Wasted Spiritual Root to Embark on Demonic Cultivation Chapter 89

The second time, he forcefully killed three Spirit Slaves, crudely shifted the blame, and tricked a few stewards of the Stone House District. This brought True Disciple Su a favorable benefit.

For this, he received great praise and a reward usually given for promoting outer sect disciples.

The third time, which was this time, his plan was not adopted. There was no follow-up notice or reward, and the Fatty Duan, who had been fooled into confusion, never contacted him again.

All of this was enough to prove that True Disciple Su was a radical person. God only knew what arrangements he might come up with.

And seven months of silence also proved that he had been abandoned.

Since that was the case, before Wei Zhong came out of seclusion, he had to save himself.

Now that he held a secret method that could improve his aptitude, it was equivalent to Wang Yu having obtained a key to directly enter Foundation Establishment. It was far better than that worthless Great Method of Seizing Foundation.

Even without a supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, as long as he improved his own aptitude, using a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill to break through would be perfectly natural. He would not need to slowly grind away using Idle Slots to attempt it.

Moreover, the Demonic Embryo Mysterious Origin Curse permanently improved aptitude and could be reused. Even without bloodline connections, each time it could seize only one or two points of aptitude, but with repeated use the gains accumulated.

Therefore, this time leaving the sect, Wang Yu could truly consider whether to betray the sect.

The Blood Reversal Sect’s value to him had dropped sharply. Now he was caught in the whirlpool of Core True Disciple struggles. It would be better to cut ties once and for all and simply escape from the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain.

Anyway, the Cold Blood Technique was about to advance through the Idle Slot. He would not need to exchange sect contribution points for a second-rank cultivation method, yet it could still connect seamlessly to the Foundation Establishment stage.

All the conditions were now fulfilled.

“After being away from home for nearly ten years, I should go back and take a look.”

The matter of betraying the sect, Wang Yu temporarily pressed down in his heart. He remembered how he had been abducted, and later he could make inquiries to see the situation.

He could also take up Spirit Slave capturing missions. By then, he would be able to enter the Taihu Spiritual Domain openly. Whether to stay or leave, he could decide after.

In the 9th year and 8th month of his outer sect life, after seven months of seclusion, Wang Yu shut himself in for another three months. Aside from daily cultivation and spell practice, he spent all his time on one matter.

Maps.

The cultivation world placed great importance on maps, valuing them no less than cultivation methods or secret techniques. They were contraband, and disciples were forbidden to trade them.

Disciples who stayed in the sect long term mostly only knew the Blood Abyss Province where the sect’s mountain gate was located. They had only basic maps.

Only cultivators at Foundation Establishment stage and above fully understood the four provinces directly governed by the Blood Reversal Sect, along with many city garrisons, cultivation resource sites, and more.

At the border between the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain and the Taihu Spiritual Domain lay many perilous passes and old battlefields. Countless cultivators were stationed there, making it very difficult to cross normally.

Outside those passes and battlefields were two vast mountain ranges occupied by demonic beasts. The Blood Reversal Sect was located at the upper left corner of the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain, near the Severed Boundary Mountains.

Its governed provinces, Blood Abyss, Maple, and Qiong, all bordered it. The closest perilous pass was called Blackbone Mountain Pass. To the right was Withered Leaf Swamp, a poisonous marsh below the mountains, filled with dangers.

On the left of the pass was the Blackbone Monster Region, which connected tightly with the Qulong Mountain Range in the south. These two massive ranges overlapped layer upon layer, stretching endlessly, slanting across to divide the two domains.

The righteous and demonic paths each controlled half.

This basic information was widely spread and not difficult to gather. With a little deduction, one could draw a map.

The challenge lay in the distribution of spirit veins, the guarding cities above, and the locations of resource points.

And also in detailed maps of the two mountain ranges, such as areas where demonic beasts roamed, the domains ruled by different species, and the formations and prohibitions set during the many wars between righteous and demonic cultivators throughout history.

Do not underestimate this.

The wars between righteous and demonic paths were an eternal tradition. Most often, they were initiated by the demonic side, who invaded deep into the Taihu Spiritual Domain and plundered wantonly. These wars usually erupted when resources ran dry.

After one great war after another, how many failed traps and restrictions remain in the mountains, never dismantled? They number in the tens of thousands. Every one of them is deadly, whether temporary caves dug for refuge, or inheritance traps deliberately left behind. There are simply too many.

Qi Refining cultivators almost cannot cross the mountain range between two regions at all. At the very least, Foundation Establishment is required. Golden Core is safer, but even then there is risk of disaster.

There is no helping it. Generations of accumulated traps, along with the demonic beasts in the mountains, are troublesome problems.

In addition, the records are incomplete, and information is severely lacking. Some sects have already been destroyed, their unique methods lost, making dismantling even harder. The problems pile up more and more, and things gradually became as they are today.

High-grade maps are strategic resources, almost never made available to low-level cultivators.

Wang Yu was also troubled by this point.

Slave-catching missions seemed to be his only path back to the Taihu Spirit Domain.

Progress with the maps was slow, and could not be rushed.

He could only take comfort in seeing his daily progress. Ever since the supreme-grade Cold Blood Pill was improved, each one he refined increased his spiritual power by 150 strands, with medicinal effect enhanced by 50 percent.

At present, after taking the second improved version, he was already more than halfway through refining it. Counting this one, it was his seventh supreme-grade Cold Blood Pill. Wang Yu had once consumed a high-grade version.

Therefore his consumption limit would bring pill obstruction at 11 pills, when the medicinal effect would sharply decline. For now he still had room for four more.

This improvement came from substituting the Cold Chi Alchemy Technique for the Cold Flame property. It was limited only to ice-attribute spiritual pills. Later Wang Yu attempted to improve a first-rank pill formula, but he failed.

The more basic the pill formula, the harder it was to improve. Before, he only considered the ice-attribute Spirit Recovery Pill, forgetting that this pill, widely circulated, had already been tested by countless cultivators.

It had already been optimized to nearly perfect condition. Unless the entire alchemy system of the cultivation world was overturned, there was no more room for refinement.

Unless he completely scrapped the formula and rebuilt it from the ground up. But that was another concept entirely, requiring an immense workload, and he did not yet have that ability.

So after several failures, he set it aside.

In terms of spiritual power cultivation, more than a year ago he had 149 strands.

During this period, the Idle Slots brought him 2400 wisps, equal to 24 strands. His own cultivation increased by 200 wisps, equal to 2 strands.

Refining one and a half improved supreme-grade Cold Blood Pills gave 225 strands, equal to 22.5 strands of spiritual power cultivation.

In a little less than two years, this added up to 48.5 strands of growth. Together with his previous cultivation, Wang Yu had accumulated 197 strands of spiritual power at the seventh layer of Qi Refining.

He was still about one hundred strands short of a breakthrough, needing around ten thousand wisps of spiritual power.

If his Idle Slots remained unchanged, it would take 6 to 7 years. For a three-spiritual-roots cultivator this was considered fast, but for Wang Yu it was slow.

Yet for the short term he had no solution.

Of his four Idle Slots, two were for cultivation methods. One was the Demon Embryo Mysterious Origin Curse. One was the Flood Dragon Force. Even the Corpse Demon Secret Technique that he longed for had been pushed out.

His second younger brother was really suffering. (;Д')

These slots could not be touched. Changing his aptitude was a long-term matter, and Foundation Establishment was not far off. Pushing the timeline forward, to replenish his blood and energy, it was best to raise Flood Dragon Force to at least seven tendons. Right now it was placed perfectly.