Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 233: Breaking the Darkness Technique



Chapter 233: Breaking the Darkness Technique



Translator: Cinder Translations

Two hours later, deep inside a cave located a thousand miles away from Qingping Mountain, Song Wen reversed his qi and blood, forcing out the residual essence blood within his body. He then absorbed the essence blood of the corpses of Su Qian, Daoist Qingyan, Su Wenshi, and Du Tianhua.

Afterward, he began to inventory the items within their storage rings.

First was Su Qian's storage ring. To Song Wen's surprise and delight, there were quite a few spirit stones inside: 23 top-grade spirit stones, several hundred mid-grade spirit stones, and several thousand low-grade spirit stones. Altogether, their value exceeded 300,000 low- grade spirit stones.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Additionally, there were some medicinal pills and cultivation techniques.

Suddenly, a gleam of light flashed in Song Wen's eyes. His mind stirred, and he took out a token from within the storage ring.

The token was palm-sized, entirely blood-red in color, with the character "Life" engraved on one side.

Song Wen then reached into his own storage ring and retrieved another blood-red token of the same size.

The two tokens were almost identical, except for the characters engraved on them. The second token bore the character "Corpse," which Song Wen had obtained after killing Shi Shou. That token recorded the cultivation technique Corpse King Blood Refining Method.

It was clear that both tokens originated from the same force.

Curious, Song Wen extended his spiritual sense into the "Life" token.

The token contained records of the Devouring Soul Formation, including its layout and control method.

However, Song Wen knew little about formations and found the Devouring Soul Formation to be extremely profound and difficult to comprehend.

At the end of the token's contents, it was mentioned that this formation came from a sect known as the "Longevity Palace."

Song Wen recalled that Su Qian had mentioned the words "ancient secret realm Longevity Palace" before his death.

It seemed that the Longevity Palace was a sect that had long vanished from history, much like the "Divine Blood Gate" mentioned in the "Corpse" token.

In Su Qian's storage ring, Song Wen also found a jade slip, which contained Su Qian's insights on the Devouring Soul Formation and some information about the Longevity Palace.

After briefly skimming through it, Song Wen found it uninteresting.

He then put away Su Qian's storage ring and took out Daoist Qingyan's.

Compared to Su Qian, Daoist Qingyan had fewer spirit stones-only 170,000-but her storage ring was filled with various pills and spiritual herbs.

Among them were 20 bottles of Beast Refining Pills, containing 240 pills in total.

This solved Song Wen's problem of having insufficient Beast Refining Pills. Lately, he hadn't had time to refine more, and his Sacred Gu had been consuming Bright Silver Stones for a while now.

There were also two bottles of a pill called "Dragon Power Pill," with a total of 20 pills. These were used to feed spirit beasts, specifically third-tier beasts, as it was a third-tier beast pill.

Song Wen recognized the Dragon Power Pill and knew its effects thanks to a jade slip left by Rong Jingyun, who had mentioned the pill in her notes while attempting to refine it, though she had not yet succeeded.

Aside from the pills and spiritual herbs, many of the items in Daoist Qingyan's storage ring were unfamiliar to Song Wen.

Next, he moved on to Du Tianhua's storage ring.

Du Tianhua had even fewer spirit stones than Daoist Qingyan-less than 120,000. His spiritual herbs and medicinal pills were also limited, giving the ring a somewhat meager

appearance.

However, Song Wen did find some items in Du Tianhua's ring that piqued his interest.

The first item was two egg-sized white orbs, which contained Spirit Concealing Mist.

The second was a jade slip that recorded a secret technique called Breaking the Darkness Technique.

This technique wasn't particularly advanced-Foundation Establishment stage cultivators could practice it. However, it was extremely valuable because it was a rare technique related to spiritual sense.

This was the second time since entering the cultivation world that Song Wen had encountered a spiritual sense technique.

The first time was on the ancient battlefield, where a pygmy ghost had used a mental attack.

The Breaking the Darkness Technique was a technique used to probe with spiritual sense, though it had no offensive capabilities. According to its description, once mastered, it could condense the circular, radiating spiritual sense into a line, giving it more penetrating power, useful for investigating places that would normally block spiritual sense, like the Spirit Concealing Mist.

Du Tianhua had used this technique to move freely within the mist.

The third item was another jade slip, this one recording a breath-hiding technique. This technique was quite advanced, but for Song Wen, who could already control his aura through physical means, it wasn't particularly useful.

Du Tianhua had used this breath-hiding technique to evade Daoist Qingyan's pursuit in the Spirit Concealing Mist and later to sneak back into the valley, where he was ultimately killed

by Song Wen.

The storage rings of Su Wenshi and Su Anqing were relatively meager. Despite being managers of the Su family, the two had a combined total of less than 100,000 spirit stones. Their spiritual weapons weren't exceptional either-their flying swords were only top-grade

spiritual weapons.

Song Wen noticed that neither Su Qian nor Du Tianhua possessed any magical treasures; their weapons were only top-grade spiritual weapons. Only Daoist Qingyan's longsword was a true magical treasure.

After sorting through the other 17 storage rings, Song Wen categorized all the valuables into his own storage ring. He realized that he now had over a million spirit stones, an enormous fortune for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He also had items such as Blood Crystals, various medicinal pills, and herbs, all valued at over

a million spirit stones. This wealth was enough to sustain his cultivation for a long time, without needing to worry about resources.

Of course, this was only true if all the resources he needed could be bought with spirit stones.

After checking the storage rings, Song Wen turned his attention to Daoist Qingyan's spirit beast pouch.

Since Daoist Qingyan was dead, her imprint on the spirit beast pouch had disappeared. The Ironback Turtle, which had been nurtured inside the pouch, was now free to enter and exit as it pleased, but it remained inside the pouch without reacting.

This could only mean one thing: it was too severely injured and could only stay in the pouch to

heal.

Song Wen had two options for dealing with the Ironback Turtle.

The first was to quickly find a suitable buyer and sell the turtle for a large number of spirit

stones. Though Song Wen wasn't familiar with the price of spirit beasts, a living third-tier spirit beast would undoubtedly fetch an astronomical price.

The second option was to kill it, eliminating any potential threats.

As for contracting the Ironback Turtle himself, Song Wen wasn't interested.

He and the turtle were separated by an entire cultivation stage. Even if he forced a soul

contract while the turtle was injured, it could break free once it recovered, turning against

him.

Unless a spirit beast was raised by a cultivator over a long period, with emotional bonds forming between them, spirit beasts usually wouldn't exceed a cultivator's level by more than

one major stage.

After some thought, Song Wen decided to kill the Ironback Turtle.

In the short term, he wouldn't be able to find the right person to sell it to.

Furthermore, as Daoist Qingyan's spirit beast, many cultivators near the Beast-Taming Sect

would likely recognize the Ironback Turtle.

Selling it openly might bring unnecessary trouble.

(End of the Chapter)

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