Chapter 215: The Guess Was Correct

【Year seven, the Yin God consciousness was torn apart until only a wisp remained, and Lady Qinghua began attempting to fuse with it】

【Year eighteen, Lady Qinghua successfully merged with the Yin God consciousness as one】

"Ah?"

Staring at the prompt that had just appeared and immediately stopped, Shen Yi couldn't help but freeze for a moment.

He sank into inner vision.

He saw only that within the qi sea, the Yin God had already become an empty shell.

He summoned Lady Qinghua.

She stood before Shen Yi with clenched fists, a new shade of dread in her eyes — after merging with the Yin God consciousness, she had inevitably been somewhat affected.

And in that Yin God's memories, the assessment of the young man before her was very concise.

Stingy. Terrifying!

"Come in." Shen Yi gave a slight nod of his chin.

Lady Qinghua obediently entered his body, then drifted toward the Yin God within the qi sea to merge with it.

The pale, misty Yin God suddenly opened its eyes.

With a slight shift of Shen Yi's divine sense, he gave Qinghua a command, and the Yin God lightly drifted out of his body, taking the size of a normal person — white robes fluttering gently, its features bearing some resemblance to his own.

This kind of feat was an ability only a Wu Xian could possess.

After carefully sensing it out, Shen Yi found there were both pros and cons.

The drawback was that, after all, there was an extra step in the middle — first giving Qinghua an order, then having her control the Yin God — so it wasn't as smooth.

The benefit, however, was—

Shen Yi stood up and looked to his side.

The Yin God likewise looked back at him.

A single inner dan nurturing both the Hunyuan Realm and the Wu Xian Realm, and able to act simultaneously — in future exchanges with others, this could be considered one more killing move.

"My lord…"

Lady Qinghua instinctively bowed, but suddenly realized that this Yin God body bore her master's honored appearance. She hurriedly straightened up, imitating Shen Yi's posture, a few shades of calm settling onto her face.

Shen Yi withdrew his gaze. Though he now possessed a Wu Xian's ability, he lacked a Wu Xian's foundation.

After all, at the time, shattering the dan had relied on the Dao Infant.

The Yin God had only absorbed the incense vow power of a single commandery—compared to a true Wu Xian, it fell short by more than tenfold.

Still, this path had already been trodden; what remained was simply how to obtain incense vow power.

Shen Yi had no intention of devouring the leftovers outside Qingzhou, for You Longtao truly urgently needed vow power to accomplish his goals; if Shen Yi remembered correctly, he still held the identity of a registered disciple of the Martial Temple.

That lot seemed rather idle.

"Alright, come out."

He nodded, watching the Yin God return to the qi sea, as Lady Qinghua drifted out with a constrained air.

"Setting aside the Yin God, how much strength do you still have?"

"Reporting to my lord, Qinghua spent ten thousand years regathering her demon soul and has no demon power to use. However, against an ordinary Wu Xian's Yin God, or other souls, there should be no great pressure."

Lady Qinghua explained softly. This was also why she had been able to deal with the Yin God consciousness so quickly.

"Do you have any understanding of the Hunyuan Realm?" Although Qinghua had already proven her worth, Shen Yi still hoped his demon-foreigner lifespan could be spent a bit more economically.

"No. Most demons rarely waste time studying the things of martial cultivators. Forces like Qingqiu that imitate human cultivation methods are, after all, the minority." Qinghua shook her head.

Hearing this, Shen Yi looked at the demon-foreigner lifespan that still had just over ten thousand years remaining, and with a wave of his hand, withdrew Lady Qinghua back inside.

He spent another thousand years condensing out a demon treasure crystal.

He began deducing the Tiannan Dan Shi Art.

【Year one, you consumed the demon treasure crystal and began deducing the path beyond Hunyuan. The demon resentments were still slumbering; only Lady Qinghua could offer you a few suggestions】

Hm?

Shen Yi quietly watched the panel, and suddenly realized that as long as he reshaped a demon soul, it seemed he wouldn't need demon treasure crystals to awaken the remnant thoughts in the future.

But there was no need to be that frugal now — after all, many hands make light work; pooling wisdom was always faster than Qinghua mulling it over alone.

【Year seventy-nine, all the demon resentments had revived and gathered around you, all falling into deep thought. Aside from the Howling Moon Demon King and Lady Qinghua, none of them had even seen a Hunyuan Sect master, and they asked you to show a move or two】

【Year one hundred twenty-three, the little fox proposed a suggestion — since you had used the outer dan method back then, why not now use an outer infant method. Lady Qinghua knocked it on the head and told it that what left the body was called a Yin God】

"Sigh."

Shen Yi silently watched the foreign demons' lifespans slip away and suddenly realized that this group could no longer keep pace with his footsteps, as whether in vision or experience, they remained at a very low level.

He sank into inner vision.

The Dao Infant sat quietly in lotus posture within the qi sea.

The demon power upon it had reached an overwhelming extreme — like a great vat brimming with water, one drop more and it would spill.

Whether in face or limbs, it had already become incomparably solid; aside from its overall blood-red color, it was nearly indistinguishable from a True Person.

"What is it still lacking?"

Shen Yi examined it carefully for a long while, and suddenly noticed the viscera and meridians outside the qi sea…

For Yin God cultivators, what is called Soul Transformation means abandoning the mortal body and recasting a Golden Body dharma-form. The stage above Hunyuan cultivators is also called Soul Transformation — it should mean the same thing.

If one were to use the Dao Infant as the body, then what was lacking was a great deal.

The five viscera and six bowels, the meridians and great apertures.

【Year seven hundred twenty-three, you kept striking with full force, draining the Dao Infant's accumulations, hoping to comprehend an entirely new path through this method. The many demon resentments watched you in awe, submitting to the might of your mastery, unable to stop themselves clapping and cheering】

"…"

Back when the mortal body broke through the initial realm, he had used this same trick — exhausting every last bit of accumulation, and finally groped out the twelve great apertures. Now, breaking through from Hunyuan to Soul Transformation with the same trick was simply a matter of ingrained habit.

Shen Yi shook his head and stopped the action of continuing to pour in lifespan, for this group of demons had been idly chatting and bragging with the lifespan he had saved up, yet after all this time could not even offer a single useful thought; it was better they simply stayed put obediently.

Compared to the matter of the Dao Infant, Lady Qinghua should have more insight into body tempering.

The other party had earlier revealed their true form, and the bright crimson patterns on their body were clearly the divine ability obtained during their own Immortal-Demon Eighth Molt.

The reason Shen Yi had never used demon blood to forge demon-bone demon-flesh was that it was a divine ability rather than a martial art, and there was no way to use the panel to accelerate it.

The Blood-Transforming Demon Ox could spend tens of thousands of years of lifespan to use this divine ability to achieve the throne of Demon Sovereign, yet from the time Shen Yi transmigrated to now it had not even been a full year — for him, this divine ability was simply far too slow.

It would be best if he could merge this divine ability into a martial art.

Thinking of this, Shen Yi directly began deducing the Immortal-Demon Nine Molts.

The panel once again surfaced a prompt.

Sure enough, just as he had guessed, even without using demon-essence crystals, Lady Qinghua could still provide help.

【First year, you described the martial art Immortal-Demon Nine Molts to Lady Qinghua in detail, along with the original line of thought behind its creation. She was somewhat astonished at your ingenious imagination, and then explained to you how to use demon blood to forge a demon body】

【Ninth year, you privately pondered what the two had in common, and suddenly thought of a question — among the nine molts you had undergone, the Howling Moon Demon King and the Little Demon King were still decent aids, but the flood dragon and the Mountain Lord from the initial nascent-core realm were clearly already somewhat of a drag】

【Since the Dao Infant could absorb demon blood, why not try using demon blood to make these nine immortal-demons grow once more】

【One hundred and seventh year, Lady Qinghua diligently helped you perfect this line of thought, completing the method of feeding immortal-demons with demon blood】

【Seizing demons and monsters to molt one's own body — now your nine molts are complete, and what must be done now is for one person to attain the Dao and for even the chickens and dogs to ascend to heaven】

【Slain Hunyuan. Nine-Demon Demon-Transformation Great Art: Not Yet Initiated】

True to form as a demon martial art — as always, crude and crude-and-simple.

A hundred years' time, given to a martial artist might only just get them started on the Two Forms True Intent, yet demons dare to put together a Hunyuan Realm martial art.

Whether one can actually practice it, they don't care; what might go wrong, they don't care either — in theory it works, so there's no problem.

"..."

Shen Yi stared silently at the panel — probably because the price was too cheap, he instead felt it was somewhat unreliable.

Within the qi sea, one hundred and fourteen drops of demon blood floated quietly.

(End of this chapter)