Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

The White Swan Demon Emperor managed a wry smile, "It even really mastered a few spells, calling itself a cultivator and disdains to associate with us demons."

"Why did it let you occupy the Thousand Demon Cave then?"

While Shen Yi was busy exerting his lifespan to deduce the movements of the Dragon Leap Heavenly Mares, he looked over with some curiosity.

"Because it's afraid," the White Swan seemed to know a bit about those ancient events and narrated unhurriedly, "When the Sect fell into calamity, that old dog survived. According to the original rules, it should have taken the Dao Plate to open the Nanyang Sect, venture out to search for an Alliance Sect to take over this place. In at most a few hundred years of recuperation, this place would still be a prosperous Immortal Sect."

"But it chose to secretly consume the Heaven and Earth Treasures left behind by our Sect first."

"By the time it was sated,"

The White Swan blinked its dark eyes and said in a low voice, "its life should have come to an end."

The Sect faced disaster, and the guardian turned thief.

If it were a cultivator that would be one thing, but it was just a mere watchdog.

"After slaughtering all the human descendants of the Nanyang Sect cultivators, it used precious medicines to nourish demons, took over the inner gate, severed the lineage, the Sect Master and elders left behind ten Dao Plates, nine of which it destroyed, leaving only one lost in the outside world because one of the elders had just happened to return to his clan to select disciples..."

"What is a Dao Plate?"

Shen Yi's mind was slightly hazy.

He had finally come into contact with the deepest secrets of the Nanyang Sect.

"You may understand it as an elder's command or the Sect Master's command, with it, one can activate the entire formation of the Nanyang Sect."

"That thing is currently in the hands of Wutong Mountain."

"But to do so, one must insert the Dao Plate into the Nanyang main hall... The old dog has not left that place in tens of thousands of years."

"After consuming so many Heaven and Earth Treasures, it merely changed from a kitchen guardian to a main hall guardian, but it's still that same watchdog, and it's even unwilling to remove the iron chain from its neck."

The iron chain is the testament to its status as the Nanyang Sect's spiritual beast.

But from the moment it began slaughtering the descendants of the Nanyang Sect cultivators,

it could no longer go back.

"For that reason, it regards the Nanyang Sect as its private property," the White Swan looked toward those Elixirs around it, "It would rather cultivate us to garrison than destroy these useless things."

"..."

Shen Yi was silent for a moment, having not anticipated this at all.

This so-called demonic chaos was merely the result of a moment of greed from a dog.

"You might find it hard to imagine that, after consuming most of the Nanyang Sect's left behind treasures, even just an ordinary spiritual dog can reach such a terrorizing level."

The White Swan finally awoke, realizing what its master had been up to in the Thousand Demon Cave all this time.

Yet even so, it didn't think anyone could truly face the old dog in combat.

"My Lord, don't expose yourself. Otherwise, if the old dog learns that the Elixir recipes and cultivation techniques have leaked, it will not hesitate to carry out another massacre like the one back then," it spoke.

"Understood," replied Shen Yi.

Shen Yi withdrew his gaze.

As he saw the Dragon Leap Heavenly Mares once again get stuck at the Great Achievement Realm, he took out some Elixirs he had previously collected and summoned over the Profound Abyss Spider Emperor.

"Help me see if any of these Elixirs can be used to practice the Spiritual Physique Technique."

It could have been luck, or perhaps that these Elixirs tailored for cultivation techniques aren't to the liking of many demons,

but the Profound Abyss Spider Emperor actually did manage to pick out a bottle of Red Sun Spirit Bathing Elixir.

The Spiritual Physique Technique and the Refinement Method actually have similarities.

Both involve tormenting the body, but the methods chosen are different.

The White Swan seemed wary and glanced at the bottle of Elixir, clearly it had suffered from it before.

At such a time, Shen Yi's mixed Spiritual Roots came into play. Up to now, he seemed to have not encountered any cultivation technique that was incompatible with him.

[Divinity Transformation. Divine Sparrow Nirvana: Uninitiated]

Shen Yi took out an Elixir, held it in his palm, feeling the faint warmth before putting it into his mouth.

Following that, he felt that warmth igniting inside his body.

Not as a metaphor for sensation, but in the literal sense, it ignited!

Boom—

Golden flames erupted from within and immediately enveloped Shen Yi's body; the flesh and bone transformed by the Dao Infant were almost instantaneously scorched to nothing, revealing jade bones and the five organs associated with the Spiritual Root.

[In the first year, with the help of the Red Sun Spirit Bathing Elixir, you attempted to fully integrate the robust power of the medicine into your body]

"..."

Shen Yi glanced at the nervously watching demons nearby, pursed his lips, his expression calm, and swallowed down the urge to cry out in pain.

For other cultivators, they might never experience such agony in a lifetime.

But for Shen Yi, it wasn't so bad, especially since the Nine Transformations of the Immortal Demon he had practiced earlier also involved pain that wasn't much better than what he was experiencing now.

If it is a systematized cultivation technique, it means that predecessors have tried it, so there shouldn't be a problem... it's all normal circumstances... hiss.

"My master's patience is truly unparalleled,"

Bai Hong watched in amazement as Shen Yi swallowed the second elixir. Having tried that elixir itself, it didn't fawn like Xuan Ming, but couldn't help but let out a light sigh.

"Get out of my way,"

Xuan Ming glared at it, rushed over in haste, and pointed at the other elixirs on the ground, "My master, don't force the refining, this one stabilizes the mind and reduces pain perception, and this one replenishes spiritual energy..."

Shen Yi slowly clenched his fist.

He exhaled softly.

Quickly opening those few bottles of elixirs, he stuffed them into his mouth.

The next moment, the burning pain instantly decreased by ninety-five percent.

"That's bad."

The Profound Abyss Spider Emperor sensed his master's cold glance and felt a chill in its heart.

Mainly, it just couldn't understand—any normal cultivator would have felt something was wrong by now, so how could they still continue eating a second one?

Could it be that the master had also cultivated this way before?

"Huh."

Without the torment of intense pain, Shen Yi finally had the peace of mind to feel the changes in his body.

Fierce fire refines true gold.

Of course, if it were a body of ordinary flesh and blood, it would be directly burned to ashes without surprise.

But the spiritual body after Divinity Transformation was different.

With the help of the True Sun Qilin Stone, this body formed from the breath of heaven and earth was becoming more solidified under the tempering of the elixir's flames.

Shen Yi's physical strength, which had not changed for a long time, was also starting to show signs of improvement.

...

In the entire hall, only the hissing sound of that dazzling, fierce flame remained.

And on the constantly reassembling body, a layer of golden light slowly emerged.

[In the thirty-seven thousandth year, you were like a bird, using the true sun as an egg, reborn from fire, transformed into a Divine Phoenix, and perched in the Wutong]

[Divine Sparrow Nirvana Complete]

[Remaining Demon lifespan: Twenty-six thousand years]

Shen Yi sat cross-legged, his black robe fluttering without wind, golden patterns coalescing from the thin luminescence that settled on his fair, jade-like skin.

A strand of golden flame appeared at his brow, resembling a vertical pupil.

The moment his eyes opened, a golden light more pure and intense than that of the Golden Eyes Lion Emperor shot toward the dome, illuminating the entire hall as if it were daylight.

As Shen Yi's breathing evened out,

The radiance dispersed, and the golden flame vanished.

Only a burning intention that hadn't completely faded still lingered in his pitch-black eyes.

"Have you memorized it all?"

Shen Yi looked to the side where several demon souls instinctively averted their gazes, their souls incapable of directly facing the sweep of that golden light.

The White Swan Demon Emperor lay quietly on the ground; with this powerful spiritual body, the master might no longer need to use the Dao Palace to slay it again.

"I report back to my master, all is memorized,"

The Profound Abyss Spider Emperor replied in a soft voice.

Shen Yi felt the dramatic changes in his body, and his anticipation for the subsequent Heavenly Phoenix Indestructible True Body grew.

The reminder from Bai Hong was actually very important.

He couldn't continue to be greedy.

After another trip to the fourth cave to get the medicinal materials, he would need to think of a way to abandon this identity without arousing suspicion.

Upon this thought, Shen Yi again used the Nanyang Transformation Technique, transforming back into an eight-zhang-tall male lion, and took back the White Swan Demon Emperor into the night sky at his brow, turning it into a galloping horse Town Stone.

Then he lifted the prohibitions he had set at the entrance.

Just at this moment, a message was allowed in.

"Hmm?"

Shen Yi reached out to catch the streak of light.

The voice contained within was somewhat familiar, only a phrase uttered in a gentle but slightly weary tone.

"Heal your injuries and come out as soon as possible, I am waiting for you."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yi's eyebrows furrowed slightly, feeling an odd premonition.

After hesitating for a moment, the Youwei Spear turned into a streak of light and fell into his palm, and he walked out of the Alchemy Workshop.