Chapter 25: Everyone's Up to Mischief

"Damn, this is a physical-type cheat!" Fu Feng saw the altar and didn't know what to say.

His consciousness circled the altar, learning its information.

This is a novice protection device, available only for the first transmigration, mainly related to one's transmigration method; soul transmigration engraves it in the spirit, while bodily transmigration naturally places it on the body.

"Turns out this body is still the original!" Fu Feng had thought he'd seized possession on top of bodily transmigration, but after all the fuss, this strange body turned out to be his own.

Shortly after, Fu Feng's consciousness left his body; at that moment he had been swallowed into the belly by a demon snake, yet he felt no panic, even somewhat amused.

If it were a physical strike, Fu Feng would have already initiated a second transmigration by now, but since you insist on using demonic energy, I won't hold back.

Fu Feng silently activated the Grand Demonic Transformation Art; all demonic energy that came into contact with it was sent to the altar and converted into points.

【Accumulated clearing of ten thousand units of demonic energy, achievement points +2】

Great! The sudden system notification gave Fu Feng a surprise; he originally planned to use points to exchange for some techniques to see if they could solve this problem, but now there's a better way.

The achievement shop has a buff called Heaven's Grant, which temporarily boosts comprehension, lasting seventy-two hours, worth three achievement points.

Adding the two points just earned, it exactly suffices for one exchange.

The current dilemma is that I lack the strength to suppress the scene; achieving in a short time the power to awe the whole field is not an option, so the remaining recourse is a clever trick.

His advantage lies in the Grand Demonic Transformation Art guaranteeing he won't be corroded by demonic energy, and the altar can protect him from demonic soul invasion.

If I could figure out how the Grand Demonic Transformation Art and the altar work together, perhaps I could solve the problem.

Wanting to understand everything, Fu Feng opened the achievement shop, went straight to the Heaven's Grant interface, and exchanged!

Fu Feng instantly became immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

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Meanwhile, Wei Yi, who should have been in seclusion at the City Lord's Mansion, quietly left Cloud Sea City alone.

The weapon cultivation path he practices doesn't require closed-door austere training; in fact, it's quite the opposite. He needs to travel the world, infusing his insights into heaven and earth into his natal magic treasure, then using the treasure's enhancement to feed back into his cultivation.

His magic treasure has now advanced to the point where it's just one step away from opening a realm, yet this step is as distant as the ends of the earth, having troubled him for dozens of years.

According to his father's saying, cultivation has no imitatable pattern; there's no need to rigidly follow a set route.

Since we don't know why the world is as it is, why not reshape it to what we think it should be?

His elder brother did this well, directly establishing a city beyond the borders—one city equals one realm—and that's one reason he can't return.

Now it's his turn to make a choice!

He silently played with the crystal ball in his hand, Wei Yi's thoughts myriad.

The object in his hand is his natal magic treasure, a black-and-white crystal ball containing his insights on life and death.

His experience hunting cloud beasts in the Cloud Sea in his youth gave him a sense of life and death, and his subsequent growth made his views on life and death even clearer.

He had a premonition that this melee would be an opportunity for breakthrough, possibly the last one.

As a living being, he finds it hard to grasp the meaning of death; no matter how many life-and-death scenes he's witnessed, he cannot view the problem from death's standpoint. Moreover, as the Young Lord of Cloud Sea City, he experiences little life and death. Seeing the three other Cloud Sea households about to unite, yet he remains stuck on the brink of breakthrough, this makes him extremely furious.

In the world of life and death, let's seek the answer between them!

Wei Yi resolutely decided to go alone to the Three-Front Battlefield, seeking breakthrough amidst life and death; if he unfortunately perished, it would also spare Cloud Sea City a war.

At the moment he made his decision, the City Lord Wei far beyond the heavens smiled faintly, saying, "Since you've decided, Father will lend you a hand."

A demonic soul slipped from his hand, following his hint, flying toward Wei Yi's direction.

"You really are at ease." The True Immortal of the Western Cloud Sea grasped heavenly secrets and instantly saw his purpose.

The City Lord Wei smiled without speaking.

Wei Yi naturally didn't know his cheat was on its way; after hiding and evading, he finally left Northern Cloud Sea, preparing first to visit Divine Dragon City.

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The black mist blurred cultivators' sense of time; seventy-two hours passed, and Fu Feng felt as if he had endured a century.

Fortunately, the gains were not small; the Heaven's Grant buff indeed proved effective, all problems were readily solved, and he could even detail the use and transformation of every bit of spiritual energy.

But precisely because of that, aside from analyzing the formation on the altar, he didn't gain much else; on the contrary, he solidified his basics considerably, at least avoiding low-level cultivation mistakes.

By analyzing the altar and the Grand Demonic Transformation Art, he fully understood their respective functions.

The former is through the formation inscribed on the altar, offering demonic energy and souls to several unknown entities, one of which is the world consciousness of the Cloud Immortal Realm; the others are unclear, but likely similar.

The latter can imprison demonic energy and souls; it is a highly targeted formation.

Yes, the Grand Demonic Transformation Art is actually a formation, already simplified to the point that its execution doesn't require relying on spiritual objects as a formation base; only spiritual energy and a few useless meridians in the body are needed for it to work.

Evidently, the simplified formation lacks power, only able to restrain loose demonic energy, and cannot even control weak demonic souls.

But after tracing back to the source, he researched the layout of the large-scale Grand Demonic Transformation Grand Formation, i. e., the complete version.

To prevent demonic energy infection, he could only squeeze out the cloud energy bit by bit, then alter its attributes as needed.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally completed a formation base.

The demon snake he had swallowed, having consumed too many demonic souls, seemed unable to fully control its body, which was an opportunity for Fu Feng.

According to the precalculated position, Fu Feng drove the formation base into the ground and then pierced the cloud energy; a space capable of isolating demonic energy thus appeared.

Consuming one-tenth of the cloud energy, Fu Feng successfully created a space three square meters in area and about one meter high.

Now it's time to get serious!

All his possessions consisted of a super-large spirit cloud bearing a Five Elements Formation; Fu Feng took it out and dismantled it, leaving only a palm-sized piece of Five Elements Spirit Cloud with its miniature formation on top.

The cloud energy extracted was immense; after being recompressed into a formation base, Fu Feng covered its surface with a layer of water-element spirit cloud, thus completing a piece of black snake scale.

However, he encountered a major problem: how to lay the formation in the external world. If it couldn't be placed outside, would they have to walk into the net themselves?

Wait! Perhaps there is a way.

Fu Feng looked at his own hands; since he couldn't bring it to the outside world, he could try it on himself!

If he could engrave the formation onto his body, wouldn't that be equivalent to an enlarged demonic energy altar?

Upon thinking it through, he refined the snake scale again, grinding it down to fingernail size and embedding it into his skin.

After a short while, a snake spirit was born. The snake-scale patterns on his body are used to imprison demonic energy and souls, while at his palm lies the altar's function, allowing the controlled demonic energy to be offered as sacrifice to the target.

Spirit power circulated, and on Fufeng's body it was as if a black film had been plated, combined with faintly visible snake scales, truly resembling the style of a demon soul possessing.

Hehe! Let's give you a try.

Fufeng placed both hands on the demon snake's body, and the invisible power of the formation instantly controlled a demon soul, also sealing all the demonic energy around it.

Sacrifice!

Communing with the altar on his left hand, part of the demon snake's body instantly vanished, the whole snake snapping into two pieces.

Here it comes! Fufeng felt the altar's feedback.