novelraw Chapter 300
Chapter 300
The Glazed Iceheart Pagoda was a third rank mid grade magic treasure. At the moment it was able to hold the effects of two divine abilities. One for attack and one for escape. In theory, refining one more defensive divine ability into it would make it more well rounded.
But Wang Yu still planned to refine Ice Soul Divine Light into it.
This divine ability had limitless potential. There was no need to restrict himself by matching it with something else. Defense could be substituted through other means. An ultimate offensive divine ability was something that could not be found easily.
With this decision made.
It was only in the fourth year and fourth month of his career as an elder that Wang Yu finally became a complete Core Formation cultivator. Compared to his cultivation speed, this progress was unbelievably slow.
After his combat strength soared another large step.
The cultivation of Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art and Ancient Soul Art was also added back into his daily routine, once he had cleared the heavy burden of alchemy tasks.
Dragon Blood Essence, Dragon Blood Secret Elixir, Jade Mountain Fruit, Soul Nourishing Liquid. With these many treasures supplied.
He made considerable progress every single day.
At the same time, he continued refining more materials into his life bound magic treasure and refined supreme grade Soul Dream Essense Pills. His life was still arranged to the fullest. Every aspect of his efficiency improved significantly.This was one of the best cultivation periods he had enjoyed since entering the cultivation world.
After nearly a full year of such accumulation.
An unexpected message from Zhuo Shouqing finally ended these peaceful days of cultivation.
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In the Evil God Market Enforcement Hall.
There was still a room reserved for him here. It had been sixty years since he last came. As soon as he entered, he discovered that only Zhuo Shouqing was inside.
He could not help asking, “What is the situation. Did your brother make a move.”
“That is not it. It is something else.”
Zhuo Shouqing shook his head. His expression was strange.
“Did you forget something.”
“Forget.”
With those words, Wang Yu suddenly understood.
“You mean the Ancient Burial Pit matter. I have not prepared it yet.”
“Not prepared.” Zhuo Shouqing’s voice turned gloomy and sarcastic. “I thought you planned to go only after forming a Nascent Soul.”
“What nonsense are you saying. Speak directly.”
“Fine.”
Zhuo Shouqing let out a long sigh and handed him an intelligence jade slip. His tone was heavy.
“You know that the date of my battle with Zhuo Shouyun draws near. The clan is no longer as stable as before. More or less some people have started having private contact with that fellow and try to curry favor.”
This situation had long been somewhat predictable.
After all, the others were not blind. Zhuo Shouqing had entered middle age. Zhuo Shouyun was the same age as him, yet he had already reached mid Core Formation. By the time of the decisive battle he would certainly break through to late Core Formation.
The difference was obvious.
If they really fought, Zhuo Shouqing’s chances of failure were enormous.
For this reason he needed to hide. He needed to disguise himself as a completely harmless waste. This external image made finding helpers extremely difficult.
He could only seek someone like Wang Yu. A strong individual who had sprung up from wild grass.
In addition, many within the Zhuo clan kept an eye on him.
It was difficult to get help from those close to him. Trust was absolutely crucial. Aside from a contract, he probably would not trust anyone.
Wang Yu could easily imagine all of this.
The information in the jade slip was unsurprising. Simply put, the Ancient Burial Pit Zhuo Shouqing had people guarding was used by his subordinates as a stepping stone and offered to Zhuo Shouyun’s faction.
The main person did not have much interest in going out adventuring. After all, he possessed a supreme grade Blood Spirit Root. This aptitude was the same level as a Heavenly Spirit Root. It could also be called a Heavenly Blood Spirit Root.
For him, as long as Zhuo Shouqing could not rise again, he would be able to enjoy the vast resources brought by the status of Zhuo clan young master.
A Heavenly Blood Spirit Root could also ensure he would face no severe bottlenecks until reaching peak Core Formation. The difficulty of mid and late stage breakthroughs would only delay him by one or two years.
Once he reached peak Core Formation, the clan would prepare the opportunity for him to form a Nascent Soul.
A place like the Ancient Burial Pit was not worth the risk. Therefore, he handed it to a subordinate of the same clan named Zhuo Wenshi, whose cultivation was late Core Formation.
After reading it.
Wang Yu could not help saying, “I only learned about this four years ago. I just dozed off for a moment and someone else already targeted it. With such poor secrecy skills, how has Zhuo Shouyun held back from taking action against you.”
At these words, Zhuo Shouqing fell silent again. Perhaps he was used to it, or perhaps he had thought it through.
“I told you already. The conflict between us is based on a promise from Great-Grandfather Liezu[1]. My father stands on Zhuo Shouyun’s side. My mother stands on mine. But the right to initiate the decisive battle lies with me.”
With that said, Wang Yu understood.
The reason Zhuo Shouyun played by the rules was because the promise had been given by the Zhuo clan’s Ancestral Patriarch Liezu, who was a pillar of the clan close to the Spirit Transformation stage.
In a world where the strong were respected, one word from such a person could decide all matters.
If the rules were broken, letting another descendant inherit the clan head position would be an easy matter. After all, they were all from the same family, and fairness would naturally be the first priority.
If competing with outsiders, then any method would be used.
After a brief silence, Wang Yu understood his intent.
“Leave it to me. Those people will not see the next year’s sun.”
Zhuo Shouqing nodded.
“I cannot allow a Nascent Soul level expert to appear on Zhuo Shouyun’s side, especially that talisman cultivator Xiao. He has a very high chance of breaking through. What he lacks is just a little bit of luck.
“Therefore, the forty year agreement is only theoretical. Once I see this trend, I will immediately take action. You must be ready at all times.”
"I understand."
At this point there was nothing more to say. Zhuo Shouqing gave him another jade slip containing intelligence about the Ancient Burial Pit, and only then did he return to his cave dwelling on Cold Blood Peak.
On the Idle Slot.
The Ancient Soul Art silently replaced into the Demonic Embryo Mysterious Origin Curse. It continued to strengthen. After his comprehension improved, the time needed for this profound secret curse technique to advance through derivation decreased from more than one hundred years to eighty years.
This showed that its value was still supreme-grade.
It could not be fully derived before the final battle, but every bit of improvement increased Wang Yu’s confidence. The heart-mind intuition of a cultivator rarely went wrong.
He trusted that intuition.
Moments later, he casually tossed the jade slip into the Sea Heart Ring.
Ancient Burial Pit.
It was a secret realm type opportunity with an uncertain age, hence the name ancient. Its formation was also unknown, but it had become a world of its own.
According to Zhuo Shouqing’s speculation, it was most likely created at the end of the ancient era. After the Blood Demon Calamity, cultivators of that time feared the corpses of powerful experts being enslaved by beings like blood fiends.
Therefore, they borrowed the power of heaven and earth to place an entire burial ground within an alternate space, ensuring that the dead would remain undisturbed and their bodies untainted.
Because of this, the danger level was still very high.
Once Zhuo Shouqing confirmed that there were a large number of high grade spiritual materials and treasures inside, he decided to hand the matter to him as compensation for the chance related to the Mystic Heaven Secret Realm ticket.
As for whether these were burial goods or spiritual materials formed from corpses, that remained unknown.
However, the various types of fiend qi inside were extremely dense, which made Wang Yu’s eyes brighten. His Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art primarily used Lunar Fiend Qi to temper itself. This extreme yin attribute fiend qi suited him very well.
But Dragon Fiend Qi was also an indispensable component. All types of baleful and fiend qi could accelerate his Body Refining efficiency. In the past, he had excess grinding but insufficient nourishment.
Now he had excessive nourishment but insufficient grinding. His body had even grown plump.
The energy was accumulated in flesh, blood, and bones, making it hard to digest. He was very experienced with such problems. Continuous tempering and being injured repeatedly would resolve it.
Replicating the actions he had taken at the second rank of Body Refinement would digest everything perfectly.
At the moment.
Before heading to the Ancient Burial Pit, he still needed to prepare.
A few days later, Wang Yu collected the Ghost-Weeping Flute from an elder on Cold Blood Peak who specialized in artifact refining. It had already been upgraded into a mid grade magic treasure.
The eerie crow wraith within it had expanded several times.
Its amplification for soul and sound techniques had also improved greatly.
Additionally.
He purchased a large number of second rank formation flags and more than a dozen third rank formation flags from the Formation Hall. Both types were blank, intended to be used with the Feng shui arts recorded in the Earth Mother Scripture.
Upgrading the Ghost-Weeping Flute cost nearly one hundred thousand spirit stones.
After all, he had provided the materials himself, and with his status as an elder candidate, only a base price was charged.
The formation flags were the expensive part, even the blank ones.
A single second rank formation flag cost fifteen thousand spirit stones. He bought over a hundred of them. A blank third rank flag cost one hundred fifty thousand spirit stones because the material price alone was high.
In comparison, crafting them himself would be more cost effective, but Wang Yu did not plan to study the formation path in depth for now.
The reason was simple. He could not learn that much at once.
Once he had spare time, studying lower realm crafts from a higher cultivation would allow him to master first rank and second rank formation and artifact crafts with ease.
After spending another million or so spirit stones.
Wang Yu put up a closed door cultivation notice, changed into another attire, slipped out of the Blood Reversal Sect in secret, and rushed directly toward the location of the Ancient Burial Pit.
The place was located near the northern Boundary Severed Mountain Range of Night Jewel Prefecture. Wang Yu even felt a bit familiar with it.
From the Withered Leaf Marsh, heading further north for a distance would reach it.
It was hidden in a mountain hollow.
Once he left the sect, the number of cultivators decreased sharply. Using the Aurora Escape he had recently begun to practice, Wang Yu’s speed surged to the extreme.
It could only be described as impossibly fast. A distance of a thousand meters vanished in a blink. It was far superior to the escape speed of normal Core Formation cultivators. This was the advantage of a top tier inheritance.
But after flying only a dozen kilometers, Wang Yu stopped again.
Though the wilderness was sparsely populated, it did not mean no one could be encountered. The trail of flowing lights created by the Aurora Escape Technique was too dazzling, drawing unnecessary attention.
This did not match his habit of always attacking first with stealth.
Therefore.
After staying still for one incense stick of time and confirming no one was following him, he relaxed. The brilliant ribbon of the escape technique faded away.
Under the influence of his mana, it transformed into a pale blue light sphere the size of half a fist, and then streaked away silently. This was the escape technique in its concealed state.
With this much faster concealment speed, after half a month of full speed travel.
The destination was finally in sight.
The closer he got, the slower Wang Yu became. In the end, even the wind failed to stir. His figure vanished from the sky without a sound.
Within an unnamed valley of the northern Boundary Severed Mountain Range.
Zhuo Wenshi stood with a group of subordinates. Her beautiful eyes carried impatience as she looked at the formation master working at the front.
"Is it done yet? It has been several days. You still have not cracked the entrance restriction?"
The formation master gave an awkward laugh and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He spoke timidly.
"Lady Zhuo, this is a restriction related to a spatial secret realm. It is extremely difficult. Without a key, only the slow method can be used.
"However, I do have experience in this area. It will be finished soon."
[1]:- “Liezu” is the revered ancestral title (probably meaning “Fierce Ancestor” or “Blazing Ancestor”), indicating a legendary patriarch of the family or clan.