Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 329

Blood Abyss Sacred Land, Drunken Immortal Lake.

Wang Yu stood by the lakeside and gently inhaled the intoxicating aroma of blood brewed wine. He was also a lover of fine alcohol, someone who followed his own desires and indulge them in moderation.

The entire Drunken Immortal Lake was roughly estimated to span three hundred li across. It was already considered a great lake, yet it was filled completely with blood brewed wine.

There must be some kind of treasure hidden within.

In fact, this place had always been highly valued. Countless generations had thrown themselves into exploration one after another, leaving behind innumerable legends and secrets. However, the true origin of how this wine lake formed had still never been discovered.

Yet it was precisely because of that period of frenzied exploration that all normal opportunities had been thoroughly exhausted. Over time, the place gradually became deserted.

Much like the Demonic Cavern.

What Wang Yu valued was its cold and quiet environment. Hardly anyone came here, so no one would disturb his closed door cultivation.

Moreover.

Drunken Immortal Lake was not entirely without specialties. The wine itself was a unique product. On rare occasions, third rank Blood Brew Wine Stones would be born, making them excellent materials for brewing spirit wine.Frequent consumption was also beneficial to cultivators.

In addition, a species of fish called Blood Whisker Carp lived in the lake. Their flesh was tender and smooth, capable of increasing a cultivator’s Qi and blood upper limit.

They were also highly suitable food for Body Refining cultivators, which showed just how urgent Wang Yu’s desire to enhance his physical body truly was.

All of this information had been mentioned in the intelligence provided by the Zhuo and Zuoqiu clans.

Blood Whisker Carp did not belong to blood beasts, but were closer to a demonic beast species. They possessed blood path power, yet were not contaminated by blood intent.

What they formed within their bodies were blood type demon cores. Once they broke through to the third rank, they could attain intelligence comparable to the human race, and they were the only source of danger in Drunken Immortal Lake.

He tightened the Blood Sac Robe around his body.

Wang Yu scooped up a handful of blood wine and tasted it. His brows furrowed slightly.

“Slightly sweet, leaning toward sour. The aftertaste is astringent. If not for the abundant Qi and blood within it, I would not bother drinking it. Among first rank spirit wines, the taste is inferior, but the effects are decent.”

After making his evaluation, Wang Yu released the Lunar Yin Nurturing Corpse Coffin and used it as a container, collecting about a hundred tons of blood wine. This was not for him to drink.

It was for the two corpses to have a taste, and to nurture them a bit along the way.

Better than nothing.

He then took out the spirit beast pouch and released the three tailed snow fox. Before entering the Blood Abyss Sacred Land, he had temporarily dismantled the preliminary refining setup for the Yellow Springs Demonic Bone and the Feng Shui Formation.

He planned to continue deepening his studies within the Blood Abyss. Snowjade had been brought along specifically to watch over things. He did not have the time to constantly monitor the refining process of the puppets.

In the early stages, it was enough to prepare everything and check on it occasionally.

Generally, nothing would go wrong. If something truly went wrong, then it would certainly be a major problem, and watching would be of little use anyway.

The Earth Resentment Puppet Master path was still far from full completion.

He was merely handling the troublesome preparations and early refining steps bit by bit. When the proper method was in place, he could begin refining directly.

It was a way to save time, and he had long since grown accustomed to it.

After sweeping the area with his divine sense.

He found an auspicious spot, an excellent Feng Shui location suitable for opening a cave dwelling. Wang Yu grabbed the fox by the tail and plunged straight into the blood wine lake.

Opening a cave dwelling on the surface was not safe. He had long been accustomed to cultivating underground. That sense of security was unmatched elsewhere.

As usual, he used a sword artifact to carve out the cave.

This time, the task was proudly undertaken by the Yellow Springs Demonic Sword. With obsessive precision, Wang Yu carved the temporary cultivation cave into a perfectly square shape.

He placed an Ice Crystal Bed, set up formation flags, and expelled all the blood wine.

After such labor.

A lake bottom cave dwelling located at the bottom of Drunken Immortal Lake, more than two thousand meters below the blood lake, was successfully completed.

The depth of this lake varied. Wang Yu’s position was considered the middle layer, where he could see some aquatic demonic beasts and algae moving about along the lake bed.

The three tailed snow fox howled a few times, then went off with a resigned expression to guard the refining of the Yellow Springs Demonic Bone. It could also cultivate a bit along the way. This fellow should be able to form a core within ten years.

That was also Wang Yu’s original intention in bringing it here.

As its master, he needed to stay in the Blood Abyss for thirty years. How could he not bring spirit pets with him? He had even brought the Immaculate Jade Toad along, just in case it might be useful.

Especially the Jade Toad. It looked like a toad, but was actually a rare spirit insect.

Refining it to obtain a poison resistant physique always felt like a loss. Feeding it to other rare insects was the proper way to use it.

It could forcibly cause rare insects to evolve, making it a peerless treasure. Since he was not particularly afraid of poison, he had kept it until now. It had grown fat and round.

It had never shown any tendency to lay eggs, sitting like a stone. Other than staring blankly, it did nothing but stare blankly.

After handling the miscellaneous matters around him.

More than half a day had already passed.

Wang Yu took out the Myriad Spirit Blood Essences sealed in ice coffins one by one, then began pondering the pill formula. This spirit object could increase the upper limit of mana, but its side effect was making mana unstable.

Moreover, because the harvested demonic humanoids varied in rank, many of the Myriad Spirit Blood Essences inside were actually low grade.

With that in mind, extraction and fusion became extremely important.

After taking out all the blood essences, he first irradiated them with the Soul Extinguishing Death Light, making sure that all blood intent, remnant souls, and similar impurities within were completely cleansed.

Only then did he take out the Starfall Cold Cauldron and begin the extraction and fusion process using the firepower of the Ice Chi Dragon Pill Flame.

Gradually, something like black smoke began to rise from within.

Mixed within were several miserable screams and resentment.

“As expected, there were problems.”

Wang Yu raised his brows and took out a stalk of Purifying Spirit Grass from the Sea Heart Ring. After refining it into a pure medicinal liquid, he fused it with the Myriad Spirit Blood Essence.

In no time, the originally somewhat dim blood colored sphere became as transparent as a ruby. The color of the blood was exceedingly pure.

Then, another yin attribute spirit medicine compatible with blood essence, the Moon Essence Fruit, which had the effect of solidifying the foundation, was added. This caused the bright red sphere to condense across three dimensions.

It emitted a faint fragrance that made one’s mouth water uncontrollably.

This roughly describes the process by which an alchemist creates a pill formula, making constant adjustments, adding ingredients as needed, relying on profound knowledge of medicinal properties to repeatedly choose and refine, and gradually refining a spiritual pill.

Normally, the creation of a single pill formula requires hundreds or even thousands of adjustments before the target spiritual pill can be stably refined and then promoted for wider use.

However, Wang Yu’s goal was to use alchemical methods to reduce the side effects of this substance. He did not seek to form a qualified pill formula. As long as the final refined medicinal liquid was usable, it was enough.

With his foundation in supreme grade third rank alchemy, the process went fairly smoothly.

Half a month later.

In total, nine Blood Pills were refined, produced sporadically. Because of the constant adjustments during the refining process, the time consumed was slightly longer and resulted in a certain amount of waste.

But the result was good.

Pinching one Blood Pill between his fingers and examining it briefly, Wang Yu directly swallowed it and refined it with his magical power.

No matter how much was said, only personal experience could determine whether it had succeeded.

Because its essence was still the Myriad Spirit Blood Essence, only with an added trace of pill fragrance, the refinement speed was much faster than that of a supreme grade Guanghan Pill. This was originally a treasure used to increase cultivation.

Wang Yu immediately felt his mana begin to grow.

He had only entered the Blood Abyss Sacred Land a little over a month ago, yet many things had already happened.

Because the time was short, the increase in his cultivation had not been very obvious.

Now, feeling his upper limit of mana rapidly increase, he was extremely satisfied. It was truly worth all the effort he had spent seizing, fighting, and plotting.

Very worth it.

Three days later, the first inner Blood Pill was successfully refined. The mana within his body increased by about one hundred strands, with no sense of instability. Other than feeling good, it was simply pure enjoyment.

There was no difference at all compared to the mana he had cultivated himself.

Since that was the case, there was no need for further concern.

Wang Yu swallowed three more in one go.

Nine days later.

The aura around his body suddenly surged, and even more concentrated fluctuations of mana continuously spread outward. A gentle breeze blew around him, only settling down after a long while.

“4026 strands of mana, just entering the sixth layer of Core Formation.”

A breakthrough in cultivation always brought a sense of exhilaration.

To cultivate to the peak of the sixth layer of Core Formation, he would need to raise his upper limit of mana to six thousand strands. At that time, he would face the problem of the second pill barrier.

If Wang Yu wanted to raise the diameter of his Golden Core to nine li in one go, this would be an excellent opportunity.

However.

Although he possessed pill formulas for Core Formation cultivators to break through bottlenecks, he had not yet found the corresponding spiritual medicines. Next, he could try searching among other fellow cultivators.

Of course.

There was no need to rush. After his cultivation successfully broke through, he swallowed the remaining five Blood Pills as well. It took half a month to completely refine them, and his cultivation increased by another five hundred strands of mana.

After stabilizing his realm, Wang Yu was very pleased.

However, when he thought about how the later stages of Core Formation used “shares” as the unit of measurement, he felt a deep headache.

With his current accumulation of mana, when converted, it was actually only a little over four hundred and fifty shares, while the peak of Core Formation required nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine shares.

The gap was obvious at a glance.

If he were in the outside world, he could only cultivate steadily and honestly, at most relying on external aids such as formations, talismans, and pills.

But in the Blood Abyss, Myriad Spirit Blood Essence was the best possible resource.

It could save cultivators countless years of bitter cultivation.

Where there were demon thralls, there was naturally more than one place. According to what he knew, the core region of the Blood Abyss, the Blood Demon Sea, contained a large number of powerful demon thralls as well as blood beast tribes.

Before completing the contract conditions, he could not yet explore it.

“Troublesome…”

After breaking through in cultivation, the next step was Body Refining cultivation, focusing on the Yin Nether Demonic Dragon Art. He took out a large amount of Body Refining resources from the Sea Heart Ring.

He swallowed the Dragon Blood Secret Medicine, ate the Blood Dates, and bit off a piece of Blood Dragon Essence Fragment to consume…

The three treasured medicines immediately caused Wang Yu’s entire body to flush red.

Countless waves of heat steamed out from his skin. His muscles knotted and bulged in great masses. Wang Yu hurriedly circulated his cultivation method and supplemented it with the Demonic Dragon Fist for tempering.

The divine marrow within his dragon spine continuously extracted the medicinal power. The divine marrow visibly improved bit by bit. This was the power of spending resources.

It was so exhilarating he could barely breathe.

After digesting part of it, Wang Yu split off a portion of his mind to guide the descent of the Lunar Yin Fiend, tempering both inside and out simultaneously, causing his Body Refining cultivation to advance even faster.

Maintaining this state, Wang Yu cultivated bitterly for three months.

He did not rest for a single moment.

As a result, his Body Refining cultivation continued to advance steadily in the mid stage of the third rank, still some distance away from breaking through to the late stage. Instead, his divine sense faintly showed signs of an imminent breakthrough.

From this, one could see how difficult Body Refining was to advance.

The resources and effort he had invested in this path were not the least inferior to those devoted to divine sense cultivation, and in fact were even greater.

And at the end of September in the eighth year of Wang Yu’s tenure as an elder.

Just as Wang Yu was sensing that his divine sense was about to break through and was preparing to push harder, he unexpectedly discovered that someone had arrived at Drunken Immortal Lake.

And it was someone long famous to Wang Yu.

“Peach Blossom Ghost Mother. What is she doing here…”