novelraw Chapter 306
Chapter 306
After locating the auspicious site, Wang Yu tossed out the Fengshui Compass.
Twelve blank second-rank formation flags, aligned with the twelve earthly branches, were inserted in all directions. A faint blue Fengshui formation expanded rapidly from the small disk.
It continued to grow until it connected with the twelve formation flags and stabilized.
This ordinary Fengshui layout, although naturally formed, was roughly the same level as a man-made arrangement. It did not meet the standard of a true earth-grade Fengshui Formation. Even a novice geomancer like Wang Yu could set one up.
The brilliance of this place was that its environment was simply too suitable for zombies.
With the Fengshui Compass reinforcing the terrain, the surrounding yin mist gathered inward.
Once the Fengshui formation and the terrain stabilized, Wang Yu placed the Lunar Yin Nurturing Fiend Coffin at the exact center. After dusting off his hands, he no longer planned to intervene.
Everything that needed arranging had been arranged. Used together with the Lunar Yin Nurturing Fiend Coffin. advancement was only a matter of time.
He still needed to hurry and continue exploring this secret realm.
Tools and treasures were one matter.A burial ground for so many cultivators would certainly have Fiend Qi Pits nurtured underground or in special locations. As for what type of field qi they were, he would only know after seeing them.
After confirming everything was in order, he retrieved the Fengshui Compass.
His fingers brushed across his eyes.
Secret Technique: Golden Vision of Qi Observation opened, and the pointer on the Fengshui Compass began to tremble.
"This area is yin-aligned, with tombs as the main structure.
"The west direction contains malicious energies. The earth veins oppose north and south, the middle passage… let's head toward the northwest first."
He quietly calculated for a moment and discovered he had entered a dead end.
Wang Yu obediently used the Golden Vision of Qi Observation the direction of the earth qi. Fiend energies devour life and avoid places of vitality, so searching for areas of retreat would not be wrong.
Thus.
Within only a few days, Wang Yu found not only an underground palace tomb but also a naturally formed Fiend Qi Pit.
"This is Yellow Spring Fiend Qi.
"Of course. After all, this place is a burial-pit secret realm of the Yellow Spring White Bone Path. Yellow Spring Fiend Qi is the most common type here."
This material was not as pure as Lunar Yin Fiend Qi, but it was still a top-tier yin-type baleful energy, perfectly suited for the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art to absorb and cultivate.
Moreover, such pits might contain a Fiend Roots or second-grade Fiend Pearl, all supreme-grade materials for refining artifacts. They could be fused into his Bloodline True Artifact to enhance the origin of his Dragon Armor.
The so-called Yellow Spring Fiend Qi was extremely yin and extremely cold, said to be born from the Yellow Springs. It was both rare and not rare in this world, because there were many cultivators of the Yellow Spring Dao.
After their death, they could also produce such Fiend Qi.
In other regions, harvesting it would not be so convenient. Living beings could not enter the Yellow Springs directly and could only find ways to draw out its power.
Wang Yu spent half a day exploring the underground palace.
Inside the coffin of every palace was a third-rank Yellow Spring Crystal or Azure Firmament Crystal. Both were superior materials and could serve as cores for refining artifacts.
Cultivators of the Yellow Spring Temple were willing to pay heavy prices to buy them.
As for Azure Firmament, it was essentially the sky above the Yellow Springs, said in legend to be formed from the world of the dead. The secrets it hid were beyond someone like Wang Yu to glimpse.
Do not be fooled by how a Core Formation cultivator could move mountains and split seas. They had only just stepped through the door of cultivation. In the demonic path, they had not even truly entered the threshold.
Only by absorbing and refining demonic qi could one be considered a true demonic cultivator.
Within two hundred years, he was confident he would reach Nascent Soul.
That would be his true entry into the demonic path.
Using Fengshui secrets to bypass many restrictions, Wang Yu easily obtained two types of third-rank materials before returning to the edge of the Yellow Spring Fiend Qi Pit.
The pit resembled a massive crater burning with turbid yellow flames.
Once he activated the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art, Wang Yu leapt directly inside. These baleful energies, though appearing like flames, actually possessed the nature of water.
Sensing Wang Yu, they clung to him like maggots to the bone, fiercely corroding his flesh.
Taking the stance of the Demonic Dragon Fist, Wang Yu launched slow punches and kicks, enduring the intense pain ravaging his body.
Within his limbs and bones, the excess energy of the dragon blood he had absorbed was completely stimulated. It continuously repaired his damaged body. After circulating along the meridian route of the art and completing a great circulation, all of it flowed into the dragon spine.
His mass of divine marrow finally began to grow.
And it grew visibly, strand by strand, steadily advancing.
Half a month later, this Yellow Spring Fiend Qi Pit was completely consumed.
At a spot near the bottom where Yellow Spring Fiend Qi emerged, Wang Yu dug out a turbid yellow bead.
This was a Fiend Pearl.
Summoning the Demonic Dragon Armor, he fed it the pearl and let it slowly digest. Wang Yu then took out the Fengshui Compass once more and began searching for the next Fiend Qi Pit and underground palace.
In the second location, he found White-Bone Fiend Qi.
In the third, Nether Fiend Qi.
In the fourth, Yellow Spring Fiend Qi again. Repeating this process over and over, he accumulated more and more third-rank materials, though the types were becoming slightly homogeneous.
In this manner, three full months passed.
At the end of the seventh month of his fifth year as an elder, in another Yellow Spring Pit, the raging turbid yellow flames slowly died down. Wang Yu joyfully dug out a rib-shaped treasure.
This was a Yellow Spring Fiend Root.
Only a very small number of pits could produce such a treasure. It could continuously generate Yellow Spring Fiend Qi. After thinking briefly, Wang Yu stored it away.
This thing was most profitable when used to refine an artifact.
Even if it were discarded later, its origin essence could still be consumed by the Demonic Dragon Armor.
"A rib… should it be refined into a sword? Or a spear?"
Just then.
A strange sensation rose from his heart-mind.
"The dual corpses are about to advance."
After noticing this, Wang Yu immediately transformed into aurora light and arrived at the Minor Yin Corpse-Nurturing Formation he had arranged three months ago, only to see that the Lunar Yin Fiend-Nurturing Coffin was already open.
The first to begin advancing was the Lunar Yin Fiend Corpse.
It had indeed reached its limit earlier, and it had eaten far more supplements. No one knew how much Foundation Establishment or even Core Formation flesh and blood it had devoured. The moment Wang Yu released the restraints, the advancement essentially began.
A roar erupted.
A soul-shaking, spirit-shattering howl shot toward the heavens, forming sound waves visible to the naked eye. Wang Yu’s eyes lit up.
This was its second awakened divine ability: Soul Shattering Heaven-Quaking Howl.
The potential of an mutant-type zombie was indeed formidable. Although it was not as powerful as its innate divine ability, it was quite similar in effect to Wang Yu’s own Soul-Extinguishing Death Light.
If both were used together against a single target, the person’s spirit would likely be shattered instantly. Against demon beasts that rarely cultivated their soul, this was a valuable trump card.
“Not bad.”
After advancing to the mid third-rank, the Lunar Yin Fiend Corpse’s divine abilities and corpse arts showed significant improvement. Its physical body had also strengthened slightly, and it awakened more techniques for manipulating fiendish energy.
When their gazes met across the air, those wild and primitive killing-filled eyes were instantly suppressed by Wang Yu’s overwhelmingly powerful divine sense.
He continued strengthening the corpse-controlling seals.
Only after quite a while did he calm it down and forcibly stuff it back into the Yin Fiend-Nurturing Coffin, locking it in place.
“Children get harder to control once they grow.”
In truth, his divine sense had advanced even faster than his body. It was already at the peak of mid third-rank, and he could break through to late stage at any time using the Soul Dream Essense Pill.
He was simply indulging in Body Refinement and wanted both to advance together.
“Enough. Once the Thunder Corpse finishes advancing, I will break through everything I should break through, then return to the sect. Otherwise Zhuo Shouqing might think something happened to me.”
He thought silently.
A sudden thunderclap erupted from the ground. A powerful bolt of lightning shot upward, splitting the heavens.
Like performers taking turns on stage.
The Thunder Corpse leapt out. Not only did it shatter the auxiliary fengshui formation Wang Yu had set up, it even drained and destroyed the natural fengshui formation present here.
Its ferocity far surpassed that of the Lunar Yin Fiend Corpse.
Even among mutant-type zombies, the Thunder Corpse ranked within the top ten. The Lunar Yin Fiend Corpse could only be considered lower-mid tier. Without its strong auxiliary effects, it would not even qualify to compare with other mutant corpses.
As the Thunder Corpse advanced to mid third-rank, thunderclouds gathered overhead.
Scattered bolts of lightning descended one after another, all absorbed by it. The moment it appeared, its dominating nature was revealed.
This sight made Wang Yu feel intoxicated.
If the Corpse Demon Secret Technique could seize a zombie body of this rank, it would be perfect. After all, both the Demonic Bone and Heavenly Yin Blood it produced corresponded only to ordinary zombies or ghosts.
Their effects were not as heaven-defying as he had imagined.
It was like obtaining the strength of a rogue cultivator at Core Formation. Neither useful nor entirely useless, simply a tasteless chicken rib.
However.
Wang Yu had investigated the founder of this secret art, the Celestial Cripple Elder. He was a great demonic powerhouse from the end of ancient times. Wang Yu felt that for someone of his level to create such a method using his life’s effort, the technique should not be this simple. Perhaps its true power would only reveal itself when restored to fourth-rank.
His attention returned to the Thunder Corpse.
After absorbing the lightning of the heavens, it awakened its second innate divine ability: Heavenly Thunder Law Armor.
This was a divine ability primarily for defense but also possessing offensive properties.
It raised its hands in a welcoming posture. Lightning fell from the sky, striking its body, forming a lightning aura armor.
It stomped the ground and rushed swiftly to Wang Yu’s side.
Although it did not attack, the interweaving and splashing lightning around its body made Wang Yu twitch uncontrollably.
As if it were saying: if you cannot resist, then at least suffer.
“You damned mutt.”
Cursing under his breath, Wang Yu slapped it. The corpse-controlling seals layered and strengthened rapidly. The Thunder Corpse instantly returned to obedience, staring at him with its bald head.
Wang Yu knocked its head several times in irritation, then kicked it into the Yin Fiend-Nurturing Coffin.
“Bah.”
With both corpses having completed their advancement, Wang Yu calculated the time.
He directly took out a vial of Dragon Blood Secret Elixer and immediately cultivated his Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art. The various fiendish energies he had devoured over the past three months all became nourishment for advancement.
With sufficient tempering and nourishment.
The divine marrow within his dragon spine had grown from the size of a fingernail to the size of an egg. Resources were being refined continuously, and his blood and qi naturally surged.
As the divine marrow grew, it further nourished his physical body.
Forming a simple cycle.
“Breakthrough, today.”
The blood qi manifested as a Yin Nether Demonic Dragon that burst out of his body, following the trajectory of his fists as it soared and spiraled. Its three-hundred-meter length expanded rapidly.
The earth beneath shattered.
His powerful body caused the air to explode with each movement, waves of compressed air rippling outward.
A draconic roar erupted.
No one knew how long had passed. When he finished circulating the technique, the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon exceeded a thousand meters. Its blood qi rose like smoke into the sky, unaffected even by the gale winds.
The divine marrow within his dragon spine surged like a dragon ascending to the heavens, expanding rapidly. It filled one-third of the entire dragon spine in one go.