Chapter 461

This was his exclusive ultimate technique.

Against Nascent Soul cultivators, it could be said to succeed with a single move, with very few failures.

But the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord was, after all, the nominal strongest expert of Yellow Springs Monastery.

His realm was only one step short, yet his strength far exceeded peak Nascent Soul. Otherwise, he would not be called half-step Spirit Transformation. In the cultivation realms, there was actually no such concept as half-step Spirit Transformation.

There were false core, false nascent soul, external golden core, and external nascent soul.

There was no concept of false spirit or false Spirit Transformation…

What he had achieved was combat strength far surpassing peak Nascent Soul. This had narrowed the gap between him and the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable considerably. In a real fight, he still could not win.

But that did not mean he would be defeated by a single casual move.

The Life-Seizing Demonic Claw was extremely fast. Having prepared in advance, endless turbid Yellow Springs water surged from within the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord’s body. His figure transformed into yellow water and merged into it.

His Nascent Soul disappeared along with it.

The Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable’s meticulously planned claw struck empty air. Scorching Sun Old Demon seized the opportunity and summoned his life-bound magic treasure, the Blood Sun Demonic Wheel. Spinning at high speed, it slashed down with terrifying blood gang.

The power was enough to crush Nascent Soul cultivators.

But Crimson Heaven merely extended his left hand. Amid the violent energy collision, the blood gang shattered. A pair of black gauntlets covered Crimson Heaven’s hands.

He forcibly grabbed the fourth-rank supreme-grade magic treasure Blood Sun Demonic Wheel. With a stomp of his foot, a crimson halo spread like sunlight from the great sun.

What it brought was not warmth, but endless fatal strikes.

Fifth-rank divine ability — Crimson Heaven Demonic Light!

The Yellow Springs Great River rapidly evaporated and was forcibly tainted into a crimson river. The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord hiding inside lost control and was forced to emerge, revealing his true form.

And with his life-bound magic treasure seized and illuminated by the Crimson Heaven Demonic Light.

Scorching Sun Old Demon’s physical body began to disintegrate. Chunks of flesh slid off like meat slices falling into boiling water. In the blink of an eye, he became a white jade skeleton glowing with treasure light.

The demonic essence from his five organs and six viscera forcibly resisted further disintegration, but he was still heavily injured. Scorching Sun Old Demon was not Wang Yu; his physical body’s vitality was not that strong.

Plus, with his age factor, such severe injuries, without potent healing medicine to recover, would likely exhaust his life force and cause death.

The corrosive nature of the demonic light continued to destroy his body without end, almost foreshadowing an imminent exit from the stage.

The Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable laughed wildly.

“Ants dare to compete with the bright moon for brilliance. With a wave of this Venerable’s hand, I can turn you all to ashes.”

“Arrogant!”

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord’s hair stood on end in fury. The Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable was a full level stronger than he had anticipated. The foundation of the Heaven-Refining Demon Sect was still too deep.

But the situation left him no choice but to use his trump card.

“Yellow Springs Sacrifice Technique! Using my organs as sacrifice, I summon the Yellow Springs Great Demon to descend upon the mortal world and help this Daoist slay the enemy!”

This was an ancient sacrifice Daoist divine ability.

It had long been abandoned because it injured the enemy by eight hundred while harming oneself by a thousand. The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord used his own organs as sacrifice material. Such injuries affected the foundation and ordinary recovery methods were useless.

It was equivalent to permanent damage. The Yellow Springs Great Demon was a truly bizarre creature living in the Yellow Springs River, similar to the formless heavenly demons of the Heavenly Demon Realm. Its strength was extremely terrifying.

The turbid yellow water flow reappeared and formed a vortex in the air.

From it emerged a creature three meters tall at the shoulder, pale and emaciated all over, wearing a tattered black robe, with a black evil ghost mask covering from the lips upward.

This was the Yellow Springs Great Demon, a true foreign realm creature!

As the summoner, the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord could only guarantee that it would not kill him. He had no control over it at all.

“You madman.”

The Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable cursed. Foreign realm creatures had a different cultivation system from humans, but they could roughly be classified by rank. This was a fourth-rank peak Yellow Springs Great Demon.

In terms of raw strength, it was still inferior to him, but its abilities were bizarre. It could be said that no Spirit Transformation Venerable wanted to face such a thing.

The pale great demon extended its gray tongue to lick its thin lips. It possessed some intelligence. Its unusually long fingers pointed remotely at Crimson Heaven.

Yellow Springs Drowning Curse!

A true curse divine ability.

Crimson Heaven’s face turned iron-blue. Even his Spirit Transformation mana could not suppress the vomiting sensation. He immediately spat out a large amount of Yellow Springs water.

The equally corrosive Yellow Springs power directly invaded his organs, rapidly corroding his flesh and mana. It was as if a lump of shit had appeared out of nowhere in his stomach.

That nauseating feeling made his emotions extremely unstable.

Fury! Fury! Fury!

The realm divine anomaly belonging to the Spirit Transformation stage was unleashed by him. This was the advanced form of Dao intent — Domain Intent power!

The true essence of divine ability Dao intent was to comprehend everything about the divine ability.

Then combine it with one’s own beliefs, divine sense, and mind to cause sublimation, ultimately giving birth to Dao intent that fed back to the Nascent Soul, strengthening the soul and raising the limit.

When Dao intent developed to its extreme, it became Domain Intent.

Any technique could be enhanced, causing its power to surge. One of the requirements to advance to Spirit Transformation was to comprehend one’s own Domain Intent.

The Domain Intent possessed by the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable was called Raging Blood Domain Intent and perfectly matched his current state of mind. In extreme rage, only blood could calm it.

Drops of blood containing Crimson Heaven Demonic Light shot out in all directions like a rainstorm. Originally trying to use the Yellow Springs Great Demon’s delay to escape.

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord was forced to use defensive magic treasures, divine abilities, talismans, and other items, pushing his defense to the limit. ℯℯ𝑙.

Scorching Sun Old Demon, however, was powerless due to his heavy injuries and could only use the terrain to resist.

Inside the Longevity Medicine Vault, the restriction’s brilliant light suddenly bloomed.

Amid violent spiritual power fluctuations, large amounts of damage were produced. Vermilion pillars collapsed and staircases crumbled.

Scorching Sun tried his best to dodge, but was still struck by the blood drops.

In the blink of an eye, his skeleton body was completely dyed red. The furious emotions also infected him. He suddenly threw his head back and let out a long howl.

Like a madman who had lost his reason.

He even actively caught the blood drops. This caused him to be temporarily controlled by Crimson Heaven and turned into a Rage Blood Puppet under the influence of the Domain Intent. With a thought from Crimson Heaven.

The Blood Sun Demonic Wheel returned to Scorching Sun’s hands and suddenly launched an attack toward the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord.

“Now!”

The Yellow Springs Monastery Lord’s heart filled with ruthless malice. His life-bound magic treasure, the Yellow Springs Azure Firmament Map, rapidly unfurled. It depicted countless Yellow Springs evil ghosts feeding in the river.

The food consisted of severed limbs and the corpses of strange beasts.

As it unfolded, yellow-green qi transformed into the phantoms of a great serpent and a giant tree, violently flipping the entire Longevity Medicine Vault upside down.

A violent cry echoed throughout Eastern Extreme Capital.

What followed was a tremendous explosion. The entire Longevity Medicine Vault was almost completely destroyed. This also triggered the hidden ultimate-killing restrictions.

Since he could not find them, he would touch every corner of the medicine vault.

This would activate the restrictions as well. More importantly, it would destroy all the fifth-rank precious pills and spirit herbs inside. If he could not have them, Crimson Heaven would not get them either.

Destroy everything and end it once and for all.

The result was obvious. The even more enraged Crimson Heaven had just begun to move when he was blocked by the Yellow Springs Great Demon. Its bizarre body was like something intangible and formless.

It ignored the aftershocks of the explosion. Its body turned into a drop of yellow water and directly merged into the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable’s body. The massive curse power therefore erupted.

Crimson Heaven’s aura weakened at a visible speed.

Yellow Springs power erupted from every part of his body, corroding his hair and daoist robes until nothing remained. He was left completely naked.

Scorching Sun Old Demon, controlled by the Raging Blood Domain Intent, was even more unfortunate.

He had endured multiple attacks in succession. With his aged body’s strength, he could no longer hold on. From the disappearance of his flesh to the current disintegration of his bones.

Without any ability to resist, he turned into an adorable little Nascent Soul. Because of this, he also escaped the Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable’s control. His eyes regained their clear and bright color.

Sensing that his physical body had already turned into a pile of dust, Scorching Sun Old Demon’s expression grew complicated. His Nascent Soul immediately fled outward with its head lowered.

The power of a Spirit Transformation Venerable was simply too terrifying and domineering.

He, a great perfection Nascent Soul, was actually not even a match for a single exchange. Once the Domain Intent appeared, he was directly controlled. This was an existence he absolutely could not contend against.

With his mind shaken, continuing the fight would only bring more loss than gain.

It was time to run…

If Scorching Sun Old Demon had been beaten into fear and abandoned everything just to keep living, then the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord had truly gained confidence from the battle. What Spirit Transformation Venerable? Nothing more than this.

Willing to risk everything, even an emperor can be pulled off his horse!

“Crimson Heaven? So what? Venerable? So what? In the end, you will still fall here under this Monastery Lord’s calculations!!!”

His plan was extremely similar to how Wang Yu had previously schemed against Jade Water Demon Lord.

Both relied on personal strength to weaken the opponent as much as possible, then used the ultimate-killing restrictions of Eastern Extreme Capital to deliver the fatal blow.

Unfortunately, if Wang Yu were still present, the situation would have been even better.

After all, the Yin-Yang Killing Formation covering the entire Eastern Extreme Capital was definitely stronger than the ultimate-killing restrictions of the Longevity Medicine Vault. The repeated pressure and uncertainty in attitude had caused the opponent to use a special method to escape.

Thinking from his own perspective, if he were Wang Yu and had a way to leave, he would definitely choose to flee.

Therefore, the plan had to be changed on the spot.

He could only attempt it this way. What the Yellow Springs Monastery Lord did not know was that the restrictions in the Longevity Medicine Vault had been personally set by the first-generation Human Emperor at his peak.

After all, it involved the privacy of a generation of Human Emperor.

Without an imperial treasure like the Coiling Dragon Ring, Wang Yu could not have discovered this hidden layer. So… the restrictions triggered by the destruction of the Longevity Medicine Vault.

Would far exceed everyone’s expectations.

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In a corner of the imperial palace, the battle outside shook heaven and earth.

Wang Yu was just crawling out from a dried-up well. The spatial transfer-type entrance had sent him directly out of the Longevity Medicine Vault. This was actually a good thing.

Noticing that the entire imperial palace and even Eastern Extreme Capital were shaking.

Wang Yu immediately floated up at low altitude, no more than half a meter above the ground. He took out the Water Ancestral Token, preparing to teleport into the underground dark river and leave.

At the same time, he recalled the final gains from the Human Emperor’s secret vault.

Inside that entire wall of inheritance, he had used one mind for two tasks. While using divine sense jade slips to record the powerful divine abilities and secret arts, he also memorized the suitable inheritances that could be turned into his own techniques.

Those unsuitable for him would not be mentioned for now.

Just the ones he could cultivate included three divine abilities and two secret arts. The first divine ability, [Immortal Spiritual Body], was a physical body divine ability from the Body Refiner lineage.

It stood on equal footing with the Buddhist Golden Body and the Daoist Dharma Body.

It could only be cultivated after reaching the peak of fourth-rank Body Refinement. It could unify all Immortal Spirit Bones and forge a true indestructible and undying body. In the future, breaking through to the fifth rank would grant an even more perfect realm divine anomaly.

Its significance was not merely one physical body divine ability. It would also make his Body Refinement path even more perfect.

The second divine ability, [Dragon Emperor Fist], was one of the strongest divine abilities of the first-generation Human Emperor. It was worth noting that he himself had also dual-cultivated the Body Refiner path. This inheritance was likewise a physical body divine ability.

Its status was equivalent to a life-bound divine ability on the physical body side and matched perfectly with the first-generation Human Emperor’s True Dragon Spiritual Body. Wang Yu’s body refinement technique, the [Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art], was also highly compatible with this inheritance.

More importantly, it was a fifth-rank supreme-grade divine ability.

Once learned, it would replace the Ten Directions Frozen Demonic Fist and become his new trump card.

The third divine ability, [Return-to-the-Void Concealing Heaven Incantation], was one of the Void Dao Compendium. Fifth-rank supreme-grade, a space-side concealment divine ability that also possessed the effect of hiding heavenly secrets.

This divine ability and the secret art Lock of Heaven both originated from the legendary Void Dao Compendium. The difficulty of cultivating space power needed no further explanation.

But the Lock of Heaven Wang Yu had condensed already exceeded eight thousand meters.

He had long entered the threshold of void power. Even without the Idle Slots’ assistance, he could sense and absorb void power. Therefore, the cultivation threshold of this divine ability was very low for him.

Its value rose because of this.

Divine abilities were basically impossible to cultivate at the current stage, just like the Ice Prison Demonic Seal. Unless Wang Yu was willing to use a large number of Idle Slots to pile them up.

Perhaps he could reach entry level within 60 years.

But the significance was truly not great. Once he reached Spirit Transformation, the time needed to cultivate them would be much shorter. A large number of enriched divine ability techniques meant that Wang Yu would no longer need to worry about this in the future.

It was enough for him to use.

As for the two secret arts, they were more niche and difficult to train. This was also the result of Wang Yu’s deliberate choice.

The first secret art, [Zhoutian Stars Arrow Condensation Art], was one he had intentionally selected to pair with the Twelve Guanghan Phases.

The Sacred Bow among the twelve phases possessed extremely strong power and could fuse all extreme cold forces into a single arrow. It was also his most commonly used offensive method.

The Taiyin Star was likewise one of the Zhoutian Stars.

Pairing it with this secret art would raise its power to another level. The only requirement was to sense the corresponding star in order to absorb its star power.

For him, this was no difficulty at all. After all, he possessed the Taiyin Nether Eyes and had absorbed and refined a piece of the Taiyin Star Core. His eyes were as deep and tranquil as the bright moon in the sky.

He had long established a thread of connection with the Taiyin Star.

The second secret art, [Thunder Fire Heavenly Pivot Secret Art], took one thunder and one fire as its foundation to condense a secret pattern at the center of the brow. Once activated, it would cause strength to surge explosively.

It was a typical burst secret art. The specific increase details, besides a massive boost to base values, were also related to the form of the thunder and fire power.

For example, Black Demon Thunder and Ice Chi Pill Flame mainly increased speed for the physical body. Paired with the Extreme Yin Dragon Body under Heavenly Demon Myriad Transformations, even great cultivators could not match his extreme speed.

But according to their natures, they actually provided an even greater boost to demonic essence and divine ability techniques. Among these gains, the only ones that could quickly be converted into strength were the two secret arts.

However, now was not the time to cultivate them.

After mentally taking inventory, Wang Yu decisively activated the Water Ancestral Token. Following the route arranged by the ancestor of earth masters, he left Eastern Extreme Capital through the underground dark river.

Amid the water-blue halo flickering like starlight.

For his final glance at Eastern Extreme Capital, Wang Yu’s eyes were filled with purple qi divine fire surging upward.

Purple Fire Burning the Capital!

Its coverage area nearly encompassed the entire Eastern Extreme Capital. Whether in the outer city, inner city, palace city, or imperial city, every cultivator still remaining in Eastern Extreme Capital would be burned by fifth-rank spiritual fire.

Inside the underground dark river, Wang Yu calmed his violently pounding heart.

Without looking back, he fled toward the outside of the city.