Chapter 515 - 508: Worthy of the Great Sage Bloodline

The two Flying Demon Kings that had been circling in the sky for some time saw their chance. They dove abruptly, intending to join forces with Du Youqian and eliminate this damned monkey that had practically become their nightmare.

Just then, Du Youqian and Little Wukong turned on them in an instant. Little Wukong grabbed and ripped, and before one of the Flying Demon Kings could even cry out, it was torn in two. Blood and viscera rained down on the ground.

’What a waste,’ Du Youqian thought. This was, after all, the blood of a Tier Four Shapeshifting Demon King, a Great Demon approaching Tier Five.

If a Body Refining Cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Realm were here, bathing in this blood and consuming the organs to refine them, they could immediately break through to Body Refining Core Formation. The other Flying Demon King saw that things had gone south and tried to turn, but it was too late.

A Tier Five Celestial Measuring Ruler smashed down on its head, while Jinhuan silently appeared at its abdomen and stabbed deep inside.

The Snake Fang Sword Intent erupted, shattering all the meridians in its body. If it had been a thick-skinned, tough-fleshed terrestrial Demon King, it might have been able to resist for a moment. But as a flying demon with a light and fragile frame, it could only fall from the sky, wailing all the way down.

It was a dead bird before it even hit the ground.

With this sudden turn of events, Du Youqian and Little Wukong had killed the two Flying Demon Kings.

It all happened so suddenly that no one else had time to intervene.

The Feng Xi Demon King simply turned and fled. For it, the Spirit Plant wasn’t something it had to have at all costs anyway.

Zhuge Qing’s eyes flickered, and it flicked its forked tongue.

It had already guessed Du Youqian’s identity and was shocked at his ability to so flawlessly alter his appearance and aura.

It had never seen such a Secret Technique.

In fact, even Du Youqian found it incredible that the Nine Yin Nine Yang Ten Thousand Transformations Hidden Heaven Technique Lin Sha had given him back then was so powerful.

Indeed, some Secret Techniques passed down in Momenan had extraordinary origins and were extremely rare even in the Human World.

But one as practical as the Nine Yin Nine Yang Ten Thousand Transformations Hidden Heaven Technique was truly one of a kind.

All the more famous Secret Techniques for Concealment and aura alteration currently known in the Human World, every single one of them, were inferior to the Nine Yin Nine Yang Ten Thousand Transformations Hidden Heaven Technique.

’Why would such a powerful Secret Technique be in the collection of the Heavenly Emotions and Oceanic Resentments Sect, and why has almost no one cultivated it?’

It was only in recent years that Du Youqian gradually came to understand. It turned out this Secret Technique had a hidden cultivation requirement: to comprehend "Thousand Transformations, One True Spirit."

What did that mean?

It meant that everything besides the True Spirit is external.

No matter how the external changes, the True Spirit remains constant.

And those who could grasp this true meaning were either people of great Comprehension and wisdom...

...or they had awakened their Past Life Memory, satisfying the condition that "the external changes, but the True Spirit remains as one."

That was why Du Youqian had never seen anyone else use such an effective Secret Technique.

Du Youqian looked up and exchanged a smile with the tall and mighty Little Wukong. Little Wukong raised a palm the size of half a basketball court and squatted down to high-five Du Youqian in celebration.

At this point, the Demon Race had been almost completely cleared out. The ones who remained were all heavily injured or crippled and didn’t dare to make a move.

They were just thankful that Du Youqian didn’t come to harvest them for materials.

As for the Human Race Nascent Soul Cultivators, most were as cunning as they come. Seeing how dominant Du Youqian was, and how he seemed to be allied with those two Transformed Great Demons, they immediately gave up any ideas of making a move and quietly withdrew, lest they end up delivering their treasures to him.

"City Lord Zhuge, did you get it?"

A strange light appeared in Zhuge Qing’s eyes. It flicked its tongue and said, "I have it. Fellow Daoist, you are truly a man of your word! Allied with you was the best decision I could have made."

"Good. Mission accomplished. This grotto-mansion looks like it won’t hold up for much longer. Let’s leave quickly."

Du Youqian did not reveal his identity as Sui Xiao, to avoid being discovered colluding with the Demon Race and facing censure.

Although many people colluded with the Demon Race, some things were better heard of than seen.

You could do it, but you couldn’t leave any evidence behind.

Otherwise, if someone were to file a complaint against him at a "Beichen Pavilion meeting," and while the higher-ups would most likely ignore it, if by some chance they didn’t, his only option would be to reincarnate immediately.

Little Wukong canceled his Transformation, reverting to his original Little Monkey form, and hopped cheerfully onto Du Youqian’s shoulder.

The man and the monkey flew toward the grotto-mansion’s exit.

Zhuge Qing watched their retreating figures, its gaze momentarily lost in thought. But it quickly shook its head. ’Humans are all liars. Befriend a human, and one day you will be betrayed.’

It paused, then slithered quickly toward the exit. ’Then again, cooperating with a human once in a while isn’t so bad.’

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Du Youqian didn’t actually leave the grotto-mansion right away. Instead, he made a detour back to the place where he had engaged in Magical Combat with Master Ye Rui, Chen Hongbo, Master Mo Ping, and the others.

Master Ye Rui’s corpse was indeed lying there. But after a brief Divination, Du Youqian’s brow furrowed.

’The woman isn’t dead?’

She had most likely fled with her Nascent Soul, and Jing Ruoxu had shown mercy by not destroying it.

The speed at which a Nascent Soul could flee far surpassed any Tier Four Flying Treasure. There was nothing Du Youqian could do; it was impossible to catch her. All he could do was loot her corpse. Yes, for whatever reason—whether Jing Ruoxu was unwilling to take worldly possessions or simply forgot—he hadn’t taken Master Ye Rui’s Storage Treasure Pouch and Treasures.

Then, Du Youqian simply took her corpse as well.

Of course, this wasn’t to "enjoy it while it was still warm." He did it to prevent Master Ye Rui from secretly returning, healing her body, and re-entering her original vessel.

Du Youqian wanted to ensure that even if she wasn’t dead, she would be forced to resort to Possession, unable to ever fully recover her strength.

After taking care of all this, Du Youqian finally left the grotto-mansion with Little Wukong.

Du Youqian was extremely cautious as he stepped back into the outside world. Fortunately, no one was lying in ambush—or perhaps they were, but seeing him with Little Wukong, they didn’t dare to act.

Du Youqian quickly fled. Midway, he changed his appearance and aura, reverting to his Sui Xiao disguise.

Finding a safe place, he casually set up an Array and took a moment to rest and recover with Little Wukong. He also took the opportunity to ask Little Wukong what had happened back at the herb garden.

Little Wukong chittered, waving its arms and legs around excitedly, describing the series of battles to Du Youqian with great animation, heavily emphasizing its own glorious moments of power.

Du Youqian nodded frequently. "So, you also snatched quite a few Tier Four and Tier Five Spirit Plants, right?"

Little Wukong made a grabbing motion and, as if presenting a treasure, placed several High Tier Spirit Plants that exuded a thick, herbal fragrance into its palm.

Du Youqian’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, but not because of the Spirit Plants.

"You... you... where did you just pull those from? That definitely wasn’t a Storage Treasure Pouch, absolutely not!"

Little Wukong scratched its head. "CHITTER CHITTER!"

"A Personal Space?" Du Youqian was about to go crazy. "Are you sure? Show me again!"

Little Wukong put the herbs away and took them out again.

Du Youqian had his Divine Sense running at full power and finally caught the faint ripple of Space.

"It really is a Personal Space!" He looked at the monkey with a complicated expression. "I’m the Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator with a Cosmic Attribute Celestial Spirit Root, cultivating a Cosmic Attribute Cultivation Technique, right? So how did you manage to comprehend this ability, which is usually only grasped at Tier Five, before I did?"

Normally, a Human Race Cultivator would only be able to comprehend the ability to have a Personal Space after advancing to Tier Five Divinity Transformation, during the process of the Nascent Soul becoming a God and turning from illusory to real.

And for those with lesser Comprehension or a weaker foundation, they might not grasp it until the Middle or Late Stage of Divinity Transformation.

For the Human Race, this Personal Space ability is also the prototype of a Pocket World Blessed Land, the foundation for one day Becoming an Immortal.

As for the Demon Race, they usually don’t awaken this ability until the Late Stage of Tier Five, or even Tier Six.

Du Youqian really hadn’t expected to be one-upped by Little Wukong...

’Is this what they mean by the Great Sage Bloodline?’ Du Youqian could only sigh with emotion.

The Spirit Plants Little Wukong had harvested, while valuable, were far less precious than the one that could help a Tier Four Demon King advance.

All together, their value was only around a million Spiritual Jade.

Du Youqian didn’t ask for them. Instead, he gave Little Wukong a few Jade Boxes for preserving High Tier Spirit Plants.

’He’ll just toss them over to me when he gets bored of them anyway. Then I can use them for Alchemy and improve my skills.’

After taking stock of Little Wukong’s haul, Du Youqian moved on to his own.

First and foremost, the most precious items were naturally the two bottles of Tier Seven Elixirs, something that even a Void Step True Monarch would risk their life for.

Du Youqian couldn’t understand why no one knew that Fairy Hengguan’s grotto-mansion contained such a precious item.

If someone had known about this earlier and the information had leaked, not a single one of these Nascent Soul Masters or Tier Four Transformed Great Demons would have been able to enter the grotto-mansion today.

Even Tier Five Demon Emperors and ordinary Divinity Transformation True Monarchs wouldn’t have been qualified to contend for them. At the very least, one would have to be at the Late Stage or Perfection of Divinity Transformation, or even a Void Step True Monarch, to have the right to fight over these two bottles of Elixirs.

Du Youqian didn’t dare to take the two bottles of Elixirs out to admire them, terrified that the slightest wisp of their aura might leak out, causing a Void Step True Monarch or even a Harmonization Emperor to send a Flying Sword from thousands of miles away to take his head and the Elixirs along with it.