Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 629 - 626: Soul Searching (Extra update, please subscribe) _1

Chapter 629: Chapter 626: Soul Searching (Extra update, please subscribe) _1

Roaring fiercely!

Fang Xi opened his mouth, and a jet of pitch-black flames surged out, the very Six Paths Demon Flames!

Facing a mid-stage Transcendent God cultivator, he had no intention of holding back at all.

"A mere early-stage cultivator dares to take advantage of me?"

Lord Hei Miao’s face turned pale, a hint of black qi faintly emanating from him. A dark bead flashed in his hand, and a pitch-black pearl emerged.

This pearl hovered in mid-air, and suddenly exploded into a dense mass of black threads, layer upon layer, carrying an incomparable sharpness.

Whoosh!

The Six Paths Demon Flames met the black, dense threads and instantly exploded like hot oil meeting cold water.

Line after line of the black threads were burnt to a crisp, and even the remaining black flames took the shape of arrows, launching towards Lord Hei Miao like thousands being shot at once!

Lord Hei Miao was shocked.

His ’Thousand Swords Beads’ were also a rare exotic treasure; each black thread was as tough as a sword cultivator fully employing the ’Thread Making Sword’ technique, extremely resilient and sharp.

Yet, it was unexpectedly shattered by this spiritual fire!

"A fifth-level Demon Fire?"

Lord Hei Miao snorted coldly, revealing a pitch-black jade bottle in his hand.

This bottle, seemingly carved from black jade, was covered with numerous intricate and detailed silver patterns. Amidst the clattering sound, a curtain of pitch-black water appeared.

The arrow-shaped flames that landed on the water curtain were directly extinguished!

"Eh?"

Fang Xi let out a light exclamation, recognizing that the pitch-black water curtain Lord Hei Miao had cast must also be some kind of divine skill based on Mysterious Dark Heavy Water.

But when he thought about how long the other had reigned over the Mysterious Dark Abyss, it seemed only natural.

"This object is excellent, it must have been sacrificially refined with a lot of Mysterious Dark Heavy Water. It can be incorporated into the ’Mysterious Dark Banner’ to increase its power!"

Fang Xi praised, his body radiating demon light as he suddenly transformed into a pitch-black peacock, its five differently colored plumes flickering with strange light.

Swoosh, swoosh!

In the void, specks of blue light emerged, transforming into streams of Water Traveling Divine Light. Countless divine lights converged into one, forming an immensely thick blue column of light, inside which countless tadpole-like runes wandered aimlessly. With a sudden swoop!

Lord Hei Miao immediately felt the black jade bottle in his hand tremble, and the pitch-black water curtain nearly shattered on the spot.

In great alarm, he formed hand seals to cast some secret skill.

But at that moment, his face suddenly surged with black qi, and he spewed out a mouthful of essence blood.

"Poisoned?"

"Perhaps it’s still the poison from that sixth-level Flood Dragon?"

Seeing the collapse of the pitch-black water curtain and Lord Hei Miao spitting blood behind it, Fang Xi’s lips couldn’t help but curl up into a slight smirk.

If he hadn’t known that the other had already been poisoned or injured, he would not have rashly blocked a mid-stage Transcendent God.

Now was not the time to allow Lord Hei Miao to heal. The Five Hells Peacock Demon Body let out a long cry, igniting all the Primordial Energy of the Five Elements between heaven and earth.

Golden blades, fiery birds, wooden stakes, giant boulders, and the tridents formed by the Water Traveling Divine Light rained down like a violent storm.

Bang, bang!

Lord Hei Miao barely managed to conjure a black shield. The shield seemed to be carved out of a whole piece of pitch-black crystal, transparent throughout and unleashing immense Spiritual Pressure—a fifth-level Spirit Communicating Treasure!

The shield flickered, its surface bursting forth with innumerable dark circles that absorbed each golden blade. Then, they were unexpectedly rebounded from another dark circle, cutting a dark green wooden stake in two!

"Very good, this shield belongs to me now."

Fang Xi laughed out loud, the Five Prison Peacocks spreading their wings and swooping forward. A pitch-black claw emerged, clutching fiercely at the black shield.

Countless glows exploded on the surface of the black shield as it seemed to resist.

Woah!

Just then, behind Lord Hei Miao in the void, a flicker revealed a small black sword with bloodstains on it, emitting a shrill sword cry, like the wail of an infant!

Just hearing this sword cry caused Lord Hei Miao’s head to swim, and the Nascent Soul within his Dantian Qi Ocean opened its eyes in panic.

Swoosh, swoosh!

Threads of red pierced through the void, the Divine Infant Sword suddenly grew massive, and cleaved fiercely!

Splat!

A scarlet sword light directly ripped through Lord Hei Miao’s protective spiritual light, and countless red threads flashed, actually piercing through his law body!

Dozens of feet away, a silver light flashed, and a pitch-black Nascent Soul emerged. He reached out, calling back the shield that was entangled with the Five Hells Peacock Demon Body. It turned into a stream of black light and was grasped in the hands of the pitch-black Nascent Soul, now in the shape of a black round shield.

Woah!

The Divine Infant Sword flickered and appeared above the Nascent Soul.

After reaching the fifth level, the Divine Infant Sword’s spirit had awakened, allowing it to autonomously pursue its enemies!

But the Nascent Soul remained composed, releasing a talisman.

This talisman shone with golden light, its surface inscribed with countless pitch-black runes, and suddenly exploded, turning into a swarm of giant black wasps, temporarily entangling the Divine Infant Sword.

Lord Hei Miao’s Nascent Soul shot a malevolent glance at Fang Xi, instantly teleporting a thousand feet away.

A few more teleports, and he was at the edge of the sky.

This kind of consecutive Instant Teleportation was much faster than a Transcendent God cultivator’s Escape Light.

Just as he was about to escape to safety, the peacock tumbled back into human form, a hint of amusement in his eyes.

Whoosh!

An unfathomably long pitch-black Underworld River emerged, seemingly filled with countless rolling sands and pebbles...

Nine Nether Underworld River Endless Sands!

All around, the Underworld River stretched across, forming an array.

Lord Hei Miao’s Nascent Soul plunged headfirst into it, only to see surging black sands coming toward him, and his magic power was actually continuously dissipating.

Panic was evident on the little face of the Nascent Soul as it raised the round shield in its hands high.

Roar!

In the void, a small yellow seal appeared and suddenly let out a tiger’s roar!

A giant tiger, tens of feet long, sprang forward, emitting an exceptionally thick earthy yellow beam from its mouth, sending the round shield flying far away.

Without the round shield’s protection, grains of Mysterious Dark Divine Sand struck the Nascent Soul’s body directly, merging into it.

Lord Hei Miao’s Nascent Soul’s complexion changed drastically; it couldn’t even muster a shred of magic power and fell straight into the Mysterious Dark Heavy Water, darkness taking its vision.

A small gray-white tower appeared and took the unconscious Nascent Soul within.

The sky full of black water suddenly retracted, entering into a flag whose surface was pitch black and pole was yellow and murky.

At that moment, the earthy yellow giant tiger also returned with the black circular shield in its mouth.

Fang Xi naturally did not stand on ceremony, and took this fifth-order round shield treasure for himself.

Lord Hei Miao’s Nascent Soul had reached the mid-phase of Transcendent God, and only with the main body using Demon Skills was there a possibility to search the soul.

This Spirit Communicating Treasure had a defense that was not inferior, perfectly filling a gap for the main body.

He handed the ’Mysterious Dark Banner’ back to the heterodox incarnation and transformed into a beam of Escape Light, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

The heterodox incarnation called back the Divine Infant Sword, and looking at the Mysterious Dark Banner before it, fell into contemplation.

It seemed that after calling the main body over, all the benefits went to the main body, and it got nothing at all...

"At least there’s Lord Hei Miao’s Storage Bag, which is some consolation."

It held the Storage Bag taken from the corpse of Lord Hei Miao, and upon Divine Consciousness entering it, a hint of surprise showed on its face.

...

The Wang family.

Pi Yun Cave.

"Master... Master..."

Fang Xi landed his Escape Light and saw a Mysterious Water Turtle crawling over from the pond, laying flatteringly at his feet with its large watery eyes: "Little Mysterious Turtle has been trying hard to watch the house; no one has come during the time Master was away..."

"Oh? You’ve done well!"

He praised it, casually throwing a ’True Blood Pill’ down.

Little Mysterious Turtle opened its mouth, the ’True Blood Pill’ shrinking endlessly, it chewed it in its mouth like frying beans, eating with a loud crunch...

Waves of True Blood energy burst forth, fully withstood by Little Mysterious Turtle’s body. Even its Demon Qi surged wildly...

"The physical strength of the Mysterious Turtle, perhaps the strongest amongst the four spirits..."

Fang Xi felt that Little Mysterious Turtle had already elevated to the realm of a fourth-order mid-grade, and he nodded to himself in approval.

He had been quite hesitant about whether to give it a True Blood Pill.

But the Little Mysterious Turtle, seeing him ingesting the True Blood Pill for cultivation, expressed longing multiple times.

After being pestered until he was somewhat annoyed, Fang Xi had thrown half a pill over.

Unexpectedly, Little Mysterious Turtle swallowed it whole, not only did it not suffer from indigestion, but it appeared to receive a large benefit and continued to ask him for more.

This ’True Blood Pill’ was a Spiritual Pill meant for Transcendent God Flood Dragons to consume!

In the Mortal Realm, Fang Xi dared to give only one to Xiao Qing, and Daqing, a fourth-order lower-grade waste, couldn’t withstand the medicinal power at all.

Yet with Little Mysterious Turtle, it seemed as though some kind of rule had been broken, forcing Fang Xi to marvel at the power of its bloodline.

"More... More!"

After finishing the medicinal pill, Little Mysterious Turtle bit at Fang Xi’s trouser leg, begging pitifully.

"No more..."

Fang Xi’s expression darkened: "I don’t even have enough for myself... You keep up the good work, and I’ll definitely reward you next time."

Based on his estimation, with a sufficient supply of ’True Blood Pills,’ this Little Mysterious Turtle might even advance to the fifth order in just a few decades.

This rate of cultivation would truly make any genius feel ashamed.

After teasing Little Mysterious Turtle for a while, Fang Xi entered the Dongfu, activating layer upon layer of Prohibition.

Inside the closed-door cultivation room.

His hands flashed with light, revealing a stack of Array Flags which he inserted at various positions.

Humming!

A silver array appeared, reflected on the walls around, like fleeting shadows.

Fang Xi sat at the center of the array, the ’Devil-locking Tower’ flashing as a pitch-black Nascent Soul appeared before him.

"I only heard some rumors about the battle this time, but who knows better than the person involved?"

He silently ran the ’Triphasic Destroying Origin Skill’, a terrifying Demon Qi appeared, and in an instant, he became a mid-phase Transcendent God Demon Cultivator.

Then, streams of Sky Demon Secret Knowledge entered the Nascent Soul, causing pain to appear across Lord Hei Miao’s little face...

As time slowly ticked by.

In the secret chamber, Fang Xi opened his eyes, feeling somewhat weary as he rubbed his temples. He sensed that his Divine Consciousness had been depleted by seven or eight tenths!

Even so, he had only obtained some fragmented memories.

"This battle... the Mo Sect was somewhat wronged."

"According to the plan, it was supposed to be Lord Nine Dragon undergoing the Major Heavenly Tribulation, which lasts a long time. Just by killing into the Dragon Controlling Sect, he could use the remnants of the Mixed Origin Heavenly Umbrella with a spirit attached to force this treasure of Returning to Emptiness to revert to water, giving Lord Nine Dragon a seventy to eighty percent chance of perishing in the Major Heavenly Tribulation..."