Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 543 - 473: Ancient Jade

In the eerie canyon of the endless desert, the void twisted and distorted, and a middle-aged Daoist, with bloodstained robes and disheveled hair, staggered out.

"What a forbidden zone, had I not left quickly, I would have been buried here, unable to pass on.

Luckily, though heavily injured, I didn’t return empty-handed."

A hint of a smile appeared on his pale and dim cheeks, and Cang Wuzi flipped his palm, revealing a medicine pot shaped like white porcelain, with faint starlight flowing over its entirety, faintly emitting flawless radiance.

This medicine pot is called the Life-Creation Pot!

It is one of the secret treasures of the Middle Ancient Era’s Righteous Dao giant, Creation Dao Sect. By investing enough blood and flesh essence, one can use this pot to refine an unparalleled potion, the Life-Creation Pill.

It is rumored that this pill is a holy medicine for healing, even for a Dao Expert, who with only one breath remaining, can be healed instantly upon consuming it.

However, this Life-Creation Pot is a one-time-use magical treasure.

After refining the Life-Creation Pill, it becomes useless, unable to be used repeatedly.

"Even if it’s only once, it’s worth it. With this Life-Creation Pill in hand, it’s like having an extra escape route, at least to safely overcome a Tribulation of the Dao Embodiment!"

Looking at the white porcelain medicine pot in his hand, Cang Wuzi was delighted. However, he was too injured in the forbidden zone to notice the sinister demonic aura that had already arrived overhead.

As a vague unease rose in his heart, a bone-piercing chill, making his soul shiver, had already attacked!

"Who goes there!"

Turning in alarm and anger, Cang Wuzi waved his long sleeves, from which tens of thousands of rays of light shot out, piercing the void with an overwhelming momentum, intending to obliterate everything around.

"Haha, rogue Daoist, speaking boldly at the end of your strength, I’ll take your flesh and blood right now."

A creepy, sinister laughter rang by Cang Wuzi’s ear, and the demonic aura stepped forth, with a torrential surge of corpse evil air like a flood breaking a dam. The muddy yellow torrent extinguished the surrounding radiance instantly, turning thousands of miles into a dead zone, draining all life.

"Corpse Evil Old Demon?!"

Seeing the overwhelming muddy yellow corpse evil, Cang Wuzi’s pupils contracted, and he turned to flee.

Corpse Evil Old Demon!

The master of the Corpse Evil Mountain of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, a third Dao Body level Dao Embodiment expert.

The real body is an ancient thousand-year corpse, turned into a demon because of an ancient jade.

That piece of ancient jade is mysterious, possessing the power to annihilate laws, capable of Silent Annihilation.

With this ancient jade and a body like a magical treasure, this Corpse Evil Old Demon is a fierce god in the Dao Body Realm.

Unless it is a body cultivator like the Domineering Body Sect, purely refining the physical body.

Otherwise, any ordinary cultivator facing this fiend is destined for misfortune!

How unfortunate!

Why did I encounter this old corpse!

Transforming into radiance, Cang Wuzi fled rapidly, his face wrinkled in distress.

This Corpse Evil Old Demon, though only third in Dao Embodiment, has formidable strength. If he were at his peak, he might negotiate and maneuver.

But now he’s severely injured, with barely a tenth of Dao Yuan remaining, facing this fiend, he stands no chance.

"Rogue Daoist, now you want to run, too late, hahahaha!"

In eerie laughter, the Corpse Evil Old Demon transformed into a surging blood light, catching up with Cang Wuzi in an instant, opening his arms wide, and his broad black robe covered him, biting towards his neck!

"Ah!!!"

...

"Hmm?"

Thousands of miles away, Qi Xiu’s earlobe twitched slightly as he seemed to hear some commotion.

In the next instant!

Vast divine sense erupted, aided by the remnants of Karmic Dragon souls in the Punishment Hall, Qi Xiu had elevated his Divine Soul Realm to Pure Yang Realm.

His divine sense could now cover an alarming eight thousand miles.

Scanning through, Qi Xiu soon detected something unusual in the canyon thousands of miles away.

"Demonic Evil Cultivators?"

With eyes slightly narrowed, Qi Xiu immediately turned and headed towards the canyon.

If he hadn’t come across it, it wouldn’t matter.

But with such evil in plain sight, how could he let it go unchecked?

At this moment, in the canyon.

Having just absorbed all of Cang Wuzi’s flesh and blood essence, the Corpse Evil Old Demon was devising a way to extract his soul, suddenly shook with an overwhelming sense of crisis.

This is bad!

No time to turn around, the Corpse Evil Old Demon howled skyward, and from beneath him, coffin upon coffin, pale and with sinister inscriptions, emerged, the low moans echoing through the void, forming a solid fortress protecting him.

Divine Fire Avatar!

Explode!

Standing with hands clasped in the void above, Qi Xiu raised one hand in a Dao incantation, lightly shouting.

Hundreds of dazzling red-gold Divine Fire Avatars appeared, like ancient stars falling, with long trails, boldly charging towards the Corpse Evil Old Demon!

Bang, bang, bang, bang—

Hundreds of Divine Fire Avatars exploded simultaneously, the blindingly terrifying flames spread, dyeing the sky, the fiercely masculine Divine Fire ablaze through the void, in an instant turning the defenses of countless coffins into ashes.

"Puff..."

Spewing a mouthful of dark green old blood, the Corpse Evil Old Demon’s flesh was blurred, shredded by the self-destructing power of the Divine Fire Avatars, fear-filled eyes gazing at the calm figure standing in the void, trembling within.

What kind of technique is this?

Why does it resemble the Divine Fire Avatar technique from the Huode Star Sect of the Middle Ancient Era?

"Didn’t die from the explosion?"

Noticing the Corpse Evil Old Demon looking miserable but still unscathed, Qi Xiu raised his eyebrows slightly.

So, it’s an ancient corpse, no wonder it’s so resistant to explosions. But even if it’s an ancient corpse, getting hit by over a hundred Divine Fire Avatars, its injuries are quite light.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Qi Xiu activated the Observing Qi Skill, and a purple sun rose in his pupils.

"Oh? So it’s an Exotic Treasure protection..."

Under the special vision of intertwined black and white, Qi Xiu saw a piece of ancient jade, the size of a thumb, entirely apricot-yellow, glowing brilliantly at the center of Corpse Evil Old Demon’s throat, radiating an ancient and mysterious, overwhelming aura that suppresses Ten Thousand Laws.

It was under the protection of this ancient jade that the Corpse Evil Old Demon could withstand the self-detonation power of over a hundred Divine Fire Avatars, only suffering some flesh wounds.

At the same time, Qi Xiu also saw Cang Wuzi, whose blood and flesh had been drained, his body dead, and even his Divine Soul partly extracted.

"Wretched fiend!"

His face turned cold, and spots of red-gold light appeared around Qi Xiu once again.

One expressionless Divine Fire Avatar after another slowly emerged.

This time, the number of Divine Fire Avatars directly doubled!

"Coming again?!"

Seeing the terrifying Divine Fire Avatars manifesting once more, and in greater numbers than before, the Corpse Evil Old Demon’s face turned even darker.

This Daoist’s technique is so swift; fleeing frantically would mean allowing him to bomb at will.

If he wanted to win!

He had to take the initiative first!

With his bulging eyes turning slightly, the Corpse Evil Old Demon suddenly slapped his chest, his throat bulged, and with a wide mouth, swarms of turbid yellow corpse evil fog spewed out, instantly enveloping a thousand-mile radius.

The fog was dense and eerie!

Although these thick fogs spewed by the Corpse Evil Old Demon were not as powerful as the muddy fog of the Southern Ming Wasteland, containing a trace of power from the divine ancient jade, they also hindered the probing of Divine Sense.

Standing calmly with his hands behind his back, watching the suddenly rising fog, Qi Xiu snorted softly.

Bang!

A big hole suddenly appeared in the fog behind him. Unbeknownst to him, the Corpse Evil Old Demon launched an attack with fierce eyes, monstrous ferocity, and a terrifying figure with two heads and four arms covered in black hair roaring to the sky behind him, with roiling corpse energy that began to rot and decay the void.

"Die!!!"

With fangs extending from his lips, the Corpse Evil Old Demon punched fiercely, the killing light blazing, presenting a terrifying vision of the heavens weeping blood, and everything wailing.

Facing away from the Corpse Evil Old Demon, Qi Xiu seemed too late to react to this sudden killing intent.

But just as the Corpse Evil Old Demon showed ecstatic delight, thinking he had succeeded in his surprise attack, a domineering golden light suddenly erupted from the young Daoist’s body in front of him.

Roar——

Amidst a loud dragon roar that shook the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands, an imposing and mighty Golden Dragon shadow flew out, causing the sky to tremble disorderly, and its majestic eyes overlooked all living things.

"Wha..."

In terror, the Corpse Evil Old Demon hadn’t reacted before being fiercely knocked away by the spontaneously protecting Golden Dragon True Qi from Qi Xiu’s body.

"Spare... spare me..."

The nine Golden Dragon True Qi roared to the sky, with immense power, the bloodied Corpse Evil Old Demon became their captive, howling and begging for mercy frantically, but there was no response.

Metal is the most lethal of the Five Elements, already fearsome in power.

Coupled with the "Ninefold Golden Dragon" created by Qi Xiu’s cultivation from the True Dragon Clan, which is supremely rigid and yang, majestic and fierce.

It was like imperial majesty, suppressing heaven and earth.

Thus, the "Ninefold Golden Dragon" is also called "Imperial Dao Qi."

The Corpse Evil Old Demon, though protected by the ancient jade, couldn’t withstand the continuous supply of Dao Yuan by Qi Xiu.

After being ravaged and torn apart endlessly by the nine Golden Dragon True Qi, the master of the mountain, the Corpse Evil Old Demon, ended up with only a head, rolling miserably to Qi Xiu’s feet.

Lowering his eyes to look at the last breath of the Corpse Evil Old Demon, Qi Xiu raised his foot and stomped down forcefully.

Boom——

Flesh flew and foul blood splattered.

With a flick of his sleeve, he summoned a Divine Fire to burn away the foul-smelling flesh and blood, raised two fingers, and an apricot-colored piece of ancient jade slowly flew up from the filth, cleansed by the Divine Fire and landed in his hand.

"Incomplete, it seems to be a fragment of some Magical Treasure.

Tch, but just a small fragment can emit such Divine Marvel that suppresses Ten Thousand Laws.

I imagine the complete body of this ancient jade must be a wondrous treasure!"

After rubbing the divine ancient jade twice, Qi Xiu nodded, put it away, and turned to Cang Wuzi, killed by the Corpse Evil Old Demon.

"Poor skills have embarrassed the Daoist friend."

With a helpless face, Cang Wuzi’s Divine Soul perched on his shriveled body, smiled bitterly at Qi Xiu, and cupped his hands.

"This old corpse wielding treasures is no shame in being defeated by you."

"Alas, defeated is defeated, my corpse has perished, and I fear I can’t participate in the upcoming actions, troubling the Daoist friend to gather my Divine Soul. I willing to offer my Life-Creation Pot as a reward."

His body already defeated, relying solely on the soul body to walk in the Southern Ming Wasteland was nothing short of seeking death.

Hence, Cang Wuzi could only seek Qi Xiu’s help, hide his soul under his command, and hopefully find a body to reincarnate in if fortunate enough to return to Central Earth.

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