My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Two maids led Yang Jing into a Demon Cave. The entrance to the cave was winding, but the main chamber was quite spacious. It covered an area of about an acre and was set with a Water Repelling Restriction, thick with rolling Muddy Qi.

If Yang Jing were truly a Snake Demon, this Cave Mansion would be quite impressive.

"The Crown Prince’s Personal Guards drill once every five days. The next drill is in four days, so don’t forget. You are free to do as you please at all other times, but you are not permitted to leave the fief. If you need to leave for any reason, you must request leave from Eunuch Gui."

Yang Jing cupped his hands. "I understand."

From this interaction, he discovered that the Jade Poison Kingdom—a nation completely unrecorded by the Six Sects of the Western Continent—had a rather well-developed system. It was nothing like a typical Demon Country, which were usually just motley crews.

This made him even more interested in the Jade Poison Kingdom’s origins. ’This is definitely no ordinary Demon Country.’

After hastily cleaning the Demon Cave and washing the dust out with a stream of water, Yang Jing eagerly took out the Jade Scrolls he had borrowed from Si Taizhen and began to study them.

With his Divine Sense, scanning the knowledge within the Jade Scroll was incredibly fast. In an instant, he had finished reading the contents of the first one.

’I never expected a Demon Country to have such an origin!’

Yang Jing lowered the Jade Scroll in his hand, his face a mask of shock.

A long-held question surfaced in his mind. Flood Dragons were a species from the Upper Realm, so how could the Western Continent—a landmass that had merged with the Nine Heavens World by a twist of fate—also have them?

According to the records of the Jade Poison Kingdom, back when the Six Sect Ancestors crossed over to the Western Continent, there were already Flood Dragons and Celestial Snakes of the Divinity Transformation Realm in the Central Continent. Seeing that the Cultivators of the Central Continent were trending toward ostracizing the Demon Race, they led their clans and divisions west, arriving in the Western Continent.

At that time, the Western Continent revered Divine Beings who enslaved Demons. These deities clashed violently with the Flood Dragons and Celestial Snakes. After a great war that lasted for several thousand years, the Flood Dragon and Celestial Snake finally led their divisions to occupy nearly a third of the Western Continent, ruling over the clans they had brought from the Central Province and the local Demon People of the Western Continent.

The Flood Dragon and Celestial Snake were known as the Two Emperors and ruled the Demon Court together.

The records state that after the two ancestors, the Celestial Snake and the Flood Dragon, ascended one after another, the Flood Dragon’s faction on the Western Continent brazenly launched a sneak attack, seeking to dominate the Demon Court alone.

Caught completely off guard, the Celestial Snake Race suffered a crushing defeat. They could only retreat overseas with their people, establishing the Jade Poison Kingdom amid the sea and using the Three Great Demon Realms as natural barriers to escape the Flood Dragon’s pursuit.

Since then, every Sovereign of the Jade Poison Kingdom has inherited the title of "Jade Poison" from their ancestor, vowing to one day have their revenge.

After reading, Yang Jing put away the Jade Scroll. He had never imagined the Jade Poison Kingdom would have such a history. No wonder it seemed so orderly, with even the Demon Villages having well-established traditions.

’I searched high and low for this, only to stumble upon it so easily.’

He had previously been desperately searching for information about the Divine Beings of the Western Continent to no avail, never expecting to find so much useful information in the records of the Jade Poison Kingdom.

The Flood Dragon Xuan Xiao and the Celestial Snake Jade Poison had slain countless Divine Beings of the Western Continent and had naturally tried to investigate their origins.

They finally made a breakthrough through a Divine Being equivalent to the Divinity Transformation Realm. It turned out that the continent of the Western Continent originally belonged to another great world, roughly the same size as the Nine Heavens World. It collided with the Nine Heavens World when the Central Province fell.

The Central Province, after all, was part of the Upper Realm and far more durable than an ordinary great world. When the two worlds collided, a piece was torn from that other great world, becoming the Western Continent of the Five Continents.

These Divine Beings had held a dominant position in that other great world. After being merged into the Western Continent, they constantly schemed to return to their home.

Their conflict with the two Divinity Transformation prodigies, Xuan Xiao and Jade Poison, was born from their desire to enslave the demons of an entire continent to build a Heaven-Reaching Tower for them, so they could measure the coordinates of their homeland.

Yang Jing immediately made a copy of the Jade Scroll. He was deeply shaken, never having expected the Western Continent to have such an origin.

The two ancestors, Xuan Xiao and Jade Poison, had carved out a path through the wilderness to establish their Royal Court. Now, one branch was exiled overseas while the other was severely marginalized. He couldn’t help but sigh at the fickle nature of the world.

He put away the Jade Scroll and examined the others. He found that they contained many records about the three surrounding Demon Realms, which would be extremely useful for his future journey through them. He copied these as well and even drew a rough map of the three Demon Realms.

After finishing these important tasks, Yang Jing took out the Three Yin and Three Yang Mysterious Snake Scripture and the Coiling Snake Spear Mantra. He skimmed through them briefly to avoid being completely clueless if Si Taizhen were to test him in a few days.

The Three Yin and Three Yang Mysterious Snake Scripture must have been created by the Celestial Snake for subordinates in their divisions with poor aptitude. It worked by borrowing the Yin and Yang of muddy, baleful qi to purify Demon Power and temper the Demon Body. If cultivated correctly, one could even break free from the shackles of their innate bloodline and achieve true attainment.

As for the Coiling Snake Spear Mantra, it was created specifically for Snake Demons. It was sinister, venomous, and unpredictable, relying on technique to achieve victory.

With Yang Jing’s current Body Refining Cultivation, he only needed a single glance at the Coiling Snake Spear Mantra to grasp about seventy to eighty percent of it. As for the Three Yin and Three Yang Mysterious Snake Scripture, he spent about an hour cultivating it, converting a small half of his Demon Power into Three Yin and Three Yang Mysterious Snake Scripture’s Demon Power.

If he remained in his human form for too long without changing back into this Snake Demon’s body, this store of Three Yin and Three Yang Mysterious Snake Scripture’s Demon Power would dissipate on its own.

However, by Yang Jing’s estimation, it shouldn’t be a major issue for three to five days.

He had left with plenty of time, so there were still several years before the contest for the Nine Marvelous Creation Qi. Seeing that the Celestial Demons in the Three Great Demon Realms were in hot pursuit, with countless Demon Cultivators also mixed in, Yang Jing found Si Taizhen’s fief to be quite safe. He decided he wanted to stay here for a few months, at least long enough to wait out the most intense period of the manhunt.

And during this time, he could also refine the Innate Pure Yang Qi.

The Central Continent was dominated by Noble Families and Sects, forming a web that ensnared the entire continent. Not a single Spirit Vein was without an owner. Independent Cultivators had no place to stand; if they wanted to cultivate, they could only rent Spirit Veins from the Noble Families and Sects.

If he were to refine the Innate Pure Yang Qi on the territory of these Noble Families and Sects, its aura might leak out and attract disaster.

It was nothing like the Jade Poison Kingdom, where security was lax. As long as he was inside this Demon Cave, he would rarely be disturbed by others.

At this thought, he summoned his disciples, Iron Head and Yinjiao.

The Innate Pure Yang Qi’s grade was too high. It was fine as long as Yang Jing kept it inside the Iron Embryo Treasure Bottle, but if he were to release it within his Inner World, the entire Inner World would immediately become unable to bear it and fall into turmoil.

This was also why Yang Jing hadn’t simply hidden underground and refined the Qi inside his Inner World.

"Iron Head, modify the Array here and dig out another cavern beneath this Demon Cave to shield its aura. Yinjiao, while Master is underground refining the Innate Pure Yang Qi, you will transform into my Snake Demon appearance. If anyone comes to visit, you will handle them for me," Yang Jing instructed his two disciples.

Yinjiao possessed the Divine True Dragon Transformation and also cultivated the Inconstant Illusionary Form Technique. It would be more than enough for him to assume Yang Jing’s appearance and fool an ordinary Snake Demon.

Suddenly finding themselves in a Cave Mansion thick with Muddy Qi, both Iron Head and Yinjiao showed looks of discomfort. However, the Cultivation Techniques they practiced were extraordinary, and they quickly adapted.

With Iron Head’s Magical Power, he quickly fine-tuned the Array and carved out a stone chamber seven zhang below the Demon Cave. Inside this chamber, he set up another Array that he had refined himself, using the dense, muddy, and baleful qi to conceal any fluctuations of Spiritual Qi from within.

"Not bad!"

Yang Jing nodded in satisfaction. The path to the newly carved stone chamber had been sealed back up with a Mud to Stone Magic Technique. It could only be entered or exited using Earth Escape, leaving no trace.

He returned Iron Head to his Inner World, gave Yinjiao a few more instructions about the situation with the Jade Poison Kingdom and Si Taizhen, and then used Earth Escape to slip into the underground stone chamber.

Forming a hand seal, he activated the Array, sealing off any aura from leaking out of the stone chamber. Only then did Yang Jing cautiously take out the Iron Embryo Treasure Bottle.

It had been almost two months since he obtained the Innate Pure Yang Qi, and now he could finally attempt to refine it.