I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

"However, this soul no longer resembles a weapon spirit; rather, it seems to be a demonic soul." Wei Tu took out the pill bottle and looked at it, feeling a sense of disappointment.

However, the remaining two Buddhist treasures were unharmed, so the trip was not in vain.

But just as he finished sorting out his gains and was about to leave, An Liangcai seemed to have guessed what he was thinking and also seemed to be planning to show off his own value.

He continued, "This artifact spirit possesses both my demonic energy and the Buddhist light of the Venerable Monk Kubei, making it a rare top-tier spiritual material in the cultivation world... After all, my more than 100,000 years of 'nurturing' has not been in vain."

"With this divine soul combined with An's demonic blood to condense the 'Ten Thousand Forbidden Demonic Curse,' it can be considered a top-tier divine ability within the Fusion Realm. Fellow Daoist Wei, possessing a spiritual cultivator's body and residing in the Spirit Realm, is perfectly suited to cultivate this divine ability and secret technique, increasing your life-saving trump card..."

"At that time, the dual nature of the demonic spell and the Buddha's power can also play a significant role in restraining the ancient demons."

"The Ten Thousand Forbidden Curse?" Upon hearing this, Wei Tu's heart stirred slightly.

Previously, during his battle with this demon, he had personally experienced the 'Ten Thousand Forbidden Demon Curse' it used—its suppression of spiritual cultivation was terrifying. If he hadn't mastered the laws of darkness and cultivated 'immortal and demonic arts simultaneously,' he probably wouldn't have been able to escape from it immediately.

If applied to other spiritual practitioners, the power of this magical spell would be just as extraordinary!

Coincidentally, after breaking through to the Integration Realm, he did indeed lack some means to deal with cultivators of the same realm.

While the Longevity Lamp and the Five Elements Demon-Slaying Ring are powerful magical treasures, they also cause a great disturbance.

Using techniques like the "Demon Dragon Scissors" and the "Seven Mysterious Demonic Bodies" to fight enemies is a bit too simplistic.

……

After obtaining the cultivation method of the "Ten Thousand Forbidden Demon Curse" from An Liangcai, Wei Tu no longer wasted any more time.

With a flick of his sleeve, he put the storage artifact in front of him into his sleeve, then soared into the air, taking Huangsha Sanren directly away from Broken Soul Mountain, and once again embarking on the road back to Huangsha Sect.

Of course, before leaving, he also used his divine sense to send a warning, strictly forbidding the short, fat Taoist and the disheveled cultivator from revealing his whereabouts, or else he would be severely punished.

"We dare not reveal the slightest trace of Senior Wei's whereabouts... Just now, we both clearly saw the power he displayed in slaying that demon."

The short, stout Taoist gave a wry smile. The Inner Vision Guardian remained in his body, a wisp of magical power used for 'monitoring'.

He secretly felt that Wei Tu's move was somewhat petty.

No Nascent Soul cultivator is ever this cautious.

However, he dared not speak out against him, after all, Wei Tu truly had a record of annihilating an entire Nascent Soul sect in a fit of rage. In terms of infamy, he was in no way inferior to a renowned demonic cultivator who had been famous for many years.

"Which senior in this cultivation world is a benevolent and charitable person? You and I almost offended him, and then we stumbled upon his whereabouts. It's already fortunate that we weren't blamed by him... Besides, this wisp of magic power will dissipate in a hundred years at most, so it's not a big deal." The long-haired cultivator looked at the disappearing light in the sky and said with envy.

“In that case, why don’t we join the Yellow Sand Sect and become guest elders? Perhaps we can get some guidance from Senior Wei through the Yellow Sand Hermit.” The short, stout Taoist could tell from his heart who the disheveled cultivator’s envy came from.

As soon as these words fell.

After exchanging a glance, the two nodded to each other and immediately set off in a flash, heading straight for Huang Shamen's location.

……

After returning to Huangshamen.

Wei Tu did not leave, but instead settled down in the back mountain of Huangshamen.

He has already opened three of the four major medicinal gardens, and he has also obtained most of An Liangcai's 'Innate Demonic Body'. There is no need to rush to the last secret medicinal garden to open it all.

At this moment, refining this demon's 'innate demonic body' is the most important thing to him.

If the demonic body were intact...

Not only is it relatively more difficult to refine, but we also need to be wary of An Liangcai's strength 'recovering' again.

Even if the Great Demon Lord of the Primordial Ancient Demons is extremely weak, he is not so easy to deal with. After all, he is only one step away from the Demon Ancestor realm, and he is much stronger than this 'newly promoted Demon Lord'.

Furthermore, An Liangcai, with his family's long tradition of learning secret arts, is second to none in mastering these techniques and should not be underestimated.

Time flies.

Five years later.

Under the corrosive influence of the 'Dark Laws', Wei Tu barely managed to separate An Liangcai's 'Demon Soul' from his 'Innate Demon Body'.

The reason it is described as "barely" is because at the moment its demonic soul departed, within this "undying demonic body," under the influence of a special rule—deep within its bloodline—a new demonic soul was once again condensed and born from the physical body.

This demonic soul is exactly the same as An Liangcai's demonic soul, only much weaker in terms of level and power.

Wei Tu could clearly sense that An Liangcai's 'consciousness' was being nurtured within this newly born demon soul.

If left unchecked, this demonic soul will eventually become a new, another An Liangcai.

In addition, the injuries he sustained when he separated An Liangcai's demonic soul from his 'Innate Demonic Body' were almost instantly healed, even more so than his seventh-level body refinement.

"And this is still the 'innate demonic body' that has been worn down by the demon-sealing array that has lasted for 110,000 years. If this innate demonic body were still at its peak... I'm afraid that rebirth from a drop of blood would be no difficult task for An Liangcai..."

Inside the cave at the back of Huangsha Gate, Wei Tu could not hide his shock after witnessing the extraordinary nature of the 'Innate Demon Body' in his hand.

At this moment, he finally understood why An Liangcai, a mere 'Great Demon Lord,' would enjoy the special treatment of being suppressed by the human realm.

There's no other reason than that its innate demonic body is far too terrifying; it is truly a 'miracle of heaven and earth'!
Even for a higher level of cultivation, an eighth-order body refiner, the ability to 'regenerate from a drop of blood' is difficult to achieve.

It is completely different from 'regenerating a severed arm'!

"It's a pity that the innate demonic body is difficult to possess. It can only be used as a 'great tonic' to be refined by ancient demons or used for alchemy..." Wei Tu sighed inwardly, looking at the half of the demonic finger in his hand, whose special rule power had dissipated under his divine sense invasion.

Clearly, the 'demon soul' that it generates and the special rule power deep within the innate demonic body are interdependent, sharing both prosperity and destruction. It is not something he can completely separate by a few means.

However, Wei Tu was not too discouraged by this.

If seizing a primordial demonic body were truly that easy, the demon ancestors and demon gods within the Primordial Demon Source Realm would have long coveted the physical bodies of 'primordial ancient demons' like An Liangcai… Every demon ancestor and demon god would have ascended to become a primordial ancient demon, mastering the great supernatural power of 'blood rebirth' that is difficult to perish throughout the ages.

Before descending to the lower realm, he had no intention of successfully possessing this innate demonic body.

After all, there are other ways to control its demonic body besides 'possession'.

Next, under the gaze of An Liangcai's remaining demonic soul on the innate demonic body, Wei Tu, who was sitting cross-legged on the futon, suddenly became solemn and began to rapidly form hand seals. At the same time, some strange, light red mist faintly appeared on the back of his hands.

Under Wei Tu's incantation, the eerie mist grew thicker and thicker, gradually taking on a skull-like shape, and from within it emanated sounds of wolves howling and ghosts wailing.

More than ten days later, Wei Tu made a hand seal with one hand and suddenly grabbed forward with the other, pressing the 'blood mist skeleton' directly onto the innate demonic body that was floating in the air.

In an instant, the solidified 'blood mist skeleton' dissipated, transforming back into the eerie mist it had been before, and with a flash of bloody light, it burrowed into the seven orifices of the innate demonic body.

Before long, An Liangcai's demonic soul, which remained on the innate demonic body, could no longer sense his weak control over the demonic body under the heavy restrictions. It was as if someone had forcibly taken away his control over the demonic body...

This feeling is not a physical 'detachment,' but rather a 'theft' after being 'parasitized.'

His remaining demonic soul, in turn, was directly suppressed deep within his physical body by this controlled 'innate demonic body,' and his five senses were stripped away.

In that instant, beyond the sight of An Liangcai's remaining demonic soul—his four-armed, three-eyed, single-horned demonic body suddenly developed countless dense, blood-red lines on its surface…

The aura it exuded was clearly of the same origin as the 'Crimson Skull' that Wei Tu had just implanted!
"Pei Hong's secret technique is indeed effective." Seeing this, Wei Tu smiled.

This secret technique is none other than the dowry that Xue Qiongyu brought with her when she offered herself as her concubine.

Or rather—it was precisely because of this dowry that he agreed to Xue Qiongyu's request for protection after leaving Dinghai Immortal Ruins, and then took her as a concubine.

Its name is "Blood Demon Parasitic Evil Technique," and it is one of the most profound secret techniques in the Mist Demon Clan. Apart from Pei Hong and other direct descendants of the Mist Demon Clan, no one knows about it.

If it weren't for the requirement that cultivating the 'Blood Demon Evil Technique' requires a highly accomplished pure Yin virgin as a 'furnace' and a 'spiritual guide' for the cultivation of this technique, coupled with Xue Qiongyu's exceptional aptitude—truly among the top in the Spirit Realm—it would be difficult for her to access this secret technique.

In fact, Wei Tu had seen this 'Blood Demon Evil Technique' back in the human realm a thousand years ago.

Pei Hong's descent to the mortal realm was quite different from Jiang Lingzi's. He did not descend to the mortal realm with his physical body, but rather with a divided soul, possessing other cultivators... and then plotting to seize control of the human realm.

The possession technique used in this practice is this "Blood Demon Parasitic Evil Technique".

—Controlling and possessing others through the cultivation of 'blood demons'.

However, due to the defeat in the human realm, Pei Hong not only suffered damage to his divided soul, but also lost the 'blood ghost' he had raised with this secret technique. That is why he had to select a suitable furnace for raising the 'blood ghost' in the spirit realm.

Coincidentally, because of Da Yuanshuang's annulment of the engagement, and because the Mist Ghost Clan needed the Snow Infant Clan as a servant race... they hit it off and chose Xue Qiongyu to cultivate this secret technique.

Pei Hong, on the verge of marriage, will use the dual cultivation technique to extract Xue Qiongyu's primordial yin and the 'blood demon' fed with her essence.

Hundreds of years ago, when Wei Tu took Xue Qiongyu as his concubine, he did not foresee this scene today.

However, he had long been wary of Fairy Xuanling, and this 'Blood Demon Evil Technique' was a method he had prepared to guard against her.

There is no 'innate demonic body'...

After descending to the mortal realm, he will also seek out a suitable 'clone' and then use this secret technique to control it, so as to 'meet the Fairy Xuanling' across realms.

"Although the 'blood demon' has successfully parasitized this innate demonic body, to completely control it and achieve unity of mind and body... it will still require considerable effort and refinement..."

Wei Tu made a hand seal, controlling the actions of the innate demonic body in front of him with the 'blood demon' he was parasitizing, while secretly pondering.

In terms of action, the innate demonic body controlled by the 'Blood Demon Evil Law' is not rigid, but... at the level of origin, the innate demonic body is ultimately a level higher. Once the 'Blood Demon Evil Law' is attacked and its control weakens, it is very easy for the innate demonic body to backfire.

In other words, his current innate demonic body, under the control of his 'Blood Demon Evil Technique,' is merely a prototype and cannot be truly used in actual combat.

"The opening of the Venerable King's Palace Secret Realm is still nearly forty years away. This is enough time for me to deeply refine this innate demonic body using the 'Blood Demon Evil Technique'..."

"Even going to the Great Yan Cultivation Realm to deal with that purple-faced hermit would be a piece of cake."

Wei Tu's eyes flashed, and he thought to himself.

……

Refining an innate demonic body with the 'Blood Demon Evil Technique' is not something that can be done overnight.

When Wei Tu had some free time, besides practicing the "Ten Thousand Forbidden Demon Curse" passed down by An Liangcai, he also did not forget Su Die, who was "waiting for him" at Huangshamen, and Huangsha Sanren.

In his spare time, he personally guided the two men in their cultivation.

Su Die is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, so in theory, she doesn't need personal guidance from a powerful cultivator like him who has reached the Integration stage.

However, at Wei Tu's current level, with his understanding of the 'Five Elements Law', he can easily create corresponding cultivation techniques tailored to Su Die.

The same cultivation method can produce vastly different results depending on whether it is suitable or not, leading to drastically different training speeds.

And Huangsha Sanren...

Guiding this cultivator was a piece of cake for Wei Tu, but he understood that what this cultivator truly lacked was not the cultivation experience he had given him, but the opportunity to break through the 'Divine Transformation Heavenly Barrier'.

"If I gain anything from my trip to the Great Yan Cultivation Realm, I may bestow some upon you..."

More than twenty years later, after achieving some success in refining his innate demonic body with the 'Blood Demon Evil Technique', Wei Tu also began to consider leaving.

He looked at the recluse Huangsha who was bowing in farewell, pondered for a moment, and then made a promise.

He saw through Cixiu's 'utilitarianism'.

However, he also witnessed his daily efforts over the past thousand years to find and help his deceased relatives and descendants.

A momentary act of gratitude is nothing.

However, the unwavering gratitude shown over a thousand years, no matter how 'utilitarian' it may seem, deeply moved this ancestor.

"This junior thanks our ancestors for their concern..."

Upon hearing this, Huang Sha Sanren's face immediately lit up with joy, and he quickly bowed again.

"That's not necessary. I can only help you a little with breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. Most of it depends on your own accumulation. If you don't have enough accumulation... rushing to break through to the Nascent Soul stage will only lead to your death."

Wei Tu waved his hand and said indifferently.

After speaking, he glanced at Su Die, who stood beside Huang Sha Sanren with a slightly forlorn figure, shook his head, sighed softly, and then flew away with a flick of his sleeve.

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P.S.: The secret technique was mentioned in Chapter 1007, but its name wasn't specified. You can flip back to find it. (End of Chapter)