Urban Cultivation with a Demonic System

Chapter 417 - 345: Corruption Divine Kingdom! Blessing of Star Shattering!

Su Yuan acted as soon as he decided, and asked Chen Nuoyi beside him:

"Nuoyi, do you think if we use the Dragon Emperor Coin to temporarily borrow this Nine-Story Treasure Tower, it would work?"

Chen Nuoyi: "..."

Su Yuan, your thinking is really out there!

I thought it was impressive enough that you’d go after everyone’s equipment, now you want to make the entire dungeon yours?

Who would think of such a thing?

However, Su Yuan’s words also woke Chen Nuoyi up to something.

Yes, isn’t the Nine-Story Treasure Tower she’s in a type of Magical Treasure too?

Even though it’s clearly a higher-grade Magical Treasure than the Tribulation Moon Pearl, it hasn’t surpassed the Nascent Soul Level boundary, making it fair game for borrowing.

The Dragon Emperor Coin in her hands has an almost limitless credit; as long as it’s not a legendary Divinity Transformation Level Magical Treasure, it should be borrowable at will.

The only caveat is not fearing revenge from the treasure owner.

Luckily, the original owner of the Nine-Story Treasure Tower, the Observing Heaven Pavilion Master, is not present, so temporarily borrowing it shouldn’t be a problem.

Returning it after the sword competition ends will do.

Speaking of which... Chen Nuoyi, why are you so adept at this treasure borrowing business?

It’s clearly your first time using the Dragon Emperor Coin.

Surely Su Yuan has been a bad influence on you, it’s already... irreversible.

"No problem."

After careful consideration, the girl nodded heavily, giving her answer.

"Nuoyi, you’re such a big help!"

Su Yuan gave Chen Nuoyi a cheeky grin.

The blue-haired girl turned her head slightly, somewhat awkwardly, and asked in a small voice:

"But after obtaining the treasure tower, how does it help with the sword competition?"

Su Yuan smiled slightly, already having a draft prepared:

"There are many benefits, not to mention creating a battlefield environment."

"We’ve already cleared the Eighth Layer, just need to clean out some remaining small fry, and the Eighth Layer will be entirely under our control."

"But is just having the Eighth Layer enough?"

Chen Nuoyi was slightly enlightened:

"So, Su Yuan, you plan to open the passageways between the tower layers and invade the others after mastering the Nine-Story Treasure Tower?"

Su Yuan nodded with a smile, chatting with intelligent people is delightful:

"With Divine Control and the Dragon Emperor Coin, I can arbitrarily take everyone’s Magical Treasures, among which might be the key to defeating Xuan Haoran."

"Even if there aren’t such treasures, I’m highly covetous of the complete Divinity Transformation inheritances other universities hold."

"If I can capture the complete Divinity Transformation inheritances from other universities, just like defeating the three giants of Evil Extermination University, I alone could gain as many as twenty-two Divinity Transformation Divine Techniques."

"With twenty-two trump cards in hand, the time, place, and people are all favorable to me, what can Xuan Haoran use to compete with me!"

Su Yuan unabashedly described his plan to his team members.

At the end, his smile became very bright, like a sunny, cheerful boy next door.

But Zhu Tianqing and Qi Hanyan could only gasp.

Uh-oh! Su Yuan seems to have unlocked some sort of strange constraint and become peculiar!

Obviously, he had been quite restrained before, using only his own Magical Treasures and Divine Techniques when fighting, at most adding his teammates’.

But now... calling it a demon’s descent upon the world would not be an exaggeration.

This might cause his combat power to go out of control!

But strictly speaking, this is the combat power Su Yuan should have had; he just hadn’t utilized it perfectly before.

Ultimately, Qi Hanyan and Zhu Tianqing tacitly said nothing.

They also wanted to see how far Su Yuan could go when unchecked.

Su Yuan waved his hand grandly, leading everyone out of the Tribulation Moon Space, returning to the Eighth Layer of the treasure tower.

He didn’t rush to let Chen Nuoyi freeload the Nine-Story Treasure Tower, instead first leading the team to sweep through the entire Eighth Layer.

In less than a day, everyone on the Eighth Layer was captured by Su Yuan, controlled by slave spirits, without a single one escaping.

Including acquaintances like Qiu Tianze, Zhuo Lixin, and Mu Shouzhen.

This led to a situation where Su Yuan could do as he pleased on the Eighth Layer, yet no one in the outside world was aware.

Only when Xuan Haoran starts storming the tower will the live broadcast equipment transmit the internal scenes of the tower.

Before this happens, as long as Su Yuan doesn’t let any school team member who knows the truth escape, he is Schrödinger’s Su Yuan, and no one knows what he’s up to inside the tower.

"There shouldn’t be anyone on the eighth layer."

Su Yuan counted the nineteen school team members trapped inside the Tribulation Moon Pearl and nodded with satisfaction.

He also faintly received a message from the Tribulation Moon Pearl—Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai had completely lost their ability to resist and were continuously being eroded by the power of the Tribulation Moon.

Su Yuan didn’t intend for these two to be eroded into Praising Moon puppets, so he returned to the Tribulation Moon Space once more, standing atop that scarlet full moon.

On the red moon, Guo Zhengyi and Jiang Taibai were captured by an invisible gravity, their bodies tightly pressed against the moon’s surface, their eyes almost lost of any spirit.

There seemed to be endless whispers of madness constantly echoing in their ears, eroding their sanity.

Even though Su Yuan was the owner of the Tribulation Moon Pearl, he would occasionally hear a few whispers, making his head buzz.

It seemed the erosion power of the Tribulation Moon Pearl was extremely strong.

After extracting the Human Pill, he quickly had Zhu Tianqing enslave them with a Slave Spirit, otherwise, "Praising Moon" could drive them insane, and that would be a grave sin.

Thinking of this, Su Yuan first activated the Finger Spirit·Human Pill on Guo Zhengyi.

Among the three major Divinity Transformation inheritances of Evil Extermination University, the inheritance of the Evil Extermination Department appealed most to Su Yuan, with the Artifact Refining Department’s inheritance being second, although the effects of ’Divine Control’ were so great that Su Yuan had already ranked it alongside the former.

The inheritance of the Star Shattering Demon Monarch was ranked last; his combat style was not one of grandiose maneuvers.

And Divine Control, merely a supportive divine technique during artifact refining, had effects so against nature; then how could the entirely battle and corruption-oriented Evil Extermination Department’s Divinity Transformation inheritance not take off?

With such anticipation, a blood-colored and crystalline Spirit Pill, like a ruby, appeared in Su Yuan’s hand.

It contained the complete Divinity Transformation inheritance mastered by Guo Zhengyi.

Su Yuan eagerly looked at the effect introduction of this Human Pill.

A full minute later, he nodded with satisfaction, highly pleased with this divine technique.

The Decaying Demon Monarch’s inheritance included the Blood Corruption Sword in its first stage and the Decaying Profound Light in the second; their effects need not be elaborated upon.

The third stage wasn’t a new divine technique but rather an amplification of the prior stages, known as "Transforming the Decaying."

Upon mastering the third stage, the Corruption Sword Seed would transform into a blood-colored Sword Lotus, officially growing into its complete form.

Relying on the power of the Corruption Sword Lotus, the power of the Blood Corruption Sword would be exponentially enhanced.

The effect of the Decaying Profound Light would also undergo a metamorphosis; after the transformation, the Decaying Profound Light would gain a terrifying infectious nature!

Once a patch of land is infected by the Decaying Profound Light into a Corrosion Fungus, unless the user intervenes, the Corrosion Fungus will absorb surrounding Spiritual Energy and expand on its own.

Only by destroying the entire Corrosion Fungus or purifying it with top-tier Righteous Divine Techniques, or once the Spiritual Energy within the area is completely drained, will the Corrosion Fungus cease to spread.

And the Corrosion Fungus created by Su Yuan, due to the effect of "Deceitful Sword Physique Level 2," would be immune to any Righteous Divine Techniques and even restrain them, making it even more troublesome.

Then, when the three stages of the Decaying Demon Monarch’s inheritance merge together, a complete divine technique, ranking as ’foremost unique,’ would officially manifest.

Corruption Divine Kingdom!

This foremost unique divine technique has an activation condition—it must wait for the area of Corrosion Fungus to reach a thousand square kilometers.

This area of Corruption Fungus will be defined as the Corruption Divine Kingdom, allowing this divine technique to be formally activated.

Within the Divine Kingdom’s range, the activator can expend their own blood and flesh to initiate unlimited instances of teleportation.

Whether it’s their physical body or a subordinate within the Divine Kingdom, or even a singular attack, all can enjoy the teleportation effect.

And this is merely effect one of the Corruption Divine Kingdom.

When the Corruption Fungus area reaches a thousand square kilometers, it will undergo evolution, naturally producing effect two.

Such evolution is akin to a locust plague; individual locusts are non-toxic, but when formed into a calamity, they secrete toxins.

The Corrosion Fungus is similar; once it reaches a certain scale, it will transform from blood-red to a desolate black.

The blood-flesh fungus will turn into a highly evil black mud; any creature stepping on this black mud will swiftly become corrupted, becoming a subordinate of the Divine Kingdom, battling for the kingdom’s owner with a twisted, conscious will.

Honestly speaking, upon seeing effect two of the Corruption Divine Kingdom, Su Yuan frowned.

Because this feature seemed to overlap with Slave Spirit and Hypnotic Sword Qi.

But after careful study, Su Yuan found it was not the case.

The erosion power of the black mud was not the petty operation of Slave Spirit and Hypnotic Sword Qi; its corruptive effect, even if not first among its grade, ranked among the top three.

Once stepping into the black mud, countless flesh-and-blood tentacles would bind the target’s body, and in less than ten seconds, even a cultivator at Foundation Establishment Peak in their prime would be fully eroded.

Moreover, cultivators eroded would retain their conscious minds, able to use all their means from their prime, even surpassing their prime.

Because within the Divine Kingdom’s range, the black mud would act as a substitute for Spiritual Power, keeping them always at full health and full magic, allowing for unrestricted big moves.

Of course, the premise is that the kingdom’s owner does not get drained dry.

"Therefore, I can fully rely on the power of the Corruption Divine Kingdom to bring Guo Zhengyi, Jiang Taibai, Lv Tianqiao, and others under control, letting them fight for me."

"And I don’t need to worry about post-corruption aftereffects; once the black mud recedes, they can quickly return to normal. Guo Zhengyi likely has done similar things before."

After obtaining the Corruption Divine Kingdom Pill, Su Yuan activated the Finger Spirit·Human Pill on Jiang Taibai.

A pitch-black Spirit Pill, covered with stars on its surface, appeared in Su Yuan’s hand.

He looked at the introduction of this Human Pill with curiosity.

[Star Shattering Blessing Pill (Foremost Unique)]