Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

Shen Yi rode the clouds to a desolate slope.

His sight filled with a mountain of flesh built from the carcasses of demons.

According to Lady Qinghua's report, the Song State's prefectural city wasn't very large; across the four states there were a total of 102 counties, with a total of 636 demon corpses. There were so many that not even a pocket treasure could hold all the bodies, so they had to be temporarily piled up here.

In comparison, the Crimson Eye Demon King, who only brought along a dozen or so Demon Lords, was vastly outnumbered by the Howling Moon Demon King of Qingzhou.

It was obvious that Crimson Eye had solidified his territory and made a name for himself, attracting nearly a thousand demons to his cause. Even so, an average of only six or seven demons per county was enough to keep the entire populace in line.

About 60% of them were intelligent demons, with over a hundred at the Initial Realm, dozens at the Jade Liquid Boundary, and sixteen Condensation Elixir Demons.

Keep in mind that this was the result after a fierce battle with the Demon-suppression Bureau and another Demon King, yet such a significant number still remained.

A little demon at the Jade Liquid Boundary could leave over a hundred thousand people powerless to resist.

Condensation Elixir Demons could merely lie within the county office and scare warriors in nearby counties to the point where they wouldn't even dare think of fleeing.

Such a daunting oppressiveness certainly didn't arise from nothing.

It must have been the use of countless lives as a reminder that instilled sheer terror in the people of the Song State, resulting in the current state of affairs.

"Huh."

Shen Yi let out a slight breath. Upon seeing the head impaled on the spear at the entrance to the Demon Suppressing General's Mansion, for some reason, he suddenly thought of General Chen Qiankun.

He was not a sentimental person.

But after witnessing the state of Song State, he still felt somewhat uncomfortable deep inside.

And what was more absurd,

among the demons, Crimson Eye Demon King's way of feeding was even considered "merciful." He consumed incense willpower rather than fresh blood. He simply had his subordinates feed regularly to maintain a constant fear among the people of their lives hanging by a thread.

If it were those who were more decisive in their actions, perhaps Song State would not have lasted until today and would have been devoured clean long ago.

Indeed, small fries will always be small fries.

Even though he had obtained strength beyond an ordinary person's imagination, Shen Yi still couldn't remain as calm as the experts from the Martial Temple, treating the world as a chessboard and the suffering of living beings as chess pieces to be exchanged.

In his previous confrontation with the Crimson Eye Demon King, he punched again and again, as if he was back in Liulimiao Village, driving the steel knife into the heart of the Dog Demon, repeatedly thrusting into it, using this to vent the slight rage within his heart.

Shen Yi gently shook his head, quickly adjusting his state of mind.

His eyes grew cold as he opened his mouth and turned the towering mountain of flesh before him into rivers of blood. The grotesque forms of six to seven hundred demons rapidly became desiccated husks.

The blood river in mid-air converged, visibly condensing at an observable rate into demon blood.

What looked like a sky of fresh red, when it gradually darkened, left only four drops of demon blood entering Shen Yi's mouth.

"…"

It wasn't even enough to support a single full-force battle of a Dao Infant.

However, their true value lay elsewhere.

Shen Yi looked up at his panel, the exaggerated series of numbers there causing his heartbeat to accelerate slightly.

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Only the 11,000 years from the four Condensation Elixir Demon Lords and the over 7,000 years from the Crimson Eye Demon King were personally harvested by Shen Yi.

The rest were all the handiwork of Lady Qinghua.

Shen Yi summoned her divine soul, and the woman wearing the Qinghua gown appeared beside him, floating lightly.

"Go to the borders of Song State again and see if there are any that slipped through the net."

"Lady Qinghua respectfully follows my lord's divine decree."

Lady Qinghua looked pale but did not show the slightest objection, bowing respectfully before swiftly returning to the Yin God and then drifting off into the distance.

Shen Yi collected all the Beast Origins and Demon Cores on the ground into his pocket, then took out the corpses of the Condensation Elixir Demon Lords and the Crimson Eye Demon King.

The Blood Transforming Divine Ability was once again deployed.

Moments later, twenty-three drops of demon blood floated from the bodies of the four Demon Lords. Judging by the number, their strength was only slightly inferior to that of a lesser Demon King, and it was indeed remarkable that they could survive the fierce battles.

Contrary to expectations, the battle with the Crimson Eye Demon King left Shen Yi somewhat disappointed; the fifty-seven drops of Demon Blood were far less impressive than those from Lady Qinghua.

"Hm?"

Underneath the empty hide of the Black Bear, there was unexpectedly a dark wooden box.

After swallowing the Demon Blood, Shen Yi waved his hand to pick it up and opened it to find a neatly arranged pile of envelopes inside.

He opened and read them one by one.

All the letters came from the same power.

The contents of the letters were quite singular, almost all of them were explanations concerning Cultivation Techniques.

The sender was a force with which Shen Yi was fairly familiar.

Qingqiu.

And in those letters, they addressed the Crimson Eye Demon King as a revered figure.

Upon removing all the letters, what lay beneath was a thick tome of Cultivation Technique.

"..."

Shen Yi opened the Cultivation Technique, quickly scanning its contents.

Soon, an additional line of text appeared on the panel.

[Martial Immortal's All-Encompassing Divine Cultivation Technique: Not Yet Started]

He recalled the treasure armor and weapons that had accumulated on the Black Bear's body, which had solidified the formless Incense Willpower into a visible existence.

No wonder a Demon suddenly wanted to change its stripes, trying to become some sort of divine ruler.

It turned out to have received a legacy.

"I'll keep it for now."

Shen Yi waved his hand to close the panel. Although he had acquired a rich lifespan of Demons, the situation in Song State wasn't the norm; if other states were also like this, Great Qian would have perished long ago.

Save where you can, spend where you must.

Such a Yin God Cultivation Technique was, at best, a choice of last resort, and given Lady Qinghua's current abilities, she hardly had the spare capacity to control an even more powerful Yin God.

If only he could stumble upon a Demon Emperor in the Divinity Transformation Realm...

Shen Yi's gaze fell upon the Demon Origin, or perhaps feed her another one of these?

He decided to wait.

This was a lifespan of a Demon stretching over tens of thousands of years; unless necessary, he did not wish to waste it on Qinghua.

He would rather return to the Martial Temple first to see if there were other things more in need of study.

As for the connection between the Crimson Eye Demon King and Qingqiu, Shen Yi didn't really care. Qingqiu had long been on his mental list, and this incident merely deepened his impression.

"Adding the previous batch, a total of one hundred and twenty-six drops of Demon Blood should be sufficient."

Shen Yi packed the wooden box away, not missing the Demon Cores either. Nowadays, these items could replace Demon Blood as medicinal supplements, so they should not be wasted.

He sat cross-legged and channeled the lifespan of the Demon into the Nine Demon Transformation Technique.

This time, he was nurturing the second Immortal Demon.

[First year: You merged the Demon Blood into your limbs and bones, feeding it to the Mountain Lord, starting its unconscious devouring.]

The same transformation as before appeared on the body of the Mountain Lord.

Shen Yi lifted his garments, observing the fierce tiger patterns that quietly emerged on his body. The Demon Blood merged into his physique, tinting it a slightly eerie shade of crimson.

At the same time, an immense power began to burst forth within him.

The amount of Demon Blood was rapidly decreasing.

In no time, he was short by over seventy drops, and the Mountain Lord continued to absorb.

[Fourth millennium, two hundredth year: The Mountain Lord's absorption began to slow. Its aura seemed to climb towards a certain peak, threatening the status of the adjacent Immortal Flood Dragon. The Splendid Fierce Tiger looked indifferently at its counterpart, swallowing another drop of Demon Blood.]