Chapter 469: Demon Infant Possession

Above the sky over the sea surface.

Seeing this, Qin Ming also revealed a strange expression, estimating that this woman must have set her sights on Cold Crow Immortal Venerable's treasure vault.

As the Sister Lan Bing Saintess passed by Qin Ming, her pair of cold, narrow eyes casually glanced at him.

Revealing a hint of suspicion, she did not entangle herself with him further and continued pursuing Cold Crow Immortal Venerable.

In an instant, she vanished without a trace.

Tianjizi and the others, seeing this situation, could not help but stare in stunned disbelief.

They never expected that Cold Crow Immortal Venerable was drawing fire for them, buying time for the few of them to flee.

"Fellow Daoist Tianjizi spoke nothing but the truth; following those two indeed offers a sliver of hope for survival! Hahaha!"

"This old man just received news; Fellow Daoist Guanglingzi, who ran in the other direction, has already perished."

But before that person could finish speaking, a beam of black light from behind immediately caught up, actually smashing him along with his shield into pieces with a single punch.

"Just right for you to go down and accompany him in death, hmph!"

The terrifying figure of Qishang Mojun revealed itself, behind him a pair of demonic wings conjured from demonic qi.

In his hand, he held the Nascent Soul of the scattered cultivator from just before; the tiny face on the Nascent Soul displayed an expression of extreme terror before Qishang Mojun tossed it into his mouth and devoured it cleanly.

"Tianjizi misled me!! Your divination images are inaccurate!"

Someone cried out in alarm.

Upon witnessing such a scene, Tianjizi and the others felt their very souls flee in terror, each fleeing for their lives.

Qin Ming also felt a slight chill in his heart; observing the strength of Qishang Mojun's vital energy, it was something rarely seen in his entire life.

What surprised him even more was that the pair of demonic wings behind the other seemed to be an extremely powerful divine ability; their escape speed truly rivaled the Blood Escape Technique, catching up to him in just a few moves.

The reason the Sister Lan Bing Saintess earlier had ignored people like them was likely to leave them for this Qishang Mojun to deal with.

Thinking of this.

After confirming that no other Nascent Soul-stage demonic cultivators were following behind Qishang Mojun, Qin Ming's figure flashed several times, swept over a stretch of sea surface, and then plunged straight into the seawater.

Splash! Splash! Qishang Mojun did not pursue the other Nascent Souls but had set his sights on Qin Ming, following closely behind as he dove into the deep sea.

A Qin Zhenjun moving within seawater also possessed astonishingly fast speed.

In this chase and flight.

Half a teacup of time passed.

Qin Ming's figure flashed, arriving at a canyon ten thousand zhang deep beneath the seabed.

All around was pitch black, utterly silent.

After sweeping his divine sense behind him, his divine sense power, comparable to that of a late-stage Nascent Soul, suddenly erupted, shooting over a dozen God-Slaying Thorns toward the opponent! Qin Ming knew this person's physical body was extremely formidable, so he directly unleashed the offensive divine ability from the Nether Soul Art.

As Qishang Mojun gave chase, his whole body bristled with horror, his heart subconsciously sensing a feeling of impending doom.

Boom! But before he could react, over a dozen God-Slaying Thorns fiercely stabbed into his sea of consciousness.

Just as Qin Ming's God-Slaying Thorns were about to pierce into Qishang Mojun's sea of consciousness and strike his Nascent Soul.

A piece of demonic jade in Qishang Mojun's embrace shattered with a sound.

Simultaneously, within the sea of consciousness, a misty white light shield barrier rose up, completely protecting his tiny Nascent Soul figure.

Crack! Crack! Crack! All the God-Slaying Thorns struck the white spiritual light shield, scattering and vanishing one after another.

Yet under the soul attack comparable to that of a late-stage Nascent Soul, the white light shield barrier also teetered on the brink of collapse, cracking open several fissures.

One of the God-Slaying Thorns slipped through a fissure, instantly striking the tiny Nascent Soul figure inside.

"Ah!!"

Qishang Mojun clutched his head and let out a wail of pain, yet after only a few breaths, he regained his mental clarity.

"Late-stage Nascent Soul divine sense power!"

"How can this kid possess such a powerful divine soul?"

He looked at Qin Ming, his gaze revealing a mix of shock and uncertainty.

Under that sudden surprise attack just now, he had nearly fallen into Qin Ming's trap.

Qishang Mojun took out a demonic treasure to protect his divine soul, then roared in anger and resumed his pursuit.

The demonic wings flashed brilliantly; within a few breaths, he landed in front of Qin Ming.

Without another word, he directly unleashed the Green-Faced Demonic Aspect, clenching a fist and smashing it toward Qin Ming.

Even within the deep water, the speed of his fist shadow was not affected in the slightest, arriving before Qin Ming in an instant.

Qin Ming's eyes also turned cold; his entire body transformed into a three-hundred-zhang blood-colored eight-armed demonic ape, surrounded by swirling demonic runes and surging demonic qi, his eight arms forming different hand seals, resembling a fierce-eyed Vajra demonic aspect.

Roar! Immediately following.

The blood-colored demonic ape joined its five fingers into a single fist; in an instant, a cluster of black lightning flashed in its hand, as if grasping the great sun, crossing a distance of several hundred zhang as the terrifying giant fist smashed horizontally toward the opposing Qishang Mojun!

Boom-crack-crack! Under the collision of their single punches, an earth-shattering aura explosively erupted; the seawater within a ten-li radius of the underwater world receded, distinctly forming a vacuum zone.

Countless sea races and underwater mountain ranges were annihilated under this clash.

On the sea surface, heaven-shaking giant waves and a tsunami distinctly rolled up.

"The Body of Yuansha True Demon!!"

"How is this possible?! How could you possess the supreme body-refining technique of the demonic path?"

Vital energy churned within Qishang Mojun's body; he never expected that a mere early-stage Nascent Soul kid would not only possess a powerful divine soul but also have body-refining divine abilities so strong they were not inferior to his own in the slightest.

Gazing at the eight-armed demonic aspect not far opposite him, his emotions were already churning like a storm-tossed sea.

He immediately discarded his underestimation, erupting with mid-stage Nascent Soul magic power, as his Nascent Soul domain distinctly unfolded, enveloping Qin Ming entirely within it.

However, in the next moment.

The magic power aura on Qin Ming's body also continued to climb, and his Nascent Soul domain divine ability also unleashed.

It was fundamentally on par with the domain of the opposing Qishang Mojun.

Two great law domains collided within the Sea Floor Canyon, once again forming two circular vacuum zones, like two massive white spheres rising from the deep sea.

After a long time, the seawater still had not subsided. Qishang Mojun was now thoroughly shocked; when he had first descended to this realm, he was brimming with confidence, originally believing that relying on his formidable strength, he could roam freely across the Human Realm, daring not to claim too much, except when facing late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and Soul Transformation Venerables.

As a result, after consecutively destroying two Nascent Soul cultivators, he had encountered a tough opponent.

The divine abilities and methods of the person before him, whether in terms of physical body or magic power, were no weaker than his own as a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Qin Ming's expression remained calm; if facing only Qishang Mojun alone, he could still handle it.

Earlier, he had deliberately lured Qishang Mojun to this place; his original plan was to directly activate the Gouyu Jin Guang Mirror to brush away his lifespan and then leave immediately.

Because the moment Qin Ming saw Qishang Mojun, he had already used the Yin-Yang Mysterious Mirror divine ability to observe him, discovering that this person had over five hundred years of lifespan remaining.

The Gouyu Jin Guang Mirror had now unlocked to the fourth-grade Spiritual Treasure level, greatly reducing the exchange rate of lifespan with cultivators of the same rank, forming an almost one-to-ten ratio.

His magic power was comparable to that of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator; consuming only fifty years of time would be enough to brush this opponent to death.

But after Qin Ming witnessed this person's physical body with his own eyes, and combined with the 'Nine Heavens Cangyuan Miaoying True Talisman' obtained not long ago, an extremely strange and bold idea suddenly arose in his heart!

"Who exactly are you?! Why are you so proficient in our sect's Demonic Dao Saint Body?" No matter how hard he tried, Qishang Mojun could not figure it out, and after stabilizing his stance, he questioned repeatedly.

Qin Ming revealed a cold sneer toward him, "Who I am is not important, but this Seat has taken a liking to your physical body; soon, I will become you!"

"What?!" Upon hearing this, Qishang Mojun was both shocked and furious.

Subsequently, in the hands of the blood-colored eight-armed demonic avatar opposite, an ancient bronze mirror the size of a palm suddenly appeared.

The instant this mirror appeared.

Qishang Mojun's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

In the depths of fate, it seemed a great terror was about to descend upon him. "Th-this is..."

Qin Ming immediately injected magic power into the Gouyu Jin Guang Mirror, causing the Nascent Soul magic power within his body to pour out wildly.

He activated the second great divine ability refined after this mirror advanced to become a fourth-grade Spiritual Treasure—Ancient Poisonous Flame.

In an instant.

A golden radiance rippled across the incredibly smooth mirror surface, flashed and vanished, shining directly upon Qishang Mojun.

Boom!!

A tri-colored heavenly fire suddenly descended, transforming into a massive griffin, abruptly emerging from the radiance and diving straight toward the natal Nascent Soul above Qishang Mojun's Purple Mansion Spirit Platform.

Fear was written all over Qishang Mojun's Nascent Soul face; watching the tri-colored heavenly fire descend instantly from above, even the divine sense he released was defiled and burned to ashes in an instant.

Furthermore, within the flames existed a count of heavenly tribulation from the majestic heavenly might, firmly locking onto his Nascent Soul; it was an inescapable fate.

It was even more terrifying than the Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation he had undergone back then.

In terror, Qishang Mojun's Nascent Soul summoned several powerful demonic treasures, placing them all before his pitch-black Nascent Soul as a shield.

The next moment.

The tri-colored heavenly fire formed by the Ancient Poisonous Flame actually descended directly upon the Nascent Soul.

Tribulation Fire Burns the Spirit!

Qishang Mojun's Nascent Soul let out an extremely mournful scream, its features twisting in unbearable agony.

The blazing tri-colored poisonous flames quickly enveloped and swallowed it.

So much so that the green-faced demonic avatar was forced back into its original form.

Under the scorching of the tri-colored poisonous flames, his demonic treasures fell one after another.

Seeing that the timing was just right, Qin Ming immediately urged the demonic infant on the black lotus platform in his middle dantian to fly out.

On his pitch-black demonic infant's small face, an extremely excited smile also appeared; after all, this was his first time performing a soul seizure, so he lacked much experience. Qishang Mojun's Nascent Soul, under the scorching of the Ancient Poisonous Flame, was already on its last breath, its aura withered and about to scatter.

Qin Ming's demonic infant immediately drilled into his Purple Mansion Spirit Platform, grabbed the remnant body of the opponent's Nascent Soul, and began gnawing wildly.

The demonic infant formed a strange hand seal with its fingers, then immediately began executing the Great Art of Soul Seizure; after devouring the opponent's Nascent Soul completely, it instantly occupied Qishang Mojun's physical body.

After the pitch-black demonic infant finished devouring the opponent's Nascent Soul, all of Qishang Mojun's memories from his life and various past experiences were also refined and absorbed by it.

Moreover, since Qishang Mojun's Nascent Soul had suffered the spirit-burning effect of the Ancient Poisonous Flame, it possessed almost no power of resistance.

The process of the demonic infant's soul seizure was exceptionally smooth and easy.

It even imprisoned a wisp of his divine soul within its stomach, keeping the natal soul lamp he left in the Blood Refining Demonic Sect from extinguishing.

Scene after scene from this person's life surged into Qin Ming's mind.

After Qin Ming's demonic infant successfully completed the soul seizure, it rapidly adapted to Qishang Mojun's extremely formidable physical body.

He clenched his fist, then reached out to scoop up the demonic treasures that had fallen to the ground earlier.

Subsequently, 'Qishang Mojun' flew over to stand before Qin Ming, revealing a strange smile.

Because Qin Ming's magic power cultivation was already comparable to a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, maintaining the aura of Qishang Mojun's mid-stage Nascent Soul was merely an effortless matter.

Immediately following this.

Qin Ming took out that 'Nine Heavens Cangyuan Miaoying True Talisman'; under the nourishment of his natal spiritual plant, the Immortal Ageless Vine, the talisman's missing parts had not only stopped the loss of spiritual energy but had also been mostly repaired.

Following the method given by Yan Laomo, he activated this ancient talisman.

In an instant, a wisp of pale yellow qi flew out from the ancient talisman, landed upon the demonic infant, and left a void coordinate on its body.

Qin Ming's idea was very simple: utilize the demonic infant to seize Qishang Mojun's soul, then infiltrate the Blood Refining Demonic Sect to plunder treasures; not only that, but in the future, he could also obtain first-hand intelligence from the upper echelons of the Demonic Dao.

It was simply killing two birds with one stone, and it couldn't be easier. "Heh heh heh!"

"Did this old man teach you correctly, kid?"

Yan Laomo revealed a sinister smile.

Shi Tian Shu rolled over and climbed onto 'Qishang Mojun's' shoulder, touching here and examining there.

Subsequently.

It also displayed a cheeky, thievish grin, and timely flattered, "Master, this move of yours is truly high! Eh heh heh!"

"Almost exactly the same; completely unrecognizable."

(End of Chapter)