nyslfriends Chapter 12 Intercepting the Great Evolution Technique
Chapter 12 Intercepting the Great Evolution Technique
Inside the quiet room, Su Mixin held a small ceramic pot with a curved spout; it was the Demon-Refining Pot.
In his divine sense, the corpse of the Gray Scale Hidden Abyss Crocodile in the space inside the pot had disappeared, replaced by a drop of liquid the size of a soybean, blood red with silver threads.
Upon returning to this temporary cave dwelling, Su Mixin immediately placed the corpse of the Gray Scale Hidden Abyss Crocodile into the Demon Refining Pot as soon as she entered the meditation room to be alone. Now, the refining is complete, and it has become this drop of demon essence liquid.
Unfortunately, too much time had been wasted, and the demonic soul within the corpse dissipated, failing to form a demonic soul pill, which was somewhat of a waste.
Then, without further hesitation, Su Mixin poured out the drop of demon essence liquid and swallowed it in one gulp.
As soon as the Demon Essence Liquid entered his stomach, it immediately transformed into incomparably pure spiritual power, surging from his meridians to his dantian. Su Mixin's expression changed. The experience of taking the Foundation Establishment Pill during his Foundation Establishment was still vivid in his mind. He quickly concentrated his mind and focused intently on circulating the "Great Luo Thousand Illusions Technique" to begin the Great Circulation.
Three days later, Su Mixin finally opened her eyes, ending her meditation.
"Most of the medicinal power of this demon essence liquid is still stored in my dantian. I have been refining it for three whole days and have only just used up a trace of it, which is about one-thirtieth of the total. If I want to completely refine this drop of demon essence liquid, wouldn't it require three months of seclusion?"
Su Mixin's expression was quite interesting, deeply feeling the potency of this demon essence liquid.
"But that's understandable, since it's equivalent to condensing an entire level three demon beast."
"And my cultivation has progressed..."
Thinking of this, Su Mixin called out to Feng Hou, "Feng Hou, scan my entire body and compare my cultivation level with before my three days of seclusion. How much has my cultivation improved?"
A voice immediately followed: "Master, please wait a moment."
After several dozen breaths, Feng Hou reported: "The scan of the master's entire body is complete. Compared with the changes that occurred three days ago, the liquid mana in the master's dantian has accumulated slightly. Based on the existing data, it is estimated that the master's cultivation in the early stage of Foundation Establishment has improved by about five-thousandths of the current level."
Su Mixin took a deep breath to calm her slightly excited mood. "It's about what I estimated. If we calculate it this way, it will take three months to completely refine this drop of demon essence liquid, which will allow me to advance about 15% in the early stage of Foundation Establishment."
"In this way, if I have enough demon essence liquid, just seven drops are enough to reach the peak of the early stage of Foundation Establishment after twenty months of seclusion."
"The effects of the demon essence liquid refined by the Demon Refining Pot vary depending on the level of the demon beast. A level three demon beast is one level higher than me. If it is a level two demon beast, it will probably take less than three years."
"The Demon Refining Pot is truly a heaven-defying treasure!" Su Mixin exclaimed deeply.
A thought flashed through his mind: even if Han Laomo were to use another Palm Heaven Bottle, it probably wouldn't be as bad as his exhaust fumes. Those opportunities he had his eye on were very likely to change hands and belong to the Su family.
After a moment's thought, in order not to waste the medicinal power, Su Mixin took out a communication talisman and activated it to send to Lu and Li, informing them that she had made some progress and needed to go into seclusion for three months.
Then I continued meditating and cultivating.
Time flies like an arrow; in the blink of an eye, two years have passed.
Su Mixin also grew through her demon-hunting experiences in the Panlong River basin, making up for her lack of combat experience.
In the past two years, Su Mixin has killed more than a dozen demonic beasts with strength equivalent to Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, including three level four beings.
The corpses of these demonic beasts were all transformed into demonic essence liquid and stored in the Demon Refining Pot. Su Mixin planned to collect more to use when she went into seclusion at the Thousand Illusions Sect. She usually took ordinary pills for her nighttime cultivation. In the past two years, her cultivation had improved quite a bit, and she had taken a big step forward in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
During the two years, they only encountered a level 5 monster once, a cone-headed eel. Lu Xin and Li Chongyue took action and happily divided up the monster's materials and demon core.
It is not surprising that Li Huayuan wasted more than 30 years in this place in the original work.
On this day, Lu Xin, the Imperial Envoy, led Su Mixin and Li Chongyue to the Tianxing Sect Market.
For the past three months, Su Mixin has requested to come to this market once a month.
They lied to Lu and Li, claiming they were dealing with materials from demonic beasts and purchasing additional pills and talismans.
In fact, Su Mixin calculated that it was close to the time when Han Li had established his foundation, and that he came here every time to participate in the auction held once a month by a secret shop in the market.
So that I wouldn't miss the one Han Li was going to attend.
After all, Huang Long of the Thousand Bamboo Sect and the former young master of the Lin family were the ones who appeared at this auction. Su Mixin didn't want to miss out on the first four levels of the Great Evolution Technique in the young master of the Lin family's storage bag.
In the human realm and the cultivation world, cultivation techniques and secret manuals for cultivating divine sense are extremely rare, and the Great Evolution Technique is a unique existence among them.
The three arrived at the inn, which was the same courtyard they had rented before.
Su Mixin returned to her room and activated the restriction.
The next day, not long before the auction at the secret shop, Su Mixin prepared to set off. Before leaving the meditation room, he called out to Feng Hou, "Feng Hou, open the liveness map, monitor the cultivators in the market area, and find the targets: Han Li and Huang Long, both of whom are at the Foundation Establishment stage."
A voice immediately rang out: "Master, target spotted!"
Su Mixin's spirits lifted; they had indeed arrived.
Half an hour later, Su Mixin transformed into a burly man with a thick beard and a red face, wearing a tiger-head mask, and arrived at a lonely, dilapidated hut in the market.
He knocked lightly on the door a few times, and a woman in her thirties immediately opened the door with a cold face. Su Mixin did not say anything, but took out a wooden token and waved it.
Upon seeing this, the woman immediately greeted her with a smile, "So it's a regular customer. The auction is about to begin, please follow me."
After saying that, she led Su Mixin into the house, closed the door, and then went to a corner to open a mechanism. The two of them followed the stairs into the secret passage.
Soon after, the two arrived at the entrance of the auction venue, where two Foundation Establishment cultivators wearing demon masks guarded the gate.
Upon entering, a magnificent auction hall came into view. Dozens of customers were already seated in the hall, most of them hiding their faces and concealing their identities.
The venue was completely silent as everyone waited for the auction to begin.
Most of these cultivators exuded the imposing aura of the Foundation Establishment stage.
"I wonder which one of them is Old Demon Han?" Su Mi thought to herself, her eyes sweeping over some of the cloaked cultivators in the arena.
After finding an empty seat near the edge, the woman who had led the way took her leave.
Half an hour later, three black-clad monks stepped forward.
After the three of them spoke in turn and announced the rules of the auction, they took the initiative to sit down on the sandalwood chairs to the side.
A tall, thin male host finally took the stage to start the auction.
"This auction will be hosted by me. The first item up for auction is a top-tier magic weapon, the Fiery Cloud Sword..."
"That's right, it really is this time!" Su Mi thought to herself.
The auction proceeded in full swing, but Su Mixin simply clasped her hands in a fist salute and leaned back in her chair to watch the show.
The treasures that these ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators were vying for at the auction were utterly unattractive to a top-tier rich second-generation heir in the cultivation world.
He was waiting for the person he believed in to show up.
After more than twenty items were sold to customers in the room, the host announced the name of the next item.
"A high-grade magic artifact, a pair of puppet mechanical beasts, whose strength is comparable to a cultivator at the ninth level of the Qi Refining stage..."
After a moment of silence, a voice rang out from a corner: "One hundred spirit stones!"
Su Mixin looked in the direction of the sound and saw a strange person whose entire head was covered by a gray cloth bag.
"This must be the Uncle Lin who brought the first four levels of the Great Evolution Technique to Old Demon Han!" Su Mi thought to herself, a cold smile inadvertently appearing on her lips.
Sure enough, a burly man then appeared and started arguing with "Uncle Lin." The two fought fiercely, and the burly man finally pulled out a piece of iron essence, thus winning the item.
However, this also attracted the covetous gazes of many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the arena.
Next, Su Mixin's attention was no longer on the auction; he secretly kept a close eye on "Uncle Lin".
Even the final item in the auction—a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum—failed to attract his bid.
After the final exchange session concluded, everyone filed out.
It is worth mentioning that, because Qi Yunxiao and Xin Ruyin were recruited in advance, changing their fate, no formations appeared at the final trade fair.
"Old Demon Han should leave empty-handed!" Su Mi thought to herself with a wicked grin.
Half an hour later, Su Mixin walked through the market street, her divine sense secretly watching 'Uncle Lin' not far away.
"How interesting!"
Su Mixin discovered that several Foundation Establishment cultivators were secretly following the burly man who came out of the secret shop at the front, while 'Uncle Lin' was behind him, hoping to catch him in the act.
Not long after, the burly man ran to an inn in the market and didn't come out for a long time. 'Uncle Lin' disguised himself in a nearby alley and also checked into the inn.
"It's stalled..."
Su Mixin shook her head. Luckily, he had the survival map.
After that, Su Mixin left decisively, first going to another inn nearby to book a room and paying a month's room fee.
After entering the room, he activated the restriction and bound the Hearthstone coordinates.
He currently only has one coordinate in his Hearthstone, representing the area around the Moonlit Sect Market. The other two coordinates he used before have long been deleted.
Su Mixin used the Great Luo Thousand Illusion Technique to change her appearance and identity, and quietly left the inn.
When Su Mixin returned to her rented courtyard, she told Lu and Li that she had gained some insights and needed to go into seclusion for a short period of time.
Then he went into his room, used the Marauder's Map, and ordered Feng Hou to keep a close watch.
More than half a month later, the two points of light, Huang Long and Lin Zheng, shown on the live map finally took action. According to the map, they left the inn one after the other.
At this moment, Su Mixin no longer hesitated and decisively took out his Hearthstone. A few breaths later, he appeared in the inn room he had booked for a month.
Su Mixin stared intently at the live map and saw that Huang Long and Lin Zheng had both left the market.
So he changed his appearance and followed the two in the direction they were going.
Once outside the market gate and a short distance away, seeing that no one was around, Su Mixin activated her Illusionary Mist Divine Power, transforming into a wisp of misty white fog and slowly flying towards the distant sky.
Half an hour later, Su Mixin descended and quietly landed in a forest. At this time, the clearing not far away was a mess, a scene of a great battle.
Several mangled corpses and small pieces of puppet remains were scattered around.
In the center of the open space, Huang Long and Lin Zheng were facing off, with over a hundred puppets surrounding Huang Long.
"The real show is just beginning!" Su Mixin thought to herself as she observed the battlefield.
"If you don't reveal your identity, don't blame me for being impolite!" Huang Long shouted loudly.
"Have you forgotten who secretly taught you the first level of the Great Evolution Technique?"
Lin Zheng on the other side remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking.
Huang Long's expression changed drastically, and he took several steps back.
"You're Senior Brother Lin?... No, Senior Brother Lin has been dead for many years! How dare you play tricks on me! I, Huang, will take your life!"
Huang Long's face was full of rage, and he roared hoarsely. Then, with a fierce look on his face, he waved his hand, and the hundred or so puppets immediately stepped forward.
Su Mixin lost her patience at this moment. Seeing that the main person in the room was focused on the other party, she made a decisive move.
A quarter of an hour later, a blood-red sword shadow emerged from the woods and shot rapidly toward Huanglong.
This sword shadow was extremely fast and powerful, carrying a faint bloody killing intent, and arrived at Huanglong's side in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, Huang Long was clearly unable to react in time.
A blood-red sword flashed through his neck, and a head with wide-open eyes fell to the ground.
At the same time, on the other side, a radiating, cone-shaped white psychedelic beam of light shot towards Lin Zheng in an instant.
Lin Zheng's divine sense was clearly stronger and his reaction was faster, but just as he summoned a small black shield, the mirror light had already enveloped him.
Lin Zheng's eyes were hazy under the mirror light, and he remained motionless.
The next moment, accompanied by the crimson sword shadow turning back towards the forest, a word "Go" echoed from within.
Nine sword lights shot to Lin Zheng's side in the blink of an eye, and they clashed and killed each other, scattering several pieces of his body on the ground.
This astonishing turn of events occurred in just three or four breaths.
The few people who were still hiding nearby were all dumbfounded.
"Tap tap tap..." Accompanied by footsteps, Su Mixin, dressed in a gilded cloud silk robe, slowly walked out of the forest.
He held a white mirror-like magical artifact in his left hand and made a sword-finger gesture with his right.
The next moment, the nine flying swords had already combined into a flying shuttle and flew back, floating to his right side.
Su Mixin turned to look at the other side of the woods, her expression indifferent, and said loudly, "Are you two still hiding to the side, perhaps thinking you can continue to be the oriole unaware of my presence and devour me, the mantis?"
The sound carried a hint of murderous intent, and together with the corpses of Huang and Lin in the arena, it exuded an imposing aura.
As soon as the words were spoken, two Foundation Establishment cultivators, a man and a woman, appeared in the forest. Without the slightest hesitation, they used two flying magical artifacts to flee rapidly into the distant sky.
At this moment, in the eyes of the two, Su Mixin's speed in slaying Huanglong and Lin Zheng's combat power were truly terrifying.
Moreover, during their spiritual probing, Su Mixin's cultivation level remained completely undetected, her depths unfathomable.
Terrified, the two dared not linger for even a second; their best course of action was to escape as quickly as possible.
Su Mixin shook her head. These two were insignificant and she couldn't be bothered to pursue them.
He put the few magical artifacts he had just used into his waist storage bag.
He then quickly circled the battlefield, collecting the storage bags and scattered magical artifacts from the corpses, and taking all the intact puppets into his possession.
After finishing, Su Mixin put her hands behind her back, suddenly turned her head, and looked at a gray cloud not far away.
"Fellow Daoist, you've been hiding and watching the show for so long, why don't you show yourself?"