Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 472 - Hunting Demon Beasts

Translator: Cinder Translations

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Upon hearing the rotting corpse's words, Song Wen felt a slight disappointment in his heart.

He had initially thought that the rotting corpse might possess some great secret, but it turned out to be just a ghost cultivation technique.

Song Wen held the Cold Moon Blade and walked toward the rotting corpse, striking with a single blow.

The rotting corpse, having lost control over the Gui Yuan Qi, had its head severed by Song Wen's blade.

Song Wen gently gestured toward the severed head, which flew up and was pulled into his hand.

The rotting corpse's soul felt an intense pull toward Song Wen's sea of consciousness.

A bad premonition rose in its heart, and it quickly shouted in panic.

"Friend, I was once a peak Golden Core cultivator in the inner sect of Wu Ji Island. I know many secrets of Wu Ji Island and various secret techniques. Keeping me alive will be of great use to you."

"Golden Core? You're not qualified," Song Wen said something the rotting corpse could not understand.

Immediately, the rotting corpse's soul was devoured by Song Wen, disappearing forever from this world.

Song Wen searched through the rotting corpse's body and eventually found a stone vial in its abdomen, identical to the one that had exploded earlier.

However, this vial contained Gui Yuan Qi.

The amount of Gui Yuan Qi inside was enormous, and the rotting corpse had only used a small portion of it earlier.

To acquire this vial of Gui Yuan Qi, the rotting corpse must have exerted considerable effort. It had originally intended to enhance its own defense, but in the end, this very move led to its demise.

In this world, one's actions—whether a drink or a bite—could lead to fortune or misfortune, and outcomes are often unpredictable.

Song Wen took out the stone vial, briefly refining it before activating it to absorb all the Gui Yuan Qi in the formation.

In addition to the stone vial, Song Wen also found a storage ring in the rotting corpse's abdomen.

Inside the storage ring were some ghostly materials and two jade slips.

The ghostly materials were worth tens of thousands of spirit stones, and among them were four Yin Ming Stones, which the rotting corpse likely had prepared for ghost cultivation.

One of the jade slips contained a ghost cultivation technique called Xuan Ming Ghost Canon, a complete method that spans from basic ghost forms to the fourth-level Ghost Emperor. Such a comprehensive ghost cultivation technique was rare.

What truly surprised Song Wen, however, was the other jade slip. This slip contained alchemical insights, revealing that the rotting corpse had once been an alchemist.

After burning the rotting corpse's body to ashes, Song Wen turned and left the tomb.

On his return journey to Ji Yin Island, Song Wen made a stop at Wu Ji Island, where he bought some spiritual herbs for alchemy and various daily necessities.

The daily items were for An Tong and An Yin, the two sisters. Since he had left them behind, it was still necessary to win their favor with some thoughtful gestures.

When the two women received the daily necessities, they were extremely delighted.

"Thank you, Senior," the two women gratefully thanked him, unable to hide their joy.

"No need to thank me. It's thanks to you that I obtained the Gui Yuan Qi. I've also thrown in some unused pills for you," Song Wen said as he tossed over more than a dozen jade bottles.

"Congratulations on acquiring the Gui Yuan Qi, Senior. We will cultivate diligently and not disappoint your expectations."

"Remember, keep an eye on the Starry Line Formation," Song Wen said before disappearing without a trace.

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The following days were spent in intense cultivation for Song Wen.

While cultivating the Corpse King's Rebirth Technique, he used Gui Yuan Qi in place of regular corpse-qi, gradually refining the Gui Yuan Qi into his body while advancing in his cultivation.

However, the refining speed of the Gui Yuan Qi was much slower than he had anticipated.

Song Wen estimated that with his current cultivation speed, it would take at least twenty to thirty days to completely refine all the Gui Yuan Qi.

Each month, he would set aside ten days for refining various third-grade pills.

Most of these pills were sold to Chu Qian, with some used to complete tasks from the Mission Hall.

Through the sale of pills, he could earn about 10,000 spirit stones each month.

This kept him in a somewhat precarious financial state.

After all, the contribution required for each island was worth 100,000 spirit stones.

Gradually, he became more familiar with Chu Qian.

According to Chu Qian, Song Wen's handling of the island's resources was wasteful.

Other Golden Core cultivators occupying heavenly-grade islands would recruit a large number of subordinates and develop various industries on their islands.

For example: planting spiritual herbs and spiritual trees, or cultivating corpses, refining Gui Yuan Qi, and refining blood, among others.

Peng Guang had once had the idea of serving Song Wen.

However, Song Wen was used to cultivating alone and had no intention of recruiting a large number of subordinates, so he did not follow Chu Qian's suggestion of starting industries on the island.

If it weren't for the relative scarcity of alchemists among demonic cultivators, making pill-making profits more significant, Song Wen might have had to move to a lower-level island.

One month later.

Song Wen obtained a Blood Jade Coral from Chu Qian.

This piece of Blood Jade Coral was half a zhang tall (1.6m or 5.4ft), entirely blood-red like jade, and was enough to prepare Corpse Curse Water for Song Wen to use for several months.

With the Blood Jade Coral, the spiritual herbs needed to create the Corpse Curse Water were all gathered, giving Song Wen another method to enhance his physical strength. It also meant he gained another source of income.

In the following month, relying on purchases from Chu Qian, the market, and the Mission Hall, Song Wen acquired a large amount of Dragon-Patterned Grass, and his Sacred Gu advanced to the third grade.

This drained his stock of spirit stones, leaving only a few top-grade spirit stones in his possession.

Song Wen realized that he needed to find ways to earn spirit stones quickly, or he would soon find himself empty-handed.

From Chu Qian, he learned that the easiest way to earn spirit stones on Wu Ji Island was by hunting demon beasts, especially third-grade demon beasts, as they were full of valuable materials.

The demon cores, blood, essence, souls, skins, claws, and scales from third-grade demon beasts could be used to refine magical items and were precious materials that could be sold for high prices.

The value of an ordinary third-grade demon beast corpse ranged from several thousand to ten thousand spirit stones, while some rare demon beast corpses could sell for tens of thousands of spirit stones.

However, hunting demon beasts was highly dangerous, and third-grade demon beasts were difficult to track down, not easily found.

Still, this provided Song Wen with an idea for earning spirit stones.

Although third-grade demon beasts were hard to find, second-grade demon beasts were plentiful in the deep sea.

He had six third-grade Gu on hand, and if he didn't make good use of them, it would be a waste.

The Shadow Gu was a flying-type insect that was not skilled in underwater combat, but it could handle second-grade water demon beasts without issue.

Thus, Song Wen decided that he could no longer allow the Shadow Gu to eat for free every day.

The Shadow Gu dove into the sea and began searching for underwater demon beasts in the waters near Ji Yin Island.

Under Song Wen's command, the Shadow Gu didn't destroy the demon beasts' bodies but instead drilled into their mouths to consume their brains, killing them and preserving their blood and corpses as much as possible.

Song Wen only needed to sit in his cave and could continuously obtain complete second-grade demon beast corpses, although most of the demon beasts' souls had already dissipated.

The price of second-grade demon beast corpses was much lower than that of third-grade demon beasts, but each could still be sold for one or two thousand spirit stones, and the essence could fetch about three to five hundred spirit stones.

The speed at which the Shadow Gu hunted underwater demon beasts and earned spirit stones was much faster than Song Wen's pill-making.

However, this situation did not last long.

(End of the Chapter)

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