Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

"Benefactor, this item has a connection with Buddhism; why not give it to me?"

An old monk emerged from the shadows, his staff inlaid with seven skulls.

Lin An was too lazy to waste words, and his Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade went straight for the evil Buddha's throat.

The old monk's robe billowed, and his prayer beads exploded into a poisonous mist.

Time Freeze activated, and the blade pierced through the poisonous mist, slicing off half of his face.

[Slaying the Evil Buddhist Cultivator (1/1)!]

[Obtained Vajra Buddha Bone (Defense +30%)!]

Pressing the Buddha's bone into his chest, his skin glowed with a faint golden light.

Lin An sat cross-legged and regulated his breathing for three days, and the nascent soul had solidified into a real body.

On the seventh day of continuing north, a fresh corpse lay beside the oasis.

The deceased clutched a secret letter from the Blood Marrow Sect: "...The Demon General's resurrection requires 100,000 living souls, and 98,000 have already been prepared..."

Suddenly, the oasis pool boiled, and twelve people in blood-red robes burst out of the water.

The leader held a blood-marrow banner, and with each wave he sent out a hundred vengeful spirits.

"You've come at the perfect time."

Lin An activated the Vajra Buddha bone, and golden light enveloped his entire body.

The vengeful spirits vanished upon contact, and the sweeping blade severed the waists of seven people.

The Blood Marrow Banner Master bit his tongue and spat out a blood arrow, but time froze him in mid-air.

When Lin An crushed his skull, a blood-red pillar of light rose from the northwest.

[Mission: Destroy the Blood Soul Pillar (0/3)!]

Hidden beneath the sand dunes a hundred miles away are underground caves.

Lin An fought his way through thirty layers of guards and found a bronze pillar submerged in a pool of blood in the core chamber.

The moment the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade struck, the alarm array alerted the entire underground cave.

"Who dares to ruin the grand plan of my Blood Marrow Sect!"

The purple-robed elder arrived on a sword, followed by eighteen bronze corpses.

Lin An made a hand seal with his left hand, and the phantom images of the winged fire snake and the tail fire tiger merged into one.

A whirlwind of flames swept through the sealed chamber, turning the bronze corpse into molten iron.

The purple-robed elder's flying sword pierced Lin An's back, but the Vajra Buddha bone caused cracks to appear.

"Impossible! How could you possess the Vajra Buddha bone!"

The elder's pupils contracted sharply, and he turned to flee.

Time Freeze activated again, and the blade energy shredded his dantian and nascent soul.

[Destroy the Blood Soul Pillar (1/3)!]

[Gained 5000 Essence!]

After destroying two strongholds, the final Blood Soul Pillar was hidden in the crater of an active volcano.

Lin An leaped onto the core of the lava, and the Nine Revolutions Demon Slayer Blade, having absorbed too much blood energy, emitted an eerie red glow.

The Blood Marrow Sect's guardian deity, who guards this place, has three heads and six arms, each hand wielding a different demonic weapon.

Lin An was slashed three times, and cracks appeared in his Vajra Buddha bone, but he took the opportunity to stab the knife into the middle of his head.

[Slaying the Blood Marrow Sect Protector (1/1)!]

[Chaos Bell Fragment (6/9) automatically fused!]

As the volcano erupted, a red warning message suddenly appeared on the system screen:

[Urgent Mission: Prevent the Demon General's Resurrection!]

[Remaining Souls: 98732/100000!]

Northern Desert Wilderness: A Sea of ​​Bones

Lin An trudged forward through the scorching sand, the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade groaning at his waist.

Suddenly, a sand dune in the distance collapsed, and three red-eyed sand scorpions burst from the ground, their stingers glowing with a ghostly blue venomous light.

"Demons from the Mysterious Netherworld?"

This Xuan You Realm demon is equivalent to a Refining Spirit Realm cultivator among human cultivators! Its strength should not be underestimated!

He flicked his finger at the hilt of the sword, and the Mystic Mirror flew out from between his brows. "Shine!"

The mirror reflected golden light, and the sand scorpion's movements instantly slowed down.

As the blade flashed, the three demonic crystal cores were already absorbed into the palm of the Xuan Tian Seal.

The Devouring System notification sounded in my mind:

[Absorb 3 Crimson-Eyed Sand Scorpion Crystal Cores!]

[Gained Demon Essence +900!]

[Current Realm: Advancing from the seventh level of the Refining Spirit Realm to the eighth level!]

Suddenly, white bone chains pierced out from beneath the sand, carrying the pressure of a Nascent Soul Realm expert.

Lin An sneered and stomped on the ground. The Xuan Tian Seal transformed into a mountain phantom and crashed down, exploding a hundred-foot-deep crater in the sand sea.

The black-robed elder at the bottom of the pit coughed up blood and staggered back, three cracks appearing in the Myriad Souls Banner in his hand. "You...how could you possibly..."

The blade lifted the old man's chin; the Devouring System had completed its analysis.

[Target: A Nascent Soul Realm Elder of the Blood Marrow Sect!]

[Can be consumed: Netherworld Essence (2300 points), Soul Devouring Secret Technique (Low-grade Earth Rank)]

"bite!"

The Mysterious Mirror hung upside down above his head, and the old man screamed as he turned into a dried-up corpse.

Black energy surged around Lin An, and a ferocious phantom of a Taotie appeared behind him.

[Realm Breakthrough: Peak of the Ninth Level of the Divine Refinement Realm!]

[Unlock the second form of the Mysterious Heaven Seal: Prison Suppressing Peak!]

A roar came from a hundred miles away, and he squinted to see the blood-red city in the sandstorm.

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade suddenly trembled, and the Northern Seven Mansions lit up on the Twenty-Eight Mansions constellation on its scabbard.

Blood Marrow Sect Branch Altar - Yellow Springs Bone City.

Three hundred dried corpses of cultivators hung from the city gate. The blood guards guarding the gate were about to reprimand them when half of a scabbard was already stuck in their throats.

Lin An stepped into the passageway through the pool of blood, and the Xuan Tian Mirror reflected twenty-seven killing formations hidden in the shadows.

"break!"

The illusory image of Prison Suppression Peak swept through the passageway, black blood seeping from the walls. The Devouring System spammed the screen:

[Devouring Bone-Corroding Poison Array x9!]

[Gained 1800 Poison Essence!]

[Immune to All Poisons Physique Upgraded to Grade Three!]

Before the altar, the leader of the Blood Marrow Sect crushed the jade talisman, and eighteen bronze corpses formed a battle formation.

Lin An scoffed and flicked his sword, the Tail Fire Tiger Sword Soul transforming into raging flames that swept across, melting the bronze corpse into molten iron.

"A heretical cultivator at the Void Reset Realm?" He stared at the bloodshot eye on the leader's forehead. "Perfect for testing my skills."

The Mysterious Mirror froze the space, and the Nine Revolutions Demon-Slaying Blade pierced the Blood Eye, causing the master's physical body to explode into a bloody mist.

The devouring vortex tore apart the nascent soul, and a golden system notification popped up:

[Devouring a Nascent Soul cultivator at the Void Refinement Realm!]

[Gained 5000 Spiritual Essence!]

[Unlock the fifth upgrade of the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade: Soul Rift!]

Blood-red inscriptions appeared on the blade. Lin An casually swung his hand, and the watchtower a kilometer away was cut in half.

He shattered the blood marrow crystal at the core of the altar, and suddenly a crack appeared in the northwest sky.

Ancient Ruins: Tianku Canyon

The bronze coffin that fell from the crack smashed the mountain wall, and purplish-black demonic energy seeped out from the gaps in the coffin lid.

The Mysterious Heaven Seal in Lin An's palm hummed, and the Devouring System popped up a scarlet warning:

[The remains of a Demon General at the Tribulation Transcending Realm have been detected!]

[The difference in strength is too great! Host is advised to avoid this situation for the time being!]

"It's just my left hand, not the real person! What's there to be afraid of?"

He cleaved open the coffin lid, and his demonic hand, with its five fingers like sharp blades, attacked.

The Prison Peak collided with the Demon Hand, and the shockwave leveled half of the canyon.

Lin An's tiger's mouth split open, but a fighting spirit ignited in his eyes: "Such pure demonic essence!"

The Mysterious Mirror reversed time and space for three seconds, and the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade pierced the demon's wrist.

The vortex of devouring energy transformed into a black hole, and the demonic hand struggled to shrink to the size of a fist.

[Devouring the incomplete body of a demon in the Tribulation Transcending Realm!]

[Gained 12000 Primordial Demonic Essence!]

[Realm Breakthrough: Level 3 of the Void Returning Realm!]

[Unlock the Mysterious Mirror's divine power: Rewinding Time (three times daily)!]

The remnants of the Demonic Hand's memories flooded into Lin An's mind. He looked east and sneered, "So the Blood Marrow Sect's headquarters are in the East Sea..."

Wanhun Island, on the shore of the East China Sea.

The tides, carrying bones, crashed against the rocks, and Lin An walked on the waves.

The Mysterious Mirror reflected a giant underwater magic array, with nine blood dragons at the Divine Transformation Realm coiled around its core.

"rise!"

Zhenyu Peak crashed into the sea, stirring up towering waves hundreds of feet high.

The blood dragon had barely shown its head when the blade had already severed three of its heads.

The Devouring System operates amidst a rain of blood:

[Devouring Blood Dragon Crystal Cores x9!]

[Gained 8100 Water Spirit Essence!]

[Unlock the true meaning of the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade's waterway!]

The underwater altar collapsed with a deafening roar, and the Blood Marrow Sect Master unleashed his fury.

The oppressive aura of the Void Realm expert froze space and time, but Lin An grinned: "Reverse Time!"

Time rewound three breaths, and the Xuan Tian Mirror reflected the sect leader's true form, revealing a flaw.

When the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade pierced through his dantian, the Devouring Vortex had already enveloped the entire island.

[Devouring a Void Realm cultivator!]

[Gained Soul Essence +20000!]

[Realm Cultivation Advancement: Ninth Level of the Void Refinement Realm → First Level of the Nascent Soul Realm!]

[Awakening Innate Divine Power: Devouring Heaven Dharma Form!]

Lin An stood amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with devouring Dao patterns appearing beneath his feet.

New notification for system light curtain deployment:

[Next stage mission: Collect all the Twenty-Eight Constellation Sword Souls!]

[The sword spirit fluctuation of the Azure Dragon Seven Constellations of the East has been detected!]

[Location: Central Plains, Heavenly Sword Pavilion Forbidden Area!]

He shattered his blood-stained outer robe, and pointed the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade toward the heart of the continent.

The vast clouds were cleaved open by the intent of the sword.