Chapter 767 483: Sword Slash Demon, The Qualifications for War
The Late-Stage Demon Pill Transformation appears humanoid but retains the head of its original form, with the tail, feathers, and scales still visible.
The Demon Body Transformation is primarily human-shaped, retaining only features indicating its original form, such as horns, brow scales, vertical pupils, or a slender tongue.
The true Transformation Realm appears entirely human.
"Human race, such audacity you display!"
"I'm going to devour you all."
Greed glimmered in the Demon Cultivator's eyes.
He murmured in a low voice, unintelligible to ordinary humans.
It was the Demon Race's common language.
Zhao Fu raised an eyebrow, looking at the Demon Cultivator.
A deep sound emerged from Zhao Fu's throat as well.
He spoke in Demon Language too:
"You have crossed the boundary."
"This is not a Human Circle; this is the kingdom protected by the Immortal Mountain."
The Chameleon was stunned.
He seemed surprised to hear such familiar Demon Language in this place.
Then his Qi-Blood surged, drawing out his flying sword.
"Boom——"
He transformed into a nearly three-meter-tall giant beast.
A mocking expression adorned his scaly face.
"Just you?"
"An ownerless Human gathering place, hahaha."
"Truly rare..."
"In the Great Lie Demon Kingdom, a free-range human is worth an entire Spirit Stone."
The Chameleon's scales bristled.
In an instant, they disappeared from sight.
The Demon Race's Innate Divine Techniques.
.........
Zhao Yi was an Honored Guest Elder recruited by the Zhao Family.
The Zhao Family, as one of the five prominent surnames, was a colossus in the entire Jianghu of the Tang Kingdom.
Zhao Yi was an Innate Martial Artist.
In the Jianghu, he was a generation's Grandmaster, and he earned the title of Mountain Sword God.
Thus, he became a distinguished Honored Guest Elder of the Zhao Family.
He also served as a member of the Imperial City Temple.
He dealt with many extraordinary phenomena, demon beasts, evil cultivators, and even phantoms.
But demons capable of transforming into human forms still challenged Zhao Yi's worldview.
"And that esteemed person..."
"It is our Zhao family's young master, Zhao Fu."
"I taught him swordsmanship over a decade ago."
"I didn't expect that in just over a decade, Mr. Fu would become a true Immortal Master…"
Zhao Yi felt quite conflicted.
Suddenly, he sensed a warning.
The instinct he honed through years of battle made him reflexively perform an iron bridge back-bend.
A putrid stench assaulted him.
In an instant, Zhao Yi's mind went blank.
Cold, indifferent eyes met his gaze.
Something in Zhao Fu's blood seemed to awaken, perhaps an ancestral reminder imprinted within when pursued by Demon Cultivators.
Every organ in his body was sending one signal to his brain.
"Run!"
"Or you will die!"
That day, humanity finally recalled the fear once dominated by the Demon Race.
"Water Flow Ring, bind."
A clear, fresh aura appeared.
In an instant, several streams of water formed ropes, binding the Chameleon's limbs.
"Giants trees ascend, form a cage!"
The ground cracked open, and within moments, the tree roots and vines burst forth, ensnaring the Chameleon's body.
"Humans, I will devour you all!!!"
A frenzied roar erupted.
Only then did Zhao Yi comprehend; he scrambled backward and regained his senses with the help of his comrades.
In the face of true power, even Zhao Yi, the renowned Sword God of the Jianghu, was powerless.
Because they were fundamentally from two different realms.
All the members of the Imperial City Temple swallowed.
Their gazes involuntarily focused on a young man behind the Chameleon, who was performing hand seals while pressing his hands against the ground.
Many recognized Zhao Fu.
But they found it hard to associate the formerly aloof and intelligent young noble with the Immortal Master before them, who wielded a sword to slay demons.
Zhao Fu paid them no mind.
He felt the True Essence continually surging from within.
Due to his physique, Zhao Fu possessed more True Essence, greater control, and less consumption compared to others in the same realm.
And he had higher prowess in Natural Magic.
"Tree Realm."
Various saplings sprouted from the ground, growing madly, instantly replenishing the torn apart tree roots and vines.
"Sword, come."
The flying sword thrown to the ground by the chameleon landed in Zhao Fu's hand.
At the moment the sword entered his hand, Zhao Fu's gaze became extremely serious.
Sword Intent and Sword Qi swirled and roared around him.
"Screech"
The sound was like tearing fabric, softly echoing.
The crowd looked again.
They found the chameleon's head, along with those trees, turned into two halves.
The Sword Qi involved turned into a gale, scattering the wood chips.
"You have overestimated yourself."
"And underestimated the Human Race."
Zhao Fu looked calm, stirring with his hand in the still hot flesh of the chameleon.
Finally, he dug out a Demon Pill.
The value of the Demon Pill was equivalent to seventy percent of the entire demon corpse.
The Demon Race consumes humans to better transform into human form.
Humans take Demon Pills to better condense Golden Cores.
"Send someone to deal with the rest."
"I only want the leather, claws, and a few pieces of Heart Blood flesh, the rest can be given to the Imperial City Temple."
Zhao Fu said calmly, then left.
[You handled the crisis of the Demon Cultivator.]
[You sensed a faint scent of crisis in it.]
[This Demon Cultivator came from the Demon Kingdom, not those wild demons of the Star Sea Islands that consume the essence of sun and moon.]
[This might be a conspiracy of the Demon Kingdom.]
[You entered your speculations into the Communication Spiritual Artifact, informing White Eyebrow.]
[Only then did you breathe a sigh of relief.]
[You glanced at the Demon Pill in your hand, which looked like glass, with not a hint of stench, but rather emitted a faint fragrance.]
[This is the first time you obtained a Demon Pill with the identity of the Human Race.]
[According to the Immortal Mountain's technique, Demon Pills are far more useful than Spirit Stones, and are rare cultivation treasures.]
[They can also be quickly refined to rapidly accumulate True Essence.]
Jiang Ming took another glance, then sighed.
As an Alchemist, Jiang Ming strongly opposed this kind of behavior.
Because in later generations, Demon Pills became a fairly common main ingredient in Pill Formulas.
Through the techniques of alchemy, all impurities in the Demon Pill can be removed.
Only the essence is retained.
In later generations, as the Human Race became stronger, Demon Cultivators became high-demand targets.
Everyone wanted the materials from Demon Cultivators and demon beasts.
Leather, claws, scales, feathers can all be used for artifact refining.
Blood can be used to draw talismans, or as materials for Array patterns.
Demon meat and Demon Pills can be used for alchemy.
Demon Cultivators were treasure from head to toe.
However, later on, Demon Cultivators all retreated to the Demon Realm, and wild demons became fewer and fewer, making Demon Pills more and more sought after.
"Initially, pills merely began to sprout."
"At that time, even cultivation pills were rare."
"Naturally, Demon Pills became precious cultivation resources."
"However, if too many were refined, impurities would mix into one's True Essence..."
But there were obviously solutions at that time.
That was to absorb the Essence Qi of the sun and moon, extracting energy from the Demon Pill.
The downside of this method was its slowness.
Very slow.
Later, a single cultivation pill would easily outmatch this Demon Pill extraction method.
Therefore, this method was naturally lost in later generations.
[You returned to the Zhao Family.]
[The Zhao Family gave you the highest level of welcome.]
[Even the royal family sent several Princes.]
[You faintly heard about the royal family planning to marry off a Princess to you, which you immediately rejected.]
[You toured your childhood residence once again.]
[You also guided the Honored Guest Elders at home.]
[Within the Zhao Family, everyone's attitude towards you was different from before.]
[You no longer felt the warmth and ease you once had at the Zhao Family, and with a sigh, you began your return to the Immortal Mountain.]
[You returned to the Immortal Mountain to continue your cultivation.]
[You started exploring the Spirit Silence Realm.]
[At twenty-nine, you learned the first style of the Cyan Cloud Seven Divine Swords, Cyan Cloud Dawn.]
[That same year, news arrived.]
[The Great Lie Demon Kingdom on the western lands began invading the Purple Mist Immortal Mountain in the Star Sea, continuously kidnapping the population.]
[Purple Mist Immortal Mountain issued a Guardian Order.]
[Numerous Immortal Mountains responded one after another.]
[You actively participated, joining the majestic team of five Golden Core Masters leading a hundred elite disciples heading for Purple Mist Immortal Mountain.]
[This was the first time you witnessed a war between the Human Race and the Demon Race.]
[The Human Race possesses the qualifications to wage war against the Demon Race.]
