Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 1320: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada

Translator: CinderTL

Just as the bone sword was about to pierce through the blood sea, a piercing, high-pitched buzzing suddenly erupted.

Wei Gu’s divine soul immediately detached from his nascent soul, his face contorted in agony.

Simultaneously, the bone sword’s spiritual light vanished, and it fell limply to the ground.

Wei Gu’s divine soul looked up and was horrified to see nine tentacles extending from the man’s head, trembling violently.

The agonizing sound that tormented his soul emanated directly from these nine tentacles.

This is... a void fiend! And he’s sealed it within his Sea of Consciousness!

The thought flashed through Wei Gu’s mind as a crimson tide engulfed him.

The blood sea had descended, swallowing his divine soul, nascent soul, and remaining flesh in its crimson depths.

After dragging Wei Gu’s divine soul into his Sea of Consciousness and suppressing it with the Sea of Consciousness Black Hole, Song Wen finally exhaled in relief. The greatest threat had finally been neutralized.

One of the tentacles extending from Song Wen’s head swiftly shot out, coiled around the Black Wolf Void Demon lying on the ground.

The tentacle then began to phase into a void state, and the Black Wolf Void Demon wrapped within it followed suit, also becoming ethereal.

Once both were fully phased into the void state, the tentacle snapped back violently, pulling the Black Wolf Void Demon into Song Wen’s Sea of Consciousness.

Song Wen’s gaze shifted to Jian Xiao, who lay nearby.

Jian Xiao was not only critically injured and drained of spiritual power, but Wei Gu had also placed some kind of restriction on his body, preventing his divine soul from escaping. He could only lie there, helpless, watching everything unfold.

"Fellow Daoist, thank you for saving me," Jian Xiao rasped, struggling to remove the storage ring from his finger. "I have no way to repay this life-saving debt. Please accept all the treasures within this storage ring as a token of my gratitude. Furthermore, my injuries are too severe for me to move on my own. If you could escort me back to the Myriad Swords Pavilion, I would offer you even greater rewards."

Song Wen showed no response to Jian Xiao’s overtures.

His earlier claim of coming to rescue Jian Xiao had merely been a ploy to test whether Jian Xiao possessed any life-saving measures. He had also used Jian Xiao to probe whether Wei Gu had any hidden cards left to play.

The blood sea surged beneath Song Wen’s feet, surging toward Jian Xiao.

"Fellow Daoist, what are you doing?" Jian Xiao shrieked.

Though he had long suspected the newcomer’s ill intentions—hence his attempt to bribe him with the storage ring—the sight of the blood sea rushing toward him, bringing him to the brink of death, still filled him with terror.

"Please don’t kill me! Just take me back to the Myriad..."

Before Jian Xiao could finish speaking, he was engulfed by the blood sea.

Song Wen moved swiftly, retracting the blood sea as he fled into the distance.

Just then, the shadow void’s voice echoed in Song Wen’s Sea of Consciousness:

"Master, someone is approaching from the depths of the Primordial Qi Death Zone. They’re a Body Integration Stage cultivator."

Song Wen frowned, instinctively assuming it was Gong Tianzong returning victorious from his pursuit of Ye Nan.

Instantly, tendrils of thunderlight coiled around Song Wen’s body, transforming him into a bolt of lightning that pierced through the dense Primordial Qi.

Considering it would be easier to shake off pursuers within the Primordial Qi Death Zone, Song Wen avoided heading toward its outer edges.

Though the Profound Thunder Nine Heavens Escape Technique was swift, it couldn’t match the speed of a Body Integration Stage cultivator.

After fleeing only tens of thousands of miles, Song Wen sensed his pursuer closing in.

To his shock, it was Ye Nan himself!

Song Wen immediately realized that everyone—the Orthodox Path cultivators, Wei Gu of the Six Fiends Hall, and even Gong Tianzong—had underestimated Ye Nan.

If Ye Nan was here, where was Gong Tianzong?

Had he been killed, or had Ye Nan managed to shake him off?

"Little friend, where are Jian Xiao and Wei Gu? Their battle aura lingers where you fled, yet they’re nowhere to be seen. Did they cripple each other, leaving you to swoop in and claim the spoils?" Ye Nan’s voice echoed in Song Wen’s ears.

Song Wen remained silent, his head lowered as he continued his desperate escape.

By now, Song Wen had absorbed the blood sea into his body, leaving only a fist-sized mass concealed within his sleeve.

"Little friend, I mean you no harm. Hand over their storage rings, and I’ll let you leave alive. What do you say?" Ye Nan pressed.

"Senior, do you truly promise not to kill me?" Song Wen asked, his voice tinged with doubt.

"We have no quarrel. Why would I kill you?" Ye Nan replied.

Song Wen gradually reduced his escape speed, turning to face Ye Nan.

"Jian Xiao and Wei Gu are dead. Their storage rings are indeed in my possession."

Ye Nan slowed his escape light, stopping ten zhang away from Song Wen.

"Hand them over."

Sensing his prey had nowhere left to run, Ye Nan’s tone grew noticeably colder.

Song Wen raised his hand and tossed two storage rings into the air.

"Please inspect them, Senior."

Ye Nan’s lips curled into a cold smirk.

With a flick of his finger, a strand of spiritual power shot forth, aimed directly at Song Wen’s chest.

Perhaps due to the close proximity and Ye Nan’s sudden attack, Song Wen had no time to react. The spiritual power struck his chest, instantly obliterating his physical body.

At that moment, the two storage rings floated before Ye Nan.

His attention shifted to the rings.

Suddenly, a millstone-sized gu insect materialized, its razor-sharp mandibles snapping toward Ye Nan’s head.

Startled, Ye Nan instinctively retreated, creating distance between himself and the insect.

His expression quickly turned furious.

How dare a mere fifth-rank gu insect act so brazenly before a Body Integration Stage cultivator like me?

He was about to strike when a piercing hum filled his ears.

The sound drilled into his Sea of Consciousness, exploding like thunder within his mind.

Ye Nan’s divine soul convulsed in agony, his consciousness blurring.

His internal spiritual power erupted into chaos, his body swaying as he plummeted from mid-air.

Song Wen burst from the Primordial Qi a hundred zhang behind Ye Nan. A blood-colored tentacle shot from his foot, ensnaring Ye Nan. Retrieving the gu insect, he fled at breakneck speed.

The two storage rings Song Wen had thrown to Ye Nan were merely empty vessels.

However, he had concealed a Gu insect within the inner wall of each ring. As they neared Ye Nan, the Gu would suddenly enlarge, seizing his mind. At that moment, Song Wen would strike with a surprise attack, leaving Ye Nan utterly defenseless.

This plan carried considerable risk.

Had Ye Nan been more cautious, he might have detected the Gu insects clinging to the rings’ inner walls. But in his desperate pursuit to kill Song Wen, he had paid little attention to the rings.

Song Wen fled deep into the Primordial Qi Death Zone, flying millions of miles before finding a mountain cave. He entered and set up two sets of formation flags, establishing both a defensive formation and a Spirit Isolation Formation.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, he retrieved a blood-red sphere from his sleeve.

The sphere pulsed, and a three-inch-tall figure materialized before Song Wen—Jian Xiao’s nascent soul.

Song Wen reached out and pressed his hand against the nascent soul.

Instantly, a torrent of profound spiritual power surged into Song Wen’s body like a tidal wave.

Channeling the Corpse King’s Rebirth Art with all his might, Song Wen assimilated the foreign spiritual power, merging it with his own. Like a breached dam, the combined energy flooded into his dantian.

(End of the Chapter)

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