Cave Refuge-Chapter 835 - 538 Demon Path Three Treasures_2

As the Companion Spiritual Treasure continued to dive, it quickly reached a point about eighty meters underwater. Just upon entering this region, the Mysterious Ship emitting a dark green aura approached.

Seeing this, Dong Tianyu immediately adjusted the direction of the Ram at the front of the Companion Spiritual Treasure and rammed straight into it.

When the two ships collided, just as Dong Tianyu had guessed, they did not fuse into a new Mysterious Realm.

At that moment, the Companion Spiritual Treasure transmitted a piece of information, because the Ram had pierced directly into the cabin of the opposing ship, creating a passageway in the cabin of the Companion Spiritual Treasure to the other Mysterious Ship.

Dong Tianyu could use this passageway to go directly to the opposing Mysterious Ship and for the duration of an incense stick’s time, this newly formed passageway was a one-way passage, with only Dong Tianyu able to go through, while the deformed monsters from the Mysterious Ship could not come over.

However, if it exceeded the duration of an incense stick’s time, the passageway would become a two-way path where not only could Dong Tianyu cross over, but the monsters from the other side could also come over.

Plainly speaking, it would be best to resolve the battle within five minutes; otherwise, one must be prepared for defense to prevent the monsters from the Mysterious Ship from counterattacking.

After Dong Tianyu entered the passageway, he carefully observed the surroundings and found that it was like the underground passages before the catastrophe, with only two exits and no other branching paths.

If the battle by any chance exceeded the time of an incense stick, having two or three people arranged here should be enough to firmly defend this spot.

Of course, this was meant for those combat squads with insufficient fighting capabilities. For a person with abundant martial virtue like Dong Tianyu, there would be no need to wait for an incense stick’s time to finish the battle.

Entering the Mysterious Ship from the other end of the passageway, Dong Tianyu found the ship’s interior swarming with numerous Fishmen. They were not Merfolk with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish like mermaids, but those with human limbs and a fish head.

As soon as Dong Tianyu entered the interior of the Mysterious Ship, those Fishmen, wielding tridents, pounced towards his position.

In the face of the Fishmen’s attack, Dong Tianyu was not too concerned. His Flying Swords shimmered with layers of light in the confined space, and when the Flying Swords, as bright as new, were once again suspended behind Dong Tianyu.

The Fishmen who were originally lunging towards Dong Tianyu with their weapons were instantly severed, their incongruous fish heads separated from their human bodies. Looking at the blood flowing all over the ground, Dong Tianyu furrowed his brows and suddenly thought of the three banners of the Demon Path.

The White Ghost Banner, the White Bone Banner, and the Bloodthirsty Banner.

The three Demon Path Treasures corresponded to soul, skeleton, and flesh, respectively.

Thought of in the worst way, these banners were malevolent Demon Path Treasures that harmed others for self-benefit, but optimistically, they were quite practical props that facilitated the user in quickly cleaning up the battlefield.

Because they were denounced as Demon Path Treasures, even though the methods of creation were quite simple and the required materials were readily available, Dong Tianyu had never crafted them from the beginning to the end.

Naturally, aside from these three treasures being of the Demon Path, the key issue was their upgrade requirements clashed with his Cave.

After all, the materials needed for the upgrade of these three treasures could also aid in elevating the Cave.

In the past, since advancement of the Cave was a priority, Dong Tianyu, even though he could have crafted these three malevolent treasures, chose not to from the beginning to the end.

The reason he suddenly wanted to craft them now was actually not complex. Although the Cave could decompose anything, the precondition was to transport the object intended for decomposition into the Cave.

At this moment, the blood sprayed all over the ground from the dead Fishmen, if one wanted to decompose it using the Cave, a way had to be found to transport that blood on the ground into the Cave.

And if Dong Tianyu had the Bloodthirsty Banner, then he could utilize its ability to directly absorb the blood from the ground into the Banner.

No matter whether the blood on the ground had already seeped into the soil or not, by activating the Bloodthirsty Banner, it could absorb all the surrounding blood completely.

It was precisely because of this that Dong Tianyu looked at the mess around him and suddenly thought of the three Demon Path Banners.

Dong Tianyu didn’t refine these three Demon Path Treasures to pursue their combat strength, but to clean up the battlefield swiftly in situations like the current one.

After all, souls to the Hundred Ghosts Banner, bones to the White Bone Banner, and flesh to the Bloodthirsty Banner. With the three banners deployed, not a single bit of value from the enemy’s body would be left unextracted by Dong Tianyu.

Of course, now was not the time to refine Magical Weapons; perhaps because this was just a small Mysterious Ship, Zachary’s Divine Sense could fully cover all the spaces within the ship.

Once the Divine Sense had completely enveloped the interior space of the Mysterious Ship, the Flying Swords behind Dong Tianyu disappeared once more. When the Flying Swords reappeared behind him, there were no more living beings left on the entire Mysterious Ship, apart from Dong Tianyu.

Perhaps the Dong Tianyu of the past, sensing the impending collapse of the Mysterious Ship, would have left without hesitation, but the current Dong Tianyu, looking at the scene of severed fish heads, showed a hint of regret on his face.

Although Dong Tianyu could now slowly collect all of the Fishmen corpses aboard the ship into his Cave, this method was not only inefficient but also yielded little benefit. At the beginning, Dong Tianyu would have painstakingly tried to harvest even the slightest benefit from this, but now at this point in time, he was no longer as thrifty and resourceful in the face of such meager profits.

As Dong Tianyu stepped back into the passage linking the two ships, the Mysterious Ship, now devoid of life, immediately began to collapse. After Zacahary returned to his Companion Spiritual Treasure, the Mysterious Ship that had been rammed by the Companion Spiritual Treasure disappeared in an instant, and a dark green Mysterious Core appeared in the palm of his hand.

Upon returning to the Companion Spiritual Treasure, Dong Tianyu immediately maneuvered the Companion Spiritual Treasure to ascend to a safe area about ten meters underwater.

Having not thought of the Magical Weapons that could swiftly clean up the battlefield before, let’s not say more about that. Now that he had thought of such weapons, and considering that he might often encounter such scenes in the future, Dong Tianyu immediately prepared to refine the three Demon Path Treasures.

Despite the materials needed to refine the three Demon Path Treasures being commonly available and the methods straightforward, all three treasures were of a kind that had no limits to their growth.

For refining the Hundred Ghosts Banner, the materials required for the banner were soul threads of the seven emotions and six desires, whereas the banner pole was to be made from the three souls and seven spirits condensed into a solid soul rod.

Acquiring the soul threads of the seven emotions and six desires could be both difficult and easy; difficult because it needed quite meticulous techniques to capture a living being’s seven emotions and six desires perfectly. Most people would find it hard to do so, and the slightest carelessness could irreversibly damage the other party’s soul.

But it was also easy because most novice practitioners of the Demon Path would not attempt to extract the seven emotions and six desires perfectly from the same soul.

Instead, they would put the target in a state of one of the seven emotions and six desires and then directly extract the complete soul, later discarding the unwanted emotions and retaining only the desired ones.

To put it simply, if a soul was akin to 100 points, then normally, reason would constitute 50 percent, and the emotions of the seven emotions and six desires the other 50 percent.

If a master were doing it, they would directly abstract the seven emotions and six desires of a person, meaning that while keeping the original 50 points of reason, they would try to extract as much of the remaining 50 points of emotions and desires as possible.

A person from whom the seven emotions and six desires have been extracted, although their soul would be damaged, would eventually heal over time. Thus, the seven emotions and six desires that are lost now could potentially be restored in the future.

As for the simpler method, it involves putting the target in one extreme emotional state, such as happiness. For instance, when they are extremely excited,

that is when the emotion of happiness among the seven emotions and six desires occupies 30 or more points, they would be taken out instantly before they could react, and their living soul would be extracted.

Unraveling the threads is difficult, but reaping the essentials is relatively simple.