Chapter 610: Great Snow Mountain Small Extreme Palace, All the Worthies Gathered

Even though Li Chunyi had plummeted from his peak cultivation to the mid-stage of Soul Transformation, he felt his foundation was significantly more stable. His previous peak had a somewhat flashy and insubstantial feel to it, and he had used the method of fabricating his own memories more than once.

This was how he had rapidly cultivated to the peak of Soul Transformation.

His Emotion Severing Intent was also far stronger than that of other cultivators at the same stage. After all, others only went through the 'slaughtering a beloved to attain the Dao' experience once; once they passed it, their hearts would become like dead ash, truly devoid of emotion, and nothing could stir the feelings of an emotion-severing cultivator again.

However, Li Chunyi achieved this by deceiving himself. Each time after a period of intense struggle, his cultivation indeed increased significantly. But as his memories returned and he understood everything clearly, his cultivation realm would become unstable. At that point, he would have to find another target for his 'emotional tribulation,' creating a vicious cycle. If not for Wang Yu's secret technique, he had planned to increase the dosage and try a method to completely alter his own memories. But now... a better option had appeared.

“Fellow Daoist Wei... no, Brother Wei, please do it again.”

His eyes were bloodshot, completely losing his previous image of a cold and emotionless master. His emotional fluctuations were even more intense than those of a typical Nascent Soul cultivator; he had completely lost his composure.

Wang Yu chuckled, “Fellow Daoist Li, what you don’t know is that the ‘Hundred Generations Reincarnation’ formed by the Boundless Mortal World consumes a cultivator’s own Soul Foundation. It cannot be performed a second time in a short period, or there will be endless repercussions. Generally, natural recovery takes almost ten years. If you have treasures that restore the Soul, you can do it again after two or three months. If you wish, you can come find me then.”

Li Chunyi’s reddened eyes gradually calmed down.

He clasped his hands and bowed respectfully.

“I understand. In one year, I will convene a Soul Transformation conference and invite all fellow Daoists from the Mountain and Sea Realm to meet at the Minor Polarity Palace. At that time, I will certainly prepare a grand gift for Brother Wei.”

With that, he transformed into a streak of snowy white sword light and vanished into the sky.

He didn’t even glance at Honored Immortal Xia the entire time, showing his true, excellent nature. He didn’t even ask if the Mortal World Secret Art could be taught, as he was sure Wang Yu had a powerful master behind him. Such a profound secret art could not be casually passed on to outsiders. Therefore, he intended to use his authority to give Wang Yu a grand gift, hoping to continue their association and perhaps even become close friends.

Furthermore, due to the issues of his fallen cultivation and missing Intent, he needed to return and consolidate his gains. If he could suppress the surging seven emotions and six desires brought forth by this Mortal World Reincarnation, he would cultivate back to his former level even faster!

Empress Qingqing, who had observed the entire process, pursed her lips and said, utterly speechless,

“Look at how he’s been altered. Does Brother Wei’s secret art truly have no unmentioned side effects?”

After all, Li Chunyi’s attitude towards her was completely different. He was exhibiting double standards to the extreme.

Wang Yu merely smiled without speaking. Did she really think he was some kind of good-luck charm? Just like in the Ice Prison Realm, he preferred honest and kind-hearted friends, like Lei Yao.

Innate demonic cultivators like Li Chunyi, whose nature leaned towards transactional relationships, were more dangerous. Storing the Mortal World Boat, refined by his secret art, into one's Niwan Palace was equivalent to sending it into the core region where the Soul was stored. How incredibly perilous!

Can you guess why Li Chunyi’s cultivation plummeted so much? Why even his Intent manifested numerous holes and flaws?

While his unstable foundation was indeed a factor, Wang Yu had certainly exploited this, frantically absorbing the other party’s essence. Having collected a small spellcasting fee, not directly crippling his opponent was already Wang Yu showing respect to the Emotion Severing Dao lineage. After sensing the demonic artifact in his Qi Sea and realizing that the absorbed essence of the Emotion Severing Intent was transforming into strands of black silk, pushing the demonic artifact to a higher level, Wang Yu was extremely satisfied.

He casually drew Honored Immortal Xia over, gripping the Immortal’s Soul by the neck with one hand. Immediately, terrifying black light burst from the Immortal’s seven orifices, as if endless information was being extracted. This was precisely the Soul Searching Charm, a fifth-tier soul-searching secret technique.

This technique was quite rare, and Wang Yu had spent considerable effort to deduce it. Honored Immortal Xia’s vast memories were enough for him to completely control Yunzhou.

The subsequent matters would become exceptionally easy to handle.

“Oh, this is... the refining method for a Devouring Emotion Beast?”

Most of the useful information in Honored Immortal Xia’s memories concerned the conditions and distribution of powerful cultivators across Yunzhou, but one particular method surprised him.

A Devouring Emotion Beast is a peculiar creature resembling a snake. It is not a demon, a gu, a true spirit, nor a divine beast; it exists between illusion and reality. It is a genuine strange beast composed of various emotions. It is naturally endowed with the ability to traverse the void and control all emotions, feeding on them. The emotional dreams it weaves are exceptional, perfect for trapping people and destroying their minds. From birth, it is a master of manipulating human hearts.

It is extremely effective in assisting combat, and applying it to oneself also brings great benefits. This peculiar beast requires ten thousand snake essences as a base, the tears of emotionless people as the main material, and rich seven emotions and six desires as auxiliary materials to refine its embryo.

In some ways, it is closer to artificial beasts like the Extreme Yin Dragon King, yet natural-born Devouring Emotion Beasts do exist, making their exact relationship difficult to describe.

Honored Immortal Xia voluntarily becoming Li Chunyi’s Dao companion was most likely an attempt to refine a Devouring Emotion Beast. This beast is extremely adept at stirring emotions, and if its miraculous abilities were properly utilized, it might even be able to control Li Chunyi.

In Wang Yu’s eyes, the various marvelous uses of this beast could not compare to the Mortal World Secret Art, nor the benefits brought by the Six Desires Demonic Diagram. Only its ability to weave emotional dreams was somewhat interesting. However, this type of being, which exists between illusion and reality, might be his shortcut to approaching the Demonic Heaven Realm.

The Demonic Heaven Realm is mysterious and unpredictable, a world of rules that, like the Yellow Springs, covers the entire Vast Immortal Domain. Previously, Wang Yu had only encountered Six Desires Sky Demons. If he could obtain the essence of Sky Demons from other bloodlines, it might further evolve his Innate True Demonic Physique, which was the fundamental source of his powerful strength.

The Devouring Emotion Beast and the Sky Demons of the Six Desires lineage are too similar. This alone was a tremendous opportunity for him personally.

“Excellent, quite excellent!”

He still had a small amount of Seven Emotions and Six Desires Tears. He only needed to collect ten thousand snake essences and the tears of emotionless people to begin refining. He could task the Wei clan with collecting the snake essences, but the tears of emotionlessness would have to come from Li Chunyi. He wondered if he could manipulate him a bit.

After that day, Qingqing departed without directly responding to his invitation, and the Five Elements Corpse Workshop entered a rapid development phase. Wang Yu went out several times, directing all the spirit veins from Cloud Mist Mountain into the Corpse Workshop. In addition to the Reverse Five Elements Corpse-Nurturing Array, he also set up the Heavenly Essence Earth Spirit Formation! Its purpose was to use high-grade spirit veins as a core to greatly gather spiritual energy from heaven and earth, which would both improve the cultivation environment of the Corpse Workshop and accelerate the condensation of the Yin Five Elements rules.

After occasionally dealing with Nascent Soul cultivators who couldn’t see the situation clearly, the entire Wei clan transformed day by day.

With the support of massive resources and Wang Yu’s reckless use of Blood Dao spiritual pills to promote growth, almost all of them advanced by an entire major realm. Although they lost all potential as a result, they could now fully focus on procreation and serving Wang Yu. Maintaining this rate of development, ten thousand snake essences were collected in just half a year.

Additionally, with a vast supply of high-grade demonic beast corpses for nourishment, Wang Yu quickly completed three cycles of coagulation and dispersion. He only needed six more cycles for his physical foundation to be perfectly complete, and his cultivation speed was incredibly fast.

As for Honored Immortal Xia, Wang Yu dispersed his Soul and refined it into the Blood God Pill, which was an upgraded version derived from the Longevity Blood Infant Pill! This item was refined primarily from the Soul, supplemented by a large quantity of spiritual herbs for magical power, so it wasn’t a purely human-based pill. One batch yielded three pills, each capable of increasing his magical power by nearly 100,000 units, greatly reducing the speed of magical power accumulation. The time required for refinement was also very short, much faster than traditional spiritual pills.

The magical power possessed by a late-stage Soul Transformation cultivator had once again reached a critical point of qualitative change, about to enter the liquid phase. Wang Yu estimated that he could advance to the eighth layer of Soul Transformation in at most sixty years. If there were more individuals like Honored Immortal Xia to provide him with benefits, the speed could be even faster. All he needed to do was accumulate energy; there would be no obstacles on his path to the peak of Soul Transformation.

Of course, the condensation of the three Intent weapons—Slaughter Dao, Evil Ghost Dao, and Illusory Light Dao—was becoming increasingly slow. If possible, he preferred to keep their progress consistent with the Frost Moon Dao.

Before breaking through to the Void Refinement stage, his Intent must certainly undergo preliminary fusion. And the Intent weapons were merely the second stage of cultivation; only after successfully condensing them, integrating them into his Soul, and comprehending them to minor attainment would his Soul Transformation stage cultivation be considered completely finished.

This step of fusing Intent was merely a result of Wang Yu’s personal pursuit of greater strength. This step involved the blessed land space opened during the Void Refinement stage, allowing no delay or neglect. Perfecting his Intent was also the introductory scroll for comprehending subsequent Dao principles. During the Void Refinement stage, in addition to further qualitative changes in energy accumulation, the main focus would be on perfecting one's own Intent and finding a way to step into the threshold of Dao principles.

Wang Yu always planned his cultivation by looking ten steps ahead, then making timely adjustments based on the current situation.

He was actually very busy. Even with the assistance of eight auxiliary methods, he felt like time was increasingly insufficient. He had to rush his body refining progress and cultivate the orthodox Great Dao. He felt that perhaps only with another five hundred years could he push himself to the current limit. The path of an all-rounder cultivator was truly not easy.

Thus, when busy, one doesn't perceive the passage of time. A year passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, with only three days left until the gathering at Minor Polarity Palace, Wang Yu hastily set off, heading towards the Great Snow Mountain spiritual land located in the north-central part of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

The Great Snow Mountain was a central hub modified by the Upper Realm, even exceeding the limits of what Heavenly Dao rules could naturally conceive. It was crafted into a sixth-tier spiritual land using special methods, capable of supporting thousands of Soul Transformation cultivators simultaneously. This was an absolutely grand feat. Sometimes, he even wondered if the Mountain and Sea Realm was a special world created by a powerful being from the Upper Realm; otherwise, its various functions and phenomena defied the common sense of minor realms.

The Great Snow Mountain. This place was perpetually in winter, with countless snow-capped peaks undulating and winding, collectively forming a world of white. Palaces carved from white jade and majestic vermilion towers, along with the fluttering snowflakes, imbued this realm with great poetic beauty. Coupled with the rich spiritual energy in the environment, it was truly a blessed land for secluded cultivation.

Even with Wang Yu’s extensive knowledge, this was the first time he had encountered such a richly endowed cultivation environment. He wished he could instantly drain it dry. If he were to cultivate continuously in a sixth-tier spirit vein, it would be equivalent to consuming spiritual elixirs daily, increasing his cultivation speed by at least thirty percent and saving him over a decade of time.

“What a profligate rich man, enjoying such a splendid spiritual land.”

These words were not spoken by Wang Yu, but rather by another streak of light that had halted. This person had blue-black hair, and beneath sword-like eyebrows was a rather masculine and handsome face. Besides his down-to-earth manner of speaking, his strength was also unfathomable.

When Wang Yu looked over, the other person looked back.

The man grinned, “I am Lan Feng, the Abyss Dragon of the Azure Sea. Fellow Daoist, you seem unfamiliar. May I know your name?” “Wei Wuxian, a cultivator from Yunzhou,” Wang Yu replied with a smile. He had heard Qingqing mention Lan Feng; he was indeed one of the top-ranked half-human, half-dragon demonic cultivators, rumored to possess true spirit bloodline and have an extraordinary background.

Having experienced the power of a true spirit bloodline himself, Wang Yu naturally wouldn't underestimate the other party.

Upon hearing this, Lan Feng’s eyes lit up. “You are Wei Wuxian? I’ve also heard your esteemed name. I hear Li Chunyi was played by you into the mid-stage of Soul Transformation. How did you do it? Is there a divine ability in this world that can lower someone’s cultivation realm?”

“Fellow Daoist Lan Feng, you jest. Why don’t we attend the banquet first? If you’re interested, we can discuss it in detail later?”

“Hahaha, of course.”

Lan Feng, with his straightforward and bold demeanor, walked alongside Wang Yu to the steps of a palace deep within the Great Snow Mountain. Many fellow Daoists had already arrived, and streaks of Soul Transformation escape light landed one after another.

Minor Polarity Palace was not an ordinary sect or power. It was closer to an institution under the jurisdiction of the Upper Realm, hence it did not recruit disciples, having only some Nascent Soul stewards. As for Emotion Severing Patriarch Li Chunyi, he was the primary combatant stationed at the ascension channel, with two other late-stage Soul Transformation cultivators responsible for managing the palace’s general affairs.

Therefore, this so-called banquet had no maidservants or dancers, no musicians skilled in wind and string instruments, and no spiritual fruits or fine wines offered. It was more like a council meeting than a feast.

The other Soul Transformation cultivators all looked accustomed to this. They found seats for themselves, and those without a spot simply leaned against a pillar, waiting for the master of Minor Polarity Palace to appear. Their conduct was utterly unconstrained.

There were no elaborate formalities whatsoever.

“Fellow Daoist Wei, this must be your first time participating in such a gathering. This is actually a treasure exchange hosted for the Soul Transformation cultivators of the Mountain and Sea Realm. Exchanging resources is one purpose, and the second concerns the ranking order for the ascension channel. You’ve been away from this realm for a thousand years; you’ll get familiar with it after attending a few more times.”

Wang Yu cupped his hands. “Many thanks, Fellow Daoist Lan Feng, for clarifying.”

“No trouble at all, no trouble at all.”

After a brief conversation, Lan Feng went to greet some familiar fellow Daoists. Wang Yu, however, was quite satisfied. His intentional spread of "information" about himself had already paid off. His identity as the ancestor of the Wei clan was temporarily solidified.

He was also very interested in the upcoming treasure exchange. Back in Guiling City, he had started by organizing such exchanges, so he understood these events extremely well. With so many Soul Transformation Venerables gathered in one place, it was somewhat predictable how many rare spiritual treasures would appear. It was definitely a rare grand event, and it might help him gather many of the missing spiritual materials for his cultivation.

“With all these wise cultivators gathered, the matter of the World-Opening Divine Boat can perhaps be put on the agenda.” His mind raced. While pondering how to recruit people, he checked the contents of his Sea Heart Ring, seeing what treasures he could offer for exchange later.

“Senior Wei, Emotion Severing Patriarch requests your presence.” Just as he was contemplating, a Nascent Soul steward from Minor Polarity Palace came to invite him.