Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 168

Outside the Bai family estate.

The crowd that had dispersed during the night was awakened by the commotion here. Soon, more curious onlookers gathered, pointing at the formation patterns that had been activated.

“What is the Bai family doing?”

“Indeed. In the evening a fire dragon burned their warehouse, and now at midnight they have activated their clan-protection formation. Could it be that some fierce demonic cultivator broke into their treasure vault?”

“That is impossible. After all, this is Jade Spirit City. Even the Blood Reversal Sect’s rules must be followed here.”

“But you cannot rely only on a name. Everyone knows that the current City Lord’s Mansion is headed by a mere early Foundation Establishment cultivator.”

“What can he protect? Who would fear him?”

“Insolence. Are you trampling on the dignity of the Exalted Sect?”

“Since when does the City Lord represent the Exalted Sect’s dignity? Who do you think you are!”

The two gossipers bickered back and forth.Before long, it escalated into a fight, throwing the watching crowd into chaos.

Among the onlookers were spies sent by the Guan family, the Jiang family, and the three Core Formation sects that had infiltrated Jade Spirit City. With such a major incident happening at the Bai estate, and even a bloody stench faintly drifting from within, none of them could sit still. They immediately used various means to deliver the news back to their masters.

Guan estate.

The Guan family head, who had met Wang Yu twice, suddenly received the report. He instantly guessed it was Wang Yu’s doing, recalling the earlier “fire dragon burning the warehouse” incident.

He hurriedly summoned his steward and ordered him to transcribe a spare copy of their account books overnight.

For this matter, he had prepared both ways.

If the Bai family prevailed, then their account house would also be burned clean. If the City Lord’s Mansion won, then the Guan family could claim they were always cautious and kept backups. Taxes owed would still be paid to the last coin.

Thus, he would remain the loyal minister.

However, according to the spies’ report, the smell of blood was overwhelming.

Wang Yu was only one person. Even if all his blood drained out, it would not amount to much. Therefore, the heavy casualties could only belong to the Bai family. Uneasy, the Guan family head abandoned cultivation practice and simply sat in his hall, waiting for the latest news.

Many others across the city were the same. Whether powerful overlords or petty rulers of a street, this matter implicated everyone.

At the same time.

Outside the Bai family ancestral hall.

The second and third elders were drenched in sweat as they struggled against the younger generation who had been manipulated by demonic sound arts. They could neither harm them nor restrain them.

They had tried to bind them with ropes condensed from true essence.

But it was useless. These youths seemed unable to feel pain, even breaking their own bones to escape, launching suicidal attacks against the two elders.

“This mind-bewitching technique is too tyrannical. Can it truly control even the survival instincts of a person?”

“Could this be a secret technique of the Blood Reversal Sect?”

The third elder, Bai Zhuzhu, gritted her teeth.

“If it cannot be helped, sever their limbs.”

“...”

“Do it.”

Making such a temporary decision left them both in deep pain and sorrow. The mighty Bai family was being toyed with by a mere early Foundation Establishment thief.

“After this crisis, we must find a secret art to purify the mind and spirit, so we will not fall into such traps again.”

“Hehe.”

“You will have no such chance.”

Suddenly, Wang Yu’s figure appeared behind Bai Zhuzhu. As he punched, a sinister demonic flood dragon coiled around his arm. With the Corpse Arm of Divine Strength and corpse demonic bone’s boundless power, terrifying might erupted instantly.

The air itself exploded, producing a shockwave ring of white mist.

Bai Zhuzhu instinctively activated her protective True Essence. A second-rank high-grade artifact in the shape of a golden ring appeared behind her. Her reaction in the face of danger was nearly perfect.

Yet her protective Essence shattered on contact, as fragile as glass. Only the golden ring artifact managed to block the fatal sneak attack.

Her body was hurled away, smashing into Bai family juniors controlled by demonic sound along her path, crushing them into bloody pulp. Blood mist filled the air. Rain of blood poured down.

The Second Elder’s eyes turned blood-red.

“No!”

After being toyed with for so long, his fury was already uncontrollable. Wang Yu’s sudden appearance gave him a chance to vent.

Bai Zhuzhu’s body finally stopped after smashing through buildings and colliding with the outer Mountain-Turtle Formation.

The Second Elder summoned a green long spear into his hand.

He thrust forward.

Instantly, countless thorny vines sprouted from the ground, binding Wang Yu in place. But instead of fear, Wang Yu revealed a triumphant smile.

In that split second, the Second Elder felt a chill of foreboding. Yet his full-force strike could not be withdrawn.

“Puchi, puchi, puchi...”

The spear pierced flesh again and again.

But it was not Wang Yu’s body. It was the Bai family juniors, hurling themselves in front of the spear, blocking its advance with their lives.

With their mere Qi Refining bodies, how could they withstand the full-strength strike of a Foundation Establishment seventh-layer cultivator wielding a second-rank high-grade artifact?

At the brink of death, their consciousness returned for just a moment, only enough to show looks of shock, as if asking:

Second Elder, why did you kill me?

“Ding—”

Finally, the spear struck Wang Yu’s summoned Earth-Origin Cauldron. The cauldron was knocked flying, sliding across Wang Yu’s body, only to be blocked by a corpse-armor shroud of bronze scales.

The second elder’s face twisted hideously, tears streaming from his eyes. He roared:

“Wang Yu, I will never stop until one of us dies!”

“With pleasure.”

Just as the Azure Wood Spear was pulled back and thrust forward again, the azure spiritual light flickered, forming a coiling wooden dragon. At that moment, the Second Elder suddenly let out a muffled groan.

His entire body was already enveloped by gray soul fire.

It was the second-rank high-grade magical artifact, the Glazed Soul Lamp.

After breaking through Foundation Establishment, a cultivator could simultaneously control two magical artifacts. Wang Yu’s divine sense had already reached the late Foundation Establishment stage, enough to control three artifacts at once in battle.

Using himself as bait, he lured the Second Elder into attacking aggressively again and again.

In the end, the sneak attack succeeded.

Although the artifact was seized rather than obtained legitimately, as the companion artifact of the Ancient Soul Art, under Wang Yu’s control it could still unleash the full power of his late Foundation Establishment divine sense.

Burned by the flames released by the Glazed Soul Lamp, the Second Elder’s physical body was unharmed, yet his soul was tormented as if set ablaze.

What unbearable pain this was.

Seizing the rare opportunity, Wang Yu unleashed the Great Completion realm Mysterious Yin Hand with full force. This time no gray-black giant hand appeared, instead returning to its purest form, fully merging into his palm.

The Mysterious Yin power was so dense it almost liquefied, causing Wang Yu’s right hand to transform into a dark ghost hand as he struck the Second Elder’s chest with a heavy palm.

His clothes burst apart, his chest collapsed inward, leaving only a pitch-black palm print.

His head was thrown back as he uncontrollably spat out a mouthful of blood.

On the spot, blood spilled across the sky.

Though not dead, the Mysterious Yin power corroded his meridians and damaged his heart. He would not live more than a few days.

At that moment, the staggering Third Elder Bai Zhuzhu rushed over from afar, just in time to see the Second Elder receive the Mysterious Yin Hand at the Great Completion realm.

“No!”

Digging his ear, Wang Yu had lost count of how many times he had heard this word tonight. It was truly irritating.

“Your turn.”

Bai Zhuzhu was at the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, only at the mid-stage. Her divine sense was even weaker than his. As long as Wang Yu was cunning and seized the right chance, fighting her head-on was not impossible.

Moreover, her side waist bore visible twisting marks. Though the earlier punch had been blocked by her Golden Ring artifact, she had also taken considerable damage.

Without speaking further, she raised her hand and sent out several chilling ice sword qis. She once again summoned her high-grade artifact, the Golden Ring, which transformed into a golden shield, blocking all sword qis from every angle without flaw.

Cold mist spread.

From within, sharp golden sword qis shot out, locking precisely onto his position. Wang Yu flapped the Frost Moon Wings escape art and in an instant left his previous spot.

He raised the Ghost-Weeping Flute to his lips, and melodious notes echoed through the battlefield.

Bai Zhuzhu’s figure staggered slightly as she rushed out of the mist, her eyes flashing with red light. It was the Heart Demon Sound.

Yet in her state of overwhelming grief and rage, her mind was consumed by only two words: revenge, revenge, nothing but revenge.

The Heart Demon Sound at the Great Completion realm could only disturb her briefly. With a sudden burst of speed, she rushed before Wang Yu, slashing down with her second-rank mid-grade artifact, the Sharp Gold Sword.

Wang Yu caught the blade directly with his left hand, grinning, “Fighting me in close combat, have you lost your mind?”

No matter how sharp a metal-element artifact was, even if it cut his fingers, he felt no pain.

After all, this arm was not his own.

He pulled with his left hand, clenched his right into a fist, and the Demonic Flood Dragon Spine roared once again. One punch nearly caved into Bai Zhuzhu’s stomach, her organs turning into chaos.

But she only revealed a cruel smile. The Golden Ring artifact suddenly enlarged, encircling their waists and instantly shrinking, binding the two of them tightly face-to-face.

The elder, who preserved her youthful beauty, still possessed the figure of a mature and alluring woman. The youth, incomparably handsome with a tall posture, exuded unmatched bearing.

Together, it appeared as though he was holding a woman in his embrace.

Disgust surged in Wang Yu’s heart, but when he heard her soft chanting voice, he momentarily lost composure.

“Return to Origin Secret Art, Disintegration.”

This was her grandmother’s self-detonation art. Although demonic cultivators often took extreme paths, few ever cultivated self-detonation secret arts. The training process was too dangerous, with no chance to practice, and one mistake meant instant death.

The risk was immense and the gain was zero. Only madmen and deathsworn cultivators would cultivate such a technique, and it was banned by all Nascent Soul-level demonic sects.

That Bai Zhuzhu knew this art meant she had suffered severe psychological trauma in her past years, and at the brink of despair, she had cultivated it as a last resort.

Furthermore, the Return to Origin Secret Art was among the most notorious demonic self-detonation arts. Wang Yu had seen records of it in the Scripture Hall.

In this moment of crisis, Wang Yu decisively activated the Corpse Demon Secret Technique, severing his left arm from his body.

With that, a gap appeared in the tightening Locked Golden Ring. Pulling his arm out, the gap widened, allowing the might of his second-rank Body Refining to erupt.

Meanwhile, cracks spread across Bai Zhuzhu’s face, with white light bursting from within. Under the force of his great strength, her body was nearly folded backwards.

Using all his might, Wang Yu tore himself from the Golden Ring. With his remaining right arm, he hurled her away. After flying just a few dozen meters, she exploded in a sky-shaking blast.

The Earth Origin Cauldron rapidly expanded, covering his true body.

An instant later, cracks spread across its surface. Inside, Wang Yu was shaken violently and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

The Earth Origin Cauldron had reached its end.

After all, it was only a second-rank low-grade artifact. Being so close, it was understandable it could not withstand such a self-detonation.