Chapter 801 - 384: Ku Yue’s Death, On the Road

Chapter 801: Chapter 384: Ku Yue’s Death, On the Road

"Forward..."

The next moment.

The Blood Hand had already seized him.

At this moment, Ku Yue felt as insignificant as an ant, unable to muster even a tiny thought of resistance.

He didn’t understand.

He truly didn’t comprehend.

What had he done to provoke such an exalted Golden Core Zhenren?

Just as he was questioning his own existence, Pei Wuxing spoke coldly, "Merely an Early Stage of Foundation Establishment, yet you managed to provoke a senior to personally order your execution. In this life, you have nothing to regret."

Senior!

Ku Yue’s mind exploded.

The person who wanted to kill him was even stronger than the Golden Core Zhenren before him. What kind of formidable existence was that?

Why was it so?

His new life had just begun, with the Golden Core even within reach, how could there be an existence stronger than a Golden Core Zhenren who wanted him dead?

Why?

He truly couldn’t understand!

Swish—

Blood light flickered.

When he looked around again, Ku Yue saw only his lower half slumped on the ground, bleeding profusely.

"Why..."

"Why..."

"Why..."

...

Above the True Spirit Divine Demon Array, Wen Jiu manipulated the East Spring Undying Bone to conceal his aura, overlooking the familiar demon array.

Outside the demon array, there were no cultivators from Three Life Gates, only demon cultivators from Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect, all at Foundation Establishment and above.

Besides, outside the True Spirit Divine Demon Array stood several Tier Three High-grade Grand Arrays of significant scale.

If a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator forcibly charged through, chances are they would return fruitless. Without trump cards like treasured talismans, even a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator might be trapped within, facing uncertain fate.

Obviously.

With several costly Tier Three High-grade Grand Arrays established, the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect must have, like Pei Wuxing, learned of the True Spirit Demon Tree’s existence from the Blood Phoenix Demon Monarch’s image, but Wen Jiu had a doubt.

That is, the True Spirit Divine Tree in Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks didn’t leave any image, nor did anyone know of the True Spirit Demon Tree within the True Spirit Divine Demon Array, so why does the Dark Evil God’s Cave Heaven contain it?

Did the Blood Phoenix Demon Monarch intend this?

If intentional, what was the purpose?

Collecting his thoughts, Wen Jiu controlled the East Spring Undying Bone to explore every corner with Divine Sense.

With the current Divine Sense of East Spring Undying Bone, the True Spirit Divine Demon Array is almost nonexistent; Divine Sense can reach the core True Spirit Divine Tree. The restrictions of the True Spirit Divine Demon Array are useless against East Spring Undying Bone.

If he wished, he could even destroy the True Spirit Divine Demon Array directly.

But Wen Jiu wouldn’t do that; he only intended to take the True Spirit Divine Tree, leaving the seemingly opportunity-filled, but actually trap-laden True Spirit Divine Demon Array for the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect to slowly explore.

As for the Tier Three High-grade Grand Arrays set up by the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect, they’re essentially nothing to the Blood Corpse Escape of East Spring Undying Bone.

After two Blood Corpse Escapes, Wen Jiu passed through the True Spirit Divine Demon Array and arrived before the True Spirit Divine Tree.

As the familiar and thrilling aura rushed forth, Wen Jiu felt the longing sentiment emanating from the True Spirit Divine Tree carried by the Formless Demon Corpse, as if the True Spirit Divine Tree were a living being at this moment.

Without hesitation, Wen Jiu controlled the East Spring Undying Bone to inject Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi directly into it, the effect was extremely remarkable.

Recalling the first time using the Formless Demon Corpse to claim ownership of the first True Spirit Divine Tree, the ordinary violet hue showed no reaction, ultimately resorting to the Life Burning Technique, sacrificing twenty thousand years of accumulated life force from the Blood Demon Undying Bone, weakening it tenfold to two thousand solid years, to successfully claim ownership of the True Spirit Divine Tree.

This time, with the injection of Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi from East Spring Undying Bone, the True Spirit Divine Tree reacted within a hundred breaths.

The demonic secret texts on the True Spirit Divine Tree, its majestic True Spirit aura cascaded onto East Spring Undying Bone’s body.

Claiming has begun!

Whereas the results obtained by burning twenty thousand years of life force from the Blood Demon Undying Bone previously, were now accomplished in fifteen minutes by East Spring Undying Bone.

The True Spirit Divine Tree.

Claiming success!

The next moment.

The information panel of the True Spirit Divine Tree appeared.

[True Spirit Divine Tree]

[Variety: Outer Path Evil Spirit (Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object)]

[Age: Sixty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty-three years]

[Rank: Tier Four Top Grade (0/10,000,000)]

The rank was the same as the previous True Spirit Divine Tree, both Tier Four Top Grade, but Wen Jiu noticed that this True Spirit Divine Tree had an age of over sixty thousand years, more than thirty thousand years above the first one.

And when he continued to read the detailed information below, Wen Jiu instantly understood why the Blood Phoenix Demon Monarch intentionally left an image.

Simultaneously.

Wen Jiu also noticed the numerous black cocoons on the True Spirit Demon Tree, already numbering over a hundred.

[Number of Ancient True Spirit Demon Race already nurturing: 113, urgently needs a large quantity of powerful cultivator blood essence and vitality as resources. When the cocoons turn purple-black, it marks the day the True Spirit Demon Race is successfully nurtured.]

"No wonder the Blood Phoenix Demon Monarch proactively left an image telling others of the existence of a True Spirit Demon Tree here, because these True Spirit Demon Race are almost successfully nurtured, more urgently needing cultivators to come in and die than the one at Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks."

Wen Jiu realized, his gaze focused on the one hundred and thirteen demon cocoons, but he had no plans to leave any.

That same reasoning.

He was only a Golden Core now, and if affected by the Ancient True Spirit Demon Race with a curse from Heaven and Earth, impacting future Golden Core transformation into a Heaven-Reaching External Dao Nascent Soul, everything he had strived for thus far would be in vain.

The next moment.

Wen Jiu decisively controlled Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi to envelop them, preparing to refine them.

However.

The refining speed was unexpectedly, painfully slow; half an hour passed without hardly damaging the cocoons.

It’s worth noting that the current Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi is far stronger than before, even Tier Three Top-Grade Demonic Qi would turn into a pool of black water when enveloped, even Golden Core Perfection Body Cultivators would not be spared.

Yet the efficiency of refining these cocoons was incredibly low.

Even with control over the True Spirit Divine Tree to prevent any supplementation to the cocoons, the cocoons remained incredibly resilient.

"No wonder the Ancient True Spirit Demon Race masters are cursed by Heaven and Earth throughout the Hundred Floating Domains, there’s a reason for this. If these Ancient True Spirit Demon Race are truly nurtured, even just over a hundred of them would pose a considerable trouble to the Hundred Floating Domains, and if allowed to grow, it might become a disaster."

Wen Jiu silently pondered.

His Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi couldn’t refine them quickly, anyone below Nascent Soul would struggle to deal with these Ancient True Spirit Demon Race.

"Must I resort to utilizing the Origin Power of Corpse Demon?" Wen Jiu fell into contemplation.

Even though the Extreme Undying Corpse Demon Origin Power of East Spring Undying Bone hadn’t been used, its strength was, in a sense, more formidable than the current Extreme Evil Blood Sea True Technique Divine Techniques.

However, the Origin of the Corpse Demon is consumable, unlike Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi which can be replenished using his Yin Techniques or other zombies’ corpse qi; once consumed, the replenishment process could be lengthy.

"Forget it." After much hesitation, Wen Jiu decided to give up, "Now that I am the master of the True Spirit Divine Tree, as long as I don’t nurture them, they’ll just remain in cocoon status forever, never successfully nurtured."

With those words.

Wen Jiu stored the True Spirit Divine Tree inside the East Spring Undying Bone’s body and completely severed the nourishment from the True Spirit Divine Tree to the cocoons.

"With the True Spirit Divine Tree in hand, next is to retrieve the opportunities within the Dark Evil God’s Cave Heaven along with Pei Wuxing, then East Spring Undying Bone can return to Donghua Immortal City." Wen Jiu smiled contentedly.

Once back in Donghua Immortal City, having one True Spirit Divine Tree devour another will further boost the chance of transforming into a Heaven-Reaching External Dao Nascent Soul, while verifying whether the True Spirit Divine Tree can improve the quality of the True Spirit Root simultaneously, aiding in its flowering and fruition.

However.

Just as Wen Jiu controlled East Spring Undying Bone to leave, his earlier connection sensed through the True Spirit Divine Tree suddenly detected an unusual movement from the second master of the True Spirit Divine Tree.

No warning.

Perhaps it was premeditated.

Or possibly due to claiming the second True Spirit Divine Tree himself.

The next moment, Wen Jiu sensed the distance to him suddenly decrease.

Of course.

This change was minimal.

He could faintly sense the other party was still very, very far away.

Yet even so, Wen Jiu felt a tinge of caution arising in his heart.

Because perhaps they might be on their way to find him!