Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Zhang Yuanjing retreated backward, darting out several dozen zhang, beyond the small island, and landed on the shallow water.

The demonic beast lay on the small island, crushing a large patch of the broad-leaved trees. Its body occupied nearly half the island, stretching thirteen or fourteen zhang long.

It resembled a giant python, with a head like some kind of flying insect. Countless tentacles writhed within its maw, dripping saliva, making it a grotesque sight.

A fleshy bump grew on its forehead, a stark red contrast to its black scaled hide. Its two eyes, round as honeydews, were wide open as if burning with rage.

This beast had no legs beneath its belly, and three pairs of fleshy wings sprouted from its back, crowded together, looking quite awkward. Yet, when it moved, it was as swift as the wind, incredibly agile.

Zhang Yuanjing, wary of the hidden spatial rifts in the high sky, dared not fly. Instead, he released the Armor-Piercing Axe and circled around the beast above the swamp.

Initially, the beast was unaware of the Armor-Piercing Axe's power, relying on its scaled hide to withstand several blows.

Zhang Yuanjing deliberately allowed the Armor-Piercing Axe to strike glancing blows, continuously building up its power. Then, with one axe strike, he directly carved a bloody gash into it, causing the beast to howl in pain.

However, this axe also roused the beast's ferocity. It roared, and a viscous black liquid oozed from its body, rapidly solidifying into a kind of hard armor. Then, it flapped its three pairs of fleshy wings, launching a frenzied pursuit of Zhang Yuanjing, completely ignoring the threat of the Armor-Piercing Axe.

Zhang Yuanjing dodged with his escape techniques, circling twice in the swamp. When he could no longer avoid it, he cast the Quicksand Imprisonment.

However, this beast was also formidable, charging left and right within the quicksand. Somehow, it managed to knock down the sky-filled yellow sand into the mud, actually dissolving the formation.

Zhang Yuanjing was quite puzzled. When the beast approached again, he once more used the Quicksand Technique to trap it. Immediately, his figure flashed, entering the sand formation to observe the beast's supernatural power up close.

This time, he understood. It turned out that the black liquid congealed into hard armor on its body had transformed into a liquid again, absorbing all the sand power around it. After a moment, these absorbed sand particles lost their luster and fell into the mud.

He secretly marveled, feeling that this demonic beast held many secrets. If he could figure them out, it might be an opportunity.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry to attack and kill the beast. Instead, he relied on his escape techniques and the Quicksand Technique to circle around it. When it was truly dangerous, he used the Evil-Repelling Umbrella to protect himself. After half a quarter of an hour, he consecutively cast the Quicksand Technique fourteen times. Although he didn't attack the beast much, the beast, in order to destroy the sand formation, continuously released that black liquid, consuming a lot of energy. Its speed noticeably slowed down.

If it were an ordinary demonic beast, it would have known it was no match at this point and would have already fled. This beast was probably extremely vindictive, thinking that it had not only lost its bait but had also been slashed by an axe, so it continued to entangle him relentlessly.

Zhang Yuanjing was happy to let it be. He had a guess that this beast and the Whisker Beast were probably of the same kind, able to devour polarized spiritual energy, which was why they could be so comfortable in the Void Qi.

One should know that this polarized spiritual energy was generated when ordinary Heaven and Earth spiritual energy was stimulated by the Void Qi. Naturally, it had its advantages in resisting the Void Qi.

However, it would not be easy to capture this beast alive. If it burrowed into this swamp spanning a hundred or so li, Zhang Yuanjing could only stare blankly.

The easiest way, of course, would be to summon the Yang Refining Umbrella, but this umbrella was accumulating spiritual power and should not be used casually.

After thinking it over, a thought suddenly popped into his mind. Since the Source Stone devoured the gray particles and needed polarized spiritual energy to neutralize them, then conversely, would this beast also be interested in those gray particles? Moreover, this would also test whether what the Source Stone needed was actually polarized spiritual energy.

So, he led the demonic beast around a few more times, and then found an opportunity to throw out several gray particles.

The demonic beast was first stunned, then pounced like a hungry wolf, not caring that this was something thrown out by the great enemy in front of it, and swallowed it in one gulp.

For this huge beast, a few gray particles were not even enough to fill a gap between its teeth.

But the beast showed an extremely enjoyable expression, shaking comfortably as if it had eaten an Ascension Fruit. Its originally somewhat exhausted state completely disappeared, and it became vigorous again.

Zhang Yuanjing was not afraid that it would come to bite him again. Apart from the method of condensing hard armor, this beast really had nothing special. Its strength was also far from his own, and it could not hurt him at all.

After a while, the beast woke up from that comfortable state, remembering that there was still a great enemy in front of it. It roared at Zhang Yuanjing, full of warning, but did not come forward to attack him.

Zhang Yuanjing smiled, knowing that this demonic beast was not stupid. After getting benefits, it could put aside its hatred for the time being and wait for his next action.

Zhang Yuanjing roughly determined that the gray particles and polarized spiritual energy should be corresponding things, each focusing on a certain power. Once neutralized, they could produce great benefits.

It was difficult for ordinary cultivators to absorb polarized spiritual energy, but if they had special techniques, they could also make slight use of it. However, compared with this demonic beast and the Source Stone, it was far inferior.

However, if he could let Ape Thirteen and the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast absorb polarized spiritual energy and gray particles, the strength of these two beasts would increase considerably, and they might even be able to break through to the Transformation Realm.

Zhang Yuanjing opened his hand, and five gray particles appeared in his palm.

The demonic beast flapped its wings and darted forward, quickly reaching within twenty zhang of Zhang Yuanjing, but did not continue forward. In its honeydew-sized eyes, fierce light occasionally appeared, sometimes flashing with doubt, and sometimes full of desire. Its emotions were as complex as a human's.

Zhang Yuanjing clenched his hand, put it behind him, and said, "Can you understand human speech? Do you know where there is polarized spiritual energy? Hmm, it's the kind of gas that this little beast swallowed."

He picked up the Whisker Beast and held it up in front of him.

Seeing the Whisker Beast, the demonic beast immediately roared, issuing a strong threat.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanjing threw the Whisker Beast away and laughed, "I have no use for it, you don't need to be nervous. Did you understand what I just said?"

The demonic beast saw the Whisker Beast fall into the mud and hide. The originally explosive aura gradually calmed down.

It stared at Zhang Yuanjing, occasionally tilting its head, as if it did not understand what he meant.

Zhang Yuanjing once again displayed the gray particles, pointing to this thing, and then pointing to a wisp of polarized spiritual energy occasionally floating above the mud, and said, "Help me find that spiritual energy, a lot of it, and these particles will be yours!"

The demonic beast stared straight at the gray particles. Seeing that Zhang Yuanjing was about to put them away, it suddenly roared angrily and darted forward nearly ten zhang, its breath almost hitting Zhang Yuanjing's face.

Zhang Yuanjing's expression changed. He summoned the Armor-Piercing Axe and shouted sternly, "If you want to get these particles, do as I say. Otherwise, I will use this sharp axe to cut off your head!"

"Roar!"

The beast roared violently, shaking the swamp.

Zhang Yuanjing suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head to look and saw that a serpent-like demon, a hundred zhang away behind him, was slowly rising from the mud, its maw wide open, its tentacles writhing, and its eyes filled with fierce light like a tide, rushing towards him.