Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 286 - 285: Mysterious Fire Zombie (Seeking Monthly Tickets) _1

Chapter 286: Chapter 285: Mysterious Fire Zombie (Seeking Monthly Tickets) _1

"Another old friend has departed..."

In a temporarily opened dongfu.

Fang Xi sighed, for the orphan of the Situ Family was no longer at his side.

For the little girl, he naturally found a mortal city and gave her to a household, leaving behind plenty of gold and silver.

After all, it was impossible to carry a burden with him, especially an inexplicable one!

"The Situ Family’s fate is truly tragic... Although there are internal factors, the Demon Path seems to have little foothold in the three kingdoms, always being the sort of thing that’s discarded after use..."

"Mysterious Heaven Sect used the Situ Family, and Green Wood Sect did the same..."

At this moment, a fist-sized bright pearl on the wall was emitting a dazzling radiance.

Fang Xi pondered for a while, then took out the green feather.

Immediately after, he flipped his palm and opened the box containing the ’Phoenix Nesting Wutong Wood’.

The green light on the feather grew brighter as it approached the fourth grade Spiritual Tree, making it look even more sparkling and colorful.

"Indeed, it’s no ordinary item!"

"What a pity there’s too little of it... I was only concerned with tracking the people from the Situ Family back then and forgot to ask the cultivator where he got this from..."

Fang Xi stroked his chin: "But no matter what, it seems inseparable from the range of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range... Deep within the mountains, could there actually be a Monster King with awakened Phoenix bloodline?!"

A Monster King of ordinary bloodline may not be a match for a cultivator of the same level in the Core Formation Stage.

But a Monster King with a Special Bloodline is a different story.

Especially true spirits like dragons and phoenixes, even a distant and extremely diluted bloodline at the Core Formation level is quite formidable.

Fang Xi suddenly felt everything became clear when he recalled how Master Bai Feng was severely injured after venturing deep into the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range...

Lu Qing, to this day, has not considered entering the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range to hunt monsters and obtain a third-grade Demon Pill...

"The depths of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range are truly fraught with danger... Fortunately, although I covet a third-grade Demon Pill and Beast Puppets, in the end, I never entertained the thought of taking the risk," Fang Xi mused.

"This single feather is too little, perhaps by adding many precious materials, it could be used to forge a top-quality Fire Attribute Spiritual Instrument... or be incorporated into a Fire Attribute magic treasure to slightly enhance its power, like the Three Yang True Fire Cover?!"

"Sigh... I didn’t expect that my rare good luck in finding a bargain would still result in a minor disappointment."

Fang Xi stored both materials away, and then took out Situ Qingqing’s Storage Bag.

The orphan of the Situ Family would be best off as a mortal, living a happy life.

Cultivation resources were of no use to her, and keeping them would only bring her misfortune. It was better to leave them for himself, as the funeral expenses for Situ Qingqing.

His feelings towards this daughter of the Situ Family were somewhat complicated.

At first on Green Bamboo Mountain, he had silently cursed the Situ Family countless times.

Later, when Situ Qingqing entered the market to investigate secrets, they had a bit of interaction, and soon after he ended up saving her by chance.

Unfortunately... after Thousand Island Lake, everything took a turn for the worse.

The woman had fallen into the Demon Path, hands stained with blood!

Even, she might be involved with the past disappearance of Ruan Dan!

It was for this reason Fang Xi did not save her but watched her sit and transform.

"Situ Qingqing is still quite fortunate, to have reached Foundation Establishment and died of natural causes... That already surpasses ninety-nine percent of cultivators."

"From this, it is evident that within the Cultivation World, concepts of karma, good and evil are all illusions; only power is real!"

"If Situ Qingqing had reached Golden Core, it wouldn’t be Green Wood Sect wanting to destroy them, but instead, Lu Qing would’ve respectfully invited her into the Green Wood Sect to hold great authority!"

Fang Xi sighed, turning the Storage Bag upside down.

Several piles of items emerged in the dongfu.

Apart from some articles for women, there were piles of Spirit Stones, Talismans, and various Demon Path materials...

Beyond that, there were over a dozen jade slips, a few Spiritual Instruments, and several bottles of pills...

Fang Xi, expressionless, picked up a jade slip and let his Divine Consciousness enter it.

After a long while, he withdrew his Divine Consciousness, touching the smooth surface of the jade slip, lost in thought.

The jade slip contained the methods to refine a top-grade Demon Path magic treasure, the ’Blood Sword,’ likely part of the Situ Family’s collected foundation.

Fang Xi put down the jade slip and picked up another, expressing surprise at a second-grade high-quality Refining Equipment Inheritance!

...

After a moment, he had inspected all the jade slips and books, organizing them categorically.

One of the jade slips contained the full set of the ’Five Extremities Primordial Demon Skill’ cultivation method, which still only reached the early Nascent Soul stage.

It was very similar to the set Fang Xi had seized, but it included many tips for practicing, making it seem that Situ Qingqing’s version was the ’original’.

Beyond that was a pitch-black book in Fang Xi’s possession.

The book was likely made from some beast’s hide, exuding the aura of a second-grade monster beast, impervious to water and fire, untouchable by insects.

In the book were recorded various blood-soaked and ruthless methods of Refining Corpses.

Grasping the book, Fang Xi closed his eyes in deep thought: "Rumor has it... Situ Nine, an ancestor of the Situ Family, was once a Demon Cultivator renowned for Refining Corpses; could this be his obtained inheritance? This inheritance... is by no means simple!"

In this corpse-refining inheritance, the process to refine common walking corpses and second-tier Flying Rigidities was only the most rudimentary content.

Following this part, there was even the method to refine third-tier corpses.

By the third tier, each type of corpse had its unique advancement path.

For instance, the ’Flying Night Yaksha’ that Zhan Tu once obtained was suitable for advancing into a third-tier ’Gold Armor Yaksha’!

Besides that, there were ’Black Wind Twin Demons,’ ’Boundless Blood Corpse,’ and so on... These were formidable refined corpses that Fang Xi had never even heard of before!

Moreover, the materials required for the refining were exceedingly rare, almost impossible to assemble in the Cultivation World of the three kingdoms.

"This corpse-refining inheritance is too malicious... it even mentions that to suppress the backlash from refining corpses as much as possible, it’s best to use the corpses of blood relatives for refining... To obtain this divine skill, would one have to be so insane and heartless?"

Fang Xi shook his head and then turned to another page.

"Mysterious Fire Zombie!"

"This type of zombie also belongs to the third tier... It requires the fresh corpse of a Core Formation Stage body cultivator who has just died... To be melted together with a third-tier fire attribute exotic treasure... Most zombies are of the Yin-Cold type, fearful of Yang fire... Yet this kind of ’Mysterious Fire Zombie’ goes against this convention, the devil corpse refined can control a formidable corpse fire, and is fearless of the Yang fire attribute spells of cultivators..."

"A fresh head of a Core Formation Stage body cultivator... Although I don’t have one, obtaining one wouldn’t be too difficult with the aid of the ’Immortal Martial Path’..."

"As for the fire attribute exotic treasure, the Nine Dragon Balls are quite good... Zombies do not possess dantians, thus they are not afraid of any malicious prohibitions... Besides, melting this external pill with a zombie might destroy the bloodline restriction during the process."

"However, I still need to comprehend this refining method for the ’Mysterious Fire Zombie’ carefully, lest there be any pivotal points or traps..."

After pondering for a while, Fang Xi turned to the last page, and a look of joy immediately surfaced on his face: "Corpse Control Spell?"

Like puppeteer inheritances, apart from the detailed cultivation methods for refining corpses in the beginning, the most crucial part was ’control’!

Indeed, the more formidable the devil corpse, the greater the need for a more powerful Divine Consciousness restriction to prevent them from backlashing against their master!

Therefore, the ’Corpse Control Spell’ outlined in this corpse refining inheritance was of an extremely high grade.

In Fang Xi’s view, it was even above the ’Thousand Thread Soul Controlling Skills’.

"Although it’s not a cultivation method that strengthens Divine Consciousness, it is a subtle application of it... Right now my Core Formation Divine Consciousness is immensely powerful, and I have cultivated the ’Thousand Thread Soul Controlling Skills’ to the highest level, this puppeteer secret skill is useless to me, but I can continue to delve into this ’Corpse Control Spell’!"

...

In the time that followed, Fang Xi secluded himself in closed-door cultivation to comprehend the ’Corpse Control Spell’ and the refining method for the ’Mysterious Fire Zombie’.

For a high-level cultivator like him, casually delving into cultivation secret skills or refining any kind of treasure or pill could mean months or even years passing by.

Time flew by - three months went by in the blink of an eye.

On this day.

Fang Xi was sitting with closed eyes, pondering over a particular intricacy of the ’Corpse Control Spell,’ when suddenly his eyes flew open: "It’s time... to retrieve the fragments of the ’Treasures of All Heavens’ Mirror."

A thread of his Divine Consciousness had always been in his Sea of Consciousness, monitoring the Witch King Danya in the Fragment World through the ’Treasures of All Heavens’ Mirror.

Since advancing to Core Formation, as the master of the ’Treasures of All Heavens’ Mirror, he had begun the preliminary sacrificial refining of this treasure, possessing the ability to traverse through Fragment Worlds.

This woman had always carried the fragment with her, which was somewhat troublesome.

Fortunately, Fang Xi had tangled with her for well over a hundred years, and he was very familiar with her temperament.

"Every ten years during the grand ritual at the sacred site of the City of Black Nirvana... As the main priestess, Danya must burn incense, bathe, and pray for seven days to purify herself..."

"This is the best opportunity for me to leave this woman behind..."

To leave this woman was simple; to catch her by surprise would suffice.

However, Fang Xi did not wish for others to know his secret of traversing through fragments, hence he had to find the right opportunity to create the illusion that someone else stole the fragment!

’Members of the Witch Tribe have strong bodies... If they could practice Qi and Blood Martial Arts, they would make excellent material for body cultivators...’ Fang Xi thought secretly, sending a large amount of Divine Consciousness into the ’Treasures of All Heavens’ Mirror, beginning to scrutinize every move of Danya in the Fragment World.

...

Fragment World.

City of Black Nirvana.

"Demon Mirror, Demon Mirror, tell me... there are more than twenty years left before the Heavenly Demon Catastrophe arrives again, what should I do?"

Danya looked at the Bronze Fragment in her hand, a trace of annoyance fleeting across her face.

This fragment, for some reason, had also learned to play dead!

Especially lately, it was not very responsive.

"Fine... I’m waiting for you, but if you haven’t responded before the Heavenly Demon Catastrophe, I will seal you forever!"

After Danya issued a stern threat, seeing the indifferent Bronze Fragment, she felt somewhat helpless in her heart.

"Witch Queen... The high priestess requests your preparation."

Outside, two handmaidens were bowing to report.

"I know..."

With the Bronze Fragment in hand, Danya went to her treasury, sealing it inside.

Around this treasury, she had meticulously arranged arrays, as well as several malicious mechanisms.

She hadn’t really considered the possibility that the fragment might grow legs and run away, after all, she had tested it many times before.

Moreover, the grand ritual that occurs every ten years, she had also experienced many times.

If the fragment could run away, it would’ve done so long ago, so why wait until now?