Chapter 560 Demonic Power Overwhelms the Sword Sect's Peak Battle

"Very good, I hope you live a long life."

The Frozen Demon's consciousness spoke softly.

He pointed at Wang Yu from afar, and the pure demonic energy that had entered Wang Yu's body was squeezed out of his dantian again, outlining ancient demonic runes.

It is short, but every word is precious.

Once the power controlling the demonic energy disappeared, he could clearly feel the hidden force within that power vanish. He didn't know if it was intentionally made to let him notice, or if the frozen demon's consciousness was expressing its sincerity.

To be on the safe side, it would be better to eliminate this force after the decisive battle with the Sword Sect.

only……

"Only cultivation techniques? Why aren't there any matching weapon-refining diagrams or secret techniques?"

The fifth-tier top-grade "Ten Directions Frozen Demon Path" only gave him the cultivation method's operation route and key points, nothing else.

Seeing Wang Yu's confusion, the Frozen Demon's consciousness spoke.

"Once you spread your legacy throughout the Ice Clan, you'll naturally have as many supernatural powers and secret techniques as you want. Since we're cooperating, does my young friend Chi Tian not allow me to hold back a trick up my sleeve?"

"Reasonable."

Wang Yu nodded slowly. Even without supernatural powers or secret techniques, the inheritance alone was enough. At least it could be used to deduce a sixth-order Void Refinement level cultivation technique.

Give him enough time, and perhaps he can find a way to circumvent the rules of the immortals, or perhaps he can use this opportunity to better understand the power possessed by cultivators in the Void Refinement stage.

In short, the benefits are numerous.

Now that things have come to this, Wang Yu has made up his mind that he will not return to the Frozen Demon Seal Land in the near future.

This matter also brings a significant variable.

If a frozen demon's husk can generate a new consciousness from the residual consciousness within its body, then other ancient demons can do the same.

His intuition told him something.

Perhaps one of the trump cards of the Heavenly Demon Lord is inextricably linked to this newly born ancient demonic consciousness.

The Great Crimson Heaven Life-Nourishing Demon Art, the Heaven-Refining Demon Scripture, the Nine-Nine Earthly Fiend Body-Refining Technique, and the Limitless Danqing Wonderful Scripture—these four Nascent Soul cultivation techniques are the fundamental inheritance of the Heaven-Refining Demon Sect.

This led to the birth of four Nascent Soul cultivators.

Moreover, each of them is quite powerful. Judging from their names, they have little to do with the inheritance of the Ancient Demon of Life. The only connection might be the Life-Nourishing Demon Art.

Lacking key information, racking your brains here is pointless.

I still have to go there in person.

Thinking of this.

Wang Yu cupped his hands and said, "In that case, Chi Tian will take his leave first, and will do his utmost to spread the Demon Lord's techniques."

Having said that, his figure transformed into aurora and vanished into the distance.

The shadowy figure watched him leave silently, its newly formed consciousness filled with anticipation and ambition, clearly unaware that Wang Yuchun was trying to extort money from it.

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Taihu Lake – Void Heaven Sword Sect.

As the leader of the righteous path, its sect is located on a floating immortal mountain thousands of feet high, with Taihu Lake, which is thousands of miles wide and comparable in size to the sea, below it.

Amidst the shimmering blue waves, numerous dragons and other creatures swam freely, leaping and roaring, creating an ethereal and otherworldly atmosphere.

Thick clouds and mist constantly swirl around this place, and seventy-two much shorter sword peaks are connected by iron chains and cloud bridges, forming a protective formation around the mountain gate.

This is also the protective formation of the Void Heaven Sword Sect, which combines offense and defense, and is called the "Guicang Seventy-Two Divine Swords Formation"!

It ranks among the top-tier fifth-order items, resonating with the stars and earth veins. With the help of a Heavenly Array Master, it can even slay a Nascent Soul cultivator!

This formation alone can ensure the safety of the sect.

At that time.

In the Guixu Hall of the Sword Sect, all the Nascent Soul cultivators gathered together.

Taixu Sword Master, Danchenzi, and Chunyangzi are the older generation of Nascent Soul cultivators in the Sword Sect. Taixu has the peak Nascent Soul cultivation, while the latter two are both at the fifth level of Nascent Soul.

Venerable Jianhe, Venerable Fuling, and Daoist Miaozhen are a new generation of Venerables who were born one after another a thousand years ago. The first two are at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, while Daoist Miaozhen is at the second level of the Nascent Soul stage.

In the last century, Haoran Sword Master was bestowed with the Heavenly Dao Jade.

He successfully advanced the Haoran Sword Scripture to the fifth level, and through the opportunity of the evolution of the technique, he successfully broke through the natural barrier, transformed into a Nascent Soul and became the seventh Venerable of the Sword Sect.

This shows just how big the gap is between the Sword Sect and other righteous sects in Taihu. If they are determined not to take action, it is only natural that the demonic path will sweep in.

Meanwhile, the Red Iris side...

The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven, the Demon Lord of Earthly Fiends, the Demon Lord of Limitless, the Demon Lord of Crimson Heaven, the Demon Lord of Yellow Springs, the Lord of Blood Demon Palace, plus Wang Yu, the Demon Lord of Extreme Law Profound Pill.

There are exactly seven people.

There are a total of fourteen Nascent Soul cultivators from both the righteous and demonic paths. Adding the scattered Nascent Soul cultivators overseas, the number of Venerables in the entire Ice Prison Realm exceeds twenty.

However, most of the casual players have died out by now.

Only Long Chan Venerable and Tian Mu Su are still alive. These two will be subordinates of the Prison King Spirit Official, as well as the neutral Poison Dragon Demon Venerable, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger.

The form in which the Sword Sect's final battle will unfold remains unknown.

Guixu Hall.

Seeing the six Nascent Soul cultivators below, such a talented group, yet they had to rely on the demonic path to break the deadlock, Taixu Sword Master was filled with emotion.

He said, "Lian Tian has already led the sect's elite troops out, and it won't be long before they join forces with the Demonic Path Alliance and gather in front of our sect's gate. Do you have any ideas?"

The cooperation with Lian Tian was merely a tacit understanding between those in power.

The two have never actually communicated.

However, apart from Dan Chen and Chun Yang, Jian He, Fu Ling, Miao Zhen, and Hao Ran were unaware of the cooperation, even though they had all cultivated to this level.

He had a thorough understanding of the situation in the Ice Prison Realm.

They could roughly guess what their sect leader was thinking, so they were speechless when they looked at each other.

"I will follow the sect leader's arrangements."

"good."

Venerable Taixu readily agreed and conveyed the arrangements he had planned in advance.

"Jianhe, go and guard the Sword Tomb. Wait for my order to activate the Myriad Swords Technique and unleash the accumulated power of the Sword Tomb for thousands of years. Perhaps this will be enough to injure the Prison King Spirit Official."

"Sword River Lord's Decree".

"Miaozhen, Fuling, and Haoran, the three of you will be stationed at the Guicang Seventy-Two Divine Sword Formation. You need not hold back and will go all out. You can even kill a Nascent Soul Demon Lord."

"We obey orders."

Although they didn't understand why the sect leader would make such a choice, none of the three were the type to ask questions, so they simply obeyed the orders.

"Go and prepare. In a month or three, you will surely face the danger of being surrounded by demons."

"--yes!"

After the four left, only the three older generation cultivators, Taixu, Danchen, and Chunyang, remained in the Guixu Hall.

Chunyangzi's face was a jujube-red color.

The legendary swordsman, who carried the Pure Yang Spirit Sword and whose Pure Yang Sword Scripture was enough to strike fear into the hearts of demons, was speaking at this moment.

"Senior brother, are you certain that Qiu Zhenjianzi will act as an inside man?"

"That's natural."

"If the formation is not broken, how can the demonic cultivators break into the sealed land of the living demon?"

Dan Chenzi, however, said...

"With this performance... will the prison king and spirit official take the bait?"

"This is an open conspiracy. Whether he sees through it or not, he has to come here. At that time, whether he stays or leaves will be beyond his control."

After responding, the Supreme Sword Master continued.

"This battle is perilous. Even if I perish, the plan must continue until we break the cage that has imprisoned countless ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years!"

"Senior brother is blessed with great fortune; he must be a lucky man who is protected by heaven!"

"--hehe."

Taixu smiled calmly and shook his head.

“This is not only for you, but also for myself. If you were to die, the same principle would apply.”

The two fell silent for a long time before Chunyangzi spoke.

"What would happen if we lost this battle?"

"Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, life will eventually die, spirit will eventually perish, all things will eventually perish. No matter how glorious, it is nothing more than a cup of yellow earth and a handful of bluish ash."

Venerable Taixu walked to the front of the ancestral master statue, as if responding to Chunyangzi's question, or as if expressing his determination to die for his cause!

At this point, the survival of the orthodox tradition is no longer the main issue.

If it fails.

The entire cultivation world will inevitably face a great purge, and another generational break will occur. Several years later, someone will unearth the cultivation lineage from the ruins.

Naturally, a new realm of cultivation will emerge.

At that time.

They would also be part of the many failed sages, becoming a part of history, so he never thought about the survival of the Seven Righteous Sects.

Those below the Nascent Soul stage, once sacrificed, are simply sacrificed.

There's no turning back now that things have come to this.

Dan Chenzi sighed and cupped his hands in greeting.

"I will go and prepare the Immortal Black Stele, and record every detail of this plan."

Venerable Taixu smiled with delight.

"good."

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Two months later.

Dark clouds loomed over the city, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of miles centered on the Sword Sect Immortal Mountain. The monstrous demonic energy spread wildly within the clouds.

Bloodstained swords, ghostly wails and corpse howls.

It was as if the end of the world had come, with the sky filled with paper money used for funerals and send-offs, and banners of ten thousand souls standing tall in all directions, while the dark clouds formed by vengeful ghosts and vengeful spirits were terrifying.

One after another, dark beasts with bodies as large as mountains.

Pink clouds filled with decadent music, the Yellow Springs River manifesting from the void... the main forces of the five major demonic sects have gathered at the Sword Sect's floating immortal mountain.

The Heavenly Demon Lord stood at the head of the table, flanked by the towering Earthly Fiend Demon Lord and the white-haired old man, the Limitless Demon Lord!

Chitian, who had just regained his physical body, stood at the edge.

The Yellow Springs Demon Lord and the Blood Demon Palace Master also stood not far away.

Although the latter had personality problems, he still had his own decisiveness in the face of major issues, except for his uncontrollable longing and respect for the ancient blood demon.

Aside from having the added thought of saving the other party from breaking the seal, he was still himself.

There is nothing wrong with coming to participate in the war, but it is very likely that some kind of selfish motive is involved.

Looking at the talented group of demons, the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven was quite satisfied.

His gaze fell upon a corner in the dark clouds, where the three remaining celestial demons of the demon race—the Poisonous Flood Dragon Demon Lord, the Azure Dragon, and the White Tiger—were hiding.

But when they looked around again, they found that one figure was missing.

He couldn't help but turn his head.

"Lord of the Blood Demon Palace, where is your sect's Fellow Daoist Jifa now?"

The temple master shook his head directly.

"Perhaps he went to the Endless Ice Plains. Since I'm in the sect, he won't be in seclusion there. Should I wait for him?"

"Let's wait. Fellow Daoist Jifa's strength should not be underestimated. We need his power in this battle."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dazzling aurora suddenly streaked across the sky and landed swiftly in front of the demons, transforming into Wang Yu's snow-white figure.

Everyone had arrived.

Wang Yu raised an eyebrow and stared at Chi Tian for a few moments until the other turned his head away and avoided eye contact. He then understood what the Refining Heaven Demon Lord meant.

Just as he had expected, he immediately cupped his hands in greeting.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists."

"polite."

The Demon Lord of the Underworld was the first to respond, smiling as he approached Wang Yu: "Fellow Daoist has finally arrived. Without further ado, let's begin the attack on the mountain."

No rush.

Wang Yu slowly shook his head. The reason he was a little late was not because he was traveling. At his speed, he could have traveled from the Endless Ice Plains to the Sword Sect's mountain gate in at most half a month.

During this downtime, he naturally went to contact his little spy.

After he released Changxi back then.

Using her family's power, she returned to the ranks of direct disciples and successfully became a disciple of the Fuling Female Venerable, achieving a status similar to that of the Twelve Sword Masters. Despite her long absence, she was not investigated by the sect.

This was actually due to Venerable Taixu's tacit approval.

He's not afraid to raise as many lice as he wants; when the storm is brewing, he'll take in as many of these spies as they come. He doesn't deliberately hide anything.

The intention was to send a message to the demonic path through this "playing dumb" method: if they couldn't even breach the mountain gate, how could they attract the Prison King and Spirit Official?

Therefore, Wang Yu already knew about Taixu's arrangements in advance.

The situation with Lian Tian must be similar.

The focus returns.

After saying there was no rush, Wang Yu looked at the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven.

"I'm sure you know that more than ten years ago, the Prison King Spirit Official personally led several Nascent Soul cultivators to ambush me. After that battle, more than half of the Nascent Soul spies he supported were lost, with only Tianmu Su surviving."

"However, Venerable Long Chan of the Tianhai Ancient Sect should also have become this scoundrel's lackey. The power of two late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators has actually increased to some extent."

The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven frowned deeply.

"Wang Yu, what exactly are you trying to say?"

Wang Yu smiled.

"This battle is perilous. I have heard that your sect possesses a secret method for refining demonic corruption. I wonder if I may have the honor of glimpsing its true meaning?"

Although not explicitly stated, this was an act of taking advantage of someone's misfortune.

You won't give it to me?

Then don't blame me for running away.

Such a reckless act was something only he could do. Upon hearing this, the other Nascent Soul Demon Lords all frowned deeply, wondering why he would pull such a stunt.

Could it be that they failed?

What good can you possibly get by being the only one left? Aren't you afraid the King of Hell will drag you out and kill you?

But then he thought about it again. He had already escaped with his life thanks to the other party's careful planning, and even managed to severely damage the other party's strength. He was a classic case of trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead.

maybe.

They're not afraid that even if the Prison King Lingguan wins, he'll be purged afterwards. Even if he's isolated and helpless, this kid is probably confident he can survive, which is why they're extorting him like this.

The target of the extortion, the Demon Lord Lian Tian, ​​also figured out the key point. He looked helpless, but in his heart he hated Wang Yu to death.

I've lost count of how many times he's taken advantage of me.

He pondered for a long time.

"Good, this is the secret method for refining demonic stains. It requires a certain level of mental cultivation to practice, and refining demonic stains is not something that can be accomplished in a short time. It will take at least a hundred years to completely remove them."

"It's alright."

After receiving the jade slip containing divine consciousness, Wang Yu quickly beamed with joy. This secret technique was called the "Demon-Crossing Mantra," which could transform demonic traits into nourishment for the growth of mental strength.

It is specifically designed to restrain things that subtly distort people's hearts.

It is an unorthodox secret technique of the ancient Buddhist sect, originally intended to target the Heavenly Demons that appeared during the Divine Transformation Calamity. The power possessed by the Heavenly Demons is essentially a talent that distorts people's hearts.

With it, one can safely cultivate the Ten Directions Frozen Demon Path.

Now that we have obtained the secret method, let's make some preparations.

"—Let's start the war!"

(End of this chapter)