Under the corrosion of the Nine Subduing Magic Slip, the demon toad's body was like soft wax, slowly melting away.
About nine days later, it was completely absorbed. Only thousands of smooth pearls were left behind. They fell onto the sand one by one, emitting a faint light. These were all the eyes of the demon toad, and could be considered a rare treasure in the world.
Zhang Yan glanced at them, and they all flew out from the ground and slowly floated in front of him. He counted, there were 512 pairs, exactly one thousand and twenty-four pairs.
He circulated his magical power, and after sensing for a while, he could feel a strange spiritual energy hidden within. It was just that at this moment, it seemed to be in a deep sleep, storing and not releasing.
It seemed like this treasure was similar to the Origin Pearl, and it required the Heavenly Demon's Blood Essence in order to be of use.
But today, other than the few that were sealed in the land of the nine continents, the Sky Demons were extinct. Even if he could find the blood essence, it was too extravagant to use it to control these eyes.
Thus, he had other ideas. At most, he would spend some effort in the future to open the Earthly Fire Heavenly Furnace and refine it into a treasure. Even if its power was slightly weaker, he did not need to rely on the blood essence.
With a thought, all the eyes seemed to be summoned, and one by one, they entered his sleeve.
After finishing this, he once again turned his attention to the Nine Subduing Magic Slip. After the magic slip had eaten its fill of Spiritual Essence, it did not fly back like it usually did. Instead, it glowed brilliantly and quietly floated there, motionless.
Zhang Yan's expression changed slightly. This jade slip was undoubtedly much stronger than before.
He still remembered that when he dissolved Gui Congyao's body, it took a full eighteen days and nights.
Although the demon toad was suppressed underground for tens of thousands of years, it was still stronger than the Black Tortoise. But now, it took even less time.
He did not rush it, but sat cross-legged on the ground and waited quietly.
An hour passed in this manner. Suddenly, the jade slip trembled and emitted a loud and clear ring.
At the same time, Zhang Yan's sleeve also trembled, as if something was in a hurry to come out.
He did not need to check to know what it was. After thinking for a while, he let go of the restraint.
In an instant, a spiritual light flew out. There was a rumble. A ten zhang devil treasury stood steadily in front of him. The jade tablet flew inside and disappeared in a flash.
Zhang Yan raised his eyebrows and pondered for a moment. He fluttered his robes and stood up. He strode in.
Fang Yi was inside. He felt as if he had entered another world, and he heard a loud sound that seemed to split the heavens and earth apart, coming from all directions. Suddenly, twelve towering demonic figures appeared. Each of them was shrouded in mist, making it difficult to discern their true appearance. One could only vaguely see their silhouettes. Each of them was ferocious and ferocious, emitting a monstrous aura from time to time.
As for the Nine Subjugation Demon Slip, it floated high up in the sky.
He tried to summon it with his mind, but he couldn't summon it back. There was only a divine will that seemed to want him to choose one of the twelve Demon Forms.
Thinking about the Devil Transformation Divine Art from before, a layer of enlightenment instantly appeared in his mind, and he looked around.
This was the path that he chose in the Demon Subjugation Scroll. What he saw now was probably the Demon Body that he needed to form when he reached the fifth realm.
Now that the fourth realm of the God Contract was already at the perfect realm, it seemed like if he wanted to improve further, he had to follow its wishes.
His gaze became a little more serene. If it was really as described in the jade slip, there were nine great realms in the Profound Insight Method, then it would be a method that led directly to the Great Way. However, the more one cultivated it, the more one would discover the hidden mysteries within.
He needed to think carefully about whether or not to choose rashly would cause an unexpected disaster.
Although he had refined the Demon Subjugation Scroll long ago and had to follow his wishes, if he resisted, he couldn't do anything about it. However, to be careful, he still needed to be prepared.
He thought about it carefully and had an idea.
He opened his robe and released Fan Zhen's incarnation from his bag.
He then gave an order in his heart for it to choose.
The soul on the incarnation came from his body, and as long as he was willing, he would be able to know what it saw and heard. The entire body was refined by that drop of demon blood, so it would be easy for it to accept this technique.
If something went wrong, it would just be one less incarnation.
The incarnation stepped forward and didn't hesitate much. It stood still under the Demon Body in the north.
The giant body of the Demon Body suddenly moved and looked down like it was examining him.
After a moment, a bright light flew out from its eyes, like a river. It turned into silver stars and entered the incarnation's body.
During this process, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Zhang Yan called the incarnation in front of him and pointed at its brow. Everything that the incarnation saw was known to him.
In its mind, there was an additional cultivation technique.
He looked at it for a long time and then frowned. "Is that so?"
There were no traps on this cultivation technique. Instead, according to what was written, this cultivation technique pointed directly to the Dao. It had the ability to flip the heavens and earth and had endless changes.
However, if one wanted to cultivate this cultivation technique to a deep level, one had to abandon oneself and merge with the Demon Body.
Would the body turn into the Demon Body or merge with the Demon?
At that time, even if one had great Spiritual Power, the person who cultivated this cultivation technique wouldn't be the same person as before.
Zhang Yan scoffed coldly and said decisively, "This isn't my path!"
The moment he said that, the entire area started to tremble.
He waved his sleeves and left without any reluctance.
Behind him, the 12 Demon Bodies collapsed.
The moment he stepped out of the Demon Treasury, he summoned with his mind. The Demon Subduing Bamboo didn't resist and flew into his sleeves. As for the Demon Treasury, it shook a few times and turned into a ball of Spiritual Light. It was also kept in.
Although he decided not to cultivate this cultivation technique, be it the Demon Bamboo or Demon Treasury, they were all rare treasures and he didn't plan on giving them up.
He thought to himself, "I was going to try to enter Strength Path Grade Five while I was suppressing and sealing the beast. Since I can't, then there's no need to think too much about it. I'll just spend all my energy on the Qi Path."
He made up his mind and didn't think too much about it. He looked at the temple on the platform and with a tap of his feet, wind wrapped around his body as he floated over.
This Xuanyou Palace should be an ancient sect of West Continent. Since he was already here, he would take the chance to see if there was anything useful for his cultivation.
The place where the Thousand Eyed Monster Toad was sealed was between the front hall and the middle hall of the temple. There were many more halls behind it.
The middle hall was empty, with only broken pillars and broken walls. He swept his eyes across and headed straight for the back hall.
There were 17 halls here, it was huge. One could see that the elders of the sect used to preach scriptures.
When he passed by, he entered to take a look. At the start, he didn't find anything, but when he reached the last two temples, he found something.
There were several skeletons surrounding a few well-preserved Xuan Steles. However, the strange thing was that most of them weren't in human shape. At a glance, it was obvious that they were birds.
Zhang Yan walked a few steps closer and looked at the steles. The inscriptions on the steles didn't use Eroded Inscriptions. Instead, they were recorded in ancient Chinese.
It was said that a cultivator from overseas came to Xuanyou Temple and made a bet with the cultivators in the temple to see whose cultivation technique was better.
The cultivator from overseas took out an extremely brilliant divine art. In order not to be at a disadvantage, Xuanyou Temple also took out their secret divine art.
After comparing the two, the cultivator was amazed by this divine art and admitted that he was inferior. However, he wanted to invite the person who learned this art to come out and have a talk.
However, what made Xuanyou Temple embarrassed was that because of the harsh conditions to cultivate this art, no one had mastered it for thousands of years. They could only summon a few disciples with shallow cultivation to deal with it.
The cultivator from overseas was very gentlemanly. He didn't deny it because of this, but he inevitably left in disappointment.
Although Xuanyou Temple won the battle in the end, everyone in the sect felt upset. Therefore, they carved the process and set up a stele as proof. It was said that any disciple of the younger generation who could cultivate this divine art could become the personal disciple of the sect master.
The stele didn't record how to cultivate this divine art, but it explained the general situation.
This divine art was called "Seven Birds Transformation". They were Heavenly Phoenix Transformation, Azure Luan Transformation, Golden Roc Transformation, Peacock Transformation, Cloud Crane Transformation, Swan Transformation, and Owl Transformation.
As long as a cultivator captured these demonic birds and extracted their bones and blood essence, they could start from the Owl, Swan, Cloud Crane, and other demonic birds. Step by step, they could finally achieve the body of a Heavenly Phoenix. Not only that, but they could also freely transform between several types of birds according to the cultivator's will.
What was especially amazing was that this art really transformed the physical body and not the appearance. Even these demonic birds' Natural Divine Arts could be the same.
The reason why it was difficult for Xuanyou Palace cultivators to master this art was because these seven types of demonic birds were rare in the world. They were too difficult to find.
When Zhang Yan saw this, he let out a long laugh. It was really a loss in the east, but gain in the mulberry.
His cultivation of the Strength Dao could be considered a powerful technique of his own. It would be a pity if he couldn't improve in the future.
In his opinion, if there was a need, he could just use the ordinary Strength Dao art. This was also the path that most Strength Dao cultivators in the world took.
Although the Remnant Spirit Contract cultivation method was different, he had the Heavenly Fey's blood essence. With detailed deduction, it might not be impossible.
However, this art had a huge drawback. Due to the restriction of the blood essence, even if he returned to the Heavenly Fey's body, he would not be stronger than its original owner. It would be extremely difficult for him to improve in the future.
Although this "Seven Birds Transformation" did not have a cultivation method, nor did it say where to find it, it pointed out another path for him.
Cultivators were not limited to one body. They could transform between many demonic forms.
He remembered that among the ferocious beasts sealed by the Great Underworld Patriarch, there was a ten-thousand-year-old Azure Dragon. Because it could fight with an Ascended Perfected Being, it was killed early.
Back then, Su Yihong could not reach that realm even if he took the body of the snake.
However, if he had such a technique, he could first take the body of the snake, then transform it into a flood dragon, and then evolve it into the body of the Azure Dragon. It seemed to be a feasible path.
It was just that it was not easy to deduce such a cultivation technique from beginning to end. However, as long as he knew that it was feasible, he had the remnant jade, the "Nine Mysterious Scriptures" passed down by the Great Underworld Patriarch, and the Demonic Face cultivation method that also described the Dao of Transformation, he might be able to evolve a divine ability in the future.
After resolving the doubts in his heart, he bowed to the stone tablet and the surrounding skeletons. He smiled, put his sleeves behind his back, and turned to leave the hall.
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… (To be continued …)
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