Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 318

The past was the past. Back then, he had nothing to lose and feared nothing, so he dared to sign any contract. Now his estate was vast, his cultivation had seen some success, and he naturally no longer wished for such a contract to continue existing. His life was the most precious thing he possessed. It could not be quantified by any amount of resources.

While waiting for the three brothers to gather together.

During a period when Wang Yu had some free time and it was inconvenient to go into seclusion.

He “donated” one fifth of his fortune to Cold Blood Peak, a total of three million low-grade spirit stones, and exchanged it for a complete inheritance of the Ten Directions Frozen Demonic Path.

He had actually considered this idea since the moment he returned to the sect. At that time, he had first exchanged for the Ice Soul Holy Demonic Scripture and intended to make it his main cultivation method.

But the Ten Directions Frozen Demonic Path was also extremely suitable for him.

The three million low-grade spirit stones seemed expensive, but the divine ability inheritance attached to it was already worth far more than that.

That he was able to obtain it was due in half to his status as a candidate for the Twelfth Elder, and in half to the gradual spread of the story of his battle with Lu Chenzhou.

Regardless of whether the opponent had gone all out, the fact remained that he had suppressed the other party for a period of time purely with physical strength. Ordinary disciples could not see the hidden details inside.

Rumors spread and praised him as another rising star of the Blood Reversal Sect, centering around the soon-to-begin Blood Abyss Trial, stirring up many discussions.Wang Yu did not pay much attention to outside news.

Once he received the scriptures of the Frozen Demonic Path, he immediately began studying them. This inheritance had a long history and shared a common origin with another Nascent Soul inheritance of Cold Blood Peak.

It also tempered the body, fusing the miraculous effects of Body-refining arts. Although it lacked the process of condensing Divine Marrow, it was essentially half a Body-refining method.

However, once he truly obtained the inheritance.

Wang Yu was shocked to discover that the description of the Frozen Demonic Path was far too brief. The true essence of the cultivation method was actually a completely different concept.

Frozen demonic power appeared cold and icy, yet was in fact the principle of extreme yin giving birth to yang, using yang to dominate yin. The hotter and more vigorous the power within the body, the colder and more bone-piercing the outward manifestation became.

This power could erupt multiple times and was extremely proficient at countering foreign types of power. In combat, it was exceedingly strong.

“I did not expect it to follow a path of yin-yang collision and extreme reversal. This means the technique is actually more suitable for prodigies with Fire Spiritual Roots or Yang Spiritual Roots.”

Of course, Wang Yu possessed the Demonic Embryo, so he could bypass such requirements. As long as it was a demonic-path cultivation method, he could cultivate with a talent comparable to Heavenly Spiritual Roots.

After skimming through the scriptures, he put aside the doctrinal portion for now.

When he reached the section on artifacts, his heart stirred. This inheritance offered three types of refining methods suitable for life-bound magic treasures.

Frozen Demonic Wheel, crescent like a broken moon and swift like a flying disk, possessed extreme speed and fierce offensive power, excelling at breaking shields.

Heavenfrost Blood Halberd, a heavy weapon that complemented the powerful physique cultivated through the Frozen Demonic Path. It focused on close combat. A single swing of one arm could shatter mountains.

This was a special type of magic treasure developed by combining a Body Refiner’s bloodline true artifact. It was not suitable for every cultivator, yet it was very compatible with Wang Yu.

His brute strength was already terrifying. If he gained a treasure of the same rank, his power could reach yet another extreme.

Ice Prison Diagram, a painting-type treasure which, when unfolded and activated, could dominate an icy hell, greatly weakening the enemy and binding them with the power of the Ice Prison.

It carried the flavor of an ice domain and was extremely practical.

All three refining methods tempted Wang Yu greatly.

Unfortunately, his life-bound magic treasure slot was already occupied by the Glazed Iceheart Pagoda. If he forged any of these treasures, they would lack the growth potential of a life-bound treasure.

This was truly regrettable.

However, after calculating his assets and the various yin and ice-attributed materials in his possession, Wang Yu felt he could commission a refining master from Cold Blood Peak to forge one of them.

He still lacked a suitable weapon. Ghost-Weeping Flute did not complement his combat style, and the soul-sound inheritance was too difficult to find. He had never been able to locate a substitute for heart-demon sound techniques.

Perhaps he could later rely on the deduction power of the Idle Slot to upgrade such arts, but he did not have enough slots to waste on something like this now.

By the time he survived this upcoming period, he would scarcely need a single third-rank art, making it rather superfluous.

After the artifact section came the divine abilities.

Heavenfrost Halberd Art, similar to the Demonic Dragon Fist, was a combat art containing an entire set of Halberd Dao mysteries. Its ultimate move was a divine ability. The difference was that it focused more on the application of power, unlike the Demonic Dragon Fist, which relied on raw physical strength.

Wang Yu ranked it at the end of his planning list. This divine combat art required the Heavenfrost Blood Halberd to unleash its full strength.

It even seemed capable of merging with a magic treasure to produce a strange type of growth. For now, he could not fully understand it.

Wind Snow Mountain-Cleaving Step, a half-offensive art combining movement, evasion, and leg techniques. It was called half because it pushed kicking arts to the extreme.

All of its profound mysteries existed for the sake of one overwhelmingly fierce finishing kick.

Its speed was nowhere near that of the Aurora Escape technique, but it had its own merits. After reviewing it, Wang Yu felt that none of it fit him very well.

However, if he could extract the Mountain-Cleaving Kick as a standalone move, it would suit him perfectly.

The final divine ability was named Ten Direction Frozen Demon Fist.

Just from the name, one could tell it was the core of this inheritance. Wang Yu liked fist techniques. After simply looking it over, he decisively placed it in the middle section of his Idle Slot plan, ranking it only after the Ice Soul Divine Light.

This divine ability was rather peculiar. It could contain ten divine abilities with yin or cold attributes.

There were three perfect combination methods: ten yin, ten cold, or five yin and five cold, each half and half. When perfected and unleashed with the Path of Frozen Demons, one would use the power of ten divine abilities and merge them into one.

It would display extremely terrifying destructive power.

"So this is the meaning of the 'Ten Direction'?"

The more Wang Yu read, the more he liked it. However, fully unleashing its power was not something an ordinary person could do.

Gathering ten divine abilities was something almost impossible for a rogue cultivator. Yet Wang Yu had the Blood Reversal Sect at his back, and Cold Blood Peak was a sacred land for ice-attribute cultivators.

Gathering them would not be difficult for him.

The difficulty lay in successfully cultivating all ten divine abilities and mastering the Ten Direction Frozen Demon Fist itself. If his mastery was insufficient, he would fail to control the fusion, and the first to suffer a heavy backlash would be Wang Yu himself.

However, if the divine abilities controlled were strong enough and his mastery reached a perfect realm, then using this fist could perhaps reach a level even the creator of the divine ability could hardly compare to.

Its potential was truly terrifying.

As a top-tier divine ability, it naturally had a growth method. It absorbed the essence of the ten divine abilities it governed, united all doctrines, and transformed everything into a fist.

In the end, it would unleash a heaven-shaking punch.

As for the divine abilities being governed, they were hardly affected. This unique method of advancement made Wang Yu realize that the true key lay in the cultivator's own comprehension.

A divine ability was a dead thing. It could only provide a direction for the fist technique. The true execution still depended on the cultivator.

This was exceedingly similar to the deduction capabilities of the Idle Slot.

However, based on the potential of original cultivation methods, the Idle Slot could only raise something by one major realm.

The potential of divine abilities, however, was something that, in Wang Yu's experience, had no visible limit. If the two were combined, what kind of wondrous reaction would occur?

After a long while.

Wang Yu exhaled cold air and pulled his thoughts away from the divine abilities and artifacts filling his mind. The urgent matter now was the Blood Abyss Trial. These divine abilities, which could not be completed in the short term, were not within his current scope of consideration.

So he still needed to look at artifacts.

Among his entire collection, the only item he could currently use was the fiend artifact he obtained from the Burial Pit Secret Realm, shaped like a rib: the Yellow Springs Fiend Root.

He first looked at the artifact section of the Frozen Demonic Path since he already had the intention of making good use of it. Unfortunately, the three top-tier artifacts it listed did not match this item well.

After much thought, Wang Yu felt that a sword-type artifact was more suitable for the Yellow Springs Fiend Root. Refining a short sword would suffice.

In that case, the only suitable blueprint he possessed was the Ice Soul Demonic Sword. This sword was originally paired with the Ice Soul Divine Light.

It was said that Ice Soul Fairy, one of the four Nascent Soul experts of Cold Blood Peak, used this divine ability and artifact as her life-bound treasures, slowly advancing to fourth-rank while earning immense fame. This showed how high its potential was.

Wang Yu did not lack inheritances. What he had always been missing were resources.

Once the Blood Abyss Trial ended and Zhuo Shouqing's dispute reached its conclusion, he would have ample time to settle down and push all these beginner-level or yet-to-be-learned divine abilities to perfection in the Idle Slot.

When that happened, he would become truly invincible among Core Formation cultivators.

For now, he could attempt to use the Ice Soul Demonic Sword as a foundation and forge a Yellow Springs Demonic Sword using the Yellow Springs Fiend Root as the main material.

He already had ideas on how to cause trouble inside the Blood Abyss.

Thus.

Over the next half month, he shuttled between his own cave mansion and the forging master of Cold Blood Peak. This connection had been arranged by Elder Yu Ce.

With the help of the Zuoqiu Clan, Wang Yu finally made contact with the Artifact Refining master.

This person held a high position in the Artifact Refining Hall. Compared to the useless Artifact Refining cultivator named Lei Shu whom Wang Yu had found years ago, this master was far more professional, or perhaps completely tamed by the Zuoqiu Clan.

This person was a late-stage Nascent Soul grand cultivator, a cousin of Old Man Lan Xin, affiliated with the Zuoqiu Clan, and possessed fourth-rank lower-grade refining skills. His title was Heavenly Artifact Master.

Previously, Wang Yu's Ghost-Weeping Flute was upgraded by this man's chief disciple, who was over six hundred years old and had peak Core Formation cultivation.

He possessed several supreme-grade external dao core pills. In terms of magic power, he was not inferior to an early Nascent Soul cultivator, which was the primary reason he could refine fourth-rank artifacts.

Wang Yu went back and forth between the two locations discussing how to forge the Yellow Springs Demonic Sword. He would state his requirements, Heavenly Artifact Master would tell him what materials were required, and Wang Yu would collect them. For rare materials, he sought Zhuo Shouqing's help. After much effort, the artifact was pushed into the refining process and would be completed in about half a year.

As for the Blood Abyss Trial, although it was said to be imminent, there were more than two years of preparation time. This allowed disciples outside the sect ample time to return.

Before entry, each peak master would conduct a private mobilization, arrange deployments, and assign tasks.

Entering the Blood Abyss was not simply wandering around. They had clear objectives. Completing them would earn rewards, and failure would bring no punishment.

By the end of March, Yu Xing and Zuo Qiuming finally returned from their respective journeys.