The calm after Chapter 190
Or rather, they were the ones who triggered this phenomenon.
Wei Shanze, Ding Ming, Xie Xie'an, and Jin Miaoshan were all present, along with several others whom Wang Yu was unfamiliar with but whose origins he could identify, such as the Huangquan Temple cultivators shrouded in Huangquan ghost mist.
Or perhaps it is the protector of the Underworld Sect riding a flying serpent.
The Underworld Mountain Sect is famous for its lineage of controlling Yin Beasts, which is exactly the same as the lineage of the Fierce Dark Peak of the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect. In fact, there is a certain connection between the two.
They all originated from the Way of Beast Taming, but the beasts they tamed were special, known as Yin Beasts.
This is a bizarre creature that can switch between the forms of a ghost and a flesh-and-blood being. In ancient times, it only existed in the [Wilderness Ancient Plains], but now it is quite widely distributed.
Desolate deserts, arid white sand seas, mountain ranges with ruptured boundaries, windswept Gobi deserts... and other such regions.
Wherever there is a desolate place with Yin veins, there will definitely be traces of Yin beasts!
According to legend, Yin Beasts are creatures born in the Netherworld. They feed on Yin energy and living souls and possess the innate talent to connect the Yin and Yang paths and play in the Yellow Springs River.
But no one has ever seen a Yin Beast with this ability.
The so-called "Netherworld" has never been found in this realm. It is only regarded as a legend from outside the realm, such as the "Heavenly Demon Realm". Ding Ming also cultivated the way of controlling Yin Beasts.
Wang Yu wondered if his intelligence had worked, but the struggle for the opportunity at the Dongjijing Ruins had clearly reached a fever pitch, and he was filled with curiosity.
However, he suppressed his restless heart and quietly waited for the intelligence personnel to send a new photographic stone, silently observing the fierce battle three thousand kilometers away, as if watching a movie.
Whether or not something is passed down is irrelevant. Such a vast ancient site clearly offers more than just this one opportunity; it's just that no one has triggered it yet. It's good to explore more and accumulate experience.
With his abundant financial support, Wang Yu tinkered with many interesting little gadgets, and he made one photo stone after another, constantly observing the fierce battle in the distance.
"oh--"
"A Core Formation cultivator has made a move. Gui Water Yin Thunder? A supernatural technique... It seems to be from the Yin Gui Palace, a first-rate force with only one or two Nascent Soul cultivators below the Overlord level."
"As expected of the demonic path! A Core Formation cultivator ambushed a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the unlucky guy is... Xie Xie'an! Hehe~"
In the photograph, because the people recording were far apart, Wang Yu was unable to analyze all the magical techniques and supernatural abilities. He could only accurately identify those with obvious features and a lot of noise.
The city lord lay on his side on the couch, leaning against the warm, cuddly snow fox, eating candied fruit and other snacks, muttering to himself.
"Little Xie, what trump card did you use? You're still alive... Wow! You even have a talisman."
This wasn't the first time Wang Yu had seen someone use a talisman; he had also seen one in Liu Jinxian's possession.
This thing requires the depletion of a Core Formation cultivator's natal magic treasure's essence to be refined. A single talisman can be used a maximum of three times, making it one of the common trump cards used by second-generation cultivators.
It's quite normal that Evil God Peak only has three true disciples, who are highly valued and possess talisman treasures.
Compared to Liu Jinxian's control abilities, Xie Xie'an's utilization and control of talisman treasures has almost reached its limit.
The black divine light not only dispersed the Gui Water Yin Lightning, but also knocked down the Core Formation cultivator who had launched the sneak attack, causing him to disappear into the ground. The counterattack was very successful.
At that moment, Wang Yu caught a glimpse of another scene.
One of the competitors, Kim Myo-sun, threw out a handful of unknown pellet-shaped objects. Immediately afterward, the area around the blood-red pillar of light was filled with bursting green flames, affecting a range of over a thousand meters.
Those cultivators who couldn't dodge in time, even with protective measures, were still reduced to charred corpses and fell like rain.
A deadly weapon!
"Sizzle—"
Just as Jin Miaoshan disappeared into the blood-red pillar of light, the scene abruptly cut off, and Wang Yu hurriedly shouted.
"The third one! Has the third memory stone arrived yet?"
"You've arrived, Lord City Lord!"
"Beep—"
The scenes continue, and the tense and exciting battle intensifies.
Because the intelligence personnel were removing stones, the recording of the operation was delayed, causing the footage to skip a few breaths.
Upon closer inspection, the crimson pillar of light representing Asura was rapidly dimming, indicating that the inheritance had been obtained by Jin Miaoshan. This was discovered by the cultivators who were fighting each other.
They all stopped fighting and began to arrange array flags around the blood-red pillar of light, clearly intending to surround and kill them.
In contrast, look at the gray pillar of light representing the Rakshasa.
It was a scene of utter chaos, with grotesque spirits and malevolent beings blotting out the sky and killing each other. Sometimes, Lao Liu would even rip off someone's butt. There was no one particularly powerful being to be found, and the whole place was in complete disarray.
If one were to control only one or two, the cultivator would probably not even be able to find their own ghost servants, as the eerie mist of the ghost realm completely blocked out the power of divine sense.
Ghosts flew wildly in the sky, while zombies and evil beasts fought each other on the ground. Every now and then, a black coffin would emerge from the cracks in the ground, swallow people up, and then shrink back into the ground.
This isn't treasure hunting at all; it's practically providing your baby with high-quality blood-nourishing food—a free nutritional buffet!
Sometimes, when pushed to the limit, people will use their trump cards. Wang Yu saw a cultivator with a locust tree spirit summon a ghost tree that was hundreds of meters long, and then unleash his power to kill a group of people.
Then they were overwhelmed by more attacks. It was even more chaotic than a battlefield for ordinary people, like a battle royale. Being too conspicuous would make you the target of concentrated fire.
Pretending to be a pig? You're more likely to be caught off guard and killed on the spot by a sudden, full-force attack from a sneaky thug, and you'll be reincarnated as a real pig in your next life!
While Wang Yu was broadening his horizons, he was also constantly absorbing experience. In this type of killing field, concealing oneself was the most important thing, and it was best to strike at the crucial moment.
The battle lasted a long time, and Wang Yu did not know who had won because the victor on the Rakshasa Light Pillar side was shrouded in ghostly mist.
It's safe to say that Kim Myo-seon has won against the Asura Light Pillar.
After she came out, she was surrounded by a colorful array, and it was difficult for her to move even a hair. It was her remaining protector who saved her by throwing more than ten third-level barrier-breaking talismans.
After breaking through all the layers of formations, and using spatial magic treasures and a third-tier escape talisman, he was able to escape successfully. This kind of money-based combat tactic is something that others cannot learn.
Even so, both of them suffered severe injuries.
To Wang Yu's surprise, he didn't see any Nascent Soul cultivators make a move throughout the entire battle. This was a top-tier Divine Transformation inheritance, yet not a single one was tempted by it.
He didn't believe that a Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't know something that even these juniors knew.
Could there be something wrong with the cultivation technique? But that doesn't seem like it!
Otherwise, the disciples of these powerful forces wouldn't be so eager to seize it. So, does that mean Nascent Soul cultivators don't need Deity Transformation techniques?
This speculation is so outrageous that even he doesn't believe it.
As my thoughts raced...
He had another guess.
Could it be a problem with the path they're building? But there are still some Nascent Soul cultivators, and even more Nascent Soul cultivators in the Sword Dao, like the Nine Evil True Monarchs of his Reverse Spirit Blood Sect... yet not a single one of them is interested.
It seems there are secrets hidden here that someone of his status cannot know. I'll ask Zhuo Shouqing about it later.
The legacy indicated by the anomaly has come to an end, which means that the Dongjijing Ruins will return to its former state, becoming a place for scattered small teams or lone wolves to explore.
That's what ruins are like.
Some sites have been completely developed and are no longer visited by anyone.
However, some ruins are too deep and too vast, harboring endless dangers. The truly valuable things within them often manifest as unusual phenomena.
Whenever this happens, it sparks a wave of exploration, and people only leave after the item has been acquired.
Secret realms are often controlled by various forces, and independent cultivators rarely have the opportunity to enter them. For them, ruins are a good place to defy fate and change their destiny.
When a lucky person actually triggers an exceptional opportunity, the major powers will come and reap the benefits. This is a common phenomenon with opportunities from ruins.
Everyone's waiting for a good meal!
A few days later.
The corpses and body parts were mostly picked up by people, and even the fragments of magical artifacts damaged in the battle disappeared without a trace. If you found a fragment of a magical treasure, you would be rich.
All the low-level "scavengers" who clean up the battlefield basically have this purpose in mind when they come to pick up things.
Of course, before they arrived, the spoils of war, such as storage bags, as well as the corpses of high-level cultivators, had already been taken away and could not be left to them.
After the war, the area gradually returned to peace, and even the flow of people in Guiling City plummeted. Wang Yu adjusted the sales direction of his shops.
Reduce the proportion of combat consumables and increase the proportion of daily cultivation items.
The peaceful city of Guiling is thriving!
Ding Ming, Wei Shanze, and the others did not return, and Jin Miaoshan also left the Guiling branch building. All the turmoil was receding, and true peace was restored.
However... Zhuo Shouqing didn't leave.
In his words, having fun anywhere is fine. He'd been stuck in the sect for too long and was getting bored, so it was nice to come out and try something new.
Zhuo Shouqing's answer to why no Nascent Soul cultivators came to compete for it was intriguing.
He said: The Nascent Soul of the Demonic Path has already begun to absorb demonic energy, and demonic energy is also differentiated, just like spiritual energy is divided into the Five Elements, ice, wind, thunder, yin, yang, etc.
There is also higher quality demonic energy, and once this power is refined, it is irreversible. The source of demonic energy in this world comes from the sealed [Ancient Demons]!
Once the conversation had reached this point, Wang Yu pretty much understood.
This information needs to be considered in conjunction with information he already knew, such as... the demonic lineage of this world also originates from various ancient demons.
Just as he had guessed, his main path of cultivation was difficult to change.
He originally thought that this restriction wouldn't be too severe, and that he could always use it to advance his own path through methods like drawing inferences from other cases. But now it seems that this won't work, at least not on the demonic path.
Because its constraint lies in the demonic energy of different zodiac signs.
For example, if Jin Miaoshan had cultivated the "Asura Killing Scripture," then after she broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, the Asura demonic energy she could absorb from heaven and earth would be extremely scarce, or even nonexistent.
The best solution is to go to the [Wilderness Ancient Plains] to find the sealed place belonging to [Kill], where there will definitely be overflowing 'Asura Demonic Qi'.
Wang Yu couldn't explain the reason for this strange restriction.
But... can the placement slot provide him with the corresponding demonic energy? It should be possible, after all, it can even absorb the evil thoughts of heavenly demons without any side effects.
(End of this chapter)
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