Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation Chapter 41

It was far faster than before. After all, the efficiency of one Idle Slot was "2 strands per day", so with two, it became "4 strands per day". The third slot was reserved for the Corpse Demon Secret Technique and couldn't be moved.

With two Idle Slots both set to the main cultivation technique, its advancement to a second-rank technique also doubled in efficiency. Twenty years of effort was reduced to ten, which was a major advantage for him.

After all, the Cold Blood Technique slightly enhanced his aptitude, and that was crucial for him.

On the day he left seclusion, a talisman letter was stuck to the isolation formation outside Wang Yu’s residence. After reading its contents, he couldn't help but smile.

"A second-rank refined corpse's arm. I didn’t expect they’d actually find it."

Three days later, he left for the meeting.

At the same time, in the gradually declining Xu Manor, the massive Xu Jiaojiao stood in front of Su Qingshan. In her layered fat folds, her squinted eyes gleamed with a cold light that was hard for outsiders to notice. Her voice was still sweet and delicate.

"Su Lang, father was taken by the Law Enforcement Hall, and there's been no word since. Are you sure Wang Yu was behind it?"

"Of course."

"The younger Zhu offended the third true disciple of Evil God Peak. At the Xu Clan’s alchemy shop, he and his grandfather Zhu the Shopkeeper conspired to deceive father-in-law and steal Xu family resources, intending to use spirit stones to escape punishment.

"But Wang Yu disrupted their plan. Nearly one hundred thousand spirit stones were swallowed up by Zhuo Shouqing. Once the Evil God Peak true disciple learned of it, he coveted the spirit stones and used it as a pretext to detain father-in-law, trying to get a cut.

"In the end, it was all Wang Yu’s fault!"

Su Qingshan’s investigation was indeed accurate, showing he had some capability. But placing the blame on Wang Yu was groundless.

Still, it was a helpless move.

Whether it was Zhuo Shouqing or the true disciple of Evil God Peak, neither were people the Xu family or Su Qingshan could afford to offend. So all the resentment was dumped on Wang Yu.

Wasn’t this just self-deception, covering one’s ears while stealing a bell?

Evil God Peak was already ranked at the bottom within the Blood Reversal Sect, and for a so-called true disciple to covet those spirit stones was exactly the kind of thing they would do. Deacon Xu was simply unlucky.

He dared to open an alchemy shop in Evil God District, which had already offended the people of Evil God Peak. The spirit stones he paid went to two places: one portion to the Alchemy Hall, representing the sect’s orthodox authority, and another to Barbaric Ghost Peak, specifically to the Xu family’s lineage under its protection.

How could Evil God Peak tolerate this? The possibility that the Zhu grandfather and grandson were sent by Evil God Peak’s true disciple to scam the Xu Clan’s shop was extremely high.

Xu Jiaojiao, due to cultivating a demonic technique her father had obtained by chance, transformed from a charming young lady into a grotesque pig-like creature. She no longer dared go outside, and her temperament became both simple and twisted.

She was called simple because she still believed in love. She was willing to hand over her cultivation pills to Su Qingshan to refine, trusting that once he reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he would ignore the world's opinions and marry her.

She was called twisted not only because of her bizarre and torturous fetishes, but also due to her strange and perverse personality.

Su Qingshan incited Xu Jiaojiao to hate Wang Yu, initially hoping to extract secret information about Tantai Chan from him, in order to get the high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill in her possession.

But ever since Tantai Chan returned from Tianbao City, all the first-generation Foundation Establishment cultivators went silent. Even the Alchemy Hall invited Tantai Chan to teach internal disciples about pill refining.

This greatly deterred all ill-intentioned schemers.

Everyone agreed: she has a background.

So Su Qingshan gave up on Tantai Chan’s opportunity and instead tried to seek a Foundation Establishment opportunity through his father-in-law. After all, with Xu Jiaojiao on his side, if he could sacrifice his appearance and use persuasion…

While the high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill might be out of reach, pills like the Blood Reversal Pill or other low-grade Foundation Establishment Pills still had a high chance. It was a fallback option.

And then... nothing more happened.

Deacon Xu was detained, the Xu Family’s Pill Shop was sealed, and there was a deficit of nearly one hundred thousand spirit stones. Even if his father-in-law managed to avoid prison, preparing Foundation Establishment Pills for Xu Jiaojiao would still be a major problem—let alone for him, the son-in-law who had not yet married in.

He hated Wang Yu to the core. Using a secret technique, he manipulated several outer sect disciples from the Five Yin Peak, sending them to stalk Wang Yu with the intent to kill.

But unexpectedly, all of them were killed in return. At the critical moment, Wang Yu used a technique to manipulate their minds, and they blurted out the name “Xu Jiaojiao,” shifting the suspicion away from himself—thus leading to today’s events.

Another assassination attempt.

At this moment, Wang Yu was deeply troubled. Having learned from past pain, he had since been cautious and avoided isolated corners. Today, he had arranged to meet an inner sect disciple from the Heaven Corpse Peak.

Yet near the corpse-breeding grounds of the Heaven Corpse Market, he unexpectedly ran into Xu Jiaojiao.

The corpse-breeding ground was protected by a Yin-Gathering Array and covered an expansive area on the outermost edge of the Heaven Corpse Market. Other than a few small lofts where corpse-breeders lived, the area was no different from the wilds.

That someone could locate him so precisely could only mean one thing—the inner sect disciple from Heaven Corpse Peak who arranged to meet him had betrayed him. Thinking of this, he tried to reason:

“Miss Xu, I believe I have no grudge against you. In fact, I even helped Deacon Xu. Why are you clinging to me like this?”

“Clinging to you? Helped my father?”

“All lies!”

Xu Jiaojiao’s fat-laden face twisted into a furious snarl. “When did I ever cling to you? It’s you who won’t let go of the Xu family—you deserve to die!”

Wang Yu keenly sensed something was wrong, but with the arrow already on the string, he had no choice but to fire. Seeing her charging at him like a tiger tank, how could he let himself be captured?

“Hmph, stubborn fool!”

Today was not the past. After a year and a half, Wang Yu had undergone an earth-shattering transformation.

With a single movement, he split into nine phantom images that spread out in all directions, forming a Nine-Palace Formation. With one hand, he formed a sword seal.

Each phantom was accompanied by ten sharp ice swords, which gathered and launched over a hundred piercing strikes.

Among the nine illusions, only one was real. The crystalline blades glimmered with a cold light, indistinguishable to the naked eye.

Xu Jiaojiao stomped the ground, her qi sinking into her dantian, and let out a thunderous roar.

It turned out to be a rare sonic-type technique. The Barbaric Ghost Peak was known for its physically powerful cultivators. Although not a pure body-tempering lineage, it still inherited sixty percent of that path’s essence.

This was a high-grade spell: Barbaric Ghost Howl.

Waves of shrill sound burst forth, visible even to the naked eye. The illusory ice swords from the phantoms were instantly shattered, leaving only the true ice swords from Wang Yu’s real body still pressing forward.

In response, Xu Jiaojiao swung her arm. Her right hand suddenly became shrouded in black smoke, swelling to several times its size, transforming into a black ghost hand that swept away all the ice swords.

Wang Yu’s expression turned grave. Xu Jiaojiao’s revealed cultivation level was shockingly at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, a full three layers above his. The pressure was immense.

He formed another hand seal to enhance the power of his spell.

"Ice Coffin Curse: Bind!"

The air temperature plummeted. Frost began forming on the ground, and ice walls rose around Xu Jiaojiao, enclosing her from four sides.

Immediately after, the top and bottom openings were sealed with ice crystals. A giant floating ice coffin hovered in midair, sealed shut.