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Chapter 248: A Half-Filled Meal
Chapter 248: A Half-Filled Meal
Shen Yi spread his hands slightly, and his golden body transformed into a pearl that returned to his palm, while his Yin Spirit returned to his Qi Sea.
Only Qinghua Furen's demon soul remained where she stood.
The woman's eyes were slightly red, her lips bitten, and her eyes clearly dazed as she struggled to maintain her basic sanity.
"..."
Shen Yi shook his head sympathetically. The feeling of having distracting thoughts invade one's mind was indeed unpleasant.
If he wanted to continue strengthening his Golden Body, he would need another demon soul to share the burden.
Fortunately, he had acquired two more remnants of demon kings.
The fox, with its current state of star-crossed lovers, seemed more suitable for deducing martial arts, which was a bit of a waste.
The white dragon appeared stronger, so it would do.
Shen Yi stored the golden pearl in his Qi Sea and then turned to walk away.
He found a young fox demon, trembling with only its upper body protruding from a crack in a fallen boulder.
Shen Yi pulled it out and crushed its skull with a palm strike.
He then opened the panel to take stock of his gains.
[Killed a demon fox at the Hunyuan Realm. Total lifespan: 16,000 years. Remaining lifespan absorbed: 8,200 years.]
[Killed a white dragon at the Hunyuan Realm. Total lifespan: 19,000 years. Remaining lifespan absorbed: 2,800 years.]
[Killed a fox demon at the Baodan Realm. Total lifespan: 8,200 years. Remaining lifespan absorbed: 5,500 years.]
...
A total of over 16,000 years of demon lifespan gained.
Perhaps due to the abundant gains from the Song State trip, Shen Yi felt that this was somewhat lacking.
However, to acquire vast demon lifespans, one needed to have something sufficiently attractive to demons, even at the cost of human lives... Shen Yi would rather take a few extra steps; after all, riding on the Red Cloud was not tiring.
Shen Yi tossed the three demon corpses together.
He opened his mouth and turned them all into demon blood.
The young fox demon only contributed one drop, while its uncle fared a little better, providing fifty-six drops.
The white dragon's flesh and blood quickly coalesced into one hundred and sixty-two drops of demon blood.
This slightly surprised Shen Yi.
It was incredibly strong.
To put it into perspective, the strongest among the immortal demons of the Nine Demons Transformation Technique was the Mountain Lord, and it had consumed over a hundred drops of demon blood.
This did not mean that the white dragon was only stronger than it by half.
Because immortal demons only had demon blood, while the White Dragon's transformed demon blood... only represented its physical body. Don't forget that it also had its demon core cultivation.
Shen Yi put away the demon pill.
Three more storage treasures appeared in his hand.
Instead of inspecting the loot,
he was more interested in the Dao Infant, which had now turned into a jade figurine.
The lifelike jade doll, about the size of a palm, seemed to have all the internal organs, but they weren't real; they seemed to be various heavenly treasures.
Shen Yi poked at it with his fingertip, trying to pry out the white flower that represented the heart.
The white flower, covered in cracks, seemed to have lost its vitality, devoid of any trace of aura.
"Did the Dao Infant die, so the white flower died too?"
Shen Yi tried a few more, but they all turned out the same, leaving him slightly disappointed. He had originally wanted to see if he could take it out and put it into his own Dao Infant.
"But this does prove that my previous guess was correct."
The Hunyuan Sect Master's path to becoming a god was to utilize the Dao Infant to supplant his original body.
It was clear that Changqing Zhenren had achieved this.
His Dao Infant could survive independently, even when separated from his body, but he was still only at the Hunyuan Realm... What else was missing?
Shen Yi studied it from various angles.
He discovered that this thing was just a human-shaped demonic pill.
However, it could serve as a reference for his future path.
Shen Yi stored it in a storage treasure.
Perhaps this was what Jiang Qiuluan meant when she said that the paths of Hunyuan Sect masters were all different.
This person's Dao Infant, transformed from thunder juice, seemed to be made of heavenly treasures related to lightning.
If he had refined this white flower, he might have electrocuted his Dao Infant to death.
Shen Yi summoned the Red Cloud and glanced up at the sky.
Since the White Dragon was enraged to such an extent, Jiang Qiuluan had most likely escaped, so there was no need for excessive worry.
Having once shouldered the hopes of all of Qingzhou, she wasn't an ignorant child, and didn't need anyone to look after her.
Breaking through to the Hunyuan Realm was the true beginning of the cultivation journey.
One could rely on no one but themselves, and they must forge ahead with all their might.
Shen Yi mounted the Red Cloud and soared into the sky; this battle had given him much-needed experience.
If one didn't count the Golden Body, his current strength in the Hunyuan Realm was far from exceptional. His advantage lay in the toughness of his physical body, but compared to the Dao Infant, he knew nothing about the Hunyuan methods, his realm was low, and his foundation insufficient.
In the previous confrontation, if not for Changqing Zhenren's rustiness in battle, the odds of victory should have been much higher for him.
However, in the face of the Golden Body, he had absolutely no means of resistance.
Putting himself in the other's shoes, if he had encountered a true Transformation Realm expert, his outcome would likely have been even worse.
...
In Lizhou, at the Qi Zong Sect.
Lin Jingyi and his daughter-in-law stood at the mountain peak with many disciples, the entire sect had stopped functioning, and even the disciples forging metal had put down their hammers, watching helplessly as the precious metal turned to waste.
In the air, a Yin Spirit stood silently.
Hou Wanshan, the Lizhou general, had reached the upper realm of martial arts, and in his younger days, he even had the qualifications to join the Wu Miao. However, his heart was tied to Lizhou, and so he had remained here for many years.
Even if he met a Miao Zhu, he could address them as fellow martial brothers.
"You don't know where he's going, who he's going to meet, and all you know is a Silver Moon Cold Lotus, but you don't know where it is?"
Hou Wanshan didn't lose his temper, but his slightly hoarse voice made Lin Jingyi dare not breathe a word.
"Inspector Shen is a dignified inspector..."
Lin Jingyi hesitated for a moment, still wanting to argue.
"Can you let your son ride the clouds to find me, but you can't send another person to follow? Can't your Qi Zong Sect come up with another auspicious cloud treasure?" Hou Wanshan suddenly raised his voice.
"I..."
Lin Jingyi opened his mouth, at a loss for words.
Logically, this matter was entirely due to the inspector's solitary decision, and if they wanted to catch up with them, they would at least have to dispatch someone at the Embracing Dan realm.
The Qi Zong Sect didn't have that many Embracing Dan realm cultivators to spare to go out and die outside of Da Qian.
But it was clear that Da Qian was not one to reason with the martial arts sects.
On regular days, due to the face of the Wu Miao, the Qi Zong Sect still had some leeway, but when it came to the inspector's life and death, this bit of face amounted to nothing.
"I'll go look for him now, right now."
Lin Jingyi took out the auspicious cloud treasure and climbed up dejectedly.
He was just a blacksmith, how dare he argue with the general?
If he really couldn't find him, then he could only throw this old bone of his away.
"... "
Hou Wanshan glared at him, annoyed: "You must know the direction at least, I'll go with you."
An upper-realm martial artist, upon leaving the Da Qian realm, might only be able to exert the power of a lower-realm martial artist.
If it were the general of a smaller place like Qingzhou or Songzhou, he would never dare to go out.
But Lizhou was fine.
As the richest state, even if something happened to him, the Wu Miao would immediately send someone to replace him.
"You guys are really something!"
Hou Wanshan sighed, why did they have to invite an inspector in the first place?
It wasn't clear to Hou whether Da Qian had a Hunyuan master or not. These Jianghu people truly didn't understand the intricacies of the Martial Temple (Wu Miao).
Who was this inspector anyway? Just a junior disciple freeloading off the sect.
But this junior disciple was clearly too honest.
It was truly difficult to evaluate him.
(End of Chapter)
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