Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 343

Once, a cultivator fell here.

The power of the corpse dispersed, and in the end gave rise to the Spirit Transformation venerable of the Blood Demon Sea, whose title was the Yin Corrosion Venerable.

This place was therefore also called the Corrosion Yin Hall, naturally being closely connected to him.

From this, it could be judged that the danger here was by no means something Core Formation cultivators could withstand. However, the Blood Reversal Sect had controlled the Blood Abyss Sacred Land for a long time.

Starting from the explorations of Nascent Soul cultivators, they gradually harvested all the benefits within. Related intelligence became more and more complete.

As a result, the danger level naturally dropped lower and lower. Nowadays, only the Blood Infant Fruit, which was born once every two hundred years, was considered a fourth rank opportunity, and thus was left to the sect cultivators.

They were allowed to compete among themselves for this Nascent Soul opportunity.

Of course.

The Blood Reversal Sect possessed so many Nascent Soul cultivators that it was not limited to a single treasure land or secret realm capable of stably producing Nascent Soul opportunities.

Some were exclusive to the Exalted Sect, some were contested together with other sects, and others were privately owned by families.For example, the Ghost Fang Zhuo clan possessed a secret realm called the Demon Cave, which could steadily produce an evil object known as the Ghost Curse Demon Stone.

This item provided tremendous assistance to demonic cultivators forming a Nascent Soul.

Another example was the Yu clan of Holy Mountain. Their clan land, Holy Mountain itself, was a blessed cave heaven. The Holy Mountain Stone Liquid that condensed there at intervals also had the effect of assisting in breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Judging by rank, all of these belonged to the category of supreme grade Nascent Soul forming spirit items.

Adding the Xianyin Zuoqiu clan into the picture, the more one learned about them, the more terrifying they seemed. In earlier years, when Wang Yu first learned about them, the three families had only claimed to have eight Nascent Soul cultivators.

But what was the reality.

Figures like Black Heaven Talisman Lord, a Zhuo clan live in son in law, were not even counted. There were plenty hidden beneath the surface.

Now within the Corrosion Yin Hall, Wang Yu swiftly passed through the empty stretch at the front and finally entered the first main hall.

Due to the rectangular layout of the Corrosion Yin Hall, it could be divided into nine segmented palaces in total. From the First Hall to the Ninth Hall, they were connected by long corridors on the left and right.

Each hall had different functions, and thus different opportunities.

This time, because of the Blood Slaughter Stone Stele, the order of the halls had been completely disrupted. Even the detailed layout and the positions of the restrictions had changed.

What secrets were hidden within did not concern Wang Yu.

What he needed now was information related to the Blood God Heart Control. After some thought, only the direct disciples of the Nine Peaks were likely to possess such information.

Those from Evil God Peak did not count. Those from Blood Nether Peak had not come.

That left only seven people. He was most familiar with Yan Ling, who was likely already deep within the Corrosion Yin Hall, perhaps even seated before the Blood Slaughter Stone Stele.

He reached out once more, tore out his heart, and burned it to ashes.

Wang Yu felt that he was becoming more and more like a monster. Who knew since when he had stopped fearing such injuries.

Even among demonic cultivators famed for their bizarre techniques, Core Formation cultivators capable of doing this were extremely rare.

The Yin Blood secret power within his body could restore him at most three more times.

Wang Yu temporarily switched the Idle Slot to the Corpse Demon secret art, letting it provide him with corpse qi and yin qi to recongeal Yin Blood Pills. Otherwise, once Zhuo Shouyun caught up.

There was a high chance he would lose control over his body, so preparations had to be made.

He had performed similar operations once before, so it was already familiar.

Above the first hall within the Corrosion Yin Hall were written the words Yin Craft Hall.

Wang Yu immediately recalled the corresponding intelligence. This should have been the place where the Yin Corrosion Venerable once refined artifacts. The opportunities here were mainly blood, yin, and poison attributed materials.

It was just unclear what kind of changes had occurred.

After entering, Wang Yu immediately slowed his pace. Within this place, every step had to be taken cautiously. He also took out his feng shui compass.

Blank formation flags spun atop the compass. If he accidentally triggered a restriction, he could use feng shui secret arts to patch it up with formation flags, a kind of opportunistic method.

Inside the Yin Craft Hall, nine furnaces were arranged in a Nine Palace formation.

The mural on the dome depicted an ancient exotic beast called the Wind Raccoon. Do not be fooled by its unremarkable name. It was in fact an incarnation of wind itself.

It was difficult for it to move on its own and could only travel by riding the wind.

Its appearance resembled a spirit formed from sweet flag, with the body of a civet beast.

As a result, ancient cultivators once regarded it as an immortal medicine. Consuming it could remove all old qi from the body and directly extend one’s lifespan by five hundred years. It was hunted to extinction.

According to the intelligence, this should have been a mural from the Pill Cloud Hall.

Yet now it appeared in the Yin Craft Hall, which was used for artifact refinement. The Blood Slaughter Stone Stele had indeed disrupted the layout. The methods involved were truly strange.

His divine sense swept across the furnaces one by one.

Inside these furnaces, every two hundred years a batch of materials would be nurtured, with uncertain quality. It was said that they were all brought up from the depths of the Blood Demon Sea after the Corrosion Yin Hall disappeared.

Upon inspection now, they were completely empty.

They had clearly been taken by those who entered earlier. Legend said that in the earliest times, Nascent Soul ancestors had obtained fifth rank materials from here. As the number of explorations increased, the quality gradually declined.

Until now, only third rank materials would appear.

Wang Yu walked along the Nine Palace sequence from back to front. Looking at these furnaces used for artifact refinement, a sudden thought arose. He was tempted to pry them away.

But on second thought.

Since the people who came before had not touched them, there had to be a reason. After all, which demonic cultivator was not the type to scrape the ground three feet deep. He subconsciously glanced backward and immediately formed a plan.

The star trajectory on the feng shui compass rose. After Wang Yu passed through the Nine Palace Earth Fire formation, he flicked out nine blank formation flags and inserted them into the tops of the furnaces.

The mysteries of the Earth Mother Scripture flowed through his mind.

Silently, the Nine Palaces reversed and fell into chaos. There was no longer any trace of the original correct order. If Zhuo Shouyun and the others still followed the old intelligence, they would certainly suffer a great loss.

This was where the strength of a feng shui earth master lay.

Aside from borrowing the power of extraordinary formation of heaven and earth, even the arrangements left behind by ancient cultivators could be put to use.

After passing through the latter half of the Yin Craft Hall, he encountered quite a bit of ash. Wang Yu glanced at it a few times and quickly left.

Above the second hall within the Corrosion Yin Hall were written the words Lady Sovereign Hall.

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“Hah.”

A middle aged cultivator spewing blazing flames wiped the sweat from his forehead. Using his flying sword with extreme care, he dug out slightly melted black ice and sent it to the rear.

“Young Master Yun, it is almost opened through. Please.”

Zhuo Shouyun sat upon a blood palanquin formed from eight blood shadows. He lowered his gaze to take a look and said expressionlessly.

“You go in first.”

“Yes, yes, yes.”

At present, more than twenty people were still following at his side. All of them stood within the passage carved out inside the black ice, making it rather cramped.

Compared to Wang Yu, they were about half an hour behind.

Inside the Corrosion Yin Hall, they did not dare exert too much force, so their efficiency was naturally much lower. Only now had they smoothly entered the first hall.

When they saw the Nine Palace furnaces, someone spoke up.

“Is there any fellow daoist skilled in formations?”

No one responded.

On second thought, it made sense. Those with ability and confidence had already entered the Yin Corrosion Hall at the first opportunity.

Regardless of whether there were changes brought about by the Blood Slaughter Stone Stele, they feared nothing. All of them wanted to seize the benefits as quickly as possible. Competitive instincts drove them.

Those who remained outside, aside from those who deliberately let others take the lead to slowly gather information.

Were basically cultivators who did not understand formation arts or feng shui secret techniques. They simply lacked the confidence.

“No matter.”

Zhuo Shouyun raised his head to glance at the Wind Raccoon mural on the dome before saying.

“I have Zhuo clan intelligence regarding the Corrosion Yin Hall. After you read it, pass through one by one to prevent any accidents.”

The intelligence from the Zhuo clan was naturally far more detailed than what they held, so it was immediately circulated among them.

Another half incense stick of time was delayed.

A cultivator spoke up. “Let me go first. Young Master Yun has made so many preparations. Presumably they were not useless.”

This man stepped into the Nine Palace formation. After finding that nothing seemed to change, he waved to the people behind him.

Some followed. Others felt it was better to watch first.

When they were halfway through.

The nine massive furnaces suddenly reacted. The fire inlets at their bases burst open, and an eerie black gray flame surged up from the ground, carrying a strange bloody stench.

“Not good!”

Zhuo Shouyun’s expression changed sharply. The blood palanquin beneath him transformed into a blood cocoon, sealing him tightly inside.

Several cultivators who were within the Nine Palace Earth Fire Formation had just increased their speed, yet were instantly burned into ashes by the strange flames.

Even their storage rings were destroyed, scattering magical treasures, miscellaneous items, Golden Cores, and more across the ground.

Items of poor quality were burned into ashes. Those of slightly better quality were sucked into the furnaces, rising and falling within as if being refined, carrying a strange sense of rhythm.

If Wang Yu had been here, he would have discovered that these ashes were exactly the same as what he had seen earlier.

The only difference was that what he saw were a few unlucky fools.

These people, however, had been purely set up.

This sudden change caused everyone to turn their gaze toward Zhuo Shouyun. Thick suspicion locked onto his face. His expression remained unchanged as he said coldly.

“I already said it. One person at a time. After the Blood Slaughter Stone Stele appeared, the layout of the Corrosion Yin Hall was already disrupted.

“The first three steps had no issues. The problem appeared at the fourth step. We must overturn the possibilities and try again. Use puppets or ghost servants. Are there any fellow Daoists from Five Yin Peak?”

His logic was sound, and Zhuo Shouyun had no motive to harm them.

Although the crowd was suspicious, they did not immediately turn hostile and barely maintained this trust.

“I will do it. My Ten Thousand Souls Banner contains plenty of yin ghosts, more than enough to test.”

“Very well. This Daoist may proceed.”

After barely getting through this crisis, Zhuo Shouyun also fell into deep thought.

He was wondering whether this was Wang Yu’s handiwork, or something arranged by an earlier group. If it was the earlier group, then how had Wang Yu passed through.

Through secret techniques, he could sense that Wang Yu was still alive.

But if it was arranged by Wang Yu, then when had he mastered feng shui and strange formation arts. Even with Zhuo Shouyun’s intelligence network, nothing like this had been discovered. That was truly frightening.

All his schemes were formulated based on target intelligence. Ninety percent of the time, nothing could escape his grasp. Yet Wang Yu was the exception.

“Once is coincidence. Twice or three times becomes inevitability. Once we pass the Yin Craft Hall, we will be able to confirm whose handiwork this really is.”

With these thoughts in mind.

After sacrificing a batch of yin ghosts, a safe route was finally probed through the disrupted Nine Palace positions, and no further accidents occurred.

Before entering the second hall, only nineteen people remained in his team.

The second hall, the Lady Sovereign Hall.

Seventeen naked stone statues stood within, each lifelike and striking provocative poses. Eight were female statues and nine were male statues.

They represented eight yin and nine yang. The extreme of yang numbers was nine, and the extreme of yin numbers was eight. Yet this hall was named Lady Sovereign, making its purpose and logic difficult to discern.

The opportunities here were called Yin Pearls and Yang Pearls.

Every two hundred years, a pearl would condense within the reproductive organs of these stone statues. They could be used for alchemy or artifact refinement and were artificially created third rank spirit items.

They were highly favored by cultivators of the Joyous Union Sect.

After Zhuo Shouyun and his group emerged from the Lady Sovereign Hall, only thirteen people remained. Six had stayed behind forever.

Someone finally could not endure it any longer.

“Zhuo Shouyun, did you deliberately give us false intelligence, intending to have us all die inside the Corrosion Yin Hall so you could default on the promised rewards?”

Once these words were spoken, the already fragile morale immediately collapsed.

Accusations erupted one after another.

Those with short tempers had already summoned their magical treasures, waiting to see what Zhuo Shouyun would say.

He thought for a moment, then spoke.

“Everyone, this is all Wang Yu’s scheme.”

“Wang Yu, Wang Yu. Do not push everything onto Wang Yu. This man’s battle strength is extraordinary. Not only is his divine ability realm high, he also cultivates body refinement.

“At such a young age, reaching this level already makes him a rare genius. Are you now going to say he is also proficient in feng shui and strange formation arts. Do you even believe that yourself?”

Zhuo Shouyun was instantly rendered speechless.

“Now, take out the promised rewards.

“Everyone has already accompanied you to stage a fight with Wang Yu at the entrance of the Corrosion Yin Hall. You simply failed to keep him here.

“What should be given is due to be handed over.”

The shift in momentum placed Zhuo Shouyun in an awkward position, unable to advance or retreat.

He said.

“I will take the lead next. How about that?”

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The sixth hall, the Blood Slaughter Hall.

Wang Yu rubbed his chin, looking at his completely depleted reserve of formation flags, and sighed regretfully.

“This Earth Mother Scripture is truly useful. I should prepare more blank formation flags in the future. I wonder how Zhuo Shouyun is doing now.”

After a bit of internal muttering, Wang Yu shifted his attention.

He murmured to himself.

“Blood Slaughter Hall. This is not recorded in the intelligence. It must be the inner hall where the Blood Slaughter Stone Stele resides.”

This meant that Yan Ling and the others were most likely within this hall as well.

After entering the hall.

Wang Yu paused, slightly surprised, because the number of people inside this inner hall was far greater than he had expected.

He had thought that a few dozen people would be the limit, but there were actually more than three hundred.

Before a massive black red stone stele, people were everywhere.

Sitting, standing, lying down, hanging from beams, clinging to pillars.

Apart from the stone stele itself, this inner hall contained nothing but people.

It seemed that the credibility of past intelligence was extremely high, and incredibly detailed. Otherwise, the success rate could not have been this high.

If that was truly the case, then it was fortunate that he had been leaving trouble behind along the way.

Plenty of it had been left for Zhuo Shouyun.

“Wang Yu!”

His entrance drew the attention of some people, but Yan Ling’s call was even more eye catching. Wang Yu smiled in response and threaded his way through the crowd.

“Princess Yan Ling, this one beside you is…”

There was also a corpse faced man beside her who looked extremely kidney deficient. He was quite handsome, not inferior to Wang Yu.

It was just that his aura was overly sinister. There was a faint smell of corpse stench mixed with fragrance on his body, which was somewhat unpleasant.

“Jiang Mingxin. Reputation does not compare to meeting in person, Daoist Wang Yu.”

“So it is the current direct disciple of Heavenly Corpse Peak. Long have I admired you.”

After exchanging pleasantries, Wang Yu did not continue staring at him. Instead, he pulled Yan Ling out of the Blood Slaughter Hall, preparing to speak in private.

As a cooperative partner who supported each other, Yan Ling naturally agreed. She greeted a few acquaintances before temporarily leaving with Wang Yu.

Outside the hall, Wang Yu laid down a sound isolating barrier with his divine sense.

Only then did he speak with peace of mind.

“You are all gathered in this Blood Slaughter Hall. Is it because of that stone stele?”