Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Blood-Colored Armor Fragment, Mysterious Cultivation Technique

’That Demon Cultivator should be dead!’

Ignoring his own condition, Li Ping’s gaze first fell upon the human-shaped piece of charcoal at the center of the explosion.

The man had been at the epicenter of the blast. What’s more, Li Ping had taken his Storage Bag, leaving him with no defensive Dharma Artifacts to resist the power of the Spirit Talismans. His situation was far worse than Li Ping’s.

Even for a Late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, it was impossible to survive such a thunder and fire explosion.

But just to be safe, and to prevent the man from leaving behind any remnant soul, Blood Pearl, or other means of Possession...

Li Ping slapped his Storage Bag, sending a small sword flying out. He directed it to madly hack at the charred figure, intending to grind its bones to dust.

But in the middle of the hacking, suddenly—

The Flying Sword seemed to strike something hard and was sent flying with a CLANG.

’Huh, what’s that?’

Li Ping’s Divine Sense noticed what looked like a Blood-Colored Armor Fragment that had fallen out of the Demon Cultivator’s body.

’To come out of an explosion like that completely unscathed, and to not even have a scratch after being struck by my Flying Sword.’ Li Ping couldn’t help but be curious about what this Blood-Colored Armor Fragment was.

In any case, it was definitely no ordinary item.

Ignoring the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment, Li Ping continued to control the Flying Sword, hacking at the charred body. He had to admit, the hardness of this charred corpse was extraordinary. Each strike of the Flying Sword could only chip away a small piece.

Of course, if it hadn’t been so tough, a complete corpse wouldn’t have been left behind after such a thunder and fire assault.

But Li Ping wasn’t in a hurry. He continued hacking at the charred figure while using his Nourishing Life Skill Power to heal his wounds.

He was well aware of the importance of ensuring the kill. He wouldn’t get close until he had ground the Demon Cultivator’s body to dust, lest he fall for some hidden trap.

...

’My residence...’ While dealing with the Demon Cultivator’s "funeral arrangements," Li Ping spared a sliver of his attention to survey his cave residence, a look of resignation in his eyes.

As far as the eye could see, across an area of hundreds of acres, not a single thing was left standing.

The palaces and houses had all been burned to cinders. His meticulously tended Spirit Medicine Garden, spanning over thirty acres, was also nothing but a pile of black ash. The pond in the center of the residence was just a crater, and the spirit fish inside had probably "turned to spring mud to nourish the flowers."

Li Ping could only be thankful that after the beast tide, he had developed the good habit of always being ready to flee. As a result, all his truly important belongings were carried with him in his Storage Bag.

Of course, that didn’t mean his losses were small.

Just the nearly one hundred Tier Two Middle Grade Spirit Talismans were worth over ten thousand Spirit Stones in total, not to mention the Tier Two Upper Grade Dharma Artifact, the Turtle Spirit Shield, which had been blasted to smithereens.

This wasn’t Magical Combat; he was literally just throwing Spirit Stones away!

’My entire four-year stockpile,’ Li Ping lamented. ’You can’t say you were wronged, dying to an attack like that.’

After all, even for an official Tier Two Middle Grade Talisman Maker like Meng Qingyi, without a 100% success rate, it would probably take decades to accumulate so many Tier Two Middle Grade Spirit Talismans.

’I hope this Demon Cultivator’s belongings can cover my losses! The entire fortune of a Late-stage Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator should be substantial, right?’ Thinking of this, Li Ping felt a flicker of anticipation.

Without rushing to inspect the contents of the two Storage Bags he’d taken from the man, Li Ping continued to scan the damage to his residence with his Divine Sense.

To his surprise, the power of the massive explosion hadn’t managed to shake the residence’s Array, nor had it destroyed the Tier Two Upper Grade Spirit Vein underground.

He was secretly relieved at this outcome.

The Array was a small matter. If he had accidentally damaged Immortal Peach Mountain’s Spirit Vein, his only option would have been to pack up and run before the Meng family came demanding compensation.

’Was it because of that Demon Cultivator’s blood-colored crystal ball Dharma Artifact?’ Li Ping recalled the earlier battle, a guess forming in his mind.

In fact, his guess was correct. After Yan Kun entered his cave residence, he had worried that Li Ping would activate the Array and escape. That’s why he used the blood-colored crystal ball Dharma Artifact to isolate the area, creating an independent space to trap Li Ping inside.

As a result, when the Spirit Talismans were activated, the explosive power that scattered in all directions was completely blocked by the blood-colored crystal ball.

After the crystal ball was blasted to ash, the small amount of remaining power that struck the residence’s Array was naturally unable to affect it, let alone destroy it.

...

’What kind of Cultivation Technique did this Demon Cultivator practice? His body is still this tough even after he’s dead!’ Li Ping couldn’t stop marveling.

He had controlled his Flying Sword to hack at the body for hours on end, almost breaking the sword in the process, before finally mincing the charred corpse into paste.

Then, he formed a hand seal and cast several Fireball Techniques, completely turning the remains to ash.

Seeing that there was still no movement, Li Ping finally confirmed that the Demon Cultivator had truly died long ago in the thunder and fire. His efforts to grind the bones to dust had been entirely superfluous.

After several hours, Li Ping’s injuries had mostly healed. He changed into a set of white robes and walked toward the pile of the Demon Cultivator’s ashes.

With a wave of his sleeve, he blew the ashes away, revealing the perfectly intact Blood-Colored Armor Fragment underneath.

The Blood-Colored Armor Fragment had a smooth surface and was faintly inscribed with mysterious patterns around its edges. From its appearance, it seemed to be a component of some larger suit of armor.

’What in the world is this?’ With a beckoning gesture, Li Ping used his Magical Power to levitate the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment into his hand.

But the moment the Armor Plate landed in his palm—

A cluster of blood-red light shot out from the Armor Plate. Before Li Ping could even react, the light had plastered itself to his face and passed right through.

At the same time, an ecstatic voice echoed in Li Ping’s mind: "Haha... To think a physique like the ’Indestructible Body’ exists in the Western Wilderness Cultivation Realm! The heavens are truly on my side! Boy, you destroyed my body, so your Indestructible Body will be mine... Hahaha!"

’What?’ Greatly alarmed, Li Ping immediately sat down cross-legged, focusing his entire being on resisting the other’s Possession.

This damned Demon Cultivator hadn’t hidden his remnant soul in his body but inside the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment, catching Li Ping completely off guard.

After all, who would have thought that the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment held such a secret, capable of housing a remnant soul?

But what surprised Li Ping even more was that after the Demon Cultivator’s remnant soul rushed into his body, it didn’t reach his sea of consciousness to begin a battle for Possession. Instead, it was sucked directly into the Purple Qi Space within his sea of consciousness.

"Where is this? How did I end up here?"

Enveloped by the endless streams of purple qi, the Demon Cultivator’s soul shrieked in terror, but its struggles didn’t last long.

BOOM—CRACKLE!

A bolt of lightning materialized out of thin air within the purple qi, striking the Demon Cultivator’s soul dead-center. The soul was instantly blasted into fragments and dissipated.

And at the very moment his soul dissipated and he truly died, a worm-like streak of blood-colored light shot out from his soul, seemingly trying to attach itself to some living creature’s soul.

But in the Purple Qi Space, there was only a vast, endless expanse of purple qi. Where was there a soul for it to possess?

Before long, the blood-colored light was also ground down to nothing, vanishing into the Purple Qi Space.

’Whew! What a cunning Demon Cultivator!’ The crisis had passed without any real danger, and Li Ping couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.

At the same time, he grew curious about the blood-red light that had shot out from the Demon Cultivator’s soul.

When he saw the light emerge, he had a faint premonition that it would be nothing good if it managed to attach to his soul.

Thankfully, the blood-red light was ultimately destroyed by the Purple Qi Space and failed to attach to his soul.

...

Having been spooked by the Demon Cultivator’s remnant soul, Li Ping was now even more curious about the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment.

After all, as far as he knew, not even a Tier Two Upper Grade Dharma Artifact could house a soul unless it was specifically refined for that purpose.

The fact that this Blood-Colored Armor Fragment was also astonishingly hard only highlighted its value!

’It couldn’t be a Magical Treasure, could it?’ At this thought, Li Ping couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement.

He cautiously extended a wisp of his Divine Sense into the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment and successfully refined it.

In an instant, large blocks of text and images flooded into Li Ping’s mind...

After a long moment, Li Ping opened his eyes and stared at the Blood-Colored Armor Fragment in his hand, his face a mask of disbelief.

This Blood-Colored Armor Fragment was actually a Transmission Jade Scroll! It recorded a top-tier Dual Cultivation of Body and Technique technique called the *Nine Tribulations True Spirit Scripture*!

For now, Li Ping could only see the cultivation Technique for the first tribulation. He would have to master the first tribulation before he could view the subsequent content.

Seeing this Cultivation Technique, Li Ping finally understood why the Demon Cultivator’s physical body was so tough. He also understood how the Demon Cultivator had managed to sneak into Cyan Dragon Mountain and abduct Lin Yue under everyone’s noses.

It turned out that as a Top-tier Technique, the *Nine Tribulations True Spirit Scripture* not only cultivated Magical Power that was a notch deeper than that of cultivators at the same level, but it also tempered the body to be as durable as a Dharma Artifact of the same tier.

A Cultivator who practiced the *Nine Tribulations True Spirit Scripture* had physical hardness and strength that were even more exaggerated than most Demon Beasts of the same tier. They could fight Demon Beasts with their bare hands; tearing apart Dharma Artifacts was a trivial matter!

The Demon Cultivator had dared to toss his Storage Bag to Li Ping and then attempt to engage him in close-quarters combat, likely because he was extremely confident in his physical body.

’No wonder he was so tough you couldn’t even hack him to pieces. He was a Body Cultivator!’ Li Ping complained inwardly.

Besides a powerful physical body, cultivators of the *Nine Tribulations True Spirit Scripture* also possessed a special ability: they could control all the muscles and bones in their body to alter their shape and change their appearance!

Dai Sangyu’s disciple, Lin Yue, had already received her Foundation Establishment Pill and was in seclusion in a secret chamber on Cyan Dragon Mountain. The Demon Cultivator had probably altered his appearance, disguising himself as someone close to her to sneak into Cyan Dragon Mountain and abduct her.

Li Ping secretly guessed, ’Perhaps the "Hu Feng" who appeared before me wasn’t his real face either!’

But since the Demon Cultivator had been burned to a crisp, Li Ping had no way of knowing his true appearance.

...

「In the Yue Kingdom, thousands of miles from Fenglan Immortal City, at the ancestral home of a certain Foundation Establishment Immortal Race.」

The entire Spiritual Mountain was silent, eerily quiet.

In its clan palace.

An eerie young man in blood-red robes, with a strange vertical marking on his brow, sat on a stone throne at the very top. Like a god, he looked down with great interest at the scene below.

In the center of the palace, hundreds of people were madly tearing at each other. Among them were fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandchildren... but at this moment, they had all forgotten their identities, left with only the most primitive, beast-like instincts!

The entire palace was littered with corpses, rivers of blood flowed, and the air was thick with the stench of gore.

Suddenly, the eerie young man’s brow furrowed. With a flick of his wrist, a palm-sized, blood-colored Token appeared in his hand.

The next second—

CRACK!

Right before the eerie young man’s eyes, the blood-colored Token shattered.

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