Chapter 337: Chapter 88: The Mystery of the Ninth Floor of the Earth Abyss (Part 1)
「Above Celestial City Peak.」
Inside the Bone Daoist Palace, Su Miao and Sun Fuguo sat across from each other, sipping tea.
Sun Fuguo spoke, "Three auras were left at the scene. I’m very familiar with that cold one—it must have been left by the Demon Buddha Inheritor. From the looks of it now, however, it seems they have perished."
"The other two auras were quite peculiar. One was of an ethereal Sword Intent, the other a vast, mighty thunder that struck fear into one’s heart. But both came to an abrupt end, suggesting their owners perished as well."
Su Miao took a sip of tea and contemplated for a moment before saying, "This kind of display reminds me of the commotion your disciple caused. It was just like this when he eliminated the Tier Three Celestial Demon back then."
Sun Fuguo nodded. "I suspected the same."
Su Miao set down his teacup, his gaze profound. "That mysterious technique of his is getting more and more formidable. I just wonder what the cost is."
Sun Fuguo said calmly, "Using it damages the soul, but he has now found a way to heal it, so that’s no longer a concern."
He paused, then added, "What I’m concerned about is how many more of those treasures he has. Logically speaking, one shouldn’t possess too many of such heaven-defying items."
Su Miao smiled faintly. "Why don’t we test him later? If he still has plenty, then we can try heading to the Hanhai Desert to settle our score with the Flame God Palace."
Upon hearing this, a sharp glint flashed in Sun Fuguo’s eyes. He took out a Golden Sword, relayed a short message, and dispatched it.
"I’ll ask a question as well!" Su Miao’s expression shifted as if he had just thought of something, and he too took out a Golden Sword and dispatched it.
A short while later, the two Golden Swords flew back in unison.
The two men caught the Golden Swords. Upon closer inspection, their faces revealed an expression that said, ’Just as we thought.’
"For him to admit it so candidly, he must have plenty more," Su Miao, who had a naturally jovial nature, was the first to speak with a laugh.
Sun Fuguo’s expression was solemn, his thoughts unreadable.
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「Demon Lion Peak, Canglan Cave, Quiet Chamber.」
After removing the restriction on the nun’s storage bag, Fang Cheng began to inspect its contents.
He gave the storage bags from the Great Demons to Ye Yan, letting his wife handle them.
The contents of the nun’s storage bag were completely different from those of other cultivators.
The most numerous items inside were, of all things, human bones!
Humanoid skeletons were piled up like a mountain, all of them the remains of Life Talisman Realm Cultivators. At a rough glance, there were no fewer than a hundred of them.
’They must be materials the nun used for Artifact Refining.’ It was impossible to know whether she had obtained these skeletons by slaying cultivators or by robbing the graves of Life Talisman Cultivators.
Using human bones for Artifact Refining was quite rare.
Even Golden Furnace Peak of the Yinluo Sect, which specialized in the White Bone Relic, was never known to actively hunt cultivators for Artifact Refining.
Instead, they mostly hunted demons in the Earth Abyss or Demon Beasts in the Abyssal Marsh and the Southern Mang Mountains.
Seeing these white bones gave Fang Cheng a new understanding of the depths to which the Hidden Demon Sect would sink.
Aside from the white bones, there were some Spirit Stones, Talismans, and medicinal pills.
There weren’t many Spirit Stones; compared to other Life Soul Cultivators or even Peak Life Talisman Cultivators, the amount was pathetic.
The Talismans and pills were all Tier Two quality and beneath Fang Cheng’s notice.
However, it was not a complete loss. Fang Cheng found two Secret Techniques in the nun’s storage bag.
One was recorded on a piece of human skin, resembling a scripture scroll. It was a wicked Demon Skill for refining other cultivators into external avatars.
This technique had a high risk of causing Qi deviation. Moreover, the external avatar would retain the strong personality of its original owner, making it extremely difficult to control.
Fang Cheng recalled Lady Qinxue, whom he had killed in Divine Pillar Immortal City. This in turn reminded him of how Ren Yan had once approached him out of the blue, accusing him of slaying her senior sister’s Demon Dao avatar.
’So the nun really had cultivated this Divine Technique.’
Fang Cheng had a strong aversion to this Divine Technique. He felt it was just another form of "demonic corruption," and if he ever couldn’t resist cultivating it, it would surely bring disaster upon him.
He mulled it over for a moment, then came to a firm decision.
A jet-black Demon Fire suddenly erupted from his hand, instantly incinerating the human-skin scroll to ash.
’This Divine Technique is better off erased from the world, lest it bring disaster to the mortal realm.’
The other Divine Technique in the nun’s storage bag was called the Celestial Demon Divine Pearl Refining True Technique. It was a Mysterious Secret Technique for subduing and enslaving Celestial Demons.
By mastering this Divine Technique, one could refine encountered Celestial Demons into Celestial Demon Beads. During battle, one could then summon the Celestial Demon to fight for them.
Bing Wuyi, the Saintess of the Nine Nether Demon Sect from the Wilderness Domain, had, by a stroke of fortune, refined a Celestial Demon Bead created by an Ancient Cultivator. With this bead, she could command two Tier Three Celestial Demons and borrow their Celestial Demon Power for her own use. With such a Divine Technique, she had few rivals in the Life Talisman Realm.
Fang Cheng casually spent some creation points and comprehended this Divine Technique up to the Small Success Realm.
To him, this meant that when he went down into the Earth Abyss in the future, he could find a few Tier Three Demons to refine into Celestial Demon Beads, giving him another tool to use against his enemies.
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「Seven days later.」
A simple inauguration ceremony for the new Peak Master was held on Demon Lion Peak.
The main attendees were the two Supreme Elders, and the Peak Masters of the other eight peaks all came to offer their congratulations.
Others present included several Inner Sect Elders from Demon Lion Peak, such as Cai Li, Xiao Qi, and Huang Shen, as well as True Disciples like Feng Ziang and Master Wanqing.
Notably, Fang Cheng’s Fifth Senior Sister, Hua Yutang, had finally broken through her bottleneck, much to the surprise of Feng Ziang and Master Wanqing.
Neither of them had expected that among Sun Fuguo’s disciples, the fifth, Hua Yutang, would be the first to break through to the Mid-Life Talisman Stage.
Thus, Hua Yutang became an Inner Sect Elder of Demon Lion Peak, and the only True Disciples left on the mountain were Xiao Qi’s disciple, Feng Ziang, and Master Wanqing.
After the ceremony, various powers from within and without the Yinluo Sect caught wind of the news and flocked to deliver congratulatory gifts.
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