Chapter 515 Breakthrough - Ninth Level of Nascent Soul!
The entire Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation is inextricably linked to the palace area.
It's both dangerous and an opportunity!
The situations of the cultivators varied, but most were in trouble. When Wang Yu decided to enter the formation to find out what was going on, he chose the Rest Gate, one of the auspicious gates.
As the light flashed, Wang Yu's vision suddenly shifted.
He also appeared in a square.
This place is still covered by a carpet of flesh and blood, but the difference is that the special vitality that can cause flesh and blood mutations in the environment is much weaker.
Wang Yu was equally shocked when he first witnessed this scene.
But what appeared in his mind was the Ancient Demon of Life... that legendary being suppressed directly beneath the Floating Mountain of the Sword Sect, a special being with demonic life force.
He had reason to suspect that the true core of the Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation was not a replica of one of the legendary Heavenly Formations, but rather an imitation or, in other words, a utilization of the power of the Ancient Demon of Life through some means.
This resulted in the formation of such a strange and unique array.
Seeing a humanoid monster growing out of the carpet of flesh, Wang Yu stopped observing and tentatively absorbed a wisp of demonized life force with his finger.
In just a few breaths, the flesh on his fingers swelled several times its original size, growing into fleshy growths that burst open one after another, revealing yellow eyes that stared back at him.
Wang Yu: "..."
With a thought, the demonic energy transformed into sharp threads, using the finger bones as axes, and directly peeled away all the flesh from the fingers.
He hadn't expected that even his own physical strength wouldn't be able to resist this mutation.
After truly experiencing it, I gained a clear understanding.
If the human body rejects the entry of harmful substances, this rejection can be regarded as a kind of resistance, while the essence of demonic vitality is a life force that is vigorous to the extreme.
Its injection will only benefit the body.
Just as sugar can make people feel happy and comfortable, excessive consumption can lead to a series of problems such as increased fat, weight gain, and blood lipid levels.
This life force is similar, but it has an additional inductive property, which can cause the haphazardly growing flesh and blood to form real new limbs, and even gain some special power.
It's like... suddenly gaining a bloodline talent!
His eyes inadvertently swept over those strange creatures, and he noticed that many of them had grown scales, claws, and even feathers.
A sudden inspiration struck Wang Yu.
"These are characteristics of the demon race!"
Realizing this crucial point, Wang Yu quickly started running around the square, choosing not to engage the monsters for the time being.
Instead, they observed them more closely. These monsters lacked intelligence and mostly acted on instinct, while the bloodline instincts of the demon race were actually easy to discern.
By observing their habitual attack patterns, one can make an accurate judgment.
"These are just wolves... these are just birds, and there are also fish spirits?"
After observing everything, Wang Yu immediately understood the situation.
The rapidly moving figure suddenly stopped, and from his center, an extremely cold temperature suddenly spread out, and black frost instantly covered the entire square.
All the monsters were frozen into ice sculptures, and then icicles rose from the ground, stringing the monsters together into blood gourds, hanging there silently.
It has an eerie beauty, like a work of art.
Only then did Wang Yu have time to examine his injured finger. He saw that blood-like streaks had grown on the Immortal Spirit Bone, a sign of the invasion of demonic life force.
This bizarre attack pattern, which claims to be "for your own good" but is actually meant to kill you, is something your body simply cannot resist, unless every drop of blood carries Wang Yu's will.
Only in this way can we actively exclude this force.
With his current level of body refinement, he can only inject his instinctive consciousness into his flesh and blood for the time being, and cannot actively control or influence it. Only if he can achieve a major breakthrough in body refinement can he achieve the fusion of mind and body.
Control every drop of your own blood with your own will!
Unfortunately, this method didn't work, and his instincts wouldn't reject this special life force that could nourish his body.
The longer he stays inside the Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation, the higher the probability of him becoming demonic, eventually losing himself and becoming one of the raw materials for the flesh and blood monsters of this place.
"A way to break the deadlock..."
—A born demonic fetus!
Realizing that the monsters here all possessed characteristics of demon blood, Wang Yu directly summoned a corpse, and an almost tangible demonic malevolence surged from between his brows.
It vaguely formed a huge maw that would devour people, swallowing the corpse clean in one gulp, while Wang Yu closed his eyes to sense this special form that was a mixture of various demon bloodlines.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
Wang Yu, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly lost all his clothes. His pale body was quickly covered by writhing flesh and blood, and soon transformed into a one-eyed dragon claw demon.
However, he did not lose his mind. This is the ability of the Heavenly Demon Transformation. After his physique is complete, he can directly obtain the bloodline form behind him by devouring things like corpses or bloodline cores.
In this state, Wang Yu actually fooled the array's ability to distinguish him and was regarded as one of the mutated monsters. The demonic life force in the environment no longer insisted on entering his body.
But after the change, he faced a new problem.
That is, even in its demonized form, demonized life force still exists within its body, even more than that that has invaded the immortal spirit bone, but it seems to lack the "interest" that induces distortion.
It simply circulates normally within his body, no longer altering his physical form.
Yes, this thing is ultimately just something controlled by an array. It has already completed its "aberration," so naturally it won't consume this power to modify it anymore.
This is what an uncontrolled formation looks like; only rigid rules continue to operate. Finding flaws within these rules is the goal of cultivators.
In this state of mind, Wang Yu suddenly had a brilliant idea.
He suddenly activated the fundamental technique of the fifth-order perfect realm—the Ice Soul Holy Demon Scripture! He attempted to manipulate this demonized life force and… refine it!
As time passed, Wang Yu, in his one-eyed demon form...
An unnatural flush suddenly rose to his face, and he couldn't hide his excitement, chuckling softly.
After the Great Circulation, all the demonic life force in his body was transformed into his demonic essence, amounting to at least two thousand drops, meaning he maintained this state.
At most, five cycles of the Great Heavenly Cycle can condense a single Demon Essence Crystal.
He was only nine Demonic Essence Crystals away from reaching the fifty Qi Sea limit required to break through to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage. In other words, he needed to absorb the demonized life force from forty-five more corpses.
He will then be able to complete a new breakthrough, reaching the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage, and truly touching the pinnacle of this realm.
This was truly an unexpected delight.
"I didn't expect that this place would bring so many surprises before I even started searching for treasure. It truly lives up to its reputation as the number one secret realm in the Ice Prison Realm."
Muttering to himself, Wang Yu couldn't resist summoning another corpse. This time, he didn't need to use the Devouring Ability of the Heavenly Demon Transformation; he simply placed his hand on the corpse.
The "empty" state within his body naturally attracted the demonic life force to spontaneously flow into his body, and soon Wang Yu entered the second round of refining cultivation.
As for whether this move will have any long-term consequences, based on his current assessment, there are none for the time being!
Furthermore, the refined demonic life force remained unchanged in its essence, and Wang Yu's life force also began to increase accordingly, which had a life-extending effect to some extent.
Because he is still young, this vitality is more of a physical activity, greatly enhancing his physical potential and strengthening his recovery and organ function.
To put it simply, his physical cultivation aptitude and potential have both improved, with excellent results and no upper limit in sight.
To be more specific.
His physical body became increasingly tough and indestructible, and his combat power ceiling was being raised through round after round of refinement and cultivation, as if he had entered an easy mode.
They disregarded everything else and focused solely on increasing their strength.
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"—Run!"
The roar of the Heavenly Roc King startled all the demons awake. After the Fire Crow King's true flames dissipated, they followed Huo Wuji's footsteps and left through the passage on one side of the square.
King Lei Lin hesitated greatly, still pondering whether he should trust this fiend. After all, when they entered the secret realm, the Northern Demon Clan suffered heavy losses, with at least half of their powerful members forever trapped in the mind trap.
There aren't many strong members left in his Thunder Scale Beast Clan.
But at this moment, the Fire Crow King came over and patted him on the shoulder, his face grim, and said, "Now that things have come to this, we can only trust Wuji one more time. As the saying goes, humans learn from their mistakes, and I believe he will learn from his experience."
"I hope so..."
King Lei Lin sighed deeply, but ultimately followed after him.
After passing through a long passage, a dozen or so transformed demons arrived at another plaza from one plaza, where the scene was so breathtaking that it was almost impossible to move.
The ancient blue phoenix, resembling a corpse, had lost all its feathers. Its body was covered with irregularly growing claws, lumps dripping with mucus, and a split brain filled with strange serrations.
It lives in such a peculiar form that it is truly an eye-opener!
besides.
There are also many ancient monsters whose flesh and blood have been corrupted, such as the Xie Zhi, which is famous for distinguishing between real and fake, the Suanni, which uses thunder as its magic, and the Zhu Yan, which has the ability to transform... all of them are ferocious beasts that went extinct in ancient times.
Most of them possess the bloodline level of ancient remnants.
Each and every one of them is a seed of Nascent Soul.
How could these beings, whose bloodlines were at most at the Heavenly Rank, possibly face such a terrifying and moving scene that even demons would find so shocking?
"So...this is the dead end!"
The moment Huo Wuji had this thought in his mind, he found himself lifted into the air by Lei Linwang, who grabbed his throat and forcibly lifted him up.
Seeing the killing intent in the other party's eyes, Huo Wuji, like the other demons, fell into deep despair.
after all.
Those who stayed in the square still had a chance to survive, as the monsters there were generally only at the third tier, and with their abilities, it wouldn't be a problem how long they could stay.
The real reason that forced them to leave quickly was the danger posed by the environment.
Here... although the strength of these ferocious beast corpses has greatly decreased due to the effects of time and death, they are generally still at the fourth rank.
How should we deal with this?
Considering Lei Lin Wang's reputation for cruelty, Huo Wuji felt he was doomed. Even Huo Ya Wang might not be willing to protect him. The panicked team needed a "sacrifice" to calm their nerves.
Who could be more suitable than him, the culprit who single-handedly led everyone into a desperate situation?
The existence of these ferocious beasts and monsters is actually quite easy to deduce, provided that one knows the true face of the Ice Phoenix Saint Lord and perceives the sinister effects of the Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation.
The Ice Phoenix Saint Lord's power was at its zenith in ancient times.
It would be incredibly easy to secretly place the corpses of the dead demon beasts within the Heavenly Palace's secret realm; there are plenty of ways to deceive everyone.
If one were bold enough to openly declare that they would use the corpse to set up a secret realm so that future generations could gain experience and opportunities, they would also receive the approval of many elders of the demon race at that time.
The danger level here has risen sharply, and no one has mentioned that the "awakening" of the secret realm might be a good thing anymore. Many of the sharp-minded and powerful among them have realized this.
The hostility toward demons here is far greater than toward other living beings.
This might be a scheme devised by the Ice Phoenix Saintess to prevent her lies from being exposed and to provoke retaliation. Whether intentional or unintentional, they did indeed stumble upon it.
The battle between the ancient demonized corpses and the powerful Northern Demon Clan quickly unfolded, and the situation was relatively balanced. For some reason, the bodies of these corpses were unexpectedly fragile.
Although their recovery ability was greatly enhanced and their flesh and blood grew at an almost instantaneous rate, the Northern Demon Clan was still not completely crushed.
This creates a strange balance.
However, the piles of flesh and limbs on the square were increasing, and the demons looked as if they had been pulled out of a sea of blood, all of them covered in blood.
The intensity of the battle was so high that there wasn't even time to clean themselves up.
After about fifteen minutes.
As the Heavenly Roc King was about to speak amidst the ever-increasing number of demonized ancient beast corpses, a powerful member of the Thunderscale Beast Clan suddenly roared.
It revealed its true form, and the enormous four-legged thunder beast roared to the sky!
The body began to deform directly.
This was clearly caused by an excessive accumulation of demonic life force within his body, resulting in an instant loss of reason and a frenzied attack on his nearby comrades.
That frenzied attitude showed he was completely risking his life.
"—Damn it!"
...
Three days later.
Wang Yu, who was sitting cross-legged on the ice sculpture square, suddenly experienced a surge in his aura. It turned out that the amount of demonic energy in his dantian had broken through the upper limit, thus breaking through his realm and causing his essence, qi, and spirit to grow together.
The divine sense and physical body, which had already reached the limit of the fourth rank, improved a little more. However, the divine sense was restricted by the nascent soul and could not break through on its own before it transformed into a primordial spirit.
The physical body, however, does not have this limitation.
The improvement brought about by this fundamental realm made Wang Yu realize the existence of that constraint, and the immortal spiritual body is the shortcut to breaking through this constraint.
He was confident that he would be the first to break through to the fifth level of physical body, provided he obtained the breakthrough treasure for the physical body.
After reaching the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm, the effect of demonic life force on him weakened considerably, but it still played a significant role.
In the long run, if he stayed in the Eight Gates Heavenly Escape Formation for a few years, he should be able to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, but Wang Yu still chose to give up.
The reason is the same as when you are on the road to extreme cold hell.
The secret realm is full of treasures that can defy fate, so there's no need to pick up a sesame seed and lose a watermelon. Besides, the core of this formation is definitely related to the Ancient Demon of Life.
His intuition told him that this might be the key to his breakthrough to the fifth level of body refinement.
Therefore, after calming down.
Maintaining his one-eyed demon form, Wang Yu officially began his exploration of the palace area covered in flesh and blood.
(End of this chapter)
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