Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 433 - 387: Mysterious Scrap Iron!

In the short-term future revealed by the Observing Qi Skill, Qi Xiu witnessed himself being slain by a longsword hidden within the Bull Demon. His soul and spirit would be utterly annihilated, disappearing into ash and smoke.

There would be no resistance. Or rather, there would be no chance to resist. All his techniques, under that abruptly released sword light, would be instantly reduced to nothingness along with his body. It seemed an inevitable, unchangeable fate.

Slowly retracting his right hand, Qi Xiu somewhat understood why this Bull Demon was so brazenly fearless and why it had lain there, saying nothing.

"How about it? You might as well hurry up and kill us."

Seeing Qi Xiu retract his hand, the Bull Demon spoke blandly, though his eyes betrayed shocked astonishment.

This Daoist could actually sense the measures Mr. Li left within us!

How strange, how marvelous! This Six Arts Dao Idiot truly is out of the ordinary.

Since no information could be obtained from these two Demonic Evil Cultivators, Qi Xiu gathered his sleeves. Several strands of Primordial Sword Mang burst forth from the Primordial Sword Gourd at his waist, ready to drain these two demons dry.

"Wait a moment!"

The voice of the big-bearded Tie Mu came from behind him.

"Although we can’t get anything out of their mouths, when the God’s Loathful Remnants appeared earlier, they seemed to be deliberately avoiding them. They must have something on them that makes the God’s Loathful Remnants stay away."

"You old codger, you sure talk a lot... UGH!"

The Bull Demon glowered upon hearing this, opening its mouth to curse. But before it could finish, Qi Xiu’s sword sliced off its tongue.

"Something that makes the God’s Loathful Remnants actively avoid it?"

"Yes. When I encountered this group of demons, they were digging a large hole in the ground, and the God’s Loathful Remnants emerged from that hole. Yet oddly enough, despite the demons being very close to the God’s Loathful Remnants, the damned thing actively avoided them and charged directly at me. If it hadn’t been so, how could I have been injured?"

Recounting his encounter with the demons, Tie Mu was also clearly bewildered.

God’s Loathful Remnants are evolved from the extreme resentment and hatred of the gods. Apart from Primordial Spirit Bosses who have methods to subdue them, almost no technique is effective against them. Yet these demons, which had appeared out of nowhere in the Valley of Deceased Gods, not only actively released the God’s Loathful Remnants but also possessed something that made the Remnants avoid them at all costs.

It seemed their appearance here was certainly with ulterior motives, long premeditated, and thoroughly prepared.

Search.

Something that could make the God’s Loathful Remnants actively avoid it would be an unrivaled Divine Object within the Valley of Deceased Gods. Possessing such an item would almost make this valley the foremost Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands in the world.

With Tie Mu’s reminder, Qi Xiu and the big-bearded man stripped the two demons bare, meticulously searching every nook and cranny, from top to bottom, inside and out.

"Such a precious thing wouldn’t simply be carried on the body."

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Qi Xiu deployed the Observing Qi Skill. In his surging purple eyes, the two demons appeared as special images intertwined with black and white.

Found it!

Indeed, under the special vision of the Observing Qi Skill, even the most deeply hidden things could not hide. After all, even stones emit their own unique Qi. And as long as he could find the part of the two demons that differed from their own Qi, that would naturally be the location of the treasure.

"No wonder it couldn’t be found on its body. It’s hidden in the Ancestral Aperture."

His gaze focused on the Bull Demon’s brow. Qi Xiu directly merged his spirit and flesh, stretched out his hand, and reached into the Bull Demon’s Ancestral Aperture. Amidst its heart-rending screams, he forcefully pulled out an irregular piece of scrap iron.

"This is..."

Staring at the piece of scrap iron in his palm, still wrapped in a clump of blue-black soul substance, Qi Xiu hadn’t had a chance to examine it closely when the thumb-sized piece of iron suddenly transformed into a rainbow light and flew away. The speed was so immense that even Qi Xiu couldn’t react in time. It vanished from sight in an instant.

"Such incredible speed!"

Tie Mu, standing to the side, also noticed the object suddenly fleeing and couldn’t help but exclaim in astonishment.

"Fortunately, there’s still one left." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Having had a large chunk of its soul forcefully extracted by Qi Xiu, the Bull Demon had already collapsed, its eyes rolling back. Qi Xiu simply finished it off with a single sword strike and then stepped towards the corpulent butcher.

With the Bull Demon as an example, a thought struck Qi Xiu. He immediately slowed the flow rate of the Hunyuan Palace to its absolute minimum, applied more than ten layers of the Suppression Talisman Seal Skill, and even reactivated the Dragon Binding Rope on his back. This time, he was determined to ensure it was foolproof.

As the corpulent butcher’s piercing screams echoed from its filthy mouth, Qi Xiu similarly extracted a thumb-sized piece of scrap iron from its soul.

The moment the scrap iron was extracted, it immediately transformed into a rainbow light, just like the previous piece, and tried to escape.

But Qi Xiu was prepared this time; he wouldn’t let it escape so easily.

All ten layers of the Suppression Talisman Seal Skill activated at once. Sturdy golden chains tightly sealed the void, layer upon layer. The Hunyuan Palace trembled slightly as the Power of Chrono Light permeated the area, freezing everything except Qi Xiu in place.

Under this heavy suppression, the divine piece of scrap iron was firmly fixed within the void. However, its surface still trembled, as if struggling to break free and escape.

Layer upon layer of [Suppressing Talismans] continuously condensed on the scrap iron. Its trembling grew weaker under the suppressive force—a power capable of containing even the God’s Loathful Remnants. This continued until the nine hundred and ninety-ninth [Suppressing Talisman] pressed onto the surface of the scrap iron.

The scrap iron, originally dull and emitting a faint green light, had now transformed into what looked like pure gold—resembling a gold nugget—its surface densely imprinted with [Suppressing Talismans].