Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 562 - 560: Escape (Please Subscribe)_1

Chapter 562: Chapter 560: Escape (Please Subscribe)_1

Boom!

Countless streams of Ice Movement Power converged into a frost hammer, crashing down like Mount Tai bearing down.

The temperature around plummeted sharply, and there was even a hint of the void beginning to freeze.

’Any Transcendent God should never be underestimated.’

Fang Xi praised inwardly as he deployed a secret skill from the ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics,’ his figure instantly disappearing from sight.

Bang!

The massive ice hammer smashed down on a vacuous emerald phantom, grinding it into dust.

At that moment, Fang Xi transformed into a streak of dark green radiance, rushing into the array.

The Great Array immediately sprang into action, morphing into a giant frost python attempting to swallow him whole.

"Go!"

Fang Xi waved his hand, and three quaintly shaped bronze halberds appeared, covered in glittering inscriptions.

Thud!

Three streaks of bronze brilliance swept past the frost python, slicing it into several sections!

This was none other than the Exotic Treasure seized from the Sea Split Beast — the Three Ancient Halberds!

Fang Xi now, whether in terms of aura, magic, or treasures, was truly one of the Monster Clan!

This clearly signaled to the Ice God Palace that a spy from the Monster Clan had infiltrated the Great Snow Mountain, and had nothing to do with him, a pillar of the human race!

"Swift!"

The ice python exploded, turning into a sky filled with frost, while Fang Xi formed hand seals to exploit a flaw within the array.

He flashed through, escaping the Great Array, with the array’s instruments behind him exploding in flames and burning to ashes.

Whoosh!

A white light twinkled — it was the Ice God Palace Master!

"A fourth-grade, top-tier monster of the Monster Clan?"

He stared in Fang Xi’s direction of escape without any hesitation, exhaling a stream of cold air.

Within the cold mist, there was a delicate carriage, as if carved from transparent ice.

The Ice God Palace Master boarded the carriage, which was then pulled by eight ’Ice Wind Flood Dragons’ formed out of converging cold winds that roared forth, moving with staggering speed!

With this conveyance, the Ice God Palace Master was certain the Monster Clan fugitive could not escape his grasp!

Only after becoming a Transcendent God did he realize the vast chasm that lay between the Nascent Soul and Transcendent God stages!

A mere fourth-grade, top-tier monster of the Monster Clan, as long as he...

The very next moment, the Ice God Palace Master’s Divine Consciousness stirred.

He could sense that the escaping monster, using some unknown secret skill, suddenly increased its speed drastically!

’Hmph... such a secret skill surely cannot last long, and the magic power will soon be exhausted.’

The Ice God Palace Master still did not take this too seriously.

But very soon, his expression drastically changed.

The escaping streak of the Monster Clan accelerated further, with traces of blood red, seemingly with endless magic power, maintaining an ultra-high speed until it finally exceeded his Divine Consciousness’s limit!

"Impossible!"

The complexion on the face of the Ice God Palace Master gradually crumbled.

...

Thousands of miles away.

Fang Xi’s magic power was rapidly depleting as he continually utilized the Sky Demon escape method from the ’Sky Demon Slaying Immortal Tactics,’ moving at extreme speed.

Before long, feeling his magic power had exhausted by more than half, he couldn’t help but smile wryly, swallowing a ’Returning Profound Pill.’

Upon ingestion, strands of spiritual energy began to swiftly emerge within his Qi Sea Dantian, transforming into magic power.

After consuming three ’Returning Profound Pills,’ Fang Xi could no longer sense the Divine Consciousness following him and allowed himself a slight smile.

In an instant, his figure vanished from sight.

This time the matter was a bit much, and he planned to lay low in The Nine States for a while.

Why didn’t he disappear at the beginning? Naturally, it was to shake off the pursuit of the Transcendent God Cultivator’s Divine Consciousness first...

Anyone who could suspect that he possessed a Supreme Treasure must be squashed.

And the fifth-grade Profound Turtle?

Fang Xi had already forgotten about it...

After all, between humans and demons, deception is commonplace.

That Profound Turtle egg had already been deemed his own possession by Fang Xi.

...

The Nine States.

Within Zhang Huohua’s Dongfu.

With a flash of silver light, Fang Xi’s figure emerged.

The smart housekeeper ’Tai Yi’ welcomed with a solicitous voice, "Welcome home, master. Would you like tea or Spirit Spring Water?"

"Just bring me a bottle of Spirit Spring Water."

Fang Xi stretched and, holding a plastic water bottle, stepped out of the closed-door cultivation room to see the Heterodox Nascent Soul perusing an academic paper.

"Hm? Has Master Ghost Axe’s concept been put into practice? This ’Separation Skill’... was it successful?"

Fang Xi naturally took the paper from the Heterodox Nascent Soul, glanced to the last few lines, and his eyes lit up, "Just in time... there are also hidden dangers in that fifth-grade Profound Turtle blood, which I can remove as well."

...

After delegating some errands to the Heterodox Nascent Soul, Fang Xi sat cross-legged, a smile creeping onto his face.

This trip to the North Plains had indeed been wildly profitable.

Not only had he effortlessly obtained the fifth-grade Profound Turtle essence blood, which he hadn’t put much hope in, but he even managed to acquire a Profound Turtle egg!

Beyond that, the Sky Demon Qi in his body was quite rich, which, after refining, should be enough to push his cultivation to reach Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, perhaps even breaking through to the Transcendent God stage!

Using the Sky Demon Qi directly would naturally carry some risks, but as a member of the Monster Clan, those risks would be significantly diminished. Plus, with the harmless processing he’d done for Daqing before, the risk was practically negligible.

"First, I should cultivate thoroughly and avoid the limelight... The current cultivation world of the North Plains must be in a state of chaos."

"And that old turtle, I wonder if it will fly into a rage?"

Fang Xi thought with considerable interest as he headed straight for the Dongfu within the Mountain Sea Pearl, sat cross-legged, and began his cultivation.

...

In the Cultivation World of North Plains.

Building an ’Ascension Platform’ was not only terrifyingly expensive, but also required measuring the Void, making its location unchangeable.

The Ascension Platform of North Plains was situated deep within a Cold Ice Canyon.

At this moment, above the canyon, a fifth-order Profound Turtle was controlling a Monster Cloud, engaging in a fierce battle with Ice Xuanzi.

"Gui Xiang, what exactly are you trying to do?"

Ice Xuanzi held a Cold Ice Longsword in his hand and shouted sharply.

Both the human and the demon carefully avoided the glacier where the Ascension Platform was located during their duel, which seemed to show their apprehension.

This scene made Ice Xuanzi secretly suspicious.

This turtle demon’s knowledge of the Ascension Platform’s location had already surprised him.

And the opponent deliberately lured him out, with movements that didn’t seem intent on destroying the Ascension Platform.

This gave Ice Xuanzi a hunch, and a faint premonition of a ruse to lure the tiger away from the mountain became stronger.

"Ice Xuanzi, hand over our clan’s sacred egg, or my Profound Turtle Clan will never let you Ice God Palace rest!"

Gui Xiang’s voice boomed like that of a dragon-elephant.

"That item is of great use to me, I’m afraid I cannot comply,"

Ice Xuanzi answered indifferently.

If he could hatch the egg with the rich blood of the true Xuanwu, and contract it as his Life-bound Spiritual Beast, it would be greatly beneficial even if he advanced to Returning to Emptiness later on.

And if it failed to hatch, it could still be used to craft a Spirit Communicating Treasure with exceedingly powerful effects, or at the very least, be used in a Blood Sacrifice to strengthen the Devil-locking Tower’s defenses significantly. How could he possibly hand it over?

However, considering this old turtle ancestor, he had always kept it in an underground hot spring, nourished by Earth Core Spirit Milk.

"It seems... this demon might have gotten some help?"

"Fortunately, I’ve already had the Bai family youngster guard the Great Snow Mountain... It couldn’t be that this old turtle ancestor has found another fifth-order member of the Monster Clan, could it?"

While Ice Xuanzi was pondering, a Cold Ice Flying Sword shot toward him.

He was slightly startled and with a light grab of his snow-white hand, he caught the Flying Sword in his grasp, scanning it with his Divine Consciousness.

In an instant, he learned everything that had happened in the Great Snow Mountain, and couldn’t help cursing, "What a waste, that Bai family boy, how could he fail to retain even a fourth-order top-tier demon?"

Ice Xuanzi looked toward Gui Xiang, "Sir, what a clever trick... That fourth-order great demon was arranged by you, wasn’t it?"

"Heh heh, exactly, just so,"

Though Gui Xiang was somewhat puzzled in his heart, he still confirmed confidently.

"Good, very good..."

Ice Xuanzi’s expression turned icy: "Since that’s the case, then I’m afraid you’ll have to leave behind your Essence Blood and Divine Soul as compensation!"

He drew his Ice Sword across his palm, and a stream of Essence Blood emerged, staining the icy blade red.

In the blink of an eye, the Cold Ice Sword turned into a blood-red longsword!

Ice Xuanzi held the blood-red longsword aloft, and the sky instantly changed color as myriad powers related to Ice Movement converged, resulting in a blizzard filling the sky.

"Ice Xuanzi, you’re finally fighting with all your might,"

Seeing this scene, excitement surged in Gui Xiang’s heart.

However, as it secretly tried to sense its own Essence Blood and locate Fang Xi, its expression suddenly changed!

That connection... it was gone!

"Ahhhhhh!"

Gui Xiang immediately erupted in earth-shattering roars, causing even Ice Xuanzi to frown slightly.

...

Inside the Dongfu within the Mountain Sea Pearl.

Daqing and Xiao Qing were circling an egg the size of an ostrich’s, which belonged to a Profound Turtle, discussing it for a long time.

"Boiling it would taste good..."

"Roasting it would taste even better..."

Rarely, the two Spiritual Beasts had reached a consensus on the matter of the Profound Turtle egg.

Seeing this scene, Fang Xi couldn’t help but say speechlessly, "All you think about is eating..."

In fact, he was aware that both Xiao Qing and Daqing were sensing the other’s rich Xuanwu Bloodline, wanting to consume it to enhance themselves... It was a natural rule for weaker demons to be prey for the stronger ones among the Monster beasts.

Moreover, Xiao Qing, being intelligent, certainly didn’t want another turtle to share the affection.

And Daqing, the Dead Salted Fish, probably felt the same.

After shooing away the two Spiritual Beasts, Fang Xi also fell into thought in front of the grayish egg.

Removed from the environment of Earth Core Spirit Milk, the life force within the egg had clearly diminished significantly.

"I remember... there’s a specifically dedicated Spirit Beast Department in Fang Immortal University... they should also be quite experienced with all sorts of emergency treatments,"

But Fang Xi knew that what this half-petrified Profound Turtle egg needed wasn’t emergency treatment but a boost in life force.

How much life force was needed?

That was a bottomless pit, otherwise, with the wealth of the Profound Turtle Clan and the Great Snow Mountain, they wouldn’t still be unable to hatch a Profound Turtle.

"It’s up to you now!"

Fang Xi raised his hand, and vines fell down, wrapping around the Profound Turtle egg layer by layer.

Then, the Demon Tree cracked open a hole, its Qi Roots acting like arms, stuffing the egg of the Monster Beast into the hollow.

After a flash of black light, the opening immediately disappeared.

"Hopefully the life Primordial Energy of the Demon Tree will be useful..."

Fang Xi muttered to himself.

Ever since a third of his ’Yi Wood Magic Body’ transformed into golden lines, it had fallen into a period of stagnation again.

It seems there isn’t much hope for achieving the ’Eternal Green Body.’

And after so many years of replenishment, his lifespan has already comfortably exceeded ten thousand years!

He doesn’t need the Demon Tree’s replenishment for the time being and can use the excess Primordial Energy to nourish this petrified egg, hoping for a good outcome...