Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation Chapter 62
"What unexpected change?"
"Bee swarm." The cultivator from Five Yin Peak spread his hands and sighed. "A Foundation Establishment-level Corrosive Venomous Bee swarm. Its toxic corrosion is enough to dissolve high-grade magic artifacts. Only those well-versed in spell arts can enter."
As soon as he said this, the crowd fell silent.
It wasn't just the corrosive poison—the Venomous Bee King at the Qi Refining stage was also a major problem.
After a long pause, someone finally sighed.
"No wonder Senior Sister Liu and the others haven't returned. So they encountered a Foundation Establishment-level threat. This is a disaster."
The leading cultivator of Five Yin Peak spoke again.
"I heard that Liu Jinxian started collecting Poison Bees the moment she arrived at Xuanbone Mountain. She said they were to be used in refining Gu insects. Does anyone here have a way to deal with these bees?"
Upon hearing this, the disciples of Gu Poison Peak looked at each other. After a brief hesitation, someone finally yielded and said through gritted teeth.
"Junior brother, you mustn’t!"
The man’s eyes turned red as he said, "We're dead either way. If we go down there, at least there's a sliver of hope. If Senior Sister Liu is trapped, rescuing her would be a great merit. It could balance our faults and help us survive."
This reasoning finally silenced the other disciples from Gu Poison Peak.
"Sigh… The Gu was only half-refined before we set out. I don’t know how effective it will be. Who will refine it?"
This particular Gu insect was one of the main reasons Liu Jinxian had traveled thousands of miles to Blackbone Mountain. The primary material was precisely this Corrosive Venomous Bee beast.
Before entering the underground palace, the Gu was being boiled in a venom jar and entrusted to the disciples to guard. New live Venomous Bees had to be added regularly, so the demand for bees was extremely high.
Whoever refined it would be making an enemy of Liu Jinxian. The consequences were self-evident.
Seeing this, the new leader of Five Yin Peak offered a suggestion.
"I have a secret technique from the Nether Mountain Sect. It allows temporary control of Gu insects. Would you like to try it?"
The Nether Mountain Sect was also one of the five major Nascent Soul demonic sects within the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain, located in the southeastern corner, quite close to the Chaotic Ancient Sea, but rather far from the Blood Reversal Sect.
This suggestion made it clear to the disciples of Gu Poison Peak that the other side had prepared in advance and now had complete leverage over them.
"Speak. What price do we have to pay?"
"Straightforward. Good."
"Help us clear out Blackbone Mountain. As for the profit from all Xuan Essence Flowers, you may only take thirty percent. This covers the cost of the secret art and access to the underground tunnel. What do you say?"
The temporary leaders of Five Yin Peak, several of whom were late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, finally revealed their true intentions—they sought to coerce the Gu Poison Peak disciples.
"All three peaks of Blackbone Mountain?"
"Naturally."
This was entirely a seller's market. The Gu Poison Peak disciples had no room to bargain. After all, their lives were at stake. Any further delay, and people would really start dying.
"Fine."
After a long period of hesitation, both sides finally reached a tentative cooperation.
They gathered the strength of eight newly advanced late-stage Qi Refining cultivators and officially began the operation to clear Blackbone Mountain.
In the shadows, Wang Yu withdrew his gaze with interest.
Though hidden, he had been silently observing this group’s movements. While the two sides appeared to have reached a deal, in reality, it was merely a temporary alliance under pressure.
Once the threat to their lives was removed, betrayal would come swiftly. When that time arrived, a great battle would be inevitable.
No wonder only fifty or sixty people from the previous group sent to Blackbone Mountain had returned. Even the Blood Reversal Sect was happy to see them fight, as those who returned were all elites, each with a chance of reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.
Why wouldn’t they allow it?
To Wang Yu, this was also a great opportunity to profit. His Night Concealment mantra made him elusive and ghost-like. Hidden in the shadows, he could strike when the time was right and snatch a batch of Xuan Essence Flowers.
As long as it was hidden well, in their line of sight, Wang Yu's identity was also trapped underground. This was the essence of hiding in plain sight.
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【Idle Slot 3: Taiyin Nether Eyes (Perfection)】
“Taiyin Nether Eyes (100/100): 24 times session a day, master within 1 year.”
At this time, it was the fifth month of the fourth year of his Outer Sect career.
His cultivation had once again risen by a large margin. After refining half of a supreme-grade Cold Blood Pill, he gained fifty strands of spiritual power. The Idle Slot contributed seventy-two strands, while his own cultivation added two more.
His spiritual power had accumulated to 660 strands. By the second half of the year, it was estimated to reach around eight hundred, drawing him even closer to a breakthrough.
Of course, the most important matter was that after nearly a year of recovery, the Divine Corpse Arm had fully healed, and the first stage of the Taiyin Nether Eyes had been successfully completed. The second stage of the inheritance would only be accessible after he broke through to Foundation Establishment, when he could retrieve it from the jade slip of inheritance.
The first-rank perfected Taiyin Nether Eyes granted his eyes a mystical ability, referred to in the inheritance as [Moon Observation].
Radiant spirit dispersed, vermilion flames faded; moonlight clear, mist clustered in billows; the moon-cold toad drifted with scattered wind.
One absorbed the moon’s essence without greed, replenishing energy while invoking compassion.
So-called [Moon Observation] allowed Wang Yu’s eyes to attract the essence of the lunar energy. By observing the moon and visualizing its form in his heart, he could perform what was called “inner visualization.”
Like the deity of the lunar yin, like the essence of the jade toad; divine intent withdrawn, will restrained; qi stirred and mind emptied. Borrowing the brilliance of the crimson plume to form the brightness of the jade disc.
His eyes, once corroded by the corpse demon’s secret art, returned to normal, no longer eerie green and filled with evil.
Instead, they now resembled a bright moon, flowing with gentle light, cold and solitary.
His black pupils gave rise to a crescent moon phenomenon.
Constantly, they absorbed the scattered essence of the lunar yin from heaven and earth. This spiritual energy entered directly through his eyes, gathering at the Niwan Palace in his brow, forming a milky white moon pool within the divine hiding place.
It cleansed divine consciousness and enhanced his mind.
Long-term absorption would significantly enhance the essence of his soul, and his divine sense was being nourished, with a constant feeling of growth every moment.
In other words, the first stage of the Taiyin Nether Eyes could passively draw in lunar essence and increase his divine sense, functioning like a permanent innate talent.
It also granted him a special perspective when observing the moon.
As if he could perceive the yin-bearing aspect of all things, very mysterious.
This technique, during the Qi Refining stage, could only be considered a supportive secret art.
But its effect in enhancing divine sense and cleansing the soul justified his decision to pause the Idle Cultivation of the Corpse Demon Secret Technique. Now that the technique was mastered and the third idle slot was vacant, he reactivated the Corpse Demon Secret Technique there.
He resumed its cultivation.
He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but after mastering the Taiyin Nether Eyes, he felt his body had also absorbed some of the lunar essence. The side effects of the Yin Blood and Corpse Demon Bones seemed to have lightened somewhat.
His physical sensations had somewhat recovered.
Ten days later.
In a nameless cave.
This was the same path that Wang Yu and others took to enter the underground palace a year ago, which he later destroyed.
Now, however, it had been excavated again into a wider passage under the reconstruction work of the disciples from Five Yin Peak.
Several late-stage Qi Refining disciples from Gu Poison Peak were gazing downward, accompanied by several hundred people. In front of them, a bee Gu emitting black poisonous smoke buzzed loudly.
This was the painstaking creation of Liu Jinxian.
Unfortunately, it had emerged too early. Its aura was highly unstable. Its bird-skull-like head was entirely crimson, restlessly twitching.
Atop the bee Gu’s head, a mysterious rune formed from spiritual power flickered.
Clearly, this was from the secret technique of the Nether Mountain Sect.
Without any words exchanged, the Gu Poison Peak disciples jumped down one after another. After they had all entered—
About thirty breaths later, only three fifth-layer Qi Refining disciples from Five Yin Peak descended, all skilled in movement techniques. None of the later-stage cultivators moved.