Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1036 - 120: Bloody Frenzy

Wang Qi quickly waved the Heart Demon Great Curse Memory he held, allowing the Supreme Heart Demon Curse Power to swiftly converge upon him, constructing a broader and more intricate Virtual Divine Country to envelop and protect himself.

Then, he severed his connection to the Heart Demon Mysterious Net and put the Heart Demon Great Curse Memory away.

Zhen Chan asked, "What's wrong?"

Wang Qi took out a book—a collection of Shenzhou's historical anecdotes and customs written by ancient people, purely for leisure. He comfortably reclined against a tree and began reading. He said, "I just sensed a new entity has integrated into the Heart Demon Mysterious Net—a Unification stage entity."

All Unification Stage Cultivators on Spirit Phoenix Island carried a trace of Heart Demon Curse Power within them. This was caused during the previous confrontation between Guan Wuji and several Spirit Phoenix Island Unification Stage Cultivators. However, for high-order cultivators, the Heart Demon Great Curse isn't entirely irresistible, so Wang Qi didn't activate it, allowing that trace of Supreme Heart Demon Curse to lurk.

That trace of Supreme Heart Demon Curse will slowly merge with those Unification Stage Cultivators' mana, subtly weakening their resistance to the Heart Demon Great Curse and the Divine Plague Curse Technique.

And now, a Unification stage has connected to the Heart Demon Mysterious Net.

"Who?"

"I don't know, just as a mortal won't know what fish they've hooked until they pull up the rod, right?" Wang Qi turned a page of the book. "I just know something's taken the bait."

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Copy. Write. Copy. Write. Copy. Write. Copy. Write. Copy. Write. Copy. Write. Copy. Write...

With each circulation, the power doubled in strength.

Due to implementing the Soul Searching Technique, for the Divine Plague Curse Technique, the soul of this Unification Stage Cultivator was utterly defenseless. It was welcoming new information into its mind!

These ever-growing data clusters, akin to snowballs, initially mingled with a certain unspeakable "garble." For the human brain, this unreadable "format" was just garble.

Then, the growth was relentless.

Quickly, that long-hidden Supreme Heart Demon Curse also silently burst forth.

A new operational platform was constructed. The Heart Demon Mysterious Net, existing mysteriously, suddenly descended, infusing more Heart Demon Curse Power, then promptly severed this connection under Wang Qi's command.

The Holy Emperor Venerable would soon make an appearance; the Heart Demon Mysterious Net couldn't be so blatantly exposed to the Holy Emperor Venerable.

Yet, even a fleeting moment of the Mysterious Net's power was enough to alarm the Holy Emperor Venerable.

Zheng Wentai casually discarded Daoist Zhenhe's corpse, eyes filled with the anger of having been deceived.

"What the hell!"

—Was the battle that destroyed Luofu Xuanqing Palace orchestrated by mysterious Heavenly Splitting Dao?

—"Reincarnation Realm" that mystically connects All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds? Reaching cultivation to the heavens, mysterious and ancient "Reincarnation Realm Master?"

—Did Daoist Yixin die within the Reincarnation Realm?

—Was the killer "Shereiireranen..."?

—What kind of ghostly affairs are these?

"This Nascent Soul junior not only had his body manipulated but even his mind was toyed with by evil demons?" Zheng Wentai shook his head, deeply angered.

"This matter must be reported to the Emperor!"

So thinking, he turned to walk into the Forbidden City Phoenix Tomb to report to the great sovereign still in Jinshen Hall. But upon turning, he was surprisingly met with the Holy Emperor Venerable's presence right behind him!

"Oh, greetings, Emperor!"

Zheng Wentai had just bowed down when he felt a hand lightly resting on his back. Then, it was as if he was thrown amid a maddened herd of wild bulls, relentlessly crushed by unparalleled force.

In an instant, the Holy Emperor Venerable shattered his foundation!

"Emperor… this guilty subject… this guilty subject… thanks the sovereign's grandeur…"

Zheng Wentai continuously spat blood mixed with his internal organs. He could hardly believe it, yet had no choice but to accept.

—What did I… just do wrong?

—Was it wrong to rashly soul-search…?

—Why…

"Even this can't be eradicated?"

The Holy Emperor Venerable frowned. Earlier, he had sensed the power of the evil demon he had crossed paths with twice, and thus rushed out. But upon emerging, he found only Zheng Wentai who bore traces of that evil demon's power.

Without hesitation, he destroyed Zheng Wentai's foundation, extinguishing Zheng Wentai's mana, intending to utterly annihilate that evil power.

However, both the Heart Demon Great Curse and the Divine Plague Curse Technique work upon the soul and the mind.

Not killing Zheng Wentai was simply insufficient to end this power.

The Holy Emperor Venerable also noticed this. He frowned slightly, then raised his hand.

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"The records of the Divine Plague Curse Technique against a Unification Stage expert..." Zhen Chan wondered, "How do you plan to recover the data?"

If using the Heart Demon Mystic Net for direct connection, the Heart Demon Mystic Net might be discovered and destroyed by the Holy Emperor Venerable. If the data is left inside that unknown Unification Stage cultivator, and the Holy Emperor Venerable decides to obliterate it, it's over. And if opting to use the Heart Demon Great Curse Memory for direct connection to summon the Heart Demon Curse Power carrying the data... then it's asking for the Holy Emperor Venerable to come knocking!

"Just watch." Wang Qi's tone was indifferent: "Perhaps many people will die later."

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A burst of emerald-blue spiritual light erupted from Zheng Wentai's body.

[Detected the triggering of the Five Plagues General Curse, the host has fallen into a dire situation]

[The host's life is on the brink, executing task dispatch]

Five golden spiritual lights suddenly shot out from Zheng Wentai's body. These five spiritual lights came so quickly that even the Holy Emperor Venerable couldn't stop them in time.

When the Heart Demon Great Curse transforms into divine power, the transmission speed is—at the speed of light!

Even the Holy Emperor Venerable could not react at this limit. The speed of information transmission in the soul is also at light speed, so there was no way to make a move in time.

However...

"I can't keep up with your spell, but I can track the tail path of your spell!"

The Holy Emperor Venerable's spiritual sense spread out, simultaneously operating the Divine Country's law to lock onto the crystal-clear "Karma Lines" in the void, and thereby detect the entire "Karma Net."

Then, he sensed the direction of the five beams of spiritual light.

These five beams of spiritual light charged into five different cultivators.

The Holy Emperor Venerable snorted coldly, first raising his hand to kill Zheng Wentai, then opened his left palm, extending his five fingers in succession, sending five beams of Sword Qi following the trajectory of the five spiritual lights towards the five cultivators.

At this moment, changes occurred again. From within the bodies of the five cultivators struck by the spiritual light, five beams of spiritual light surged forth, spreading in different directions.

The Sword Qi of the Mahayana cultivator arrived in an instant. No matter whether the cultivators hit by the spiritual light were Nascent Soul Old Monsters or Qi Cultivation Disciples, they were all obliterated without a trace. However, these five beams of Sword Light ultimately couldn't stop the twenty-five beams of spiritual power.

The Holy Emperor Venerable's Sword Qi, no matter how fast, could not outpace light.

The Holy Emperor Venerable's eyes shifted, his Sword Qi dividing once more, splitting into five again. Then, twenty-five beams of Sword Qi pounced toward the places where the twenty-five beams of spiritual light disappeared.

Another twenty-five lives vanished in an instant.

Except for one Nascent Soul cultivator who resisted vigorously, causing the new round of replication to be incomplete before being extinguished, the other twenty-four cultivators struck by the spiritual light all completed the replication, emitting the next round of spiritual light.

The Holy Emperor Venerable's Sword Qi split again, also into six hundred beams of Sword Qi.

This time, a hundred Nascent Soul Stage cultivators sacrificed their lives to halt the further spread of the spiritual light.

However, another five hundred people struck by the spiritual light had already completed the gestation of the next wave of spiritual light. This time, it divided into two thousand five hundred new beams of spiritual light.

Then, two thousand five hundred lives perished.

Sword Qi was always a step slower. Because that spiritual light composed of Heart Demon Curse Power always propagated at light speed. Meanwhile, the Holy Emperor Venerable needed to determine the trajectory of the spiritual light and track it, so there was always a one to three second delay between the Sword Light and the Heart Demon Spirit Light.

And one to three seconds was generally enough for the spiritual light to gestate the next round.

The essence of this "spiritual light" is the Heart Pure Yang Spell and a special Path Rank. Each time the Heart Pure Yang Spell enters a person's body, this Path Rank is executed, replicating itself and another file into five copies before spreading again.

Cultivators below the Divine Separation Stage have no resistance to the Heart Demon Great Curse. If it weren't for the "file" needing time to replicate, the Sword Light wouldn't even have the chance to trail behind the Heart Demon Curse Light.

Like a bloody flower, the Ancient Method Practitioners grouped in fives, using their lives to paint a set of Five-Petal Plum on the ground.

And the extension of this "Five-Petal Plum" was a golden flower.

Golden waves spread unfettered in the Spirit Phoenix Island's Underground City, while a bloody tide quickly chased behind!

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Soon, the golden light spread to a level visible to the naked eye. Zhen Chan watched the faint golden light crisscrossing among the major sects, marveling, "How many people have to die for this?"

"Depends on when the Holy Emperor Venerable gets tired of killing and doesn't want to kill anymore," Wang Qi's tone was casual. He brushed aside the branches, looking through the tree towards the Spirit Phoenix Island's Underground City, and at the same time reflected—it really was like a mecha battle animation full of scattered beams...

After all, it wasn't Wang Qi's people dying. This spiritual light automatically avoided those who cultivated Wang Qi's techniques, those heavily infected by the Heart Demon Great Curse, and those Wang Qi had marked in advance.

The Holy Emperor Venerable was destroying his own forces.

"In this situation, who wouldn't stand a chance of being hit? If the Holy Emperor Venerable truly has the heart to kill off half the Ancient Method Practitioners, I'd respect him as a man and consider my task failed, then call in Senior Sister Mi and Teacher Feng to deal with him—but I doubt he's willing to do so."