novelraw Chapter 107 : So, I Plan to Use Demonic Energy
Chapter 107 : So, I Plan to Use Demonic Energy
The Demon King was stunned upon hearing this. The young woman's actions conveyed the meaning of her words faster than his brain could process them.
A layer of energy condensed in her palm, not the fire-red spiritual power of the fire attribute, but dark black demonic energy.
She was merely an ordinary Golden Core stage cultivator, yet this demonic energy had almost reached the Divine Transformation stage.
The Demon King's expression turned ugly, unable to believe she had such a trick up her sleeve—spiritual energy and demonic energy were mutually generative and restrictive, how could they coexist within the same person?
Unfortunately, he was destined never to get an answer.
The half-step Divine Transformation stage Demon King was violently slammed against the rocks, causing countless stone fragments to collapse and lava to splash.
He coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face contorting, "Die!"
He attempted to use demon power to detonate the volcano.
The volcano's boiling speed accelerated again, and the divine bow at the center of the crater was about to fall into the magma.
Chu Sang, quick-eyed and quick-handed, flew towards it, attempting to grasp the bow and arrow.
An indescribably terrifying high temperature instantly transmitted from the bow's surface to her arm, and then her entire body was engulfed in flames.
Even with a Celestial Fire Spirit Root, it was difficult to resist this fire power.
Chu Sang's face instantly turned paper-white, and large drops of cold sweat evaporated before they could fall. Countless slender fire snakes instantly crawled all over her body, hissing and spitting sparks like lightning. The fire-resistant robe made by Hong Niang's spider silk was burned to shreds.
"Little Junior Sister!"
Mu Chihuai and Tantai Ming also panicked. The two wanted to help, but the scorching high temperature made it impossible for them to get close.
"Hehe, wishful thinking. With your power alone, it's impossible to open this bow!"
The demon cultivator looked up at the young woman trying to draw the bowstring, getting up with a mouth full of bloody teeth, sneering, "This is the divine bow left from ancient times, Karma Burns the Three Realms, the Arrow that Breaks Realms! Since ancient times, no one has been able to open this divine bow!"
As he spoke, he retreated to one side, silently pressing a mechanism.
The formation hidden at the base of the fire mouth was fully activated, and explosive flames burst out in an instant. The volcano officially erupted.
The surging, violent, dazzling lava instantly engulfed the red-clad young woman and the divine bow.
The young woman in the flames was tattered, her long hair disheveled, her face bloodied. To put it bluntly, she looked like a demon that had just crawled out of hell.
The Demon King laughed madly, "Die, all of you die, you damn human cultivators!"
She looked down at the now frenzied Demon King from above, her bare feet stepping on the bow's arm. Her arm's veins bulged as she drew the bowstring in a full moon stance.
"Karma Burns the Three Realms, open—"
The spirit that had slept for ten thousand years awakened.
Within the flames, a fiery red phantom appeared behind Chu Sang, perfectly replicating her actions, drawing an even larger phantom bow and arrow.
"Break!"
Karma Burns the Three Realms, the Arrow that Breaks Realms, tearing through everything, reality and illusion.
Just before the volcano completely erupted and destroyed the secret realm,
An arrow pierced through the Demon King's shocked eyes as he died with eyes wide open,
Not stopping there,
It pierced through the barrier.
Pierced through the secret realm!
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Outside the secret realm, fire filled the sky, countless fireballs streaking across the horizon, bombarding in all directions.
No cultivator knew exactly what had happened, with screams and cries of alarm unceasing.
Just as they thought death was certain, a fiery arrow of flowing fire tore through the sky, ripping apart space.
Before everyone's eyes.
The secret realm was pierced by a single arrow!
Everyone was ejected from the secret realm just before the volcano completely erupted.
Some cultivators reacted, shouting with joy,
"...The divine bow, it's the divine bow! There really was a divine bow in the secret realm, that arrow was shot by the divine bow!"
"If it weren't for that arrow piercing through the secret realm, we would all have been buried within, becoming nourishment for the secret realm..." The cultivators said with lingering fear, their voices trembling.
"But who had such great ability to draw the divine bow?"
Almost all the cultivators who had escaped with their lives were discussing who had shot that arrow.
This generation of the cultivation world had produced many astonishingly talented prodigies. The cultivator most likely to be able to draw a fire-attribute divine bow would be someone with a supreme-grade fire spirit root. But looking across the entire cultivation world, there were only a few living fire spirit root cultivators, most with low spirit root coefficients, and they had mostly gone into seclusion.
The only well-known fire spirit root cultivator was that new junior sister recently accepted by the Tianyan Sect, who had a supreme-grade fire spirit root with a coefficient above five.
But it was rumored that she had been under house arrest for several months, so who had drawn this bow?
People speculated endlessly but couldn't figure it out, so it remained an unsolved mystery for the time being.
After the Demon King was shot through and his soul scattered, the three were also ejected from the secret realm.
Chu Sang had almost been burned to a little charcoal person and fainted from exhaustion. Tantai Ming and Mu Chihuai quickly took her back to the sect.
She remained unconscious for a month.
When Immortal Chanyu saw her little disciple burned to such a ghostly state, she quickly emptied out what little was left of the sect's resources, using all sorts of spirit pills and heaven-grade spirit herbs. She finally stabilized Chu Sang's heart meridians, but Chu Sang showed no signs of waking up.
"Master, when will Little Junior Sister wake up?" Tantai Ming, who hadn't closed his eyes for several nights, yawned as he leaned on the bedside.
"At the bottom of the Fire Realm Secret Realm's volcano, there was a large amount of pure fire power stored. Pure fire source is greatly nourishing for her, but it's clearly been too much." Immortal Chanyu sat by the bed, stroking the young woman's hair. "Don't worry, Sang'er is fine now, just too tired and needs some time to rest. Moreover..."
She curved her lips in a smile, "Sang'er should be about to advance."
"Really?!"
Tantai Ming's eyes also lit up, happy and proud.
Although Little Junior Sister had a supreme-grade celestial fire spirit root, for some unknown reason, her advancement had always been a beat slower than theirs.
If not for the stimulation from this Fire Realm Secret Realm, she probably would have needed at least a year or more to touch the bottleneck for breakthrough. This time, it provided her with a catalyst, converting a large amount of fire source power into energy for her fire spirit root, directly boosting the fire-attribute spiritual power in her dantian by a large margin. Breaking through the bottleneck in one go shouldn't be a problem.
This could be considered a blessing in disguise.
"Although the fire source is greatly nourishing for her, her realm is still too low, and her physical strength is still lacking a bit. Too much fire power is more than Little Junior Sister can bear right now. This soul jade should help her." Ling Yu walked into the room, holding a pale white soul jade that was extremely cold to the touch, perfectly complementary and opposite to the fire source power.
Mu Chihuai turned his head to look at the still unconscious Chu Sang. Indeed, it was more than she could bear. Waiting like this, who knows how many months or years it would take for her to wake up. They could borrow some power from the soul jade.
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Although Chu Sang had fainted, her sea of consciousness was unusually clear.
She floated in the center of her sea of consciousness.
The sea of consciousness had transformed into a boiling, churning sea of lava.
Above, thousands of fireballs occasionally streaked across, bombarding in all directions, shaking her sea of consciousness and making it sway precariously.
Her physical body felt even worse, almost about to be burned away.
At this moment, a wave of icy cold energy surged in, finally calming her overly agitated sea of consciousness, bringing the fire power within to a relatively balanced state, preventing it from killing her along with it.
In the center of the sea of consciousness, besides her, there was now a fire-red flowing light bow and arrow, silently floating in mid-air.
Another fire-red figure floated above the bow and arrow, with a form and features somewhat similar to Chu Sang's.
A powerful divine artifact of this caliber, like Karma Burns the Three Realms, was not something that could be created by humans, but a truly heaven-born divine artifact.
From its creation, no one had been able to draw it, and it subsequently fell into a ten-thousand-year slumber.
Chu Sang was not only equivalent to its first master but also the first person the bow spirit had seen since gaining consciousness. Naturally, it took her as a template for its appearance.
To add another point, although artifact spirits are genderless and can transform at will, in most cases where artifact spirits don't have special opinions or personalities, their appearance, gender, personality, and so on tend to lean towards those of their current master.
Karma Burns the Three Realms appeared as a red-haired young woman with a fierce look but few words.
She flew in front of Chu Sang, extending her hand, her tone indifferent,
"Celestial fire spirit root, form a contract with me, let me become your life-bound weapon."
The person who could draw her was her destined master.
If it were other cultivators facing such a great blessing, they would have been so excited they couldn't find north. However, the young woman before her was clearly not an ordinary person.
Chu Sang took two steps back, looking up with a smile at the slightly confused artifact spirit before her. She stroked her chin, thinking, "A divine bow, indeed powerful, able to pierce through the secret realm with one arrow... but let me think about it for a bit."
"Think about it?"
The artifact spirit tilted her head, seeming a bit puzzled.
She thought the young woman would be very happy to form a contract with her, but she didn't seem very willing.
Weren't divine artifacts... very popular?
Could it be that after her ten-thousand-year slumber, divine artifacts were now all over the streets, no longer valuable?
The bow spirit found this a bit hard to accept. She slightly raised her chin, her face expressionless as she said, "Forming a contract with me means you can use my power at any time. How many people seek this opportunity in vain? What else is there for you to think about?"
Cultivators in the cultivation world pursue different paths of cultivation. There are magic cultivators, artifact cultivators, pill cultivators, talisman cultivators, body cultivators, as well as sword cultivators and saber cultivators.
Sword cultivators and saber cultivators should both be classified as weapon cultivators. The reason sword cultivators and saber cultivators are discussed separately is that most weapon cultivators are sword or saber cultivators. There are also cultivators who use other weapons like bows and arrows, long spears, double hammers, and polearms, but they are rare.
The reason is simple: swords and sabers are the strongest, while others are slightly inferior.
Strength here doesn't refer to swords and sabers being the strongest. Weapons of the same level, whether swords, sabers, or others, don't actually have obvious differences in strength. It all depends on the user.
However, compared to various other weapons, swords and sabers are the quickest to master and have the strongest attack power.
Chu Sang was a true sword cultivator and was very cautious about selecting her life-bound weapon. She would rather choose a suitable sword as her life-bound weapon.
Seeming to sense Chu Sang's disdain towards her, the artifact spirit angrily puffed her cheeks and tried to save face, saying, "Originally, my choice wasn't you, but another fire spirit root cultivator. However, she didn't come, so I was awakened by you instead."
A celestial fire spirit root was her most perfect match.
The artifact spirit only recognized spirit roots.
The identity of the master wasn't important; what mattered was the celestial fire spirit root.
To be honest, the artifact spirit hadn't expected that this generation of the cultivation world would produce two fire spirit root cultivators with excellent aptitude.
Chu Sang carefully pondered the meaning of her words and became interested. "Weren't you always asleep? How do you know so much?"
"Your choice isn't me, but another person. Who guided you in this matter?"
"The Heavenly Dao told me."
The simple artifact spirit didn't hide anything from her. She looked up and said in a calm tone, "I'm not a divine artifact created by you cultivators, but a heaven-born divine artifact nurtured by heaven and earth. I was born with a spirit from the moment of my creation, and the spirit can communicate with the Heavenly Dao. This was the will given to me by the Heavenly Dao."
Chu Sang's eyes showed deep thought. This divine bow was indeed an opportunity that the Heavenly Dao had intended to give to its beloved daughter. If Qin Xixue hadn't been placed under house arrest, the course of events would likely have been the same as in the original story.
"However..." The artifact spirit's tone paused, her voice becoming a bit smaller, "The moment you grasped me, I knew that you were the person I had been waiting for all along."
She wasn't certain which of the two legendary fire spirit root cultivators was more suitable for her.
But what she clearly knew was that in the secret realm, atop the volcano, the moment Chu Sang grasped Karma Burns the Three Realms, the artifact spirit was awakened from her slumber.
Perfectly compatible, the destined master.
The red-clad young woman before her was the person the artifact spirit had been seeking for ten thousand years.
"If you don't form a contract with me, just wait for me to run off with someone else."
After coldly throwing out these harsh words, the artifact spirit angrily ran into the space, hmph, not wanting to see her for three hours.
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That afternoon, Chu Sang woke up. A large spirit gathering formation had been set up in the room.
The others had probably left to avoid disturbing her advancement.
She sat cross-legged, entering meditation to cultivate. A large amount of spiritual energy surged in like a tidal wave.
Tantai Ming watched from outside, sighing, "Little Junior Sister's momentum in advancing, even compared to me with my Innate Spirit Body, isn't far behind..."
To make her realm more stable, Chu Sang didn't forcefully break through this time like she had in previous instances, but let it happen naturally.
The breakthrough took a full day and night, basically draining all the spiritual energy from the entire mountain.
She pushed open the door and came out, her figure light and graceful. The injuries she had received in the secret realm had all healed. She was like a person reborn on the spot, able to eat five big bowls of rice that night!
"Late Golden Core stage, very good indeed." Immortal Chanyu patted her shoulder, feeling a bit happy, a bit proud, and a bit melancholy. "Possessing a supreme treasure is certainly a good thing, but it's also likely to attract the covetousness of ill-intentioned people. Before you have the ability to protect yourself, you must be very careful and cautious when outside."
Chu Sang nodded. This was also one of the reasons why she had hesitated to form a contract with Karma Burns the Three Realms. It was indeed the divine artifact most compatible with her spirit root, but her current cultivation level was still too low to unleash the full power of the divine artifact. Even after forming a contract, the power of the divine artifact would be suppressed, and it would easily make her a target for everyone. It wasn't very worthwhile.
"Oh, there's one more thing I need to tell you." Immortal Chanyu pulled her to sit at the stone table in the courtyard. "Half a month from now will be the Ghost Festival. The ghost gates will open wide, and a large number of ghost cultivators and evil ghosts will enter the cultivation world and the mortal world. We can't manage other places, but we need to protect the common people in the towns at the foot of our sect. When the time comes, you and your senior brothers and sisters will go to help."
"The ghost gates opening wide?" Chu Sang blinked.
Immortal Chanyu nodded, also looking a bit troubled, "The ghost gates open wide every year at this time, but this year is different from the past. This year, according to the celestial stems and earthly branches, ghost energy is at its strongest in a hundred years. At that time, some extremely troublesome evil ghosts are likely to appear..."