Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

On the third day after the collapse of Shura City, the Demon Suppression Division sent a message by carrier pigeon.

Lu Xiuwen crushed the wax pill, his brows furrowing slightly: "The demon race in the Northern Frontier has been acting strangely, and the Demon Suppression Division has summoned me back."

He tossed the bronze token to Lin An, saying, "Fellow Daoist Lin, if you're in trouble, go to the Demon Suppression Division's stronghold!"

Lin An stroked the Taotie pattern on the token. The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade trembled slightly in its sheath, and the Chaos Bell mark on the hilt flickered.

He looked towards Blackwater Village: "Brother Lu, have a safe journey! I need to investigate the origins of the Chaos Bell."

The two parted ways at the fork in the road.

Lin An rode his horse for three miles when the scabbard suddenly became hot.

The air in front of me distorted into a vortex, and a system notification appeared on my retina in blood-red letters:

[Fragmented Immortal Realm Laws Detected]

Forced teleportation activated

When I opened my eyes again, the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade was stuck in the red soil.

In the distance, the mountains resembled inverted swords, and a pale golden mist drifted in the air.

Lin An tried to circulate his internal energy and discovered three additional shackles in his meridians.

The hilt of the sword trembled as it pointed eastward.

As Lin An drew his sword, vines suddenly sprouted from the ground.

The moment these dark purple plants wrapped around his calves, the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade automatically unleashed three arcs of light.

The severed vines gushed out a foul-smelling liquid, which instantly corroded the surrounding grassland.

[Low-grade magical plants from the Tianyuan Continent can be exchanged for 10 points of essence!]

Lin An squinted at the newly appeared exchange interface of the system.

After slaying the three wolf-like demon, he figured out the rules: every ten points of essence could break through one meridian shackle.

When the eighth shackle shattered, a vortex of energy suddenly formed in the dantian.

"Third level of Spirit Refinement."

Lin An felt the true energy flowing within his body.

This was completely different from the cultivation system recorded by the Demon Suppression Division, yet the Nine Revolutions Demon Slayer Blade emitted a joyful fluctuation.

He cleaved through the boulder blocking his path, the golden light remaining on the blade revealing its true essence attribute.

Seven days later, Lin An stood outside the Bronze City Gate.

The gatekeeper glanced at his coarse cloth clothes and tossed him a wooden sign: "Entry fee is one low-grade spirit stone."

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade suddenly emitted a buzzing sound.

Lin An gripped the hilt of his sword and threw out the demon crystal core.

The gatekeeper weighed the crystal core in his hand and sneered, "A rogue cultivator from the wilderness?" But he still let him into the city.

The pawnshop owner stared at the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade, a glint of light flashing in his eyes: "Heavy Iron Blade, fifty spirit stones."

Lin An turned and left, his scabbard knocking over two thugs who were following him.

He grabbed the third man by the throat at the end of the alley: "Who sent you?"

"Manager Liu... said your knife has the aura of an ancient cultivator..."

Late at night, Lin An squatted on the roof of the pawnshop.

The moment the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade pierced the defensive array, he flipped over and landed in the storeroom.

On the third shelf, there is a fragment of bronze, with patterns similar to those of the Chaos Bell. A system notification pops up:

[Collect fragments of the Immortal Realm to unlock the first level of the cultivation technique "Primordial Chaos Technique"!]

The sound of wind breaking came from behind.

Lin An parried with his sword, sparks illuminating Manager Liu's ferocious face: "You dare to trespass with such a mere Nascent Soul cultivator..." Suddenly, golden flames ignited on the blade, and the true essence poured down, making it feel as heavy as a thousand pounds.

When the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade cleaved through the protective aura, Manager Liu crushed the jade talisman.

The pressure of the Nascent Soul stage enveloped the pawnshop, but Lin An used this pressure to break through the ninth shackle.

The Hunyuan Technique operates automatically, and true essence transforms into a vortex to crush the oppressive force.

"The Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage?" Shopkeeper Liu took a half-step back in surprise.

Lin An's blade had already pierced his dantian, and the feeling of absorbing true essence made the Nine Revolutions Demon-Slaying Blade resound with joy.

The system's essence value surged to 300 points, and the shackles on the meridians were completely shattered.

Lin An walked out of the Bronze City in the morning light.

After absorbing the bronze fragments, a star map appeared on the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade.

Guided by the star map, he arrived at the entrance to the Burial Sword Abyss. The cliff face was studded with broken swords, their sword energy forming a natural barrier.

[Sword Soul Detected!]

The moment the blade pierced the crevice in the rock, a chorus of swords rang out.

Lin An leaped towards the bottom of the abyss, stepping on the fallen broken sword, the protective aura formed by the Hunyuan Technique sparking.

On the deepest stone platform, half a broken sword suddenly flew towards them.

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade automatically countered the attack.

Amidst the clang of metal on metal, the broken sword transformed into a stream of light and merged into the blade.

The star map completed the seven northern constellations, and the system notification sounded loudly:

[Coordinates of Tianyuan Continent obtained!]

[Main Quest Activated: Collect the Twenty-Eight Constellation Sword Souls!]

Lin An wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. After circulating the Hunyuan Technique three times within his body, his cultivation level broke through to the Refining Spirit stage.

As he climbed back to the top of the cliff, three sword lights blocked his way.

"Hand over the inheritance of the ancient sword!"

The young man at the head of the group rode a flying sword. Lin An noticed the silver patterns on their cuffs, which matched the insignia on the bronze city gate.

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade trembled, emitting a battle intent, and for the first time, it poured its full power into the Primordial True Essence.

Just as the blade struck down the flying sword, Lin An grabbed the hilt.

The thrill of absorbing sword energy made his pupils glow with golden light, and his system essence value exceeded 500 points.

The remaining two crushed the escape talisman and fled, but were pierced through the back of the heart by the flying sword he threw.

"Sword control technique?"

Lin An stepped onto the flying sword, and his Primordial True Essence covered the sword's body.

As it wobbled and rose into the air, the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade suddenly pointed southeast.

There was the aura of the second Starry Sky Sword Soul there, and the system map showed it as the forbidden area of ​​the Xuan Tian Sect.

Lin An carved out a cave dwelling in the desolate mountains. After consuming 300 essence points to exchange for the second level of the "Primordial Chaos Technique," the true essence within his body condensed into a liquid state.

The mid-stage Refinement of Spirit power shattered the giant rocks outside the cave, and the sword energy absorbed by the Nine Revolutions Demon Slayer Blade formed a sword aura on its body.

Three days later, he disguised himself as a rogue cultivator and infiltrated the outer sect competition of the Xuantian Sect.

After winning seven consecutive arena battles, the elder in charge of registration suddenly grabbed his wrist: "Bone age twenty, mid-stage Spirit Refinement?"

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade trembled in the storage bag.

Lin An activated his Primordial Chaos True Essence to break free of the shackles, but this only attracted more attention.

That night, two Golden Core deacons broke through the magic array in the guest room.

Amidst the flashing blades, Lin An crushed the earth-遁符 (earth-遁符, a type of talisman used for escaping through the earth) and rushed straight towards the forbidden area.

When the protective mountain formation was torn open by the Nine Revolutions Demon-Slaying Blade, the sword souls of the Twenty-Eight Constellations resonated simultaneously.

Lin An withstood three lightning tribulations and rushed into the Sword Tomb, frantically circulating the Hunyuan Technique to devour the sword energy.

The system's essence value surged to a critical point, and thunderclouds gathered overhead.

When the lightning tribulation shattered half of the mountain, the Supreme Elder of the Xuantian Sect broke through his seclusion and emerged.

Lin An seized the second sword soul amidst the lightning, and the star power absorbed by the Nine Revolutions Demon Slayer Blade formed a domain.

When the third lightning bolt struck, he actually charged upwards and cleaved through the tribulation clouds.

The moment the Golden Core was formed, the system prompted a refresh:

[Primordial Golden Elixir (Rank 1)]

[Unlock Divine Power: Starfall Slash!]

Lin An wiped the blood off his face.

After the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade absorbed two sword souls, silver veins extended from the star map.

He looked at the remaining twenty-six points of light and grinned.

The blade pointed towards the most dangerous ancient battlefield ruins on the Tianyuan Continent.

Lin An stood in front of the boundary marker, gazing at the bluish-gray stone tablet inscribed with the two characters "Tian Yuan".

Behind him was a gradually closing spatial rift, and Lu Xiuwen's aura completely disappeared.

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade emitted a faint hum in its sheath, and the Chaos Bell mark on the hilt flickered, like some kind of guidance.

The morning dew dampened his coarse linen clothes as he squatted down and grabbed a handful of red soil.

The gravel, mixed with fragments of crystal, refracts a rainbow of colors under the morning sun.

When circulating the Hunyuan Technique, a feeling of stagnation came from the meridians, as if ten invisible shackles were binding the flow of true essence.

"Is this the suppression of the laws of the Immortal Realm?"

Lin An pointed his fingers and slashed at the ancient tree beside him, but the blade only penetrated three inches into the wood.

In the original world, this strike would have been enough to split a tree trunk that would take three people to encircle.

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade suddenly unsheathed itself by half an inch, its blade pointing towards the misty mountains to the northeast.

After three days of trekking, Lin An had figured out the basic rules of the Tianyuan Continent.

With each demon slain, the shackles within his body loosen slightly.

He was squatting by the stream dealing with the wolf carcass when a crimson crystal core the size of a fingernail rolled off the skull—this was the fifth demon core.

When the crystal core touched the blade, the Chaos Bell mark suddenly became hot.

The demon core transformed into a stream of light and disappeared into the hilt of the sword, shattering the ninth shackle.

Lin An swung his sword to test it out, and this time the sword energy easily cleaved the reclining ox stone by the stream.