One Sword to Immortality Chapter 20

Chapter 20 – Stars Devouring Formula

Stars Devouring Formula of the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill

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Xu Liao had initially chosen to cultivate the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill because he felt that the inheritance from the Golden Godly Demon was stronger, but not soon after he made that decision, he met Sun Bo Fang who was ruthless and forced him to enter the strange world. Because of that, Xu Liao felt that he needed to improve his abilities quickly in order to protect his life.

The Ten-Coloured Flower Vines that devoured almost all of the ‘meteors’ has thicker strands of dark demonic energy when compared with than the Mysterious demonic energy. Even if the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill cannot be compared with the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill in terms of power, the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill is currently more suitable for Xu Liao due to the demand for faster cultivation.

(ED: Mysterious Demonic Energy is referring to the energy from the Golden Godly Demon.)

Xu Liao closed his eyes and concentrated on his diaphragm.  Due to his special blood pulse inheritance, mastering the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill wouldn’t take too long. The path to mastery for the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill is different from the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill. There were twelve meridians to cultivate before one can train in the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill. However, for the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill, there are eight extraordinary pulses that has no direct relations with the twelve meridians at all! The first step is to allow the demonic energy to circulate in the body by opening the legendary Ren and Du pulses.

Sweat fell from his forehead as Xu Liao tried to concentrate even harder. He led the thick dark demonic energy that burst out from the diaphragm into the vertebrae, smashing through the Yu Zhen, Bai Hui and up towards his forehead.

Just when the dark demonic energy grazed past the golden metallic thread hidden between his eyebrows, an abnormal reaction occurred!

The golden metallic thread lay dormant for a long time, but when it detected that the dark demonic energy, it suddenly burst forth with a powerful aura, as if a giant creature that was hibernating for a thousand years suddenly awoke.

“Oh no!” Xu Liao shouted in his mind.

He didn’t expect that the golden metallic thread would be so aggressive. Cultivating the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill requires opening up the Ren and Du pulse. It had no choice but to pass through the points in between the eyebrows. Xu Liao clenched his teeth and continuously forced the dark demonic energy through.

“Let’s see how much you can swallow! Once you had your fill, I can continue to cultivate the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill!”

The golden metallic thread between his brows was absorbing the dark demonic energy as if it was a never ending black hole. No matter how much dark demonic energy Xu Liao forced into it, they were all consumed without any signs of stopping.

No one knew how much time had passed, and the demonic energy had been devoured up to seventy percent. The dark core within the diaphragm was shriveling and almost completely dried up, as if it was on the verge of cracking into pieces. At this moment, the golden metallic thread had sudden change. It was still swallowing the dark energy; however it began to release strands of darkness out.

All these strands of darkness contained countess of profound golden stars that spread out in the darkness, just like the stars in a starry night sky.

The new dark demonic energy released from the golden metallic thread slowly returned to the diaphragm.  The dark core within the diaphragm absorbed the dark demonic energy as if it was devouring a huge nutritious meal. Suddenly, the dark core spun quickly and became huge, all the cracks was filled up completely with the dark demonic energy. As the dark core spun faster and faster, the dark demonic energy it emitted became even more dense, layer by layer, it released the energy back to the golden metallic thread.

The dark demonic energy finally opened a path of circulation. Xu Liao’s speed of cultivation of the Heavenly Demon Purgatory was absolutely monstrous.

At that moment when the cycle was completed, the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon suddenly grew active and suddenly shot out an emerald projection in the shape of a ring. The ring expanded to a width about twice of of Xu Liao’s, undulating back and forth.

It had detected the wave of demonic power within Xu Liao and automatically activated the life protection program that proceeded to scan his body.

Scanned results: No abnormalities!

Sudden growth spikes detected within Hosts’ demonic power.

Requesting connection to outer site …

Connection to outer site failed.

A demonic power level chart then popped up in the emerald projection. Xu Liao’s initial demonic power level rating shown on the emerald projection was 518. After the golden metallic thread swallowed the dark demonic energy, the demonic power level dropped to 175. However, once the cycle was completed between the golden metallic thread and the dark core, the demonic power level jumped straight over 1200, and there are still signs of increment!

The Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon could not detect any anomalies other than the sudden surge of demonic power, and it didn’t make any other changes as Xu Liao’s life wasn’t in danger.

But what Xu Liao didn’t know was that while the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon was scanning his data, it was attempting to send out the data as well.

After the evolving the golden metallic thread, his whole body felt blissful and calm. He felt joyful that the cultivation of the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill was quicker than expected. Once the path had opened, the dark demonic energy rushed to the Dai pulse. The Dai pulse passes through the waist. Out of the eight extraordinary pulses and the legendary twelve meridians, there are a total of twenty pulse points, and the smallest point is the Dai pulse.

All this while, the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon was constantly scanning the host’s demonic power, which was still bursting upwards. Once the dark demonic energy passed through the eight extraordinary pulses, the demonic power level was already a shocking 2700!

Xu Liao was totally engrossed in his cultivation that he did not notice the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon automatic activation. When Xu Liao emerged from his cultivation, the emerald ring had long ago hid itself, and the fighting beast did not seem to have made any changes.

However, Xu Liao, at this moment had his full attention on another matter!

Once the eight pulses had been released, the dark core started to have weird changes.  Within the dark core, several ancient black runes that emerged from the walls of the core floated around and slowly formed a formula.

<> !

The Stars Devouring Formula of the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill!

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After school, Xu Liao made his way to the Huai Demon Street. He felt uneasy because he didn’t know what kind of harsh training Sun Bo Fang would prepare for him.

The night before, Xu Liao went through an intensive cultivating session and mastered his Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill, receiving a new formula <>.  But even before he had the chance to try it out, the sky had already turned bright. Xu Liao estimated that even though he had broke through and mastered the Heavenly Demon Purgatory Skill, he was not strong enough to go against the disciples of the Longevity Sect. Hence he did not try to escape and continued to follow what he was supposed to do.

Even until now, Xu Liao did not realize that his demonic powers had grew more than five times!

When Sun Bo Fang saw Xu Liao arrive, he pointed to the front of the mound. There was a circular formation formed by stones on the ground.

“Stand inside!” Sun Bo Fang said in a low voice.

Xu Liao was confused and asked.

“What training is this?”

“You will know soon!”

Sun Bo Fang let out a laugh and chanted.

Xu Liao immediately felt an ominous presence. He slowly turned his head around, staring at the mound. Cracks started to show on the surface of the mound with dark green light emerging from the cracks. The moment the mound exploded, a gust of cold air rushed past Xu Liao, followed by a deafening roar from within the dark hole. Then, a large red haired monster slowly climbed out from the hole.

This red haired monster looked as if it was a half man half beast, with shriveling dried skin like a zombie that had already perished for many years. It had a height of more than three metres, razor sharp teeth and skin like the bark of an old tree. It was even scarier than what Xu Liao could imagine.

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