Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

Chapter 279: Chapter 279 Middle Realm Primordial_1

Shen Yi sacrificed a slightly cracked Golden Bead.

He had Qinghua stay nearby, ready to transform into the Golden Body Dharma Identity at any moment.

Then, he opened the panel and began to channel demonic life force into the Heaven-Devouring Elixir Technique.

Perhaps there was a certain knack to refining the Spiritual Root.

For example, the master observing the disciple’s Spiritual Root and the Dao Infant in person, then creating a specialized refining method for them.

But Shen Yi knew he certainly would not receive such treatment.

It was clear that Wutong Mountain had no intention of accepting any more disciples, and while Mysterious Light Cave might have been a possibility before, after he personally killed one of their Divinity Transformation beings and two Upper Realm Primordial Grandmasters, that path too was utterly severed.

Slowly grinding away.

[In the first year, you delved into introspection, carefully scrutinizing the Heavenly Devouring Demon Infant born from your inner core. This creature of heaven and earth, now fully occupied by your consciousness and connected by your vital essence, was something you could say you knew like the back of your hand.]

[The True Sun Qilin Stone, tainted by malevolent energy, initially had nothing to do with the Demon Infant. But after being polluted with malevolent energy, the two managed to harmoniously coexist to a degree.]

[You did not take that lightly; instead, you carefully sensed the changes in the aura emanating from the True Sun Qilin Stone, to prevent any accidents.]

Shen Yi watched as the demonic life force was depleted, feeling neither haste nor impatience in his heart.

When it comes to matters of life and death, even if it consumes a great deal of demonic life force, it is necessary.

Although his body was currently strong and young.

But no one could guarantee that if something went wrong with the Dao Infant, it wouldn’t affect the physical body.

The cultivation of a Primordial Grandmaster is measured in centuries.

Merely observing a stone had cost Shen Yi hundreds of years of demonic life force.

[In the six hundred and thirtieth year, your own aura interacted with the Kirin Stone. In your perception, it transformed from inanimate matter into a childlike entity that seemed to take quite a fancy to you.]

The next moment, Shen Yi suddenly found that the purple stone burning in the palm of his hand was no longer scalding hot. The purplish-gold flame seemed to recognize him, wrapping around his palm and yet maintaining some distance.

Then, the stone slowly sank into his skin.

And entered the sea of Qi.

Shen Yi shook off the residual fires from his hands, his expression becoming somewhat tense unconsciously.

Did this mean it was about time to start refining, having communicated sufficiently?

He no longer needed prompts from the panel.

Only to see the aura on the Heavenly Devouring Demon Infant suddenly lunge out, forming crimson tendrils trying to envelop the True Sun Qilin Stone completely.

At the moment the crimson tendrils touched the stone, dense white mist hissed and billowed out.

“Hiss!”

Shen Yi’s face drastically changed, his hand clenched into a fist, and formidable strength surged as if he wanted to crush his own fingertips.

He was trying to divert his attention.

But that piercing pain from his Divine Soul still made him break out into a profuse sweat instantly.

Scalding! Burning!

As if his soul was about to be melted away.

Apart from the malevolent energy that had tainted the stone, the essence of the Kirin Stone was an object of extreme yang and heat.

Shen Yi’s aura could blend with the malevolent energy, but it was in direct opposition to its fiercest yang.

[In the one thousand nine hundredth year, you felt as if you were in a molten hell, with the Dao Infant beginning to show signs of melting. You had no choice but to continually exchange breaths with the malevolence in the stone, hoping the other would slightly restrain its scorching heat. It seemed to understand your words, or perhaps after many years of synergy with you, you finally felt the pain subsiding.]

In the sea of Qi,

The crimson tendrils radiating from the Dao Infant had tightly bound the True Sun Qilin Stone, then, little by little, dragged it into the body.

Red mist rose from Shen Yi’s eyes, and light surged on the surface of his body.

This was the unconscious sacrifice of the Dao Infant.

Amid that red light, the purplish-gold flame flickered gently.

In that instant, Shen Yi felt as if he had gained a new perception of the familiar aura between heaven and earth.

What was once a clear and pure breath of heaven and earth now appeared to be mixed and impure through his vision.

He had once absorbed it into his body, turned it into Jade Dew, and condensed an inner core, but it wasn’t until this moment that he truly recognized them.

With the Spiritual Root, one connects to heaven and earth.

No joy appeared on Shen Yi’s face, for within a mere breath’s time, intense burning pain snapped him back to reality.

As if that moment of enlightenment had been but an illusion.

[In the two thousand three hundredth year, you successfully integrated the True Sun Qilin Stone into your Dao Infant, but you knew that the refinement process had just begun.]

Shen Yi’s muscles twitched all over, and the power in his flesh, capable of splitting mountains, was now of no use.

All he could do was to endure and wait.

Refining the Golden Body was a walk in the park compared to the arduous and torturous path of achieving Primordial status.

But Shen Yi had already seen the truth.

A Cultivator, after all, is one who borrows power to act.

The Golden Body borrowed the power of the common folk from the Nine Provinces of the Great Qian, the Dao Infant borrowed the power of heaven and earth.

Clearly, compared to heaven and earth, the Great Qian, his backing, was far too frail and always at risk of extinction.

Should the Great Qian perish, so would the Golden Body.

Shen Yi did not wish to see his hard-earned cultivation disappear one day.

Investing in the Dao Infant was the most reliable choice.

The process of refining the Spiritual Root was actually quite monotonous.

Like picking up a stone, inserting it into the skin, and slowly using muscles to rub it until it became part of the body.

At this moment, the True Sun Qilin Stone was gradually assimilating with the Dao Infant.

[In the four thousand six hundredth year, the Heavenly Devouring Demon Infant and the purple stone gradually merged into one. You began to reposition it, forming the heart of the Dao Infant from the living quintuple organs—the heart as fire, thus sculpting the heart of the Dao Infant with this Kirin Stone.]

In an instant, that brief experience came rushing back.

Shen Yi’s body was soaked in sweat, his legs slightly trembling as he stood up, his crimson eyes reopening to view this chaotic world anew.

In his heart, the Kirin Stone seemed to have become a conduit.

Linking himself with the heaven and earth.

[In the five thousand three hundredth year, the Dao Infant used the stone as its heart, condensing a Superior-grade Spirit Root, and thus became a Middle Realm Mixed Yuan.]

[Remaining demon lifespan: twenty-two thousand seven hundred years.]

When the panel’s alert sound swept past,

Shen Yi’s aura abruptly surged tumultuously, turning into purple-gold flames that enveloped his entire body.

The golden color was the true appearance of the True Sun Qilin Stone; the purple was the transformation of malevolent energy.

He slowly closed his hand, attempting to control it.

The purple-gold flames quickly retracted into his body, following through the Kirin Stone at his heart, and turned back into crimson demonic power.

The Spiritual Root serves as the medium for effortless conversion.

“Does the efficiency and speed of conversion relate to the quality of the Spiritual Root?”

Shen Yi felt a smooth and unobstructed sensation, hardly sensing any resistance.

Based on his observations of others’ Dao Infants,

Possessing a Spiritual Root equated to being a Middle Realm Primordial, while an Upper Realm Primordial had all five organs in harmony, with the same attribute for each Spirit Root organ in cultivators such as the Immortal of Evergreen and Zheng Zisheng.

Combining all five should yield better results.

But considering his own situation,

The Spiritual Root had to carry malevolent energy; finding five worldly Spirit Roots of the same element, all tainted by malevolent energy, was nothing short of challenging.

To avoid being a jack of all trades but a master of none,

Every type of Spirit Root had to be of sufficient quality, possibly even one that could compare with the combined five of others.

The answer, then, was clear.@@novelbin@@

A Superior Spirit Root.

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