Chapter 496: Testing the Demon with the Body, Hook-Sinking Sword Master

Under the night sky, the Jing'an Marquis Mansion appeared exceptionally quiet.

Li Fei brought Wang Yilong and quietly sneaked into the Green-Faced Villa.

He didn't want others to know about his return to Datong Prefecture for the time being.

"Are those 'Demon-Feeding Beasts' obtained from the Lu family before in the villa?"

Li Fei found Yang Zhe directly and asked him.

For Li Fei's sudden return, Yang Zhe was both surprised and happy.

Although he didn't know the trends of the outside world yet, he received Li Fei's call the day before yesterday, and tonight he learned that the Jing'an Marquis Mansion in Xing City was attacked, so he immediately realized that the situation might change drastically!

If Li Fei hadn't returned tonight, Yang Zhe would have already prepared an escape route for himself.

Yang Zhe: "Those dozen or so 'Demon-Feeding Beasts' are all in the villa; if the Marquis needs them, I will have someone bring them to you immediately."

Li Fei shook his head: "Don't disturb others, and don't let anyone spread the news of my return; tell me the location, and I'll go myself."

Yang Zhe immediately understood and told Li Fei the location of those "Demon-Feeding Beasts."

Li Fei immediately used Sword State: Shadowless and Formless, and together with Wang Yilong, quietly sneaked toward the depths of the villa.

The Green-Faced Villa was originally a large exotic beast farm, and the back mountain was divided into several areas to raise different types of exotic beasts.

Li Fei brought Wang Yilong to an independent area in the back mountain, where iron fences more than ten meters high were built on the periphery, and there were patrols 24 hours a day.

There were also special medicinal powders sprinkled around the iron fences to keep exotic beasts from approaching.

There were a total of fifteen Demon-Feeding Beasts in this area that had cultivated middle-three-grade implants in their bodies, all of which were among the benefits shared from the Lu family before.

"Sect Master Wang, next I will have to trouble you to protect me; don't let anyone disturb me during this period."

Li Fei said to Wang Yilong.

"You want to use the 'Demon-Feeding Beasts' to quickly practice the 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power?"

Wang Yilong frowned.

Just now when Li Fei mentioned 'Demon-Feeding Beasts' to Yang Zhe, he didn't avoid him, so he guessed Li Fei's idea.

"Yes."

Li Fei nodded, admitting his idea.

The 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power requires a total of four types of middle-three-grade implants, among which a type of implant called 【Dragon Force Armor】 is the most core, and even the national treasury in Lanling City doesn't have this implant.

And besides 【Dragon Force Armor】, the other three types of implants are relatively conventional, and many places have them; the dozen or so 'Demon-Feeding Beasts' obtained from the Lu family this time also have these three types of implants in their bodies.

Li Fei specially rushed to the Dragon Tiger Sect to directly absorb 【Dragon Force Armor】 there, because this type of implant cannot be transported over long distances.

Before setting off, he had already consumed blood souls through the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power to convert into life force, accelerating the growth of 【Dragon Force Armor】, making it reach the peak of the Qi Transformation stage, and could perform "Unity."

"But even with 'Demon-Feeding Beasts', you still have to 'Unify', so how could you practice the 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power in a short time?"

"Besides, even if you have one more supernatural power, if you really might face a Grandmaster, this doesn't make much sense!"

Wang Yilong was very puzzled.

Li Fei didn't explain much, just said indifferently:

"I have my own measure, sorry to trouble Sect Master Wang."

After Shi Caiming's warning, he actually already gave up the idea of taking shortcuts.

But this is a different time and situation.

Even if practicing the demonic path leads to an unstable foundation and leaves hidden dangers for future cultivation.

But future problems can be left to be solved in the future.

And some regrets, Li Fei had already sworn that he would never experience them again!

Wang Yilong saw Li Fei's firm expression, obviously having made up his mind, so he didn't try to persuade him anymore:

"Good, I will protect you!"

Immediately afterward, the two walked into the jungle.

Li Fei soon found a Demon-Feeding Beast that possessed the implant he needed.

This was an exotic beast covered in gray scales, with sharp teeth and claws, looking like a goat.

This exotic beast was a third-grade superior-class rock goat beast, and now it possessed a fourth-grade implant 【Earth Elephant Foot】 that had completely matured.

Using a third-grade exotic beast's body to cultivate a fourth-grade implant would cause the third-grade exotic beast's body function and lifespan to be severely affected.

The rock goat beast Li Fei found at this moment had red eyes and was constantly panting, clearly living very painfully.

Within a few years, even if the 【Earth Elephant Foot】 in its body wasn't taken out, it would die from exhaustion of vitality.

Li Fei gently patted the rock goat beast's head, ending its life.

Afterward, he used internal strength as a knife, cut open the rock goat beast's abdomen, and took out a large mass of bloody things.

Immediately afterward, he pressed this mass of bloody things onto his lower abdomen and began to operate the cultivation technique to absorb it.

Demonic path cultivation also has corresponding demonic path martial arts; the higher the quality of the demonic path martial arts, the higher the safety and success rate.

But Li Fei didn't know any demonic path martial arts at all; his absorption method at this moment was a normal means.

Using normal means to absorb a completely mature 【Earth Elephant Foot】 is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous thing!

But Li Fei didn't care at all; all the damage encountered during the absorption process was transferred to the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl.

More than an hour later, 【Earth Elephant Foot】 was successfully absorbed into his body.

Because he hadn't performed "Unity" on the 【Dragon Force Armor】 he had absorbed before, the 【Dragon Force Armor】 and 【Earth Elephant Foot】 these two types of implants immediately started "fighting," producing a violent conflict in his body!

Li Fei, while using the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to bear the damage and continuously consuming blood souls, while also taking out the long-prepared medicinal pills.

Unscrewing the bottle cap, raising his neck, he swallowed a whole bottle of medicinal pills directly!

This medicinal pill can alleviate the conflict between the two types of implants, but the side effects are too serious.

Of course, in Li Fei's eyes, there is no such thing as side effects...

Using medicinal pills to temporarily suppress the conflict between the two types of implants, Li Fei continued to look for the next Demon-Feeding Beast.

After finding it, he followed the same pattern, taking more than two hours to complete the absorption of the third type of implant.

This time, possessing three types of mature implants that hadn't been "Unified" simultaneously, the conflict between them became even more severe.

Relying only on medicinal pills could no longer completely suppress the conflict of the implants; Li Fei could only continuously use the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to bear the damage, and simultaneously stimulate the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power to consume blood souls and convert them into the life force required by the implants, so as to maintain the three types of implants, ensuring they wouldn't damage their origin due to mutual conflict.

At this time, the number of blood souls in the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl had been consumed by more than 1,000!

It was only Li Fei who dared to "seek death" like this; if it were another Martial Arts Master, several lives would have already been lost!

Li Fei found the last Demon-Feeding Beast and continued the previous operation.

Until 11 o'clock at night, he completed the absorption of the third type of implant.

Up to this point, he already possessed the four types of implants required to refine the 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power, and all of them had reached the peak of the Qi Transformation stage!

He only needed to "Unify" these four types of implants, and he would possess the foundation to refine the supernatural power.

Every minute and every second now, Li Fei was consuming blood souls, so he didn't hesitate and started "Unity" directly.

Four types of implants "Unifying" simultaneously!

Wang Yilong thought that even if Li Fei could successfully complete the absorption of the implants using Demon-Feeding Beasts, he wouldn't be able to practice the supernatural power in a short time because he still needed "Unity."

If it were the previous Li Fei, even with the "Ten-Day Breakthrough Method," the "Unity" of four types of implants would have taken him at least forty days.

But now he had the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power and the top-tier auxiliary supernatural power, so the situation was different!

The key to the "Ten-Day Breakthrough Method" lies in first using internal strength to simulate the "channel" of the implant branch, then digging out the local flesh and blood directly, then taking out the implant branch directly, and collecting it. Finally, using the recovery characteristics of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to quickly recover the dug-out flesh and blood.

The initial Ten Thousand Blood Pearl could fully recover even the heaviest injuries within ten days.

With 【Blood Breath】, the recovery time could be shortened to five days.

With the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power and 【Blood Spring】 to store extra blood souls, the recovery time could be even shorter!

Besides that, using internal strength to simulate the "channel" consumes a lot of heart and mind power; previously, Li Fei could only complete a local part first, and wait for his heart and mind power to recover before continuing "Unity."

But now, he could use the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power to convert blood souls into heart and mind power, thereby achieving continuous "endurance"!

After these two major difficulties were solved, it was no longer impossible to complete the "Unity" of four types of implants in a short time.

The afternoon of July 8th, the forty-ninth year of Emperor Hongguang.

At 5 o'clock.

The light of the setting sun fell on the back mountain of the Green-Faced Villa, sprinkling on the ground through the gaps in the branches.

Li Fei slowly opened his eyes.

He successfully completed the "Unity" of four types of implants!

Unprecedented, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to have a successor in the future!

Now the main parts of the four types of implants required for the 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power were all retracted into his dantian, on the periphery of the 【Mixed Heaven Golden Palace】 Dao Foundation.

What needed to be done next was to start refining the supernatural power.

Similar to the refining of supernatural power-type supernatural powers, the refining of martial arts-type supernatural powers is also divided into three steps:

Awakening Life, Refining Form, Combining with Dao.

To obtain supernatural power, the most critical point lies in the deep-level fusion between the implant and oneself, being fully stimulated to produce origin power.

Therefore, breaking through from the Dao Foundation stage to become a Martial Arts Master, the more core-level supernatural abilities one has, the higher the success rate of breaking through.

Because the more core-level supernatural abilities, the higher the degree of fusion between the implants in the body and oneself, and the more origin power is stimulated.

But after the martial arts foundation is built, the martial artist's body has already fused with the Dao Foundation, and there is no extra "space" to go and perform deep fusion with other implants.

So after subsequently incorporating middle-three-grade implants, Li Fei didn't stimulate any type of supernatural ability.

The first step, "Awakening Life," is to use one's own Dao Foundation to stimulate the life origin of these middle-three-grade implants in the body, making them enter a special state.

The subsequent "Refining Form" is to let the implants in the special "excited state" gradually fuse into one's own Dao Foundation, just like adding bricks and tiles to a house that has already been built.

The more solid one's own foundation, the smaller the difficulty of this step.

The final step, "Combining with Dao," is similar to refining five types of implants into a Dao Foundation back then; it is to completely fuse the middle-three-grade implants that have fused into the Dao Foundation, and refine them into a new supernatural power with the help of one's own Dao Foundation.

Li Fei is now starting to try the first step, "Awakening Life."

He soon encountered a problem——

The four types of implants in his body, except for the first one, 【Dragon Force Armor】, which he cultivated bit by bit from beginning to end and had fusion with himself. The other three types of implants were mature implants obtained directly from the Demon-Feeding Beasts.

This led to a very poor degree of fusion between Li Fei and these three types of implants, and his control over these three types of implants was also very poor.

In this situation, wanting to complete "Awakening Life," the probability of failure is as high as 90% or more!

This is the drawback that Shi Caiming mentioned to Li Fei before.

Even if the success rate can be increased through some demonic path martial arts, it is still difficult for the probability of failure to be lower than 30%.

Li Fei was very calm and didn't panic.

He had already anticipated this situation in advance.

His practice of the demonic path this time, seemingly impulsive, was actually carefully considered.

Stimulating the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power, converting blood souls into the life force corresponding to the implants, and then injecting it into them.

This step of "Awakening Life" is to stimulate the life origin of the implants; if the life origin of the implants is strong enough, the difficulty of stimulation is naturally smaller.

This is like a few pieces of wood being difficult to be ignited into a big fire, but if you pour a lot of oil into it, the situation is different.

Blood souls were consumed rapidly, and as life force was continuously injected into the four types of implants, Li Fei soon found the feeling.

More than an hour later, he completed the "Awakening Life" of the four types of implants!

Other Martial Arts Masters breaking through first complete "Awakening Life" for one type of implant, then complete "Refining Form," and then perform "Awakening Life" and "Refining Form" for the next implant.

Li Fei is doing four together!

After the four types of implants all entered the special "excited state," he followed the cultivation method obtained from the Dragon Tiger Sect and performed "Refining Form" on the four types of implants in turn.

For this step of "Refining Form," the stronger one's own Dao Foundation, the more solid the foundation, and the stronger the control over the implants, the higher the success rate.

Li Fei possesses the legendary-level Dao Foundation 【Mixed Heaven Golden Palace】, and his advantage is much greater than those Martial Arts Masters who possess high-level Dao Foundations and top-tier Dao Foundations.

Although because of walking the demonic path, his control over the three types of implants is very weak.

But he has the 【Refining Objects】 supernatural power, so for him, this step of "Refining Form" is actually the one with the smallest difficulty!

More than four hours later, the "Refining Form" of the four types of implants was all completed!

Up to this point, from refining the 【Dragon Elephant】 supernatural power, Li Fei was only one step away.

The forty-ninth year of Emperor Hongguang, July 8th.

6:12 AM.

A wooden house, square and more than five meters long on each side, appeared over the provincial capital of Feng Province.

This wooden house was also a flying magic treasure.

Because it performed invisibility-type supernatural powers, many people didn't notice this low-altitude flying magic treasure.

Soon, this magic treasure arrived over the Lu Mansion and appeared directly.

The wooden house landed in a courtyard of the Lu Mansion.

A few minutes later, Lu Lu Wenzheng arrived upon hearing the news, followed by Xu Jing.

The two stepped over the threshold, walked into the courtyard, and looked at the wooden house.

The door of the wooden house opened, and first walked out an old man with gray hair on both temples.

The old man bowed to Xu Jing and Lu Lu Wenzheng:

"Greetings, Lord Lu, greetings, Grandmaster Xu."

Xu Jing saw at a glance that this person was a True Person stage sorcerer, and the flying magic treasure should be controlled by him.

However, he and Lu Lu Wenzheng were not waiting for this True Person.

Xu Jing didn't say a word, staring at the inside of the gate, already vaguely sensing something.

Soon, a tall figure walked out of the wooden house.

This person wore a blue and white outer robe, carried a long sword on his back, had gray-white short hair, and a withered face, looking like an old tree that had lived for hundreds of years.

But Xu Jing could sense a majestic life force from this "old tree"!

Not only that, he also faintly felt a terrifying sword intent hidden within it.

But when he went to perceive it carefully, it was as if everything was an illusion, and the old man in front of him was just an old man who was getting on in years, ordinary.

Xu Jing narrowed his eyes, somewhat surprised.

Lu Lu Wenzheng only knew that the First Imperial Prince would send a Grandmaster to help, but didn't say who it was.

Every Grandmaster in the world is famous and is a true giant of one side!

A Grandmaster coming to help doesn't just represent that their side has an extra top-tier combat power, but also means that there is support from an extra top-tier force!

Looking at this old man who looked like an old tree and had a withered face, Xu Jing already had vague guesses in his heart, but he didn't dare to be sure.

"Old man Bo Chen, greetings to you two."

The old man said indifferently, not bowing.

His voice was hoarse, as if produced by two stones rubbing against each other, which sounded very harsh.

Lu Lu Wenzheng subconsciously felt uncomfortable, but forced a smile, revealing a look of joy:

"So it is the Hook-Sinking Sword Master who has arrived; it really makes my place shine!"

Bo Chen, Sect Master of the Hook-Sinking Sword Sect!

"One Building, One Pavilion, Three Mountains, Four Sects, Seven Great Families," besides the imperial court, the only sects in the Jianghu that possess Grandmasters are these few.

The Hook-Sinking Sword Sect is one of the "Four Sects"!

After martial arts cultivation reaches the Master stage, martial artists pursue more the number and application of supernatural powers, and few continue to specialize in martial arts.

The Hook-Sinking Sword Sect, however, goes against the trend, specializing in how to use supernatural powers to cooperate with sword techniques.

Half of the sword techniques in the world are in Hook-Sinking!

The Hook-Sinking Sword Sect is such a sword-dao sect that pursues the extreme of sword techniques.

The sect has been passed down for more than four hundred years and has a total of twelve "Creation" sword techniques, which are sword techniques that can reach the Creation stage after being practiced to great success.

Successive Sect Masters are required to master at least three Creation sword techniques and practice them to the Creation stage!

Therefore, successive Sect Masters of the Hook-Sinking Sword Sect are honored as Hook-Sinking Sword Masters.

Bo Chen is the fifth-generation Hook-Sinking Sword Master, a Grandmaster of the Spirit Evolution stage.

More than forty years ago, when he took over as Sect Master, he had already mastered four Creation sword techniques and practiced them all to the Creation stage!

More than forty years have passed, and no one knows how many more Creation sword techniques he has practiced.

"Three Mountains, Four Sects, Seven Great Families," "Three Mountains" are slightly stronger than "Four Sects," and "Four Sects" are slightly stronger than "Seven Great Families."

However, this ranking is based on comprehensive strength.

If it's about personal combat power, Bo Chen can definitely rank in the top three among these fourteen forces!

The First Imperial Prince actually wooed the Hook-Sinking Sword Sect and could let the current Hook-Sinking Sword Master make a move personally, which is undoubtedly pleasant.

"Greetings, Hook-Sinking Sword Master."

The arrogant Xu Jing also restrained his pride in front of Bo Chen and took the initiative to bow.

Bo Chen looked at Xu Jing and said directly:

"Kill Shi Caiming; you only need to stand by for me, prevent him from escaping, and leave the rest to me."

"Good."

Xu Jing was happy not to have to exert effort, so his Martial Arts Domain problem wouldn't be easily exposed.

"Let's go."

Bo Chen was sparing with words.

"Good!"

Xu Jing immediately performed the 【Cloud Soaring】 supernatural power.

A blue cloud appeared out of thin air under his feet, and then rolled toward Bo Chen.

Grandmasters rely on the characteristics of their own Martial Arts Domain to fly in the air, which consumes a lot of energy and is difficult to sustain.

But if there is a flying-type supernatural power, the situation is different.

Xu Jing performed the 【Cloud Soaring】 supernatural power to take Bo Chen to fly together; the consumption is small, and the flight speed is faster than most flying magic treasures!

The two turned into a group of blue clouds and soared into the sky.

A wooden house also rose into the sky quickly, following closely behind.