Chapter 654: The End of the Great War (3000+)

The seventy-third year since the founding of the Extreme West Alliance.

Xiaoyue Mountain.

Hou Shan.

Aaron was practicing a spell.

He formed seals with both hands, a faint blood-colored light surrounding his body, and then he lunged forward.

Crack!

In an instant, he had dashed several hundred feet away; this speed, akin to a Blink through the void, made Aaron's eyes light up.

Just then, a commotion suddenly erupted outside the Cave Abode.

Besides this, the other Demon Secret Techniques had either harsh conditions or too high a cost, so Aaron did not think much of them.

Specifically, it meant stacking the side effects as much as possible onto life-shortening, then increasing the pill's efficacy and reducing the duration of Weakness...

If it could be used as a standard pill, that would be even better.

Thinking this in his heart, a joyful expression appeared on Aaron's face: "Our side has won a great victory in this battle; it is a supreme joy. Today, we shall not return until we are drunk!"

A ray of Magic Tool light flew over, and the figure of Li Yaotian descended from it.

Aaron finished his daily cultivation and entered the alchemy room.

"Collect!"

"The strength of the Shushan Sword Pavilion is even above that of the Black Demon Sect, causing the Black Demon Sect to suffer a great loss, forcing them to abandon their expansion of influence in Great Gan and turn their eyes toward the fringes..."

Aaron frowned slightly, walked out of the alchemy room, and saw many Transmission Talismans darting about outside the Array.

"As expected... perhaps I was born to cultivate the Demon path?"

In the following days, more news arrived one after another, letting Aaron know the reason for the end of this great war.

"Fortunately, I do not care about shortening my life, so as long as I am careful to take some pills that greatly nourish Qi and Blood... this Blood Burning Escape Technique can be used as a regular spell!"

After silently circulating his energy to regulate his breath for a moment, his complexion immediately improved significantly.

Once these words were spoken, the cultivators of various houses below had different expressions.

After about a cup of tea's time, he stopped practicing the technique, an unnatural flush appearing on his face before turning pale.

"In essence, this is still a game of chess between two Nascent Soul sects; it has nothing to do with the Extreme West, but the ceding of land and payment of reparations still has to come from the Extreme West! Hehe... truly ironic!"

But this person was, at any rate, a True Disciple of the Black Demon Sect and had dabbled in many Demon Secret Techniques, some of which were obtained through his own fortuitous encounters and were not under the protection of the Forbidden Technique.

"Hmm?"

At this time, after several modifications to the pill formula, he had already achieved good results.

"Supreme Elder, great joy, great joy!"

"Has the seventy-plus-year war in the Immortal Cultivation World finally ended?" Aaron sighed, feeling somewhat dazed.

Li Yaotian laughed and said: "Ancestor, there is another joy today... The clansmen at the front have written to say that our Li Family has rendered great service in the war and received praise from the Alliance, with generous rewards... Furthermore, after the grand awarding of merits, our family's disciples can finally return... especially Elder Yao Huo... it is said that he is highly regarded by the Haoran Sect."

Aaron sat in the main seat, listening carefully to the reports from those below:

"The Black Demon Sect also has a powerful enemy in Great Gan, and it is one of the ten great Immortal Cultivation sects of Great Gan—the Shushan Sword Pavilion!"

Finally, he had six dark, foul-smelling pills in his hand.

The surroundings were filled with a faint medicinal fragrance, and in the center, a pitch-black alchemy furnace was tempering the pills inside.

The cost was also terrifying; after taking it, one would inevitably be in a state of Weakness for a period of time, and it would greatly damage one's Essence Qi, leading to a shortened life!

After obtaining the pill formula, Aaron immediately treated it like a treasure and attempted to use his Third-tier alchemy skills to improve the formula.

Within the pitch-black light, each was wrapped around a pill with faint black Qi.

"The success rate is over sixty percent, not bad..."

Aaron Blinked repeatedly, his figure dreamlike and illusory, his escape speed unparalleled.

Aaron projected his divine sense, his hands constantly forming Seal Techniques, striking the alchemy furnace.

Aaron touched his chin, feeling that his talent in the Demon path seemed to far exceed that of the righteous path!

The cultivators below dared not disobey the Ancestor's order and raised their glasses to congratulate him one after another.

"And this time, our side sent people to the Shushan Sword Pavilion to plead, finally moving a Nascent Soul Elder of the Shushan Sword Pavilion to come forward and exert pressure on the Black Demon Sect... The Black Demon Sect is weak and had to announce the abandonment of the territory occupied in the Extreme West, retaining only the country of Yuanchen, and promising not to send high-level cultivators to the Extreme West for the next thousand years!"

His expression remained unchanged as he continued to collect the pills.

Then he grabbed another one, discovering it spoke of the same matter.

"Our Li Family elders and fine young men can finally come home!"

Boom!

And the effect? It was somewhat similar to the 'Explosive Qi Life-Shortening Pill' that Aaron developed when he was young, capable of causing one's own Dharma Power to soar by several times in the short term; it was something used by the Demon path when desperate.

Aaron took a jade bottle from his Storage Bag, opened it, poured out a blood-red pill, and swallowed it.

"This Shushan Sword Pavilion sounds quite righteous, and it is said to be the leader of the righteous path, but in reality... it really isn't some great benefactor."

This person had tears in his eyes and said loudly: "Reporting to the Supreme Elder... The Black Demon Sect has retreated to guard Yuanchen, and our Extreme West Alliance has finally won!"

"This escape technique is good, but it consumes a lot of one's own essence blood and Essence Qi; using it too much will inevitably shorten one's life... No wonder it is only listed as a life-saving secret technique!"

Aaron listened to the report while toying with his wine glass, his expression subtle.

It was not that the Extreme West Alliance had achieved some glorious victory, but that the lobbying of the group previously sent to Great Gan had finally achieved results!

Amidst the singing and dancing.

Forcibly searching the soul only yielded some fragmented, unsystematic pieces.

"The reason they were willing to exert pressure on the Black Demon Sect was mainly to limit the development of the Black Demon Sect, not to help the Immortal Cultivation sects of the Extreme West... there was even a compromise to let the Black Demon Sect occupy the territory of the country of Yuanchen."

"This Demon Secret Technique—Blood Burning Escape Technique is indeed good!"

This pill formula also came from Red Owl's memory, named 'Mad Demon Pill', taking the meaning of 'if one is not mad, one cannot live'.

The fundamental cultivation art of Red Owl had long since been placed under a Forbidden Technique of divine sense, so Aaron had no way to obtain it.

"Apart from this escape technique, the only other thing that catches my eye is this single pill recipe..."

For instance, this 'Blood Burning Escape Technique' is a life-saving escape technique that most Demonic Dao cultivators in Great Gan know; if a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator were to use it, it would not be strange for them to escape with their life even from the hands of a Golden Core Ancestor.

Aaron cast the pill-retrieval incantation, and then, among those nine streaks of black Light, three suddenly shuddered, and the pills inside directly shattered.

……

After a long while, the pill furnace shook and burst open with a boom, and nine streaks of black Light flew out from within.

He reached out to catch one, listened carefully for a moment, and his expression tightened.

"Drunk Without Return!"

It is just that the side effect of shortening one's lifespan is becoming increasingly terrifying; to be conservative, one pill down, and one hundred years of lifespan are gone...

Therefore, Aaron still managed to find some good things.

"Haha, exactly so, we must hold a celebration, a grand one at that... I shall leave the responsibility to you."

Aaron seemed not to hear any hidden meaning, waved his hand, and decided it just like that.

(End of this chapter)