Chapter 710: Shocking Gains, Spell Combinations (Combined)

The Fire Phoenix Furnace possesses the ability to refine treasures and demons.

Yet the Profound Yin Lei Chi is different; it is a purely destructive artifact, containing and nurturing nothing but 'Profound Yin Thunder'.

For cultivators practicing the 'Profound Yin Thunder Canon', this thunder is no less important than the innate spiritual plants in the Qing Di Longevity Sutra, possessing the wondrous effects of tempering the physique and generating Lei Shui.

Externally, it serves as an extremely fierce method of destruction.

Had this Lei Chi not been severely damaged in the Core Battlefield due to its treacherous nature, and had the Profound Yin Thunder within not already been exhausted, even the Great Sun Divine Ape, which holds some suppression over it, would have been unable to contend with it.

"Voom~"

Threads of Profound Yin Qi flowed out from the black cocoon, merging into the body of the Ying Mo Shen; faintly, black lightning circled around his body.

Li Yuan focused his spirit to perceive.

The Qi drawn from the Lei Chi gathered within the 'Ying Mo Domain' inside the Ying Mo Shen, transforming into a three-zhang square Lei Chi within the 'Ying Mo Deep Pool'.

Inside the Lei Chi, the blackish Yin Lei Shui 'gulu gulu' churned; the spreading Qi caused vast numbers of demon shadows to flee in panic.

Six years had passed; even though refining the Lei Chi and the Divine Ape Mountain had consumed a great many demon shadows, the sheer number of shadows in this Ying Mo Domain was enough to make one's scalp prickle.

This retreat was like a black sea surging.

"Woo~"

The Lei Chi trembled lightly, drawing in the Ying Mo Shui formed from the various strange objects devoured by the Ying Mo Shen.

This water possesses the ability to corrode all things and all arts; even divine treasures would be defiled if stained by it, yet for the Profound Yin Lei Chi, it is excellent sustenance.

Nothing else; the Ying Mo is purely Yin, and the Profound Yin Lei Chi belongs to this category as well.

Thus, the two combined not only did no harm to the Lei Chi, but because it drew in the Ying Mo Shui, the 'Profound Yin Thunder' nurtured within the Lei Chi became even more terrifying.

"The compatibility between the Ying Mo Shen Gong and the Profound Yin Thunder Canon is too high!"

Li Yuan felt satisfied in his heart.

For cultivators practicing the Profound Yin Thunder Canon, nurturing the Profound Yin Thunder is an extremely troublesome and tedious process, but the Ying Mo Shen has the ability to devour all things, capable of providing Ying Mo Shui endlessly.

When necessary, the countless demon shadows accumulated in the Ying Mo Domain can also 'sacrifice their bodies to the thunder', instantly converting more Profound Yin Thunder for him.

And theoretically, the Profound Yin Thunder contained within this Lei Chi of the fifth realm is a technique of a fifth realm cultivator!

"Crossing realms to activate the Profound Yin Lei Chi requires consuming a vast amount of magic power, which I cannot withstand myself, but the Ying Mo Shen can handle it completely!"

Li Yuan continued to tally his gains.

Six years had passed; the eight hundred and ten Fa Li Pin within the Ying Mo Shen still did not reach the quality of superior magic power, but the accumulated magic power was far too great.

Now, merely the third-rank demon shadows forged with eight hundred and ten Fa Li Pin number in the thousands at most, while the first and second-rank demon shadows containing several or dozens of Fa Li Pin are countless.

To say the magic power is vast as an ocean is no exaggeration.

"Thus, relying on the Profound Yin Lei Chi and the Great Sun Divine Ape Transformation, even a fifth realm cultivator can be fought for a short time!"

Li Yuan had expected this.

For other third realm cultivators practicing the Ying Mo Shen Gong, even with such abundant sustenance, it would be impossible to cross realms and fight a fifth realm cultivator.

But with the support of the 'Pure Yang Treasure Tree', Li Yuan already possessed the realm of the 'Fifth Layer of the Ying Mo Shen Gong'.

"Boom!"

After a long while, accompanied by a sound of Profound Yin thunder, the black cocoon held in the hands of the Ying Mo Shen shattered, and the remaining Yin thunder Qi was all swallowed into the Ying Mo Domain by him.

"Thus, only the final step remains before we can begin exploring the Core Battlefield!"

Li Yuan rose to his full height; streams of demon shadows flowed into the shadows, heading toward the Core Battlefield, while he himself, controlling the Ying Mo Shen, walked toward the Xing Xing Tongyou Corridor.

The last thing he needed to do was naturally to return the gains of the Ying Mo Shen to his original body.

Woo~

In the darkness, Li Yuan walked slowly.

Within the Xing Xing Tongyou Corridor, the darkness was like ink; even after he changed his controlling set and his five senses were elevated, he could not see what lay beyond the invisible barriers on either side.

"Shi shi~"

In the darkness, incense burned violently, the only light in this place.

Any living being or external object wishing to exist permanently in the You Jing must inevitably consume incense; even the Daoist Court of Mount Mount Dongxuan is the same.

It is just that this portion of consumption falls upon Mount Mount Dongxuan.

"After a cultivator forges the Fa Tian, the required incense increases significantly; the reason is that every moment the Fa Tian exists in the You Jing requires incense."

Li Yuan hurried along, while his mind sorted through various cultivation matters.

The Xing Xing Tongyou Corridor is very long; in the past, the Ying Mo Shen walked cautiously for over ten days. After scouting the path, Li Yuan did not let his guard down either, taking two days in total before reaching the end of the corridor.

"Woo~"

Through the void, Li Yuan saw that crimson, blood-like 'Sky Curtain', which trembled from time to time.

He gazed into the distance; where his eyes could reach, there was nothing but chaos, various strange objects fighting fiercely, and strange grounds colliding.

Within six years, the Ying Mo Shen had not only been refining the Lei Chi and the Divine Ape Mountain; it had swallowed a huge number of various low-rank strange grounds, but it could not withstand the Blood Phoenix sending in a large batch every few days.

"If there were not someone plotting in the shadows here, this would truly be the supreme treasure land of the Ying Mo Shen..."

Li Yuan stopped to observe.

In five years, he had also heard some of the listening sounds related to the Blood Phoenix, but they were limited to the Blood Phoenix itself, with no intelligence whatsoever regarding the person plotting in the shadows.

Without needing to think, he knew that person's Cang Xing Fa must have been cultivated to an extremely high level.

"At least a Qi Jing cultivator!"

Li Yuan cautiously activated the Turtle Breath Concealment and the Qing Di Yan, suppressing his Qi; not waiting long, he saw a faint, imperceptible dark shadow drift toward him.

That was his shadow.

Through the void, the man and the shadow seemed to completely overlap.

"Hua!"

The next instant, Lei Yuan heard the sound of water — at first babbling like a stream, then Yu Yu Xuanji 'whoosh-whoosh'-ing like a waterfall, and finally, like a flood bursting its banks, pouring into his Heart Sea and Shen Jing!

Divine patterns, divine prohibitions, spells!

One, two… thirty, eighty!

In the blink of an eye, it had exceeded a hundred and fifty, and was still pouring in unceasingly.

"Boom!"

Within the Ni Wan Shen Jing, the rumbling shook everything; the boundless Wang Yang boiled over, its waves towering to the heavens.

"Roar~"

"Screech~"

The nine true forms were all startled by the commotion and raised their heads one after another, only to see myriad wondrous scenes interweaving above the Wang Yang — intricate and unfathomably mysterious — causing even the Shen Jing itself to tremble violently.

"Roar~"

One wondrous scene quaked and transformed into a thousand-zhang black dragon; it threw back its head and let out a long howl, stirring wind and clouds.

This was the 'Demon Dragon Art' obtained by Ying Mo Shen — at first it had only Jiu Chong Fa prohibitions, but now, astonishingly, it was close to Liu Shi Zhong Fa prohibitions!

"Screech~"

The Jin Chi great roc leapt into the sea like a fish, transforming into a great Kun, raising even more terrifying winds and monstrous waves, and swallowed it whole in a single gulp.

"Aaang!"

"Roar!"

"Clang~"

It was not only the Demon Dragon Art — amid the trembling of a thousand wondrous scenes.

The spells, freed from Ying Mo Shen's suppression, blazed with divine light — becoming flood dragons, mountains and rivers and seas, long swords, divine blades, flying rings — running rampant wildly within the Shen Jing.

"Suppress!"

With but a single thought from Lei Yuan, the nine true forms all surged forth at once; even the ten little Golden Crows in the Sun Nest rose into the air, intending to suppress these spell-wondrous scenes.

The Darkvine Tree reacted swiftly — a single long vine stuffed the ten little fellows back into the nest, then Yu Yu Xuanji ten-thousand branches and leaves unfurled, transforming into countless long-vine chains,

lashing, binding, suppressing the myriad spells that came rolling in!

For a time, the Shen Jing quaked with extreme violence; even though he had long been prepared, Lei Yuan still furrowed his brow, sat cross-legged in the long corridor, and focused his spirit to suppress them.

Ying Mo Shen's harvest had been too great.

Even though what was fed back to the true body was the cream of the crop, the number far exceeded three hundred spells — not only encompassing the five elements, yin and yang, body tempering, divination, and the like, but the prohibition levels were also extremely high.

To swallow so many spells in one breath — if not for Lei Yuan's deep foundation and his Chaos Body, any other Qi Jing cultivator would have suffered qi deviation on the spot.

There was no other way; a Qi Jing cultivator, even if cultivating the nine great spirit forms, could at most contain eighty-one spells!

Even Ying Mo Shen needed other demon shadows to share the burden — it could not gather them all within itself.

"Hum~"

"Hum~"

In the long corridor, light suddenly flickered; the rippling radiance of myriad spells shone out from Lei Yuan's Ni Wan, interweaving in dazzling harmony, evolving into all manner of wondrous scenes around him.

It took a full three days before Lei Yuan finally quelled the quaking and conflict of the spells within his Shen Jing.

He focused his spirit to sense, and felt only his Ni Wan thumping ceaselessly; the Five Extremes Temple and the nine true forms had all become bloated, as if overstuffed, and were all sprawled across Darkvine Island.

The Darkvine Tree, meanwhile, was binding over a hundred spells, shaking from time to time, its very roots straining as it forcefully suppressed the many 'wild spells'.

"Whine~"

Wisps of demon shadow seeped out of the void, landing at Lei Yuan's feet, interweaving to become his shadow.

These were eighty-one third-tier demon shadows, each having refined eight hundred and ten strands of Ying Mo Fa magic power, and each storing eighty-one relatively complete spells.

"Huu!"

Lei Yuan let out a long breath; he felt as if he too was stuffed to bursting, as if he had overeaten.

At this moment, Ying Mo Shen lifted a finger and gave a tap.

Another ten-thousand demon shadows interwove like a dark cloud, surging into the Xing Xing Tongyou long corridor wave after wave.

Lei Yuan's mind swept over them: this batch of first- and second-tier demon shadows numbered roughly eight thousand three hundred; the magic power contained within them was sparse, but they likewise stored a great number of spells.

Only, these were more fragmentary — most of them were even just a few divine patterns barely cobbled together.

And borne along by the demon shadows were Dong Dong Ershisan Dao Soldiers that looked like humans but had no facial features — these were fourth-tier 'Law-Suppressing Dao Soldiers'.

"Hum~"

With a beckoning gesture from Lei Yuan, the Dong Dong Ershisan Law-Suppressing Dao Soldiers had already transformed into a string of bracelets, landing in his palm.

Having devoured so many strange lands, the types of Dao Soldiers Ying Mo Shen had accumulated numbered no fewer than two hundred — but most either had no clear path of advancement or lacked potential.

The only ones he valued were this squad of Law-Suppressing Dao Soldiers.

"The Great Sun Divine Ape Transformation and the Xuanyin Lei Chi must be left for Ying Mo Shen — though they may be lost, it's worth the gamble."

Lei Yuan did not tally his harvest, but instead planned Ying Mo Shen's next moves.

As for that thing that a suspected Qi Jing powerhouse had gone to such elaborate lengths to scheme for, Daoist Lei declared himself very interested as well — even if he couldn't get his hands on it in the end, he still wanted to have a look.

At the very least, he could make a final attempt at suppressing the Fierce Blood Phoenix.

In any case, he had already memorized both spells; even if they were lost, at worst he could later pluck divine patterns and cultivate them himself.

"Go."

With a single thought from Lei Yuan, Ying Mo Shen turned and departed; before long, it had hidden itself within the shadows, heading toward the distant core battlefield.

He himself, meanwhile, turned and headed back.

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