Longevity Chronicles
Chapter 450 - 313 Ancestor Emperor Passes Down Casting Technique, Two Young Ones Sniff Out Same-Origin Material

He manipulated over a thousand evil cultivators, including four from the Cavernous Mystery Realm, playing them in the palm of his hand.

The time Tao Qian expended was just two or three breaths.

And he didn't use any treasures, nor did he exert much effort, just commanding some demons and uttering a True Word Secret Decree was enough.

He himself thought little of it, but Yuan Gong in the statue within his embrace couldn't help but lament and curse once more.

"Commanding demons as soldiers, manipulating people's hearts, so leisurely and effortlessly."

"This kid is clearly a born Secret Demon Child."

"Damn Duobao, playing an open game with me, convinced that I must teach this child?"

"Let's see, just watch, if this child can fully learn my Sacrifice Sword, it wouldn't be so bad..."

What Yuan Gong thought, Tao Qian did not know.

He had quietly completed Zhong Ziyang's commission and was just enjoying the show when a demon of invisibility suddenly appeared before him, with a flattering expression, presenting a Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Elixir.

This demon did not know the details of the "demon pill" it held, only seeing that all the demons and devils in the field were desperately fighting for it.

A simple notion from the Outer Realm Heaven Demons: if everyone is grabbing it, it must be good... good things given to the master might be rewarded.

It wasn't just the Invisibility Demon that thought this way; other demons shared the thought too.

But their movements weren't as quick as its.

Tao Qian was not an Evil Demon Cultivator and had no cost to mitigate.

Moreover, this Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Elixir was refined from human sheddings; how could he consume it?

Just as he intended to refuse, he recalled something and couldn't help but reach out and pinch it.

Being inedible did not mean it couldn't serve as a medium to probe its secrets.

Just after hearing Zhong Ziyang's voice transmission, they originally only planned to steal two Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Elixirs as evidence to convince others in the Ancestor Dragon Society and representatives of forces to launch the Shangyang uprising early, or even escalate it to a New Moon uprising.

But then Zhong Ziyang glimpsed an even greater secret, the Seven Evil Divine Machine, which is the Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine.

Clearly an Alchemist's and Seven Evil Sects' tool, yet it was different.

Zhong Ziyang believed that the Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine was in fact a type of Outer Realm Evil Spirit or something that wanted to use the Alchemists to proliferate within the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty.

If it were someone else, they might not believe this piece of Taishang Dao true inheritance.

Tao Qian, however, immediately recalled the records he had glimpsed on the "Human Shedding" earlier, which stated: As soon as the Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine cast the Original Machine, one could birth two, two birth three, three birth nine... Now, this indeed seemed like corroborative evidence.

At that thought, he took the demon pill in hand.

In an instant!

The jumbled and vast records burst forth, and in a moment, were sorted out completely:

[Record Name: Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Elixir.]

[Record Type: Alien.]

[Record: This alien species elixir, refined from Human Shedding, one furnace requires two hundred thousand Human Sheddings, with no fixed amount, but once the pills succeed, there must be several hundred... Consuming this elixir can alleviate equivalent cultivation costs, without any limit on the number, but only Human Clan Cultivators can be effective when consuming it. The cost is addiction; no matter how strong, even if one has entered the Dao Transformation Realm, as soon as one eats it, they will immediately suffer from the addiction curse of Outer Realm Evil Spirits, with no antidote to be found. If one does not continue daily, exceeding a month without consumption, the addict will rapidly mutate and degenerate, transforming into some kind of Evil Spirit Demon.]

[Note One: The source of the addiction curse of this elixir is also the core of the Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine, which is an Outer Realm Evil Spirit named "Meat God," existing between life and death, its demonic nature is obscure, seemingly without spiritual wisdom but possessing the ability to reproduce and devour. After this evil spirit swallows everything, it excretes all the dirt and silt, leaving all the essences within its belly.]

[Note Two: If someone captures this evil spirit and then uses the Outer Realm Mechanical Secret Technique to refine it into a demon machine, they can control its swallowing and excretion, able to refine rare and strange items like "Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Elixirs."]

[Note Three: The Alchemists inherited the "Demon Machine Casting Technique" from the Ancestor Emperor and paid a huge cost to use a million Human Clan corpses as bait. They fished a Meat God from the Great Abyss and finally cast an Original Machine of the Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine.]

[Note Four: When operating the Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine, it must be suppressed by strong cultivators with their own flesh and blood. Depending on the "machine type," the required level of cultivators differs. Only the Original Machine requires at least three Ultimate Happiness Realm cultivators to suppress together, the Second Generation Demon Machine requires at least a Cavernous Mystery Profound cultivator, and the third generation requires a Perfect Transcend Mortality cultivator... and so on.]

[Note Five: If the suppressing cultivator encounters an accident, their entire flesh and blood could be devoured by the demon machine, which could lead to the demon machine running amok, devouring all life nearby...]

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The records and the previous notes only made Tao Qian frown in surprise.

As his cultivation grew and he encountered more and more cultivators and events, Tao Qian realized that the weird things he encountered were no longer limited to this world, to the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty.

Items from the Outer Realm began to appear.

Like that Divine Corpse, Toad God Tile, and the Seven Secret Chapters of Mysterious Corpse, and so on.

This evil spirit named "Meat God" and the demon machine casting technique naturally count as well.

What Tao Qian was slightly surprised by was that the casting technique actually came from the Ancestor Emperor.

Just as he was pondering the inheritance relationship between the Alchemists and the Ancestor Emperor, the fifth note suddenly surfaced.

It was said earlier that as long as high-level cultivators got a clue, they would have a premonition, feeling inspired.

If Zhong Ziyang could do it, Tao Qian could certainly do it even better.

Almost immediately, his body was in turmoil, and a very bad premonition arose.

He suddenly looked up!

Just a short distance away, the old monk, the hungry ghost woman, the bell boy, and the water corpse man—these four loose cultivator Evil Demons—had at some unknown cost actually managed to severely injure Iron Demon Master Qian Bangyuan and Master Stone Corpse Kang Jianfei, two men from the Seven Evil Sects who were Cavernous Mystery Cultivators. Now revealing their true forms, they were scattered and torn, lying in various places.

Driven by greed and further stupefied by Tao Qian's spellcasting, the Four Demons were convinced that the "Primordial Demon Cauldron"—the precious artifact of the Taishang Demon Sect—was inside the Corpse Bone Tower, and they madly breached it.

Tao Qian only had time to see the silhouettes of the four as they entered the tower, when the next moment Nine Smoke Supreme's roar came through:

"Insolent fools."

"Stop immediately! This is not the Primordial Demon Cauldron, but a treasure of the Seven Evil Sects. If you harm it and cause it to be displaced, everyone will die."

Nine Smoke Supreme was entirely candid.

Having read the records, Tao Qian knew he wasn't lying.

Previously puzzled as to why this high-level cultivator from the Perfection of Cavernous Mystery didn't just slaughter these disjointed mobs,

He hadn't imagined the answer would be so perilous.

If it were any cultivator still in possession of their Mind, even those from the side of demons, upon hearing this threatening statement, would show some hesitation, at the very least conducting some kind of exploration first.

However, the Four Demons were not such cultivators.

Their behavior was erratic, aggravated by their battle with the Iron Demon and the Stone Corpse, both enveloped in insanity.

Upon hearing the command, the four roared and showed no mercy as they struck with vicious power.

Their speed and the explosiveness of their Divine Skills left Tao Qian unable to make any move in time.

The next moment!

Along with a massive explosion of rainbow light, thunderous flames, and cadaverous waters, five streams of Cavernous Mystery Qi entwined and collided, and the Tower of Corpses, both disgusting and majestic to behold, couldn't withstand a single breath before it shattered completely. Bone bricks, brain matter, human skin, teeth, and the like, rained down in all directions like a deluge.

In this sudden turn of events, both Tao Qian and the group of Demon and Devil species saw a glimpse of what was inside the Corpse Bone Tower:

The four loose cultivator Evil Demons, all injured but unyielding, surrounded something within the chaos, ensconced by their Magical Treasures, their Divine Skills surging like a tidal wave.

That centric object looked partly like a creature of flesh and blood, while also resembling a mechanical construction.

Dozens of limb-like protrusions, sharp as massive blades, were anchored into the ground, supporting a large chunk of flesh that was mountainous in size. It was covered with purplish-black veins, and a foreboding fluid flowed within.

At one end was a massive outlet, which at the moment was blocked by an extremely thick bronze column, packed tight.

At the opposite end was a gaping maw ejecting venomous saliva, turning the ground beneath into a pockmarked wasteland in mere moments.

Around the gaping mouth, multiple flesh tendrils hung, each ending in a yellow, bulbous eyeball.

When gazed upon by these eyes, every witness, Tao Qian included,

Felt an instant sense of fear, accompanied by an aura belonging to the Outer Realm.

The world spun, as if plummeting into a fleshly Purgatory.

Mountains of corpses, seas of blood, mire and filth.

[You are being assaulted by the "Meat God's" Evil Qi from the Outer Realm… Resistance successful!]

Tao Qian momentarily regained clarity and, following his intuition, immediately looked toward the top part of the massive entity.

There, an indentation appeared.

The indentation's edge held the upper half of a middle-aged cultivator, handsome in appearance, faintly glowing with jade light, robed in a magic robe of nine-colored clouds, and a triad of long beard strands hung down to his chest, much like an Immortal's countenance. His Qi alone revealed he was the Nine Smoke Supreme, evidently in Cavernous Mystery Perfection, who had understood his own way.

In that moment, however, he lacked all the grace of the powerful, instead staring at the indentation with eyes full of shock and anger.

It was clear to any onlooker that previously, it must have been Nine Smoke Supreme who had used his own body to block that gap, as a way to appease and control the giant creature for refining precious Demon Pills.

But when the Four Demons burst in, mistaking the "Ten Thousand Spirit Demon Machine" for the Primordial Demon Cauldron and striving to seize it, the scuffle dislodged Nine Smoke Supreme.

In an instant, half of his Cavernous Mystery Dharma Body was devoured by the Demon Machine.

But Nine Smoke Supreme had no time for rage, his mind already racing with thoughts of how to remedy the situation.

Abruptly, from the gaping hole, a "hissing" sound erupted.

Staring intently, he saw red mists gushing forth, akin to gaseous blood, carrying a multitude of alien objects within the murky cloud—bronze fragments, Cast Iron Sand, Corpse Bone Powder... and chunks of fresh, oddly luminous flesh like some kind of gelatin.

The strange blood mist began like a fountain but in the blink of an eye transformed into a horrifying column rising to the skies.

It first destroyed an Evil Treasure known as "Yellow Dame Sun Essence Wheel," then dispersed a dense cloud of Black Cloud Blood Miasma and the Demon Soul Blood Pearl. After that, the land changed; the illusion of a fleshly Purgatory became reality, dragging everyone including Tao Qian and the group of demons within it.

This string of upheavals unfolded too swiftly.

Tao Qian, the instigator, had no anticipation of such a turn.

What he had anticipated even less was the stirring inside the Holy Embryo Bag at that moment.

Lian Jing'er and Little Age simultaneously transmitted their voices:

"Detecting similar alien entities, capable of devouring...."

"Big brother, big brother, I smell something very tasty, if I eat it, I can grow bigger...."

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