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Chapter 524: Opening Three Cities, the North Palace Vanguard General
Chapter 524: Opening Three Cities, the North Palace Vanguard General
Boom!
The Luli Qingfeng Town Stone fell from the sky and crashed into the ground.
The gates of the Emperor Xiancheng slowly opened, wanting to throw out the remains of the failed Tribulation.
If it were an ordinary cultivator, failing the Tribulation would mean death.
Shen Yi, who had undergone the Town Stone Tribulation, avoided the risk of falling, but at the cost of over sixty million years of demon life force. This trade-off was definitely not a loss, but if given a choice, he wouldn't want to spend any of his demon life force.
Although the Red-eyed Xuanfeng had the character "feng" in its name, it was obviously not truly of the same clan as the Luli Qingfeng, and could only be said to be distantly related. It was a gamble to attempt the fusion.
Shen Yi quietly watched the Town Stone.
After the demon soul merged with the stone, the pair of phoenix eyes suddenly gained color and began to tremble, struggling to open.
The eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, impossible to lift.
Shen Yi knew how to help her, but he remained expressionless, standing in place.
Some lessons only need to be learned once.
After an unknown amount of time, when he saw the glimmer in those phoenix eyes and the translucent pupils like jade, with invisible flames flickering within, he knew the transformation was complete.
As the divine strangeness faded, a deep weariness flashed across the phoenix demon's eyes.
But the Red-eyed Xuanfeng quickly concealed her fatigue, determined not to let others underestimate her. She had earned this opportunity through great struggle.
"Huh."
Shen Yi finally waved his hand, and the demon origins converged and flew towards her.
Xuanfeng...no, she should be called Qingfeng now. This woman had demonstrated exceptional willpower. With a demon soul at the Twelfth Layer of Returning Void, she had managed to control a part of this Town Stone despite not being of the same clan.
What happened next had nothing to do with her original intentions; it was merely because her demon soul was not strong enough.
Since he had decided to use her, Shen Yi no longer hesitated.
He fed her demon origin after demon origin without reservation.
Throughout this process,
The gates of the Emperor Xiancheng opened and closed slightly, as if unsure whether to close or open.
Had the person undergoing the Tribulation died or not?
As over ten demon origins were generously poured into the phoenix demon's soul, a precious character finally appeared before her name on the panel.
"Roar!"
A sharp phoenix cry rang out between heaven and earth. The ashen-gray Town Stone statue regained its luster, but it still looked miserable. All the torture its previous body had endured now afflicted it.
However, compared to the previous wails,
This phoenix cry contained both misery and anger.
Shen Yi had brutally beaten her to death, a far more painful death than that of the Phoenix Elder.
Then, within the Sky Sword Sect, she had been imprisoned and her blood essence extracted for a full 100,000 years.
The blood essence was the foundation of the demon race, and the pain of blood extraction was unbearable. Moreover, the feeling of having one's life in another's hands was not pleasant.
But in the end, instead of escaping and fleeing this torture, she chose to give the Sky Sword Sect a big surprise before her escape.
Although the plan was ugly and even without Shen Yi's sudden appearance, Su Hongxiao would never have succeeded due to her arrangements,
It at least showed that she had a stubborn streak.
"Come on!"
The Luli Phoenix Demon Town Stone suddenly stood up, using a high-pitched roar to hide her fear. She never wanted to return to that quiet and dead place.
And so, she became even more stubborn than she had been in life.
Of course, the Heavenly Tribulation would not change because of the emotional fluctuations of the person undergoing it.
But Shen Yi gradually accelerated the infusion of the demon lifespan.
The Qingfeng Town Stone fell to the ground again, rolling frantically. The world's most cruel pains afflicted her, turning her flesh and blood into pus and her body into a horrifying mess of festering holes.
She used her wings to cover her head, but her performance was not much better than the previous phoenix demon. However, at least since she shouted "Come on," she had not made a sound.
Shen Yi casually spent over twenty million years of demon lifespan.
Until the shattered stones regrouped into a mountain, and the raging waves calmed.
One by one, the azure feathers regrew on the Town Stone's body, even more dazzling than before. She slowly lowered her wings, revealing her slender neck and slightly cute head.
The phoenix demon stared blankly at the ground, her eyes slightly dazed, before she came back to her senses and took a deep breath.
She turned her head towards the void.
Then, with a roar, she flapped her wings!
[South Palace Master: Qingfeng Yulan]
After leaving the city gate, the phoenix, which blocked out the sun, circled the sky before transforming into a stream of light and descending in front of Shen Yi, instead of landing on the throne of the Myriad Demon South Palace.
When the light faded, a familiar, delicate, and beautiful woman, clad in a long skirt of azure feathers, bowed respectfully, "Yulan greets my master...I did not shame your command."
This also indicated that she had completely mastered the Town Stone.
"..."
Wu Jun glanced at the phoenix demon, his mouth twisting in disdain as he turned his attention elsewhere. All these fancy tricks were useless; what mattered was getting the job done.
Ke Shi san finally regained some of his senses and looked at Wu Jun with a slight hint of schadenfreude in his eyes.
'Well, well, look who's in a tight spot now.'
"Well done," Shen Yi said, nodding slightly. The Liuli Feng Demon, a powerful clan that could rival the Western Dragon Palace, had proven its worth. After consuming so much lifespan energy, the demonic aura emanating from her body was even denser than that of the other two palace masters.
More importantly, the relay had been successful, and the lifespan energy of the previous demons had not been wasted.
Thinking of this, Shen Yi averted his gaze and looked towards the purple and golden glow emanating from the Upper Emperor City.
The two colors merged together.
Finally, they transformed into a round, ruby-like bead with a translucent quality, permeated by surging blood energy.
Overall, it looked like a ball of concentrated essence.
The third Taoist weapon.
Shen Yi reached out and summoned it to his fingertips, and as soon as it touched his finger, he felt a strange sense of familiarity.
It wasn't that he was familiar with this bead, but rather with the process.
He raised his eyebrows, already accustomed to this, and placed it in his mouth.
The next moment, a scorching heat that seemed capable of melting everything erupted within his body. Under the veil of the invisible flames, Shen Yi's entire figure became hazy, except for his pale face, where a pair of pitch-black eyes shone clearly.
The third Taoist weapon turned out to be something similar to a beast origin, perhaps more aptly described as a phoenix origin.
If it hadn't been for his encounter with the Red-eyed Xuanfeng, where he had already changed his habit of swallowing demon pills, Shen Yi might have thought that this phoenix demon had done it on purpose.
However, it made sense, as for this South Palace Master, there was no deeper memory than that of her own blood essence.
It was quite a coincidence.
Shen Yi clenched his palm, slightly sensing the boundless heart flame power and the immense boost to his aura from the Upper Emperor City.
He slightly parted his lips and spat out the phoenix origin, which transformed into golden-purple light and returned to the Immortal City.
[Remaining Demon Lifespan: 470,000 years]
Looking at the remaining demon lifespan, Shen Yi hesitated for a moment.
He could guess the meaning behind Yan Chongzhang's earlier glance, and he probably wasn't willing to give up on the secrets hidden within Mount Wumeng.
Since he had been invited, Shen Yi naturally couldn't refuse, though he might conceal his identity a little when he went there.
After experiencing the Shen Yue Law, he had become even more curious about what was hidden behind that mountain.
However, the number of demon lifespans left was awkward.
It might be enough, or it might not.
"Forget it, I'll save up some more," Shen Yi shook his head and once again summoned a Town Stone.
In an instant, nearly a hundred corpses of the Earth Fiend You Mang floated into the air, making the entire scene eerie and sinister.
The Bang Shan Sect and Su Hongxiao had not held back in the slightest, and many low-level You Mang had literally been reduced to bones, their blood staining the ocean. Even among those that remained, the number was still terrifying.
There were also fourteen great demons above the level of White Jade Jing, three of which were comparable to the Three City realm!
If it weren't for the absence of a Unity realm expert, the foundation of this demon clan would have been barely comparable to that of the Tian Jian and Ling Yun Immortal Sects.
"Can it achieve Unity?"
Even the Liuli Qingfeng was gone, and Shen Yi didn't think that this young master of the You Mang clan could pass a Death Tribulation that was even more terrifying than the Sickness Tribulation. However, as a mere henchman, he should still be useful.
With a slight movement of his divine sense, nearly a hundred corpses of the Earthly Demonic You Mang transformed into a river of blood that flowed into the Town Stone.
Shen Yi once again gathered the demon origins, and after reshaping the young master of the You Mang's demon soul, he didn't stop, but continued to pour origins into it.
It wasn't until he had poured in twenty-eight lifespans that the young master of the You Mang finally reached the Nascent Soul level.
Only then did Shen Yi stop and warily looked at the You Mang Town Stone.
After absorbing most of the blood and flesh of the You Mang clan, it exuded an intimidating presence, even though it was still an inanimate object!
The young master of the You Mang's demon soul quickly seeped into it... and then all movement ceased.
Seeing this, a hint of delight finally flashed across Shen Yi's eyes.
On the ashen-gray Town Stone, a faint glimmer of light began to gather.
Following this, the pair of eerie snake pupils suddenly trembled slightly, and in that instant, both Shen Yi and the other three Palace Masters felt a strange sense of unease.
Aside from Wu Jun, Ke Shi and Yu Lan's pupils constricted.
Evidently, these two demons were well-versed in the ways of the world.
"Unity?" Shen Yi glanced sideways, unsure. The only Unity experts he had seen were the Patriarch of the Nan Hong Seven, and the Crown Prince of the Ke family who had destroyed his Town Stone in the waters last time.
The former mostly appeared as phantoms, and even when revealing their true bodies, their auras were carefully restrained.
As for the latter, although he had made a move, it was from a great distance away through the Town Stone, so it wasn't a true indication of his power.
"Ugh." Ke Shi remained silent for a moment before respectfully replying, "Reporting to my lord, it's not a Unity realm... but I can't be certain. It's stronger than the Four-City cultivators I've seen, but I can't be sure if it has reached the strength of a Five-City cultivator. After all, there has never been a precedent in Hongze."
When it came to Four-City experts, the term "prodigy" seemed somewhat redundant.
Even after tens of thousands of years, there were only a handful of such cultivators in all of Hongze, far fewer than the Unity realm giants. Each of them was the focus of countless gazes, and their names alone commanded respect.
To them, finding a Unity realm treasure land was not an issue. The real question was which treasure land was the most suitable and pleasing to them.
"..."
Hearing this, Shen Yi fell silent for a long time.
The gap between the White Jade Jing and Unity realms was astonishingly vast.
Each time a new city was opened, it felt like a world of difference.
The most efficient way, perhaps, would be to give up on opening more cities and immediately return to the Nanyang Sect to attempt to refine the entire treasure land.
As long as he broke through to Unity, he would instantly join the ranks of the top experts in Hongze, far surpassing those so-called Four-City prodigies.
But why didn't those people do the same? Could it be that they didn't have a Unity realm treasure land?
Shen Yi lacked experience, but his mind was clear... Moreover, he was well aware of the kind of existence he might have to face—one that was far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary Unity realm cultivator.
Returning to attempt Unity would only be a last resort.
Shen Yi calmed his mind and turned his gaze back to the young master of the You Mang, who was now the strongest demon he had faced in person.
"Yu Chang, pay respects to my lord..."
This young master seemed to be still adjusting to his powerful new body, as he stood up shakily, his voice carrying a hint of trepidation.
Shen Yi sighed and turned away, feeling a sense of disappointment.
In truth, this young master of the You Mang was a fairly typical demon, but Shen Yi had seen too many exceptional demon prodigies, and he couldn't help but compare them.
"My lord, let him join my North Palace."
Wu Jun stepped forward, his gaze challenging as he glanced at Yu Lan. However, the beautiful woman merely stood quietly, not even bothering to spare him a glance.
"Hmm?" Shen Yi turned back, curious, and then nodded slightly.
To be honest, the Myriad Demon Palace, which had cost millions of years to build, should indeed have some other uses.
The next moment, Wu Jun transformed into a black light that soared into the sky and landed on the throne of the Myriad Demon North Palace. He reached out towards the space below.
His realm was probably far inferior to that of the young master of the You Mang, and even with the enhancement of his demonic body, he would likely not be a match.
However, with the support of the throne, the young master of the You Mang was completely helpless and was swept up like a leaf in a storm, instantly becoming a black stone statue within the Myriad Demon North Palace.
"I appoint you as the Vanguard General of the North Palace. Enter the North Palace and serve my will faithfully, even if it means a thousand deaths!"
Along with Wu Jun's cold voice, the entire hall was filled with demonic energy. The stone statue of the young master of the You Mang quietly merged with the grand hall.
The Red Emperor City opened slightly, and amidst the purple light, a strand of golden light was spreading at a visible rate, soon occupying two-thirds of the space.
Shen Yi watched this silently, his heart skipping a beat.
Could the grade of his Taoist weapon still change?
This wasn't just about changing exam questions or exam venues; it was about rewriting the rules of this world.
"My lord, please give Wu Jun some time."
Wu Jun stood up, bowed towards Shen Yi, and said in a voice filled with cruelty, "Wu Jun will definitely give you a North Palace Vanguard General that meets your expectations."
Shen Yi thought about the usual behavior of this black turtle and suddenly felt a headache coming on. He had a vague idea of what the North Palace would be like in the future.
(End of Chapter)
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