Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 304 - 302 Transmission (Extra Update 6)_1

Chapter 304: Chapter 302 Transmission (Extra Update 6)_1

Within the secret chamber,

Fang Xi emerged from the Mountain Sea Pearl with Daqing, his face brimming with irrepressible joy.

"We really hit the jackpot... hit the jackpot!"

"What a fat haul!"

"Just getting my hands on the Saint’s possessions has been eye-opening, not to mention the treasures gathered from within the secret realm."

At that thought, he suddenly remembered that he hadn’t fully inventoried the Saint’s ’legacy’ and couldn’t help but smile wryly.

Fang Xi took a deep breath, touched his storage ring, and three jade boxes sealed with talismans floated before him.

He opened the first box to see a black claw-shaped magical artifact, emanating a subtle evil Qi, with claw tips sharp beyond compare and a faint blood light flickering, covered in ancient patterns.

"A third-grade superior magic artifact—Poisonous Dragon Claw!"

Fang Xi had already witnessed the power of this artifact, which destroyed the Three-Yang True Fire Cover and the puppet You Kun in one blow. Fortunately, he recovered the ’Nine Dragon Balls’ in the end.

He set the ’Poisonous Dragon Claw’ aside, planning to refine it for later use and opened another box, retrieving a small white bone banner.

"Ten Thousand Souls Banner... this banner is a third-grade top-quality magic artifact... and it contains tens of thousands of ghost creatures, including a few Core Formation Ghost Kings..."

Fang Xi had gained only fragments of memories from soul searching the Saint.

Regarding the Saint’s ’Ten Thousand Souls Banner,’ it originally housed hundreds of thousands of Yin souls and more than a dozen Core Formation Ghost Kings. However, most had been dispatched and had not yet returned, leaving Fang Xi completely unaware of their status.

Even so, the ’Ten Thousand Souls Banner,’ in both quality and power, far surpassed the Poisonous Dragon Claw. Once the Saint reached Nascent Soul, this banner would surely be promoted to a fourth-grade spiritual treasure!

He drew another breath and opened the last box.

Inside was a palm-sized chessboard with black-and-white stones randomly situated across nineteen intersecting paths, forming intricate squares—a truly mystical sight.

"A treasure that confines the void..."

"This magic artifact seems to be even above the Ten Thousand Souls Banner."

Muttering to himself, Fang Xi caressed the ’Xing Luo Chessboard,’ trying to inject a strand of Kuyong Skills magic power.

But then something happened that made his expression change!

The ’Xing Luo Chessboard’ suddenly buzzed, and a subtle hint of resistance emerged, preventing him from refining it.

It was truly incredible.

Even the Saint’s life-bound magical artifact, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, could be refined by Fang Xi after losing its master, though it would take more time and lose some of its power forever.

"This magic artifact... seems to have developed a bit of spirituality inside... Could it possibly be a fourth-grade spiritual treasure?!"

"Not only is the Saint staggeringly wealthy, but his methods are also quite profound... A fourth-grade spiritual treasure would normally only be refined by Nascent Soul old demons, right?"

"This Xing Luo Chessboard... is impossible for me to refine at my current level. I will have to wait until I’ve reached Nascent Soul to attempt it again."

Fang Xi sighed and carefully placed the spiritual treasure back into the jade box, sealing it with several more talismans.

After completing all this, he took a gratifying breath.

"The Saint’s possessions... have finally been fully accounted for, it’s really... so rich."

Fang Xi had lost count of how many times he had felt such astonishment.

After collecting his emotions a bit, he continued to sort through the bounty from the secret realm.

Of course, the most valuable of all was the ’Nine-Eyed Bodhi’!

This treasure, supreme for enlightenment, was even coveted by the Saint.

Beyond that, there were the Blood Dragon Fruit, Core Formation spiritual objects, and other top-tier cultivation resources.

Next came the spirit stones and treasures contributed by the Demon Sect’s disciples... which included several magical artifacts of the Demon Path!

He wasn’t particularly interested in the likes of soul banners, but what caught his attention was a snow-white external pill, emitting a chill.

Fang Xi placed it alongside the Nine Dragon Balls, finding them somewhat alike.

"This external pill... comes from that woman in white... unfortunately, it’s limited to those who cultivate ice-based methods and is only suitable for cultivators who practice ice attribute techniques."

"And... it seems it may carry with it a third-grade ’Ice Soul Cold Light’ divine skill..."

"So many treasures and resources falling into my hands, along with a Golden Core Saint with prospects of condensing a Nascent Soul... my conflict with the Primitive Devil Door is bound to be inexorable."

Fang Xi could imagine the furious faces of the Nascent Soul elders in that sect. Fortunately, being in a different realm, he wasn’t afraid in the slightest.

Even Transcendent God cultivators can’t capture someone across realms.

Moreover, from the remnants of the Saint’s memory, Fang Xi knew that once the ’Resented Spirit Trace’ was separated by over a million miles, the mysterious connection would break, let alone crossing realms.

As long as he avoided being spotted by cultivators from the Primitive Devil Door, there shouldn’t be a problem.

With so many resources in hand, even selling just a portion of them would surely provide enough for his own cultivation.

Perhaps he could even covet spiritual objects that are greatly beneficial for condensing a Nascent Soul.

With the ’Yi Wood Magic Body’ enhancing his aptitude, Fang Xi was very confident in his Core Formation cultivation and breaking through bottlenecks.

But condensing a Nascent Soul, even in the ancient times, was a significant threshold and challenge.

Countless talented Golden Core cultivators had failed at this step, which made Fang Xi treat it with the utmost importance.

After all, despite his accelerated cultivation speed due to his Spirit Body, the quality of his Spiritual Root was still a lower-grade Wooden Spirit Root.

...

Months later.

Inside the Mountain Sea Pearl Dongfu.

Fang Xi was browsing through an array formation tome in his study.

Sometimes he furrowed his brows in deep thought, sometimes he had sudden realizations—it was obvious that he was completely absorbed.

After a long while, Fang Xi finally set aside a scroll of array formation books and sighed deeply, "The path of array formations... truly difficult indeed. Yet unexpectedly, the cultivators from that realm have even dabbled in teleportation arrays... But it’s understandable, after all, they were able to refine ’Mountain Sea Pearl,’ such a treasure of the Void..."

Teleportation array!

This esteemed kind of array was something that Fang Xi had only heard of ancient cultivators constructing; he had never witnessed one himself.

However, it seemed they were quite common in the Minghuan Realm.

The moment Fang Xi sorted out a few tomes regarding ’teleportation arrays’ from the Demon Sect Saint’s study, he was overjoyed.

"Teleportation Array Skills... involve the force of the Void, and are at least tier-three arrays... perfect for my current research."

"It’s just a pity... they are too difficult."

Fang Xi closed the scroll somewhat dejectedly and picked up a jade slip that was beside it.

Within this jade slip was a tier-three Refining Equipment Inheritance!

This made Fang Xi sigh once again; that Demon Sect Saint really was a godsend!

"After the adventure, it’s time to practice diligently and assimilate... "

"Once I’ve fully absorbed these foundations and refined a few powerful magical artifacts... even if I don’t use trump cards like ’Kuyong Mysterious Light,’ I should be able to fight against any ordinary Core Formation late-stage cultivator, right? Even those from Nascent Soul Sects at Core Formation late stage wouldn’t be a fear... "

"With that... I might even try venturing into the bustling areas of the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm to search for cultivation resources or even Infant Condensing Spiritual Objects?"

...

After organizing the study, Fang Xi went to the Refining Chamber.

The Refining Chamber was large and currently laid out with two human corpses and one Monster Beast, making three corpses in total.

Fang Xi first checked on the tier-three mid-grade ’Demon Blood Flood Dragon.’

At the moment, the dragon was actually lifting its head, roots from the Monster Tree sprouting from its seven orifices, clearly refined into a wooden puppet.

"Having extracted the dragon’s Jiao Dragon Blood Essence and Demon Pill... the result is just an approximately tier-three puppet, and it’s quite a bit weaker than a Jia Dan cultivator due to relying only on the Monster Beast’s formidable body. It’ll have to do for now... As a tier-three Flood Dragon, its whole body is a treasure, but I don’t practice talisman forging!"

Fang Xi thought of the several bottles of Jiao Dragon Blood Essence in his Storage Ring, and a smile appeared on his face.

He had gifted a bit of the essence to the Azure horn Fish Dragon outside his dongfu, and the remainder could be used to blend with tier-three spiritual ink to practice the Taoist of Talisman.

As for the tier-three Flood Dragon Inner Core?

Fang Xi hadn’t yet decided whether to use it to advance the Azure horn Fish Dragon or to help a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection individual to become his Jia Dan subordinate.

But such a valuable object should be properly stored away for now.

He then turned to look at the Saint and the Demon Path body cultivator’s corpses.

Originally, the body of this Demon cultivator was extremely strong, having cultivated body refining to the seventh realm and was comparable to a Core Formation cultivator, even possessing a powerful body with awakened Divine Skills, which satisfied Fang Xi greatly.

However... compared to the Saint’s body beside him, it seemed quite inferior.

This Saint’s body refinement technique of the Demon Path was unknown, but the strength of his flesh was definitely unbelievable, able to take magical artifacts’ blows with his bare hands, and he had even managed to develop Divine Skills.

"Refine... both must be refined!"

Fang Xi clenched his fist over a grayish-white jade slip with a fierce resolve.

Engraved within this slip was a part of the ’Six Desires Mixed Sky Demon’ refining method, and combined with the Corpse Control Spell’s soul splitting secret technique, there was a hope to piece together an ’Externalization’ method.

Fang Xi was quite envious of the example of the white-robed female cultivator who had nearly gained an extra life by employing ’Externalization.’

"As for this Demon cultivator... let’s proceed with the original plan to make a ’Mysterious Fire Zombie,’ but there’s no need to put in a split soul. Instead, control it as an ordinary refined corpse with Divine Thoughts prohibition to increase combat effectiveness... "

"For the task of exploring the third world, naturally, this stronger External Incarnation will take action!"

Having made this decision, Fang Xi no longer hesitated, taking out jade boxes from his Storage Ring one after another.

Upon opening them, they were all filled with Demon Path materials.

These were prepared for the ’Mysterious Fire Zombie’ he intended to refine.

"Now is a good time to start practicing before attempting the ’External Incarnation’!"

Fang Xi came to the side of the bull-horned cultivator’s corpse and with a wave of his hand, the Yi Wood True Fire descended, evaporating the sealed ice into steam.

With a flick of his sleeve, all the vapor vanished without a trace.

Turning over his palm, a crimson External Pill, the ’Nine Dragon Balls,’ appeared.

"Let’s begin... "

With a murmured incantation, Fang Xi shaped several beams of Yi Wood Divine Light into steel needles, which he inserted into the bull-horned cultivator’s body!

...

One month later.

Outside the Mountain Sea Pearl Dongfu, an Azure horn Fish Dragon with scales turned to dark ink, its form now longer and more dragon-like, and four small bulges on its belly, was swimming joyfully.

Compared to a Spirit Beast Bag, naturally, a Void Cave Mansion like this was much more comfortable.

After settling down in the beast pen, it didn’t want to leave anymore.

Just then, the door of the Dongfu suddenly opened and Fang Xi walked out.

"Tier-two high-grade now?"

He swept over Daqing with his Divine Thought and nodded, "Not bad... From now on, you’ll live here and guard the dongfu."