txolops Chapter 82 Annihilating the Black Fiend Cult! Gathering 5 Blood Condensation Five Elements Pills!
Chapter 82 Annihilating the Black Fiend Cult! Gathering 5 Blood Condensation Five Elements Pills!
"Yes, yes, yes! I understand! I will definitely be a good emperor and will never dare to have any disloyal thoughts! Thank you, Immortal Master, for sparing my life! Thank you, Immortal Master!" The fake Yue Emperor was as if he had been granted a pardon, and he kowtowed repeatedly, tears streaming down his face.
Lin Chuan ignored him and quickly walked to the body of the Yue Emperor.
He took the storage bag from his waist and then removed a three-inch-long, blood-red, cone-shaped object with a cold, gleaming tip that was tightly gripping his hand.
Then, his gaze fell on a hidden pocket in the Emperor Yue's inner garment, and he probed it with his divine sense, taking out an item.
It was a strange knife handle, about half a foot long, completely black, without any decoration, cold and heavy to the touch, and neither gold nor wood.
With a slight probe of one's divine sense, one can sense an extremely restrained yet incomparably sharp and piercing aura contained within.
Furthermore, a strange, obscure fluctuation, seemingly capable of devouring divine consciousness, lingered around it.
"Fragments of a magical artifact..."
Lin Chuan understood.
This is the thing that absorbed and weakened part of his spiritual spike attack to some extent just now.
This allowed the Yue Emperor to regain a sliver of consciousness amidst the excruciating pain, barely managing to maintain a weak defense against the blood-red aura.
This item is not only made of extraordinary materials and retains the power of a magical artifact, but it also has the miraculous effects of concealing one's aura and interfering with and absorbing divine consciousness.
In the original story, the Yue Emperor was able to disguise himself as an ordinary person with no cultivation and successfully launch a close-range sneak attack on Liu Jing and his companions, and this item played a crucial role in that.
Lin Chuan put away the black hilt of the knife; even though it was incomplete, it still had many uses.
Then, he took out a palm-sized, soft yet exceptionally tough, warm-to-the-touch white silk handkerchief from the Yue Emperor's bosom.
Embroidered on the silk handkerchief with pale gold thread was an extremely complex map, its lines interwoven and marked with numerous strange runes and symbols. The map as a whole appeared blurry, as if shrouded in heavy clouds, with only the outlines of mountains, rivers, and some special markings vaguely discernible. Along the edges of the map were some illegible, ancient-style tadpole-like characters.
"Fragments of the Void Heaven Palace Map!"
Lin Chuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and an overwhelming excitement surged within him!
As a time traveler, he knew all too well what this seemingly insignificant handkerchief meant!
This is one of the fragments of the map leading to the mysterious and unpredictable ancient ruins of the Void Heaven Palace in the Chaotic Star Sea, a place brimming with both opportunities and dangers!
The Void Heaven Palace contains countless treasures, including legendary items such as the "Void Heaven Cauldron" and the "Heaven-Mending Pill," which are so powerful that they could cause Nascent Soul stage monsters to fight over them!
The value of this fragmented map is immeasurable! It is a ticket to a higher level of opportunity!
He suppressed his excitement and carefully put away the silk handkerchief, placing it in the safest storage bag along with the black hilt of the knife and the blood spirit diamond.
Next comes cleaning up the battlefield.
Lin Chuan launched a fireball, completely incinerating the Yue Emperor's corpse along with any remaining demonic aura on his body.
Turning their gaze to the other side of the stone chamber, they found a blood pool several meters square, filled with a dark red, viscous liquid that exuded a strong stench of blood and resentment. Scattered around it were several skeletons that had long since turned to white bones, clearly the rogue cultivators who had been sacrificed by the Yue Emperor.
Lin Chuan showed no mercy, shooting out several fireballs that incinerated the blood pool along with the withered bones. The blazing flames turned all filth and evil into ashes.
The fake Yue emperor watched from the side, trembling with fear, and dared not utter a sound.
After dealing with the secret room and confirming that no trace of himself had been left behind, Lin Chuan vanished from the underground of Qian Yuan Palace.
He did not leave the palace immediately, but instead followed the clues he had roughly explored with his divine sense and arrived at a desolate, dilapidated, and eerily cold palace area in the northwest corner of the palace.
This is the main stronghold of the Black Fiend Cult in Kyoto.
Normally, the Yue Emperor's "external avatar" sits here, commanding the followers.
Now that the original Yue Emperor is dead, the avatar that was sustained by his main spirit must have lost its intelligence and become an empty shell.
Lin Chuan scanned the sizable Cold Palace complex with his divine sense and sensed more than thirty auras.
Four of them were at the early Foundation Establishment stage, likely the Four Blood Servants, while the rest were Qi Refining stage cultivators.
The Black Fiend Cult is currently in a stage of covert development and is far from reaching the scale it was in the later part of the original story.
Lin Chuan, draped in the Hidden Spirit Veil, activated the Hidden Spirit Technique, his aura almost completely disappearing, making him appear like a true ghost.
Unless seen with the naked eye, it is impossible for the Black Fiend Cult to sense his presence.
Lin Chuan quietly moved quickly around the perimeter of the Cold Palace, placing the array plates and flags of the "Star Shadow Illusion Array" at key nodes one by one.
A moment later, the formation was activated, and a faint starlight mist silently spread, enveloping the entire Cold Palace area.
"What's going on? It's foggy?"
"Something's wrong! There's something strange about this fog!"
"Enemy attack! Report to the leader immediately!"
A flurry of panicked shouts and chaotic footsteps suddenly echoed from inside the Cold Palace.
However, bewildered by the Star Shadow Illusion Array, they were like headless flies, unable to communicate with each other, let alone find their true enemy.
Lin Chuan descended like the Grim Reaper, unleashing his Bloodflame Twin Blades, his figure moving like a ghost within the illusion array.
He first avoided the four early Foundation Establishment stage Blood Servants (dealing with the miscellaneous soldiers first), and then focused on hunting down the panicked Qi Refining stage cultists.
The flash of blades, the screams of agony, and the stench of blood quickly filled the cold palace.
After the Qi Refining Cultists were mostly eliminated, the four Blood Servants managed to stabilize themselves within the illusion array, attempting to defend back-to-back.
However, faced with Lin Chuan's mid-Foundation Establishment cultivation, powerful divine sense, bizarre illusion array, and ruthless and precise attacks, they could only hold out for less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before being killed one after another by the Bloodflame Twin Blades.
After each Blood Servant dies, their corpse contains a bead the size of a longan, of various colors (white, blue, yellow, and red), radiating pure and violent energy fluctuations.
It is indeed the "Blood Coagulation Five Elements Pill"!
Lin Chuan put away the four pills and then walked towards the most gloomy hall in the deepest part of the Cold Palace.
Pushing open the door, inside a secret room, a lifeless body with empty, dull eyes was sitting cross-legged on a futon.
It was the incarnation of the Yue Emperor.
At this moment, it is an empty shell that has completely lost its soul and drive.
Lin Chuan flicked his finger and burned the corpse. Sure enough, he found a light blue "Blood Coagulation Five Elements Pill" in the ashes.
At this point, the Five Elements Blood Condensation Five Elements Elixir—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—is complete!
He ransacked all the storage bags and magical artifacts of the cultivators in the Cold Palace, and after confirming that no one had escaped, he finally set it on fire.
The raging flames engulfed the filthy, cold palace, completely erasing the Black Fiend Cult's traces in the capital.
Having done all this, Lin Chuan did not linger. Under the cover of night, he quietly left the capital of Yue Kingdom like a wisp of smoke.
He wasn't sure how long the fake Yue emperor could keep up the act, so he had to get away from this troublesome place as soon as possible.
Six days later, Lin Chuan, carrying Qu Hun, returned safely to his Spirit Eye Spring cave deep in the Taiyue Mountains.
After activating all the protective formations, he finally relaxed completely and began to take stock of the amazing gains he had made on this trip.
First, there's the Yue Emperor's storage bag. Besides some spirit stones and miscellaneous materials, it mainly contains three things:
A bottle of pills, containing only one pill, emitting a strange smell.
In the original story, when the Yue Emperor was injured and his vital energy was greatly depleted, he took this medicine and recovered his depleted magical power in just a few breaths. His injuries also recovered visibly.
Besides the pills, there was also a black alms bowl: the size of a large bowl, completely black, cold to the touch, with many twisted and painful ghost faces engraved on its surface, exuding a strong aura of yin and evil.
Lin Chuan knew that this was the "Soul Gathering Bowl," a vicious and evil magical artifact used to imprison and refine living souls and create ghosts.
Finally, there was a black jade slip.
Lin Chuan probed with his divine sense and found that it contained records of several evil techniques and demonic arts.
In addition to the "Demon Slayer Technique" cultivated by the four Blood Servants (which can condense the Blood Condensation Five Elements Pill), there is also the "Blood Refining Divine Light" cultivated by Emperor Yue, as well as the cultivation method of the "Blood Spirit Diamond", the specific secret technique for refining "External Avatars", and so on.
These exercises repeatedly mention a classic text called "Xuan Yin Jing" in their opening or commentary, clearly indicating that they are branches or derivatives of it.
Once all five elements of blood are collected, there is about a one-third chance that a "pseudo-golden pill" will form.
After forming the "Demon Core", one gains power and lifespan comparable to the early stage of Core Formation, but at the cost of permanent stagnation of cultivation, with no further progress possible.