Tens of thousands of years ago, the Wuji Demon Sect was renowned across the Tianxuan Continent. Virtually no cultivator was unaware of it. The power and strangeness of the Wuji Demon Art were far beyond the reach of other sects. Thanks to the powerful devouring nature of the Wuji Demon Art, the cultivation speed of the Wuji Demon Sect was much faster than that of other sects.
Consequently, numerous experts emerged. At that time, no sect could rival it. Due to its strength, its disciples unhesitatingly chose to devour other cultivators to enhance their abilities, causing great panic among the cultivators on the entire continent. The unrestrained devouring behavior of the Wuji Demon Sect's disciples led to a sharp decrease in the number of cultivators in the cultivation world, while the strength of the Wuji Demon Sect grew stronger. If any sect dared to resist, the light - handed ones would be devoured, and the heavy - handed ones would have their entire sect wiped out.
Such overbearing and ceaseless slaughter finally led to an unprecedented unity among all the cultivation sects on the entire continent, whether they were demonic cultivators or Taoist cultivators. Even sects with long - standing feuds temporarily put aside their grudges.
The Wuji Demon Sect became the public enemy of all sects on the Tianxuan Continent!
A fierce and tragic battle finally broke out. Although the Wuji Demon Sect was extremely powerful, it couldn't resist the entire continent's cultivation world alone. Because of the perceived threat of the Wuji Demon Sect to the cultivation world, and the countless sects that had been brutally harmed by it, the Wuji Demon Sect finally paid the price of being wiped out for its actions.
The sect leader at that time, the Wuji Demon Lord, was already a Mahayana - stage expert on the verge of ascending after surviving the heavenly tribulation. However, under the siege of thousands of cultivation experts, he barely managed to escape here relying on the incredible speed of the demon sword. But due to his severe injuries, his Nascent Soul was on the verge of disintegration, and he had even lost the ability to let his Nascent Soul leave his body and choose a new one.
This person used the secret method of the Wuji Demon Sect to forcibly suppress the little remaining consciousness before he could leave these records.
Reading this, Ding Hao couldn't help but feel sad for the current Wuji Demon Sect. The former Wuji Demon Sect stood at the peak of the world, while the current Wuji Demon Sect was on the verge of losing its right to survive. Ding Hao now guessed that the current Wuji Demon Sect might have been established by someone who accidentally obtained some of the remaining cultivation methods of the Wuji Demon Sect in the past. However, due to a lack of understanding of the characteristics of this cultivation method and the difficulty in understanding the incantations of the method, they had regarded the Wuji Demon Art as an ordinary cultivation method from the very beginning.
Since the start was wrong, the subsequent cultivation based on this foundation deviated further and further from the correct cultivation method, finally resulting in the current embarrassing situation of the Wuji Demon Art!
The jade slip not only contained all the cultivation methods of the Wuji Demon Art but also many materials for cultivation and use. Just looking at the preciousness of those materials, Ding Hao could imagine the power of the original Wuji Demon Sect. It seemed that they were obtained through force and plunder.
Ding Hao began to be grateful for his good luck and also decided to restore the former glory of the Wuji Demon Sect. Ding Hao didn't think there was anything wrong with the actions of the Wuji Demon Sect in the past. Cultivation was already an act against the will of heaven.
Since one no longer fears heaven, why not kill other cultivators to improve oneself? Since one chooses to cultivate, one should be prepared for survival of the fittest. He just felt that the actions of the Wuji Demon Sect at that time were too reckless. Otherwise, it wouldn't have led to the sect's destruction!
The jade slip not only contained the complete set of cultivation methods of the Wuji Demon Sect in the cultivation world but also the cultivation methods after ascending to the demon world. What an outstanding person was the creator of this peerless technique!
Apart from the most basic cultivation formula of the Wuji Demon Art, there were also various auxiliary attack and defense formulas, including array formations and talisman formulas. It was simply a comprehensive guide for demonic cultivation!
Ding Hao felt that a broad road of cultivation was right in front of him. As long as he worked hard, anything was possible!
However, what embarrassed Ding Hao was that there were few attack methods suitable for him to use at present. He had just reached the middle stage of the fetal - breath period. He wasn't even fully in the cultivation world yet. Only reaching the Bigu period could one truly be considered a cultivator. The previous three stages were just the foundation for entering the cultivation world. Many powerful techniques were completely beyond his current realm and power to perform!
And all the techniques he could use were those with little power. It seemed that he had to speed up. Now Ding Hao was like a person who had found a huge treasure but found that he didn't bring a storage ring to hold things and could only hold a few in his hands.
Strength! It seemed that it was indispensable in everything!
Knowing his own shortcomings, he naturally had to make up for them as much as possible. Cultivation, endless cultivation. In this deep - pool secret cave, Ding Hao was fully engaged in cultivation.
After nearly five days passed without waiting for the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python to flare up again, Ding Hao had determined that the true power of the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python had been completely absorbed by him, and of course, the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python had completely disappeared from his body.
Thanks to the detailed introduction of the Wuji Demon Art in the jade slip, Ding Hao had a new understanding of the Wuji Demon Art. Precisely because of the powerful devouring feature of the Wuji Demon Art, its requirements for the cultivator's body were also astonishing. This was also the difference between it and all other techniques.
Cultivators of other techniques didn't need any special training for their bodies. Instead, they specialized in cultivating the five spirits. However, due to the devouring effect of the Wuji Demon Art, absorbing and transforming the true power of others for one's own use placed an extremely heavy load on the body. If the body's strength wasn't great enough, before you finished absorbing the true yuan of others, you would explode and die first. Therefore, in the early stage of cultivating the Wuji Demon Art, not only the five spirits but also the five internal organs and the body were trained together. In the early stage, body - refining was even more important than spirit - refining.
Precisely because the devouring function of the Wuji Demon Art was astonishing, there were inevitably flaws. First of all, the Wuji Demon Art couldn't turn all of others' true yuan into its own. After all, it wasn't obtained through one's own painstaking cultivation. During the devouring process, the Wuji Demon Art would, through its own powerful body functions and the mystery of the Wuji Demon Art, first refine the others' true yuan to remove the coarse and retain the fine. Because everyone's cultivation methods were different, it was necessary to completely transform it into true yuan consistent with one's own before it could be fully absorbed. Otherwise, one would be burned by the fire one played with!
After this process, one could only obtain about one - tenth of others' whole body's true yuan. But this one - tenth was all the essence. There was no need to worry about backfire or going berserk at all.
Another flaw was that others wouldn't just stand there stupidly waiting to be devoured. So if the realm difference was too great, the chance of the Wuji Demon Art devouring was very small. Even if one successfully devoured a cultivator of a higher realm than oneself, even one - tenth might not be bearable by one's body. One must digest it as quickly as possible. Depending on the strength of the body and the size of one's own realm, the digestion speed was also different.
Therefore, this digestion period was also a fatal point. Unless the other person was completely restrained, one was also very dangerous during the devouring process!
If one cultivated the Wuji Demon Art and reached the next realm without the correct cultivation method, this person would explode and die. Only after surviving the heavenly tribulation would there be no such threat. This was also the reason why there were no traitors in the Wuji Demon Sect when it was so powerful in the past.
Even if others obtained this technique, if it was incomplete, no one would dare to cultivate it rashly. Now the cultivation methods of the people in the Wuji Demon Sect were completely wrong, and even the most basic devouring ability didn't appear. Of course, there wouldn't be this problem either.
Even with some flaws, it still couldn't be denied that the Wuji Demon Art was an extraordinary technique in the demonic way. From these flaws, Ding Hao felt the importance of body strength. If the body's functions were strong and tough enough, the devouring speed would surely increase, the ability to withstand true yuan would also be stronger, and one's own danger would naturally be smaller.
Therefore, the foundation was very important. Ding Hao's emphasis on the foundation was beyond the understanding of ordinary people because he deeply knew that the impact of the foundation on his future development was huge. He would rather give up the rapid progress of power in the early stage to solidify the foundation firmly.
Eighty percent of the thousand - year cultivation level of the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python was used by him to forge his body. Therefore, his realm had only reached the middle stage of the Bigu period. If most of the true yuan of the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python had been used to cultivate the five spirits, his cultivation level wouldn't have just stayed at the Bigu period!
Although he had just reached the middle stage of the Bigu period, Ding Hao could already use some techniques with relatively weak attack power.
He also fully understood the use of the Heaven - Defying Demon Sword. This sword was also a supreme treasure in the demonic way. It could not only emit extreme cold during an attack but also increase the user's attack power by one level. The most important function was that it could increase the user's speed. Ten thousand years ago, the Heaven - Defying Demon Sword was the fastest flying sword. Even without reaching the Nascent Soul period, one could fly with this sword. It was definitely a top - notch treasure!
The small eight - winged purple python had already devoured the body of the eight - winged purple python. Under the nourishment of a top - quality spirit stone of Ding Hao's, it had entered a dormant state.
Without the help of the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python, the current cultivation speed was obviously much slower. The slow progress made Ding Hao feel that he was almost doing something meaningless. Relying on the speed of the Heaven - Defying Demon Sword, Ding Hao believed that although he was still no match for his master Chen Ling, if he used it to escape, with Chen Ling's cultivation level of just entering the Nascent Soul period, he couldn't catch up at all.
Ding Hao didn't have the materials for the arrays and talismans in the Wuji Demon Art that he could use now. The storage ring was filled with some materials of rare - treasure level, but there were no basic materials at all. He still needed to find those materials himself to refine them!
Since Chen Ling could no longer pose a threat to his life, Ding Hao also planned to leave seclusion!
After leaving seclusion, Ding Hao's height had reached more than eight feet. The strength of his current body was definitely top - notch in the cultivation world. His muscles were solid and full of explosive beauty. Paired with his magnificent physique, it was extremely harmonious and there was no sense of bulkiness!
Due to the continuous progress of cultivation, his eyes had become extremely bright and sharp! Although he himself didn't have much sense of the passage of time, he knew that the inner elixir of the eight - winged purple python flared up once every three days, and there were eighty - one times in total. Calculated in this way, it was almost a year!
Although Ding Hao had reached the Bigu period and was truly a cultivator, he still had a special preference for food. After catching a wild boar nearby, Ding Hao returned to his residence and started to prepare it. After skinning and washing the wild boar clean, he put it on a rack. Soon, the fragrance began to waft throughout the Wuji Demon Sect! With his eyes narrowed, looking at the browned wild boar on the rack, Ding Hao looked rather leisurely.
At this time, several footsteps sounded in his ears, and judging from the sound, they were coming towards his residence. Ding Hao was a little surprised. He had no connection with others in the Wuji Demon Sect. The only person he had some acquaintance with, the senior brother in the library, still had the duty of guarding the library and couldn't come to find him.
Ding Hao felt a little funny at this time. He had talked with him for a long time but hadn't asked his name, and he hadn't mentioned it to Ding Hao either. What a strange person!
Surprised as he was, the people had arrived at the door. Before entering, a voice came, "Who is so bold as to roast meat here? In this quiet place of our Wuji Demon Sect, doing such a disrespectful thing, what should be the punishment?"
"According to the sect's regulations, disturbing the sect's quietness should be punished by whipping a hundred times!" Another gloomy voice took over the words. As soon as these words were spoken, several people had already entered Ding Hao's room!