Wasted Spiritual Root To Embark On Demonic Cultivation Chapter 319

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After learning that Wang Yu fought Lu Chenzhou to a draw and even held a slight advantage, he considered the matter for a long time before coming.

In the demonic path, encountering things like “Someone, feed the young master a pastry” is perfectly normal and can be found everywhere, so he had no choice but to remain cautious.

Wang Yu owed him two favors.

Now both favors could be combined into a single task: killing the Peach Blossom Ghost Mother. She possessed sixth-layer Core Formation cultivation, was an inner sect elder of Five Yin Peak, and was considered exceptionally talented.

However, she was obsessed with the Human-Ghost Joyous Union Technique, resulting in slow progress in recent years.

Wang Yu readily accepted Situ Hong’s request.

A trivial matter. If he encountered her, he would simply kill her along the way. It was not a big problem.

As the date of the Blood Abyss opening approached.

On the day the Cold Blood Mountain Lord convened the mobilization meeting, Wang Yu awoke from cultivation at just the right moment.

The materials were scarce, however, and he did not expect to acquire them before entering the Blood Abyss.

During this period.

With the help of pills, his cultivation upper limit increased by 1605 units of mana. Added to his original mana, his total reached 3605 units.

He was only 395 units away from the peak of Core Formation fifth-layer. To improve so much in just over two years could only be described as astonishingly fast.

Once inside the Blood Abyss, he would break through to Core Formation sixth-layer within half a year at most. His cultivation progress was like riding a rocket, which naturally pleased him.

In addition.

His greatest trump card, Guanghan Twelve Phases, had reached the minor accomplishment stage. He successfully condensed Twelve Phantom Phases, and its power had greatly increased. His Lesser Asura Killing Fist was also close to perfection, lacking only one final step.

Regarding pills, Wang Yu used the Thousand-Year Earth Spirit Milk he obtained years ago to refine a batch of third-rank supreme-grade recovery pills meant to restore mana, a total of twelve pills.

He had also prepared nine bottles of high-grade recovery pills, eighty-one pills in total.

He stocked a large amount of third-rank high-grade pills for healing injuries and restoring the physical body. Refining these alone cost him over a million spirit stones.

On another front, the Yellow Springs Demonic Sword had finally been completed.

When Heavenly Artifact Master handed it to him, the artifact had reached the high-grade level and could unleash extremely powerful Yellow Springs Baleful Qi. For this, Wang Yu paid an additional three hundred thousand spirit stones.

A fair price.

The most basic effect of this treasure was to slash with Yellow Springs Sword Qi, similar to the Yellow Springs Great Hand Seal, but more focused on damaging fleshly bodies.

Its power was equivalent to a third-rank low-grade spell and was highly practical.

It also possessed Yellow Springs Sword Calamity Slash, whose power was not inferior to a third-rank high-grade spell and even surpassed the entry-level might of a divine ability. It faintly resonated with the Yellow Springs divine ability Wang Yu had already mastered.

Unfortunately, the Great Hand Seal was still a step away from completion, lacking the foundation required for combining artifact and spell.

It was worth mentioning.

The Great Hand Seal was also a yin-cold divine ability. If he could cultivate Ten Directions Frozen Demonic Fist to great completion, he might convert it into a variant divine ability such as Yellow Springs Impoverishing Fist.

At this point.

With preparations pushed to the limit, Zhuo Shouqing had obtained detailed information on the personnel Zhuo Shouyun was bringing into the Blood Abyss. The list was quite complete.

Finally he would not be an mere accessory. His goal was to execute all these elite enemies.

…

…

On this day.

At the summit of Cold Blood Peak, within the Mountain Lord’s Dao Field.

All participants of this journey into the Blood Abyss were present. Wang Yu recognized only a few, but they were all people of considerable status.

Cold Blood Mountain Lord’s last-ranked personal disciple, the fourth disciple Yan Ling.

A genius of the Qiao Clan, Qiao Yu, one of Wang Yu’s collaborators.

The Xue Clan’s young phoenix, possessing the Heavenly Ice Spiritual Roots, Xue Ying, also known as True Personage Snow.

These three he happened to know. Especially Xue Ying. This trip into the Blood Abyss might sever the karmic threads tied to her. Without exception, they were all in the early Core Formation stage.

In a real fight, Wang Yu was confident he could suppress them with a single hand.

Aside from them, there were some nobles he did not know, such as a cultivator of the Chu Clan named Chu Juntian. He was much older than the rest.

He had come right at the three-hundred-year age limit, at Core Formation sixth-layer, making him quite conspicuous.

From the Ji Clan, the strongest internal family faction on Cold Blood Peak, three individuals had arrived. One woman and two men. The woman was the strongest and had reached late Core Formation, the remaining two were mid Core Formation.

Given that a Core Formation cultivator has an eight-hundred-year lifespan, reaching this cultivation level before three hundred years of age meant they were undoubtedly geniuses.

If they continued to improve steadily, each of them would have at least one chance to attempt breaking into the Nascent Soul realm. The Ji Clan dispatching three geniuses meant that if any of them fell, it would cause severe losses.

Besides them, there were also cultivators from the Zhuo and Zuoqiu Clans, who seemed to have occupied several quotas belonging to Cold Blood Peak. No one voiced any objections.

Even some descendants of ordinary inner sect elders were present.

Cold Blood Peak alone had forty-two participants. Counting the Blood Pavilion disciples, nearly a thousand people were entering the Blood Abyss this time.

Estimating quickly, Wang Yu was shocked.

There were simply too many people. He originally thought the Blood Reversal Sect had only a bit over ten Nascent Soul cultivators, but later he learned they had forty to fifty.

Right now, he had believed that the Exalted Sect only possessed a few thousand Core Formation cultivators, yet every two hundred years, during the Blood Abyss Training, they could bring out nearly a thousand Core Formation cultivators. This was simply too exaggerated.

One had to know that the lowest qualification to participate was the status of an Inner Sect Elder. With such strength, each participant could fight three or four rogue cultivators of the same realm in the outside world. Their quality was astonishingly high.

If one used rogue cultivators as the standard to measure combat power, then beneath the Five Demonic Sects, everything else was nothing but insects. Even those so-called first-rate forces that possessed one or two Nascent Soul cultivators were merely the same.

They were all lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

He now understood why the outside forces changed so quickly. A single mistake that offended the Five Sects meant total annihilation.

Smaller forces actually lived more comfortably.

It was truly bizarre.

“Wu wu…”

At this moment, a cold wind howled. In the violent storm, countless shards of ice converged into a humanoid figure that slowly walked out from within.

A sword light split the clouds, and from the frost and snow emerged a man wearing translucent ice armor.

These two were the Cold Blood Mountain Lord and the Heavenly Frost Demon Lord.

They represented, respectively, the master-disciple faction and the family faction. The atmosphere instantly heated up the moment they arrived, and the crowd loudly greeted them.

“Greetings, Mountain Lord. Greetings, Heavenly Frost Demon Lord.”

Wang Yu was among the crowd. His eyes narrowed as he secretly observed. It was said that the Heavenly Frost Demon Lord’s famous technique was the Glacier Sword Canon, yet based on his current observations…

His posture and aura carried traces of the Ten Directions Frozen Demonic Path, especially the familiarity in his dragon-like strides and tiger-like steps. He was definitely a master of fist arts.

No wonder he bore the name Heavenly Frost. It seemed he had switched to the Ten Directions Frozen Demonic Path in his later years.

Wang Yu came to this conclusion.

Then.

The Cold Blood Mountain Lord, representing the orthodox faction, spoke first.

“At ease. All of you are the young elites of my Cold Blood Peak. You should already know of the Blood Abyss Training. It will open in seven days.

“This time, disciples of the Nine Peaks, along with the Blood Pavilion elites, will all participate. The duration remains thirty years. Whatever opportunities you obtain inside will depend on your own abilities.

“Next, the Heavenly Frost Demon Lord will issue the specific mission.”

The Heavenly Frost Demon Lord looked extremely young, appearing only seventeen or eighteen. He was rather tender in appearance and had probably taken a Youth Preserving Pill early on.

His brows slanted upward slightly, giving him a prideful and aggressive impression. His voice, however, was deep and powerful and conveyed a sense of solidity.

“Your mission is to collect thirty third-rank Blood Beast crystal cores within thirty years. The higher the quality, the better.

“The reward is that the Blood Demon Hall will use the crystal cores you collect to grant each of you a personal opportunity for the Bloodfall Baptism.”

The so-called Bloodfall Baptism…

Was to draw upon the essence of the nine-thousand-foot Blood Pool Waterfall behind the Blood Demon Hall and combine it with Blood Beast crystal cores for a baptism. Its effects were similar to the Dragon Vein Baptism.

Both could enhance potential, increase lifespan, and strengthen bloodline-type aptitude. It might not be suitable for some cultivators.

But the benefits of improving physical potential and vitality were beyond dispute. Every cultivator understood the advantages of a powerful body.

They did not practice Body Refinement only because of insufficient talent, not because they did not desire to.

Furthermore.

Thirty crystal cores were merely the minimum. They could kill more Blood Beasts. They could rob their fellow disciples. Thirty years were enough to accumulate far more Blood Crystals.

The more one had, the greater the benefits of the Bloodfall Baptism.

Wang Yu clenched his fist. His Body Refinement realm lagged behind his main cultivation not because of poor aptitude or lack of resources. Body Refinement was simply like this.

Slow. That was normal.

He had already enjoyed the Dragon Vein Baptism. If he received the Bloodfall Baptism as well, his physical aptitude should improve further, perfectly offsetting the delay in progress.

After announcing the mission, the Heavenly Frost Demon Lord continued.

“Strictly speaking, the Bloodfall Baptism is a reward conferred by the sect.

“I personally offer a bounty for a type of third-rank blood-type creature called the Blood Slayer Beast. Bring me their crystal cores. For each one, I will exchange a third-rank resource of the same level.

“Whether rare or ordinary. Even if I do not have it on hand, I will obtain it from elsewhere and trade with you.”

His words stirred the hearts of most people.

They were not like Wang Yu, who possessed supreme-grade third-rank alchemy skills. If they wanted high-level rare resources, they could not simply trade for them.

Even if they had clans backing them, it did not mean they lacked nothing. Their shortages were significant. A clan’s resources had to be shared among many. One individual could never monopolize everything, not even the young clan leader.

“Blood Slayer Beast crystal cores…”

Combining that with the traits of the Heavenly Frost Blood Halberd and the divine ability Heavenly Frost Halberd Arts, Wang Yu more or less guessed what he intended to do.

If it was truly as he suspected, it might be able to assist him and complete the Lesser Asura Killing Fist to full perfection.

After this assembly, seven days passed in a flash.

On the day the Blood Abyss Training began, disciples of the Nine Peaks of the Blood Reversal Sect surged out like raindrops from countless hidden corners. If one was careless, they would not even notice some of those places were cave abodes.

Everyone converged toward the Blood Abyss outside the sect.

During this time, Wang Yu saw acquaintances from other peaks: Su Yulong, Wei Shanze, Ding Ming, Wei Hao, Xie Xie’an…

His acquaintances were mostly early Core Formation cultivators. Their threat level was low.

Wei Hao seemed to have given up on the interests of the Chasing Moon Prefecture struggle and instead chose the Blood Abyss of the sect. He did not want to miss out on this opportunity.