Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 464 - 462 Killing the Immortals (Making up for the 28th Update) _1

Chapter 464: Chapter 462 Killing the Immortals (Making up for the 28th Update) _1

Ruyi Gate.

Within the Dongfu where spiritual energy was most abundant.

Fang Xi silently gazed at the Five-Color Ring before him and fell into deep contemplation.

This object was naturally the Supreme Treasure passed down from the Mixed Origin Sect—the peak fourth-grade Spirit Treasure Five Elements Ring!

In his trade with Feng Shisan, aside from the Phoenix Seal Script, he could also select any two out of those three treasures.

Since the Heavenly Spider Inner Dan was useless to him, Fang Xi naturally chose the ’Five Elements Ring’ and the ’Phoenix Origin Pill’...

"I never imagined... after we parted ways all those years ago, through all the ups and downs, you would end up in my hands," Fang Xi reflected.

A while later, he said with emotion.

Thinking about his fateful connection with the Mixed Origin Sect, should it have started with the Yu Family of Yiling Valley?

Well... Yiling Valley had long since become his own property now, and Taishu Hong was still grudgingly guarding it there, having been refused by Zhong Hongyu several times when he wanted to be reassigned back to Jade Island.

’So be it... let my karmic ties with the Mixed Origin Sect end here...’

Fang Xi’s eyes flashed as he expelled a wisp of blue Nascent Fire, to start burning away the feathery seal on the Five Elements Ring.

Time ticked away slowly.

After a long time...

Hum hum!

As the blue seal vanished completely, the Five Elements Ring let out a long chime, the Five Elements rotated, expanding from the size of a palm to a pu fan, bursting forth with astonishing spiritual radiance!

Fang Xi grabbed the ring firmly with a large hand, and said in a cold voice, "With the imminent great war between the human race and the Monster Clan, I’m about to join the battlefield as well... You, Five Elements Ring, surely don’t want to suffer the humiliation of being suppressed by the Monster Clan, do you? Will you quickly aid me?"

The next instant, Fang Xi sensed the spirit of the Five Elements Ring.

With the help of the ring’s spirit, his Magic Power from the Kuyong Skills flowed effortlessly into the ring’s deepest parts, leaving his own mark on top of each prohibition law, and then he engraved the spirit within...

Sacrificial Refining the Five Elements Ring required the practice of any one of the Five Elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Cultivation Skills.

Naturally, possessing the Five Elements Body from the Mixed Origin Skills was the best.

Fang Xi’s pure Wood-attribute skills also barely met the requirements.

Feeling the Five Elements Ring had accepted his refinements, he laughed lightly, infused magic into the ring, and tried to activate it.

Whir!

Above the pu fan-sized Five Elements Ring, a prohibition emerged, blue light flashed intensely, transforming into numerous blue light-radiating wooden flower pistils!

As the pistils grew, they entwined around Fang Xi, followed by the blossoming of petals resembling the flaming red lotuses of karma!

The flaming red lotuses, resembling flower buds, were followed by earth-yellow, pure white, gloomy stems and leaves like black water...

Wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water... This is the principle of— the Five Elements generating each other!

Diverse colors of pistils, petals, and leaves... From the inside out, surrounded and protected Fang Xi layer by layer.

"Is this... a miniature version of the ’Five Qi Origin Array’?"

As he watched the blue radiance flicker within, resembling pistils, the Five Elements revolving, being enveloped by a layer of flaming red lotuses on the exterior, making him appear as if he was guarded by a five-colored lotus plant, Fang Xi pondered.

"Such continual Five Elements rotation, endlessly generating... The Five Elements Ring’s defense is truly astonishingly powerful; even a late-stage Nascent Soul Cultivator attacking suddenly might also find no way to overcome this ’Five Qi Origin Array’ in a short time..."

"The talent and cleverness of the Mixed Origin Founder in those days was truly extraordinary..."

"What a pity... the successors are undistinguished, or rather, they haven’t found another individual with the Five Elements Body, so they’re unable to bring forth most of this treasure’s power..."

Fang Xi wasn’t a Five Elements Body, and he wasn’t even cultivating Mixed Origin Skills; he could only draw upon seven to eight-tenths of the treasure’s power with the help of the ring’s spirit.

Even so, as a protective treasure, he was very satisfied.

He made a hand gesture again, the Five-colored Lotus was retracted by the Five Elements Ring, clasping onto his body and forming a set of Five-Color Battle Armor, and the Five Elements Ring shrank to the size of an Eight Immortals Table, circling around him and forming a double-layered defense...

"Retreat!"

Finally, after demonstrating various skills, Fang Xi put away the Five Elements Ring, satisfied.

Within the sea of qi, his Nascent Soul laughed cheerily, stretching out a hand and beckoned; a five-colored radiance fell, fitting over his wrist, turning into a Five-color bracelet.

After refining the Five Elements Ring, Fang Xi pulled out a jade bottle, inside of which was a ’Phoenix Origin Pill’.

Although he was unaware of the play sung by Feng Shisan and Lord Tianlong, he still treated such a pill with the utmost caution and care.

As a fourth-grade pill concocter, he naturally had his own methods for inspecting pills.

After various tests, he nodded slightly: "Indeed, it is a rare Spiritual Pill with the power to break through bottlenecks and extend life..."

"However... the Monster Clan is cunning; it’s best not to consume their pills if one can help it, and this pill is not particularly useful for breakthroughs after the mid-Nascent Soul stage. As for mid-stage bottlenecks, they shouldn’t trap me..."

Ever since he optimized his original Spiritual Root, Fang Xi considered his aptitude to have surpassed many old Nascent Soul freaks.

With the aid of numerous resources, even without using the ’Phoenix Origin Pill’, advancing to the mid-Nascent Soul stage was not much of a problem.

Such pills with questionable origins were naturally...

Fang Xi slapped the Spirit Beast Bag, and Xiao Qing emerged, its intelligent eyes fixating on the Phoenix Origin Pill with a hint of desire.

"I had originally planned to find you a Sky Phoenix Inner Core, but to think you’d be so interested in this pill..."

Fang Xi stroked his chin: "Phoenix Origin Pill... could it be that during its concoction, the essence blood or even the primordial energy of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan was added?! Well, since you plead so earnestly, I shall fulfill your wish."

He grabbed the pill and with a slight flick, the Phoenix Origin Pill landed in Xiao Qing’s mouth.

Xiao Qing joyfully chirped once and then began to refine the pill’s potency.

Soon after, it became as if it were drunk, wobbling from side to side, and eventually collapsed headfirst, falling into a deep sleep...

Fang Xi’s eyes flickered with purple light, and after checking that there wasn’t a significant issue, confirming it just needed to sleep to digest the immense potency of the Phoenix Origin Pill, he set it aside and carelessly took out a beast skin book from his Storage Ring.

This beast skin book was left within the storage bag of the Five Elements Qilin Tribe, wholly written in Monster Text, with the last few pages even in Phoenix Seal Script.

Having only recently acquired the Monster Text heritage, Fang Xi naturally wanted to start a thorough translation.

His fingers caressed the beast skin, feeling its violent aura, and he nodded to himself: "It must be at least a fourth-tier Monster Beast’s skin. To record on such an important artifact, it must be no simple matter..."

Fang Xi took out a jade slip, flipped to the title page of the beast skin book, and began to compare them one by one.

"Heaven... Sky Demon,"

"Slaying, Destruction..."

"Immortal, Immortal Cultivator..."

...

On the title page of the beast skin book were five Monster Text characters, and although the Monster Clan script was closer to pictographic writing, each character could express multiple meanings, requiring Fang Xi to comprehend and interpret them on his own...

He rummaged through the jade slips, barely managing to decipher the title of the book on the title page: "’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’? Indeed, it’s a cultivation technique of the Monster Clan! Unfortunately... I’m human, and most Monster Clan Cultivation Secret Skills are completely incompatible, fundamentally unpracticable for me."

Even so, with the intention of learning through observation, Fang Xi continued to turn the page, starting the translation...

Time flowed like water, and the years flew by like an arrow.

In the blink of an eye, several years had passed.

Fang Xi hadn’t practiced cultivation much but had been immersed in studying and researching Monster Text.

Compared to his great progress in ordinary Monster Text, learning the ’Silver Seal Script’ was extremely slow.

Even with a strand of Nascent Soul remnant in hand to engage in immersive learning, Fang Xi was still lingering at the beginner stage.

Still, the knowledge gained from the remnant soul made Fang Xi realize that his pace was actually considered fast!

It was said that for Immortal Cultivators who had no slight comprehension or insight into the Dao of Void, it might be impossible to even reach the beginner’s threshold in their entire lives.

According to Fang Xi’s estimation, this was probably because he had previously studied the Void Spirit Root, Prohibition Space Talismans... as well as often observed and contemplated the Treasures of All Heavens, which was equivalent to having laid a good foundation in advance.

Within the Dongfu.

Fang Xi held the ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’ in one hand and the jade slip in the other, imprinting the Cultivation Secret Skills he had contemplated, one character at a time, into it.

"This ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’ is indeed a Monster Clan technique; any member of the Monster Clan can practice it... it can even be cultivated all the way to the Returning to Emptiness stage, definitely the highest level technique I have ever seen. It is a pity, such a pity..."

In Fang Xi’s knowledge, ordinary Monster Beasts naturally don’t need cultivation techniques, as they would instinctively inhale and exhale the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy.

Only after passing through the Transformation Heavenly Tribulation might they possibly obtain some cultivation techniques and Secret Skill inheritances from their bloodline memory.

The grade could hardly surpass that of the ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics’!

"Although I cannot cultivate this technique, if Xiao Qing successfully transforms and the cultivation techniques in its bloodline memory are inferior to this tactic, then I might as well let it practice this... Even Daqing, that Dead Salted Fish, could first learn some of the initial life-saving Secret Skills... This Demon is always quite adept at learning such tactics for survival."

As Fang Xi imprinted the technique and pondered over the tactic, he gained a much deeper understanding of the Monster Clan’s cultivation.

"Demons are born unrestrained... To become a king, one must gather the spirits of myriad Demons to cultivate oneself..."

"Could it be that the kings of the Demon Clan are not born naturally, but can instead be cultivated later on?"

"Gathering the spirits of myriad Demons, seizing the bloodline and even the innate Divine Skills of other Demons to enhance oneself... Truly ruthless, but Demons naturally can devour each other. Tigers have never regarded rabbits and deer as their kin... it’s not considered cannibalism."

Lingering on a few translated Secret Skills and Monster Clan treasures, Fang Xi knew that the Monster Clan was even more ferocious towards their own.

Putting aside the Secret Skills, among the treasures, the method of crafting the ’Beast-controlling ring’ was listed.

And yet, this item was just the least impressive of its kind.

"Could it be... that the famous ’Three Demon Slaying Treasures’ originally came from within the Monster Clan?"

He was somewhat perplexed, but then his eyes landed on an artifact that made his heart surge with excitement!

"Devil-locking Tower!"

"This treasure has the potential of the fifth tier, refined with the essence blood of myriad Demons, its power can continuously rise... Once refined to the fifth tier, it possesses an extremely formidable Void Divine Power, even capable of aiding Cultivators in crossing the vast Void seas..."