Full of nonsense.”

Wang Yu was not surprised by her attitude. For female cultivators, dual cultivation meant far more than mere physical union, so it was natural she would overthink it.

He continued to explain,

“The fairy and this lord both cultivate the Frozen Demon Dao technique. You possess eighth-layer Nascent Soul extreme cold demonic essence, while this lord possesses late fourth-rank Body Refinement attainment. Positive and negative complement each other, yin and yang balance perfectly.

“You are naturally the best candidate to consume this Flood Dragon Luan Treasure Pill together. Not only will your injuries recover, but your cultivation will also advance dramatically.

“Breaking through to the ninth layer of Nascent Soul should not be a problem. You can become a great perfection cultivator even faster and seek your Spirit Transformation opportunity. This righteous-demonic war is a once-in-a-millennium chance.

“The fairy would not want to miss it… right?”

Wang Yu’s words left the Ice Soul Fairy completely silent.

She was the heaven-sent pride of the Zuoqiu Clan. Her cultivation path had been smooth from childhood, unmatched among her peers. Most had already sat and passed away under the erosion of time.

The few who had advanced to Nascent Soul were far inferior to her in strength.

And Wang Yu was even more astonishingly talented than she had been back then. Whether in strength or aptitude, he was more than worthy of her. Even more shocking was his potential.

After all, he had been cultivating for less than three hundred years.

However, the Ice Soul Fairy had cultivated the Frozen Demonic Dao since childhood. Her temperament was as cold as ice, and her emotions had long been influenced by that power. She had remained aloof for many years and had never attempted anything like this.

The atmosphere inside the tent remained silent for a long time. Just as Wang Yu began to feel a little disappointed.

The Ice Soul Fairy finally could not resist the temptation.

Pressing her thin red lips together, she said,

“We can try it, but nothing beyond dual cultivation is allowed. Afterward, you are not permitted to tell anyone, and you cannot cling to me.”

Wang Yu’s eyes lit up.

As expected of a demonic cultivator, straightforward and only concerned with benefits. As for clinging… heaven and earth as witness, he truly only wanted to maximize the effect of the Flood Dragon Luan Treasure Pill.

This was also his opportunity to break through to the sixth layer of Nascent Soul and advance his cultivation greatly. Its effect was no less than any Blood Nascent Pill, and his physique would receive enormous benefits as well.

“Just as I wished. However… are we doing it right here?”

“Of course not!”

The camp was full of people and mouths. It was clearly not a suitable place for private matters. Yet after agreeing, the Ice Soul Fairy showed no sign of going back on her word.

She summoned her life-bound magic treasure, the Guanghan Palace.

With a cold invitation, she said,

“Do you dare enter this lady’s life-bound magic treasure to explore the wonders of dual cultivation?”

“What is there to fear!”

The Guanghan Palace was one of the matching magic treasures for the Ice Soul Holy Demon Scripture. Wang Yu had simply never chosen to refine it. He had not expected the Ice Soul Fairy’s life-bound treasure to be this one.

And so, in just a few breaths.

The tent was empty. Only a small ice-crystal palace floated in the air, emitting misty treasure light. Through the palace windows, two intertwined figures could faintly be seen.

The Ice Soul Fairy had said she had been cold since childhood and had never had any experience or thoughts in this regard.

But Wang Yu was an expert in this field and had long mastered it thoroughly.

He used all kinds of techniques and secret skills, naturally guiding the Ice Soul Fairy into the mood. This woman truly lived up to her title of fairy—breathtakingly beautiful.

Beneath the swaying bed curtains, a snow-white wrist like a lotus root was gripped by Wang Yu’s iron pincers and pinned above her head.

The Ice Soul Fairy’s pretty face flushed pink as she scolded angrily, “I told you not to play with these strange things.”

Yet under the unparalleled divine strength of a late fourth-rank Body Refiner, at such close—even negative—distance, she had no power to break free. She could only half-push and half-yield.

She followed the dual cultivation secret arts Wang Yu had learned from who-knows-where. But it had to be said that the Flood Dragon Luan Treasure Pill’s effect was truly powerful.

The dual cultivation refinement process had only just begun for less than half an incense stick’s time.

Wang Yu already felt the side effects of the Blood Nascent Pills completely erased. His internal techniques circulated at high speed, surging toward the breakthrough barrier.

In an instant, his entire aura erupted violently.

Without any hindrance, he broke through to the sixth layer of Nascent Soul!

His physical body strength was also rising rapidly. At this rate, by the end of the dual cultivation, his Body Refinement realm would at least reach the strength of an eighth-layer Nascent Soul, and his demonic essence would surge once more.

It could only be said that it truly deserved to be a treasure pill meant for fifth-rank Spirit Transformation cultivators.

When used to raise fourth-rank power, the effect was simply ferocious!