Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 445 - The Eye of the Myriad Phenomena

Translator: Cinder Translations

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Song Wen commanded the corpse puppet to charge into the cave while he flew upward, heading for the mountaintop. After flying several miles, he turned and headed back toward the foot of the mountain.

The higher he went, the stronger the vengeful spirits became.

At the height he was at, about sixty miles above the ground, there were already third-level vengeful spirits lurking. Song Wen didn't dare to continue higher, fearing he might encounter a fourth-level vengeful spirit.

At that point, even with the assistance of his sea of consciousness black hole, he would likely not escape the vengeful spirit's deadly grasp.

Just after flying about ten miles down the mountain, he unexpectedly ran into someone he hadn't anticipated.

Jing Lie!

Xing Yixuan had been scheming to acquire the Heavenly Spirit Pill from Xing Li Ren's body, and Jing Lie had long coveted it as well.

At the square at the foot of the mountain, Jing Lie had noticed that Xing Yixuan had followed Xing Li Ren. He had quietly trailed behind her, waiting for an opportunity to act.

However, he had followed from a distance, and thus had been able to witness Song Wen's battle with Xing Li Ren. By the time he arrived at the battlefield, only Xing Li Ren's corpse was left, lying alone there.

Xing Li Ren's soul had already been eroded by ghostly mist and transformed into a vengeful spirit.

Instinctively, Jing Lie assumed that Xing Li Ren had died at Xing Yixuan's hands.

So, he collected Xing Li Ren's body and subdued the vengeful spirit that had taken over his soul, planning to use the "harm to the human race" excuse to threaten Xing Yixuan into handing over the Heavenly Spirit Pill.

Jing Lie had been chasing Xing Yixuan's trail when he ran into Song Wen, who was heading down the mountain.

"It's you? How did you survive?" Jing Lie looked at Song Wen in surprise.

In his estimation, with Song Wen's early stage Golden Core cultivation, he should have already been killed by Xing Li Ren.

"Where is Xing Yixuan?" Jing Lie asked.

He intended to gather some crucial information from Song Wen and didn't rush into attacking.

Song Wen warily stared at Jing Lie, cursing his bad luck in his heart.

He hadn't encountered Xing Yixuan yet, and thus had no idea that the person who appeared near the cave was her.

However, that didn't stop Song Wen from leading Jing Lie astray.

"Xing Yixuan entered a cave about ten miles up," he said.

Jing Lie narrowed his eyes, his gaze turning suspicious.

He suddenly realized that his earlier assumption about Xing Li Ren's death might be incorrect.

Jing Lie coldly asked, "You're not telling the truth, are you? With your early stage Golden Core cultivation, how did you escape Xing Li Ren's hands? And why are you up at such a high altitude? There are third-level vengeful spirits around here."

Suddenly, a flash of insight appeared in Jing Lie's mind, as though he had figured something out.

"You didn't just happen to climb to this height. You were chased here by Xing Yixuan! Could it be... Xing Li Ren died at your hands?" he said, his expression suddenly revealing a look of realization, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

Song Wen's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately turned to flee!

"Fleeing? Do you think you can escape? Hand over the Heavenly Spirit Pill, and I might spare your life!" Jing Lie roared.

He wasn't slow to act.

The Flag of Wind Dragon appeared in his hand.

He waved the flag lightly!

In an instant, a fierce wind surged.

Ghostly mist rolled like a tidal wave.

Countless wind blades shot out like arrows, gathering into a massive blade storm of cutting winds.

The air around seemed to be torn apart by the storm, the sharp, piercing wind sounds ringing like the mocking laughter of death, echoing through the air.

Song Wen felt the pressure of the blade storm coming from behind and his expression darkened, tensing up.

The Profound Earth Treasure Pagoda, the Ghost Head Shield, and the Spirit Bell Shield appeared around him, enveloping him in defense.

The blade storm, like autumn winds sweeping leaves, tore through the Profound Earth Treasure Pagoda, sent the Ghost Head Shield and Spirit Bell Shield flying, and shredded them to pieces.

Yet, there was no sign of Song Wen. Instead, a dense cloud of blood mist emerged.

Upon seeing this, Jing Lie's eyes flashed with sharp excitement.

"Escape technique?"

Jing Lie's eyes suddenly gleamed with a peculiar green light.

The eerie glow resembled ghostly flames flickering in the darkness, leaping ceaselessly as though capable of piercing through the shrouded ghostly mist.

This was the Jing Clan's secret technique: The Eye of the Myriad Phenomena!

Using this ability, Jing Lie captured sight of Song Wen's figure.

He quickly activated the Flag of Wind Dragon again.

"Wind Prison Cage!"

With a low growl, an invisible force surged in the air. The surrounding currents became violently turbulent.

In the space several hundred feet in front of Jing Lie, a massive wind wall rapidly took shape.

The wind wall, formed by intertwining vortexes, soared dozens of feet high and stretched for over a mile.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound, Song Wen's figure suddenly appeared.

The abrupt manifestation of the wind wall blocked Song Wen's path, forcibly interrupting his Blood Escape Technique.

The moment he collided with the wind wall, Song Wen felt as though he had slammed into an indestructible stone wall. The enormous impact made his vision go black, and it seemed as though all the bones in his body were on the verge of shattering.

Rebounding off the wall, Song Wen staggered back several feet before barely stabilizing himself in midair.

There was no time to catch his breath. Song Wen immediately turned and dashed downward.

Jing Lie smirked coldly. "Still trying to escape? Your escape techniques are useless now. Let's see where you can run!"

He swung the Flag of Wind Dragon again.

This time, another wind wall materialized several hundred feet below.

Seeing himself about to crash into the wall, a flash of lightning suddenly burst from Song Wen's palm as he struck his forehead with his hand.

Amid the pitch-black ghostly mist, the lightning burst into brilliance.

With a crisp sound, Song Wen's head exploded instantly.

His lifeless body fell helplessly, slamming onto the impenetrable wind wall below.

The scene unfolded so abruptly that Jing Lie stood frozen for a moment, unable to react.

His mocking smile froze on his face, his eyes widening in disbelief.

"This... this can't be possible?!" Jing Lie murmured, stunned. "He actually committed suicide?!"

While Jing Lie was in a daze, a shadow suddenly flickered several hundred feet above him, and Song Wen's figure reappeared without warning.

Song Wen had used a Substitute Puppet to absorb the fatal damage, then activated the Focused Spirit Stab to break through the ghostly mist's interference with his spiritual senses.

Without hesitation, he used Thunder Escape Technique to ascend rapidly into the sky.

The commotion caused by Song Wen's sudden reappearance caught Jing Lie's attention. He looked up in shock.

"Not dead? What kind of secret art is this?"

Jing Lie didn't have time to dwell on it. He shot into the air while waving the Flag of Wind Dragon again.

As the flag rippled, countless wind blades swarmed upward like a tide, blanketing the sky.

Given the current situation and not knowing Song Wen's exact location, Jing Lie opted for a wide-range attack.

This tactic not only disrupted Song Wen's speed but also allowed Jing Lie to determine his position through the breaking sounds of wind blades.

As Jing Lie anticipated, a sound of wind blades shattering came from somewhere above.

His eyes lit up. Adjusting his trajectory slightly, he flew toward the source of the noise.

The Flag of Wind Dragon waved again.

"Roar!"

A deafening dragon roar resounded as a massive wind dragon materialized out of thin air.

The wind dragon surged skyward, whipping up fierce winds that churned the surrounding ghostly mist into chaos. s

Seeing the wind dragon charging toward him, Song Wen hastily summoned the Ghost Head Shield and the Spirit Bell Shield to protect himself.

At the same time, he unleashed Great Cave God Thunder, aiming it at the incoming wind dragon.

(End of the Chapter)

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