Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation Chapter 18

Although it took a bit more time, it was a great help to his situation. The condition of outer sect disciples was more severe than he had anticipated.

The main issue was being situated within the Ice and Snow Pavilion. This would bring him foreseeable trouble. Jealousy exists in all people. How to deal with it would heavily depend on the Night Concealment Mantra.

On the other hand, after switching to the Cold Blood Technique, his understanding of the cultivation method essentially restarted. However, it allowed him to purge the blood-burning spiritual power in his body and replace it with new ice-type spiritual power.

Cultivating the Cold Blood Technique was like soaking one's body in ice water, creating a deep chill from the skin, through the blood, and into the marrow.

During this process, Wang Yu’s body would be tempered and grow increasingly stronger.

He remained keenly aware that losing an arm would affect his Foundation Establishment. The threshold of blood and qi was closely tied to physical strength. The earlier he could repair and supplement his body, the less it would affect his path to the Dao.

Moreover, the Cold Blood Technique and the Ice Sword Technique were originally a matching set. While greatly reducing spiritual power consumption, it dramatically increased their power. The intensity of the spiritual power was also much higher than that of shortcut demonic arts like the Blood-Burning Technique.

With all these factors combined, the earlier he switched his cultivation, the more he would benefit.

And after personally experiencing this phase of cultivation, the feedback from the Idle Slot also changed noticeably.

In the circulation process, they would be constantly compressed and forced to fuse into one, transforming strands into “Dao” to improve the quality of spiritual power.

This often required perseverance. If once did not work, then ten times. If ten times did not work, then a hundred or a thousand times.

With Wasted Spiritual Roots, trying to refine them into ten unified strands of spiritual power in order to break through to Qi Refining layer four was extremely difficult.

However, the feedback from the Idle Slot directly condensed spiritual power and sent it into Wang Yu’s dantian, just like how he had placed the Ice Sword Technique before and directly gained muscle memory reflexes.

This time, however, the feedback was a conditioned reflex for his spiritual power.

There was no sudden increase, no abrupt emergence.

Instead, it was the slow taming and solidifying of his power. When Wang Yu circulated his cultivation method again, it felt like it had been tempered a thousand times, and everything flowed smoothly.

It was like the natural feeling of water flowing into a channel.

At this pace, within at most half a year, the “hundred strands of spiritual power” could be refined into “ten threads of spiritual power,” successfully breaking through to Qi Refining layer four and completing the first spiritual refinement.

And this was only calculating the efficiency of a single Idle Slot. The time was more than sufficient.

It would also give him time to place the corresponding spell technique into the Idle Slot.

Over the next few days, Wang Yu was constantly on the move, gathering information about the Ten Halls of Blood Reversal Sect, especially focusing on the Cold Blood Hall, which was his top priority.

On the fifth day of his outer sect life.

Inside the main hall on the first floor of the Ice and Snow Pavilion. After several days of observation, he noticed that most of the cultivators living within the pavilion were inner sect disciples, with their cultivation mostly lingering in the later stages of Qi Refining.

Since they encountered each other frequently, while they looked down on Wang Yu as a Spirit Slave promoted to a disciple, they had not actually attacked him. At most, they would mock and ridicule him with words.

As long as he avoided them, it was not a big problem. The real trouble came from the outer sect disciples stationed outside the tower who had also pledged themselves to a core disciple. They coveted Wang Yu’s Qi essense room in the Ice and Snow Pavilion and were truly willing to take action.

Most of them were at the middle stage of Qi Refining or lower, and there were very few outer sect disciples within the tower holding the Black Blood Token. Aside from Wang Yu, only one other person had it, and his situation was about the same.

“Junior Brother Wang, sitting here so early. Are you perhaps waiting for me?”

While he was thinking, Zhao Shang slowly walked down from the upper floor. Although he was only at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, in the Ice and Snow Pavilion, the status granted by his core disciple Patron gave him immense authority.

At critical moments, he could even command several Foundation Establishment elders. At the same time, this position came with an absurd amount of benefits. According to what he knew, Zhao Shang was not yet thirty years old this year, and reaching Foundation Establishment in the future was practically guaranteed.

“Senior Brother Zhao, I do have something I wish to discuss,”

Wang Yu said as he stood up and poured a cup of tea.

“I heard that there are quite a few missions within the Ice and Snow Pavilion that pay well despite being low-risk. I wonder what the process is.”

“Easy to explain,”

Zhao Shang did not sit down. Instead, he retrieved a large number of scrolls from the storage pouch at his waist and laid them out on the table.

“Take your time, Junior Brother Wang. If you find a task that interests you, I’ll go over the details for you.”

“Alright.”

Wang Yu unrolled a scroll and secretly cross-referenced it with the information he had gathered a few days ago at the Mission Hall. It was indeed far more lucrative.

1. Second Peak (Heavenly Corpse Peak): Requires three Qi Refining disciples skilled in the Art of Corpse Refining to tend to thirty Black Zombies for one year. Reward: 800 Contribution Points.

For example, he had seen a similar commission at the Mission Hall that offered only 300 spirit stones, and not even contribution points.

Contribution Points could be exchanged in the sect’s treasure repository for spiritual herbs, spiritual materials, magical artifacts, spell techniques, cultivation manuals, and even the Four Cultivation Arts.

Many rare items could only be obtained with contribution points. Based on this alone, missions from the Ice and Snow Pavilion far surpassed those issued by the Mission Hall.

The only difference was that most missions from the Ice and Snow Pavilion were privately issued, with many Foundation Establishment stewards and Core Formation elders involved. The volume of tasks also indirectly reflected the strength and reach of the true legacy disciples behind them.

The Mission Hall was more public and standardized. Most of its tasks involved maintaining sect-owned properties.

After looking through several options, Wang Yu leaned toward short-term tasks that did not involve combat.

12. Responsible for maintaining Deacon Tantai’s private herb garden for six months. Must be skilled in nurturing spiritual herbs and identifying common plants. Reward: 500 Contribution Points.

The Ice and Snow Pavilion would take a fifty percent cut, which meant only 250 would end up in his pocket after six months. This oddly specific number made Wang Yu hesitate for a moment.

During his sixteen years in Stone Lake City, due to his inability to access cultivation techniques, he had mostly read miscellaneous books. He was quite proficient in herbal knowledge.

However, that level was surely insufficient to manage a spiritual herb garden. He would need to urgently study for a few days. Purely knowledge-based material placed in the Idle Slot could usually be memorized in just a few days.

Both the Thousand Character Classic and Ten Thousand Character Manual had already proven this. There was nothing to worry about.

“Senior Brother Zhao, I’ve made my decision.”

“Deacon Tantai’s mission, huh?” Zhao Shang glanced sideways and immediately recognized the scroll in Wang Yu’s hand. He said,

“Deacon Tantai offers generous rewards, but her standards are also very high. Are you sure you can complete it?”

“I think I can.”

Hearing this, Zhao Shang couldn’t help but look at Wang Yu with new eyes. In the demonic path, there were plenty of cultivators good at fighting, but not many who specialized in production or technical skills. Talent of that kind was sorely lacking.

“Very well.”

“According to the rules, fifty percent goes to Senior Disciple Su. In addition, you must pay another ten percent. Half goes to the Foundation Establishment cultivator upstairs, and the other half to me, Zhao Shang. Any objections?”

Wang Yu froze for a moment, then quickly understood and responded with a low voice.

“No objections.”

“Excellent. Then the task is yours. Report to Deacon Tantai within seven days.”

“Understood, Senior Brother.”