Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 690 - 657: Shortcut (Additional updates requested for subscription)_1

Chapter 690: Chapter 657: Shortcut (Additional updates requested for subscription)_1

"Sir, are you aware of the revered name of that existence that spreads Demon Skills and leaves an endless toxin?"

Inheriting the ancient wisdom that if a problem cannot be solved, one might solve the person who posed the problem, Fang Xi tentatively asked a question.

He actually didn’t hold much hope, after all, even the True Demon Clan of Demon Lord Chi Lian didn’t know its secret, let alone a mere Demon Cultivator of the human race...

"Qianwan indeed knows," she answered, "that ancestor, on the verge of ascending, faintly sensed through his Divine Thought that terrifying existence and has come to know its name... it is ’Carefree Sky Demon King’!"

Qianwan replied.

"Carefree Sky Demon King?!"

Fang Xi was shocked; the famous name of one of the six kings of the Demon Clan, he had heard of it in the Earth Immortal Realm.

"Sir, have you actually heard of this Demon King’s name?"

Qianwan was somewhat surprised.

"I’ve only seen a similar title in an ancient book..."

Fang Xi replied casually, "Give me the person along with the prohibition token and all versions of the ’Self-Transforming Heavenly Sovereign Commanding Ten Thousand Spirits True Demon Skill’, and our respective grievances will thus be settled!"

Qianwan suddenly found herself in a dilemma.

Then, she managed a resigned smile and raised her hand.

A jet-black token and a jade slip turned into two streams of light, landing before Fang Xi: "What you have said, Qianwan accepts!"

This woman had no other choice, after all, even the most formidable demons of her sect could do nothing about ’Yun Jiezi’; what more could she do?

Fang Xi picked up the token and slightly infused it with magic power, confirming it was indeed the key item for the prohibition against that Divine Demon; he then flicked his sleeve, and a silver-white radiance flickered, wrapping around the jet-black coffin. In a flash of blue light, he completely vanished without a trace.

Qianwan, looking at the departing figure of Fang Xi, let out a deep sigh...

...

After leaving Primitive Devil Door, Fang Xi immediately found a place in the mundane world where the spiritual energy was thin and released the Mountain Sea Pearl.

The Mountain Sea Pearl transformed into a light gate, enveloping him completely.

A vast Cave Heaven appeared before him.

Fang Xi looked at this scene thoughtfully: "There’s even a quick way in the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, which is to devour a Blessed Land of the Cave Sky... This Mountain Sea Pearl... is just perfect!"

With the ’Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm’, it’s as if one has gained another Cave Heaven to carry along; then, the Mountain Sea Pearl becomes unnecessary...

In the boundless space, the Ancestral Demon Tree stood at the center, still blocking out the sky, its branches hanging down...

He sat cross-legged, with the jade slip of Demon Skills from the Primitive Devil Door appearing in his hand, he began to painstakingly study it.

Time passed, unknown how long...

Above the Ancestral Demon Tree, a piece of jade-green leaf with gold and silver patterns slowly fell, which Fang Xi caught in his hand: "Self-transforming, self-transforming... indeed, some trouble!"

Based on the notes of the Primitive Devil Door’s past ancestors, Fang Xi roughly understood the pitfalls of this Demon Skill.

Once a cultivator who practiced this Demon Skill reached the Transcendent God realm, the cultivation inside their body would inexplicably go awry and disappear, becoming fuel for the ’Carefree Sky Demon King’!

"If it is the original version of the skill, after entering the early stages of Transcendent God, such a situation could potentially occur, and by the mid-stage, the likelihood becomes much greater, almost certainly not lasting until the late stage..."

"Then, the latest version of the Demon Skill by the Primitive Devil Door, which has been improved, seems to me to be nearly perfect, allowing cultivation all the way to Perfect Transcendent God... But still, at the time of ascension, one would be remotely sensed by that ’Carefree Sky Demon King’... which means, anyone practicing this skill is doomed to run into problems eventually?"

His skill, extrapolated within the Nine States, should also allow cultivation to Perfect Transcendent God without incident.

But as for the step of ascension, that’s indeed a bit uncertain.

There’s a high probability of still being sensed!

The ’Carefree Sky Demon King’, one of the six kings of the Demon Clan, second only to the elusive Mahayana Demon Ancestor, commands the Demon Clan with unfathomable divine skills and magic power...

With its insight and realm, it is very difficult to escape the traps it has set!

"This is... truly troublesome indeed."

Fang Xi’s eyes darkened.

Not to mention the heterodox incarnation, he had already cultivated the ’Self-transforming Demon True Skills’, and according to the experience of previous generations from the Primitive Devil Door, even starting anew would be futile.

Moreover, transitioning cultivation skills at the level of Transcendent God is very problematic.

’Even... my true self has also practiced this Demon Skill... Though with the suppression from the Treasures of All Heavens, there might not necessarily be issues, it remains a latent threat.’

He exhaled deeply, "Originally, I thought it was bad enough to be entangled with Changqingzi, one of the Five Sons of Human Race before even ascending, but I never expected to get into trouble with one of the six Demon Kings... how unfortunate can one be?"

After sighing, Fang Xi saw a jet-black token appear in his hand.

On the token were innumerable intricate patterns, with a blood-red ’Demon’ character on the back.

After a brief spell of sacrificial refining, he sensed a connection to the Perfect Transcendent God Demon Cultivator within the jet-black coffin.

"Not a bad enforcer, but these methods of prohibition always feel somewhat flawed... there’s a risk of backlash."

"No wonder that ancestor Qianwan was so willing to hand it over; it turns out to be a hot potato."

After some thought, Fang Xi’s aura shifted, suddenly manifesting the demon qi of the ’Self-transforming Demon True Skills’.

In reality, he was truly the more dangerous one; after all, he had already broken through to the late stage of Transcendent God with his Demon Skills, and although he practiced a revised skill without much issue before ascension, there was still a latent danger.

Instead, the heterodox incarnation, whose realm has only recently reached the initial stage of Transcendent God, stands as stable as Mount Tai.

"Ha!"

Fang Xi’s hands formed a seal, and behind him appeared the phantom of the Transformative God Demon Body.

The Demon Shadow also formed a seal with its hands, and strands of Demon Qi fell into the prohibition token.

In the next moment, Fang Xi felt his Divine Consciousness enter an uninhabited territory, easily refining the prohibition within the token and even ’seeing’ part of the Demon Sect ancestor’s Divine Soul and Essence Blood!

The various prohibitions and incantations that had originally been somewhat stiff to operate could now be manipulated as easily as moving his own arm.

This made him realize that even if he commanded the perfect Transcendent God Divine Demon to turn its head and attack the Primitive Devil Door, he would certainly not be the one to suffer!

"So, one must cultivate homologous techniques in order to better control this Demon Lord?"

He murmured to himself, causing the pitch-black coffin to emerge.

Clack!

The lid of the coffin popped open automatically, revealing the body of a Demon Cultivator dressed in black, with a wooden expression.

Even though the Demon Cultivator appeared as lifeless as a corpse, Fang Xi could sense the terrifying Magic Power within this body!

"This Primitive Devil Door seems to have its strengths not only in Refining Corpses, as evident from the Six Desires Mixed Sky Demon of the past..."

Fang Xi felt some regret that he had been too timid before, and had asked for too little in return.

However, after taking control of this Transcendent God Demon Cultivator through the prohibitions, Fang Xi’s expression changed.

He felt the Magic Power of his ’Self-Transforming Heavenly Sovereign Commanding Ten Thousand Spirits True Demon Skill’ surge as if eager to devour the Demon Magic Power before him!

In his eyes, this Demon Cultivator was akin to an ancient Immortal Pill that could increase one’s Magic Power and break through realms.

Swallowing it would save him hundreds of years of hard Cultivation, not only directly advancing him to the peak of the Transcendent God realm but also accumulating enough to make a breakthrough towards Returning to Emptiness!

"Both this person and I have Cultivated using different methods, aware of issues within our techniques, and have made additions and reductions... trying our best to restore the original essence of the techniques."

"And these Demon Skills were actually passed down by the ’Carefree Sky Demon King’ of the Earth Immortal Realm, meant to lure cultivators into Cultivation, and then devour their cultivation and soul as fuel for ascension..."

"In other words, the original harmful version of this technique likely didn’t have such devouring abilities. Is it a coincidence that both the founder of the Demon Path and I, who Cultivated the restored version of this technique, have some capacity to mutually devour and enhance our Magic Power?"

"This Demon Art is indeed insidiously heterodox to the extreme..."

Between cultivators, Magic Power fundamentally cannot be devoured and then refined smoothly.

Even with the dual Cultivation techniques that enhance each other, it’s still a gradual advancement, accelerating the progress of one’s Cultivation significantly for a time.

But for the devouring aspect of this Demon Skill, Fang Xi had no doubt that if a Core Formation demon who practiced an improved version of the ’Self-transforming Demon True Skills’ devoured this Demon Cultivator’s power, they could possibly ascend to Transcendent God instantaneously... provided they could overcome the numerous lightning tribulations, Heart Demon Tribulations, and the Five Elements Tribulations...

"The efficiency of use is frightfully high... The Carefree Sky Demon King, ranked among the six kings of the Demon Clan and renowned among the human race, truly possesses exceptional talent and flair to have created such a technique!"

Fang Xi was deeply moved.

However, he immediately invoked his Triphasic Destroying Origin Skill, converting his Demon Qi into the Power of the Kuyong Skills, and the urge to devour vanished in an instant.

Of course, his main body could not possibly devour the Magic Power of this Demon Body, tempting as it may seem.

Yet such a miraculous technique, if said to have no risks or flaws, he wouldn’t believe it for a second.

’Perhaps it’s something the heterodox incarnation could try?’

’After all, with the improved technique, as long as it doesn’t Cultivate to the peak of Transcendent God and ascend, there likely won’t be any issues...’

Fang Xi had to admit that the revisions made by him and the ancestral masters of the Primitive Devil Door merely made this Demon Art less dangerous before the stage of Returning to Emptiness.

After reaching the peak of Transcendent God, one would still find themselves in a desperate situation.

But he had already intended to suppress the Cultivation of the heterodox incarnation; if it could break through the later stages of Transcendent God, dramatically increase its strength, and then remain in this realm for thousands of years, that seemed to be an excellent option.

And by that time, he might already possess the strength to resolve the issues tied to the ’Carefree Sky Demon King,’ at which point these problems would cease to be problematic.

Don’t rush when facing problems; hesitation often yields the best solutions!

This was also Fang Xi’s wisdom for survival!

As he pondered, his expression suddenly changed, and he clutched at his energy core.

Inside his energy core, his primary Nascent Soul looked at the ’Treasures of All Heavens’ in his hand and muttered to himself, "Someone has descended to the Lower Realm... Such Void Breaking Power is indeed terrifying!"

For an Earth Immortal to descend from the Earth Immortal Realm with a Returning to Emptiness cultivator was even more terrifying than cultivating ten or eight Returning to Emptiness cultivators!

Feeling this surge, Fang Xi’s eyes lit up.

The reason he stayed in this realm was because he had the Treasures of All Heavens to sense such a terrifying Void disturbance and to make comparisons.

"After sensing such inter-dimensional forces, I can now almost certainly confirm that at least ’Changqingzi,’ who has integrated with the body, can’t come down!"

"Even if he has also Cultivated the Earth Immortal Heritage, even solidifying into the ’Spirit Domain,’ but the Power of the Spirit Domain can only solve the problem of being suppressed in the Lower Realm, and cannot solve his problem of descending through the realms..."

"Allowing an Integration Cultivator to descend to the Lower Realm, even the Mahayana Individual Immortals of the Earth Immortal Realm, might not be capable of it..."

"But for me, these are not problems at all!"

Fang Xi smiled slightly, stood up, collected the Mountain Sea Pearl, connected with the ’Treasure Mirror,’ and vanished in an instant...