Cultivation through Skin Making

Chapter 772: 270. Old Friend (5.1K characters – please subscribe)

Within the Nine Dragon Tower, nine Fire Demon Dragons were entangled around Di Cunxin, subjecting him to endless torture. The Fire Demon Dragons were nearly the strongest existence below the Realm Core Realm. While they couldn’t kill Di Cunxin, who was at the Early Stage of the Realm Core, they were perfectly suited for torment.

The Fire Demon Dragons didn’t just coil around his body; they would shrink to the size of a loach, enter through his nostrils, and explode into flames between his lungs; enter through his ears, rub against his eardrums, and bring boiling sensations to his brain; enter through his eyes, crushing his eyeballs; enter through his mouth, and coil around his heart, letting Karmic Fire flow through his body with his blood.

The recovery ability of the Early Stage Realm Core was formidable, so even though he endured all kinds of pain, his body could still heal.

Di Cunxin was sometimes conscious, sometimes dizzy, sometimes screaming in agony.

He had been enduring this torment for over a hundred years.

But he never gave up.

Giving up would indeed put an end to things, but he was unwilling.

In his world, even ants thought of climbing upward, thought of seeing more beautiful landscapes from higher places. Why wouldn’t he?

“Heh… heh… hahaha…”

“It hurts… quick! Hahaha!”

“So painful!!”

Laughing while crying, his lament was extreme.

Di Cunxin was like a madman, deranged.

Suddenly, he recalled the boy named Song Yan, who was rumored to be a prodigy at the Celestial Wondrous Sword Palace, a boy who had slain countless evil demons, shining like the sun, a boy with Taiyin Talent and the Wa Saint’s vessel.

He was so jealous.

So jealous.

Inside the Nine Dragon Tower, there was only wave after wave of torment, no sense of time or hope, like Eternal Hell, endless, without beginning or end, incessant…

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Months later.

A shadow landed on the ground and then quickly moved toward a location following the positioning of the servant’s Divine Thought, eventually arriving amidst a dark array of chaotic stones, shouting excitedly, “Friend! Is that you?”

“Friend, I’m here! I heard your news, and I came immediately. Really, I’m so happy, so excited!”

The disciple of the Five Spirits Celestial Demon Palace shouted excitedly.

Upon this shout, behind him, the female cultivator, with a ceramic doll-like appearance, blinked her eyes strangely. Clearly, she also sensed something amiss. Many years ago, she didn’t realize these things, but now, she had gradually gained normal intelligence from her initial ignorance.

However, calling her a “female cultivator” was inaccurate because she merely occupied the body of this female cultivator.

It clung tightly to this body, transforming its roots into “blood vessels and veins”, blending with the flesh and blood of this body.

It loved cleanliness, often meticulously cleaning this body, even considering itself part of this body, therefore, if anyone harmed this body, it would become extremely angry.

Because… This was its only connection with its father.

It remembered the warmth of its father, the companionship of its father.

It was precisely the love given by its father that allowed it to gradually have intelligence.

It knew that as long as the “Netherwater Jalapura” was found, the terrifying cultivators on this Dragon Corpse Ship would refine it, turning it into the Wood Spirit among the “Five Spirits”, and thus, its body would be destroyed.

It couldn’t escape this fate, just regretted not having the chance to see its father one last time.

Compared to it, the other three floating lantern-like Gold Spirit, Fire Spirit, Earth Spirit seemed incredibly naive, appearing as if they hadn’t awakened intelligence.

Its name was Po Xu Yuzhuang.

Po Xu was its surname, Yuzhuang was its bond with its father.

“Friend!”

“Friend, come out quickly!”

“Do you know that I’ve always wanted to see you!”

The disciple continued shouting.

Po Xu Yuzhuang noticed the strangeness but didn’t plan to remind him, just a bit confused, not knowing what her future would hold. Because to use such a bizarre and stealthy method to cause the terrifying disciple to act abnormally, must be a very, very horrifying monster, right?

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“Friend!”

The disciple searched everywhere.

Suddenly, he saw a humanoid silhouette.

An intense feeling of excitement arose in his heart, and he hurriedly ran over.

“So it’s just a little guy at the Realm Core Realm.” Initially preparing for battle, Song Yan emerged from behind a massive rock, having confirmed that no one was following behind the disciple.

He glanced at the ceramic doll-like little female cultivator behind the disciple with a gentle expression, then casually dismantled the disciple’s body and Soul Thought before smoothly separating a soul strand, turning it into his Outer Body Incarnation.

The disciple who once looked down upon and aimed to extract the Netherworld’s Five Spirits from the entire Emperor’s Heart World didn’t even have the chance to speak or realize what was happening, and died instantly.

Song Yan’s command was, “I am the good friend your master always wanted to meet,” instead of “We are good friends,” the latter being reciprocal, the former unilateral.

He had naturally honed a bit of “command enactment” speaking technique through prolonged use of this terrifying power.

After occupying the Outer Body Incarnation, he surprisingly touched his chest.

This body… Surprisingly had no heart, and was weak, saying it was at the Divinity Transformation Level was an exaggeration. However, in place was an extreme sensitivity to “Five Elements Profound Qi.”

He searched through the Divine Thought, and the confusion was instantly resolved.

The disciples of the Five Spirits Celestial Demon Palace were not human but part of the Spirit Race.

After the Innate Realm Spirit was born in the initial stage of the Realm Spirit Realm, the subsequent Middle Stage and Late Stage were the “Ancestor Spirit Realm” and “Spirit Race Realm.”

Once reaching the Spirit Race Realm, one could derive their own Spirit Race.