Chapter 852: Chapter 740: The Art of Avoiding Calamity_2
Crack!
A black lightning bolt slashed across the sky, emitting a piercing shriek.
Within the pitch-black lightning, there was unmistakably a Transcendent God Demon Cultivator.
With his cultivation in the Demon Path, he had barely come to be considered a master within the Sky Brahman Domain.
Yet at that moment he fled in disgrace, as though he was being pursued by some ferociously evil beast.
Screech!
A peacock’s cry suddenly sounded from behind the Transcendent God Demon Cultivator.
A five-colored brilliance turned into a trailing flame, within which was faintly visible a massive Five Prison Peacocks.
Wielding the five-colored divine light with just a flick, the Transcendent God Demon Cultivator let out a wail and fell to the ground.
"Self-Transforming Heavenly Sovereign Commanding Ten Thousand Spirits True Demon Skill!"
Dread unceasingly swelled within the eyes of that Demon Cultivator.
"Indeed it is!"
A flash of black light and the vast peacock vanished, replaced by the figure of a Heterodox incarnation.
Fang Xi’s face was expressionless, his body cloaked in a layer of pitch-black Demon Armor, his hand forming a gesture.
Two Sky Demon arms emerged, one on each side, seizing the Demon Cultivator and further secretly suppressing any resistance from his Demon Skills.
"Don’t... don’t consume me."
As Fang Xi approached step by step, a profound fear emerged in the Demon Cultivator’s eyes.
Being captured by one who wielded the same origin Demon Skills, he was all too aware of the fate that awaited him.
Because he himself had once employed the same method and was deeply addicted to it.
"During the great battle between the human race and the Monster Clan, all sorts of monstrous spirits are emerging..."
Fang Xi simply sighed, "The Sect of True Demons... has even the Demon Clan’s secret organization infiltrated the Sky Brahman Domain?"
"Are you a subordinate of Jin Gangzi?"
The face of the Demon Cultivator grew even more fearful.
"No, I am just a Demon Cultivator who acts on whims..."
In an instant, Fang Xi’s eyes swelled with demonic intent, running the ’Self-transforming Demon True Skills,’ and following the two Sky Demon arms, a complete chest, demon body... and a fierce demon head appeared.
The Demon Cultivator suddenly let out a bloodcurdling scream, feeling his Nascent Soul wither away.
Pure demon essence magic power was being wantonly absorbed by Fang Xi.
In the end, the man simply turned into a dry corpse.
Rustle!
A gust of wind blew, and the dust scattered, leaving no trace of the Demon Cultivator.
Fang Xi, however, closed his eyes for a moment and circulated his cultivation, "Although converting demon qi into True demon qi consumes a bit much, the accumulation of little to more, coupled with the few from before... is sufficient to push my magic power to the peak of the early Returning to Emptiness stage."
Recently, due to the great war between the human race and the Monster Clan, the Demon Clan had taken notice.
The human race’s Demon Clan secret organization— the Sect of True Demons—was exceedingly active.
This also presented an opportunity to the Heterodox incarnation.
Wandering through various domains, he eventually found some Demon Clan spies practicing the ’Self-Transforming Heavenly Sovereign’s True Demon Art of Controlling All Spirits.’
Although they were all of the Transcendent God level, their numbers added up.
After being turned into a magical elixir that increased his magic power, in just a few decades, his magic power increased at an unfathomable rate.
He was now ready to break through his bottleneck and confront the Minor Heavenly Tribulation.
"High-level practitioners of the Self-transforming Demon Skills, for their lower-tier counterparts, not only impose a crushing hierarchy, but their methods are also extremely overpowering... Those Transcendent God Demon Cultivators, upon seeing me, couldn’t even escape with their Nascent Souls."
"From this, it can be seen that should I encounter the Carefree Sky Demon King, the outcome would be the same!"
...
Penglai Fairy Pavilion.
Fang Xi had a permanent Dongfu here.
When he returned to the Dongfu, it wasn’t long before Fairy Yunxi, dressed in white and appearing as an ordinary person, finished her seclusion and paid a personal visit.
"Congratulations to Yunxi on the great accomplishment of your ghostly form!"
Fang Xi merely glanced at her. In his Divine Thought, her silhouette still appeared somewhat ethereal, as if within a translucent shell, faintly filled with Moonlight and Yin Qi swirling around, immediately knowing that her method of condensing a ghostly form was quite ingenious.
"I have not yet thanked you for your protection along the way!"
Fairy Yunxi gave a solemn bow, her demeanor having undergone a change, resembling an orchid in a secluded valley.
"Haha... please come inside for tea," Fang Xi invited, as he welcomed Fairy Yunxi into the Dongfu for a discussion over tea.
Unwittingly, their conversation turned to the recent great battle between humans and demons.
"The other day... a senior sister from my sect came looking for me to discuss this battle," Yunxi said with a trace of concern on her face: "The Monster Clan’s forces are ferocious. After several tug-of-wars, they have now reached the gates of Heaven Extinction City, and the Thirty-Six Celestial Northern Dipper Array has been breached to the point where only the solitary Array Eye fortress remains..."
"Aren’t people like Jin Gangzi and Changqingzi, among the Five Sons of Human Race, said to be overseeing the defenses in the city?"
Fang Xi touched the jade cup, speaking pensively.
"The Five Sons of Human Race are, after all, only Integration Cultivators... According to the rumors within the sect, our sect leader is also inside Heaven Extinction City, and even ’Mr. Che’ has been witnessed!"
Yunxi spoke slowly.
"’Mr. Che’?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Xi immediately became respectful, "The Mahayana Individual Immortal elder who has been quite active within the human race?"
After entering the Mahayana Period, whether it’s the True Spirits of the Monster Clan, the Demon Ancestors of the Demon Clan, or the Individual Immortals of the human race, all were faced with the Nine Tribulations.
There’s no distinction between early, middle, and late Mahayana Periods.
In fact, once one enters Mahayana, the Nascent Soul is cultivated to Great Perfection with no room for further enhancement.
What’s lacking are only the nine tribulations!
Having undergone the Nine Tribulations, one may ascend and become an Immortal!
Moreover, these tribulations are far more terrifying than the Immortal Thunder Calamity of breaking through to Mahayana, and each one is stronger than the last.
Many Mahayana Monks sadly fall to their own Immortal Calamities.
Thus, most Mahayana Monks dedicate themselves to cultivation in seclusion, or in searching for secret methods and treasures to overcome the tribulations.