“Senior, please find someone else. I have no such plans.” Zhang Ling chuckled and casually replied. To switch to demonic cultivation and reach the late Nascent Soul stage within a hundred years sounded like a fantasy.
He glanced at Blue Sparrow, who looked confident. Zhang Ling believed that such a secret technique might exist.
However, such a rapid increase in cultivation, even if possible, would definitely have significant hidden dangers. Perhaps it would be at the cost of lifespan, or have obvious flaws.
Cultivation is not about forced growth; advancing step by step is the proper way.
At the same time, he recalled a demonic method of demonic Qi infusion, which seemed to involve absorbing massive amounts of demonic Qi at all costs to quickly advance cultivation.
But this method could lead to loss of consciousness, turning one into an ignorant monster.
He was currently in the Demon Spring, and Blue Sparrow's sudden tempting words were most likely related to this kind of method.
“You can resist temptation; your temperament is good. But I wasn't lying. Since you're unwilling, then forget it. But there is indeed True Demon Qi suppressed beneath the Demon Spring; otherwise, the demonic Qi here wouldn't be so dense. If you can help me extract one or two strands of True Demon Qi, how about I tell you another secret of the Two-Yin Yang Calabash?” Blue Sparrow's eyes flashed with golden light, as if he had anticipated Zhang Ling's answer, and he temptingly added.
“Human cultivators often refine natal magic treasures as a reliance to cast spells, but you're using the Two-Yin Yang Calabash as your natal magic treasure. Do you know that this kind of spiritual object is not suitable as a natal magic treasure? Your refinement technique is ordinary and cannot unleash the treasure's power.
The greatest use of the Two-Yin Yang Calabash is to fuse spatial spiritual objects and refine them into true spiritual treasures like virtual spaces. But I happen to know a secret technique that can multiply the power of your natal magic treasure.”
These words stung Zhang Ling's ears. His Two-Yin Yang Calabash had been nurtured in his body for nearly a hundred years, but besides slightly enhancing the power of the flying swords and Heavenly Star Sand inside, it didn't have much significant ability.
There were only brief mentions of this kind of spiritual object in the records. He had researched what other abilities the cyan and white Qi in the calabash might have, but he couldn't find the right method and hadn't made much progress.
Blue Sparrow also had a black Two-Yin Yang Calabash, which was now in Xuan Turtle's hands, and he must know more about this treasure than he did.
During this time, Zhang Ling sometimes wanted to inquire about the secrets of this treasure from Blue Sparrow, but the guy would shut up whenever the topic came up. Now that he suddenly mentioned it, his heart couldn't help but waver.
After a moment of silence, Zhang Ling nodded. After all, it concerned his natal magic treasure, and he had to compromise. “Since Senior is willing to enlighten me, I'll accompany you down there. But I've collected almost enough Demon Crystals as we discussed before. Having absorbed so much demonic Qi, about the secret technique you mentioned to enhance my strength, will you….”
“Hehe.”
Blue Sparrow giggled, as if his scheme had succeeded, and lightly swiped with his bird claw, sending a beam of light towards him.
This beam of light was very thin, just a golden line of light. Zhang Ling thought it was another message transmitted through divine sense, so he quickly released a strand of divine sense to receive the information inside.
But as soon as his divine sense scanned it, he found that this beam of light didn't contain any information, just a pure beam of light.
Just as he was feeling puzzled, the light directly struck his wrist. More precisely, it struck the storage bracelet on his wrist.
The storage bracelet flashed with golden light, and Blue Sparrow took out a white jade box the size of a millstone from his storage bracelet.
“There's something inside. With a little refinement, the power of one of your treasures can be increased by at least double.” Blue Sparrow's eyes flashed with cunning light as he quickly said.
“Are you talking about this?”
Zhang Ling's expression was a bit strange as he opened the box and pointed to the black jade bottle inside.
This box was obtained from the fifth level of the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm, in the dilapidated ruins on a deserted island in that water area. It contained several ancient immortal script jade slips, a spiritual bone, and this black jade bottle.
Originally, that spiritual bone was also somewhat strange, but after fusing with the feather spirit紋 on Ding Ruozhao's body, it first turned into a blue feather, and finally transformed into Blue Sparrow.
The only thing Zhang Ling still couldn't figure out was the half-bottle of essence blood in the jade bottle.
“It contains the essence blood of an ancient giant; now you understand. That bone claw will regain its spirituality as long as it fuses with this essence blood.” Blue Sparrow directly revealed the origin of the essence blood in the bottle.
“I see.”
Zhang Ling immediately understood that the powerful ancient giant bone claw in his hand and this bottle of essence blood originally came from the same body.
This was what Blue Sparrow meant by increasing his strength. He sighed, feeling a bit deceived.
The half-bottle of essence blood had been in his possession for quite some time, and he had studied it many times. However, given that the essence blood emitted a powerful pressure and was not the essence blood of ordinary creatures, he didn't use it rashly.
He didn't expect to learn the origin of this bottle of essence blood in this way.
Both the ancient giant and Blue Sparrow were not creatures of this realm and possessed great strength. A hand bone falling into the hands of a cultivator could be refined into a pseudo-spiritual treasure. After fusing with the same source of essence blood and re-refining it, its spirituality would greatly increase, and its power would definitely be enhanced.
Zhang Ling smiled bitterly, put away the jade box, and continued to move deeper into the Demon Spring with Xuan Turtle and Blue Sparrow.
At the same time, not far from Zhang Ling, in the endless demonic Qi, two beams of light were also quietly moving towards the depths of the demonic Qi.
Unlike Zhang Ling's cautious advance, these two beams of light, although also concealing their figures, were extremely fast, seemingly not worried about the erosion of the demonic Qi.
Soon after, the two beams of light descended thousands of feet. One of them threw out a white light. The light was not strong, but it rapidly vibrated, emitting circles of white air waves, quickly dispelling a patch of demonic Qi and revealing two figures.
Looking closely at the white light, it surrounded a bronze disc, which was the Demon Sealing Disc in the blood-haired man's hand. The other person next to him was naturally the black-robed youth.
The light illuminated a range, revealing a scene of dilapidated walls. Everywhere were huge black rubble and many crooked statues.
“Hehe, we're finally down here. Fellow Daoist Long, let's act quickly. Although we can exert our full cultivation here and have the Demon Sealing Disc to resist the pure demonic Qi, we can't stay for too long.” The blood-haired man glanced at the buzzing Demon Sealing Disc emitting white light and said.
“Don't worry, it won't take too long. Follow me.” The Long-surnamed youth responded coldly and summoned a black token the size of a palm.
This token was dark and dull, and it was impossible to tell what material it was made of. He pointed at the token with one hand, and the token trembled, emitting a buzzing sound. Then, a series of faint blue纹 appeared in the center of the token, combining into a strange faint blue flower.
This flower looked extremely beautiful, but it also had a hint of strangeness. The Long-surnamed youth then spat out a mouthful of essence blood into it.
The flower pattern on the token twisted strangely, as if swaying in the wind. Then, a wisp of blue fluorescent light emerged from the center of the flower, detached from the token, and assembled into a small flying insect emitting blue light in front of him.
The blue flying insect was about the size of a thumb, round and chubby, with a somewhat comical feeling, but it was full of spirituality, flying around the token a few times, and then made a cooing sound.
Immediately afterwards, it flew out with a whoosh and quickly traveled through the demonic Qi, completely unaffected by the demonic Qi.
“Oh… Holy Demon Insect, no wonder Fellow Daoist Long is confident in subduing that thing.” The blood-haired man's expression was shocked when he saw the blue flying insect.
The Long-surnamed youth didn't respond, his figure turned into a ray of light, and he instantly disappeared into the demonic Qi following the blue flying insect. The blood-haired man narrowed his eyes, his face slightly gloomy, and followed closely behind.
He cursed inwardly. These Demon Hall elders, regardless of their cultivation, were mostly arrogant. As for the details of this Long-surnamed youth, he also knew some. It was said that he came from a small tribe in the southwestern region. His background was not good, but his cultivation talent was extremely good. He was heavily cultivated by the Demon Hall and reached the Nascent Soul realm in less than four hundred years.
In less than two hundred years, he broke through to his current mid-Nascent Soul strength. His current age was only about six hundred years old, and he could use this cultivation level, which was definitely a cultivation genius.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely reach the realm of a Great Cultivator in a few hundred years.
In terms of cultivation, he was half a step higher than this person. Calculating his age, he was already more than a thousand years old, and his lifespan was running out. His cultivation had been stuck in the mid-Nascent Soul stage for a long time, and his progress was slow.
Thinking of this, the blood-haired man patted the storage bag on his waist. Fortunately, he followed this person down this time and obtained a Blood Transformation Spirit Herb, which would greatly help his cultivation. After a period of seclusion, his cultivation would definitely increase a lot.
The Long-surnamed youth naturally didn't know the thoughts of the blood-haired man behind him, and he was staring closely at the spirit insect flying in front of him. He was using his divine sense to control the spirit insect and sense the target he was looking for.
They were at the bottom of the Demon Spring, and the demonic Qi nearby was already as thick as ink. The divine sense was greatly hindered. With their mid-Nascent Soul strength, the divine sense could only be released twenty or thirty feet.
Compared to their divine sense strength, which could probe more than a hundred miles, they could only probe this range now, which made both of them feel somewhat restricted.
Fortunately, their Demon Soul Hall had explored this Demon Spring many times. The existing dangers had long been cleared.
Speaking of which, the Demon Spring was the most dangerous place on Wind Demon Island. Initially, the sealing formation on the island loosened, and many demon beasts gathered here, absorbing pure demonic Qi, thereby greatly increasing their strength.
Many powerful demon beasts with eighth and ninth-order strength appeared. Although these demon beasts would be targeted and quickly killed by the island's formation as soon as they advanced to the eighth-order.
But some demon beasts had just begun to develop intelligence and knew the danger. They would not show too much strength and cunningly hide in the depths of the Demon Spring.
Most of the early Wind Demon Island explorations were done by Nascent Soul-level cultivators, and many people were killed by these demon beasts.
Nascent Soul cultivators were already considered the top strength in the human world, and too many deaths and injuries caused great losses to the overall strength of their alien demon race.
In the end, the Demon Hall sent a team of more than a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators, led by two Great Cultivators, to specifically enter this place to kill the powerful demon beasts of the eighth and ninth orders.
In the end, of course, the Ten Demon Halls annihilated this group of high-level demon beasts. But it was said that there were heavy casualties that time, with seven or eight Nascent Soul old monsters killed and injured, and one Great Cultivator surnamed Gu Du was seriously injured and died soon after.
Fortunately, after that time, the powerful demon beasts of the eighth and ninth orders on this Wind Demon Island were basically cleared.
After that, Wind Demon Island would be opened once every few hundred years. As cultivators continued to enter to explore treasures, hunt demon beasts, and collect resources, the number of newly advanced eighth and ninth-order demon beasts was greatly reduced.
In the recent Wind Demon Island openings, there had never been a demon beast with strength exceeding the eighth order. That's why this group of Golden Core cultivators dared to enter this place to explore treasures.
As for the Demon Spring built by the ancient demons, although for various reasons, the alien demon race would not completely lift the seal. But the pure demonic Qi inside could not be wasted, and the Demon Soul Hall naturally made use of it.
The Long-surnamed youth entered the Demon Spring this time to collect a Corpse Demon that the Demon Soul Hall had sealed in this pure demonic Qi hundreds of years ago.
The origin of that Corpse Demon was also unusual. He was a member of the Demon Soul Hall who had reached the late Nascent Soul stage in his previous life. He mainly cultivated demonic body refinement techniques, and his physical body was powerful.
Before his death, he dedicated his physical body. He was willing to disperse most of his spirit, so that he could be refined into a Corpse Demon like a divine puppet by secret methods.
This Corpse Demon had been sacrificed and refined by the Demon Soul Hall for thousands of years, and its strength was comparable to that of a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator.
The Demon Soul Hall had also refined many such puppet refining methods. But the strength was hard to say. Even if a suitable body was found, it could be carefully cultivated to be refined into a zombie monster like a Corpse Monster.
However, the strength of most Corpse Monsters was basically fixed once they were refined. It was extremely difficult to advance.
It was easy to refine corpses in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, but it was difficult to refine Corpse Monsters whose cultivation was comparable to that of the Golden Core level.
Not to mention, being able to refine a Corpse Demon at the Nascent Soul level. Not only was it necessary to find an extremely perfect body, but also to use many natural treasures. A series of harsh conditions were required.
Even if these conditions were met, it would take a very long time. Hundreds of years was considered a short time, and it might take thousands of years of practice. Only then was it possible to refine a Corpse Demon at the Nascent Soul level.
The original strength of this Corpse Demon was comparable to that of a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator. Hundreds of years ago, the Demon Soul Hall also researched another secret method that could allow the Corpse Demon to advance further, so the pure demonic Qi in this place was used.
After such a long time of pure demonic Qi washing, the strength of the Corpse Demon was likely to be no weaker than that of a late Nascent Soul cultivator.
At the thought that he was about to control such a powerful Corpse Demon, the Long-surnamed youth's expressionless face revealed a trace of a smile.
He was extremely excited in his heart, this opportunity was hard-won by him.
If it weren't for the fact that the demonic technique he cultivated was biased towards Yin Fiend demonic Qi, suitable for controlling such Yin Fiend monsters.
Of course, this was not the main factor. The main reason was that the existing Great Priests of the Demon Hall in the late Nascent Soul stage were mostly from several large tribes of the alien demon race, and they had mutual restraint.
In addition to some other reasons, otherwise, such an opportunity would not fall into his hands.
