Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 410 - The Spiritual Materials Acquired

Translator: Cinder Translations

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A strong, rancid corpse odor, accompanied by a cold killing intent, emanated from Xing Xinxin's body.

In an instant, she transformed into a grotesque figure resembling a dry corpse, her face turning purple, and her fangs protruding.

"Roar!"

Xing Xinxin's eyes became crazed and bloodthirsty, her rationality completely lost.

A burly figure suddenly appeared beside her. @@novelbin@@

The man uttered a low command: "Be quiet!"

The voice was not loud, but to Xing Xinxin, it was like a thunderclap in a clear sky.

Her body trembled slightly, and the bloodthirsty madness in her eyes faded, gradually returning to clarity.

She turned to look, only to see a tall, imposing man standing beside her, his gaze fierce and piercing, exuding an aura that demanded respect and fear.

It was her father, Xing Gaohan.

"Father, that person took the spirit stones and spiritual materials, but didn't give me the Corpse King Blood Refining Technique. Do you know where the Gu with the storage pouch went? I must find this person and tear his body into pieces!" Xing Xinxin said through gritted teeth.

Xing Gaohan replied, "I don't know where the Gu went. Just now, I was worried about your safety, so I stayed close behind you."

Xing Xinxin was still seething with anger. "Do you mean to let that person go unpunished?"

Xing Gaohan glanced at the island beneath their feet. "It's too early to jump to conclusions."

Xing Xinxin didn't understand her father's words and asked in surprise, "Father, what do you mean?"

Xing Gaohan gazed at the island in the center of the lake and didn't speak.

His eyes were fixed on a small crack in the stone, the place where the Sacred Gu had disappeared.

Following her father's gaze, Xing Xinxin looked at the crack with confusion.

Moments later, two Sacred Gu crawled out from the crack, and one of them was holding a jade slip in its mouth.

The Gu placed the jade slip on the ground, flapped its wings, and flew westward.

Xing Xinxin raised her hand, using spiritual power to draw the jade slip into her grasp.

After inspecting the jade slip, Xing Xinxin's face showed signs of joy.

"Father, this is indeed the complete Corpse King Blood Refining Technique, but it only includes methods for the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages."

Xing Gaohan replied, "That's good."

Xing Xinxin looked at the Gu flying off into the distance and asked, "Father, should we secretly follow the Gu? We might be able to find that person, and he likely still has more cultivation methods in his possession."

Xing Gaohan said, "This matter ends here. Since you've already obtained the complete Corpse King Blood Refining Technique for the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, focus on your cultivation and resolve the corpse problem as soon as possible. After reaching the Core Formation stage, you can switch to another cultivation method."

"Father, but that person took spiritual materials worth three million spirit stones! Can we just let him go like this?"

Xing Xinxin was still fixated on the idea that Song Wen might have more techniques related to the Corpse King Blood Refining Technique, trying to convince her father to continue tracking him.

"I've said this already—this matter ends here."

Xing Gaohan's voice grew cold.

With that, he stopped listening to Xing Xinxin and flew off toward Fang City.

He didn't explain clearly to Xing Xinxin that, in Song Wen's storage pouch, several spiritual materials had been marked with his spiritual sense.

However, half an hour ago, all of these marks had mysteriously disappeared.

As a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, Xing Gaohan could sense and forcibly erase any marks placed by others, and the fact that someone had erased his marks meant that the person was also a Nascent Soul cultivator.

This confirmed that Song Wen had a Nascent Soul cultivator backing him.

And a Nascent Soul cultivator wouldn't make such a big fuss over mere spirit stones worth three million.

Recalling that Xing Xinxin had been deceived into cultivating the Corpse King Blood Refining Technique by the sinister Elder Yin Shuo, Xing Gaohan began to suspect that this incident was part of a larger conspiracy aimed directly at him.

The purpose was to draw him out.

If he kept chasing the Gu, it was very likely that he would fall into a trap that the enemy had already set up in advance.

TLN: I love when people overthink...

Xing Xinxin watched as Xing Gaohan departed, and in the end, she had no choice but to follow.

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Yesterday.

After investigating the Star Lake, Song Wen arrived at a cave outside the thousand-mile radius, following the path deep underground. After descending into the depths, he found an underground river.

He followed the river and moved ahead for more than two miles.

He then ordered the Sacred Gu to start digging through the rocks above. After several hours, a narrow stone tunnel, about fifty feet long, was excavated.

The tunnel was narrow enough that only a storage pouch could pass through.

The main reason for this effort was to prevent the Sacred Gu with the storage pouch from being followed by anyone.

The tunnel was so narrow that cultivators couldn't pass through it.

Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator tried to follow, they would be blocked by the thick rock, about fifty feet deep, preventing them from reaching the surface.

Song Wen didn't wait in the underground river for the Sacred Gu.

He waited at the top of a mountain several miles away, where the river's exit was located.

If a Nascent Soul cultivator truly followed the Sacred Gu through the underground river, they would have to break through the fifty-foot-thick rock to continue tracking the Sacred Gu.

This would definitely cause a commotion, which Song Wen could easily detect from his position several miles away.

At worst, he could abandon the Sacred Gu and the spirit stones and materials it carried.

Song Wen would never risk involving himself in danger.

To acquire the spiritual materials worth three million spirit stones, Song Wen had gone to great lengths.

However, what Song Wen didn't expect was that all of his careful planning would go to waste.

Xing Gaohan, a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, indeed followed Xing Xinxin to Star Lake, but concerned for her safety, he didn't track the Sacred Gu carrying the storage pouch. Instead, he followed another Gu, which created a false trail, wandering for hours.

After Song Wen obtained the storage pouch, he inspected the spiritual materials inside.

One high-grade spirit stone, three Xuan Yin stones, and one Sand Crystal—all intact.

He also found several tracking marks, all of which were consumed by his spiritual sense's black hole.

Afterwards, Song Wen ordered the Sacred Gu to return. Together with the Gu that had shifted the trail, he retrieved the jade slip that had been buried underground earlier and completed the exchange.

Song Wen then suppressed his aura and, relying purely on his physical strength, traveled through the dense forest.

After traveling over a thousand miles, he arrived at a small market. This was a small market frequented by low-level loose cultivators.

After wandering around the market, Song Wen changed his appearance and disguised himself as a Qi Refining Stage cultivator at the ninth level. He then used a flying vessel and headed toward Fang City.

As for the two Sacred Gus, after wandering for over ten thousand miles, they entered the underground river from the deep cave Song Wen had dug out the day before.

At this time, they were still resting in the underground river.

Song Wen planned to wait for one or two months before sending another Sacred Gu to retrieve the two.

After returning to his cave, Song Wen began refining pills.

The four second-tier pill formulas and two third-tier formulas he had purchased earlier had all the necessary spiritual herbs prepared.

These six pills were commonly found in the Chaotic Sea and were essential for Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators' daily cultivation.

Since Song Wen planned to present himself as an alchemist, he needed to be able to refine these common pills.

The light blue flame of Earth Core Refining Flame rose in Song Wen's palm.

He waved his hand, and the blue flame fell into the pill furnace below.

He skillfully refined the herbs using the Earth Core Refining Flame, controlling the fire with ease.

This allowed him to refine pills at a faster pace.

(End of the Chapter)

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