Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 454 - 452: Formless Slash (Seeking Subscription)_1

Chapter 454: Chapter 452: Formless Slash (Seeking Subscription)_1

Jade Island.

Fang Xi awoke from his meditation and felt the Nascent Soul within his body had strengthened slightly, prompting a faint smile to appear on his face.

Ever since his Spiritual Root had advanced, combined with the "Separation and Union Pill", his cultivation had progressed swiftly.

He feared that in less than a hundred years, he would be able to perfect the seventeenth layer of the Kuyong Skills and attempt to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Just then, his brows furrowed, and he took out a Jade talisman.

On the palm-sized Jade talisman, rows of tiny characters appeared one after another.

"Oh? Is this from Gui Shan?"

"It seems there have been changes in Yuan Country..."

The fourth-order Land Mountain Turtle was the overlord of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range, placed there by Fang Xi, and it served the purpose of surveillance perfectly.

Furthermore, through the "Thousand Miles Communique Talisman", it could inform Fang Xi of many matters promptly.

"Oh? Are those Gong Ling and Feng Bingxian?"

"These two women must have received a mission from the Death Demon Palace. It seems like the situation in Jiang Country is not very good either..."

"Oh? Behind them, there seems to be a transformed Monster cultivator secretly following them?"

Fang Xi had no doubts about this.

Although the Land Mountain Turtle’s bloodline was ordinary and stood at the bottom among the many lower fourth-order transformed Monster cultivators, its Breath Concealment Skills were indeed rather impressive.

If the turtle said so, it meant Feng Bingxian and the others were truly being targeted by a transformed Monster cultivator.

"To be safe, I should not meet them in battle but choose to fight on Jade Island instead. With the ’Nine Nether Profound Wood Array’, I can both advance and retreat..."

"My fourth-generation Green Barley Sword just happens to need Monster Blood to be honed!"

"But, I still need to fix that fourth-order Puppet first..."

Besides cultivation, Fang Xi had also been repairing a fourth-order Puppet lately.

Though he still had one Green Horn Silver Arm Monster Clan wood Puppet for use, such combat power was something nobody would ever find excessive.

Now, the fourth-order Puppet was mostly completed. It wore Silver Armor, with one hand ending in a bird claw, a majestic eagle’s head, and a pair of pitch-black wings on its back.

Fang Xi skillfully opened the Silver Armor of the Puppet, stuffed a top-grade Spirit Stone into it, and started the final adjustments...

...

"This... I feel like something is off," Gong Ling murmured as she rode upon a thread of red silk above the clouds, looking down at a mortal city below.

Naturally, the city was already in ruins and had become a playground for countless Monster beasts, presenting a scene of utter desolation.

The most numerous among them were undoubtedly the Moon Watching Rhinoceros herds!

But those ’Moon Watching Rhinoceroses’, led by a third-order Moon Watching Rhinoceros King, completely ignored a refugee camp not far away, about ten miles distant... They swaggered around as if showing off, then left, just like that...

This scene of humans and Monster beasts coexisting peacefully made Gong Ling almost believe she was witnessing an illusion.

Whoosh!

A streak of white light flew towards her, turning into Feng Bingxian, who wore a snow-white palace gown.

This woman’s expression was also somewhat complex: "I just inquired with a nearby Cultivation Sect... Apparently, the beast tide swept across three countries, harming all living beings... Later, the leader of these Monster beasts, a transformed Land Mountain Turtle, attacked Jade Island and seemed to have suffered a major defeat... The intensity of the beast tide has significantly decreased since then..."

"It seems that Dragon Fish Island’s Lord Master has reached some sort of tacit agreement with that Transformed Great Demon?" A hint of joy appeared on Gong Ling’s face as she looked towards the refugees, "This is fortunate for the human race..."

Although those refugees seemed wretched, they were undoubtedly much more fortunate compared to the commoners of Yuan Country, Jiang Country, and Feng Country.

And all of this was because there was a cultivator capable of shouldering the burden!

"Alright, I’ve also clarified the route, let’s head to Jade Island right away," said Feng Bingxian, holding a piece of jade slip, guiding the white light in flight.

For Core Formation Cultivators, crossing Yue Country didn’t take much time.

...

Jade Island.

"Finally... they have arrived?"

On an island, a Puppet previously set up by Fang Xi spotted two streams of light passing by and transmitted the scene to Fang Xi on Jade Island.

Fang Xi muttered to himself, not releasing his Divine Consciousness.

After all, lurking behind the two women was a transformed Great Demon!

Wouldn’t it be a shame to scare him away?

It wouldn’t hurt to test them out and see. If they dared to enter the Nine Nether Profound Wood Array, they would indeed be delivering themselves.

Before long, two Escape Lights, one red and one white, landed outside the Nine Nether Profound Wood Array.

Feng Bingxian waved her hand and sent out a Voice Transmission Talisman.

Boom! Rumble!

The fog on both sides dispersed, revealing a pathway as Hai Danaiu flew out, "My sirs, what brings you here?"

"Profound Ice Palace’s Feng Bingxian and Star Pointing Sect’s Gong Ling request an audience with Dragon Fish Island’s Lord Master!"

Feng Bingxian presented the token Fang Xi had given them in the past.

"Of course... this is indeed the Master’s belonging."

Hai Danaiu took it, examined the token, and nodded, "Distinguished guests have come from afar, please come inside for tea!"

Feng Bingxian and Gong Ling readily entered the Array formation, but behind them, a shadow stopped just outside the formation and did not enter.

"Indeed, the Monster Clan is not foolish. To recklessly enter a fourth-order Great Array, and with a Nascent Soul Array Master inside, wouldn’t that be seeking death?"

In the Evergreen Hall, Fang Xi remarked as he saw Feng Bingxian and Gong Ling.

"We pay our respects to our senior!"

Feng Bingxian and Gong Ling gracefully paid their respects.

"Please rise, young friends. Before we catch up with old times, let’s first deal with the uninvited guest outside,"

Fang Xi chuckled, transforming into a cyan rainbow and arriving at the edge of Jade Island. He spread his Divine Consciousness, remotely locking onto a dark green shadow.

The other party had been hiding in the void all along, assuming the image of a man with handsome features and a slightly hooked nose.

"Dragon Fish Island’s Lord Master, such formidable Divine Consciousness. No wonder that old turtle was no match for you,"

The man with the hooked nose let out a cold laugh, revealing himself.

A terrifying demon Qi entwined around him, and behind him were a pair of wings as solid as refined iron.

"It seems you are not from the Heavenly Phoenix Clan..."

Fang Xi, upon seeing this demon, felt somewhat disappointed.

He had hoped that someone from the core of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan would deliver themselves to his doorstep, preferably with Sky Demon Qi, saving him the trouble of a long journey to retrieve it.

"I... am an elder of the Iron Wing Eagle Clan under the command of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan — Hei Wei!"

Hei Wei’s piercing gaze swept over Fang Xi, "So you are the external support requested by the Departure Demon Palace? Merely a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator..."

"Not exactly. The one Departure Demon Palace intended to invite was my friend, ’Yun Jiezi.’ However, since you have come, you might as well leave your Monster Beast Body behind..."

With a gesture, Fang Xi summoned the fourth-generation Green Barley Sword to float into his hand.

"Hehe... I have never seen such an arrogant human cultivator. I’ll just kill you first and then slaughter everyone in Thousand Island Lake..."

Despite his bombastic words, Hei Wei remained cautious, retreating further instead of approaching the Nine Nether Profound Wood Array. He prepared for the possibility that Fang Xi might expand the array unexpectedly.

Then, with a sneer, a burst of green radiance flashed around him, and a series of dense Wind Blades appeared, enveloping several miles around.

The terrifying aura had all the Core Formation cultivators remaining on Jade Island trembling in fear...

"Was such a powerful demon actually following us before?"

Gong Ling’s face showed disbelief.

If this Transformed Great Demon had lost control even slightly, would she and Feng not have been left dead in the wilderness?!

"A wind-attributed Monster Bird!"

Fang Xi, looking at the dense Wind Blades, realized that even if he decided to face them head-on, he would have to use a significant amount of magic power.

With this in mind, he immediately touched his Storage Ring and a long-neglected bead covered in dust emerged.

When magic power was infused into the bead, it instantly erupted into a hazy yellow radiance.

Wherever it passed, the wind and waves were stilled!

It was none other than an Exotic Treasure — the Wind-Controlling Bead, found on the body of Demon Lord Qi Sha!

Hum!

Under the illumination of the hazy yellow light, the Wind Blades covering several miles quickly weakened and dissipated...

In the end, only a handful of Wind Blades, no more than a dozen yards in length, remained circling around Hei Wei.

"A Wind-Controlling Bead?"

Hei Wei’s pupils shrank, "Humans, possessing such an Exotic Treasure, my Bird Clan will never let you off!"

He took off a yellow skin pouch from his waist, threw it into the air, and mumbled an incantation.

Humming!

The skin pouch opened, and a cluster of extremely foul-smelling bug swarms flew out.

A flash of brilliance in Fang Xi’s eyes revealed numerous double-winged purple poison scorpions with an aura of ancient savagery, bearing down on him with murderous intent!

"So, you’re a bug cultivator as well?"

He laughed heartily, a casual slash with the Green Barley Sword in his hand!

Pop!

In a burst of cyan light, the sword shaped like a green leaf explosively expanded, turning into 1.296 billion nano-sized ’Qinghe Needles’!

To the naked eye, the sky was filled with clusters of cyan threads, effortlessly piercing the purple poison scorpions, causing them to disintegrate and their remains to fall like rain.

"Thread Making Sword?!"

Hei Wei hurriedly retracted the remaining poison scorpions, his face showing a pang of distress. He had put much effort into this pouch of Spiritual Insects; the poison scorpions he refined were not only incredibly poisonous, but their shells were also extremely tough, capable of withstanding ordinary magical weapon attacks. They had been his reliable method, even once used to ambush two human Nascent Soul cultivators. Yet, they met their defeat in this seemingly insignificant part of the Cultivation World!

Naturally, Fang Xi was not going to give him time to react, and with a cold smile, he once again feigned a sword gesture.

Pop, pop, pop!

In the blink of an eye, the already nano-sized ’Qinghe Needles’ split again, one ’Qinghe Needle’ exploding into a million micro-sized ’Qinghe Needles’!

The resulting sight was a sky filled with cyan sword silk that suddenly disappeared from view...

This was because the micro-size was too small, having surpassed the limits of what Hei Wei’s Divine Consciousness could detect!

"Formless Sword Light?"

Hei Wei shrieked, shaking his black feathers as a series of iron-gray feather arrows shot out, only to inexplicably shatter into countless fragments mid-air.

It was as if a deadly trap had been set up in this expanse of the void!

By now, Hei Wei had no thoughts of defeating Fang Xi. He even feared to attempt an escape.

He was uncertain whether, upon taking to the sky, he would run into the invisible sword silk.

"From the moment you appeared beneath my Green Barley Sword, your fate was sealed,"

Fang Xi sighed, raising his hand with a summoning gesture.

Hei Wei’s face suddenly twisted in agonizing pain, "My Inner Core..."

Within his Dantian Qi Ocean, amid tendrils of demon Qi, suddenly minute cyan needles appeared, piercing and lacerating his demon soul.

At that moment, Hei Wei’s Body Protective Demon Qi and his pride in his fourth-ranked Monster Beast physique were rendered completely useless...