Vampire Cultivation Notes

Chapter 164 Subduing the Devouring Spirit

In the south, there are endless dense forests, with mountains and hills rising and falling.

Further north, there was a vast river. Even Li Jieqing, who had become a Foundation Establishment cultivator, could not see the edge of the river for a moment with his divine sense. He could only see the river water rolling like thunder, flowing eastward.

Around this Stone Pillar Mountain, there is also a large patch of Knife-Tip Grass. This plant has leaves as sharp as knives, and its roots and stems can be eaten raw. Its nourishing properties are comparable to those of Spirit Rice. It grows three inches in a year, three feet in ten years, and three zhang in a hundred years.

Li Jieqing scanned the area with his divine sense and saw many three-zhang-tall blade-tip grasses gleaming with a cold light, standing outside Stone Pillar Mountain and swaying slightly in the wind.

Some monsters were gnawing on the stems of the blade-tip grass, while others came ashore from the great river to the north, and still others flew out from the dense forest to the south.

It may be a lone monster or a horde of monsters.

Human relationships are severed, and eerie winds blow in waves.

There's no need to elaborate on these wild and uncivilized aspects.

However, there is currently no sign of a powerful demon appearing.

After using the Blood-Seeking Technique to search several times, Li Jieqing was relieved to find no trace of the owl around Stone Pillar Mountain.

That great demon must have broken free of its chains when the altar shattered, and then disappeared without a trace.

They are naturally fond of water, and have most likely already gone into the river.

"Looks like this altar is completely useless... which is a good thing for me!"

Li Jieqing searched around but couldn't find the hidden demon, nor could he spot the Devouring Spirit Fiend. So he called Huang Chong to come out and go into the mountain together to retrieve the black iron chains hanging from the stone pillars on various peaks.

There are a total of seventeen black iron chains. Apart from the one that was broken by the sea owl and the five that have lost their effectiveness after being soaked in the deep sea for a long time, the spiritual light on the remaining eleven chains has not been completely exhausted and will probably still be useful in the future.

Each chain is over three hundred feet long, and the iron rings are thicker than a person's waist.

Li Jieqing did not know how to contain the chain, and it was too big to fit in the storage space of his two magical artifacts. So he spent a lot of effort to take down the most complete chain, and dragged it with difficulty with one hand towards the hollow stone pillar mountain.

"Why bother going to any part of this grotto to retrieve treasures? There are piles of treasures right before our eyes."

"I have tempered my body for sixty years, all for this day!"

Li Jieqing's face turned red. He then summoned the Thick Earth Bearing Treasure Pearl to empower himself, dragging the three-hundred-foot-long black iron chain step by step into the Stone Pillar Mountain Range.

I've already surveyed the surrounding area. The spiritual energy here is weaker than that of the deep mountains and forests to the south, and there are no powerful demons lingering here.

With the sea owl not here either, it's the perfect time to collect the treasure.

Halfway there, the yellow worms suddenly cried out, turning over and burrowing into the ground, howling in terror as they hurriedly reached Li Jieqing.

"What a lazy bum! Where have you been, leaving me to do all the work by myself?"

Li Jieqing, panting heavily, launched into a tirade.

At this moment, the yellow worm offered its tail tip, anxiously opening its mouth repeatedly.

Its tail was dry and shriveled, its scales had fallen off, and it was a dry, brittle mass hanging behind it.

"The Devouring Spirit! You found it so quickly?"

Li Jieqing dropped the chains he was carrying, went forward to examine the yellow worm's tail, and immediately smiled, realizing it was indeed a spirit beast that was intelligent and diligent.

Having recently acquired several bottles of great demon blood, Li Jieqing immediately took out a bottle as a reward.

"Don't feel wronged. Quickly lead the way into the mountains for the master. You'll be well rewarded."

……

……

The Blood Heart Sect's altar collapsed, flattening an entire valley, and he stood there.

This incident eventually alarmed the surrounding area.

Three days later, a group of green snails crawled out of the surging river. The first group went straight towards Shizhu Mountain to explore, while the second group began to gnaw on the riverbank, drawing out a tributary of the river that flowed towards Shizhu Mountain.

This Azure Water Snail is a type of first-tier demonic beast. When it grows up, it is only at the mid-level of first-tier. It moves slowly and is no more than three feet long. It only has a foothold among demonic beasts because of its shell and its talent for controlling water.

But at this moment, these green snails were so brazenly gnawing at the riverbank and swimming on the shore, yet no other monsters came out to feed.

On the contrary, since these green snails came ashore, the gnawing sounds that used to come from under the blade-tip grass next door have stopped, and the hissing of the monsters there dared not make a sound.

The team from the front, Bishui Qingluo, spent most of the day before finally arriving outside Shizhu Mountain.

Just as they were about to head straight into the mountains, the earth suddenly turned upside down, disrupting the formation of the Green Snails marching in formation.

The eldest eel, a giant moon eel, emerged from the ground, opened its mouth, and let out two threatening hisses.

This is none other than Huang Chong'er, the guardian spirit of Li Jieqing.

Among the pair of blue snails, there were also two late-stage first-tier demons. They stepped forward and made squeaking noises, as if they were talking.

The yellow worm tilted its head and listened for a while, but couldn't understand. So it turned around and lashed out with its tail, knocking over the two blue snails on the spot.

The group of blue snails were immediately enraged. They squeaked forward, some spitting out water, others digging holes, and began to fight with the yellow worms.

"Strange, why do the monsters here seem to have gained intelligence? They're even lining up to attack!"

"Strange, why do the monsters here seem to have gained intelligence? They're even lining up to attack!"

Inside Stone Pillar Mountain, Li Jieqing observed the battlefield outside with his divine sense, utterly perplexed.

He wasn't worried that the yellow worms couldn't defeat the group of green snails outside. Monsters are judged by their size; smaller monsters aren't necessarily weak, but larger monsters are usually stronger.

This is true, at least according to Li Jieqing's observations over the past century.

The yellow worm is over ten zhang long and has been raised for thirty or forty years. Recently, it was also nourished by the blood of a great demon, and its size is still increasing. It is not far from breaking through to the peak of the first rank.

The two largest snail spirits opposite were only about ten feet long. Although their shells were held high, they were nothing compared to the yellow worm. It was just a matter of whipping their tails a few times.

In the past few days, some monsters have been approaching this place from time to time, but they have all been driven away by the yellow worm.

However, this is the first time we've seen them come in such large groups, like these blue snails.

"When the Blood Heart Sect's altar was launched, the land-based demonic beasts didn't come to see it, but the river-based demonic beasts did... With two late-stage first-tier demonic beasts leading the charge, there's probably a second-tier great demonic beast in their lair."

Li Jieqing had dealt with many monsters during the beast tides on Xiaoxin Island and knew that monsters also had races that lived in groups with strict hierarchies.

The fact that the clan leader could drive two late-stage Tier 1 Azure Water Snails, who disliked land, ashore suggests that the clan leader behind the scenes was far more than just a Tier 1 peak leader.

Outside Shizhu Mountain, the yellow worm displayed its might, driving away a group of green snails with the strength of an eel, and roared triumphantly at the spot where it broke through the soil.

Seeing this, Li Jieqing withdrew his gaze.

The white tiger from back then left a deep impression on him, and the group of green snails outside wouldn't give up so easily.

The process of subduing the Devouring Spirit has accelerated.

……

In the Stone Pillar Mountain, where several stone pillars intersect and fall, a dark and enclosed space is separated.

The Devouring Spirit Demon is located here.

It was swallowed by the Crimson Kun along with the Blood Heart Sect altar and fell here. The original root of the evil acupoint was severed, and it lost the replenishment of the earth's energy from its birthplace.

Without the earth's energy, the Devouring Spirit Fiend is a rootless source.

Just like the venomous snake spirit trapped on Xiaoxin Island, once the toad-skin snake that created this evil spirit was completely killed and Li Jieqing trapped it on Blood Bamboo Island without replenishment, after a period of time, the evil spirit could no longer maintain its transformed form.

The same applies to the Devouring Spirit Fiend.

After being swallowed by the Crimson Kun, its original evil acupoint was rendered useless. After landing, it continued to penetrate downwards, trying to connect with the earth's energy and re-form an evil acupoint to obtain support.

Li Jieqing's arrival interrupted this process.

Inside an enclosed space.

Li Jieqing dragged over a black iron chain and shoved it directly into the Devouring Spirit Fiend underground.

In the past few days, he has tried many methods to subdue this Devouring Spirit Demon.

Unlike the snake-like miasma, this Devouring Spirit Fiend doesn't take on a physical form. It's impossible to subdue and control that transformed body by beating it up and gathering the fiendish energy together.

Being in this enclosed space, the Devouring Spirit Demon is like a bottomless pit.

Li Jieqing tried to subdue it with his magic, but it was swallowed whole, replenishing the energy of the Devouring Spirit Demon.

Using essence and blood to perform a blood sacrifice to subdue it is even more obvious. Standing by the evil acupoint, there is nowhere to start. Feeding it a few mouthfuls of essence and blood to devour the evil spirit is a great way to replenish itself.

Li Jieqing should even be thankful that the Devouring Spirit Demon's power weakened after entering the Blood Heart Cave Heaven; otherwise, just standing here would have been enough to swallow him whole.

After observing the state of the Devouring Spirit, Li Jieqing tried many methods before finally bringing over the black iron chains from outside.

"Eat! Give me some now!"

Li Jieqing pushed the black iron chain into the ground piece by piece.

The collected black iron chains have been examined. Few are useful and many are useless. These chains resemble both magical artifacts and spiritual weapons, but they lack any binding restrictions, making them very difficult to wield.

Those that were half-destroyed were simply given to the Devouring Spirit Demon at this time.

At first, the Devouring Spirit Demon ate with great relish, slurping the three-hundred-foot-long black iron chain into the ground like slurping noodles.

But after eating one or two, the speed slowed down more and more.

When Li Jieqing dragged over the fifth chain, the Spirit Devouring Fiend on the ground got stuck behind the completely ruined section of the chain.

The Devouring Spirit only absorbs the life force of living beings. The first few chains were alright, as they had some spiritual light on them, and it could barely swallow them. But when it came to the fifth chain, it was just a lump of cold, dark iron that it couldn't be stuffed into.

The Devouring Spirit Demon suffered from indigestion and overate.

The overflowing evil energy stopped, and the suction force that had been trying to draw Li Jieqing's life force weakened and finally disappeared completely.

Li Jieqing, standing outside the Devouring Spirit's devouring range, sensed the situation and wiped away his sweat as he approached.

it works!

Li Jieqing re-examined the situation of the Devouring Spirit Fiend, tentatively probing with his divine sense, and understood in his heart.

If this Devouring Spirit is left unattended, it will eventually digest its contents and turn the place into a death zone for all living beings once again.

But now, it can't move; it's completely filled.

In other words, the Devouring Spirit has been brought under control.

There's no need to use magic to subdue it; just use a large quantity of black iron chains to make it so full that it can't move.

Li Jieqing had originally planned to dismantle the stone pillar and stuff it in if the remaining few useless chains were not of any use.

It seems that we don't need to go that far now.

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