The Demon General, during the battle with the Heavenly Poison Centipede, split a strand of divine consciousness, dwelling within the centipede, continuously eroding its life and awareness.
At the moment of Fire Feather's self-detonation, the Heavenly Poison Centipede felt the sorrow of being a demon clan and harbored hatred towards humans, allowing the Demon General to seize the opportunity and gain an advantage in the battle of consciousness.
Subsequently, the Demon General utilized the demon seed to generate demonic qi, eroding more living beings to birth more demonic qi, preparing to rebuild its physical body.
After narrowly escaping multiple sieges by Core Formation Realm experts, the impending reformation of its body was unexpectedly interrupted by the Divine Soldiers brought by Lu Yu.
Forced to destroy the demon lair, the Demon General managed to reform part of its body.
Initially, it planned to extract demonic qi from all demonized creatures to restore its body and power.
But the process was interrupted, leaving it no time to extract demonic qi from other demons, and the partially reformed body was far from its original strength.
Under the siege of numerous Core Formation Realm cultivators, the defeat of the Demon General was evident.
The battle erupted on the surface, while Lu Yu lit up one cave after another underground, illuminating the demon lairs.
Celestial Falling Bright Flame, under Lu Yu's command, was generated relentlessly, spreading throughout the underground caves, burning most demons to ashes.
Only a small portion of demons with strength exceeding the Qi Cultivation Realm survived, and these were personally slain by Lu Yu with the Demon-Breaking Saber.
With the double experience bonus buff, Lu Yu gained over two hundred thousand experience points by burning a single cave.
If it weren't for the spiritual power consumption, Lu Yu wished to continue burning down to the end.
After exhausting his spiritual power, Lu Yu immediately hid to consume Spirit Fruits and Pills, restoring his spiritual power before re-emerging in new demon caves, bringing them the fire of light.
Watching the panel as his experience points rose, Lu Yu smiled.
Soon, his experience points would reach two million, allowing upgrade of many skills he had been unwilling to improve due to previous experience scarcity; he checked his attribute panel.
[Realm: Qi Cultivation Realm Sixth Level (0/600,000)]
[Spiritual Qi: 862 (Ice 431, Fire 431)]
[Cultivation Techniques: Seven Layers of Ice and Fire (First Layer), Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique (Fifth Layer), Battle God Technique (Sixth Layer, 0/100,000)]
[Skills: Ice Spirit Qi∗Dark Nether Cold Qi (Ice Technique Power +50%), Fire Spirit Qi∗Celestial Falling Bright Flame (Fire Technique Power +40%)
Fire Demon Eye (Not Fully Mastered, 30% Open)
Infinite Fist (Spiritual Level, Fourth Grade, Upgradable) (Peerless)
Iaijutsu - Celestial Collapse (Spiritual Level, Fourth Grade, Upgradable) (Godlike, 231/300,000)
Heaven's Edge Ruler Step (Novice) (126/100,000)
Blood Burning Secret Technique (Consumes 40% Qi Blood, Doubles Combat Power) (Adept) (23/200,000)
Earth Escape (Masterful) (87/300,000)
Golden Armor Spirit Array (Novice) (456/100,000)
Basic Artifact Refining Technique (Novice) - Spirit Pattern Pen Refining (Masterful)]
[Experience Points: 1,905,623]
After pushing Bladeless Blade Technique to its limit, it was folded away, leaving Fierce Tiger Fist to evolve into Infinite Fist, with the skill disappearing, yet its combat techniques remained in Lu Yu's mind, and the omened Tiger's Might can still be used.
The experience required for upgrading Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique equaled that needed for realm advancement.
Seeing Ice and Fire Spiritual Power separately, Lu Yu's realm appeared deceptively high, with his spiritual power intensity not reaching the level of Qi Cultivation Realm Six.
The realm determines the spiritual power cap, while spiritual power intensity defines the execution strength of martial arts.
Lu Yu glanced at the realm upgrade button, which showed gray, indicating insufficient spiritual power intensity to directly upgrade the realm.
It doesn't matter, as long as the cultivation technique upgrade button is active, Lu Yu can forcefully enhance his realm with Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique.
[After rigorous training, Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique rises to sixth layer, Spiritual Qi +20, Qi Blood +10]
[Insights gained from cultivating Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique, realm ascended to Qi Cultivation Realm Seventh Level, Spiritual Qi +50, Qi Blood +11]
Upgrading to Qi Cultivation Realm Seventh Level requires 700,000 experience points, with over 1.3 million remaining, continue upgrading!
[After rigorous training, Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique rises to seventh layer, Spiritual Qi +25, Qi Blood +13]
[Insights gained from cultivating Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique, realm ascended to Qi Cultivation Realm Eighth Level, Spiritual Qi +55, Qi Blood +11]
Upgrading to Qi Cultivation Realm Eighth Level requires 800,000 experience points, leaving only over 600,000 experience points, short by one demon lair worth of points, Lu Yu quickened his pace.
Soon, another twenty thousand experience points were earned, Lu Yu continued upgrading Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique.
[After rigorous training, Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique rises to eighth layer, Spiritual Qi +30, Qi Blood +10]
[Insights gained from cultivating Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique, realm ascended to Qi Cultivation Realm Ninth Level, Spiritual Qi +60, Qi Blood +0] ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ NovᴇlFirᴇ.ɴet
[System Alert!!! Player's realm greatly exceeds the strength of current spiritual power capable of supporting the realm, posing a high risk of realm regression. Until the player's spiritual power strength reaches the normal realm level, realm elevation cannot occur through any means]
Not only did the realm upgrade button turn gray, even the Celestial Spirit Profound Qi Technique upgrade button turned gray, while the plus sign behind spiritual power flashed incessantly, urging Lu Yu to use experience points for enhancement.
Upon reaching Qi Cultivation Realm Ninth Level, Lu Yu's Qi Blood intensity became 999 points, unable to further increase.
Spiritual Power cap reached 1102 points, with Ice and Fire Spiritual Power each at 551 points; to enhance spiritual power using experience points, each point requires consuming 10,000 experience points.
To reach the level of Qi Cultivation Realm Ninth Level, with Ice and Fire Spiritual Power each exceeding 900 points, Lu Yu needs at least 6,980,000 experience points.
Calculating slightly, Lu Yu's hand trembled.
The realm of Qi Cultivation Ninth Level quivered lightly, indicating its potential regression; repeated elevation of the realm yields no rewards but consumes more experience points.
Right now, the only means to maintain one's realm is to swiftly enhance spiritual power strength, lowering the regression chance significantly at 700 points, and eliminating any with 800 points.
Bang! The reformed body of the Demon General was exploded by numerous Core Formation Realm experts, and a strand of divine consciousness within it was annihilated by Divine Soldiers.
At the core of the demon lair, the demon seed fell to the ground, as nearby players saw a streak of light descending, knowledgeable players rushed towards where it landed.
In the face of NPCs, the demon seed appeared like air, with no Core Formation Realm noticing the fallen demon seed.
Unlike demons, the demon seed capable of converting demonic qi itself lacks any demonic or spiritual qi, rendering it invisible to NPCs, visible only to players and great demons.
Higher-level powers may see the demon seed, but Core Formation Realm lacks that ability.
Lu Yu had just emerged from the ground when he saw a streak of light rushing toward him, instinctively reaching out to block, only for the light to pierce into his body.
[Gained 1 Life Source]
[Current Life Source count: 1]
"Kill him, the demon seed will burst out." The first to arrive was a knowledgeable player, who, seeing Lu Yu acquiring the demon seed, urgently shouted.
Lu Yu glanced around, then dove underground.
Everyone was baffled, launching attacks at the ground but failing to locate Lu Yu's trace.
Su Peng once told Lu Yu that the resurrection effect of the demon seed only worked when killed by an NPC, with no effect if killed by a player.
Yet, there's an extreme use—self-detonation—committing suicide can trigger the resurrection effect.