Chapter 463: Slayer of Immortals (Compensating 28 Missed Updates)
Chapter 463: Slayer of Immortals (Compensating 28 Missed Updates)
Ruyi Gate.
Within the spirit energy-rich immortal's cave.
Fang Xi quietly gazed at the five-colored ring before him, lost in thought.
This item was naturally the Hunyuan Sect's inherited treasure—the peak fourth-order spirit treasure, the Five Elements Ring!
In his transaction with Feng Shisan, besides the Phoenix Seal Script, he could choose two of the three treasures.
The astronomical spider's inner core was useless to him, so Fang Xi naturally chose the 'Five Elements Ring' and the 'Fengyuan Dan'. . .
"Who would have thought. . . after all these years, all the ups and downs, you would still end up in my hands."
After a long while, Fang Xi sighed with emotion.
Well. . . the Ethereal Valley Sect was now his own property, and Tai Shu Hong was still diligently guarding it, having been rejected by Zhong Hong Yu several times when he tried to transfer back to Emerald Island.
'So be it. . . my karma with the Hunyuan Sect ends here. . . '
Fang Xi's eyes flashed, and he spewed out a wisp of green nascent soul flame, beginning to incinerate the feather-like seal on the Five Elements Ring.
Time passed, bit by bit.
A long while later. . .
Buzz!
The green seal vanished completely. The Five Elements Ring let out a long hum, its five colors rotating, transforming from palm-sized to the size of a cattail leaf fan, and an astonishing spiritual light burst forth!
Fang Xi grabbed it with a large hand, firmly holding the ring, and said coldly, "Now that the war between humans and demons is imminent, and I am about to head to the battlefield. . . Five Elements Ring, you surely aren't willing to be sealed and humiliated by the demon race, are you? Hurry and help me!"
The next instant, Fang Xi sensed the artifact spirit of the Five Elements Ring.
With the artifact spirit's help, his Withered Glory Chant's magic power, like a long green dragon, easily surged into the deepest part of the Five Elements Ring, leaving his magic power imprint on each layer of restriction, and then imbuing the artifact spirit. . .
To refine the Five Elements Ring, one needed to cultivate any one of the five elements' cultivation methods: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.
Naturally, it would be best if one cultivated the 'Hunyuan Chant's Five Elements Body.
Fang Xi's pure wood-attribute cultivation method also barely met the requirements.
Feeling that the Five Elements Ring had been refined to his satisfaction, he let out a light chuckle, infused a stream of magic power, and tried to activate the ring.
Whoosh!
On the cattail leaf fan-sized Five Elements Ring, a restriction appeared, and green light flashed brilliantly, suddenly transforming into countless wooden flower stamens, each bursting with green light!
The flower stamens grew, circling around Fang Xi, and then petals like karmic fire red lotuses bloomed one by one!
The karmic fire red lotus was like a flower bud, followed by earthy yellow, pure white, and abyssal black-water-like flower branches, leaves, and stems. . .
Wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water. . . This was — the Mutual Generation of Five Elements!
Stamens, petals, and leaves of various colors. . . from inside out, they layered themselves, protecting Fang Xi within.
"This is. . . a miniaturized version of the 'Five Qi Revolving to Origin Grand Array'?"
Gazing at the runes flickering within the green light, like flower stamens, the five elements cycling, and himself seemingly protected within a five-colored lotus enveloped by a layer of karmic fire red lotus on the outermost layer, Fang Xi fell into contemplation.
"With such a continuous rotation of the five elements, endlessly regenerating. . . the defense of this Five Elements Ring is truly astonishing. Even if a late-stage Nascent Soul Grand Cultivator were to launch a sudden attack, they likely wouldn't be able to do anything to this 'Five Qi Revolving to Origin Array' for a while. . ."
"The talent and brilliance of the Hunyuan Ancestor back then were truly astonishing. . ."
"What a pity. . . his descendants were unworthy, or perhaps they couldn't find another 'Five Elements Body', making it difficult to unleash most of this treasure's power. . ."
Fang Xi wasn't a Five Elements Body, nor did he cultivate the 'Hunyuan Chant'. He could only barely unleash seventy to eighty percent of this treasure's power with the artifact spirit's assistance.
Even so, as a protective treasure, he was quite satisfied.
He cast another incantation. The five-colored lotus was drawn in by the Five Elements Ring, then reattached to his body, forming a five-colored battle armor. The Five Elements Ring itself transformed into the size of an Eight Immortals Table, circling his body, becoming a dual layer of protection. . .
"Collect!"
Finally, after testing various cultivation methods, Fang Xi contentedly put away the Five Elements Ring.
Within his Sea of Qi Dantian, his main Nascent Soul playfully beckoned with a hand, and a five-colored light flew down, encircling his wrist and transforming into a five-colored bracelet.
After refining the Five Elements Ring, Fang Xi took out a jade bottle containing a 'Fengyuan Dan'.
Although he didn't know what kind of charade Feng Shisan and Heavenly Dragon Venerable were putting on, he remained extremely cautious with such a pill.
As a fourth-tier alchemist, Fang Xi naturally had his own methods for examining pills now.
After various tests, he couldn't help but nod slightly: "It is indeed a rare spiritual pill, capable of breaking through bottlenecks and extending life. . ."
"However. . . the demon race is cunning. It's best not to consume their pills if possible. This pill isn't very useful for breakthroughs after the mid-stage Nascent Soul, and as for the mid-stage bottleneck, it shouldn't be able to trap me. . ."
Ever since he optimized his original spiritual roots, Fang Xi believed his aptitude had surpassed that of many old Nascent Soul monsters.
Coupled with the assistance of numerous resources, even without using the 'Fengyuan Dan', breaking through to the mid-stage Nascent Soul wouldn't be much of a problem.
Such a pill, with its questionable origins, would naturally be. . .
Fang Xi patted his Spirit Beast Bag, and Xiao Qing appeared, its intelligent eyes fixed on the Fengyuan Dan with a hint of longing.
"I originally intended to find a Heavenly Phoenix inner core for you, but who would have thought you'd be so interested in this pill. . ."
Fang Xi stroked his chin: "Fengyuan Dan. . . Could it be that during the refinement of this pill, essence blood or even primordial energy from the Heavenly Phoenix Clan was added? ! Never mind, since you plead so, I shall grant your wish."
He picked up the pill, flicked it lightly, and the Fengyuan Dan landed in Xiao Qing's mouth.
Xiao Qing chirped happily, then began to refine the pill's medicinal power.
Immediately, it seemed as if it had gotten drunk, swaying unsteadily, before finally toppling over and falling into a deep slumber. . .
Purple light flickered in Fang Xi's eyes. After a quick inspection, he confirmed that there wasn't a major issue; it merely needed to sleep to digest the immense medicinal power of the Fengyuan Dan. He set it aside and casually retrieved a beast hide book from his storage ring.
This beast hide book was left in the storage bag of the Five Elements Lin Clan, entirely written in demon script, with the last few pages even in Phoenix Seal Script.
Now that Fang Xi had finally managed to acquire the demon script inheritance, he naturally had to start deciphering it properly.
He ran his fingers over the beast hide, feeling the savage aura within it, and couldn't help but nod internally: "It should be at least a fourth-order demon beast's hide. Anything recorded on such an important material shouldn't be simple, should it. . ."
Fang Xi took out a jade slip, turned to the title page of the beast hide book, and began to cross-reference them one by one.
"Heaven. . . Heavenly Demon"
"Slaughter, destruction. . ."
"Immortals, cultivators. . ."
...
There were five demon characters on the title page of the beast hide book. Demon script was more akin to pictograms, but each character could convey multiple meanings, requiring Fang Xi to comprehend and decipher them himself. . .
He searched through the jade slip and barely managed to decipher the book's title from the title page: ""Celestial Demon Extermination Manual? " Indeed, it's a demon race cultivation method! What a pity. . . I am human, and most demon race cultivation methods and secret arts are completely incompatible, making them impossible to cultivate."
Even so, with the intention of learning and observing, Fang Xi continued to turn to the next page and began translating. . .
Time flowed like water, years flew like shuttles.
In the blink of an eye, several years had passed.
Fang Xi hadn't cultivated much, but rather immersed himself in the study and research of demon script.
Compared to the significant progress made with ordinary demon script, the learning of 'Silver Seal Script' was extremely slow.
Even with a wisp of a Nascent Soul remnant soul in his hand, allowing for immersive learning, Fang Xi still lingered at the introductory stage.
Even so, the knowledge gained from the remnant soul made Fang Xi realize that his speed was actually quite fast!
It was said that a cultivator with no comprehension or insight into the Dao of Void might not even be able to get started in their entire lifetime.
According to Fang Xi's estimation, this was likely due to his previous research into empty spirit roots, void-sealing talismans. . . and his frequent observation and comprehension of the All-Heavens Precious Mirror, which had laid a foundation for him in advance.
Inside the immortal's cave.
Fang Xi held the 'Celestial Demon Extermination Manual' in one hand and a jade slip in the other, imprinting the cultivation methods and secret arts he had comprehended, word by word.
"This 'Celestial Demon Extermination Manual' is indeed a demon race cultivation method. Any demon race member can cultivate it. . . it can even be cultivated all the way to the Return to Void stage. It's definitely the highest-grade cultivation method I've ever seen, what a pity, what a pity. . ."
According to Fang Xi's knowledge, ordinary demon beasts didn't need cultivation methods at all; they would only instinctively absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Only after passing the shape-shifting heavenly tribulation was it possible for them to obtain some cultivation methods and secret arts from their bloodline memories.
And their grade was unlikely to surpass the 'Celestial Demon Extermination Manual'!
"Although I cannot cultivate this method, once Xiao Qing successfully transforms, if the cultivation method from its bloodline memory isn't as good as this manual, then I can certainly let it cultivate this. . ."
"Even Da Qing, that lazy fish, can first learn the initial life-saving secret arts from it. . . That demon beast has always been quite skilled at learning such survival methods."
As Fang Xi imprinted the cultivation method and comprehended the manual, he immediately gained a deeper understanding of demon race cultivation.
"Demons are born untamed and arrogant. . . To become a king, one must gather the spirits of myriad demons to cultivate oneself. . ."
"Could it be that demon kings are not born, but can be cultivated later?"
"Gathering the spirits of myriad demons, plundering the bloodlines and even innate divine abilities of other demon races to perfect oneself. . . Truly ruthless. However, demon races can already devour each other; tigers never consider rabbits or deer as their own kind. . . so it's not truly cannibalism."
Fang Xi then looked at several translated secret arts and demon artifacts, immediately realizing that the demon race was even more ruthless towards its own kind.
Leaving aside the secret arts for now, among the artifacts, the method for refining the 'Demon-Controlling Ring' was clearly listed.
And this item was actually among the worst kind.
"Could it be. . . that the famous 'Three Demon-Slaying Treasures' originally circulated from within the demon race?"
Doubt arose in his heart, and then he saw an artifact that greatly excited him!
"Soul Suppressing Pagoda!"
"This treasure has fifth-order potential. Refined with the spirit blood of myriad demons, its power can continuously increase. . . After being refined to the fifth-order, it possesses extremely powerful void-related divine abilities, and can even assist cultivators in crossing the Boundless Sea of Realms. . ."
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