Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 502

Ten Thousand Gu’s face twisted with shock and fury.

He reacted quickly, however. A massive swarm of crimson granule-like flying insects poured out from his sleeve — one of his signature techniques: the [Red Rust Insects]!

These insects carried a terrifying “rusting poison” capable of corroding even the demonic essence of Nascent Soul cultivators. They moved as fast as lightning and possessed a nearly impenetrable “law-resistant” property.

Wang Yu’s Dragon Emperor version of the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon slammed straight into the Red Rust Insect shield. The rust-red color spread like ink dripping into water, rapidly dyeing a large area.

Then it exploded violently. The shockwave of the blast surged outward. Ten Thousand Gu was sent flying backward, smashing heavily into the rear wall of the Gu Poison Hall and leaving behind a spiderweb of cracks.

Pain tore through his body. Before he could even catch his breath, a brilliant aurora flashed toward him. Within the blinding light, a blood-red blade edge struck again, Wang Yu had already closed in with the Blood and Flesh Demonic Sword in hand.

Great Perfection divine ability — Blood Slaughter Heart Sword!

Under the relentless barrage of attacks.

Ten Thousand Gu’s mind trembled. Pitch-black ghost mist surged from his five orifices. Though illusory, the mist clearly took the shape of countless ants.

It was the [Ghost Ants]!

These Gu insects were specialized in defending against divine sense and mental attacks. They were extremely effective and could even invade the opponent’s Niwan Palace to damage the soul.

Both offense and defense were top-tier.

Ranked thirty-third among the ancient exotic insects, they were exceptionally rare.

The Blood Slaughter Heart Sword’s most difficult-to-block mental attack had finally met its match. It was clear that Ten Thousand Gu still had some real skill.

His offensive was repeatedly stalled.

Wang Yu bent his right arm like a bow and swung a full-powered roundhouse punch. Fierce Silver Blood Divine Strength compressed the Force Domain into a sharp, high-speed rotating invisible drill.

With a sickening crunch, it pierced straight through both the Red Rust Insect shield and the Ghost Ant ghost mist, slamming into Ten Thousand Gu’s side waist. His eyes bulged violently as his kidney took the full brunt.

His entire body twisted unnaturally, but the injury was still far from fatal.

Ten Thousand Gu suddenly let out a savage laugh.

“You madman! Did you really think this lord has wasted the past few hundred years? Those trash couldn’t beat you, but that doesn’t mean I’m a soft persimmon you can squeeze at will!”

Wang Yu frowned. His figure turned into light and instantly shifted behind Ten Thousand Gu. Right where he had been standing, a poisonous scorpion tail suddenly thrust upward.

If he had not sensed it in advance, the stinger would have pierced straight into his rear. The insidious targeting revealed Ten Thousand Gu’s true fighting style.

He specialized in dirty tricks!

Before Wang Yu could follow up with a punch to the head, the Red Rust Insect swarm exploded outward like surging river waves, pushing him back.

The battle was trending toward a stalemate. The Nascent Soul-level fight at Gu Poison Peak had already drawn the attention of the Blood Reversal Sect’s experts. If nothing else, the commander of the Blood God Guard would definitely come to investigate.

If it reached that point, even if the Grand Commander wanted to help him, he could not openly show favoritism in front of everyone. Therefore… the time Wang Yu had to assassinate Ten Thousand Gu was extremely limited.

Since pure physical strength could not finish him instantly.

Then he would use his full power!

The Red Rust Insects could corrode mana? Then they would compete with Yellow Springs divine abilities and see whether the Gu Dao or the Yellow Springs Dao had the stronger corrosive force.

Wang Yu, who had been pushed back by the insect wave, clapped his hands together.

An identical scene instantly replicated in the void. Demonic essence carrying extreme cold power formed two turbid-yellow Great Hand Seals that slammed viciously toward the figure in the middle.

Ten Thousand Gu’s expression changed drastically.

“Yellow Springs Dao intent?! How could you have comprehended something like this… Impossible!”

To Nascent Soul cultivators, mastering even one Dao intent was already enough. While some heavenly prodigies could comprehend a second or third, it was extremely difficult to push any of them to Great Perfection.

Different Dao intents clashed fiercely when cultivated together.

Unless one temporarily forgot the other intent, comprehension would conflict and interfere. Moreover, Wang Yu’s Yellow Springs Dao intent had already reached minor completion.

He would never know that Wang Yu’s Dao intents were all comprehended by the Idle Slots. Wang Yu only received the feedback from “himself.” Comprehension conflicts had never occurred.

Facing the ferocious incoming Yellow Springs Great Hand Seals, Ten Thousand Gu spread his arms wide. An endless swarm of Red Rust Insects surged from his sleeves, forming crimson insect waves that clashed head-on with the Yellow Springs seals.

The two sides were evenly matched for the moment… but this was not Wang Yu’s killing move.

In the blink of an eye.

The Yellow Springs Bone-Burying Curse Sword descended from above. The white-bone blade carried bone-chilling cold as surging Yellow Springs Dao intent threatened to erode everything in the world.

Like a judgment from the heavens, it stabbed straight toward Ten Thousand Gu’s head.

His greatest mistake had been clashing head-on with Wang Yu, which had trapped him and prevented him from using his escape techniques to dodge attacks he did not need to block.

Meanwhile, a certain someone was proficient in the divine-sense usage techniques of the Ancient Heavenly Soul Sect and could casually wield three or even four divine abilities at once.

Ten Thousand Gu roared toward the sky.

The ground of the Gu Poison Hall suddenly split open. Countless blue poisonous scorpions rapidly fused into a giant scorpion that blocked the descending Bone-Burying Curse Sword with its pincers.

In the fierce clash, the Yellow Springs Great Hand Seals and the Red Rust Insect swarm competed in corrosive power and remained evenly matched for now.

The divine ability Yellow Springs Bone-Burying Curse Sword was locked in a stalemate with the Heavenly Poison Scorpion.

At that moment, Ten Thousand Gu’s mind stirred. His life-bound magic treasure — the [Gu Dao Sacred Bell] flew out from his Qi sea.

Ding-ling-ling!

A bizarre power blessed the Gu insects. The situation instantly reversed. A thick devouring intent spread outward.

This was the Dao intent Ten Thousand Gu cultivated — [Insect Devouring Dao Intent]!

Once the balance was broken, the battle became completely one-sided. The Gu insects gained the upper hand, completely devouring and reversing the Yellow Springs power, rapidly consuming Wang Yu’s demonic essence.

“Hahahahaha! Wang Yu, you can’t beat—”

Before he could finish.

Ten Thousand Gu suddenly felt the world go deathly still. Then a terrifying ice storm erupted from the ground. The entire Gu Poison Peak was instantly dyed with bone-piercing cold.

Black solid ice spread rapidly. High above it was the source of extreme cold, a mountain-sized Ice Prison Demon Seal materialized directly over Ten Thousand Gu.

In an instant.

A heavy feeling of being bound by chains wrapped around his body. Ten Thousand Gu discovered that under the Ice Prison Demon Seal, even moving a single finger had become extremely difficult.

Whether it was the Red Rust Insect swarm or the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Gu, both still needed several breaths to dissolve the previous two attacking divine abilities. Under the third demon seal’s assault…

They actually felt an urge to sit down and perish on the spot.

Danger! Danger! Danger!

His spiritual sense screamed a warning. Ten Thousand Gu jolted awake. His life-bound magic treasure, the Gu Dao Sacred Bell, shook frantically, driving the insect swarm into even greater frenzy.

Finally…

The two Yellow Springs Great Hand Seals and the Yellow Springs Bone-Burying Curse Sword both turned into spiritual light and vanished. Ten Thousand Gu activated an escape technique, intending to flee, only to find himself trapped in a quagmire.

Besides the Ice Prison Demon Seal’s own heaven-sealing suppression effect.

Wang Yu stood far away, watching him coldly. The crescent-moon imprint in his eyes blazed with brilliant light — it was the Fourth Eye Art: Void Moon Technique!

Spatial solidification stacked with the divine ability’s suppression left him almost completely immobile. In the next instant, the Ice Prison Demon Seal came crashing down. Ten Thousand Gu’s miserable scream was practically inaudible.

It could not be heard at all… The entire Gu Poison Peak shook violently, showing faint signs of the mountain-guarding grand formation being passively triggered.

After all, Gu Poison Peak was one of the main peaks of the Blood Reversal Sect’s mountain gate. It had been repaired and reinforced by countless formation masters over the years, making its structural hardness top-tier.

To shake the entire peak like this was no easy feat.

As for why Ten Thousand Gu did not activate the mountain-guarding grand formation against him, as a fellow Nascent Soul ancestor of the Blood Reversal Sect and holder of the Blood Demon Token, Wang Yu had no fear of it whatsoever.

He could even forcibly seize control of the formation and turn it against Ten Thousand Gu himself.

Therefore.

It was not that Ten Thousand Gu did not want to activate it, he simply did not dare. By deliberately not triggering the grand formation, he avoided any unforeseen complications.

But the situation had still deviated far from what he had imagined.

“How… can he… be this strong!”

Inside the shattered ice hell, a massive crater sat at the very center where the Gu Poison Hall had once stood. Ten Thousand Gu lay sprawled on the ground, barely breathing.

His eyelids were about to close. His entire body was covered in black-purple frostbite.

His waist, twisted at an unnatural angle, had completely cut off all sensation below his waist. He was temporarily paralyzed on the ground, feeling nothing from the waist down…

His life-bound magic treasure lay nearby, its light dim and fading.

All three swarms of Gu insects had vanished without a trace.

Wang Yu’s figure approached slowly and stopped a hundred zhang away from where Ten Thousand Gu lay. His divine sense detected that the man’s life force still lingered, though it was extremely weak.

To be safe, he directly unleashed the Illusory Moon Eye Art.

It dragged Ten Thousand Gu’s spiritual will into the Illusory Moon Realm. Then, with a casual wave of his hand, a second Yellow Springs Bone-Burying Curse Sword came slashing down like divine judgment from the heavens.

With a splat, Ten Thousand Gu’s physical body exploded into countless bloody fragments.

His body reacted instinctively. The Thunder Fiend Coffin automatically appeared and collected the physical essence of the Nascent Soul expert, leaving behind a single ink-black Nascent Soul floating in mid-air with closed eyes.

Wang Yu’s figure flashed like lightning. In an instant he appeared before Ten Thousand Gu’s Nascent Soul. The Glazed Pagoda spun rapidly as it pressed downward. The matter seemed settled.

Ten Thousand Gu’s Nascent Soul eyes suddenly snapped open.

Under the sinister ghost mist, it transformed directly into the form of a Ghost Ant and shot straight toward Wang Yu’s Niwan Palace between his brows.

“I knew you still had tricks!”

A pitch-black vortex unfolded behind Wang Yu. Countless black paper boats moved freely through the air as if swimming in a river.

It was the Soul-Gouging Evil Boat Curse!

Besides soul searching, it was also an excellent defense against divine-sense attacks. During those years of seclusion, Wang Yu had taken the time to derive it to the fourth rank.

After all, using a third-rank soul-searching secret art to forcibly search a Nascent Soul was far too difficult. He had arranged for the Idle Slots to spend time on these minor techniques, pushing as many as possible to the fourth rank.

The defensive ring formed by the black paper boats was torn apart by the Ghost Ant form of Ten Thousand Gu using its specialized soul-attacking mandibles. But the delay had been more than enough.

Gray divine light shot out from between Wang Yu’s brows.

The long-unused Soul-Extinguishing Death Light was not outdated, it was simply that Wang Yu now had more and more methods to control his opponents, so he used this divine-sense technique less often.

But in this exact situation, it was perfectly suited. It directly countered the Ghost Ant’s special power. Struck by the gray divine light…

The Ghost Ant that Ten Thousand Gu had transformed into let out a shrill, miserable shriek.

It visibly dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye. Without the protection of a physical body, the Soul-Extinguishing Death Light was practically the natural enemy of soul-type beings.

Moments later, a black-red Ghost Ant separated from his Nascent Soul. Wang Yu collected it with an ice bell. This should be the Gu king of the swarm, the Ghost Ant Queen!

With it, he could continuously breed large numbers of Ghost Ants for his use. Its status was the same as the Iceflame Empress Butterfly. If he wanted to rapidly cultivate Iceflame Butterflies using the Wailing Blood Evil Gu Art…

These “sacrifice materials” of Gu swarms were an indispensable part. He wanted them all!

Several breaths later.

The even weaker Ten Thousand Gu Nascent Soul stared at him with bitter hatred.

Forcing an ugly smile, he finally yielded when his life was truly threatened.

“Supreme Law Fellow Daoist, please stay your hand!

“This old man will hand over the Wailing Blood Evil Gu Art with both hands, no conditions attached. All the resources needed to cultivate Gu insects can also be provided by this old man free of charge. I only beg Fellow Daoist to spare my life.”

Wang Yu stared at him with a cold, stern expression.

“Oh?

“So you know you’re about to die, you don’t think you were wrong.”

“No, no.”

Ten Thousand Gu’s Nascent Soul smile immediately brightened. He pulled out a Heaven-Earth Ring from within his body. To show sincerity, he directly took out the inheritance jade slip recording the secret art and personally handed it to Wang Yu.

“Fellow Daoist, look. This is the secret art. This old man is willing to swear a heart demon oath that it is completely genuine and contains no tricks.”

The moment his words finished.

Wang Yu’s right hand shot out like lightning. Silver chains formed by the Lock of Heaven secret art extended from his wrist, instantly sealing the space for any teleportation technique.

They wrapped around Ten Thousand Gu’s Nascent Soul neck. The extreme cold sealing power of the Glazed Pagoda spread rapidly. But the other party suddenly erupted with a burst of divine-sense fluctuation.

The information it carried spread in all directions like sound waves.

“Grand Commander, save me!!!”

Wang Yu turned his head sharply.

He saw the Blood God Guard Grand Commander, whom he had met once during the Blood Abyss trial appearing not far behind him, brows slightly furrowed as he looked over.

Wang Yu quickly regained his composure. Calm and composed, he completely sealed Ten Thousand Gu’s Nascent Soul into his life-bound magic treasure before speaking.

“The Sect Master has given orders for Wang Yu to handle the matter of Ten Thousand Gu completely. That naturally… includes his life.”

The Grand Commander remained silent, his expression still cold as frost.

Only when Wang Yu took out the Blood Demon Token and waved it did the other party’s face melt into a smile like ice meeting warm sunlight. He gently clenched his right hand.

The divine-sense sound wave that had just spread out reversed like time flowing backward, rapidly gathering into his palm. With a single squeeze, he crushed it, cleanly erasing Ten Thousand Gu’s final words from the world.

The Grand Commander said, “So it was handling a sect traitor. Supreme Law Demonic Lord has eliminated a pest for the sect and deserves a merit. Adding the previous contributions you established on the Ice River Pass and Azure Cloud Sect battlefields…

“This is a special reward the Sect Master instructed me to give you.”

Participating in the righteous-demonic war did indeed come with rewards. Normally, rewards for Nascent Soul cultivators would be distributed slowly after the war ended.

After all, they could not hand out so many resources at once.

They still had to wait until the spoils of war were fully processed and then allocate according to the gains.

After receiving the Heaven-Earth Ring, Wang Yu’s eyes lit up.

The main reward inside was Star Demon Stones, the special cultivation resources condensed by the feng shui mystical formation at the sect’s headquarters. They had many uses.

There were also many fourth-rank supreme-grade spiritual materials. Just in time to replenish what he had spent refining the Sun-Piercing Demonic Bow. It was a huge boost.

As for why he had not used this spiritual treasure against Ten Thousand Gu…

The reason was simple: this guy alone… was not worthy!