Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 469

“This is definitely not the Spirit Burial Garden!”

Wei Wuya’s face darkened as he was the first to pass through the passage.

After quickly scanning the area with his spiritual sense, he found that the space, only a few dozen yards wide, was just a pile of rocks shrouded in gray mist. Who would believe this was the Spirit Burial Garden, a place said to be overflowing with spiritual energy and abundant with various spirit herbs and medicines, far more so than the mortal realm?

However, the Guiling Sect Leader and Wang Tiangao looked around, showing surprise but also a hint of welcome. Sensing this, Wei Wuya became more vigilant.

“Junior Brother, do you feel it? The demonic energy here is at least twice as strong as in the mortal realm. Any demonic techniques we use here will be much more powerful.”

The Guiling Sect Leader spoke after a moment of silence.

“Senior Brother, I also practice the same demonic arts; how could I not feel it? If we stay here to cultivate, it won’t take long to overcome the bottlenecks in our cultivation.”

Wang Tiangao’s eyes gleamed, revealing his complex emotions.

“Sect Leader Wang, isn’t it time to summon that person and hear the whole story? Could it be that all that trouble was just to come to a place like this?”

Wei Wuya, having found nothing of value despite his search, stared at the two with a slightly grim expression.

“Of course. If he can’t give a proper answer, I won’t let him off easily.”

The Guiling Sect Leader, also feeling resentful for being deceived by the scroll’s soul, contorted his face. Soon, the scroll unfurled.

However, before the Guiling Sect Leader could cast a spell, a green light burst out on its own.

Wang Tiangao, who was standing nearby, reached out with lightning speed, trying to grab the green light with a black hand that was about a foot long. However, the green light seemed to have planned its escape, dodging the black hand and piercing through the sky.

Wei Wuya remained calm, but the Guiling Sect Leader showed his anger.

He flipped his palm and took out a blood-colored spirit tablet, then fiercely shook it in the direction the green light had fled. Soon, a blood-colored light flew from the spirit tablet and caught up with the green light.

The Guiling Sect Leader’s face brightened, but the green light fiercely shook it off and disappeared even faster.

“It’s strange that the Yang Soul Curse [a type of curse that targets the soul] the Guiling Sect Leader cast didn’t work. I’ll catch him and find out what he’s plotting.”

Wei Wuya sneered and transformed into a streak of light, following after it.

“Sect Leader, this is…”

Wang Tiangao, having barely regained his composure, expressed his doubts.

“There was clearly a curse on him before, so why doesn’t it work now? Let’s go. I, the Sect Leader, also need to find out what’s going on.”

The Guiling Sect Leader revealed his killing intent and transformed into a streak of light, flying away. No matter how far the green light fled, there was a limit to where it could go in this space.

Wang Tiangao smiled wryly and followed behind him.

Not long after, they found Wei Wuya stopped about halfway through the space, and the soul, who had returned to his appearance as a disciple, was there as well.

They were puzzled by the soul’s confident expression, but then they were shocked by the scene twenty yards away. In the mist, a huge monster, thirty yards tall, was frozen like a red crystal, completely still.

The monster had two heads, four arms, a horn on its forehead, and its entire body was covered in black scales that shimmered eerily. Its ferocious appearance and sharp fangs were terrifying.

“Such dense demonic energy!”

Wang Tiangao felt his heart drop.

The sealed monster’s body was vast, and the demonic energy it emitted was several times denser than the surrounding area.

“Let’s hear what he has to say first.”

The Guiling Sect Leader, wary of the sealed monster, slowly descended next to Wei Wuya.

“Since you two have arrived, I don’t need to say it twice.”

The disciple smiled at the Guiling Sect Leader and Wang Tiangao.

“What is the reason for luring us here?”

The Guiling Sect Leader asked, scanning the other party.

Blood-colored spells flowed across the disciple’s skin, and it was clear that the curse was acting up. His skin was twitching, and his whole body was convulsing, yet the disciple looked at them with a calm face.

“I don’t know about Senior Brother Wei, but Sect Leader Wang and Fellow Disciple must have sensed the demonic energy here, since you both practice demonic arts passed down from ancient times.”

“So, is this the Spirit Burial Garden?”

Wang Tiangao coldly retorted to the disciple’s words.

“Heh, the Spirit Burial Garden! Perhaps it is.”

“What are you talking about? Are you playing with us?”

Wang Tiangao shouted at the disciple’s nonchalant answer.

“If there was a space overflowing with spirit herbs and medicines and dense spiritual energy, would the ancient cultivators have left it behind? Perhaps there were a few places like the Spirit Burial Garden long ago. But the ancient cultivators have already harvested all the spirit herbs and fought over them, so they have long been destroyed.

This place is at the junction between the mortal realm and our star system, so in another sense, it can be called the Spirit Burial Garden.”

“Star system? Could it be that you were a demon!”

Wei Wuya, who had been calm, was shocked by the disciple’s words and shouted, then frantically formed hand seals, covering his entire body with a thick green poisonous mist.

“Do you know about our star system?”

The disciple looked at Wei Wuya, as if surprised.

“I don’t know much about the ancient demon realm, but I do know that demons are beings that cannot coexist with us humans. Is it not enough that you appeared in the mortal realm and caused so much slaughter?”

Wei Wuya, hidden in the green poisonous mist, replied coldly.

The Guiling Sect Leader and Wang Tiangao also changed their expressions as they listened to the conversation, emitting black energy to conceal their bodies in a black mist. The two unconsciously stepped back.

The talk of the ancient demon realm and demons was unheard of, but seeing Wei Wuya fully prepared, they naturally became wary!

“It doesn’t matter what I am. I want to make a deal with you three. Would you be interested if I could help you reach the Transformation Stage [a high level of cultivation]?”

“Let’s hear it.”

The Guiling Sect Leader glanced at Wang Tiangao and then replied.

“It’s simple. You see the demon’s body behind me. If you three release its seal, I will open a passage to the star system as a reward and infuse you with demonic energy by borrowing the power of the Great Demon Lord.

If you have the best body for practicing demonic arts, it won’t be difficult to become a member of our star system. With your talents, reaching the Transformation Stage won’t be difficult.”

“You’ll infuse us with demonic energy if we just release the seal?”

The Guiling Sect Leader didn’t know exactly what it meant, but the promise of greatly increasing his cultivation and reaching the Transformation Stage was definitely an enticing deal. Wang Tiangao had similar thoughts.

“Don’t make a foolish mistake. Have you thought about what will happen if you are infused with demonic energy? You might lose your reason and become a puppet of the demons.”

Wei Wuya, who was experienced and quick-witted, read their minds and warned them.

“Senior Brother Wei, what do you mean?”

Wang Tiangao asked in surprise.

“Think about it yourself. Do you really believe the words of a demon from another world? I don’t know what infusing demonic energy means, but do you believe that your cultivation will increase by recklessly accepting turbid energy?”

Wei Wuya questioned relentlessly from within the poisonous mist. The Guiling Sect Leader and Wang Tiangao also thought about it, and their eyes changed.

The disciple was about to say something when Wei Wuya’s expression turned strange.

At the same time, a sharp sound was heard from the pile of rocks behind the disciple, and a black shadow suddenly pierced through the disciple’s stomach. Surprisingly, a black snake with a white horn had pierced through his stomach.

As a result, a bowl-sized hole was torn in the disciple’s stomach. Although no blood flowed since he was a soul, the cyan crystal [likely referring to a soul crystal] was almost shattered, revealing fragments.

“Did you find the location of my soul stone?”

The disciple looked down at his stomach in disbelief. At that moment, a reply came from within the poisonous mist.

“I haven’t learned any sorcery, so how would I know what a soul stone is? It’s just that my Soul-Piercing Serpent is excellent at detecting demonic energy.”

The disciple smiled wryly, then suddenly his entire body exploded, turning into gray-white smoke and disappearing.

The Guiling Sect Leader and Wang Tiangao were surprised by this, but they took a long breath as they looked at the huge demon’s body in the distance.

“Fellow Disciple Wei, should we destroy that demon’s body?”

“If it could be destroyed, the ancient cultivators would have sealed it. It’s best to leave everything as it is and get out of here quickly.”

“You’re right. Let’s not stay in this bizarre place any longer and leave quickly.”

Even the Guiling Sect Leader said this, so Wang Tiangao didn’t object any further.

The three were about to transform into streaks of light and fly away when a dry voice suddenly sounded.

“Who said you could leave? Did you think you could come to the place where this venerable one’s body is sealed and leave alive?”

Wang Tiangao and the others felt a chill down their spines at the familiar voice and hurriedly turned their heads. Then, the gray-white energy that had scattered and disappeared was gathering again, glaring at the three with the face of a horned demon!

The Guiling Sect Leader formed hand seals like the wind and spat out a black flying dagger from his mouth, but the energy containing the demon split into two and then merged back into one.

The Guiling Sect Leader was terrified at the sight. He was skilled in a secret technique of killing demons with demonic arts, but his natal magic treasure [a magic item tied to one’s life force], the flying dagger, was completely ineffective, filling him with a chilling dread.

A sharp sound was heard from within the green poisonous mist surrounding Wei Wuya, and the white-horned snake that had been floating in the air transformed into a streak of black light and shot out. At the same time, the green poisonous mist writhed, creating a huge cyan hand to grab the demon.

Wang Tiangao and the Guiling Sect Leader also quickly circled around, covering the demon with eerie energy, while the other one opened his mouth and spat out a golden, radiant skull.

In the three cultivators’ combined attack, various attacks were mixed together in an instant.

At that moment, the demon’s head in the gray mist shook and began to make a gruesome sound. The sharp demon’s cry caused the demon’s body to emit a black light, and then it suddenly opened its eyes and fired a red beam of light.

The red beam of light enveloped the demon in the gray energy, forming a crimson blood-colored shield.

Various attacks collided with the shield over time, but for some reason, the blood-colored shield remained intact.

Whether it was the black energy created by demonic arts or the giant hand transformed from poisonous mist, they were absorbed the moment they touched the blood-colored shield, only making the shield thicker.

The black snake and the golden skull were constantly attacking, but nothing changed.

While the three cultivators hesitated for a moment, a change occurred in the demon’s body, which had been frozen like a crystal. The black light was withdrawn, and a blood-colored light burst out from the body.

The blood-colored shield became denser, and the demon’s head inside it closed its eyes and absorbed the energy. Then, countless blood-colored rays gathered like crawling larvae, forming the demon’s body.

The blood-colored rays formed bones and muscles, then covered the skin with a strange light. The cultivators were speechless at the horrifying sight.

Flesh began to form not only on the body but also on the demon’s head. Wang Tiangao, who was watching the scene, recalled a legendary secret technique.

“It’s disassembling the body to create a new one! It’s the Disintegration and Transformation Great Technique, one of the most powerful secret techniques of demonic arts!”

As he spoke, he spread his arms and shot out black light. The black light was from two palm-sized copper pieces with complex spells flowing through them.

The two copper pieces flew into their respective beams of light, emitting black light and interrupting the connection between the demon’s body and the demon’s head.

The demon’s head, which was almost finished forming its body, opened its eyes fiercely and glared at him with purple, shimmering eyes.
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