Chapter 69 Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique (Please read on, please vote!)

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[Placement Slot 4: Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique]

"Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique (0/100): Practice thirty-six times a day, and it can be mastered in five years."

With the placement bar activated, without needing to think, relevant insights flooded his mind, and his understanding of this technique became more comprehensive.

"So that's the technique."

Wang Yu still remembered that when he first met Xu Jiaojiao, she used a ghost-devouring technique, which gave her a layer of black armor with excellent defensive capabilities.

She did indeed practice what was written on the mysterious silk scroll.

In retrospect, this should be a secret technique that existed in ancient times. From today's perspective, it is at most a foundation-building secret technique.

But after thinking about it carefully, Wang Yu felt something was wrong.

"This might be... a kind of magical technique!"

During his time as a spirit slave, he had a basic understanding of various techniques and supernatural abilities in the cultivation world, but so far he has only come into contact with secret methods and techniques.

Among them, the "Precious Techniques" are inscribed on the precious bones left behind by powerful demonic beasts after their fall, and are therefore also known as "Bone Techniques," which is a major category in the cultivation world.

Legend has it that the precious bone left behind by the bloodline of the true spirit contains a technique called the "True Spirit Treasure Technique," which is a power that transcends the Nascent Soul stage and exists only in legends.

As for "magical arts," they take a shortcut. Their effects are often very powerful and targeted, not very universal, and have strong side effects.

The threshold for cultivation is also relatively high. Lower-level magical arts often take unorthodox and unorthodox paths, and their eagerness for quick success and instant benefits is even more exaggerated than that of demonic arts, which is despised by the world.

More advanced magical arts include Qimen Dunjia, Feng Shui formations, divination of heavenly secrets, and defying fate, among others.

The Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique is considered a mid-to-high-level extraordinary technique. It uses the spirits of countless souls as its sustenance, devouring the spirits to create a set of Black Evil Armor patterns on the body's surface for dedicated defense, and is especially effective against attacks from divine sense.

The more Yin spirits a cultivator devours and refines, the stronger they become, and the stronger the Black Fiend Armor's defense becomes. Correspondingly, every so often, the cultivator needs to withstand an attack from a Yin spirit.

If one cannot withstand the torment, one will suffer the terrifying punishment of being devoured by evil spirits. If one cannot endure it, at best one's soul will be damaged, and at worst one will die on the spot.

A very standard magical technique.

Xu Jiaojiao must have practiced it wrong. This technique prioritizes spiritual awareness over physical defense, but she must have practiced it backwards, focusing on the physical body instead. No wonder she's so huge, like a mountain of flesh.

Wang Yu is currently in the Xuan Gu Three Mountains, where the "Earthbound Spirits" and those Yin Soul Farmers are excellent cultivation materials, even without these necessary conditions.

The placement bar can also be forcibly repaired.

For example, right now, there is a feedback every forty minutes. In addition to the unseen cultivation experience and insights, there is also a trace of very pure Yin spiritual power flowing into the body.

Centered on the navel, black lines are gradually forming, which is the [Black Fiend Armor Pattern]. Once it spreads throughout the body and disappears under the skin, it signifies that it has reached its full potential!

He could cultivate without devouring external spirits. The backlash of the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique was caused by these external Yin spirits. He didn't devour them, so where did the backlash come from?

This situation delighted him. It was a miraculous technique that could be used for a long time. Even after mastering it, it could continuously upgrade the Black Fiend Armor's defensive capabilities.

This filled another weakness for Wang Yu. In terms of defense, he only had one mid-grade spell, Ice Shield, which was okay to use before, but now it couldn't keep up with the intensity of combat.

Having grasped the profoundness of this technique, Wang Yu did not change it again.

After all, the Xuan Yin Hand technique takes a long time to master, and since we've already entered the basics, we can take our time and learn slowly without needing Yin Marrow Liquid. There's no need to rush.

This made Wang Yu even more curious about the demonic inscription stele in the underground palace, but for now, his focus should be on cultivation.

However, it wouldn't be bad to take Situ Hong and the others down there again. The contents recorded on the stone tablet might be even more valuable than the [Taiyin You Tong].

For a moment, I felt an itch as if I were being scratched by a cat, and it took a long time for me to calm down.

Ten days later, Wang Yu took the fourth top-grade Cold Blood Pill.

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In January of his sixth year as an outer disciple, his patrol mission at Xuan Gu Mountain was due to end in two years.

That day, driven by curiosity, Wang Yu couldn't resist going out again to find Situ Hong, intending to discuss the matter of exploring the underground palace a second time.

However, danger often strikes when people are most relaxed. I thought that my trip to Xuan Gu Mountain was over and I was just waiting to return home.

An unexpected person suddenly appeared.

"Wang Yu!!!"

The sound was like thunder, echoing throughout the three mountains of Xuan Gu.

A terrifying aura shot straight into the sky, and Wang Yu froze for a moment. Based on the aura he sensed, he immediately knew who the newcomer was.

Xu Jiaojiao's father, Deacon Xu, is a first-generation cultivator at the third level of Foundation Establishment!

"How could this be—"

Logically speaking, even if Deacon Xu is released by the Enforcement Hall, he wouldn't come looking for trouble right away, since only Gu Zhengshun and Su Qingshan know about this matter.

The former was still hiding in the formation. When the two came to Xuan Gu Mountain together, they were in the honeymoon period of their cooperation and had no reason to betray each other.

The latter had already been killed by his own hand, his body left in pieces, so there should be no missing parts.

Clearly, Wang Yu was unaware that after Su Qingshan had thoroughly cleaned up the Xu residence, he had left his information in an envelope inside the house to avoid trouble.

This sudden turn of events put him in a very passive position.

Fortunately, the Three Mountains of Xuan Gu are now deserted, having been occupied by the early-stage second-tier Bone Lion. The four of them retreated to the edge of the area, only cutting down enough bone trees for a few people, and even gave up on the Xuan Essence Flower.

Deacon Xu arrived suddenly, and Wang Yu used the Night Concealment Spell to quietly retreat.

On the other side.

The first to react was the Bone Lion King. As if provoked, it roared to the sky, its body enveloped in a mist of pale white spiritual energy, and charged straight out.

Deacon Xu clearly hadn't anticipated the situation at Xuan Gu Mountain.

Upon seeing the Foundation Establishment demon beast attacking, he cursed and a crimson alchemy furnace appeared in his right hand. Under the stimulation of his true essence, it began to spin rapidly, and the lid of the furnace opened.

A blazing tongue of fire shot out fiercely, its extreme temperature distorting the air itself.

With a low roar, the bone lion king rapidly grew bone armor covering its body, and its ferocious spikes shot out from its back, piercing through all the flames.

As an alchemist, Steward Xu was more skilled in alchemy than in combat. He was barely competent in fighting, but his mind was affected by anger, and he was taken advantage of by a monster of the same level that had no origins.

It's a disgrace to Foundation Establishment.

Standing at a distance, Wang Yu glanced back and saw that the two had already exchanged several more blows.

After unleashing another second-tier low-grade sword, Deacon Xu finally gained the upper hand. He could defeat the Bone Lion King in a maximum of 180 rounds. This wildly grown demonic beast was still too weak.

There's simply no way they can compare to cultivators of the same level who come from the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect.

Based on his initial observation, Wang Yu was able to conclude that this person was not skilled in magic. Using magical artifacts to defend against enemies was not necessarily a bad thing.

(End of this chapter)