Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons
Chapter 1129 - 700: Uncertain Future, Heavenly Pride Enters the World_2

Chapter 1129: Chapter 700: Uncertain Future, Heavenly Pride Enters the World_2

But after connecting with the strange occurrences Ye Lan mentioned earlier, both fell silent.

Could it be... their own Titled General actually managed to summon a batch of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to help garrison the nine prefectures?!

This wasn’t something that could be accomplished just by having high cultivation.

You wouldn’t believe it if you asked Yang Mingli and the other Generals of Southern Defense to try, to see if with their clout they could mobilize even a single soldier or member of the Immortal Court.

Just then.

The door to the room was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

Shen Yi walked out at a leisurely pace, glanced at the two, and spoke indifferently, "Next time you discuss others, please don’t do it at the door. You might as well just open the door and talk."

"Uh." Wushan scratched his head, and Ye Lan also hastily gestured with his hands.

"I’m going out for a walk."

Shen Yi stretched his arms and did not step into the Taixu but instead walked out of the residence unhurriedly.

When his cultivation was low, he learned techniques like the Light Body Movement Technique, always hoping to be a bit faster, but now, suddenly, he felt that being a little slower seemed more real.

He wasn’t the type to be melancholic for no reason.

The reason for this insight was mainly because he encountered a problem in his cultivation.

Shen Yi had finally collected enough Demon Lifespan, turning the corpses of demons sent by the Qinghua Sect into Town Stones.

A total of twenty-seven Fifth Grade demons, on average, each prefecture would get three garrison generals comparable to a Titled General, plus that Wolf Demon who had plucked a Four Symbols Great Fruit Position.

It could be said that excluding the General of Southern Defense, the current garrison strength of the nine prefectures had already surpassed that of the entire Demon Slayer Bureau of the Great Nan Continent.

Furthermore, this number was gradually increasing with each demon invasion.

Previously, one Titled General was in charge of three prefectures; now, three were looking after one. If there were still problems, that would truly be surprising.

The only thing to watch out for were the strong Great Demons above the Fifth Grade.

This was also why Shen Yi insisted on keeping Wushan around, telling him to heal his injuries.

Fourth Grade beings were really too scarce.

Apart from the Wolf Demon, Shen Yi had not yet acquired a second Fourth Grade Town Stone. On the Qinghua side, under the leadership of a True God, they indeed killed two or three, but such high-level Great Demons were wanted by the Immortal Court. Even their corpses had to be sent back to the heavens, and not something a Great Immortal General of Qinghua could interfere with.

Fortunately, the demon hordes were only probing for now. With this batch of Town Stones at the helm, they would certainly suffice for the moment.

Temporarily resolving the safety issues of the nine prefectures.

Shen Yi began to ponder about himself.

He wasn’t bothered by being supported by others; after all, using the Golden Body transformed by the Yin God, which was also half "himself," there was no shame in self-sustenance.

It was just that the Demon Lifespan sent from the Eight Extremes Valley trickled in slowly, barely enough, and it was difficult to have any surplus.

After so much time, excluding the expenditure on forming Town Stones, he had only saved a few hundred tribulations.

Shen Yi wasn’t too worried about this.

Now that the nine prefectures’ defense was sufficient, he had also opened up a new source of Demon Lifespan.

Moreover, he wasn’t someone who would miss opportunities; whenever there was a chance, he would go out and make another fortune.

Originally, when parting ways, Yang Mingli didn’t want to interfere with the affairs of the nine prefectures; he never said that Shen Yi himself couldn’t go to the other eighteen prefectures. If his own foundation was stable, it was the same as freeing himself.

He would find another way to solve the Demon Lifespan issue.

Now, the trouble Shen Yi encountered was that when he continued to invest those saved tribulations into cultivation, suddenly he noticed something wrong.

The Dragon Subduing and Tiger Suppressing Fruit Position had achieved Perfection. Until glimpsing the true Bodhisattva Fruit Position, mere Demon Lifespan could hardly aid in progression.

He could only seek a solution from the Taixu Pill Dao.

But when Shen Yi poured in his Lifespan Years, he found the whole process to be... too smooth!

No waves or insights needed; cultivation just rose.

After swallowing those six hundred tribulations, Shen Yi’s Taixu Golden Core Dao Fruit had reached over three thousand five hundred tribulations.

The Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva was tempted by the Dragon Subduing and Tiger Suppressing Fruit Position of three thousand tribulations; how terrifying would this three thousand five hundred tribulations Taixu Golden Core be.

Yet Shen Yi could not smile at all.

Although he had successfully stepped into the Fourth Grade with this extrapolated path, he had never intended to truly refine himself into a Golden Core.

The potential for growth inherent in the Taixu Pill Dao had given Shen Yi great hope, to see whether he could not rely on the Immortal Venerable Dao Fruit, but solely on Demon Lifespan, to laboriously accumulate a Third Grade path.

Therefore, advancement in cultivation without gaining insight was not a good sign.

Let alone three thousand five hundred tribulations, even five thousand or eight thousand were of no use. Without reaching the Third Grade, it would all ultimately only serve as a bridal gown for the Shenxu Ancestor.

Would he have to rejoice just because he became more fragrant and appetizing?

As for forcibly pouring in Demon Lifespan to reach a round number, such as ten thousand tribulations, and see if there would be any changes.

Shen Yi felt that perhaps when he was on the verge of a breakthrough, what he’d encounter would not be progress, but the drooling Shenxu Ancestor ready to devour the great elixir.

"Changes... changes..."

He walked down the long street, utterly thoughtless, only silently watching the hurrying pedestrians.

The nine prefectures may have avoided disaster, but news of martial law being imposed elsewhere had long spread, stirring inevitable panic among the people.

Shen Yi thought back to when he first left Hongze and saw that peaceful and prosperous era, where he once marveled at it and ridiculed how difficult his previous life had been. If he had been born in the Divine Dynasty, he would have inherited the very things he sought all along.

Who could have expected that within just a few short years, this golden age would subtly show signs of crumbling.

The Divine Dynasty, formed by the cohesion of mundane Emperor’s Aura, when facing the real deities, Bodhisattvas, and Immortal Venerables, seemed to have no significant difference from the creatures of Hongze facing Shi Ren.