Xiao Fei placed all the collected demon corpses onto the jade plaza, covering the entire area.
The number of demon corpses collected this time was greater than the last, and their quality was also higher, including the corpse of a Nascent Soul stage expert.
To increase the value of these demon corpses, he retained the demon crystals within each one.
He even collected the demon crystals from demons that had no corpses left and placed them there.
Xiao Fei skillfully cast a series of incantations at the white jade altar in the center. Soon, the altar and the entire jade plaza emitted a dazzling white light.
Perhaps due to the larger number of demon corpses, the light lasted longer this time. After a considerable period, the light began to dissipate.
As the light faded, Xiao Fei looked at the white jade altar with some tension, fearing the appearance of something strange and peculiar like a lady's skirt.
Fortunately, this time it was a jade slip. He quickly reached out and grabbed it…
…
Upon a celestial mountain shrouded in auspicious clouds, an elder with a white beard, white hair, and a white robe had been meditating on a large boulder, comprehending the Heavenly Dao for ten thousand years.
For ten millennia, his eyelids had not moved. Yet today, he suddenly leaped up as if bitten by a dog.
He flew into the air, his immortal sense spreading out, golden light flashing in his eyes as he surveyed the ten thousand realms.
After a long while, he reluctantly retracted the golden light from his eyes and muttered to himself.
"In that instant, I seemed to have sensed the aura of the Creation Jade Disk."
"Unfortunately, it appeared for too short a time, making it impossible to pinpoint its location."
"Never mind, cultivation requires the shedding of distracting thoughts. I shall continue to comprehend the Heavenly Dao!"
The white-haired elder returned to the boulder, closed his eyes, and resumed his meditation on the Heavenly Dao.
…
In a grand hall, a peerless woman, clad in semi-transparent gauze, reclined on a couch. Her eyes were half-open, her brows filled with allure, and a fluffy tail swayed gently behind her, indicating she was no ordinary woman.
At this moment, she suddenly opened her eyes, kicked away the dozen handsome male companions who were carefully attending to her, and stood up.
With a flip of her hand, a crystal-like bead appeared in her delicate and beautiful palm.
A small red dot flickered faintly within the bead, flashed a few times, and then extinguished without a trace.
"This… this seems to be that missing treasure!"
"It's a pity it flashed and disappeared so quickly; I can't track its exact location."
As the peerless woman spoke, she shed the last layer of gauze. Two handsome male companions immediately unfurled a set of robes and carefully helped the peerless woman dress.
Once dressed in proper attire, the peerless woman transformed completely, appearing dignified and noble, unrecognizable to those who knew her before.
The peerless woman walked out of the hall and flew towards a golden, radiant mountain peak in the distance…
…
In a mountain cave filled with demonic energy, a lake of blood churned violently.
In the center of the blood lake floated an eerie body. The blood essence from the lake continuously surged into this eerie form.
It was considered eerie because the person was neither male nor female, neither human nor demon, appearing to smile and weep simultaneously.
Just then, monstrous waves rose from the blood lake. The eerie figure floating on the surface was pushed into the air by the blood waves, standing atop them.
"Hahaha… this treasure lost in the lower realm has reappeared!"
"This time, I will find it no matter what it takes, even if the world turns upside down! I must obtain it!"
The eerie figure laughed heartily, and all the monstrous blood waves in the lake poured into its body. The original blood lake was left with not a single drop of blood.
Then, with a wave of its hand, a blood-colored altar appeared before it.
"By my decree, all realms are to search with all their might for any news of the Creation Jade Disk. Any who find a clue may ascend directly to the Upper Realm."
…
Xiao Fei was unaware that by using the altar in his space, he had temporarily opened a passage to the Upper Realm, allowing the Upper Realm to sense the aura of the Jade Disk within him.
At this moment, various races and powers in the Upper Realm had been alerted by him, becoming restless and unable to sleep.
Yet, he himself was completely oblivious, remaining calm, eating well, and sleeping soundly.
This time, after his sacrifice, he had obtained a jade slip that recorded a cultivation technique called the "Wind Thunder Battle Body."
Although he had not fully deciphered it, he could sense that it seemed very powerful.
This cultivation technique was likely a body-refining technique that also included some combat secret arts.
What truly astonished Xiao Fei was that this technique not only allowed cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage but could also reach the Void Refinement stage.
Regarding the Void Refinement stage, the entire cultivation world of the Eastern Continent had never heard of it.
This was because after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the spiritual energy in the Eastern Continent was insufficient. Even moving slightly felt like a grave offense, let alone cultivating to higher realms.
No one dared to even dream of realms higher than Nascent Soul.
Coupled with some of the miraculous combat secret arts within the technique,
Xiao Fei felt that this cultivation technique was superior to any existing body-refining techniques on the Eastern Continent.
However, the difficulty of this cultivation technique was not small. Firstly, it was best to possess both Wind and Thunder spiritual roots.
Such mutated spiritual roots were extremely rare in the entire cultivation world, and possessing both Wind and Thunder mutated spiritual roots simultaneously was even rarer than Xiao Fei's Five Elements spiritual roots.
But the creator of this technique had also devised some alternative methods.
All things in the world were derived from the permutations and combinations of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, including mutated spiritual roots, which were formed by the mutation of spiritual roots within the Five Elements.
Wind and Thunder spiritual roots were formed by the mutation of combinations of Wood, Fire, and Water spiritual roots. Therefore, as long as one possessed these three spiritual roots simultaneously, they could cultivate the "Wind Thunder Battle Body."
For Xiao Fei, let alone these three spiritual roots, he possessed all five elements, which seemed to allow him to piece together any mutated spiritual root.
He had successfully cultivated the "Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder" before, so he was already familiar with the process.
This "Wind Thunder Battle Body" was divided into nine stages. Stages one to three corresponded to the Nascent Soul realm, stages four to six corresponded to the Nascent Soul stage, and stages seven to nine corresponded to the Void Refinement realm.
Having obtained such a powerful body-refining technique, Xiao Fei was naturally eager to begin cultivating.
Due to his previous mastery of the "Golden Arhat Technique," his physical foundation was very solid.
It only took him a few days to complete the first stage of the "Wind Thunder Battle Body," easily advancing to the second stage.
The first half of the second stage was still very easy for him, completed in three days. However, he found it increasingly difficult thereafter.
Each cultivation session required an immense amount of spiritual energy.
Although his spiritual roots were special now, and with a gentle inhale, the surrounding spiritual energy would surge into his body,
the fundamental reason was the insufficient spiritual energy in the environment to support his consumption. Often, within a few breaths, the surrounding spiritual energy would be completely depleted.