Chapter 140: Carefree Riding the Wind: The Southern Guest Immortal

【Slain Kong Que demon at Perfect Condensed Elixir Realm, total lifespan 6,100 years, remaining lifespan 1,726 years, absorption complete】

【Slain Kong Que demon at Elixir Formation Realm, total lifespan 5,200 years, remaining lifespan 807 years, absorption complete】

【Slain Kong Que demon at Infant Elixir Realm, total lifespan 4,200 years, remaining lifespan 2,820 years, absorption complete】

【Remaining demon lifespan: 5,837 years】

……

The others were busy inside the deep valley.

Shen Yi casually found a quiet spot, sat cross-legged, opened the panel, and reviewed the previous few prompts.

These few Kong Que were clearly no ordinary things; their lifespans were a notch higher than demons of the same realm.

Shen Yi spread a thin booklet before him and flipped it open to the last page.

Besides demon lifespan and demon cores, the martial arts section had also changed.

【Condensed Elixir: Carefree Riding the Wind Art: Not Entered】

【Condensed Elixir: Two Truths True Intent: Not Entered】

The former was the skill with which Yan Xingkong roamed Outside Qingzhou; the latter came from a casual glance just now.

The two old Daoist Priests were decent people; at least they showed no retreat when fighting.

For such great demons, besides the demon core, there must be other precious items; giving some as payment later would not be taking their things for nothing.

Probably because he had grown accustomed to body-refining arts.

Now, whenever he saw such obscure martial arts, Shen Yi inexplicably recalled the feelings from previously deducing the Four Unions True Qi and Severing Meridians to Catch the Dragon.

He subconsciously shook his head; better to practice the Immortal-Demon Nine Molts first. Though it consumes much, the returns are extremely stable.

Placing the fully condensed Kong Que demon core into his mouth, vast demon lifespan poured in.

【First Year, you mobilized the intent of death, crushing toward the Toad Lord's consciousness……】

This process had been repeated many times; almost no accidents occurred, it was merely a matter of how much demon lifespan was consumed.

Shen Yi simply withdrew his gaze and carefully felt the changes within his body.

He could clearly feel another consciousness awakening within his flesh and skin, as if sensing something wrong, then beginning to flee frantically.

Until it was surrounded on all sides by the intent of death.

As the demon lifespan decreased, that consciousness slowly vanished.

【Two Hundred and Third Year, the Toad Lord's consciousness perished; you began attempting the Fourth Molt of the Heavenly Demon】

Immediately after, the demon core in his mouth gradually dissolved, and new power gradually condensed within his body.

The speed at which demon lifespan diminished became even more shocking.

Seven hundred years…… One thousand four hundred years…… Two thousand years……

Until a high-pitched sparrow cry sounded in his mind; this power was finally captured within his body.

【Two Thousand Four Hundred and Thirtieth Year, a ferocious demon once again appeared within your body, far more fierce than the previous one】

【Transform into the Southern Guest Immortal, a spiritual bird descends upon the Jade Terrace, green feathers cleave Shanhe, red feathers heal flesh and bone; a thought of slaughter makes all living beings tremble, a thought of benevolence makes all things return to spring】

This improvement was not as shocking to Shen Yi as before, yet he truly felt he had stepped across that threshold.

Although it was only the Fourth Molt of the Immortal-Demon, two more were needed before martial arts mastery.

But it allowed his physical body to completely break away from the level expected of an Elixir Formation Realm demon; now it was truly comparable to Perfect Condensed Elixir.

"……"

Shen Yi's eyes slightly closed, his palms spread flat upon his knees.

Green light swirled in his right palm; red radiance shone in his left.

Two utterly opposite forces circulated through his entire body, responding as easily as his own limbs; he activated the red radiance, and his arm, previously sore and swollen from drawing the bow, instantly recovered to its original state; the fatigue from days of full-speed running was swept away.

He exhaled lightly.

He felt a few more sighs arise regarding the mystery of demon arts.

Sharp green light danced at his fingertips; it seemed that with just a casual wave, everything before him could instantly separate.

As for the two thousand four hundred plus years of demon lifespan, it looked like a lot, but was actually a bit less than he guessed; based on the comparison between the Mountain Lord's and Toad Lord's inner cores, he originally thought it would take at least several hundred more years.

【Remaining demon lifespan: 3,407 years】

Shen Yi opened his eyes, retracted the green and red lights, and directed his gaze toward the panel.

Then he stopped at the Carefree Riding the Wind Art.

Having newly acquired the Sky-Breaking Sun Bow, if paired with such bizarre movement techniques, as long as he did not provoke those dozen-plus Embracing Elixir Realm Demon Lords, there was probably no demon in all of Outside Qingzhou capable of threatening his life.

Thinking thus, Shen Yi once again mobilized demon lifespan to pour into it.

……

【First Year, you opened the Carefree Riding the Wind Art, looked at the obscure text above, nodded thoughtfully, and a trace of clear stupidity flashed in your eyes】

Shen Yi gritted his teeth.

Here it comes! Here it comes again!

This familiar feeling he had not experienced for a long time.

【Third Year, you had memorized the text above backwards and forwards, yet your mind was filled with confusion; although you had practiced multiple lightness skills, the things recorded in the booklet were clearly different from anything you had ever seen】

【Twenty-Second Year, you stood up; your legs did not move, you merely slightly closed your eyes, feeling the clear breeze brush against your body; when you opened your eyes again, you had appeared three zhang away; horror flashed in your eyes—where was this a lightness skill? It was clearly a teleportation method, yet when you tried again, you could not find the feeling from just now】

【Forty-Seventh Year, your impatient heart finally calmed after years of attempts; turning to go home, you took one step, and your form suddenly transformed into clear wind, appearing ten zhang away】

【Carefree Riding the Wind Art: Minor Success】

Shen Yi suddenly felt the barely perceptible wind sound at his ears become clear.

It was as if his entire person had merged into the surrounding environment, becoming ever lighter; it seemed that with just a slight movement of his divine sense, he could ride the wind and rise.

Even the Jade Dew in his Qi Sea began to circulate involuntarily.

Only when the panel continued to flash prompts did he suddenly snap out of that dazed feeling.

The demon's lifespan was still continuing to drain away.

Progress was as slow as ever.

With Shen Yi's current understanding of martial arts, the invocation of most moves or qi was already incomparably familiar to him.

But this Nascent Core Realm body technique clearly exceeded that scope.

It was more like the ability of those immortals in storybooks to ride the clouds and mist… perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but this skill of transforming into wind clearly could no longer be counted as lightfoot.

No wonder Yan Xingkong could still run so fast with only one leg left.

The reason the other party couldn't move might not have been because he had shattered both of the other's legs, but rather that final palm strike that sealed the qi sea.

Suddenly, the sound of wind by his ears vanished entirely.

Shen Yi raised his eyes and saw the last prompt flash across the panel.

【In the seven hundred and thirty-second year, you vanished from where you stood, then reappeared in an instant, your feet never having shifted a single inch, but you knew clearly in your heart that so long as you wished, you could appear a hundred zhang away in a flash; you were no longer riding the clear wind, you yourself were the carefree and at ease clear wind】

【Carefree Wind-Riding Art, Complete!】

【Remaining demon lifespan: two thousand six hundred and seventy-five years】

(End of chapter)